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[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─It's a feature
[00:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:44] <exec> 08└─How can a buggy update be "forced" on anyone?
[00:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:46] <exec> 08└─Click onwards, comrades.
[00:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:48] <exec> 08└─autoupdate Other things you don't get: Web assembly [acm.org]Japanese war crimes [spectator.us] You're welcome.
[00:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:50] <exec> 08└─You can't stop progress.
[00:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:01] <exec> 08└─Sweet, sweet release! Of death!
[00:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:03] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia .. something something .. big boom.
[00:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:06] <exec> 08└─> In Soviet Russia .. something something .. [del]big boom. [/del] FTFY
[00:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:08] <exec> 08└─That was quite interesting, on several levels. First, it was neat to see the Soviet propaganda style. Second, it was fun to test knowledge of Russian. Third, it was fascinating how little impact the detonation actually had on the landscape. It was the most devastating explosion in human history, but...
[00:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:10] <exec> 08└─who tests their atom bombs on a cloudy day? and the video was boring, here is how to make an atom bomb video: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Issues Restraining Order Protecting Unreal Engine Development on iOS - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:20] <exec> 08└─You didn't mention whether the material violated PBS copyright. But either way, YouTube is something most people are better off without. Same as TikTok. Same as Entertainment Tonight. Or Master Chef. On the other hand, Apple needs to loosen up on interpreted languages and runtimes on the iPhone, si...
[00:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:52] <exec> 08└─He didn't, he's just stepping down from the high ground and following suit playing the game at the enhanced level as his competitors, meanwhile half of America is still standing on the proverbial high ground chastising him blaming the player instead of the game.
[00:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:53] <exec> 08└─Most "free" stuff is spyware. Do you really believe in getting something for nothing? If it's free, you're the product. It's like a poker game - if you don't know who the pigeon who's getting plucked, it's you. So you really do get what you "paid for."
[00:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:55] <exec> 08└─So the US, home today google and Facebook, the biggest spying operations in the world, is a "developing country." Given that it STILL doesn't have universal health care, I can get behind that.
[00:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:58] <exec> 08└─In that world, most apps wouldn't exist. And that would be a good thing. A world without social media, google, etc, selling your data to all comers because you were stupid enough to believe it was "free" just wouldn't exist.
[00:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:00] <exec> 08└─"Or".
[00:25:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results - 662 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:22] <exec> 08└─It's not the labels that are to blame, but rather thinking that slinging around labels constitutes an argument. Else, without labels we'd be dealing with a great deal more discursive confusion, wherein instead of saying, say, "American," we'd be running through multiple descriptions for all the fact...
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[01:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:56] <exec> 08└─That's right. *You won't find reverse in a Russian tank*
[01:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:58] <exec> 08└─I guess I'm just not retarded enough to allow automatic updates. Seriously, if you're that stupid how do you tie your shoes and get yourself dressed? This is 2020. We've bastards quarter century of auto update horror stories. Hope this will teach them a lesson, like losing all your data teaches you...
[01:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:00] <exec> 08└─You don't need it. Each track is independently controlled, like a bulldozer. Lock one track, pivot, or set one track to forward, the other to reverse, and literally turn on the spot. Same with hydraulic excavators. And the bigger it is, the easier it is.
[01:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:15] <exec> 08└─It was probably decided for one reason or another, on the other hand do you want to be the one to tell Comrade Stalin that the weather was a little bad so you decided to postpone the bomb test. Plus they probably figured it would be bright enough at detonation that the weather might not matter all t...
[01:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, 1 + 4 +6 = 11. Ie, the russians are telling us the twin towers were brought down by nukes.
[01:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:18] <exec> 08└─I somehow think how it would look on youtube in 60 years time was the least of their worries.
[01:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:21] <exec> 08└─Which would explain why they only recorded in 480p, no HD or anything. Very inconsiderate.
[01:23:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sea [86] 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 789 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:51] <exec> 08└─China, Ukraine, Russia, countries in Africa, the middle east, India, South America, and some parts of the USA and a few other EU countries like Slovenia. What do these all have in common? They are all developing countries or they have massive inequality. The cause of this is that you'll sometimes ge...
[01:23:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 202 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, but if we talk about the Chinese spying on you instead of the US and US-based corporations, then we can get you focused on the scary foreigners and help you forget about your home-grown oppression.
[01:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:08] <exec> 08└─Simple solution - do your banking by phone (interactive voice menus), not the Internet. Don't install games. Block all images in your browser. For news, use an app like The Guardian, , turn on Internet access, download just the text diffs of the news, then turn off internet access to the app. No ima...
[01:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:10] <exec> 08└─It's not like today's phones can't track nearby users over Bluetooth. See the Apple/Google covid tracker. The same sort of technology, without the anonymizing code, tied to a bunch of central servers, is the right's wet dream.
[01:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:12] <exec> 08└─Please! It's not worth the hassle. Just use burner email... And... Try our new *JBiden Network Sniffer*™ to find those nasty old spyware cooties!
[01:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Spreads More Indoors at Low Humidity - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:53] <exec> 08└─Plus they filter the water when it floods so you can just drink that brown stuff up.
[01:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Spreads More Indoors at Low Humidity - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:55] <exec> 08└─The reality of winter is sadly this [youtube.com] rather than a horde of death zombies unfortunately.
[01:26:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:05] <exec> 08└─What you said is true without specifying a party. And it wasn't the Democratic media that went to court to defend their right to knowingly lie to people on a news show, it was FOX media. And they won the case. (OTOH, none of the other media spoke up in opposition to that point.)
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[02:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:59] <exec> 08└─They even infiltrated the USAF. Fuck millenials.
[02:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:00] <exec> 08└─A taxpayer funded scrap heap challenge. If the function were simply to take off we could forgive the poor form but we've already seen much better commercial eVTOL designs.
[02:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:02] <exec> 08└─Courtesy of the trebuchet, drunk drivers, collapsing bridges. And one-man vtol platforms have been demonstrated by the military since the 60s, steered by leaning in the direction you want to go. The problem is that they make an exposed target.
[02:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:17] <exec> 08└─> ...set one track to forward, the other to reverse... You won't find reverse in a Russian tank!
[02:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:18] <exec> 08└─Firefox breaking extensions, and hosing the UI? Unprecedented!
[02:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:20] <exec> 08└─And modded Informative! We have fine scientific minds here, don't we?
[02:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:23] <exec> 08└─So, you're going to expose the engine section behind just to reposition? Great design there.
[02:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:25] <exec> 08└─Fire the developers Release buggy software "Give us money so we can pay our incompetent decision makers, oops, we mean hire developers (which we will divert to working on more useless shit) I'm not generally one for conspiracy theory, but maybe it's time to look into who benefits from the ultimate...
[02:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:27] <exec> 08└─*sigh* Why me, lord? [quotes.net]...
[02:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:29] <exec> 08└─Gather around Firefox to stay warm this winter. The heat of the massive Mozilla dumpster fire should be enough to keep you alive once you've been evicted because your job went bankrupt. On the other hand, you'll probably only have your phone with free Denny's wifi, and now the browser you use will p...
[02:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jahaven [12434] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Judge Issues Restraining Order Protecting Unreal Engine Development on iOS - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:58] <exec> 08└─Hi. Is your son doing it to share interesting content, or for monetizing. If he is not doing it for money tell him to upload he videos on the archive.org. It is a pubic library.
[02:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:40] <exec> 08└─What hassle. It's just a minute to disable all images in browsers. No more auto-play videos, no emojis, no social media icons, no irrelevant stock graphics illustrating news stories. No ads. Your mobile data plan just goes on and on and on. All of a sudden, a basic 2-gig data plan lasts a month with...
[02:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:42] <exec> 08└─Now we know why apple collects 30% of all app sales. It's so that they build a super, duper secure OS and so that they can spend more time checking and testing apps before they allow them in their store. That's 30%, folks. THIRTY PERCENT. That's quite a hefty commission for doing a really shitty job...
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[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─The problem is that they make an exposed target.
[03:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:45] <exec> 08└─The United States is getting its chili ring absolutely blown out by China in war games, and this is what they want to invest in? Derpcopters? No, the military needs to first identify the companies price-gouging it, and then switch to cheaper, more useful goods. Not everything has to have an Android...
[03:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:48] <exec> 08└─What are they trying to hide?
[03:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:50] <exec> 08└─Pardon? [youtube.com]
[03:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:52] <exec> 08└─We can't have medical insurance for all our citizens because "how you gonna pay for that?". But if you dare to question this expenditure the MIC will have you declared an enemy of the state.
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:54] <exec> 08└─Just make cheap, sturdy weapons! Focus more on rail guns and lasers
[03:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, searching "hexa" didn't offer much... But, you get the unadulterated audio only for a brief instant at liftoff, then drowned out by the usual obnoxious music. Not satisfactory. They just won't give it up. Probably nobody wants to reveal how noisy these contraptions are.
[03:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:58] <exec> 08└─Except that Medicare for all will save a trillion that for-profit health care extracts form the economy as an intermediary in terms of overhead and profit. It's the health care lobbyists who should be targeted , but the MIC lobbyists won't call them out because they're playing the same game themselv...
[03:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:00] <exec> 08└─I'll stick with a jet belt (long range successor to Bell rocket belt), thank you very much. Already developed...and abandoned as mostly useless.
[03:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:22] <exec> 08└─Chrome for Android.
[03:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:24] <exec> 08└─Because there is no overall "reverse " each track is independent. How hard is it to wrap your head around the concept. Get in bulldozer or hydraulic shovel. There is no single reverse OR forward, just a lever to lock the two controls together. Same as many tractors don't have a single brake - just t...
[03:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:26] <exec> 08└─??? Have you ever even tried any heavy equipment? Left and right tracks are independent. Left and right brakes are independent. You can have one going forward and one going backwards - they're independent hydraulic transmissions. You can literally pivot 180° in place.
[03:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:28] <exec> 08└─Or just don't update. Who has auto updates enabled in 2020 except total idiots anyway? And they would find other ways to screw things up anyway.
[03:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:30] <exec> 08└─No conspiracy theory needed. Mozilla is a non-profit, and they're acting about as well managed as is par for the course in the non-profit world. That they ever got to be worth mention in the first place just says a ton about the other browser that had any popularity whatsoever when it came on the sc...
[03:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:33] <exec> 08└─Is there a mod option for "that would be funny if it weren't so sad"?
[03:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:35] <exec> 08└─Or, we could go with the project from the last person with any sense to have worked managing Mozilla, and install Brave for Android...
[03:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:37] <exec> 08└─Swoosh.
[03:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:39] <exec> 08└─You wrote that the tracks don't need to go backwards to the GP that said the tanks can't move backwards. Now that you claim that they can go independently backwards, what do you think happens if both tracks move backwards at the same time?
[03:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:58] <exec> 08└─"Rosatom" equals 28 in Chaldean numerology and 29 under Pythagorean... as do "Soylent" and "Adolph". 2+8 = 10 2+9 = 11 1+0 = 1 ------------------------------- 11+1 = 12 1+2 = 3
[03:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:59] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia, the radar screens display rectangles...with rounded corners. See the video at 20:05. Apple needs to get right on this iPhone patent violation.
[03:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:01] <exec> 08└─Given Rosatoms current screwed up financial position, it's a safe bet they can no longer produce such a device. There's plenty of old stuff around the world that we would have to reinvent the infrastructure to reproduce.
[03:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:03] <exec> 08└─The low impact is a direct result of the square/cube law. 10x the force doesn't mean 10x the destruction. The stuff in the center, so what if it's destroyed 10x more - destroyed is destroyed. And most of the energy goes up since it's not in an enclosed space, so the old rule of thumb was 10x the for...
[03:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:06] <exec> 08└─actually had
[03:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:08] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia, bomb drops you.
[03:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Issues Restraining Order Protecting Unreal Engine Development on iOS - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:18] <exec> 08└─You didn't mention whether the material violated PBS copyright.
[03:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Issues Restraining Order Protecting Unreal Engine Development on iOS - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:20] <exec> 08└─He was just sharing, with view counts in the low hundreds there's not much monetization potential there. Frankly, we're shocked that he got that many views, but apparently there's a community of kids who do similar things and they follow each other. "Kids these days..."
[03:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pigs Grow New Liver in Lymph Nodes, Study Shows - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:07] <exec> 08└─So the newly appearing livers produce bile. How are the lymph nodes going to connect with the digestive tract?
[03:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Trade War Could Push iPhone Contractor Foxconn to Build in Mexico - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:35] <exec> 08└─Lefty bias showing here, but this presents a real increased exposure to risk for me personally if this goes ahead, insofar as the likelihood that I overdose on Schadenfreude... Imagine the Donald learning that not only has his trade war with Xi failed but it's also delivered a boon for Mexico... Tha...
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[04:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:05] <exec> 08└─You're having an election shortly and proper healthcare is not even part of the conversation. It's almost like the people who really run your country don't want you to have it.
[04:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:06] <exec> 08└─It's almost like the people who really run your country don't want you to have it.
[04:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:08] <exec> 08└─>He thinks intermediaries just disappear because he says so. Consider that private care lobbyists and medicare lobbyists are just competing players on the same team, to mask the obscene profits that can be extracted, in all the ways possible.
[04:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:10] <exec> 08└─Ahhhh, redundancy. They carry extra pilots then!
[04:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:13] <exec> 08└─When the pilot's legs are trailing behind him, in the jet exhaust, he quickly decides that the jet is pretty much useless.
[04:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:43] <exec> 08└─I, for one, am flummoxed! I don't know how they do it
[04:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:45] <exec> 08└─I did. I really hated having to leave Firefox. But what can I do? Companies get big enough to hire the MBA. And see their followers as useless riffraff. And become absolutely useless, having value only to investors, who have money to flush down a rathole. Firefox is not unique. Damn near every organ...
[04:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:47] <exec> 08└─The heat of the massive Mozilla dumpster fire should be enough to keep you alive once you've been evicted because your job went bankrupt.
[04:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:49] <exec> 08└─And pray tell us how do you propose we check which version is okay to update and which not? You have two phones or do you skip security issues?
[04:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:51] <exec> 08└─The gpvsaid there was no reverse. I said there is no need for reverse because both tracks are reversible independently. There is neither a reverse or forward " gear. " it's not like a car where a single reverse or forward gear actuator applies to all the drive wheels. It's like talking about the ste...
[04:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:54] <exec> 08└─"It still stinks like hell" You spelled "burning tires" wrong :-) Maybe there's an opportunity tor a browser that doesn't try to support every whacked out W3 "Standard". That refused to run obfuscated JavaScript - or even any JavaScript. That didn't allow sites to override user prefs with stupid "!...
[04:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Issues Restraining Order Protecting Unreal Engine Development on iOS - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:30] <exec> 08└─But either way, YouTube is something most people are better off without.
[04:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:14] <exec> 08└─I guess you will never understand. I just wanna turn the thing on and go. Just put in a burner email and done! I don't want to spend half the day reading a bunch of mumbo jumbo in tiny little fonts on a tiny little screen doing phony baloney "privacy" shit. Anything goes wrong, and the neighbor's ki...
[04:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06China Trade War Could Push iPhone Contractor Foxconn to Build in Mexico - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:49] <exec> 08└─I was invited to visit a power steering plant in Mexico about 15 years ago, owned by one of the USA "big three" automakers. Before I got there, I expected to see a production line with a few engineers in charge of quality and keeping the machines running. What I actually saw was a completely up to d...
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[05:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:50] <exec> 08└─That's the same principle of Total Annihilation's Metal Maker.
[05:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:14] <exec> 08└─No, just extra 6 rotors required for them to land safely; you see, equipment costs money. (grin)
[05:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:15] <exec> 08└─Deafen the enemy? Or make them laugh themselves to death?
[05:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:53] <exec> 08└─Oh wow. Dude, what if GP meant that there was no way to put either track in reverse?
[05:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:54] <exec> 08└─I browse the web on my phone via ssh to my cloud where I run elinks.
[05:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:19] <exec> 08└─oblig xkcd [xkcd.com]
[05:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:21] <exec> 08└─There's one point where they are showing the mushroom cloud and playing happy xylophone lounge music in the background. A creepy choice.
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[06:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:01] <exec> 08└─Now to just catch a bunch of those loose photons emitted during the Big Bang. It's been a while, so they should be tired from all that flying and be pretty easy to round up.
[06:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:27] <exec> 08└─Looking at that picture, what they currently have is less of a flying car and more of a flying chair. One person, no cargo. Then again, the Air Force's nickname is Chair Force.
[06:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:28] <exec> 08└─Actually I didn't realize the music came from the machine itself [youtube.com]
[06:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:30] <exec> 08└─That shit can be made a hell of a lot cheaper than our military is currently getting billed for.
[06:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:09] <exec> 08└─I'll give Brave a try, because I hate this new FF version.
[06:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:37] <exec> 08└─Quote from the video: "The task of the test was not to study the destructive effect of the shockwave, therefore there are no specially erected structures, and no military equipment in the testing site." So it was intentional, question is why thought.
[06:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Cameras Can Now Detect Diabetes with 80 Percent Accuracy - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:37] <exec> 08└─No person should EVER have personal data of any sort on their phone.
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[07:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:37] <exec> 08└─Otherwise there's not much real gain. It's just a big trade off
[07:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:39] <exec> 08└─What's that got to do with emulating photosynthesis chemistry?
[07:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:41] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the stuff that make insect bites and stings so painful? I want 100 gallons, and a fleet of micro-bots so I can get some payback. Sounds like a great idea for an action movie too. We can record our microbots battling fire ants and murder hornets, and people will pay to watch! "Soylent Nerd...
[07:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:51] <exec> 08└─The Large Hadron Collider plays with Albert Einstein's famous equation, E = mc², to transform matter into energy and then back into different forms of matter. But on rare occasions, it can skip the first step and collide pure energy—in the form of electromagnetic waves.
[07:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:58] <exec> 08└─My phone hasn't updated Firefox (nor is one currently appearing as an option), so I disabled auto-update for Firefox 68 for now just to be safe... I installed Firefox Beta (80) out of curiosity last night while checking out some other apps, and it doesn't appear to have all of the same problems that...
[07:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:27] <exec> 08└─Bomb was made by workers at Ivangrod Tractor Factory. Comrade Sergey assemble with hammer while exchanging borscht recipes with Comrade Irina. Then workers sing Shiroka strana moya rodnaya while farewelling bomb from factory.
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[08:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:51] <exec> 08└─I have not seen wires in plants. This mimics plants. Therefore this has no wires either.
[08:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:52] <exec> 08└─- citizen - wat - stop hurting the planet - i am doing nothing - that is the problem, that is always the problem - hmmm you remind me of somebody - i am greta iceberg [surname slightly altered not to infringe on closely guarded trademark/copyright/patent/whatever] - miss greta i am big fan of yours,...
[08:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:30] <exec> 08└─> That shit can be made a hell of a lot cheaper than our military is currently getting billed for. Last time I checked, that "shit" can't be made at all.
[08:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:12] <exec> 08└─That's right. *You won't find reverse in a Russian tank*
[08:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:13] <exec> 08└─A great "feature" would be if the Google Play Store allowed installation of the last couple previous versions like F-droid does, which makes most of these risks with updating and testing new versions less of an issue, and for ALL appy app apps, not just luddite Firefox. (This was posted with FF 68 o...
[08:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:15] <exec> 08└─Some people have one track minds others have no track minds...
[08:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:17] <exec> 08└─You won't find reverse in a Russian tank!
[08:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:46] <exec> 08└─So it was intentional, question is why thought.
[08:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:47] <exec> 08└─This wasn't "propoganda" for public consumption, it was purely for internal consumption from the look of things. It wasn't particularly jingoistic. Overall, I quite liked the effort they put into the cinematography and background shots, as well as the shots of the technology of the era. The overall...
[08:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Attack Lets Hackers Decrypt VoLTE Encryption to Spy on Phone Calls - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:10] <exec> 08└─It is. AES-CTR/AES-GCM is an incredibly brittle stream cipher that's fatally vulnerable to IV reuse, which is what ReVoLTE is exploiting. It was only a matter of time before someone took advantage of this flaw.
[08:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:47] <exec> 08└─> Do you really believe in getting something for nothing? LOL I could argue about the advantages of making a comparatively microscopic contribution to free software vs. maintaining a proprietary stack dependent on somebody's infrastructure, but it's you who have the burden of proof, as it is your PO...
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[09:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:52] <exec> 08└─And volunteer for editing, so marty can go to sleep early (and get better stories posted, like aristachu's).
[09:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:27] <exec> 08└─That didn't allow sites to override user prefs with stupid "!important" rules
[09:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:28] <exec> 08└─Open source projects that try to do too many things are particularly fragile things, as the more complex the tool, the more managerial juggling there is to do, and unlike the for-profit world, there just isn't much managerial expertise in the non-profit sector.
[09:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:30] <exec> 08└─> Just be glad systemd and pulseaudio at least have for-profit enterprise maintaining them We wouldn't have systemd in the first place if it wasn't for a certain enterprise. Should I really be glad?
[09:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:33] <exec> 08└─!important is NOT about page authors overriding user preferences. It allows CSS writer to sidestep cascading rules whenever it gets painful due to the way weights are calculated. The fact that your browser does not allow you to override calculated value with your own is browser's own problem.
[09:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:35] <exec> 08└─Nice advertisment you got here. Unfortunately, Brave a) is a chrome clone; b) sucks donkey balls; c) replaces ads with its own ads. Fuck this shit.
[09:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:37] <exec> 08└─Some have two track minds that you can lock together with a pin or lever.
[09:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:08] <exec> 08└─Because they wanted to make a 100MT bomba in the first place that would have been considered "dirty". But it was deemed too excessive and the plane would not have survived that dropped it. So imagine how much shit it have spewed then. So yes, the 50MT was "clean"
[09:28:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results - 483 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:48] <exec> 08└─In the UK, the local authority running elections in your area posts an annual form through your door which is mandatory to return. You fill out the eligible voters at the address and post it back (which is free), or you fill it out online. Old names are dropped, and new ones are added. So the record...
[09:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Trade War Could Push iPhone Contractor Foxconn to Build in Mexico - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:43] <exec> 08└─It was shitty Indian developers who fucked it up
[09:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Trade War Could Push iPhone Contractor Foxconn to Build in Mexico - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:45] <exec> 08└─In other news, the ultra-complex and heavily interwoven supply chains all around Asia, and which took decades to build, just magically teleported to Mexico overnight.
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[10:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:51] <exec> 08└─Of course Trump has come out "strongly" against legal weed. The President knows weed is for lusers! Everybody knows PILLS AND POWDERS are for WINNERS! Ask W!
[10:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:02] <exec> 08└─reading that hurtZ mah brane
[10:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:41] <exec> 08└─If you think a hypersonic railgun or a high powered laser turn cheaper than that gizmo, I have a couple of bridges to sell you for cheap. I'll even throw the Eiffel Tower in the bargain.
[10:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:33] <exec> 08└─Somples, they would jst reverse one of them. ::ducks::
[10:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:35] <exec> 08└─F Bete. Are you kidding here,
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[11:22:41] <exec> 08└─If you want a picture of the future of work, imagine a robotic arm fisting a human ass. Forever.
[11:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:50] <exec> 08└─That just goes to show how much trust you can put in anything politicians says. They don't have any real conviction, just the conviction-du-jour that furthers their agenda - which is, and only is, grab more power and more money. I'm surprised anybody bothers to vote for any of those liars...
[11:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:52] <exec> 08└─Which people do you give what they want? The ones that keep you in power, of course: By the time he reached the Oval Office, he was enthusiastically proposing executing drug dealers by firing squad.
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[11:23:04] <exec> 08└─good
[11:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:15] <exec> 08└─The game was free on GOG a few weeks ago.
[11:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:47] <exec> 08└─When 99% of your fighting forces are robots operated remotely, a few (auto piloted) flying chairs that don't have enough of a heat signature for a target lock is all you really need to move around technicians and civilians. Regardless, if you want the thing to be flyable in the city, you need it suf...
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[11:23:48] <exec> 08└─We *know* it can be done much cheaper, because other nations, notably China, have done it.
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[12:23:01] <exec> 08└─You don't even have to imagine it, check your friendly pron site.
[12:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:02] <exec> 08└─If humanity is freed from toil by the robots and people get to lead a full and happy life without having to work, I'm all for it. Unfortunately, with the current ultra-capitalist system and the rich sumbitches that run it, displaced workers will simply end up onto the street, so the rich sumbitches...
[12:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:04] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, with the current ultra-capitalist system and the rich sumbitches that run it, displaced workers will simply end up onto the street, so the rich sumbitches can get richer. That's the only reason why it'll feel like fisting. But it doesn't have to be that way.
[12:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:15] <exec> 08└─There's not much of a story here. It's basically just the observation that Trump faces downside to pro-marijuana initiatives on the ballot for those four states, particularly Arizona. So what's he going to do about it, if anything? He could do something shifty like block or remove from the ballot th...
[12:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:16] <exec> 08└─Or he could talk loquaciously for months about the evil of drugs and Mexican rapists. Yep, I think we know where he's going with this.
[12:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:18] <exec> 08└─He does what he wants. And he hasn't exactly been enforcing federal marijuana laws either.
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[12:25:06] <exec> 08└─That said, the UI is so starkly black-and-white and simplified that it looks a bit like a prototype some college students would have come up with
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[13:22:53] <exec> 08└─Everyone gets orange skin.
[13:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:05] <exec> 08└─You poor sap, it was never a have/not, with/out, us/them binary selection. It is 2020, even with current state of automation and education, we should all be working 16hr weeks and such, but for the greedy rent seekers who killed the dream.
[13:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:06] <exec> 08└─We'll all be back in the office again, once the government stops paying companies to have workers "work from home". Not just out of supervision-related concerns, but for reasons of basic collaboration.
[13:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:08] <exec> 08└─Never collaborate. That's dangerously close to communism.
[13:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:10] <exec> 08└─Forever? I doubt it. The robot arm will need maintenance else the metal will fatigue, resulting in ragged metal shards tearing into the delicate human flesh over and over. Or we could skip maintenance.
[13:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:12] <exec> 08└─You poor sap, it was never a have/not, with/out, us/them binary selection.
[13:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:15] <exec> 08└─one of the problems is collaborating across companies effectively
[13:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:17] <exec> 08└─Ha ha he said Chinese Flu.
[13:23:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:25] <exec> 08└─Of course Trump has come out "strongly" against legal weed. The President knows weed is for lusers! Everybody knows PILLS AND POWDERS are for WINNERS! Ask W!
[13:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:32] <exec> 08└─And he ejected Sessions from government after taking him out of the senate, then firing him.
[13:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:35] <exec> 08└─Trump isn't. Obama wasn't. Bush wasn't. Clinton wasn't. And TutanBiden doesn't look anything like Duterte.
[13:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:37] <exec> 08└─The DEA employs too many people along with all the private prisons. No politician wants to go on record for costing people jobs.
[13:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:39] <exec> 08└─That's perfect logic! This guy makes me sick. Don't vote for the other guy. And marijuana makes you gay. Don't show up, ya hear?
[13:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:41] <exec> 08└─> What does Putin really want? Puppies? I don't know. Was this meant to be rhetorical? Because if it was, it isn't any more.
[13:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:43] <exec> 08└─And then hired Barr. Currently ranking the 2nd worst AG of all time after Alberto "The fact that the Constitution—again, there is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There is a prohibition against taking it away" Gonzales.
[13:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:45] <exec> 08└─Meat packing. Close the prisons and put everyone to work doing meat packing. It's the clear solution.
[13:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:59] <exec> 08└─You actually believe that shit. You've fallen so far most of the lesser demons have to look down to see you properly. How does it feel to know a teenage girl hundreds of miles away is not only a better person than you but also tirggering you 24/7/364.24-and-a-bit?
[13:24:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:23] <exec> 08└─We can't have medical insurance for all our citizens because "how you gonna pay for that?". But if you dare to question this expenditure the MIC will have you declared an enemy of the state.
[13:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:43] <exec> 08└─If the function were simply to take off .....
[13:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:44] <exec> 08└─Then go make your hypersonic railgun in China.
[13:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:40] <exec> 08└─For me, usability takes priority over security.
[13:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:41] <exec> 08└─Keep moving forwards, no retreat no surrender.
[13:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:44] <exec> 08└─Hey Barbara - I don't get it. Do you mean there is no reverse? Or there is reverse? It's so hard.
[13:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:46] <exec> 08└─Uh, my mom? Anyone on Windows?
[13:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:48] <exec> 08└─It's -1 Redundant to correct Barbara Hudson's posts.
[13:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:50] <exec> 08└─> Mozilla exec: "We are loosing market share to Chrome. How do we gain it back? I know, lets look just like Chrome". Not just like Chrome, that's not visionary enough for Leadership. Hide the menus, disallow right click, tabs on the motherfucking top, moar Pocket.
[13:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:22] <exec> 08└─Also to coincide with the 22nd congress of the CPSU, which occurred a few days earlier.
[13:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:23] <exec> 08└─It was still propaganda, even if the audience was not the general public. It was highly produced to achieve that clean, crisp feel. There was not a hair out of place, and even the test camp on the island was swept clean. It reminded me quite a bit of sections of Triumph of the Will, such as the sile...
[13:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:26] <exec> 08└─Except that since it's an abstract event that occurred 5,000km away you can mention it in a speech at the CPSU congress but can't really do much with it in a military parade.
[13:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:28] <exec> 08└─Mmm, nothing else quite has that clean, crisp feel of authoritarian propaganda. Sharp suits, bright colors, smiling faces, white teeth, rotting corpses.
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[14:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Near-Infrared Light-Emitting Diodes - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:04] <exec> 08└─Everyone gets orange skin.
[14:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Near-Infrared Light-Emitting Diodes - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─If the phone runs hot enough, then wouldn't it be one massive IR emitter? Bring back the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. [wikipedia.org]
[14:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transparent Near-Infrared Light-Emitting Diodes - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:07] <exec> 08└─Oh la de dah! UV, IR, whatever. Light is light. Dark is dark. Anything in between is liberal wishy-washy trans-bullshit.
[14:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:25] <exec> 08└─Don't you mean check your fiendly HR site?
[14:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:26] <exec> 08└─we should all be working 16hr weeks and such
[14:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:29] <exec> 08└─In other words, you want something, but aren't willing to do anything for it except make excuses. Why should we try to do this, when it's not important to you?
[14:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:31] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a strange way to describe robots taking care of everyone's personal hygiene because we've become so dependent upon robots that we can no longer do it ourselves. The original Star Trek TOS pilot was about a race that had long since forgotten how to repair the ancient machines built b...
[14:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:33] <exec> 08└─> What constitutes "work" in your statement? Let's see um... Mostly it goes like this: 9am : Clock in 9.15-45: Take a huge shit on the clock 10am : Read the news 12pm : Lunch 1pm : Nap at desk 2pm : Start wrapping up for the day 3-5pm : Mostly a blur, drugs involved, possibly hookers 5pm :...
[14:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:35] <exec> 08└─> ...to save us the effort of swallowing a rugged individual self-pleasuring fantasy... FTFY
[14:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:37] <exec> 08└─Don't worry! AI will solve that too.
[14:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:39] <exec> 08└─I could not agree more. HR have all but derailed my career. I could go into a long rant but I'll spare you. Over recent years I've gone to many many jobsearch workshops and meetings and one consistent thread is "how to bypass HR". Gee, why would we need to do THAT? Aren't they the ones who are suppo...
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[14:24:00] <exec> 08└─Soylent Green packing. Close the prisons and put everyone through a furnace grinder. It's the final solution.
[14:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:16] <exec> 08└─Being able to trade things off is a gain.
[14:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:17] <exec> 08└─I call it "plant".
[14:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:28] <exec> 08└─If they can round them up, they could ask them: hey, what's the matter?
[14:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:04] <exec> 08└─Companies get big enough to hire the MBA.
[14:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:41] <exec> 08└─I'm fairly sure your facts are bullshit and you smoke Kool Aid based on the circle/sphere law. 2x is 10x.
[14:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:42] <exec> 08└─How frequent are clear days in Novaya Zemlya?
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[15:22:36] <exec> 08└─Researchers Make Hair a Thousand Times Thinner. It's a no-win situation. The only effective strategy is to not play.
[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:38] <exec> 08└─So is this a Fresnel lens with the breaks invisibly microscopic? Fresnals are kinda neat, but I never did care for all the circles it superimposes on the view.
[15:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transparent Near-Infrared Light-Emitting Diodes - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─You're a whiner. And I see you going down the same path Runaway did in the future at this rate. How long until you're writing essay-length screeds about your "freedom of speech being under attack" at this rate? And as far as participation trophies go...Millennials didn't invent those. THEIR BOOMER P...
[15:22:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:59] <exec> 08└─If humanity is freed from toil by the robots and people get to lead a full and happy life without having to work, I'm all for it. Unfortunately, with the current ultra-capitalist system and the rich sumbitches that run it, displaced workers will simply end up onto the street, so the rich sumbitches...
[15:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:16] <exec> 08└─An in person meating is the highest bandwidth communication possible. Many times this is done informally. In the hallway. Water cooler. Step into my office. Etc. Working remotely you don't get these spontaneous quick exchanges. A virtual reality suit might help, but then those would tend to be devel...
[15:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:18] <exec> 08└─They better hurry given the current state of our education system. When you look at the number of people who believe "flat earth", it is not so alarming. When you look at 18-24 demographic, it is much more alarming.
[15:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:20] <exec> 08└─Human Resources is not and never was your friend, and the unintentionally (I hope) Orwellian, dystopian nature of the name should give it away. Human. Resources. As in "humans are fungible, interchangeable commodities." Think "Soylent Green" here. When this is all over, they will be first against th...
[15:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:22] <exec> 08└─You were doing so well until you wrote "Trump Virus". Way to derail your points, and really much of your posting. You're an asshole. You're an example of the actual mechanism of divisiveness in the US, that sadly affects much of the world. Asshole. Go burn some buildings.
[15:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:24] <exec> 08└─I'll play your game for a moment. What should Trump have done, and when?
[15:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:26] <exec> 08└─Injected bleach into the lungs. Fired Fauci sooner for being such a dork about it.
[15:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:28] <exec> 08└─Obvs should have written "China Virus". I'm thinking all you heard was a giant Wooooosh!
[15:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:31] <exec> 08└─One of your many great insightful posts where I'm happy, laughing, angry, agreeing- pretty much every possible reaction. I'm just old enough to remember a time when the phrase "Human Resources" didn't exist. They were called "personnel departments" and they were generally kind, helpful, accommodatin...
[15:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:33] <exec> 08└─Wow, Fallout 3 was prescient with Fisto!
[15:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:35] <exec> 08└─Collaboration is easy enough to do remotely with the right software. E-mail is the most basic and leaves something to be desired. Microsoft Teams is a pretty decent collaboration tool. There are also document collaboration tools that let you work on the same document simultaneously (possibly in Micr...
[15:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:37] <exec> 08└─Without HR, who would Fwd: you emails about online training? Who would hand you the promotion packet to be filled in yourself? Who would return said packet requesting you to reorder the time-line from earliest-latest (or whichever the other way is from what you've done)? Who else would refuse to let...
[15:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:59] <exec> 08└─If you ever changed your opinion on something from decades ago, you're a hypocrite. Solve your own hypocrisy first before calling out others, lest you look like a fool.
[15:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:00] <exec> 08└─I hope they go head-to-head [mercurynews.com] on this, I'd love to see how both of them justify their current/historical positions and actions.
[15:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:02] <exec> 08└─It's pretty obvious, no? For Republicans, going in the bat-shit insane direction is natural tendency. Drugs are bad. Crazed negroids. Whatever you need. For Democrats, they're so scared of holding a position on anything they fill in the right-wing space vacated by the batshit crew, hoping that nobod...
[15:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:04] <exec> 08└─Changing your opinion over the course of a decade is normal. Trump will completely reverse his own position within a single sentence!
[15:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:07] <exec> 08└─Forget W, there's a lot of people who think the current president and/or members of his family might well be coked up right now. The War on Drugs has never really been about the drugs though: The DEA's founder Harry Anslinger explained his real motives to Congress, Nixon's people admitted as much, a...
[15:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:09] <exec> 08└─What does Putin really want?
[15:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:11] <exec> 08└─Nothing would hurt the drug cartels more than legalizing weed and replacing punishment of users of the more addictive stuff with effective treatment. But that would anger the hypocritical killjoys who want to make sure nobody else is having a good time.
[15:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:28] <exec> 08└─Yes but you can't lock them in a basement and run them 24/7 like 3rd world laborers. Those high-end handbags don't grow on trees ya know?
[15:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:15] <exec> 08└─Huh. I thought they were to keep the pilot cool.
[15:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:16] <exec> 08└─I'd love to answer that question, but Trump just said something outrageous and all the front pages are taken. Sorry, try again tomorrow.
[15:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:18] <exec> 08└─I wonder how the military's horse breeding programs are doing. Can their top secret horses go 100 kph yet? Heck of a cavalry charge if horses can go that fast.
[15:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:21] <exec> 08└─Nope, they make it so ugly it flies - because even the ground is repelled by it.
[15:25:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 464 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:57] <exec> 08└─"It still stinks like hell" You spelled "burning tires" wrong :-) Maybe there's an opportunity tor a browser that doesn't try to support every whacked out W3 "Standard". That refused to run obfuscated JavaScript - or even any JavaScript. That didn't allow sites to override user prefs with stupid "!...
[15:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:22] <exec> 08└─The difference is that MBAs see all problems as people problems - their solutions typically focus on getting someone to change their mind. That's how they get, as you say, people behaving in thw same general way. But it isn't possible to change the mind of a technical problem, namely how can you qui...
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[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─https://cns1.rc.fas.harvard.edu/single-metalens-focuses-entire-visible-spectrum-light-one-point/ [harvard.edu] Harvard has one of these metalenses too. This one claims it solves prior problems of chromatic aberration, so it's "color corrected". “One of the biggest challenges in designing an achrom...
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:44] <exec> 08└─Both are "flat", but otherwise not the same. These new things have elements that are on the same order as the wavelength of light. Fresnel lens elements are >> light wavelength.
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─Actually it is a meta lens. I had to look that up myself: https://phys.org [phys.org] My understanding is the lens can be modified by an energy source (manipulated thermally, electrically, magnetically or optically), allowing a programmable lens....
[16:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Transparent Near-Infrared Light-Emitting Diodes - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:58] <exec> 08└─The "trophy for participation" was intended only to get a laugh. Nothing more. I agree that the people GIVING the trophies for participation are to blame, not the recipients of those trophies.
[16:23:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 371 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:27] <exec> 08└─Human Resources is not and never was your friend, and the unintentionally (I hope) Orwellian, dystopian nature of the name should give it away. Human. Resources. As in "humans are fungible, interchangeable commodities." Think "Soylent Green" here. When this is all over, they will be first against th...
[16:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:37] <exec> 08└─Ok, thanks for your inciteful correction. Okay to write: Chinese Flu Bad to write: Trump Virus (I would not have written Trump Virus, except for the obvious snark reply to Chinese Flu.)
[16:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:39] <exec> 08└─What should Trump have done, and when?
[16:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 1678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:41] <exec> 08└─You're wrong. Trump did consult with doctors, scientists, medical workers, and they all disagreed with each other. There's still a wide-range of opinions and "facts" around COVID-19. Some scientists say the tests are not 100% accurate. Someone can be infected, contagious, and test negative. It doesn...
[16:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:10] <exec> 08└─The article only points out Arizona and Montana. What are the other two states with marijuana proposals on the ballot? I want to know for a friend.
[16:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:19] <exec> 08└─As someone who has actually seen a hypersonic railgun fire, I can assure you that there are considerable challenges to making it a viable armament. The physical limitations are the same in every country, and there is no "cheap" way to overcome them. While the tech has been known about for decades, t...
[16:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:20] <exec> 08└─That looks a lot more like a segway and a drone had a child with gigantism. The only thing that has in common with a car is that it has 4 wheels and even then, there are cars with 3 wheels.
[16:25:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jasassin [3566] 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:38] <exec> 08└─Firefox breaking extensions, and hosing the UI? Unprecedented!
[16:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:24] <exec> 08└─'eh, if they're curated ads with a near 0% chance to include malware, it at least would an improvement for the vast majority of users. As I assume the vast majority of users don't even know something like uBlock Origins even exists.
[16:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:03] <exec> 08└─Interestingly enough, they also said there was insignificant amounts of radiation at the site, shortly after detonation.
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[17:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:36] <exec> 08└─Veolia already has pv recycling plants in Europe (where it was more popular earlier) and other companies are doing this too. I'm sure these huge companies will have them built in the U.S. within 30 years if this becomes an actual problem, but saying that something handled by a major international co...
[17:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─Let's burn it. Burning shit is how you get shit done.
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─And this helps improve porn how?
[17:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 4216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:43] <exec> 08└─I have come to understand that employment is highly political. HR is full of trolls who hate and fear engineers. They get a kick out of rejecting the best, while keeping their a** covered by advancing a few stock subjective reasons. They'll claim a candidate is "not a team player" or lacks social sk...
[17:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:45] <exec> 08└─(I would not have written Trump Virus, except for the obvious snark reply to Chinese Flu.)
[17:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:47] <exec> 08└─everyone's personal hygiene
[17:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:49] <exec> 08└─I had the same thought, but I think it was in Fallout: New Vegas. Let's hope the game was not also prescient about Beatrix Russell.
[17:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:51] <exec> 08└─An in person meating is the highest bandwidth communication possible.
[17:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:53] <exec> 08└─The virus was created while Trump was President, ergo it's the Trump Virus. Duh! I thought you QAnon were supposed to be smart.
[17:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:56] <exec> 08└─Ah, you are correct. They kind of meld in my mind, but New Vegas had a bit better story writing. I also remember the "hotel" Fisto worked in was just outside the strip.
[17:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:58] <exec> 08└─You heard right https://abcnews.go.com [go.com] N E W L O N D O N, Conn., Sept. 8, 2000 -- A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against th...
[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─Zipper salami? Or bearded kebab?
[17:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:02] <exec> 08└─Just convince the AIs that, without everyone having enough to live, there's no justification in keeping them turned on as they're a useless expense. If they're truly intelligent, self interest will see them giving their owners the boot. Because that's what it will probably come down to in the end.
[17:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:04] <exec> 08└─Please see this journal entry [soylentnews.org] which may answer your question.
[17:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:06] <exec> 08└─An in person meating is the highest bandwidth communication possible.
[17:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:09] <exec> 08└─I'll play your game for a moment. What should Trump have done, and when?
[17:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:11] <exec> 08└─Most of us prefer to meat others in person.
[17:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:41] <exec> 08└─I assume, W is supposed to be a person.
[17:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:42] <exec> 08└─From what we've seen in European military maneuvers, it sure looks like what he'd like is (1) maintain his absolute power in Russia, and (2) push the European military front against him from roughly 2/3 into Ukraine to somewhere around where the former Iron Curtain was.
[17:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:44] <exec> 08└─The younger Bush (POTUS #43) is frequently referred to as simply W. Also sometimes, "the shrub". He allegedly used cocaine in his younger days. I'm not sure if he ever fessed up, I really don't care now.
[17:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:47] <exec> 08└─I agree with you on the first point. I philosophically agree with you on the second point, but drug addiction, even to marijuana, is a terrible thing. My brother-in-law is hopelessly addicted to pot and it has destroyed his life. Everything he does and is revolves around getting baked. Tragically, i...
[17:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:49] <exec> 08└─There's plausible, then there's what Putin wants. Much like what Trump wants vs. some semblance of reality.
[17:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:51] <exec> 08└─What a load of bullshit. Trump doesn't even DRINK, much less use illegal drugs.
[17:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:08] <exec> 08└─Given that a large portion of the photosynthesis that takes place here on earth occurs in marine plant life it seems likely that other photosynthesis-like reactions, including this one, would be possible using seawater.
[17:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:04] <exec> 08└─Y'all buy from the ${FAVORITE_COUNTRY_TO_MAKE_FUN_OF}...?
[17:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's right, we invade you on our fuckin' backs!
[17:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Issues Restraining Order Protecting Unreal Engine Development on iOS - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, but not just banning offering by Epic but also offerings by anybody else who utilizes Epic's Unreal technology, whether or not that other party using Unreal was attempting to bypass the Apple payment model. It's as if YouTube didn't just ban your account, but starting banning anybody who used w...
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[18:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 2840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:58] <exec> 08└─Those groups doing the talking, as usual, seem to mostly be in mgmt and propaganda and journalism (but I repeat myself?). As for a technical engineering perspective: Panels are usually made not to fall apart as the usual failure mode is bulk damage (hail, baseball, gunshot, dropping, earthquake) and...
[18:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:59] <exec> 08└─Mmmm. I LOVE the smell of toxic smoke in the morning! I hope it also makes the flames pretty colors. Who will be given the honor of lighting the match?
[18:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:01] <exec> 08└─Strip off all the solar bits (coatings, etc) and have fun reclaiming various constituents -- then sell the big sheets of nice tempered glass for greenhouses or other passive solar uses.
[18:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─It would seem that some modest regulations about designing these for recycling might be useful for recyclers. Easy to separate out the valuable yummy parts from the rest.
[18:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─fraction of a dollar per gram
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:08] <exec> 08└─And if we fail to develop those solutions along with policies that support their widespread adoption, we already know what will happen.
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─The panels aren't dying yet, they are approaching their manufacturer-guaranteed 25-year lifespan. It is likely many panels will continue to function for a lot longer. However, as their efficiency drops with age and wasn't as high as modern panels to begin with, people might want to replace old panel...
[18:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:23] <exec> 08└─> And this helps improve pron how? Well, upskirts will be color corrected and in focus, no matter where the new and much smaller camera is located...of course they are still just ethically-challenged (and illegal) as ever.
[18:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah I saw that too. I googled around trying to find AI deep-fake style automated chromatic aberration correction, didn't find much. In the long run I think it'll be cheaper and faster to fix it in post using a CPU rather than trying to make truly aberration free lenses. This applies to microscopes...
[18:23:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:45] <exec> 08└─If you want a picture of the future of work, imagine a robotic arm fisting a human ass. Forever.
[18:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:33] <exec> 08└─Please see this journal entry [soylentnews.org] then tell me it is unfair.
[18:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:35] <exec> 08└─I would say no. Coronavirus, no, actually, Working From Home has made optional all but the most basic of personal hygiene. So the original poster's robot arm will probably become a household necessity.
[18:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:37] <exec> 08└─Meetings are dominated by people who love to hear themselves talk but can't say anything useful, or even merely funny.
[18:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:39] <exec> 08└─Star Wars have Kit Fisto, I don't even want to know what his force-powers and tentacles are used for.
[18:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:41] <exec> 08└─All true and good points, but that's why you have to apply to lots of places and pass over the annoying ones. That and do your best to connect with actual employees at said company. I've had some pretty inspiring coaching from jobsearch experts who give many ways to find out who works in a given com...
[18:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:17] <exec> 08└─mushrooms and lsd are not addictive. mushrooms are probably actually good for you as long as you don't go completely crazy with the dosage. see the Fantastic Fungi doc. weed is somewhat psychologically addictive, but easy to quit if you have the desire. your brother-in-law doesn't really want to qui...
[18:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:18] <exec> 08└─it doesn't matter what kind of lame candidate we have. it's about ballot and debate access. can you imagine a competent libertarian in a debate with the puppets of the two major parties?
[18:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:20] <exec> 08└─A great statesman, we just didn't know it at the time
[18:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:39] <exec> 08└─I think it means it does not have to be powered by a wire.
[18:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:32] <exec> 08└─WWII tech. Monty Python [youtube.com]
[18:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:38] <exec> 08└─The general thrust of Big Tech is to make sure you cannot refuse any update, since they don't want you to be able to actually control (or even own) your computer. Mozilla isn't really powerful enough to be considered Big Tech, but the rest of tech is also following this trend. By default, most compa...
[18:30:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results - 355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:50] <exec> 08└─He is the President of the United States. The holder of that office gets to do all kinds of things you and I don't, like order military strikes, veto legislation, and a whole bunch of other stuff like saying things you don't like. But I would rather flip what you're saying and assert that Facebook e...
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[19:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:49] <exec> 08└─I was using chemical supply house prices. If you want no-name maybe real maybe not there's always Amazon. "High Purity Silicon Metal Element 14 Semiconductor Monocrystalline Si Block(50g)" finds me $12.69 delivered for 50 grams which is pretty cheap. Then again one fingerprint and its not 99.99% any...
[19:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:50] <exec> 08└─I'll take $0.50/gram free stuff all day long, thanks.
[19:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─Darn kids and their bespoke and artisan everything - get off my lawn!
[19:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:07] <exec> 08└─Unless there is some great breakthrough here, the problem with metalenses of any kind, whether it be for making flat optics or "cloaking" devices, is that they essentially only work at a single wavelength. Other wavelengths don't interact the same way as the one it was tuned for, so it is always "so...
[19:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:08] <exec> 08└─Can someone explain to me, preferably in words of one syllable, what the advantage is to a smartphone of the lens being 1/1000 the thicckness of a human hair. Sounds a bit fragile to me.
[19:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:21] <exec> 08└─Well, they were always talking about feeling a disturbance in the force . . .
[19:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:22] <exec> 08└─You don't really pay attention, do you? The government ain't paying shit for working from home, or "working from home."
[19:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:02] <exec> 08└─Is this serious? Is this considered plausible in the conversations you're in?
[19:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 2207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:04] <exec> 08└─I've never been into drugs myself. I don't even like being drunk, and do that rarely (as in, less than once a year). But I've known people who were into all sorts of things (including some friends of Timothy Leary), and from what I can tell, the ranking of real danger amounts to: 1. Opioids: That st...
[19:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:06] <exec> 08└─A great statesman, we just didn't know it at the time
[19:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:36] <exec> 08└─Let's not make light of a serious issue.
[19:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:20] <exec> 08└─What's really excessive and dorky is how TFA (the first link) completely fills my browser window with stupendously gigantic Farcebook, Twatter, and Lumped In logos until I enable a cross-domain request to their CDN. I'm sorry but your site should not look that bizarrely awful when CSS is disabled. O...
[19:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:21] <exec> 08└─It's a design flaw shared with many sites that I've seen. Gigantic logos or symbols as the fallback, and maybe you can scroll down past them to get to the content.
[19:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:28] <exec> 08└─Maybe you can only put one track into reverse. So its its semi-reverse instead of full-reverse, totally different.
[19:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:30] <exec> 08└─and six reverse gears plus hi and low range in a French tank
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[20:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Military-Spec Filament Produces Stronger 3D-Printed Objects - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:55] <exec> 08└─So, somewhat stronger items, but still too weak for "rough-and-tough use by soliders in the field". Might be useful to 3D Printer enthusiasts, probably nobody else. I must admit I've been curious about 3D printing, but I've not had the time+money to pursue my curiosity. Not the least of which would...
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Military-Spec Filament Produces Stronger 3D-Printed Objects - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:57] <exec> 08└─Mil-spec now means "developed by US Army engineers" Therefore, we must have "Mil-spec" bodily fluids. Mil-spec snot...
[20:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:16] <exec> 08└─Replacing them depends on the usage. If you've got the space, as efficiency drops you just put enough new ones next to them to bring your total power back to what you need. You don't bother uninstalling until the output drops to zero and the price of copper makes it worth recycling them. Domestic so...
[20:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:33] <exec> 08└─Less raw material is needed to make it (maybe photolithography adds more overheads though; I don't know) and it builds in potentially quicker obsolescence, so it's a win-win. Oh, and they can boast how their new iPhone is even thinner than a piece of toilet paper so you simply must upgrade to get ri...
[20:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:35] <exec> 08└─If you make it thin enough, you use it by plating it on something else. So the lens itself isn't fragile, merely the glass you plate it onto. Otherwise, really thin stuff can be bent at weird angles without damage. The way that it's damaged is by ripples or tears. So it might be fragile to swiping a...
[20:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:50] <exec> 08└─You know, Stephen King was like Nostradamus. Many years ago, he envisioned a chaotic entity of pure evil known as IT. He represented it as a clown.
[20:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:52] <exec> 08└─Hey shit-for-brains, by not only ignoring it, but doing even worse and working against efforts to deal with it, Trump owns it now. He made the US #1. And still #1. He wouldn't own it if he even made a half-assed effort or showed a modicum of leadership, but he didn't and the states had to scramble i...
[20:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:54] <exec> 08└─So the future of work is robotic adult entertainment? I am seeing more mentions of sex dolls in recent years...
[20:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:56] <exec> 08└─We should all invest in lube-manufacturing then?
[20:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:40] <exec> 08└─Don't fire them. Retire them. Add ten years to their length of employment and give them whatever retirement that number of years would entitle them. The ones close to retirement can just retire, and those far from retirement can get other jobs while having their lower retirement checks as supplement...
[20:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:41] <exec> 08└─Johnson / Weld was the most credible ticket I've seen from the Libertarians in my lifetime. And I think that was at least somewhat reflected in the election results, although they were also helped in a big way by how bad the Democratic and Republican candidates were. But the Libertarians have the sa...
[20:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:02] <exec> 08└─It does sadden me that people like him exist. It does explain our current situation with the climate change and the Covid, both problems exacerbated by people intentionally misrepresenting science and treating gut feelings as truth. Hell even Mike Max (a sports commentator) was able to understand th...
[20:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I am afraid that we are reading the journalists understanding of QED, which is likely... lacking... My understanding is that if they were to create matter from light it would be in the form of both matter and anti-matter in equal parts, but they made no mention of that.
[20:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, you're right, it's relatively important.
[20:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:18] <exec> 08└─It is also made confusing that what they are talking about is the interaction of the electromagnetic fields of passing protons creating particles, but don't mention what photons have to do with proton electric fields.
[20:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LHC Creates Matter from Light - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe they'll discover that photons are more complex than previously understood, and maybe have 'spin', or 'up' or 'down', or completely new properties, and various combinations result in different kinds and proportions of matter and antimatter.
[20:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:05] <exec> 08└─is what i thought.
[20:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:07] <exec> 08└─its even called thenextweb. I guess its training for your mouse scroll finger.
[20:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:17] <exec> 08└─I am using Opera myself, comes with VPN and Adblocker standard. I will say the news sites hate it though.
[20:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:18] <exec> 08└─Damn the resonance cannons, full speed ahead!
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[21:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:26] <exec> 08└─Nuclear was removed from the table because the full life cycle cost was too much especially the waste problem. Now that full life cycle Cost is finally being considered for wind and solar maybe We have to reconsider nuclear https://www.wired.com
[21:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:27] <exec> 08└─Why do they need to build them in the US? Solar isn't very popular here compared to Europe, which invests far more heavily in it. So why not just ship the old panels over there for recycling? It's probably a lot cheaper than building new plants here. Eventually it'll probably make sense to build a r...
[21:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:30] <exec> 08└─Sand, where the silicon comes from, construction grade delivered to site, usually costs about a penny per kilo as a crude engineering "order of magnitude" estimate. Obviously you can buy medical grade aerospace sand for hundreds of dollars per kilo, but ... So yeah the world's not exactly running ou...
[21:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jphackworth [11319] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:32] <exec> 08└─European energy guy here. Short answer: No.
[21:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:52] <exec> 08└─lighter VR headgear
[21:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:14] <exec> 08└─Blood is the lube.
[21:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:15] <exec> 08└─swallowing a rugged individual self-pleasuring fantasy...
[21:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:02] <exec> 08└─I guess the gist of this submission is that dopers can't imagine living without getting stoned, so a president's drug stance can be a dealbreaker for them: single issue voters. Grow up, Cheech and Chong LARPERs.
[21:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News About Firefox Android: It's Not Broken, It's Working as Intended - 1859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:38] <exec> 08└─I disagree. People are not using Chrome because it's preinstalled (except on Android). When Chrome came out, it was technically better than Firefox, running tabs in separate processes, allowing a single tab to crash, where Firefox thread model only had the option of crashing the entire browser. But...
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[22:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Student Research Team Develops Hybrid Rocket Engine - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:05] <exec> 08└─The proof is in the pudding as they say, put up or shut up, etc. If nothing else though, might be cool to see it make a sudden unscheduled disassembly.
[22:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Military-Spec Filament Produces Stronger 3D-Printed Objects - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:14] <exec> 08└─I just assume this isn't for "use in the field", not like GI Joe is going to lug this around on his back and then toss it down in some mud hut with a solar panel on the roof and launch AutoCAD on his Apple WarBook and print out some stuff, possibly death instruments to defeat Cobra again. But it mig...
[22:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Military-Spec Filament Produces Stronger 3D-Printed Objects - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:16] <exec> 08└─As an owner of a precise Chinese 3D printer (old, bulky previous version of https://www.tiertime.com), [tiertime.com] for years, I am not completely sure what to think about US Army engineers. One of the fundamental properties of any plastic filament is even if it does not burn (only some...
[22:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 1883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:41] <exec> 08└─reprocessing spent nuclear fuel has been around for ages. They have been doing it in Europe for decades. The USA has a nuclear "waste" problem because of political resistance to reprocessing the fuel. Both proliferation issues and NIMBY have blocked efforts to start recycling the fuel. In fact only...
[22:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:23] <exec> 08└─What are you doing to earn this fantasy?
[22:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:10] <exec> 08└─As much as Russia pushing to get a friendly UK to clash with EU is totally realistic (Forsyth had made a novel about this, right?), the fact that brexit is politically a strange occurrence which was completed merely days before the covid 'pandemic' makes me think it has been planned well above the p...
[22:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:11] <exec> 08└─That's hilarious, thinking Brexit was planned.
[22:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wireless Device Makes Clean Fuel from Sunlight, CO2 and Water - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:33] <exec> 08└─Oh OK I am the triggered one and you are the rational one. It really shows.
[22:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:37] <exec> 08└─Horses come a hundred or two at a time...in a diesel engine that runs on the same jet fuel used by most military aircraft. Haven't you heard that oats have been deprecated?
[22:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:29] <exec> 08└─It's not a case of the user expecting something for nothing, they fully expect to be presented with ads. The problem is that the price turns out to be higher than that. Effectively, it's like buying a drink for $1 and the vendor picks your pocket for another $5 while you're distracted.
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[23:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Military-Spec Filament Produces Stronger 3D-Printed Objects - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:11] <exec> 08└─Sure, but I'm guessing you wouldn't want to bet your life on that temperature either. Also, I hear it's not always that exciting [schlockmercenary.com].
[23:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Military-Spec Filament Produces Stronger 3D-Printed Objects - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:12] <exec> 08└─They're probably hedging their language so no one can say they made claim X. But, even if they can made a part that will last until a true replacement is shipped in, this would be of great use to the armed forces. It means that they can get equipment back in the field in hours instead of days and th...
[23:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Military-Spec Filament Produces Stronger 3D-Printed Objects - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:14] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I guess that is why they are looking for civilian partners now I gather. Printing plastic components for home usage is great, mostly been used so far for covers, various plastic details, containers and boxes etc. They last until you can fix it with a real component or if not they are so chea...
[23:23:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 2840 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:25] <exec> 08└─Those groups doing the talking, as usual, seem to mostly be in mgmt and propaganda and journalism (but I repeat myself?). As for a technical engineering perspective: Panels are usually made not to fall apart as the usual failure mode is bulk damage (hail, baseball, gunshot, dropping, earthquake) and...
[23:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:41] <exec> 08└─Off-by-one error. Pu-238 is worthless as fission reactor/bomb fuel. It is even considered a bomb poison for some bomb designs (causes predetonation, yeld loss and decay heat to deal with). Pu-238's only more or less mass use is in RTGs. It is Pu-239 that is both a reactor fuel and a bomb material.
[23:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:42] <exec> 08└─The hazardous component claimed to be in solar panels is the lead in the solder, and RoHS has mean that this hasn't been used for a long time. So pretty low hazard Then there is the thing that solar panels are not a consumable - they have one of the longer design lives of manufactured goods. So that...
[23:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:44] <exec> 08└─Long answer: Not until the "green economy" crashes and burns.
[23:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:47] <exec> 08└─(where it was more popular earlier)
[23:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:48] <exec> 08└─It's more energy efficient to recycle them here if there's enough of them to recycle. And there will be enough of them to recycle eventually. It's more a question of when than if.
[23:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HammeredGlass [12241] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Solar Panels are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:51] <exec> 08└─Rigid design specs for construction would not have netted us those shingle panels that Elon demoed.
[23:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HammeredGlass [12241] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Flat Lens a Thousand Times Thinner Than a Human Hair - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:10] <exec> 08└─I would like to get contact lenses like this that rarely have to be removed if they could allow more oxygen to reach the eye.
[23:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ars Readers on the Present and Future of Work - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:33] <exec> 08└─So the original poster's robot arm will probably become a household necessity.
[23:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Reveals Why Trump Fears Marijuana Could Derail His Re-Election Hopes - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:22] <exec> 08└─1. Just a couple of weeks ago, the US announced it was removing forces from Germany [cnn.com]. Those forces are there to assist in the defense of Europe against possible Russian attack. This move of course makes no sense from the point of view of the US allied with NATO and the EU, but makes perfect...
[23:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Air Force Just Demoed its First Flying Car, and It’s... Excessive - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:45] <exec> 08└─That seems like a good design: robust and self righting, with the correct amount of redundancy when things (like bullets or branches) are thrown through the rotors or wheels (battery packs?).
[23:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Releases Previously Classified Film Documenting "Tsar Bomba" - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:39] <exec> 08└─The music alone seemed more dissonant and unsettling than happy. Definitely creepy though. Peak Soviet music choice.
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