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Submission + - SPAM: IDF commits triple war crime in Gaza

Submitted by darkonc
darkonc writes: 6 year old Hind was in a car with relatives trying to flee Northern Gaza when the car was attacked by the IDF killing everybody but HInd. She used a phone in the car to call for help and the Red Cross/Red Crescent was able to to contact the IDF to arrange safe passage for an ambulance to rescue the girl.
When the marked ambulance reached the girl's car, the IDF ambushed the ambulance — totally destroying it and killing the two paramedics who had come to rescue her.
Then they turned their guns on the little girl trapped in the car, as horrified rescue personnel, and her mother, listened to the gunfire and her death screams.
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Submission + - Has the US done less COVID-19 testing than Canada (pop. 30M)?

Submitted by darkonc
darkonc writes: A New York Times article details A critical lost month of US testing for COVID-19 testing, which blinded US authorities to the scale and details of the problem. The Trump administration has repeatedly promised to get testing up to speed — and it's certainly miles ahead of what happened in February, but the CDC as of March 31 claims 153K tests done. Meanwhile, Canada (about 1/10 the population of the US) is reporting 250K tests done as of April 1.

Submission + - What are historic examples of net neutrality enforcement on the net? (nymag.com)

Submitted by darkonc
darkonc writes: With internet providers and the FCC pushing the end of net neutrality, on the presumption that 'net neutrality is a recent democratic creation', I'm looking back to history. Are there people here who can point me to examples of 'The Net' (even informally) requiring that people coming onto the net respect net-neutrality type rules?

Submission + - Gene Spafford Spanks Prospective Obama Refuge.

Submitted by darkonc
darkonc writes: A (presumed) Republican posted a question on Quora.com asking:

Which Western democracy should an American conservative move to if they are afraid of Obama's policies and want to move somewhere more in line with Republican ideals?

The most popular answer to his question was from Gene Spafford (apparently a frequent contributor), who pretty much ripped the presumptions of the question apart. His final suggestions: Yemen and Afghanistan. Of course, you'd probably have to convert to Islam to take full advantage of the religious orientation of the governments there, bug beggars can't be choosers.

Submission + - Leggo store detains 11-year old boy for shopping alone

Submitted by darkonc
darkonc writes: An 11 year old goes into a Leggo store in Calgary, Alberta (Canada) with $200 in hard earned cash ... and doesn't come out. When his father comes to the store to meet him for lunch, he finds his son 'detained' by the store manager and a security guard — for shopping alone. Apparently, Leggo stores have a policy of apprehending young children who shop without their parents.

Submission + - Chris Hatfield ejected after finding Gravity science lightweight

Submitted by darkonc
darkonc writes: Chris Hatfield, the Canadian former commander of the International space station, who became a social media sensation for his transmissions from the space station, including a zero-G version of David Bowie's "A space oddity", is in the news again. He apparently went to see a 3D version of the box office hit "Gravity", and found the inacuracies in the film too much to bear. He was eventually ejected from the theatre for loudly heckling the film.

Eyewitnesses reported that during Monday night’s 9:15pm Real3D screening of Gravity, a lone man (later identified as retired ISS Commander Chris Hadfield) began muttering under his breath and chuckling to himself. By the 30-minute mark, Hadfield reportedly made numerous rude comments such as, “Nice Soyuz procedure, Hollywood!” and “Oh yeah, because that’s what hypoxia as caused by rapid cabin decompression looks like you idiots!.”
Google

Submission + - Oracle asked for $6Billion -- Pays Google $1.1Million

Submitted by
darkonc
darkonc writes: "Groklaw reports that judge has ordered Oracle to pay Google $1.1Million in costs over it's failed lawsuit over claimed patent and copyright violations. Oracle originally made headlines by claiming that Google owed them up to $6.1B over infringement in google's Android operating system. That claim was subsequently whittled down as low as a maximum of $130K by the judge before the jury found in favour of Google on patent issues and handing Oracle some small crumbs on copyright questions.

The judge found, among other things, that "The media attention following this case was due in large part because Oracle crafted broad, and ultimately overreaching, claims of copyright infringement.", and that "A close follower of this case will know that Oracle did not place great importance on its copyright claims until after its asserted patents started disappearing upon PTO reexamination ..."."

Submission + - Rush Limbaugh demands free porn cams in dorm rooms. (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by
darkonc
darkonc writes: "While Dharun Ravi goes on trial for watching on his room-mate's sexual encounters on a web cam, Rush Limbaugh is demanding that they be placed in the dorm rooms, across the country. Limbaugh wants them in the rooms of students who get birth control paid for by medical plans. Limbaugh's stated intent is to watch them have sex. . Limbaugh's indecent proposal is part of a fight over whether birth control coverage should be included in the new health care bill. It was part of a response to the testimony of a Georgetown University student who testified in favour of the rule. Both Obama (who supports the proposal) and and the president of Georgetown University (who opposes it) considered Limbaugh's demands for free porn a bit over the top."
Japan

Submission + - Japan Raises Nuke Plant crisis severity to "7" (japantoday.com)

Submitted by
darkonc
darkonc writes: "Early Tuesday in Japan, the government decided to raise the severity level of the accident to the maximum 7 on an international scale, up from the current 5 and matching that of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe. The government declared the level 7 emergency because it is now estimated that the crippled plant was emitting over 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactivity for a number of hours at the height of the nuclear incident.

Previously, on Monday, the government had expanded the evacuation zone around the plant to include at least 6 cities up to 60KM away from the plant. These cities, outside of the current 20-30KM evacuation area, are now expected to exceed the 20 millisieverts/year limit on residual radiation established by International Commission on Radiological Protection and the International Atomic Energy Agency in the case of an emergency."

Submission + - Is 80,000 the new official BP spill upper bound? (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by
darkonc
darkonc writes: "While US scientists issued a figure of 35,000-60,000 barrels (1.5-2.5 million gallons) per day on 15 June, a recent BBC article says that "The company plans to be able to handle 80,000 barrels of escaped oil per day by mid-July. " Does this mean that the official upper bound on the size of the spill is, yet again, increasing? Inquiring minds would really like to know..."
Linux Business

Submission + - Linux and Windows EEE PCs have same return rate (laptopmag.com)

Submitted by
darkonc
darkonc writes: "Laptop Magazine has an interview with ASUS CEO Jerry Shen where he talks about the past and future of the EEE PC. Included in that interview is a question about the infamous claim that Linux netbooks have a higher return rate than Windows netbooks. Shen claims that Linux and Windows EEE PCs have similar return rates."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - $700B Bailout Proposal Would Remove Oversight (kuro5hin.org)

Submitted by
darkonc
darkonc writes: "A Kuro5hin article has a pointer to a proposed version of the $700B financial buyout legislation (backup copy here). It's pretty short and to the point — The secretary can do pretty much whatever (s)he sees fit with the money with no judicial or administrative oversight.

What would you do with $700B and no strings attached?"
Yahoo!

Submission + - Icahn shoots foot over M$ Yahoo acquisition? (cnn.com)

Submitted by
darkonc
darkonc writes: "According to a CNN Money article, Carl Icahn (who is currently in a dogfight with Yahoo's board over their decision to rebuff Microsoft's $32B offer as 'too low') said Tuesday that Microsoft Corp. "can't compete" over the next 5 years unless it acquires Yahoo. Under that premise, it would seem probable that Yahoo is worth far more to Microsoft than the $32B that they offered — and that the board is right.

Icahn also refused to answer an audience member question about whether or not he's in communication with Microsoft."

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