The Daily Populous

Thursday April 19th, 2018 day edition

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A former 911 operator who hung up the phone "thousands" of times on people attempting to call in emergencies in Harris County, Texas has been sentenced to jail time.

Crenshanda Williams, 44, was found guilty of interference with emergency telephone calls Wednesday after "systematically" hanging up the phone on residents of Harris County, KTRK reported.

She was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months probation.

Williams reportedly had an unusual number of "short calls," which were no longer than 20 seconds.

Prosecutors, according to the Houston Chronicle, determined she hung up on "thousands" of calls.

Williams reportedly spent a year and a half at the Houston Emergency Center taking 911 calls.

The "state-of-the-art" center was opened in 2003 as a consolidation of Houston's three emergency communication centers. »

New drug uses antibodies to stop chronic migraines, without side effects

Authored by nbcnews.com
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Of these, about 4 million have chronic migraine and suffer headaches for 10 to 14 days a month.

Researchers found that the drug reduced the average number of monthly migraine headaches by more than 50 percent for nearly a third of study participants.

She was put on Imitrex, a popular migraine drug that helps to quiet overactive pain nerves in the brain, but it didn't help. »

Richard Stallman, RMS, on Privacy, Data, and Free Software

Authored by nymag.com

The term implies that if a company collects data about you, it should somehow protect that data.

But second, the privacy policy of the company doesn’t do anything to stop the FBI from taking all that data every week.

No company is so important that its existence justifies setting up a police state. »

Trump: We'll put sanctions on Russia 'as soon as they very much deserve it'

Authored by thehill.com
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Trump began to walk away from the microphone, but returned to answer a shouted question about the sanctions.

“There has been nobody tougher on Russia than Donald Trump,” the president said, restating one of his common talking points.

Trump has faced criticism from lawmakers for being hesitant at times to speak out forcefully against Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin. »

This Artist Is the Only Person Banned From Using the World’s Pinkest Pink

Authored by smithsonianmag.com
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Known as Vantablack, the unique carbon nanotube-based pigment is produced solely by a British company called NanoSystem, and was originally developed for military technologies.

However, Kapoor made an agreement with the company that he is the only person allowed to use it for artistic purposes.

While “Pink” isn’t based on nanotechnology, like Vantablack, Semple says it is the pinkest pink pigment ever created. »