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Comment Fact check this (Score 1) 407

by Kungpaoshizi (#61726645) Attached to: Pfizer, BioNTech Vaccine Gets Full Approval From US Regulators
So I've been on both sides of this debate personally, but here's the statistics I know. Of the people I know, family and friends: 1 has come down with covid 3 have had ER visits because of the "vaccine" (it's not a vax it's genetic manipulation) 1 myocarditis-pfizer, 1 stroke as she walked out of the hopsital-jnj, and 1 was submitted 2 nights ago for a massive bloot clot in the stomach and multiple others all over the body The bro-in-law that actually got covid was super sick for a week, no reports of long-term issues

Submission + - Biden Stops Trump Order To Slash Price Of Insulin, EpiPen. (bloomberglaw.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Biden enters the presidency with at least a dozen lawsuits waiting over Trump-era moves to lower drug prices, an issue the new administration will likely tackle in its own way. The Department of Health and Human Services under Biden inherits challenges to rules that tie drug reimbursement to cheaper foreign drug prices and allow medication imports from Canada. It also faces complaints over Trump’s push for drugmakers to ship discounted drugs bought by low-income health centers to commercial contract pharmacies.

Submission + - Biden Rescinds Trump Order Banning Chinese Involvement In US Power Grid (thenationalpulse.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: President Biden has revoked a Trump-era executive order that sought to keep foreign countries and companies out of America’s bulk power systems – principally entities associated with the Chinese Communist Party – as part of his “Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.”

The move “prohibited any acquisition, importation, transfer, or installation of BPS electric equipment by any person or with respect to any property to which a foreign country or a national thereof has any interest, that poses an undue risk to the BPS, the security or resiliency of U.S. critical infrastructure or the U.S. economy, or U.S. national security or the security and safety of U.S. persons.”

Submission + - Intelligence Analysts Use US Smartphone Location Data Without Warrants, Memo Say (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A military arm of the intelligence community buys commercially available databases containing location data from smartphone apps and searches it for Americans’ past movements without a warrant, according to an unclassified memo obtained by The New York Times. Defense Intelligence Agency analysts have searched for the movements of Americans within a commercial database in five investigations over the past two and a half years, agency officials disclosed in a memo they wrote for Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon.

The disclosure sheds light on an emerging loophole in privacy law during the digital age: In a landmark 2018 ruling known as the Carpenter decision, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution requires the government to obtain a warrant to compel phone companies to turn over location data about their customers. But the government can instead buy similar data from a broker — and does not believe it needs a warrant to do so. “D.I.A. does not construe the Carpenter decision to require a judicial warrant endorsing purchase or use of commercially available data for intelligence purposes,” the agency memo said.

Mr. Wyden has made clear that he intends to propose legislation to add safeguards for Americans’ privacy in connection with commercially available location data. In a Senate speech this week, he denounced circumstances “in which the government, instead of getting an order, just goes out and purchases the private records of Americans from these sleazy and unregulated commercial data brokers who are simply above the law.” He called the practice unacceptable and an intrusion on constitutional privacy rights. “The Fourth Amendment is not for sale,” he said.

Submission + - Mira Furlan dies at 65 (bbc.com)

Submitted by The Grim Reefer
The Grim Reefer writes: Babylon 5 and Lost actress Mira Furlan has died at the age of 65, her family and management have confirmed.Furlan played Minbari Ambassador Delenn in the 1990s sci-fi TV drama, Babylon 5, and Danielle Rousseau in the noughties mystery drama, Lost.

Her family told the BBC the Croatian actress died on Wednesday due to complications with West Nile Virus."It is with great sadness that I confirm the passing of Mira Furlan" the statement read."She was a woman full of kindness, strength and compassion." It continued: "She died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles, surrounded by her family.

"We will all continue to celebrate her life and legacy, and know she'll always be here with us."

Submission + - United States is the First Country to Declare China's Uighur Treatment Genocide (newsweek.com) 4

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: “Reports indicate that the Chinese government is sponsoring forced labor camps for its Uyghur people in support of nearly 100 global brands, including Nike, Apple, Samsung, Volkswagen, and Huawei. This is absolutely horrifying. Protecting human rights is far more important than protecting profit. The world—including business leaders—cannot turn a blind eye toward the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of Uyghurs.”

Submission + - Fox News lied, A man died. Paid millions and Hid it from voters till Nov 3 (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by 140Mandak262Jamuna
140Mandak262Jamuna writes: New York Times is reporting that Fox News, admitted liability for the lies spread by its anchors. It resulted in the murder of an innocent man.

On Oct. 12, 2020, Fox News agreed to pay millions of dollars to the family of a murdered Democratic National Committee staff member, implicitly acknowledging what saner minds knew long ago: that the network had repeatedly hyped a false claim that the young staff member, Seth Rich, was involved in leaking D.N.C. emails during the 2016 presidential campaign. (Russian intelligence officers, in fact, had hacked and leaked the emails.)

Fox paid so much to avoid Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity to be questioned under oath. And it had a gag provision to keep this news from disclosed until after the election.

Why did Fox care about keeping the Rich settlement secret for the final month of the Trump re-election campaign? Why was it important to the company, which calls itself a news organization, that one of the biggest lies of the Trump era remain unresolved for that period? Was Fox afraid that admitting it was wrong would incite the president’s wrath? Did network executives fear backlash from their increasingly radicalized audience, which has been gravitating to other conservative outlets?

Not mentioned in this article, just my personal opinion: It is also interesting as soon as Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox, all the claims about hacked machines being part of the election fraud stopped. All the division and hatred and anger in America seems to be created and fanned by Fox News. Till we hold Fox News accountable for the lies it is propagating, there will not be peace in this country. Fox has first amendment right to say anything it wants. But First Amendment is the Freedom of Speech, not Freedom from Consequences of blatant, continuous, vicious, self serving lies.

Submission + - Key Lessons from the SolarWinds Cyber Attack and How to Be Prepared (wickr.com)

Submitted by TeamWickr
TeamWickr writes: When the news broke about the SolarWinds cyber attack, it was clear that this was a breach unlike any we have seen before. From the method of the attack to its sheer scope, this hack has not only affected many in the private sector, but also several government agencies. To highlight the magnitude of this breach, here are some key data points:

SolarWinds has 300,000 customers, with fewer than 18,000 having installed the products that contained the vulnerability.
The vulnerability was slipped into a SolarWinds update that was released in March of 2020, 9 months before the breach was discovered.
Victims of this cyber attack include 425 of the Fortune 500 companies, 10 of the top U.S. telecommunications companies, the top five U.S. accounting firms, hundreds of colleges and universities, and several federal agencies.
CISA issued an emergency directive ordering all federal agencies to immediately disconnect any devices with the affected SolarWinds Orion product from their networks.
It was FireEye who initially detected the breach, and described the hackers as a highly sophisticated state-sponsored adversary. In a recent joint statement from the FBI, CISA, ODNI, and the NSA, it was announced that the hackers were “likely Russian in origin,” confirming earlier suspicions that it was carried out by a state-sponsored hacker group called APT29 or Cozy Bear.

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Submission + - Suspicious Twitter Ban - As Sci-Hub Case Takes off in India, Twitter bans it :( (thewire.in)

Submitted by ami.one
ami.one writes: The Wire reports on suspicious banning activity by twitter where it banned Sci-Hub just a day after a court made some comments favourable to Sci-Hub in an ongoing case. ( https://science.thewire.in/the... )

Publishers Elsevier Pvt. Ltd., Wiley India Pvt. Ltd. and the American Chemical Society sued Sci-Hub in India last year.

During the ongoing hearings, Delhi high court deemed the matter important with respect to public good, and admitted a plea from some Science Forums / Societies and 20 scientists, researchers & scholars.

Next day Twitter permanently suspended Sci-Hub’s account. Since the matter was sub judice in India, the timing is highly questionable

Sci-Hub creator Alexandra Elbakyan is quoted by The Wire: “It was very obvious from Twitter that nobody supports the block and everyone is against the publishers. On Twitter, people voted in favour of Sci-Hub, but now these votes cannot be seen since Twitter banned the account.”

Maybe it's time for twitter & its investors to start making losses again till they get the point that people's attention & eye balls come with a clear condition of the platform not being censored, that too privately and without any due process. For that we already have Weibo & VK...

Meanwhile, Sci-Hub created a censorship-resistant Handshake gateway available at sci-hub.hns https://twitter.com/NamebaseHQ...

Interestingly, Twitter seems to have now banned HNS, NextDNS, Namebase etc too !

Submission + - How Will Parler Shutdown Affect Corporate Cloud Customers' SEC Filings? 2

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Involuntary service cessation has always been a staple of the Risk Factors sections of corporate Cloud customers' SEC filings. "We host our platform using AWS data centers," explains Okta in its latest 10-Q filing. Prior to tech's shutdown of Parler, it's been suggested that such risks are largely theoretical. "We do not believe that Amazon will use the AWS operation in such a manner as to gain competitive advantage against our service," states Netflix in its last 10-K filing, "although if it was to do so it could harm our business."

Complying with the letter of the AWS Customer Agreement is certainly a tall order, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told lawmakers that content moderation is "something that feels impossible", a sentiment echoed by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. But AWS informs customers: "You are responsible for End Users’ use of Your Content and the Service Offerings. You will ensure that all End Users comply with your obligations under this Agreement and that the terms of your agreement with each End User are consistent with this Agreement." The AWS Acceptable Use Policy also spells out a list of prohibited activities or content, enforcement of which some might argue is still aspirational for Amazon itself.

So, what will Cloud service risk disclosures look like in post-Parler-shutdown SEC filings?

Comment Re: No way Jose (Score 1) 190

I read the first couple lines... Viruses are not rna based. They do many things, with or without respect to your dna. And no I don't have a problem with pharma companies, but I do have a problem with people who have taken the stance of 'if you're not ok with what the doctors are saying you're scared or something'. The vaccine was created 2 days after the genome was released. They had very, very, very limited trials. I'm going to let others find out what the side-effects are. Meanwhile, I'm very much ok with never going anywhere, I'm an introvert and this is practically what my life was before. Just because people don't understand what it is to be ok with yourself to the point where you can withstand extended isolation.... Not everyone is the same though. But the ignorance comes out when someone who doesn't speak up, finally does. Now what were you saying about knowledge? ;)

Comment Re: No way Jose (Score 1) 190

People like me? I never even mentioned that I wear a mask and gloves if I go out, do you? I also never mentioned I've gone only to a gas station, 5 times since Feb 2020. I'm going to let people like you, who have no idea what the long-term effects are because they were never tested, figure it out.

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