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[00:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:37] <exec> 08└─Who gives a shit anymore? Dark matter is the most obvious wrong idea in science history so anything that assumes dark matter, like this article, is also wrong. How many hundreds of billions have been spent on looking for evidence of dark matter and there is none? GR makes the wrong predictions, and...
[00:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:39] <exec> 08└─Astrophysicists don't know shit. The worst part is they don't even know that they are idiots. They're looking at a tiny snippet of the universe, and extrapolating nonsense.
[00:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:41] <exec> 08└─If you personally ask them, most will agree a good many current theories may turn out flat wrong. All we have are the best guesses so far. If you have a model that fits observations better, bring it up! Otherwise, stop complaining that we are not omniscience.
[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:43] <exec> 08└─If you have a model that fits observations better, bring it up
[00:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:45] <exec> 08└─"the biggest galaxies should have formed the most recently ... being assembled by the ... merger of smaller systems." If bigger galaxies were assembled by the merger of smaller systems wouldn't you expect the bigger galaxies to have older stars than the smaller systems? "Yet if you examine very larg...
[00:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:11] <exec> 08└─The hollow earth isn't so much a theory, as a fact recorded in many ancient maps. Look up the Lazeria map collection. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:13] <exec> 08└─The Earth's gravity touches everything within the universe, Actually, the Earth hasn't been a thing long enough for its gravitational field to reach the whole Universe. At some point, it was just space dust and couldn't be defined as a planet. Several billion years ago it reached a point where most...
[00:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:27] <exec> 08└─The one that died was put in by the local utility in the late 1960s, so, yeah, they last a while - or used to at least. Ah cool, then the kids will have something to do when they turn 50
[00:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:28] <exec> 08└─Did you flunk reading comprehension? This device was outside. Where the outside temp was 86F. For those accustomed to a 95+F outside temp being hot and uncomfortable, a temp of 86F outside is quite comfortable by comparison. Indoor temps are not what is being discussed.
[00:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:30] <exec> 08└─OMG! You're serious?! Obviously you gotta bump up the pressure. Don't you know anything? Man! I hope this didn't need a tag!
[00:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:32] <exec> 08└─One word: edibles. One word. One word! You had one word, and you messed it up!
[00:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:03] <exec> 08└─That may be one of the dumbest things you have ever posted. There is no universal law that "good triumphs over evil". I don't like the CCCP any better than the next guy, but a reboot may well give us something much worse. Those who can't imagine things getting worse simply lack imagination.
[00:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:04] <exec> 08└─It appears your comment went "whoosh". ;^)
[00:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah there are a lot of human rights violations to the Uighurs, but give the Muslims enough power and autonomy and they'll merrily do the same human rights violations to everyone else.
[00:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:08] <exec> 08└─I don't like the CCCP any better than the next guy, but a reboot may well give us something much worse.
[00:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:10] <exec> 08└─>And the present government of China sucks enough to make a reboot just not that high a risk. The supply chain disruptions while this sorts itself out will be interesting.
[00:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:13] <exec> 08└─Plenty of other places can supply, even were China to go offline for a while. Sure, they'd be interesting, but ultimately doable without a lot of fuss.
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[01:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:45] <exec> 08└─Runaway! The Assholephysicist! His knowledge is better than yours! But anyway, Runaway, are forgetting that Milliway's is a fictional construct, and that stars can create new clouds of dust and gas, that are the makings of new stars. Recent study on the Supernova of Kepler [phys.org] spells this ou...
[01:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:46] <exec> 08└─A galactic microdot... heavy shit, man!
[01:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:48] <exec> 08└─Confucius says: If you argue with a jihadi about whether God exists, you will soon learn the answer.
[01:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:51] <exec> 08└─Calling the black hole at the center of a galaxy "microscopic" is like calling the local super-cluster "tiny", a blue whale "featherweight", Betelgeuse "insignificant", etc. It's all a matter of perspective, but anyone who contemplates being in the 0.08C orbit speed neighborhood of a black hole wou...
[01:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:53] <exec> 08└─How many hundreds of billions have been spent on looking for evidence of dark matter and there is none?
[01:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:23] <exec> 08└─To outline where I'm going with this, I think we'll see a substantial improvement in the next few decades with what we can detect by orders of magnitude - more than two. I think within a few decades we'll be tracking everything inside the orbit of Jupiter, large enough to do us harm. And part of our...
[01:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:25] <exec> 08└─I think the statements you mentioned were pretty precise. Is one really going to think that something isn't a factor of ten smaller, when one says "ten times smaller"?
[01:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:43] <exec> 08└─Ah cool, then the kids will have something to do when they turn 50 Well, the kids are already 15, so if this one lasts like the previous they'll be nearly 65 when it goes. However, this one already "took a break" after a lightning strike - came back when the breakers were reset, but if it's like the...
[01:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:20] <exec> 08└─There was once an article about mafias, and one of the points was that in totalitarian regimes there is not much organized crime. Only in relatively free countries do they thrive.
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[02:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:05] <exec> 08└─I still use IE multiple times a day. I have Chrome, Firefire, Edge and few others but they not not compatible Payroll system and US Government websites refering to 2 vendors classes. WE even have a Vortext server with IE8 loaded so we can reach other non-standard webbase equipment, from printers to...
[02:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:07] <exec> 08└─All support should have ended about ~1999 or so.
[02:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:09] <exec> 08└─IE 6 was the pinnacle of Microsoft's Internet "career." I remember the guys that did front-end for web apps in those days. Fuck "the standard," IE6 is the de-facto standard. Of course, they were called "web designer" (or some such), we saw them as buncha tech hipster wanna-be programmers - javascrip...
[02:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:27] <exec> 08└─Obligatory 'Whooosh!' Microdots, not Microscopic. There is a huge difference, or a small difference...go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall. You apparently cannot see through your Four-way Window-panes, and have missed the Orange Sunshine, through the Purple Haze. Apologies if English is your is no...
[02:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:15] <exec> 08└─Yep. I have a helluva time keeping that damn grit out of my morning coffee-flavored cup o' bleach.
[02:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:05] <exec> 08└─1/10th the size is more precise. Division gets smaller . . .
[02:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:02] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we'll soon meet the devil we don't. Though, to be fair, I think if China got any worse than it currently did, it would certainly collapse. So who knows.
[02:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Army Report Describes North Korea's Cyber Warfare Capabilities - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:46] <exec> 08└─I'm willing to bet your life on it.
[02:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Army Report Describes North Korea's Cyber Warfare Capabilities - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:47] <exec> 08└─1 mod you don't like = broke Oh wait it was your mind that broke.
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[03:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:51] <exec> 08└─This will be interesting. Thanks to Microsoft's "integration", IE is still mixed in with Windows 10 under the hood. So what are they going to do? Keep this decaying browser at the core of the OS? Perhaps wall it off somehow? Or perhaps finally pull its evil ass of the OS kicking and screaming while...
[03:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:52] <exec> 08└─I still use IE multiple times a day.
[03:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:55] <exec> 08└─You can remove it on all of the current Win10 releases with Dism, Powershell, or the "Turn Windows Features on or off" GUI. We've come a long way from the "It's a core part of the OS." days.
[03:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:13] <exec> 08└─Been there; done that. Don't recommend it. Times have changed. If you do choose to be "experienced;" then do it with someone you trust. Had to babysit a dummy from doing stupid things that would have been a dead experience for him and a cop experience for us. Ether way; it was a bad trip for us. It'...
[03:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:15] <exec> 08└─Blotter is, or was the safest. I don't trust any synthetics now.
[03:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:17] <exec> 08└─Every single fucking time an article about astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, etc is published on this site or one of the many other science oriented sites on the internet, hords of know-it-alls almost instantly post their nonsense in the comments, shamelessly displaying their ignorance and...
[03:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:19] <exec> 08└─Try the Big Bang Burger Bar. Plenty of young star wannabees there, buncha dusty punks.
[03:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:52] <exec> 08└─It was only well-lit as/after it passed, when it was already too late to provide a warning.
[03:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:54] <exec> 08└─The Karman line is only a regulatory boundary, with no more physical meaning than a national border - the fact that it's at exactly 100km should be plenty of evidence for that. The Earth's atmosphere extends out far beyond the moon, it just fades away to an ever-thinner near-vacuum.
[03:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:02] <exec> 08└─My point: there isn't a single metric to say "hydroponics is a better solution no matter the conditions". The GP was talking about yield per acre.
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[04:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:47] <exec> 08└─With more people working from home and schools doing remote learning. It's a wonder that "THEY" didn't start this months ago. Oh... and Charter sucks!
[04:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:48] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a supermarket near me that used to be open 24 hours. A couple of years ago I go at 12:10 AM and there's a sign: "to better serve you we now close at 12 AM." I'm still trying to figure out how I was better served...
[04:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:51] <exec> 08└─Does the FCC give-a-fsck about the public's input on data caps? My guess, is that it doesn't. The only winning move, is not to play.
[04:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:53] <exec> 08└─FCC asks Americans if you like to get reamed in the ass.
[04:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:55] <exec> 08└─That's phobic.
[04:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Especially on Netflix!
[04:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:59] <exec> 08└─Weirdly I can imagine a world where caps make sense. Think cell phones where you can buy unlimited for x and capped for x - y price. Because enough competitors exists and because not everyone needs a ton of cell phone data (or want phones for making calls), it is rational to have price distinctions....
[04:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:13] <exec> 08└─(Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft therefore my opinion is invalid. This isn't shilling; I'm writing this because I find this solution genuinely valuable and a huge improvement over using IE.)
[04:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:14] <exec> 08└─Some years ago, a friend called me and said, "I just accepted a job at Microsoft. Will you still be my friend?" I'm still not convinced MS is not evil anymore, but this was before MS had made any moves away from the dark side.
[04:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:38] <exec> 08└─Purple microdots were available from midnight pharmacy labs. With known dosage and reliable ingredients. Made by people with knowledge. Blotter was a crap shoot. Window pain was just that a pain, always different each time. Again; don't do it. Not worth it now days. Even then it was crap. But... at...
[04:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:40] <exec> 08└─Oh and Music...
[04:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:42] <exec> 08└─Well, it *has* happend. Not bloody often of course, but consider Enrico Fermi.
[04:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:44] <exec> 08└─No one wants to hear about this worthless dark matter theory anymore. It has zero predictive skill and cant be used to accomplish a single thing even in principle. Its just invisible spheroids of mass you put in after you find your prediction is wrong... No advances in space exploration or anything...
[04:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:22] <exec> 08└─>Division gets smaller... Exactly. So if something is N times smaller, it's obviously talking a reciprocal multiplier. There's no more ambiguity in the statement than there is in "N times larger", in fact there's arguably even less - I don't think I've _ever_ heard "N times smaller" used when someon...
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[04:25:23] <exec> 08└─Quite so, but I decided I'd leave that chestnut for you to catch. Of course, even if Earth had been here since the beginning of the universe (and in a sufficiently generous sense it has it's constituent mass-energy cannot be created or destroyed) it's gravity would only have have touched the observa...
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[04:25:25] <exec> 08└─I have my doubt that much of anything will be stationed far from Earth within only the next few decades, though I'd love to be proven wrong. And that goes double for something with a vanishingly low chance of economic payoff as preemptive asteroid collision detection. It could easily save thousands...
[04:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:28] <exec> 08└─Almost, but not quite, totally unlike tea?
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[05:23:08] <exec> 08└─Data caps are great! Especially the part about not knowing exactly when you will run ou
[05:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:31] <exec> 08└─It was only well-lit as/after it passed
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[06:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 1942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:57] <exec> 08└─I plan on submitting a comment to the FCC blasting Charter. Instead of just posting here, tell the FCC that Charter is acting in bad faith. I've already ripped Charter once here [soylentnews.org] but it's worth expanding on that. If we ignore the government subsidies for infrastructure expansion tha...
[06:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:39] <exec> 08└─:-) When you travel at or near the speed of light, all that "dark" matter will light up! Bigger than Times Square! It's a Doppler thing
[06:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 1592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:41] <exec> 08└─As the universe gets older, the average age of stars in the universe will also get older. Why should that be a surprise? Red dwarfs live for trillions of years. The universe is young enough that no star with less than than 0.8 solar masses has ever died, at least not as a result of fuel exhaustion....
[06:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:09] <exec> 08└─The above is two hours of NSFW. It will put you to sleep and get you in trouble with the boss. Great for insomnia though.
[06:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:25] <exec> 08└─You have $12. I have three times less. Do I have $4 or do I owe someone $24 ?
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[07:22:33] <exec> 08└─The same bug affected -R patches for PennMUSH, which had a period during the Pern/Penn transition where the file servers got corrupted or lost and certain patchsets/tarballs corrupted. End result, there are around 5 versions unavailable for people attempting to port code forward or backward on the c...
[07:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:50] <exec> 08└─This is plain old white-wash. Just like net neutrality issue, this is an opportunity to present company shills and fraud to be presented as "see, we told you that people love caps"
[07:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:05] <exec> 08└─I have a good friend (a fraternity brother from college,) who also worked for Microsoft; our friendship lasted throughout this. He was eventually laid off by MIcrosoft. However, our friendship is significantly more strained right now. He a devout Trump support and spews the Rupublitard spin on every...
[07:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:34] <exec> 08└─And your Astrophysicist creds are?????
[07:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:36] <exec> 08└─Logically following GP post, "not being an astrophysicist" should be enough cred. TFA is basically saying that the pretty big bang theory says X but we observed Y so we made up the assumption Z according to whom the as yet unprovable title of the article stems. OK a little brick of logical knowledge...
[07:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:38] <exec> 08└─Jeez guys, if you want to destroy your brain just consume mainstream media. It is legal. Avoid lefty media at the beginning, that's too hardcore.
[07:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:05] <exec> 08└─It's a zone of unusually, even anomalously weak magnetic field compared to the comparatively uniform strength of magnetic field seen elsewhere around the planet, so it's not unreasonable to call it an anomaly.
[07:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:06] <exec> 08└─You're looking for QAnon. There's a grand unification for you.
[07:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:08] <exec> 08└─No, no, no....it must be a Left Wing Conspiracy, because.... Science!
[07:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:10] <exec> 08└─Well the Vril were running the Nazi party and some of them went to the dark side of the moon, while Hitler, Steve Jobs, Genghis Khan, Margaret Thatcher and many others retreated to the hollow earth. Haven't you seen the documentaries? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https:/...
[07:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:27] <exec> 08└─I agree. I used to have khallow as a foe as I disagree with him on about 90% of topics he gets actively involved in, and his posts were often painful to read. however, I unfoed him because no matter how wrong he was, he was putting forward his arguments clearly and earnestly, and was open to debate,...
[07:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:29] <exec> 08└─On the plus side, if it hits you could say it was infinity times closer.
[07:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:31] <exec> 08└─My claim was falsifiable. That was good enough for Popper, what other properties do you demand for something to be scientific? (And note to Immerman: I think this makes my point, I suspect that khallow did detect the humour in my prior post, even though he was the subject of it (the *target* of it b...
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[07:25:33] <exec> 08└─91440 is exactly 100000, is it? (You nearly had a point, you just mucked up its presentation. You should have said "the fact that it's exactly 300000 feet" instead) However, it wasn't a number pulled out of Karman's arse, it was the approximate (and thus presented imprecisely) solution to an aeronau...
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[08:22:51] <exec> 08└─As so often, the bug is associated with (not caused by, as such) a magic number: "So why '4' in the second 'if' in the quoted code above? what's so magic about it? Indeed, if we hack the patch to have 6 lines of context instead of 3, it applies correctly." Had that code said: /* Sometimes we're miss...
[08:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:10] <exec> 08└─I'm not a USian. But remember net neutrality, when it turned out the anti-neutrality lobby was run by shills and bots? That had a great effect in galvanising support against the FCC. Another similar round, while disheartening, will further galvanise support. Note there are Big Corps interested - You...
[08:23:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:21] <exec> 08└─I still use IE multiple times a day.
[08:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:26] <exec> 08└─> How much money are they making from this and yet they refuse to invest in a technology upgrade? For quite a few, no money at all. For example, folks running internal software in medium/large enterprises. Don't screw the devs or they might walk away. Nb: for many corps, browser lock-in is one of th...
[08:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:59] <exec> 08└─unfortunately. Black Matter Lives.
[08:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:09] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is whether these cold water pipes can share the same boreholes used by geothermal heating systems?
[08:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:40] <exec> 08└─I take your point. But in the software realm, it is hard to conceive of a technique whereby a monopoly can be enforced. I have Steam and Epic store on my PC and that works great. I can pick and choose the cheapest vendor. If Epic gets enough market share that they interfere with Steam (using some Ev...
[08:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:57] <exec> 08└─The price of oil won't go much above the price of solar/wind etc. until the actual cost of getting it out of the ground goes higher than that price. Oil currently has huge profit margins, they will undercut alternatives every time they look like getting significant market share. It's a much repeated...
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[09:22:58] <exec> 08└─Another point - note it is an election year in the US (of course). Trump has shown that he is keen to appoint shills, the FCC being a case in point. A vote for Trump is a vote for Pai. I realise there is more at stake, but always worth bearing that in mind. So much for "draining the swamp".
[09:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:15] <exec> 08└─Like Flash... just die already. Until you actually just set ONE date, and kill it on that date, people will keep kicking it further down the line. Flash has been dead to me for nearly 10 years now. IE has been dead for nearly as long. I literally laugh and say "Are you serious?!" whenever something...
[09:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vertical Gate-All-Around Transistors vs. Row Hammer - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:54] <exec> 08└─-memory -wat -me rowhammer -o rly -yep, me hammer your rows -and me vertical gate, dgaf
[09:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:59] <exec> 08└─Can you clarify your argument please, as when I see: > > dehumidification is a very important benefit of A/C. responded to with: > hell no: dehumidification is 80% of the reason to run an A/C system I see a contradiction. That looks more like a "hell yes", not a "hell no"?
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[10:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Government Built Secret iPod with Apple's Help, Former Engineer Says -- What Did it Do? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:50] <exec> 08└─The first rule of clandestine projects is we don't talk about clandestine projects.
[10:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vertical Gate-All-Around Transistors vs. Row Hammer - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:13] <exec> 08└─Or it could just be the Spin in Spin Memory. We'll see.
[10:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03chr [4123] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:20] <exec> 08└─Here's a link to a scientific paper about the "cold tubes". * Membrane-assisted radiant cooling for expandingthermal comfort zones globally withoutair conditioning. https://www.pnas.org [pnas.org] PDF: https://www.pnas.org
[10:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:59] <exec> 08└─I don't like the CCCP any better than the next guy
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[10:28:00] <exec> 08└─Союз Советских Социалистических Республик
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[11:23:18] <exec> 08└─Don't screw the devs or they might walk away.
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[12:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:43] <exec> 08└─These services are really parasites. They need to guarantee a living wage for all of these drivers.
[12:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:44] <exec> 08└─More likely: they raise another few billion and put robot taxis on the road, city by city, kicking drivers to the curb. In the meantime, they will pull out of California and other locations if unwanted legislation gets passed or the courts rule against them. The drivers MUST be independent contracto...
[12:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:47] <exec> 08└─You pay for the tracking. Or else youd just get in a random car for a ride.
[12:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable "Franchise Fees" - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:55] <exec> 08└─1. Netflix, etc. are on top of the Internet. Any infrastructure fees are already paid by the Internet providers 2. Satellite? - GTFO. This lawsuit is as insane is cities suing Microsoft and Google for not paying for electricity franchise fees. But cockroaches want their food
[12:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable "Franchise Fees" - 1679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:57] <exec> 08└─City's taxes drying up as folks cut classic cable.. Previous taxes laws written to cover classic cable. Indiana law (IC 8-1-34-16 Sec. 16. (a) (1) )appears to depend on federal law(47 U.S.C. 522(10)), Federal law seems about regulating 'cable systems' 47 U.S.C. 522. (7)the term “cable system” me...
[12:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable "Franchise Fees" - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:59] <exec> 08└─So, they're not content to just collect money from the people that operate the service that runs the physical cable. No, they want a piece of the pie from everything that comes down it. ISPs want to double dip, cities want to double dip. Everyone's gotta get paid, and we all know who pays in the end...
[12:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Built Secret iPod with Apple's Help, Former Engineer Says -- What Did it Do? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:08] <exec> 08└─http://www.theboxisthereforareason.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-27-at-22.13.05.png [theboxisthereforareason.com] Simple... They made Donald Trump an Etch-A-Sketch that can tweet.
[12:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:36] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry IRS. I couldn't file my taxes online in time due to reaching my data cap limits for the month. I'll file once my data caps reset. I'll probably just use more bandwidth at work for things I used to do at home.
[12:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:38] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the exact same thing!
[12:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:25] <exec> 08└─Of course it's an arbitrary boundary, and a very practical one. Yes, you could say the Moon is within the Earth's atmosphere, or Betelgeuse for that matter. But would you take that into account to analyze their motion? The Karman Line is a very useful criterion for predicting whether an object is me...
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[13:22:39] <exec> 08└─See also: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[13:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:41] <exec> 08└─Public transportation in LA has always felt anemic. Every time I go there for business I have to rent a car because there's no other way to get around. Uber and Lyft have provided a useful alternative to that. If they stop operating in California San Francisco and the Bay Area might limp along on th...
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[13:22:43] <exec> 08└─keep going till you get one that will take a bribe.
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[13:22:54] <exec> 08└─The reasoning for the law might be questionable, but it seems like the tax also apply to online videoplatforms. https://law.justia.com [justia.com] IC 8-1-34-14 "Video service" Sec. 14. (a) As used in this chapter, "video service" means: (1) the transmis...
[13:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06US Government Built Secret iPod with Apple's Help, Former Engineer Says -- What Did it Do? - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:04] <exec> 08└─The big secrets eventually come out. My father told stories of developing the B-29 bomber at Boeing during WWII. The flight test program had many serious problems--engine fires in flight and many others, including a crash that killed the chief test pilot, his crew and people on the ground in Seattle...
[13:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Built Secret iPod with Apple's Help, Former Engineer Says -- What Did it Do? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:06] <exec> 08└─s/braking/breaking
[13:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Built Secret iPod with Apple's Help, Former Engineer Says -- What Did it Do? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:08] <exec> 08└─Not a feature available on iPods IIRC and unlikely to arouse suspicion when carried into a meeting.
[13:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:55] <exec> 08└─Flash has been dead to me for nearly 10 years now.
[13:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:30] <exec> 08└─By a strange trick of parallelism, The Universal [universalpictures.com] has also made almost all the stars it will ever make.
[13:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:31] <exec> 08└─Dark matter is the most obvious wrong idea in science history so anything that assumes dark matter, like this article, is also wrong.
[13:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:28] <exec> 08└─"CCCP" = "Chinese Communist Party, of China?" Very Dodgeball. :-) Or maybe you were thinking of Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, CCCP a.k.a. the USSR.
[13:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:29] <exec> 08└─We in the West think of China as a monolith, but it's not. It's fractious, and they have no civil society to buffer dislocations. The Communist Party, though not really communist anymore, still suffers no rivals to its power. There are no checks and balances to it. So, it can operate by diktat, but...
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[13:28:31] <exec> 08└─*sigh* Too many Cs in CCP.
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[14:22:45] <exec> 08└─Whoda thunk it!!!
[14:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:59] <exec> 08└─I wonder, and didn't really even try to search for it, how large the California market is. It might so to speak be worth fighting for considering it's size and the amount of people and customers that live there. So it might just not be as easy as to just pull out. It might cripple their entire busin...
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:00] <exec> 08└─It's large enough to keep the issue in the courts endlessly. But the hugeness of a market doesn't mean a thing, if you can't afford to be in it.
[14:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable "Franchise Fees" - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:12] <exec> 08└─I don't see how it does by that definition. The issue is it is clearly talking about purpose build hardware in a public right of way that ONLY does video delivery. How does that describe Netflix.
[14:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable "Franchise Fees" - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:13] <exec> 08└─(b) The term does not include a system that transmits video service to subscribers without using any public right-of-way. So, if they use public internet with encryption they should be fine?
[14:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable "Franchise Fees" - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:16] <exec> 08└─The contention sure sounds like a VAT, but only on Internet activity. What's the gas tax in Indiana? Still 18 cents per gallon, like it has been since the early 1990s? If anything, Indiana ought to be subsidizing Internet activity that materially reduces travel, and therefore wear and tear on infras...
[14:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable "Franchise Fees" - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─This was covered in the 1990s. Should websites such as yahoo have to pay all over the world? The answer is no. Both parties pay for their internet access. Done. No third party has a cut. Imagine applying this to all services on the internet.
[14:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Built Secret iPod with Apple's Help, Former Engineer Says -- What Did it Do? - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:30] <exec> 08└─Raw signals serial port is a key to mostly everything. Everything. Mostly. A child's Geiger detector, fits any FTDI bridge: https://www.adafruit.com [adafruit.com] Some smart people actually use this toy as a helper for generating random numbers. But official IPod hacking by agencies/con...
[14:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Built Secret iPod with Apple's Help, Former Engineer Says -- What Did it Do? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:31] <exec> 08└─I agree that serial ports are a very powerful input to systems. Often you can interrupt the bootloader and, as an example jump to points in memory and execute. Damn most bootloaders are chain bootloaders where jumping around to special memory addresses initializes hardware.
[14:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 35-Year-Old Bug in Patch Found in Efforts to Restore 29 Year Old 2.11BSD - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:41] <exec> 08└─If patch/diff was designed with some initial sanity on mind (technically, it is a strict imperative command language), it would use separate checksum for every command issued at least. Instead, while email/news did not guarantee a fixed transfer of text files, Unix freaks imposed a space hell on the...
[14:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:23] <exec> 08└─> Like it or not, they have to invest in their IT infrastructure, Sure, I agree. I think my point was that MS should continue with backwards compatibility. Of course IT departments should invest in their infrastructure.
[14:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:55] <exec> 08└─100km, 62 miles, 330,000 feet: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] And not everyone agrees on that definition for the edge of space. Your definition is also a little off. Wings work at any altitude that has any air, you just need to travel faster to get the same amoun...
[14:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:56] <exec> 08└─A fair definition of atmosphere is probably "air molecules traveling on sub-orbital trajectories", so that they will return to Earth (collisions with other molecules notwithstanding), unlike a cloud or ring of gas which remains in orbit. And as an upper limit you have the Earth's Hill Sphere (a.k.a....
[14:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:59] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I have to disagree - unjustified personal attacks are not "jokes", they're bullying. Especially on the internet where communication lacks both tone and larger context. And as misinformation, they demand correction.
[14:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:01] <exec> 08└─It seems you are correct, however I stand by my comment on jokes above, and the flamebait mod seems to agree with me: Without the larger context of your apparently ongoing sparring, your statement is an inaccurate insult which can only serve to damage one or both of your reputations. Had you attacke...
[14:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:22] <exec> 08└─dehumidification is a very important benefit of A/C. It's not something you can do without.
[14:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:06] <exec> 08└─Mind a person's actions over their words.
[14:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:08] <exec> 08└─And maybe it's not a good idea to give anyone enough power and autonomy that they can human rights violate anyone else without consequence?
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[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:38] <exec> 08└─This exactly. Install an app that tracks you, and act surprised when it does what it says, then act MORE surprised that third parties can track you. "Smart phone" and "security" isn't quite an oxymoron, but it's so close as to make no difference.
[15:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:40] <exec> 08└─Have you had enough yet? Or do you need some more?
[15:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:42] <exec> 08└─The Wuhan virus: never let a good crisis go to waste. This shit is straight of out a Communist Eastern European country. Not warranted at all by the danger of the virus. Also, how did Michigan become such a totalitarian, dictatorial place? Anyone else think their Governor Whitmer has a facial expres...
[15:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:45] <exec> 08└─The app has hardly any uptake, so it won't be of any use in the wider community. The solution, of course, is to go to a better school - this one isn't exactly going to challenge anyone looking for a serious education. Snobbish small private school with a limited curriculum.
[15:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:47] <exec> 08└─Also, how did Michigan become such a totalitarian, dictatorial place? Anyone else think their Governor Whitmer has a facial expression that radiates psychopathy?
[15:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─Because this attitude seems deep in Michigan. Universities and state government are full of it there.
[15:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:04] <exec> 08└─tl;dr - Local companies willing to follow the law sprang up and drivers made more money. Law got reverted, Uber and Lyft returned to the market with deeply discounted prices to strangle the local competition, law-abiding companies went out of business and the duopoly raised rates back to the usual w...
[15:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:05] <exec> 08└─Uber in particular has had a history of flouting the law. Maybe they don't need to pull out.
[15:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:07] <exec> 08└─They need to guarantee a living wage for all of these drivers.
[15:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:09] <exec> 08└─There seem to be a few cab companies still hanging on despite competition from Uber and Lyft in the LA area. If the demand for personal transport is unaffected by the departure of Uber and Lyft then these cab companies would even need to hire more drivers to fulfill demand, thus boosting employment...
[15:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:12] <exec> 08└─It's not just a living wage, though. A really big issue for drivers is having to supply, maintain, and insure their own car, which really brings down what otherwise might look like OK pay. Legit businesses don't require workers to pay for the privilege of working for them.
[15:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Built Secret iPod with Apple's Help, Former Engineer Says -- What Did it Do? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:39] <exec> 08└─Apple 338S1116
[15:24:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:22] <exec> 08└─(Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft therefore my opinion is invalid. This isn't shilling; I'm writing this because I find this solution genuinely valuable and a huge improvement over using IE.)
[15:24:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 417 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─Obligatory 'Whooosh!' Microdots, not Microscopic. There is a huge difference, or a small difference...go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall. You apparently cannot see through your Four-way Window-panes, and have missed the Orange Sunshine, through the Purple Haze. Apologies if English is your is no...
[15:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:06] <exec> 08└─>As the universe gets older, the average age of stars in the universe will also get older. not necessarily. Suppose a lot of stars turn out to be female. After year 29 their age will mysteriously freeze or be undecipherable.
[15:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:59] <exec> 08└─Isn't the bad smell of shit created by your anal glands? They secrete a perfume that make you unlikely to want to eat your shit.
[15:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:07] <exec> 08└─Lighting is typically measured relative to the observer. Without an atmosphere to scatter light, something that is backlit is functionally unlit, and invisible against the black background of space. But yeah, off-world observation posts are definitely a necessity to detect such things. I believe I'v...
[15:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:31] <exec> 08└─Humidity is the bigger factor. Indoor temps are not what is being discussed.
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[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 063-D Printing 'Greener' Buildings Using Local Soil - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:40] <exec> 08└─While interesting I'm not sure a 3D printed "soil" house would pass building inspection and standards here. I'm not saying that they never will but the code if fairly strict and you just can't put up any old shack if you expect humans to live in it. Also how is the longevity of the structure as far...
[16:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, if the app was presented as "contact tracing" and not tracking, the college may be liable for the lie. Because contact tracing does not require tracking. See also: Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing [apple.com] and Exposure Notifications: Using technology to help public health authoritie...
[16:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:14] <exec> 08└─Public transportation in LA has always felt anemic.
[16:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:16] <exec> 08└─If they stop operating in California San Francisco and the Bay Area might limp along on their better public transit, but LA would not fare well.
[16:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:18] <exec> 08└─> public transportation We don't want your socialist transportation, thank you very much.
[16:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable "Franchise Fees" - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:34] <exec> 08└─I almost thought you wrote India and was going to start linking their recent exploits in Space. Then, I noted it was Indiana, yeah, I've got nothing. I'm sure they've done some good somehow, though.
[16:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable "Franchise Fees" - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:35] <exec> 08└─It doesn't really matter if Netflix is a video service under the definition or not, because the fee was already paid by the ISP. The analogy would be going to the cable company for the fee, and then getting a list of the channels they carry, and then going to them and trying to collect the fee again...
[16:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable "Franchise Fees" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:38] <exec> 08└─Good thing Ajit Pai repealed Net Neutrality, eh?
[16:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Built Secret iPod with Apple's Help, Former Engineer Says -- What Did it Do? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:53] <exec> 08└─Almost a decade, before he became president, right . . .
[16:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Built Secret iPod with Apple's Help, Former Engineer Says -- What Did it Do? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:54] <exec> 08└─The second rule is that the real details are NEVER as interesting as the speculation.
[16:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Built Secret iPod with Apple's Help, Former Engineer Says -- What Did it Do? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:56] <exec> 08└─Braking an unwritten rule would ware it down to wear it could no longer could be red.
[16:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 35-Year-Old Bug in Patch Found in Efforts to Restore 29 Year Old 2.11BSD - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:07] <exec> 08└─Oh, yeah, adding semantic meaning to differences in whitespace was a terrible idea. Thank goodness nobody ever repeated that misnake.
[16:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:30] <exec> 08└─I'd mark you troll, because you're definitely trolling the Charter Communications and this thread, except that's some fine trolling. One might even call it satire.
[16:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:29] <exec> 08└─I had presented it as a post-hoc warning to someone who'd just made a comment about the pointlessness of post-hoc warnings.
[16:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:31] <exec> 08└─The GGPP was talking about a tangible physical property, one defined by solving equations based on masses, distances, and densities, not the regulatory arbitrary definition defined by lawyers with rubber stamps. So I cited the number you get from the equations, from that same article.
[16:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:33] <exec> 08└─No - a post-hoc warning would be a warning that only applied to that specific comment. You presented it as warning about an ongoing trend.
[16:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:57] <exec> 08└─In a home you could probably control the mold better - my entire high school was air conditioned using a chilled water system, no opening windows anywhere, about 2 acres of flat roof. I had chronic bronchitis for 4 years, only cleared up in the summer months, and when I went to college it disappeare...
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[17:22:35] <exec> 08└─This [wikipedia.org] is what [atlasobscura.com] one (or many) [iranparadise.com] can [wikipedia.org] build [rammedearthworks.com] from mud [wikipedia.org] Also how is the longevity of the structure as far as maintenance and so goes?
[17:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 063-D Printing 'Greener' Buildings Using Local Soil - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:37] <exec> 08└─Building codes can be changed. Those 99% people [wikimedia.org] are going to have to adapt to life in cheaper buildings. Because maintenance is expensive, the buildings will be maintenance free. Accomplished by the stroke or a pen. Or a tweet.
[17:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─Because contact tracing does not require tracking
[17:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:16] <exec> 08└─If you think it sucks so much, you don't have to use it. And you don't even necessarily have to pay for it: For instance, Amtrak is likely to report a profit this year, and thus have extra money to put into improving its services by, for instance, investing in high-speed routes, which means that it'...
[17:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Built Secret iPod with Apple's Help, Former Engineer Says -- What Did it Do? - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe the modified device was: * to be plugged into a computer to compromise it or exfiltrate data * to make secret audio recordings * to keep a list of all GPS locations where the device was taken (ah! you DID visit such and so facility!) * to be used with special usb to cereal cable to connect to...
[17:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:26] <exec> 08└─I think data caps are pretty cool and dope.
[17:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:27] <exec> 08└─Oh... and Charter sucks!
[17:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:48] <exec> 08└─Microsoft should absolutely NOT be allowed to discontinue IE support for it's applications. Since Microsoft thought it okay to inflict IE upon the world for monopolistic reasons, making it the bane of web developers everywhere, Microsoft should have to live with IE 6 forever. Even if IE 6 is no long...
[17:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:30] <exec> 08└─What makes you think that? All the mentioned was that 2950km was "about 30 Karman lines away" - using the original equation solution, rather than Karman's subsequent suggestion of 100km actually makes that statement less accurate. Besides, as I already pointed out Karman's calculations completely ig...
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[18:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 063-D Printing 'Greener' Buildings Using Local Soil - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─People around the world have been making adobe, from time immemorial. Adobe isn't precisely "soil". Garden soil, or yard soil, or top soil, all contain a lot of biological material. Decomposing vegetation, for the most part, is important to healthy soil. Adobe doesn't use much if any "soil". You've...
[18:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─It may not require tracking to be implemented, but tracing requires all the same tools and permissions as tracking
[18:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:05] <exec> 08└─It does require location data if it's going to be effective. Not everyone (likely far less than 50%) will have the app and potential infection risk to/from the majority who don't cannot be identified unless there's time and location data to tie it to other tracing/tracking systems.
[18:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:30] <exec> 08└─Because workers have very little power. There simply aren't enough good paying jobs to go around, which forces people into these sorts of jobs of they don't want to be homeless. And with an increasing share of the rental space controlled by a relatively small group of investors, there are already ho...
[18:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:32] <exec> 08└─I was joking - it probably didn't come across.
[18:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 1716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:34] <exec> 08└─Rail car (think Trolly) service showing up between the late 1800s and the 1940s or so. It got quashed by the automotive companies buying them up and shutting them down in order to increase demand for cars. There are still portions of abandoned lines between Sacramento and Elk Grove related to this,...
[18:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:36] <exec> 08└─That had been working for them, but if this is the result of a court ruling, then they'd likely wind up back in court answering contempt of court charges. The one thing that universally pisses off judges is when their rulings aren't adhered to by the parties to the suit. It's one thing to appeal a d...
[18:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:08] <exec> 08└─[...] And yes, there is a web browser in hell. And the biggest walmart you ever saw.
[18:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:44] <exec> 08└─What do you know about brains? Your just a lowly Bot. ;)
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[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:44] <exec> 08└─as steam for linux deleting your entire $HOME directory.
[19:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:46] <exec> 08└─Crying about losing YEARS of work because you didn't make a single backup? Fire yourself for gross incompetence. There are so many backup options that there is NO excuse. Then again, I'd bet that in the majority of cases nothing of value was lost.
[19:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:48] <exec> 08└─Adobe as an antagonist to people is quite legendary. We used to nick Flash as Adobe Infiltrator. However, this incident is very suspect to be engineered for purpose: Flohr did note that the Lightroom cloud, and Lightroom mobile on Android, Lightroom desktop on macOS and Windows, as well as Lightroom...
[19:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:50] <exec> 08└─They say don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity (or something like that). The problem I find is that more often then not, these "mistakes" are in favor of the one making them. "oops! Sorry you lost your photos. I guess if you had them in Adobe cloud you'd be just fine..." So y...
[19:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 063-D Printing 'Greener' Buildings Using Local Soil - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, agree. Soil differences will make any approach they use limited. The only way to "3D print" a house using the massive slabs of caliche where I live would be to blast or collect enough loose chunks from the surrounding area to stack the pieces into a house shape. But the Puebloans probably hold...
[19:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:20] <exec> 08└─What? No! It requires proximity data and universal cellphone ownership, NOT location data! Network interactions don't give a fuck if your covid party is on a boat, downtown, or in a field. They care about who's in the interaction. Midrange bluetooth, for example, probably would suffice; ultrasonic w...
[19:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:21] <exec> 08└─It does require location data if it's going to be effective.
[19:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:23] <exec> 08└─In an attempt to mitigate the potential spread of communism, this poster is requiring all Michigan college faculty to install an app that will track their live locations at all times and make this data available upon demand to students. In other news, contact tracing has shown to be 100% useless in...
[19:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:26] <exec> 08└─At best you just drag out the epidemic. It's already over in Sweden: herd immunity has pretty much been achieved now. Let the frail and elderly be protected from the virus and all others (including adults) live their lives as they see fit. This virus is no different than all the others. It will burn...
[19:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:54] <exec> 08└─but the number of medallions granted is limited and those cab companies need medallions to operate. So there is a limit to the number of drivers they can hire.
[19:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:55] <exec> 08└─You're quite right that it didn't come across - I've met too many people who actually think that way.
[19:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:57] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I guess I was being British
[19:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:00] <exec> 08└─They have some rail (nowhere near the standards of most developed countries, but it at least exists), buses, private limo buses, cabs, car services, and of course rental cars and privately owned vehicles. Those all continue to exist without Uber or Lyft.
[19:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:02] <exec> 08└─In spite of the world's idea about Australian and East European countries, one actually get exposed to "rail..., buses, private limo buses, cabs, car services, and of course rental cars and privately owned vehicles" while living there. (hint: those were rhetorical questions. Shoulda shouted "false d...
[19:25:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 291 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:07] <exec> 08└─Another point - note it is an election year in the US (of course). Trump has shown that he is keen to appoint shills, the FCC being a case in point. A vote for Trump is a vote for Pai. I realise there is more at stake, but always worth bearing that in mind. So much for "draining the swamp".
[19:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:13] <exec> 08└─It sounds to me that you are insecure about people posting something that may make the published articles look bad?
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[20:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:23] <exec> 08└─Flohr did note that the Lightroom cloud, and Lightroom mobile on Android, Lightroom desktop on macOS and Windows, as well as Lightroom Classic weren’t affected.
[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─[MARY] In every job that must be done There is an element of fun You find the fun and snap! The job's a game And every task you undertake Becomes a piece of cake A lark! A spree! It's very clear to see that A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down The medicine go down, the medicine go down Jus...
[20:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:26] <exec> 08└─I used adobe cloud in College, trust me this is the best that pos has ever worked. It was totally inept at anything, spawning copies of files instead of syncing all the time. I would manually have to delete 9 copies of every file,.verifying that the version I was keeping was the most up to date once...
[20:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:29] <exec> 08└─There's no excuse for Adobe's sloppiness either. These people have been around too long to allow this to continue. A big lawsuit, not for money, but for Lightroom's copyright, is necessary, and put it into the public domain.
[20:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:31] <exec> 08└─a high-end graphics tool on a toy iPhone
[20:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:33] <exec> 08└─If Microsoft fired themselves after this fiasco [techcrunch.com], then they wouldn't be in business. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com [datacenterkno...
[20:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:35] <exec> 08└─Users (victims) were lulled into a sense of Adobe has your back, it's all 110% safe with us in our Cloud, forever. Just keep paying that monthly subscription!!! Well, I walked away from Adobe when I saw the rentalware was coming. Great products - LR and PS are wonderful, the rent-by-the-month model...
[20:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:37] <exec> 08└─Please help me recover my files. Attached, you can find my file backups on the floppy disk stapled to this letter. Thanks
[20:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 063-D Printing 'Greener' Buildings Using Local Soil - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:48] <exec> 08└─Easier said then done if you are at the top of the world and at least half the year has snow and rain. At least there is plenty of wood and stone.
[20:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063-D Printing 'Greener' Buildings Using Local Soil - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:50] <exec> 08└─Clay gets soft, of course, but it doesn't expand
[20:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 063-D Printing 'Greener' Buildings Using Local Soil - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:52] <exec> 08└─Easier said then done if you are at the top of the world and at least half the year has snow and rain.
[20:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:14] <exec> 08└─Is there any college going person who does not have all their personal stuff in public on facebook, instagram, tiktok or twitter or whatever.. what is there to leak more ?
[20:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:15] <exec> 08└─At best you just drag out the epidemic.
[20:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:17] <exec> 08└─It requires proximity data and universal cellphone ownership, NOT location data!
[20:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Contact-Tracing App Readily Leaked Personal Data, Report Finds - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:19] <exec> 08└─The bluetooth proximity detection system is only effective if enough people use it. I don't know the market penetration rate in the US now, but I suspect it's in the low single digits. At that rate it's almost entirely useless and I don't see it picking up unless it's forced on people. The way to ma...
[20:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable "Franchise Fees" - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:11] <exec> 08└─Netflix et. al. should block all service to those cities and replace the web page with one telling people they are blocked, why they are blocked, and giving the date, time, and place of the next relevant meeting (with a map) as well as phone numbers for the various city officials. The video services...
[20:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Asks for More Public Input on Whether to Let Charter Impose Data Caps - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:06] <exec> 08└─C'mon, seriously? It's just gonna be net neutrality all over again. That "public input" will be another flood of bot messages by the relevant parties and, wonder of all wonders, the people will be as much for limiting their data caps as they were for axing net neutrality. How stupid do you think we...
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[21:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Super-Dense Lithium-Sulfur Battery Gives Electric Plane a 230-Mile Range - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:51] <exec> 08└─In practice, they... catch fire.
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Super-Dense Lithium-Sulfur Battery Gives Electric Plane a 230-Mile Range - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:53] <exec> 08└─That's enough range to get up to a few thousand feet and then need to land again reel soon.
[21:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Super-Dense Lithium-Sulfur Battery Gives Electric Plane a 230-Mile Range - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:55] <exec> 08└─Only need to go that far to make them profitable. Combine that with reduced pollution (low altitude, high emission 4-6 cylinder opposing piston engines) and the market is there. Plus based on their prototype numbers, they could have replacement batteries capable of 500 miles within a few years and i...
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Super-Dense Lithium-Sulfur Battery Gives Electric Plane a 230-Mile Range - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─Dr. Emmett Brown: Oh, my God. They found me. I don't know how, but they found me. Run for it, Marty! Marty McFly: Who? Who? Dr. Emmett Brown: Who do you think? THE LITHIUMS! Marty McFly: HOLY SHIT!
[21:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Super-Dense Lithium-Sulfur Battery Gives Electric Plane a 230-Mile Range - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:59] <exec> 08└─This is about as practical for aviation as fitting the aircraft with a really long power cord.
[21:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:18] <exec> 08└─Try Adobe products, you'll shit a brick!
[21:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:19] <exec> 08└─In other words... Were you burned by the market leader Now you feel like a bottom feeder Don’t go back Try a new app Discover the joy Of learning a new toy
[21:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:21] <exec> 08└─Then again, I'd bet that in the majority of cases nothing of value was lost.
[21:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:24] <exec> 08└─The hardest hindrance to switch Is gone! All your files in the ditch The only way to make Adobe pay Is to delete the app this very day
[21:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:26] <exec> 08└─The device owner is confined to a lower privilege level by the OS but remote third-party software developers are allowed to delete the owner's files... I know they have various allow/deny prompts now to put limits on misbehaving apps. Maybe they still need to add "This program wants to delete all yo...
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[21:23:28] <exec> 08└─-- Burma Shave!
[21:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 063-D Printing 'Greener' Buildings Using Local Soil - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:43] <exec> 08└─Looks like the 1% screwed up. They let the 9% have most of the fresh water.
[21:24:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03helel [2949] 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:24] <exec> 08└─tl;dr - Local companies willing to follow the law sprang up and drivers made more money. Law got reverted, Uber and Lyft returned to the market with deeply discounted prices to strangle the local competition, law-abiding companies went out of business and the duopoly raised rates back to the usual w...
[21:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:18] <exec> 08└─(Parent Poster, same disclosure.) Candidly, I don't know anyone within Microsoft or in the real world that doesn't want to see the end of Internet Explorer. Unfortunately you have businesses with technology solutions they won't or can't replace. Case in point, I did some work for a beverage company...
[21:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:19] <exec> 08└─Microsoft will be removing Flash in IE and Edge at the end of this year. I can't wait! :)
[21:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:53] <exec> 08└─I've been to a waste processing facility. It's definitely the bacteria that stink.
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[22:22:52] <exec> 08└─Somehow, I was thinking of bombers. When the batteries catch fire midflight, bombs away!
[22:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Super-Dense Lithium-Sulfur Battery Gives Electric Plane a 230-Mile Range - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:53] <exec> 08└─Most flight lessons are about an hour. And fuel is one of the biggest expenses of flight training. Often overlooked is that the fuel used is leaded, even though the aircraft generally don't need that. For practical use, electric is worthless for aircraft, but maybe it's ok for flight training.
[22:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Super-Dense Lithium-Sulfur Battery Gives Electric Plane a 230-Mile Range - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:55] <exec> 08└─An electrical fault could become a safety issue in the future
[22:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:20] <exec> 08└─Right - put it into the public domain. Watch it wither and die, same as Firefox. Open source still hasn't found the solution to paying developers on a consistent basis. RMS was wrong. And look what it got him in the end.
[22:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:22] <exec> 08└─You're referring to corporate screwups. I'm talking about individual screwups. Backups are basic, same as if someone never checks their engine oil or battery, or that their headlights work, they can't blame the manufacturer when it no worky no more. Like one goofball who had his car towed twice to...
[22:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─Who cares? It's a better deterrent than the nickel and dime lawsuits.
[22:24:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Last-Minute California Ruling Means Uber and Lyft Won't Shut Down Today - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:25] <exec> 08└─Public transportation in LA has always felt anemic.
[22:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable "Franchise Fees" - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:58] <exec> 08└─Back in the '90s, every local municipality piled taxes and fees on cellular phone traffic, politically the measures were popular because it was seen as a "luxury tax" - some places went so far as to try to tax any cellular phone traffic that passed through their county - shades of the silk road. In...
[22:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable "Franchise Fees" - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:00] <exec> 08└─right-way that wasn't already paid for in full
[22:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:20] <exec> 08└─So IE ia NOT gone - just hidden again. Better to leave stand alone then to bury. THink make clean work and dump the old. Issue you failed to dump the source of the old. Get off butts and go directly help them for FREE and get this done.
[22:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft 365 Apps to End Internet Explorer Support Next Year - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:21] <exec> 08└─It is not better. Maybe then patch the broken os and keep them too up to date. M$ will feel the pain that they created. They create a monopoly and heavy lock-in. They should be paying for the repairs for breaks they have left behind.
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[23:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New BlackBerry Phones Coming From OnwardMobility - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:39] <exec> 08└─I loved my Blackberry. I loved the keyboard and I miss having one. However, the keyboard wasn't the only, or even the main, draw for me and I suspect others. It excelled in a business environment. For me, the ability to download good apps for task management, contact management and a myriad of other...
[23:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New BlackBerry Phones Coming From OnwardMobility - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:40] <exec> 08└─I mean, who needs a keyboard anyway when you can just talk to your phone? I kid, sort of...
[23:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Super-Dense Lithium-Sulfur Battery Gives Electric Plane a 230-Mile Range - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:55] <exec> 08└─The not-so-practical prize might go, however, to The Aircraft Reactor Experiment [chemixlab.com]... Oak Ridge National Laboratory was the home of Alvin Weinberg’s... Aircraft Reactor Experiment in 1954
[23:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Super-Dense Lithium-Sulfur Battery Gives Electric Plane a 230-Mile Range - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:57] <exec> 08└─the 5 mile altitude until they hit the ground with dead batteries? I'm guessing that will give them an extra 15-20 miles, which is a significant percentage of what they're claiming. Maybe off topic, but I remember a 90s video game. The goal was to get people to ride your rides and not kill anyone. I...
[23:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Super-Dense Lithium-Sulfur Battery Gives Electric Plane a 230-Mile Range - 1669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:59] <exec> 08└─Let's ignore for a moment that range is limited, and accept that technology will improve with time. Batteries will store more energy per kg, last more cycles, recharge faster, be safer, etc, etc This still leaves us with the not so small disadvantage of heavy batteries which don't get any lighter as...
[23:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:27] <exec> 08└─I see your firefox and raise a blender. The problem with firefox is that the browser is too important not to be infiltrated. Both from a commercial and a political POV.
[23:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:28] <exec> 08└─"Crying about losing YEARS of work because you didn't make a single backup?" They kind of did. Their data was stored in Adobe's cloud account. It's clearly in hindsight not a sufficient backup solution and wouldn't satisfy an IT expert -- but for a lot of laypeople it probably behaved enough like a...
[23:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:30] <exec> 08└─Replying to myself -- because reading more -- it sounds like it only affected stuff that wasn't sync'd with adobe's cloud.
[23:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:32] <exec> 08└─Right - put it into the public domain. Watch it wither and die, same as Firefox Internet Explorer.
[23:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Lightroom iOS Update Permanently Deleted Users’ Photos - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:34] <exec> 08└─You want to put it in the public domain, you buy it. The law doesn't allow your "remedy." Who's going to maintain it? Just look at the 250 people laid off - Firefox is dying. And that sucks. But then again, it's been suffering from "gotta-copy~Chrome-look-and-feel" for a while. Just what are they s...
[23:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Built Secret iPod with Apple's Help, Former Engineer Says -- What Did it Do? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:28] <exec> 08└─"Ms. Daniels, we're ready for you to test the prototype."
[23:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:09] <exec> 08└─Spotted the junkie...
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