The Daily Populous

Friday November 24th, 2017 day edition

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The North Korean soldier who defected to South Korea through the Joint Security Area has recovered enough to start drinking water and watching T.V. (YONHAP).

The incredible tale of a North Korean soldier’s escape across the demilitarized zone last week is no exception.

The 24-year-old North Korean soldier, who has been identified only by his surname, Oh, was shot five times as he made his brazen escape Nov. 13.

A North Korean soldier drove a jeep across the heavily guarded border with South Korea on Nov. 13.

He was shot by other North Korean soldiers before South Korean and American forces recovered him and dragged him to safety.

Four North Korean border guards tried to stop him, firing more than 40 rounds at him.

[ American detained trying to enter North Korea; North Korean soldier escapes to the South ]. »

FCC Releases Net Neutrality Killing Order, Hopes You're Too Busy Cooking Turkey To Read It

Authored by techdirt.com

ISPs have been very busy trying to claim that gutting this authority doesn't kill net neutrality protections, though we've already explained at length why that's nonsense.

Yet this argument that net neutrality is an entirely theoretical problem sits at the heart of the FCC's order.

You're not going to find a more unpopular policy than this myopic assault on net neutrality and the health of the internet. »

Families of missing submarine crew have been told their loved ones are dead

Authored by nzherald.co.nz

Itati Leguizamon, whose husband German Oscar Suarez was on board, branded the Navy "perverse bastards" for allowing family members to continue to believe their loved ones could be found alive.

She said: "According to them, they only found out about the explosion now, but who is so stupid to believe that?.

This comes after one of the crew members reportedly warned her family that there had been issues on board, just days before it vanished. »

Artificial Intelligence: World is ‘'astonishingly pessimistic,’ says EU research commissioner

Authored by sciencebusiness.net

The Commissioner is betting on AI, a huge area of research at the moment, being a positive force.

Some of the world’s leading thinkers and tech industry moguls have issued major warnings about the coming world of artificial intelligence.

Officials in the US and France meanwhile allege that media sites like Russia Today attempted to interfere in elections in their countries. »

Living in the fallout zone from a nuclear disaster would be no worse for our health than living in London, due to its scale of pollution.

Authored by bristol.ac.uk

Professor Thomas's team used the Judgement or J-value to balance the cost of a safety measure against the increase in life expectancy it achieves.

The J-value is a new method pioneered by Professor Thomas that assesses how much should be spent to protect human life and the environment.

'Coping after a big nuclear accient' by Thomas, P. J. and May, J. in Management of Nuclear Risk Issues: Environmental, Financial and Safety (NREFS) special issue. »