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Comment Honk if you Like Basic Human Rights (Score 2) 214

At first I thought, "Wow! Somebody actually considered the ethics of this program," but then I read, "Organ donations from prisoners were not ideal because rates of fungal and bacterial infection in prisoner organs were quite high, and affected the long-term survival rates of those who undergo the transplants." So, confronted with the need to improve the incubation environment for their organ supply and consequently the living conditions of their wards, they choose instead to ditch the program. And just like that my cynicism is once again vindicated. Wretched!

Comment What Are We Teaching? (Score 1) 288

We certainly aren't teaching responsibility. That requires trust. I've reared several kids throughout the years. Some I micromanaged. Later, I learned to teach them morals and ethics and allowed them to develop their own behaviors while still maintaining a safety net where required. The latter group seem much more well-adjusted and have avoided a lot of the trouble the first set still manages to find. In my opinion, the government is not doing these kids, and itself by extension, any good.

Comment Re:Misleading Headline... (Score 1) 115

Indeed. The headline might lead one to believe that one camera could identify, hash, lookup, and store information on 36 million distinct faces per second - like looking at the world's biggest mob and processing everybody present. Still, this technology will undoubtedly be on Big Brother's Christmas list. Why, just imagine the civil liberty carnage a Beowulf cluster of these things could cause.

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