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Submission + - RFK Jr pledges to find the cause of autism by September (bbc.com)

skam240 writes: US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has pledged "a massive testing and research effort" to determine the cause of autism in five months.

Experts cautioned that finding the causes of autism spectrum disorder – a complex syndrome that has been studied for decades – will not be straightforward, and called the effort misguided and unrealistic.

Kennedy, who has promoted debunked theories suggesting autism is linked to vaccines, said during a cabinet meeting on Thursday that a US research effort will "involve hundreds of scientists from around the world."

"By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures," Kennedy said.

Comment Re:This was not a screw-up (Score 1) 410

Americans did manage to hit Chinese embassy with a precision bomb while bombing Serbia.

American story is that it was an accident.

Serbian story is that Chinese were helping them out with signal intelligence, and Americans considered the embassy a legitimate military target.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FUnited_States_bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade

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How To Find Bad Programmers 359

AmberShah writes "The job post is your potential programmer's first impression of your company, so make it count with these offputting features. There are plenty of articles about recruiting great developers, but what if you are only interested in the crappy ones?" I think much of the industry is already following these guidelines.

Comment Re:This is why I like BSD (Score 2, Insightful) 591

BSD insists on putting ``ports'' under /usr/local, while Linux insists on not using /usr/local for anything that comes with the system. Both approaches produce failures for the users: programs not starting, for example. More importantly, the lack of cross-platform compatibility imposes tremendous costs on the UNIX community.

Comment Re:Sony (Score 1) 890

Me too!!!! I was reading this thread waiting to pound on Sony. Surprise, I was not the only one. I used to buy Sony because stuff just worked. But in the last 5 years, the quality has deteriorated rapidly, all over the product line.
I bought their latest SW radio/travel alarm clock for $100, a little cheaper than I paid for the last (still working) model 10 years ago. It fell apart after 2 weeks of travel. In disgust, I shipped it back to their customer support, with the note that said in effect "Keep this POS, I am never buying Sony again." They called me to ask me what my note meant, I said "keep the POS". They said they were not allowed to do that, I hung up. They shipped the sorry POS back to me without any kind of apology note. From that point on, I just skip Sony when shopping for anything.
The professional quality monitor GDM-F400, 3 years old, is rolling in and out of focus as I type. The VAIO portable broke after 6 months. Radio was the last straw.

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