Notices by John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺 (johnlogic@sfba.social)

"'Breakthrough' deep brain stimulation device for Parkinson's to make clinical debut"

By Don Jacobson
March 21, 2025 / 9:49 AM

"...
A team at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., was set to connect two Parkinson's patients to a new type of deep brain stimulation device, or 'brain pacemaker,' developed by Medtronic Inc., on Friday in a ceremony to hail what they say is the beginning of a new paradigm in long-standing efforts to control sufferers' debilitating tremors.

The device, called the BrainSense Adaptive deep brain stimulator, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Feb. 24 after a decade of development, testing and trials, and is now poised to make its clinical debut.
..."

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/03/21/Parkinsons-deep-brain-stimulation/6441742391796/

"Over 500 Boeing 787 with Faulty Parts Cleared Audits Amid Italian Scam

Boeing faces another quality control crisis as investigators reveal faulty titanium parts passed multiple certification audits."

By Helen William
March 13, 2025

https://aviationa2z.com/index.php/2025/03/13/over-500-boeing-787-with-faulty-parts-cleared-audits/

#aviation

"Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges

HP already has a reputation for breaking printers with updates."

by Scharon Harding
Mar 10, 2025 11:05 AM

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/firmware-update-bricks-hp-printers-makes-them-unable-to-use-hp-cartridges/

HAVE A SUPER MAR 10

#SuperMario

@br00t4c

That one cuts deep...

Let's talk about the immigration fraud that Elon Musk committed when he claimed to be a college student but instead got into business.

"There is a default 5-year statute of limitations for prosecuting a federal offense. 18 U.S.C. 3282(a). However, this statute of limitations does not apply to many immigration offenses because the offenses are seen as continuing beyond the initial date of action. For example, in United States v. Krstic, 558 F.3d 1010 (9th Cir. March 10, 2009), the Ninth Circuit held that the crime of possessing an authentic immigration document obtained by means of a false statement was a possessory offense, rather than a false statement offense. 18 U.S.C. 1546(a). As a possessory offense, it was a continuing offense and the statute of limitations began to run only when federal agents seized the authentic immigration document."

from

https://nortontooby.com/content/immigration-offenses-statute-limitations

"Delta offers $30K to passengers after fiery crash landing in Toronto"

By Chris Williams
Published February 19, 2025 3:02pm PST

https://www.ktvu.com/news/delta-plane-crash-toronto-money

@br00t4c

"U.S. District Court Judge Lauren King ... has found that the order 'is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse,' according to Kyle Cheney, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico."

I wonder how many of Trump's orders should be discarded as unconstitutional...

@br00t4c

"Some of the fired employees included NNSA staff who are on the ground at facilities where nuclear weapons are built. These staff oversee the contractors who build nuclear weapons, and they inspect these weapons."

@br00t4c

Thanks for posting!

Here's access to the full article without tracking:

"Don’t Politicize Aviation Safety

The tragic airliner crash in Washington underscores the risks of cavalier changes to regulatory agencies."

By Conor Friedersdorf

January 30, 2025, 9:03 AM ET

"Yesterday, the United States suffered the first fatal crash of a U.S. airliner in 16 years. American Airlines Flight 5342, a regional jetliner, originated in Wichita, Kansas. Just before landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in northern Virginia, it collided with a military helicopter over the Potomac River. ..."

https://archive.ph/GZfOz

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

Calvin Coolidge

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2749-nothing-in-this-world-can-take-the-place-of-persistence

@br00t4c

What has the United States done to improve the working conditions in slaughterhouses and meat packing plants in the 120 years since Upton Sinclair?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle

"Health execs reckon with patient outrage after UnitedHealthcare killing"

By Michele Gershberg and Michael Erman
December 11, 20242:10 PM PST
Updated 2 hours ago

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/health-care-execs-seek-better-understand-patient-outrage-after-unitedhealthcare-2024-12-11/

@br00t4c

Good!

"...at Albertsons stores... prices are 10-12% higher than at Kroger stores."

In my area, Albertsons already owns Safeway and Lucky stores. There's barely an illusion of choice.

(I avoid both.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertsons

@kenshirriff

I was buying computers for the video game developer I worked at. One department used 3D Studio, and we saw the effects of the Pentium defect clearly on the screen.

At first Intel downplayed the problem, saying nobody would be affected. Then they said they'd replace CPUs only for affected customers. Ultimately, everyone could get a replacement.

Fortunately, we were in Austin and I had been buying from Dell, which dispatched someone to our session office to replace our Pentiums.

Years later, I had interviewed a job candidate who had been at Intel when the problem occurred. He described that someone simply made a mistake, but the person assigned to check their work neglected to do the job, and the manager above neglected to make sure it was done. Apparently the person who made the honest mistake was spared, but the checker and a line of managers to nearly the top were all fired for dereliction of duty.

@RnDanger @Lazarou @gabrielesvelto

I'm certified to teach advanced shooting courses including combat handgun shooting; here's my $0.02:

Being able to clear jams quickly is widely taught to shooters beyond beginners, such as peace officers.

The crime scene photo I saw showed a rejected round, with a damaged bullet (full metal jacket) still in its brass casing. To me that looked like factory ammunition.

I saw descriptions of words carved into the bullets and casings. I believe those could have caused the gun jams.

So, to me this doesn't suggest it was a professional hit so much as someone disgruntled and wanting to make a statement.

@br00t4c

"Gay hobbit fan-fiction" is not a term that I expected to encounter today, this week, or ever.

Now it has affected my whole world view.

Suddenly those fan-made gay Star Trek red shirt romances don't seem so odd.

@nixCraft

"Microsoft are well aware of the extensive history of problems with this [certificate authority]... but they clearly don't care. I hope this incident prompts some change; Windows users deserve..."

I'll fill in the rest:
...what they get for continuing to trust and use a third-rate product from a third-rate company.

@jcriecke @TheWarOnCars

How about automatic photo enforcement?

For example, London uses automatic cameras to send citations for speeding and not maintaining safe following distances.

I'd add that if a camera catches a driver with a phone in their hand or earbuds in, they should be cited too.

If a license plate reader detects a fake plate, that should trigger a real-time notice to police to pull over and arrest the driver.

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon

"HELP STAMP OUT THINGS THAT NEED STAMPING OUT"