Health Care

Hacker who showed hackers can take control of medical devices and was scheduled to expose his findings about this, suddenly died.

"The San Francisco medical examiner's office said Jack, 35, died in the city on Thursday – but did not provide details on the circumstances surrounding his death."

"Jack was due to speak at the Black Hat conference, which starts Saturday in Las Vegas. His presentation, "Implantable medical devices: hacking humans," would have explained how these devices could be compromised and would have suggested ways to improve device security."

That doesn't sound fishy.

"Jack had exposed a security flaw in insulin pumps that could be made to dispense a fatal dose by a hacker 300ft away, pushing some medical companies to review the security of these devices."

The only possible reason to connect medical devices to the internet is to allow remote control of them. How is this a good thing?

Curcumin, an ingredient in Turmeric, is as effective against depression as Prozac. Probably more so. Without the side effects like suicide.

High fat, low carb diet enables mute girl to speak.

Kerrygold feeds their cows GMO soy and corn. Oops. That's going to cost some sales.

I'm skeptical that oranges must be genetically modified to resist and incurable disease. How about we just reintroduce some natural genetic variation from other types of oranges.

"“In all of cultivated citrus, there is no evidence of immunity,” the plant pathologist heading a National Research Council task force on the disease said."

Help me, Monsanto. You're my only hope. I find this very hard to believe. In millions of years, no such bacteria has ever existed, but one just happened to show up just in time to make Monsanto our only hope. This strikes me as a propaganda piece for Monsanto and GM crops in general. Actually, there's another little piece of info hidden in this article that could explain it. Iran is facing the same problem. The government - meaning Monsanto - could have engineered a bug to wipe out Iran's orange crop, and that bug could now be wiping out the US crop.

"And a seedless midseason orange recently adopted by Florida growers emerged after breeders bombarded a seedy variety with radiation to disrupt its DNA, a technique for accelerating evolution that has yielded new varieties in dozens of crops, including barley and rice. "

What could go wrong except maybe also creating a bacteria that wipes out oranges.