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  1. Tell them the measles contain gluten on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 2

    “They’ll line up around the block.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com... There are schools in the wealthiest parts of Los Angeles where the vaccination rate is on a par with that of South Sudan – fashionable tinder boxes of measles waiting to go up. Pertussis (the far-less-fun-than-it-sounds “whooping cough”) is making a dramatic comeback.

  2. Supplements should have to prove efficacy on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    Other than lightening the consumers wallet. Same for the Tommy Copper crap. They should have to publish results from double-blind studies. Otherwise it's a scam.

  3. Re:E-4 replacement - when? on US Air Force Selects Boeing 747-8 To Replace Air Force One · · Score: 1

    Since the mission is just fly circles around North America they don't need 4 engines. The 777X should suffice.

  4. If they don't like it they can be a mall cop on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the 21st century where EVERYONE is tracked. If you don't like it ... too bad.

  5. The idea of "with your permission" is a joke on Eric Schmidt: Our Perception of the Internet Will Fade · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The advertising and government snoop won't really ASK for permission. It will be a Hobson's choice. Refuse to give permission and your devices stop working or you wind up on a watch list or worse.

  6. Re:its a tough subject on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    That's it, let unelected government officials decide. We'll have the Jenny McCarthy's on one side and government thugs on the other. What could go wrong?

  7. Java updated yesterday on Silverlight Exploits Up, Java Exploits Down, Says Cisco · · Score: 1
  8. Already requires a warrant on Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Leak-value is worthless on NSA Prepares For Future Techno-Battles By Plotting Network Takedowns · · Score: 3, Informative

    No doubt. This was the legitimate NSA mission before they were corrupted into domestic operations.

  10. Maybe it's tax code complexity and not greed on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 0, Troll
    Tax preparers discover that Obamacare adds so much paperwork to their work it isn’t worth it to do it.

    About two-thirds of the way through the morning I questioned the whole process. I stated that if someone walked into to my office who was receiving the [Obamacare subsidy] that I would not accept them as a client. The cost of preparing the paperwork to get them properly qualified to receive the benefit would exceed anything I could reasonably charge them. The instructor, a fine fellow from Iowa, stated he unfortunately had to agree with me. So now tax preparers will have to decide whether to accept clients based on our health care system — just like doctors.

    There’s lot more. Read the whole thing.

  11. Speaking with? on Canadian Government Steps In To Stop Misleading Infringement Notices · · Score: 2

    WTF. How about 'SPEAKING' to the law's abusers in the same manner they spoke, using threats of $150,000 fines.

  12. FBI evidence is laughable on US Slaps Sanctions On North Korea After Sony Cyberattack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    http://marcrogers.org/2014/12/...

    "So in conclusion, there is NOTHING here that directly implicates the North Koreans. In fact, what we have is one single set of evidence that has been stretched out into 3 separate sections, each section being cited as evidence that the other section is clear proof of North Korean involvement. As soon as you discredit one of these pieces of evidence, the whole house of cards will come tumbling down."

  13. US email provider for sensitive communications? on WikiLeaks Claims Employee's Google Mail, Metadata Seized By US Government · · Score: 1

    Unless you are General Patreaus and his mistress.

    Aren't there better providers in the EU that offer a bit more privacy? If you don't want to roll your own.

  14. Does it use or support ActiveX? on Microsoft Is Building a New Browser As Part of Its Windows 10 Push · · Score: 2

    If so it's dead on arrival.

  15. Will it be open source? on Kim Dotcom's Mega Again Announces Encrypted Browser-Based Chat Service · · Score: 2

    http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

    "Experts agree it is far more difficult for intelligence agencies to manipulate open source software programs than many of the closed systems developed by companies like Apple and Microsoft. Since anyone can view free and open source software, it becomes difficult to insert secret back doors without it being noticed."

  16. More sites like this for banks ... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Companies With Poor SSL Practices? · · Score: 1

    These sites grade banks for online security
    http://blog.codacy.com/2014/04...
    https://deekayen.net/bank-ssl-...

  17. Re:How about mandatory felony sentences instead? on Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices · · Score: 1

    "How about make bars (& liquor stores) responsible, period."

    Because that's not how a free society works, period. No one if forcing me to buy or consume the hooch.

  18. Why the 1st model starts at -800? on First Airbus A350 XWB Delivered, Will Start Service in January · · Score: 0

    Boeing did the same thing starting at 787-8.

    Hopefully the A350 can make up for the anemic A380 sales.

  19. This is nothing but appeasement on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 0

    What has changed in Cuba after the announcement?

    Cuban citizens are still not permitted to speak or read freely or do anything freely without the fear of imprisonment or even death. Cuba is no closer to becoming a democracy and you have to wonder if this move will embolden other tyrants to take Americans hostage in order to win concessions.

    U.S. policy towards Cuba was codified into law under the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996, and the Trade Sanctions Reform Act of 2000. The policy changes announced by the President are an overreach of his executive powers under the law. The official legislative history of the law clarifies that the President has power to tighten economic sanctions, but not to ease them beyond the baseline set on March 1, 1996.

    BTW, Gross was an aid worker. He was traded for 3 convicted spies. It looks like Obama didn't learn anything from the Bergdahl trade.

  20. Re:What? on Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance · · Score: 0

    Because anyone that attempts this gets audited by the IRS or a rectal exam by the DOJ.

  21. Re:Capitalism on Court Orders Uber To Shut Down In Spain · · Score: 2

    That's corporatism not capitalism.

  22. Re: Come on people, on Cisco Slaps Arista Networks With Suit For "Brazen" Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Not just routing protocols, but simple syntax

    #ping vrf ABC123 8.8.8.8
    #telnet 8.8.8.8 /vrf ABC123

  23. School system is looking for a magic pill on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1

    These ipads smack of the same mindset that too many people have about losing weight. They don't want to work for it.

    Teaching kids these days is tough. Parents are doing less so schools are expected to do more.

  24. Re:cracks forming around the impact zone.. on Graphene May Top Kevlar As a Bullet-Stopping Material · · Score: 1

    So what, Kevlar is also damaged when stopping bullets? The goal here is not perfection but to improve on the status quo.

    Until energy force fields come along improvements will only be incremental. If graphene is cheaper, lighter or stronger it could supplant Kevlar.

  25. What did China promise? on Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak · · Score: 2

    The agreement allows China to continue building coal-powered plants, expand its economy and cement its place as the world's leading polluter -- perhaps even doubling its output until 2030 or some year around that time, when China's carbon emissions are expected to peak.

    At that point, the Chinese promise that they will implement some vague action plan at some vague point in the future. All we need to do is trust them. The agreement contains no binding language requiring any goals to be met.