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Comment Re:Socialism/Communism (Score 1) 184

Seriously, you are coming up with reasons you why you have never started a business. Why don't you just admit you are making excuses, playing Eeyore, and don't have a decent idea for a business.

Hmm, I suspect that what is being pointed out is that everyone can't start a business:)
If we did, who would work for us? Looking down on those who don't start a business, when they are the very people we need to work for those of us who have started a business is, at the very least, a dick move; and at most, guaranteed to put you on the list when the revolution comes - after Jeremy Kyle, he's on a separate list that goes first.:)

Comment Re:Because in cases per population we're pretty lo (Score 1) 440

by snakeplissken (#59877208) Attached to: The US Now Leads the World In Confirmed Coronavirus Cases

Welcome to slashdot, where providing a common sense math based explanation verifiable by any grade school teacher or high school drop out gets you modded as a troll.

I love you psychos so much! You make me laugh every time with the moronic down mods of everything contrary to your hate America agenda. Your blind burning hated only hurts you.

Go ahead and down this, I've got karma to spare.

Yeah! I mean... oh hang on; erm... well obviously... er,
Oh look, squirrels...

USA! USA! USA!

Submission + - AT&T is doing exactly what it told Congress it wouldn't do with Time Warner (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: AT&T lost $1.2B in Q4 by preventing Time Warner shows from airing on Netflix.

AT&T's decision to prevent Time Warner-owned shows from streaming on Netflix and other non-AT&T services reduced the company's quarterly revenue by $1.2 billion, a sacrifice that AT&T is making to give its planned HBO Max service more exclusive content. AT&T took the $1.2-billion hit despite previously telling Congress that it would not restrict distribution of Time Warner content, claiming that would be "irrational business behavior."

Submission + - Welfare Surveillance System Violates Human Rights, Dutch Court Rules (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A Dutch court has ordered the immediate halt of an automated surveillance system for detecting welfare fraud because it violates human rights, in a judgment likely to resonate well beyond the Netherlands. The case was seen as an important legal challenge to the controversial but growing use by governments around the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and risk modelling in administering welfare benefits and other core services. Campaigners say such “digital welfare states” – developed often without consultation, and operated secretively and without adequate oversight – amount to spying on the poor, breaching privacy and human rights norms and unfairly penalising the most vulnerable.

A Guardian investigation in October found the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had increased spending to about $10 million a year on a specialist “intelligent automation garage” where computer scientists were developing more than 100 welfare robots, deep learning and intelligent automation for use in the welfare system. The Dutch government’s risk indication system (SyRI) is a risk calculation model developed over the past decade by the social affairs and employment ministry to predict the likelihood of an individual committing benefit or tax fraud or violating labour laws. Deployed primarily in low-income neighbourhoods, it gathers government data previously held in separate silos, such as employment, personal debt and benefit records, and education and housing histories, then analyses it using a secret algorithm to identify which individuals might be at higher risk of committing benefit fraud.

Submission + - New ransomware targets Industrial Control Systems (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Garabito
Garabito writes: Ekans, a ransomware strain discovered last month contains the usual code for disabling data backups and mass-encrypting files on infected systems. But researchers at security firm Dragos found something else: code that actively seeks out and forcibly stops applications used in industrial control systems. Before starting file-encryption operations, the ransomware kills processes listed by process name in a hard-coded list within the encoded strings of the malware. These include: human-machine interfaces from Honeywell, Proficy Historian from General Electric, and licensing servers from GE Fanuc.

The targeted applications are used in industrial environments to monitor and control their processes and machines, and to historize process data. Having them down means a plant shutdown. This can also affect critical infrastructure, like power plants.

Submission + - Tencent may have accidentally leaked real data on Wuhan virus deaths (taiwannews.com.tw)

Submitted by brennz
brennz writes: > "TAIPEI (Taiwan News) â" As many experts question the veracity of China's statistics for the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, Tencent over the weekend seems to have inadvertently released what is potentially the actual number of infections and deaths, which were astronomically higher than official figures. On late Saturday evening (Feb. 1), Tencent, on its webpage titled "Epidemic Situation Tracker", showed confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (2019nCoV) in China as standing at 154,023, 10 times the official figure at the time. It listed the number of suspected cases as 79,808, four times the official figure."

Submission + - SPAM: Latest Promising HIV Vaccine Fails

Submitted by DesScorp
DesScorp writes: After early encouraging signs, scientists had hoped that the latest big thing in HIV vaccines, the HVTN 702 program, would finally end the decades-long battle with AIDS. Alas, the results ended the way all previous vaccines did. The encouraging early signs didn't pan out: "

The trial enrolled about 5,400 HIV-negative volunteers at 14 sites across South Africa, consisting of sexually active men and women aged 18 to 35 years old. They were randomly assigned to receive either the vaccine regimen or placebo injections, receiving six doses over 18 months. In order to ensure the safety of the participants, they were also provided access to prophylactics including oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a medication that when taken daily has been shown to be highly effective at preventing HIV infection. In an analysis, researchers examined the data from both groups after the participants had been involved in the study for more than 18 months — the minimum time required for the vaccine regimen to stimulate an immune response. It found that 129 HIV infections occurred among the vaccine recipients, and 123 HIV infections occurred among the placebo recipients, and the trial was therefore called off.

" Scientists are now turning their attention to other programs in hopes of finding an effective vaccine.
Link to Original Source

Submission + - After Coronavirus Measures, China's Crude Oil Demand Plunges 20% (wolfstreet.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: "Probably the largest demand shock the oil market has suffered since the global financial crisis, and the most sudden since the Sept. 11 attacks.”

The measures imposed by Chinese authorities, by authorities in other countries, and by businesses and consumers to counter the spread of the coronavirus have slammed the demand for crude oil and petroleum products. In parts of China that now span an area producing nearly 70% of its GDP, many transportation systems have been shut down. Traffic has radically fallen off as people stay at home. Countless flights in China, and to and from China, have been cancelled. As I pointed out in my podcast on the economic effects of these measures, this comes at the worst possible time for the already beaten up US shale oil industry."

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