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Comment Recent related coverage from Businessweek (Score 3, Informative) 19

Comment Daszak role in Panel Caused its Cancellation (Score 1) 442

A group sponsored by Lancet was disbanded recently over Daszak's role in funding research at the WIV using US funds: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fcovid-19-panel-of-scientists-investigating-origins-of-virus-is-disbanded-11632571202%3Fst%3D5nlltn10wbbpkli%26amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Interesting timing with the release of the Intercept's reporting about the DARPA submission.

Submission + - AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine Data Questioned

whh3 writes: The NIAID issued a statement early Tuesday saying that they had concerns about the data that AstraZeneca included in their Monday-morning release touting the effectiveness of their Covid-19 vaccine. The New York Times has additional coverage.

Comment Re:Canâ(TM)t wait! (Score 4, Interesting) 130

I was born after the great "Right Stuff" generation so my perspective might be skewed. However, every time I see an expended SpaceX rocket land on the droneship I get chills. It's amazing that they are able to do this, in my opinion. I can't wait to watch what happens when, not if, they pull this off.

Will

Submission + - Creator of DirectX dies

whh3 writes: The creator of DirectX, Eric Engstrom, recently passed and VentureBeat and the WSJ have the coverage:

Mr. Engstrom, who died Dec. 1 at the age of 55, and his pals formed one of several factions within Microsoft trying to solve the game problem. Openly contemptuous of colleagues who didn’t share their ideas, they were so obnoxious that Brad Silverberg, who ran the Windows business, dubbed them the Beastie Boys. He had to fend off frequent demands for their dismissal. Yet the solution they developed, DirectX, beat anything else on offer inside Microsoft. DirectX software recognized games and allowed them direct access to the computer’s graphical capabilities, allowing a richer game experience than DOS could.

Comment Theater's Time To Die (Score 4, Funny) 87

Yes, I just posted to make the bad joke in the subject line.

That said, I've been thinking about this since I first heard the report and I want to see this movie so badly that I would gladly subscribe to whatever service buys it just to watch this. Which means I'll promptly forget to cancel my subscription after watching and they will have an ongoing customer. I can't see how any streaming service wouldn't want that.

Submission + - Exim security vulnerability exposes US voting officials according to report

whh3 writes: The Wall Street Journal has an "exclusive" scoop about a report detailing that several counties host their own mail servers using a version of Exim that is vulnerable to exploitation, exposing electing officials to potential interference during the upcoming cycle. According to the report:

Area 1 found that officials in six small jurisdictions in Michigan, Missouri, Maine and New Hampshire, for example, were using a buggy version of a free software product called Exim, which has been linked to online attacks conducted by the Russian intelligence service known as the GRU.

The report itself is online here and the Journal article is here.

Comment Not just for the legal success of the merger ... (Score 1) 4

It's almost important to DISH because they were coming under pressure to, you know, /use/ the spectrum they had acquired in recent auctions. The government was going to make them divest it unless they started to use it for its intended purpose. Until now, DISH has largely held it as an asset on their books to improve their financial position. Here's some information about the pinch that it was in: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sdxcentral.com%2Farticles%2Fnews%2Fdish-gets-deadline-reprieve-in-fcc-merger-approval%2F2019%2F11%2F.

Comment Safe, but not effective? (Score 1) 284

I am having trouble understanding the conclusions of this study. The statement in the conclusion (and, yes, I RTFA'd) says that it was safe. It did not seem to indicate at all that it was an effective treatment. Is that the message that I am supposed to draw from this? If not, what am I missing?

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