It is my understanding that retinal scans can be effected by health conditions. Pregnancy, diabetes, glaucoma, retinal degenerative disorder, AIDS, syphilis, malaria, chicken pox, lyme disease, leukemia, lympoma, sickle cell, congestive heart failure, atherosclerosis, and significant cholesterol change can all apparently cause a retinal scan to change. While some employees may find detection of these conditions as a good thing, other employees may find it invasive.

Research seems to indicate that iris scans change over time. Companies that use Iris scanners need to rescan everyone every year or they get false negatives, which may or may not be an issue.

I think using an ID card scan like was mentioned above, makes the most sense.

So you entered "Another year or less", right?

Does this apply to the TSA who regularly searches laptops and cell phones?

You mean like Monsanto's Newleaf Potatoes?

There was first the Dr. Arpad Pusztai study that showed it caused "damage to the intestines and immune systems of rats fed the genetically modified potatoes."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_Pusztai

Industry and the Royal Society of Medicine declared Dr. Arpad's study flawed and his study was considered discredited.

Then it turns out the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences had conducted a similar study that found similar results. Except this study had been suppressed by Monsanto for 8 years.

Major US food companies, like McDonald's and Frito-Lay, used Newleaf Potatoes for a few years before consumers complained about GMO "frankenfries."

It would be one thing if GMOs were being developed to taste better, grow larger, etc. However, most GMOs that are being developed either seem to be for either producing their own pesticides or to allow more pesticides to be used on them. It's not complex logic that putting new and more poisons on our food could cause us harm. Especially, when so many studies are coming out linking various diseases to pesticide use. Slashdot just recently an article linking Parkinson's to pesticide (http://slashdot.org/story/13/11/26/1956243/how-heroin-addicts-helped-scientists-link-pesticides-and-parkinsons). Pesticides have been linked to being a cause of Autism (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404662/) and other diseases.

As single event upsets (SEU) are caused by cosmic particles which create alpha particles. It makes sense that equipment higher in the rack would absorb more of the alpha particles and block them from systems lower in the rack, but I am not a physicist. Alpha particles are relatively easy to block with shielding.

http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Single_event-upset

As the link said, this was first theorized in 1978 and supercomputer companies have been designing systems with this in mind for decades.

This isn't news. Companies that make supercomputers have known this for decades. The one I worked for 15 years ago used a high elevation test environment in Colorado to verify error correcting capabilities. Even the article says that the results were not a surprise.

I had been holding off on installing AdBlock Plus as ads are how most Web sites make their money, but I stopped watching this commercial at the 1 min mark and installed Adblock Plus. I plan on just disabling on sites with annoying ads though. No more youtube ads for me.

Ya, I stopped watching after 1 min. Even that was excessive. This ad is enough to make me look into youtube ad blocking.

I would word it "any legal content." You wouldn't want to word it "ANY" as that would mean they wouldn't be allowed to block malware or DoS attacks and such. If ISPs weren't allowed to block DoS attacks that would be crippling.

USA basically confirmed and said it was not a joint operation with Israel.

The Israeli office of the Prime Minister denied and the USA said it wasn't a join operation. I'm not sure what more you want.

I don't know how you can argue that lack of proof that Israel was involved proves that they were.

As far as reputable sources for the Le Monde being found guilty, google "Le Monde found guilty racist defamation". There are dozens of other places that provided the news. Pick whichever ones you do find reputable. Wall Street Journal has it behind its pay wall, but I didn't want to link to a pay wall.

In fact, this newspaper has even been found guilty by a French court for "racist defamation" against Israel and the Jewish people in the past.

Sources:
http://rense.com/general65/aanit.htm
http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000375.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1415355/posts

As a poster below pointed out, the NSA practically confessed to the spying:

The American authorities noted that the activities of the intelligence service "were carried out according to law."

And the documents in the article stated that the NSA said it wasn't a joint operation with the Israelis. The Israeli prime minister's office made an official statement claiming they were not involved.

All evidence points to the NSA with no Israeli involvement.

This article is nothing but antisemitism and has no place on Slashdot.

If it was the Guardian making this claim, it would have some bearing. They have some authority in the leaks and have the source material to find this information.

French media just likes to blame Israel and Jews for everything, so I find little credibility to this article.

Unless I missed something in the article, everything basically says the US and Israel both deny having any involvement in spying on the French. The Guardian printed that it was the NSA that was spying on the French. While I wouldn't be surprised if Israel also spied on the French, I have not seen any such evidence provided.

The French article seems to take Israel's denial and that because Israel wasn't mentioned in the leaked NSA documents as the responsible party that obviously they must be involved.

These kind of Israeli/Jewish conspiracy theories appear regularly in French media, but they don't belong on Slashdot. My Dad's family is from France and Belgium and it is amazing some of the stuff I've seen my grandparents read in French mainstream newspapers. Antisemitism is apparently so bad in France today that Jews that had left France pre-WWII and moved back have been leaving again because they don't feel safe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_France#Post-World_War_II:_North_African_Jewish_migration - See the "Antisemitism and Immigration" section).

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