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[00:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:15] <exec> 08└─2 + 2 = 5! Yes, factorial! Down with the patirarchay!
[00:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 1331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:56] <exec> 08└─> I bet those same groups would sanction the marriage of two older people who are too old to have children. Catholics have already run through that argument and have an answer for it (same as the "what if he/she is infertile" question) - basically if God wants it to happen she will make it so, call...
[00:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and also accounts of pre-christian Roman civilization too...
[00:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this. Control sex, control the person. This is why our spouses/SOs insist on monogamy! Ever heard "sex isn't everything" from your SO? It isn't until you go hittin' it with someone else. Then it's EVERYTHING. I love my wife, she just doesn't let me sleep with other women.
[00:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:28] <exec> 08└─Acceptable? It's simply reality that mobile development outpaces that of traditional desktops. Where possible I'll trust the desktop client or web interface over a corporation insisting I install their app and trawl f-droid over Play. But yes I have an Android smartphone. And yet there are situation...
[00:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:29] <exec> 08└─sudo apt install scrcpy
[00:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:40] <exec> 08└─If I am not mistaken that is updated manually.
[00:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:41] <exec> 08└─Congrats to our friends, leaders and overlords, the ones who make the site possible, as well as the submitters. What can we do if the queue is empty? Thanks to all and hail to the EiC!
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[01:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Launching Deep Probe Into Google’s Planned $2.1 Billion Fitbit Buy - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:32] <exec> 08└─Google is much too big already. Just tell them "No way, Jose!" I'm quite tired of regulatory agencies rubber stamping what a few big corporations want them to rubber stamp.
[01:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Launching Deep Probe Into Google’s Planned $2.1 Billion Fitbit Buy - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:33] <exec> 08└─Pretty soon Google will buy whatever that bluetooth dildo is called and track your gisms on your online profile.
[01:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Launching Deep Probe Into Google’s Planned $2.1 Billion Fitbit Buy - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:35] <exec> 08└─At least Google is nominally here to help. With them, they might be collecting all kinds of data about us, but I can at least download it [google.com] -- unlike the NSA. Hell, I can't even go to Safeway or Target and ask them for a printout of everything I bought that year if I used my please-track-...
[01:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:05] <exec> 08└─I've never been in a house that didn't have that same type of lock on the master bedroom's door.
[01:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:06] <exec> 08└─No, but they had caves and those caves had lower caverns where she'd let you draw on the walls.
[01:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:09] <exec> 08└─The fact that wolves don't do the back to back thing suggests it's probably some artifact of human medling.
[01:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:12] <exec> 08└─I have been led to believe that the Catholics really lay that stuff on thick as well, but in my experience the most enthusiastically affectionate young ladies have been the Catholic ones. Either because they wanted to know what the big deal was, or because they had tried it and liked it. I suspect...
[01:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:16] <exec> 08└─I suspect that all that guilt might not work the way the priests want it to. One quick look at the books will remove all doubt
[01:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:40] <exec> 08└─And then gets sued for 'wrongful death' because their rocket isn't made of bubble-wrap.
[01:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:42] <exec> 08└─They are required to announce the location so that people know not to be there. There is no accounting for dumb-asses, which is why they need the coastguard to be present. Company security don't have arresting authority.
[01:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:44] <exec> 08└─OK, much the same as where I am. Thanks.
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[02:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Launching Deep Probe Into Google’s Planned $2.1 Billion Fitbit Buy - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:39] <exec> 08└─They Googled it
[02:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:26] <exec> 08└─One science-based paper would do it.
[02:23:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:37] <exec> 08└─Why do they let the government/church regulate it? Control sex, and you control the human. They will do anything you say. Kill, die, anything Read "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" by Wilhelm Reich. It shows how sex prohibitions are the basis of all control
[02:32:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 572 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:59] <exec> 08└─Some footage: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Compare to the Halifax Explosion [wikipedia.org] in 1917 (est. 2.9 kilotons) or the Tianjin explosions [wikipedia.org] in 2015 (800 tons of ammonium nitrate, 336 tons TNT equivalent). Think ‘Halifax’ Not ‘Hiroshima’ For...
[02:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:38] <exec> 08└─A very interesting video I haven't seen on youtube, is here: https://video.twimg.com [twimg.com] The way the roof peels away in the initial concussion made me think it was CGI but that was before reading about how big the bl...
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[03:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:29] <exec> 08└─Google, Twitter, Rachel Madow, CNN --- easy money. Yeah I know -- this is about foreigners -- but perhaps we should know who the major investors are in media and tech companies. (I'm relying on the mod police to keep coming back and mod me underrated after the legacy media troll squad is through wit...
[03:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:31] <exec> 08└─Well, if we didn't have that whole anchor baby thing, all those lizard people would still be aliens. It's too late now!
[03:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:33] <exec> 08└─Trump, Barr, RNC, Fox easier money.
[03:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:35] <exec> 08└─So what's to stop Russia from interfering, throwing their hackers under the bus, then collecting the reward?
[03:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:37] <exec> 08└─That means the fraud has to be built in at the factory. No problem. Happy hunting
[03:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:40] <exec> 08└─Poor widdle USA is always the helpless victim and it's everyone's fault except theirs that their country is collapsing.
[03:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:42] <exec> 08└─You owe me $70,000,000.00
[03:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─Better question [extends pinky finger to mouth] -- What's to stop me? There are a ton of freelancer sites that specialize in foreign talent.
[03:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:46] <exec> 08└─Well, what do you know. Another primitive, simple-minded, binary, tribal little POS who thinks it's all "the other side's" fault. Right now, you have a well known psychopath, con-man, sexual predator and child molester in the white house, and it's not "democrats, ANTIFA, CNN, etc" who put him there....
[03:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Launching Deep Probe Into Google’s Planned $2.1 Billion Fitbit Buy - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:56] <exec> 08└─That's a lot of Fitbits!
[03:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:43] <exec> 08└─Citations required.
[03:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:00] <exec> 08└─I have to agree. Most mobile apps are pretty dumbed-down compared to their desktop equivalents. If that's all I got with me, then that's what I use, but when I have my desktop or laptop handy the phone sits unless I actually have to make or take a phone call. I guess some reasons might be: * Testing...
[03:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:53] <exec> 08└─Imagine cocaine only greener and twice as addictive for susceptible individuals.. Various flavors are used as legal tender around the world.
[03:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:37] <exec> 08└─No, vote for the greatest evil: CTHULU 2020 https://cthulhuforamerica.com [cthulhuforamerica.com]
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[04:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:44] <exec> 08└─Nah, that is a minority of the US which is so dumb, please don't paint us all with the hemocyanin / runaway / TMB brush. I didn't mention EF since he is a psychopath and would be embarrassing in any country.
[04:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:46] <exec> 08└─Wait, *that*'s what you're considering easy money? Just find a few vulnerabilities in the machines and/or spin up a few stories about foreign interference, sell them to small foreign media outlets, er, "investors", and split the reward. How easy is this bounty to game?
[04:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:48] <exec> 08└─Don't forget how they downmod every criticism but whine like babies about the "mod patrols" or whatever. Which of course means that they are running sock puppet accounts to make themselves feel better about the world leaving them behind.
[04:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:50] <exec> 08└─Republicans "win" elections by cheating. So, of course they don't want electronic voting to be secure.
[04:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:52] <exec> 08└─Don't you remember that time Obama wore a tan suit?
[04:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Launching Deep Probe Into Google’s Planned $2.1 Billion Fitbit Buy - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:03] <exec> 08└─Just tell them "No way, Jose!"
[04:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Launching Deep Probe Into Google’s Planned $2.1 Billion Fitbit Buy - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:05] <exec> 08└─Most Mexicans that I know appreciate even a slight effort to communicate in their language. What were you saying about your mother?
[04:24:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:04] <exec> 08└─Me, I like to do it on the front lawn, and I don't let being by myself stop me, neither.
[04:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:25] <exec> 08└─Those towels may be labeled "made in USA", but with WalMart's history, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the only thing done in USA was sewing on the labels... Just say'n.
[04:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beirut Explosion Kills Over 100, Linked to 2,700 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate in Port Warehouse - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:09] <exec> 08└─It's unlikely to be aliens. Contamination with hydrocarbons or something else is possible. I'm not an expert on compounds that act as sensitizers. There is also the very likely possibility of an malicious intentional act. The region is not known for its stability.
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[05:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:35] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Excel’s automatic formatting is normally helpful for finishing spreadsheets quickly,
[05:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:37] <exec> 08└─Scientists & Engineers!! Please repeat after me: Excel is a business tool, it's not for scientific or engineering calculations beyond the most simple sort that you might otherwise do manually. Spreadsheets in general are crap for precise work, we used to have problems with Lotus 1-2-3 as well.
[05:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─There was a time when a spreadsheet was used for it's intended purpose. Accounting, primarily. Microsoft Excel has been adapted and adopted for all kinds of crazy crap that a spreadsheet was never meant for. In this case, we're talking about SCIENCE??? And, SCIENTISTS can't make software more suitab...
[05:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:41] <exec> 08└─Spreadsheets are used for everything where I used to work. I started calling it "management by spreadsheet", because no matter what they needed, I had to put it in Google sheets.
[05:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:43] <exec> 08└─My covid swab took less than two days then got put in excel. The IFU they gave me specifically says it is not to be used for diagnosis and may return positive results if the testee has recently been infected or vaccinated. The "authorities" put these results into excel and only god knows what comes...
[05:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:46] <exec> 08└─Nice soap box! Now all you have to do is tell everyone in the whole world hundreds of times over and over again. That'll work.
[05:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:48] <exec> 08└─Most schools, colleges, and even research facilities, are run by managers, who are bureaucrats. Budgets, bulk purchasing, licenses, software, hardware.. are all too hard for scientists to manage WHILE DOING SCIENCE.. This means that the people that buy the software ARE NOT the scientists, and, if th...
[05:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:50] <exec> 08└─It's because it makes nice charts and pretty colors. Long ago I made an Excel spreadsheet that extracted all the data from our ticketing systems at work. Management then used that to decided who to fire when crunch time came. They simply picked the people who handled the least amount of cases and th...
[05:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:52] <exec> 08└─They simply picked the people who handled the least amount of cases and the lowest customer feedback scores. Unfortunately, those were all our best people.
[05:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:14] <exec> 08└─This is standard practice for pretty much every vendor of snake-oil crypto, they all offer gigantic rewards for anyone who can crack their unbreakable military-grade patented proprietary encryption. No-one ever gets to collect the reward for some strange reason, but they do get to trumpet the fact t...
[05:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Even Scientists Can Tell These Birds Apart. but Now, Computers Can - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:45] <exec> 08└─Different kind of swallow.
[05:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Not Even Scientists Can Tell These Birds Apart. but Now, Computers Can - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:46] <exec> 08└─Speaking of which, most guys have no problems telling birds apart. "That one slapped me, that one poured her drink on me, that one gave me her phone number".
[05:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:17] <exec> 08└─Actually if you prove the orthodoxy wrong, you are set for life as a scientist. Exact opposite of what you wrote.
[05:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:19] <exec> 08└─No. It will still rot under the ground. Dumbass.
[05:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:21] <exec> 08└─Then pray tell why the fuck does my Crepe Myrtle tree not put out leaves until mid-May and now by August it looks like it wants to give up?
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[05:28:32] <exec> 08└─... Then one day, Prince Piracy arrives and gives her a kiss. She then wakes up, and is promptly pimped out on a thousand servers where thousands more couriers wait to deliver her to eagerly waiting 30+ incels needing new material to jack it to.
[05:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:34] <exec> 08└─You can use VLC to stream directly from SMB, DLNA etc. on both iOS and Android.
[05:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:52] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I think 99% of girls would rather be Kim Kardashian than the plain girl who smelled..
[05:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says. - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:45] <exec> 08└─Exactly. And it's right there in the title: Boaters Gatecrash SpaceX's 1st Splashdown with Astronauts. 'We Need to Do Better,' NASA Chief Says.
[05:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:05] <exec> 08└─Thanks, is there a law against going to different doctors and getting each twice?
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[06:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:44] <exec> 08└─They don't know how to enter "MARCH1" instead of just MARCH1 to force it to be literal text?!! You don't even have to manually change the cell formatting type, you can just put it in quotes. WTF?!
[06:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:45] <exec> 08└─Indeed... Spreadsheets are intended to be electrified ledgers. Sadly, I've seen them used for far to many insane purposes.... (facepalm)
[06:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:47] <exec> 08└─My dates have lead to bad genes also.
[06:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:50] <exec> 08└─And hence, probably the highest paid, so win-win for management.
[06:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:48] <exec> 08└─This is pretty much all there is to know all about know-it-alls like you who don't know shit but feed off of each other's ignorance on this website. Seriously, why did you use Mumbai? It is neither capital of India nor software hub. It has a stock exchange... But that is not related to the story at...
[06:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:36] <exec> 08└─If you're using UserLAnd Linux on your phone, you can change the desktop resolution (IIRC, it's in the tightvncserver settings), and you can log in as a terminal user.
[06:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:33] <exec> 08└─Being able to show new big-name movies at your house to relatives and friends is a status symbol. It's not about the flick itself.
[06:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:34] <exec> 08└─Try using VLC. I generally find it useless on most "proper" machines (laptops/desktops/etc...), but on a tablet/mobile phone, it one of the better media apps. It specifically supports SMB/NFS and other protocols. Unfortunately I could not get it to work with NFS despite all my attempts (my network i...
[06:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:53] <exec> 08└─And that's a problem.
[06:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:57] <exec> 08└─I paid $11.34, but the front page funding goal still is stuck at $654.66.
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[07:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Intel Principal Engineer Blasts the Company - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:33] <exec> 08└─It's nice it's finally coming out from an (ex)Intel engineer after people been saying as much for so many years but it's REALLY too late.
[07:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:53] <exec> 08└─W. Edwards Deming is frequently misquoted [deming.org] as having said that you can only manage what you can measure. He was talking about quality, but customer support/satisfaction seems like it should be another one of those things.
[07:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:54] <exec> 08└─That's the problem with a powerful, flexible, reliable tool -- once the hackers get their hands on it, it will be used for purposes you never anticipated.
[07:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:56] <exec> 08└─Gene names are IMHO a large clusterf*ck anyway. If you track gene names between different species they can differ. To complicate it even futher the same name can also indicate a different, related gene in that same other species. To illustrate: Species 1 has gene x and y Species 2 has gene x and z G...
[07:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:20] <exec> 08└─This might be the real reason the white house fears mail-in voting - too tough to meddle in it.
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[08:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Intel Principal Engineer Blasts the Company - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:31] <exec> 08└─Very bad week in one of Intel's worst years in recent memory. https://www.anandtech.com [anandtech.com] https://adoredtv.com [adoredtv.com]
[08:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:55] <exec> 08└─The same is true for export to csv files. They have removed all the options for quotes and separators and such, so Excel became useless for that too. I sure hope that LibreOffice isn't going to copy that.
[08:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Build Ultra-High-Speed Terahertz Wireless Chip - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:15] <exec> 08└─https://sciencing.com/frequency-led-lights-9592.html [sciencing.com]
[08:29:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:43] <exec> 08└─It is so great that you recognize all the soylentils who submit fine articles to keep SoylentNews what it is.
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[09:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:02] <exec> 08└─after which, they'll figure out that maybe they shouldn't have gotten rid of them.
[09:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:27] <exec> 08└─Not a boomer.
[09:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:29] <exec> 08└─What's to stop them? Oh, maybe just that the Russians are all a fantasy Democrats invoked with full faith and credit of 90% of the media so that they would have to do zero self-reflection? You know, The Democrats could consider that maybe it isn't everyone else who is the issue when they give us a w...
[09:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:34] <exec> 08└─If you prove it completely wrong in one irrefutable step perhaps. Of you provide a small bit of evidence that it may be incorrect then expect to be marginalisation best and cancelled or worse if unlucky
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[10:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Next Steps after Starship Test: More Hops, then 20 km "Skydiver" Landing - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:32] <exec> 08└─Best of luck to them.
[10:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Next Steps after Starship Test: More Hops, then 20 km "Skydiver" Landing - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:33] <exec> 08└─[Ed. note: Check out https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com [nasaspaceflight.com] for developments at Boca Chica. Lots of pictures and videos of the sites (launch and construction), deliveries, component construction (e.g. nosecone, thrust ring, main body, etc.), and assembly of...
[10:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Former Intel Principal Engineer Blasts the Company - 1910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:44] <exec> 08└─Looking at the scope, the leak seems to be the ODMs' "support package" for putting together motherboards' firmwares and such so it's not something that they didn't expect AMD and friends getting their hands on it so there shouldn't be any problems there beyond the odd security vulnerability that wil...
[10:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:08] <exec> 08└─I was going to roll my eyes and mumble about life sciences, but then I remembered an anecdote - a physicist colleague of mine used excel to do the data analysis in his thesis. That would be somewhat tragic, were it not for the fact that he is a C programmer who wrote his own compiler for fun and (su...
[10:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:35] <exec> 08└─#okmillennial
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[11:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:29] <exec> 08└─So who doesn't believe it is really as bright as it is? Is there now a law somewhere that no one is allowed to believe that something could be so bright? /snark
[11:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:30] <exec> 08└─Is it blindingly bad?
[11:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06SpaceX's Next Steps after Starship Test: More Hops, then 20 km "Skydiver" Landing - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:40] <exec> 08└─I think i found Elons grandfather: http://every70smovie.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] I never found any rocket engines in junk yards; but brother bought a vintage jet engine.
[11:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:14] <exec> 08└─There is nothing helpful about a tool (ostensibly) designed for data analysis and manipulation that applies it's own transformations to the data without any user interaction.
[11:23:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:22] <exec> 08└─Trump, Barr, RNC, Fox easier money.
[11:23:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:35] <exec> 08└─Republicans "win" elections by cheating. So, of course they don't want electronic voting to be secure.
[11:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:09] <exec> 08└─This. There's a bunch of apps I have to use for work/school that don't run in linux for whatever reason but do have a perfectly working version in Android. As of now I have to run things in a Windows VM that doesn't always forward the USB devices and other peripherals properly.
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[12:22:33] <exec> 08└─no, but it is incredible.
[12:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:35] <exec> 08└─Before these materials get into production, I wonder if there are any health or environmental issues? This article is pretty short, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] but as I suspected, cyanide is part of the molecule -- pentacyanopentabenzo[25]annulene
[12:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:37] <exec> 08└─Fuck you
[12:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Next Steps after Starship Test: More Hops, then 20 km "Skydiver" Landing - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:48] <exec> 08└─Agreed. This is so much fun watching a group of people who aren't afraid to *try* things.
[12:23:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 970 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:10] <exec> 08└─It's because it makes nice charts and pretty colors. Long ago I made an Excel spreadsheet that extracted all the data from our ticketing systems at work. Management then used that to decided who to fire when crunch time came. They simply picked the people who handled the least amount of cases and th...
[12:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:23] <exec> 08└─I'm no Excel evangelist, but the problem they are describing means they are using the tool incorrectly. It is vitally important to define your cell formats based on the data that is in them. Not doing so leaves Excel to guess what type of data is in the cell - like a date... If they can't be trusted...
[12:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:25] <exec> 08└─Of course they're going to, eventually. I fear at this point, people get paid more to sabotage LibreOffice than to improve it. It's been going down the drain since Version 5. The Mac version now is near unusable (I still run it, teeth-gnashingly). Their latest, greatest innovations include swapping...
[12:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, I only have to tell the engineers that work for me. Done (many years ago). Here's an ancient page (amazing it's still live) that covers some Excel problems in a practical context: http://www.fourmilab.ch [fourmilab.ch]
[12:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:29] <exec> 08└─That guy, in the amount of damage caused to FLOSS, is only second to Miguel de Icaza.
[12:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:31] <exec> 08└─> I made an Excel spreadsheet that extracted all the data from our ticketing systems ... What I take away from this sad-but-typical story is that your spreadsheet wasn't complete, it didn't include data about the difficulty of each problem and the skills/experience required to solve it. Perhaps this...
[12:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:33] <exec> 08└─Exactly. At this point you are modded +4 Funny, but I'd really like to see a "sad but true" mod in this case.
[12:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:01] <exec> 08└─You've been brainwashed by the shit Democrats have been feeding you. They've done nothing but start witch hunt after witch hunt towards an outsider that came in to shake up the bullshit corrupt political system. Idiots like you are going to vote for Kayne West. Have fun when Kayne West wins the next...
[12:26:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 6611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:17] <exec> 08└─I'm going to contradict you here on some technicalities of the churches' teachings. Unless your church follows Quaker/Shaker teachings, sex isn't necessarily evil. In fact, many main stream denominations encourage reproduction to the fullest extent. What is taught as evil is lust and sex out of wedl...
[12:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 2354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:44] <exec> 08└─Mumbai (Bombay) is where the CBC and RCMP tracked down all those fake phone scammers claiming you owe the tax man big bucks so you have to send them bitcoin today or you'll be arrested. The Indian police say they can't track them down to close them, but a CBC reporter had no problem finding a bunch...
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[13:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure a return to a French mandate is in Lebanon's interest.
[13:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:47] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting that the world would be a better place if no one noticed that, for just one example, tetraethyl lead in gasoline was a bad idea all around? We all share all the resources of the world, might as well get used to working out consequences at the same time as inventing new materials.
[13:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:49] <exec> 08└─Blindingly bright. In fact it's so bright you can't even see it with your naked eyes. It might literally blind you.
[13:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:51] <exec> 08└─Is amusement park "dark rides" really the primary application? One would think that perhaps there would be better usages for it otherwise it's going to be a fairly small niche market. How about in the paint they use to draw all those white lines on the roads or at airports. A lot bigger market there...
[13:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Next Steps after Starship Test: More Hops, then 20 km "Skydiver" Landing - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:02] <exec> 08└─Are they landing or brewing beer?
[13:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Intel Principal Engineer Blasts the Company - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:12] <exec> 08└─So the "vulnerability" is that Intel CPUs let you change the voltage again? Two things about this are very strange... 1) On a Pentium M privileged code could set the voltage to anything covering a very wide range. But on Core2 they locked it down and options became quite limited. Did they open it up...
[13:23:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:20] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Excel’s automatic formatting is normally helpful for finishing spreadsheets quickly,
[13:23:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03datapharmer [2702] 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 710 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:39] <exec> 08└─I'm no Excel evangelist, but the problem they are describing means they are using the tool incorrectly. It is vitally important to define your cell formats based on the data that is in them. Not doing so leaves Excel to guess what type of data is in the cell - like a date... If they can't be trusted...
[13:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:45] <exec> 08└─The auto-formatting of cells is quite annoying tho. I almost wish the program would just store it as typed for a bit and then have a popup asking what it should format it as if you have not set it up before you started. That it converts almost everything to dates that have to do with numbers is anno...
[13:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:47] <exec> 08└─"It looks like you're trying to edit genes...Would you like help?"
[13:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:50] <exec> 08└─No, the problem is that Excel is trying to guess what your data formats are. There should be a nice big button to turn that off, as there should be for any "auto" feature in the whole Office suite. What they do now is Clippy without the annoying animation.
[13:24:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:01] <exec> 08└─Poor widdle USA is always the helpless victim and it's everyone's fault except theirs that their country is collapsing.
[13:24:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 545 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:05] <exec> 08└─Well, what do you know. Another primitive, simple-minded, binary, tribal little POS who thinks it's all "the other side's" fault. Right now, you have a well known psychopath, con-man, sexual predator and child molester in the white house, and it's not "democrats, ANTIFA, CNN, etc" who put him there....
[13:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:19] <exec> 08└─They don't want all the digital evidence of their own malfeasance to be leaked again. We should take this to mean that there is plenty of great, as yet unseen evidence out there for whoever can find it.
[13:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:20] <exec> 08└─At least he didn't have a spray on tan.
[13:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:23] <exec> 08└─The white house meddling already started with additional defunding moves against the US Post Office. Trump must have been slapped by a postal worker when he was a kid*, why else would he hate a federal agency so much? *and the little entitled shit probably deserved it.
[13:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:30] <exec> 08└─Are you sure about that, dumbass? Because I was told that trash in a tightly packed landfill is a low-oxygen environment. You can't make CO2 without oxygen. https://www.livescience.com [livescience.com]
[13:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:32] <exec> 08└─Does it have powdery mildew (ie. fungus)?
[13:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Googler Levandowski Gets 18 Months in Prison for Trade-Secret Theft - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:07] <exec> 08└─How about ex google-ite? google-ista?
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[14:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─But executive orders of attainder are apparently fine. Love having a government that can just arbitrarily declare you guilty and punish you without due process. Trump being a shithead is entirely incidental to how our government is just plain broken.
[14:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:38] <exec> 08└─Eek. This post made me shudder.
[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that the executive branch is incapable of doing anything to stop a belligerent foreign government's assets from interfering with the economy and the nation? There was nothing arbitrary. China is a problem. China is belligerent. The more we get away from China the better regardless of...
[14:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:49] <exec> 08└─It probably isn't in the interest of France either, most of the old colonies just didn't work out all that well in the end.
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:51] <exec> 08└─There will probably be no smooth change of government. If the government falls, there are a LOT of actors who will try to fill the void. Half of those actors have terror in their hearts. All because some incompetent assholes couldn't decide to dispose of some hazardous materials. As has been pointed...
[14:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─Quite, the first thing that came to mind was more efficient fluorescent lighting. LEDs are not ideal for everywhere, and there is a huge legacy of infrastructure using fluorescent lamps. Any improvements in light conversion can result in energy savings across the world, just by replacing lamps as th...
[14:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:07] <exec> 08└─Black lights matter.
[14:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─But that would lead to regulations. And regulations are bad! Anti-business! /sarc
[14:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:11] <exec> 08└─what is "dark rides"?
[14:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:13] <exec> 08└─That does sound like an interesting secondary application. (sarcasm)
[14:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:16] <exec> 08└─That could be very scary tho in the tunnel-of-love. It might be blinding.
[14:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Next Steps after Starship Test: More Hops, then 20 km "Skydiver" Landing - 2074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:28] <exec> 08└─I did read something about Raptor production being lower than they'd like a while back, though I don't have any additional details. For the immediate future though, I think they're somewhere past #30, and #18?...17? was used in one of the earlier tests several months ago, so they probably have at le...
[14:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Next Steps after Starship Test: More Hops, then 20 km "Skydiver" Landing - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:29] <exec> 08└─The rate that I think I read somewhere was 1 engine per 12 days. Some of the earlier engines are likely to be garbage compared to the newer ones, perhaps not flightworthy. Musk said they want around 100 engines total before putting them in Super Heavy. $150M worth of engines
[14:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Intel Principal Engineer Blasts the Company - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:41] <exec> 08└─Did he say that Intel fixed the processor bugs that let the bad guys peek into kernel memory thru speculative execution but that the PR folks didn't understand it was worth telling anybody about it? "Fix" in my book would mean without a major performance penalty. That would taken more logic in the p...
[14:24:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rich [945] 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 791 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:09] <exec> 08└─Of course they're going to, eventually. I fear at this point, people get paid more to sabotage LibreOffice than to improve it. It's been going down the drain since Version 5. The Mac version now is near unusable (I still run it, teeth-gnashingly). Their latest, greatest innovations include swapping...
[14:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:17] <exec> 08└─You can't just create data. You can create fake information, but that's not the same thing. If the data isn't in the system, you can't create it.
[14:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:20] <exec> 08└─Who's entering the data? If it's a grad student, you've got a point. If it's a secretary, much less so. A good secretary could understand that, but the average one couldn't. If it's a temp, it's not a reasonable point at all. To a programmer putting things in quotes is a reasonable approach. Many ot...
[14:24:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 476 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:43] <exec> 08└─This is standard practice for pretty much every vendor of snake-oil crypto, they all offer gigantic rewards for anyone who can crack their unbreakable military-grade patented proprietary encryption. No-one ever gets to collect the reward for some strange reason, but they do get to trumpet the fact t...
[14:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/state-department-reward-russia-election-interference-spam [buzzfeednews.com] KYIV — When Artyom Vysokov received a text message offering him as much as $10 million for information on Russian election interference from a number used mainly for dis...
[14:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Launching Deep Probe Into Google’s Planned $2.1 Billion Fitbit Buy - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:07] <exec> 08└─They let you download some of the data that they have on you, or more correctly, they let you download your data that you have used their products to produce, but nobody knows exactly what they know about you so that don't tell you that you can download it. I do not see this as Google providing me w...
[14:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Even Scientists Can Tell These Birds Apart. but Now, Computers Can - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:27] <exec> 08└─if scientists can't tell them apart, how can they verify that the computer can tell them apart?
[14:27:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 533 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:01] <exec> 08└─> There's a big one here: people are just another animal. Discuss. Given the steadily growing body of evidence that humans don't possess any traits that aren't also possessed by at least some other other animals, plus the total lack of any evidence that there's anything else special about us, the di...
[14:27:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 407 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:03] <exec> 08└─>why dogs mate ass-to-ass Umm... they don't? They mate doggy style. Then they stand around ass-to-ass because he can't pull out without causing them both serious pain. Probably to increase the chances of fertilization occurring before the next dog mounts her. A much more calorie-friendly solution th...
[14:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Teckla [3812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:49] <exec> 08└─I think down-voting is usually counterproductive... it makes people feel targeted and makes them dig their heels in even more, despite evidence and science... I would suggest saving down-voting for really obvious trolls. If you disagree with someone, respectfully and logically make your counterargum...
[14:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews -- Site Hiccup, Spam, Finances, Submissions, Editors, and Folding - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:51] <exec> 08└─This was just my joke contribution. Seeing someone else had manipulated the number, I thought I would do the same.
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[15:22:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:20] <exec> 08└─But executive orders of attainder are apparently fine. Love having a government that can just arbitrarily declare you guilty and punish you without due process. Trump being a shithead is entirely incidental to how our government is just plain broken.
[15:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:23] <exec> 08└─I get it, it's punishment for the WuFlu KungFlu China virus.
[15:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:26] <exec> 08└─Is this censorship? Or merely a trade restriction?
[15:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:28] <exec> 08└─COVID-19, the national debt, poverty... You know, real stuff that real people care about.
[15:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:30] <exec> 08└─Due to the magic (R) it doesn't matter. Government choosing winners and losers, national debt skyrocketing, abrogations of free speech, executive overreach, all totally fine so long as you are protected by the magic (R).
[15:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:32] <exec> 08└─I prefer commie cough.
[15:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because the last dozen POTUS's did nothing to prevent what was warned about long ago.
[15:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:36] <exec> 08└─Of course the President is not responsible. Why should he be? Someone else created the mess, he's just here to do his thang, get some ratings, you know.
[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─I think what's being said is that TikTok and WeChat in no way interfere with the economy nor the nation in any way that any other social media platform does. And it's rather transparent that Trump is simply trying to punish entities on his personal naughty list who make him look... like he is. If Tr...
[15:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:41] <exec> 08└─That's not the point. It's not because the last dozen POTUSes were useless that this one has to follow suit. They all come up with pretend "emergencies" to distract people from the real issues - particularly just before the elections. It's really sad to watch...
[15:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:43] <exec> 08└─Man if only there were some kind of "due process of law" we could follow if that were happening. Where the nature of the crimes against the state or the people could be shown and proven beyond a reasonable doubt and punishments were assigned that matched the crime. It'd sure be neat if there were ce...
[15:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:45] <exec> 08└─Trump may be a shithead - or any other adjective you may tack onto his name. But always remember this: he was voted in. By definition, he represents the people. If he's a shithead, then so are the constituents he's representing. Trump is a symptom, not a problem.
[15:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:56] <exec> 08└─> "All because..." Bullshit. From what I've read in recent days, Lebanon has been on the banal descent into corruption and decrepitude for years. This is the culmination of years of incompetence you can only get a glimpse of in the USA if you are poor.
[15:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:58] <exec> 08└─What the fuck is Macron doing there? He comes across as such a small man wannabe. "Hmmm what would a Great Man do, let me copy that because I don't have any ideas of my own. "
[15:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:01] <exec> 08└─As an American I am 100% fine with my country not being involved in this. Please, please, please let this one go on by without us. We'll catch the next one.
[15:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:03] <exec> 08└─For scale: the bags weighed about a ton each, and you wouldn't want to spread more than ~350 pounds per acre/year. That's about a hundred pounds of nitrogen per acre, and (in my very limited experience managing n=1 hay fields) that's a lot. Going from the estimate of 2750 tons, they'd need about 25...
[15:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:05] <exec> 08└─He's French. He would like compare himself to Napoleon.
[15:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 1, Disagree) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:07] <exec> 08└─I don't know... perhaps it would not be so bad to provide some humanitarian assistance from USA to mitigate suffering, but at what point does it become an "enabling" thing. Indeed, I have never fully resolved the dilemma of what to do when you hear your neighbor beating his wife yet again.
[15:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:09] <exec> 08└─That doesn't really seem like all that much then. Surely they have at least that much farmland? If it was a problem, why weren't they giving it away already?
[15:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:31] <exec> 08└─I can't wait until they replace LEDs with this shit! /s
[15:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:32] <exec> 08└─All I can see is SHINY. So SHINY.
[15:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:34] <exec> 08└─Not just rides, there are many dark places in the Disney Happy Family.
[15:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:37] <exec> 08└─I prefer to think of it as the "Luminous UV" tunnel.
[15:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:39] <exec> 08└─They are not nearly as numerous as the "warm white" ones, though.
[15:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Next Steps after Starship Test: More Hops, then 20 km "Skydiver" Landing - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:53] <exec> 08└─Try things out in public. Even when RUD is the result. Even when prototypes don't look like sleek polished sci-fi rockets. A breath of fresh air compared to how "old space" does things.
[15:24:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Former Intel Principal Engineer Blasts the Company - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:00] <exec> 08└─It's nice it's finally coming out from an (ex)Intel engineer after people been saying as much for so many years but it's REALLY too late.
[15:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Intel Principal Engineer Blasts the Company - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:06] <exec> 08└─but it's REALLY too late.
[15:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Intel Principal Engineer Blasts the Company - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:08] <exec> 08└─Man, this guy has been such a jerk, and wrong about Intel for so long, it's really hard for me to listen to anything he says and take him seriously.
[15:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─So why the fuck are you telling me, shithead?
[15:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, they're quite confused. There's probably no way to avoid it, though. It's better to think of them as nicknames than as names. They started off as "coded functional descriptors", but that was sort of iffy from the beginning. "eyeless" for a gene that was necessary to function correctly to create...
[15:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:51] <exec> 08└─"Measure" these days is just more bullshit busywork in the form of self-eval questionaires that you dump on the losers, I mean workers. Then hand it off to "AI" or "Excel" to sort the list. As someone above already mentioned, your best people often don't score well on busywork measures.
[15:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:54] <exec> 08└─Scientists & Engineers!! Please repeat after me: Excel is a business tool
[15:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:56] <exec> 08└─> it didn't include data about the difficulty of each problem and the skills/experience required to solve it Oh cool. Just add a few more pages to the self-eval forms.
[15:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:58] <exec> 08└─Nonono. Excel is electronic squared paper. With badly designed squares, actually, that tend to change size over time.
[15:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:00] <exec> 08└─Spreadsheets are intended to be electrified ledgers. Sadly, I've seen them used for far to many insane purposes....
[15:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:33] <exec> 08└─Black Box Voting [blackboxvoting.org] has been tackling this issue for 20 years. They initially focused on electronic voting machines that are easily hackable and which have no audit trail. Now they cover the issue more broadly. It is not a new problem, though. Republicans famously questioned Kenned...
[15:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Launching Deep Probe Into Google’s Planned $2.1 Billion Fitbit Buy - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:49] <exec> 08└─"No way, Jose" is idiomatic English at this point. It's like saying, "Lemme tell you something, amigo..." Many other words and expressions from Spanish and other languages have been integrated into standard English and there is no cultural or other subtext assigned to them.
[15:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Launching Deep Probe Into Google’s Planned $2.1 Billion Fitbit Buy - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:50] <exec> 08└─Broad, unrestricted data tracking paves the way for social credit scores like China has implemented and which farsighted science fiction writers and liberals warned us of decades ago. We must make better decisions about these matters now or our freedom will evaporate.
[15:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:48] <exec> 08└─It makes sense that more warmth and more CO2 will boost plant growth. If changing weather patterns deliver more moisture, too (within limits), that's the trifecta. Is it enough to absorb the extra CO2 humans have been adding to the atmosphere? We would need many more data points from the world's veg...
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[16:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive 20 GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:25] <exec> 08└─Intel123 or intel123 How quaint!
[16:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive 20 GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:27] <exec> 08└─Awk! Shameful! Those passwords don't meet minimal password security guidelines at all! I nominate Intel123! as the official replacement password.
[16:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive 20 GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:29] <exec> 08└─Is it a surprise though? Maybe we should try to gain access to the Intel ME with the same 'passwords'
[16:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Massive 20 GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:31] <exec> 08└─This leak is from Intel's partner/customer portal: "The information appears to come from the Intel Resource and Design Center, which hosts information for use by our customers, partners and other external parties who have registered for access. " so not from some internal secret trove, just partner...
[16:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive 20 GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:33] <exec> 08└─Probably true, but there's more of these dumps to come.
[16:22:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─COVID-19, the national debt, poverty... You know, real stuff that real people care about.
[16:22:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 708 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:50] <exec> 08└─I think what's being said is that TikTok and WeChat in no way interfere with the economy nor the nation in any way that any other social media platform does. And it's rather transparent that Trump is simply trying to punish entities on his personal naughty list who make him look... like he is. If Tr...
[16:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:56] <exec> 08└─TikTok and WeChat are assets of the Chinese government. There is a risk and problem with that. China is a bad player and we should separate ourselves from them. An assault upon the first amendment? Are you high? Fake news is a thing. It was first coined by media but Trump co-opted it. Media have bee...
[16:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, I think I'm pretty damn well aware of that. It's hard to separate trump as a phenomenon from the increasingly widespread distrust of institutions in America. Which itself is an artifact of having two right wing parties that hold no accountability to regular people(among many other problems) exc...
[16:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:00] <exec> 08└─> then so are the constituents he's representing. then so are the deplorables he's representing. ftfy
[16:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:02] <exec> 08└─But most of the last dozen POTUSes did do things to get ready for this. For example, CDC was pretty well funded and mostly de-politicized (like any good science) after the SARS scare, which luckily never really spread to USA. Trump is the one (iirc) who cut their budget and then started to cut CDC o...
[16:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:04] <exec> 08└─Oh, he has been addressing the other real emergencies alright. Just not the same way that you want him to address them. Politics, you know. And the government is big, just because this is a news article about foreign policies, you're saying it's not dealing with domestic problems? Are you going to p...
[16:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─Because Clinton. The Democratic party should be disbanded/barred/deported back to Russia.
[16:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─The CDC/WHO was never designed or prepared for this shit. Bill Gates stated those exact facts during Obamas fuckture of POTUS. Trump got stuck with the fuckery leftovers of Democrats.
[16:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:11] <exec> 08└─TikTok has already killed over 160,000 people! How many more must die? We have to stop the madness!
[16:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:13] <exec> 08└─It's really sad to watch... It is indeed... But, from the other side, it's all very profitable. Maybe, some day, people might take the initiative and turn their backs. Until then, whaddya gonna do?
[16:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:15] <exec> 08└─TikTok is spyware that harvests contacts, clipboard data and audio. It's not enough that military, diplomats and anybody else privy to confidential information remove it from their devices, friends and family must do so too.
[16:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:32] <exec> 08└─It works. Napoleon was about as well liked as him in pretty much any country of the planet.
[16:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:34] <exec> 08└─They don't like it when their politicians are hated during their visits abroad. It kinda dulls them to the hatred they have for them themselves.
[16:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:36] <exec> 08└─The fact is that the people of Lebanon are largely dependent on the import of food and medicine through the port of Beirut. Damage to that infrastructure and economic system will quickly result in widespread want. My heart does not allow me the luxury of turning a blind eye to that imminent crisis....
[16:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:38] <exec> 08└─https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/LBN/lebanon/arable-land [macrotrends.net] Arable land (in hectares) includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and lan...
[16:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:40] <exec> 08└─As an American I am 100% fine with my country not being involved in this
[16:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:06] <exec> 08└─> So SHINY. LITERALLY SHINY. ftfy
[16:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:08] <exec> 08└─Whether I believe something or not is up to me, hopefully. Because I can fully believe that they create such a bright objects, what do you say now? Seriously, what kind of bullshit headline is that? When did this become a tabloid? What's next, an object that will BLOW MY MIND?
[16:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:10] <exec> 08└─Your understanding of chemistry is remarkable. But not in a good way. There are *lots* of cyano compounds in common use. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[16:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:12] <exec> 08└─I don't think this would work as the lining of a fluorescent tube. It sounds more like something that would be applied to a surface that was later illuminated by light of an appropriate frequency. Probably an opaque surface. You could probably design fluorescent tubes to use it, but that seems unrea...
[16:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Next Steps after Starship Test: More Hops, then 20 km "Skydiver" Landing - 1671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:27] <exec> 08└─>The rate that I think I read somewhere was 1 engine per 12 days. Current(ish) production rate? I can see why they'd be disappointed. Hmm, the article I read was from March, and said they were striving to keep it under $5M per engine... though perhaps that was a misunderstanding and it was $5M for a...
[16:24:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03drussell [2678] 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:57] <exec> 08└─They don't know how to enter "MARCH1" instead of just MARCH1 to force it to be literal text?!! You don't even have to manually change the cell formatting type, you can just put it in quotes. WTF?!
[16:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:26] <exec> 08└─Hackers getting their hands on a spreadsheet is not a problem. The problem is MBAs getting their hands on a spreadsheet. * OMG! Excel is the best database evar! * OMG! I can write VBA macros! * I'm now the greatest programmer evar! * I can write separate "query" functions to search the rows of each...
[16:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:28] <exec> 08└─Microsoft product would say: "It looks like you are trying to edit Jeans...Wood you like help?"
[16:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jay [8679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:30] <exec> 08└─You can tell Excel to treat the cells as plain text.
[16:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:18] <exec> 08└─"CO2 is plant food" is bullshit. Sorry, but it is. Up to a certain rate CO2 does promote growth, but at the same time it increases temperature and hence evaporation, which in turn forces plants to shut down their glucose production. It does work in greenhouses because there you can easily compensate...
[16:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:43] <exec> 08└─Only after Disney discovers a way to charge people all over again for stories which are decades upon decades old.
[16:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:44] <exec> 08└─.... Will we once again see Szechuan Sauce from McDonald's actually and really available? Or will the savvy inter-dimensional traveler have to get brainalyzed to make that happen?
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[17:22:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aegis [6714] 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:45] <exec> 08└─Due to the magic (R) it doesn't matter. Government choosing winners and losers, national debt skyrocketing, abrogations of free speech, executive overreach, all totally fine so long as you are protected by the magic (R).
[17:22:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:51] <exec> 08└─Man if only there were some kind of "due process of law" we could follow if that were happening. Where the nature of the crimes against the state or the people could be shown and proven beyond a reasonable doubt and punishments were assigned that matched the crime. It'd sure be neat if there were ce...
[17:22:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 934 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, I think I'm pretty damn well aware of that. It's hard to separate trump as a phenomenon from the increasingly widespread distrust of institutions in America. Which itself is an artifact of having two right wing parties that hold no accountability to regular people(among many other problems) exc...
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:05] <exec> 08└─If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, the MSM will completely ignore it or call it old news. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube will ban discussion of it. Nothing will dissuade them from hatred of all truth.
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:07] <exec> 08└─Trump being a shithead is entirely incidental to how our government is just plain broken. We broke it ourselves. How many other countries with free and open elections have 40 year incumbents running around like this?
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─Red vs blue people need to be kicked out of the country. All they do is blame each other for doing the same corrupt, stupid shit.
[17:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:11] <exec> 08└─Trump is a symptom, not a problem.
[17:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:14] <exec> 08└─And that differs from Twitter and Facebook how, exactly?
[17:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:16] <exec> 08└─Sure buddy, the Centers for Disease Control was totally never designed to control diseases!
[17:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:18] <exec> 08└─>behind by 3 fucking million votes represents any kind of meaningful democratic outcome. There were 50 independent elections. Trump won a plurality. That is some kind of meaningful democratic outcome. For those concerned about it, consider that it might be better to think of the Electoral College as...
[17:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:20] <exec> 08└─They aren't (yet) owned or operated by China and those subject to Chinese security laws. But you already knew that.
[17:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:22] <exec> 08└─So the answer is no, you have no proof and are just reasserting yourself without proof. OK, thanks. By your standards Whirlpool, Microsoft, and Facebook are assets of the United States government. See how easy it is to make claims without proof? No, I'm not high. Trump is talking about banning a soc...
[17:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:25] <exec> 08└─China.
[17:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:27] <exec> 08└─Proof that the Chinese government is using that data? Oh, you have none. How unsurprising.
[17:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:29] <exec> 08└─Uh, no. He is supposed to represent the entirety of the people of the United States. That includes those who were smart enough to not vote for him. But he explicitly states he is not doing that. But I'm quite comfortable with simply leaving the focus on the fact that Trump is a shithead, sure.
[17:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:31] <exec> 08└─CDC was started by the Rockefellers to support their investments in drug companies.
[17:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:33] <exec> 08└─I am sorry you don't know about Chinese policy for Chinese companies. It's pretty common knowledge [qz.com] at this point. I didn't think I needed to state the obvious. Yes, those companies do the bidding of the Chinese government and have government agents inside the company who can do anything the...
[17:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:35] <exec> 08└─Poor widdle Twumpie is afwaid of those yellow people. One day he praises their Pwesident for his viwus wesponse, the next day he says they did ewevything wong! One day he crows about his weaching a Phase I twade deal and how great a deal he makes, the next he is afwaid of their social medias and Chi...
[17:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:38] <exec> 08└─And? China isn't allowed to sell ads? Isn't that just Free Speech, like Russia's interference in our election?
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─Can’t forget this one https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:01] <exec> 08└─The Lebanese are screaming for revolution at a foreign politician who himself has been imprisoning his own people?
[17:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:32] <exec> 08└─First it was candlelight. Then incandescent. Next was fluorescent. Now LED is king. Is this "solid fluorescent" potentially even more efficient than LED? How about, more efficient flat screen monitors? The last big efficiency improvement there was the shift from fluorescent backlighting to LED backl...
[17:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:49] <exec> 08└─I'm no Excel evangelist, but the problem they are describing means they are using the tool incorrectly. It is vitally important to define your cell formats based on the data that is in them.
[17:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 1526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:24] <exec> 08└─Oh, I think the Russian interference is real. However, it pales in significance to the much greater interference from domestic sources. I am especially troubled by reports that the DNC both engineered Hillary's victory over Bernie in the primaries, and helped Trump win the Republican primaries figur...
[17:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:26] <exec> 08└─Americans are allowed to participate in American elections. Foreign governments are not. If they're buying astroturfers and/or ads that is a crime.
[17:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:28] <exec> 08└─Commercial speech, such as paid ads or paid astroturfers is not protected free speech. It is illegal for foreign nationals or governments to pay for ads or astroturfers in an American election.
[17:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:11] <exec> 08└─1) Microsoft is afraid that people will start making phone apps but no desktop versions. So if Windows can run Android apps then they mitigate potential obsolescence. 2) It may encourage more use of Windows as a development platform for mobile apps. (yes, they already have emulators for development...
[17:31:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 907 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:56] <exec> 08└─https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51707188 [bbc.com] It has been modified for the #MeToo era, because you can't have romance between a boss and a subordinate anymore. The talking dragon and other aspects have been removed/changed to make it more palatable for the Chinese market. Huns aren'...
[17:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:12] <exec> 08└─I'm one of those, I've already seen that crows. Except for a very select few movies. Now, if I liked the movie well enough, I'm up for watching it with someone who hasn't watched it before. I'm just not much into watching the same thing over and over. Of course, I'm a dad, so all shows that kiddo ca...
[17:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trolls Disrupt Zoom Court Hearing with Porn; Judge Didn't Require Password - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:00] <exec> 08└─There's a link in the article, if you're that interested.
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[18:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:30] <exec> 08└─5G haters gonna hate.
[18:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:32] <exec> 08└─https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ [rtl-sdr.com]
[18:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:34] <exec> 08└─I have the airspy & converter. It's a very good SDR, but there is way too much noise. Both WWV/WWVH used to tune in easily in the 70s on all their freqs, you can barely hear WWV on one station now in the same location with a better antenna.
[18:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive 20 GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:46] <exec> 08└─Most of that stuff should have been free public downloads anyway.
[18:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:36] <exec> 08└─Can only be a waste of resources to collect these million of hours of americans shaking to some horrid tunes...i am sure it is going to be weaponized against the western world....really.
[18:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, dumb-asses think the CDC/WHO is there to protect citizens from nasty diseases. They are only cops that come in after something starts, the difference being they don't use a gun or a knee and instead just watch you die.
[18:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:40] <exec> 08└─Nope. Still no proof there. Just more allegations and your appeal that something has been proven. Evidence that TikTok is a threat? None. Just allegations and "oh, it should be obvious that humpf dumnpf erg..." You have still proven nothing, sorry.
[18:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:42] <exec> 08└─You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
[18:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:44] <exec> 08└─Ooh yay! More projection from the resident troll brigade.
[18:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:46] <exec> 08└─They are only cops that come in after something starts...
[18:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:48] <exec> 08└─Just not the same way that you want him to address them.
[18:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:50] <exec> 08└─No Democrat has ever tried to ban an App. Your equivalency is false.
[18:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:52] <exec> 08└─What I've been doing for the past 40 years: stay at home on voting day.
[18:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:55] <exec> 08└─If he's a shithead, then so are the constituents he's representing.
[18:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:49] <exec> 08└─candlelight. Then incandescent. Next was fluorescent. Now LED is king
[18:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:51] <exec> 08└─Disney slave workers cast members have some codes for ride service problems.* Code-V is for vomit. Code-White is for something else. *yes, really
[18:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:53] <exec> 08└─You are supposed to believe everything you read.
[18:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Intel Principal Engineer Blasts the Company - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:22] <exec> 08└─Beats me. I've been using AMD for a long time and don't plan on stopping. The fact that they weren't as vulnerable to some of those exploits as Intel is just gravy.
[18:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:12] <exec> 08└─Have you tried getting up on the other side of the bed?
[18:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:13] <exec> 08└─And yet, back to GPs story, the smart/productive members of the team got laid off. Ostensibly for reasons that were based on the presentation of the ticket data in Excel format. So what is the way forward in this situation? Not being sarcastic. Just wondering if that fateful spreadsheet could have b...
[18:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:15] <exec> 08└─* Ok, maybe this is starting to get a more complex * Now that I've shown results and head to greener pastures, I'm can dump this pile of technical debt off onto some nerd * So long, everyone * Wow, this MBA stuff is easy!
[18:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:18] <exec> 08└─Brings new meaning to the term 'protected' cells. Click on the wrong one and your mouse zaps you. I like it!
[18:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:20] <exec> 08└─What is the average years of experience of programmers on the Excel team at MS? I'm thinking that there rookie errors on the programming side, as well as rookie users. Sort of a "blind leading the blind" scenario?
[18:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:22] <exec> 08└─I bet someone accidentally enables John Conway's Game of Life [bitstorm.org] on it and your positive test result starts spreading to adjacent rows and columns. Here's hoping some of the cells [sic] develop antibodies through exposure so they can start disabling the infected ones soon enough.
[18:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:24] <exec> 08└─They *should* have a group policy so it can be turned off centrally for all PCs in the Life Sciences AD group. Still, it's not the worst thing to happen -- better that gene names get converted to dates rather than numbers get rounded or tweaked. Hmm ... someone should write a lint-like utility for t...
[18:31:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 289 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:28] <exec> 08└─> Why would you want to run a phone app on a laptop or desktop? Why would you want to run a app on a phone or tablet? Terrible keyboard, horrible fat finger issues, teeny tiny screens. For many people, desktop is the only usable PC and tablets and phones are a terrible insult to humanity.
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[19:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:31] <exec> 08└─The draw for HAMs used to be: talking to people around the world and neighbors near by. Now the only feature is the tech its self. Building a radio or a transceiver now days it just too much for the ADHD kids to do now.
[19:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:33] <exec> 08└─The point of having different license grades is that the General and Extra require additional knowledge that Technicians don't have to know. Operation on HF is covered by the General license, so if you want to be on HF, pass that test and get the General. Otherwise why bother with the levels at all?...
[19:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:35] <exec> 08└─My first use of internet voice chat apps was with random HAM operators, usually military overseas... That was fun for about 5 minutes in 1995.
[19:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:37] <exec> 08└─Agreed. There is no Morse code requirement anymore so the only difference between a General license and a Technician license is a 35 question, multiple choice test that covers the exact information necessary to operate on the HF bands. I'm not sure what the ARRL is trying to do here.
[19:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive 20 GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:49] <exec> 08└─No way any real covert backdoors would show up in documents and code released to partners and customers.
[19:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:49] <exec> 08└─You know you're the majority, right? You could flip the whole thing upside down if all of you get together and vote for Oprah.
[19:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:51] <exec> 08└─They do try to take away water, utilities, remove civil rights protections for race, and promote corporate censorship of opponents.
[19:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:53] <exec> 08└─Are social media censored by the CCP? Are Chinese citizens coerced into spying for the CCP? Should the CCP have access to the data of US citizens given their penchant for extra judicial coercion?
[19:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:55] <exec> 08└─Lots of countries have longstanding incumbents, e.g. the UK has a bunch of MP's that have been in office since the 1980's. What they don't have is: - A large voter base that's totally fine with bad behavior on the part of their elected representatives. - A judicial and law enforcement system that te...
[19:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:57] <exec> 08└─Poor widdle Twumpie is afwaid of those yellow people.
[19:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:00] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem in the American system is voter antipathy, amongst the ones that vote anyway. And each side is using it as a hammer. I mean, how can any rational human say no to universal health care and a general pension, and a voting holiday, an end to prohibition, etc etc etc without being a...
[19:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:02] <exec> 08└─Oh, he has been addressing the other real emergencies alright. Just not the same way that you want him to address them. Politics, you know.
[19:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:04] <exec> 08└─without being a total sociopath?
[19:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:28] <exec> 08└─spread the contents over farmland Too much logistics. Surely the military could have taken it. They must have some empty fields somewhere where they could have stored it properly. I'm given to understand that you just have to parcel it out and isolate each parcel behind concrete blocks or at least b...
[19:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm sure a different Lebanese President would have been in that warehouse shifting those sacks out. All presidents have the inventories of every warehouse in their country kept on their desk, don't they?
[19:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:32] <exec> 08└─Well, most farmers are bad actors. If they were good actors, they'd quit farming!
[19:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:06] <exec> 08└─> First it was candlelight. Then incandescent. Next was fluorescent. Now LED is king. Is this "solid fluorescent" potentially even more efficient than LED? AFAIK the main loss of efficiency in fluorescent lamps is in the coating that converts UV to visible light, as it isn't a solid, but some kind o...
[19:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Next Steps after Starship Test: More Hops, then 20 km "Skydiver" Landing - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:22] <exec> 08└─NASASpaceflight probably has the most obsessive coverage of SpaceX/Starship on the internet
[19:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Next Steps after Starship Test: More Hops, then 20 km "Skydiver" Landing - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:24] <exec> 08└─This is nothing. They have armchair engineers poring over every photograph, every little detail. https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com [nasaspaceflight.com]
[19:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:34] <exec> 08└─It seems that you're not alone running into this. A recent question on Super User [superuser.com] was having trouble with CSV imports being treated differently than they used to be. Looks like there is an option to force it back to the old way according to this answer: https://superuser.com
[19:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 2113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:35] <exec> 08└─What I think should have been done differently in my opinion would have been to talk to the team leads about why certain people had poor stats. Who did they consider to be the most trustworthy and skilled team members and why. I was one of about ten team leads and they did not talk to any of us abou...
[19:26:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nostyle [11497] 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:00] <exec> 08└─This might be the real reason the white house fears mail-in voting - too tough to meddle in it.
[19:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:13] <exec> 08└─In this ever smaller and more connected world, that strikes me as quaint. Who forbids foreign governments from influencing elections? What's the democracy going to do about it, complain to the U.N.? Declare war? Quibble over whether the methods were ethical or not? I really don't see any problem wit...
[19:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:14] <exec> 08└─> You owe me Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country!
[19:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:17] <exec> 08└─Who forbids foreign governments from influencing elections?
[19:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Launching Deep Probe Into Google’s Planned $2.1 Billion Fitbit Buy - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:33] <exec> 08└─I love when idiots try their hands at other languages and insult themselves, it's incredibly satisfying.
[19:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:33] <exec> 08└─If you try to pass off a BS "study" as evidence, then yeah. Like the Autism thing where the study wasn't properly double blinded, but they guy went off and made a big deal of it anyway. And now when the scientists attempt to replicate it and cannot, the science illiterate call them liars. Those are...
[19:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a Warming World, New England's Trees are Storing More Carbon - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:35] <exec> 08└─Municipal composting doesn't do much for carbon, but it's good policy. Vermicomposting is a good way to turn that carbon into soil with minimal emissions.
[19:29:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 934 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:41] <exec> 08└─Not even remotely accurate: - In insect species, you frequently have a queen and a bunch of drones that get to mate with her. - A lot of species do pair-bonding. And while there is definitely cheating and adults who never mate in pair-bonded species, there are also a substantial number of descendant...
[19:30:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Why Do Humans Prefer to Mate in Private? - 615 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:07] <exec> 08└─With regards to "alpha male" (and the attendant violence) - not only was the concept developed around wolves, it was specifically developed around wolves *in captivity*. When the researcher who created the concept later studied wolves in the wild he realized he had gotten it so wrong that he did his...
[19:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remembering Frances E. Allen - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:22] <exec> 08└─Why?
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[20:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Hat: Hackers Can Remotely Hijack Enterprise, Healthcare Temi Robots - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:34] <exec> 08└─Let's make a list of things that hackers CANNOT hack. 1. Well, I think we're finished here.
[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Hat: Hackers Can Remotely Hijack Enterprise, Healthcare Temi Robots - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:35] <exec> 08└─1- My Brain #EF4President2020
[20:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Hat: Hackers Can Remotely Hijack Enterprise, Healthcare Temi Robots - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─Objection. Assumes facts not in evidence.
[20:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Hat: Hackers Can Remotely Hijack Enterprise, Healthcare Temi Robots - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:39] <exec> 08└─Just wait a (insert suitable time period here) for when you get some sort of cybernetic implant in your brain. I guess we can come back and adjust the list then. Until that time there is always tried and true psychological manipulation.
[20:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:54] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine said: "Ham Radio? That's like Twitter for oldies!"
[20:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:55] <exec> 08└─Modified Gemtronics 12watt 60channel (pll hack) CB with a tube type 100w amp and modified turner supersidekick@120% modulation on SSB to a penetrator antenna. The CB was 70s facebook.
[20:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:58] <exec> 08└─"Troll"? Awww. I guess I touched a nerve because I was going for "Funny".
[20:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive 20 GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kk5iXZFaCQ [youtube.com]
[20:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive 20 GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, at least the ones you are told about you can try to mitigate. There is a big difference between a documented feature that can be used as a backdoor, and a covert backdoor put in place for governments. My house has 4 doors I know about and can use. I'd be pretty damn pissed to find out it also h...
[20:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because the last dozen POTUS's did nothing to prevent what was warned about long ago.
[20:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:23] <exec> 08└─News media are instigating riots and social media is complicit in allowing riots to organize and fund themselves through gofundme so that they can continue rioting. Murdering and burning shit down.
[20:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:25] <exec> 08└─Hey/They can't. This is all pre-election pandering. If you haven't been paying attention, he threatens unilateral action for many many things, none of which he can do legally. Some of those threats even make it into EOs, but those get smacked down by the courts. But that doesn't matter to him becaus...
[20:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:27] <exec> 08└─of course deathmonkey loves the CDC! the professional liars who run interference for big pharma. what a stupid fucking slave.
[20:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:29] <exec> 08└─Pointless legalism, the GP was trying to claim that trump had some sort of inherent legitimacy derived from "the people". Whatever fucking reasons you might think the electoral college is a good idea(it isn't, you're wrong, but I'm not really interested in debate on the subject), it definitely doesn...
[20:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:31] <exec> 08└─He's mad that they won't purchase enough soybeans and stuff before the election to help him in the farm belts. It will be interesting to see what China does because it is probably way more in their interest to keep a useful idiot in power than to have to deal with a real president. Do they very publ...
[20:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:33] <exec> 08└─Everyone who falls into Everybody Else is to be killed.
[20:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:36] <exec> 08└─You have to remember, most estimates place sociopaths and psychopaths as ~3-10%... A very substantial minority group.
[20:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:38] <exec> 08└─I pay $1000 or more a year in taxes because of him because I happen to live in one of those "coastal elite" (aka "blue") states and that fuckwad and his cronies capped the amount of property taxes I can deduct. And that was done purely out of spite. The Republican Party, who will STILL tell you that...
[20:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:04] <exec> 08└─oh come on, i'm sure we can spare a few million $ for some humanitarian bombs.
[20:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:06] <exec> 08└─They're not inept, those puppets are like that by design.
[20:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Unbelievably Bright Fluorescent Objects - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:41] <exec> 08└─You are aware that most LED "white" lights are actually just florescent lights with a blue LED to power them (instead of 10,000V running through a tube), right?
[20:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:12] <exec> 08└─There's probably no way to avoid it, though.
[20:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:53] <exec> 08└─Honestly, would a Kardashian be any worse than DeVos as Secretary of Education? I mean, they too would be clueless, but at least they might not be actively hostile to public education.
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[21:22:32] <exec> 08└─Democracy
[21:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Hat: Hackers Can Remotely Hijack Enterprise, Healthcare Temi Robots - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─Let's make a list of things that hackers CANNOT hack.
[21:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:52] <exec> 08└─Otherwise why bother with the levels at all?
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:54] <exec> 08└─The CB was 70s facebook - until the solar cycle turned and the band went back to being what it was intended to be: local. CB was a really poor choice of band, unless the industry just wanted a bunch of people to abuse it and buy renegade equipment, then it was brilliant.
[21:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:56] <exec> 08└─That was around 1979? It pretty much took out anything a mile away. Around 1977 you could talk to Australia from San Diego.
[21:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:58] <exec> 08└─And is it reasonable to expand the Technician class abilities. Most Technicians seem to mainly use prebuilt hand-held transceivers. It's not like they're building their own stuff. OTOH, there are only three classes of license. Perhaps there needs to be a class in between Technician and General. When...
[21:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:30] <exec> 08└─You're right, I do love the doctors who are busy trying to save both of our asses.
[21:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:32] <exec> 08└─Why should us living in more fiscally sensible places subsidize your choice to live in a "Democrat paradise", with free money and services for anyone who can make it across the border, along with people who have given up legitimate work.
[21:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:34] <exec> 08└─If Clinton were president right now the Republicans would be onto hearing #25 investigating the tragic deaths of 300 Americans to COVID-19.
[21:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:36] <exec> 08└─At least "No Lives Matter" is true.
[21:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:38] <exec> 08└─On the plus side, now that China is on Team Biden [npr.org], maybe Republicans will do something to secure our elections.
[21:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:40] <exec> 08└─Realistically what's there for China to spy one? A bunch of random people dancing and having fun? Even if someone in the U.S. on TikTok criticizes the Chinese government then so what? They're in the U.S. so what can China do? Let them spy away if they really have nothing better to do.
[21:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, China is not doing organ harvesting on Muslims either because they deny it! Your stupidity astounds.
[21:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:45] <exec> 08└─No, but it is easy to spin conspiracy theories out of nothing and suspect because you would act a certain way that means the other person must.
[21:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:47] <exec> 08└─err .. to spy on *
[21:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:49] <exec> 08└─"No Democrat [Republican] has ever..." Go away.
[21:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:51] <exec> 08└─> that trump had some sort of inherent legitimacy derived from "the people". But he does. He won an election. Elections bestow legitimacy from the people to those elected. >definitely doesn't represent "the people" But it does. Through elections the people are represented. US elections and Federal g...
[21:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:53] <exec> 08└─Oh good, we've been needing an excuse to go full fascist! Portland called our bluff and people were too angry, we need to consolidate power over social media so we can prevent the tru... LIES from getting out.
[21:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:55] <exec> 08└─Well, it was intentionally subtle, but at least you got the joke. Not the person who modded me "Disagree", though.
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[22:22:35] <exec> 08└─Why don't they just all wear a mask and then the virus will disappear because masks make people invulnerable? At least their are plenty of ventilators for those who don't wear a mask. Ventilators are all the health system needs.
[22:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Virus-Fighting Efforts Hampered by Data Delays - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─>"... We don't know how the epidemic is trending." I thought you could trace epidemics by those who fall ill. Do you trace pneumonia deaths and patients or not? Then you can trace covid. But, I know, people say: covid is different, it is more contagious/resistant/deadly/whatever OK then expect a pea...
[22:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Hat: Hackers Can Remotely Hijack Enterprise, Healthcare Temi Robots - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:50] <exec> 08└─The sub queue get some ... uh... "interesting" submissions, including a few posted by yours truly. Good number of them are discarded. For the weekends, just put out the outlandish ones, edit them up for extra, full-out, internet keyboard warrior/SJW outrage, Whatcha think? I mean, we ain't got no S...
[22:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Hat: Hackers Can Remotely Hijack Enterprise, Healthcare Temi Robots - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:51] <exec> 08└─The Moon. I'm given to understand you need baby witches for that.
[22:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Hat: Hackers Can Remotely Hijack Enterprise, Healthcare Temi Robots - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:53] <exec> 08└─> ... Except for race stuff - too toxic. Not sure where you are, but the Formula 1 race will be on ESPN on Sunday morning (USA), the broadcasting deal is special this year--no commercials once the race starts! This is almost unheard of for sporting coverage on USA TV, except possibly pay-to-view eve...
[22:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:15] <exec> 08└─In the 80s I had contacts from in Houston Texas to California, Hawaii, and (Japan - no talking just a response.) Used a 2 Element Yagi with a home built stepper motor tilt and a DC motor rotor on a upside down bicycle fork mounted on a 11ft ladder on the edge of my 12ft porch. Fed with at 6 conducto...
[22:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:16] <exec> 08└─Back in the 70's, I first built a Heathkit receiver, then a transmitter. 2 things I learned: 1) Building Heathkits was fun (biggest thing I built was a TV) 2) Talking to dudes and collecting their cards, notsomuch. To be honest, I don't even know if I'm licensed any more. I doubt it, it's been almos...
[22:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive 20 GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:32] <exec> 08└─Fuck you
[22:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:02] <exec> 08└─That is why they lied to you and told you not to wear a mask when it mattered in Feb/Mar?
[22:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it is time to stop beating around the bush, so THANK YOU for pointing out the sordid reality in the US. However there are shades of gray, like our resident grandpa Runaway1956 who I wouldn't say is actually that fascist but 100% makes common cause and is easily swayed into supporting fascism....
[22:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:05] <exec> 08└─Presidential Plague.
[22:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:07] <exec> 08└─Well whatever fucking your opinion to you buddy. I didn't know I was talking to the Holier-Than-Thou-Art-Never-Wrong. Sheesh.
[22:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:09] <exec> 08└─And yet you swallow the US propaganda with a smile...
[22:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:12] <exec> 08└─You're just an asshole. Dress it up as self righteous indignation all you want but a pig in lipstick still mucks around in shit. t('.'t)
[22:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 1591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:40] <exec> 08└─Beirut explosion: former port worker says fireworks stored in hangar [theguardian.com] *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Dozens of bags of fireworks were stored in the same hangar as thousands of tonnes of ammonium nitrate at Beirut’s port and may have been a decisive factor in i...
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[22:26:47] <exec> 08└─AMD hired a female Asian engineer CEO because she's kick-ass competent. Intel's diversity hires are driven by HR checklists... "we need a pink-haired transvestite in engineering to meet this month's quota... go hire one".
[22:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:47] <exec> 08└─Excel is a business tool, it's not for scientific or engineering calculations beyond the most simple sort that you might otherwise do manually.
[22:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:48] <exec> 08└─In all fairness, you probably should have seen it coming, what else were they going to do with that data?
[22:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:50] <exec> 08└─The real solution is for Microsoft to just fix their software. It's trivial to set up a cell to display as a date without messing with the underlying data. There's numerous formatting options available. The default should be to leave the data alone and display it as entered unless the user intervene...
[22:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:52] <exec> 08└─I failed genetics because of that silliness. The teacher wasn't available to explain what the various traits we were supposed to be breeding for looked like and there wasn't any good pictures provided either. Even most of the other students didn't seem to know which fruit flies were in which contain...
[22:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:55] <exec> 08└─It shouldn't be there to begin with. This is the same nonsense as that stupid ribbon UI that ensures that you never have all the tools you need in an easily accessible place. The most common ones are on the ribbon and fuck if I know where any of the other ones are as there's no internal logic to the...
[22:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:57] <exec> 08└─Probably something like a year and a half. IIRC, MS switched to a policy of basically only having contract workers for most of these positions and then terminating the contract every year and a half or so. The end result is that there's very little institutional knowledge. This shouldn't be surprisi...
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[22:29:56] <exec> 08└─but at the same time it increases temperature and hence evaporation, which in turn forces plants to shut down their glucose production
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[23:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Virus-Fighting Efforts Hampered by Data Delays - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:35] <exec> 08└─I thought you could trace epidemics by those who fall ill.
[23:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06California Virus-Fighting Efforts Hampered by Data Delays - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─Can you dummies please just learn reality instead of continuing your death cult paranoia? Non N95 masks are used to stop YOUR breath from easily expanding into a cloud around you, thus limiting the spread of any viral particles and completely stopping larger droplets. Yes you can still catch the vir...
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[23:22:39] <exec> 08└─Since you didn't spell it out, people can be asymptomatic carriers or not develop serious enough symptoms to go to the hospital so "fall ill" won't catch the majority of COVID spreaders.
[23:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Virus-Fighting Efforts Hampered by Data Delays - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:41] <exec> 08└─OK to spell it out myself, what if hypothetically speaking nothing happens "days to weeks" from now like it happen in the south of Italy?
[23:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Virus-Fighting Efforts Hampered by Data Delays - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:43] <exec> 08└─Why don't they just all wear a mask and then the virus will disappear because masks make people invulnerable?
[23:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Virus-Fighting Efforts Hampered by Data Delays - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:45] <exec> 08└─The numbers aren't scary enough, we have to pad them before we release them.
[23:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Virus-Fighting Efforts Hampered by Data Delays - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:47] <exec> 08└─Shhh, let them. The country is far more easily recolonized after the current settlers are gone.
[23:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06California Virus-Fighting Efforts Hampered by Data Delays - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:50] <exec> 08└─How is it possible that every halfway decent third world country can get their shit together but the allegedly greatest nation ever is too dumb for it? How?
[23:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Virus-Fighting Efforts Hampered by Data Delays - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:52] <exec> 08└─can you explain why japan is experiencing a spike despite universal mask wearings ? Much appreciated.
[23:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Virus-Fighting Efforts Hampered by Data Delays - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:54] <exec> 08└─Because they're not wearing their masks.
[23:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Virus-Fighting Efforts Hampered by Data Delays - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:56] <exec> 08└─How? Simple, they went crazy, pitchfork and torches crazy
[23:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Hat: Hackers Can Remotely Hijack Enterprise, Healthcare Temi Robots - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:12] <exec> 08└─Before I retired the RISKS digest was a big thing. Plus /. several times a day. Soylent didn't exist then. I kept on top of all of them. And hey, none of the code I've written has, AFAIK, ever been hacked. Why? No backdoor passwords. User input always got checked, albeit mismatches might have been m...
[23:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Hat: Hackers Can Remotely Hijack Enterprise, Healthcare Temi Robots - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─F1 as a spectator sport is a garbage. Even Nascar circuit is better than F1. WRC is where it's at.
[23:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Black Hat: Hackers Can Remotely Hijack Enterprise, Healthcare Temi Robots - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:15] <exec> 08└─no Sunday NFL (which has been garbage for long time already.) Yeah, just hasn't been the same since '79
[23:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARRL Requests Expanded HF Privileges for Technician Licensees - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:39] <exec> 08└─Heathkits were awesome. A great way to learn to solder. I built my alarm clock that worked until it was lost in a move decades later. My friend's dad did the TV. I remember seeing all the parts splayed out across their living room. If you don't know if you are licensed, then you aren't. You basicall...
[23:23:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06Massive 20 GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors - 627 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:48] <exec> 08└─This leak is from Intel's partner/customer portal: "The information appears to come from the Intel Resource and Design Center, which hosts information for use by our customers, partners and other external parties who have registered for access. " so not from some internal secret trove, just partner...
[23:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Massive 20 GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:56] <exec> 08└─Prolly 20 years old, it sucked because the plastic gears could not hold a focus on the lowest setting, never mind higher magnification. After the divorce I stored a bunch of stuff in dad's garage. Dad died, I'm now clearing out that garage. And I found this microscope. I haven't plugged the 15 year...
[23:24:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:18] <exec> 08└─Trump may be a shithead - or any other adjective you may tack onto his name. But always remember this: he was voted in. By definition, he represents the people. If he's a shithead, then so are the constituents he's representing. Trump is a symptom, not a problem.
[23:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:32] <exec> 08└─We'll gladly take you guys off of the welfare money we send your way. It is simply astounding that the same people who take more money from Washington than they contribute complain about anyone's fiscal situation. The red flyover states are the absolute worst welfare queens there ever were. I'd LOVE...
[23:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:34] <exec> 08└─What I've been doing for the past 40 years: stay at home on voting day.
[23:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:36] <exec> 08└─Can only be a waste of resources to collect these million of hours of americans shaking to some horrid tunes...i am sure it is going to be weaponized against the western world....really.
[23:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:38] <exec> 08└─Considering that India banned these (and ~45 more) apps last week I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with 'trade' or 'censorship' and everything to do with these apps being owned by CCP controlled organizations that are using these apps for spying and other nefarious data collection.
[23:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:40] <exec> 08└─The concern, which is legitimate, is all the harvested data that apps like that take far beyond the scope of the app, and sending it to the Chinese government. However, this has nothing to do with that because it is clear that he doesn't even know what the app is or is about. This is just political...
[23:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:42] <exec> 08└─You're giving them the benefit of the doubt. People in neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and other assorted fascist groups actively train their people to pretend to sound moderate and not-fascist to make their viewpoints sound like they're something they aren't, namely something other than advocacy for b...
[23:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:44] <exec> 08└─If you haven't been paying attention, he threatens unilateral action for many many things, none of which he can do legally. Some of those threats even make it into EOs, but those get smacked down by the courts.
[23:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:15] <exec> 08└─If the government falls, there are a LOT of actors who will try to fill the void. Half of those actors have terror in their hearts.
[23:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Calls for Revolution in Lebanon as French President is Mobbed by Crowds During Beirut Tour - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:17] <exec> 08└─https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53683082 [bbc.com] Mr Prokoshev [, ship's captain,] told the BBC on Friday that the Rhosus only stopped off in Beirut because its owner had money trouble. The captain said he was told the ship needed to collect an additional cargo of heavy machinery, to fun...
[23:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Rename Genes Because Microsoft Excel Reads Them as Dates - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:32] <exec> 08└─Only useless for the lazy... (and I do not like MS practices) march1: easy fix type apostasy before it. That is it. Works for any string type field CSV - god - MS GOT IT RIGHT to spec's IF you follow good standards (we hope sciencists can do that least!). Dates and times pass as ISO standard not s...
[23:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:00] <exec> 08└─Why would you want to run a phone app on a laptop or desktop?
[23:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Making It Possible to Run Android Apps in Windows 10 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:01] <exec> 08└─To communicate with stuff running on my Android phone.
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