The BCG vaccine has also been found to be effective against bladder cancer. One of the two manufacturers bailed out of the market about a decade ago, limiting supply for both TB and bladder cancer.

They just opened a new manufacturing facility in Durham this past Spring to make much more. Not sure if it's producing yet, but it was a four-year build.

TB affects so few Americans that you can't even get BCG for TB prevention if you want it. Hopefully high-risk folks will be able to elect to get it soon.

Most of your list could be "produced at home" by most people. Tea and Coffee are the largest problem on the list, but the only reason is geographic and not "processing" related. I'm pretty sure you know that, though, and are being purposefully obtuse for some reason.

2/3 - not bad. Soy sauce is super-processed by bacteria over a year, I believe.

A raw carrot
Pringles
Soy sauce

Are all foods for sale tested before they can go on sale? I don't think so but how about this is introduced? Manufacturers of things intended to be ingested (let's not go so far as to say 'food') could pay a nominal fee which is a function of the number and quality of ingredients.

Then, on some random schedule, a random selection of foods is collected from random sales locations and a random proportion of those tested by a party other than the one collecting the items - to ensure against an emissionsgate-type scam (i.e. quality is good on submission for testing but reverts back to shady-low-quality ingredients for everyone else) or collaboration between the collector and the producer.

Voila! Food manufacturers are incentivised to provide good-quality food.

It would really be a delight for a reporter to have one of those boxes that echoes someoneâ(TM)s words back at them a half second after they say them.
Ask a touchy question and then just hold it up and watch Trump go insane.

> The software had a built-in limit of 200 bot detection features. The enlarged file contained more than 200 entries. The software crashed when it encountered the unexpected file size.

A built in limit is:

if ( rule_count > 200 )
    log_urgent('rule count exceeded')
    break
else
    rule_count++
    process_rule

This sounds like it did not have a built-in limit but rather walked off the end of an array or something when the count went over 200.

Because taxpayer money is available and taxpayers themselves do not matter.

This is America my friend. What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away. Perhaps you should read the Terms and Conditions a little more closely.

Has anything actually stored hashes in /etc/passwd in the last thirty years?

"Yo, dawg..."

Much as I agree with you from a moral standpoint, from a legal standpoint it is not as cut and dried as you make it out to be.

If you want to make the argument that "data about you" is "your data" that's fine, but the presumption here is that it's the airline's data, and it is offering it freely (as in speech, not as in beer) to the government. Where is the fourth amendment implication? It is not your "house, person, papers, or effects," it is the airline's and they're happy to let the government sort through it.

Sigh. No it isn't. The airline is not a provider of medical services, it is not regulated by HIPAA.

While I agree that this is not something I want the government to be doing, what part of a database maintained by the airlines constitutes your person, house, papers, or effects? If the government demands access that would be one thing, but if the airlines say "hey, wanna buy our data?" and the government says "hell yeah" that is something else.

I heard earlier today that a court has determined that since governments are using all of this data, including license plates, that a FoIA request for all of the license plate data gathered from Flock in a city area for a range of dates was valid.

They want to have a power advantage over their serfs but turning their advantage into a burden changes that dynamic. Something to look into for those so inclined.

We seem to be well past the point of being able to expect them to follow the Law or "do the right thing".