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[00:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:13] <exec> 08└─I'd rather be ill in China than healthy in Somalia.
[00:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, everyone would rather get in at the beginning of the ponzi scheme, before the socialist system runs out of other peoples money. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:16] <exec> 08└─It sounds like they're insinuating that the US is one of those countries "with a weaker health system."
[00:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:18] <exec> 08└─Do you prefer above ground with natural lighting, or below ground under grow lamps?
[00:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:20] <exec> 08└─https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/ew2tjo/local_report_why_has_there_been_no_news_from/ [reddit.com]
[00:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:23] <exec> 08└─What health system?
[00:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:25] <exec> 08└─"above ground with natural lighting, or below ground under grow lamps" Mushroom syndrome: Kept in the dark and fed bullshit.
[00:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:27] <exec> 08└─Just an idea put out there by a talk show host. Did this coronavirus escape the military's biological warfare laboratories? I haven't even really worked up an opinion, but it's something to think about.
[00:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:29] <exec> 08└─Apparently Wuhan has an animal/meat market, and they sell live wild animals, though supposed to be illegal. So they suspect some animal virus jumped to human there, but who the fuck knows. I'm staying away from Chinese food till this thing blows over.
[00:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spitzer Space Telescope Turns Out the Lights - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:40] <exec> 08└─This. Continued use of Spitzer rates a B, and only A grades make the cut in science. Meanwhile D and F crap that might make some feel safer (such as, oh, a big beautiful wall), get 10x or more than Spitzer needs. Big Bird is a nice guy, but he's got to go!
[00:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:15] <exec> 08└─Books survive the dunking pretty good. Just toss it in the microwave. Don't try that with your kindle...
[00:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:16] <exec> 08└─YAFT (Yet Another Freetard Project) Time for you to change your meds, babe. All those hormones and Xanax are makin' ya crazy! You know, if you show the doc the things you post here, he might get a better handle on how the drugs are interacting. I don't believe for a second that you can't find a tech...
[00:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:18] <exec> 08└─Since the term no longer applies to people with neurological cognitive problems, it's free to be used with freetards who are wilfully ignorant of the fact that free software has lost the battle, both with end users who don't want it, and large corporations who have co-opted it for their own ends. I...
[00:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 2056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:21] <exec> 08└─Just in the last 3 hours I've gotten 23 troll mods, a bunch of flamebait mods, etc. And you want to know something? I don't care. I'm still at karma of 45, so mod-bomb away. There are plenty of people who agree with me. The insane cheer-leading by people because something is "open" but doesn't do t...
[00:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:43] <exec> 08└─Atari Themed toasters and washing machines too?
[00:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:28] <exec> 08└─I pity the poor minions in 2029 forced to use an archaic 2020 snapshot of canonical themed Gnome in their office cubicles.
[00:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:29] <exec> 08└─My colour laser worker didn't "just work" under Ubuntu, ever. Then it needed a new imaging unit, so I dug out the old DeskJet 9800, which works with pretty much every OS on the planet. It also required a re-install from scratch (couldn't even recover it manually with a bootable version) last month...
[00:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:31] <exec> 08└─If you haven't hard a hardware update in 10 years why would you want to update the bloatware crippling it?
[00:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 3239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:33] <exec> 08└─> YMMV That's the problem. Your milage WILL vary. A LOT. You don't describe your use case, but whatever it is, Ubuntu clearly satisfies it. And you are happy to provide a curated experience to the people you upgrade to Linux. So bully for you. By that same right, you don't get to claim that "experts...
[00:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:19] <exec> 08└─Have fun feeling better than people who know more than you.
[00:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:20] <exec> 08└─using solar would reduce the total waste heat if we replaced every coal and gas plant with solar.
[00:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:31] <exec> 08└─Rather I think, if his theory is good enough to describe objective reality, then electrons/positrons will come out of it as a matter of course and the standard theories be confirmed!
[00:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:33] <exec> 08└─So they both see the same reality but the emphasis is different.
[00:57:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:35] <exec> 08└─why the hell would I want to use a useless and misleading metric to compare two things that barely support comparison, if at all?
[00:57:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:37] <exec> 08└─I certainly don't "want to" for myself, however, ... However misleading they may be, some metric - even if slightly misleading - is much better than none at all when you are aggregating "personal perception" type data from large groups - larger than you can personally meet and evaluate for yourself...
[01:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:22] <exec> 08└─You don't know that, he doesn't know that, and I don't know that. His response to "Makes me wonder if" is to shut down that line of inquiry without a second thought. As a more useful comment pointed out it could be that the oil fields would absorb a lot of these emissions but they have been reduced....
[01:02:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06NetHack 3.6.5 Released - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:33] <exec> 08└─Of course the cheapest way is to go to an existing nethack server that lets you play for free. [alt.org]
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[01:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:22] <exec> 08└─I think they're more worried about small island nations, and poor countries that might not cope well with a large number of sick people. I'm sure the US will deal with this fine.
[01:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:24] <exec> 08└─Taking a break from snacking on bat penis?
[01:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:27] <exec> 08└─I shouldn't think it is a biological warfare virus. It is not really lethal enough for that is it?
[01:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:32] <exec> 08└─Pretty intense. Thanks for posting this.
[01:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:34] <exec> 08└─Stir-fried bat's penis in cream sauce, yum. Nothing beats it (yeah) while watching a buxom blonde getting banged in the ass balls deep with a horse phallus on pornhub.
[01:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:37] <exec> 08└─For now, it doesn't seem more lethal than your average annual flu, does it? "Regular" flu kills thousands (millions?) annually.
[01:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 1416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:39] <exec> 08└─Canada arc: Chinese researcher escorted from infectious disease lab amid RCMP investigation [www.cbc.ca] Canadian government scientist under investigation trained staff at Level 4 lab in China [www.cbc.ca] Online claims that Chinese scientists stole coronavirus from Winnipeg lab have 'no factual bas...
[01:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:41] <exec> 08└─Why would you think the best weaponized virus is the most lethal?
[01:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:43] <exec> 08└─> Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market is within about 20 miles from the Wuhan Institute of Virolog Fake, China uses km not miles.
[01:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adam [2168] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:45] <exec> 08└─Regular flu kills 0.1% of people who catch it (these days). This coronavirus has killed ~2% of the infected at this point.
[01:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:48] <exec> 08└─*160 furlongs (bat)
[01:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:37] <exec> 08└─Books survive the dunking pretty good.
[01:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:38] <exec> 08└─Have you tried Calibre? I don't imagine they'd remove support for older devices. Of course, you need to let it manage your non-DRM ebook collection for it to be able to transfer books to eReaders. But there seems to be a real dearth of alternative ebook managers, so really it's whether you can live...
[01:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:40] <exec> 08└─Looks nice, but they don't make it easy to find someone to sell you one.
[01:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:42] <exec> 08└─Using a term when others have cautioned you of it harmfulness is being a jerk for being a jerk's sake. I would have thought someone in the rainbow community might understand that. Clearly not.
[01:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:55] <exec> 08└─select "Chrome OS" because that runs the linux kernel. This is the decade of Linux.... linux on a chromebook or android phone.
[01:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:56] <exec> 08└─A 10yo OS != 10yo hardware. Well into the XP era I worked at corporations with newish machines running NT4. A 2 year old machine running 9 year old software might feel more bloated if the DE has since been thru several rewrites to take advantage of modern hardware abstractions since the LTS was set...
[01:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:58] <exec> 08└─Yes. There's a difference between an "Ubuntu based distro" and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is shit.
[01:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:00] <exec> 08└─I think I'd rather Windows 7 users didn't think Ubuntu was a win for their privacy. Try anything but Ubuntu and derivatives..
[01:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:48] <exec> 08└─Only stupid people shoot the messenger when they don't like the message.
[01:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:03] <exec> 08└─Care to explain what you're thinking here? In my defense, we have plenty of examples of theories that extended existing theory rather than destroy it. For example, general relativity has Newtonian mechanics as an asymptotic approximation. And if you already have a theory that works great, any better...
[01:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:05] <exec> 08└─it bears no relevance in the context of assessing whether or not "Seeing objective reality will make you extinct"
[01:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:07] <exec> 08└─Care to explain what you're thinking here?
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[02:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:05] <exec> 08└─Is not stopping planting trees. More, careful selection of where to plant forests along rivers needed for human consumption. This study is quite narrow and some in society will argue for less trees. Same as those living in the bush here in Australia due to bushfire risk. But less trees is not the on...
[02:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:06] <exec> 08└─(Pre)historically, trees grew everywhere. They tended to do several things, including prevention of soil erosion. Rivers, allowed to run freely, carve deeply into the land, carrying away soil and nutrients. Trees don't exactly reverse that trend, but they slow or stop it. Trees drink a lot of water....
[02:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:40] <exec> 08└─How many of these deaths have been in those that are elderly or have compromised immune systems? How many infections have there been relative to the actual number of possible exposures? How many people have contracted it and either don't get infected or suffer something not more than a common flu th...
[02:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:41] <exec> 08└─That's how these virus work, They infect, stress out the immune system to crap, and then bacteria sneak in, and finish the job.
[02:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:43] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy with a histogram of deaths by age in wuhan last year compared to this year.
[02:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:46] <exec> 08└─The one making all the money
[02:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, that is not an uncommon feature. It does not, alone, however tell us anything about it's risk. Only knowing answers to the questions above can tell us that. It's like knowing the true positives on a statistical test but not knowing the false negatives. Knowing any of those values in isolation t...
[02:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:50] <exec> 08└─They would look the same because the population is 11 million and the deaths are on the order of a few hundred (like less than 200?). Or is that your point?
[02:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:52] <exec> 08└─No, it was caused by 5G, which has been widely deployed in Wuhan. Huawei has stepped in to help victims, so obviously they're behind it. Now that the initial testing has been done, they'll use it to assassinate Western politicians in countries using Huawei 5G gear. It's true, Alex Jones told me! Do...
[02:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:54] <exec> 08└─Guess nobody cut off his internet yet... The story reads a little weird. The Andromeda Strain, maybe? And of course rumors are flying... [nzherald.co.nz]
[02:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:56] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5kmCgVhADY [youtube.com]
[02:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:58] <exec> 08└─They should have waited for 6G.
[02:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what message you're trying to communicate.
[02:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:03] <exec> 08└─Total deaths, from any cause. Is there more than a blip?
[02:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:05] <exec> 08└─And just how many boobies do you trap in those traps....
[02:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:59] <exec> 08└─YAMP (Yet Another MicrosoftTard Product) Remember Zune? Remember 'Works for sure'? Remember Microsoft BOB?
[02:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:00] <exec> 08└─I have a theory that SF readers are, on average, more intelligent, more ethical and more committed than the norm. It's a bit of the stereotype of the nerd, well paid tech job, less likely to have wife/kids. Much more disposable income. More likely to be invested in the community. These people are mu...
[02:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:02] <exec> 08└─I agree it's a pretty crappy eReader - heck, it doesn't even come with a case, just a raw circuit board and components that you might need to solder on yourself. Seems pretty clear they're not targeting the mainstream eReader market - they're targeting the Maker market. Which is to say, they're expl...
[02:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:05] <exec> 08└─https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com] Just get rid of the DRM and let Calibre manage them all.
[02:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:07] <exec> 08└─I wish e-book authors would come around to reality. I never buy a book on Kindle. But if I could buy it DRM-free that would work on any book reader of my choice (just like my mp3s play on anything), then I probably would abandon paper books in favor of the convenience of having books on all my devic...
[02:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:09] <exec> 08└─True. It would be nice if doing so were legal though. Some people are a stickler for such things, and the DMCA is insidious.
[02:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:11] <exec> 08└─Last I looked, the Maker Community was dying. You don't need a community if you're into making things yourself. You just do it.
[02:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:13] <exec> 08└─And if those links weren't enough for anyone(!!), I can tell you from personal experience that Amazon cost me (and my publisher) real money when Amazon listed my niche engineering textbook as "out of print". It was sheer spite because the publisher wouldn't cave to the Amazon demand for additional d...
[02:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:15] <exec> 08└─I really don't care what freetards and libtards think. If the shoe fits ... And stop being so pretentious. You don't give a shit either. Also, I hate the term "differently abled." It's bullshit. Handicapped or crippled, sure. They describe reality, not making it like someone who is handicapped has...
[02:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:18] <exec> 08└─You don't need a community for reading books either - and yet book clubs have been around forever. And the Maker community is arguably more useful, since interesting tools techniques get shared around to enrich your skillset, rather than just interesting books to read.
[02:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:20] <exec> 08└─Sony has a line of large format ereaders that is geared for the legal and medical industries. There's no drm, it only opens pdfs, and there's no tracking nonsense. It's a pricey and niche device. But I have one for personal use and it's great.
[02:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:22] <exec> 08└─Just don't distribute them. As long as it's for your personal use I see it as less unethical than them putting the DRM on in the first place. Also, as long as you don't distribute them they will never bother you even if they somehow found out. It is a court case they really, really, do not want.
[02:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:22] <exec> 08└─A vast amount of research is publicly funded, even if the institution is private. I don't have the patience to dig through who-knows-what amount of stuff to find the original publications, but I bet it'll say something like "this research was funded by DARPA grant #abc123" or similar somewhere. OTOH...
[02:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:24] <exec> 08└─When he was then asked if he knew what a low-density parity check was – i.e. the tech he has written source code for and which is included in Broadcom's chipsets – he said he didn't.
[02:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:26] <exec> 08└─He knew exactly what they were talking about, see this post [soylentnews.org].
[02:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:40] <exec> 08└─Gnome 3 is great, and runs really well on Ubuntu.
[02:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:42] <exec> 08└─And yet people aren't wiping out Windows and OSX and installing linux. Ever support linux for friends you installed it for? It's a relief when they re-install Windows. That's the reality. Something that does 90% of what users want to do isn't competitive with something that does 100% of what those...
[02:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:44] <exec> 08└─My crappy, cheap wi-fi printer/scanner works straight out of the box with Ubuntu 18.04. Scanning and printing over the network. It was not a device I bought specifically because of Linux support either, I was given it.
[02:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:46] <exec> 08└─They've really skinnied it down. Not even python (not that that's a big deal any more, python is dying). Many command-line tools you'd expect are gone as well, such as mc. And the selection of software available through their "software center" is mighty slim pickings. It makes sense in a way - less...
[02:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:48] <exec> 08└─Have to agree on that. Linux Mint is a damn-fine distro. It works great - at least it did the last time I had it running. Ubuntu sucks in many ways, and Mint fixes the suck. LMDE, or, Linux Mint Debian Edition is even better, IMO. It doesn't use Ubuntu. LMDE with Mate is the best there is, in that p...
[02:57:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:36] <exec> 08└─Experts said witches were to blame too.
[02:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:54] <exec> 08└─Oh, I'd say - backing up OP - that it has a LOT to do with success in mating/procreation.
[02:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:55] <exec> 08└─You should check your anthropocentrism at the door. Pssst... the universe doesn't care of what the mites think about.
[02:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:58] <exec> 08└─"conscious realism." If proven correct, he argues it could make headway on such intractable quandaries like the mind-body problem, the odd nature of the quantum world, and the much sought-after "theory of everything."
[02:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:00] <exec> 08└─I've been kind to string theory too. I doubt this guy will rid us of those pesky electrons, but kicking out anything useful with respect to consciousness, would be worth doing.
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[03:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:08] <exec> 08└─Breaking Front Page Headlines: Less Water Available Around Water-Consumers
[03:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:10] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely right on several points. Benefits go far beyond simple water table levels. The question becomes: what is the largest benefit in the long term? Check out this scenario(emphasis mine): A Brazilian couple replanted 1,502-acre forest in 20 years and also gave a home to 500+ endangered...
[03:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:12] <exec> 08└─Well, that's one way to take the piss.
[03:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:14] <exec> 08└─People who grow trees have pretty well mastered this one. A common sight in Georgia is a lone pecan tree that gets surrounded by a pine planting, the pines suck so much water out of the soil that the pecan struggles to survive and stops producing completely, then the pines overtop it and shade it to...
[03:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:59] <exec> 08└─According to the country's National Health Commission, 9,692 cases have tested positive.
[03:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:01] <exec> 08└─That's not "the US's" health system. That's the health system used by many US citizens, but it belongs to the corporations that compose it. Well-developed nations have universal healthcare, belonging to the people of the nation (or at least the govnt), instead of private-sector, belonging to shareho...
[03:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:03] <exec> 08└─That's inaccurate. Maybe 0.1% of a vulnerable sub-population. The 1,000 student high school by me doesn't have a death a year to influenza. Envelope check your math - a 0.1% death rate, assuming half the population catches the flu twice a year, would be staggering.
[03:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:05] <exec> 08└─I shouldn't think it is a biological warfare virus. It is not really lethal enough for that is it?
[03:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:07] <exec> 08└─And most of the people who have died are elderly and/or have other conditions like asthma, diabetes, or heart disease that leave them more vulnerable. The original SARS of 2002-04 had a 10% death rate, and MERS was deadlier still at 40% even with proper medical care. However, it's not just about dea...
[03:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:09] <exec> 08└─depends. is he a jehova's witness, as well?
[03:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spitzer Space Telescope Turns Out the Lights - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:21] <exec> 08└─Since the JWST probably won't have launched by then.
[03:53:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bart [2844] 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 333 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:37] <exec> 08└─I've owned a PocketBook Pro for many years, and it has no drm, and you can modify the linux system it runs on without problems. http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de [fu-berlin.de] So let's not pretend open eBook readers don't exist, they do, but they are generally not made by U.S. companies (I...
[03:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:16] <exec> 08└─Hey, you'd be bitchy too if someone cut your dick off.
[03:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:18] <exec> 08└─I've built plenty of systems over the decades. But the fact remains, linux isn't fit for 99% of the population. The "model" for free software as enunciated by both RMS and the FSF was "give away the product for free, and make money off support." That might have seen like a good idea in the '80s. Bu...
[03:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:20] <exec> 08└─If the maker community is so interesting, why is it dying, same as book clubs?
[03:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 5444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:22] <exec> 08└─I've never even heard of Ubuntu TV, though that's not terribly surprising. I was using MythTV nearly 20 years ago already, but the TV I have now is a loaner and its only signal input is my PC. I agree a lot of lackluster projects get disproportionate attention, but that's typical of our dumb world i...
[03:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:24] <exec> 08└─I had to take it easy the last few days (broken rib from last February that never healed properly caused another pneumothorax Monday). Can you tell I'm bored? Can you? REALLY bored :-) Lots of naps to let it heal over yet again. Canonical showed off UbuntuTV at CES in 2012 [ubuntu.com], which cost...
[03:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:26] <exec> 08└─Oh I agree completely - but I'm talking law, not ethics. The two have very little to do with each other.
[03:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:31] <exec> 08└─Seems you're right. Maybe he gone senile or took a few too many anxiety pills? Well, I'm sure they'll appeal so we'll know more in the next trial.
[03:56:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 472 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:01] <exec> 08└─Funny you should mention that, my mother was still on Win7 so I brought along both a Win10 machine and a Ubuntu machine for her to play with to see what she preferred. She preferred the "Windows machine" hands-down. She'd never heard of Windows Ubuntu, but found it vastly better than whatever that o...
[03:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:53] <exec> 08└─Have a +1 Insightful. I've had about 50 down-mods today because I dare to say that free software hasn't lived up to anything like its initial promise, that "give away the software and sell support" isn't a viable model when people won't put up with stuff that doesn't just work, and that we've all, m...
[03:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fock [5105] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:03] <exec> 08└─The Phys.org article links to the original paper in Science, https://science.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org]. Using Quantum Monte Carlo, they found strange metallicity in the 2D Hubbard Model, potentially connecting strange metals to strongly correlated systems. Interesting.
[03:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fock [5105] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:05] <exec> 08└─Ahh okay, the above was an earlier paper describing a strange metal in theory. The main subject here is also in Science, https://science.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org], where they find critical scaling of charge fluctuations in the model strange metal YbRh2Si2, which has a quan...
[03:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fock [5105] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:07] <exec> 08└─They look at the scaling of charge fluctuations as they approach 0K, they don't claim to reach 0K. In the paper it says they went down to 1.4K, pretty low, but not a record. Just low enough to see the trend. In the theory paper for the simulation, they also go to a very low temperature, I think it s...
[03:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:08] <exec> 08└─the parts of this universe which are human... sure as fuck care of what the mites think about.
[03:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:10] <exec> 08└─objective reality vs biological fitness problem / objective reality and exticntion
[03:59:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06MOS 6502: A Blast From the Past - 290 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:20] <exec> 08└─For anyone who wants to read the story of the 6502's creation, get a copy of "On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore", which devotes a lot of the first part to the design and creation of the CPU. Even if you're not necessarily a Commodore fan, it's still a worthwhile read.
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[04:52:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03corey [2202] 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 578 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:14] <exec> 08└─Is not stopping planting trees. More, careful selection of where to plant forests along rivers needed for human consumption. This study is quite narrow and some in society will argue for less trees. Same as those living in the bush here in Australia due to bushfire risk. But less trees is not the on...
[04:52:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 846 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:15] <exec> 08└─(Pre)historically, trees grew everywhere. They tended to do several things, including prevention of soil erosion. Rivers, allowed to run freely, carve deeply into the land, carrying away soil and nutrients. Trees don't exactly reverse that trend, but they slow or stop it. Trees drink a lot of water....
[04:52:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 1039 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:18] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely right on several points. Benefits go far beyond simple water table levels. The question becomes: what is the largest benefit in the long term? Check out this scenario(emphasis mine): A Brazilian couple replanted 1,502-acre forest in 20 years and also gave a home to 500+ endangered...
[04:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 2255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:22] <exec> 08└─One of the features of natural forests is ... well, I can't remember the word, but basically the organic "waste" on the forest floor acts as a slow-release sponge, so water that falls as rain spends a lot more time near the surface and runs down into rivers both more slowly, and importantly, more co...
[04:52:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:33] <exec> 08└─Review the surveillance footage to see how he got past the boobytraps?
[04:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:15] <exec> 08└─They can both f-off until they do the most obvious thing in the world and test one of these patients for vitamin c levels as far as I'm concerned. I am 100% confident I am better off at home with 10 kg of vitamin c than at a hospital full of infected people and exhausted doctors with depleted immune...
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[04:53:16] <exec> 08└─That's inaccurate. Maybe 0.1% of a vulnerable sub-population.
[04:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:19] <exec> 08└─Influenza kills a larger percentage of people who require hospitalization. We don't know what the overall mortality rate is, but almost certainly less because it's still very likely that most infected people recover without treatment. And it seems that transmission is not very easy either, requiring...
[04:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:21] <exec> 08└─No, they can get the stragglers with 6G. They should get as many as possible now with 5G. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
[04:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:23] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the US will deal with this fine.
[04:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:25] <exec> 08└─Just an idea put out there by a talk show host. Did this coronavirus escape the military's biological warfare laboratories?... it's something to think about.
[04:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spitzer Space Telescope Turns Out the Lights - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:37] <exec> 08└─It will be even more screwed up by the time it swings around again. The JWST design could probably be replicated and launched for under $1 billion if there was a push for it. For example, one of the hundreds of moving parts in JWST #1 breaks, JWST #2 could be launched with the mirrors fully unfolded...
[04:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:39] <exec> 08└─Pocketbook is not so great. I bought one, had it for 2 weeks, and the screen stopped working on half of it.
[04:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:41] <exec> 08└─Those communities aren't dying, they just tell you they are, so that you'll go away and leave them alone. You are shrill, judgemental, dismissive, oblivious, self-centered, paranoid and Dunning-Krugered. Just because someone is nice enough to say hello to a stranger does not make the a transfan psyc...
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[04:54:43] <exec> 08└─Modded informative, but it would be even more so with a name and/or model number. DDG didn't turn up anything.
[04:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:45] <exec> 08└─GOOG searched "sony ereader industrial", found: Has Sony Discontinued Consumer e-Readers? [goodereader.com] Sony Europe gave an interview to a German tech blog [lesen.net] and confirmed that they have no plans to release a Sony PRS-T4 or any other device aimed at the end user. Instead, they will con...
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[04:55:50] <exec> 08└─More likely he's quite introverted in normal life (as many techies are), and being put under intense scrutiny and pressure in a public courtroom caused him to have problems even remembering his own name. Seen it happen in job interviews, the poor kid really knew his stuff but was so nervous he liter...
[04:56:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 3545 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:16] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, go through the archives and find a KDE-centric linux from a decade ago, before most of them got totally fscked up. It's not like the free software ecosystem has grown over the last decade. And your programs that didn't run/features didn't work under linux a decade ago still won't run/...
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[04:57:13] <exec> 08└─50? Sorry, Barb, 25 of those were probably mine, and they were dealt because you lie. I have not used Windoze since win95. I have always found linux to be more than adequate as an operating system. Yes, there were rough spots with things like proprietary wifi drivers, but linux has always been ahead...
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[04:58:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, those were the top "experts" informing governments of their day: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Future generations will look back on the current politicized climate research with the same disdain.
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[04:59:30] <exec> 08└─assuming the mites ever make it off of the blue speck in numbers ...
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[05:52:05] <exec> 08└─These sort of headlines are annoying. I think most would agree that the vast majority of our consciousness comes from our brain, perhaps with supplementary interactions of things like our gut biome. As an example when you get cut it doesn't hurt because it actually hurts - pain does not exist outsid...
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[05:52:20] <exec> 08└─The weak should fear the strong.
[05:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:18] <exec> 08└─The U.S. does have some advantage due to experience. We're quite used to untreated illness and going to work while sick. On the other hand, that's a perfect setup for a pandemic.
[05:53:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 1326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:58] <exec> 08└─Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos [soylentnews.org] Amazon's Choice Products Aren't Always What They Claim to Be [soylentnews.org] Amazon Slams Media For Not Saying Nice Things About AWS [soylentnews.org] Online Shopping Returns End Up in Landfills. [soylentnews...
[05:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:37] <exec> 08└─So the unexpectedly high demand caught them by surprise, their response was to cancel the product and refuse to sell it at all. Why are they still in business?
[05:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:38] <exec> 08└─Considering that some PDFs can be hard to read on a 1024x768 screen, I can only assume that on a 400x300 screen the user needs to scroll or flip pages very frequently.
[05:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:03] <exec> 08└─Atari sex robots. What properties do they have? https://www.atari.com [atari.com] https://drive.google.com [google.com] They don't own Ms. Pac-Man, they barely own anything anymore. This is going to be hard...
[05:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah it seems to be KDE. In my parents' case it was Lubuntu on an old laptop.
[05:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:10] <exec> 08└─The EEE was never a success.
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[06:52:15] <exec> 08└─The headline may be annoying, but the studies are important. What this particular finding is about is how certain substances cause adaptations in the brain in repeatable and predictable ways that have long term impacts on brain chemistry. Unfortunately, that gets boiled down to a nice digestible hea...
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[06:52:17] <exec> 08└─No, this is just more pointless torture of animals for career reasons. Rat brains are NOTHING like human brains, you can knock out like 20% of the brain and they will behave near normal a couple days later. Ie, you need to watch them very closely to notice anything abnormal. At the very least this n...
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[06:52:19] <exec> 08└─And as to why people keep getting DUI's its because they like drinking and live too far from the bar to walk but too close to civilization to avoid notice.
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[06:52:34] <exec> 08└─used river flow as a measure of water availability in the region
[06:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:36] <exec> 08└─So, what you're saying is that pine trees use their needles to murder other trees?
[06:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:35] <exec> 08└─What difference, at this point, does it make?
[06:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:36] <exec> 08└─For who? If it's for me, you find the explanations in the small print underneath my question - valid at any point for at least a while. If it's for another party, then I cannot answer.
[06:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:28] <exec> 08└─Bull-fucking_shit! Are you not aware, my dear and porphorous barbara, that for any linux user, there are multiple and excessive tools to detect any and all kinds of skullduggery by the major players? We can actually see the keyloggers of Microsoft, the non-acknowledged tracking of the Apple. Your o...
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[06:57:29] <exec> 08└─Linux was always just the kernel. RMS famously made that clear with the whole GNU/Linux thing. The free software movement had decades to make the desktop suitable for the year of the Linux desktop. It didn't. Along came Google and in their infinite benevolent malice and they showed the world the OS...
[06:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:31] <exec> 08└─I know this will probably be modded down as offtopic or troll or whatever but I have to say it. I read that comment and though it was really good. Then I checked the name and saw "aristarchus" and literally said "holy fuckin' shit" out loud. With a glimpse of the humanity below, my opinion of you ha...
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[07:52:18] <exec> 08└─So, if they had not used Runaway1956 as their sole test subject, the results might have had greater impact. As it is, the Fox New induced dementia, and the Trump Deplorable Syndrome, both affecting this test subject, make the results highly suspect. So much more, that I need more oxycontin from my d...
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[07:52:35] <exec> 08└─I've been told that California's oaks in particular hold a lot of water under ground. I actually got to see this first-hand when a rather small (and it turns out hollow and somewhat diseased) oak was cut from an unsuitable place between my house and another. Well into the month of June, and even Jul...
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[07:53:38] <exec> 08└─Talk to us when the novel coronavirus has been around as long as flu, and has mutated into as many strains as flu. That's assuming you're still around to talk. Of course it's useless to panic; but it's not useless for a country to massively mobilize to prevent a global pandemic. I hope we're doing e...
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[07:53:39] <exec> 08└─More like 2% of those who were identified to have it. Not the same as 2% of those infected. Not all who are infected would go to a hospital to contribute to the statistics. I'd only go to the hospital if I'm sick enough. If I was sick but not feeling that bad I wouldn't go to the hospital (especiall...
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[07:53:41] <exec> 08└─Strawman. OP didn't say best is most lethal. It's just not lethal enough. It doesn't really appear more dangerous than the nastier flus of recent decades.
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[07:53:43] <exec> 08└─If I were a bioweapons researcher I'd try to make a combination weapon. e.g. you normally only die if you get infected by both viruses within a certain time period. If you get infected by one it's only like the common cold or something - e.g very contagious but doesn't kill. See also: https://www.sc...
[07:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:03] <exec> 08└─But it doesn't work that way any more for consumers. They don't want a product that needs support. They won't buy a new car that needs oil changes every 3 months, a tuneup twice a year - that is now considered defective.
[07:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:04] <exec> 08└─But the fact remains, linux isn't fit for 99% of the population. So? You don't have to use it. That's freedom, babe! You're just upset, it's making you irrational. You should calm down before you bust an artery.
[07:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:38] <exec> 08└─That is the thing, most printers now have networking as a standard feature because of the move to laptops. Every network printer I've dealt with from ~10 different brands all support IPP. I've not run into a network printer that doesn't, and even then LPD and the older protocols are all standard too...
[07:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:39] <exec> 08└─Wait, please read before judging. Most aristarchus posts, and submissions, are exquisitely rational. It is only the attempt to smear my posts that produces the reaction you had. So seriously, read. The TMB, lo these many years ago, thought that I was trying to paint "ironic" libertariantards like h...
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[07:57:41] <exec> 08└─I have never heard of loki games,
[07:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:44] <exec> 08└─Is that true?
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[07:57:46] <exec> 08└─That's the problem. Your milage WILL vary. A LOT.
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[08:52:04] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness I run Ubuntu! Why are Microserf users so, um, gullible? Stupid and gullible?
[08:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:05] <exec> 08└─So from the article everything was as good as it gets in a security point of view. They had up to now a flawless record, and when it broke it required a very good exploit, which was fixed immediately. What else could a customer want? No security bugs? I think anybody with any knowledge of security w...
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[08:52:18] <exec> 08└─And I'm sure if I look at the paper I will find all the standard BS too.
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[08:52:20] <exec> 08└─Ok, show me where they were blinded to the treatment. Also what made them decide to split the analysis into low addiction vs high addiction subsets, was this decided before or after starting the study? Also figure out what the sample sizes were for each result, I see it for some but not others. Wher...
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[08:53:43] <exec> 08└─https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally [sciencemag.org] In the earliest case, the patient became ill on 1 December 2019 and had no reported link to the seafood market, the authors report. “No epidemiological link was found betw...
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[08:53:44] <exec> 08└─The talk show host was blabbing, as all such hosts do, for the audience. He got some ears, so his speculation was successful, from his point of view. As for how it matters whether the bug escaped a military lab, well, world opinion and all that jazz. Note that no one speculated (as of yet) that Chin...
[08:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:46] <exec> 08└─Thanks. (my fault, should have been more precise with the context of my question. I was actually targeting the final part, the "... it's something to think about." and I intended to ask "Why do you think it's important enough that we should think about? Why having me/us/public/whoever thinking about...
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[08:53:48] <exec> 08└─I don't think you want it to be lethal at all. Zero lethality is ideal. Max morbidity causes the biggest drain on resources.
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[08:53:51] <exec> 08└─Why would you want the enemy to die instead of continuing to consume resources in a hospital bed? The best bioweapon is probably something like HFCS...
[08:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:51] <exec> 08└─There's nothing stunning or brave about an anti-M$ comment.
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[08:58:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe God's "Send Locusts" button has started working again: https://imgur.com [imgur.com]
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[09:02:34] <exec> 08└─First you became more a joke than your "jokes". Now both you and the crap you spout are just getting old.
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[09:52:04] <exec> 08└─All it takes is one instance of some ebola that gets swiped away by the sanitizer. Surely that can happen. The problem is that in $$$ driven america, other than corporations wanting to milk you for the last penny, there are people and lawyers going through ads and labels looking for a way to sue. Th...
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[09:52:05] <exec> 08└─99.99% isn't very effective. Let's say you start with a 10k, kill 9,999 and the germ replicates every 20 min. After 1 hr you have 1*2^3 = 8, 2 hr is 1*2^6 = 64, 4 hr would be 2^12 = 4096, 8 hr is 16,777,216. So it would take about 5 hrs to get back to the initial pop size. Multiply by however many g...
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[09:52:21] <exec> 08└─The so called cloud security is a mirror image to health conditions of das Konzentrationslager. Most deaths come from infections. How could liberals even conceive that model?
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[10:52:53] <exec> 08└─Reagan Cow Farts! Trump Ukrainian Interference! Newt Gingrinch intelligence! See this book [abebooks.co.uk], for an entirely opposite hypothesis from the tree-hating fossil fuel crowd!
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[10:54:05] <exec> 08└─1) it's below par in terms of morbidity too. 2) Max morbidity doesn't cause as much drain on resources as you think because less resources will be spent on you if you're too sick. Max resource drain might be something like a disease where you stay fairly healthy and active but you go around secretly...
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[10:54:06] <exec> 08└─Go ask the others making lethal weapons if you can't figure out why.
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[10:55:29] <exec> 08└─'I had a Nook Simple Touch that I used to death several years ago, and hunted all over for a device with the features I wanted before I settled on getting a used Kobo Glo HD... '
[10:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:01] <exec> 08└─I'm sure we can start a religion from this, we have all the right ingredients. "And on the 4th day, god looked down and was displeased with their over-indulgence..."
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[11:00:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, I was in one of those. The project wasn't even as good as a trainwreck, since nothing got beyond the concept stage. It was all fighting over what to do, and not actually ever doing anything. For fear of making the others look bad, anyone who actually tried to do something got sabotaged, first b...
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[11:59:05] <exec> 08└─Based on your signature and the above, I started to have this nagging feeling you are low in worshipers and, would an opening for a God position be created, you won't say no. (grin)
[11:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's yet to kick off properly. I'm thinking of offering 72 prostitutes in the afterlife - who wants bloody virgins?
[11:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:09] <exec> 08└─At my age i'm pretty sure I can't manage 72 whores, but I might get through 72 Bloody Marys.
[12:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:37] <exec> 08└─the 'principle of existence of an objective reality' - which is a postulate that Mr. Donald Hoffman still assume true at the base of his theories
[12:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:39] <exec> 08└─Objective Illusion is shared. Like, if you play a multiplayer game, your perception of the game illusion is partially common to multiple players, and that allows conscious interaction. The concept of objective nonreality is old, found in ancient Tibetan magic, Bön shamanism, for one example, and is...
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[12:00:41] <exec> 08└─Mr. Donald Hoffman
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[12:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purell's Unproven Disease-Fighting Claims Get Sanitized After FDA Warning - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:17] <exec> 08└─I'm honestly surprised this day in age to see a company have to change their lies/marketing. Marketing has always been about bullshitting, but it seems like it is standard practice these days for companies to outright lie about their products in order to make people buy them, and no one ever complai...
[12:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:34] <exec> 08└─Cloud security is not attainable because you don't have physical access to the hardware anyway nor actual legal protection against the OMG national security excuse nor a solid guarantee you are able to get your data back at a reasonable price should you need it. So I drift OT. Why would a perfect 10...
[12:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:35] <exec> 08└─Dear readers, It has been brought to our attention that there is a serious typo in the article. The line: That isolation is the basis of cloud security, enabling the safe sharing of common hardware.
[12:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:38] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, no-one had ever really bothered looking at their security before, and now that someone has, the very first flaw discovered is a 10.0 on the scale. So far, so Microsoft.
[12:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:40] <exec> 08└─'cos Perfect 10.0 attacks against Microsoft can go to 11!
[12:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:42] <exec> 08└─Why would a perfect 10 need any decimal? What kind of notation is that?
[12:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:44] <exec> 08└─It's a 10.0 because this is the first release of the perfect fix.
[12:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Dependence Found to Permanently Change Brains of Rats - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3899399 [nih.gov] Article from 2011, which is nine years ago. What I observe is misrepresenting what is in essence a replication as some kind of new science. Which in the vernacular is called lying.
[12:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:32] <exec> 08└─> "I'd stay home, load up on zinc, vitamin C, lie in bed, keep body warm and head not too warm." Don't forget lots of fluids and chicken soup.
[12:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:56] <exec> 08└─But if I could buy it DRM-free that would work on any book reader of my choice
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[13:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:17] <exec> 08└─Could you reveal his political bent so we know where he fits in? Or as a proxy, could you let us know how many aristarchus submissions he's rejected thus far?
[13:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:19] <exec> 08└─I don't have anything meaningful to say here that would go beyond the title, so I won't.
[13:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:21] <exec> 08└─Something New at SoylentNews
[13:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:23] <exec> 08└─You could offer condolences and wishes of a late onset of PTSD (large grin)
[13:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:25] <exec> 08└─So we now have SD on SN with PTSD!? SpiralDancing; SN,PTSD,RIP. ;)
[13:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:27] <exec> 08└─Well, according to the spoiler, SD is not new at SN. What's new is his role as editor.
[13:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03spiraldancing [5894] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:29] <exec> 08└─He's a wannabe Conservative who sides with the Dems year after year, 'cuz the Repubs, year after year, just keep redefining 'batshit crazy'. Alternately, he actually tried arguing in favor of an aristarchus sub, until he was talked out of it. At least that's what I heard.
[13:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:32] <exec> 08└─Welcome spiraldancing. And Ari needn't worry - one of his subs slipped through today...
[13:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solving a Biological Puzzle: How Stress Causes Gray Hair - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:39] <exec> 08└─Kids cause grey hair. Stupid sperm.... :)
[13:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solving a Biological Puzzle: How Stress Causes Gray Hair - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:41] <exec> 08└─Once there was this kid who Got into an accident and couldn't come to school But when he finally came back His hair had turned from black into bright white He said that it was from when The cars had smashed him so hard Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
[13:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Dependence Found to Permanently Change Brains of Rats - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:26] <exec> 08└─isn't just a willpower issue, it's an actual chemical imbalance that isn't always reversed
[13:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Dependence Found to Permanently Change Brains of Rats - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:28] <exec> 08└─The better ones were able to avoid problems with fortitude.
[13:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Dependence Found to Permanently Change Brains of Rats - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:30] <exec> 08└─I'm just gonna put this peer-reviewed article from the Journal of the American Medical Association here without comment. You all can draw your own conclusions. https://jamanetwork.com [jamanetwork.com]
[13:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Dependence Found to Permanently Change Brains of Rats - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:32] <exec> 08└─Before you can even tackle those questions you need an operational definition of "willpower". Actually, that applies to this study, too, but they do define the things they are looking at. Expecting them to define the terms used by other people without operational definitions is unreasonable.
[13:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Dependence Found to Permanently Change Brains of Rats - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:34] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but replication is important, and if you don't represent it as new you won't get published. Your criticism is valid, but should be directed at the system rather than at the article or the researchers.
[13:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:06] <exec> 08└─High Fructose Corn Syrup ?
[13:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:07] <exec> 08└─Well, saying that "will ignore the problem as long as possible" is dealing with it well is a matter of categorization, but if that's what you mean... The thing is, so far this disease isn't that dangerous. It is, however, one of the kinds of viruses that mutate rapidly. I was told it was of the same...
[13:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:10] <exec> 08└─There is, however, a quite reasonable explanation: 1) Many cases of the coronavirus don't have severe symptoms, so they wouldn't be recorded. 2) Even cases that are recorded are contagious well before the symptoms appear. So if a vendor of food is passing around something that infects a few people,...
[13:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:12] <exec> 08└─In this case it probably is useless. It spreads before symptoms appear, it has a incubation period of a couple of weeks, and there's no easy test that's reasonably specific. The only way to contain it would appear to be extensive quarantines. And China is a large country with permeable borders in ma...
[14:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 3665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:45] <exec> 08└─I've tried asking fellow workers how common this kind of dysfunction is in IT, and it was about 50-50 or 40-60. Expect a wide margin of error because of the small sample size. A bit more than half of IT worker were much like you-- in the same position for over a decade, in a functioning environment...
[14:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:47] <exec> 08└─Just in case you didn't notice, he is the cognitive psychologist the TFA is about (don't try to find him between the classics)
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[14:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HurdleBunter [1027] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:19] <exec> 08└─Look forward to lurking in @spiraldancing posted stories... One day I may submit one worth publishing.
[14:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:20] <exec> 08└─n/t
[14:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:22] <exec> 08└─> Ah, so SD is not a somebody/who, it's a something/what. And what would your problem be with that? -.-
[14:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:25] <exec> 08└─YES is the short answer. And I am available to begin training from Monday.
[14:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:27] <exec> 08└─>He's a wannabe Conservative who sides with the Dems year after year, 'cuz the Repubs, year after year, just keep redefining 'batshit crazy'. Which is like siding with Kim because Duterte is too much of a dictator. Welcome aboard, have fun.
[14:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:29] <exec> 08└─>And I am available to begin training from Monday. About time you got some training.
[14:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:31] <exec> 08└─It is thought to be too late in my own case - but I can still mumble what little I can remember to any poor sod who wishes to listen. ;)
[14:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03conn8d [6887] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:33] <exec> 08└─Welcome spiraldancing. We respect and deeply, extremely deeply love all our editors. Please remember to watch the first episode of Star Trek: Picard, it's free on youtube. See? That's how we show our love around these parts.
[14:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solving a Biological Puzzle: How Stress Causes Gray Hair - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:43] <exec> 08└─Crash test dummies was the band..quite appropriate
[14:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solving a Biological Puzzle: How Stress Causes Gray Hair - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:45] <exec> 08└─Here is an extract of the abstract: "hair greying results from activation of the sympathetic nerves that innervate the melanocyte stem-cell niche. Under conditions of stress, the activation of these sympathetic nerves leads to burst release of the neurotransmitter noradrenaline (also known as norepi...
[14:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purell's Unproven Disease-Fighting Claims Get Sanitized After FDA Warning - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:57] <exec> 08└─The problem is that hand washing is much more effective, and these things, which are nearly placebos, tend to get used in place of hand washing. *IF* it's really impossible to wash your hands, they are slightly effective, but the emphasis is on the slight, and they aren't that much more effective th...
[14:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Dependence Found to Permanently Change Brains of Rats - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:39] <exec> 08└─I can just imagine the wheels turning, creakily, in your head as you read this thing that proves you, lil il papa, was so right all along. Pathetic.
[14:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:59] <exec> 08└─There is unrest in the forest There is trouble with the trees For the maples want more sunlight And the oaks ignore their pleas -Rush : Trees
[14:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah and besides that, I've heard the maples aren't too happy with the large oaks to begin with.
[14:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:02] <exec> 08└─I'll have to read the paper, but global water availability has been dropping over the last number of decades. I am curious whether their 25-year outlook takes that into consideration in their conclusions.
[14:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, simply drain the enemys resources by making them so unhealthy they require constant medical care for their entire lives.
[14:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:23] <exec> 08└─I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
[14:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 2783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:26] <exec> 08└─This actually sounds doable. What a great project! Make a WinDoze EXE that'll run from a USB stick or external drive, while WinDoze is running. If an external drive is used, it would require enough spare capacity to hold twice the current WinDoze drive's used space. The app gathers some data: Pref...
[14:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:27] <exec> 08└─The trinity desktop environment is old kde, you might want to look for that.
[14:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:30] <exec> 08└─There remains to be seen how useful is having THE POSSIBILITY to switch to linux if Microsoft tries to drive Steam out of the market with some copycat store. Both for steam and for the guys publishing on steam.
[15:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:59] <exec> 08└─consider the 3d mapping
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[15:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:14] <exec> 08└─Is it though? Doesn't look like it. In any case you could see an open version of this querying some crowdsourced database of license plates in the future. Even with names. https://www.openalpr.com [openalpr.com]
[15:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:15] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but what's the $5/mo for then?
[15:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:39] <exec> 08└─We respect and deeply, extremely deeply love all our editors.
[15:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:40] <exec> 08└─Wuhan virus and now this...
[15:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:42] <exec> 08└─Man, that's deep. Like balls deep.
[15:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:45] <exec> 08└─So from a training perspective, wouldn't it have made more sense to make him approve/post his announcement story as sort of a final exam?
[15:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solving a Biological Puzzle: How Stress Causes Gray Hair - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:55] <exec> 08└─Also the latest skeptic's guide to the universe did a good common language breakdown of the research.
[15:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purell's Unproven Disease-Fighting Claims Get Sanitized After FDA Warning - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:06] <exec> 08└─It worked fine for Joe Isuzu's car commercials. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[15:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purell's Unproven Disease-Fighting Claims Get Sanitized After FDA Warning - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:07] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/1161/ [xkcd.com] eww...
[15:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purell's Unproven Disease-Fighting Claims Get Sanitized After FDA Warning - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:09] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Even worse, the rapidly replenished population of germs will all be descended from the 0,.01% of the original population that survived the first disinfection. And there's a pretty good chance that at least some of those survived because they were resistant to the disinfectant. So your newly...
[15:53:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:25] <exec> 08└─Dear readers, It has been brought to our attention that there is a serious typo in the article. The line: That isolation is the basis of cloud security, enabling the safe sharing of common hardware.
[15:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 2249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:30] <exec> 08└─A bug in the cloud is fundamentally different from a bug in a program, an OS, a processor, a LAN, a switch, a router or a PC. A bug in the cloud affects all of those things, your virtual processor, your virtual OS, your virtual LAN, your virtual switch, your virtual router and your virtual interface...
[15:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Dependence Found to Permanently Change Brains of Rats - 2392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:53] <exec> 08└─Not at all! This is the whole point. Just because you've observed changes in the brain does not mean you know anything particularly insightful. Right now our knowledge of the brain, a causal systematic understanding is 0. We currently analyze the brain similar to a person who had no ability to inter...
[15:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:16] <exec> 08└─When I cut down an overgrown magnolia tree and pulled the stump out, there was a puddle of stinky water directly under the stump. The roots had found a leaky water meter 20 feet away.
[15:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:17] <exec> 08└─More the tap roots...
[15:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 2183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:19] <exec> 08└─Terrence Malick's new world, although a bad movie, has some of the best nature shots I have seen in any movie. Imagine how it used to be, healthy, thriving, old growth forests that had been there for a long time. Humans are a little like trees, we live in the same basic temperature range and need wa...
[15:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:40] <exec> 08└─With the current Stable Genius in charge, as long as they agree to all the US trade deal terms, they'll get all the help that they need.
[15:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:41] <exec> 08└─preeeetttyyy sure the benign virus mutated out of of chinese PV module factories, infected a grid-tie inverter factory and became stronger in the process. infectious to humans happened when a team of oil and gas barons visited china and their yaw dropped to the ground after seeing the massive amount...
[15:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:06] <exec> 08└─You paid for the file. Just use Calibre to convert it to a PDF. If running from a different machine than that which has the Kindle app, you'd need to import the key onto the new machine before conversion. Now obviously, I'm in the "DRM is just plain dumb" camp. I have no compunction about performing...
[16:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:19] <exec> 08└─Won't happen in my lifetime, I can't let it be a factor that influences my life decisions
[16:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 2193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:20] <exec> 08└─> Where the heck have y'all been working? Oh yes, the trainwreck was a gig as a defense contractor. The military boys are difficult customers. They want powerful weapons that won't be used against them. They want to live by the sword and not die by the sword. They want unbreakable security that they...
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[16:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:16] <exec> 08└─Profit, what else? What, you think you should be allowed to contribute to their massive for-profit surveillance network for free?
[16:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:18] <exec> 08└─most home security cameras will be too low quality for this to work.
[16:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:20] <exec> 08└─Look, cops already have this stuff. What is the problem with giving it to the people? Leveling the playing field might even take us closer to the Libertarian-straw-man's private law enforcement paradise. The thing that makes license plate readers dangerous is the possibility that a widespread networ...
[16:52:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03spiraldancing [5894] 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:33] <exec> 08└─He's a wannabe Conservative who sides with the Dems year after year, 'cuz the Repubs, year after year, just keep redefining 'batshit crazy'. Alternately, he actually tried arguing in favor of an aristarchus sub, until he was talked out of it. At least that's what I heard.
[16:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:47] <exec> 08└─You just described Trump, except he seemed to side with both! Def favors kim though
[16:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder why he capitalizes "Conservative". British? Canadian? A US veteran who needs to be told how to vote [conservativepartyusa.org]? Maybe just reading a lot of Twitter. Thank you for your service.
[16:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solving a Biological Puzzle: How Stress Causes Gray Hair - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:01] <exec> 08└─It's amazing how little these people know about biology. The behavior of the cell is controlled by the glutathione redox potential: Quiescent at ~ -240 mV Proliferating at ~ -270 mV Differentiating at ~ -200 mV Apotosing/Necrosing at ~ > -170 mV The exact values may differ depending on the cell and...
[16:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:25] <exec> 08└─They absolutely do: Their needles, when they fall, make the soil highly acidic, which murders many of the competitive species of trees. And that's why the floor of an evergreen forest has very different undergrowth from a deciduous forest that's specifically adapted to that environment and not reall...
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[16:57:14] <exec> 08└─Thanks for pointing that out. I've avoided even looking at e-books because of how bad the situation was some years ago. Maybe I should have another look.
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[17:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:11] <exec> 08└─https://medium.com/@markoledwich/youtube-radicalization-an-authoritative-saucy-story-28f73953ed17 [medium.com]
[17:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:12] <exec> 08└─Oh hey, an aristarchus submission bloviating about the alt-right. How out of place.
[17:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:15] <exec> 08└─It is annoying how the algorithm has me pinned as a 20-30 something discontent man, so it keeps giving me Sargon, Stefan Molyneaux and other pretentious "skeptics". Just when I think I have the channels blocked from recommendations, more crop up and sneak into my suggestions.
[17:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:17] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem is that both are right. The intentional design of the algorithm is less radicalizing, compared to if users decided for themselves what to watch, but there's also nonetheless a radicalization treadmill, caused by, well, the general effectiveness of propaganda in shifting people's...
[17:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:19] <exec> 08└─Organization that depends on donations from Jewish people and Zionist Christians are fearmongering their support base. White nationalists aren't going to ever take over the world. There aren't enough of them left to do that. The most white nationalists will be able to do is make a few enclaves where...
[17:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:21] <exec> 08└─Some of those viewers might become persuaded to vote Republican. In a democracy, that's just not acceptable.
[17:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:23] <exec> 08└─There's all kinds of extreme content available on YouTube--name your poison. But it looks to me that YouTube has joined with mainstream media in pushing Neo-liberalism when it comes to suggested news/political content.
[17:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:25] <exec> 08└─Those who affiliate with the "intellectual dark web" justify white supremacy on the basis of eugenics and "race science. Members of the alt-lite purport to not support white supremacy, though they believe in conspiracy theories about "replacement" by minority groups.
[17:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 1730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:27] <exec> 08└─First off - you reference the ADL, mentioning that this study was "designed by" the ADL. But, with the PDF open on one monitor, I'm searching for ADL and Anti Defamation and similar terms. Nothing. So, uhhhh, the ADL designed some kind of study, then allowed someone to use the study, without so much...
[17:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:30] <exec> 08└─Funny, I don't get any of that, but I do get many music recommendations (many of which could be classified as copyright violations). I wonder what the ratio is between music and political videos on YouTube?
[17:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:32] <exec> 08└─Cool mental image. I'd like to see the video of a bunch of orthodox Jews flipping out over something. Like, maybe, women at the wrong spot at the wailing wall?
[17:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:34] <exec> 08└─At least they did research and crunched some numbers, your contribution is better left to one of the low-grade rightwing channels.
[17:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:36] <exec> 08└─Of course you wouldn't, you are a walking contradiction that can't even comprehend the alt-right infestation on this very site! At this point it is starting to seem more like you are just trolling while waving a Confederate flag around claiming it is just pride in your local heritage. You have now b...
[17:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:39] <exec> 08└─I'm a 50-something discontent man, and the algorithm doesn't give me any of those guys as recommendations. All I get is repeats from the few subscriptions I have, and mind-numbing amounts of anime and synthpop videos. (You get curious once and they think that's all you like...) Oh, and when really b...
[17:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 2678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:50] <exec> 08└─I've given a bit of thought from time to time, about my parents-in-law. The old man was born in 1905, and MIL was born in 1918. Yes, the people were still making babies at 50, and 43, respectively. But, life changed drastically in their lifetimes. For that matter, life has changed pretty drastically...
[17:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:19] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it's a thankless job that pays even less. Hopefully you'll hear about things that go right and not just complaints about what goes wrong. So again, thanks!
[17:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:21] <exec> 08└─Welcome aboard, you seem to have just the right grasp of the temperament needed for the task. Thank you for stepping in to help out.
[17:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solving a Biological Puzzle: How Stress Causes Gray Hair - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:34] <exec> 08└─I agree; it is amazing that journalists don't understand glutathione redox potential.
[17:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solving a Biological Puzzle: How Stress Causes Gray Hair - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:35] <exec> 08└─I didn't read what the journalists said, I read the paper written by people getting paid to be experts who clearly are unfamiliar with basic cell biology.
[17:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purell's Unproven Disease-Fighting Claims Get Sanitized After FDA Warning - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:49] <exec> 08└─Did the FDA use Purell to sanitize the unproven claims made by Purell?
[17:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:12] <exec> 08└─A cloud provider doesn't need to use hardware. They can put all their hardware in the cloud at a different cloud provider. Eventually all cloud providers can do this until there is no hardware in any cloud provider. Then you won't have to worry about not owning the hardware.
[17:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:13] <exec> 08└─It's bugs all the way down. You can't trust your cloud provider. You can't trust their OS You can't trust their hardware. You can't trust the OS installed on your own hardware. You can't trust the firmware on your hardware. You can't trust Intel Management Extensions on your own hardware The Psi Cor...
[17:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Dependence Found to Permanently Change Brains of Rats - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:37] <exec> 08└─Some of those people manage to Darwin Award themselves. But too often take others with them in the process.
[17:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:03] <exec> 08└─Could it be that an ever increasing population of humans could have an effect on water availability, or the health of the planet in general?
[17:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:26] <exec> 08└─Below ground, using only the glow from the monitor.
[17:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:28] <exec> 08└─I don't like it when rumors are flying. Rumors can be spread more quickly and efficiently over the internet.
[17:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:30] <exec> 08└─Just an idea put out there by a talk show host. Did this coronavirus escape the military's biological warfare laboratories?
[17:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:32] <exec> 08└─https://waltonandjohnson.com/pages/listen-live [waltonandjohnson.com] Walton and Johnson - or, actually not Walton and Johnson anymore, because Walton died recently. It's Johnson and Ken and Kenneth and Mr. O, and maybe Walton's ghost. A couple of odd couples, sort of, with a libertarian bent, and s...
[17:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:59] <exec> 08└─Seconded. And you may want to search for Apprentice Alf's blog if your books are in formats that Calibre doesn't convert out of the box.
[18:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 6378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:44] <exec> 08└─I have NEVER been a Microsoft shill. I've been the one that's brought linux into the companies I worked at. However, I'm also a realist. People who aren't of a technical bent can't use linux for day-to-day work. This is nothing new. It's been around since the days of DOS. At one business, a financia...
[18:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:45] <exec> 08└─Anonymous poster - check Pushing a conspiracy theory - check Claiming that Microsoft killed the EEE when it was in fact killed by the huge crash in laptop prices - check When laptops with twice the ram and a 15" screen suddenly were selling for less than an EEE, the game was over. I saw laptop pr...
[18:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:47] <exec> 08└─All computers connected to the internet are tracked. That's just a fact of life. Even linux behind a VPN. The only thing to do is take reasonable precautions. Don't use Windows. Don't use Android. Remove all google apps from an iPhone. Turn off GPS. Turn off bluetooth. Don't use social media. Don't...
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[18:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:28] <exec> 08└─You can see them right here in this thread. What is it about articles discussing rightwing terrorism that make all the alt-liters come out to deny? Denial, not just a river in Egypt. To mix it up I'd like to point out how Trump's lawyers have switched away from denying he did to weird rationalizatio...
[18:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:30] <exec> 08└─Credibility wise, I think the ADL is head and shoulders above the SPLC and some of those other nutgroups. That is, the ADL is credible enough to argue with. SPLC isn't even worth arguing with.
[18:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:32] <exec> 08└─*yawn* Maybe you missed the bit where the former VP openly bragged in front of microphones about doing exactly what Trump is accused of.
[18:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe you missed a lot of the news in recent years? ISIS/DAESH was recruiting idiots from Europe, the US, Canada, Asia - from around the world. There was a LOT of radicalization going on, maybe right next door to you, in your own neighborhood. Consistency? Let us be consistent by all means. Radicali...
[18:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:36] <exec> 08└─First off - you reference the ADL, mentioning that this study was "designed by" the ADL. But, with the PDF open on one monitor, I'm searching for ADL and Anti Defamation and similar terms. Nothing.
[18:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:39] <exec> 08└─Because the people who design these algorithms are arrogant Shylocks who think the human cattle utilizing their algos are too stupid to figure it out, and won't at all be insulted by having their preferences chosen for them by the chosen. Nowadays YouTube appears to be 50% a propaganda arm of the De...
[18:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:41] <exec> 08└─Which is more dangerous? Oh, and don't forget video games... And the evil weed, all gateways to anarchy!
[18:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:43] <exec> 08└─Is A-OK to OK as amoral is to moral?
[18:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:45] <exec> 08└─You need to create bookmarks for all of the channels you like. You can't even trust the subscriptions feature to work properly anymore. Also make sure to look for secondary channels, Twitter profiles, BitChute backup, etc. You could try clearing your browser or account history to reset recommendatio...
[18:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:47] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus or not, I tend to view these types of submissions as ADL hate discussions. People here tend to like free speech, in fact, it's why they're here and not on Slashdot or Reddit. ADL, SPLC, and all those other chosen trojan horses are all about limiting speech and often with no rhyme or reas...
[18:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:49] <exec> 08└─I was radicalized by the New York Times when they convinced me that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
[18:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:51] <exec> 08└─Well, you can see this video [youtube.com] of the Jew Patrol going to raid the offices of SoylentNews for antisemitic posting. Many Oy Veys and much kvetching to be had, for sure!
[18:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:54] <exec> 08└─Fans become fanatics become stalkers. Hobbyists become obsessives. Does this article point more to some core human tendency (obviously stronger in some people than others) to pursue reasonable interests to unreasonable extremes?
[18:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:56] <exec> 08└─Oh. One more question. That "radicalization" schtick? Are they counting Arabic, Islamic, ISIS/DAESH radicals as part of this phantom alt-right? As I understand it, there is a LOT OF that type of radicalization on the various social medias. They are hopeless depressed people that are offered big mone...
[18:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:58] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't you be upmodding your posts with your sockpuppets instead of failing to troll me?
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[18:53:10] <exec> 08└─Beat me to it. But with OpenCV-based stuff, even a beginner/intermediate level Python coder could bang out something similar with Google-Fu finding open repos and tutorials and using all the usual other useful Python stuff: OpenCV, SciPy/NumPy and all other supporting packages associated with those....
[18:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:42] <exec> 08└─From "spiraldancing (5894)" and the *spoiler* in tfa, it looks like you set up a new login for this gig. Smart move! In the old days there was lots of talk about fireproof underwear, that may also be helpful?
[18:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, welcome and thank you, spiraldancing. (sotto voice) you poor bastard
[18:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:38] <exec> 08└─So first the article says the cloud provider has to fix it themselves: "It undermines the concept of cloud security. You can't prevent it, you can't protect yourself. The only one who can is the cloud provider."
[18:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:23] <exec> 08└─Nobody considers servicing when buying or leasing a car. It's all about the monthly payments. And keep in mind - more than half of all cars sold are used, with no servicing included, and they STILL don't consider servicing costs.
[18:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:25] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately due to the current state of E-ink displays, if you want to have your cake and eat it too you will need both a phone and e-ink reader, or a hypothetical foldable phone with both displays. The main reason is because the dog-slow refresh rate and refresh flicker that makes watching videos...
[18:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:27] <exec> 08└─Do not toss a wet book into the microwave. Do not toss any wet thing in the microwave for the purposes of drying. I tried this once many years ago and started a small fire. If you try this and then get up and walk away for something, you will burn your kitchen if not your house down.
[18:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:29] <exec> 08└─Could you share where this is?
[18:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I suppose there are other materials besides water that heat up. Maybe the glue in the binding. Obviously avoid anything with metal like a zipper or buttons. It worked for my socks though. The dog? Well, that was unfortunate.
[18:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not much of a video consumer on my phone, but I get there are a lot of people who do. I was looking into playing with some small e-ink screens, but eventually came to the conclusion that the screens I could get had too slow of a refresh rate for what I was wanting. Even with refresh rates like o...
[18:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:36] <exec> 08└─I liked the simplicity of treating it like a flash drive to drop my Project Gutenberg books onto it, while at the same time using the B&N store to get newer copyrighted material.
[18:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Kobo seems to be the only cheapish/goodish alternative to Nook/Kindle. Sony's been in the game a long time, but they've always been a bit expensive while seeming to not have much in the way of innovation.
[18:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:45] <exec> 08└─Sure, but if you run a business and your costs go up, what do you do? You pass it on the customer. Eventually, that costs get passed on to the consumer of the end product. Us.
[19:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:28] <exec> 08└─I kind of got used to plasma - after they fixed the "where did everything go - why do I have a blank screen with an empty black taskbar" bug. Might try it again. I'll be looking at people's suggestions in the spring.
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[19:52:10] <exec> 08└─please be careful with my interwebs!
[19:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-on Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:12] <exec> 08└─But like most such things the price tag is too high to actually implement. A ground based network of lasers that exert a fraction of a PSI over the course of months to deorbit debris can be implemented with today's technology, and the only problem with it is the up front cost of installation.
[19:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:50] <exec> 08└─Tribal jackass, Biden is a corrupt piece of crap too. When will you morons learn that you're fighting the wrong people and propping up the worst of the worst? But admitting you're wrong is tantamount to castration, so of course BIG STRONG RUNAWAY has to make whatabout comments to make himself feel b...
[19:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:52] <exec> 08└─Ooooooh My Milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, And they're like "that concrete hurts" Damn right, that's the point To teach you, fascism for tards
[19:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:54] <exec> 08└─what is wrong with you goddamn slaves recommending more closed source shit instead of open source, decentralized solutions? just how goddamned stupid are you fucking sheep?
[19:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:56] <exec> 08└─Even as an arrogant shylock, I feel comfortable telling you to fuck off ya racist dipship.
[19:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:59] <exec> 08└─Youtube just needs more sex. [boomers can watch old Carson vids] Once that bit of tension is relieved, nobody's going want to go out rioting and killing and shit. They're going to fire up a fatty and eat avocado ice cream.
[19:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:01] <exec> 08└─yes. This is just more Jewish supremacist propaganda and exercising more control over their nearly exterminated foes. here's some "Hate Speech" for anyone who hasn't learned the truth about these Jews so worried about being "defamed" they have set up a league to defend against it, among many other o...
[19:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:03] <exec> 08└─the jews who own google and youtube are working with the jews at the adl to try to keep aryans from learning the truth about the world. surprise, surprise.
[19:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:05] <exec> 08└─99% of the eyeballs are on YouTube. If you aren't banned from there, of course you target that first. You decentralize by spreading across multiple platforms and linking them together. You only use the 0.01% open source, decentralized platforms as a last resort.
[19:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:07] <exec> 08└─So in other words, we should all be watching cat videos. The other content is too controversial.
[19:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:09] <exec> 08└─I pity the poor professors at school, when they show a youtube video in class and the "Recommended for you!" bar has videos about urinary tract infections, because they looked something up outside of class.
[19:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:12] <exec> 08└─They should, the two groups are more similar than different, but that begs the question: did you even RTFA?
[19:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:14] <exec> 08└─Sure. Whatever. That works.
[19:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:16] <exec> 08└─"Aristarchus or not, I tend to view these types of submissions as ADL hate discussions. People here tend to like free speech, in fact, it's why they're here and not on Slashdot or Reddit." Way to conflate the issues as part of your recruitment techniques. Can we get a -1 Clueless mod? Or perhaps a -...
[19:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:18] <exec> 08└─Do you realize you validate the article with your skreed? Go back to your hole worm.
[19:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:20] <exec> 08└─You're acting like people haven't been shot and killed in the US for the heinous crime of attending a synagogue multiple times in the last few years. Most white nationalist groups are infiltrated by Federal, State, and Local agencies.
[19:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:22] <exec> 08└─This thread is chock full of moron whining about racists being prevented from gaming the system to promote their propaganda. The typical excuses of free speech and some kind of martyrdom for the general idea of publishers moderating content on their own platform. Paired with all the racism, it reall...
[19:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:36] <exec> 08└─i've thought of tracking cops with their car computer's wireless connections, but not license plates. good idea. the sooner the better.
[19:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:38] <exec> 08└─just a few thoughts with no conclusion: the "surveilance makers" are normal humans too after leaving the office but the surveilance has no office hours and no holidays. some people want to be "out there". anything that might help them get more exposure will be welcomed. surveilance is good. the more...
[19:53:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:57] <exec> 08└─YES is the short answer. And I am available to begin training from Monday.
[19:53:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:59] <exec> 08└─>And I am available to begin training from Monday. About time you got some training.
[19:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:12] <exec> 08└─But that would have been a waste of effort - we thought it much more valuable to actually process a story from submission to the Main Page. He had plenty of 'dummy runs' before being allowed on the live system.
[19:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:07] <exec> 08└─10.0 has two holes as opposed to one you get with just 10
[19:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:58] <exec> 08└─Aw geez moderators. Come on! What, was it too soon?
[19:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:25] <exec> 08└─yes, and a semi auto rifle with thousands of rounds to keep the infectious off the lawn.
[19:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:02] <exec> 08└─Douglas County (where the Douglas Fir comes from), Oregon
[19:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:03] <exec> 08└─thepiratebay.org programmer-books.com etc. you're welcome
[19:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:06] <exec> 08└─stfu, you ignorant whore. ubuntu touch is alive and well and running on my goddamn phone right now.
[20:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:55] <exec> 08└─fuck you. those walmart shopping slaves thought they were buying a windows computer or didn't understand that using linox meant "their" programs wouldn't work. It is not a reflection of the quality of linox. also who knows what distro walmart had preinstalled. many times it's some highly obscure dis...
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[20:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:10] <exec> 08└─Considering its importance I would have guessed that every operating room would have a backup system for, at a minimum, lights; and maybe a few other machines as well. Is preparation for unexpected events not something that's given any consideration in this field?
[20:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:11] <exec> 08└─I could've sworn it was standard for hospitals to have backup generators in general...
[20:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:14] <exec> 08└─Not just backup, but straight up UPS seems like the bare minimum.
[20:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jon3k [3718] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:16] <exec> 08└─My stairwell can keep the lights on during a power outage but not an operating room? Here's a little "ingenuity" for you, it's called a battery.
[20:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:18] <exec> 08└─Doctor must have left their phone in the patient when they closed up, and "smartphone" wasn't on the checklist for things to make sure weren't left in the patient.
[20:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:29] <exec> 08└─Ambiguity of English, I guess. Near miss: They missed each other, but the objects passed near each other (Near as in distance). Near hit: The objects almost hit each other. (Near as in almost.)
[20:52:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 1310 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:41] <exec> 08└─Organization that depends on donations from Jewish people and Zionist Christians are fearmongering their support base. White nationalists aren't going to ever take over the world. There aren't enough of them left to do that. The most white nationalists will be able to do is make a few enclaves where...
[20:52:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:56] <exec> 08└─First off - you reference the ADL, mentioning that this study was "designed by" the ADL. But, with the PDF open on one monitor, I'm searching for ADL and Anti Defamation and similar terms. Nothing.
[20:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:26] <exec> 08└─One big difference between white nationalists and Muslim radicals is how the US government responds to them: - Somebody involved in the likes of Al Qaida or Daesh: killed both the person and his children with drone strikes [theintercept.com]. - Somebody involved in white nationalism: invited to work...
[20:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 1936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:27] <exec> 08└─Well, it's true. If people are modding me up, then some generally agree. The two issues are directly related. People who question the actions of foreign and domestic governments = Conspiracy Theorists. Individuals who don't agree with me = Extremists. Large groups of people who don't agree with me =...
[20:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:30] <exec> 08└─Runaway has, um, issues. Intelligence issues. Does not understand academic formats, is triggered by acronyms. Poor Runaway.
[20:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:32] <exec> 08└─The government is led by a whitey. They gotta stick together
[20:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 2498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:34] <exec> 08└─A new study [PDF] suggests what we've suspected for years is right: YouTube is a pipeline for extremism and hate. How do we know that? More than 330,000 videos on nearly 350 YouTube channels were analyzed and manually classified according to a system designed by the Anti-Defamation Leag...
[20:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:36] <exec> 08└─You don't get to dictate what I should watch. I watch whatever I like. Soft right hard right left. If you desume that watching implies agreeing, then first have a word with your pals in Hollywood, then get back on YouTube to pontificate. Leftist videos, especially on the moderate side, all tell the...
[20:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 1792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:38] <exec> 08└─You know of the concept of the lesser of two evils. Good and evil are points of perspective. You have a media and educational system telling white people they are monsters that must be erased. A white kid sees his opportunities curtailed by racial quotas that push forward others who might not be as...
[20:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:40] <exec> 08└─"Well, it's true. If people are modding me up, then some generally agree. The two issues are directly related." You're saying there are OTHER alt-right shit heads that post around here? Aristarchus was right all along! No wonder he has such a hard time getting any article about the white power bums...
[20:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:43] <exec> 08└─We're just 11% of the world's population. We have the right to exist.
[20:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:45] <exec> 08└─When did Putin reactivate you?
[20:53:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 2678 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:56] <exec> 08└─I've given a bit of thought from time to time, about my parents-in-law. The old man was born in 1905, and MIL was born in 1918. Yes, the people were still making babies at 50, and 43, respectively. But, life changed drastically in their lifetimes. For that matter, life has changed pretty drastically...
[20:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:00] <exec> 08└─This is a private for profit company storing all these plate records, and explicitly not giving much access back to paying peons but providing it to cops. Or, you're not gaining the advantage you think you are but tipping the scale further against yourself.
[20:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:27] <exec> 08└─You're the ignorant oranr one. Ubuntu Touch is not Ubuntu Phone. Ubuntu Phone was a smartphone sold by Vodaphone in South Africa in partnership with Canonical.
[21:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:17] <exec> 08└─Sometimes it's not what you say, it is how you say it. And that was more than just an anti MS comment anyway.
[21:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:18] <exec> 08└─So tell me how that's any different from today, Where people still can't find Linux equivalents for the programs they want to run? They can't even buy an equivalent product at twice the price because of market failure - the FOSS market. People like choice. Other operating systems, you have a choice...
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[21:03:16] <exec> 08└─It's not all bad news. The locusts are quite efficient at producing nutritious animal protein from a rather protein-diffuse plant diet. The problem is really one of food preservation, rather than capture. What Africa might do well with, is mobile locust capture/canning groups.
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[21:52:16] <exec> 08└─Back in my day, we kept a jar of fireflies (lightning bugs) around, just in case...
[21:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:17] <exec> 08└─The backup generators took a couple of minutes to kick in. The operation was minor, removing a lesion from the scalp using a local anesthetic, and all that was left to do was a couple of stitches. No real problem, not like two patients who had been anesthetize and were woken up and rescheduled.
[21:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:19] <exec> 08└─I wonder if their phones are on the list of things to sterilize before entering the room with them?
[21:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:21] <exec> 08└─That question actually came up while visiting someone in isolation. The answer was "Don't use your phones." Even with gloves, you can touch something contaminated and then contaminate your phone. And you certainly don't want to show the person in isolation anything on your phone and having them brea...
[21:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:32] <exec> 08└─At least it isn't a Register story so they didn't say anything about how "Boffins" did these calculations.
[21:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jay [8679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:34] <exec> 08└─You get up in arms about that, but you ignore "head on smash"? At orbital velocities, the angle of impact doesn't matter in the least. And $100 says that they were actually nowhere near close to hitting head-on, because that's not how we put things in orbit.
[21:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:36] <exec> 08└─What about the energy to power laser network?
[21:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:38] <exec> 08└─Relatively minor. I haven't looked at the actual papers on it, nor done the math myself, but I don't think you lose that much energy from the atmosphere if your lasers are in the right frequency, and though it's counter-intuitive, other than that, the actual quantity of energy to de-orbit is precise...
[21:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:40] <exec> 08└─How well does this work on tumblers? A lot of the big nasty debris isn't exactly holding steady attitude. Also, the perception of building a "space laser facility" is going to be hard to get around...
[21:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:43] <exec> 08└─Check out Scott Manley's YouTube video on the topic from a couple of days ago. He shows the two tracks and it is pretty close to "head-on". At least, if two automobiles crashed with those vectors, everyone would call that a "head-on" collision. I don't know which satellite was the retrograde one.
[21:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:45] <exec> 08└─1. In space, objects in motion remain in motion, on exactly the same course unless acted on by another force. It's exactly like those "imagine this is a frictionless vacuum" problems they teach in physics 101, except it's actually a frictionless vacuum. There's not an inch of wobble to the center of...
[21:53:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:00] <exec> 08└─Those who affiliate with the "intellectual dark web" justify white supremacy on the basis of eugenics and "race science. Members of the alt-lite purport to not support white supremacy, though they believe in conspiracy theories about "replacement" by minority groups.
[21:53:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:18] <exec> 08└─I was radicalized by the New York Times when they convinced me that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
[21:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:52] <exec> 08└─When we get rid of the Intellectual Dark Web and bring about communism we can finish the job and get rid of all problematic intellectuals. Eventually there will only be Aristarchus and myself left.
[21:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:53] <exec> 08└─So in other words, we should all be watching cat videos. Well, yeah, but they have better ones on XTube
[21:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:55] <exec> 08└─Probably more due to the fact that people want to discuss things unrelated to politics, and even with pure sci-tech stories politics always finds a way to creep in at least a little. I'm occasionally guilty of that but definitely not one of the worst offenders as long as the discussion avoids politi...
[21:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:57] <exec> 08└─It's funny how anti-semites, like you, like to pick and choose which groups are co-opted by "Jewish people and Zionist Christians" based on whom you already dislike. There is nobody in this country that is free from Zionist influence. Not even the alt-right. Or did you think that just because they h...
[21:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:59] <exec> 08└─You have a media and educational system telling white people they are monsters that must be erased.
[21:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:02] <exec> 08└─You fucking sad sack democrats! You're killing us! You sink so low you elevate Trump! Fock! And poor dumb liberals, too scatterbrained and spineless and passive-aggressive to stand up on their own, always looking for coattails to ride and lampposts to lean on, playing the cripple looking for sympath...
[21:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:04] <exec> 08└─Oy, I think I just peessed it off! They get a bit tetchy when you jam your thumb right up the butt'ole.
[21:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:06] <exec> 08└─The civil approach, how novel for you. If your reasoning had any bearing on reality then you would leave this topic alone. Pretending you are above it all while simultaneously pushing your racist crap all over the comments is indicative of your lack of morality.
[21:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:08] <exec> 08└─You might not be familiar with Alessandro Orsini and his book ISIS the luckiest terrorists ever "I terroristi più fortunati del mondo" https://youtu.be [youtu.be] Even the killing of soleimani avenges them. Much like Italian commie terrorists all found a work inthe public sector afterwa...
[21:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:10] <exec> 08└─fustakrakich loves catboys.
[21:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:12] <exec> 08└─Didn't know you could play those. I was always more of a Glass Walker or maybe Get of Fenris.
[21:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:15] <exec> 08└─Way too many stupid posts by stupid people make this website almost useless as a techie website.
[21:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:17] <exec> 08└─What's your handle, lover?
[21:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:19] <exec> 08└─Why you gotta go boot stomping on your own community? Did the dark web do naughty things to you? The Achilles heel of all bigots is that they are emotionally compromised into believing nonsense, and somewhere along the thread of any conversation you'll get to the point where you realize the person y...
[21:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 4485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:36] <exec> 08└─That is very similar to what China is like now. With their "social credit" score to enforce conformity. Another thing we are seeing, is how privacy is becoming a luxury. Once upon a time if you wondered outside of your village you were pretty much an anonymous traveler and most people paid no attent...
[21:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solving a Biological Puzzle: How Stress Causes Gray Hair - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:26] <exec> 08└─first the stress response reduces the intracellular glutathione of these cells, probably to prepare them for some kind of free radical deluge during flight or fight repsonse
[21:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:07] <exec> 08└─Why would a perfect 10 need any decimal? What kind of notation is that?
[21:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:09] <exec> 08└─Fatfingered again; meant to say "It's 10.0 because it's the beta version."
[21:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:11] <exec> 08└─A cloud service bug that breaks isolation between users is really serious. It suggests that there is a big problem with the Microsoft implementation of resource separation, server side. This probably means that a simple bug fix will only work until the next hole is punched in the infrastructure.
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[21:58:30] <exec> 08└─https://biorxiv-cache.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/2020.01.30.927871.full.pdf [amazonaws.com]
[22:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:00] <exec> 08└─You are correct of course, but I don't think humanity needs to worry overly much about the impending heat death of the universe. That is the time when your prediction becomes true. As I said, you're just scientifically literate enough to get yourself in trouble.
[22:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:02] <exec> 08└─I do, every day! I wake up some mornings though and the weight of responsibility and problems in the world can get me down. Then I think to myself, at least you're not Runaway, Ethanol-Fueled, or The Mighty Buzzard! Then I realize how good I have it, but next I realize those people are still shittin...
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[22:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:09] <exec> 08└─Now, is it going to take another 40 years for all electronic gear on the market to upgrade to the 2.0 standard?
[22:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:10] <exec> 08└─This will probably be good for electronic performers performing in large venues. The latency of the original MIDI was a problem in many such cases and caused "flamming" with multiple connected and synchronized instruments. Flamming is a common drum technique in which the drummer hits the same drum w...
[22:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:13] <exec> 08└─Haven't played it in over a decade now. Even when I did, it's in pristine condition. The battery probably needs replaced, but it didn't last I used it. They probably thought of compatibility with MIDI 1 devices? That use the ancient 5-pin DIN connector? (Although I have an adapter for that to USB.)
[22:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:15] <exec> 08└─Timing? I want my parallel port back!
[22:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:17] <exec> 08└─They might need that long to develop MIDI 3.0
[22:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:19] <exec> 08└─According to TFA MIDI 2 is backwards-compatible, and it goddamn better be. Some things, such as the original MIDI standard, stood up to time because they were too good to be fucked with.
[22:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:21] <exec> 08└─Other than connecting computer/synth to midi controllers, kinda of irrelevant, eh? I mean computer is the synth now. Analog synths are just novelty/collector items now.
[22:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:37] <exec> 08└─Did they even think to patent this? Probably not, doctors are too dumb.
[22:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:38] <exec> 08└─lightning bugs
[22:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:57] <exec> 08└─But the likelihood for a glancing collision would have still been higher than full head-on, given the uncertainties and the fact that one of the satellites had a long boom [space.com].
[22:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:58] <exec> 08└─There's not an inch of wobble to the center of mass.
[22:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:00] <exec> 08└─It's not the same as that theory, because you're always shooting from the ground towards the object when it's approaching you. There's no way that doesn't slow it down.
[22:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:22] <exec> 08└─[citations needed]
[22:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:23] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself, loser.
[22:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:25] <exec> 08└─What a piece of shit, they stole nothing they were there first. Yet thousands of years later they still have scum like you wanting to kill them off. No wonder they try to raise the alarm at all possible opportunities it continues without end all the time. There is not a day goes by without it in thi...
[22:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:27] <exec> 08└─The algorithm has me pinned as a 40-60 something high functioning fruitcake.
[22:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:30] <exec> 08└─I don't see any mention of Bernie supporters and their call for gulags. Perhaps they should include them under Non-White Supremacists.
[22:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:32] <exec> 08└─Triggered MAGA moron alert! Flag this one for enhanced reeducation.
[22:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solving a Biological Puzzle: How Stress Causes Gray Hair - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:39] <exec> 08└─Its an assumption that explains the observed progression in melanocyte activity.
[22:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purell's Unproven Disease-Fighting Claims Get Sanitized After FDA Warning - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:54] <exec> 08└─It's interesting that the norovirus is a non-enveloped virus and non-enveloped viruses are resistant to alcohol based detergents. Yet they claim that this will stop that?
[22:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Dependence Found to Permanently Change Brains of Rats - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:46] <exec> 08└─Many of these things are certainly true. We may still be at the "black box" testing level for the brain, but clearly some chemicals are the equivalent of "flipping a switch." For example, hormones are generally better understood, but we're still finding long term side effects from some of them. We h...
[22:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Dependence Found to Permanently Change Brains of Rats - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:48] <exec> 08└─I assume everyone is drunk when driving at all times. And with the rise of cell phones 50% of people may as well be.
[22:57:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 532 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:13] <exec> 08└─They absolutely do: Their needles, when they fall, make the soil highly acidic, which murders many of the competitive species of trees. And that's why the floor of an evergreen forest has very different undergrowth from a deciduous forest that's specifically adapted to that environment and not reall...
[22:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:17] <exec> 08└─Thanks for posting that, I didn't know about them. Really interesting.
[22:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:19] <exec> 08└─I was shooting for "funny," but I'll gladly take informative replies over imaginary internet points any day of the week.
[22:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:48] <exec> 08└─That is determined by the quality of the fly paper you placed in her bra.
[23:01:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02 - 06Caltech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:20] <exec> 08└─Publicly funded? Cal Tech is a private institution. Do you have any citation for the statement that any of the research behind the patents received public funds? I hate it as much as anybody when large corporations rip off research that is paid for by taxpayers, but as far as I know Cal Tech has a h...
[23:01:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06Caltech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 335 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:23] <exec> 08└─And if you look at those patents, they were funded by a government grant The U.S. Government has a paid-up license in this invention and the right in limited circumstances to require the patent owner to license others on reasonable terms as provided for by the terms of Grant No. CCR-9804793 awarded...
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[23:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:08] <exec> 08└─All this Brexit kerfuffle interrupted her time to play with the corgis.
[23:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:10] <exec> 08└─A new commemorative 50p coin will also come into circulation to mark the UK's withdrawal.
[23:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:12] <exec> 08└─No more polish plumbers? Would it stop the mussies? On the bright side, London Stock Exchange will die off soon. Frankfurties must be dancing in joy.
[23:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:26] <exec> 08└─Is "industrial music" still a thing?
[23:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:27] <exec> 08└─Analog synths are just novelty/collector items now. Most are built for the road. And it's nice when the equipment is ready to run when you flip the switch.
[23:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:29] <exec> 08└─And try playing piano music on a laptop's QWERTY keyboard. There is nothing more offputting than seeing a live electronic music performer sitting there stuck to only a single laptop with no keyboard controller or percussion pads or anything. That's okay for DJ's or anything designed to be background...
[23:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:31] <exec> 08└─"Acid" is digital now. Maybe in studio they find use for production use. All the more stupid to pack analog gears for road gigs.
[23:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:34] <exec> 08└─Is there no field he can't dominate? Here is a man who only released his first song today, and then immediately released an update to the 39 year old MIDI standard. Can't wait to see what he does when he watches his first porn video.
[23:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:36] <exec> 08└─Very, very, very basic question -- I know it has to do with digital representations of music, but where does it fit in between a sheet of music with notes on it, an electronic keyboard, and a physical piano? Maybe I need a much more basic understanding of sound generation and representation, but poi...
[23:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:53] <exec> 08└─Weren't you singing it's praises the other day? A musl/Linux phone wouldn't have been a distraction because it doesn't have no stinkin' apps of which millennial surgeons seem so addicted. Call someone who cares! Oh, that's right you can because your silicon valley spyware actually makes calls.
[23:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:55] <exec> 08└─Oh boy is your memory fscked up. I said it was a total piece of shit, no audio and no dialed and no texting capability. I made it very clear it's currently an overpriced crippled tablet - and you can buy tablets with bigger displays and SOUND for less than half the price that run Linux. Why not tak...
[23:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:57] <exec> 08└─"Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light" Yay! A patients life was saved by almighty mobile phones! (no it wasn't but that is all many idiots looking at this clickbait will see). All praise mobile phones and their ultra-bright LED backlights! (Stare at them until your eyes melt) Does...
[23:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:59] <exec> 08└─So you are saying they were negligent in maintaining the generator and are using this to distract people from the fact people in ICU almost died, and likely have brain damage?
[23:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:01] <exec> 08└─Nobody almost died. Nobody was at risk of brain damage. The whole area has a history of problems with high variable voltage, and this probably caused a delay in the generator kicking in because you have to set it for a higher variance of line power before it cuts in. Don't want it kicking in multipl...
[23:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:49] <exec> 08└─Your "satire" doesn't work. Good satire requires an element of subtlety; it should make someone invoke Poe's Law ("...is this the real deal or someone faking it? I really cannot tell."). In your case? It's plainly obvious you're trying, and failing, to do satire. What you're actually doing is strawm...
[23:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:51] <exec> 08└─Given your post history and belief system, it's hard to take anything you say seriously from any angle except "I'm a white supremacist myself and it fucking sucks so many of us are pants-on-head retarded, 'cuz we'd have our ethnostate by now otherwise!" With a heaping helping of Jew-hate on the side...
[23:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:53] <exec> 08└─Well damn! You sure gave us a good reason to evict the Europeans from the entire American Continent, North and South and everything between!
[23:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we get it, Opus Dei...all will be right with the world when the Old Latin Rite is reinstated, with the creepy old pederast in a dress turning his back on the congregation and muttering "hoc est corpus meum" under his breath again... Fuck off, will you? Your Church trails a nearly 1700-year-lon...
[23:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:57] <exec> 08└─Can't re-educate what was never educated, and can't educate what was never educable. No, no, flag that one for the B Ark :D
[23:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:59] <exec> 08└─You gotta admit...Europe wasn't sending their best and brightest. They were sending their poor, their terrorists, their violent people, their rapists, and I assume some of them were good people too. But maaaan...they were violent as hell, they wouldn't integrate and assimilate into the local culture...
[23:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:02] <exec> 08└─With regard to "radicalization," there only seems to be mention of White people who reject the globalist agenda. What about Bernie Bros, Antifa and how the Huffington Post is the gateway drug to leftist radicalization?
[23:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:04] <exec> 08└─We have the right to exist, but we don't have the right to take away other peoples' right to exist. Why is this difficult? And if you think the media paints all white people as monsters when it rightfully points out the actions of a bunch of violent racists, stop and think why you're making that con...
[23:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:06] <exec> 08└─Let's see...really, the only thing that differs is what name they call God by, if you think about it. Bunch of young, angry, disenfranchised men being targeted and radicalized...yup, it checks out.
[23:55:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:16] <exec> 08└─Profit, what else? What, you think you should be allowed to contribute to their massive for-profit surveillance network for free?
[23:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nesh [269] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:26] <exec> 08└─lol, most of the bits will have gone or will be stored in old non-readable formats. You think digital lasts longer? Nothing degrades faster than bits stored on out-dated medium. Or are you pinning your hopes on cloud storage? Good luck with that.
[23:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:55] <exec> 08└─"After Salgado’s forest was created, it resulted in even more rainfall in the area." So wait, is it saying that planting trees results in more rainfall? Seems far fetched no?