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Comment Re:Excise tax (Score 3, Insightful) 238

So now a set of cheapies runs you a grand. And you've incentivized the type of people who skid around on rubber that should have been retired thousands of miles ago to try to squeeze even more blood from that stone. I'm sure this will end in no tears...

Don't penalize safety-critical maintenance.

Medicine

The WHO Announces End of Its Testing of Hydroxychloroquine (upi.com) 80

"The World Health Organization announced Saturday that it discontinued its trial on hydroxychloroquine's effect on COVID-19 patients in hospitals," reports UPI: WHO said in a statement that it accepted a recommendation from the Solidarity Trial's International Steering Committee that it stop the testing of the drug. The decision to cease the trial came after interim trial results showed that the anti-malaria drug had little or no reduction in mortality of patients hospitalized for the novel coronavirus...

The National Institute of Health similarly halted a hydroxychloroquine trial last month after a study showed no harm or benefit from the anti-malaria drug's use in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Last month, British researchers similarly found no benefit of hydroxychloroquine.

Comment Re:Another PATENTLY RETARDED and SUPERFLUOUS promi (Score 0) 513

The Air Force has cars, the Navy has cars, the Army has cars. Do you think we should be combining the management of these assets into one combined "Car Force"?

Adding an additional service would result in redundant organizational resources, redundant training resources, and redundant facilities. It would further divide the armed forces skilled talent pool.

And what would you do with low-skill recruits in the Space Force? There are only so many space complex front gates to stand guard at. What are they going to do; stand guard in a cleanroom and ruin a billion dollars in satellite hardware the first time they discharge their sidearm?

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I bet Car Force One would be a bitchin' ride...

Comment Re:Apple will buy one... (Score 1) 79

...Or, it says that the company making the thing vets all potential customers to make sure that they don't torpedo their meal ticket by selling to a). criminal organizations, or b). security groups who would tattle to Apple.

Apple's probably going to have to figure this one out the old fashioned way.

Google

New Google Data Shows Dangers of Third-Party App Stores (onthewire.io) 67

Trailrunner7 writes: Google's position in the Internet world is a unique one. In one or another, the company controls or sees much of the traffic on the network and owns one of the larger computing arsenals on the planet. It's also in control of a decent chunk of the mobile world, thanks to Android's popularity, and securing that ecosystem is a tremendous challenge in both complexity and scope. Google scans more than 2 million apps every week for its 1.4 billion Android users. And it collects a lot of data from its users, of course. Some new data from the company shows that using only the Play store is much safer than using third-party app stores. The data Google has collected shows that users who install apps only from the Play store have far fewer potentially harmful apps installed on their devices than users who also sideload apps.

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