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dammit both of you it's http://soylentnews.org

At the time of writing http://pipedot.org/ has 58 comments in the first 10 stories.
http://squte.com/ has 69
http://soylentnews.org/ has 247
slashdot has 1043

The final name is – Soylent News!
http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/05/31/1616210

As covered on soylent last weekend:
http://soylentnews.org/article...

I’ll be you my iCloud password, it’s a re-wrap of this:

http://soylentnews.org/article...

If you can MitM a “consenting” user to unbrick a stolen phone, I can’t see any reason it doesn’t work the other way around.

There are other alternatives to slashdot: http://squte.com/ http://pipedot.org/ and http://soylentnews.org/

Understand what makes the system work (how it functions and why that is effective), and copy that.

From what I see scientists don't even understand how single celled creatures think. And yes single celled creatures do think/"think": http://soylentnews.org/comment...
Note these single celled creatures are building shells for themselves. Each species has a distinctive shell style! And as per the link some don't reproduce until they have gathered enough shell material for the daughter cell (when they split both cells split the shell material and build their own shells). How the heck to do they figure that out?

Plenty of people beg the question by saying: single celled creatures can't and don't think because they have no brains. What makes them so sure? If thinking requires brains then does that mean computers will never think?

You can see numerous multicellular creatures with brains that don't really seem significantly more intelligent than those single celled creatures.

So I suspect that the main problem most animal brains solve is not thinking, but controlling and using a multicellular body (interfacing with muscles and sensory systems). The problem of thinking was already solved. At least that "base level thinking". How clever does a worm or slug or single celled creature need to be anyway?

I'm not even sure that scientists have solved that "base level thinking" problem yet.

http://soylentnews.org/

If you're had enough of this sort of crap, why not hop over to Soylent News? It's like Slashdot used to be.

(They're voting on a less sucky name, but the site itself is sound).

A big chunk of us are hanging out over at SoylentNews.

http://soylentnews.org/comment...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
http://www.damninteresting.com...
"Furthermore, both radiotherapy and chemotherapy have an immune-suppressing side-effect. Since both treatments kill the rapidly dividing cells of the immune system along with the rapidly dividing cancer cells, both can be used together if care is taken. But immune-stimulating Coley's Toxins work entirely differently, and their effect would be cancelled out if used at the same time as high-dose immunosuppressant chemo- or radiotherapy. It became an either/or situation-- and in the end, the fashionable new treatments won out over Coleyâ(TM)s fiddly reworking of an ancient 'natural' remedy. "

Some other suggestions by me here (primarily nutritional, but also on fasting helping with chemotherapy):
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

More on mushrooms and preventing cancer as also mentioned:
http://articles.mercola.com/si...

It is hard to know who to trust in the cancer industry to find, as you suggest, the best individualized treatment. It's certainly true that people selling alternative products and books (including Furhman, mentioned in my other post) have a conflict of interest. In general, the entire field of oncology is also sadly full of conflict of interest because oncologists make so much money by doing treatments.
https://www.burtongoldberg.com...
"Here is a shocking fact you most likely did not know: Unlike other kinds of doctors, cancer doctors (oncologists) are allowed to profit from the sale of chemotherapy drugs. In fact, most of the annual income oncologists earn comes from the profit that they make from selling these highly toxic drugs to their patients."

And:
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/20...
"And that is where oncologic decision making gets really messy. Because in the United States, at least, many oncologists make a good deal of their income selling drugs to their patients. ... Many oncologists vehemently deny being influenced by this financial conflict of interest. But such denials defy both logic and data. Oncologists would have to be superhuman not to be influenced, at least unconsciously, by such strong incentives. After all, there is often no single "best" way to treat any given tumor, and there's often good reason to believe that expensive new therapies might be better than older, cheaper treatments. In the face of such uncertainty, how could oncologists avoid being influenced by the knowledge that those promising expensive new treatments also help generate so much income?"

Integrative alternatives:
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/PA...

Regardless of the future, I wish you the best in making the most of each day like this celebrity with cancer:
http://www.reuters.com/article...
http://www.people.com/people/a...
"Resolved to face her last days with courage and humor, "I don't think of dying," says the actress, 73, who previously battled lung cancer in 2009. "I think of being here now.""

Good luck!

Apps Like "Whisper" and "Secret" Will Rat You Out

also made it to FP at:

SN: http://soylentnews.org/article...
PD: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-...

C'mon, posts about freakin VHS tapes on the FP at least twice in the same day but this news is ignored?

No it's not.
http://soylentnews.org/article...

We are hanging out over at http://soylentnews.org/ Please feel welcome to join.

If this actually happened, you would have rules like this:

"You can't write X without including Y DRM because otherwise OMG PIRACY!!111!!!"

Fix the morons who would write that into the code of ethics. Then, maybe we'll talk.

"It's been 3 minutes since you last sucessfully posted a comment."

Yes, it has, and I have "Excellent" karma and have been a member for so many years I can't remember, and I currently have mod points. Maybe give me the benefit of the doubt?

Just for that:
http://soylentnews.org/

FUCK BETA

A growing portion of the intelligent users left for a fork after Dice started to push the disastrous beta on everyone.

Well, 10 stories on front page, averaging 15 comments per story... growing slowly!

A growing portion of the intelligent users left for a fork after Dice started to push the disastrous beta on everyone.

its all ready is open sourced and that is what the soylent news guys did but the community didn't fallow.

Yes, SlashCode is open source, but the latest public release is 5 years old and not at all what's running on slashdot now.

It would be very nice, if Dice would release a newer version of the code, not only for SoylentNews, but also for the Japanese slashdot.jp and the Spanish barrapunto.com, both of them are still using the old version.

Just go to a new and better site: http://soylentnews.org/

What's the point if suspend resume doesn't work at all?

Besides, this is old news. Our new and better site beat slashdot: https://soylentnews.org/articl...

Well, if you'd bothered to read TFA, you would have known that there was a merge last night that specifically benefits the resume process. While it may or may not help you specifically, it is definitely NOT old news. BTW, your "new and better site" makes no mention of this at the time of this writing.

What's the point if suspend resume doesn't work at all?

Here's my SLEEP script, in which I am testing various kernels:

#!/bin/bash

logger "========== touch forcefsck ==========="
# if resume failed, then I want fsck (SSD disks, so it's just few seconds)
touch /forcefsck
/bin/sync
sleep 1

logger "hibernating"
# https://help.ubuntu.com/commun...
# it says there to try hibernating using various different methods

### method: 1 kernel 3,13,0 - fail, (2/6 success rate)
#/usr/sbin/hibernate

### method: 2 kernel 3,13,0 - fail, (3/6 success rate)
#/usr/sbin/s2disk

### method: 3 kernel 3.13.0 - fail, (2/6 success rate)
#echo platform > /sys/power/disk
#echo disk > /sys/power/state

### method: 4 kernel 3.13.0 - (3/6 success rate)
### kernel 3.2.0 - 80% sukcesów 20% fail (over 80/100 success rate - currently in use)
### kernel 3.12-bpo - (0/1) success rate)
echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk
echo disk > /sys/power/state

sleep 5
logger "restart network"
## something screws networking after resume
/etc/init.d/networking restart
sleep 2

## also UPS connection is screwed (sometimes I need to disconnect and reconnect the USB cable)
sleep 5
/etc/init.d/nut-client stop
sleep 5
/etc/init.d/nut-server stop
sleep 5
/etc/init.d/nut-server start
sleep 5
/etc/init.d/nut-client start
sleep 5
# don't mess with clock /etc/init.d/ntp restart
logger "resume complete"

Besides, this is old news. Our new and better site beat slashdot: https://soylentnews.org/articl... . The only working kernel was 2.6.29 with tuxonice

What's the point if suspend resume doesn't work at all?

Here's my SLEEP script, in which I am testing various kernels:

#!/bin/bash

logger "========== touch forcefsck ==========="
# if resume failed, then I want fsck (SSD disks, so it's just few seconds)
touch /forcefsck
/bin/sync
sleep 1

logger "hibernating"
# https://help.ubuntu.com/commun...
# it says there to try hibernating using various different methods

### method: 1 kernel 3,13,0 - fail, (2/6 success rate)
#/usr/sbin/hibernate

### method: 2 kernel 3,13,0 - fail, (3/6 success rate)
#/usr/sbin/s2disk

### method: 3 kernel 3.13.0 - fail, (2/6 success rate)
#echo platform > /sys/power/disk
#echo disk > /sys/power/state

### method: 4 kernel 3.13.0 - (3/6 success rate)
### kernel 3.2.0 - 80% sukcesów 20% fail (over 80/100 success rate - currently in use)
### kernel 3.12-bpo - (0/1) success rate)
echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk
echo disk > /sys/power/state

sleep 5
logger "restart network"
## something screws networking after resume
/etc/init.d/networking restart
sleep 2

## also UPS connection is screwed (sometimes I need to disconnect and reconnect the USB cable)
sleep 5
/etc/init.d/nut-client stop
sleep 5
/etc/init.d/nut-server stop
sleep 5
/etc/init.d/nut-server start
sleep 5
/etc/init.d/nut-client start
sleep 5
# don't mess with clock /etc/init.d/ntp restart
logger "resume complete"

Besides, this is old news. Our new and better site beat slashdot: https://soylentnews.org/articl... . The only working kernel was 2.6.29 with tuxonice

Slashdot spin-offs for beta-haters:
http://pipedot.org/
http://soylentnews.org/

Try: http://slashdot.org/?nobeta=1

Ah! And here we have one of the bogmeisters of the fever swamp now!

Don't be ridiculous, people post that nonsense out of hysteria or fringe thinking. It has nothing to do with me.

As for leaving, I wouldn't hold my breath, Mr. Soylent TheGratefulNet

Besides, if I left what would the fever swamp do for the two minute hate?

Nope.. we all moved to http://soylentnews.org/

Yes, only hardly anyone ever does it with projects as massive as the Linux Kernel.

Massive ... Kernel

Seems like a contradiction.

or heck, even the many half-assed and failed attempts at forking off Slashdot over the Beta issue.

http://soylentnews.org/ seems to be working just fine. Neither half-assed, nor failed. Fewer posters, for sure. But a far more friendly vibe than today's Slashdot.

I highly doubt it, even if it were because of Vitamin D, people on placebos, erm sorry, supplements wouldn't get the same effect.

There is no effect of Vitamin D, via supplement or via Direct Sunlight.
Vitamin D3 seems to decrease mortality (of all causes) by 11%.

But I agree that this present study seems to be confusing cause and effect. If you are outside early and running around in the sunshine chances are its not the light of morning that has the effect, its merely the fact that you are more active.

My you're both being rather selective in your studies. Vit D levels below the normal range have been linked to depression and several other issues in multiple studies. You'd have to be enforcing your tunnel vision pretty hard to miss that. While correlation doesn't imply causation, sometimes it turns out that the correlation is actually due to causation. The answer is in the other studies that treated people with low D levels with supplements and found rather quick improvement.

With that said, Vit D is fat soluable, it's not a smart thing to take a big dose of it daily if you're in the normal range. Also, D3 has been shown to have all the benefits, D2 largely has been shown to be less or non-effective.

Since all of this shows up on the first page of any Google or DDG search, I'll assume anyone who wants to believe otherwise that badly is willfully ignorant.

There is no effect of Vitamin D, via supplement or via Direct Sunlight.
Vitamin D3 seems to decrease mortality (of all causes) by 11%.

But I agree that this present study seems to be confusing cause and effect. If you are outside early and running around in the sunshine chances are its not the light of morning that has the effect, its merely the fact that you are more active.

Soylent News is probably a more realistic alternative to Slashdot than technocrat.net. One of the major problems with technocrat.net is that Bruce has already killed it a couple times in the past when he lost interest -- so why would people move there now?

Also, although Soylent News is using old Slashcode, it's still much more functional than the technocrat software.

Soylent News Website Launches Tor Hidden Service (.onion)

http://soylentnews.org/

Tor Hidden Service URL: http://7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion/

Now you can safely access Soylent News through a Tor Hidden Service! You must be using
Tor to access the .onion link.

Links are always nice. Since I'm linking to SN, I'll also shout out to Pipedot, S'qute and Technocrat.

I submitted this to solyentnews.org yesterday. soylentnews is a fork of /. after the beta fiasco. If you hate dice, check it out. No ads or trackers either. My ghostery seems to look lost whenever I go there. :)

See you at

http://soylentnews.org/

and

http://pipedot.org/

then

You can do what I just did:
1.) go to pref's, and assign a '-5' modifier to your foes, then mark those spam-post authors as 'foe' and reload page.

Or:

2.) join in the discussions at SoylentNews.
I have been spending more time there than on /. lately. The discussions are more like /. was before Dice took over, and it started as a direct result of /.Beta.

The the SN community is still small(but growing), and the SN team has been extremely responsive to community feedback, unlike here.
As a side effect(of the above statement), the community has a large influence in the shaping and direction that SN takes...again, not like here.

Just some suggestions....:-)

Why don't you fly on over to http://soylentnews.org/

Why are all of these advances geared toward warfare for some reason?

When 3-D Printers are making advances and hopefully never declining in capabilities, all around the net is "firearms! printing guns! oh no danger!" instead of, "Look what we as humanity can do for each other, look how many things the poor will have access to instead of being shoved into factories?"

Wouldn't you rather have read this:

"WHATEVER has a recent story that is more science fiction than fact about the potential for drugs that slow down human perception of time to enable ENJOYABLE ACTIVITIES FOR RECREATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF OURSELVES AS A SPECIES feel longer than the normal human lifespan.

Like all good science fiction, it isn't so much about the technology as it is about the questions it provokes. Like which would be more USEFUL helping someone to IMPROVE the rest of their Unnatural lifespan LEARNING AND ENJOYING R&R or only making them feel as if THEY HAD A LONGER TIME ON EARTH FOR IMPROVEMENT AND ENJOYMENT?"

It's always fucking negative.

GUNS! PRISON! SUFFER! OBEY!

BANG BANG! DON'T DROP THE SOAP! HA HA let's make light of situations which are harmful, welcome to another shitty broadcast watch us smile unless you have the VISION to see how really EVIL we fucking are!

RE: Same topic (for context)
@ http://soylentnews.org/article...

There may be hope: http://soylentnews.org/

I've no idea who's running this site, but an alternative Slashdot sounds intriguing and may go some way to addressing the increasing number of problems plaguing this site.

If SoylentNews wasn't so shit I'd be tempted to move over there.

I think the other sites have better stories on average, but there are better comments on /.

See also: http://soylentnews.org/

Hopefully the lack of any sensible editorial control on this site won't be duplicated on http://soylentnews.org/

There's always this:

http://soylentnews.org/

Perhaps it'll free us from the laughable beta, and non-news for nerd clickbait too?

http://hubic.com/

Solved.

--
My /. is now http://soylentnews.org/

cue the soylents...

Their website has been sold out already. Oops! Seems like the new boss wanted a quick profit.

http://soylentnews.org/article...

but I'd like to go on record as joining the beta sucks bandwagon

Instead of cursing the darkness, why not light a candle?

http://soylentnews.org/

Because every time I go to that site, I find it as frustrating to use as beta. Why do truncated comments have to load a new page?

Also I haven't been forced onto beta since I opted for /. classic the first time I encountered beta.

Soylent news will have to improve to get readership.

but I'd like to go on record as joining the beta sucks bandwagon

Instead of cursing the darkness, why not light a candle?

http://soylentnews.org/

There are a number of options, as well as http://soylentnews.org/ there is http://pipedot.org./ There are a lot of ex-slashdotter on the comp.misc newsgroup. http://squte.com/ (my own site) provides a slashdot-like interface to newsgroups.

From: http://wiki.soylentnews.org/wi...

NCommander (Michael Casadevall) - A straight white nerd who hates niggers, jews and fags.

I am sure the people at Canonical are going to be happy to hear that one of their employees is running a news aggregation site aimed with such a strong moral compass.

Slashdot interviews for Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, and now Theo, all in the last week?

What happened? Did someone at Dice push Slashdot management to try and "reclaim technical roots"? Is someone a little worried about http://soylentnews.org/? Or maybe this is part of a last-ditch effort to increase revenue^W^W reclaim reader loyalty?

Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.

source.

Perhaps not, but really, you guys are still trying way too hard now. I'd have thought you realized by now that successfully running a site like this is a marathon, not a sprint. Throwing up a few half-baked interviews with prominent open source figures isn't the answer.

Fine, taking a karma hit to provide one curious person an answer, then:

http://soylentnews.org/

Soylent News