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Drugs firms reach $260m opioid settlement
Four drugs companies have reached a $260m (£200m) deal over their role in fuelling the US opioid crisis.
The agreement means that a nine-week trial, which had been scheduled to start in Cleveland, has been avoided. It settles accusations by two counties against Israel-based drugmaker Teva and drug distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. A trial for Walgreens Boots Alliance, which had also been accused, will be rescheduled. The last-minute deal with Summit and Cuyahoga counties was announced on Monday by the judge overseeing the trial in Ohio. It had been closely watched as the first of thousands of similar cases to go forward. -
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/happily-never-after-heres-why-disney-doesnt-support-linux
The top respondents are people who are suggesting you steal the content you want. . . doesn't really solve the issue, if anything is just makes it worse because Disney may never see the number of people that are subscribed and unable to use their service and cancel it.
Getting them to change.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/happily-never-after-heres-why-disney-doesnt-support-linux
The top respondents are people who are suggesting you steal the content you want. . . doesn't really solve the issue, if anything is just makes it worse because Disney may never see the number of people that are subscribed and unable to use their service and cancel it.
Getting them to change.
Simply refusing to be customers is something that they will never see, either.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/happily-never-after-heres-why-disney-doesnt-support-linux
The top respondents are people who are suggesting you steal the content you want. . . doesn't really solve the issue, if anything is just makes it worse because Disney may never see the number of people that are subscribed and unable to use their service and cancel it.
Getting them to change.
Simply refusing to be customers is something that they will never see, either.
But if you are a customer, who has a device that runs linux, and can't use it. Presumably if you cancelled your service (as apposed to using another device) you'd state why you were cancelling the service.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/happily-never-after-heres-why-disney-doesnt-support-linux
The top respondents are people who are suggesting you steal the content you want. . . doesn't really solve the issue, if anything is just makes it worse because Disney may never see the number of people that are subscribed and unable to use their service and cancel it.
Getting them to change.
Simply refusing to be customers is something that they will never see, either.
But if you are a customer, who has a device that runs linux, and can't use it. Presumably if you cancelled your service (as apposed to using another device) you'd state why you were cancelling the service.
Not likely. Because if you were smart enough to do so, you'd almost be smart enough to not have subscribed in the first place. And second, almost no service gets canceled with information as to why it is canceled. And third, most places that get information as to why things are canceled have a department that removes "answers they don't like" before it gets to anyone in charge so that what customers are actually experiencing is hidden from the organization.
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This was on August 2019.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20811513/disney-plus-launch-devices-iphone-ipad-apple-tv-roku-android-subscription
Desktop web browsers (except for Linux)
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I wonder why Linux doesn't / can't support this level of Widevine.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Widevine
https://www.widevine.com/about
I guess its not exactly trusted by Disney?
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I think it has to have more to do with this
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BBC News - Canada election: Trudeau's Liberals win but set to lose majority
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Bolivia election: Anger mounts over result confusion
Violent protests have erupted in at least nine cities in Bolivia amid ongoing confusion about the result of Sunday's presidential election.
Suspicion arose among opponents of the incumbent, Evo Morales, after the quick count was surprisingly halted. His main rival, Carlos Mesa, said the quick count's results were fraudulent. Counting is still under way with Mr Morales in first place but currently with not enough of a lead to stave off a second round. Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Tribunal is currently running two separate counts. The quick count, at 95.6% of votes verified, puts Mr Morales ahead of Mr Mesa with a lead of 9.33 percentage points. That is just short of the 10-percentage-point advantage he needs to win outright in the first round. If that result were to be confirmed, Mr Morales and Mr Mesa would face each other in a run-off on 15 December. The detailed count shows the two neck and neck. With 72% of the votes counted, Mr Morales just had a 0.58 percentage point lead over Mr Mesa, making a second round highly likely. -
Boeing expects 737 Max to fly again by New Year
Boeing has said it expects its troubled 737 Max aircraft to return to the skies before the end of the year.
The jet was grounded after two fatal crashes, including last year's Lion Air disaster which killed 189 people. Just hours after Indonesian investigators blamed mechanical and design problems for the crash, Boeing said it had developed software updates. The investigators focused on a system used to improve handling and prevent stalling on the Boeing 737 Max. The official report by the Indonesian authorities into the disaster, which occurred 13 minutes after take-off from Jakarta on 29 October 2018, is expected to be published on Friday. But on Wednesday, the authorities informed the victims' families of the findings. -
@mlnews this feels.... unlikely.
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Japan is fucking awesome
Domino’s Japan selling ‘Halloween Roulette’ pizza, which has ghost pepper sauce on one random slice
JAPAN - Finally! A pizza fit for seven of your closest friends and one you absolutely hate!
Just in time for Halloween, Japanese locations of Domino’s are serving up a scare for their very brave — or very masochistic — customers: A new “Halloween Roulette” pizza, which contains a single unmarked slice doused in sauce made from ghost peppers.
The campaign, which runs through Nov. 4, allows customers to order any pizza of their choice before selecting the free “Halloween Roulette” option, which indicates that the kitchen staff has the go-ahead to spike one slice with a small amount of the seriously hot sauce.
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@JaredBusch OMG, awesome.
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BBC News - Uluru ban: What do locals think of the final rush to climb?
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Rats taught to drive tiny cars to lower their stress levels
Learning to drive small cars helps rats feel less stressed, scientists found.
Researchers at the University of Richmond in the US taught a group of 17 rats how to drive little plastic cars, in exchange for bits of cereal. Study lead Dr Kelly Lambert said the rats felt more relaxed during the task, a finding that could help with the development of non-pharmaceutical treatments for mental illness. The rats were not required to take a driving test at the end of the study. -
@mlnews gotta be better than most drivers in Nebraska.
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Images reveal Iceland's glacier melt
A photography project has highlighted the extent of ice loss from Iceland's glaciers.
The project - which also involved the University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office - used aerial photos taken by a survey plane in the 1980s. Thousands of images were taken, often of overlapping areas, and the team then used software to transform these into a hi-res 3D model of the terrain. Dr Baxter said this meant that photographs looking straight down on to the landscape could then be re-framed to show the terrain from different angles. He added: "We can then align them with drone photographs that we can take today."
