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Comment Re:Propane (Score 1) 232

And then they'll make propane more expensive and go after the companies which fill your tanks.

Two is one
One is none

This used to be a tech site. Back then we knew that RAID and tested good backups was necessary to ensure data protection/integrity.

A shame some forget that critical infrastructure needs the same level of redundancy.

Submission + - China To Use Coronavirus App To Track How Much Its Citizens Sleep, Drink & S (vice.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A city in China has proposed making a color-coded coronavirus tracking app a permanent fixture for residents, allowing authorities to track how much citizens exercise, sleep, drink, and smoke. The app would give each resident a color-coded score of between 0 and 100 and would then be used to permit or deny entry to public buildings or allow the use of public transport. The proposal, made by officials in the eastern China city of Hangzhou late last week, has been met with an unprecedented wave of criticism: Citizens claim it would become part of Beijing’s already-dystopian surveillance system that is used to monitor and track an increasing amount of citizens’ online and offline activities.

Back in February, the Chinese government introduced a mandatory tracking app to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The app, which was developed jointly by Chinese tech giants Tencent and Alibaba, gives each user a green, yellow, or red status depending on where they've traveled or whether they have been in contact with confirmed cases. The app has been downloaded over a billion times and users’ codes have been scanned over 9 billion times, according to Tencent. The Chinese government claimed it helped stop the spread of coronavirus within China. But an investigation by the New York Times found that health data collected by the app was being shared with local police officials without the users’ explicit permission. Now, officials in Hangzhou’s Health Commission want to repurpose the app to make it a permanent fixture for the city’s residents.

Comment All are lacking on Keyboardless TouchScreen device (Score 1) 205

by I'm just joshin (#60044750) Attached to: Which Linux Desktop Environment is the Best?

It's been disappointing trying to find any with decent support for a slate device w/o a keyboard - Dell 7285

Either the on-board keyboard is crap, or it's not at all smart for when a text entry field has been selected. And gestures for right click, middle click, and scrolling are wildly inconsistent.

Windows does a pretty good job at this.

Comment Re: Misleading (Score 1) 239

by antifoidulus (#59773494) Attached to: US Confirms First Case of Coronavirus From Unknown Origin
You my friend need to study up on your queueing theory. Your fundamental flawed assumption is that the time it takes to die is identical to that that it takes to recover, but it doesnâ(TM)t seem that way. Those that die tend to go quickly whereas this virus seems to take a very long time to clear. Letâ(TM)s use an example, say there is a disease that takes 2 weeks to recover if you are going to recover and 1 week to die if you are going to die and that 100 new people get infected per week After the first week 10 people die, 0 recover completely, by your metric the death rate would be 100% Now the next week 90 people recover but 10 more die, now the death rate by that calculation is 18%, closer to the real rate but still much higher. Every week it gets lower and lower until it converges on the real rate. There is no indication yet that we have reached that convergence with Coronavirus

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