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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/watch-out-for-privacy-pitfalls-if-your-school-is-suddenly-online-only/

Hundreds of colleges and universities are suddenly shutting their doors and making a rapid switch to distance learning in an effort to slow the spread of novel coronavirus disease.

Okay.

Likewise, hundreds of K-12 districts nationwide have either already followed suit or are likely to in the coming days.

What? Why? . . .

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/covid-19-2.001-640x480.jpeg
According to that chart, Kids in K-12 have a really low death rate, and in fact may be more likely to die from run of the mill flu than COVID-19. I guess, it could help to contain the infection, but still it seems like a bit of an over reaction.

Even when all of the immediate logistical and technical needs have been triaged and handled, though, there remains another complicating factor. While the United States doesn't have all that much in the way of privacy legislation, we do, in fact, have a law protecting some student educational data. It's called the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA.

So, yeah, I'm pretty sure that a lot of places have a fairly extensive Distance Education program. Which would seem like a solved problem to me.

Usually educational organizations—colleges, universities, or local K-12 districts—have agreements in place with certain dedicated educational software vendors such as Blackboard or Canvas to use their tools. Compliance with FERPA is ideally part of those agreements, although adherence can be somewhat hit and miss. But when everyone is suddenly scrambling for new tools as best they can in response to a pandemic, privacy considerations may fall by the wayside.

They're predicting that some may find it expedient to use inappropriate tools for the job. Yeah, I guess I could see that.

So if you need to get to the US from Europe, stop at a Trump resort first.

Trump’s travel ban sidesteps his own European resorts

^{The president announced new travel restrictions on Europeans as the coronavirus pandemic escalated, but a few key spots on the continent were spared.}

President Donald Trump’s new European travel restrictions have a convenient side effect: They exempt nations where three Trump-owned golf resorts are located.

That's the Kwik Kourteous Konvenience you expect from Trump resorts.

These viruses are "foreign" viruses (listen to his speech). Thus good people coming from Trump resorts cannot possibly have been in contact with these "foreign" viruses.

We live in interesting times.

Trump screwed the pooch here. He gutted the CDC. Rejected covid tests - leaving the USA blind to the actual number of infections. Stopped travel from Europe in a panicky last-ditch effort to look like he was doing something.

The markets were not impressed. The one thing that he had going for him -- the bull market -- has ended. Day after day of pain.

We all knew he would fuck up and cause a recession. Well, here we go. I realize he is not the only factor that caused this, but he sure as shit didn't help.

Share your best toilet paper based recipes below.

So, uhhhhh, you attend a public event. You, and a couple hundred other folk attend this public event. It's an interesting event, and you're having a good time. Then, some rich bastard with armed body guards insults you, gestures threateningly, and finally threatens to slap you.

First, how do you handle the situation?

Second, what does that rich bastard deserve?

An email from gab:

Hello Friends,

For three years now dozens of academics, self-proclaimed "researchers," unemployed activists, and propagandists who call themselves "journalists" have smeared and gaslit Gab's community as "hateful." There have been several academic studies, including one that was funded by American taxpayers, performed analyzing a minority of posts from a negligible amount of users on our platform. These studies were then cited by Big Tech to ban Gab from app stores, hosting providers, payment processors, and more.

So we decided to fight back by highlighting the massive amount of "hate" on Twitter, tracking it, and making it easy to explore. To do this we started collecting all of the replies to President Trump's tweets and analyzing them for "hateful" words. Being that "hate" is subjective, we published a list of the words we are using right on the front page of the tool we built.

Next time someone says Gab is filled with "hate" you can show them this tool.

The data is being collected in real time, so as the President tweets and hateful users reply the page will update. What we've discovered so far is out of 100,000+ tweets, an astonishing 18% of them are "hateful."

You won't see many of these hateful tweets in the reply threads to the President on Twitter. That's because Twitter's artifical intelligence buries these hateful replies far down the thread past a point where any normal person is going to scroll and read. With our new tool you can quickly search and see all of the "hate" the President recieves on a daily basis. Enjoy!

It really doesn't much matter what your political leanings are. Take a look at the "hate machine", and see what you think of it. At the least, it's a partial measure of how divided our nation is today.

https://liberalhatemachine.com/

Last year the TV show Innovation Nation highlighted an inventor who had produced a shirt that never stinks. The way it worked was that there were silver threads woven in with the cloth. Silver kills bacteria, they explained, and body odor us caused by bacteria.
        I didn’t know that about silver, and they never explained why or how silver kills bacteria.
        This made me wonder why all door and faucet handles, light switches, hand rails, and all sorts of other places that spread germs in hospitals aren’t silver plated?
        Of course, this wouldn’t help with Covid-19, the flu, or common cold, since they’re viral, not bacteriological. Or would it? Is silver as deadly to viruses as it is to bacteria?

Just...read this LOL https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/matt-gaetz-mocked-coronavirus-wearing-223948359.html

Gaetz is a special kind of childish moron even for the Trump administration, and Lady Karma really could not have picked a better target to shit thin shit all over. I hope this guy's wetting himself every time his throat itches. Maybe pickling himself in booze-a-hol will help a bit...though, note to Mr. Gaetz, the recipe calls for isopropyl alcohol and glycerin, and it's topical, not oral.

...okay, there are two people karma could choose that would be even better: Donald Trump and Mike Pence. Pence is for me at the top of this list, since his willful inaction and religious whackaloonery precipitated an HIV crisis in Indiana so severe the federal government had to intervene. Drowning slowly in his own lung exudate would be a fitting and very poetic fate for him...and don't worry, after he's done it'll only take a few minutes in Hellfire before it's all evaporated out!

Trump being taken down by the virus he keeps calling a hoax and blaming on the Democrats (?!) would be perfect too. He's in his 70s, overweight as hell (if he's 239 pounds, I'm Callista Flockheart!), apparently doesn't sleep much, and subsists on a steady regimen of Diet Coke, covfefe, and hamberders. Oh, and well-done steak with ketchup, the nekulturny bastard.

But the best part of this? CPAC. This happened at CPAC, the epicenter of coronavirus trolling. I can't think of anything more fitting than CPAC turning into the major vector of coronavirus spread, and taking down the most deserving people in the nation. Of course they'll get the best treatment on earth--they have Medicare for All, after all, and on our dime!--but even if it doesn't kill these three waterheads, I'll still laugh myself hoarse.

The absolute best outcome would be if this virus ends the Trump administration, specifically because of their utter malicious incompetence in handling it. Let us not forget Trump's practice of hiring worthless yes-men has hollowed out the Cabinet and many federal agencies, not to mention he's explicitly gutted the CDC and specifically the pandemic response team. I can't think of a more poetically-just outcome of their willful mishandling of this pandemic than having it destroy them.

We live in interesting times indeed. Sweet Lady Karma, I wish you good hunting...

Feel free to flame away, everyone. I give fewer fucks than Deadpool barebacking a rabid honey badger well into the third day of a cocaine-and-PCP bender.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/hillary-clinton-bidens-vp-john-sununu

Is Hillary THAT stupid?

Is Biden?

Rumor | Intel's upcoming 6nm and 3nm Xe GPUs to be built by TSMC following the 10nm debacle

These rumors have cropped up repeatedly. Doing it for a relatively small volume enterprise/HPC product line might make the most sense.

...is remind me of Strange Brew...but then again, I AM CANADIAN!

“My brother and I used to say that drownin' in beer was like heaven, eh? Now he's not here, and I've got two soakers... this isn't heaven. This sucks!”

"It's a jelly."