A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you
didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. -Leslie
Lamport
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Today is Wednesday, July 10, the 200th day of 2017 in the Gregorian
calendar, with 165 days remaining. This is the 181st day of Donald
Trump's presidency. There are 1,282 days remaining in his term,
assuming he doesn't resign or is otherwise removed from office.
"Richard Nixon would have been better off if I'd beaten him. Then he'd
be remembered for the EPA and China instead of Watergate." -George
McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) (More
George McGovern quotes)
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Big stories:
'Let
Obamacare fail,' Trump says as GOP health bill collapses. "We're not
going to own it. I'm not going to own it. I can tell you the Republicans
are not going to own it. We'll let Obamacare fail, and then the
Democrats are going to come to us." And to hell with the millions who
lose health insurance in the interim, apparently.
Trump
and Putin held a second, undisclosed, private conversation. Hours
into a dinner with world leaders who had gathered for the Group of 20
summit meeting, President Trump left his chair at the sprawling banquet
table and headed to where President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was
seated...
The
country's flood insurance program is sinking. Rescuing it won't be easy.
The NFIP, which must be reauthorized by the end of September, is nearly
$25 billion in the red- a debt that administrator Roy Wright says he
sees no way to pay back. "Only Congress can deal with that past loss,"
Wright said last week . "What we're focused on today is ensuring that
going forward, we're putting ourselves on a sound financial footing."
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U.S.
to create the independent U.S. Cyber Command, split off from NSA.
After months of delay, the Trump administration is finalizing plans to
revamp the nation's military command for defensive and offensive cyber
operations in hopes of intensifying America's ability to wage cyberwar
against the Islamic State group and other foes, according to U.S.
officials. Under the plans, U.S. Cyber Command would eventually be split
off from the intelligence-focused National Security Agency.
It's
c(still) never Trump's fault. With the latest collapse of the
Obamacare repeal, the president has wasted political capital, squandered
a reputation for dealmaking, and shown himself to be a poor strategist
and tactician.
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Today is Tuesday, July 18, the 199th day of 2017 in the Gregorian
calendar, with 166 days remaining. This is the 180th day of Donald
Trump's presidency. There are 1,283 days remaining in his term,
assuming he doesn't resign or is otherwise removed from office.
Health
care overhaul collapses as two more Republican Senators defect.
Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas declared on Monday
night that they would oppose the Senate Republican bill to repeal the
Affordable Care Act, killing for now a seven-year-old promise to
overturn President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.
Why
Canada is able to do things better. A country where impoverished
citizens rely on crowdfunding to finance medical operations isn't a
country that can protect the health of its citizens. A country that
can't ensure the daily operation of Penn Station isn't a country that
can prevent transportation gridlock. A country that contracts out the
operations of prisons to the lowest private bidder isn't a country that
can rehabilitate its criminals.
Artificial
sweeteners don't help people lose weight, review finds... there is
no solid evidence that sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose help
people manage their weight. And observational data suggest that the
people who regularly consume these sweeteners are also more likely to
develop future health problems, though those studies can't say those
problems are caused by the sweeteners.
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Opioid
dose reduction may benefit patients with chronic pain. Reducing or
discontinuing long-term opioid therapy may improve pain, function and
quality of life among patients with chronic pain; however, these
findings are supported by very low-quality evidence, according to a
review published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
'Bathroom
bill' targeted by powerful North Texas business leaders. Some
powerful North Texas business leaders on Monday pressed Gov. Greg Abbott
to drop plans for transgender bathroom legislation they said would
discriminate against Texans and be bad for business in the state.
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With ComiCon under way, don't be surprised if you see stories about
widespread computer network failures. All the people who can fix them
are in San Diego this week.
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Today is Monday, July 17, the 198th day of 2017 in the Gregorian
calendar, with 167 days remaining. This is the 179th day of Donald
Trump's presidency. There are 1,284 days remaining in his term,
assuming he doesn't resign or is otherwise removed from office.
On this day in 1955, Disneyland
is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California. By 1965
around 50 million people had visited. Further parks were built in
Florida, Paris and Shanghai, among others. The parks remain a major and
iconic part of the The Walt Disney Company.
"The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and
obsolescence." -Art
Linkletter (July 17, 1912 - May 26, 2010) (More
Art Linkletter quotes) (Linkletter's first radio job was at
station KGB in San Diego.)
McCain's
surgery may be more serious than thought, experts say. "Usually, a
blood clot in this area would be a very concerning issue," said Dr.
Nrupen Baxi, an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. He added, "The recovery
time from a craniotomy is usually a few weeks."
'Dirt
Is Good': Why kids need exposure to germs. "So that dirty pacifier
that fell on the floor- if you just stick it in your mouth and lick it,
and then pop it back in little Tommy's mouth, it's actually going to
stimulate their immune system. Their immune system's going to become
stronger because of it."
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Doctors
report removing 27 contact lenses from a woman's eye. Doctors were
startled to find 17 contact lenses clumped together as they were
injecting anesthesia into the woman's eye at Solihull Hospital,
southeast of Birmingham, England. They then recovered another 10 lenses.
Part of their surprise, she said, was because the patient hadn't
complained of any irritation.
Microsoft
cuts off Windows 10 support early for some PCs. An entire generation
of PCs, most only three or four years old, are now unable to receive new
feature updates to Windows 10. If Microsoft doesn't deliver a patch
within the next six to nine months, those PCs could be cut off from
security fixes.
As
opioid overdoses exact a higher price, communities ponder who should be
saved. As their budgets strain, communities have begun questioning
how much money and effort they should be spending to deal with
overdoses, especially in cases involving people who have taken
near-fatal overdoses multiple times. State and local officials say it
might be time for "tough love": pushing soaring medical costs onto drug
abusers or even limiting how many times first responders can save an
individual's life.
The
laws of Australia will trump the laws of mathematics. Despite
calling the laws of mathematics 'commendable', the prime minister of
Australia told ZDNet the only law that applies in Australia is the law
of Australia when it comes to legislating decryption.
What's
actually wrong with the U.S. health system. A new report shows why
American health care performs so poorly compared to its rivals—and
suggests the Obamacare replacement proposals aren't the way to fix it.
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At
site of Scopes trial, Darrow Statue Belatedly Joins Bryan's. Some
have taken grave offense at the addition. After all, Darrow, an agnostic
and the most famous lawyer of his day, was the man who lost the famous
Scopes "monkey trial" at the Rhea County Courthouse in 1925, though not
before denouncing what he called the "fool ideas" of biblical
literalism. Since 2005, a statue of Darrow's sparring partner at the
trial, the orator William Jennings Bryan, has graced the courthouse lawn.
Why
blocked Twitter users are suing President Trump. They argue that
barring them from his popular social-media feed violates the First
Amendment to the Constitution. The lawsuit, which raises interesting
questions about what constitutes a public forum, as well as the
boundaries of free-speech rights on the Web, comes as Trump continues to
draw concern about his novel and erratic use of social media.
The
Projection President. Months into his tenure, Trump still responds
to controversies by lobbing the same charges at his opponents.
Poll
finds Trump's standing weakened since springtime. Approaching six
months in office, Trump's overall approval rating has dropped to 36
percent from 42 percent in April. His disapproval rating has risen five
points to 58 percent. Overall, 48 percent say they "disapprove strongly"
of Trump's performance in office, a level never reached by former
presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and reached only in the second
term of George W. Bush in Post-ABC polling.
Trump
visa policy changes could have broad consequences for science. These
include requiring students to reapply for visas each year, overhauling
the H1-B visa program, and pushing for a merit-based system for
allocating visas to those seeking permanent residence in the U.S.
Joe Scarborough says Trump
is killing the Republican Party. "I did not leave the Republican
Party. The Republican Party left its senses. The political movement that
once stood athwart history resisting bloated government and military
adventurism has been reduced to an amalgam of talk-radio resentments.
President Trump's Republicans have devolved into a party without a
cause, dominated by a leader hopelessly ill-informed about the basics of
conservatism, U.S. history and the Constitution."
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