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Schools decision to refuse girls right to say no if boys ask them to dance, challenged by pupil’s parent
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A mother has been left outraged after her daughter’s school introduced a policy that states students aren’t allowed to say “no” when asked to dance.

Natalie Richard, from Utah, was speaking to her sixth-grade daughter about the upcoming Valentine’s Day dance at her school, Kanesville Elementary, when she was told about the controversial rule.

Her daughter explained that teachers had told the students, aged between 11 and 12, that they had to say “yes” when someone asked them dance.

#éducation #culture_du_viol #consentement

Net neutrality repeal was decided after ’enormous numbers’ of fake people sent messages of support for Trump administration
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Lesbian relationships only exist because men find it a turn-on, claims study | The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/lesbian-relationships-men-turn-on-same-sex-female-attraction-menelaos

A new study that attempted to reveal the origins of lesbianism, is claiming that same-sex relationships in women only exist because it turns men on.

Published on Science Direct, the report by Menelaos Apostolou, a male professor at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus comes to the conclusion that lesbian and bisexual attraction all stems from male desire.

So, how many lesbians did they interview to come to this jaw-dropping conclusion?

Well, the study surveyed a derisory 1,509 people and, wait for it, all of them were heterosexual.

“#science”

Theresa May to create new internet that would be controlled and regulated by government
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/theresa-may-internet-conservatives-government-a7744176.html

Theresa May is planning to introduce huge regulations on the way the internet works, allowing the government to decide what is said online. Particular focus has been drawn to the end of the manifesto, which makes clear that the Tories want to introduce huge changes to the way the internet works. “Some people say that it is not for government to regulate when it comes to technology and the internet,” it states. "We (...)

#contrôle #web #surveillance

Man accidentally ’deletes his entire company’ with one line of bad code

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Mr Marsala’s problem is far from the first time that someone has accidentally destroyed their own system by missing a mistake. Indeed, responses to his post mostly referenced a similar thread posted two years ago, with the headline “Monday morning mistake”.

That error saw someone accidentally lose access to their entire server, after they didn’t notice a stray space in the code.

‘Deleted Entire Company With One Line of Code’ Claim Turned Out to be Just a Hoax
▻http://www.hoax-slayer.net/deleted-entire-company-with-one-line-of-code-claim-turned-out-to-be-jus

Brief Analysis:
The man later admitted that the post was just a hoax. He told an Italian media outlet that the post was a ‘guerrilla marketing operation’ designed to promote his server management services startup.
Example:
I run a small hosting provider with more or less 1535 customers and I use Ansible to automate some operations to be run on all servers. Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the code above this line. All servers got deleted and the offsite backups too because the remote storage was mounted just before by the same script (that is a backup maintenance script).

#sécurité #marketing #wtf

#Cuban medics in #Haiti put the world to shame | The Independent
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They are the real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster, the human catastrophe on America’s doorstep which Barack Obama pledged a monumental US humanitarian mission to alleviate. Except these heroes are from America’s arch-enemy Cuba, whose doctors and nurses have put US efforts to shame.

A medical brigade of 1,200 Cubans is operating all over earthquake-torn and cholera-infected Haiti, as part of Fidel Castro’s international medical mission which has won the socialist state many friends, but little international recognition.

#Google voice search records and keeps conversations people have around their phones – but the files can be deleted | News | Lifestyle | The Independent
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Google could have a record of everything you have said around it for years, and you can listen to it yourself.

The company quietly records many of the conversations that people have around its products.

The feature works as a way of letting people search with their voice, and storing those recordings presumably lets Google improve its language recognition tools as well as the results that it gives to people.

#surveillance

Homeopathy effective for 0 out of 68 illnesses, study finds | Health News | Lifestyle | The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/homeopathy-therapeutic-dead-end-systematic-review-no-evidence-it-work

A leading scientist has declared homeopathy a "therapeutic dead-end" after a systematic review concluded the controversial treatment was no more effective than #placebo drugs. Professor Paul Glasziou, a leading academic in evidence based medicine at Bond University, was the chair of a working party by the National Health and Medical Research Council which was tasked with reviewing the evidence of 176 trials of homeopathy to establish if the treatment is valid.(Permalink)

#santé #médicament

Terreur partout, humanité nulle part - Un texte très nécessaire de Thomas Serres
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Cela fait quinze ans que la guerre contre la terreur a débuté, sans autre résultat qu’une interminable fuite en avant. Jacques Chirac, homme politique réactionnaire et malhonnête mais ne manquant pas d’intelligence, avait eu le bon sens de condamner l’agression anglo-américaine en Irak. Plus de dix ans plus tard, les technocrates sur-diplômés usurpant le titre de socialiste n’ont que la guerre et la répression pour répondre au meurtre de 130 de leurs concitoyens. Durant cette décennie, Saddam a été pendu, Al-Zarqaoui éparpillé, Ben Laden fusillé et escamoté. Durant cette décennie, Obama a validé tranquillement des milliers d’exécution extra-judiciaires, sans d’ailleurs qu’on ne remette en cause son humanité. Durant cette décennie, le péril terroriste n’a pas diminué, et s’est au contraire couplé avec la guerre civile syrienne pour pousser des centaines de milliers d’individus à l’exil.

Bien sûr, une fois trouvé un accord sur les bases de la transition politique en Syrie, une action énergique des puissances globales et régionales est en mesure de défaire rapidement Da’esh, en tant que structure étatique territorialisée. Mais cela n’implique nullement la fin des nébuleuses terroristes et des attentats. Il est tout bonnement improbable qu’un monde où cohabitent l’injustice, la tyrannie et la kalachnikov à 2,000 euros se trouve pacifié par la grâce d’une intervention militaire, d’un tapis de bombe et d’une opération de reconstruction permettant l’enrichissement de géants du BTP. Cette formule n’est pas magique, elle est parfaitement stupide.

Homeopathy conference ends in chaos after delegates take hallucinogenic drug - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent
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An alternative medicine conference has ended in chaos in Germany after dozens of delegates took a LSD-like drug and started suffering from hallucinations.

Broadcaster NDR described the 29 men and women “staggering around, rolling in a meadow, talking gibberish and suffering severe cramps”.

The group of “Heilpraktikers” was discovered at the hotel where they held their conference in the town of Handeloh, south of Hamburg, on Friday.

No one recovered sufficiently to be interviewed by police until Monday, a spokesperson said.

Torsten Passie, a member of the German government’s expert commission for narcotics, told NDR: “It must have been a multiple overdose. That does not support the view that the people concerned took the hallucinogen knowingly.

“One has to assume that people were not told about the substance, its effects and risks before taking it.”

Police are reportedly looking into possibilities including the drug being taken as a joint experiment, or it being furtively given to conference participants as a prank.

US college ’forced’ medical students to have vaginal examinations - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent
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Two US medical students were forced to undergo almost weekly vaginal probes in front of students and instructors despite protesting against the procedure, and were threatened with being “blacklisted” from finding jobs at local hospitals if they did not comply, it has been alleged.

The students from Valencia College in Orlando, Florida, are suing the university for violating their rights, alleging they had been told the sonograms performed by fellow students would be voluntary, though in practice this was not the case.

The procedure involved a transvaginal ultrasound probe in which a technician inserts a lubricated probe to detect problems with fertility or other issues, according to the lawsuit, which describes the probe as large and not recommended for women who have not had sexual intercourse.

je sais pas, ça ressemble à du #viol

▻http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/mothers-prevented-from-breastfeeding-their-children-at-a-conference-d

“Louise Burns said she burst into tears when staff members at the five-star venue asked her to cover herself and her baby with an oversized napkin in order to avoid “causing offence” to other guests.”

#breastfeeding #puritanism #hypocrisy (because of the part “Consequently we have already arranged for an extension to the baby changing facilities, and a quiet area for mothers and babies to ensure that all who wish to attend can.”)

UK’s first plus-size fashion magazine “Slink” hits the shelves: ’Style doesn’t stop at size 8’ - The Independent
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A glossy magazine using plus-size models goes on sale worldwide today - at a time when the fashion industry seems to be embracing diversity.

SLiNK, the UK’s first plus-size fashion magazine distributed across 15 countries, is hoping to tap into a growing demand for publications that, in the words of editor Rivkie Baum, realise “beauty and style doesn’t stop at a size 8”.

“We believe that women are tired of seeing the same unobtainable image. Women today are much more savvy,” Baum says.

“As the plus-size retail sector continues to outgrow its straight size counterpart, the market is crying out for an inspirational plus-sized publication.”

("Plus-size" = femme normale)

via @fil

#presse_féminine #mode #poids

Alcohol is far more deadly than cannabis, former minister Norman Baker says - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/alcohol-is-far-more-deadly-than-cannabis-former-minister-norman-baker

Alcohol is a much greater threat to people’s health than cannabis, former Home Office minister Norman Baker has warned, saying its dangers are being underplayed.

Pointing to figures that show there were only 13 deaths related to cannabis use last year compared with more than 7,000 caused by alcohol, the Lib Dem MP says there is “hysteria” over drug use in the UK.

#alcool #cannabis #santé

Pendant ce temps : Yahoo Bashed

Explications en détails:

▻http://www.futuresouth.us/yahoo_hacked.html

Attackers supposedly used the bug to create a botnet of Unix hosts.
Also affected: Lycos and WinZip

▻http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/shellshock-romanian-hackers-are-accessing-yahoo-servers-claims-securi

▻http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/white-hat-claims-yahoo-and-winzip-hacked-by-shellshock-exploiters

#shellshock
#hacking
#bug

Computer becomes first to pass #Turing Test in artificial intelligence milestone - The Independent 08.05.2014
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Eugene Goostman, a computer programme pretending to be a young Ukrainian boy, successfully duped enough humans to pass the iconic test

une sorte d’#intelligence_artificielle

You Can Close The Studio, Amazon Patents Photographing On Seamless White
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I am not really sure how to tag this other than a big #fail for the USPTO, or a huge Kudos for Amazon’s IP attorneys. In a patent simply called Studio arrangement Amazon took IP ownership on what we all call shooting against a seamless white backdrop.

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Patent unearthed earlier this month included instructions such as “activate rear light source” and “position subject on elevated platform”

WHO report: #Antibiotic #resistance happening right now all over the world - The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/who-report-antibiotic-resistance-happening-right-now-all-over-the-wor

Antibiotic resistance, which can lead to minor injuries and common post-operative infections becoming fatal, is no longer a prediction for the future but is happening “right now”, the World Health Organisation has said.

In a stark report, global health officials said that antibiotic resistance, the process whereby bacteria evolve to resist the drugs we use to combat them, “threatens the achievements of modern medicine” and will have “devastating” consequences unless “every country and individual” in the world takes action to prevent its further spread.

L’algorithme de #reconnaissance_faciale qui surpasse les humains - Medium
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Nous mêmes avons parfois du mal à reconnaître une même personne sur deux photos différentes, du fait que la lumière, la pose ou l’expression soit différente. Jusqu’à présent, les algorithmes avaient le même problème que nous. Et bien ce n’est plus le cas, explique le blog de ArXiv sur Medium, en pointant vers une étude chinoise où des chercheurs ont mis au point un algorithme capable de surpasser les humains dans la reconnaissance des visages. Avec des résultats de reconnaissance faciale très élevés (les meilleurs logiciels sont capables d’identifier quelqu’un à 97 ou 98%) et des applications qui se répandent de plus en plus au-delà des seuls systèmes de #surveillance (comme NameTag), rapporte The Independent, reste à savoir comment l’encadrer pour ne pas signer la fin de l’anonymat… La règle du consentement ne (...)

#anonymat

Modified syringe uses miniature sponges to seal a gunshot wound in 15 seconds
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/modified-syringe-uses-miniature-sponges-to-seal-a-gunshot-wound-in-15

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