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[00:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:54] <exec> 08└─You do realize the Lifeline program began under Reagan don't you? And as for any malware, that would be the responsibility of the providers, Assurance and Virgin Mobile, not the President, but hey, propagandize away man....
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[00:52:33] <exec> 08└─Type O Negative
[00:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rare Salt Formations Appear Along Utah's Great Salt Lake - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:54] <exec> 08└─The work-around back then was to package the material in plastic bags in thin horizontal layers.
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[01:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I got my free gov't issued cellphone when Reagan was president.
[01:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:03] <exec> 08└─Used it to call your dealer when you needed more crack?
[01:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:44] <exec> 08└─Not really. Usually the significant antigens are found on immune system cells, not on the red blood cells, which is what determines blood type. OTOH, there have also been associations with blood type and resistance to cholera and, I believe typhus, so it's not an unheard of association.
[01:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:45] <exec> 08└─Of course but the article goes into more detail about the specific antigengs involved and the fact that different strains of norovirius may have an affinity to different blood types. I for one found the article informative.
[01:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:47] <exec> 08└─Same here, when I was a kid, I got the stomach flu a lot and I'm O positive. That's not to say that it's proof that the science is correct, just that I'm not a data point that disproves it. Interestingly enough, I've never had the flu, the closest I've ever gotten to the flu was when I had the shot....
[01:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:58] <exec> 08└─Isn't tea a diuretic? So it causes you to lose water and need to drink more water to compensate? So then it wouldn't be a substitute for water right?
[01:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:00] <exec> 08└─https://time.com/5192272/coffee-tea-dehydrating/ [time.com] https://www.sciencealert.com [sciencealert.com]
[01:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:22] <exec> 08└─Is that an approved treatment for incels?
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[02:55:33] <exec> 08└─They've already got backdoors in the chips, so it should be easy for the Chinamen to win.
[02:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:34] <exec> 08└─I was thinking an axe to hack a Teslalala.
[02:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:37] <exec> 08└─Why would I want two lithium ion bombs.
[02:55:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:46] <exec> 08└─You do realize the Lifeline program began under Reagan don't you? And as for any malware, that would be the responsibility of the providers, Assurance and Virgin Mobile, not the President, but hey, propagandize away man....
[02:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:50] <exec> 08└─and the implementation, specifically the free cellphone plan, was under Reagan as well? Sure Obama or whichever sitting President aren't the ones that are typically hands-on otherwise they'd need to clone them given the numerous plans that an administration have to execute, but accountability has to...
[02:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:52] <exec> 08└─If it's an Android phone then it comes with even more pre-installed Google malware that puts any Chinese add-ons to shame.
[02:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:05] <exec> 08└─but only if it didn't run javascript until it could do so 100% safely. . So if that was never I'd be ok with it. . Start your project and attract volunteers before you go looking for major support. I'll join.
[03:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Support: What Will Change on 14 January? - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:01] <exec> 08└─See, I don't play video games with random chuckleheads on the Internet anymore. I got over that a long, long time ago. I enjoy myself a whole lot more either playing LAN games with The Roomie and his spawn or playing all by my lonesome. If I want childish insults and general dickholery from noobs wi...
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[03:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:52] <exec> 08└─In exactly what sense is depleted uranium meaningfully radioactive? It's produced by stripping out as much of the fissile U-235 as possible, meaning it's almost pure U-238. And just to put that in proper context - even the more volatile U-235 has a half life of over 700 million years, while U-238 ha...
[03:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:53] <exec> 08└─this provides proof that we don't need to be afraid of it as it might actually be very useful for us
[03:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:55] <exec> 08└─"The fact that we can use depleted uranium to do this provides proof that we don't need to be afraid of it as it might actually be very useful for us." I'll be the first to admit that most of the OMGWTNUKULARFRADIATIONZ!11!1!1!!!crowd are generally...insufficiently informed, but the fact that a subs...
[03:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:58] <exec> 08└─Uranium is dangerous - but that's because it's a toxic heavy metal, not because it's radioactive
[03:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:00] <exec> 08└─the fact that a substance is useful doesn't impact how dangerous it is or is not.
[03:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:02] <exec> 08└─Chemicals need to be respected, not feared.
[03:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:04] <exec> 08└─Nuclear waste has almost nothing to do with depleted uranium. https://whatisnuclear.com [whatisnuclear.com] Nuclear waste is highly radioactive spent reactor fuel.
[03:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:06] <exec> 08└─we don't need to be afraid of it as it might actually be very useful for us
[03:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:08] <exec> 08└─If it is highly radioactive that means it is still fuel. There is just cheaper fuel around to use... for now. But I guarantee you there are groups getting paid to accumulate this nuclear "waste" and lobbying for laws to prevent new mining of uranium/plutonium/etc.
[03:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:20] <exec> 08└─The chinaman is not the issue here!
[03:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:22] <exec> 08└─"asian american, please."
[03:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:24] <exec> 08└─Did I read this wrong or are they calling $700k "nearly 1 million?" ???
[03:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:26] <exec> 08└─You can never have too many lithium ion bombs.
[03:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:28] <exec> 08└─$700k plus a mode model 3 - still doesn't add up to $1 mil. The page looks like it was authored by an AI auto-translate. It repeated the $200k statement twice and a separate robo title generator probably counted it twice from the article content and mis-summarized it. CNET must be trialing their ube...
[03:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:42] <exec> 08└─Heh...so it would be just as accurate to call it a Trumpphone? I vote we give the Gipper his due instead.
[03:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:28] <exec> 08└─If you don't get the flu shot you are putting the vulnerable at risk. Have you told your doctor about your choice to do this?
[03:54:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:14] <exec> 08└─Women who carry a little extra weight tend to live longer than the men who comment on that extra weight.
[03:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 1720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:43] <exec> 08└─This. Ceremonial Matcha can be gotten within reason, but it's definitely still 10-20x as expensive as run of the mill decent black tea (closer to the cost of coffee). Though, the big benefit with matcha is that even compared to most green teas, the benefits are multiplied, because rather than merely...
[03:54:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:52] <exec> 08└─I know you are making a joke at the expense of the "T" in LGBT, but more broadly: non-heterosexual relations have been observed in dozens of species [wikipedia.org], including some reptiles. Homophobia and transphobia has only been identified in one species.
[03:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Bill Would Ban Cell Phone Use by Anyone Younger Than 21 - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:43] <exec> 08└─Think of it as an easy filter - these days you can talk to somebody for just a few minutes and get a fair sense of how high courtesy, respect, and attention span rank in their personal virtues. Used to be it could take months or years to get an honest assessment. As for forklifts, etc... evolution i...
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[04:52:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:36] <exec> 08└─If it's an Android phone then it comes with even more pre-installed Google malware that puts any Chinese add-ons to shame.
[04:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:38] <exec> 08└─It is an abusive relationship. Beware.
[04:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:40] <exec> 08└─"In October 2019, Malwarebytes began to receive complaints in its support system from users of the UMX U686CL who reported some pre-installed apps on their government-funded phones were malicious. Researchers purchased one of these smartphones to verify customers' claims." Yep, you're absolutely rig...
[04:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PayPal Patches Vulnerability that Exposed User Passwords - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:55] <exec> 08└─Please fix the title to "Bank stores passwords in plain text for anyone to collect them" Because paypal is a bank and that's what they did...
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[04:53:27] <exec> 08└─errr . I misspelled antigens *
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[04:54:42] <exec> 08└─Thanks.
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[05:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:54] <exec> 08└─Pollen grain walls persist in the environment for hundreds of millions of years. Literally. Unlike "microplastics", this is tested science. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Scared already?
[05:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:11] <exec> 08└─Man is to be feared, and the more knowledge he possesses, the more he needs to be feared.
[05:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:13] <exec> 08└─Aren't people afraid of most things that are very useful?
[05:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:46] <exec> 08└─More important, the Chinese genetic load is probably significantly different.
[05:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:47] <exec> 08└─Try Stash brand "Super Irish Breakfast". Strong yet it's all flavor, not just bitter sludge. I drink a lot of their "Moroccan Mint", and prefer their Green as more full-flavored than most. I like gunpowder but haven't seen it on the cheapo local market in a long time. If I'm drinking a non-tea tea,...
[05:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:50] <exec> 08└─Green tea is mildly toxic, tho most people won't notice any effects. Friend was drinking 3 cups a day (due to some report that it could prevent cancer) and was getting symptoms like you do, except more so. Turns out in some people it stresses the liver and that makes you feel sick.
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[06:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:58] <exec> 08└─Actually, there is a beehive in the wall of this building over here. Everyone who licks it once a year gets a microexposure to all the toxins in town and never gets sick. Bees touch everything.
[06:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:30] <exec> 08└─They must have considerable confidence that their cars are near impossible to hack. Probably haven't budgeted for more than a 3 to 5 prizes. Heck, maybe they fully expect to give out no prizes. With such low odds of success, plus the difficulties in obtaining a Tesla, why even try? This isn't some $...
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[06:52:47] <exec> 08└─If you want to be taken seriously, don't start with obama or hillary in 2020.
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[07:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:59] <exec> 08└─False equivalency detected - try again. Pollen grain walls persist in the environment for hundreds of millions of years. Literally.
[07:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Update Children's Online Privacy Law - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:35] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I could have been clearer in referring to the audience. What I meant was, try to understand your audience has limited attention spans. They're less likely to click on more images if it takes too much effort to read them. The new examples are definitely easier to read, especially with regard...
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[08:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars: Water Could Disappear Faster Than Expected - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:55] <exec> 08└─In His magnanimity, Musky will launch same hundred of water tanks to store that atmospheric water, if you pray strong enough. He has done the miracle of launching a car into space already, nothing can stop His will.
[08:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:27] <exec> 08└─Radium has a half life of 1600 years and it's deadly. That's lower than 700 million years but way above minutes as you put it. But radium has a nasty habit of going in your bones and staying there.
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[08:52:28] <exec> 08└─'man' includes all the religious fundamentalists, scientists, mathematicians, politicians, etc. Irrespective of who is responsible for creating the knowledge, it ends up 'possessed' not only by those that understand the details, but by those thirsting for power. Herein lies the fear.
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[09:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:23] <exec> 08└─If it is highly radioactive that means it is still fuel.
[09:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:24] <exec> 08└─it ends up 'possessed' not only by those that understand the details, but by those thirsting for power.
[09:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:27] <exec> 08└─If it heats something up it can be used as fuel.
[09:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:43] <exec> 08└─I just wanted to comment that I'll immediately fetch an axe, until I read the following (emphasis by me): If an individual is able to completely compromise a Tesla Model 3, they get the car as part of Tier 1 prizes.
[09:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:46] <exec> 08└─What if my blood type is XO positive? Or XOXOXOXO? ;)
[09:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Takata Airbag Recall Rears its Ugly Head Again, this Time for 10M Cars - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:22] <exec> 08└─And the other humorous bit is that an unbelted occupant had a non-zero tendency to be diverted from going out the windshield (survivable) to going out the roof of the vehicle (deadly). Airbags alone probably come close to being zero benefit with the reduction in injury almost entirely due to the mon...
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[10:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:53] <exec> 08└─Things like this are so less interesting when you know that NASA started off with a checklist that included "6 women" "6 minorities", etc, etc. It's forced "equality", and it's awkward and regressive. Wake me up when there's a nation that can take the 13 best candidates and have them look like this.
[10:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:55] <exec> 08└─Do you have any idea how much cleaning there is to do on the ISS? [sciencealert.com]
[10:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars: Water Could Disappear Faster Than Expected - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:05] <exec> 08└─They could use silver-energy shielding to keep the water vapor in, if anyone could explain how it works.
[10:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars: Water Could Disappear Faster Than Expected - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:07] <exec> 08└─Everything we know, about everything, is based on a sample of living on exactly one planet out of a practically unlimited amount - and then some observations about things that are millions of miles away from us using a mixture of visual analysis and some very primitive probes that have difficulty wi...
[10:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:22] <exec> 08└─Assuming we survive, future generations may look upon us as reckless experimenters. We've introduced thousands of novel substances into the environment and ourselves, with only cursory testing, just a quick check of short term effects to make sure the new substances aren't so highly poisonous or tox...
[10:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:46] <exec> 08└─Half-life is one thing, quantity is another. If you surround yourself with enough U-238, you will most likely *not* be happy.
[10:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:03] <exec> 08└─If you want people to hack on it, provide access to one for free. Literally put a CANbus adaptor and a wireless network that the machine is joined to, live, on the Internet, open to everyone. Then see how far your prize funds go... Why would you buy a $40k car, to break it, only to win another (brok...
[10:54:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:59] <exec> 08└─Can we trust a Chinese institution hyping up green tea? If you are worried about your green tea phoning home, you have read too much Google!
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[11:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars: Water Could Disappear Faster Than Expected - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:55] <exec> 08└─This water splitting is his invention to begin with - a green tech to power his original hydrogen car company.
[11:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars: Water Could Disappear Faster Than Expected - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:56] <exec> 08└─a pair of scientists on Mars could probably achieve more in a couple of weeks than we have in decades with our probes and rovers
[11:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:13] <exec> 08└─except when inhaled
[11:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the smell of new Tesla arriving at space station https://www.wired.com [wired.com]
[11:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:40] <exec> 08└─It's not even measured in ice ages. The half-life of U-238 is just a bit shorter than the age of the entire Solar System, meaning we still have just slightly less than half of all the U-238 that was present when the earth came together and the sun started shining. You'd have to wait about 4.4 billio...
[11:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:41] <exec> 08└─Whoops, slight miscalculation there. There's only 0.000042 g of K-40 in a typical banana, so that's 0.0023 nW per banana. A bushel of bananas would have about as much radiation power maybe.
[11:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:00] <exec> 08└─> Why would you buy a $40k car, to break it, $700k?
[11:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:01] <exec> 08└─I don't know why there is so much sniping - $700k seems like an excellent payout, well above competitors (see story about $15k payout from paypal, which seems paltry compared to the potential profit that an exploit could yield...)
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[12:51:56] <exec> 08└─and until that happens, god forbid we forcefully extract diverse role-models from the best 100 candidates, because everyone knows there are immeasurable differences between place 13 and place 100. you're saying something that's nice on the surface. but in practice there's a lot of flexibility when i...
[12:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars: Water Could Disappear Faster Than Expected - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:09] <exec> 08└─Mars has tolerated millions or billions of years of being a barren wasteland. Another century or two won't make much of a difference. But The Musky One might be able to rescue a few extra kilograms of gases with his accelerated colonization program.
[12:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:54] <exec> 08└─Uranium is dangerous - but that's because it's a toxic heavy metal, not because it's radioactive. U-235 will become radioactive if you put enough of it in one place to sustain a fission reaction, but U-238 won't even do that.
[12:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:55] <exec> 08└─Wrong. It is nuclear fuel if you can cause a chain reaction. If it is merely radioactive, no matter how highly, then it is not usable as nuclear fuel.
[12:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:57] <exec> 08└─"The fact that we can use depleted uranium to do this provides proof that we don't need to be afraid of it as it might actually be very useful for us." I'll be the first to admit that most of the OMGWTNUKULARFRADIATIONZ!11!1!1!!!crowd are generally...insufficiently informed, but the fact that a subs...
[12:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Circuit Notes: A Budget Function Generator - 3139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:01] <exec> 08└─The kind of mistakes detailed in the article would F up a PLL just as well. For values of both DDS and PLL, not F-ing up basic analog design principles seems to result in better performance. Or the kind of people who could F up a simple DDS are simply going to F up a simple PLL, given a chance. Hila...
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[13:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Building a Tiny Utopian Prototype City Filled With People, Robots and AI - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:52] <exec> 08└─A robotized city concept reminds me of Watoga, Fallout76. The most democratic place on the planet. https://fallout.fandom.com [fandom.com] For some reason, this rich and dangerous region gets direct impact hits from nuclear silos by people every now and then... What could possibly go wro...
[13:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm not sure what color or sex organs has to do with being an astronaut. Isn't flying a spacecraft cool enough on its own? Why bother specifying this shit? Maybe we need a 'no girls in space' rule.
[13:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:05] <exec> 08└─The current real best candidates would probably be from the US Nuclear Submariners... Able to: 0) Spend long periods of time stuck in a cramped space with no way of getting out early, all while remaining useful. 1) Accept a higher risk of death from accidents that you may have zero control over. 2)...
[13:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:07] <exec> 08└─Does anyone actually know that the female or minority candidates were less qualified? One minority female candidate is a combat pilot with a degree from MIT, which seems like a well qualified astronaut to me. Maybe the others are all just stuffed spacesuits? Or maybe the 13 best candidates actually...
[13:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:09] <exec> 08└─And there's a height limit, so they'll weigh less. There's a weird rule that astronauts are supposed to be pilots, but I'm not sure there's any reason for it, except for the Space Shuttle, which is definitely not relevant any more.
[13:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:40] <exec> 08└─Mmmmh, I love the smell of Chinesium plastirubber polymers... every single day. To be fair, we got rid of some of the craziest stuff like licking radium, most lead, thalidomide babies, etc. What we're left with are the harder to quantify toxins. Life expectancy has plateaued or only slightly decline...
[13:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:41] <exec> 08└─Will they, though? The average life expectancy has skyrocketed with all those substances relative to that of the ancient Romans who ate a purely organic diet.
[13:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:44] <exec> 08└─except when inhaled Who was talking about inhalation? No one but you. Certainly not the FUD piece with the "Scientists have also detected microplastics in products as varied as sugar, honey, German beer and sea salt. Emerging research suggests humans are consuming more than 100,000 microplastic part...
[13:52:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 830 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:52] <exec> 08└─In exactly what sense is depleted uranium meaningfully radioactive? It's produced by stripping out as much of the fissile U-235 as possible, meaning it's almost pure U-238. And just to put that in proper context - even the more volatile U-235 has a half life of over 700 million years, while U-238 ha...
[13:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:14] <exec> 08└─If you respect fluorine peroxides enough, you know enough you that you shouldn't mess with it unless really needed and very carefully ... exactly like you should respect trinitroglycerine knowledge = respect knowledge + fear = even higher respect
[13:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:15] <exec> 08└─people fear fire... fire made us humans people fear eletricity ... it allow us to reach much higher technologic level middle age people fear "magic" ... it is now called knowledge
[13:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:17] <exec> 08└─That's called a fallout shelter.
[13:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:19] <exec> 08└─True, but it doesn't head high enough ... to produce electricity you need a big temperature delta, if it is too small, it will not be useful... specially if you then have to take care of the radioactive problem
[13:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:21] <exec> 08└─You do not need a chain reaction [wikipedia.org] to make use of nuclear fuel. [csmonitor.com]
[13:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:24] <exec> 08└─I still fail to see what the fear of fire, electricity or knowledge have to do with the fear of sex ("sex" taken as one of the things that "are very useful"). (large grin)
[13:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there is climate change level of science in this summary. Process used to create nuclear energy? Far as I know all DU comes from enrichment centrifuges. Like those Iranian ones that got bricked by exploiting a siemens zeroday. Armour-piercing missiles? I never heard of a DU missile, maybe a ro...
[13:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:28] <exec> 08└─i agree. nuclear waste is man made thru fission or irradiation, for example neutron bombardment. call "depleted" uranium a form of nuclear waste is wrong in the sense that it waters down the seriousness of nuclear waste. so called "depleted uranium" is just regular uranium from the mine that has bee...
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[14:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Building a Tiny Utopian Prototype City Filled With People, Robots and AI - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:01] <exec> 08└─In totally unrelated news, a funny name Toyota president has.
[14:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Building a Tiny Utopian Prototype City Filled With People, Robots and AI - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:02] <exec> 08└─It is a family business since 1926. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:16] <exec> 08└─They can all watch from the ground while SpaceX lands on the Moon and Mars ahead of them.
[14:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:18] <exec> 08└─srsly, i am desperatly waiting for the day that news like this doesn't clog up news space anymore.
[14:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:20] <exec> 08└─Real diversity = AMD Fake Diversity = Intel Which is this?
[14:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars: Water Could Disappear Faster Than Expected - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:33] <exec> 08└─The Musky One might be able to rescue a few extra kilograms of gases with his accelerated colonization program.
[14:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars: Water Could Disappear Faster Than Expected - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:34] <exec> 08└─We're doing the best we can
[14:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:56] <exec> 08└─If you leave out violent deaths and infants that would be aborted (and thus not count towards modern life expectancy stats) today, the life expectancy for the rich is pretty much the same as it has always been. 85: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] 77: https://en.m.wikip...
[14:53:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:06] <exec> 08└─this provides proof that we don't need to be afraid of it as it might actually be very useful for us
[14:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:12] <exec> 08└─my asus zen phone has one or two "strange" fonts installed too.
[14:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:13] <exec> 08└─The reason that it switched from land lines to cell phones under Obama was that the administration found that giving cell phones rather than land lines was both cheaper for the government and easier to administer. For instance, if the person needing the phone moved, you don't need somebody who was g...
[14:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rare Salt Formations Appear Along Utah's Great Salt Lake - 1485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:25] <exec> 08└─I just wanted to provide some feedback. I expected that a scientific article regarding "rare salt formations" might include a link to both the rare salt in question (Glauber's salt), or maybe more about the actual foundation of them. The closest it has as a link to either is a link to the generic se...
[14:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rare Salt Formations Appear Along Utah's Great Salt Lake - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:27] <exec> 08└─See The Expanse" [wikipedia.org]. They have space Mormons, the Pitch Black movies had space Muslims, and "The Hammer of God" had space Chrislamists.
[14:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Takata Airbag Recall Rears its Ugly Head Again, this Time for 10M Cars - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:44] <exec> 08└─The psychology campaign with mandatory child seats was probably the most effective thing done at the time. I haven't seen any anti-lock brake negative outcome statistics, but I might liken that to the increased risk of injury when wearing rubber sneakers on wet floors. People who wear relatively sli...
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[15:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers Have Been ‘Password-Spraying’ the US Grid - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:14] <exec> 08└─I'm sure with the trillions we've spent on defense in the last decade, hardening the grid to be resilient against local failures must have been something we spent a few billion on, and we're not at the least stable and reliable we've ever been. It can't have all gone to Raytheon and Lockheed, right?...
[15:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers Have Been ‘Password-Spraying’ the US Grid - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:16] <exec> 08└─I recently had to block the range 46.38.144.0 because it was attempting to guess the IMAP password. This is a Romanian mail server. So I guess it's all NATO countries.
[15:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers Have Been ‘Password-Spraying’ the US Grid - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:18] <exec> 08└─I got an email from MMORPG Tibia that someone tried to access my game even though I haven't played it for almost 10 years. I changed my password and played it for a few minutes. Still at lvl 300.
[15:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's so much more interesting when you start out with preconceived notions that all astronauts should be white males for no logical reasons whatsoever. Wake me up when discriminatory idiots like you have all been bred out of the human race. Aside from that, nice troll.
[15:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:45] <exec> 08└─Then all you need is a good nurse. Who doesn't have to be female, BTW.
[15:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:47] <exec> 08└─Incel boy doesn't even know if there is a quota.
[15:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:49] <exec> 08└─Who do you think will be in those SpaceX capsules? It will be NASA astronauts [spacex.com].
[15:53:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:38] <exec> 08└─Chemicals need to be respected, not feared.
[15:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:04] <exec> 08└─Yet you can hold a survey meter over a banana or purified potassium and hear it click away.
[15:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:05] <exec> 08└─so called "depleted uranium"
[15:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:07] <exec> 08└─Yet you can hold a survey meter over a banana or purified potassium and hear it click away.
[15:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:10] <exec> 08└─Uranium-238 (238U or U-238) is the most common isotope of uranium found in nature, with a relative abundance of 99%. Unlike uranium-235, it is non-fissile,
[15:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:12] <exec> 08└─That's something else, isn't it? https://store.steampowered.com [steampowered.com]
[15:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:14] <exec> 08└─Not at all radiothermal batteries are a wonderful source of long-term power from non-fissile radioactive material. What they're not is a *large* source of such power. There is a trade-off to be made between longevity and power output (more radioactive material produces more power for a shorter time)...
[15:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:16] <exec> 08└─I had to look that up, as I thought that Ice-9 was harmless. Turns out, I was right, real ice-9 is harmless, didn't know about this fictional stuff. That would be a problem.
[15:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:18] <exec> 08└─Right, only with specific designs.
[15:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:38] <exec> 08└─They don't mix well with water. Got a swimming pool you need emptied fast?
[15:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:40] <exec> 08└─Quite frankly, if your car is computerised to the point where you need to run hackathons to check for vulnerabilities, then you have already lost. It means the car is computerised to the point where not even the devs can be sure it works as intended. This poor engineering practice is rampant in the...
[15:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:42] <exec> 08└─Or a marketing ploy. People I know who bought a Tesla reported that on a highway trip all the (visual) electronics shut off and took something like 5 minutes to reboot. While travelling at speed. I'll take a less cool car that was designed by automotive engineers instead.
[15:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:50] <exec> 08└─Then I am pretty sure you are more susceptible to these, and other diseases.
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[16:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:48] <exec> 08└─Why don't they just open the windows and air the place out?
[16:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:50] <exec> 08└─Talking about Starship, not Crew Dragon. Crew Dragon only goes to the ISS. Starship goes everywhere. Since NASA isn't funding Starship - mostly they are complaining about it - there's no reason it has to be crewed by NASA astronauts. And it probably won't be.
[16:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:52] <exec> 08└─I agree with nitehawk, it would take a lot of specialized training, etc. to train your own Astronauts. It would be so much easier and frugal to use NASA Astronauts for the flights where you actually need a human.
[16:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:54] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping, this is real diversity, but at so close to a 50/50 split, it's hard to know. My guess is, it's some of both. Since, there are very few Astronaut positions available. You can afford to be choosy and still get great candidates from both sexes regardless of # of women in sciences vs # of me...
[16:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:56] <exec> 08└─Looks like a young enthusiastic group. No doubt, class balancing for PC was part of the selection criteria, but I suspect NASA is perfectly capable of picking an extraordinary group with this additional constraint. Hopefully,the group will do well and be pathfinders for a 'right stuff' V2.0 The inte...
[16:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars: Water Could Disappear Faster Than Expected - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:11] <exec> 08└─Why do people keep believing what the US budget says? I have posted this here like a million times: https://constitution.solari.com [solari.com] They tell you they lie about where the money goes. They tell you they will...
[16:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars: Water Could Disappear Faster Than Expected - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:12] <exec> 08└─I'm reminded from time to time about that scene in Independence Day where they see the Area 51 secret lab and the old guy gives the whole $$$ Toothbrush, $$$$ Toilet Seat spiel.
[16:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:36] <exec> 08└─Still, average life expectancy has gone way, way up, and that's a good thing, probably.
[16:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:22] <exec> 08└─People fear what they do not understand.
[16:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 1897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:24] <exec> 08└─>If it is highly radioactive that means it is still fuel. Actually, no. Most nuclear fuel is not appreciably radioactive, it's the fission products created by the reaction (the waste) that are radioactive, and they're pretty reliably not fissile, so can't be used as nuclear fuel. They can be used in...
[16:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:26] <exec> 08└─And spent fuel rods have more U-235 than depleted uranium. Our current PWR reactor designs don't burn the fuel terribly efficiently. The problem is the spent rods also have a lot of other isotopes in them which make them a pain to deal with, so they end up sitting in pools near reactors. If we made...
[16:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:28] <exec> 08└─>What we fear is us. Technology is neutral, and knowledge is not to be feared. Man is to be feared, and the more knowledge he possesses, the more he needs to be feared. And with good reason, as a brief skim through history (or modern world affairs) will show. I don't fear children or matches - but p...
[16:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:30] <exec> 08└─That's called a tomb.
[16:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:32] <exec> 08└─Actually, yes. If it is meaningfully radioactive (enough to be dangerous) then it is a possible source of energy, ie fuel.
[16:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:05] <exec> 08└─Almost. Except what they are zeroing in on is which antibodies may offer greater resistance to this particular disease... plus the fact that transmissibility may be contingent on certain blood cell antibodies. And that is something different..... Now newsworthy, that's a different question.
[16:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:07] <exec> 08└─Is the blood type where the cells have no antigens which trigger A, B, or Rh antibodies. Thus it can be given to any blood type. However, someone with O Negative blood will have Anti-A, Anti-B antibodies and can therefore only receive type O blood (not A, B, or AB), and upon exposure to Rh positive...
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[17:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Building a Tiny Utopian Prototype City Filled With People, Robots and AI - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:25] <exec> 08└─Well, #1 that's game. #2, it takes all of the worst monetization schemes and shoves it into the Fallout universe. Unless they strip the stupid out of that game, I won't give it the time of day. Seems like they're doing good on the fleecing fans of a popular game franchise, though. Assuming, they eve...
[17:52:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:34] <exec> 08└─Things like this are so less interesting when you know that NASA started off with a checklist that included "6 women" "6 minorities", etc, etc. It's forced "equality", and it's awkward and regressive. Wake me up when there's a nation that can take the 13 best candidates and have them look like this.
[17:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:53] <exec> 08└─Hey man, you never know when there'll be an accident on the ISS and the only person left conscious will have to fly the thing back to Earth! /sarcasm.
[17:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:55] <exec> 08└─At least Jonny Kim is easy to pick out in the group. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) His SEAL trident is on the left breast of his uniform. What were you thinking?
[17:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:58] <exec> 08└─srsly, i am desperatly waiting for the day that news like this doesn't clog up news space anymore.
[17:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:01] <exec> 08└─Diversity of the astronauts' backgrounds has been a concern for NASA for quite a while, actually [youtube.com].
[17:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:04] <exec> 08└─Things like this are so less interesting when you know that NASA started off with a checklist that included "6 women" "6 minorities", etc, etc. It's forced "equality", and it's awkward and regressive. Wake me up when there's a nation that can take the 13 best candidates and have them look like this.
[17:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:06] <exec> 08└─Heck, is Crew Dragon even crewed by astronauts? I mean, it *could* be, it has the control panels, but it's designed to be operated autonomously/remotely. The "crew" in Crew Dragon are ISS crew, they're really just passengers while in the capsule.
[17:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:08] <exec> 08└─So, what? We're supposed to think that wasn't a a racist joke because the punchline is that there's non-racial identifier in addition to the racist identifier you clearly intentionally implied?
[17:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:10] <exec> 08└─The US keeps letting H1B-infected immigrants into the country. I hope this guy doesn't bring it to the space shuttle.
[17:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:12] <exec> 08└─This is a much better NASA story: https://soylentnews.org¬e=&title=Ex-NASA+Scientist+%E2%80%9CConvinced%E2%80%9D+Alien+Life+Was+Found+on+Mars+Over+40+Years+Ago [soylentnews.org]
[17:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:51] <exec> 08└─I doubt those microplastics are going to be shortening human life expectancy by decades (we'd have noticed by now). So with 7+ billion on this planet, even if human life expectancy goes down a few years and fertility drops it might not actually be a big issue... Heck the lifespan drop can probably b...
[17:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:43] <exec> 08└─Not nuclear (fission or fusion) fuel though. And the energy that can be extracted from it is almost nonexistent compared to what was available in the original fuel. Nobody is going to be shutting down uranium mining in favor of converting radiation from waste into energy - all the waste produced by...
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[18:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:59] <exec> 08└─Someone please mod this as "Funny"
[18:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of Cable Modems are Vulnerable to New Cable Haunt Vulnerability - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:07] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, my motorola cable modem doesn't allow *me* to update the firmware. Only the ISP can push it. My research indicates is may search for an update on a reboot/restart of the modem. So, trying that periodically to see if a new firmware is loaded. Otherwise, talking to Comcast won't...
[18:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of Cable Modems are Vulnerable to New Cable Haunt Vulnerability - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:09] <exec> 08└─Open the cable modem. Find the flash chip. Often it will be a TSOP-48. If you are unlucky, it could be a BGA. Take it off. Use a soldering iron and some copper braid for a TSOP-48. For a BGA you'll need a hot air gun, being really careful to avoid blowing all the little tiny specs (resistors and cap...
[18:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Building a Tiny Utopian Prototype City Filled With People, Robots and AI - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:30] <exec> 08└─"Experimental Prototype City Of Tomorrow" with international students, not just part of a theme park.
[18:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Building a Tiny Utopian Prototype City Filled With People, Robots and AI - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:31] <exec> 08└─Well, real Toyota Corporation has already a true history of being nuked in 1945, and air raids left them with no facilities left. That's why Watoga regular nuking by players in F76 came in my mind first as a parallel.
[18:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:07] <exec> 08└─Logically, the place ought to look like the CalTech campus. That is 43% Asian, but only 1% black. For 13 candidates, there should be 5 or 6 Asians. The 1% rounds down to zero, so there should be no blacks. That leaves 7 or 8 whites.
[18:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:09] <exec> 08└─Windows are unlikely to be openable. All of the vented gasses must be replaced. All ongoing replacement gasses must be lifted from Earth at significant cost. Maybe SpaceX will bring down the cost. Suitable air filtering might accomplish the same result. Sunlight might be more important than evacuati...
[18:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe not fly the ISS back to Earth, but some escape vehicle. But then, aren't those vehicles more like flying an iPad than an aircraft?
[18:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:13] <exec> 08└─Women passed the tests given to Mercury astronauts, but were never considered. Science fiction accepted them - even Robert Heinlein, steadfastly old-fashioned, put women in command of warships in "Starship Trooper", even stating they had faster reflexes than men, in addition to having a much better...
[18:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars: Water Could Disappear Faster Than Expected - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:30] <exec> 08└─Laziness has created more inventions.
[18:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 1204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:47] <exec> 08└─Does depleted uranium pose a radiation hazard? [europa.eu] All isotopes of uranium are radioactive. Both uranium and depleted uranium, and their immediate decay products, emit alpha and beta particles and a small amount of gamma radiation. Depletion of U-235 during processing leaves DU appreciably l...
[18:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:49] <exec> 08└─If responsibly worked with and stored, it would never be a real problem.
[18:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:51] <exec> 08└─'Man' also includes Immerman, who claimed depleted uranium isn't even radioactive when it DEFINITELY is. And, 'man' also includes all the people who modded that FALSE claim 'Informative.' My fear is ignorance, in all it's forms.
[18:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:33] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, they'll still find a way to blame Obama!
[18:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rare Salt Formations Appear Along Utah's Great Salt Lake - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:49] <exec> 08└─Early solar heating usage, 1948: https://timeline.com [timeline.com] https://www.technologyreview.com [technologyreview.com] (pic of the house) 1978: https://web.mit.edu [mit.edu] I visited...
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[19:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel's Mobileye Has a Plan to Dominate Self-Driving - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:52] <exec> 08└─This is your future [joblo.com] Mobileye has bargained for access to sensor data from customer vehicles. I'm sure they have!
[19:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:01] <exec> 08└─Why is that "funny"?
[19:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:03] <exec> 08└─Not “funny” it was modded “Funny”.
[19:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of Cable Modems are Vulnerable to New Cable Haunt Vulnerability - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:13] <exec> 08└─The correct answer is to make ISPs legally liable for exploits when they don't push the manufacturer patches and for manufacturers to continue to patch their gear for a period of a few years. There's little that the customer can do here as most ISPs don't seem to care about updating their hardware a...
[19:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers Have Been ‘Password-Spraying’ the US Grid - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:24] <exec> 08└─At least this part of our defense infrastructure is secure!
[19:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Building a Tiny Utopian Prototype City Filled With People, Robots and AI - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:37] <exec> 08└─Well, Disney died. So, whatever the vision for EPCOT is today, it's almost assuredly going to have the "how will that make us money" tag slapped onto it. Walt Disney had a vision and what he created was pretty epic. What you have now is just another giant corporation.
[19:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:18] <exec> 08└─[CITATION NEEDED]
[19:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:19] <exec> 08└─Because in real life women still do not have equal rights/expectations to bare arms as men, despite the promises of the second amendment.
[19:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technique Could Accelerate Waste-to-Methane Production - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:44] <exec> 08└─What's nice about bio-methane is that you can basically just plug it into the existing natural gas infrastructure as-is and it'll work just fine (since natural gas is mostly just methane). There's a few bio-methane plants here in CO that do just that.
[19:55:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 429 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:37] <exec> 08└─"In October 2019, Malwarebytes began to receive complaints in its support system from users of the UMX U686CL who reported some pre-installed apps on their government-funded phones were malicious. Researchers purchased one of these smartphones to verify customers' claims." Yep, you're absolutely rig...
[19:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:42] <exec> 08└─Is one of the apps a voting app?
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[19:56:37] <exec> 08└─I think the article was talking about susceptibility, as in who's more likely to get it. Which may help in figuring out how to fight it, and also may provide public health officials with better information in structuring resources to fight it. When it comes to individual cases, though, there is room...
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[20:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Intel's Mobileye Has a Plan to Dominate Self-Driving - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:49] <exec> 08└─Particularly as technology becomes more prevalent and less user controlled, one should look at who controls the strings of that technology. Chinese, Israeli, Indian, American, Arab (mostly the Gulf states due to tech investments). All of these places should be of concern, as should the lack of domes...
[20:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Mobileye Has a Plan to Dominate Self-Driving - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/corporate-responsibility/intel-in-israel.html [intel.com] Intel has a strong presence in Israel before you take Mobileye into account.
[20:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Mobileye Has a Plan to Dominate Self-Driving - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:52] <exec> 08└─Mobileye has a plan to dominate self driving? Well, Brain had a plan to take over the world. Didn't work out for Brain, won't work out for Mobileye, no matter what the hare-brained investors were made to believe. NERF!!
[20:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:03] <exec> 08└─What kinds of bombs can we make based on a better understanding of the strong force? Fission is basically random collisions breeding more random collisions in an environment of lots of heavy/less-than-stable nuclei, when runaway growth of collisions happens: BOOM. We can even control the intensity o...
[20:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dmbasso [3237] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of Cable Modems are Vulnerable to New Cable Haunt Vulnerability - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:15] <exec> 08└─That's it? Why no one told me sooner?! I'll be back in a jiffy...
[20:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:20] <exec> 08└─pissy nerds gonna piss.
[20:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PayPal Patches Vulnerability that Exposed User Passwords - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:57] <exec> 08└─"PayPal placing cross-site request forgery (CSRF) tokens and the user session ID in a JavaScript file" wow, that's fucking stupid.
[20:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Circuit Notes: A Budget Function Generator - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:11] <exec> 08└─I'll be interested if he does a follow up on the 555 based analog units. Mine is one of those, a Velleman kit I bought to test my kit built oscilloscope. :)
[20:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Takata Airbag Recall Rears its Ugly Head Again, this Time for 10M Cars - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:20] <exec> 08└─yep, and i'm the "nobody" they are referring to...
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[21:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stripped Helium Star Solves the Massive Black Hole Mystery - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:53] <exec> 08└─Why was the Liu, et al., paper accepted by Nature, if it's so hideously wrong? (A factor of 30 out, and yes, I know the joke about astronomers and error bars, but narrow error ranges were quoted in both articles.) Can we have a science deathmatch, reputations of all parties on the line - reviewers,...
[21:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Mobileye Has a Plan to Dominate Self-Driving - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:04] <exec> 08└─Does Intel have a strong presence in Israel, or does Israel have a strong presence in Intel? One of those is bad but not malicious, the other, well....
[21:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers Have Been ‘Password-Spraying’ the US Grid - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:36] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't be having all these problems if they hadn't put their country next to all those American military bases.
[21:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:31] <exec> 08└─You have no clue what racism is. Typical ignorant westerner.
[21:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:32] <exec> 08└─Test pilots are more likely to be used to things like varying weight (G forces), being able to react while the ground is rapidly approaching and being good at reacting while spinning around, think Neil Armstrong in that Gemini that was spinning out of control as well as being much more used to being...
[21:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:17] <exec> 08└─There are armor piercing DU shells. Besides being dense, it is used as it is self sharpening and flammable. See https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] While legal under international law as its primary purpose is not to poison, it is poison enough as a heavy metal...
[21:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:18] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that nuclear waste also has a tendency to be chemically very active.
[21:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:21] <exec> 08└─Nah, you shouldn't mess with them ever. They make TATP look cute and huggable and it desperately desires to spontaneously explode in quantities over a gram. Well, unless you're just completely fed up with whatever building you plan to fabricate them in and all of your nearby neighbors. I mean, consi...
[21:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:45] <exec> 08└─Lol are you forgetting that gasoline is also highly flammable? Plenty of regular cars burn up, over 171,000 between 2014 and 2016. https://www.usfa.fema.gov [fema.gov]
[21:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:46] <exec> 08└─I can send you $700k... all you have to do is spend $40k... and hope like hell that you win. You wouldn't enter it for a pyramid scheme, let alone a damn security vulnerability contest requiring extreme skill.
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[22:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stripped Helium Star Solves the Massive Black Hole Mystery - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:45] <exec> 08└─Just publish everything as preprints and let people argue about it in a response paper or on Twitter.
[22:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers Have Been ‘Password-Spraying’ the US Grid - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:27] <exec> 08└─There was a lot coverage about APT33 in 2019. So the question is how much more activity is there currently? TFA, "The two groups' intrusion campaign ran through all of 2019 and continues today." I'm not saying that their activity may not have picked up or changed, but without reporting of actual dat...
[22:52:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 770 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:50] <exec> 08└─and until that happens, god forbid we forcefully extract diverse role-models from the best 100 candidates, because everyone knows there are immeasurable differences between place 13 and place 100. you're saying something that's nice on the surface. but in practice there's a lot of flexibility when i...
[22:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:24] <exec> 08└─Logically, the place ought to look like the CalTech campus.
[22:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars: Water Could Disappear Faster Than Expected - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but when you have worked as one of those $$$ toothbrushes scrubbing a few $$$$ toilets as a government subcontractor, you start to realize... the budget contents really are pretty likely just as stated on the tin.
[22:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:08] <exec> 08└─You make my point all the more :) What makes it a big IF again? Logistics? Lack of technology? Impossibility? Or just humanity?
[22:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:10] <exec> 08└─Republicans
[22:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:37] <exec> 08└─I actually do think electric cars are better in general than traditional ICE cars. I've a particular dislike for Musk, and a particular distrust of cars coming out of factories that have been purported by whistleblowers to be using damaged Li+ cells in vehicle construction.
[22:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:38] <exec> 08└─The contest is to achieve full control of the Tesla; i.e., make it capable, not incapable, of doing anything you ask.
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[23:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dixons Carphone Receives Maximum Fine for Major Breach - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:47] <exec> 08└─the CEO went to jail for cutting IT funding, right? Right!?
[23:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dixons Carphone Receives Maximum Fine for Major Breach - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:49] <exec> 08└─Did they keep it on a publicly view-able txt file?
[23:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technique Could Accelerate Waste-to-Methane Production - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:04] <exec> 08└─Not that might be clean coal. Grind up the coal and use it as the conductive material.
[23:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technique Could Accelerate Waste-to-Methane Production - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:05] <exec> 08└─Coal is a common source of carbon for making carbon steel.
[23:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:53] <exec> 08└─I own a model 3. it does happen ('black screen') lcd system crashes. it does not affect the car and driving; but any display based things or things that need display input (press) won't work until that system reboots. no safety issues other than what you may miss from the center screen. its unsettli...
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[23:55:55] <exec> 08└─you don't know what you're talking about. ob disc: I work in the industry (not tesla, but a competitor). there is actually less and less linux in cars and more and more qnx. you won't likely hack qnx (I say this as a linux admin since the 1.1 kernel days). ASIL-D systems are very safe and designed t...
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