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Comment Re: Only twice? Impossible. (Score 1) 252

That's a breed of cow, not one who spent its beautiful life eating grass in the Scottish Highlands.

Importing of beef to the US from the UK is still not much permitted, and it looks like Scotland is not yet on the "Our Cows Are Not Mad" list:

https://www.foodsafetynews.com...

Submission + - Leaked Documents Suggest Trump Hotel Feared Second Trump Insurrection 2

Submitted by fermion
fermion writes: The Guardian reports that the Babuk group of hackers leaked documents indicating that Washington’s Trump Hotel almost doubled rates in the days of the purported inauguration of Trump. According to many of his supporters the US government was infiltrated by foreign business many years ago, maybe the Chicago Stock Exchange or Smithfield foods, and therefore all since then laws are null and void. These laws include those that elect senators by popular vote and moved the POTUS inaguaration to January.

The information, which police gleaned from a Business Insider version of a story published in Forbes on 6 February, was confirmed in an 8 February intelligence briefing stolen by ransomware hackers from Washington’s Metropolitan police department (MPD). The hackers from the Babuk group subsequently published those documents online, and transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets redistributed them to news outlets including the Guardian. As Forbes reported in February, Trump International hotel in Washington raised its rates to 180% of the normal seasonal charge for 3 and 4 March this year.

Submission + - Wikipedia is swimming in money—why is it begging people to donate? (dailydot.com) 2

Submitted by Andreas Kolbe
Andreas Kolbe writes: The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the non-profit that owns Wikipedia and other volunteer-written websites, is about to reach its 10-year goal of creating a $100 million endowment five years earlier than it planned. Its total funds, which have risen by about $200 million over the past five years, now stand at around $300 million. Its revenue has risen every year. In just the first nine months of its current financial year, it has raked in $142 million in donations according to an internal document—and already obliterated its previous annual record.

This news may surprise donors and users around the world who have seen Wikipedia fundraising banners displayed at various times during the past year—including, for the first time, in India. Presently shown to readers in pandemic-ridden Latin America, these banners have created a widespread impression that the WMF must be struggling to keep Wikipedia up-and-running, with tearful-sounding messages like: “This Thursday Wikipedia really needs you. This is the 10th appeal we’ve shown you. 98% of our readers don’t give; they look the other way We ask you, humbly, don’t scroll away.”

But keeping Wikipedia online is a task that the WMF could comfortably manage on $10 million a year, according to a casual 2013 estimate by Erik Möller, its VP of Engineering and Product Development at the time. So what does the WMF do with all the money?

Submission + - Virologists develop broadly protective coronavirus vaccines (medicalxpress.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: “The candidate vaccine was developed using an innovative vaccine platform targeting a highly conserved genomic region of coronaviruses. . . . The new vaccine platform utilizes a genome-reduced bacteria to express the coronavirus vaccine antigen on its surface. Such a vaccine platform can be manufactured with low cost in existing facilities around the world, which could meet the pandemic demand.”

Despite — or because of — the teething problems with current vaccines, we’re learning a lot

Submission + - SPAM: Scientists connect human brain to computer wirelessly for first time ever

Submitted by Hmmmmmm
Hmmmmmm writes: The first wireless commands to a computer have been demonstrated in a breakthrough for people with paralysis.

The system is able to transmit brain signals at “single-neuron resolution and in full broadband fidelity”, say researchers at Brown University in the US.

A clinical trial of the BrainGate technology involved a small transmitter that connects to a person’s brain motor cortex.

The participants were able to achieve similar typing speeds and point-and-click accuracy as they could with wired systems.

John Simeral, an assistant professor of engineering at Brown University: “We’ve demonstrated that this wireless system is functionally equivalent to the wired systems that have been the gold standard.

“The signals are recorded and transmitted with appropriately similar fidelity, which means we can use the same decoding algorithms we used with wired equipment.

“The only difference is that people no longer need to be physically tethered to our equipment, which opens up new possibilities in terms of how the system can be used.”
Link to Original Source

Submission + - Which is better - software RAID or hardware RAID? (wikipedia.org) 4

Submitted by RockDoctor
RockDoctor writes: I am building myself a NAS, unsurprising on this site.

My hardware pool is very shallow.

I eBay'd a desktop chassis, whose mobo claims (I discovered, on arrival) RAID capabilities. There, I have a significant choice — to use the on-board RAID, or do it entirely in software (e.g. OMV)?

I'm domestic — a handful of TB — but I expect the answer to change as one goes through the PB into the EB.

What do the dotters of the slash think?

Now, how does one Slashdot a poll — HW-RAID or SW-RAID?

Submission + - Uber must pay $1.1M for rides denied to blind person. (theguardian.com)

Submitted by whoever57
whoever57 writes: A blind person with a guide dog was denied rides and harassed because of her guide dog. She sued Uber, which tried to blame its contractors and deny liability. However an arbitrator has rejected that argument and found the company liable, awarding the blind passenger $1.1M.

The arbitrator found that Uber staffers coached drivers on how to deny rides to disabled passengers without it appearing to be a violation of the law. The staffers also advocated to keep problematic drivers on the platform.

Comment Re:Not much (Score 2) 48

The article (and summary) says "$1 billion", which presumably means USD 1 billion.

But it's possible that the senior government official who is not authorized to speak with media is not authorized for good reason (like maybe because they don't know what they're talking about). I suppose that we shall see, eventually.

Submission + - DeJoy Is Hell-Bent on Wrecking the Postal Service — and Maybe Your Life (vortex.com) 1

Submitted by Lauren Weinstein
Lauren Weinstein writes: While we’re all still reeling from the recent horrific, tragic. and utterly preventable incidents of mass shooting murders, inside the D.C. beltway today events are taking place that could put innumerable medically-challenged Americans at deep risk — and the culprit is Louis DeJoy, the Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General and Trump megadonor.

Submission + - Hardware Researchers Have Found Intel Instructions That Can Modify Opcodes (twitter.com) 2

Submitted by stikves
stikves writes: From Twitter:
"Wow, we (+@h0t_max and @_Dmit) have found two undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs which completely control microarchitectural state (yes, they can modify microcode)"

The implications are significant, since the code running on Intel CPUs can no longer trust that they will not be subject to adversarial execution of their instructions.

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