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[00:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:33] <exec> 08└─Good news, nerds! Coding is indoor work. Your betters the tech billionaires need some code to copy into their very lucrative apps. Get on GitHub and make brilliant commits. Open source everything so billionaires can make money off your hard work. You won't get paid a penny, but remember, GitHub is w...
[00:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:34] <exec> 08└─Huh? Boomers aren't all retired yet. Yeah, they're all at least in their 50s (I think that generation is supposed to start around 1962, so about 57 years old now?), but there's still plenty of working people in their late 50s and 60s. Remember, you can't draw Social Security until 65 at the very ear...
[00:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:36] <exec> 08└─Telepresence companies -- zoom, webex, etc., now have the largest pool of free, involuntary beta testers ever to draw on. Maybe that'll shake out the industrial-grade products and/or bring the cream to the top. Also, since the problem isn't with socializing -- it's with physical presence -- they'll...
[00:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:38] <exec> 08└─Don't worry about it and let the boomers croak. Such an elegant approach.
[00:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know, no true nerd has the social skills necessary to attract a mate with which to produce offspring. But, there are test tubes, sperm banks, artificial insemination, and such like devices and methods.
[00:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:43] <exec> 08└─In Phase II, everyone who gets to stay home is fired and replaced with cheap offshore Indian labor. Phase III... well, you know... profit! And next year during flu season, this virus comes back and wipes out all the people who stayed inside. WIN WIN!
[00:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah sure, I guess that my 80k for 35hr/wk with 25d of vacation and a week of Christmas holiday is the paramount of poverty and harsh job conditions. Corporate code is boring but the pay is steady and the job is easy.
[00:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:47] <exec> 08└─Try 1945. Named so for the explosive birth rate after the end of WWII.
[00:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:49] <exec> 08└─What! Not $200,000?! Have you considered that you truly suck at coding?
[00:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:51] <exec> 08└─I live in the Seattle area. Afternoon commute time for me on Christmas eve was an astonishingly low 26 minutes. Twice this week I've come within 2 minutes of that achievement. I won't be celebrating that when I'm sick, of course, but for now.... Woohoo!
[00:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:11] <exec> 08└─What is he doing about the current situation? - citizen - wat - i step down from microsoft - why? you can't fit any more bugs in windows perchance? - exactly, it's full. gonna become great in other enterprises - omg please contain this menace - yes, in fact my foundation has already dealt with coron...
[00:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:13] <exec> 08└─and upgrade RAM to something more than 640kb.
[00:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:15] <exec> 08└─By 2025, more people will be using sandboxed Linux apps on Windows or ChromeOS than using "real" Linux." You say that likes ifs a bad thing. Large companies won't be able to wave off not developing a Linux version of their applications by saying "there isn't enough of a user base", since every Windo...
[00:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:17] <exec> 08└─I think you meant "another Corporation ...", as you mention we already have RedHat trying to EEE Linux but there is also Google on the field as well.
[00:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:19] <exec> 08└─Also by 2025, Linus Torvalds will be removed from Linux kernel maintainership permanently due to his transgressions.
[00:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:21] <exec> 08└─The people are getting exactly what they voted for.
[00:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe he is scared of the Coronavirus and reallized he should concentrate his efforts on clearing the bad Karma he has built up over the years before he dies. Not that it will help any, given how the B&M Gate's foundation does things the Yama will not be fooled. Bill will have to answer for all the...
[00:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:25] <exec> 08└─Smart companies would be using Windows sandboxed on a linux system. How many smart companies are there again?
[00:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:27] <exec> 08└─Nobody ever got fired for choosing Wintel with Genuine® Microsoft® Windows® Linux®.
[00:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:43] <exec> 08└─They used to, but that was a long time ago. More recently (like right now), they're still a big player in the avionics market for military and commercial aircraft. Somehow the submitter missed that one.
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[01:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Student Privacy Laws Still Apply if Coronavirus Just Closed your School - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:24] <exec> 08└─Editors: if you're going to use an archaic term from pre-virus times, at least define it in the summary.
[01:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:49] <exec> 08└─That's when the Boomer generation started. I'm talking about when it ended, which was in the 60s somewhere.
[01:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:50] <exec> 08└─That would actually mean fewer old people spending money on goods and services. So lower gdp.
[01:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:52] <exec> 08└─Yay, more money to throw at the MIC! What, did you think reduced expenditure meant your taxes would go down?
[01:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:54] <exec> 08└─I work at a hotel (with tourists of course). I am going to die.
[01:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:57] <exec> 08└─Correction: You are going to be fired, and then die.
[01:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:59] <exec> 08└─^ Just TMB coming out in favor of his roomies pole! [youtube.com]
[01:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:29] <exec> 08└─I mean, with all his know how in succesfully fighting infect... o wait.
[01:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:31] <exec> 08└─> Nah, they will keep Windows but just throw Linux in there Linux is already in Windows 10 Go to “turn windows features on or off” Enable “Windows subsystem for Linux”
[01:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:33] <exec> 08└─Oops I should have cited also one of his greatest exploits, the infiltration/partnership Windows mobile-Nokia, the first ever mutual annihilation without release of energy, take that, Einstein.
[01:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:35] <exec> 08└─>His efforts on clearing the bad Karma... I am pretty sure his strategy about bad karma is to try and overflow the counter.
[01:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:37] <exec> 08└─See the upcoming story. WSL2 will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004 [microsoft.com] March 13, 2020 WSL2 will soon be officially available as part of Windows 10, version 2004! As we get ready for general availability, we want to share one additional change: updating how the Linux ker...
[01:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:53] <exec> 08└─That's the usual line we're fed about marriage, but in reality, more than half of them end in divorce. A system with a ~50% failure rate doesn't sound like a good thing to try to build a society upon. Remember, before the invention of agriculture, humans had no concept of monogamous marriage, and th...
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[02:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Student Privacy Laws Still Apply if Coronavirus Just Closed Your School - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:30] <exec> 08└─"privacy" was that thing a former Google CEO thought was unimportant. [eff.org]
[02:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:01] <exec> 08└─Except it's not just boomers. And when it becomes endemic, where are you going to hide?
[02:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:03] <exec> 08└─I don't need to hide because I still live in my parents basement, you insensitive clod!
[02:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:05] <exec> 08└─You did say "I think that generation is supposed to start around 1962, so about 57 years old now?". It was not obvious that you were counting backwards from 1962.
[02:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:07] <exec> 08└─What tourists? You will probably be on short shifts, or lay off, pretty soon. And very likely come out alive.
[02:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:09] <exec> 08└─Have you considered that some people value time off job more than money and prefer to live in small cities instead of hellish homeless filled metropolises ?
[02:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:11] <exec> 08└─Communism FTW [youtube.com]
[02:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:13] <exec> 08└─Then die slowly of starvation. But don't worry - the stock market will remain high come hell or high water https://www.zerohedge.com [zerohedge.com]
[02:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:15] <exec> 08└─I was out of action for the past week because I'm old and my foot realized that. Been sitting in my La-Z-Boy for the past week with some cream on my foot (Doctor's orders + $20, cheaper than my co-pay), 2 veggie packs for same (one warms up, into the freezer it goes and I pull out the other one), an...
[02:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:17] <exec> 08└─so, they tell us we're supposed to practice social distancing. I'm a geek in tech. I don't need to practice that, I've perfected it.
[02:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:19] <exec> 08└─China lie. Boomers die.
[02:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:22] <exec> 08└─Started in the basement, now we're here Started in the basement, now my whole fam fuckin' here
[02:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:24] <exec> 08└─I understood him to mean the youngest age that qualified as a boomer. We all accept that a 70 year old is a "boomer", but what's the youngest? And that target got moved over the years. It originally meant people born 1945-1955.
[02:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:59] <exec> 08└─...as you mention we already have RedHat trying to EEE Linux but there is also Google on the field as well.
[02:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speakers “Accidentally” Listen Up to 19 Times A Day - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:33] <exec> 08└─And also in the hidden fifth cell they assure us isn't there.
[02:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:42] <exec> 08└─That's crazy. We pay WAY more than that and we get 130 Mb/sec by ... is it like 12 or 15 Mb/sec where I live? Well we have cable as well and they bundle in a LAN line that we never really use. Then again I'm not really complaining to be honest, it's not like I really need all that bandwidth.
[02:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:43] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I meant to say landline telephone service
[02:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:33] <exec> 08└─As per EN 15494, candle wick length is not a mandatory warning. Please don't talk about EU regulations when you don't know what you're talking about. THAT is why Brexit happened. You believed all those lies that dipshit told you. By the way, how's the extra £350M/week just flowing back to you now?
[02:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:54] <exec> 08└─...but if the manufacturers / carriers stop offering security patches for the software, we've still got a problem.
[02:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:18] <exec> 08└─Babies zero in on nipples and don't really care about who it is connected to. My son was always trying to suck on my non-existent breast and wet nursing has a long tradition as babies don't care about whose nipple they're sucking on.
[02:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:20] <exec> 08└─Copyright? Every photograph is copyrighted with the default being the copyright belongs to the photographer.
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[03:24:47] <exec> 08└─Good news, nerds! Coding is indoor work. Your betters the tech billionaires need some code to copy into their very lucrative apps. Get on GitHub and make brilliant commits. Open source everything so billionaires can make money off your hard work. You won't get paid a penny, but remember, GitHub is w...
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[03:25:15] <exec> 08└─I have the exact opposite situation. Two weeks ago job sucked and I was going to quit or be fired. Then I got switched to a different dept and my employer decided we should all work from home - bingo! At least a month of time off to get used to the new place and recover from the last. No sick time o...
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[03:25:17] <exec> 08└─The only downside is my wife is also home 24/7 so I can dissolve myself in whisky and weed all day long.
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[03:25:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDKWTehsomk [youtube.com]
[03:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:21] <exec> 08└─I really don't give a flying fuck what the non-nerds do. They're idiots.
[03:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:23] <exec> 08└─I think we're missing the point, this would be the Trump plan to fix Medicare: just make sure nobody lives past 65 and the whole thing is solvent again!
[03:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:25] <exec> 08└─Pffft, as if. He barely knows which end to hold and which to swing around. I do all the pole work round these parts.
[03:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:27] <exec> 08└─Just don't piss in the river, not only is it rude, it also spreads disease.
[03:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:29] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the bug will do what Pelosi failed to?
[03:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:31] <exec> 08└─Turn in your Man Card, Joe. Some things are just more important than public health and every red-blooded, American man knows whizzing in the river when you're fishing is one of them.
[03:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:33] <exec> 08└─This has been bugging me: WTF is it about TP hoarding? This is happening all over the world! How much TP do people need to feel comfortable? And it isn't like it is a limited resource. What the hell are people doing with all this stuff? Fine, you've managed to accumulate a gallon each of rubbing alc...
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[03:26:43] <exec> 08└─recording (phew!)" I think you need to qualify that. They are certainly always listening. If they weren't they wouldn't be able to tell if you asked them a question. So the concept of "recording" here needs to be considered. Probably they aren't doing this in an ASIC, so yes they probably are always...
[03:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antiaging Biochemical Mechanism Found in Mouse, Bat and Naked Mole Rat Cells - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:52] <exec> 08└─And next they're going to find out we already have these mechanisms since we're not dying of old age at 2 years or 20 years?
[03:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:35] <exec> 08└─Here (Canada) they've moved to mostly steel money, seems nickel was too expensive
[03:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:36] <exec> 08└─Our (Canada) plastic money shrinks if you leave it in the dryer.
[03:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:38] <exec> 08└─Plastic money shrinks in the dryer.
[03:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:00] <exec> 08└─Yup, them hippies may blow company money on an all electric fleet and charging stations (and for some reason even use that as a marketing point) but when you got all of the business because you offer badass value and service, apparently you can afford to do things like that.
[03:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:51] <exec> 08└─I get my weather from Environment Canada, web page or app and they're fairly accurate. Now and again I compare to AccuWeather (some TV stations use it) and I'm amazed how inaccurate AccuWeather is consistently, especially their long range (2days+) forecast.
[03:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:52] <exec> 08└─Canada has https://www.canada.ca [canada.ca], no ads but does often have an interesting little weather related essay or video. I'm happy that our tax dollars are used for it, especially with how bad the private fo...
[03:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:54] <exec> 08└─They're working on it.
[03:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:42] <exec> 08└─They didn't produce the copies, Facebook and such did with an explicit license to. If they don't distribute the copies they scraped, they're free and clear. Frankly, they'd be free and clear anyway because they're using them very much in a transformative way, which is clearly covered by Fair Use.
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[04:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:32] <exec> 08└─To roll out a cloud Kubernetes cluster using Terraform and writing deployment scripts. WSL2 has been amazing so far compared to 1. I don't even regret having to upgrade to BETA windows to get it. (but will be going back ASAP) I know people will rag on it reflexively, but so far....
[04:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:33] <exec> 08└─I don't blame them at all. They put all that money, time, and effort into powershell to make something that sucks complete ass compared to bash, much less bash with sed/awk/grep/perl. Why keep throwing good money after bad?
[04:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:35] <exec> 08└─Well, probably. But most of us also know that we don't always get to pick which OS we're working on. Familiar, non-shitty tools at least make Windows slightly less painful to use. Now if they'd just get rid of the Windows parts, they'd have a pretty good OS.
[04:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 1627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:37] <exec> 08└─I learned of a new way that Windows sucks. Get a low end tablet that's so cheap, the manufacturer won't support it after 2 or just 1 year. No more driver downloads. They don't even offer the existing drivers for download. No drivers for it in Windows 10 either, so if Windows can be upgraded at all,...
[04:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:37] <exec> 08└─It already has. Have you been to WalMart lately? Plenty of empty shelves just like in socialist utopia.
[04:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:38] <exec> 08└─People are panicky and stupid. Now I bought a 32 pack last week but that's because I was about out of TP and I always buy a 32 pack so I don't have to think about it again for a long time. Frankly, I'm seriously considering buying a 3/8" T fitting and feeding a kitchen sink sprayer as well as the to...
[04:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:40] <exec> 08└─It's baffling. You don't need hand sanitizer if you have soap and water. Wash your hands (which is more effective anyway). You can get by without toilet paper, you're at home with a shower. Wash your ass (which is again, more effective anyway).
[04:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:42] <exec> 08└─Let us note that probably was the original plan for solvency, plus having lots of kids.
[04:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:44] <exec> 08└─Remember, you can't draw Social Security until 65 at the very earliest I think,
[04:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:46] <exec> 08└─Caveman: Toilet paper Demigod: Electronic bidet
[04:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:48] <exec> 08└─There's two types of "open source guy". The first used the GPL, and companies have to follow the terms and keep the code open. Companies often don't go after GPL3 code because of the requirements that devices sold that use it have to allow the user to be able to modify the affected portions on the d...
[04:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:51] <exec> 08└─You'd better stock up on Busch Light next time you go to the grocery store.
[04:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:26] <exec> 08└─Now that they got rid of Gates they can forget about Windows and focus on Doors.
[04:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:49] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a Mr Bean episode where, IIRC, he bought a nice upholstered chair, put it on the roof of his mini, setup a rope to the steering wheel, broom sticks to the pedals (not sure how he shifted) and sat on his chair on the roof of his mini and drove home. Probably on YouTube.
[04:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:57] <exec> 08└─Doh. If it's plastic wash it gently with soap. 20 seconds etc.
[04:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:58] <exec> 08└─The wax? Yeah, I see it at the bank all the time. It's usually in a little pink flat tray thingy, maybe 2 inches long, and an inch wide, not more than 1/4 inch think. I think the wax is tinted pink, peach, or something similar, or it could be transparent, and I'm seeing the pink plastic through it....
[04:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:00] <exec> 08└─It's even worse with plastic money, it is very sticky. Bought gas the other week and would have overpaid by $20 if the teller hadn't been honest.
[04:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:02] <exec> 08└─I use a pen and paper as well as only having only so much cash on hand. The only X amount of cash really helps me budget. YMMV.
[04:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:04] <exec> 08└─Read Papilon, it's called a plan and is a small steel container that you keep up your ass. One drawback is that theft is always fatal.
[04:32:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe the smaller dogs have a higher reserve of stem cells for replacement and since they're smaller they need fewer of them to repair stuff. There are other mechanisms that slow aging, but those mechanisms are in other species not dogs. Small and big dogs are the same species after all. The small d...
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[05:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:32] <exec> 08└─AnandTech recently interviewed a cheapo Chinese brand: How Good (or Bad) is a $100 Laptop? The Coda Spirit Review [anandtech.com] Q: I noticed that the model I purchased came with Windows 10 Home version 1803, which is old. I could update to 1903 fine, but in order to successfully update to 1909, I...
[05:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:34] <exec> 08└─And commie-pinko freaks. On second thought, I hate everything. Did I mention I hate Microsoft's new RagHead OS?
[05:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:44] <exec> 08└─I can't think like that. My take home pay is considerably larger than SS + 401k would be if I were to retire right now. So, I keep working, which mean that both SS and 401 keep growing. If/when I retire, I'll get more money. Retirement is for old, worn out people who can't work. In fact, I think tha...
[05:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:45] <exec> 08└─You can retire as early as age 62. You get the best benefits if you wait until age 70. You actually start to lose money if you wait until after age 70, because you get no more credits after the month you turn age 70.
[05:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:47] <exec> 08└─The best piss, is underway on a large ship, doing 20 to 30 knots, and kicking up a huge rooster tail of foam behind. Walk out onto the fantail, unzip, and let it fly. I suppose that if I were a Paul Bunyan sized man, I could tint the wake yellow. ;^) Before anyone asks, no, that is NOT approved nava...
[05:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:50] <exec> 08└─This has been bugging me: WTF is it about TP hoarding?
[05:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:52] <exec> 08└─sarcasm Are you SERIOUS? I thought all Americans wanted to live in Gay Bay, where you can drop trow, and defecate on the sidewalk! /sarcasm
[05:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:54] <exec> 08└─nerds who played Counter-Strike at LAN parties every weekend
[05:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:56] <exec> 08└─LAN parties are past tense, man. Now it's VPN party.
[05:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:58] <exec> 08└─Now, that's some funny shit!
[05:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:00] <exec> 08└─Like some others, we are always well-stocked with paper. And, I can make do without TP if I have to. The important question is, will this have any impact on coffee?
[05:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:38] <exec> 08└─What is in the pipes that he is afraid of and why is he timing the announcement to hide it? Will he continue to put in "a third of his time" at M$, or will that go away, too? His retreat was announced quietly, late on a Friday afternoon. Overshadowed by an discussion of just-announced national emer...
[05:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, iirc they're the main manufacturer of the "black boxes" used on aircraft.
[05:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:41] <exec> 08└─You don't think a device with all its ports open is less secure then a device with no visible ports?
[05:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:15] <exec> 08└─They did copy the copy hosted on Facebook, Google etc. What the licenses and terms are, I have no idea. You may well be right about fair use, but that has to be decided by a court, so this would still be an excuse to sue, and the State has more lawyers then most.
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[06:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astrophysicists Wear 3-D Glasses to Watch Quasars - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:28] <exec> 08└─My very first thought was, "They can't make a multi-million dollar telescope sort out polarity?" Didn't click on the link to RTFA, but TFS puts the lie to the title. The new approach is analogous to the way cinema glasses produce a 3-D image
[06:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:42] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows windows is a deadend, but nobody steps up because windows market, the desktop market is shrinking. I personally think "desktop" market still have much potential, but I'm no Billy boy. It's interesting to see how MS would linger on. IBM, the fucking dino, somehow managed to remain a ma...
[06:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:43] <exec> 08└─Darling, I know it's coronavirus season but it sounds like you've been self-isolating too long. Go get some vitamin D.
[06:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:01] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/2276/ [xkcd.com] CYA
[06:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speakers “Accidentally” Listen Up to 19 Times A Day - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:16] <exec> 08└─But you won't mention how many times you upkilt the men?
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[07:30:29] <exec> 08└─Brexit happened because German courts enforce German laws in Germany?
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[08:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:43] <exec> 08└─I am totally confused by this. Linux don't need to ship with anything. You download a distro, put it on an optical disk or more often now a USB device, and boot. So what is this "shitting" with Windows? What is "Windows", anyway? I haven't used it for two and a half decades. Is it still functional...
[08:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:44] <exec> 08└─I've been using that for more that 20 years. Initially, one of the big draws was a working, free X server, which let me run Bourne shells not only on my desktop Windows, but to ssh into Suns and other *NIX boxes at various employment. I have even run the X displays from HP logic analyzers back to it...
[08:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:46] <exec> 08└─Really! This much Microfuck propaganda in this short of time on SoylentNews? Eds, are we trying to prove we are still "in the Game" with the "big players" but running articles on failing architectures that no sane person used anymore? I mean, "Micro$erf" is no longer a saucy assault on a mega- corpo...
[08:25:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 938 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:11] <exec> 08└─Telepresence companies -- zoom, webex, etc., now have the largest pool of free, involuntary beta testers ever to draw on. Maybe that'll shake out the industrial-grade products and/or bring the cream to the top. Also, since the problem isn't with socializing -- it's with physical presence -- they'll...
[08:25:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:23] <exec> 08└─Correction: You are going to be fired, and then die.
[08:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:06] <exec> 08└─Computer Science in the late 1990s was 40 dudes per chick. I got her! All the guys were too afraid to sit next to her, but I got to the computer lab when the only seat available was next to her. I couldn't resist the computer. I had no choice. She talked to me. It was meant to be. So I impregnated h...
[08:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:07] <exec> 08└─Keep your weapon within arms reach like they do in the military. It only takes one hungry urban youth to try and steal something from the old rayciss down the way.
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[09:26:14] <exec> 08└─Socialist utopia: you've got the money but can't but anything with it. Capitalist utopia: you can get a portable fusion reactor in your local mart, but you've got no money.
[09:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:09] <exec> 08└─Nice..
[09:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Rainforest Could be Gone Within a Lifetime - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:13] <exec> 08└─are you capable of understanding that a single person's purchasing habits, even if spotless, are not enough? some of us actually don't buy palm oil or non-local meat because of exactly this issue (also in NZ for sheep, S.Am for several products, all sources of nonessential products which are costly...
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[10:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:46] <exec> 08└─So if you have the right version, I guess you can use a microSD card to facilitate an update.
[10:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Student Privacy Laws Still Apply if Coronavirus Just Closed Your School - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:56] <exec> 08└─Please continue voting for dumbfuckicratan party members who think anyone with a cold qualifies as a national security threat. That will swamp them with targets so no actual threat gets tracked.
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[11:24:23] <exec> 08└─Intel and Microsoft are so much alike.
[11:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:54] <exec> 08└─If you like bash, you'll love fish [fishshell.com].
[11:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:56] <exec> 08└─M$ makes a big strategic mistake (from their perspective). Once a smooth X/wayland layer is addded, this will make Linux the prime citizen in desktop and M$ will have to become a Linux distribution (maybe that is the plan).
[11:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:19] <exec> 08└─It most definitely was part of the plan. The life expectancy was considerably shorter back then. You can't run a successful Ponzi Scheme if everyone is able to get their money back eventually.
[11:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:21] <exec> 08└─TMB utopia: Meh, the important shit's paid for. Ima go fishing. Livin the dream, bitches!
[11:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:23] <exec> 08└─Nah, I'm going with a bunch of Corona. That way I don't have to bother getting tested and can still say I came down with a case of Corona.
[11:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:25] <exec> 08└─Speak for yerself. It's still way more fun if you can mock them in person after the match.
[11:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:27] <exec> 08└─Ignorance is NOT bliss, kid. Remember, you can't draw Social Security until 65 at the very earliest 62, 65 for full benefits. I turned 62 and retired in 2014. Boomers will be hardest hit. Of course, they're also largely guilty of giving us a society with such a disastrously horrible healthcare syste...
[11:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:29] <exec> 08└─You don't always have a sink and water available. I guess if you're forced to stay at home you will, but you may not have soap either, last time I looked, there wasn't any at all, so I bought an extra bottle of shower gel just in case as it can always be used for washing hands if needed. But if you...
[11:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:50] <exec> 08└─Nope, Facebook made a copy to send to their computer to display, same as they do for every visitor. That at least is thoroughly settled case law.
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[12:25:05] <exec> 08└─Why is that a bad thing?
[12:26:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:20] <exec> 08└─This has been bugging me: WTF is it about TP hoarding?
[12:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:37] <exec> 08└─Wow, did Salty Spice just get a +5? "My advice to any young man or boy is to stay at home and not be a rambler coder, as it won't buy you anything." -- James Emmit McCauley
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[13:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:10] <exec> 08└─What does the new kernel shim give me
[13:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:12] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking of three levels of frustration: 1) The iPad-One, beyond impractical to upgrade or continue working with the App Store - abandon all hope, your shiny is dead. 2) The Windows ecosystem, sure - it updates... somehow, sometimes - your shiny isn't completely dead after 2 years, but the work...
[13:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:14] <exec> 08└─I did some fairly serious Cygwin work in the 2003 timeframe, and I was really impressed with how "close to the metal" it was, I'd get 98%+ performance out of a Cygwin application as compared to the same code running on a dedicated Linux shell, and I suspect that last 1.x% of performance was just the...
[13:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:16] <exec> 08└─So what is this "shitting" with Windows?
[13:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:47] <exec> 08└─At least piss on the back side of the bank, most of your hepatitis will die off in the soil before it gets to the river. One hepatitis infected fisherman can contaminate a whole bay full of shellfish.
[13:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:48] <exec> 08└─Hey kids: I bet you didn't know your were born to fill in the bottom of a pyramid scheme!
[13:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:50] <exec> 08└─Don't forget... Corona goes best with a Lime [wikipedia.org].
[13:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:07] <exec> 08└─Do iron's put out a lot of magnetic field? Might not be good for that strip on it either.
[13:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:24] <exec> 08└─If you need the government to ban competitors in order to prop up your own faulty business model
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[14:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Sun 2020-03-15 09:22 EDT - Aborted [Updated] - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:27] <exec> 08└─Countdown reached zero, and it was scrubbed. Don't know why yet - still watching . . .
[14:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ice Lake GPU Underperforming? Put It in Powersave Mode. Wait, What? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:36] <exec> 08└─Laptops are for light workloads. Use the right tool for the job.
[14:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:16] <exec> 08└─What's is your problem? We also mention BSD from time to time. This isn't a linux site, it is just that many people in the profession use linux by choice. As Buzzard pointed out professionals don't always have a choice which OS they have to use. Windows still exists whether you like it or not, and m...
[14:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:17] <exec> 08└─I don't think he did say it _was_ a bad thing - but it might still be a strategic error for MS as a company. If they become a linux distro why would people bother? Every other distro is free!
[14:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:19] <exec> 08└─Those were the days. But without multi user and networking. Or a proper shell.
[14:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:21] <exec> 08└─Linux has shitty parts too where Windows beats it. I shouldn't have to explain this, but this IS Soylent News...
[14:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:23] <exec> 08└─What they are going to do is hire a bunch of "volunteers" to start tweaking Linux base libs so they only compile in Visual Studio. The goal will be to break applications except those that run on blows-nix. Maintainers of cross compilable code need to be on the lookout for new "help". The trojan hors...
[14:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:25] <exec> 08└─SYSTEMD.DLL would be a whole new dimension of pain
[14:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:27] <exec> 08└─Why would Microsoft do that? Graphically, the Windows desktop services are much better than Linux'. It's the command line where Microsoft is lacking.
[14:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:29] <exec> 08└─With systemd coming in from the other side, this is what Hannibal would have called a pincer movement. I used to watch the A-Team. Maybe BA will build us an armoured vehicle to help us escape?
[14:26:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:26] <exec> 08└─Pffft, as if. He barely knows which end to hold and which to swing around. I do all the pole work round these parts.
[14:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:40] <exec> 08└─They already tried that. It didn't work.
[14:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:00] <exec> 08└─Also cluster bombs. [wikipedia.org] I worked at Honeywell for a year in the late 80s on a targeting system designed to pick tanks out of the scenery. Was supposed to fit in a helicopter. We never got it smaller than a semi-trailer....
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[15:24:25] <exec> 08└─They found a C6-3 where a C6-7 should've been in the 5k cluster.
[15:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ice Lake GPU Underperforming? Put It in Powersave Mode. Wait, What? - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:34] <exec> 08└─Sorry, there's a need for gaming laptops. Such as not having a permanent desk at which to set up the computer. For example, most coworkers in my workplace live in dorms. Most people use laptops for their computing needs because they're easy to relocate say because the roommate is using the only desk...
[15:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:23] <exec> 08└─Where exactly (other than support by hardware and software vendors, which isn't an OS issue but a market issue) does Windows beat Linux?
[15:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:57] <exec> 08└─The learning about it is the fun! Having said that, I first learned about the Social Security/Medicare problem in the late 1980s from a discarded book, with a photo of colored matchsticks displayed in some of US flag-colored pattern (US outline or flag, I don't recall) caught in the act of burning...
[15:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:59] <exec> 08└─Like Malthus, anybody can do the math and see the looming problem - predicting the date that the market stampedes off the cliff irretrievably is the trick.
[15:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:39] <exec> 08└─What became of Dave Cutler? He won't see his beloved VMS give way to Unix so easily, surely?
[15:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:48] <exec> 08└─Well, they were out of mint flavored toilet paper.
[15:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:21] <exec> 08└─Our (Canada) plastic money shrinks if you leave it in the dryer.
[15:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can provide even better bullshit than the article: Maybe the smaller dogs have a higher reserve of stem cells for replacement because they don't use up as many to make a small body and because they're smaller they need fewer of them to repair stuff per year. There are other mechanisms that s...
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[16:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Language Processing: Teaching Computers to Read Cuneiform Tablets - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:24] <exec> 08└─flexible and extensible, that can spread to different scripts and time periods,
[16:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Language Processing: Teaching Computers to Read Cuneiform Tablets - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:25] <exec> 08└─- TempleOS rare commercial from 2011 https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] - Terry Davis: THEY GLOW - Official Trailer https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] - Programming Love - The Seducing Of Druid Focket https://www.youtube.com [youtube....
[16:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03purdy [1863] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Sun 2020-03-15 09:22 EDT - Aborted [Updated] - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:36] <exec> 08└─I think SpaceX missed an opportunity to paint this rocket purple with a V crest on it, like the SNL Five Timers Club jackets.
[16:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Sun 2020-03-15 09:22 EDT - Aborted [Updated] - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:38] <exec> 08└─One day, the scrubs will be scrubbed. Like when they launch 500+ times a year.
[16:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Sun 2020-03-15 09:22 EDT - Aborted [Updated] - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:40] <exec> 08└─"out of family data" issue on the engines. I think this means Musk went cheap and only paid for a family data plan and someone overran it. Probably one of the kids off school with a virus and on Netflix. If only we had some sort of low-orbit satellite network that made internet so cheap we could all...
[16:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ice Lake GPU Underperforming? Put It in Powersave Mode. Wait, What? - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:51] <exec> 08└─Laptops can be docked and use external GPUs over Thunderbolt/USB. That would be an extra tool for a different job. Apparently, Intel has sponsored/developed [hexus.net] a major improvement for laptop heat dissipation that it will push as part of its follow-up to the "Ultrabook". Integrated graphics...
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:41] <exec> 08└─What is "Windows", anyway?
[16:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:42] <exec> 08└─Not at all. A few quick edits of Windows registryd's binary files will fix up any minor problems you might have.
[16:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:44] <exec> 08└─This isn't a linux site
[16:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:20] <exec> 08└─Well, then I opt for socialist utopia in the first half of the day, and capitalist utopia in the second half. In the first half I get the money, in the second half I can spend it. :-)
[16:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:21] <exec> 08└─predicting the date that the market stampedes off the cliff irretrievably is the trick.
[16:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:23] <exec> 08└─The system is global, some countries have limited impact, but the major players in the major markets have more impact on the success and failure of government programs than anything the lawmakers can do. The biggest player of all is consumer sentiment - if too many consumers all pucker up and start...
[16:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:25] <exec> 08└─My take is that it's panic in the face of uncertainty. Hoarding toilet paper was something someone could do. It probably started somewhere with the Chinese (since I've read of toilet paper outages in Hong Kong) someone sparked a rumor that diarrhea was a part of the disease sparking a first run on...
[16:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:06] <exec> 08└─Don't kid yourself that the opponents MS EEE'd were any better than MS. They too practiced extreme copyright, copy protection, DRM, and lawsuits. There was a time when MS was actually sort of a little cool for dethroning IBM and Word Perfect. But as I say, only a little, because they were still them...
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[17:24:56] <exec> 08└─Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue.
[17:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:48] <exec> 08└─I could have skipped submitting this story, but I couldn't resist a follow-up to ari's WSL2 coverage [soylentnews.org].
[17:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:50] <exec> 08└─Not him, but the most commonly mentioned (legitimate) downside vs. Windows is lack of in-kernel API stability. There's perfectly good reasons [kernel.org] for this, to be sure, but that doesn't mean it's not a downside if you're unwilling or unable to get your driver in the kernel.
[17:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:52] <exec> 08└─I used Cygwin for quite a bit. It's really nice, except when things don't build/break in some inexplicable way (a lot of it was because no one tested it under anything but Linux and OS X, and often not even that latter). WSL sidesteps that problem by just providing a Linux environment.
[17:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:54] <exec> 08└─2020: The Year of Linux on the Desktop
[17:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:56] <exec> 08└─Just love how some dickhead marked this off topic...
[17:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 4959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:58] <exec> 08└─There are three things to compare here: Cygwin is a Windows DLL that provides a more-or-less complete set of POSIX APIs, with some Linux-compatibility things. It also provides a package manager and a few other things, but it's basically a way of compiling a *NIX program so that it will run on Windo...
[17:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:00] <exec> 08└─What they are going to do is hire a bunch of "volunteers" to start tweaking Linux base libs so they only compile in Visual Studio
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:02] <exec> 08└─m$ is ALWAYS out for money. the first and formost consideration is always to make more money. this, ofc, doesn't always jive with what the user deserves. m$ "putting in" linux isn't about anything but tying a thin thread at their previously "star windows users" like a clingy gf or bf because they ac...
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[17:26:04] <exec> 08└─This is a feature, not a bug. If the driver for your hardware has a proper GPL2 driver that reached the quality threshold to be included in-tree with the Linux kernel, then, whenever a change is made to the kernel that impacts your driver, the folks making that change are responsible to fix your dri...
[17:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:06] <exec> 08└─> I did some fairly serious Cygwin work in the 2003 timeframe, and I was really impressed with how "close to the metal" it was, I'd get 98%+ performance out of a Cygwin application as compared to the same code running on a dedicated Linux shell I'm going to assert that your work load did not involve...
[17:26:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:29] <exec> 08└─All those years of practicing self isolation are finally paying off :)
[17:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 1901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:46] <exec> 08└─A person I worked on a recent startup with was a senior Googler who was in charge of some decent sized projects at the company. He also held a upper managerial position at Amazon, got to recount some interesting stories about meetings with Bezos. He was a pretty mediocre coder. That kind of surprise...
[17:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:47] <exec> 08└─Imagine your hotel was a country. And you were voluntarily inviting everybody to come party, get out in the streets, and touch each other on the face. Welcome to Thailand! Songkran - the water festival that draws in stupidly large amounts of tourists is officially still on in many locations. The gov...
[17:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:49] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting perspective. I've worked on both sorts of projects. BSD / MIT licensed code that I've written has ended up in a bunch of places, but it's also made me money when companies want to hire a contractor to work on it and look for people already familiar with the code. In some cases,...
[17:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:51] <exec> 08└─It would be shellfish. Very, very shellfish. (Sorry!)
[17:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:51] <exec> 08└─Whenever I think of Honeywell, I am always slightly conflicted. Is it good that my thermostat is made by a company that makes critical systems for aircraft, or terrifying that critical systems for aircraft are made by the company that made my thermostat?
[17:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:43] <exec> 08└─Zinaida [tf.fau.de] has done a bunch of research on this looking at how it impacts customer buying decisions. Her work fed into some of this policy making. Vendors are required to specify for how long the device will get updates and the maximum amount of time between a vulnerability being reported a...
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[18:24:27] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/12/06/0842245 [soylentnews.org] They factored RSA-240 only last December, in February they get RSA-250. The factorisation of RSA-250 is: 6413528947707158027879019017057738908482501474294344720811685963202453234463023862359875266834770873766192558569463979885...
[18:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ice Lake GPU Underperforming? Put It in Powersave Mode. Wait, What? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:58] <exec> 08└─something something "on remote keyboard press F4" I think. And, I yell at the wife, "Press F4, press F4!" but that doesn't work either. ;^)
[18:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ice Lake GPU Underperforming? Put It in Powersave Mode. Wait, What? - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:00] <exec> 08└─I tend to agree with you - but if a person is willing to spend $5000 or more on the laptop from hell, it's more of a portable workstation than it is a laptop. I've salivated over a couple of builds.
[18:25:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 1439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:39] <exec> 08└─I did some fairly serious Cygwin work in the 2003 timeframe, and I was really impressed with how "close to the metal" it was, I'd get 98%+ performance out of a Cygwin application as compared to the same code running on a dedicated Linux shell, and I suspect that last 1.x% of performance was just the...
[18:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:46] <exec> 08└─Target usually has a sale on TP but you have to buy two or three packages to get a $5-$15 gift card. And since the big packages usually have the lowest cost per roll, you end up with a substantial amount of TP to get the best deal.
[18:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:48] <exec> 08└─Well TMB can't think critically, once he has a thought that is THE only valid opinion around. To him anyway, the rest of us sigh and move on, arguing with him is like talking to the seat back on a short yellow bus.
[18:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:50] <exec> 08└─I'd rather deal with the occasional turd than having a sentient one walking sround town plotting genocide. They're coming for you runaway! Better start up a meth habit so you can stay awake all night, cause that's when they come for you! Club to the head, black bag the fatty, toss in the trunk of a...
[18:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:52] <exec> 08└─Sweet jesus you're gonna murder some kid cause you're a nutjob. I'm staring into my crystal ball, I see you in a little booth marking a piece of paper. You chuckle to yourself, knock over the back wall with a sudden extended gesture, and put a mark next to the big Turd. You can tell a Trump voter by...
[18:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:54] <exec> 08└─Just like China in the middle of the last century? Fekkin' commies are known for that kind of thing.
[18:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:56] <exec> 08└─If you're Indian.
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[19:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Record Set for Cryptographic Challenge - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:15] <exec> 08└─I see what you did there.
[19:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Record Set for Cryptographic Challenge - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:16] <exec> 08└─This is why the juice are busy building Quantum computers with goyim minds and money to break encryption so they can see what we say to each other. The current biological weapon attack on the world is part of their plot to separate and monitor people. This might only be a dry run, but maybe not.
[19:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Student Privacy Laws Still Apply if Coronavirus Just Closed Your School - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:58] <exec> 08└─I wonder how far Microsoft has walked down this road as well - Teams is becoming ubiquitous (we are forced to use it at work for example).
[19:27:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:17] <exec> 08└─Nah, I'm going with a bunch of Corona. That way I don't have to bother getting tested and can still say I came down with a case of Corona.
[19:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:41] <exec> 08└─but the major players in the major markets have more impact on the success and failure of government programs than anything the lawmakers can do. The biggest player of all is consumer sentiment - if too many consumers all pucker up and start hoarding toilet paper, there's no stopping the inevitable...
[19:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:43] <exec> 08└─Be careful not to get it caught in the propellers or tangled in the towed array.
[19:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:45] <exec> 08└─The messy results are negated by private parties making more toilet paper
[19:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:47] <exec> 08└─The messy results are negated by private parties making more toilet paper
[19:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:49] <exec> 08└─No worries. When I dropped it in the cold water, it shriveled up almost instantly, safely out of reach of the screws.
[19:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:51] <exec> 08└─Dodecadad!
[19:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:53] <exec> 08└─You're a fucking bigot if you don't let robbers break in to your home and take your food.
[19:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:55] <exec> 08└─after the match? You´re too polite; I mock prior, during and after!
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[19:28:38] <exec> 08└─https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/456/45670.html [ticalc.org]
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[20:24:40] <exec> 08└─Came for the tech. Staying for the stupid. Gotta love this site!
[20:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Undercompressive Shocks Proposed to Explain 'Tears of Wine' Phenomenon - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:19] <exec> 08└─Why do women complain ALL the time? Explain that scientists from University of California.
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[20:26:16] <exec> 08└─The most obvious is probably the graphics stack and kernel/driver interfaces for graphics.
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[21:25:11] <exec> 08└─Laptops, even the cheaper ones, are perfectly suited for a ample selection of games. At least most of the ones I am interested in.
[21:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:14] <exec> 08└─... that Honeywell still exists.
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[22:24:22] <exec> 08└─(New) buses in China used to be operated a lot with the speedometer connection removed, so it wouldn't be counting the kilometers.
[22:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Language Processing: Teaching Computers to Read Cuneiform Tablets - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:40] <exec> 08└─With the standardization of language that became possible as the result of the invention of the printing press I would say that language changes LESS frequently now than it did before. Modern mass communication has only slowed its change. It's much less balkanized than it was in the past. Now addres...
[22:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Student Privacy Laws Still Apply if Coronavirus Just Closed Your School - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:19] <exec> 08└─Tossing the word "telemetry". So a tools requirment (OS or otherwise) requirtment of school, forces giving up of information.
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[23:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Vaccine on the Horizon, but White House Intervenes - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:33] <exec> 08└─Welt am Sonntag quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, “but only for the United States.”
[23:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Vaccine on the Horizon, but White House Intervenes - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:35] <exec> 08└─and on Friday, Bill Gates drops off the grid.
[23:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coronavirus Vaccine on the Horizon, but White House Intervenes - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:37] <exec> 08└─An "unidentified German government official" said that he thought Trump was trying to get an monopoly on it. In other words, a random German doesn't like Trump, and was talking smack about him. No news here.
[23:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coronavirus Vaccine on the Horizon, but White House Intervenes - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:39] <exec> 08└─Oh, heaven forfend anyone say anything negative about Dear Leader, the Orange Messiah! No such words can be true!
[23:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Vaccine on the Horizon, but White House Intervenes - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:41] <exec> 08└─Merkel's government said not so fast. https://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com] In other countries, emergencies allow the government to take over business. Maybe Germany will do that, if the company is blinded by money. Base...
[23:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Vaccine on the Horizon, but White House Intervenes - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:43] <exec> 08└─... My question is: who would benefit if the US had "exclusive" access?...
[23:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Vaccine on the Horizon, but White House Intervenes - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:45] <exec> 08└─a random statistically normal German doesn't like Trump, and was talking smack about him. No news here.
[23:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Vaccine on the Horizon, but White House Intervenes - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:47] <exec> 08└─I wish you to die, AC, and I do not even know who you are. You could be me, since there is only one AC on SN. Now I feel all suicidal, thanks a lot for your wishing me to die!
[23:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Vaccine on the Horizon, but White House Intervenes - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:49] <exec> 08└─suckers
[23:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Vaccine on the Horizon, but White House Intervenes - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:51] <exec> 08└─As others have pointed out I'm somewhat skeptical. Isn't part of the longer delay due to the necessary testing. So if it's released in a much shorter period of time that means they didn't spend that much time testing it. Testing how well something like this works takes time no? Testing things like s...
[23:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Vaccine on the Horizon, but White House Intervenes - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:53] <exec> 08└─(to continue with my last comment) I would like to hear what the experts have to say about this. From what I was hearing before, as you all already know, the reason that it's going to take so long is because of the testing. So some company comes up to Trump with a sales pitch and claims that they ca...
[23:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Sun 2020-03-15 09:22 EDT - Aborted [Updated #3] - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:32] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/spacex-set-to-launch-the-same-falcon-9-rocket-for-the-fifth-time/ [arstechnica.com] Rare engine issue. Usually they scrub for weather issues.
[23:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:50] <exec> 08└─How hard would it be to add ELF to the VS linker? I believe that wlink, the OpenWatcom linker can do it both ways, linking ELF objects to build a Win32 or in the case of the fork, win64 binaries or OBJ (OMF) object files to make a ELF binary.
[23:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:51] <exec> 08└─Windows doesn't support fork() or exec() natively. In order to emulate the behavior of fork(), cygwin has to jump through all sorts of hoops. It is a surprisingly complex operation. The context switches, mutexes, etc. produces a lot of overhead. Then if you call exec(), you end up causing another ma...
[23:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Windows Linux for Everybody - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:53] <exec> 08└─...What is "Windows", anyway?...
[23:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:57] <exec> 08└─Well, it was based on an Eniac, so...
[23:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:58] <exec> 08└─But seriously, my dad had worked for Honeywell in the late 70s to early 80s- mostly on TDC 2000 iirc. They've always seemed like a pretty good company. It's cool to hear about their work in quantum computing. Did you have a good experience working for them?
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