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[11:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02pop quiz - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:47] <exec> 08└─q: what do you want to be when you grow up? a: a basketball player beep! wrong answer. let's try that again q: what do you want to be when you grow up? a: a rocket scientist ding! correct answer
[11:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02group tutoring? - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:48] <exec> 08└─This seems more like a good tutoring/mentoring environment, not a school. Is there a reason Musk calls it a school, instead of just saying that he's hiring tutors for his kids (and some of his friends'/employees' kids)? From memory, students usually do better with a more favorable student:teacher ra...
[11:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:group tutoring? - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:50] <exec> 08└─This seems more like a good tutoring/mentoring environment, not a school.
[11:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:group tutoring? - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:52] <exec> 08└─Shaping future working drones and keeping the offspring of everybody's lawn, even their own parents.
[11:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:group tutoring? - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:53] <exec> 08└─I pity your bitterness. I'm figuring it is from thinking yourself so brilliant that school was holding you back because they had to cater to the unwashed masses, thus your disdain for "the sheeple" or "Joe Sixpack".
[11:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:group tutoring? - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:55] <exec> 08└─Rich guy sends his kid to private school. News at 11. This is fine and all, and it is great for him that he has the resources to do it for his kids, but it isn't the kind of thing that scales to tens of thousands of kids.
[11:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Musk seems to have good ideas - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:57] <exec> 08└─I'll find Elon Musk an interesting person. Not only does he have money. He also have the brain and vision to make use of them efficiently. Some I4U snippets I found interesting: Children lose inspiration by eliminating curiosity and putting everything into a chore. "It's important to teach problem s...
[11:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Top down rather than bottom up - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:58] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with that approach. Broad overviews first, details later. The student who is most interested in energy efficiency of the headlights, or noise-cancellation of engine noise within the cabin doesn't need to know which spanner is used for what on the engine blok. However, this only works o...
[11:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Eye in the Sky is watching you poop - 06Drones, Accidents, and the Insurance Industry - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:06] <exec> 08└─Free objects for the mini air defense system to train on? :P
[11:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sure - 06Linux Mint Debian Edition: Upgrade Path Now Exists to LMDE 2 (Betsy) - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:20] <exec> 08└─That's racist.
[11:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another systemd-cored lookalike - 06Linux Mint Debian Edition: Upgrade Path Now Exists to LMDE 2 (Betsy) - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:23] <exec> 08└─If Hitler used Linux he would insist on SystemD
[11:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03carguy [568] (Score:2) 02Shoot the Moon (toy) - 06Greaseless Ball Bearings Developed - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:54] <exec> 08└─For anyone having trouble understanding how the addition of a groove can change the speed of the ball bearing, it might help to relate it to this once-popular toy, http://www.toysrus.com [toysrus.com] As the rods are moved apart or together, the contact wi...
[11:43:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gringer [962] 02Even Careful Science Has Issues - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 1644 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:28] <exec> 08└─Have a look at this long article to see a few examples of how difficult it is to fix this problem: http://slatestarcodex.com [slatestarcodex.com] My favourite is section IV: The idea was to plan an experiment together, with both of them agreeing on ev...
[11:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Even Careful Science Has Issues - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:29] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that link - an interesting read. However, I'm perturbed by the repeated links to lesswrong, which is alas thoroughly unreliable. (The guy behind it thinks 0 and 1 are not valid values for probabilities, for example, just because he can't perform certain transformations to such numbers.) T...
[11:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a sensitive issue - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:38] <exec> 08└─Yup, not just that - they're using industry standard techniques (here the industry is academia), which should no longer be used, as they've been proved to not deliver what they promise. This is a good read: """ Bayesian Critique of Statistics in Health: The Great ...
[11:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Offtopic: "Original Submission" link alternativ - 06Running an ext4 RAID0 with a Linux 4.x Kernel? Better Spray for Bugs - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:53] <exec> 08└─We have a variety of phrases that we can use - that isn't a particular problem for us. However, after the discussion a few days ago, explaining why the edit was necessary might take more space. Having it at the bottom makes it easier to implement a interim quick-fix solution while we decide what exa...
[11:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Furniture (was Re:Bullshit) - 06Stabilization of Human Population - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:45] <exec> 08└─I should have said there is not enough good solid wood any more for more than the wealthy. Like the very wealthy could still afford a bit of real meat in Soylent Green. I also live in a forest, in South Wales, and some of my garden looks like part of it. I had two big hardwood trees blow down two...
[11:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:in time, Europe will grow rapidly - 06Stabilization of Human Population - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:21] <exec> 08└─So you are saying (among other things) that creationists often have large families because they evolved that way?
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[12:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Placenta [5264] (Score:1) 02Does it shrink the testes? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:32] <exec> 08└─I used to belong to a gym, several years ago. The biggest and machoest men there would drink all sorts of these powder concoctions. But then they'd walk around the changing room naked after taking a shower, and they'd have absolutely shrunken testes. I'm not talking about constricted testes due to a...
[12:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Does it shrink the testes? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:33] <exec> 08└─Anabolic steroids?
[12:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does it shrink the testes? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:35] <exec> 08└─It was caused by steroids. Steroids are hormones. Gym freaks take the kind of steroids that are testosterone. But the body is efficient, it sees that they have enough testosterone in the blood so it reduces maintenance of the testicles since they don't need to produce testosterone any more. It is th...
[12:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Placenta [5264] (Score:1) 02Re:group tutoring? - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:48] <exec> 08└─It sounds like Montessori education [wikipedia.org] to me.
[12:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Musk seems to have good ideas - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:50] <exec> 08└─Of course Musk's school's students will be better off, the per-pupil KPIs will be off the charts compared to regular schools. The challenge is to take the lessons learned from the approach he's taking and work out which ones can be applied to improve education for the less well off. I think the coun...
[12:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Reading, Writing, Socializing - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:52] <exec> 08└─I see something missing here. My years in school were simultaneously exhilarating and frustrating. Exhilarating in that I had an insatiable curiosity and did well in my classes. By no means an all "A" student, I had to study and at times, study hard. Yes, even with that, there was a sense of satisfa...
[12:40:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:10%? - 06Greaseless Ball Bearings Developed - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:40:38] <exec> 08└─It hadn't appeared on SoylentNews yet so absolutely nobody had heard of it.
[12:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Publish or perish? - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:11] <exec> 08└─As soon as you create a performance metric, smart people will find a way to fake it, guaranteed.
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[13:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OpenWRT is good however... - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:31] <exec> 08└─OpenWRT is good. But it comes with maintenance. You need to still keep it up to date. People want appliances that look nice on their desk. That is what the market provides. The appliance makers then differentiate themselves by adding features that get exploited. OpenWRT competes very well with repl...
[13:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Does it shrink the testes? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:42] <exec> 08└─''. Steroids are hormones.
[13:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does it shrink the testes? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:43] <exec> 08└─(a) Holy shit! Could you have linked to a less helpful webpage? (b) Close enough [wikipedia.org]
[13:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does it shrink the testes? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:44] <exec> 08└─Which begs the question. Why are you in the gym shower and locker-room checking out other dudes junk?
[13:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:46] <exec> 08└─One of my great joys in life is food. And the best food comes from local farms. Where you can look at a meal and know where each component came from, and in fact might have seen the pig or cow or spinach in a field before becoming your meal. I can't imagine being so busy that I would give up food. B...
[13:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:48] <exec> 08└─One fat spinach blunt coming right up. These Ensure® pioneers are disputing the notion that taste is a necessary part of the human experience. And as long as they don't drop dead from unexpected malnutrition or fill the room with expected flatulence, we should let them. The Silicon Valley unicorn w...
[13:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:49] <exec> 08└─> I can't imagine being so busy that I would give up food. While I am sure there are some people who use it for that, I'd say 99% do not. It is about avoiding bad food. The modern american diet is shit. Especially for people putting in a lot of hours at the office. By giving up the effort of worryin...
[13:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:51] <exec> 08└─So instead they drink something that looks and apparently taste like liquid sludge. Mmmmmmmmm ... Yummy in the tummy.
[13:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:52] <exec> 08└─The word you're looking for is "optimal". It is optimal nutrition for the quantified self. Soylent is necessary for enlightenment. If the Buddha was around, he would choose Soylent.
[13:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:54] <exec> 08└─> So instead they drink something that looks and apparently taste like liquid sludge. As someone who is drinking soylent on a regular basis, it isn't anything like that. It looks and tastes like a vanilla milkshake. You can add flavoring, I like the "cookies and cream" syrup I found at the grocery.
[13:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Schmoylent - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:56] <exec> 08└─The last time we had a Soylent [shake] discussion, the DIY site was broken. Now it seems to work. Schmoylent [soylent.me] is one of these DIY recipes, not a double trademark infringement.
[13:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:57] <exec> 08└─"The time wasted by eating is ..." I don't think I would, could or even want to trade real cooking and food for a protein shake. Liquid meals are for people without teeth and/or taste buds. I think I spend, on average, about an hour a day making and eating my food. It's totally worth it for me at le...
[13:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:59] <exec> 08└─If people want to emancipate themselves from food and taste, what's wrong with that? You aren't sold on any convenience or taste arguments, but what about health? Soylent is the ultimate measured approach to calorie and nutrient control. It's perfect for the quantified self and wearable IoT. Dan Spa...
[13:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 2234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:00] <exec> 08└─Emancipate themselves from food and taste? Eating is now like slavery? Sure. If you don't want to eat or taste them that is a personal preference I guess. I just doubt that the time saved here would be massive. That seems to be what the article really is saying, even tho I do believe there is more t...
[13:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:02] <exec> 08└─I take this article as a confirmation that I chose the right profession in terms of work/life balance. At no point have I ever been pressured to put in so many extra hours that I felt the need to substitute nutrient paste for real meals.
[13:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:04] <exec> 08└─Eating tasty food is a vice.Bad taste is suffering.Soylent relieves vice and suffering by removing taste entirely.Soylent is necessary for human enlightenment.Soylent is optimal. You don't need to be a Silicon Valley revolutionary to choose Soylent. You just share a goal of transcending human limits...
[13:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:05] <exec> 08└─I knew it! A transhumanist plot!
[13:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:group tutoring? - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:12] <exec> 08└─Rich guy sends his kid to private school. News at 11.
[13:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:group tutoring? - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:14] <exec> 08└─but it isn't the kind of thing that scales to tens of thousands of kids.
[13:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Top down rather than bottom up - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:18] <exec> 08└─This is the problem. Everyone in education knows how to produce amazing education: Lots of teachers. If you have a teacher who can focus on just a few kids, that teacher can tailor instruction just for those kids. Most teachers would be amazingly successful in that arena. But now imagine you're a hi...
[13:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Reminds me of a school I went to in MIssissippi - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:20] <exec> 08└─Up until 8th grade, one worked at one's grade level in academic classes (math, science, English), up to 4 grades ahead --- I was in 4th grade and taking 8th grade classes. Socialization classes and activities, homeroom, recess, physical education, social science, were taken at one's age grade level....
[13:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03That_Dude [2503] (Score:2) 02Subject not included - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 1302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:22] <exec> 08└─I understand the benefit of grappling with abstract concepts through a physical medium. It builds confidence, exposes the application of insight and hones analytical skill. Once that foothold is established, one starts to see that wrapping your mind around new things becomes only a question of the s...
[13:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02new install instead of upgrade - 06Linux Mint Debian Edition: Upgrade Path Now Exists to LMDE 2 (Betsy) - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:49] <exec> 08└─I've generally found it easier to wipe and install, just like with (gasp) Windows. Save /home, and erase everything else. I can save /var/log if I really want to, but I've never had a compelling reason to keep the logs. One thing that would be nice to have is a list of packages I installed in the pr...
[13:41:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tork [3914] 02Re:Well... - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:50] <exec> 08└─That's great news for you. Less than two years until you lose your virginity!
[13:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Golden Parachutes - 06Charter Communications Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable for $55B - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:07] <exec> 08└─a deal that brings value to the companies involved
[13:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03githaron [581] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh God, here we go again - 06Charter Communications Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable for $55B - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:12] <exec> 08└─I actually have had very good experiences with Charter. The occassional outages were usually very short (few hours). They lent me a modem without charging me an equipment fee. Their prices were/are quite reasonable (~$45 after the special ran out). I got upload and download speeds that were faster t...
[13:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:raid0 != redundantcy - 06Running an ext4 RAID0 with a Linux 4.x Kernel? Better Spray for Bugs - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:37] <exec> 08└─A one byte write requires reading all four drives and writing at least two plus calculating and then recalculating the parity
[13:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:raid0 != redundantcy - 06Running an ext4 RAID0 with a Linux 4.x Kernel? Better Spray for Bugs - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:48] <exec> 08└─The BSD style convention is that unsafe macros (i.e. ones that can't be used without knowing that they're macros) must be in uppercase. Amusingly, Linux contains a few headers (some generic data structure implementations) taken from 4BSD which, in import into Linux, were changed to use lowercase nam...
[13:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah right - 06Stabilization of Human Population - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:24] <exec> 08└─Hmm. I guess I can believe that's what he was saying. It's one of those internet conversations where you just don't understand what the other person is saying, I guess.
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[14:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02you already can - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:36] <exec> 08└─the way i demand openwrt compatibility is by only buying compatible routers. seriously, do this and darwinism will do the rest.
[14:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:you already can - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:37] <exec> 08└─The problem with this is that most home users are using the router that was delivered to them when they first signed up to "The Internet" It's never updated, it's never replaced. Ask any joe-sixpack home user what "firmware" is and they will look at you with a blank stare.
[14:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:you already can - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:39] <exec> 08└─"...darwinism will do the rest." QED
[14:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:you already can - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:40] <exec> 08└─When in the land of ignorant minds, Darwin may be your best friend ;-)
[14:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:you already can - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:42] <exec> 08└─the way i demand openwrt compatibility is by only buying compatible routers. seriously, do this and darwinism will do the rest.
[14:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Does it shrink the testes? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:53] <exec> 08└─Anabolic-androgenic steroids are hormones. And it was AASs that were being talked about. The fact that they are not endogenic, but are externally introduced into the body should be irrelevant. Insulin and epinephrine don't magically stop being hormones when sitting in phials, nor should any testoste...
[14:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does it shrink the testes? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:55] <exec> 08└─The question is the answer. It's one of the several nuisances about working out in a gym.
[14:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Does it shrink the testes? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:57] <exec> 08└─*perks
[14:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:05] <exec> 08└─Which then begs the question. Why do you do it? Is it health reasons? Time reasons? Saving money? Why do you feel the need to replace cooking and eating with a shake?
[14:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:06] <exec> 08└─Exactly for the reasons I've already given - to make it easier to avoid bad choices. In the past I used a personal chef but I found that the amount of variety actually encouraged cravings, I'd eat the right food and then go out and buy crap. By taking the variety out of the equation I avoid the "tip...
[14:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:08] <exec> 08└─A personal chef, eh? Celeb Soylent-drinking Soylentil perhaps? I take it you factor the cookies n cream syrup into your nutritional accounting. Do you roll your own Soylent or get it mailed?
[14:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:09] <exec> 08└─> A personal chef, eh? Celeb Soylent-drinking Soylentil perhaps? It was only marginally more expensive than one of those frozen diet meal plans like nutrisystem. > I take it you factor the cookies n cream syrup into your nutritional accounting. Do you roll your own Soylent or get it mailed? The syru...
[14:40:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JeanCroix [573] 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:15] <exec> 08└─I knew it! A transhumanist plot!
[14:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:1) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:16] <exec> 08└─Real question - is this performance art or shilling? Or something else entirely?
[14:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:18] <exec> 08└─It's performance shilling you can believe in. I'm sympathetic to the Soylent cause, but I don't practice it. I just think "why would you want to give up food" is a stale, tasteless response. Now replacing livestock with lab-grown meat, there's a worthy cause.
[14:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:1) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:19] <exec> 08└─Enjoying sensual pleasures in moderation isn't detrimental to "transcending human limits". Suffering isn't caused by physical discomfort, it is caused by lack of individual sovereignty. If another person makes you to eat food you don't like by threat or force then the bad taste is suffering. The cho...
[14:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:21] <exec> 08└─> Suffering isn't caused by physical discomfort, it is caused by lack of individual sovereignty. Spoken by someone who has never experienced significant physical discomfort.
[14:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:23] <exec> 08└─> Liquid meals are for people without teeth and/or taste buds. Or maybe they have too many taste buds. Maybe they have, say, two or three foods they genuinely enjoy eating but realize that just eating those few things is unhealthy. They've tried other foods and have rarely found things they like bec...
[14:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score:2) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:24] <exec> 08└─I think I spend, on average, about an hour a day making and eating my food.
[14:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:group tutoring? - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:35] <exec> 08└─Careful, it's uncool to like him now. I was an instant fan back in 2005 when reading a torn up Popular Science about his desire to start a space company and retire on Mars. Most people like him now because they bought Tesla stock before it went through the roof. But other than that he is seen as an...
[14:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Musk seems to have good ideas - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:39] <exec> 08└─Is there any reason to believe the students will be barred from university due to lack of a standard grades? Perhaps the same could be said of high school. Btw, is primary school level?
[14:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Top down rather than bottom up - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:43] <exec> 08└─Even though it's 5 years since I lived there, I still feel a sense of pride when I see positive mentions of Finland. One might say that I did nothing to feel proud about, but the bottom line is that everything is eventually paid for by taxes, so my and my g/f's utterly horrific tax bills are in some...
[14:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:IRC log - 06Linux Mint Debian Edition: Upgrade Path Now Exists to LMDE 2 (Betsy) - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:09] <exec> 08└─Check this: https://github.com [github.com]
[14:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:new install instead of upgrade - 06Linux Mint Debian Edition: Upgrade Path Now Exists to LMDE 2 (Betsy) - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:16] <exec> 08└─Save any /usr/local and /opt stuff too. That means there are likely associated /var subtrees. You can often tar these up easily to a backup in your home. It's all pretty simple - and the NUMBER ONE reason to partition /home separately, even with modern disks.
[14:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02cool, in 17 years when the patents expire - 06Greaseless Ball Bearings Developed - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:48] <exec> 08└─Assuming this is a great idea, and doesn't suffer from other problems that we have yet to discover because these bearings have not been in use for years, I wonder how many applications could use this advance but won't thanks to patents. The patent holders will be too greedy, too hard to contact and...
[14:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:El Nino - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:18] <exec> 08└─Governments started to declare El Nino over a month ago.
[14:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well... - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:23] <exec> 08└─Well at least it gave you a chance to be a bigot.
[14:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Publish or perish? - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:15] <exec> 08└─More to the point, "publish or perish" is all about attempting to quantify something that really isn't quantifiable, so that it can be turned into performance metrics that can then be used as an excuse to cut people and keep the salaries of scientists from getting too expensive from the point of vie...
[14:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score:2) 02Re:Same problems same solutions - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:35] <exec> 08└─I'd call this "the no-no true scotsman" fallacy.
[14:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a sensitive issue - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:40] <exec> 08└─Here are some more discussions of how p-values are (mis)used: http://www.nature.com [nature.com] http://www.nature.com [nature.com]
[14:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bring Back the Opium Dens - 06'Home-Brewed Morphine' Made Possible - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:45] <exec> 08└─> Bring Back the Opium Dens > On every street corner. Like much of modern life, its been moved into the home. Now people have vicodin, oxycontin and percocet in their bathroom medicine cabinets.
[14:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:collapse the economy - 06'Home-Brewed Morphine' Made Possible - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:15] <exec> 08└─Huh, late to the discussion, but my inner brewing geek wants to reference these links: http://brulosophy.com [brulosophy.com] http://brulosophy.com [brulosophy.com]
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[15:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03buswolley [848] (Score:2) 02hmm - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:33] <exec> 08└─Have a lawyer?
[15:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02It's for the kids - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:34] <exec> 08└─Suuuuuurrrrrre it is.
[15:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's for the kids - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:36] <exec> 08└─http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=7638&cid=188533 [soylentnews.org]
[15:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:4, Insightful) 02This is why people are freaked out about drones - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know if using a drone to search people's homes for stolen property is really a great idea. Would you like it if someone entered your house while you were gone and looked through all your things? It really sucks that some low-life decided to steal from the local school, but I think your propo...
[15:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why people are freaked out about drones - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:39] <exec> 08└─I agree with this. I understand and empathize with you in your situation, Phoenix666, but buying a drone doesn't seem like the right response. That being said, to answer the original question, a friend of mine has a DJI Phantom 2 Vision [dji.com]and I've been very impressed with it. I don't know if...
[15:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why people are freaked out about drones - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:41] <exec> 08└─About as intrusive as looking at your neighborhood on google maps. He isn't talking about hovering outside anyone's windows, he's talking about scanning the area from altitude. Getting into semi-autonomous drones would be a lot of fun. I agree that it isn't as practical as security cameras but it so...
[15:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03middlemen [504] (Score:2) 02Use GPS trackers - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:42] <exec> 08└─Find some cheap tiny low-powered GPS/RF trackers and implant them in your boxes, that might be cheaper than the drone... maybe even get them solar powered since your boxes are kept outside...
[15:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score:2) 02Just say (g)no(me) - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:44] <exec> 08└─A surveillance drone is way too complicated. How about a surveillance gnome? [digitalspy.com]
[15:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:you already can - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:54] <exec> 08└─This is why family members ask me for wireless routers for Christmas. Usually it is because they are having problems with the crap one they got from their ISP. I get a reasonable one un-box it, test it, install OpenWRT, and configure it so all they have to do is take it home and put it in place of t...
[15:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02CSRF?!?!?!? - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:56] <exec> 08└─Cross-Site Request Forgery? So the router's running a web-server? A *router* is running a *web server*. What web-server functionality does a router require for routing? None. Therefore, how much of a webserver should be on your router? Exactly - none. I have never subscribed to the "clicky-clicky ma...
[15:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:CSRF?!?!?!? - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:58] <exec> 08└─Typically there is authentication required, but many people will leave their session authenticated and few change their router's IP address which goes a long way towards mitigating the problem as well. Not allowing CSRF exploits would be the proper solution, but even just requiring re-autheinticatio...
[15:40:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bziman [3577] 02Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 370 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:14] <exec> 08└─One of my great joys in life is food. And the best food comes from local farms. Where you can look at a meal and know where each component came from, and in fact might have seen the pig or cow or spinach in a field before becoming your meal. I can't imagine being so busy that I would give up food. B...
[15:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:24] <exec> 08└─Why do you feel the need to replace cooking and eating with a shake?
[15:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:26] <exec> 08└─I think there are a lot of people (mostly but not exclusively bachelors) who see [coding|cleaning|gardening|cooking|writing|reading|football|driving] as an unpleasant chore rather than as a relaxing activity like I always have. As far as I can tell, these are people who never learned how to [code|cl...
[15:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:37] <exec> 08└─If another person makes you to eat food you don't like by threat or force then the bad taste is suffering. The choice between eating immediately available food that you like slightly less or waiting and being slightly hungry for a short time until more palatable food is available is the very definit...
[15:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:40] <exec> 08└─If cooking and eating is the most interesting, exciting thing you could do in that hour, then good for you. However, some of us would occasionally like to be able to just stop being hungry and carry on with whatever we were doing.
[15:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:42] <exec> 08└─"The time wasted by eating is ..." I don't think I would, could or even want to trade real cooking and food for a protein shake. Liquid meals are for people without teeth and/or taste buds. I think I spend, on average, about an hour a day making and eating my food. It's totally worth it for me at le...
[15:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Real food vs synthetic sludge - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:43] <exec> 08└─So people will choose a synthetic sludge with who knows what stuff and artificial taste over real food that is prepared without killing the vitamins? vitamins that work in the long run and thus is really compatible with the body chemistry. And when spamvertizing is removed and general false food cho...
[15:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Real food vs synthetic sludge - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:45] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, the recipe for Soylent is open and remixing [soylent.me] is encouraged on the website. What's "synthetic sludge" and how is it bad? All food is made of chemicals. There's the argument that certain processed foods can be unhealthy, such as high-fructose corn syrup and table sugar bei...
[15:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score:2) 02Get creative with the powder - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:46] <exec> 08└─I had to radically change my diet due to drawing the short straw from the genetic pool resulting in extremely high triglycerides even after a 24 hour fast. One of my staples now is a Greek yogurt, protein powder and preserves mixture for breakfast. I snack until lunch (1lb salad with chick breast) o...
[15:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:group tutoring? - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:57] <exec> 08└─I pity your bitterness. I'm figuring it is from thinking yourself so brilliant that school was holding you back because they had to cater to the unwashed masses, thus your disdain for "the sheeple" or "Joe Sixpack".
[15:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Musk seems to have good ideas - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:06] <exec> 08└─I could definitely see an admissions department frowning and doing a WTF when they saw the application with no grades on it at all, although that's what covering letters are for. It's up to Musk et al to ensure that they aren't hamstringing the futures of their budding offspring, either by getting t...
[15:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Musk seems to have good ideas - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:08] <exec> 08└─I think just having a piece of paper with Musk's signature on it would get your foot as far through any college door (that was worth going to) as it needed to be. When has anything, including academia, been about WHAT you know, instead of WHO?
[15:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reminds me of a school I went to in MIssissippi - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:15] <exec> 08└─But was it founded by Elon Musk? If it wasn't founded by Elon Musk, noone give a rat's ass.
[15:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds like Montessori education - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:17] <exec> 08└─http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education [wikipedia.org] BTW check out the list of alums at the bottom of the Wiki page! Hmm....
[15:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thesis [524] (Score:1) 02The AMA insurance... - 06Drones, Accidents, and the Insurance Industry - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:28] <exec> 08└─...will only pay out if you fly at an AMA sanctioned field, event, property you own. The insurance coverage is also good anywhere you have permission to legally fly from the land owner. If you do something deemed unsafe or reckless by the AMA, they will not payout. Most people flying r/c models, inc...
[15:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Everything is bigger in Tesax, right? - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:39] <exec> 08└─I35 is a good dividing line. It runs along the eastern edge of the hill country. East of I35 is the coastal plains, much of which is farmland. West of I35 to the panhandle it's hilly, drier weather, and rockier soil, in many places too rocky to farm even where there is enough water. There's still so...
[15:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score:2) 02Requires Google to work - 06Tone: An Experimental Chrome Extension for Instant Sharing Over Audio - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:26] <exec> 08└─From the extension download page: You need to be logged into your Google account to use Google Tone, and your Google profile name and picture will be displayed with the URL in a Google Tone notification.
[15:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:medical - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:40] <exec> 08└─This line reminded me of Gilgamesh: nobody with future power should grow up unloved!
[15:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Publish or perish? - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:50] <exec> 08└─Well, in the 1600-1700s science was done by people with wealthy and powerful patrons. The scientists would come over for dinner and entertain the guests. If the science was not interesting enough , the scientists would also get into feuds with each other which would still entertain and contribute to...
[15:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Publish or perish? - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:52] <exec> 08└─Put it this way. A random stranger comes up to you and says, "Give me money to study exothermaldynamics. No, I won't promise you any results or anything else. You can trust me I'm using this money well, I'm a scientist."
[15:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even Careful Science Has Issues - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:06] <exec> 08└─The problem seemed to be that the scientist's preconceptions were altering the outcome of their study. Trying to "fix" that would require that you carry out your experiments in the absence of a hypothesis to be tested, which goes against one of the core steps in the scientific method.
[15:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Muslims are the new Blacks - 06Senior Muslim UK Policeman Warns that Radicalisation is Starting at an Early Age - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:34] <exec> 08└─That's because it's not explicitly worded as such, see this article [rationalwiki.org] and especially the references.
[15:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So much wrongness here... where to start? - 06Senior Muslim UK Policeman Warns that Radicalisation is Starting at an Early Age - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:24] <exec> 08└─A religion is nothing more than a non rational belief system that explains the unexplained.
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[16:39:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tramii [920] 02This is why people are freaked out about drones - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 914 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:35] <exec> 08└─I don't know if using a drone to search people's homes for stolen property is really a great idea. Would you like it if someone entered your house while you were gone and looked through all your things? It really sucks that some low-life decided to steal from the local school, but I think your propo...
[16:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Bad idea - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:40] <exec> 08└─Not only are you likely to not find the stolen goods that way, you are also likely to falsely accuse anyone who happens to have planter boxes himself which happen to look like those of your school (I assume there's nothing uniquely identifying the planter boxes from your school). And even if you sho...
[16:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Everyone is chastising you - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:42] <exec> 08└─And for good reason. Search warrants exist for a damn reason. People don't like busybodies assuming they did something wrong and poking around. That said, I'd still like the fundamental question answered. What is a good, cheap camera drone?
[16:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Everyone is chastising you - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:44] <exec> 08└─http://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-drones,review-2412.html [tomsguide.com] http://www.quora.com [quora.com] I think the consensus is the DJI Phantom 2 Vision, which is about $700. There's also the Parrot Bebop [techcrunch.com] which starts at $500 but rises...
[16:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02drone - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:45] <exec> 08└─If you don't grab a Phantom 2 Vision, there's also Parrot [parrot.com]. I don't anticipate success in finding these planters in a potentially 2-3 mi2 area, and they could have been moved much further away. Surveillance cams might be a better idea. If you can afford the $700 drone, you could also len...
[16:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CSRF?!?!?!? - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:01] <exec> 08└─If you read about the exploit, they actually use Chrome as the primary vector because it allows it to discover info on the lan, including IP address and the gateway's address.
[16:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CSRF?!?!?!? - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:02] <exec> 08└─Of course, this exploit requires the victim to be running javascript from an untrusted site.
[16:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:1) 02Re:Does it shrink the testes? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:21] <exec> 08└─Creatine does. And causes male infertility. and its desired effects (Muscle gain) are also temporary. Stop taking it and the muscles fade.
[16:40:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:32] <exec> 08└─Why do you feel the need to replace cooking and eating with a shake?
[16:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:34] <exec> 08└─FINISH HIM
[16:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:36] <exec> 08└─> they miss out on the creativity and artistic aspect of it. says the guy whose sig line is > Feed America - vote Donner Party 2016! I'll pass on the dinner invitation, thanks.
[16:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:47] <exec> 08└─"It's performance shilling you can believe in." Golden. You, sir, win the internets for today,
[16:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Real food vs synthetic sludge - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 1619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:57] <exec> 08└─Cravings are a good thing. That is not really true. Cravings are part habit too. For example right now I crave eating a bag of oreos and wash it down with a 32oz cola. It is very easy to misunderstand cravings, habit, and need. Instead I am drinking my water as I am trying to lower my sugar intake t...
[16:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Musk seems to have good ideas - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:21] <exec> 08└─What I'm not understanding, at least not yet, is the difference between what Musk is proposing and the existing Montessori methods. Montessori is all about learning via exploration and problem solving rather than sitting in neat rows of desks, and that seems to be exactly what Musk is talking about...
[16:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Another systemd-cored lookalike - 06Linux Mint Debian Edition: Upgrade Path Now Exists to LMDE 2 (Betsy) - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:00] <exec> 08└─[posting this from and LMDE2 machine] I care for a simple reason: my new NUC has HD6000 video, which is not supported by regular Mint Cinnamon (which powers all my other machines). That said, I will delete LMDE2 the minute the regular Ubuntu install image comes with a kernel that supports my NUC. Wh...
[16:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Submissions.... - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:52] <exec> 08└─That's why I suggested that SN should display every mod, not just the sum and one of the labels.
[16:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02I'm not turning on the TV - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:10] <exec> 08└─So, how many seconds before the first idiot gets on Fox News to affirm this proves global warming is a hoax?
[16:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm not turning on the TV - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:11] <exec> 08└─You can point them to the 1,000+ dead people due to the ongoing heat wave in India if you are willing to fight anecdote with anecdote.
[16:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Does the same thing... - 06Google Adds Real-Time Traffic Information to Google Maps - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:11] <exec> 08└─Why did this get modded troll? Do we now have some Google astroturfers among us trying to polish the turd that Google has become?
[16:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huge FOSS fan, but... - 06Spanish University Dumps Windows for Ubuntu: 63% Fewer Problems - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:00] <exec> 08└─I've not seen a single GNU info documentation that was just a cut-and-paste of the man page (actually I've seen it the other way round, the man page being generated from a section(!) of the info file).
[16:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Huge FOSS fan, but... - 06Spanish University Dumps Windows for Ubuntu: 63% Fewer Problems - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:01] <exec> 08└─I find GNU info pages completely useless. The navigation mechanisms are too unintuitive, and too different from everything I use regularly, even though I'm an emacs user. Perhaps automatic mechanisms to view GNU info pages in a mouse-based point-and-click browser could work. Anyone know of such a th...
[16:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huge FOSS fan, but... - 06Spanish University Dumps Windows for Ubuntu: 63% Fewer Problems - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:03] <exec> 08└─http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/tkinfo/ [uni-paderborn.de]
[16:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Emacs is not a text editor, - 06Spanish University Dumps Windows for Ubuntu: 63% Fewer Problems - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:18] <exec> 08└─Emacs is a perfect tool for the environment it originally flourished on -- a text-only user-interface for those old text-only full-duplex terminals. That's why it has so very many tools -- it's not a text editor, it's a user-friendly operating system for limited-functionality terminal equipment. Of...
[16:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ConceptJunkie [5018] (Score:1) 02Re:Time for intrusion? - 06'Home-Brewed Morphine' Made Possible - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:01] <exec> 08└─Again, don't underestimate greed. Not every drug dealer is an ignorant street thug. For a good documentary on this, see "Angels' Revenge", also known as "Angels' Brigade": http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
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[17:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02My first distro was Mandrake - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:34] <exec> 08└─I think it was 2004. I sent to one of those websites for a bunch of Linux install discs. Tried to install Debian, failed. Note that my install method was simply to say yes to whatever was asked. The first one that installed correctly was Mandrake 10.0 and I used it for several years until I became a...
[17:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Everyone is chastising you - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:53] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting that the police are going to prioritize flowerpot theft high enough to do anything other than chuckle?
[17:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Everyone is chastising you - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:54] <exec> 08└─Broken Windows [wikipedia.org] is a very common policing philosophy. Especially in places with low crime. Some people view it as socially harmful, excessively targeting of poor people, and not a fundamentally correct model of crime, but it's still a really common approach.
[17:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Possible solutions - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:57] <exec> 08└─A couple months ago the PTA gave money for expensive self-watering planter boxes, flowers, hoses, and other gardening implements to improve the austere, institutional exterior, which resembles a prison. As we discovered this morning, some of the flowers, boxes, and hoses were stolen over Memorial Da...
[17:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:34] <exec> 08└─>as long as they don't drop dead from unexpected malnutrition... we should let them. How is that any of our business?
[17:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:47] <exec> 08└─Well played. I hadn't even noticed that the serious comment and the joke sig were at odds.
[17:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:04] <exec> 08└─I don't know... a few quick shakes and an extra 45 minutes of sex sounds like a pretty appealing alternative... In all seriousness though: I enjoy cooking, especially with a partner, but find myself often eating a less-than-ideal diet out of convenience, distraction, etc. If they could develop a soy...
[17:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Question - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:10] <exec> 08└─What is recomended for a truck driver? I would love to find one of these "shakes" for normal people, not steroid pumped up gym jocks. Just about anything is better then truck stop food. I'me looking for a better alternitive them eating out at greasy places all the time. While I don't eat there all t...
[17:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Question - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:12] <exec> 08└─> I would love to find one of these "shakes" for normal people, not steroid pumped up gym jocks. Soylent is for normal people. The intention is to be nutritionally complete without anything in excess nor any calorie restrictions. I expect that being a truck driver makes you even more sedentary than...
[17:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:group tutoring? - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:29] <exec> 08└─Cool or not I don't care. I like him (too). He's made more money than he'll ever need and I think all his latest enterprises (SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity etc) have more to do with his vision of the future than just making money. Of course he wants them to be profitable, otherwise the ideas die with him...
[17:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:new install instead of upgrade - 06Linux Mint Debian Edition: Upgrade Path Now Exists to LMDE 2 (Betsy) - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:19] <exec> 08└─One thing that would be nice to have is a list of packages I installed in the previous version, could make the new installation go a little faster.
[17:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:10%? - 06Greaseless Ball Bearings Developed - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:35] <exec> 08└─Consider that rolling "friction" is a misnomer, it's actually rolling *resistance*, and originates primarily from a variety of deformation effects which can be minimized by using sufficiently hard materials (and/or large contact surfaces). As such, so long as the loading is insufficient to cause not...
[17:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Submissions.... - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:10] <exec> 08└─"+5, Troll" is easier to get than that.
[17:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Submissions.... - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:11] <exec> 08└─+5, Troll. My life now has a target.
[17:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:I'm not turning on the TV - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:31] <exec> 08└─First they have to blame the flooding on Obama.
[17:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02It's not just northern Texas - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:32] <exec> 08└─Austin's had neighborhoods washed away. Houston's had cars covered over their roofs in low-lying roadways. The other night there were wind-driven waves over the center median of my street in Houston, and we were not the hardest hit.
[17:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:Get it out of your system - 06Running an ext4 RAID0 with a Linux 4.x Kernel? Better Spray for Bugs - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:22] <exec> 08└─It doesn't apply if the init system fails to initialize the system. How often does that happen, though? We run plenty of CentOS 7 and I don't remember having any failures to boot.
[17:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:Get it out of your system - 06Running an ext4 RAID0 with a Linux 4.x Kernel? Better Spray for Bugs - 1674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:24] <exec> 08└─The simplicity of shell scripts controlling the system has pros and cons. The concept is simple. The scripts themselves often aren't very simple. There's definitely room to argue for scripts over unit files, but also vice versa. The bit about Microsoft is a false association, though. Unit files are...
[17:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Time for intrusion? - 06'Home-Brewed Morphine' Made Possible - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:28] <exec> 08└─I believe insulin holds that crown.
[17:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Muslims are the new Blacks - 06Senior Muslim UK Policeman Warns that Radicalisation is Starting at an Early Age - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:26] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Leftists (ones on the far left) actually believe this. Here's a few links: http://dailycaller.com [dailycaller.com] http://newsbusters.org [...
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[18:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02We've changed out name to Exxon! - 06Russian Space Agency Abolished and Replaced Following Financial Violations - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:36] <exec> 08└─"But it's still the same old gas" Oh wait. They didn't even change the name.
[18:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02All corruption must be Putin approved - 06Russian Space Agency Abolished and Replaced Following Financial Violations - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:37] <exec> 08└─The idea of people besides his hand selected inner circle enriching themselves off the government of Russia is anathema to the Putin worldview. What surprises me most is that Putin hasn't engaged his "Blame the US" media engines for this one. Casting the corruption as being intentionally caused by C...
[18:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:My first distro was Mandrake - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:46] <exec> 08└─Similar to my experience. I'd been trying unsuccessfully to learn Linux since about 2000, found Mandrake in (I think) 2002. I switched to kubuntu several years ago when it was rumored that Mandriva was dying. It's a sad day.
[18:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03present_arms [4392] (Score:2) 02Re:My first distro was Mandrake - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:48] <exec> 08└─I was with Mandrake/Mandriva when Texstar was doing a 3rd party repo for multimedia stuff that wasn't included on the main distro, I moved to PClinuxOS before Mandrake became Mandriva and went to a subscription base.
[18:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:My first distro was Mandrake - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:50] <exec> 08└─Not my first experience, and never spent much time playing with any version of Mandrake. I first found some version of Red Hat, then SuSE. I was astounded to find Red Hat (and most of its clones like Mandrake) installed wide open, very insecure, lots of services running. Suse installed all locked do...
[18:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SYSTEM D CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:51] <exec> 08└─The first of many, unfortunately. The pestilence cannot be stopped, it appears.
[18:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SYSTEM D CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:53] <exec> 08└─Ignoring the fact no mention of this is made in TFA, what is System D and why do people get so worked up over it? Not used Linux in a while myself.
[18:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:1) 02Long Live Mageia - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:54] <exec> 08└─R.I.P. Mandriva, long live Mageia. Mandriva has essentially been dead for the past few years. Most of the Mandrake/Mandriva developers forked their own distro Mageia [mageia.org] a couple of years ago, and it's been steadily improving since. The fifth version is expected "soon."
[18:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03lairdb [1386] (Score:1) 02Actual answer? - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:14] <exec> 08└─I agree with most of the commenters that this is not a good solution for the OP -- but let's please also answer the question. One of the great values of sites like this is the "oh, I have a very similar problem" value, and if no-one answers the specific question, that value is lost. (For example, I...
[18:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actual answer? - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:15] <exec> 08└─It does sound similar. Your friend wants to fly drones too rather than do the actual work at hand ;)
[18:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tie the next ones down - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:16] <exec> 08└─Write all over the stuff in permanent marker / spray paint / engrave. And, tie down what you can with anchors. If you make them unattractive to be stolen, you will prevent most theft. If it is an idiot drunk, then your efforts will likely not be successful no matter what you do. But, drones?! Wow.
[18:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Perhaps invest the money better - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:18] <exec> 08└─Unless you clarify if you are paying for that drone yourself, one might assume that you used this event to convince someone with a budget to buy a drone so you could play. How about using that money to purchase non expensive, non self watering planter boxes. Manual labor to water the plants perhaps?...
[18:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:CSRF?!?!?!? - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:34] <exec> 08└─Well at least routers aren't shipped with standard passwords any more. The default password is encoded to the serial number on any modern router. The configuration capability is usually restricted to a lan port. The exception is those routers you get from any ISP. They almost always have some sort o...
[18:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score:2) 02We've been dealing with this a LOT at Work. - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:36] <exec> 08└─Router Hacking has really, really taken off in the last or two. Prior to that, it was almost unheard of. The days of buying a router and leaving it alone forever are long, long gone. Now it's keep your router up to date, or you WILL be hacked. Almost always all they are trying to do is change your D...
[18:43:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tork [3914] 02Re:Oh, God.... here we go again... - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:24] <exec> 08└─I think you wanted to post to the previous story, not this one.
[18:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score:2) 02Re:Same problems same solutions - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:18] <exec> 08└─Starting calling things with their name is a good start IMHO.
[18:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Singapore to Trial 10Gbps Home Broadband - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:24] <exec> 08└─I don't have 10Gb ports in any of my computers. And even if I did and had a 10Gb/s connection, I'd be lucky to find servers that would let me download that quickly. Yes, I'm sure some people will find a use for it, but your average internet user?
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[19:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All corruption must be Putin approved - 06Russian Space Agency Abolished and Replaced Following Financial Violations - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:33] <exec> 08└─Falling oil prices have put the squeeze on their economy. Surely that must be because of the US.
[19:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:All corruption must be Putin approved - 06Russian Space Agency Abolished and Replaced Following Financial Violations - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:34] <exec> 08└─Which Ukraine invasions was this? The imaginary one?
[19:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:All corruption must be Putin approved - 06Russian Space Agency Abolished and Replaced Following Financial Violations - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:36] <exec> 08└─Soft invasions are a thing. Unless this is a joke I'm just not getting, how on earth can a ceasefire be built on the withdrawal of foreign soldiers without... you know... the original addition of those foreign soldiers?
[19:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SYSTEM D CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:49] <exec> 08└─http://systemdsucks.com [systemdsucks.com]
[19:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:Mandriva Died A Long Time Ago - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:52] <exec> 08└─I played with Mandrake once or twice, but I mostly used it for the partitioning manager. It really was a lot better than the console-based one that came with my distro of choice (Slackware), which was useful in the more complex situations. The submitter is right about that part of it, at least.
[19:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03present_arms [4392] (Score:2) 02Re:Mandriva Died A Long Time Ago - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:53] <exec> 08└─Even Kbuntu is having issues http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk [omgubuntu.co.uk]
[19:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's for the kids - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:04] <exec> 08└─To be fair, adults are just big kids.
[19:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why people are freaked out about drones - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:08] <exec> 08└─About as intrusive as looking at your neighborhood on google maps.
[19:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why people are freaked out about drones - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:09] <exec> 08└─So for you it is okay to "spy" as long as the data is very old? Would it be acceptable if his drone recorded the neighborhood and then he waited a few years to look at the video? Also, in my experience google maps are no more than 3 years old. That number is only going to get smaller too! Phoenix666...
[19:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:CSRF?!?!?!? - 06Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:43] <exec> 08└─If you're expecting Joe Sixpack to learn to use a serial console, exhale slowly and sit down, because I've got some bad news for you. Damn rights a router is running a web server. Web pages allow for both simple and complex presentations of the router's interface, and they allow an intervening autho...
[19:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:19] <exec> 08└─Amen! My nick is a testament to my love of food and drink. My partner and I have managed to save a bit of money in the last few years, and we're thinking of upgrading to a nicer flat - one of the priorities is that it has a larger and better-equipped kitchen. (Unfortunately, there seems to be a view...
[19:41:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 1179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:21] <exec> 08└─"The time wasted by eating is ..." I don't think I would, could or even want to trade real cooking and food for a protein shake. Liquid meals are for people without teeth and/or taste buds. I think I spend, on average, about an hour a day making and eating my food. It's totally worth it for me at le...
[19:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:28] <exec> 08└─JeanCroix.... JC.... we are on you Mr. Denton!
[19:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03demonlapin [925] (Score:2) 02Re:Reminds me of a school I went to in MIssissippi - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:14] <exec> 08└─What city?
[19:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:new install instead of upgrade - 06Linux Mint Debian Edition: Upgrade Path Now Exists to LMDE 2 (Betsy) - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:51] <exec> 08└─I recommend wiping your windows after installation, otherwise you'll be left with a lot of fingerprints and other nasty smudges on them.
[19:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:10%? - 06Greaseless Ball Bearings Developed - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:13] <exec> 08└─I wondered about that... IANAE, but seems to me that vertical, there's probably more stress from bearings being pushed uphill, so to speak.
[19:43:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Everything is bigger in Tesax, right? - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 424 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:46] <exec> 08└─The REAL problem with the rain is, the ground is so dry, the water runs off instead of soaking in. Especially clay areas. The clay is just baked, and nonporous. If the rain had just fallen over a six week period, the clay would have slowly soaked it up, and much of that water would have been saved i...
[19:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03panachocala [464] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Well... - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:03] <exec> 08└─Gov Perry needs to call off the prayer warriors asap.
[19:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Earthen Dams - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:08] <exec> 08└─http://rt.com/usa/262429-texas-dam-breach-floods/ [rt.com] I was watching news about the above dam early this morning. They were saying that the dam may give way in an hour or two at about 6AM. It still hasn't quite given way as far as I know. I'm used to a few Strong / Severe Thunderstorms, but we...
[19:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Publish or perish? - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:08] <exec> 08└─The scientists would come over for dinner and entertain the guests.
[19:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My years at university shocked me - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:39] <exec> 08└─Much of what we call knowledge today is just guesses made by people without any further proof.
[19:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:1) 02Re:Huge FOSS fan, but... - 06Spanish University Dumps Windows for Ubuntu: 63% Fewer Problems - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:02] <exec> 08└─That was what passes for humour where I come from.
[19:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Time for intrusion? - 06'Home-Brewed Morphine' Made Possible - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:04] <exec> 08└─References? From what I remember, they were extracting insuline from pigs. At least when I last checked.
[19:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:So much wrongness here... where to start? - 06Senior Muslim UK Policeman Warns that Radicalisation is Starting at an Early Age - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:51] <exec> 08└─I am also an aphilatelist.
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[20:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Going Commando - 06UK.gov Still Running XP--but Without Support Agreement - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:33] <exec> 08└─Microsoft paid support is just about useless anyway. Just get rid of any mail and web browsing on the machines and tighten up network filtration and they should run for a long time. They will never be secure, but if they had been relying on Microsoft to provide security they were doing it wrong anyw...
[20:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Going Commando - 06UK.gov Still Running XP--but Without Support Agreement - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:35] <exec> 08└─Its true. We have some laptops still running XP, but these never touch a network directly. While I suppose the USB memsticks are a risk, the laptops aren't do much that is important anyway.
[20:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What will look on their faces be? - 06UK.gov Still Running XP--but Without Support Agreement - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:36] <exec> 08└─when they reach the part where they realize it's not only costing them more, but the migration has made things worse. Best they cut their losses and fall back like the good soldiers they are.
[20:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:We've changed out name to Exxon! - 06Russian Space Agency Abolished and Replaced Following Financial Violations - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I found it interesting that the disbanded the old organization and named the new one exactly the same. You wonder how much of this is to get rid of a few corrupt management types and how much is to stiff any creditors. This would be the equivalent of the Congress shutting down NASA in the face...
[20:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:SYSTEM D CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:03] <exec> 08└─I'm really excited about systemd, everyone's talking about it! I hope I get the upgrade soon!
[20:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SYSTEM D CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:04] <exec> 08└─You best learn a little bit about what systemd is and what it is doing to the linux landscape. Even if you don't use linux, the moral of the story is important to know for how this behavior is infecting everything we do here.
[20:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mandriva Died A Long Time Ago - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:09] <exec> 08└─Kubuntu is set to use system D in its next release. Grab your ankles, KDE people!
[20:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why people are freaked out about drones - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:26] <exec> 08└─i doubt it was by someone less than a mile away (unless this is really urban). It was probably stolen by a parent who does pickup/dropoff by car.
[20:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why people are freaked out about drones - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:27] <exec> 08└─They're self-watering planter troughs that are quite uncommon around here. Lowes and Home Depot don't carry them, and even most professional nurseries don't carry them--you have to order them through specialty gardening sites online. They're also designed to be outside, not inside; so it stands to r...
[20:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Actual answer? - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:39] <exec> 08└─For example, I have a friend who is a cattle rancher, and his mission profile would be nearly identical -- if there were actual answers, this thread would be helpful to him.
[20:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actual answer? - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:40] <exec> 08└─> his mission profile Where's the beef?
[20:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Does it shrink the testes? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:18] <exec> 08└─Anabolic-androgenic steroids are hormones.
[20:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:39] <exec> 08└─That isn't begging the question. Begging the question would be, for example, he drinks it for health reasons because it is so healthy. Or he drinks it as a time saving device because it saves him time.
[20:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Eating is a waste of time? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:59] <exec> 08└─I don't know... a few quick shakes and an extra 45 minutes of sex sounds like a pretty appealing alternative...
[20:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:group tutoring? - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:17] <exec> 08└─Or maybe he is just projecting all his perceived faults and failures upon his primary school upbringing. "You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, public school." Besides, the UK syst...
[20:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Those crazy Europeans - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:33] <exec> 08└─everything is eventually paid for by taxes What a novel perspective. I guess that makes me a crazy socialist. Any moment now, someone will try to declare the so-that-everyone-has-enough meme a pejorative and say "Greed is good. It works". you will also adopt the Euro within 2 years You must have mis...
[20:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Not quite that easy - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 2275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:34] <exec> 08└─Teacher pay is actually not bad in most places (since most of SN is in the US, this is true in most States [teacherportal.com]), compared to other professions with similar demands. Whatever teachers say, in most places they do get a lot of time off, and during the school year they don't work more ov...
[20:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Re:Reminds me of a school I went to in MIssissippi - 06Elon Musk Creates Ad Astra, An Exclusive, Private School - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:41] <exec> 08└─Moot point, since the courts decided the program was illegal.
[20:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Same problems same solutions - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:57] <exec> 08└─I call that the "You just committed the no-no true scotsman fallacy" fallacy.
[20:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My years at university shocked me - 06Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:06] <exec> 08└─I saw a study a few years ago where the researcher asked all these college kids how long rapists should be put in prison. Then, the researcher showed some of them some porn videos. Finally, they were asked again how long rapists should be put in prison. For the people who watched porn videos, the pr...
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[21:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02At least they're not running System D - 06UK.gov Still Running XP--but Without Support Agreement - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:38] <exec> 08└─Now that it's popular in the EU for governments and municipalities to switch to Linux, everyone says "Oh wow this is great! Linux!" Yeah, yeah. But guess what--it's all system-D encumbered crapware. I'd rather run unlicensed copies of XP, which seems positively elegant in comparison.
[21:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:At least they're not running System D - 06UK.gov Still Running XP--but Without Support Agreement - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:39] <exec> 08└─As much as I absolutely disagree with the architecture of systemd, it's still miles ahead of XP.
[21:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:At least they're not running System D - 06UK.gov Still Running XP--but Without Support Agreement - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:40] <exec> 08└─And there's the fact that there's a process called "System" that is required on windows, that functions a lot like systemd. The exact division of labor is different, but it's still fundamentally the same thing.
[21:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02To steal an old Microsoft trademarked slogan.... - 06UK.gov Still Running XP--but Without Support Agreement - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:42] <exec> 08└─... the UK government is now asking the hackers, the script kiddies, the Russian mafia, the North Koreans, the Chinese, and the NSA to ask themselves, "Where do you want to go today?" I'm loving it! You'd think they'd at least have the sense to move away from XP to something like Linux which will ru...
[21:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To steal an old Microsoft trademarked slogan... - 06UK.gov Still Running XP--but Without Support Agreement - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:44] <exec> 08└─No, they're much cleverer than that, they're telling everyone that they're staying with XP but they are really migrating to OS/2 Warp.
[21:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03present_arms [4392] (Score:2) 02Re:To steal an old Microsoft trademarked slogan... - 06UK.gov Still Running XP--but Without Support Agreement - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:45] <exec> 08└─Even warp would be an upgrade
[21:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:To steal an old Microsoft trademarked slogan... - 06UK.gov Still Running XP--but Without Support Agreement - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:47] <exec> 08└─Nah... let them migrate to DOS. At least it's secure! And Windows 3.1 wasn't all *that* bad... except when it was.
[21:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:All corruption must be Putin approved - 06Russian Space Agency Abolished and Replaced Following Financial Violations - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:57] <exec> 08└─This is but one move, I think the next related ones will put space stuff in the hand of the armed forces. At least, this is what I'd do if I were the czar.
[21:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:All corruption must be Putin approved - 06Russian Space Agency Abolished and Replaced Following Financial Violations - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:00] <exec> 08└─built on the withdrawal of foreign mercenaries
[21:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Claims to dislike RH-ish distros - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:10] <exec> 08└─never went back to anything Red Hat(ish) Remind us again what packaging method *SuSE uses. ;-) -- gewg_
[21:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Re:My first distro was Mandrake - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:11] <exec> 08└─These was a reason we called it "RootHat" back then! And SuSE (like Mandrake) was more than a little "Red Hat(ish)". They're different now, but RH has diverged from SuSE as much as the other way around.
[21:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:SYSTEM D CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:18] <exec> 08└─Wait a minute, systemd is supposed to make businesses flourish on linux support, when all you needed before was to RTFM. An unneeded intermediary between kernel and userland bloating up with new functions, arbitrary defaults and a tendency not to care when breaking stuff cries PAID SUPPORT as nothin...
[21:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02After the Mandrake buyout... - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:21] <exec> 08└─I don't follow RH-based stuff too closely, so correct me if my memory is off. After the corporation bought up Mandrake, they diverted a not-insignificant portion of the earnings to "educational" pursuits--and away from the core business. The Linux efforts and the brand suffered because of that. ...a...
[21:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03present_arms [4392] (Score:2) 02Re:Mandriva Died A Long Time Ago - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:26] <exec> 08└─Kde has already said it will depend on systemd in around six months, this was back in March I believe so they have already grabbed their ankles...
[21:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why people are freaked out about drones - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:42] <exec> 08└─It's very interesting to see the responses to this idea and the visceral reaction it has provoked. What I'm talking about is a slightly different take on the age-old, time-honored practice of me walking past your house and seeing my stolen property sitting in your yard, calling the cops, and having...
[21:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why people are freaked out about drones - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:43] <exec> 08└─OK, so what happens when he's scanning from altitude and sees some planting boxes in someone's backyard or on someone's balcony? You don't think he's going to go in for a closer look? Or maybe he'll just report to the cops every house that has similar looking planting boxes? Perhaps he should just g...
[21:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Use GPS trackers - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:47] <exec> 08└─That occurred to me, but it seemed battery life would be a significant limiting factor, and solar panels sticking out of a planter box to power them would be, it seems, a dead giveaway to the GPS/RFID tracker. On the other hand, if there were something whose battery could last a week or two with the...
[21:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Everyone is chastising you - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:53] <exec> 08└─I did look at the Bebop, so I'm glad you put the actual flying time at 12 minutes rather than what the sales sheet said. Do you have a sense for how far out the Bebop could practically go in that time? I'm a complete noob when it comes to drones, which is why I submitted this project to SN. I have s...
[21:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Everyone is chastising you - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:56] <exec> 08└─You don't need a search warrant if you can see your stolen property sitting on someone's property. If a guy two blocks down steals your car, and you see it sitting in his driveway, do you not get to call the cops because it's sitting on his property? No, of course not. The proposition is absurd. If...
[21:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Possible solutions - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:59] <exec> 08└─> First, don't have those boxes outside. Hello? Did you read the post? They are planter boxes. They have plants in them. There only purpose is to be outside.
[21:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does it shrink the testes? - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:42] <exec> 08└─Autism for the lose.
[21:42:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] 02Re:Real food - 06In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:01] <exec> 08└─> they miss out on the creativity and artistic aspect of it. says the guy whose sig line is > Feed America - vote Donner Party 2016! I'll pass on the dinner invitation, thanks.
[21:44:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] 02El Nino - 06Texas, Oklahoma: Drought Interrupted by All-Time Record Rainfall, Floods - 211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:38] <exec> 08└─Governments started to declare El Nino over a month ago. Projection is the central plains are going to be fully replenished by the end of this and the US/Canada west coast is hosed (along with Australia). Cheers
[21:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Relevant TED Talk - 06Stabilization of Human Population - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:58] <exec> 08└─I think I made it fairly obvious in the post you replied to that my policy positions include the following: 1 - increase the focus on the empowerment of women 2 - increase the focus on the availability of contraception 3 - promote small families as a virtue 4 - reduce child subsidies
[21:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Time for intrusion? - 06'Home-Brewed Morphine' Made Possible - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:56] <exec> 08└─http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin#Synthesis_2 [wikipedia.org] The first genetically engineered, synthetic "human" insulin was produced using E. coli in 1978 by Arthur Riggs and Keiichi Itakura at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope in collaboration with Herbert Boyer at Genentech.
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