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  1. "the FDA doesn't have a legal means to stop it"? on Open Source Artificial Pancreas Helps Engineer's Son Survive With Type 1 Diabetes · · Score: 1

    Maybe in your country but not the USA.

    The FDA has lawyers, which means they have the legal means. In addition, having or not having the law on their side means nothing to washington bureaucrats since there are no consequences to abusing the law.

  2. Hola chrome extension does the same on Opera Launches 'Free And Unlimited' VPN App For iOS (theverge.com) · · Score: 2
  3. Re:perhaps more of a political choice on Scientists Grow Two-Week-Old Human Embryos In Lab For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "no significant difference between humans and primates" Humans are primates.

  4. Yeah, give it to the guys that have us $18T in debt. Great idea. A flat percentage makes sense, but it should go to the state where the purchase happened.

  5. Didn't the recent court case teach us anything? on LG's New Fingerprint Sensor Doesn't Need A Button (mashable.com) · · Score: 1
  6. $1M paid by taxpayers not FBI on FBI Bought $1M iPhone 5C Hack, But Doesn't Know How It Works (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The FBI should have to get congressional approval(power of the purse) to spend this kind of money when there is no specific line item in the FBI's budget.

  7. Violated the spirit of the 5th Amendment on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No one should be compelled to aid in their own prosecution.

  8. Why question his stance and not hers? on With Carly Fiorina As Running Mate, Cruz's H-1B Stance Now In Question (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I think he chose her because the establishment likes her, she will attract more women and she can go toe to toe with Hillary without the automatic label of sexist. I am surprised Trump didn't ask her first ... maybe he did.

  9. Obama proves how serious he is about climate chang on Earth Day: 175 Nations Sign Historic Paris Climate Deal (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2
    http://twitchy.com/2016/04/21/...

    First Lady Michelle Obama didn’t accompany her husband on the first leg of his trip, opting instead to fly separately.

    We’re losing count of how many planes, helicopters and vehicles are involved, but it looks like somebody’s trying to make the carbon footprint too large to calculate so as to ward off any charges of eco-hypocrisy.

    And tomorrow, Earth Day, we’ll all be lectured about climate change.

  10. Phillipines too-55M records on MongoDB Config Error Exposed 93M Mexican Voter Records (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Less than a month ago http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

  11. Should be called the Honeypot Browser on Opera Adds Free VPN-Client With Unlimited Usage To Its Desktop Browser · · Score: 1

    The browser is compromised by the Chinese and the bogus VPN claims are there to lure the undesirables. Here's a secure browser with proxy option: https://epicbrowser.com/

  12. Model X is NOT an SUV, it's barely a crossover on Ford Spent $200,000 To Dissect a Limited-Edition Tesla Model X (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    The Tesla X is little more than a lifted all wheel drive car. A Chevy Tahoe, Ford Explorer and Range Rover are SUVs.

  13. Failure is an option in government on Report: US Government Worse Than All Major Industries On Cyber Security (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The heads of healthcare.gov, IRS and OPM KNEW they had ongoing hacks and did nothing. Has anyone gone to jail or been heavily fined or lost their pension? There are no consequences to failing in government.

  14. Re:"Some" weapons came from US allies? on Small and Heavy Arms Traded On Facebook By Libyan Militants (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    How about not lying about the blood on your hands.

  15. This will not end well on Japan To Begin Testing Fingerprints As 'Currency' (the-japan-news.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Having only foreign tourists beta test it ensures the Japanese people are not at risk, which should tell you the confidence they have in the system.

  16. What are the facts? on PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The law does NOT prohibit businesses from either having their own policies against LGBT discrimination or from private businesses accommodating transgender customers in whichever bathroom. But it does require schools and government facilities to police their bathrooms and require transgender people to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of the sex listed on their birth certificate.

  17. Very useful app for minimizing spam calls on Security Flaw In Truecaller Android App Exposes Data of Millions of Users (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    But the first thing to do is disable its access to your contacts.

  18. Re:Probably Muslim extremists. on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Arabic shouted before the two airport bomb blasts, according to Belgian news agency Belga. http://news.sky.com/story/1664...

  19. American football fields are 360'x160' on Scientists Are Developing the World's Biggest Wind Turbine With 656-Ft. Long Blades (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The end zones are in bounds and part of the playing field.

  20. Re:Ug... for what I wish was the last time on China Tries Its Hand At Pre-Crime (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Success is dependent on the majority of the populous having a decent work ethic and minimal government corruption. Otherwise you get Greece and Venezuela, and where the USA is headed.

  21. It will be just as cost effective as the SLS on NASA Wants To Get Supersonic With New Passenger Jet (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    More pork for Lockheed Martin.

  22. Creighton forbid student from starting conservativ on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1
    http://www.thecollegefix.com/p...

    For the second time in as many semesters, the Student Life and Involvement Center (SLIC) at the Jesuit institution rejected Justin Carrizales’ application to start a chapter of Turning Point USA, a nonpartisan student organization dedicated to free markets, limited government and personal responsibility.

  23. Amherst Students Protest ‘Free Speech' on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1
  24. Any attempt to evade will be deemed as criminal on Obama Administration Set To Expand Sharing of Data That NSA Intercepts (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Just ask Dennis Hastert.
    http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...

  25. Re:The duck quacked on DoJ Wants Apple To Decrypt 12 More iPhones (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama is relocating the Gitmo terrorists, so it will soon have a lot more room just in time for Tim Cook and the Apple band.