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WOMEN POSE FOR 2ND AMENDMENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH PRO-TRUMP OPEN CARRY BABE

WOMEN POSE FOR 2ND AMENDMENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH PRO-TRUMP OPEN CARRY BABE

Posted by | Apr 12, 2018 | , |

Second Amendment empowers women Pro-Second Amendment women are showing their support for the college student who posed with a firearm in a graduation photo — by posing with their own firearms in solidarity. “Here I am in solidarity with Brenna, also carrying in public. We will NOT allow for Leftist intimidation tactics to hinder our inalienable #2A rights,” tweeted Washington Examiner contributor Alana Mastrangelo on Wednesday. ABC News called the police on my friend, Brenna Spencer (probably hoping to get a better story). Here I am in solidarity with Brenna, also carrying in public. We will NOT allow for...

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Here’s the Data Facebook Can Learn From Your Selfies

Here’s the Data Facebook Can Learn From Your Selfies

Posted by | Apr 11, 2018 | , |

Today the Wall Street Journal listed all the data Facebook can grab when you upload a photo, based on Facebook’s privacy and data collection policies. The list illustrates what we’ve said before: Facebook doesn’t need to spy on your through your microphone, because you already let it spy on everything else you do. As the Journal says, Facebook gets your photo, your caption, and which user profiles you tagged. It studies your photos with facial recognition tech to see who’s in them. (That means if you take a photo in public, Facebook might recognize more faces in the shot...

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Apple ordered to pay patent troll more than $500 million in iMessage case

Apple ordered to pay patent troll more than $500 million in iMessage case

Posted by | Apr 11, 2018 | , |

The eight-year battle between Apple and VirnetX takes another turn. Apple has been ordered by a federal court in Texas today to pay $502.6 million to a patent troll called VirnetX, the latest turn in an eight-year-old legal battle over FaceTime and iMessage patents, according to Bloomberg. Apple and VirnetX have been fighting in court since 2010, when the patent-holding company said the iPhone maker infringed on four of its patents related to internet-based communications. The legal battle has been protracted, and it involves multiple lawsuits and a dizzying number of appeals. Last we heard of the fight was...

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‘I paid $90,000 to free my family from IS’

‘I paid $90,000 to free my family from IS’

Posted by | Apr 9, 2018 | , |

Khalid Taalo Khudhur al-Ali fled with his wife and children as Islamic State militants attacked their town in Iraq in 2014, but 19 other members of his family were captured. Over the last four years he has paid $90,000 for the release of 10 of them. But now, after the defeat of IS, he fears that any survivors may be beyond his reach. On 26 September last year, a red pick-up truck pulled into Sharya in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Inside sat 16-year-old Shaima. As the vehicle drew into the small, dusty village, friends and family crowded...

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The town that breeds resistance to Malaria drugs

The town that breeds resistance to Malaria drugs

Posted by | Apr 9, 2018 | , |

As new waves of the disease threaten the globe, worried scientists want to conduct a mass inoculation in a Cambodian region where new vaccines always seem to stop being effective. Pailin is a small settlement nestling in tropical rainforest near Cambodia’s border with Thailand. It is an unassuming town that lies at the centre of one of the country’s main logging areas. Pailin harbours secrets, however. It was in this town, in the late 1970s, that the Khmer Rouge set up one of its main strongholds and ruled Cambodia with a ferocity that caused at least two million deaths....

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