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[00:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:54] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't your byline read: "from the Mechanos-were-better-dept dept." ?
[00:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Exercise May Protect Against Alzheimer's - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:03] <exec> 08└─My new job probably burns at least 500-600 extra calories a day, maybe a lot more, because of all the running up and down the hospital delivering medicine it involves. I'm actively moving pretty much 8 hours straight aside from a lunch or supper break in the middle. It's never faster than a light jo...
[00:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Octa-Level Cell (OLC) NAND Possible? We May Find Out This Year - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:27] <exec> 08└─https://www.speedguide.net/faq/slc-mlc-or-tlc-nand-for-solid-state-drives-406 [speedguide.net] https://www.anandtech.com [anandtech.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Before you take into account possible differences between the use...
[00:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Octa-Level Cell (OLC) NAND Possible? We May Find Out This Year - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:29] <exec> 08└─AFAIK nobody even sells that anymore.
[00:34:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 551 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:55] <exec> 08└─It's the business model problem. A typical Linux distro has a few thousand packages. There's a core of a few hundred that most users will use, and they may have no idea that most of those packages even exist. Donations to Slackware or Debian or whoever, how much of that is passed on to the authors a...
[00:34:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:58] <exec> 08└─I really don't know what's stopping him from monetizing systemd. My AI has already determined the sweet spot for prices. Systemd purchase: free. Systemd removal: 1300$
[00:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:06] <exec> 08└─Just a bit longer and he can max out his cloits and dloits with the ease of a thousandaire! Assuming he can find one of those cheese-onna-string things somewhere anyway.
[00:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Killer? Apex Legends Notches 10 Million Players in Three Days - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:20] <exec> 08└─In my mind they are known for killing great games by buying them, not for making good ones. I've avoided all EA titles for years now because they've destroyed so many of my favorites.
[00:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Cat Lives after Being Frozen - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:54] <exec> 08└─Could not register a temperature? What the heck does that mean?!
[00:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson to Become the First U.S. Drugmaker to List Drug Prices in TV Commercials - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:28] <exec> 08└─Oh, is *that* why you're such an asshole about women? It's interesting how these little tidbits of high-value information pop up in the most random places in your posts.
[00:39:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06‘It Will Take Off Like a Wildfire’: The Unique Dangers of the Washington State Measles Outbreak - 1366 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:11] <exec> 08└─If you want to convince people: 1. Don't try to hide the risks. You'll be caught, and then you won't be trusted. 2. Don't push all vaccines equally. Polio is gone from all but 3 countries, and STDs are avoidable. Pushing all vaccines equally destroys your credibility. 3. Don't treat all environments...
[00:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘It Will Take Off Like a Wildfire’: The Unique Dangers of the Washington State Measles Outbreak - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:26] <exec> 08└─Now THAT is how you troll! I love the last sentence especially :) Modded up because I want people to see this.
[00:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Y Chromosomes Not "Genetic Wastelands" - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:22] <exec> 08└─I've got a small fan club who seem to think I'm a transsexual (which is to say, they feverishly masturbate to the idea of me railing them hard with girlcock instead of a plain old strapon, which I do own), so that typo made me facepalm a bit. Bet you dollars to donuts they're going to be, ahem, jump...
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[01:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:55] <exec> 08└─People always ask me about Legos, It's fantastic. Let me tell you about Legos. I do very well with Legos. I love Legos. No one loves Legos more than me, BELIEVE ME. Legos loves me. We're going to have so many Legos you are going to get sick of Legos. The Legos just got 10 feet higher. I have the bes...
[01:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:56] <exec> 08└─Come on! Hasn't anyone here read the back page of the book! They are Lego bricks, or Lego blocks. NOT LEGOS! https://www.lego.com [lego.com]
[01:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Octa-Level Cell (OLC) NAND Possible? We May Find Out This Year - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:30] <exec> 08└─The ultimate in secure storage.
[01:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Octa-Level Cell (OLC) NAND Possible? We May Find Out This Year - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:31] <exec> 08└─OLC is 8 bits with 256 different amounts of charge.
[01:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:08] <exec> 08└─Since you dont know who i am, you are speaking out of your ass.
[01:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:09] <exec> 08└─While true, and you would hope donations would flood in for something that critical in the world as compensation, but at the same time hes not *stuck* supporting it. You really can walk away from a project.
[01:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD and Nvidia's Latest GPUs Are Expensive and Unappealing - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:58] <exec> 08└─only lies and low wages.
[01:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Step Closer to Growing Made-to-order Human Kidneys - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:46] <exec> 08└─Human donors need to be carefully matched, and even then you normally must take anti-rejection drugs. Pigs are worse... until genetically modified. Simply ripping out a bit of DNA makes them 100% perfect matches for anything other than liver and bone marrow. (liver and bone marrow would bring the pi...
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[02:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:54] <exec> 08└─Microscums can pry IE 6 off my cold dead fingers. IE 6 for life.
[02:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:56] <exec> 08└─I have worked for the United States federal government in a large three letter agency for nearly twenty years now. When I first started, we used Windows NT 4, Internet Explorer 4, and Microsoft Office 97. The agency is currently rolling out Windows 10 Enterprise with some workstations still using Wi...
[02:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:58] <exec> 08└─Standards are not standard. I use 4 browsers today on windows 10 1) IE because old equipment - printer’s even new ones do not work with anything else 2) Edge best for hardware monitoring equipment & warehouse management 3) Firefox best for scan gun management 4) Chrime “basic” web and printer...
[02:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Octa-Level Cell (OLC) NAND Possible? We May Find Out This Year - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:40] <exec> 08└─I don't know how applicable that is to NAND. It seems like a different kind of cell design using a shortcut that allows 8-bits-per-cell. I wanted to link it to show that something along these lines has been attempted, and quoted the text to show that 4-bits-per-cell was thought to be a limit for NAN...
[02:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discovered a Flying Pink Squirrel - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:27] <exec> 08└─Until someone can come up with a reason why it would develop fluorescence naturally I can't help but wonder if it is the result of some "art project" that escaped years ago and interbred with the wild population that it's creators didn't want to admit to. Anyone else remember the "glow in the dark"*...
[02:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Pennsylvania Bill Aims to Impose 10% Tax on Violent Video Games - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:03] <exec> 08└─If Pennsylvania put a 10% tax on guns their coffers would be overflowing. The plus side is that all of them would have less money to buy bullets to kill people. Mass shooters always get the shooting order backwards.
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[03:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:56] <exec> 08└─Using 1999 implementation of web standards - so, like, less than 1Mb per page, page load tested at modem speeds, didn't require scripts to work, had buttons that looked like, well, buttons, tested and worked in multiple browsers, degraded nicely for text-only, html source that was readable and under...
[03:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:57] <exec> 08└─Ahh the glorious cross-platform future smart web pages and web apps have brought us all! GUI elements changing look and behavior page-to-page! What will pressing the spacebar do in _this_ video player? Who Knows! You like surprises, everyone likes surprises. Press it and find out!
[03:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:00] <exec> 08└─That's the second typo today to make me grin. Chrime browser. Or, was it a typo on Google's part? "We're going to commit a lot of crimes with our new Chrome browser!"
[03:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Exercise May Protect Against Alzheimer's - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:17] <exec> 08└─Can we get this irisin in a pill?
[03:34:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06Is Octa-Level Cell (OLC) NAND Possible? We May Find Out This Year - 1559 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:36] <exec> 08└─All flash devices have the "Cell" as the fundamental unit of storage, which is essentially a single Field Effect Transistor (FET). Let's assume that in the unprogrammed state, the FET is turned off. To program the device, some electrons are stored in the gate of the FET, which turns it on. To read i...
[03:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Octa-Level Cell (OLC) NAND Possible? We May Find Out This Year - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:45] <exec> 08└─You linked to one about MB/s vs watt. Speed ones: https://images.anandtech.com [anandtech.com] https://images.anandtech.com [anandtech.com] The issue seems to be about "queue depth" (requests at the same time, "shared access"). QD1 sh...
[03:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Octa-Level Cell (OLC) NAND Possible? We May Find Out This Year - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:47] <exec> 08└─Here's a better link: https://www.anandtech.com [anandtech.com] Scroll down to "Whole-Drive Fill". You can see that the (QLC) drive starts at around 1600 MB/s, but then plummets to around 100 MB/s for most off the time after SLC cache is filled. Use the dro...
[03:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Octa-Level Cell (OLC) NAND Possible? We May Find Out This Year - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:50] <exec> 08└─Update [7:36 AM GMT+5, 10th Feb. 2019]: We have recieved the following statement from Micron: “Micron is aware of the article published on Feb. 8, 2019 in WCCFTech and confirms that its content is fabricated. The company will not comment further. Micron is a global leader in memory and storage sol...
[03:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbonite to Acquire Webroot - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Murders and Executions are so much more fun. — Patrick Bateman
[03:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson to Become the First U.S. Drugmaker to List Drug Prices in TV Commercials - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:49] <exec> 08└─Jesus, girl, are the only people you know all warped, frustrated, deviants? She used me, abused me, and sent me on my way. That DOES NOT mean that I hate her, or some such thing. Don't resent her. Not angry with her. You can stop projecting any day.
[03:37:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06AMD and Nvidia's Latest GPUs Are Expensive and Unappealing - 607 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:13] <exec> 08└─I think it's more about the game engines and game developers than GPU hardware, although the move to 8-16 core CPUs might help. There's research being done that could improve graphic-realism and physics at the same time. A lot of it involves machine learning: https://www.youtube.com
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[04:33:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 800 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:57] <exec> 08└─Using 1999 implementation of web standards - so, like, less than 1Mb per page, page load tested at modem speeds, didn't require scripts to work, had buttons that looked like, well, buttons, tested and worked in multiple browsers, degraded nicely for text-only, html source that was readable and under...
[04:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:00] <exec> 08└─15 years behind the way everyone else uses their computer :v
[04:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:02] <exec> 08└─Even at the beginning, the browser was a much more complex piece of software than the server. We chuckled at the fact that Netscape gave away the browsers for free, while selling the servers for profit. Today, html/http/css/javascript/encryption/etc. has gotten so crazy complex, there are no piece o...
[04:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:05] <exec> 08└─In order to use Edge you have to be using Win10. If you're using Win10 with a screen reader then MS warns you *not* to use Edge because it's not compatible; you're to use IE or a third party browser instead. So which is it? Do we use IE in order to be compatible with our screen reader or do we use a...
[04:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:15] <exec> 08└─The name was Meccano.
[04:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:17] <exec> 08└─the Andorran said his aim was to show people nothing is impossible and disability cannot stop them.
[04:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Exercise May Protect Against Alzheimer's - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:28] <exec> 08└─Results from human studies are still mixed as to what kinds of exercise raise irisin, but data suggest that high-intensity training protocols are particularly effective.
[04:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Exercise May Protect Against Alzheimer's - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:31] <exec> 08└─Well, you gotta ask yourself one question - do I feel good from it? Well, do ya? ;)
[04:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Octa-Level Cell (OLC) NAND Possible? We May Find Out This Year - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:02] <exec> 08└─And how long will it work, considering it can be rewritten only about 1000 times?
[04:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Octa-Level Cell (OLC) NAND Possible? We May Find Out This Year - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:04] <exec> 08└─1000 cycles is fine for most home users and even many business users. Intel 660p has a 5 year warranty, and has a stated endurance of 0.1 DWPD, 200 TB written. Same as Crucial P1. Samsung 860 QVO has a 3 year warranty, with an endurance at 0.3 DWPD / 360 TB. If you wanted to kill the drive fast, you...
[04:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:42] <exec> 08└─Poking up and demanding ransom is one way to get noticed. At one time, big corps like IBM and Intel would sponsor programmers to work on FOSS...(the parts that benefit them, of course) not sure if that is tracked anywhere, but I'm sure it still goes on to some extent.
[04:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:43] <exec> 08└─To be sure, but 2% might come close to an actual download to real user ratio, as opposed to people who download it, try it once and forget it. You know: real users, the ones who derive actual value from the product and use it long term, year after year - the ones who benefit from regular product mai...
[04:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:46] <exec> 08└─If you don't like it you can code your own. That's the beauty of Linux. Now get crackin', hotshot.
[04:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Cat Lives after Being Frozen - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:34] <exec> 08└─Not sure about veterinarian, but human classic - dumb - thermometers register 35 to 42 Celsius. My cat typically had 38, while humans are at 36.6 when healthy. I use "under arm" method as opposed to perverted ones).
[04:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson to Become the First U.S. Drugmaker to List Drug Prices in TV Commercials - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:11] <exec> 08└─Whoa, wowwww...that reply was way, way too violent, specific, and forceful for that not to have hit a nerve. You really don't have a filter, do you?
[04:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson to Become the First U.S. Drugmaker to List Drug Prices in TV Commercials - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:12] <exec> 08└─It is what it is, and not what you wish it were. Why don't you try speaking English, and stop talking psychobabble?
[04:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD and Nvidia's Latest GPUs Are Expensive and Unappealing - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:41] <exec> 08└─"A 1.75x increase in price for a 1.32x increase in 4K performance" You assume that the relationship between price and performance is linear. That's almost never true. The price difference between a car with a max speed of 200 MPH vs one with a max speed of 100 MPH is proportionately larger than the...
[04:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Man to Sue Parents for Giving Birth to Him - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:11] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I'm very aware of that. It was actually an obviously poor attempt at a joke.
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[05:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:53] <exec> 08└─Google is run by Jews. You, of all people, should know this.
[05:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:55] <exec> 08└─Is there not some form of installation code akin to building codes that would prevent utilities from installing unsafe and unstable services along public roads and walkways? Did Google not have to show some form of project summery and installation plan to the city council to get permission?
[05:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:57] <exec> 08└─Three feet? Fuck, man, half that is fine anywhere below Kansas. Now if you're planning ahead for pet burial and such, fine, but that's a lot of unnecessary work otherwise.
[05:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:59] <exec> 08└─Consider the amount of money they have to shovel around and how much less expensive city officials are than federal ones and you'll have your answer.
[05:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:01] <exec> 08└─Google's biggest failure by far is the failure to live up to their original motto of "Don't Be Evil."
[05:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:16] <exec> 08└─I hear from Navy and the VA that DOS text-mode applications are still in-use (though you can still run them on a modern version of Windows). No surprise about the XP on the subs, because new technologies when it comes to military gadgetry are a fuckhuge pain in the ass of expense and red-tape to qua...
[05:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:18] <exec> 08└─I was informed by our local IT department head that we can use ...
[05:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:30] <exec> 08└─Hell yeah, and the best example of this is Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi. He cut 2 fingertips off the fingers on his right hand cutting sheet metal on his last fucking day of work. So what does the motherfucker do? Improvises prosthetic fingertips and then learns how to play guitar left-handed, and bec...
[05:34:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Is Octa-Level Cell (OLC) NAND Possible? We May Find Out This Year - 658 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:51] <exec> 08└─3D NAND (or vertical NAND / V-NAND) is stacked in layers to make a die. A typical die capacity is 512 Gb (64 GB), and the highest I know of is 1.33 Tb (166 GB). Furthermore, around 8-32 of the NAND dies can also be stacked using TSVs [wikipedia.org] to make a NAND package. 64-96 layer 3D NAND is ava...
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[05:35:15] <exec> 08└─Nobody sells it to consumers. Consumers aren't the target market.
[05:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson to Become the First U.S. Drugmaker to List Drug Prices in TV Commercials - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:23] <exec> 08└─Do you really not understand how your replies look to sane, normal people? At this point, even if I were wrong, people wouldn't believe it because of how you're reacting.
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[05:37:24] <exec> 08└─This means bupkis. The price gets bumped around, usually down, by volume and then insurance will pay their part. Also, a number of doctors I work with often give patients Xarelto samples which may cover them long enough just to get them off the drug - in which case, they're paying nothing. Some drug...
[05:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘It Will Take Off Like a Wildfire’: The Unique Dangers of the Washington State Measles Outbreak - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:28] <exec> 08└─I would like to see some real figures, particularly for brain injuries since my recollection is that it is far less common.
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[06:34:02] <exec> 08└─Jews are smarter than that though. This half-baked idea could have only come from a White woman who has experience gardening only strawberries and peppers. Real Jewish ideas make more sense, like Zuckerburg's idea of using a blimp or microsatellites or drones or some shit to beam internet to the Afr...
[06:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:04] <exec> 08└─Unnecessary work, maybe. You've got a hundred yards of pipe to put in the ground. You rent a Ditch-Witch, and start the trench. You may, of course, dig any depth you choose, up to the maximum reach of the trenching machine. You can dig that trench as you learned to do in construction, or you can "ch...
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[06:34:06] <exec> 08└─Ditch-witch my ass, those fuckers were trenching with a goddamn rototiller.
[06:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:24] <exec> 08└─...gopher was much more fun anyway!
[06:35:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 804 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:44] <exec> 08└─That is a concern. Some years ago, someone came out with an on-line kernel updater. It was cool, I played with it through several updates. Nice. Then, the developer closed it up, and offered only a paid subscription. I lost interest. Not that I couldn't afford it, but if more and more applications o...
[06:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson to Become the First U.S. Drugmaker to List Drug Prices in TV Commercials - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:31] <exec> 08└─Sane, normal people don't try to psychoanalyze their peers at every exchange. And, they certainly don't try to psychobabble at strangers on the internet. Where did this conversation start? Oh yeah, I was mocking all the "entitled" people in the world. I've loved a couple of Canadian women, so I'm "e...
[06:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Man to Sue Parents for Giving Birth to Him - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:30] <exec> 08└─In that first one, it wasn't a blank. The couple thought a thick book would stop the bullet. On a related note, it appears that the prosecutor accepts that story as the truth, but for some reason figured the guilt of accidentally killing her boyfriend and the father of her child somehow isn't enough...
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[07:33:54] <exec> 08└─Read the links. But the major dick in the mashed potatoes was that, while the NES was cranking out some serious mad soundtracks, it did so out of the box and as a self-contained unit. The sounds being cranked out in the article reminded me of families who could afford a 386 without a SoundBlaster ca...
[07:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:11] <exec> 08└─Aye Sir, you hit it on all cylinders. The fucking arrogance of these asshats is amazing. "Oh what's that? You say you can't get cheap fiber in every home in america? Hold my soymilk!" Thinka bout the dumb shit Facebook is spendign money on, Drones to beam internet to Mudhats in Africa, so they can m...
[07:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:31] <exec> 08└─One of the applications that we use at least once a day is text mode. Drives me bonkers because it requires the use of the function keys, so on our modern computers we have to hold down the FN button to use them. On top of that, for awhile, IT was replacing our machines with ones that had keyboards...
[07:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:32] <exec> 08└─Aye, much more complex than the OS, and in the case of Chrime (love that typo), endless rewriting of everything. I guess that is one way to mitigate security holes: never leave any line of source remain for more than three months, so crackers can't rely on a static target.
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[08:33:55] <exec> 08└─These are both from the vanilla PC speaker (no soundblaster) from the late 80s...I remember the first time i fired up Echelon (1988); and my jaw literally dropped. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com [gamespot.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.c...
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[09:34:36] <exec> 08└─in the case of Chrime Chrimium is so much better.
[09:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Killer? Apex Legends Notches 10 Million Players in Three Days - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:29] <exec> 08└─and is generally set towards the 13-17 crowd all the way up to adults.
[09:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbonite to Acquire Webroot - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:18] <exec> 08└─Carbonite is for preserving Harrison Ford. I guess one can try to protect a business in the same way, but certainly not in the cloud.
[09:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson to Become the First U.S. Drugmaker to List Drug Prices in TV Commercials - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:46] <exec> 08└─I am kinda curious. When you have one of those nights, when you sit or stand straight up, out of a deep sleep, what was there?
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[10:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Pill Can Deliver Insulin through the Stomach - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:50] <exec> 08└─Take it on an empty stomach, preferable 15' before the meak, otherwise the probability to inject it into the stomach lining goes too low. Meaning: take it when your blood sugar level is the lowest. What can go wrong?
[10:34:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:05] <exec> 08└─Southerners seldom hear the term "frost line". It's something that everyone should know about though. If you put something in the ground, and expect it to stay where you put it, you have to get below the frost line. I live in the south, where it seldom freezes, but I still put my water lines three f...
[10:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:37] <exec> 08└─Internet? Why would people want to connect computers together? Mosaic? Netscape? Who cares what these little people do.
[10:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:50] <exec> 08└─Sue me; story was submitted on a mobile device via a lazy operator :P
[10:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:52] <exec> 08└─Sigh. Mr FakeDonaldTrump, you forgot to log on.
[10:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:54] <exec> 08└─Andorran? Like, from Caemlyn [fandom.com] or something?
[10:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:56] <exec> 08└─he wants to help other people get affordable prosthetics
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[11:33:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/health/oral-pill-insulin.html [nytimes.com] The researchers — at M.I.T., Harvard and Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company — hope to start testing Soma [self-orienting millimeter-scale applicator] in humans in three years.
[11:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Pill Can Deliver Insulin through the Stomach - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:52] <exec> 08└─Swallow a needle. That sounds really super safe, and super smart. Is the needle biodegradable, thus disappears via digestion after use? Or, does that little thingie pass through your intestines, then pop out the other end? Hmmmmm - wonder what the Sani-Can guys are going to think of that. I've lived...
[11:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Pill Can Deliver Insulin through the Stomach - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:54] <exec> 08└─http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/new-method-to-take-insulin-orally/ [diabetesincontrol.com] The innovation in Doyle’s research is that they have found a way to attach the insulin to vitamin B-12. The vitamin protects the insulin as it journeys through the gastrointestinal tract in a "Trojan horse"...
[11:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:41] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone need more than 640K of memory?
[11:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:59] <exec> 08└─Citations?
[11:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:00] <exec> 08└─I could be wrong, but I suspect that he is from Andorra Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked microstate on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France in the north and Spain in the so...
[11:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:03] <exec> 08└─Oooooops, I didn't close the quote, instead started another quote within the quote. Looks kinda cool, lol!
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[12:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Major Security Breach Found in Hospital and Supermarket Refrigeration Systems - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:52] <exec> 08└─Sour that cream! I dare you! ---lactose intolerants anonymous
[12:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Major Security Breach Found in Hospital and Supermarket Refrigeration Systems - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:53] <exec> 08└─dont open this shit to the internet and you wont have this problem!
[12:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Pill Can Deliver Insulin through the Stomach - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:05] <exec> 08└─From the description, it's a tiny needle made of insulin that breaks off and dissolves. Sounds like the volume of insulin you need is really small. Given how fast it heals, and the high blood flow in the area, has anyone ever experimented with insulin injections under the tongue?
[12:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Pill Can Deliver Insulin through the Stomach - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:06] <exec> 08└─From TFS: The tip of the needle is made of nearly 100 percent compressed, freeze-dried insulin, using the same process used to form tablets of medicine. The shaft of the needle, which does not enter the stomach wall, is made from another biodegradable material.
[12:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:32] <exec> 08└─My thoughts exactly. The only reason you'd bury anything two inches under a road surface if it was, say, important evidence but you wanted a delay of a few months to a year or two before it surfaced. Two inches under a road that heavy trucks run over, that gets scraped and bumped by objects sticking...
[12:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:57] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure most court systems also require IE to view documents.
[12:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:17] <exec> 08└─I think it's a fairly obscure dig at google turning evil and changing their name to alphabet.
[12:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Makes Replacement Limb Out of Legos - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:19] <exec> 08└─I think most Europeans would regard saying 'LEGOs' as a bit odd, as LEGO is a brand-name, but it could well be that they are lagging the language development seen in the USA. After all, nobody says Kleenex-brand tissues any more. First it becomes 'Kleenex tissues', then 'a Kleenex', then finally a m...
[12:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Cat Lives after Being Frozen - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:36] <exec> 08└─They froze Fluffy [youtube.com]? I mean, I know this cat is hilariously funny, but freezing the poor guy seems a bit excessive.
[12:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Cat Lives after Being Frozen - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:38] <exec> 08└─With a frozen cat it can be so hard to break the ice
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[13:33:59] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[13:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Major Security Breach Found in Hospital and Supermarket Refrigeration Systems - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:01] <exec> 08└─My having lectured the Portland Startup Weekend on Engineering Ethics resulted in their calling 9-1-1 with the result that six of Portland's finest were tasked with guarding a Hackathon for the rest of the weekend. I Am Absolutely Serious. "Don't expose that shit to the Internet", indeed.
[13:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Major Security Breach Found in Hospital and Supermarket Refrigeration Systems - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:03] <exec> 08└─Oh Wow! jewish rats found unchanged passwords on the internet and are ready to tell the whole world about it. Jewish criminal rats breaking into shops to steal stuff is nothing new. Jews breaking into people's machines for the purpose of exploitation is nothing new. If they would go back to khazaria...
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[13:34:24] <exec> 08└─Sid Meier's Pirates! published in 1987 sported some pretty awesome beeper tunes on PC. Kinda like JS Bach et al. Can you at least run this sucker on https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ?
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[13:34:43] <exec> 08└─not sure what the real problem is/was. lots of phiber cables were put into "micro trenches" in india when the mobile phone revolution happend. from the picture i recall, the "micro trenches" were made into concret road, no asphalt, and cemented over. asphalt is awesome for "finished" neighbour hoods...
[13:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:09] <exec> 08└─if you move the test stand more than 4 feet is has to be re-qualified and re-certified. Hmm. Is there any rule against moving it in several 4-foot increments? Or is it more than 4-feet from a particular (fixed) location. If there is no rule against incremental movements, what is the minimum period o...
[13:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:10] <exec> 08└─wget takes a custom user agent string. I want you all to randomly select an IE6 user agent string - lots of versions, WfW or no WfW? - then, at your option, do either wget --resursion suckywebsite.com or wget --span-hosts bluewidgets.com. With host spanning, you'll want to recurse two or three links...
[13:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:12] <exec> 08└─Recall that Cousin Chuck, despite coding in FORTRAN, having a Master's in Architecture from Harvard and having been his high school Valedictorian - yes, it's not just me, my whole entire extended family are smart guys and smart gals - teaches at a graduate school of architecture. That school's entir...
[13:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:15] <exec> 08└─It's not just Redmond.
[13:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:17] <exec> 08└─It took over a year to get that one straightened out until the head of the department finally had his computer replaced and suddenly understood our complaints when he couldn't use the application which required pressing F12.
[13:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:19] <exec> 08└─"fuckhuge". You Ethanol-fueled, are an Officer and a Gentleman. May I offer you a reacharound?
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[13:35:21] <exec> 08└─I thought that too but then I realized in IE there was always horrible behavior that wasn't standards compliant, so avoiding that is probably advisable. On the other hand I'm all for someone building a clean, lightweight web page that would work across all browsers from 1999 which I think is what yo...
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[13:35:23] <exec> 08└─That beautifully captures using any piece of proprietary software.
[13:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:26] <exec> 08└─- Idea. I cannot print envelopes on $$$$ NedSpace's truly-high end HP Enterprise Printer because HP'S OWN SOFTWARE!!!!! does NOT support OS X. The day after Soggy Jobs' Indiegogo Launch on Wednesday the 20th [soggy.jobs] $HINT_HINT I'm going to drop a few hundred pieces of direct mail to those of my...
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[13:35:28] <exec> 08└─http://www.kindgirls.com/ [kindgirls.com] There are only very minor differences between their design right now and their design from Y2K1.
[13:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:30] <exec> 08└─The _only_ JS does the Tiger Striping - and yes, that's the correct Term Of Art - of my tabular listings. The CSS is entirely unnecessary on the desktop. The site presently does not use SSL, and will _never_ redirect automatically to HTTPS. Rather, there will be a completely identical but separate S...
[13:39:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 06AMD and Nvidia's Latest GPUs Are Expensive and Unappealing - 289 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:01] <exec> 08└─I've been chasing the video card manufacturers since the days of Hercules cards. Nowadays, I'm way behind the curve. A lowly GTX 960. And, it plays everything I want so fuck all that spending! I'll let the rich folks pay the crazy prices and wait for, as always happens, the tides to turn.
[13:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD and Nvidia's Latest GPUs Are Expensive and Unappealing - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:20] <exec> 08└─Just think about this for a moment. One day, hentai titles like that may be indistinguishable from real life porn. Just imagine. It's still going to be generated actors, just deepfaked well enough to look real. Can't wait.
[13:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Teckla [3812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Man to Sue Parents for Giving Birth to Him - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:53] <exec> 08└─A bit like gays, they do find ways to keep existing despite not reproducing.
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[14:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:51] <exec> 08└─The basic idea of pay-to-delay is: I make a drug that rakes in $X a quarter right now. I'll pay you $Y to allow me to continue to gouge the customers. You like this deal because it means you get $Y without having to go through all the trouble of making and selling products, while I like this deal be...
[14:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:52] <exec> 08└─Pay for Delay Pay-for-Delay: When Drug Companies Agree Not to Compete [ftc.gov] One of the FTC’s top priorities in recent years has been to oppose a costly legal tactic that more and more branded drug manufacturers have been using to stifle competition from lower-cost generic medicines. These drug...
[14:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:54] <exec> 08└─“Then there’s potentially anti-competitive deals, in which brand-name drug makers simply pay generic makers to keep their product off the market for a while—a so-called “pay for delay” tactic.” Price collusion or something like that?
[14:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Major Security Breach Found in Hospital and Supermarket Refrigeration Systems - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:06] <exec> 08└─A lot of this shit actually comes with it's very own DRM and demands to be connected to the internet to function :D
[14:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Pill Can Deliver Insulin through the Stomach - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:18] <exec> 08└─releasing the spring and injecting the needle into the stomach wall.
[14:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feel the Beep: This Album is Played Entirely on a PC Motherboard Speaker - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:29] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, goofing around on an aging IBM PC, I figured out how to not only get single beeps out but create the illusion of chords by rapidly switching between the notes in the chord. So if you wanted C,E,G at the same time, you'd work out the frequencies for C, E, and G, and then do each one...
[14:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:50] <exec> 08└─> Google's biggest failure by far is the failure to live up to their original motto of "Don't Be Evil." Assuming it was more than just a nice soundbite to get nerds to like them. that motto unofficially ended the moment they went public, those three words were replaced with "initial public offering"...
[14:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:51] <exec> 08└─It's Google we are talking about. Bailing out on customer service and abandoning projects is their second nature.
[14:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:28] <exec> 08└─"Whenever we get a new computer, we have to wait six months for an expert to fly out from Washington, then another month for him to bless it." -- Lt. Charles Russell "Russ" Crawford USN (Ret.) While Dad was quite proud of his Top Secret Clearance, I am _dead_ _certain_ he was cleared to do Signals I...
[14:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:29] <exec> 08└─I Should Not Drink And Bot.
[14:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:15] <exec> 08└─I haven't decided on how much loot I want, where I want her ransom dropped, nor - as I cannot drive due to brain seizures - do I yet have a getaway driver, though I _am_ accepting applications. Something over ten grand though. When I was at first intending to sell it, I set the price at $3.99, as it...
[14:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:16] <exec> 08└─Richard is quite clear about that we must support each other. Unfortunately, Open Source - which misses the point of Free Software - led to not just Free Software being expected to not bear a monetary price, but even highly-valued proprietary that have new Free Software or Open Source alternatives a...
[14:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:18] <exec> 08└─... minimalist, so it doesn't need your gig. So: Sixty Thousand Downloads, Six Hundred Thousand Users. I'll send you his bill in the mail.
[14:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:20] <exec> 08└─First paid job was fortran astro data analysis over the summer of 1983. First real - and very complex - C code over the summer of 1983. I was also a project manage for a team of ten coders. Full time in 1987, salaried in 1988. Peak hourly contracting pay of $120 in Y2K just before the crash, and aut...
[14:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:23] <exec> 08└─Sales is more important than marketing. Have you ever been paid to write code for a private for-profit corporation?
[14:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:25] <exec> 08└─Linux mint has a kernel updater built right into the update manager. If he wanted $2 it would be one thing but $11? I mean, I get he wants to get paid but when you start writing a piece of software you should decide: Am I doing this for money or just for the good and fun of it? Whichever you choose...
[14:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD and Nvidia's Latest GPUs Are Expensive and Unappealing - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:29] <exec> 08└─I think I am in love [peachbeachsplash.com].
[14:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD and Nvidia's Latest GPUs Are Expensive and Unappealing - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:31] <exec> 08└─They didn't claim that there is a perfectly linear relationship between price and performance at the high end. "A 1.75x increase in price for a 1.32x increase in 4K performance isn't a great ratio even by the standards of ultra-high-end GPUs, where performance typically comes with a price penalty."
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[15:37:18] <exec> 08└─I've put five years into soggy jobs, three of them full-time. My neurological problems have receded enough that I could code for clients until they return, but I get no warning until they do, it's like five minutes and I call 9-1-1, ten and I'm incapable of doing so. Soggy Jobs' Indiegogo launch is...
[15:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:20] <exec> 08└─ubuntu simply won't [update] unless you pay a ransom.
[15:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:22] <exec> 08└─There is already a script to do exactly this - see my comments here [soylentnews.org]
[15:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:24] <exec> 08└─I think it is aimed at those that cannot do anything unless they can point and click.
[15:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:26] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine that a simple GUI slapped on top of an almost trivial script requires that much updating or maintenance - unless he wrote a pile of crap in the first place. And in that case why would I want to download and install it?
[15:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:28] <exec> 08└─I wish you all the best - it sounds like a fair and equitable deal. Unfortunately, in this world, fair and equitable doesn't count for as much as maybe it should. If you can fill a need that somebody truly desires, better and/or cheaper than the available alternatives, and the desirous somebody has...
[15:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Killer? Apex Legends Notches 10 Million Players in Three Days - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:45] <exec> 08└─I'll turn fifty-five in two weeks, yet I still have to get Mom to pay my phone bill. That's what Open Source did to my livelidhood: the very finest job I ever had was at Working Software of Santa Cruz, a Mac Productivity Publisher. My very first app was just $9.95, but we really _did_ make it up in...
[15:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Cat Lives after Being Frozen - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:22] <exec> 08└─Pence speak with forked tongue.
[15:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Cat Lives after Being Frozen - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:24] <exec> 08└─If they tried to use a rectal thermometer it would have been instantly apparent that the cat was alive or dead.
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[16:34:23] <exec> 08└─Do I want to take something that punches holes in my stomach?
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[16:34:34] <exec> 08└─In fact, there have been holy wars in some chiptune composing communities over whether to hold each pitch for 16.4 milliseconds (1 vblank) or 32.8 milliseconds (2 vblanks). See this topic on NESdev BBS [nesdev.com] for example.
[16:34:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kalas [4247] 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:47] <exec> 08└─Google's biggest failure by far is the failure to live up to their original motto of "Don't Be Evil."
[16:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:57] <exec> 08└─For a couple of years now, I know enough to toss the application if the person claims to have worked at Google
[16:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:59] <exec> 08└─The way it worked in India was that they have a very large number of utility poles [wikipedia.org] everywhere so they can put wire above the ground where necessary. The other thing was that nobody in India complains if wires shoot out in the sidewalk, people just walk on the streets.
[16:35:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:09] <exec> 08└─Ahh the glorious cross-platform future smart web pages and web apps have brought us all! GUI elements changing look and behavior page-to-page! What will pressing the spacebar do in _this_ video player? Who Knows! You like surprises, everyone likes surprises. Press it and find out!
[16:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:33] <exec> 08└─Well corps are free to set their goals whatever they wish, but if coding is not a priority then software won't be of best quality. In fact that's the only reason any sort of opensource projects even exist: simply because sales based business models don't work in software and only insane dose of mark...
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[16:38:29] <exec> 08└─WHY is this so terrifying?
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[17:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Sued by Sprint, Must Defend Decision to Tell Users That 4G is “5G E” - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:55] <exec> 08└─We understand why our competitors don't like what we are doing, but our customers love it
[17:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:42] <exec> 08└─It's a shame the government is allowed to use proprietary software at all. But, with how bought and paid for our government is, I'm not surprised that no one sees it as a problem that it's entirely dependent upon corporations.
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[18:34:01] <exec> 08└─In AT&T's defense, that vast vast majority of Americans will eat up whatever bullshit they are fed by marketing departments. They are so well trained to do this that it amazes me how Trump failed to let professionals serve up his lies.
[18:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Sued by Sprint, Must Defend Decision to Tell Users That 4G is “5G E” - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:02] <exec> 08└─I love how they make a big deal about reconciling any ‘iminiment legitimate 5G’ with ‘widespread’ deployment of the same. Ie. widespread coverage vs spotty coverage. What part of this do the AT&T lawyers not understand? Now, whether or not the Sprint’s claim is not just another pile of bul...
[18:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:13] <exec> 08└─Allow the import of generics from any country with a statistically better health care system than the US. That should allow a good supply, both in assortment and quality.
[18:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:15] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, highly illegal, and unethical, and immoral. But the medical industry abuses the high esteem the public has for medicine to get away with price gouging, price fixing, kickbacks, bribery, and other corrupt and monopolistic practices that would never fly in any other industry.
[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:17] <exec> 08└─Literally, a drug cartel it seems. IANAL, but I don't see how they can get away with this "pay to delay" tactic. It seems like price fixing. If our legislators and/or enforcement doesn't act, why doesn't one of these billionaires attack the problem? I don't have the money or star power to do this ki...
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[18:34:55] <exec> 08└─Working my way through it. Definite retro feel of what they tried to do music wise back in the day on my CompuAdd PC through the motherboard speaker.
[18:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feel the Beep: This Album is Played Entirely on a PC Motherboard Speaker - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:56] <exec> 08└─I have fond memories of downloading something like this at school in the early 90s. It was a program that played the entire William Tell Overture (Lone Ranger theme) through the PC speaker. I think somebody even had a primitive music format that you could load into the program, but for simplicity's...
[18:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:59] <exec> 08└─You could have simply looked up the alt code for the F12 key in the meantime.
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[18:37:59] <exec> 08└─s/ssh/ssl/
[18:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson to Become the First U.S. Drugmaker to List Drug Prices in TV Commercials - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:40] <exec> 08└─I don't have those, which is a fucking miracle considering some of the things I've seen. So, you *do* have those? I had no idea. Thanks for revealing yet another juicy tidbit about yourself that you might have been better off keeping under wraps, given how people already view your mental health. Wha...
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[19:33:56] <exec> 08└─We understand why our competitors don't like what we are doing, but our customers love it
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[19:34:00] <exec> 08└─exactly what i came to say. everyone with half a brain can see this from a mile away. if the judge doesn't smack the shit out of them we know why.
[19:34:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 633 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:07] <exec> 08└─The basic idea of pay-to-delay is: I make a drug that rakes in $X a quarter right now. I'll pay you $Y to allow me to continue to gouge the customers. You like this deal because it means you get $Y without having to go through all the trouble of making and selling products, while I like this deal be...
[19:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:15] <exec> 08└─these people only respect power. until these pieces of shit have to worry about being held accountable they will keep doing whatever they want.
[19:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:17] <exec> 08└─As these poisons get cheaper they will be more widely consumed and people will begin dying earlier from suicide, drug misdosing/interactions (poisoning), liver failure, etc.
[19:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feel the Beep: This Album is Played Entirely on a PC Motherboard Speaker - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:56] <exec> 08└─Hah! I remember this also. I wonder if it is still out there somewhere...
[19:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feel the Beep: This Album is Played Entirely on a PC Motherboard Speaker - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:58] <exec> 08└─Of course it is on youtube [youtube.com]
[19:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:22] <exec> 08└─I could see cut quickly stand it up quickly. Get everyone up and running. Then come back with the slow equip to 'do it right? Step 2 is important though...
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[19:38:03] <exec> 08└─yeah he should have put a little thought into a busines model. even just being clear and open about what was needed and showing what was coming in right on the site before people download would have likely gotten better results. or just charge $2 a download and let them still have the source. sure,...
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[20:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple to Developers: Disclose Screen Recording or Get Booted From App Store - 1597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:56] <exec> 08└─You mean that their super-duper "code review" process can't detect this?! (Of course it can't. If you don't want people recording the screen, do NOT provide them with access to the screen memory except for what they need to draw their app - i.e. precisely nothing but an app-specific surface) There a...
[20:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple to Developers: Disclose Screen Recording or Get Booted From App Store - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:58] <exec> 08└─You're leaving for good? This is a good thing. I was getting tired of your loose testes anyway.
[20:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple to Developers: Disclose Screen Recording or Get Booted From App Store - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:00] <exec> 08└─While I agree to your sentiment and points generally, is Android better? I sense not, it always seems behind in security and privacy. I'm an Android user from the start too. Does anyone believe these gestures by Apple regarding user privacy? Including refusing (publicly) to open that dude's phone to...
[20:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Sued by Sprint, Must Defend Decision to Tell Users That 4G is “5G E” - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:11] <exec> 08└─It's not just Americans unfortunately. We have lots of really creepy propaganda commercials on TV where I live, and people just seem to accept them. When a beloved retired rugby player is telling you that the farming industry does not pollute the nation's waterways you can bet your bottom dollar he...
[20:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:26] <exec> 08└─It's the FTC rather than the FDA because the issue has to do with anti-trust and restraint of trade rather than the safety of the pills in question.
[20:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:27] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure between me and my engineering and construction buddies, we can build a functional guillotine. If things continue as they have for long enough, that's going to start looking like a pretty good option.
[20:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:30] <exec> 08└─Simple colon medicine price is one example of the pricing abuse 15 years ago I could get a month of medicine for $25 to $50 -- it now costs me $1000 to $2000 per month Since they out-priced me from getting the simple medicine which would keep colitis in-check, I know I'm in for more expensive and in...
[20:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:14] <exec> 08└─There isn't one. Modern computers don't emulate key presses anymore. Instead, the OS maps the sequence to the current code page, or it can be overridden by the target program (which is how Word has the same well-known sequences regardless of code page). The problem is that F12 doesn't exist as a seq...
[20:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Begs You to Stop Using Internet Explorer - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:15] <exec> 08└─He is an old-money political appointee. Other than being skilled at bullshitting and the ole' Wine and Dine, he can barely function. My desk partner literally had to show him how to unlock a car when the battery on his fob died, literally ever single virus breakout we've had starts with him, he rout...
[20:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson to Become the First U.S. Drugmaker to List Drug Prices in TV Commercials - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:57] <exec> 08└─Honda is kind of known for charging full MSRP for their cars, take it or leave it. If you're getting any kind of significant discount, it's either something they are having trouble moving, or its a leftover model from the previous year. That is also why it's somewhat rare to see Honda's being used a...
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[21:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Asteroid Orbits Between Mercury and Venus, With Shortest Year of Any Known Asteroid - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:48] <exec> 08└─It's a piece of dust on the lens. Don't get too excited until they have confirmation from a less biased source.
[21:34:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06AT&T Sued by Sprint, Must Defend Decision to Tell Users That 4G is “5G E” - 345 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:05] <exec> 08└─I love how they make a big deal about reconciling any ‘iminiment legitimate 5G’ with ‘widespread’ deployment of the same. Ie. widespread coverage vs spotty coverage. What part of this do the AT&T lawyers not understand? Now, whether or not the Sprint’s claim is not just another pile of bul...
[21:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:25] <exec> 08└─Actually, one started last year... But it will only supply hospitals. Its a non-profit started to lower prices of generics as well as ensure a supply of drugs that are in short supply. https://www.washingtonpost.com
[21:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:27] <exec> 08└─Allow the import of generics from any country with a statistically better health care system than the US.
[21:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:29] <exec> 08└─I used to pay $300/month for 15 fentanyl patches, then they doubled the price. I detoxed from that horrible shit and went with marijuana... $300 worth of weed lasts 2 1/2 months, works better for chronic pain, and has less side effects. Those fentanyl patches probably only cost $1 to make. It's a le...
[21:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:31] <exec> 08└─As these poisons get cheaper they will be more widely consumed...
[21:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 2951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:34] <exec> 08└─George Soros to the rescue? But there are too few like him to do much. You write like you don't understand the culture that arises around great wealth, power, and privilege. It's a very corrupting environment, and it turns the heads of most children who grow up in it. Spoils them. It's not good for...
[21:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:38] <exec> 08└─But there is a risk of electrocution when they squat down to shit on the sidewalk.
[21:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Exercise May Protect Against Alzheimer's - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:52] <exec> 08└─Exercise produces many other hormone-like chemicals which have receptors all through the body. The research is relatively new, as biology goes, and a great deal remains to be discovered about what they do.
[21:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Man to Sue Parents for Giving Birth to Him - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:07] <exec> 08└─He will have one with the lot.
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[22:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Asteroid Orbits Between Mercury and Venus, With Shortest Year of Any Known Asteroid - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:53] <exec> 08└─It is an alien craft. It is possibly dating to the time of the pyramids and/or that weird thing they discovered in the 1950s in polar orbit around the earth (forgot the name of it).
[22:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple to Developers: Disclose Screen Recording or Get Booted From App Store - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:03] <exec> 08└─No I don't believe Apple, obviously they knew about apps being able to record full screens, obviously the FBI request was bullshit since they went ahead and got the data off the phone. Why lie and pretend innocence? Apple sold their phones as respecting privacy and being the "smart" option. Just wit...
[22:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple to Developers: Disclose Screen Recording or Get Booted From App Store - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:05] <exec> 08└─Don't you for a minute think this problem is iOS-Specific.
[22:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Sued by Sprint, Must Defend Decision to Tell Users That 4G is “5G E” - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:17] <exec> 08└─This week I changed my indicator to 10G. In a few months I plan on rolling out my ICO. Customers will LOVE it. Anyone want to invest?
[22:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Sued by Sprint, Must Defend Decision to Tell Users That 4G is “5G E” - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:18] <exec> 08└─"Anyone want to invest?" Frankly, I just want a provider to give me the honest to God 4G that I'm already paying for, rather than the 3G+ish service that I am getting now. I might be willing to invest in that.
[22:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:42] <exec> 08└─Here is the mechanism: Child is forced to take vaccine. Child gets autism. How hard is it to understand, when you have a direct cause and an effect like that.
[22:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:43] <exec> 08└─Poor South America, stuck behind the US in almost everything even criminal cartels. Hell, we even legalized ours! Bet El Chapo wishes he had thought of that!
[22:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, because since the advent of modern medicine, our lives have been getting shorter, and we die from lots of preventable diseases...
[22:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:48] <exec> 08└─I assume you're a troll, but I'll quote one of the most important scientific maxims. Correlation != causation.
[22:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:50] <exec> 08└─And now they (government) will "legalize" weed which makes it 10x more expensive (watch the "murder mountain" documentary).
[22:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:52] <exec> 08└─Measles vaccine success is based on correlation = causation though. They never did an RCT, and at the same time as introducing the vaccine they also introduced blood tests (which are much more specific than clinical symptoms only) and a public health campaign to convince people to stop spreading mea...
[22:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:54] <exec> 08└─Bit too over the top for a troll, I assumed it was sarcasm.
[22:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility (Ukuu) Moves To A Paid Licensing Model With The Latest Release  - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:42] <exec> 08└─The code from profitable corporations I've worked for tending to look ugly but work well: void *SW_alloc( int size ) {           return 12 + malloc( size ); } "Dave, all SW_alloc does is add twelve to its allocated size. Why is that?" "So Spellswell would stop crashing." Live Picture could have...
[22:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Killer? Apex Legends Notches 10 Million Players in Three Days - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:01] <exec> 08└─I'll turn fifty-five in two weeks, yet I still have to get Mom to pay my phone bill.
[22:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Cat Lives after Being Frozen - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:41] <exec> 08└─Under tongue is considered perverted? Damn, after the 60's i figured you Puritans were gone!
[22:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Man to Sue Parents for Giving Birth to Him - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:31] <exec> 08└─Nah we move to NZ now Only for the great skiing and surfing you know
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[23:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Armor Plated Tentacle Fish - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:51] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[23:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Asteroid Orbits Between Mercury and Venus, With Shortest Year of Any Known Asteroid - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:00] <exec> 08└─It's NCC-1701 stuck in a time warp.
[23:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Asteroid Orbits Between Mercury and Venus, With Shortest Year of Any Known Asteroid - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:02] <exec> 08└─If I read tfs correctly, it crosses the orbits of Mercury and Venus. What are chances it could hit one of them?
[23:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple to Developers: Disclose Screen Recording or Get Booted From App Store - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:13] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, once they catch all the "bad people" we will totally go back to freedom!!@!
[23:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Sued by Sprint, Must Defend Decision to Tell Users That 4G is “5G E” - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:28] <exec> 08└─"This is intentionally deceptive labeling couched in lawyerspeak to try and get away with it and gain an advantage over competition based on misleading the public." Don't most big tel-cos and ISPs do the same? I think they just call it "marketing".
[23:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06AT&T Sued by Sprint, Must Defend Decision to Tell Users That 4G is “5G E” - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:29] <exec> 08└─With their argument, they should be allowed to call it 8G. After all, it is twice as fast as 4G. This is also an interesting intersection with history. The reason why they have 4G LTE designations is that many carriers put out "4G" networks that are not compliant with the 4G specification. So they h...
[23:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:00] <exec> 08└─More real-world proof that free-market capitalism is not practiced in the US. Big players are allowed to tilt the market in their favor using every means possible without regard for law, morals or downright Christian charity. Of course, if one says so, one is immediately labeled a picko communist, f...
[23:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:01] <exec> 08└─Grow yer own, even a shitty grower will get enough usable weed.
[23:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:03] <exec> 08└─How do you think they got to be billionaires in the first place? Certainly not by following any sort of market based model laid out by Smith.
[23:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:11] <exec> 08└─Not electrocution, not with optic fibre.
[23:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fiber’s Biggest Failure: ISP Will Turn Service Off in Louisville - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:12] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you should ask if this kind of asshattery is what he can't tolerate at Google any more.
[23:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Killer? Apex Legends Notches 10 Million Players in Three Days - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:16] <exec> 08└─There is no way to make money on utility software.
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