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Human error was the culprit for a November outage of the Microsoft Azure cloud storage service. The company is hoping that recent updates that automate formerly manual processes will help prevent similar outages in the future.

"Microsoft Azure had clear operating guidelines but there was a gap in the deployment tooling that relied on human decisions and protocol," wrote Jason Zander, Microsoft vice president for Azure, in a blog post Wednesday detailing the outage. "With the tooling updates the policy is now enforced by the deployment platform itself."

This is not the first time Azure has been bedeviled by human failure.

In February 2013, a lapsed security certificate led to a major Azure outage.

Both cases show how even small errors can have a huge impact in a service as large as Azure, and seem to have reinforced for Microsoft the importance of automating manual processes as thoroughly as possible.

This latest Azure outage happened late in the evening of Nov. 18, Pacific Standard Time (Nov. 19 Coordinated Universal Time), due to intermittent failure from some of the company's storage services.

Other Azure services that relied on the storage service also went offline, most notably the Azure Virtual Machines.

The outage stemmed from a change in the configuration of the storage service, one that was made to improve the performance of the service.

Typically, Microsoft, like most other cloud providers, will test a proposed change to its cloud services on a handful of servers. This way, if there is a problem with the configuration change, engineers can spot it early before a large number of customers are impacted. If the change works as expected, the company will then roll the change out to larger numbers of servers in successive waves, until the entire system is updated.

In the case of this particular change, however, an engineer assumed that the update had already been tested in a number of waves (or "flights" in Microsoft parlance), and so went ahead and applied the change across the rest of the system.

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While the reception to President Obamas announcement that the United States would move to normalize relations with Cuba has overall been quite positive, some lawmakers, pundits, and The Washington Posts editorial pagehave questioned the wisdom of opening up relations with a regime that tramples its citizens most basic human rights. It is of course true that the Cuban regime engages in human rights violations. Yet, as Dan Drezner points out, thats true too for many other states that the United States has diplomatic and trade relations with.

So how bad are Cubas human rights violations in comparison with that of other countries? It is notoriously difficult to measure just how badly a government abuses the rights of its citizens in any given year. Yet, there are academics and NGOs who try, each using slightly different concepts, information, and metrics. In a recent article inthe American Political Science Review, Penn State political scientistChristopher J. Farissdevelops a smart measurement model that captures the common component among different measures of physical integrity rights. Moreover, this model generates measures that are comparable over time.

The graph above uses this data. Cuba is clearly in the bottom half of the distribution but its record has improved somewhat over the past two decades. The graph also highlights two Communist countries with whom the United States has had troublesome relations. Critics of the policy change highlight North Korea, which has a much worse record than Cuba, which has gotten even more atrocious in recent years. Vietnam, emphasized by President Obamain his speech, is a better comparison. Indeed, the two countries have a nearly identical human rights record according to this measure (it may be different if we would focus on other rights than physical integrity rights, which include torture, political imprisonment, government killing and other forms of repression).

While the Post editorial is correct that Vietnams record has not improved since theUnited States has established economic relations with it, I am not sure this is the best way to think about the issue. By the Fariss measure, Cuba ranks 62nd out of 197 on the list of the worst human rights abusers in 2010 (the last year for which data is available). There may be little reason to believe that opening relations will dramatically improve this record but there is even less reason to think that seeking to isolate one third of the worlds countries for the way they treat their citizens is a sensible foreign policy.

Erik Voeten is the Peter F. Krogh Associate Professor of Geopolitics and Justice in World Affairs at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government.

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Piltdown Man: the skull of a human and the jawbone of an orang utan

Since the publication of Darwins On the Origin of Species in 1859, scientists had been desperate to find the missing link that would prove that humans evolved from an ape-like ancestor

Then, in 1912, someone claimed to have found it in a gravel pit in Sussex.

Charles Dawson, a local solicitor and amateur fossil hunter, wrote to Arthur Smith Woodward at the Natural History Museum saying he had found pieces of a human-like skull. Smith Woodward rushed south, and joined the hunt. Soon, Dawson uncovered fragments of a jawbone. Smith Woodward used all the pieces to come up with a reconstruction of the skull , which combined an ape-like skull and jaw with teeth that looked decidedly human.

And so, on 18 December, Smith Woodward announced the discovery to a meeting of the Geological Society. He claimed eoanthropus dawsoni as he dubbed it was a 500,000 year-old predecessor of modern humans. The announcement caused a sensation.

But as time went on, more human fossils were found in other areas of the world, and none were quite like the Piltdown find. Scientists began to doubt their authenticity.

In the late 1940s tests were performed on the teeth; they were found to be no more than 50,000 years old.

Then, the skull and jaw were investigated more thoroughly, and found to come from two different animals one a human, and the other an orang utan. They also determined that the finds had been artificially aged.

In 1953, Piltdown Man was officially declared a fake a fake that had fooled scientists for 40 years. Nobody quite knows how did it or why. There are a few people in the frame, but the fact that no further evidence of the finds came after Charles Dawsons death in 1916, casts him firmly in the role of prime suspect.

That and his long record of scientific hoaxes.

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By Thitipol Panyalimpanun

In the past several weeks Thailand has witnessed a series of incidents that altogether signal the beginning of the publics shift in perception. Slowly, Thais are becoming more and more concerned about the abuse of human rights, freedom and democracy. Now, Thai liberals have a reason to be optimistic despite the continuous oppression by the junta. A whiff of change is in the air.

It began with the public broadcast service Thai PBS on November 15 when it was reportedly pressured by the junta to, and eventually did, replace program host Nattaya Wawweerakup after she questioned the coup. The incident kicked off a campaign by her fellow Thai PBS fellow journalists in which they closed their eyes, ears and mouths as a protest symbol on social media. Thai PBS, which had been considered by many as pro-coup, now stood against the junta. And this was just a starter for that very busy week for Thai politics.

Several days later, on November 19, while junta leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha was giving a speech in Khon Khaen, five university students flashed the Hunger Games three-finger salute. These students from the Dao Din movement were then taken to a military camp to get their heads fine-tuned. They still managed to show the three fingers everywhere, on the police truck that took them away and in front of the camp, rollicking like rockstars. Coming long after the first waves of demonstration against the junta, this protest resonated in other parts of the country, including the 11 Bangkok students who symbolically picnicked in front of the Democracy Monument that same evening.

A protester shows the three-finger salute during an anti-coup demonstration in Bangkok earlier this year. Pic: AP.

Then National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chief Amara Pongsapitch spoke out against martial law and the arrest of the student protestors. Although this sounds like a fitting action for a person of her position, it in fact came as a surprise. This was the first time Amara took a clear stance against the juntas oppression since May 22. Last Saturday, when Amara was presenting awards for contribution to human rights, of which a representative of the Dao Din movement was a recipient, the ceremony was disrupted by students again showing up with banners protesting the NHRCs lack of action. Where were you when people were taken to camps? being an example of the criticisms. Yet, from a broad view, that six-month-late remark she eventually made still spoke volumes, implying that the total compliance the junta had been enjoying was not set in stone.

After the May 22 coup and the following crackdown on academics and activists, many fled to social media. Facebook has become a hotbed of commentary and opinion from liberal advocates. On November 22, there was collective ecstasy online when the social media heard of Somsak Jeamteerasakul s return to Facebook. The outspoken Thammasat University professor has always been quick to cricize Thailands draconian the lse majest law and had disappeared from the scene since the coup (his house was the target of gunfire in February. The rapture went beyond the Internet as Thammasat students threw flyers celebrating his comeback. With Somsak joining forces with vocal advocates like The Nation journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk and Fah Diew Gan magazines editor Thanapol Eawsakul, Facebook became even more active on the Thai political front.

The junta knows well theres no easy way in stopping this online information, as demonstrated when it allegedly tried and failed to shut down access to Facebook in Thailand. When newspapers and TV are busy with self-censorship, social media probes and speculates.

In this series of incidents, extreme royalists too were triggered to question their support of the lse majest law after the arrest of the police officers and relatives of Princess Srirasmi, as Reuters reported, who were charged for citing the monarchy for benefit and were later stripped of their royal surname. While the story was reported internationally, major news outlet could only beat around the bush. Before the event concluded last week with the then princesses resignation from the royal position, the ambiguity surrounding the issue has put the public at unease. This is not to mention the significant rise of the lse majest cases, which are now handled by the military court, including the imprisonment of 23-year-old Pornthip M. for her political play about a fictional monarch in August.

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The Human League, who played Bristol's Colston Hall on Monday night

For a short while during the Human Leagues packed Colston Hall show, frontman Philip Oakey comes close to self-parody.

Standing in the centre of a white tiered stage, in front of a giant screen pumping out sci-fi visuals, wearing a tightly-fitting Matrix-style suit and frowning with his immaculately-coiffed eyebrows, the 59-year-old singer chants recent tune Egomaniac.

The song is from their latest album, 2011s Credo, but seems completely new to many of the fans filling the venues stalls and balcony, who mostly nod along politely to this snatch of new material.

While some bands would run the risk of losing a crowds good will with this kind of move, the Human League manage to get away with it.

This is partly because Oakey looks like he appreciates the silly side of it all, flipping as he does between serious poses and knowing smiles with the audience.

But more importantly, its because the band spend the rest of the gig giving the crowd what they clearly want: the larger-than-life pop songs which propelled the band to fame in the first place.

As the night goes on, Oakey and long-serving backup singers Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley perform hit after hit with only a few detours to more recent fare. Eighties classics like the introspective Mirror Man, the political The Lebanon, and hypnotic the Love Action are all met with whoops.

But it is the bands international mega-hit Dont You Want Me which gets almost everyone on their feet, clapping and singing along after the first few keyboard stabs.

Oakey still sounds quite menacing when he sings Don't forget it's me who put you where you are now, and I can put you back down too to Catherall and Sulley who he famously plucked from a Sheffield night club.

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Jean R. AbiNader, Exec. Dir., Moroccan American Trade and Investment Center

For several years, I have been commenting on the challenges in assessing human rights progress without a more comprehensive understanding of how the people affected define human rights. This applies as well to evaluating development efforts tied in large part to democracy promotion - whether it's the Marshall Plan, the progenitor of post-war reconstruction, or funding water reclamation projects in the Sahel.

This theme is echoed in an article by Professor Eric Posner of the University of Chicago, who takes on the issue of defining and defending human rights without a grounding in the milieu in which these rights are operationalized. His aim is not only to encourage the human rights reporting community to undertake their own assessment of their efficacy - much as development experts have been forced to do - but to give them ways to legitimately help governments improve their human rights.

This has important resonance for a country like Morocco, where development and democracy goals go hand in hand in building a sustainable, inclusive, and equitable society based on Morocco's unique, local cultural ethos.

Unfortunately, for human rights monitors, it is far easier to focus on a few issues that become criteria for a human rights report than to recognize that each culture manages its priorities in the context of its national needs and aspirations. This can be quite challenging to assess since, according to Posner, "In most countries people formally have as many as 400 international human rights. The sheer quantity and variety of rights, which protect virtually all human interests, can provide no guidance to governments. Given that all governments have limited budgets, protecting one human right might prevent a government from protecting another."

While some may counter that there must be universal standards otherwise there are no comparative criteria for assessing human rights, Posner says that "the problem is not entirely one of moral pluralism. The real problem is the sheer difficulty of governance, particularly in societies in the throes of religious and ethnic strife that outsiders often fail to understand. There are many legitimate ways for governments to advance people's wellbeing and it is extremely hard for outsiders to evaluate the quality of governance in a particular country."

So what can be done?

While the work of international human rights groups is to be commended for its altruism, oftentimes the impact of their efforts is to distort perceptions of the host countries among international organizations and the donor community. Given the universe of acknowledged human rights (political, economic, social, institutional, religious, associative, property, etc., etc.); the differing cultural, ethnic, historical, and contemporary conditions in countries; and the limitations of resources and infrastructure; how does an analyst determine what advice to give countries regarding what their priorities and policies should be?

The first step: Rather than generating reports that generalize from a handful of cases to a blanket charge of malfeasance without a realistic understanding of the context for human rights priorities, organizations should maximize the benefits of an open dialogue with liberalizing countries such as Morocco. Morocco is more than willing to engage in a respectful, balanced exchange. The country's commitment has been emphasized time and time again by King Mohammed VI, who places the people at the heart of Morocco's development - economic, social, human, and political - and he strongly supports promoting rights in a way that makes most sense for his country's unique circumstances. It seems that this openness would lead to greater collaboration to enhance and enshrine human rights regimes grounded in local values and realities.

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Widespread misconceptions about losing weight led Ruben Meerman and Andrew Brown at the University of New South Wales to calculate how we "lose weight."

Human fat cells store triglyceride, which consists of just three kinds of atoms; carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Shedding unwanted fat requires unlocking the atoms in triglyceride molecules by a process known as oxidation.

By tracing every atom's pathway out of the body, the authors discovered that when 10 kg of fat are fully oxidised, 8.4 kg departs via the lungs as carbon dioxide (CO2). The remaining 1.6 kg becomes water (H2O).

Their analysis shows that the inhaled oxygen required for this metabolic process weighs nearly three times more than the fat being 'lost'. To completely oxidise 10 kg of human fat, 29 kg of oxygen must be inhaled producing a total of 28 kg of carbon dioxide and 11 kg of water.

"None of this biochemistry is new, but for unknown reasons it seems nobody has thought of performing these calculations before," say the authors. "The quantities make perfect sense but we were surprised by the numbers that popped out."

"These results show that the lungs are the primary excretory organ for weight loss," they add. "The water formed may be excreted in the urine, faeces, sweat, breath, tears, or other bodily fluids and is readily replenished."

"The exhaled carbon can only be replaced by eating food or consuming beverages such as milk, fruit juices or sugar-sweetened drinks," the authors say.

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A human skull was found Sunday in the bed of the Los Angeles River in southeast L.A. County, officials said.

Authorities were notified around 9:30 a.m. about the discovery in the riverbed in Bell, near Slauson Avenue and the 710 Freeway, said Juanita Navarro-Suarez, a spokeswoman for the L.A. County Sheriff's Department.

A man and a woman "were walking in the riverbed when they saw what appeared to be a human skull," Navarro-Suarez told The Times.

Homicide investigators have confirmed that the skull is human, she said. But no other details were available.

"We dont know how long the skull has been there," she said, and the gender and age of the deceased are unknown.

Anyone with information is encouraged to call the sheriff's Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500. Those who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.

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