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Comment Re:Well of course they shouldn't (Score 1) 346

Seek employment elsewhere with an understanding you are relocating and take that offer to your existing firm. They either take it and you get to live where you want and make you what you want while keeping the same job or you get to make what you want and live where you want working for the new company. Get your current comp and ongoing comp moving forward written into your employment agreement and If you think your current employer is going to screw you over then move on.

I work remotely. I ditched the silicon valley rat race more than a decade ago and still make a great salary as I won't accept employment somewhere that tries to lowball me based on where I choose to live. You shouldn't either. If the firm doesn't counter they are definitely getting you for less than they budgeted.

Don't depend on someone else to get you a "good deal". Have another offer in your back pocket and use that leverage. If you feel you are truly being treated poorly then look around for something new. Don't fall for the myth of "company spirit" or any such thing. Business is business. Keep your feelings out of it. Keep a cool head and always be professional.

Social Networks

Twitter's Reply-Limiting Feature is Now Available To Everyone (engadget.com) 48

Twitter is making one of its boldest experiments official. After months of testing, the company is bringing its reply-limiting feature, which allows users to control who can reply to their tweets, to all users. From a report: With the update, which is rolling out now to Twitter's apps and website, users can choose who can reply to tweets before they send them. The options are everyone, people you follow, and people you mention. If you choose people you mention, but don't mention anyone in the tweet, it effectively means no one can reply. The settings don't affect the ability to retweet or quote tweet. The change is one of many experiments Twitter's run in recent years in order to improve "conversational health," on its platform. Though limits on replies has been controversial among some users, Twitter has said it's meant to improve some of the less-than desirable dynamics on Twitter, such as ratios and, of course, the infamous reply guys.

Comment Arrest the enablers/funders of the violence (Score 1) 524

People supplying bricks, supplying molotov ingredients, providing transportation and paying cash to people for violent acts are causing/enabling at least some part of this violence. Why have their been so few arrest of those folks? From videos, they seem to be mostly young white men, so no "evil racist pigs" issues that seem to paralyse law enforcement these days.

Medicine

Early Treatment of COVID-19 Patients With HCQ+AZ Shows Benefit, Study Finds (sciencedirect.com) 284

"Over at ScienceDirect, they report on a French 'retrospective' study of just over 1,000 patients across all age groups with very good results," writes long-time Slashdot reader kenh. The analysis found that administration of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Azithromycin (AZ) before COVID-19 complications occur "is safe and associated with very low fatality rate in patients." From the report: Background: In France, the combination hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin (AZ) is used in the treatment of COVID-19.

Methods: We retrospectively report on 1061 SARS-CoV-2 positive tested patients treated with HCQ (200 mg three times daily for ten days) + AZ (500 mg on day 1 followed by 250 mg daily for the next four days) for at least three days. Outcomes were death, clinical worsening (transfer to ICU, and more than 10 day hospitalization) and viral shedding persistence (more than 10 days).

Results: A total of 1061 patients were included in this analysis (46.4% male, mean age 43.6 years -- range 14-95 years). Good clinical outcome and virological cure were obtained in 973 patients within 10 days (91.7%). Prolonged viral carriage was observed in 47 patients (4.4%) and was associated to a higher viral load at diagnosis (pA poor clinical outcome (PClinO) was observed for 46 patients (4.3%) and 8 died (0.75%) (74-95 years old). All deaths resulted from respiratory failure and not from cardiac toxicity. Five patients are still hospitalized (98.7% of patients cured so far). PClinO was associated with older age (OR 1.11), severity at admission (OR 10.05) and low HCQ serum concentration. PClinO was independently associated with the use of selective beta-blocking agents and angiotensin II receptor blockers (p less than .05). A total of 2.3% of patients reported mild adverse events (gastrointestinal or skin symptoms, headache, insomnia and transient blurred vision).
On the contrary, a separate study, which has not been peer-reviewed, found the two primary outcomes for COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine were death and the need for mechanical ventilation.

"The study analyzed only 368 patients but represented the largest look at the outcomes of COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine -- with or without azithromycin, a common antibiotic -- anywhere in the world," The Hill reported more than two weeks ago.

UPDATE (5/9/2020): A new hydroxychloroquine study -- "the largest to date" -- was published Thursday in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. It concluded that Covid-19 patients taking the drug don't do any better than those not receiving the drug.
Government

Bill Gates, Lancet, UN, and Many Others Lambast America's Withholding of Funds from the WHO (thehill.com) 373

This week U.S. president Donald Trump suspended America's $900 million annual contribution to the World Health Organization. Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, called Trump's move a "crime against humanity...."

The Hill reports: "Every scientist, every health worker, every citizen must resist and rebel against this appalling betrayal of global solidarity," he added...

The American Medical Association (AMA) late Tuesday called Trump's decision a "dangerous step in the wrong direction" and urged him to reconsider. "Fighting a global pandemic requires international cooperation and reliance on science and data. Cutting funding to the WHO — rather than focusing on solutions — is a dangerous move at a precarious moment for the world," the AMA said in a statement. European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, meanwhile, said Wednesday that there was "no reason justifying" Trump's move...

And Bill Gates said in a tweet that halting funding to the WHO amid a world health crisis "is as dangerous as it sounds."

"Their work is slowing the spread of COVID-19 and if that work is stopped no other organization can replace them," the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist added. "The world needs @WHO now more than ever."

Agreeing with Bill Gates was 95-year-old former U.S. president Jimmy Carter. Newsweek quotes Carter's newly-released statement calling the WHO "the only international organization capable of leading the effort to control this virus."

The head of the United Nations also called the WHO "absolutely critical to the world's efforts to win the war against COVID-19."

While criticizing the WHO, this week an article in the Atlantic called president Trump's moves "a transparent effort to distract from his administration's failure to prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic." The Democrats speaker of the House added that Trump's decision "is dangerous, illegal and will be swiftly challenged."

But the science magazine Nature still published an editorial harshly criticizing Trump's attempt to defund the WHO. "[E]ven talk of doing so in the middle of a global health and economic crisis cannot be condemned strongly enough." They argue that withholding America's funds "will place more lives at risk and ensure that the world takes longer to emerge from this crisis... It is right that researchers, funders and governments have been protesting against Trump's decision, and they must continue to do so in the strongest terms."

And Newsweek also published the comments of the WHO's Director-General, who had this message for its critics. "[O]ur focus, my focus, is on stopping this virus and saving lives... This is a time for all of us to be united in our common struggle against a common threat, a dangerous enemy.

"When we're divided, the virus exploits the cracks between us."
Medicine

Search for Coronavirus Vaccine Becomes a Global Competition (nytimes.com) 137

A global arms race for a coronavirus vaccine is underway. The New York Times reports: In the three months since the virus began its deadly spread, China, Europe and the United States have all set off at a sprint to become the first to produce a vaccine. But while there is cooperation on many levels -- including among companies that are ordinarily fierce competitors -- hanging over the effort is the shadow of a nationalistic approach that could give the winner the chance to favor its own population and potentially gain the upper hand in dealing with the economic and geostrategic fallout from the crisis. What began as a question of who would get the scientific accolades, the patents and ultimately the revenues from a successful vaccine is suddenly a broader issue of urgent national security. And behind the scramble is a harsh reality: Any new vaccine that proves potent against the coronavirus -- clinical trials are underway in the United States, China and Europe already -- is sure to be in short supply as governments try to ensure that their own people are the first in line.

In China, 1,000 scientists are at work on a vaccine, and the issue has already been militarized: Researchers affiliated with the Academy of Military Medical Sciences have developed what is considered the nation's front-runner candidate for success and is recruiting volunteers for clinical trials. China "will not be slower than other countries," Wang Junzhi, a biological products quality control expert with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said Tuesday at a news conference in Beijing. The effort has taken on propaganda qualities. Already, a widely circulated photograph of Chen Wei, a virologist in the People's Liberation Army, receiving an injection of what was advertised to be the first vaccine, has been exposed as a fake, taken before a trip she made to Wuhan, where the virus began. President Trump has talked in meetings with pharmaceutical executives about making sure a vaccine is produced on American soil, to assure the United States controls its supplies. German government officials said they believed he tried to lure a German company, CureVac, to do its research and production, if it comes to that, in the United States.

Businesses

He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere To Sell Them (nytimes.com) 326

Amazon cracked down on coronavirus price gouging. Now, while the rest of the world searches, some sellers are holding stockpiles of sanitizer and masks. From a report: On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States was announced, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver S.U.V. to pick up some hand sanitizer. Driving around Chattanooga, Tenn., they hit a Dollar Tree, then a Walmart, a Staples and a Home Depot. At each store, they cleaned out the shelves. Over the next three days, Noah Colvin took a 1,300-mile road trip across Tennessee and into Kentucky, filling a U-Haul truck with thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer and thousands of packs of antibacterial wipes, mostly from "little hole-in-the-wall dollar stores in the backwoods," his brother said. "The major metro areas were cleaned out." Matt Colvin stayed home near Chattanooga, preparing for pallets of even more wipes and sanitizer he had ordered, and starting to list them on Amazon. Mr. Colvin said he had posted 300 bottles of hand sanitizer and immediately sold them all for between $8 and $70 each, multiples higher than what he had bought them for. To him, "it was crazy money." To many others, it was profiteering from a pandemic.

The next day, Amazon pulled his items and thousands of other listings for sanitizer, wipes and face masks. The company suspended some of the sellers behind the listings and warned many others that if they kept running up prices, they'd lose their accounts. EBay soon followed with even stricter measures, prohibiting any U.S. sales of masks or sanitizer. Now, while millions of people across the country search in vain for hand sanitizer to protect themselves from the spread of the coronavirus, Mr. Colvin is sitting on 17,700 bottles of the stuff with little idea where to sell them. "It's been a huge amount of whiplash," he said. "From being in a situation where what I've got coming and going could potentially put my family in a really good place financially to 'What the heck am I going to do with all of this?'"
A day after the story ran, the Tennessee man donated all of the supplies on Sunday.

Comment Yeah, noting new (Score 1) 122

I lived in Nancy Pelosi's district 15 years ago. I hit the spam button on every email I get from her and yet they still appear in my inbox. She's still sending me emails to the email address I only ever used for cali government websites (DMV, FTB and such) (but that is another thread).

conversely many things I'm actually interested in seeing in my inbox end up in spam even when I tell google that they aren't spam. And this is with a paid org, not "free (you and everyone you communicate with are the product)" gmail.

I keep an empty inbox and spam folder, so it's not hard to manage, but like most people posting in this thread I'm probably not the common case of gmail users.

Comment First line completely wrong (Score 1) 69

There will be future RHEL 7 security and stability updates at least through the end of the 10 year support cycle in 2024. That gives time to move workloads to RHEL 8.

Someone talked about upgrading hosts directly. That is possible and supported for RHEL7 to RHEL 8 with some limitations and there are built in tools to help by pre scanning your RHEL 7 hosts that will provide advice. These tools are under rapid development as they encounter all the interesting things we do on our servers out in the wild :-)

Comment Re:You'd think (Score 1) 224

I'm _sure_ this was far down the list of actual criteria :-)

He gets a good commute, company gets some more govt subsidies to help crush the remaining competition who lack that kind of access.

Both are really expensive places to live which sucks for the people working for him, but really Seattle has become the same.

The residents of the few mid-sized cities that were in the running should be breathing a sigh of relief.

Comment Re:Collateralized vs Non-Collateralized Loans (Score 1) 461

When 66% of undergrads have student loans (http://www.finaid.org/loans/), if we went back to a private loan system with risk to the debt vendors, the higher educational system would implode. No longer able to raise fees at double the rate of inflation or more in order to support sinecure professors and with many fewer students we'd see massive downsizing and closing of schools. The gov't wouldn't like that.

The federal educational loan system also keeps people out of the unemployment numbers for 2 or 4 or more years. The government likes this.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/student-loan-debt-hell-21-statistics-that-will-make-you-think-twice-about-going-to-college

For the small percentage of people who actually need a college degree, go for it. For the rest of us, stop wasting time. Find a trade and start working.

Live with your parents, work and go to a community college for a couple of years, see if you find something you enjoy that will pay more than minimum wage. You might find something that isn't in engineering, medicine or law and doesn't require any more schooling. Get a few years head start on a career. Or at least get all of the general ed requirements out of the way and learn how to study. Transfer as a Junior to a school with a "good" program in the field you want. Leave purdue and the rest to the trust-fund babies.

Science

How Sequestration Will Affect Federal Research Agencies 277

carmendrahl writes "Unless Congress and the White House act before March 1, the automatic across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester will kick in. And federal agencies are bracing for the fiscal impact. Federal agencies and the White House are releasing details about how these cuts will affect their operations. If the cuts take effect, expect fewer inspections to the food supply, cuts to programs that support cleanups at former nuclear plants, and plenty of researcher layoffs, among other things."

Submission + - Dutch Pirateparty refuses order to take down proxy (wordpress.com)

CAPSLOCK2000 writes: The Dutch Pirateparty has refused an order from Brein to take down a proxy to The PirateBay. Last month Brein (the distribution-industries paralegal outfit) forced a number of ISP to block The PirateBay; the first site ever blocked in The Netherlands. Immediately people started using proxies at other ISP's to get to TPB. Brein then threatened a number of those proxies with legal action. As most of these are run by hobbyists without legal or financial means there was little resistance. Now the Dutch Pirateparty has decided to stand up to the intimidation and refuses to take down it's proxy. Today they sent there response in style: by uploading it to The PirateBay In translation: "The Pirateparty disputes your claim and will not comply with your request."
Robotics

Submission + - TSA shuts down airport, detains 11 after 'science project' found (webpronews.com) 3

OverTheGeicoE writes: A group of students and a professor were detained by TSA at Dallas' Love Field. Several of them were led away in handcuffs. What did they do wrong? One of them left a robotic science experiment behind on an aircraft, which panicked a boarding flight crew. The experiment 'looked like a cell phone attached to a remote control car with some exposed wires protruding.' Of course, the false alarm inconvenienced more than the traveling academics. The airport was temporarily shut down and multiple gates were evacuated, causing flight delays and diversions.

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