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Facebook Ends Ban On Posts Asserting Covid-19 Was Man-Made (wsj.com) 451

Facebook has ended its ban on posts asserting Covid-19 was man-made or manufactured, a policy shift that reflects a deepening debate over the origins of the pandemic that was first identified in Wuhan, China, almost 18 months ago. An anonymous reader shares a report: The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report. "In light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and in consultation with public health experts, we will no longer remove the claim that COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured from our apps," Facebook said in a statement on its website Wednesday. President Biden on Wednesday ordered a U.S. intelligence inquiry into the origins of the virus. The White House has come under pressure to conduct its own investigation after China told the World Health Organization that it considered Beijing's part of the investigation complete, calling for efforts to trace the virus's origins to shift into other countries.

Comment Re:Can we stop putting this garbage on Slashdot (Score 1) 290

And who suggested not studying these viruses?

China's level 4 labs do not meet the purported standards, and it is very plausible Covid 2019 was released from one of them. What needs to happen is for China to take this stuff more seriously because if a US convoy to your country concludes in an investigation that spans a few days that your labs aren't up to standard, if it takes them that little time to come to that conclusion, then their labs really must be sub par and not equipped to handle these viruses. Are we going to have another Covid pandemic in 2030? Is that what you're proposing?

Comment Re:And you are still racist to say this. (Score 1) 290

Blaming domestic policy to distract from the source of the problem.

Keep engaging in your left wing right wing politics, and just like in 2003, and in 2019, China will be the source of yet another SARS pandemic.

So yes, case in point, your post is so deathly afraid to question the source, and instead points the finger elsewhere to distract and deflect what you probably do perceive as xenophobia.

Comment Re:Obviously engineered (Score 1, Insightful) 290

No one said they were hiding anything. In the summer of 2019, they were posting job ads to work at the lab to study a new strain of Covid.

I think what everyone defending China is doing is contorting questioning of their level 4 lab safety into some accusation of weaponizing Covid.

I believe the SARS pandemic from 2003 was also released from a Chinese lab by mishandling. At the very least, the world should ensure that their fake level 4 labs are brought up to that actual level, and not be a fake certification like everything else in China seems to be.

Comment Re:Can we stop putting this garbage on Slashdot (Score 0, Flamebait) 290

No it wouldn't. There is a correct way to study viruses, and the Chinese way of studying them in very unsafe conditions. There were reports from 2018 that the purported level 4 labs in China weren't anywhere close to that level, and recommendation was for US to give China money to make them more secure.

Comment Re:Media outlets? (Score 3, Informative) 189

No, we aren't listening to Facebook or Twitter as some authorities. They're simply trying to establish themselves as such, trying to interject into the national conversation to drive more eyeballs to their garbage service.

Do not draw broad generalizations from what private corporations do.

Comment Re:Linguistics: not *that* "master" (Score 2) 285

This distinction may make sense now. But what's stopping those ultra woke from protesting the status differences between master maestros and mere students. Are students not as valuable, not equal humans as maestros? How dare you put down the students and subjugate their contributions to the world of art?

Comment Re:But when is it coming to Quest? (Score 1) 31

You need the modded java client vivecraft, and either a premium USB link cable, beta oculus software to run on the charge cable, or virtual desktop to run wirelessly. This of course assumes you have a VR capable PC. Keep in mind that due to it's very nature, minecraft has difficulty maintaining frames. On my Index, I get better performance in Half-life: Alyx, than I do in minecraft, but it's still quite fun if it doesn't make you sick! The quest does have lower resolution targets for minecraft to keep up, and if you don't shell out for the premium link cable, there are bandwidth concerns, but you're probably going to be limited by minecraft itself. good luck!

Comment Re:Application design issue. (Score 1) 569

Not quite, the article states that they disabled swap (for some reason)

The reason for disabling swap is to induce memory pressure.

The goal is to make the OS handle low memory situations more gracefully. Ideally it would remain responsive, allowing the user to kill unneeded programs to free up memory. That improvement would also apply to scenarios where swap was enabled.

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Ross Perot, Founder and Former CEO of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems, Dies At 89 (cnbc.com) 149

Ross Perot, a self-made billionaire, independent presidential candidate, and philanthropist, has died at the age of 89 after a five-month battle with leukemia. Perot rose to fame after founding his first company, Electronic Data Systems, in 1962 with just $1,000 in savings. More than two decades later, he launched information technology services provider Perot Systems, which was acquired in 2009 by Dell for $3.9 billion. CNBC reports on his political accomplishments: As a disruptive third-party candidate for president, Perot ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility and protectionism. He won nearly 19% of the vote in the 1992 race -- by far the biggest slice of the electorate for a third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party in the 1912 election. Perot stood out from the political crowd for his quirks as much as his business credentials and lack of experience in establishment politics. "I don't have any experience in running up a $4 trillion debt. I don't have any experience in gridlock government, where nobody takes responsibility for anything and everybody blames everybody else," he said in a 1992 presidential debate. The shifting of U.S. jobs to Mexico created a "giant sucking sound," he famously said during the campaign. Perot was also a bit of a pack rat, collecting everything from whimsical toys to priceless artifacts. Perot owned the only Magna Carta ever allowed to leave Great Britain, which he loaned to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and in 2007, sold it for $20 million.

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