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Comment Re:This ... (Score 1) 114

For the same reason that I don't let any company I deal with have access to my checking account so they can directly take money. I will decide when I give you money

Me too. Quite some time ago was my first experience with an automatic deduction from my account. My bank even required a form indicating who was authorized and for what amount.

Sounded good to me. Until the price increased and my bank automatically paid the higher than authorized amount. That's when I realized it was nothing more that you have authorized them to debit your account. Stopped that and have never trusted that mechanism again.

Comment Just looking to separate you from your money (Score 1) 141

As others have commented, I too don't like how easily they can get information that could be used to steal my identity, nor do I trust how well they would protect my information. I think all that just makes it that much easier for criminals to get the same information.

But mostly, I just feel saddened that so many resources are being used to try to separate me from $10 here or $100 there to funnel into corporate profits, rather than being used to better educate children, or help with medical research. Things which would really make this a better world for everyone.

I guess I'm just so tired of the pro-corporate mentality (seemingly at any cost of individual freedoms) here in the US.

Uh oh! They just got my location. Grab the foil hat!

Comment Re:Smartphone (Score 1) 69

The abstract seems to be for a paper on the microNMR technology. However, the article elaborates on the use of the device in combination with a smartphone:

Unfortunately, modern biopsy analysis has an 84 percent accuracy rate and can take three to four days to produce results. Furthermore, tissue can degrade during transport to an external testing site and current immunohistochemistry methods can produce false positives. In their latest report, the researchers describe how they addressed these issues by connecting the microNMR to a smartphone for data analysis. This allows a clinician to extract cells from the patient and analyze them immediately rather than sending them away for testing.

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