"Everything is progressing as expected then."
Indeed. Millennials call it the 'Boomer Remover'.
The asset fallout is going to stagnate recovery, if proven true.
I note that Ebola vaccine research was funded by the US military because they felt a need to vaccinate forces that might be deployed in an area where Ebola was present. There is a perspective that says that health security might need much more funding as it clearly represents a threat that is as severe to the economy and peoples lives as terrorism or nation state shooting wars
Clearly this is demonstrating the worst. And, I know this is an unpopular opinion, it's compounded by our current population density. We wouldn't even need to exercise social distancing if we weren't stacked on each other day-in-day-out, and that's really only a problem because our medical systems haven't at all kept pace; they never will. Rationing is the de facto to keep costs down; there are no JIT medical systems, AFAIK, and the logistics in sci-fi where everyone receives treatment either has a known small population or a well-kept system. Thankfully, a scifi like Star Trek also illustrates that even in a pinch, triage is still demonstrated -- like when a battle breaks out or an unknown contaminant, etc.
This will be an ever-present debate, the logistics of health care, but I know it doesn't help when its denied its funding, research, and students due to austerity.
Hopefully, this surges investment in medicine because the world can ill-afford another outbreak. Perhaps this will be the only one, but I'm betting that either a mutation comes out worse or another lies in waiting.
Linux doesn't need to run on Windows or any closed-source commercial OS, and it's a potential security risk to have it do so.
That's what this broadcast feels more like. Microsoft is trying to be proactive in patching Linux kernel "holes." I find it a little goofy; it's not as if they're contributing driver modules, are they?
In 2033, there will be the introduction of the QuaranTeens
The Qur'anTeens, eh?
Because doctors are a very strange bunch of people, I've never dealt with a group of sloppier lazier thinkers than doctors. A "diagnosis" means that the currently accepted test finally yielded a positive. Of course if that test is based on known-faulty assumptions...
Agreed. If my doctor hadn't erred on the side of caution and order my ultrasound, his diagnosis of "maybe your body is just that way" could've led me into further stages of t. cancer -- which could've been lung or liver cancer (in case you're curious). And I am pretty sure he ordered the ultrasound only because I was shaking my head.
Don't worry, none of them pass basic physical security checks. They keep letting the fake guns through that are used for testing.
However, while there has been hijackings after 9/11, none of them have AFAIK killed anyone or achieved the (rather diverse) aims of the hijackers, so I am not going to complain too loudly about the security theatre.
There was that downed airplane in Iran, last month so...
We could give personal data the same protection we give intellectual "property". You go to an aartist's show you can't make a recording or copy and sell it. But the artist can scan thee room, use facial identification software to identify who was there and who they were sitting/standing next to and sell it to anyone they want. Suppose your identity was your personal property and sharing it required a release just like any other intellectual "property".
If it's in a EULA, then it won't ever truly be effective (for end-users).
Yeah, people take loads of photos these days, most of which are trash, and the ones that are actually decent tend to be carefully curated to pick them out from among dozens of similar photos....
Even back in the 70s, photographers used to select pictures to print using negatives and a magnifying glass. Curation hasn't really changed; it's just that they aren't negatives anymore.
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Apple made a controversial concession to the Kremlin. Just weeks after the “law against Apple” was passed, the company’s mapping and weather apps began showing the Crimean peninsula, which the international community considers to be Ukrainian territory, as part of the Russian Federation. This only happens when users open these Apple applications inside Russia, but it represents a major break with international consensus.
Apple made these changes in response to another law that declared that companies who do not show Crimea as Russian territory will be prosecuted for violating the Russian constitution. (Google, for its part, identifies Crimea as part of Russia for Google Maps users within the country.) Apple’s decision to adhere to this law provides some evidence that the company may not be truly willing to leave the Russian market.
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Hmpf.
Apple could just grow some balls and pull out of Russia altogether.
This is interesting coincidence, following: https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't.
