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Here's a NOT SAFE FOR WORK url.

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People sometimes make mistakes. If those people create and distribute consumer level routers those mistakes can be severe.

(http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/)


Tor is 'Tor' and not 'TOR'.

(https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#WhyCalledTor)

> In fact, we can usually spot people who haven't read any of our website (and have instead learned everything they know about Tor from news articles) by the fact that they spell it wrong.

Accuracy is important when you're complaining about the failures of other people.


It's pretty old and should have been on Linux a long time ago. Or is this just a flashback memory and inspiration about the availability not being just Win?

(ftp://ftp.connect.org.uk/hpux/X11/Demos/xneko-2.00/xneko-2.00.man.html)


All I see (latest Chrome on Vista) is a man page on an Ubuntu website for the oneko software.

Should there be anything else?


That was amazing.

On a side note, and not complaining about this at all, how much did it cost to get that water to the space station? I guess that bag had maybe 300 ml?


I remember reading that water is generated as a byproduct of the hydrogen fuel cells on board. And then the water vapour is also recycled and repurified back into the system. So it's a closed water system powered by solar energy inputs.

Of course, the machinery necessary for this loop costs x billions, but the particular molecules of water used in this experiment probably came out of the internal water cycle and didn't cost to get the water there in the first place.


http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/as...

So there is still some loss of water even with the recycling


Tissues can be hanged somewhere on a clip, water evaporates, is picked up by dehumidifiers of the spaceship, goes back to the water system and purified back into drinking water.


I guess they meant getting the drinking water to the space station in the first place. Water doesn't really compress well (unlike the hockey puck rag) and also weighs quite a bit so sending it up should be pretty costly.


very roughly, water is $50 million per tonne on the ATV, so (even more approx) $30,000 for the water used in the video.


Hydrogen and Oxygen compress though, and are combined into water in the station's fuel cells.


You still need to carry the same mass of hydrogen and oxygen than the resulting mass of water, though.


Mass, yes, but saving volume is also beneficial.


It's safe to assume that there is water on premises for other reasons.


Yes.

There is a serious problem with HN when stories like this get so many up-votes. This story is against the site guidelines. There isn't anything deeply interesting in the comments.


Be careful. Many articles submitted to HN are just fucking awful articles, and we actually want contrarian viewpoints to counter the bollocks pumped out.

Banning Techcrunch, ExtremeTech (such a terrible website full of dreadful garbage), MotherJones and so many other shitty websites would do more to help HN than any karma modifications.


Pesticide is a leading cause of suicide.

(http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2006/np24/en/index...)

Farming is, in some countries, a high risk occupation for suicide.

(http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/csr/resfarmers.html)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers_suicides_in_India)

I agree that the hyperbole of the article is weird.


»Pesticide is a leading cause of suicide

Pesticides are a leading suicide method, not cause. Come on, it's the title of the article you linked to.


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