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Submission + - Scientists Find "Hell Planet" (zerohedge.com) 1

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: On this brutal exoplanet hundreds of light-years away, oceans are filled with lava, rocks literally rain down on the surface, and howling winds break the sound barrier at thousands of miles per hour – making the hellish planet easily the most extreme ever discovered.

Submission + - 'Smoking Gun' Hunter Biden Email Proved Authentic by Cybersec Expert (dailycaller.com)

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: Graham, who has been cited as a cybersecurity expert in The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Wired, Engadget and other news and technology outlets, told the DCNF that he used a cryptographic signature found in the email’s metadata to validate that Vadym Pozharsky, an advisor to Burisma’s board of directors, emailed Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015.

In the email, Pozharsky thanked Hunter Biden for “inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together.”

Submission + - Hydroxychloroquine Has about 90 Percent Chance of Helping COVID-19 Patients (aapsonline.org) 3

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: In a letter to Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) presents a frequently updated table of studies that report results of treating COVID-19 with the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ, Plaquenil®).

To date, the total number of reported patients treated with HCQ, with or without zinc and the widely used antibiotic azithromycin, is 2,333, writes AAPS, in observational data from China, France, South Korea, Algeria, and the U.S. Of these, 2,137 or 91.6 percent improved clinically. There were 63 deaths, all but 11 in a single retrospective report from the Veterans Administration where the patients were severely ill.

Submission + - Voting Guide for Debian Init Systems GR (livejournal.com)

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: There are a lot of options on the ballot for the Init Systems GR. There have been hundreds of messages on debian-vote, and more scattered across debian-devel, debian-project, and bugs. Reading all that is no easy task. so I would like to summarize my understanding of the options and what they would mean. I've tried to remove as much bias as I can, but this is still Sam's personal opinion.

I'm focused entirely on the effects of the proposals. several options (D, F, and G) spend significant time outlining principles. That is something I'm ignoring here in this post, although I acknowledge it is really important to some.

Submission + - How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results (wsj.com) 1

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: Far from being autonomous computer programs oblivious to outside pressure, Google’s algorithms are subject to regular tinkering from executives and engineers who are trying to deliver relevant search results, while also pleasing a wide variety of powerful interests and driving its parent company’s more than $30 billion in annual profit.

Submission + - Google Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans (wsj.com)

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states.

The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the biggest effort yet by a Silicon Valley giant to gain a toehold in the health-care industry through the handling of patients’ medical data.

The data involved in the initiative encompasses lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, including patient names and dates of birth.

Submission + - Are Elite Medical Journals Reliable? (americanthinker.com)

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: The causes of (medical journal) error are multitudinous and range from carelessness to dishonesty, from wishful thinking to outright corruption with everything in between.
  “insofar as the Journal expresses social attitudes they are all . . . politically correct.” “The NEJM seems to me to be a manifestation of a dangerous tendency in our society, that of self-enclosure in an ideological laager.”

Submission + - Dr Tim Ball Defeats Michael Mann's Climate Lawsuit! (principia-scientific.org) 2

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: Supreme Court of British Columbia dismisses Dr Michael Mann’s defamation lawsuit versus Canadian skeptic climatologist, Dr Tim Ball. Full legal costs are awarded to Dr Ball, the defendant in the case.

The Canadian court issued it’s final ruling in favor of the Dismissal motion that was filed in May 2019 by Dr Tim Ball’s libel lawyers.

Not only did the court grant Ball’s application for dismissal of the nine-year, multi-million dollar lawsuit, it also took the additional step of awarding full legal costs to Ball. A detailed public statement from the world-renowned skeptical climatologist is expected in due course.

This extraordinary outcome is expected to trigger severe legal repercussions for Dr Mann in the U.S. and may prove fatal to climate science claims that modern temperatures are “unprecedented.”

Dr Mann lost his case because he refused to show in open court his R2 regression numbers (the ‘working out’) behind the world-famous ‘hockey stick’ graph (shown below).

Submission + - Founder of Overstock.com resigns, admits his role in FBI surveillance (americanthinker.com)

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: In a pair of jaw-dropping interviews yesterday following his resignation from the company that he founded twenty years ago, Patrick Byrne revealed his collaboration with the FBI as an informant, including involvement in surveillance of the presidential campaigns including multiple Republicans and of the Hillary Clinton campaign, too. In both interviews he fingered Peter Strzok as the person responsible for sending the “men in black” from the FBI who visited him, but in the second, he stated that higher ups, whom he would only identify as “X, Y, and Z” – people whose names you would know, directed the program.

Submission + - Apple gave Mueller access to Roger Stone's account (thegatewaypundit.com)

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: According to the Washington Post, Apple objected to giving the federal government backdoor access to the shooters iPhones, claiming it would “set a dangerous precedent.”

“From the beginning, we objected to the FBI’s demand that Apple build a backdoor into the iPhone because we believed it was wrong and would set a dangerous precedent. As a result of the government’s dismissal, neither of these occurred. This case should never have been brought.”

Fast forward to present, and we see that Apple no longer seems to have the same privacy concerns it once did in 2015. Without any fight, they simply turned over Roger Stone’s iCloud passwords

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