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[00:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:32] <exec> 08└─It's traditional herbal medicine, not "medieval medicine." We all have our version, European, Indian, African, Chinese, Amazonian, etc. etc. Some actually work, others are quackery. Aspirin is a prime example. It was a folk medicine of ground willow tree bark. Bayer turned that into Aspirin, a "mode...
[00:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:33] <exec> 08└─But what do you do if you are infested with demon sperm?
[00:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:35] <exec> 08└─Become a demoncrat.
[00:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─Watch Japanese tentacle porn.
[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─Just modernize the packaging.
[00:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Type 075 Big Deck Amphib Preparing for Sea Trials - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:52] <exec> 08└─Naw mate, never been to sea.
[00:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Type 075 Big Deck Amphib Preparing for Sea Trials - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:54] <exec> 08└─> go up against them Sure, I'll take cruise missiles at a several hundred mile range. It's not like we're going to pull along side and board them...or is that what you were thinking.
[00:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Type 075 Big Deck Amphib Preparing for Sea Trials - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, to all of the above. Guns, missiles, and aircraft might hammer on it for several hours - then a boarding party goes aboard to steal the damned thing from the Chinese. Most likely, the Chinese would scuttle it when the first US sailor stepped aboard, but that doesn't mean we wouldn't try. But, y...
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[00:23:29] <exec> 08└─As bad as the current situation is, all of the alternatives are worse.
[00:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:30] <exec> 08└─Under the proposed legislation, yeah. Under the current state of affairs we could probably get a lawyer to do it on contingency because of the likelihood of us getting awarded legal expenses in the countersuit.
[00:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:31] <exec> 08└─The lawyers will probably survive even that, just to spite everything else.
[00:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:34] <exec> 08└─Already done, but the amount mod-abuse around here eats up my points. I'll come back and fix it later when they reset, but the mod abuse is getting out of hand.
[00:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:36] <exec> 08└─So once twitter and facebook kill themselves with these filters, people will disperse into the smaller corners of the internet and life will get better. The power and influence concentrated in Google, FB, and Twitter is exceptionally dangerous and anything that kills them is good. If there are colla...
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[00:24:38] <exec> 08└─1. The First Amendment applies to *government* action. Full stop;
[00:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:40] <exec> 08└─Typical, only when it affects them do narcisists start caring.
[00:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Approach Refines the Hubble's Constant and Age of Universe - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:46] <exec> 08└─Unless dark matter happens to follow MoND somehow.
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[01:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:41] <exec> 08└─In India, the bandaid's gauze is coated with turmeric powder for its antibiotic property.
[01:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vulnerability in the Zoom Web Client That Allowed Checking if a Password is Correct for a Meeting - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:04] <exec> 08└─for those of us who don't have zoom accounts and don't trust (or can't use) their native client, but are required to attend Zoom meetings?
[01:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:39] <exec> 08└─They don't believe the shoe ever will *be* on the other foot and they intend not to let that eventuality ever come to pass. The GOP has gone full scorched-earth: either they keep "winning" or they burn it all down. Nihilistic maniacs, the lot of them.
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[01:24:41] <exec> 08└─This used to be the case, though I'm not sure if it scales as it once did. There has always been an edge to network differential of available compute, with the edge holding WAY more processing power. So really all that was ever needed to ensure free communication, was a mechanism where the collectiv...
[01:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:43] <exec> 08└─Poor victim! Don't they know you are entitled not to be modded down? Why don't they know you are entitled?
[01:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Start Assembling the World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Experiment - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:32] <exec> 08└─I'm already taken, so no to the first. As to the second...do you have rheumatoid arthritis or another condition for which a doctor has prescribed HCQ, do you have one or more refills left on said prescription, are you signed up for delivery in my chain's area of operations, and do you sleep during t...
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[02:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:30] <exec> 08└─A stupid question: Something that is *free*, how do you value that? The licensing insures that the Intellectual Property can not be sold for exclusive use, i.e. the GPL...
[02:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:31] <exec> 08└─Larry Ellison's lawyers will not understand the question.
[02:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:34] <exec> 08└─How many lines of code are Uncle Larry's OpenOffice, that literally no one uses having migrated to Libre?
[02:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:36] <exec> 08└─Something that is *free*, how do you value that?
[02:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─A lot of Apache is Java libraries, make sense they'd use a CocoaMug model.
[02:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:40] <exec> 08└─$1.85
[02:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:42] <exec> 08└─Ohhhh-kay - https://www.modelmanagement.com [modelmanagement.com]
[02:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:45] <exec> 08└─Bunch of has beans in need of better code covfefe.
[02:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:59] <exec> 08└─And also anti-social properties, i.e. Say goodbye to your social life.
[02:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:00] <exec> 08└─A forestry guy I used to work with got wounded in the forest and his leg got infected with flesh-eating disease. They tried massive doses of antibiotics, then hyperbaric chamber. As he was about to lose his leg, in last resort they put maggots in the wound. The little buggers ate every single piece...
[02:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:03] <exec> 08└─Clean your tongue, brush your teeth.
[02:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:04] <exec> 08└─Way to completely miss the point. Decentralized services are great and all, but what would actually happen is that twitter/fb and any decentralized server nodes would start locking down and banning users. That already happens with decentralized servers, admins have to be cautious of who they allow i...
[02:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:05] <exec> 08└─When a part of government outsources the action to a catspaw "private company",
[02:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simulating Quantum 'Time Travel' Disproves Butterfly Effect in Quantum Realm - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe he was ... maybe he wasn't.
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[03:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:39] <exec> 08└─8 million lines are worth $600 million. That makes it (us)$75 per line. if (freeSoftware) { profit(); } is worth $225. Where do I send the bill? Oh hang on, Coding Styles - I can make this worth $300, watch: if (freeSoftware) { profit(); } Now only do I understand what my boss was...
[03:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:58] <exec> 08└─After examining 14 million records, including data on campaign contributions, lobbying expenditures, federal budget allocations and spending, we found that, on average, for every dollar spent on influencing politics, the nation’s most politically active corporations received $760 from the governme...
[03:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Scientists Are Taking a DIY Coronavirus Vaccine, and Nobody Knows If It's Legal or If It Works - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:52] <exec> 08└─No, they are not the same thing. There is no general efficacy data necessary to do a Bayesian analysis. The large number of confounding variables that are not controlled for also breaks your repeated-measures design. Further more you small sample size kills any statistical power or significance you...
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[04:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mystery of Titan's Expanding Orbit - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:56] <exec> 08└─Black holes, expanding orbits, yeah yeah. Not clicking.
[04:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:35] <exec> 08└─I could explain in detail, but since someone else already has [techdirt.com], and my tour [xkcd.com] is over for the day, I'll just leave this here. Have a wonderful evening!
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[04:25:37] <exec> 08└─Which is definitely fucked up. I agree. Getting the money out of our political system is an important (if not the most important, certainly in the top three) step toward curbing the legalized bribery called "lobbying." But it still doesn't mean that corporations (Jack Dorsey was 20, and Zuckerberg w...
[04:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:39] <exec> 08└─Without addressing this issue we are on course for a social credit system implemented by Google and Facebook. They are private and can do anything they want. Cutting off your access to participate in society is just small cost to bear so that they can maintain their profits.
[04:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:41] <exec> 08└─There is no human creation so great that incompetent rulers and malicious hangers-on could not ruin in mere years.
[04:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Scientists Are Taking a DIY Coronavirus Vaccine, and Nobody Knows If It's Legal or If It Works - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:36] <exec> 08└─There's an endless number of cases of both doctors and non-doctors trying various miracle cures on themselves going back centuries if not millennia. This is just more of the same, with nothing but the Covid19 connection making it newsworthy.
[04:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Scientists Are Taking a DIY Coronavirus Vaccine, and Nobody Knows If It's Legal or If It Works - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:38] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone who has no idea what they are talking about would type into the internet. t0: Do not have antibodies t1: take vaccine t2: Have antibodies Either it was the vaccine or you got exposed somehow else. So stay home between t1 and t2.
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[05:22:50] <exec> 08└─Thanks martyb
[05:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mystery of Titan's Expanding Orbit - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:52] <exec> 08└─Is there the remotest chance that the instruments were just the tiniest bit out of calibration? Maybe Titan's orbit really is stable, and the instruments just took a bad reading.
[05:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:09] <exec> 08└─unless someone is willing to pay for it. Artists understand that. A painter I knew painted a lot of things. She assigned values to her paintings. Took me into her parlour one day, and told me to pick out any painting I wanted. I didn't really want a painting, but I browsed around. Found a pic of a g...
[05:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, that. Over the course of thousands of years, healers of various persuasions tried a lot of things. Some worked better than others. And, sure, there were plenty of snake oil salesmen who swindled hopeful people out of their hard earned currency. But, the snake oil salesmen don't negate all the t...
[05:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:29] <exec> 08└─Wait nine months to get rid of it? What I want to know is, do women really dream of monster dicks from hell?
[05:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:31] <exec> 08└─Purification by fire. Purification by water. Purification by air. Purification by earth. Purification by ether. Purification by prayer. Purification by violation. Purification by fast. Purification by Vegemite. (Don't ask.)
[05:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:40] <exec> 08└─No worries, there won't be anything left for the GOP to burn once the libtards are done rioting and committing arson.
[05:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:41] <exec> 08└─Agreeing with you, but correction: it's been out of hand for a long time. And I've tried to correct some good people being mod-clobbered, but I got my points removed because I "mod-bombed" someone up too many times in one day. Stupid system. People accept it because it's there and because other peop...
[05:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Scientists Are Taking a DIY Coronavirus Vaccine, and Nobody Knows If It's Legal or If It Works - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:38] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the one where Hilary Clinton ordered Fauci to create a killer virus in China to subvert the 2016 election.
[05:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Scientists Are Taking a DIY Coronavirus Vaccine, and Nobody Knows If It's Legal or If It Works - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:40] <exec> 08└─Unless it grows naturally in the ground, like cannabis or mushrooms. Those are prohibited.
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[05:28:51] <exec> 08└─another phys.org turd
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[06:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:25] <exec> 08└─This used to be usual but people stole all the copper so they stopped. Just the fact it isn't common knowledge anymore that copper, silver, gold are antimicrobial shows how dumbed down people are.
[06:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:27] <exec> 08└─If this is the kind of thing you can pay for using taxpayers' money, to provide a real ongoing preventative benefit that's lost in the statistics down the road, I'd expect countries with socialized medicine to pick this up first. In that regard, I'm kind of surprised they haven't already done it or...
[06:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:29] <exec> 08└─We can asteroid mine to get $1 quadrillion of copper for every human.
[06:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mystery of Titan's Expanding Orbit - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:40] <exec> 08└─if it was an instrument mis-calibration on Cassini's part then they would have seen the same thing with all the other moons in the system. They didn't, and most Astro boffins I've worked with over the years tend to be pretty good at looking for obvious things like instrument mis-calibration or failu...
[06:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:57] <exec> 08└─People do pay for it. ASF has revenues in the neighborhood of $1 Billion. [apache.org]
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[06:23:19] <exec> 08└─Get a fresh garlic clove. Wash your hands thoroughly then crush the clove and hold the mess tightly in one or both fists. After about 10 minutes you will begin to taste garlic. The smell isn't just from not cleaning your teeth, garlic can travel through the body and leak out the pores and lungs. Des...
[06:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:20] <exec> 08└─How do I get root privilege?
[06:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Type 075 Big Deck Amphib Preparing for Sea Trials - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:37] <exec> 08└─The PLAN's strength is quantity, not quality. For quality they're still a bit of an unknown, but for quantity and diversity of gear they can't be beat. Also, historically China has been a major naval power, Zheng He's fleet could have taken on any European or Ottoman fleet at the time, assuming the...
[06:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Scientists Are Taking a DIY Coronavirus Vaccine, and Nobody Knows If It's Legal or If It Works - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:30] <exec> 08└─Now this is a vaccine I can consider seriously. In fact, it should be normal that anybody devising a vaccine and promoting it as safe would inject himself and his offspring in front of TV (with a randomly chosen sample of the distributed stuff). The stuff coming from entities who enjoy legal immunit...
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[07:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:28] <exec> 08└─You are correct. I recall hospitals having large brass door handles and push plates to help reduce the transmission of bacteria. In addition to the theft of brass/copper leading to its removal from many locations there was also the problem of polishing the brass work each day. The number of man hour...
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[07:22:29] <exec> 08└─Not fore the foreseeable future. The cost of retrieving material from asteroids and bringing it back to Earth currently exceeds the value of the material, probably by a few orders of magnitude. Precious metals like gold, platinum and uranium would be the first economic items and we're nowhere near t...
[07:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:32] <exec> 08└─There's an easy solution to the problem of wasting nurse time: Have the cleaning done by cleaning staff instead of nurses.
[07:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:34] <exec> 08└─Why do we even have capitalism at all? Let the experts allocate where all the money goes. Why hasn't this been tried before?
[07:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:36] <exec> 08└─Which is exactly what happened - we are talking 60 years ago! But cleaning staff are also expensive, so they don't want to use them to polish door handles. Solution: get rid of the door handles and replace them with plastic and a cleaning spray.
[07:24:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 763 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:34] <exec> 08└─Your comment is about the explosive growth of "cancel culture" assholes that can't just control their own behavior, they have to control everyone else's. For them, it is not enough to avoid a service, product, or person. They harass and bully everyone they even perceive as remotely connected to what...
[07:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:34] <exec> 08└─I have zero faith on congresses, governments and corporations to enable a simple law: If you host third parties' content you MUST help identify who breaks the law AND remove material which breaks the law PER REQUEST of the law (sentence or police in case of emergency. Not your fault if sentences tak...
[07:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simulating Quantum 'Time Travel' Disproves Butterfly Effect in Quantum Realm - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:45] <exec> 08└─It's an idiomatic phrase. The individual words in the phrase don't matter, just the use of the phrase as a whole, and "begs the question" to mean "raises the question" is far more common to the point where people bringing up the issue of something assuming the conclusion is true will just outright s...
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[08:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:40] <exec> 08└─Beat me to it. People didn't "steal the copper" because it was never there in the first place, what was used was brass furniture, and it was replaced with stainless steel because brass was too much of a pain to maintain. Aside from that it's also quite soft, as are most copper alloys, which means th...
[08:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:41] <exec> 08└─It's not such a bad idea for specific area like medicine; the sociopaths are not usually drawn to work in hospitals.
[08:23:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 1015 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:07] <exec> 08└─unless someone is willing to pay for it. Artists understand that. A painter I knew painted a lot of things. She assigned values to her paintings. Took me into her parlour one day, and told me to pick out any painting I wanted. I didn't really want a painting, but I browsed around. Found a pic of a g...
[08:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:10] <exec> 08└─Something that is *free*, how do you value that?
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[09:22:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but astro boffins also turned the Mars Climate Orbiter into rather pretty martian meteor.
[09:23:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Opportunist [5545] 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:17] <exec> 08└─2001 BC Here, eat this root. 1000 AD That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer. 1850 AD That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion. 1920 AD That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill. 1945 AD That pill is ineffective. Here, take this penicillin. 1955 AD Oops... bugs mutated....
[09:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Type 075 Big Deck Amphib Preparing for Sea Trials - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:48] <exec> 08└─Almost all the stuff that China exports all over the world goes through India ocean, which is under tight control of India. It is for this reason that China has kept itself on equal footing with Indian army it can easily dominate it. India is the only nation currently keeping China's expansion in ch...
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[10:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Completes Static Fire of Starship Prototype, Will Hop Next - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:27] <exec> 08└─SN8 is made of 304L stainless steel and will likely get 3 Raptor engines for a 20 km test flight.
[10:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:51] <exec> 08└─> It's not such a bad idea for specific area like medicine; the sociopaths are not usually drawn to work in hospitals. That is because there is no money spigot they can control to enrich themselves. If you give "command economy" type structure to a system, you will find sociopaths are attracted to t...
[10:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:52] <exec> 08└─> you will find sociopaths are attracted to the power that is present. It doesn't seem to be the case in the rest of the world, or at least no more so than in a capitalist system.
[10:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simulating Quantum 'Time Travel' Disproves Butterfly Effect in Quantum Realm - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:04] <exec> 08└─You are begging the question. Or looking for a beating. It is a technical usage, and the common usage is based on an illiterate similarity. The Greek is nothing like the Latin, it is τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς. So your entire objection is something of a damp squid. It is rough to be stupid and wrong l...
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[11:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Completes Static Fire of Starship Prototype, Will Hop Next - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:25] <exec> 08└─Why do they need range exclusions for a static fire
[11:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Completes Static Fire of Starship Prototype, Will Hop Next - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:26] <exec> 08└─Did you see what happened to SN4 [youtube.com]? That's why.
[11:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:20] <exec> 08└─It's the cost to recreate it. The fact that you don't have to pay anyone to recreate it because it's permissively licensed is irrelevant. The problem with this model is that lots of things are expensive to create but of no discernible value.
[11:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:22] <exec> 08└─I was expecting about tree fiddy.
[11:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Type 075 Big Deck Amphib Preparing for Sea Trials - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:02] <exec> 08└─What of Russia? In 20th C Russia and China were rivals. What now?
[11:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Type 075 Big Deck Amphib Preparing for Sea Trials - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:03] <exec> 08└─Just to support your point, from TFA > The first Type 075 was constructed in record time (this has become the norm nowadays, for Chinese shipbuilding: extremely fast construction pace that no one can match).
[11:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simulating Quantum 'Time Travel' Disproves Butterfly Effect in Quantum Realm - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:11] <exec> 08└─Bloody hell, he got a +5 and I don't have any idea what he said!
[11:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simulating Quantum 'Time Travel' Disproves Butterfly Effect in Quantum Realm - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah this is another one, +4 and I got two sentences in. Maybe people are modding because it sounds informative?
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[12:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:29] <exec> 08└─As such, Congress is considering new antitrust laws that are appropriate for the digital age
[12:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:30] <exec> 08└─My immediate question: what are the chances their law won't actually make it worse for the consumers?
[12:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:33] <exec> 08└─Have to say your naivety is sorta... hearth warming. I almost feel the compulsion to protect you from the real world, such a big gap between it and the world you imagine. But I'm old enough to resist the compulsion so here's the reality: even when knowledgeable and well intended, the politicians wil...
[12:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mystery of Titan's Expanding Orbit - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:17] <exec> 08└─Hey, look at that... I learned something from physics class.
[12:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:39] <exec> 08└─Think you are a few orders of magnitude out - revenues were around $1 Million, check the actual filings, or just google Apache Foundation Revenue Getting $1M a year from a $20Bn asset is... frankly pathetic. Conclusion: it ain't a $20Bn asset. The asset lines of the tax filings also prove that it is...
[12:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:41] <exec> 08└─Surely it's the cost to recreate it if you paid some ridiculous rates per LOC, and recreated every single LOC (so there is no redundant, unused, legacy etc. code there at all). Why the heck wouldn't you recreate it (if needed) for free (or at least for comparatively very little), using volunteer lab...
[12:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:16] <exec> 08└─Libtards? Don't you mean marxist socialist fascist anarchists?
[12:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:18] <exec> 08└─It goes under the mind control ray they used to force more people to vote for Biden in the primary.
[12:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:20] <exec> 08└─I do think there's room for reform
[12:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Scientists Are Taking a DIY Coronavirus Vaccine, and Nobody Knows If It's Legal or If It Works - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:19] <exec> 08└─It wasn't unreasonable, some of the stuff in chemistry labs is deadly in tiny doses.
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[13:22:30] <exec> 08└─But given the four tech giants are known for being at the cutting edge of innovation
[13:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:32] <exec> 08└─My immediate question: what are the chances their law won't actually make it worse for the consumers?
[13:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, c'mon, whaddya want? Pets.com? Get your dogfood delivered by UPS - there's something that didn't exist before 1999. Bezos' net worth is headed for orbit not because Amazon's UI is innovative, but because they worked out the home-delivery channel logistics at a cost point competitive enough with...
[13:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:36] <exec> 08└─It's kinda annoying that they go after the companies that I can just switch to a competitor to at the tip of a hat but they ignore the cableco/ISPs that overcharge me and there is relatively little competition against them. Trump complains about censorship and Biden wants more censorship but in the...
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 1539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:38] <exec> 08└─Congress shouldn't be looking only at some "consumer cost". As has been pointed out, those four megacorps don't invent a lot of stuff. They don't innovate very well. It's all the startups they buy out. Often enough, those startups are actually doing quite well for themselves, and offering real value...
[13:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:40] <exec> 08└─I wish the government would get rid of USPS monopolies. All of the fearmongering behind what would happen if we did that is nonsense, none of the doomsday scenarios happened in countries that got rid of mailbox monopolies.
[13:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:42] <exec> 08└─USPS mailbox monopolies *
[13:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:45] <exec> 08└─Had to read your first sentence a couple times. Just to be clear, UPS has been around since my grandparents were children. https://www.pressroom.ups.com [ups.com] Overnight delivery to consumers is relatively new for UPS and all the rest,...
[13:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:47] <exec> 08└─> that I can just switch to a competitor to at the tip of a hat You never do, even when that hat tips
[13:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:49] <exec> 08└─And then there are the customers. Isn't antitrust law supposed to protect customers? After all, the consumers that use these (possibly a-)social media aren't the customers. -- hendrik
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[13:26:37] <exec> 08└─Clippy: "Looks like you're trying to spell 'right wing infiltrators and agitators.' Would you like help with that?"
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[14:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:36] <exec> 08└─This was done carefully heating and bending the barrel to keep the barrel un-crimped. If done superman-style with a cold barrel, it would crimp and mostly likely explode. Also the gas pressure behind the bullet will continue acting on it accelerating it through the barrel regardless of directi...
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[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─Not likely
[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─The bullet will shoot backwards! The rifle will explode! Shoot! Explode! Shoot! Explode! Explode! Shoot! Ok, you win, it'll shoot.
[14:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:42] <exec> 08└─Wabbit season!
[14:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1313662/spacex-news-elon-musk-comet-neowise-satellite-view-observers-latest [express.co.uk]
[14:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:03] <exec> 08└─So, today: your data is valuable, and we're constantly bitching that the big tech companies are data vampires, giving us these innovative products "for free" but actually raping our personal - used to be private - information in exchange.
[14:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, UPS has been around, but in 1995 if you wanted to get a 20lb bag of dogfood delivered via UPS the available supply channels would have had you paying triple for it as compared to the local grocery store. Pets.com tried to innovate that - failed miserably. Amazon.com has worked it out - like Wal...
[14:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:07] <exec> 08└─Read 1984 again. We are most definitely headed down that road.
[14:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─Often enough, those startups are actually doing quite well for themselves, and offering real value to the world.
[14:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:12] <exec> 08└─Give it a decade or six. Tech giants WILL learn how to manipulate the hordes.
[14:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:14] <exec> 08└─And mail order is even older. However, you didn't used to be able to buy stuff from a dozen different suppliers at once through one shopping cart, and have the stuff packaged and delivered substantially cheaper than going to the store to buy it yourself. Amazon's storefront is nothing special, Howev...
[14:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 2027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:16] <exec> 08└─The big tech are a much bigger problem than a "trust". All those basic freedoms specified in the bill of rights only restrict oppression by the government. Back in those days only the government could do you irreparable harm by persecuting you for your dissenting views. Free speech meant that the go...
[14:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─Of course the case we're actually talking about is where big-G purchases a startup, then files their intellectual property in the mountain of intellectual property they own. They don't actually use it, they just hold it there in case they can tax someone who wants to innovate...forever.
[14:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:20] <exec> 08└─I wish the government would get rid of USPS monopolies.
[14:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:22] <exec> 08└─Who marked this off-topic? It directly answers > OTOH, my ISP is expensive and there is little competition here
[14:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:25] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/big-tech-competitors-were-blown-away-by-house-antitrust-ceo-hearing.html [cnbc.com]
[14:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wound Healing Insights: Using 3D Mapping, Researchers Uncover Process That's Stymied Mechanobiology - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:39] <exec> 08└─I wish they had specified which scarring disorders this tech would help. My son suffers from keloids, and in one instance, damage to his trachea (from a respirator) and the ensuing keloid formation caused his airway to become completely blocked. He had to have a plastic airway into his neck for over...
[14:23:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 753 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:49] <exec> 08└─You are correct. I recall hospitals having large brass door handles and push plates to help reduce the transmission of bacteria. In addition to the theft of brass/copper leading to its removal from many locations there was also the problem of polishing the brass work each day. The number of man hour...
[14:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:59] <exec> 08└─> It doesn't seem to be the case in the rest of the world, or at least no more so than in a capitalist system. Examples? Having lived under Communism I found everything, including the healthcare system, full of them, usually in "procurement" or head spots where they could direct state funding based...
[14:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:02] <exec> 08└─Ah, I guess I have known a couple of people who have sat on NICE committees (which advise on English NHS medical policy e.g. which treatments to buy). They are typically senior medics or academics. There were offers of "working lunches"/etc from the (capitalist) pharmaceuticals, which were turned do...
[14:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:04] <exec> 08└─Given the explanation, the polishing probably was necessary. Copper oxide isn't electrically conductive. This may be why aluminum doesn't work.
[14:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:06] <exec> 08└─So would stainless steel be equally effective? It *is* electrically conductive, so if it wouldn't be effective, it seems as if a different explanation is needed.
[14:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:08] <exec> 08└─Automatic doors.
[14:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:25] <exec> 08└─People are losing their jobs from social media campaigns. People have lost access to their lines of credit and bank accounts from social media campaigns. It doesn't matter if you are on those platforms or not anymore because the mob is on them. The social media lynch mob uses them to coerce companie...
[14:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:26] <exec> 08└─Hell, I'd go so far as to say the problem isn't even the enjoying of it - nobody is hurt by a pedo enjoying child porn, in fact, while they're enjoying porn they're not hurting kids. The damage is in the making of it (assuming real kids are involved). However, I suspect far fewer people will use soc...
[14:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simulating Quantum 'Time Travel' Disproves Butterfly Effect in Quantum Realm - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:42] <exec> 08└─This. Models and simulations are all implemented based on theory. They cannot show anything that theory doesn't predict. They can be useful in cases where we don't fully understand the implications of a theory, and they can be compared to a physical experiment to see how well our theory does against...
[14:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mounting Poisonings, Blindness, Deaths as Toxic Hand Sanitizers Flood Market - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:36] <exec> 08└─technically the really really big cracker doesn't do EMP and it doesn't do radiation fallout. but in practical outcome I'd say you're right, the "big cracker" aspect does the most damage.
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[15:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03rufty [381] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:29] <exec> 08└─Does sticking a carrot in the end make the barrel bust like a banana peel?
[15:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 1732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:30] <exec> 08└─Quite. The bullet/pressure will follow the path of least resistance. Normally that's bouncing down the barrel and out the hole. So long as there's not a point in the barrel where the bullet cannot traverse (I'm presuming the bullet tip / components that actually fire forward are small enough to cour...
[15:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:33] <exec> 08└─Only if you are a wascally wabbit.
[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:35] <exec> 08└─Am quite certain, that no matter what, it's going to be bad for the person holding the gun. Just like in the cartoons.
[15:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─Likely will do nothing beyond having a split/blown apart carrot. Still, I wouldn't try that at home.
[15:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:09] <exec> 08└─We get very good service from the USPS, I want them to stick around, and I really wish that the Trumpettes would quit fuc*ing with the USPS. Latest move (in the news this morning) is Trump appointees limiting USPS working hours and turning off the sorting machines early--yet another move to make the...
[15:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:10] <exec> 08└─Cool story, bro. But what does it have to do with what's good for either the "bottom" or "top"? My take is that if the "bottom" is relying on the "top" for what's good, then they're doing it wrong. This is the largest problem with classist narratives. Dividing the world into imaginary groups, and t...
[15:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:13] <exec> 08└─> Amazon is a 90s point of sale system You forgot about all the ruthless, monopolizing moves they make (similar to WalMart during their initial growth years). As I've noted on SN several times, Amazon strong-armed the publisher of my engineering books including lying--when my publisher refused Amazo...
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─The big corps changed all that by becoming the place where public discourse takes place, without being in any way restricted by the constitution.
[15:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 2206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:17] <exec> 08└─What is privacy for, really? Several things: a) Keeping the bigots guessing, so they aren't sure you're a Muslim, atheist, Socialist, feminist (or at least pro-choice), college grad, scientist, filthy rich, or anything else that isn't stunningly obvious from appearances, such as skin color. (Or, so...
[15:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:19] <exec> 08└─The things you describe ARE the innovation. You can disparage improvements to usability and UI, but it makes a big difference. It's the difference between trying to provide tech support on your parents' computer over the phone vs using a remote desktop... and a remote desktop vs physically in person...
[15:23:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:52] <exec> 08└─> It doesn't seem to be the case in the rest of the world, or at least no more so than in a capitalist system. Examples? Having lived under Communism I found everything, including the healthcare system, full of them, usually in "procurement" or head spots where they could direct state funding based...
[15:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:58] <exec> 08└─I assume, crashing an asteroid full of Uranium on Earth wouldn't be enough to cause major problems. Would need to be refined, etc. to turn it into a bomb / also wouldn't spread a bunch of dirty uranium in the atmosphere?
[15:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mystery of Titan's Expanding Orbit - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:11] <exec> 08└─> Yeah, but astro boffins also turned the Mars Climate Orbiter into rather pretty martian meteor. A side effect of one part of the astro boffins insisting on not using SI-units, like the rest of the world does. A problem that would not have existed otherwise. Saying that, mistakes do happen with com...
[15:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mystery of Titan's Expanding Orbit - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:12] <exec> 08└─I thought we might steal it and change it into a livable planet. But it's moving too slowly. At that rate it would only move the distance of the Moon to the Earth in about 3.5 billion years.
[15:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:35] <exec> 08└─Sure it's not spelled the same, but I've got a much better kokomo model for you. https://youtu.be [youtu.be] (Kokomo by the "Beach Boys" with lyrics.)
[15:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerability in the Zoom Web Client That Allowed Checking if a Password is Correct for a Meeting - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:27] <exec> 08└─Nothing, right now, since they fixed the vulnerability.
[15:25:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dale [539] 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 257 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:43] <exec> 08└─I have zero faith in any faction of Congress to be able to make adjustments to this without screwing it up or completely destroying it. It may not be perfect and it may leave some interpretation, but if they touch it and make changes it will only get worse.
[15:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:21] <exec> 08└─I didn't miss your point. There are people who are wrong about what section 230 says. That's because section 230 has some counter-intuitive implications. Just saying that people are wrong about it fails to address those issues.
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[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─The "trench guns" you refer to were almost universally ordinary periscope rifles, that is, standard rifles with unbent barrels, mounted on stilts (so to speak) with a periscope and remote trigger. The Krummlauf family of weapons with actual bent barrels saw quite limited use, and I believe the US an...
[16:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─-1 Boring
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─Demolition Ranch is a fun channel, but this is not surprising nor is it really new. There have been several rifles made with curved barrels over the years, the easiest to document would probably be the German Krummlauf. While there are problems with doing this - most obviously you can expect the bar...
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[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─Duck season!
[16:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:50] <exec> 08└─No, but putting your finger in [youtube.com] would. He stuck his finger in the end of your WHAT?
[16:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:28] <exec> 08└─Not arguing, but, let me explain how I see 1984 as relevant. Some of us, at least, have witnessed the internet being "sanitized". Best example I have, albeit with no "proof", is the New American Century. When Bush ran for president, I had almost zero idea what New American Century was. I searched, a...
[16:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:30] <exec> 08└─We're not angels. If you want to identify the devil in the room, call it capitalism. I have watched ideas that work, could have been saving lives for the past 20 years with basically trivial per-patient cost, be shelved because the reality of my industry is that it takes a lot of money to get anythi...
[16:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:32] <exec> 08└─As such, Congress is considering new antitrust laws that are appropriate for the digital age...
[16:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:34] <exec> 08└─From your description, it's apparent that you don't work for one of the huge international megacorporations. Yeah, you're international, but you're obviously not a trillion dollar mega. There really is a "sweet spot" in corporate size and corporate power, where you must compete, and you must strive...
[16:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:36] <exec> 08└─we've created a society where people can support and better themselves - no bottom or top required.
[16:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:17] <exec> 08└─This will require a significant investment by hospitals – replacing beds, serving trays, tables, rails, door handles, and other high-touch surfaces.
[16:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:19] <exec> 08└─So would stainless steel be equally effective?
[16:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:21] <exec> 08└─That would likely be impractical. Take each piece off, fully disassemble, send it to an elecroplater, wait a week, get it back, reassemble, put it back on. For that week you have no door handle. Then in a year, when the plating wears through, do it again.
[16:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:23] <exec> 08└─My small local hospital still has brass handles on doors in the older parts of the building, as well as brass door plaques of a few doors. As well as the practicalities raised (maybe not the door plaques), they look really nice too: adds a bit of class to the area.
[16:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:01] <exec> 08└─Surely it's the cost to recreate it if you paid some ridiculous rates per LOC,
[16:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 1293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:47] <exec> 08└─However, having completely read your link, they don't even discuss the topic of voluntary social media censorship of users, and I think for good reason. Yes, the 14th Amendment means that the 1st Amendment applies to state governments as well as the federal, but that's not an issue as no governments...
[16:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Democrats Want a Truce With Section 230 Supporters - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:48] <exec> 08└─Honesty, I don't know. 230 did a pretty good job of carving out a way for online forums to exist without being buried in either lawsuits or spam. And most of the ways obvious ways to "improve" it would be easily perverted to become a means of government censorship (the primary reason I'm opposed to...
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[17:22:24] <exec> 08└─So, these bacteria were in the abyssal plain, probably held right around the freezing point of sea water at extreme pressure all that time. Walt should have had his head sent 20,000 leagues under the sea...
[17:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:25] <exec> 08└─This is good news for Joe Biden fans!
[17:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─to find his YouTube channel on a site like this.
[17:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─A different way to skin the cat is the cornershot: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
[17:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:34] <exec> 08└─considering they are in office because they are bribed and ignorant and spineless people, at least the majority, chances are grim. The freedom has to be in the code, and people who are not coders are not going to EVER be able to enforce freedom on coders who do not want freedom. Zuck has an advantag...
[17:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:35] <exec> 08└─We're ~100B market cap, IMO too big for the good of the world, but this is the way it is. I formerly worked for a rare-in-my-industry "mid sized" company with a ~1B market cap, IMO that's still too small - too easy for them to play cowboy and slip under the regulatory radar, get away with things the...
[17:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 2218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:37] <exec> 08└─This guy gets it. Story of my life. This is why bribery is ultimately evil, why cults have to be kept separated from religions and companies, and why corporate personhood is so godawfully tyrannical. I was watching epsteins depositions, you can find them on youtube. He takes the 5th on almost every...
[17:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:40] <exec> 08└─thesesystemsarefailing.net check my other comment that is nested for more.
[17:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:42] <exec> 08└─I really think that privacy as we knew it, is over. The loss need not be devastating, if it leads to a cleaner, fairer legal system. If it also pushes people to be less bigoted, that too is good.
[17:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:44] <exec> 08└─Depends. Is it gonna pass before or after November?
[17:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 1392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:46] <exec> 08└─i suppose i can still use the internet without having to use any off them services. the internet should work fine. however they obviously "bring something to the table" else they would not have grown so ..uhm ...errr ... big? in any case, use them or not, i see the problem more in how you plant a tr...
[17:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:48] <exec> 08└─If I don't switch it's because I don't think the competitors are as good as what I'm currently using. If I perceive what I'm currently using becomes worse than the competitors I can switch. It's my choice. When it comes to ISPs I have very little competition to switch to and the barrier to entry is...
[17:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:34] <exec> 08└─The trouble is actually in the "stainlessness" of the steel. The thing that makes stainless steel stainless is that it is an alloy with another material (aluminum?) that oxidizes very quickly, but also clear. This creates a clear layer of oxide between the iron in the steel and the oxygen in the air...
[17:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:35] <exec> 08└─Examples? Having lived under Communism I found everything, including the healthcare system, full of them, usually in "procurement" or head spots where they could direct state funding based on personal favors, enrichment, etc...
[17:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:37] <exec> 08└─Ah, I guess I have known a couple of people who have sat on NICE committees (which advise on English NHS medical policy e.g. which treatments to buy). They are typically senior medics or academics. There were offers of "working lunches"/etc from the (capitalist) pharmaceuticals, which were turned do...
[17:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:39] <exec> 08└─It's not such a bad idea for specific area like medicine; the sociopaths are not usually drawn to work in hospitals.
[17:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mystery of Titan's Expanding Orbit - 2070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:54] <exec> 08└─lol this "strumming" answer sounds like complete bullshit. but it may be true i certainly dont know. How many light years or atronomical units is 11cm? But it reminds me of the onion back when they had "ask a (fill in blank)" section. For example, this weeks guest, is Ask An Astonomer Question: I ha...
[17:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mystery of Titan's Expanding Orbit - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:56] <exec> 08└─plz excuse the slurs in that chan copypasta, I did not recheck the image before posting and would have blurred that out. I do not condone slurs against anyone for any reason. But the facts in this case are overwhelming that this is going on, and I think the burden of truth outweighs teh burden of be...
[17:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:22] <exec> 08└─I need some Cocodamol after reading that camelCase...
[17:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:45] <exec> 08└─You have to swallow.
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[18:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:33] <exec> 08└─Wait, I thought Trump was the bottom feeder?
[18:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:35] <exec> 08└─If the department line is a reference to Little Shop of Horrors, wasn't Audrey II a "mean green mother from outer space?"
[18:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:37] <exec> 08└─Congrats to both for bringing the political debate to this story. To complete the thread, let me offer my contribution: List of what you need for bacteria to be reanimated after 100 million years in the mud: - do not reboot them using systemd
[18:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:39] <exec> 08└─If this is in reference to Biden's age, you should realize that no matter who gets elected they will be the oldest president the United States has ever had.
[18:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:41] <exec> 08└─What better idea for 2020 than to reanimate hundred-million-year-old bacteria. I'm mean, what could go wrong? It could hasten the extinction of humanity. But at this point, it that a bad thing?
[18:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:44] <exec> 08└─I didn't think it was a debate, IMO they're both (all?) bottom feeders. As for systemd: haters gonna hate. I don't love it, but I don't hate it enough to complain.
[18:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:46] <exec> 08└─Well, I was thinking how wonderful that we can preserve Coronavirus for posterity. ;^)
[18:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:48] <exec> 08└─It adapted to live inside sea mud, not living humans.
[18:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:50] <exec> 08└─Proverbs 4:27: "Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil."
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:14] <exec> 08└─Automatic rifle is just as accurate a description as saying Matt bent the barrel on an WWII artillery howitzer 180 degrees. The AR in AR-7, AR-10, AR-15, etc. stands for Armalite Rifle, as in a Rifle designed by Armalite.
[18:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─So then the feamle Galil, is not completely a joke then. https://silahreport.com [silahreport.com]
[18:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─You seem, like an American, to be missing the negations? And the joke.
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─They had scoops attatched a the muzzle, to help the projectiles take a turn, not enclosed.
[18:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:11] <exec> 08└─"Can" doesn't mean impossible some of the time. And what happens in your head is not reality.
[18:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:12] <exec> 08└─I have plenty of complaints about big tech and corporate power in general, but I'd say your argument went off the rails here. What meaning does "freedom of the press" have if you have no means of distributing what you publish?
[18:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:15] <exec> 08└─If you watch the actual hearing or read the transcript, you will see they did in fact address those things. Yay journalism.
[18:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:17] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg: I have to go to the bathroom... [youtu.be]
[18:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:06] <exec> 08└─> Solution: get rid of the door handles and replace them with plastic and a cleaning spray. ...And now you're right back to requiring cleaning staff to clean all the surfaces regularly - except now they have to clean them far MORE regularly in order to slow the spread of infection by the same amount...
[18:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:07] <exec> 08└─Ah, but you see, that's why capitalism is so much better. Money provides power which provides more money. It's a nice tight, efficient cycle for wealth concentration, which allows the government to rapidly become the enforcement arm of industry, rather than central-planning's enslavement of industry...
[18:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:09] <exec> 08└─here's a silly idea: rent the door handle when entering the hospital. you go in, see the check-in counter, deposit 636.137 grams worth of copper in us-dollars and get a "universal hospital door handle". with this, you "click it to a door" and then you can open the door(s). once you're done getting i...
[18:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Aluminium! That's what makes Stainless stainless, since they both are silver colored. The level of metallurgical ignorance here on SoylentNews truly astounds me. No wonder we have anti-vaxxers and anti-masxxers and all manner of anti-science stupidity. Here, have some Hydroxychlorinequinine S...
[18:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mystery of Titan's Expanding Orbit - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize it's a fucking comedy.
[18:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mystery of Titan's Expanding Orbit - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:29] <exec> 08└─if it werent for child abuse, might be funny. https://files.catbox.moe [catbox.moe] https://files.catbox.moe [catbox.moe]
[18:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:55] <exec> 08└─For every freeloader who sets up their own web server, Apache is LOSING $20B dollars!!! Look at all that lost revenue!!!! Quick, get the RIAA lawyers on the job!
[18:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:57] <exec> 08└─When the artist abandons their ‘style’ and produces what sells https://whatculture.com [whatculture.com]
[18:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Type 075 Big Deck Amphib Preparing for Sea Trials - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:40] <exec> 08└─Those are interesting points. India is quite encircled by China at the moment. There's a possibility that those two will go to war before China and the US do. If India doesn't hop to it they're probably going to lose. India had cordial relations with the Soviet Union, but who knows if Russia likes t...
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[19:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:29] <exec> 08└─Should never have let M$ design the OS.
[19:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:30] <exec> 08└─On the other hand they now have plenty telemetry data.
[19:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:32] <exec> 08└─It won't boot normally without the CPU speed update, but the CPU speed update won't install in safe mode. WHO'S BRILLIANT IDEA WAS THAT?!
[19:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:34] <exec> 08└─a part of the spacecraft was a little colder than expected
[19:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:36] <exec> 08└─https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41005.msg2113511#msg2113511 [nasaspaceflight.com] TL;DR - Everything's good now.
[19:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:22] <exec> 08└─What a nice shape!
[19:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:24] <exec> 08└─You seem, like an American, to be missing the negations? And the joke.
[19:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:26] <exec> 08└─"The negotiations negations never took place."
[19:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:28] <exec> 08└─Think about it one more time..
[19:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:24] <exec> 08└─Antifa are still Antifa and would kill people they don't like if they could.
[19:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe we can amend the Constitution to get rid of the USPS and repeal the 2nd amendment at the same time? Win-win! Are we tired of winning, yet?
[19:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:27] <exec> 08└─That is very 1984-ish, I think.
[19:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:29] <exec> 08└─I fail to see any argument that removing either would be beneficial to the American people. Beneficial to oligarchs, sure.
[19:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:31] <exec> 08└─Don’t ask Congress, ask Bezos https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] Making good use of all that money you gave him
[19:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:25] <exec> 08└─Sociopaths and psychopaths are everywhere. Together, they are ~5-10% of the population. Sociopathic qualities have been esteemed throughout history. It's not a bad thing that some people lack the emotional shackles of others, and you shouldn't act as though they are all "bad" due to different emotio...
[19:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:26] <exec> 08└─But what about the copper sulfates (blue vitrol)? And sulfides (copper glance). Copper carbonate (Verdigris)? Copper nitrite, and nitrate, and nitride? Copper chloride (Resin of copper)? Who started this idea that the anti-bacterial properties have anything to do with electrical conductivity?
[19:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Medicine Remedy Could Provide New Treatment for Modern Day Infections - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:37] <exec> 08└─Depends on what they are married to. Lots of women married to gun-nuts probably have such dreams.
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[20:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:51] <exec> 08└─How's that possible? That indicates the thermal profile digital model of of the craft was wrong to begin with.
[20:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:53] <exec> 08└─What was that bit on Star Trek? "To boldly go where no man has gone before, so the next person knows how to go there again and survive."
[20:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:55] <exec> 08└─I presume there already were some stuffs boldly passing Earth's shadow before.
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:57] <exec> 08└─everything worked as planned Now, be ready to die! BWAAHAHAHAHAAA!
[20:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:59] <exec> 08└─<pedantic> "To go boldly..." </pedantic>
[20:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:18] <exec> 08└─If being at the bottom of the ocean for 100 million years can't kill off bacteria, I doubt I'm going to be able to clear up the gnat infestation in my apartment. I hate bugs. The main reason I'm agnostic is because I just can't believe that a supposedly loving god would have cursed us with insects....
[20:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:50] <exec> 08└─Sorry. No can do. Gotta go and give your wife some hard cock. Fuck off jackass.
[20:24:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 1589 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:31] <exec> 08└─We're not angels. If you want to identify the devil in the room, call it capitalism. I have watched ideas that work, could have been saving lives for the past 20 years with basically trivial per-patient cost, be shelved because the reality of my industry is that it takes a lot of money to get anythi...
[20:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:52] <exec> 08└─the politicians will screw up more likely than not... They are not screwing up, they are not at all "clueless", they are simply complicit, they follow orders, or be replaced
[20:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:54] <exec> 08└─Go watch Running Man again, and see the universally loved game show host, telling the millions of viewers what to think. Then, the world cheers in unison as the "bad guy" is hunted down and killed. Running Man? Sounds just like the Bin Laden fairy tale. Life imitating art again?
[20:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:56] <exec> 08└─The last time I checked, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dutch Ministry of the Interior, European Commission, Finnish Interior Ministry, Norwegian Ministry of Justice, Public Safety Canada, Swedish Ministry of Justice, UK Home Office, US State Department, and MI6 [catbox.moe] could be consid...
[20:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:58] <exec> 08└─The problem with abusive ISPs is that there is very limited competition. What do we do then?
[20:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:39] <exec> 08└─"That's the next thing about OSS, with commercial software" FOSS can be commercial. you mean "proprietary" or "slaveware".
[20:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Type 075 Big Deck Amphib Preparing for Sea Trials - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:25] <exec> 08└─that's only the shit they sell us.
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[21:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If You Own One of These 45 Netgear Devices, Replace It - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:28] <exec> 08└─Planned obsolescence!! It's a feature!
[21:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If You Own One of These 45 Netgear Devices, Replace It - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:29] <exec> 08└─Not only Netgear My Archer C5 has never had an update available. Build 20160201 is the OE firmware.
[21:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If You Own One of These 45 Netgear Devices, Replace It - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:31] <exec> 08└─Replace it
[21:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You Own One of These 45 Netgear Devices, Replace It - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─I will note that most (if not all) of Netgear's routers are upgradeable with Tomato and the various WRT firmwares. MOST modems cannot be upgraded with these, however, the 2200V1 will work. Don't just grab any firmware willy-nilly and install it - read the documentation, to ensure that you are gettin...
[21:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:09] <exec> 08└─A straight white male in his 50s with Amy as VP would win in a landslide against Trump. But why did the Democrats think four geriatrics in their 70s were the answer?
[21:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03agr [7134] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:10] <exec> 08└─This should help settle any doubts that the Earth could have been seeded by bacteria from an earlier planet or moon. The case for life originating on our planet keeps getting weaker.
[21:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:13] <exec> 08└─I am confident Wuhan lab keeps backups. What worries me most, anyway, is the next release candidate.
[21:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:15] <exec> 08└─Mod+1 flamebait
[21:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:52] <exec> 08└─Those who do not learn the lessons of Kevin Costner Movies are, well, condemned to be in Kevin Costner movies. Maybe even ones with Tom Petty in them.
[21:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry, vidya is my most hated medium, I know those names, but not much else. Care to give me a real answer?
[21:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Scientists Are Taking a DIY Coronavirus Vaccine, and Nobody Knows If It's Legal or If It Works - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:28] <exec> 08└─Or you were exposed before t0 and developed immunity even though the vaccine was no help. Or you were already immune at t0 but the false negative said otherwise. Or you were exposed despite staying at home and developed immunity that way. Or the t2 test was a false positive. Or the reporting was inc...
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[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06If You Own One of These 45 Netgear Devices, Replace It - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:35] <exec> 08└─Should have provided a link above. https://www.myopenrouter.com [myopenrouter.com] This site gets support from Netgear, to some degree. Pretty much every question you could ask about opensource firmware and Netgear has been answered here.
[22:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06If You Own One of These 45 Netgear Devices, Replace It - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─for OpenWRT supported netgear devices, check here [openwrt.org]
[22:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:54] <exec> 08└─That ship sailed [wikipedia.org] a long time ago.
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:18] <exec> 08└─Wuhan v2? Is there a planned release schedule available yet?
[22:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:20] <exec> 08└─I just hope that when you've finished spermiating your pans, you wash them.
[22:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:22] <exec> 08└─Well, Patrick Swayze isn't going to make it, but maybe Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo are available and, hey, Julie Newmar is still around.
[22:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:05] <exec> 08└─The USPS can still stick around they just shouldn't have a monopoly on my mailbox. I should be allowed to allow other vendors to deliver mail into my mailbox if I wish. It should be my choice and the mailbox should be my mailbox and not that of the federal government.
[22:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:06] <exec> 08└─still believes that antifa actually exists.
[22:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Software Foundation Values its Codebase at Over $20 Billion - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:48] <exec> 08└─You are right. I was looking at financials that were in thousands of dollars earlier yesterday and I think my brain defaulted back again when looking at theirs.
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[23:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Challenging a Central Dogma of Chemistry: Energy Flow in Chemical Reactions - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─My overhype meter is going off! Every time someone describes their own work as "challenging the dogma", you need to put on your skepticism hat. If you don't, the next thing you know, you're purchasing "hydrino futures" or something like that.
[23:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Challenging a Central Dogma of Chemistry: Energy Flow in Chemical Reactions - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:28] <exec> 08└─Everyone in China knows, wangs can't cook. Tso's are the cooks you want. Source: General Tso's Chicken.
[23:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If You Own One of These 45 Netgear Devices, Replace It - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:41] <exec> 08└─What would Huawei do? Never mind, that's a rhetorical question. Well, actually I have at least 5 Netgear switches (24, 8, 5 ports) in my household, mainly because they support CAT6 and jumbo frames, which is good thing for my servers. But since I always expect either backdoors or exploits in all con...
[23:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If You Own One of These 45 Netgear Devices, Replace It - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:42] <exec> 08└─Gateways and firewalls is something everyone should build on their own. Bridging a modem and putting your own firewall behind it is the best of possible. The same with separate wifi APs.
[23:22:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:51] <exec> 08└─On the other hand they now have plenty telemetry data.
[23:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:02] <exec> 08└─Joseph Heller
[23:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Spaceship Experiencing Technical Issues - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:04] <exec> 08└─If that was the expected coldest part of the mission, and if there were no mission requirements that needed to be met in that region, and the spacecraft is happy and has no problem at those temperatures in safe mode, then why would you want to design for it to be operational during that time? I'd ra...
[23:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bacteria Live Despite Burial in Seafloor Mud for 100 Million Years - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:31] <exec> 08└─I doubt I'm going to be able to clear up the gnat infestation in my apartment.
[23:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cartoons Were Right? Bending a Rifle's Barrel Backward Will Actually Redirect a Bullet - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:05] <exec> 08└─Elmer season!
[23:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Tech CEOs Grilled by Congress: Key Moments From the Historic Antitrust Meeting - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:15] <exec> 08└─Even an angelical politician - no corruption and dedicated to the well-being of the people s/he represents - has good chances to screw it up. Because politics is about finding compromises. And it's inevitable a compromise will compromise in different extents the sides it tries to reconcile. (from wh...
[23:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting Copper in Hospitals - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:11] <exec> 08└─While I don't disagree with you I think what they would do is have two of them that they cycle in and out so they don't have such downtime.
[23:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mystery of Titan's Expanding Orbit - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:31] <exec> 08└─That was no astro boffin mistake. The units used for any part of that mission are irrelevant. That was 100% a systems engineering and test and integration failure. Maybe those failures were the result of upper management budget and schedule pressure, I don't know, but that failure had nothing to do...
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