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[00:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Malicious GIF Opened Microsoft Teams to Nasty Attack - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:35] <exec> 08└─"Windows", you say? Security issue? Rather odd, never heard of security issues with Windows before, especially Microsoft Windows. What will they think of next?
[00:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:05] <exec> 08└─Most of the "waste" is actually fuel. If you re-process the waste, 95% of it is perfectly good fuel, the rest will last 250-500 years before it decays to background levels. That's a long time, but in the same time, the carcinogenic coal ash will still be carcinogenic. It's a far cry from the FUD abo...
[00:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Has Reportedly Removed More Than 100 Apps - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:40] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't worry so much about where they're placing the dollar signs. Worry instead about their inability to keep it.
[01:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dolphins Reclaim Bosphorus as Virus Silences Istanbul - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:21] <exec> 08└─All the way from his throne in Belaire?
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[01:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop High-Performance Ceramic Fuel Cell that Operates on Butane Gas - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:56] <exec> 08└─Sounds great for polar regions...your phone doubles as a hand warmer
[01:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop High-Performance Ceramic Fuel Cell that Operates on Butane Gas - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:57] <exec> 08└─I've got a cigarette lighter that converts butane to heat.
[01:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Less is More With OpenCL 3.0 - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:07] <exec> 08└─It's not simply "new technology". When C11 introduced stdatomic.h it was already highly controversial since it broke the C memory model, imposed specific hardware details and was implemented with invisible locks on hardware that doesn't support it which is why people still default on -std=c99 in the...
[01:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The COVID-19 Shutdown is Making Weather Prediction More Difficult - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:20] <exec> 08└─The air quality index [aqicn.org] is much improved -- it's only at 'unhealthy' for the time being.
[01:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The COVID-19 Shutdown is Making Weather Prediction More Difficult - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:21] <exec> 08└─If? Denialist loony.
[01:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has Reportedly Removed More Than 100 Apps - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:45] <exec> 08└─That doesn't really explain why young people who have spent their entire lives in the US are be so prone to placing the dollar sign in the wrong place; they're not following a standard, just making a mistake. My theory is that it's just one of the many things that weren't required of them as kids; m...
[01:59:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06AT&T CEO Retiring as Telco Plans for Three Years of Cost Cuts and Layoffs - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:54] <exec> 08└─"to serve our customers and communities..."
[01:59:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06AT&T CEO Retiring as Telco Plans for Three Years of Cost Cuts and Layoffs - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:58] <exec> 08└─That's the capitalist mindset. It's so ingraned in their brains that they don't even realize it. Employees are not people, They're "human resources", just like "material resources" or "financial resources".
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[02:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop High-Performance Ceramic Fuel Cell that Operates on Butane Gas - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:15] <exec> 08└─That's Noble Prize.
[02:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The COVID-19 Shutdown is Making Weather Prediction More Difficult - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah in fact in Rome and Milan after covid there was an INCREMENT in air pollution. No cars around. Turns out most of it comes from heating. So after we spent billions on electric car infrastructure we will probably be at square 1/2. Sometimes actual science (experimental) can be still performed heh...
[02:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The COVID-19 Shutdown is Making Weather Prediction More Difficult - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:41] <exec> 08└─It's also not a big deal cause you gotta stay home anyway :D
[02:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Single Malicious GIF Opened Microsoft Teams to Nasty Attack - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:59] <exec> 08└─So the lesson is "Beware of geeks bearing GIFs"?
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[03:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Less is More With OpenCL 3.0 - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:26] <exec> 08└─https://www.anandtech.com/comments/15746/opencl-30-announced-hitting-reset-on-compute-frameworks [anandtech.com] https://www.phoronix.com [phoronix.com] Looks like Nvidia wrecked Khron...
[03:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:31] <exec> 08└─My understanding is the wild life keeps getting replaced by wild life from further away as it dies off from radiation poisoning.
[03:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:33] <exec> 08└─As for manager related damage, I'm not sure anyone has found a solution for that yet.
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[04:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Malicious GIF Opened Microsoft Teams to Nasty Attack - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:55] <exec> 08└─Discord MatterMost Yammer Slack
[05:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 0619 Possible Captured Interstellar Asteroids Found in the Solar System - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that would be fascinating, wouldn't it? Not only would it tell us a lot about star formation, but might give us leads for where we could send probes to look for life.
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[05:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:54] <exec> 08└─The wheat protein is gluten, you fucks, the bit that makes al dente spaghetti springy/chewy. There will be culling in the human race, particularly in the West. Too damn dumb and arrogant. Drink your lysol.
[05:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:01] <exec> 08└─Did the plan involve drinking bleach, injecting Lysol, or lying in a tanning bed, without a mask? No? No wonder it was rejected!
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[06:01:20] <exec> 08└─People are now starting to realize that city life even in San Diego has no fucking redeeming qualities once you take away the beach, restaurant access, nightlife, universities, and freedom of movement. Fortunately some parks have already opened and beach access will be opened tomorrow, so we'll hope...
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[06:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:06] <exec> 08└─I hope this works out because wheat flour substitutes made from rice SUCK.
[06:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:08] <exec> 08└─Gluten-free pasta.
[06:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:10] <exec> 08└─So we come out with a placebo cure for an imaginary psycho-somatic disease! Profit!!!! Profit on step 2!! Brilliant. Now to work the Ultra-violent Lysterium Covid-19 cure. Worth Bullions, I tell ya!!
[06:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:12] <exec> 08└─Shit, I looked it up. You are right. This gluten-free is going to make for some nasty wheat. Might as well just eat something else like quinoa or chickpeas or rice.
[06:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:14] <exec> 08└─Half my family are diagnosed coeliac (scope and blood test) I have now eaten quite a bit of gluten-free pasta, and I have to disagree with you. Some of the commercial gluten-free pasta and bread are actually pretty good. The pasta doesn't re-heat very well, so you only cook one night's worth, but ot...
[06:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:23] <exec> 08└─That's all it takes - get the NHS hooked on an App from Google+Apple no less. Once the NHS gives up the ghost and starts paying... uh I mean partnering with Google+Apple there's no way to undo that. It's private companies servicing healthcare. Sure you may have a real Romanian NHS nurse but the mone...
[06:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Less is More With OpenCL 3.0 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:42] <exec> 08└─Looks like Nvidia wrecked Khronos, possibly from the inside.
[06:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The COVID-19 Shutdown is Making Weather Prediction More Difficult - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:00] <exec> 08└─Jesus. That was a joke. It should modded troll or funny, but insightful? Morons.
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[06:59:02] <exec> 08└─Here's the code (in COBOL): today = 50% yesterday + 50% last year The reason it takes a supercomputer is because the code only runs on 1950's version of COBOL and no-one alive knows how to port it.
[06:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:53] <exec> 08└─> ...international communism... Oh please. It's corruption plain and simple. Tell me it's acceptable to have your daughter and son-in-law in the chain of command and I'll show you what broke the USSR. Every. Fucking. Day.
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[07:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:03] <exec> 08└─Wheat allergy is diagnosed just like any allergy using prick and blood tests looking for the immunologic response: https://www.wheat-free.org [wheat-free.org]
[07:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:05] <exec> 08└─Wheat allergy isn't the same thing as real gluten sensitivity nor my sister-in-law's version of "gluten sensitivity." The easiest way to tell is that the diagnostic criteria for gluten sensitivity requires ruling out a wheat allergy as one of the first steps.
[07:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Less is More With OpenCL 3.0 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:34] <exec> 08└─right, just imagine developers sticking with something that works... Mona Lisa Vito: Oh my God, what a fucking nightmare!
[07:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:46] <exec> 08└─Cool! My understanding is that radioactive mutants devour the weak and only the strong survive.
[07:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:48] <exec> 08└─Those darn advertisers. How will we ever know the truth?
[07:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:50] <exec> 08└─Look harder next time.
[08:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Centenary of Astronomy's "Great Debate" on the Size of the Universe - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:02] <exec> 08└─"the Local Supercluster is not gravitationally bound" So a bit like tea leaves then?
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[08:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:59] <exec> 08└─notice it's an asian, not a white-man-retard.
[08:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:14] <exec> 08└─The wheat protein is gluten, you fucks
[08:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:15] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid you are wrong. Gluten intolerance is real and can affect anybody. There is a debate to be had as to why the intolerance is so much more prevalent today as opposed to, say, 50 or 100 years ago, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. My wife has multiple sclerosis and is definitely now int...
[08:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:26] <exec> 08└─Two new Zero day viruses every day!
[09:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:01] <exec> 08└─Can humans build and safely operate nuclear power plants?
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[09:58:00] <exec> 08└─cool, so it works as a low-pass filter.
[09:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:01] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoflurane [wikipedia.org] That's pretty scary molecule by just looking at the formula. Maybe, it is some former chemical weapon? Let's check some hazard classification: https://www.concordia.ca
[09:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:19] <exec> 08└─Try putting regular bread into your toaster and use the "gluten free" setting with minimum time. It works miracles for my sister-in-law and she can now enjoy tasty bread without the problems that come with it. I wish I were joking. Thanks to people like her, gluten-free food is more widely available...
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[09:58:20] <exec> 08└─the "gluten free" setting with minimum time
[10:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:06] <exec> 08└─I read that anonymous coward as saying that most of the fallout had a half-life well *under* thirty years.
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[10:00:08] <exec> 08└─Fire is a part of nature. Why extinguish them? Let natural fires burn naturally.
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[10:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:58] <exec> 08└─https://old.reddit.com/r/kimyojong/ [reddit.com] The official subreddit for pics of dystopian hottie, Kim Yo-Jong. Just because she wants to kill us all and has probably committed several human rights atrocities doesn't mean we can't love her effortless style
[10:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:59] <exec> 08└─KIM YO-JONG WILL RISE FROM THE EARTH OUT OF A MOIST LABIA LIKE SHEATH. SHE WILL BE A TOWERING 30 FOOT QUEEN WHO WILL TAKE HER PLACE ON HER BLOODY THRONE, ADORNED WITH THE HEADS OF THOSE WHO FAILED TO SUPPORT HER RULE. SHE WILL LAY WASTE TO CHINA FIRST BEFORE EXECUTING HER JUDGEMENT ACROSS THE EARTH....
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[10:58:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, people DID know why it worked and why magnetic tape binder degrades over time. Ampex had a patent on tape baking already in the 70's. I'd like to see a real paper on what real experiments LoC conducted and what historical research they knew about.
[10:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:29] <exec> 08└─I have found that more and more restaurans have proper procedures to avoid gluten contamination. I can eat most places without risking getting sick.
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[10:58:31] <exec> 08└─You are citing "wheat-free.org"? Aren't they like the "forks over knives" people? Out and out religious fanatics with an agenda to reduce us all the lysol-injecting zombie cannibals?
[10:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:41] <exec> 08└─Criminals lose their rights and become subject to surveillance, it is not something a free society engages in. Everyone knew where the virus originated in December, get back to me when we're prosecuting CCP and WHO officials for mass-murder.
[10:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop High-Performance Ceramic Fuel Cell that Operates on Butane Gas - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:51] <exec> 08└─Didn't read the article but TFS doesn't say what about it is high performance. I'd like to know, anyone? Keeping the cell at 600C costs energy and requires insulation so it's bulky. Just factors to consider in the performance measurement.
[11:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Centenary of Astronomy's "Great Debate" on the Size of the Universe - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:35] <exec> 08└─Not bound, but strangely attracted. The have a common proper motion, if you know what I mean. Laniakea.
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[11:57:58] <exec> 08└─https://listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ARSCLIST;d144d59c.2004 [loc.gov]
[11:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03winnitude [3781] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:08] <exec> 08└─Oh no you di-int. You should probably delete this before some crank magnet reads it and it gets taken on as a full-blown conspiracy theory that general anesthesia is a government mind control tool. "My sister's, husband's second cousin once had a general anesthesic, and the nerve poison they gave he...
[11:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:10] <exec> 08└─Who knew isoflurane was an inductor? They got this part backwards, however: twice per second (0.2Hz) and twice every ten seconds (2Hz).
[11:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:12] <exec> 08└─They use isoflurane in veterinarian settings all the time. You see it on all of the Nat Geo vet shows, anyway. IIRC I've seen at least one vet wear a full respirator when using it. Not all of them seem to, so I don't know why that's the case.
[11:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:32] <exec> 08└─I read this comment and immediately thought of Barbara Hudson, then thought the lack of virtue signalling about volunteer work made it seem odd.. You might still be her(him?).
[11:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:43] <exec> 08└─> Experts from GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre have aided the effort.
[12:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic Leap's $2.6 Billion Bait and Switch - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:06] <exec> 08└─You're not reading into the situation enough. They're telling you the money is flowing, they are getting paid, you are getting paid, everyone is happy. Of course, this is not to say, you and your boss are friends. He'll throw you under the bus as soon as it is convenient, nothing personal. Your boss...
[12:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic Leap's $2.6 Billion Bait and Switch - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:07] <exec> 08└─True enough, and when the money was gone, they did pull the old trick of not informing everyone that they couldn't make payroll. Our last month of work was involuntarily unpaid. At the start of the month, they gambled that with a few new features implemented and running they could magically turn the...
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[12:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly Used Merchant Data, Despite Telling Congress It Doesn’t - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:59] <exec> 08└─You don't want a fox minding your henhouse. What is most curious is that the article suggests that Congress knows how to recognize a lie, which blows their "plausible deniability" defense for all of the Congress-critters own crimes.
[12:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly Used Merchant Data, Despite Telling Congress It Doesn’t - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:00] <exec> 08└─If Congress is investigating Amazon and Big Tech, it means those haven't been keeping up with their protection payments. At most, it means Congress is re-negotiating the rates. Nothing real will happen to Bezos because he is rich, powerful, and owns a major publication he can use to pillory politici...
[12:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:12] <exec> 08└─This is 2020, you've got to keep up with the latest in scientific methodology. They didn't do experiments, they built a model fitting data until the subject under examination met their expectations.
[12:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:13] <exec> 08└─there is still a large number of tapes in the archives that are still in their original format. They are simply obscure enough that they might only be digitized if the LOC receives a request to listen to them.
[12:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:27] <exec> 08└─I usually just turn on the TV.
[12:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:01] <exec> 08└─There's no moderation for "and there it is", "game over", "typical bullshit" or "elites screwing their own citizens after failing international duties".
[12:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:02] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the various coronavirus contact tracing apps are in any useful way compatible with one another. Is contact tracing to be fragmented so contacts between people with different apps are ignored?
[12:59:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:05] <exec> 08└─This! There's no suprise that one of the 5 eyes would prefer a centralized data storage that could be tapped for other purposes.
[12:59:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Less is More With OpenCL 3.0 - 415 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:23] <exec> 08└─It's not simply "new technology". When C11 introduced stdatomic.h it was already highly controversial since it broke the C memory model, imposed specific hardware details and was implemented with invisible locks on hardware that doesn't support it which is why people still default on -std=c99 in the...
[13:00:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Single Malicious GIF Opened Microsoft Teams to Nasty Attack - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:01] <exec> 08└─So the lesson is "Beware of geeks bearing GIFs"?
[13:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Malicious GIF Opened Microsoft Teams to Nasty Attack - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:04] <exec> 08└─A different remote resource would work just as well, images are simply convenient in that they're automatically displayed (and therefore automatically loaded).
[13:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Malicious GIF Opened Microsoft Teams to Nasty Attack - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:06] <exec> 08└─Injecting disinfectants and scarring lung tissue with UV light.
[13:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:46] <exec> 08└─Carbon-14 ... has a half-life of around 12 years.
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[13:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly Used Merchant Data, Despite Telling Congress It Doesn’t - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:58] <exec> 08└─The technician didn't actually lie, per se. They don't use individual vendor's data, they use aggregated data. It's just all in how you aggregate it. Of course if you aggregate one vendor's data with another who hasn't sold anything in that product category in 4 months... it's still technically aggr...
[13:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:12] <exec> 08└─I love that print on demand is a thing in this day and age.
[13:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:13] <exec> 08└─Interesting effect. When my friends get baked it generally renders them more incomprehensible, not less.
[13:58:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 414 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:23] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoflurane [wikipedia.org] That's pretty scary molecule by just looking at the formula. Maybe, it is some former chemical weapon? Let's check some hazard classification: https://www.concordia.ca
[13:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:48] <exec> 08└─He needs to take a break from the Lysol.
[13:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:03] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that someone outside of "one of the 5 eyes" would have better motives or goals?
[13:59:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:05] <exec> 08└─One App to Rule Them All solves your problem. Ideally individual apps would coordinate/cooperate, but you need common interfaces defined. This is a great thing to establish over the next year or two with input from all the different stakeholders to develop the APIs and protocols, etc., but the bigge...
[14:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleBen [8563] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T CEO Retiring as Telco Plans for Three Years of Cost Cuts and Layoffs - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:43] <exec> 08└─Just a minor correction, because telco history matters. Southwestern Bell (SWB) was never a subsidiary of the company now known as "AT&T." SWB bought the AT&T brand in 2005 for $16b. Even Wikipedia gets this both right and wrong, referring to SBC as a subsidiary in the intro and explaining the '05 p...
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[14:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:03] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you meant English teachers. I don't think IT cars about how many spaces you use.
[14:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:05] <exec> 08└─We never tried to force people to use double spaces, why do have to mess with us?
[14:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:07] <exec> 08└─Two spaces after a period is not an error. It is an indicator that the sentence is over. I am so sick of Microsoft's software trying to tell me what it thinks I mean to do. Microsoft Word is the typesetter. When I put in two spaces, the stupid software should determine that I mean for that to be the...
[14:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:09] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you meant English teachers. I don't think IT cars about how many spaces you use.
[14:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:11] <exec> 08└─Stay 6 ft apart instead of 12 ft. My God 12 ft!?!
[14:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:13] <exec> 08└─As a Linux user, I could not care less about any Microsoft decree, or what is going on with MS Word. Besides, who made them the arbiter of punctuation?
[14:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:15] <exec> 08└─It looks like you're trying to post a rant. Would you like help with that? AUTO ALL CAPS? Replace "!" with "1"? Click here to disable help (for a little while anyway).
[14:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:18] <exec> 08└─Since you mention stupid software, I've been sending comments with double spaces after a period to this webapp for 20 years now. Never did a developer on any site insert a non-breaking space into the rendered html. I DEMAND A REFUND FROM THESE FASCIST BASTARDS!
[14:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:20] <exec> 08└─Besides, who made you butthurt about spaces? Somebody must have done bad things to you, man.
[14:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:22] <exec> 08└─That's what she said.
[14:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:24] <exec> 08└─Your refund check will arrive in 60 days.
[14:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:26] <exec> 08└─TFA doesn't really say, but was this done in some "update" they just pushed out? Since they are talking about that cloudy subscription 365 shit, I'm guessing that is the case? Insert rant about not changing major features in minor updates here. Do they even still sell a NORMAL desktop version of Mic...
[14:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:28] <exec> 08└─And yet, you only single-spaced this comment....really ingrained habit you have there..
[14:58:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fnord666 [652] 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly Used Merchant Data, Despite Telling Congress It Doesn’t - 314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:38] <exec> 08└─The technician didn't actually lie, per se. They don't use individual vendor's data, they use aggregated data. It's just all in how you aggregate it. Of course if you aggregate one vendor's data with another who hasn't sold anything in that product category in 4 months... it's still technically aggr...
[14:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly Used Merchant Data, Despite Telling Congress It Doesn’t - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:41] <exec> 08└─We need to police Facebook, we call Zuck to come in to explain what needs policing. We need to police Microsoft, we call Gates, Ballmer, whoever in to explain what needs to be done. Time to police Amazon, we'll just ask Amazon what we need to do, and have them explain what they are and are not doing...
[14:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly Used Merchant Data, Despite Telling Congress It Doesn’t - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:43] <exec> 08└─Sure - we chose a swamp monster to drain the swamp so why not?
[14:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:33] <exec> 08└─> Thanks to people like her, gluten-free food is more widely available for people who need it and cheaper than ever. That is like herd... uh, munity. You need those people to get stupid and never recover but not die. Just stupid enough.
[14:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:51] <exec> 08└─After the 1st eye there's a rrrrreeal big fucking drop off. Google+Apple and Microsoft are happy servants of the the 1 big eye.
[14:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:52] <exec> 08└─The bar that 5E sets is conspicuously closer to "worse" than to "better", so if you pick another nation at random... that's the way to bet.
[15:01:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:01] <exec> 08└─Brought to you by the same MAGAs that think Climate Change is a hoax, not caused by humans, and will have no long term irreversible consequences. Not for scientific reasons, but ideological reasons. Sort of like the COVID-19 hoax.
[15:02:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06AT&T CEO Retiring as Telco Plans for Three Years of Cost Cuts and Layoffs - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:20] <exec> 08└─"couldn't be more excited about the new opportunities we have to serve our customers and communities and create value for our shareholders."
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[15:57:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:57] <exec> 08└─It looks like you're trying to post a rant. Would you like help with that? AUTO ALL CAPS? Replace "!" with "1"? Click here to disable help (for a little while anyway).
[15:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:04] <exec> 08└─I'm going to start using 3 motherfucking spaces . Yeah bitch get used to it .
[15:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:07] <exec> 08└─SOYLENT ATE MY SPACES!!1!1111
[15:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:09] <exec> 08└─TFA doesn't really say, but was this done in some "update" they just pushed out? Since they are talking about that cloudy subscription 365 shit, I'm guessing that is the case? Insert rant about not changing major features in minor updates here. Do they even still sell a NORMAL desktop version of Mic...
[15:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TapeApe [2146] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:11] <exec> 08└─English teachers will explain patiently that it's two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence, or after a colon. Then they'll mention that it's just one space after a comma or a semicolon. IT teachers will froth at the mouth and argue over whether to use 5 spaces, 8 spaces, or hit the [TAB] b...
[15:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:13] <exec> 08└─You can still set your own preference (Options>Proofing>Writing Style Settings>Punctuation Conventions>Spaces Between Sentences) as 1 space, 2 spaces, or don't check. So, put down the torches. Keep the pitchforks out though. I'm not even sure they did this on existing profiles or just new ones. I'm...
[15:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:15] <exec> 08└─Our Typing Teacher told us to use two spaces. We used coal-fired steam powered typewriters.
[15:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:18] <exec> 08└─Oh wow your butt really is hurt. I'm so sorry for ridiculing you.
[15:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:20] <exec> 08└─OK you seem to know your shit. So can you explain what Normal.dot is and why it keeps wanting to be saved or loaded?
[15:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:22] <exec> 08└─Young whippersnappers. We had to do word processing in our head.
[15:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:24] <exec> 08└─If two spaces indicate the sentence is over then what the fuck is the period for?
[15:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:26] <exec> 08└─You can still set your own preference (Options>Proofing>Writing Style Settings>Punctuation Conventions>Spaces Between Sentences) as 1 space, 2 spaces, or don't check.
[15:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:29] <exec> 08└─All I know is: no fuck during period.
[15:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:31] <exec> 08└─On Linux it's much easier. First download the source code...
[15:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly Used Merchant Data, Despite Telling Congress It Doesn’t - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, when are we gonna police congress?
[15:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly Used Merchant Data, Despite Telling Congress It Doesn’t - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:44] <exec> 08└─I thought we were supposed to throw them out regularly, like, every 4 or 6 years. Why DO we keep them long past their expiration dates?
[15:59:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 1398 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:27] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid you are wrong. Gluten intolerance is real and can affect anybody. There is a debate to be had as to why the intolerance is so much more prevalent today as opposed to, say, 50 or 100 years ago, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. My wife has multiple sclerosis and is definitely now int...
[15:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:36] <exec> 08└─FWIW, of the few I've used, the one I favor is the "Better-than-(pasta|spaghetti|...)". It's pre-cooked, so you don't need to cook it. Just rinse and serve. And it's safe for those with celiac disease, like my sister. OTOH, I don't think that kind of substitution is what they're talking about. I thi...
[15:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:38] <exec> 08└─Agreed, we started our "gluten free" journey in 2004 and back then 90%+ of the population (including food service workers) hadn't the foggiest idea what you were on about: "gluten" - "do you mean Elmer's Glue? No, we never put paste in our pasta." There were entire towns where there were simply no g...
[15:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:40] <exec> 08└─That's not my sister's experience. OTOH, she suffers from severe celiac disease. A fleck of wheat you can't see could cause her to be taken to the emergency room...where they can't do much for her.
[16:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The COVID-19 Shutdown is Making Weather Prediction More Difficult - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:39] <exec> 08└─When the imaginary disease that causes you to stay in bed and eat cheese sticks until midday... makes the weather prediction that 50% of us don't trust anyway slightly less accurate.
[16:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:41] <exec> 08└─Tell me it's acceptable to have your daughter and son-in-law in the chain of command
[16:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:42] <exec> 08└─Except that the Chernobyl core itself is still smoking hot [stanford.edu] and the only thing keeping it from mixing with surface water and covering much of northern Europe in radioactive fallout is that crumbling sarcophagus. The melted core is so radioactive that near exposure is fatal acquired in...
[16:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:45] <exec> 08└─> ...getting radioactive lumber from there to sell, including for fuel... What idiots would do that? https://www.scientificamerican.com
[16:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:47] <exec> 08└─Your links don't support your hyperbole about Northern Europe.
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[16:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:24] <exec> 08└─They are the world's largest personal computer vendor [wikipedia.org], and they already make Android and ChromeOS devices.
[16:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:25] <exec> 08└─Year 2020 -- The Year Of The Linux Desktop! <no-sarcasm> What I'd really like to see is more competition between some major hardware brands on Linux computers. It would be cool if Google could get into this game. Google is working on Crostini on their Chromebooks. I think this may mature into someth...
[16:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:28] <exec> 08└─This means something else. It means Lenovo thinks they are immune from pressure from Microsoft on Windows licenses. A dozen years ago when Netbooks became "a thang", Microsoft managed to kill Netbooks by: * resurrecting Windows XP, but only for Netbooks * at a price (zero) that OEMs couldn't refuse...
[16:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:30] <exec> 08└─>> Year 2020 -- The Year Of The Linux Desktop! Nope. It's 2020 -- The Year That Systemd Led to Many Systems Being Returned to OEM Vendors to Have Windows Installed
[16:58:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EJ [2452] 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 480 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:40] <exec> 08└─Two spaces after a period is not an error. It is an indicator that the sentence is over. I am so sick of Microsoft's software trying to tell me what it thinks I mean to do. Microsoft Word is the typesetter. When I put in two spaces, the stupid software should determine that I mean for that to be the...
[16:59:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:04] <exec> 08└─How to solve issue #infinity+39423945 of MS word. We are going to exclude the obvious solution, don't use crapspyware issued by the antichrist in person, as obviously the people who follow this advice are not among the affected. If Microsoft were not evil, they would simply allow to optionally add "...
[16:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:05] <exec> 08└─Not many IT teachers cares, but the guy who came up with TEX is probably rolling in his grave (oh still alive? sorry)
[16:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:08] <exec> 08└─normaldotdot? doesn't look normal at all. AT ALL.
[16:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:10] <exec> 08└─AAALLLLLL CCCAAAPPPSSS IIISSS PPPAAASSSSSSÉÉÉ
[16:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:12] <exec> 08└─Do it in pearl the right way - no spaces or new lines just run it together yourrefundcheckwillarrivein60days
[16:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:14] <exec> 08└─You left out Sports / PE teachers. It's the state law that STEM and IT students attend one hour of PE per day and get beat up by jocks.
[16:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:16] <exec> 08└─In 1977 I got to use a cool IBM Selectric in typing class. It was bright red. I took typing for one and only one purpose: to be good at typing on a computer keyboard, which I knew I would be doing for the rest of my life. Two years later in college, I did far less hand writing and more typing. After...
[16:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:18] <exec> 08└─It is interesting how QUERTY has stuck to this day. There are other keyboard layouts. But four and a half decades since I started using computes, everything is still QUERTY. Well into the 21st century.
[16:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:21] <exec> 08└─It also ate your caps lock key.
[16:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:23] <exec> 08└─Manual word processing? Pfft. We had to be content with wet clay.
[16:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:25] <exec> 08└─How do you typo "QWERTY"? The letters are literally lined up for you at the top of the keyboard!
[16:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly Used Merchant Data, Despite Telling Congress It Doesn’t - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:39] <exec> 08└─Barring well-enforced laws and regulations that prevent it: 1. If data passes through an organization's systems, it WILL be collected and stored. 2. If data is stored on an organization's systems, it WILL be used by that organization for data mining. 3. If data is stored on an organization's systems...
[16:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly Used Merchant Data, Despite Telling Congress It Doesn’t - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:41] <exec> 08└─How to protect incumbents, in 3 steps: 1. Make campaigns as expensive as possible and privately funded. That gives a large advantage to sitting office-holders who can immediately deliver preferred policy changes in exchange for bribes^Hcampaign contributions, as opposed to challengers who *might* be...
[16:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:57] <exec> 08└─Dude that was early 2020, we're now in mid-2020 and we inject lysol for everything now. It'd be interesting to check that. You're going to have to use scientits but it sounds interesting to me so it gets instant Federal funding. But the whole concept of the light, the way it goes in one minute, that...
[16:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:59] <exec> 08└─If it has an API, I can see someone innovative creating a cloud site: Kill Trees On Demand In The Clod!
[17:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:01] <exec> 08└─Convert all the audio tapes to digital format. mp3 for good quality kick the bit rate up to 96 kbps.
[17:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:15] <exec> 08└─now it makes complete sense
[17:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:16] <exec> 08└─it's assholes like you falling asleep in front of the TV that makes them use more flashing screens and shock noises. fuck you
[17:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:19] <exec> 08└─YouTube has a good supply of videos of people waking up from anesthesia. Especially, but not exclusively people waking up after removal of wisdom teeth.
[17:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Less is More With OpenCL 3.0 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:25] <exec> 08└─If Less is better than More . . . Then Lessons are better than Morons.
[17:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The COVID-19 Shutdown is Making Weather Prediction More Difficult - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:47] <exec> 08└─Real 1st world problems, over-privileged and under educated bored people inventing conspiracies to make their lives seem a little more exciting.
[17:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:53] <exec> 08└─Excellent reply, thanks.
[17:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:55] <exec> 08└─Aw that wickle smaww tiny tiny radioactive part, it's soo tiny, soo cute. But who knows? Perhaps it cures COVID-19. The whole concept of the light, the way it goes in one minute, that's pretty powerful.
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[17:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:59] <exec> 08└─I am personally waiting until a AMD ryzen 4000 series processor makes it into a laptop shipping with linux. I really hope System76 releases such a machine soon because I want to support what they're doing. Obviously for shipping Linux, though I also like how they are moving to coreboot on their prod...
[17:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:00] <exec> 08└─https://wccftech.com/amds-next-gen-cezanne-ryzen-5000-apus-detailed-rumored-to-feature-zen-3-cores-rdna2-navi-23-gpu/ [wccftech.com] Looks like the 5000-series mobile APUs will switch from Vega graphics (the last gasp of GCN [wikipedia.org]) directly to RDNA2, so it will be interesting to see how th...
[17:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:03] <exec> 08└─Was it that long since Thinkpad supported linux on laptop? Linux support was the reason I bought my first Thinkpad (and only 10 years ago or so).
[17:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:05] <exec> 08└─I agree. It's not that I think AMD is necessarily better, but I would like to see more competition in the processor market - diversity is good. You might even get chipsets/motherboards where you can tell the hardware not to trust the manufacturer.
[17:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:51] <exec> 08└─I think by reflex. Not sure why. But I didn't even realize it. It didn't "look" wrong. In fact QWERTY is awkward to type, and looks strange.
[17:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:52] <exec> 08└─Look how much development effort (human-hours) is spent reverse-engineering MS file formats, filesystem, networking, etc., formats, to make Linux applications and lower-level software conform to MS non-standards. We dream of a different world, but MS dominance is the reality.
[17:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:54] <exec> 08└─DANNYB!!! And this is after you were almost bragging what a typing whiz you are...?! Anybody can type 120 typos a minute. I can type 280 bits of nonsense a minute! All your credibility has gone swiftly down the drain. 🤣
[17:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:56] <exec> 08└─The position of the letters doesn't really matter that much. For a programmer, what can matter over the course of a day is all those punctuation symbols and control key combos we have to type.
[17:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:58] <exec> 08└─Right or wrong, I'll bet that up until this point in the last 25 years HTML has had a bigger influence than any other factor in the "one or two spaces after a sentence" debate. It's virtually impossible to type raw HTML with two spaces after a paragraph without a keyboard macro for " " → " ". No...
[17:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 1353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:01] <exec> 08└─Or whatever looks nice. I believe that the idea of two spaces after a full stop originates from type writers with monospace fonts. Typesetters probably used a spacing depending on the letters (kerning). With proportionally-spaced fonts sometimes a single space looks best, sometimes two looks best, s...
[17:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:03] <exec> 08└─You had wet clay? We had to use chisels to do the editing.
[17:59:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:05] <exec> 08└─MS Word will also suggest gender neutral words to use instead of your not-updated-to-PC-2002 vocabulary. What the hell business does a word processor, i.e, typewriter with infinite correction fluid, have telling you what to write? WHO is in charge here?
[17:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:07] <exec> 08└─Clippy sez: Did you mean 2020 ? (Replying to my own post... sheesh.
[17:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:09] <exec> 08└─I used to do real typesetting for a living, from setting lead type in galleys, to the Compugraphic MCS PowerView, to the Mac...so I'm God 🤣. Two spaces is an error, I don't care what they told you in typing class. Everybody get this tattooed on your forearm. And Microsoft Word isn't a typesetter....
[17:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:11] <exec> 08└─I'm not bragging about being especially fast. But I do fairly rapidly type. And backspace sometimes. :-) But I've been doing it for decades. The typing teacher made sure nobody got started with any bad habits. I am thinking about how I repeated that mistake twice and didn't catch it. I think Q is un...
[17:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:13] <exec> 08└─Don't panic, and use a towel
[17:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:16] <exec> 08└─I tried to think of a word starting with Q not followed by U. I couldn't think of a
[17:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:18] <exec> 08└─I'm going to start using 3 motherfucking spaces.
[17:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:20] <exec> 08└─Damn right! To center a line you had to count the characters, divide by two and backspace from the center of the page, and we didn't complain!
[17:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:22] <exec> 08└─HTML renders all white space as single-space. HTML did it years ahead of Microsoft.
[17:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:24] <exec> 08└─>> It's the state law that STEM and IT students attend one hour of PE per day and get beat up by jocks. And it's karma that the jocks spend the rest of their lives being monitored and manipulated by their IT overlords.
[18:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:14] <exec> 08└─Just like we all have to be unquestionally compliant with our mass imprisonment, otherwise the government will extend it indefinitely.
[18:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 1476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:42] <exec> 08└─Wheat allergy [mayoclinic.org] Diagnosis A physical exam, detailed medical history and some tests will help your doctor make a diagnosis. Tests or diagnostic tools may include: Skin test. Tiny drops of purified allergen extracts — including extracts for wheat proteins — are pricked onto your ski...
[18:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:44] <exec> 08└─You are citing "wheat-free.org"? Aren't they like the "forks over knives" people? Out and out religious fanatics with an agenda to reduce us all the lysol-injecting zombie cannibals?
[18:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:03] <exec> 08└─I'm not very convinced by your gut feelings on the matter. I'm more convinced by several thousand years of documented examples of humans acting like humans in all their glory as well as pettiness. Ascribing untoward motivations largely to one group has shown itself to stink of abject ignorance, malf...
[18:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:56] <exec> 08└─the linked article is kindda silly. one could just replace "radioactif accident" with some "chemical accident" and the real story the article is talking about is how sad it is that the government couldn't admit it, made close to hilarious comments on the situation and ... so sad ... people cannot li...
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[18:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:04] <exec> 08└─If it weren't for you and your pals at Airbus, the Wuhan Flu would have stayed in China. #GroundThePlanes #SailEverywhere #StGretaForPope
[18:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:05] <exec> 08└─If it weren't for you and your pals at Airbus, the Wuhan Flu would have stayed in China. #GroundThePlanes #SailEverywhere #StGretaForPope
[18:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:07] <exec> 08└─I've never gotten to fly in one of these, and I hope I can before they're gone. It's too bad they didn't have more success; not only are they reputed to be a fantastic experience for passengers, but even though they're not known for fantastic fuel economy, it seems like they should have excellent pe...
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[18:58:22] <exec> 08└─oh stfu.
[18:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:24] <exec> 08└─It's either checking a box on the list of potential markets, or a way to pressuring M$ in having a better deal. If they cared about Free Software they would have offered no OS or linux installed systems around 2005. By that year the linux desktop was better, so much better that the enemy had to star...
[18:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:26] <exec> 08└─Dell's Linux support has generally been limited to one or two very specific laptops...
[18:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:29] <exec> 08└─>> As a Linux user, I could not care less about any Microsoft decree, or what is going on with MS Word. You should, it's a preview of what Poettering is going to add to the next version of systemd.
[18:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:31] <exec> 08└─I suggest writing your essays in such a fashion that they use words like how a connoisseur analyzes a stogie. Looooong and ultimately pointless by the time you light it on fire I turned my point into like the greater part of a fifth of a paragraph just now doing that. It's my brand. Also, does anyon...
[18:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:33] <exec> 08└─If only there were some place you could just type in a question and find out the answer to it. Someone should make that.
[18:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:35] <exec> 08└─They've beaten us into submission. I'll put up with anything short of that miserable paperclip.
[18:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:38] <exec> 08└─It is the default document template. It stores your preferences like fonts, spacing, whatever. Why it keeps wanting to be saved is because it's either corrupt, you don't have permissions to modify it and you made changes that would be saved to it, or you installed some add-on that's trying to fuck w...
[18:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:40] <exec> 08└─With those new-fangled "computers" why don't you let them chose the right spacing?
[18:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:42] <exec> 08└─I have probably typed Qatar even less than any other word beginning with Q. And I noticed that my fingers slowed down compared to other words in these sentences.
[18:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:44] <exec> 08└─Why would you want to type after every sentence? An example of appropriate use of Non-Breaking SPace would be "Mr Smith" (the non-breaking space goes between the "Mr" and "Smith", indicating to the typesetter that it is undesirable to have "Mr" at the end of one line and "Smith" at the beginning...
[18:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:46] <exec> 08└─Chisels? Luxury. We had to write by selectively eroding the stone with water!
[18:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:48] <exec> 08└─They certainly have won. I think the double-space thing is them testing the waters. Just checking to see how numbed over we are. My fear is that it's pretty bad at this point... I actually don't know the "paperclip" reference. Somehow I escaped it I guess. The little dog was annoying. That, and othe...
[18:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:51] <exec> 08└─DannyB, I love you! ❤️ Your wit and love for stupid puns are always welcome reads for me here. But...just 'fess up already! You fucked up. Twice! It's QWERTY. It should be is ingrained in our collective brain. You're just making it worse for yourself with yr who-cares list from...like I said, wh...
[18:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:53] <exec> 08└─Oh that's a horrifying thought I hadn't thought about: will MS dominate, or will Poettering? Or much much worse, will they collaborate? IBM and MS reunited by Poettering and systemd? Gosh.... (trundles off to look into other careers...)
[19:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly Used Merchant Data, Despite Telling Congress It Doesn’t - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:09] <exec> 08└─aka "dance with the devil and get a barbed tail in your ass"
[19:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:45] <exec> 08└─I think it is extremely rude to record people when impaired, especially when due to medical reasons, and even if parents do it to their children.
[19:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:46] <exec> 08└─Even more ruder to upload it without consent to YouTube. Hopefully those videos are at least uploaded by consent. They are hilarious. What happens in Vegas, stays in YouTube.
[19:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The COVID-19 Shutdown is Making Weather Prediction More Difficult - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:21] <exec> 08└─To be fair, for much of the population these could be replaced with a weather rock: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[19:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:54] <exec> 08└─it seems like they should have excellent per-passenger fuel economy if they're fully loaded, simply due to economy of scale.
[19:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:56] <exec> 08└─Some years back I heard this story -- Boeing did a little preliminary design work on a super jumbo even larger than the 747, but concluded that the market was going the other way with more/smaller planes doing more point-to-point flights (and less hub-hub). However, Boeing kept their real plans extr...
[19:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:14] <exec> 08└─immune from pressure from Microsoft
[19:58:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TapeApe [2146] 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 529 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:38] <exec> 08└─English teachers will explain patiently that it's two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence, or after a colon. Then they'll mention that it's just one space after a comma or a semicolon. IT teachers will froth at the mouth and argue over whether to use 5 spaces, 8 spaces, or hit the [TAB] b...
[19:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:30] <exec> 08└─You ought to try that exercise yourself. Of the top three articles for How do I get two spaces in word [duckduckgo.com], two were about removing extra spaces, and only one on topic. From the Microsoft support site [microsoft.com] itself: There isn't any way to do this automatically in any version of...
[19:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bloodnok [2578] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 1639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:31] <exec> 08└─As someone above pointed out: from a typesetting point of view, 2 spaces after a period is an error. But from the point of view of reading non-typeset text, 2 spaces after a period makes the text easier to scan. If you are typing on a typewriter you are not typesetting. If you are writing comments i...
[19:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:34] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with stirring the paint once in a while.
[19:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:36] <exec> 08└─Man I wish I could use Latex at work...
[19:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:38] <exec> 08└─What luxuries! All we had in our cave was charcoal and poo!
[19:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:40] <exec> 08└─Sorry to say, as much as I despise MS, but they're right here. No, two spaces is an error. The period indicates the sentence is complete. The only reason anyone ever used two spaces was because, in the Old Days, typewriters were monospaced, so two spaces approximated the extra space (about 1.5 space...
[19:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:42] <exec> 08└─If they really cared, they would use the to make the HTML respect the damned whitespace. <--Like this!
[19:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:44] <exec> 08└─For titles like Mr. and Ms. (I typed two spaces there but HTML/SN removed them. Now you can't tell if this parenthetical clause is part of the previous sentence or not.) There are no applications that automatically typeset the right amount of space after sentence terminating periods vs other periods...
[19:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:46] <exec> 08└─What characters are stored in the file is completely unrelated to what gets rendered/typeset. The purpose of two space characters after a period is to indicate that it is a sentence terminating period. The typesetter should then insert the correct width of space, taking into account many other varia...
[19:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:48] <exec> 08└─"Period" has multiple uses, most notably abbreviations. Period space, abbreviation. Period space space, end of sentence. Oddly, sometime in my lifetime acronyms stopped getting periods after each letter, but even before that they kept the second space if at the sentence. I blame S.P.E.C.T.R.E. There...
[20:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's a stronger reaction than most. If that were me I wouldn't trust any stranger to prepare my meals.
[20:03:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:13] <exec> 08└─Can humans build and safely operate nuclear power plants?
[20:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:25] <exec> 08└─They do, but conditionally. The core is unlikely to burn deeper into the ground as things currently stant. If it were do go deeper, like originally expected, the effects would be severe.
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[20:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aliks [357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:13] <exec> 08└─I have flown on a few A380s across a couple of airlines, and I was always impressed. As a passenger the layout, the smooth takeoff and landing and the low noise levels were just fanatastic. I'm not an expert, but it felt much better than the bigger Boeings. In addition, in London, my tennis club is...
[20:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:14] <exec> 08└─From the summary itself, they are going to stop producing NEW A380s next year, but the existing planes will remain in service for a long time. This just means the market can't support any more A380 than it already has.
[20:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:59] <exec> 08└─My mother was a typesetter. She taught me two spaces when I was six.
[21:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:01] <exec> 08└─Why would you want to type after every sentence?
[21:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:03] <exec> 08└─We all love our mothers. They are our first "points of reference". Even for Ted Bundy. Or Donald Trump. Or Kim Jong Un. Or Dick Cheney...ok, maybe not Cheney (an influence works one of two ways). But you get my point...I hope.
[21:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:05] <exec> 08└─You had a cave? My god, we were forced to save every space for Microsoft, they only had room for 640.
[21:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:39] <exec> 08└─use scientits
[21:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:30] <exec> 08└─I don't think you get the connotation. She isn't gluten sensitive. As long as she doesn't know gluten is in the food, she is fine. Exhibit A being the fact that she can throw regular bread in her toaster, use the "gluten free" setting, and eat it with no problems. Just telling her the food is gluten...
[21:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:31] <exec> 08└─Not entirely. Konjac based noodles can be good substitutes in a lot of cases.
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[21:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:52] <exec> 08└─"We're shocked...and stunned."
[21:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:53] <exec> 08└─Can't wait for lockdown to end and all the lies continue unabated. Anyone else annoyed by the $10 service charge from telcos just to be allowed to tether your laptop to phone and use the data you already pay for?
[21:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:07] <exec> 08└─The biggest question it helped answer was "What is the optimal size for a passenger jet?", and it's plainly "less than this". Aside from the fact that many airports couldn't handle it, and some had to be expanded, most airlines just couldn't fill the seats often enough. I hate to fly, but a ride on...
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[21:58:08] <exec> 08└─> I've watched some videos where it's so quiet that you hear background noises. I hate to fly too, the noise (or something) always used to cause a couple of days of fatigue. Then I started using ear plugs--made a huge difference for me, I arrive feeling fairly normal. Now, if there was something tha...
[21:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:28] <exec> 08└─+1 Interesting Good points. Nonetheless, it's nice to see the weaking of Microsoft's power. OEMs once cowered in fear. That is why there never were any Linux desktops or laptops form mainstream players. The only way you could make Linux hardware (preloaded from factory) was to NOT make Windows (eg,...
[21:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:29] <exec> 08└─Netbooks killed themselves by using dead slow processors with minimal ram.
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[22:00:00] <exec> 08└─> just like we no longer teach people to dial "1" before a "long distance" number. OT, but I'm still in an area where we do have to dial "1" to get outside our area code. Over the years this has been very perplexing to international visitors to the USA--since numbers are often written without the "1...
[22:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:01] <exec> 08└─Clippy was the worst, don't even try to learn more about it. It will be awhile before MS is enforcing the single space thing on me...still using Word97 which doesn't phone home. I've managed to get Office97 running in Win7. Looking forward to the day (retirement) when I can switch to Linux, wher...
[22:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:03] <exec> 08└─A pre-1900 printer would look something like this. [blogspot.com]
[22:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:38] <exec> 08└─There is no "why", and it is not "here". As for the link, I don't know how far the rabbit hole I have to go down to find out "how it works". I'm still left with the question unanswered :)
[22:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:58] <exec> 08└─Fluoride bounded to carbon is quite stable, that bound is really hard to break, in fact It is one of the strongest single bonds organic chemistry. I don't know why people thinks that C-F is dangerous like F-O or F-F... That molecule look like a chemically stable asymmetric version of diethyl ether,...
[22:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:49] <exec> 08└─Actually, it would burn clear through to China. To Wuhan, I believe.
[22:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:50] <exec> 08└─Back in the U-S (uh huh) Back in the U-S (yeah) Back in the U-S-S-R!
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[22:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:08] <exec> 08└─Have you not been paying attention, friend? What have any of your grievances have to do with "lockdown"? It's just now that "the man behind the curtain" has been unequivically and undeniably revealed. Are you really surprised?
[22:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:09] <exec> 08└─yes, the tethering really bothers me too. in some areas it's my only option for internet access. I hear custom firmware on android can get you tethering? I might look into doing that soon.
[22:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:11] <exec> 08└─I had a flashed phone, worked fine up until the telco managed to put a barrier in that required using their shitty app. There must be a way to fool the system so it doesn't realize it isn't your phone making the requests.
[22:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:14] <exec> 08└─No, I was sarcastically saying (sorry forgot the /s) that I can't wait for the lockdown to end and all these unequivocal and undeniable truths get swept back under the rug. We are seeing the cracks in our system, the corruption of the magic market forces, and I'm worried we'll just go back to busine...
[22:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:16] <exec> 08└─ssh tunnel? In my case I use tmobile and I don't have any problems with tethering.
[22:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:18] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this year is Peak Dishonesty, because reality is finally kicking a lot of Know-Nothings in the butt. The more bull they get away with, the deeper they go. I read that a few people actually believed that ridiculous assertion that injecting themselves with bleach could cure a Coronavirus i...
[22:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:20] <exec> 08└─It's coming; already in space. The INet2 will be the savor of us all! Thanks to Elon Muck Now if he could host our sites in the SpaceNebula(c) all will be cool. No country could claim ownership.
[22:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:37] <exec> 08└─》I really hope I get one last chance to fly A380 Something you don't want to say about the Boeing 737 Max, because odds are you'll be right.
[22:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:38] <exec> 08└─to accommodate your plane, you might have issues. I remember probably 20-30 years ago when this thing was announced, along with "airports will need upgrades to handle this plane". Combined with the hub and spoke topologies airlines seemed to be adopting I always wondered if this plane had a future....
[22:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:00] <exec> 08└─it's nice to see the weaking of Microsoft's power
[22:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:01] <exec> 08└─Lenovo has officially supported Linux (centos in particular iirc) on their laptops for quite a while but as far as I know haven't let you, a normal person, just buy a laptop with Linux on it before.
[23:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:37] <exec> 08└─The junior high school I went to, many moons ago, was very old and only had a small gym with a single locker room. So the girls got to use the gym in the junior high building, and the boys had to go across the large parking lot to the high school to have gym. With the high school boys. Imagine, if y...
[23:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:38] <exec> 08└─Fascinating. I guess I never noticed because as an adult I have always used a single space. I do vaguely recall a high school typing class that stressed two spaces in business correspondence. And a college medical transcription course that pushed single spacing to speed up transcription on the old S...
[23:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:40] <exec> 08└─You were lucky. We were chained to the linotype machines from birth, and had to scrape the droppings of hot lead from the type machines to use for food. They used our very blood for heat to melt the lead in the first place. With each line of type formed we had to catch the lava hot hunks of lead wit...
[23:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:42] <exec> 08└─Also, two spaces looks better in every font I've seen. I like it. It looks better. I've started using one space though because from about the millennials onward it became the norm.
[23:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:44] <exec> 08└─I hate to horrify you, but MS already won. As you yourself stated: Look how much development effort (human-hours) is spent reverse-engineering MS file formats, filesystem, networking, etc., formats, to make Linux applications and lower-level software conform to MS non-standards.
[23:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:46] <exec> 08└─I don't mind HTML having gotten rid of double spaces at the end of sentences for all intents and purposes. What bothers me is the not readily being able to start with a tab (or spaces) at the start of a paragraph. All those years of English class, and typing class, starting each new paragraph with a...
[23:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:49] <exec> 08└─Become a fetish prostitute, specializing in tight Latex wear.....then you can use Latex at work all you want!!
[23:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:51] <exec> 08└─So you had heating then? Luxury!
[23:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:53] <exec> 08└─For those who like to cheat at Scrabble, here are all of the words that use Q but not U [word.tips]
[23:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:55] <exec> 08└─In some cases it was always the norm. I had a medical machine transcription course back in the late 70's that stressed single spaces to conserve keystrokes (called key presses IIRC) on the old IBM Selectrics. Medical terminology was always a bitch to type anyway. Especially listening through shitty...
[23:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:52] <exec> 08└─I would say Especially if it is the parents doing it without consent. It would indicate they do not think of their child as a person with their own rights and humanity. This is a scary situation. Children are very much like physically and mentally handicapped adults that somehow (if they're lucky) g...
[23:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:25] <exec> 08└─Now if they would just do the same with Alliums.
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[23:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06'Dino Cave' Reveals Dinosaur Crouch Walkers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:56] <exec> 08└─It's obvious that the dinosaur was crouching to avoid dropbears.
[23:58:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 700 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:11] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this year is Peak Dishonesty, because reality is finally kicking a lot of Know-Nothings in the butt. The more bull they get away with, the deeper they go. I read that a few people actually believed that ridiculous assertion that injecting themselves with bleach could cure a Coronavirus i...
[23:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:53] <exec> 08└─I've got Gentoo running really nicely on my ThinkPad Yoga X1. Everything works but screen rotation in KDE. And the touch screen sometimes doesn't work after waking from sleep. Otherwise fast and very battery efficient.