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[00:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:11] <exec> 08└─I find this totally believable. I also believe every other country with the means to do so is doing the same, in particular the three in the subject line. The US is also doing it to every other country as well.
[00:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:13] <exec> 08└─Wake me when Russia engages in violent regime change actions here -- like HRC/Obama in Libya. Till then, I would really like to see none of the newRedScare here. Also wake me when the DNC actually does something for the people as opposed to grandstanding. I suspect I will be sleeping for just about...
[00:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:15] <exec> 08└─The story helps to point out that the individual states are all guilty of criminal negligence. The voting machine manufacturers are guilty of the same. The RNC and DNC are criminally negligent. The feds are criminally negligent. WTF are we doing all around the world? Meddling in elections. WTF do we...
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[00:22:17] <exec> 08└─1. Epstein was found badly injured in his cell. He supposedly tried to hang himself, just like Vince Foster supposedly shot himself. 2. "Ilhan Omar" is actually Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. It's fraud to get here (her citizenship is invalid), then fraud to get her brother here, then fraud to get a divorce....
[00:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:20] <exec> 08└─Or important news about the state of our local system such as: https://soylentnews.org¬e=&title=Cosmic+Ray+Update%3A+New+Results+From+the+Moon [soylentnews.org]
[00:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:22] <exec> 08└─Where FUD equals progress? "America is facing a direct assault on the heart of our democracy," one lawmaker said.
[00:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:24] <exec> 08└─Not Israel. We Zionists hedge our bets on both democratic and republican congressmen and senators equally in plain view via AIPAC thank you very much. Hacking... Pfft. Soviet amateurs.
[00:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:26] <exec> 08└─And, there are no innocent people in sight.
[00:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:29] <exec> 08└─Are they contributing to both sides in Danielle Stella vs. Ilhan Omar?
[00:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Hits Johannesburg Electricity Supply - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:39] <exec> 08└─Blindly running and executing everything is what got us into this mess. Isolate the perpetrators, confine them. Bury them in a sandbox if you have to. But for $deity's sake, don't execute them!
[00:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Hits Johannesburg Electricity Supply - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:41] <exec> 08└─Blindly running and executing everything is what got us into this mess.
[00:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Dinosaur Bone Uncovered in France - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:52] <exec> 08└─le plus gros fémur de dinosaure jamais mis au jour, avec ses 2,20 mètres.
[00:23:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:00] <exec> 08└─"There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea." -- President Donald J Trump, June 12, 2018
[00:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:09] <exec> 08└─GP is right. Nowhere in geological timescales, has the climate changed so quickly.
[00:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:10] <exec> 08└─It isn't that hard to move to higher ground.
[00:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:13] <exec> 08└─Same here. I do not believe that there is any room left to avoid >2C global temperature rises. The efforts we put in now are to prevent a 5-degree rise instead. And I do not believe that any change I make to my personal life makes the slightest hint of a dent in that process. So what can you do, per...
[00:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:15] <exec> 08└─There is plenty of higher ground available at the moment...
[00:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:18] <exec> 08└─Hello, monsieur Belgique. Would you be so kind to check the correct spelling for the unit of temperature you use? Granted, it wasn't quite your neighbour, but his country is on the same street as yours; and it shows good manners to use their names properly. (fucking shit, one can accept it from a re...
[00:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:20] <exec> 08└─So what can you do, personally? Vote green, advocate for the strictest emission controls possible. Make sure the efforts are global.
[00:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:22] <exec> 08└─Show me. The Vaalserberg is a hill with a height of 322.4 metres (1,058 ft) above NAP and is the highest point in mainland Netherlands. [wikipedia.org]
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[01:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:11] <exec> 08└─I have nostalgia for 5 1/4" (mini) floppy, but not for 3 1/2" (micro) floppy. I bet only some old mac users feel nostalgic for 3 1/2" floppies.
[01:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:12] <exec> 08└─There are only two reasons to have a floppy drive: 1) You're old, or have a passion for history and old timey computin' 2) You're in IT, and whatever God forsaken hardware you need to administrate requires it for some reason As for #2, that's where the USB support comes in. That's not going to last...
[01:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:14] <exec> 08└─This gives me some real nostalgia too [youtube.com] :)
[01:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:17] <exec> 08└─Green or amber, that is the question.
[01:22:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 823 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:26] <exec> 08└─The story helps to point out that the individual states are all guilty of criminal negligence. The voting machine manufacturers are guilty of the same. The RNC and DNC are criminally negligent. The feds are criminally negligent. WTF are we doing all around the world? Meddling in elections. WTF do we...
[01:22:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:30] <exec> 08└─Where FUD equals progress? "America is facing a direct assault on the heart of our democracy," one lawmaker said.
[01:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:35] <exec> 08└─FTFY... The story helps to point out that Russia was the only honest and reliable source of news.
[01:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:38] <exec> 08└─Yes. They will be fighting voterID tooth and nail.
[01:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but it's all about the narrative of 1) slandering Donald Trump's claim to the presidency and 2) prevent any closer cooperation that may conflict with the wishes of other interested parties.
[01:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:42] <exec> 08└─I don't find it as innocuous as you do. We were harmed GREATLY by Russia having Trump elected. If they were in all 50 states, then they easily contributed to the Orange Anus being elected, even though he lost the popular vote by over 2 million. The places where the race was tight, and Trump was decl...
[01:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 1684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:44] <exec> 08└─Yep, let's go back paper - we never had any good reason to leave. Convenience? Speedy results? The entire rest of the electoral system still rests on assumptions from a time when the pony express was the fasted means of communication, and there's some very real concerns as to how fast results may be...
[01:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:47] <exec> 08└─You can't have actual citizens voting, afterall.
[01:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:49] <exec> 08└─Also wake me when the DNC actually does something for the people as opposed to grandstanding.
[01:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:51] <exec> 08└─Wow. Who cares about democracy anyway amirite? WTF is wrong with you assholes? I'm "loving" how conservatives get all defensive when liberals point out that many world problems are because the US does fucked up shit in other countries, yet now that it has happened to the US they don't give a shit. W...
[01:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Hits Johannesburg Electricity Supply - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:03] <exec> 08└─I believe what the op was referring to is our present paradigm of mixing code and data. Embedded executables.
[01:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:14] <exec> 08└─The last time I checked launching 10-20 grams of lead or other dense material at roughly 1000 meters per second accelerated the launch platform in the opposite direction. Who's calculating the new orbit? With every single shot you will need to calculate the new orbit of the launch platform. That's q...
[01:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:36] <exec> 08└─I highly fucking doubt its political. More likely its because they adopted that new scientific model that replaced what they had for decades. I can't recall the details completely, but weather forecasting for the next 12-24 hours used to reliable.
[01:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:38] <exec> 08└─I have to commend Mr. Buzzard for his general lack of trolling in the past year compared to previously, but I don't believe he's stupid enough not to read what the articles clearly say and instead imagine them to be saying something else. He's hoping to start a fight about journalist exaggeration ar...
[01:26:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:56] <exec> 08└─Wow, way to miss the boat completely. Yes, bullshit. If you actually were to any of these countries, you'll soon realize that food costs the same everywhere. Heck, some poor places have food more expensive than in US while still only making $200 or $300 per month. Now tell that to the elitists in Am...
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[02:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:18] <exec> 08└─At my company, we still have terminals (real ones, namely VT220s), they still work with Linux, and we still use them to issue the odd shell commands to our Dell servers without having to open the air-conditioned server room from the room next to it. They've been paid for 35 years ago, and a RS232-US...
[02:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 1742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:19] <exec> 08└─Note to Linus: Don't have a floppy drive? Buy one! Better yet, buy a dozen! A PC just isn't a PC without a floppy drive. Ironically, on the very original IBM 5150, having no floppy drive was a valid option. Of course, then you were left with nothing but ROM basic and the cassette tape interface port...
[02:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:21] <exec> 08└─At my company, we still use TRS-80 II's with cassette drives as servers for the Windows 10 updates.
[02:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:24] <exec> 08└─3) You're operating a machine which costs hundreds thousand USD and takes designs in form of 720kB Quad-density floppy, the documentation is scarce but the source code print-out (perforated paper filling an entire box) is available, however no assembler for its CPU survived. Case authentic. FYI, the...
[02:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:26] <exec> 08└─I think the drive isn't the problem, but the availability of floppy disk controllers. For example, I have several spare floppy drives, but no floppy drive in my new PC because the motherboard doesn't have a connector for it.
[02:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:28] <exec> 08└─Tragically, the majority of computer users are now tablet and phone users, not IT users (professional or amateur) So need and want drive form and function. Wifi and bluetooth now "just work", which is wonderful. Storage on the cloud is "more convenient", which is not wonderful at all, if you care ab...
[02:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:30] <exec> 08└─There are a great number of CNC machines still in service that load their programs (and sometimes their OS!) from floppies. Many of these machines still have a value of tens of thousands or more on the used market, and replacement costs of hundreds of thousands.Tyoical service lives are 20-30 years,...
[02:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:54] <exec> 08└─#2 Is not only inaccurate (her family came here legally as refugees), the claims don't even make sense based on the timeframe and immigration law: https://www.snopes.com [snopes.com]
[02:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:56] <exec> 08└─Sure. Obama said worse when he campaigned. Trump did too. You can go back at least as far as Nixon and find openly anti-Semitic candidates being supported by AIPAC.
[02:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:58] <exec> 08└─Do you know the name of your Secretary of State? Did you ask about security when he or she was running for office? Have you tried volunteering to help with election security? Have you tried it through a professional group? We have obligations that go with our skills, and in PA/MI/WI it is critical.
[02:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:49] <exec> 08└─Nah, nobody buys more music than musicians.
[02:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:47] <exec> 08└─"recorded their highest ever temperatures" does not mean what you think it means. For that it would need to be "recorded their highest ever recorded temperatures". As written it is a verb not an adjective and does not modify the noun "temperatures".
[02:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:48] <exec> 08└─He's hoping to start a fight about journalist exaggeration around climate change.
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[03:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:24] <exec> 08└─Exactly, lobotomized modern motherboards lack a Floppy Disk Controller chip. Of course, no FDC, no drive. There has been lots of talk about creating a PCI device with a FDC chip, but PCI does not support the method of DMA access that a 100% compatible floppy controller requires. It is possible to cr...
[03:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:25] <exec> 08└─From what I hear, 8" floppies are the minimum, as is an owner at least 6' tall.
[03:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:54] <exec> 08└─Damn traitorous Libertarians! https://www.thedailybeast.com [thedailybeast.com]
[03:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:55] <exec> 08└─You notice even left-leaning Snopes doesn't say NO? They just cop out with "unproven". No leftist journo-activist actually wants the truth on that one, and Omar herself dodges the question every time it's brought up.
[03:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:57] <exec> 08└─Man, i'd like to shake your hand. This is probably the best post i've ever read from you: insightful, impactful: SPOT ON! They use systems which are prone to hacking and are surprised they're hacked. They meddle in other countries and are surprised by other countries meddling. They use a shitty oper...
[03:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Hits Johannesburg Electricity Supply - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:09] <exec> 08└─The solution is simpler: disconnect important computers from the internet and use a better operating system and do backups and use, you know, security even though it costs money and and and WHAT is it going to take before people start getting intelligent thoughts? How many stories like this will it...
[03:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:46] <exec> 08└─No: i say we gather ALL the leaders in the world together in one room (at least the ones who seem to need to beat their chests and crow) and make them whip their dicks out so we can compare them. Biggest one gets a Slushie for a prize. The losers we just go "Tsk, tsk" at them as we slowly shake our...
[03:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:48] <exec> 08└─Yup. People looked at her and went "Oh HELL NO!"
[03:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Launches CRS-18 Using Twice-Flown Booster, Starhopper Finally Flies - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:59] <exec> 08└─Is SLS even at a similar test phase?
[03:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, in fact every region of the world could be individually cooling while the earth is warming in aggregate
[03:27:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 3234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:16] <exec> 08└─Aircraft avionic equipement sends data around the system using a data bus. There are several proprietary busses that are commonly used and it doesn't really matter which one is used, but I believe Airbus use [aviationtoday.com] the Mil-Std-1553 [wikipedia.org] variant. When sending data via a bus th...
[03:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:31] <exec> 08└─Best joke of that day! You owe me a new keyboard. Mine is now covered in coffee.
[03:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:33] <exec> 08└─This is exactly correct. I should also state that these are distinct hardware components. There was an ambient light sensor attached to a box that sampled the sensor and turned it into data for the bus. Then there was the receiving end which fetched data off the bus and took action to adjust the bri...
[03:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:01] <exec> 08└─Living on the moon would be like living in a trailer on a construction site.
[03:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:32] <exec> 08└─After devoting 15 minutes to thinking about it, this is more or less the conclusion I arrived at as well.
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[04:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:29] <exec> 08└─Well, if it works, that's great. Seems simpler to just keep an old computer or two around.
[04:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:30] <exec> 08└─Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[04:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:32] <exec> 08└─A PC just isn't a PC without a floppy drive.
[04:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:34] <exec> 08└─That’s about 40,000 cassettes. I hope you have a robo-deck loader.
[04:22:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 1684 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:54] <exec> 08└─Yep, let's go back paper - we never had any good reason to leave. Convenience? Speedy results? The entire rest of the electoral system still rests on assumptions from a time when the pony express was the fasted means of communication, and there's some very real concerns as to how fast results may be...
[04:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:06] <exec> 08└─A big part of the problem is that the sheeple are told it's complex technology being innovated by experts. Run along now, nothing to see here. I would be _very_ _happy_ to be part of a citizens' watchdog / oversight / inspection task force.
[04:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:07] <exec> 08└─Probably the most intelligent post I've read in a while, not only on this site but in general. Bravo.
[04:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:10] <exec> 08└─Trump won because the DNC coronated HRC. Unless HRC was a Russian plant to get Trump elected, the Russians had nothing at all to do with it.
[04:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:12] <exec> 08└─Well, I voted for Stein but I will admit to feeling a great sense of schadenfreude when Trump won. What is interesting to me is how my feelings for Trump have evolved because of the way the media shills and the the DNC have carried on. I still don't like him, probably (*) won't vote for him, but I d...
[04:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:14] <exec> 08└─I'm a liberal. Atheist Jew, anti-foreign-wars, pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, pro-environment, pro-equality (of opportunity) (*). But let's be real -- the DNC hasn't lived up to what it pretends to be -- it has been excellent at channeling that great Democrat ^w Republican Joseph McCarthy however. Mc...
[04:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Launches CRS-18 Using Twice-Flown Booster, Starhopper Finally Flies - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:16] <exec> 08└─Isn't SLS supposed to Just Work™, because it's made of old Space Shuttle parts? That's why we can send humans on it on the second flight. They totally won't die.
[04:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:11] <exec> 08└─Forecast isn't worth shit anymore. Something changed in the last six months, and they changed their models/science. Weather.com used to spot-freaking on when it came to the temperatures. If it said 84 at 3pm, I could reliably measure 83-85 walking outside. Always consistently within +/- 2 degrees fr...
[04:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:12] <exec> 08└─Nowhere in the geological timescales you mentioned has the climate been this dynamic.
[04:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:15] <exec> 08└─if they fix climates like they program airliners, we're SOL
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[05:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─Got your Musk hub implanted yet? https://www.economist.com [economist.com]
[05:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:40] <exec> 08└─This is how life goes: You get older, they take away your floppy drives. To make up for it, other things get floppy. It sucks :)
[05:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 1860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:42] <exec> 08└─Hey, I actually have a Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3! I didn't buy it for the FDD controller, and it wasn't something I paid attention to either when I was researching it. So when I noticed it had one, I was like "how quaint"! By the way, it works fine with Slackware Linux, but I don't have anything hooked t...
[05:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:45] <exec> 08└─Exactly, I still have old computers that (say Win 95 to XP) that can still read (and edit) 3.5 in floppy's. You could put a lot of words on 1.4 MB, but not much music or video. So even though I (for some weird reason) still have boxes of plastic cases of 3.5 floppy's that I long ago transferred to C...
[05:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:47] <exec> 08└─USB isn't compatible with the 5.25 disk control system.
[05:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:23] <exec> 08└─Well, that's a half truth. If propaganda didn't work, campaigns wouldn't spend a billion+ on it every election. Besides, this article describes an attempt at hacking election infrastructure, which, to be honest, I had thought was overblown bullshit on centrist dem's part. It's not stated whether any...
[05:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:24] <exec> 08└─How many fucking murders does the right wing need to do to counter-balance a few people literally wearing nazi armbands getting punched? More than 200 apparently. How many laws banning "radical left wing organizing" do republican senators need to propose to be equal to some students protesting someo...
[05:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:26] <exec> 08└─"left leaning snopes" Is a hell of a way to say "the right wing constantly circulates flat unambiguous lies and require more refuting"
[05:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:29] <exec> 08└─The world 10-20 years hence will match your sarcasm. There's some serious shit brewing with the authoritarian left.
[05:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe the difference was that the detractors were making valid points about Hillary's criminal behavior, whereas the bad points about Trump were lost in the noise of emo screaming.
[05:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Launches CRS-18 Using Twice-Flown Booster, Starhopper Finally Flies - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:33] <exec> 08└─NASA doesn't have the monopoly on large explosions. The Russians [rbth.com] have been at it for years. No reason private enterprise shouldn't get in on the act! [wikipedia.org]
[05:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, another illusion. Government does not lead. The people lead. Now there are some more local things to be done. Like, get local governments to ease up on lawn care ordinances. Make it legal to allow grass to get 18" high. There would be less mowing, and more carbon storage in all that extra heigh...
[05:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:07] <exec> 08└─and will probably be the wrong thing in the end?
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[06:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid 2019 OK Flies by Earth on July 25 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:14] <exec> 08└─The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling! Chicken Takyon, or Little Bytram? Real astronomers don't sweat the small stuff, or the near misses.
[06:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid 2019 OK Flies by Earth on July 25 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:15] <exec> 08└─Don't worry about the asteroid - it passed on the 25 July.
[06:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid 2019 OK Flies by Earth on July 25 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:17] <exec> 08└─Missed again. Shit.
[06:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:47] <exec> 08└─Thinks to self - "Do I still have a floppy drive in my home PC?" Opens front door of case - sees 3.5 inch floppy drive. *shaking fist in anger* "Damn you Linus!"
[06:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:49] <exec> 08└─I still use music equipment mfgd in the 1980 to 2000 period. A Yamaha QX1 uses 5-1/4 DSDD A Yamaha QX3 uses 3-1/2 DSDD A Yamaha DX7II uses 3-1/2 DSDD AN EMU E4K and/or E4XT Ultra uses a 3-1/2 DSHD Even A few years ago I had to search to find the script MAKEFLOPPIES that adds the /dev entries I doubt...
[06:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:51] <exec> 08└─Did you have to add "It sucks" to that?
[06:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:53] <exec> 08└─Sometimes it helps to make it less floppy. But not always.
[06:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:55] <exec> 08└─I'm in category 1. At a rough (mental) count, I've got five 5 1/4 drives, and six 3 1/2 drives. Many are kept as spares. I've never seen an 8 inch one in the flesh, I'm a bit too young (or unlucky) for that.
[06:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:58] <exec> 08└─Isn't it the (lobotomised) floppy controllers in the USB floppy drives that only support 3 1/2" varieties?
[06:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 1436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:00] <exec> 08└─I keep a few things most people toss. Not that much, but it's easier to store it than scramble and panic when you need it. I have XT class motherboards. If I get spare time I'll test them and sell them to people who like playing old games on genuine old hardware. There's a market. I recently got an...
[06:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:02] <exec> 08└─I dunno about 1 PB floppies, but you reminded me that there were 120 MB floppies. I never even saw one. The Zip drives stole that market. I ended up with several of them but have never even used one.
[06:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:04] <exec> 08└─You mean, if it ain't broke, don't fix it? What, your company has intelligent asset management or something? Radicals! I'm a bit surprised the VT220s themselves still work tho. Screens burned much? I'm sure you know that an old junker PC running a terminal emulator (was it Procomm Plus I used a lot...
[06:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:07] <exec> 08└─I remember when Apple dropped the floppy from the iMac and the world lost its mind over it.
[06:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:47] <exec> 08└─It's amazing how brazenly you lie. None of what I said was sarcasm.
[06:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:48] <exec> 08└─Rather than mod me down, I dare you to cite one goddamn case of snopes falsely calling a right wing true assertion as untrue. One goddamn time.
[06:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:51] <exec> 08└─Someday the blood libel you write to destroy democracy will come back for you. You know you're lying, I know you're lying, but we still have to pretend like there's some hope of political dialog with you.
[06:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:30] <exec> 08└─"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain, we'll face a little bumpiness as we reboot the plane..."
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[07:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It’s Official: US Government Approves T-Mobile/Sprint Merger - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:13] <exec> 08└─I'm not loving this, but there are far bigger problems. Unless we're preparing to undo the mergers that made Verizon and AT&T huge, it wouldn't be fair to stop a couple piddly little companies from merging. Maybe they need to merge for survival. Regarding Verizon and AT&T: mistakes were made
[07:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Asteroid 2019 OK Flies by Earth on July 25 - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:23] <exec> 08└─Hey, I like news that's a little bit old! Shit, today I can sigh a breath of relief because I know I didn't die yesterday!
[07:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:04] <exec> 08└─I just spent the last few days imaging my 8 bit and PC floppies, and the 5.25s imaged with hardly any problems. The 3.5s on the other hand have been a major bitch with tons of read errors, spinning issues and the drive even has developed problems. Hell, even in their time, they were constantly faili...
[07:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:05] <exec> 08└─> But not always. Ahh. The blue pill crowd.
[07:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:08] <exec> 08└─Above I mention recently inheriting some important floppies. Some would read on some drives I have, some not at all. Many of my drives don't seem to work at all (anymore) on test floppies. They spin cleanly, stall, then you get data error message. Not sure what's failing- they're clean, undamaged, e...
[07:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:51] <exec> 08└─The democrats have had a history of being sore losers. Remember the recount that Al Gore made when he lost? He made a huge deal out of it and dragged it for as long as possible. At least the Republicans lose much more gracefully. And Russia is communist, why would they want to rig the elections in f...
[07:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, so you thing there is good type of authoritarianism?
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[07:28:37] <exec> 08└─Any proper wielded of the SI system knows to label those milbiseconds.
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[08:22:25] <exec> 08└─The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!
[08:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:09] <exec> 08└─Like you, I still have working 5.25" and floppy drives and blank spare disks for both. I have a working Z80 system that is still usable (for some definitions of 'usable'). I have backed up all my software to more modern devices but the Z80 uses 5.25" disks and a cassette recorder for data! The entir...
[08:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:10] <exec> 08└─Fuck you.
[08:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:57] <exec> 08└─And Russia is communist, why would they want to rig the elections in favor of a Republican? Especially since the Republicans spend money on military endeavors, wouldn't the Russians not want the U.S. to get more powerful.
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[09:22:29] <exec> 08└─Having been spotted 1 day earlier. Assuming they are evenly spread the chances of an asteroid passing at least that close hitting earth would be abooht 120:1 (70Mm radius vs 6.4Mm radius of earth
[09:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:15] <exec> 08└─3) You maintain/support/upgrade military systems which usually have a life of type of up to 20 plus years. Obsolescence issues due to the use of floppies is usually pretty minor though.
[09:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:16] <exec> 08└─If there will be a complete technical documentation allowing to audit the thing, open source software with possibility to expand, final solution of a power problem, a hardware kill-switch then... why not? But what we see from mobile devices market, there will be documentation for developers only use...
[09:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:18] <exec> 08└─4) You still have documents and stuff that were saved on floppies years ago that you must get round to copying off one day.
[09:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:20] <exec> 08└─This gives me some real nostalgia too
[09:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:58] <exec> 08└─May I recommend : https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[09:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:11] <exec> 08└─Re-read my text properly. I referred to the *trend*, what you call "collection". Thus, I stand by my judgement that, considering quite a few years of data, indeed *climate* is changing. As do close to 100% of scientists.
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[09:28:16] <exec> 08└─Congratulations; your comment is interesting, insightful, informative, and on topic. What are you doing posting on SN?
[09:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:54] <exec> 08└─It doesn't take a siesta, it nips around the back to, uhh, take care of business, if you get my drift.
[09:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:56] <exec> 08└─Done the same thing, although in my case it was slightly different, the system used a 64-bit counter and we were supposed to check for overflow. We ended up not checking for overflow because the chances that the check would be screwed up in some way were vastly, vastly higher than that of the counte...
[09:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:58] <exec> 08└─Oh, another thing, we typically found these odd problems in low-level components that we didn't control. The software itself was written extremely carefully - think something like MISRA on steroids, with some parts accompanied by formal PROMELA/SPIN proofs - but then you'd get some low-level transce...
[09:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:00] <exec> 08└─stackoverflow which at least in this case was a remarkably prescient name
[09:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:03] <exec> 08└─"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Windows 10 for Aircraft. Your Airbus will restart in 2 minutes 5 seconds. If you're sitting on the tarmac, you can restart now. Otherwise, you should close this message and use the remaining time to make out your last will and testament before the avionics shut down".
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[10:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:14] <exec> 08└─sleep: 6-8 Work: 8+ Commute: one half to two hours If you have your phone out for the whole time you're on public transport, you could easily manage over seven hours a day. Come on! Five hours? Try harder! You're wasting potentially two or more hours of phone time!
[10:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:15] <exec> 08└─Reading Kuro5hin, Slashdot or Soylent daily may increase risk of death by stroke. Well, never mind about Kuro5hin, it is already dead.
[10:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:17] <exec> 08└─Add step-based gesture controls.
[10:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 1607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:24] <exec> 08└─Why not!? I see you're referencing smart phones, and you're agreeing it's a "bad thing", but I have to still take exception at your line about how auditing would help. Or it being open source. Because, how about #1, nothing is EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER secure. No auditing, no open source or not open...
[10:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:25] <exec> 08└─Do you need the latest version of Linux for legacy floppy-using machines?
[10:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:28] <exec> 08└─Motherboards, RasPis, etc. are still coming out with USB Type-A ports. Maybe these will fall out of use and get replaced by Type-C, but USB itself will be around for a long time.
[10:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:30] <exec> 08└─There will be a computer in your head, but the information will not be stored there. It will be stored in the cloud. Better don't ever go to a place without a decent network connection. There will exist upgrades with local storage. But those upgrades will be very expensive, and normal people won't b...
[10:23:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 1108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:48] <exec> 08└─I don't find it as innocuous as you do. We were harmed GREATLY by Russia having Trump elected. If they were in all 50 states, then they easily contributed to the Orange Anus being elected, even though he lost the popular vote by over 2 million. The places where the race was tight, and Trump was decl...
[10:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:16] <exec> 08└─I wish for Russia loose her great patience some day a really begin to hack important stuff, stupid liberals.
[10:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:19] <exec> 08└─The Netherlands must be very, very focused on Climate Change. What will they do if sea levels rise? If Greenland melts, that will raise sea levels by 2 meters. They can't just make all the dikes 2 meters taller, can they?
[10:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:20] <exec> 08└─It wasn't quite your neighbour, but his country is on the same street as yours; and it shows good manners to use their names properly.
[10:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stock Trading Firm Robinhood Stored User Passwords in Plaintext - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:14] <exec> 08└─Nowhere in the announcement did they say that they stored passwords in plaintext, but of course that is what all the headlines say because it attracts clicks and rabid first reactions (such as yours!). The most mundane interpretation of the announcement is that they store passwords hashed and salted...
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[11:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:17] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine was using her phone while in bed. She dropped it on her face. It chipped her front tooth.
[11:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:19] <exec> 08└─Seriously, 5 hours of sedentary (in)activity increases the risk of obesity... Who here is surprised by any of this. Smartphones are just the latest for this clickbait. I bet people who watch tv 5 hours or more have a higher chance of obesity over those that do not. or sit in an office chair during b...
[11:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06It’s Official: US Government Approves T-Mobile/Sprint Merger - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:28] <exec> 08└─do not welcome our new overlords.
[11:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid 2019 OK Flies by Earth on July 25 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:40] <exec> 08└─I'm a bit disappointed. I had no time to panic.
[11:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:34] <exec> 08└─Talk about nostalgia... I started with 8" floppies.. and a Z80 S100 computer....
[11:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:36] <exec> 08└─> From what I hear, 8" floppies are the minimum, as is an owner at least 6' tall. Yeah, but on the other hand those 8" floppies had to be inserted real gently into the slot, otherwise they got bent or broken The 3.5s may have been much smaller, but because they were stiffer you could bang em in as h...
[11:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah I thought of that too but unfortunately for us it's already covered under: 1) You're old
[11:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 1293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:40] <exec> 08└─I totally agree that these systems should be considered unsecure. But first of all, the hardware kill-switch. No, the toy we have with wi-fi, this is NOT a hardware killswitch. The real killswitch disconnects power and the chip is as useful as a brick. A moment ago I read about these "latest" invent...
[11:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:42] <exec> 08└─Even back in the '90s I always avoided using floppies unless there was no other way. They are so unreliable that just about any other method of transferring data seems likely to succeed sooner. Burning an EPROM, punched cards, typing in some base64, maybe even a cassette tape...
[11:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:30] <exec> 08└─Let's go to war against Russia because Hillary didn't win. I'm assuming this post was elevated to score 5 because of its stark illustration of the level of insanity that exists in US two-party politics.
[11:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 4286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:31] <exec> 08└─"We have obligations that go with our skills" We can be friends. I call it 'the fight between those fighting for the user and those fighting to build a prison' If you don't like Fake News, wait til you see Fake Voting. If the builders and operators of voting systems do not protect the integrity of...
[11:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:34] <exec> 08└─On Wednesday, Mueller appeared before two house committees and said in front of both of them and said that he is certain the Russians interfered with the 2016 election, will try to interfere with the 2020 election, and will keep interfering into the foreseeable future. On Thursday, the Senate Intell...
[11:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 1980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:36] <exec> 08└─Debbie Wassterman Schulz and other DNC operatives sabotaged Bernie Sanders, a jewish person, for the zionist project in Israel. HRC would have at least charged a hefty fee for the concessions on Jerusalem, Gollan and in general allowing the Isaeli military to assassinate peaceful protestors and stea...
[11:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:38] <exec> 08└─It's not a double standard. Both parties are utterly terrible by the same standard, and they are getting worse. And they each have an infinite supply of apologists like you that continue to justify themselves and deflect any criticism by pointing at the other.
[11:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:40] <exec> 08└─Who needs voterid... After all, in North Carolina we proved that screwing with absentee ballots can be effective ways to get the republican elected. (As long as you don't get caught.)
[11:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:12] <exec> 08└─are going to be funny as the sheer expense of robotic weapons systems gets them special status and rights that humans do not have. The Bill of Rights 2020 1 PROTECT THE ROBOTS AT ALL COSTS 2 DO NOT HURT THE ROBOTS FEELINGS 3 DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE MILITARY BUDGET 4 DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE MILITARY BUDG...
[11:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:14] <exec> 08└─5 ENJOY YOUR SAFETY IN SILENCE IN FULL VIEW OF YOUR FREE COMPANION ROBOT
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[12:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Quantum Phenomenon Helps To Understand Fundamental Limits Of Graphene Electronics - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:08] <exec> 08└─Does anyone else get the feeling we live in a quantum reality. Like the AI has us all plugged into a digital matrix? I've recently begun seriously entertaining this possibility when I realized there have been no major changes or advances since about 2000 AD. Maybe it has something to do with all tho...
[12:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:20] <exec> 08└─It's actually your metabolism which causes obesity. I don't actually know what, in the body, chemically creates fat, but whatever it is, it's that thing's "fault". Smartphones are actually electronic devices that exist outside of the body, not internal organs. I hate clickbaiting authors and researc...
[12:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It’s Official: US Government Approves T-Mobile/Sprint Merger - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:30] <exec> 08└─If smaller corps keep having to merge to compete with a bigger corp, eventually they'll all be too-big-to-fail. Isn't that where the game is headed?
[12:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It’s Official: US Government Approves T-Mobile/Sprint Merger - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:32] <exec> 08└─No, the game is headed to the de facto first and explicit later Corporate Congress[1], where corporations and not citizens make the Law, the State[2] and the Enforcing[3] both to the peasants, in exponential proportion to their value for the Society[4]. All democraticaly[5], of course, for our own g...
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[12:22:45] <exec> 08└─OK
[12:23:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:03] <exec> 08└─There are a great number of CNC machines still in service that load their programs (and sometimes their OS!) from floppies. Many of these machines still have a value of tens of thousands or more on the used market, and replacement costs of hundreds of thousands.Tyoical service lives are 20-30 years,...
[12:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:37] <exec> 08└─Trump is anti-semitic? You have to be kidding me. You people have totally lost a grip on reality.
[12:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:38] <exec> 08└─Yep, thats the thing some people don't understand. The MSM and congress are more hated by like 2/3 of the country than Trump could ever be. So the more whining from them and their shills, the more liked he becomes.
[12:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:41] <exec> 08└─Next somebody will claim Hitler was antisemitic! Pfffft.....
[12:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:43] <exec> 08└─And Russia is communist
[12:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:45] <exec> 08└─Back under your cave, pathetic troll.
[12:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:47] <exec> 08└─If propaganda didn't work, campaigns wouldn't spend a billion+ on it every election.
[12:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:49] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming this post was elevated to score 5 because of its stark illustration of the level of insanity that exists in US two-party politics.
[12:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Hits Johannesburg Electricity Supply - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:02] <exec> 08└─Was this included in the Windoze TCO (total cost of ownership) calculations?!
[12:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:43] <exec> 08└─The missile wasn't carrying a nuclear warhead, but that doesn't mean it isn't nuclear capable. There can be no doubt that N Korea has some nuclear warheads, and the threat comes from not knowing which missiles might be carrying one. Dare S Korea risk anything that might mean that the response from N...
[12:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, the climate is changing. Water is wet, and every government is attempting to affect every other governments elections. I see a trend here in a certain type of person thinking they know something special when it is common sense.
[12:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:02] <exec> 08└─I'm a republicunt!
[12:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:04] <exec> 08└─The Netherlands literally means "the low country". You are looking in the wrong place. I mean it does seem likely that area will be inundated eventually just like what happened to dogeland. Perhaps the grand minimum will save them.
[12:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:06] <exec> 08└─Yea, turn off the lights when you leave the room.
[12:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:55] <exec> 08└─But Möebius one side coin would fit in Pythagoras' square circle?
[12:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:26] <exec> 08└─So what? The "you wouldn't like it" argument is pointless. In a population of billions, you'll find plenty of people who even after exposure to the tribulations of living on the Moon, would still choose to do it.
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[13:22:18] <exec> 08└─Don't stop the treatments half-way.
[13:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Quantum Phenomenon Helps To Understand Fundamental Limits Of Graphene Electronics - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:19] <exec> 08└─Even this pillow seems to be made of quantum foam.
[13:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Quantum Phenomenon Helps To Understand Fundamental Limits Of Graphene Electronics - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:21] <exec> 08└─I'm now typing this from inside the pillow, having inverted the usual human-pillow relationship.
[13:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:34] <exec> 08└─In unrelated news, Five or more hours of Twitter(R)(TM) usage per day has been shown to decrease intelligence down to that of an orangutan.
[13:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:36] <exec> 08└─All sorts of things, not just one system, and many of them intercnnected. Leptin insensitivity, insulin insensitivity, sugar overload, liver damage due to fructose and/or alcohol consumption, hormonal mimics in the water, lack of magnesium and potassium in the diet and reduced levels of same in prod...
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:38] <exec> 08└─The Librarian of Unseen University has something to say about that. Granted, *what* he has to say is more or less "Oook! Oook ook ook EEK!" and four V-signs (he's basically got hands for feet...) but the meaning is pretty clear.
[13:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:40] <exec> 08└─Two hours to commute. Madness. :/ I've heard it from others, not blaming you. But if a commute to work is even 30 minutes, it's time to get out of dodge (or whatever city it is).
[13:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:02] <exec> 08└─many optical drives and players die- the lasers seem to have limited life
[13:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:04] <exec> 08└─Same here, Z-80 S100 bus computer running CP/M. Our 8" floppies spun all the time (like a hard disk) and gave surprisingly fast access to the word processor we ran.
[13:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:06] <exec> 08└─I'd put cassette tape at a similar realibility level than 3-1/2 floppies.
[13:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:08] <exec> 08└─iOmega shot themselves in the foot by making multiple, incompatible drives. The 100mb Zip was very popular, I've got one of those, but the 250MB and 750 weren't really compatible and the Jaz drive was totally different. They also got a bad rap for the "click of death" and slow speeds with their para...
[13:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:10] <exec> 08└─Correct, the USB floppy specification only defines 1.44mb, 720k, and Japanese "mode 3" 3.5" floppy disk types. 5.25" drives are a little more complicated, as then you have to worry about 1.2mb, 360k, 320k, 180k, 160k, and other non-standard and copy protected formats used in earlier IBM PCs. But as...
[13:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:11] <exec> 08└─Hitler was very antisemetic. He said economics was a sham science devised by the jews to scam everyone else. Then he devised his own crank version of economics that was pretty much the same thing as this "Modern Monetary Theory". It predictably led to the need for mass murder and world war: https://...
[13:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:12] <exec> 08└─The voting machine manufacturers are guilty of the same.
[13:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:15] <exec> 08└─Operation Firesign: https://drive.google.com [google.com]
[13:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:19] <exec> 08└─finally, joke's over.
[13:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:20] <exec> 08└─"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Windows... panic ensues
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[14:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:11] <exec> 08└─There is something seriously wrong if this is news to anyone.
[14:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:13] <exec> 08└─True but up until now I hadn't thought of saying shit into The Roomie's phone just to fuck with the guys who have to listen to it.
[14:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─This surprises the same people who are surprised that the recording devices they place in their home spy on them, that the climate changes, that governments meddle in each others affairs, etc.
[14:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:42] <exec> 08└─everything is connected
[14:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─No shit. If it's a short-term contract that's one thing but to spend two hours a day in traffic it'd have to be working quality control for high-class hookers and getting paid in fishing gear.
[14:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:46] <exec> 08└─I don't even need to fund a study for that, but donations are welcome.
[14:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It’s Official: US Government Approves T-Mobile/Sprint Merger - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─Why can states interfere in interstate commerce?
[14:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:14] <exec> 08└─I had the dubious fortune of porting a couple of Adventure International games from Commodore to Atari. IIRC, the first shipload of Commodore drives had a 100% failure rate in the medium term...the head alignment depended on a single screw trying to clamp a rotary load.
[14:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:16] <exec> 08└─Add to those two 3. Musician with a keyboard with a floppy drive...(thankfully there are replacement SD card 'solutions') Dare I mention that I also have a Sony digital camera with a floppy disk drive? (fully functional, 'joke' birthday present last year from one of my sisters...)
[14:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:20] <exec> 08└─Trump appears to be hated precisely because they don't have leverage over him. Everyone else went to Epstein Island or similar, not Trump. The supposed bad stuff he did is like having sex with a porn star.
[14:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:21] <exec> 08└─I'm not a Republican. I just don't think that if you need an ID to buy a pack of smokes/beer or get a job or get government benefits, it's such a great burden to protect the integrity of the vote.
[14:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:23] <exec> 08└─The supposed bad stuff he did is like having sex with a porn star.
[14:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:26] <exec> 08└─Woooow Normally you types are whining about "thought crimes" but here we have you accusing the majority of the population of a crime thst hasn't happened while excusing the same shit you're worried about because it us being done by conservatives. The crazy is just too much.
[14:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03wArlOrd [2142] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:32] <exec> 08└─If one reviews the archives from the First Oil War, articles describing a similar situation with the Patriot Missile Batteries should be found.
[14:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03wArlOrd [2142] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:33] <exec> 08└─Found it http://www-users.math.umn.edu [umn.edu]
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[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:18] <exec> 08└─Lets see what's that less than 1%: 430 M (2018) daily Siri activations * 0.01 recordings sent to contractors for review (1%) ____________________________________________________ = 4.3 M recordings sent to contractors for listening and review every day
[15:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:19] <exec> 08└─You can also build a Lenny [toao.net] machine to keep on spewing junk. Would that get you banned from Siri or Alexa or google? That could be an interesting test. How much junk do you need to send to the cloud before the cloud comes raining down on you.
[15:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:21] <exec> 08└─Almost. 4.3m - 1 to make it less than 1%.
[15:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:24] <exec> 08└─I don't think Apple is willing to employ that many mechanical turks.
[15:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:26] <exec> 08└─There is something seriously wrong if this is news to anyone.
[15:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:28] <exec> 08└─Voice control shall run as a local service in my own network, not as a someone else's clouded shitcrap routed through state agencies. For guaranteed stability, guaranteed security and guaranteed extensibility.
[15:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:58] <exec> 08└─Or she'll end up starting a holistic detective agency. Could go either way.
[15:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:59] <exec> 08└─"Well, never mind about Kuro5hin, it is already dead." Yeah...just ask MDC (RIP, dude)
[15:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:01] <exec> 08└─Tell her to set it to vibrate and hold it lower down on her body!
[15:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:04] <exec> 08└─"decrease intelligence down to that of an orangutan" Or an orange man?
[15:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:33] <exec> 08└─They have a very simplified controller that can only handle PC style floppy formats, and next to no or no error recovery capabilities. With a normal 26 pin floppy drive there are some tricks you can do with access to the floppy port for some levels of recovery, and with the drive itself there are va...
[15:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:34] <exec> 08└─I scrolled all the way down here to find someone who remembers cload - and here you are trying to bullshit all of us professional bullshitters. Nahhhh - points plus for remembering, but points minus for the absurdity of using cassettes for modern day upgrades.
[15:24:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─Not Israel. We Zionists hedge our bets on both democratic and republican congressmen and senators equally in plain view via AIPAC thank you very much. Hacking... Pfft. Soviet amateurs.
[15:25:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:16] <exec> 08└─Rather than mod me down, I dare you to cite one goddamn case of snopes falsely calling a right wing true assertion as untrue. One goddamn time.
[15:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:43] <exec> 08└─The Russians threw off their parasitical leftists when communism collapsed. Needless to say our own virtue signalling subversives are a little pissed off at the motherland for not only no longer supporting their work against the USA but occasionally buddying up with Trump. CNN and the other human de...
[15:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 1934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:44] <exec> 08└─The way to steal an election has always been to select the candidates. Bernie was obviously the choice of the people, Hillary was the choice of the crooks and the public hates her, she "won" the nomination so the people stayed home on election day. The R-party had degenerated over the years into a s...
[15:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:46] <exec> 08└─He's not. But he made a lot of antisemitic remarks. Which is exactly the point. Talk is cheap and politician's talk is borderline worthless. Especially when they're try to appeal to a tribal voter base that elects by association rather than platform.
[15:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:49] <exec> 08└─So, it's always "buyer beware", and never crosses over into fraud? So long as a corp is making money, everything is good?
[15:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:51] <exec> 08└─Comparing the oversight for jury duty to voting is also insightful.
[15:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:53] <exec> 08└─Later on Thursday, Senate Majority Asshat Mitch McConnell blocked two bills to improve election security [thehill.com]. (If you don't like that website, do a search, it shouldn't be difficult to find.) He claimed the two bills were partisan even though one only wanted states to implement paper ballo...
[15:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:55] <exec> 08└─he is unqualified to be a president
[15:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:58] <exec> 08└─Like what?
[15:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:00] <exec> 08└─don't give a fvck about the actual votes of the public
[15:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:02] <exec> 08└─If you don't believe that Trump has done things that he would rather were not made public, then you haven't been paying attention. But the Russians and/or others would rather that they were not made public unless they can benefit from the incident, because it would mean that they have lost their le...
[15:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Hits Johannesburg Electricity Supply - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:15] <exec> 08└─LOL - nope!
[15:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:39] <exec> 08└─Why, oh why, oh why didn't they name them Space Cadets ?
[15:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:19] <exec> 08└─The nature of random variables like temperature is that every record high will be eventually exceeded by a new maximum.
[15:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:14] <exec> 08└─"Ladies and Gentlemen..." LGBT rage ensues
[15:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:15] <exec> 08└─Thank you - software errors have been around for a long time....
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[16:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:25] <exec> 08└─Read some choice passages from a few murder mystery novels mixed in with BDSM with porn playing in the background
[16:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:26] <exec> 08└─I've found it to be very interesting that some applications just don't work without net access
[16:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:29] <exec> 08└─... could be activated by ... the noise of a zipper.
[16:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Quantum Phenomenon Helps To Understand Fundamental Limits Of Graphene Electronics - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:39] <exec> 08└─Headline: “New quantum phenomenon helps to understand fundamental limits of graphene electronics” Seventh paragraph of TFA: “The observed phenomenon, commonly referred to as magnetophonon oscillation, was measured in many semiconductors years before the discovery of graphene. It is one of the...
[16:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:05] <exec> 08└─It's actually your metabolism which causes obesity. I don't actually know what, in the body, chemically creates fat, but whatever it is, it's that thing's "fault".
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─Seriously, 5 hours of sedentary (in)activity increases the risk of obesity... Who here is surprised by any of this. Smartphones are just the latest for this clickbait.
[16:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 1554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:08] <exec> 08└─Where's the money? I'm too lazy to follow up but lets face it the people who sit on their couch and scroll antisocial media all night are the same ones who used to sit and watch shitty TV shows all night. So the real story is five hours of sedentary activity kills people who don't otherwise exercise...
[16:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid 2019 OK Flies by Earth on July 25 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:34] <exec> 08└─or grab a towel!
[16:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid 2019 OK Flies by Earth on July 25 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:35] <exec> 08└─Hey...God's not perfect! Waaaaaaaaaaaait a second...........
[16:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:44] <exec> 08└─No need to open front door - I just lean sideways, and, yes, that old floppy drive is the top-most in a column of 13 drive bays. But, I've disabled the floppy in the BIOS, since it takes time during bootup. TBH, I'm not even sure the thing is plugged in. But, yes, it still lives there, the king of t...
[16:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:45] <exec> 08└─I'm with GP. I think cassette is superior to floppies. I never lost data on a cassette, but I've lost a lot of data on floppies. But, floppies pushed cassette aside, because floppies were blazing fast, in comparison.
[16:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:47] <exec> 08└─Also the cheap plastic lenses degrades and becomes too lossy. Older glass ones won't.
[16:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:50] <exec> 08└─It would have helped if you had not stored your floppies in a sandbox. Somehow, the idea of storing and using things in a cool, dry, clean environment is just to complex for people.
[16:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:52] <exec> 08└─I figured out early on (late 80s?) that I had to format new floppies at least 2 times, preferably 3, and then they'd become reliable. Not sure if the media needed some polishing (likely) or some other phenomenon. Same for pre-formatted ones. Very unreliable unless that was done. Linux fdformat was m...
[16:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:54] <exec> 08└─Does the OS see the floppy drive, in spite of BIOS disable? I'm curious that the BIOS would disable the controller chip entirely. I know some BIOSes would allow you to disable the extremely annoying floppy seek test, but keep the floppy visible during boot.
[16:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:56] <exec> 08└─From my own experience, the main killers are rust/corrosion due to poor storage, and failing capacitors. Well, when they were commonly in use the #1 killer were the retarded monkey fuck users that wouldn't follow simple usage and care directions. IBM PS/2 systems are plauged with failing capacitors,...
[16:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:59] <exec> 08└─That's why updates are so slow.
[16:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:01] <exec> 08└─You may be right there. Of course the floppy holds much more data than a cassette, but I still don't know why back in the 8 bit days there wasn't more use of (cheap) compression and error correction. I remember I used somebody's RLE library in the 80s to provide illustrations for a text adventure, b...
[16:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:03] <exec> 08└─Life isn't always ideal. Over 30 years, I've crossed oceans multiple times (with and without media), graduated university, moved, sometimes had to put my classic computer equipment in storage. Great if you have a climate controlled data center that you can keep a box of disks in over 30 years, I agr...
[16:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:21] <exec> 08└─Tried. Got back a boilerplate "trust us" letter. County level rather than state, admittedly, but it's our county that's using the un-auditable fully electronic eSlate garbage that's trivially hacked by insiders.
[16:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:22] <exec> 08└─Do you have EVIDENCE of his being anti-semitic? In what way was he? The Nazional Enquirer wants to know.
[16:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:25] <exec> 08└─The supposed bad stuff he did is like having sex with a porn star.
[16:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, i don't get it: Biden is SUUUUPER creepy and so 'same ol same ol' that he's Hillary. WHY are they bringing up another Hillary? So Trump can tweet "At least i don't grab underage pussy like Biden!" Fuck... Biden will lose just as suredly as Hillary: mark the prediction.
[16:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:29] <exec> 08└─Not every old man is an Epstein, Weinstein, Moonves, Cosby, Kennedy, Clinton, etc. There do actually exist old men who are not sex offenders, although the legacy media seems to be trying very hard to normalize it for obvious political reasons.
[16:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 2580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's because Evergreen is so near me so I'm noticing, but the authoritarian nature of the extreme left is being inculcated into today's youth, who are tomorrow's leaders. And it isn't just thought crime that is being repressed via physical or economic violence, it is actual crime being excused...
[16:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, direct quotes: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:36] <exec> 08└─Man -- how is that you get me nodding along with you and then make some random comment about Jews and turn it all into a WTF? moment. Most Jews (I am one) are like most other people -- we don't have any special political power, we're just trying to get by like anyone else. Jeff Bezos is incredibly p...
[16:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Hits Johannesburg Electricity Supply - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:50] <exec> 08└─Blindly running and executing everything is what got us into this mess.
[16:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Hits Johannesburg Electricity Supply - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:52] <exec> 08└─sure, but who cares
[16:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:56] <exec> 08└─Well, ... OK. I reread it, and it still sounded as if you were referring to this weather incident as climate, but I can see the other reading as viable.
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[17:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:14] <exec> 08└─Quite the unprecedented event [soylentnews.org]...
[17:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:15] <exec> 08└─And can even supplement water cooling like this http://www.world-nuclear-news.org [world-nuclear-news.org]
[17:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:17] <exec> 08└─This smells like another case of small-minded people in business suits trying to squeak by with not quite enough reserve. They should have had a cooling tower ready for warm weather.
[17:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:35] <exec> 08└─If you believe their figures, which you can't verify.
[17:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:36] <exec> 08└─in my opinion, this news invalidates the money that Apple invested in their privacy commercials leaking 1% of private info is way too much I wish there was a 3rd option as we currently have dumb and dumber to choose from
[17:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─These listening devices should be required to light up or give some other clear signal that recording is in progress.
[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─So all the time then since it's always listening.
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:43] <exec> 08└─There are over 500 million Siri enabled devices. An *average* of 1 Siri activation per day per user doesn't seem too out of whack, so neither the 430 millions. But you are absolutely right.
[17:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Quantum Phenomenon Helps To Understand Fundamental Limits Of Graphene Electronics - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─I've probably mangled Feynman, but starting from that basic idea... to avoid an infinite regress, you will quickly find some stuff that doesn't look like more things. Every time someone brings up the "this makes it look like a simulation" point, I'm always reminded that no matter how your universe i...
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Quantum Phenomenon Helps To Understand Fundamental Limits Of Graphene Electronics - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─Oof, headlines. I feel you man, but the incentives to write poor headlines are way too high to fight. We'll have gotten off coal and oil and Israel and Palestine will have settled their differences long before we get that under control.
[17:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:26] <exec> 08└─Like most people, I’ve come to accept that personal screen based entertainment is here to stay. Once you’ve decided to accept the health risks of indulging in that lifestyle to that degree, though, you might as well do it right on a big screen, on a comfy sofa with plenty of Doritos and Ben and...
[17:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:27] <exec> 08└─Causality is complicated.
[17:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:12] <exec> 08└─Nostalgia Schmustalgia -- There are plenty of instances where floppies are still in use today. I'll give a real example. A test setup for a modern military part uses an old oscilloscope with only a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive as a way to save the waveforms. So we saved the data onto a floppy disc and us...
[17:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:13] <exec> 08└─I'm unsure whether Linux could find the drive. It doesn't show up in any file manager, at least by default. Hmmmm - devices? Nothing there, USB, and ATA devices, nothing like an FDC. I think the BIOS has it completely blocked. With a little research, I might be able to find and mount the disk drive,...
[17:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:40] <exec> 08└─Ewww, can you resume your SN hiatus?
[17:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:41] <exec> 08└─Back during the Clinton Lewinsky issue, I read an article that proposed what I though was a pretty accurate premise -- something along the lines of "most men weren't disappointed because he got some on the side, they were disappointed in him for getting caught." Prudes, in times past and in the mode...
[17:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.vox.com/2015/12/3/9843670/donald-trump-anti-semitic [vox.com]
[17:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:46] <exec> 08└─Dumbass, it is weird to see a liberal being the patriotic freedom fighter while the conservative double checks to make sure the spine removal procedure really was successful. Not saying we should go to war, but you should be pissed off.
[17:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:48] <exec> 08└─Speaking of crazy, thanks for the confirmation. I guess the truth is too much to handle. Nice victimization, more hypocrisy, lovin' it.
[17:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:50] <exec> 08└─He is a racist piece of shit. Doesn't mean he can't have an occasional good point, but when you see "VLM" you should bust out the salt shaker.
[17:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:53] <exec> 08└─Because fustakrakich is right, the two parties are extensions of corporate / oligarchy America. Biden is the new chosen one, I don't think Hillary was ever in the cards actually, they just needed someone to replace Sanders and even then they had to fuck with the primary. Even if it means another 4 y...
[17:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:55] <exec> 08└─fucking hell, look at what you are writing. authoritarian nature of the extreme left is being inculcated into today's youth
[17:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:57] <exec> 08└─Rather than mod me down, I dare you to cite one goddamn case of snopes falsely calling a right wing true assertion as untrue. One goddamn time.
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[18:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:19] <exec> 08└─They certainly balked at repetitive redundancy, if they didn't balk at reserve. A cooling tower ready to take over just in case river water cooling failed was just too much to ask for.
[18:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:20] <exec> 08└─A cooling tower that would normally just be sitting idle doing nothing but costing money and messing up the view, until that once in a century heat wave, kind of like a wall to stop a once in a century tsunami. And not just the extra expense of building the towers, they would have needed more land,...
[18:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:22] <exec> 08└─That was likely how the approach was 'sold', even if technical concerns existed. It takes pressure from all sides to out-shout the suits but it can be done. There are two nuke plants on the shallow end of Lake Erie with towers for extra cooling. Too bad they cheaped-out on other things and are now b...
[18:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:25] <exec> 08└─We just have to change to green renewables like wind and solar that can't be shut down by the vagaries of weather!
[18:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:27] <exec> 08└─Yep. And somehow, some people will keep claiming that nuclear energy is the only viable long term solution for our energy needs, that with enough technology, these "small-minded people in business suits" will automagically just disappear... The world will always be run by sociopathic greedy bastards...
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:50] <exec> 08└─But maybe some day, when I tell you for the millionth time that the mic is always hot, you might actually believe me.
[18:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─How much would it cost Apple daily to hire 1000 vietnamese slaves contractors to review 1000 audio clips of 15 seconds? And as a % of their revenue?
[18:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:54] <exec> 08└─Months later, "George, how do we teach Siri to turn on at the sound of a zipper, but not at the sound of velcro being torn apart? NO ONE wants to listen to people taking their shoes off after a hard day at school/work!"
[18:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:56] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of 20 years ago when we used to troll the NSA by putting keywords in our sigs...
[18:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:58] <exec> 08└─I think that every device that listens, watches, records telemetry, or gathers metrics should be required to have a large bulging creepy eye emblem affixed to it. People might shit themselves when they notice that almost every modern electronic device has one. Good luck explaining that to people tho...
[18:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─Voice control shall run as a local service in my own network
[18:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:03] <exec> 08└─most are still so stupid they believe in imaginary gods
[18:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 1703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:05] <exec> 08└─The capitalists have the moo cows moo bent over the appy barrel. They're implementing mass surveillance that goes way beyond Orwell, and they're making you pay for it. Observe the beast performing miracles. Sufficiently advanced capitalism is indistinguishable from Stalinism. <sarcasm>But us tech in...
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[18:25:02] <exec> 08└─4) You still have documents and stuff that were saved on floppies years ago that you must get round to copying off one day.
[18:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:34] <exec> 08└─I don't know if this will work with your kernel / distro / device name system, but it can't hurt. Do "ls -l /dev/fd0*" in a terminal / command prompt. If /dev/fd0u1440 is there, that's it. If others are listed, they're just different device names for the same floppy drive, and they tell the driver t...
[18:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:10] <exec> 08└─There is that duplicitous runaway we know and love!! I wish your brain could sort out your priorities. One minute you're outraged, the next you are defending the very same assholes. Brainwashing is bad, that is what talk radio has done, reprogrammed conservatives to be emotionally triggered by a hos...
[18:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:12] <exec> 08└─Good points except it isn't FUD. The corruption is real and we need to secure our elections from such tampering. How does one go about generating support for such things? By making people aware of the problem. Step 1: show people how elections are being hacked Step 2: ... Step 3: Democracy!
[18:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:14] <exec> 08└─There's nothing anti-semitic about those quotes... more fake news like I thought.
[18:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:16] <exec> 08└─You might get intimate with Danial Webster. He knows some words like "finesse" and "subtlety" that you are apparently not acquainted with. I might say something like, "Making money is good." And, you might believe that I think money is good in all circumstances. But, no, you would be wrong. What I m...
[18:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:18] <exec> 08└─Why don't you open your own comment history and count the number of times you have talked about killing other people? The truth is that you are so far on the left and you don't see anything even crazier than you anymore. > What fucking psycho world are you living in where people are literally accuse...
[18:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:20] <exec> 08└─"Ve shall now track your IP address, yes? You SHALL be made to talk. Ve shall use pointy sticks on you!" "SCHTARKER! This ees CHAOS! Ve do not use 'pointy sticks'!"
[18:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:23] <exec> 08└─Your behavior here is an example of this sort authoritarian thought in action. You can't have a discussion about a topic with someone without resorting to verbal bashing unless of course you are in perfect agreement, because why: the other person's views are unworthy of discussion? You know all the...
[18:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:25] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with Hillary you stupid fuck. It's about RUSSIA DIRECTLY MANIPULATING OUR VOTING SYSTEMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you not fucking understand that? What the fuck is wrong with you? It's a direct attack against our sovereignty. We may be forced to choose between a shit sandwich and...
[18:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:27] <exec> 08└─Noooooooooo, Trump may have won because Russia was directly manipulating the vote. This is beyond partisan politics and is about a direct attack on our election infrastructure. It doesn't matter who was trying to run for President. Hacking our election systems is an attack against our sovereignty an...
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[19:22:15] <exec> 08└─It is still "no curative treatment currently available" but there are several approaches that are offering some hope [soylentnews.org] for the future. Previous CAR T cell treatment article (specific to Leukemia) here [soylentnews.org].
[19:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:31] <exec> 08└─Choose your pain. How about compact kitchen reactors that can't overheat? Thing should last 20 or 30 years...
[19:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fennec [7053] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:32] <exec> 08└─There are 58 reactors in France, reducing 8% is nothing, it just means they sell less to other countries.
[19:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:34] <exec> 08└─>lake Erie This one? It Is to keep running https://www.thenews-messenger.com [thenews-messenger.com]
[19:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:37] <exec> 08└─once in a century heat wave, kind of like a wall to stop a once in a century tsunami.
[19:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:36] <exec> 08└─This just means that there is currently no dedicated individual responsible for maintaining this driver, which means if you use the get_maintainer.pl script to ask where to send patches or bug reports you will no longer get Jiri's email address. So you just send reports to the linux-block mailing li...
[19:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:21] <exec> 08└─>I could very well vote for Trump out of spiteful hatred for the DNC moronacracy. Oh yeah vote for total stupidity because the remaining portion of the government is still a little corrupt too.
[19:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:22] <exec> 08└─This is what inane (probably insane too) anti-semetic ranting looks like: https://i.ibb.co [i.ibb.co] Not Trump's off color jokes.
[19:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:25] <exec> 08└─Hey I was alarmed by what I saw and I wasn't even there when they ended up on the news. I knew something bad was going to happen. Around 2014 - 2016 I was extremely alarmed to see what are more or less dog whistles for some extremely crazy stuff that your average liberal has barely even heard of. Tb...
[19:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Targeted All 50 States in 2016 Election Hacking Campaign, Senate Report Confirms - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:27] <exec> 08└─I can't believe the corny ass companies they have working on these things. Diebold? Random technical services companies? Microsoft has recently open sourced a voting system I'll be really happy if some people pour over that fucker and get it nice. I'm still not sold on electronic voting though.
[19:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:24] <exec> 08└─SK should have made the job of protecting itself, and the US protecting it, less impossible by not providing NK tens of millions of next to the border hostages, effectively and asymmetrically attackable by cheap 1950's tech. Instead the policy has been this weird alternating combination of Nevil...
[19:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:08] <exec> 08└─The last war the US unambiguously won was the invasion of Granada.
[19:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:50] <exec> 08└─More than half the country is below sealevel already, and has been for hundreds of years. If anyone anywhere in the world has serious problems with an excess of water, who do they call? The Dutch! Don't worry about us, we'll be fine. I think the problem is much bigger for small islands and developin...
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[20:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:32] <exec> 08└─High water temperatures and sluggish flows limit the ability to use river water to cool reactors.
[20:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:34] <exec> 08└─Choose your pain.
[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:36] <exec> 08└─It is! Had not seen that, thank you. There has been a political/economic brawl going on in Ohio over a bill to bail out the plants. Had not heard a peep about this being an option.
[20:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:07] <exec> 08└─Hm, I still do! Both troll the NSA and put keywords on my webpages.
[20:23:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:41] <exec> 08└─Or she'll end up starting a holistic detective agency. Could go either way.
[20:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid 2019 OK Flies by Earth on July 25 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:17] <exec> 08└─It was a warning shot for all you deplorables to get your act together to elect Hillary in 2020.
[20:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:40] <exec> 08└─Good info, thanks. No corrosion in any of mine. Dust has been the biggest problem in my experience. Coming from some background in higher-end equipment, it always really bugged me that PCs suck dirt and dust into the drives. I'm used to equipment sucking air in, usually in the back, through a FILTER...
[20:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, however, the nature of such variables is that record breaking measurements (both high and low) should asymptotically become less frequent as time goes on. Lately, however, it seems we set a new record for the number of records broken each year. This is not just about temperatures, it's also abo...
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[21:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Ray Update: New Results From the Moon - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:14] <exec> 08└─The results were surprising. During the 9-month journey to Mars, radiation from solar flares (including the strongest flare of the previous solar cycle) accounted for only about 5% of Curiosity’s total dose. The remaining 95% came from cosmic rays.
[21:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:43] <exec> 08└─Learn to read, and then re-read my post again. Fucking moron.
[21:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:44] <exec> 08└─Thorium
[21:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:17] <exec> 08└─Each worker must know specific languages well enough to understand all the accents that are used. Google, iirc, uses teams of nationals of each country where the device is sold.
[21:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:18] <exec> 08└─The 3rd option is not to buy those devices. Never understood what they are good for, except spying.
[21:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:21] <exec> 08└─If Apple's doohickey is recording all this stuff and they have the data, it could be a juicy target for subpoenas and wiretap orders.
[21:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:23] <exec> 08└─The problem is that this is built into phones, tablets and I believe laptops now. The cameras and mics need some way of shutting them off in a way that can't be accidentally enabled or enabled by 3rd parties.
[21:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:25] <exec> 08└─What about running the server software in my personal Linode (or which ever vendor of choice) cloud?
[21:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:07] <exec> 08└─Depending on what the variables and connections are, they might be rare and/or special. There is such a thing as degrees of separation or freedom. I don't get why people like you have this utter inability to see nuance. It's either "dependent variables don't exist period" or "oh look, NOW she says e...
[21:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:08] <exec> 08└─Watch it, or I may just gently slip a dirk between your fourth and fifth ribs when you're not paying attention...the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach after all :)
[21:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:14] <exec> 08└─In R, for 200 years of daily records: set.seed(0) x = rcauchy(365*200) max_x = cummax(x) new_max = which(diff(max_x) > 0) t_new_max = diff(new_max)
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[22:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Ray Update: New Results From the Moon - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:18] <exec> 08└─There is absolutely no technical problem that he can't fix within 24 hours
[22:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Immune Therapy Takes A 'BiTE' Out Of Brain Cancer - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:26] <exec> 08└─I though that was Islam.
[22:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:50] <exec> 08└─The truth is that gypsies stole the uranium fuel rods.
[22:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:10] <exec> 08└─Depending on what the variables and connections are, they might be rare and/or special. There is such a thing as degrees of separation or freedom.
[22:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:01] <exec> 08└─A couple smaller theatres around here use old ETC DMX512 lighting boards. They still work, so there's no point in paying to replace them. They save shows to 3 1/2 floppy disks. One show per disk. They're the only use I still have for floppies.
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[23:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Australia Bank (NAB) Admits 13K Customers' Data Uploaded to Data Service - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:17] <exec> 08└─The "data service" in question was actually a TLA. Or maybe the SPCA looking for info on his cat.
[23:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Australia Bank (NAB) Admits 13K Customers' Data Uploaded to Data Service - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:18] <exec> 08└─Go Netflix: https://www.wired.com [wired.com]
[23:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Immune Therapy Takes A 'BiTE' Out Of Brain Cancer - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:35] <exec> 08└─You are too focused. It's ALL religions, not just Islam.
[23:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:37] <exec> 08└─To focus on owell for mass surveillance misses the point of his books. Making people disappear, fear of saying the wrong things, changing of facts to fit narratives that are more popular right now, and how some people are more equal than others. Also he was not writing scathing reviews of capitalism...
[23:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:38] <exec> 08└─he was not writing scathing reviews of capitalism that is for sure.
[23:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:40] <exec> 08└─I think it was when Echelon hit the news...
[23:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:26] <exec> 08└─Points for a fairly well integrated Dirk pun.
[23:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:19] <exec> 08└─How much worry is there? AFAIK it is just number of tracks, step size, head count, modulation and maybe sector count.
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