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Comment Never ProtonMail! (Score 1) 45

by warich (#61646319) Attached to: US Justice Department Says Russians Hacked Its Federal Prosecutors
Protonmail is not properly end-to-end encrypted [1][2]. They lied to their customers for a long time about it too. Personally identifiable information is required to use their services, as there are no private payment options [3]. When caught with their pants down about encryption they were forced to issue a statement to attempt to win some user trust back [4]. The fact that the developers don't even trust their servers should be cause for concern [5]. Would you trust a chef if they refused to eat their own food? Sources: [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/theha... [2] 5.1.1 https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [4] https://protonmail.com/blog/cr... [5] https://privacy-watchdog.io/pr...

Submission + - SPAM: Hospitals Tell Doctors They'll Be Fired If They Speak Out About Lack of Gear 2

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: “Ming Lin, an emergency room physician in Washington state, said he was told Friday he was out of a job because he’d given an interview to a newspaper about a Facebook post detailing what he believed to be inadequate protective equipment and testing. In Chicago, a nurse was fired after emailing colleagues that she wanted to wear a more protective mask while on duty. In New York, the NYU Langone Health system has warned employees they could be terminated if they talk to the media without authorization.”

And the claim that this is about protecting “patient privacy” is b***shit.
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Submission + - Woman can smell parkinsons in others, years before symptoms manifest (npr.org)

Submitted by doug141
doug141 writes: Joy Milne's husband's natural odor changed when he was 31. He was diagnosed with parkinson's at 45. When Joy walked into a parkinson's support group, she smelled the same odor on on everybody. A parkinson's research tested her with blind samples from early stage patients, late-stage patients, and controls. She aced the test.

Submission + - SPAM: Breakthrough increases plant yields by one third

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Plant scientists have found a way to encourage plants to better use atmospheric nitrogen, thus increasing yields by more than one third.

For years, scientists have tried to increase the rate of nitrogen fixation in legumes by altering rhizobia bacterioid function or interactions that take place between the bacterioid and the root nodule cells.

Tegeder took a different approach: She increased the number of proteins that help move nitrogen from the rhizobia bacteria to the plant’s leaves, seed-producing organs and other areas where it is needed. The additional transport proteins sped up the overall export of nitrogen from the root nodules. This initiated a feedback loop that caused the rhizobia to start fixing more atmospheric nitrogen, which the plant then used to produce more seeds. “They are bigger, grow faster and generally look better than natural soybean plants,” Tegeder said. “Some evidence we have suggests they might also be highly efficient under stressful conditions like drought.”

The technique not only produces healthier plants and more seeds, it reduces the need for fertilizer, the overuse of which can be an environmental issue.

Submission + - Google Files Patent For Injecting A Device Directly Into Your Eyeball (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It's no secret Google and their parent company Alphabet are interested in developing smart contact lenses for monitoring diabetes. Well, Google-parent Alphabet has filed a patent which takes their development to another level. The patent specifically covers a method for "injecting a fluid into a lens capsule of an eye, wherein a natural lens of the eye has been removed from the lens capsule." It's powered by "radio frequency energy" received by a small antenna inside. The gadget even has its own data storage. Forbes reports, it is designed to help the focusing of light onto the retina, resulting in the correction of poor vision.

Submission + - NetHack 3.6.0 released after a 12-year wait (nethack.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: For the past 12 years NetHack 3.4.3 has been the most recent version of the classic roguelike dungeon exploration game. On the 7th of December 2015 the official NetHack DevTeam announced the release of NetHack 3.6.0. While the release contains some new features, the most exciting part of the announcement is perhaps the DevTeam's move towards a more open development model: "We've migrated our internal source repository to Git, with plans of providing a publicly available "current maintenance version" in the future." Bugzilla will be used for defect tracking.

NetHack 3.6.0 is dedicated to the memory of the author Terry Pratchett. Besides the Tourist character class inspired by his stories, NetHack now contains "a huge number of quotes from many of the Discworld novels."

Submission + - Twitter Is Testing Timelines That Aren't in Chronological Order (vice.com)

Submitted by sarahnaomi
sarahnaomi writes: Brace yourself, because your favorite social media platform might get turned on its head: Twitter is experimenting with a new way of sorting your timeline that breaks with the reverse-chronological format it has used since its inception.

Certain users have already been selected for testing, and a Twitter search for “timeline out of order” revealed a lot of confused Tweeters.

A Twitter spokesperson confirmed via email that this is “an experiment. We're continuing to explore ways to surface the best content for people using Twitter.” Presumably, Twitter is working with algorithms similar to the ones Facebook uses to order items on your News Feed.

Comment Re:No shocker there (Score 1) 440

by warich (#44758379) Attached to: What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored
This is what my school did. It made my math life hell. I passed on the skin of my teeth. There was one teacher that helped actually teach and she refused to use the book (save for a couple practice problems). The book was so old that literally every copy was falling apart. During my dual-enrollment (college and HS classes); I met a teacher that was able to teach math to me out of a blitzer. She made you take it apart and understand the individual parts of the EQN before she would LET you finish the problems. The mechanics of the equation were just as important as the application; which was more important than being able to ramble back theorems. I have no doubt that my upcoming college math classes will be easier for me, not only because of the competent teachers (that can choose their own freakin' books!), but because of the foundation that was laid by a teacher that KNEW what and how to teach to make it accessible for non-mathematicians. The kicker: She wouldn't let us use more than a dollar store basic calculator in class or on HW, but she would let us use it on tests. I reccomend to anyone struggling in math that you learn to use the functions of a calculator that is not too advanced, but still does algebra, and then learn new concepts without use of anything more than a basic calc. It makes you learn the mechanics behind EQNs. Whelp, there went my two cents in my first post. Hope it helps someone out...

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