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Comment Re: They stopped allowing online English tutoring. (Score 1) 159

I believe the rule was only for children as students. I know for a fact that lots of us resident Americans do zoom based English tutoring for adults with unusually high voices. Translation: These days Chinese parents just register themselves as the students and their kids take the online tutoring.

Comment Re:Here we go (Score 2) 129

I was sitting in a diversity training class at Ford in the late 1990’s when the presenters aired this same statement. Our manager, who was a Brit on loan from Jaguar, offered the following statement:

“So you’re saying that if I was looking for the best and most popular four door family sedan, I should look at a picture of the design teams from the Big Three, and the one that was most diverse would be the number one car?”

He was told that was correct.

He then said that it was a bit of a trick question, since the best selling sedan in America was the Toyota Camry, and the design team for that car was the least diverse group you could possibly imagine, consisting of Japanese males between 30 and 60.

After a long silence, the presenters finished their PowerPoint and left.

Comment it IS fraud (Score 1) 89

It *IS* fraud because I never gave them this credit card to charge me on. Saying it's not fraud would mean anyone I buy something from could charge me on any credit card they wanted, not just the one I gave them.

Late last year I cancelled a Citi credit card dues to come actual fraud charges. A month later, a charge appeared on the replacement card from an organization that had been billing me monthly for something. I flagged it as fraud in my online console, noting I had given the new card number to nobody. I got an immediate temporary credit. A month or two later, the credit was permanent. Worked as expected.

Submission + - Core PostgreSQL developer dies in airplane crash (postgresql.org)

kriston writes: Core PostgreSQL developer Simon Riggs dies in airplane crash in Duxford, England. Riggs was the sole occupant of a Cirrus SR22-T which crashed on March 26 after performing touch-and-go maneuvers.
Riggs was responsible for much of the enterprise-level features in PostgreSQL including point-in-time recovery, synchronous replication, and hot standby. He also was the head of the company 2ndQuadrant that provides PostgreSQL support.

Comment might alleviate nurse shortage and raise wages (Score 1) 1

During the pandemic there seemed to be nurse shortages in every major city as nurses reported being severely overworked. Half of what a nurse does for me at a doctor appointment is simply transcribe answers into a computer form. Something a high school student could do. I don't think I'm willing to take much medical advice from an AI yet without confirming with a real nurse or doctor, but I think an AI could educate me quite a bit before I talked to a nurse or doctor in person to confirm. Well within a few years at least, but reviewing and confirming with a real person would catch AI errors.

An AI might take over these low level tasks and leave the ones requiring nursing skills to real nurses. This would help alleviate the shortages and might also raise the wages of nurses by making them more productive, in terms of doing more work that really needs to be done by a nurse, not a well trained high school graduate. A quick search will show lots of articles out there on a nursing shortage.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/b...
https://calmatters.org/health/...

Comment Re: Increase reliability, stop subsidizing batteri (Score 1) 382

DC arguably has the best mass transit on the east coast outside of NYC, yet ridership is down.

Why? Well asides from telecommuting being much more prevelant, mass transit has gotten quite expensive, due to corruption, they started charging more for parking, due to lack of ridership, service got signifigantly cut back, and due to safety incidents people are scared of insufficent maintenance. People would prefer to drive in their own cars than ride on the train.

Comment Reward Brother by buying a cartridge (Score 1) 166

You and HP have inspired me. I have also used Brother printers exclusively for over a decade. Never thrown one away - just passed on to someone else. But I buy cheaper third party ink which works great. My New Year's resolution is to buy some Brother cartridges to reward them for their products that are good citizens and dnot acting like HP printers. BROTHER INC, if you're listening, give me a donation link and I'd even give you a few bucks every time I buy a non-Brother cartridge!

Comment Re:Espionage ain't what it used to be - patents (Score 1) 93

Ironically Airbus and Rolls Royce still sit on lots of patents especially around the clever engine ramp door systems which was made Concorde really possible.

Since the Concorde stopped flying in 2003 and French patents are good for 20 years, you would think they're not sitting on many patents any more.

Submission + - US Senators issued satellite phones (cbsnews.com)

SonicSpike writes: Amid growing concerns of security risks to members of Congress, over 50 senators have been issued satellite phones for emergency communication, people familiar with the measures told CBS News. The devices are part of a series of new security measures being offered to senators by the Senate Sergeant at Arms, who took over shortly after the protest an the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The satellite phone technology has been offered to all 100 senators. CBS News has learned at least 50 have accepted the phones, which Senate administrative staff recommend senators keep in close proximity during their travels.

In testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee last month, Senate Sergeant at Arms Karen Gibson said satellite communication is being deployed "to ensure a redundant and secure means of communication during a disruptive event."

Gibson said the phones are a security backstop in the case of an emergency that "takes out communications" in part of America. Federal funding will pay for the satellite airtime needed to utilize the phone devices.

Submission + - Surgeon General: There isn't enough evidence that social media is safe for kids (statnews.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Amid what he called the worst youth mental health crisis in recent memory, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory Tuesday warning about social media’s impact on developing young brains.

“Through the last two and a half years I’ve been in office, I’ve been hearing concerns from kids and parents,” Murthy told STAT. “Parents are asking ‘Is social media safe for my kids?’ Based on our review of the data, there isn’t enough evidence that it is safe for our kids.”

The surgeon general’s report comes in the wake of a recent health advisory on teens and social media use from the American Psychological Association, which noted the increased risk of anxiety and depression among adolescents who are exposed to discrimination and bullying online. Other research has shown that adolescents ages 12-15 who spent more than three hours per day on social media face a heightened risk of experiencing poor mental health outcomes compared to those who spent less time online.

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