[continued from previous message]

companies and demand is soaring, but far from driving the price down, the
cost has soared: from $0.92 a dose ten years ago up to $15.00 a dose. Why is this? Google "Opioid Crisis" for the answer.

Drug companies in the US spend tens of billions a year advertising drugs:
how does this help anyone's health? The USA has some of the highest levels
of anxiety and depression in the world: not surprising when you consider
that the purpose of advertising is to make people more anxious and unhappy. Naturally, the drug companies are ready with a handful of pills to relieve
the anxiety: followed by another handful to alleviate the side-effects from
the first lot! A happy, contented population would be terrible for the drug companies bottom line: so must be averted at all costs.

Attempts to introduce competition into the NHS have been a disaster and, rightly, resisted by the public.

How do you choose the people who are passionate about caring for others? Fortunately, they are largely self-selecting: you set up an organisation
whose explicit purpose and top priority is caring for others. Pay enough
for a comfortable living, but not so much that you attract those who are
"just in it for the money". Beyond that, it is a case of trying to create a society as a whole in which caring for others is viewed as a noble passion,
and not despised and excoriated as "Socialism".

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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 10:31:07 +0100
From: antonomasia <ant@notatla.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Should AI be used to catch shoplifters? (cnn.com, R 31 20))

Instead of mocking such efforts you could recognise that prior to
the crime of leaving the shop with goods not paid for there could
have been preparation (perhaps conspiracy but not actual theft).

example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DOGcYFG7WzaY

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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:01:42 -0400
From: Dan Pritts <danno@dogcheese.net>
Subject: Re: How *not* to kill a news cycle ... (Slade, RISKS-31.20)

you might think it clever to release it in a difficult format, like an unsearchable PDF.

It's possible this was the motivation. It's also possible that they wanted
to be REALLY sure that they didn't fall prey to the well-known RISK of PDFs that aren't really redacted. RISKS-22.97 has an account of the DOJ
themselves falling prey to this issue.

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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 06:47:04 +0800
From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: Re: Battle for .amazon Domain Pits Retailer Against South American
Nations (E-Week)

"MS" == Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> writes:

https://www.eweek.com/security/oracle-patches-3-year-old-java-deserialization-flaw-in-april-update

You mean https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/world/americas/amazon-domain-name.html

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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 09:45:41 +0800
From: Richard Stein <rmstein@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: A video showed a parked Tesla Model S exploding in Shanghai
(RISKS-31.20)

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/31/20%23subj5

Resubmitting original post. Visible text omitted comparison between Li-Air Battery and TNT energy density.

The energy density of a Lithium storage battery, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_air_battery
In the same table, TNT
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitrotoluene
is 4.1 MJ/kg.

More than 2X!

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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:53:09 +0100
From: Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Huawei's code is a steaming pile... (Shapir, RISKS-31.17)

Juggling chainsaws is perfectly safe if you are a highly skilled juggler
and you know exactly what you are doing and can control the surrounding environment.

But wouldn't it be better if you could use a programming language
which did *not* force you to juggle chainsaws?

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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 11:39:37 +0300
From: Amos Shapir <amos083@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Huawei's code is a steaming pile... (Ward, RISKS-31.21)

C does not force anyone to use strcpy() etc., it had always provided also similar length-limiting functions strncpy() etc.

Besides, C is a language which lets the programmer control every bit of the machine, while also demanding that the programmer knows exactly what s/he's doing (and providing a lot of opportunity for shooting oneself in the foot).

So strcpy() is provided for instances where a programmer is sure that any possible string given as a source, would never overflow the one given as destination. Keep in mind that C was invented at a time when saving 2-3 assembly instructions on every iteration of the copy loop, was considered a significant improvement!

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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 19:59:36 +0100
From: Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk>
Subject: Re: EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist
Content' (TechDirt)

There is a simple fix to this particular problem: the "competent authority"
has to be a named person who signs an affidavit under penalty of perjury
that they have personally reviewed the request and that every web page that they demand to be taken down does indeed contain "terrorist" content. So
if, as in this case, they demand the takedown of the entire Project
Gutenberg archive, it would be sufficient to find a single file in the
archive that is not "terrorist content" (perhaps ebook number 3651 which the one listing the square root of four to one million decimal places), and the "competent authority" will be on their way to jail.

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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:39:39 +0100
From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
Subject: Re: An Interesting Juxtaposition (Wirchenko, RISKS-31.20)

I use an expensive (allegedly) truck GPS at work. It allegedly knows my
vehicle is 6'10" wide. So why does it seem to prefer width restrictions (typically 6'6") and country lanes?

My guess is that while Google has a lot of live data and prefers roads it
knows are flowing, the expensive sat-navs rely on national speed limits. So rather than picking a road where the traffic is flowing at 50mph, it would rather pick a country lane where there is no speed limit. The assumption is that the National Speed Limit is 60mph (it isn't, it's 50mph for a light van
on a single-carriageway road), and that I can actually *do* that speed - I daren't, many of these roads are not merely single-carriageway but single track, sunken, with blind bends, and anything much over 20mph is foolhardy.

I think Gene should be blaming the expensive GPS's, not the cheap ones!
Many of my colleagues use Google Maps or Waze because they're so much
better.

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