Covid 19 coronavirus: Reaching herd immunity unlikely in the US, experts now believe
4 May, 2021 12:10 AM
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Though there is consensus among scientists and public health experts that the US herd immunity threshold is not attainable, it may not be all bad news. Photo / Saul Martinez, The New York Times
Though there is consensus among scientists and public health experts that the US herd immunity threshold is not attainable, it may not be all bad news. Photo / Saul Martinez, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Apoorva Mandavilli
Widely circulating coronavirus variants and persistent hesitancy about vaccines will keep the goal out of reach. The virus is here to stay, but vaccinating the most vulnerable may be enough to restore normalcy.
Juha Saarinen: Password hell enough to drive you crackers
4 May, 2021 05:35 AM
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Passphrases are now a fact of life, replacing easy to crack passwords. Photo / 123RF
OPINION Thursday is annual World Password Day that will be celebrated by the collective groaning of hundreds of millions of computer users who just want to log in and not worry about difficult to remember passphrases.
Because that s what you have to use, a phrase and not a secret word. Use a word and the one who shall pass is the hacker with a custom-built brute-force credentials cracking computer with graphics card clusters that can issue hundreds of millions of guesses per second in parallel.
Covid 19 coronavirus: India records highest daily death toll since pandemic began
3 May, 2021 01:31 AM
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India s human crisis spirals with coronavirus cases climbing each day. Video / Getty
news.com.au
By: Rohan Smith
Help is on its way but it can t arrive soon enough as India records its highest death toll in a single day since the coronavirus pandemic began.
International aid to alleviate India s dire oxygen shortage arrived in the South Asian nation on Sunday, as its coronavirus death toll climbed to a grim new record.
The country of 1.3 billion reported 3689 coronavirus deaths on Sunday.
There were nearly 400,000 new cases registered across India in what is the world s fastest-growing outbreak.
Lee Edwards, Livermore
Last week, I listed just a few names of minorities that were killed or murdered since 2021 began.
I purposefully left out the fact that these persons were all law enforcement officers who have died while protecting us. Omitting facts is a typical progressive way of influencing the reader to think only one way.
I wonder how many of those that read my short letter jumped to the conclusion those listed were killed by police.
The point of all this is to try to get everyone to look deeper into the truths that all sides feed you. Emotional, knee jerk reactions may just prove to be wrong.