#Soylent | Logs for 2019-01-24
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[01:06:06] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Department of Defense AATIP Funded Research Into Wormholes, Invisibility, and Interstellar Travel - http://sylnt.us - how-do-you-know-they-did-not-find-something?
[02:37:16] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - A Philosopher Wrote an Academic Paper on the Ethics of Growing a Beard - http://sylnt.us - With-great-beard-comes-great-responsibility
[02:37:58] <chromas> Professor Chinstrap
[02:41:25] <Bytram> is that "Chin Strap" or "Chins Trap"?
[02:44:31] <chromas> Face velcro
[02:45:05] <Bytram> *chuckles*
[02:45:23] <Bytram> us grey beards need to... stick together?
[02:46:07] * chromas finds two sysadmins and rubs their chins together
[02:47:35] * Bytram watches them stick to the ceiling
[02:48:09] <chromas> Ah, the ol' babysitter method
[02:50:19] <Bytram> *laughter*
[04:16:32] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Uniden Smart Baby Monitor Logs Into Someone Else's Camera - http://sylnt.us - do-you-see-what-I-did-there?
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[05:46:12] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - U.S. Ramping Up Probe Against Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Says - http://sylnt.us - you-looking-at-ME?
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[07:27:29] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - 1 TB Bandwidth "Power Users" Double to 4.12% of All Households - http://sylnt.us - B-b-b-b-but-Information-Wants-to-be-FREE!
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[08:57:07] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - N.C. Swamp Gators Freeze in Place, Noses High - http://sylnt.us - bad-dime-for-a-stubbed-ub-nobe
[10:14:32] <FatPhil> Can anyone spare 140,000,000 for a cup of coffee? https://www.bloomberg.com
[10:14:33] <upstart> Error: Title is empty
[10:26:14] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Emergency Declared Near Portland, Oregon for Measles Outbreak in Anti-Vaccine Hotspot - http://sylnt.us - smart-phones-but-no-smart-people
[11:50:33] <FatPhil> This isn't new, is it? https://www.zerohedge.com We had tests of things just like that in Estonia a couple of years ago. I remember seeing one trundle past as I waited at a busstop a couple of years ago. Could have been a Technical University project rather than making real deliveries for real clients of real businesses, but it was real tech and happil
[11:50:34] <upstart> ^ 03Amazon Begins Testing Delivery Robots
[11:50:39] <FatPhil> y out and about.
[12:02:27] <chromas> I remember those from Flight of the Navigator
[12:06:34] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Some Pregnant Women Don't Believe Cannabis is Harmful to their Fetus - http://sylnt.us - their-moms-took-it
[12:47:17] <FatPhil> Not Silent Running?
[12:51:52] <Bytram> coffee++
[12:51:52] <Bender> karma - coffee: 4564
[12:52:20] <Bytram> #g silent running huey duey
[12:52:21] <MrPlow> https://en.wikipedia.org - "Silent Running is a 1972 environmental-themed American post-apocalyptic science fiction film. ... Enlisting the aid of the ship's three \"drones\" (service robots), Huey, Dewey and Louie (named after Donald Duck's nephews), Lowell stages a ..."
[12:52:44] <FatPhil> Bytram++
[12:52:44] <Bender> karma - bytram: 121
[12:52:47] <Bytram> eh. good enough.
[12:52:54] <Bytram> mare see!
[12:53:03] <Bytram> gmorning!
[12:53:17] <FatPhil> OK, they waddled, rather than having 6 wheels, but what's in a name.
[12:53:19] <Bytram> ~weather estonia
[12:53:21] <exec> 10Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia - currently 22°F / -6°C, partly cloudy, wind E at 8 mph, humidity 80% - Thursday partly cloudy (13°F:22°F / -11°C:-6°C), Friday cloudy (13°F:25°F / -11°C:-4°C), Saturday snow (7°F:15°F / -14°C:-9°C), Sunday cloudy (8°F:14°F / -13°C:-10°C)
[12:53:33] <FatPhil> Lies! It's barely below 0
[12:53:38] <Bytram> lol
[12:53:53] <Bytram> got a rare warm spell going on here after a nasty cold snap
[12:54:16] <Bytram> got down to nearly -20C
[12:54:43] <Bytram> and... high winds, too. ~50kph
[12:55:04] <Bytram> wind chill was... well... just stay inside.
[12:55:11] <FatPhil> We've not had that kind of weather for a while. In theory the countryside hit some sub--20s last week, but Tallinn was balmy.
[12:55:23] <FatPhil> sound quite brutal
[12:56:01] <Bytram> is raining, now, and we expect ~ 3cm (?) (a bit over 1 inch of rain)
[12:56:21] <Bytram> 1 inch == 25.4 mm == 2.54 cm
[12:56:25] <Bytram> rite?
[12:56:45] <Bytram> is now ~7C
[12:57:42] <Bytram> oh, I put a time-sensitive story in the submission queue.... wanna take a look at it? Apple SE for $249
[13:01:24] <AndyTheAbsurd> Aww, I was hoping it was a vintage computer (or retro-style replica like the NES/SNES that came out not too far back) for that price :(
[13:03:31] <Bytram> So sorry. No, these are new ones that can be purchased from Apple... they tried this on Jan 19 and sold out. Looks like they found some more. Who knows how long this batch will last?
[13:05:32] <AndyTheAbsurd> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ serves me right for not keeping up with iPhone models, I guess.
[13:06:05] * Bytram has never owned an iPhone, Mac, or any other Apple device
[13:07:33] <AndyTheAbsurd> The last Apple device I owned other than as a museum piece was an Apple ][+.
[13:07:54] <Bytram> so... back around 1980 or so?
[13:08:34] * Bytram remembers reading the article which announced the Altair "personal" computer kit
[13:08:47] <Bytram> #g altair computer
[13:08:48] <MrPlow> https://en.wikipedia.org - "The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 ... The computer bus designed for the Altair was to become a de facto standard in the form of the S-100 bus, and the first programming language for the ..."
[13:09:19] <AndyTheAbsurd> (The one that I own as a museum piece is a blue original-series iMac that someone gave to me about a year ago. It's on display here in the IT department at work, next to a Mac Plus with 40MB hard drive.)
[13:09:41] <Bytram> whoah... that's *huge* =)
[13:10:17] <Bytram> my first PC compatible had a 40MB half-height ST-251 Seagate
[13:11:49] <AndyTheAbsurd> That's when the ][+ was purchased, yeah. My dad bought it when I was a toddler; I grew up using that machine and it was still functional in 1996, which was probably the last time I used it. (It got replaced as the "family computer" first by an Apple clone - VTech Laser 128 - then by a IBM-clone 386SX.)
[13:12:44] <Bytram> ahhh, memories
[13:12:53] <Bytram> #g barbra streisand memories
[13:12:54] <MrPlow> https://www.youtube.com - "Jun 2, 2016 ... Music video by Barbra Streisand performing Memory. (C) 2016 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment ..."
[13:13:23] <Bytram> I actually spelled her name correctly? Woot!
[13:16:55] <FatPhil> #g barbra the elephant
[13:16:56] <MrPlow> https://en.wikipedia.org - "Babar the Elephant is a fictional character who first appeared in 1931 in the French children's book Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff. The book is based on ..."
[13:17:08] <FatPhil> googoo is wise
[13:19:24] <Bytram> never forget?
[13:45:48] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Online job Boards Prove Humans can be Even Lazier - http://sylnt.us - Hit-rock-bottom-and-keep-digging-dept
[13:58:43] <Bytram> break time
[15:11:04] <Bytram> coffee++
[15:11:04] <Bender> karma - coffee: 4565
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[15:47:22] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Pilot Claims Drone at Newark Airport Came Within 30 Feet of Aircraft Amid Ground Stop: Report - http://sylnt.us - somebody's-gonna-get-killed
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[17:46:55] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Staff in New Round of Layoffs - http://sylnt.us - Read-all-about-it!
[19:03:16] <Bytram> coffee++
[19:03:16] <Bender> karma - coffee: 4566
[19:26:43] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - U.S. Appeals Court Says California Can Set its Own Low Carbon Fuel Standard - http://sylnt.us - power-to-the-people?
[20:56:22] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Samsung Unveils a 15.6-Inch OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) Display for Laptops - http://sylnt.us - more-and-better-pixels
[21:06:36] <Bytram> break
[21:06:40] <Bytram> break time
[21:06:46] <Bytram> coffee++
[21:06:46] <Bender> karma - coffee: 4567
[21:07:15] <Bytram> Now isn't THAT a perfectly cromulent number!
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[22:35:38] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Our Software Dependency Problem - http://sylnt.us - ask-the-PHB
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[23:25:29] <fyngyrz> bigly cromulent.
[23:30:14] <Bytram> BIGly, indeed!
[23:32:17] <Bytram> #g somebody set us up the bomb
[23:32:18] <MrPlow> https://en.wikipedia.org - "\"All your base are belong to us\" was a popular Internet meme based on a broken English ... Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb. Engineer: It seems ..."
[23:37:55] <chromas> Bytram: s/(.*)(s)(.*)(p)/\1\4\2\3/
[23:38:04] <chromas> ...2
[23:38:44] <Bytram> text was submitted as a suggested dept on a story... didn't look right... checked to get thje real scoop.
[23:38:55] <Bytram> http://pluto.jhuapl.edu
[23:39:20] <chromas> Still looks convolved
[23:39:34] * chromas presses enhance
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[23:40:40] <SoyCow1201> "The hidden costs of the government shutdown" https://www.vox.com
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[23:47:38] <chromas> ntfs_3g-- # remove_hiberfile dindu nuffin
[23:47:38] <Bender> karma - ntfs_3g: -1
[23:54:25] <Bytram> =submit https://www.vox.com
[23:54:26] <upstart> Submitting "35 ways the shutdown is affecting America"...
[23:54:48] <upstart> Sub-ccess! https://soylentnews.org