Kuwait Just Made DNA Tests Mandatory For All Residents

In a move that will make privacy advocates cringe, Kuwait passed a law yesterday making DNA tests mandatory for all residents. According to the AFP, people who refuse testing will face a year in prison and a hefty fine.

The draconian law will establish a comprehensive database of all residents in Kuwait, presumably making it easier for law enforcement to track down criminals after the fact. The country’s 1.3 million citizens and 2.9 million foreign residents will all be affected. Roughly $400 million has been set aside to implement the national DNA database program.

Many countries, including England, Sweden and the United States, routinely store the DNA of convicted criminals. Kuwait’s program would be the first such mandatory DNA test for every resident of a given country, regardless of criminal history.

The law was passed in reaction to the recent June 26 terrorist attack by ISIS in Kuwait City. The suicide bombing killed 26 people and wounded 227 others.

“We have approved the DNA testing law and approved the additional funding,” local politician Jamal al-Omar said according to the AFP. “We are prepared to approve anything needed to boost security measures in the country.”

While refusing to submit to a DNA sample will get you locked up for a year, anyone who tries to submit a fake DNA sample faces up to seven years in prison.

[AFP]

Image: A billboard in Kuwait City shows the Kuwaiti flag wrapped around a hand, with the slogan: “We stand as one,” as part of a billboard campaign launched 24 hours after a suicide attack on a Shiite mosque on Friday. [Associated Press]

Open-Source Cyborg Hand is Making Prosthetics More Accessible Than Ever

A generation ago, getting a prosthetic limb fitted usually amounted to a having a heavy, nearly useless hunk of plastic and metal tacked onto your body. But bionic hands such as this one illustrate just how quickly that’s all changing.

HACKberry, brainchild of the Japanese company exii, wants to become a game changer for those in need of a new arm, and it’s doing a good job convincing us it’s got the chops. The bionic limb, whose blueprints and source code are freely available, has a smartphone for a brain and uses camera batteries to power itself. Most of the device is comprised of 3D printed parts that can be taken apart and swapped out. By encouraging transparency and openness in all aspects of development, exii hopes to garner the attention of the maker community and encourage faster innovation.

Vancouver Couple Struggles to Make Ends Meet on Only $25,000 a Month

Meet Eric and Ilsa.

Eric, 41, is a physician who works one day a week in a medical clinic, for which he earns $200,000 a year. He works one additional day at a university, for which he makes another measly $100,000 annually.

Ilsa, 39, is a dentist currently on maternity leave who will bring in another $150,000 when she returns to work.

And yet, despite their seeming prosperity, this Vancouver couple can’t make ends meet. What’s to be done?!

Hackers Created a Drone Who Can Steal What Is Inside Your Phone

At this point of time, most of smartphones are loaded with an important function that requires WiFi service to be activated. Taking advantage of this, Hackers of London have created a drone that is proficient in taking data consists of locations and passwords directly from your smartphone.

The drone uses a codename “Snoopy” that targets busy city streets and specific phones switched on while using the WiFi settings and it is also an advantage for the drone that it uses the common smartphone features and thus, it continuously searches for the networks that are already approved and accessed by a user.

A Woman in Pennsylvania is Suing a University After She Failed a Nursing Class Twice.

In the federal lawsuit filed earlier this month, Jennifer Burbella claims that Misericordia University violated federal disability laws by failing to provide her accommodations during the class and final exam.

Burbella suffers from anxiety and depression, according to the lawsuit.

She is seeking $75,000 in damages, but her attorney, Harry McGrath, says she wants to fulfill her nursing dreams as well.

India: 400 men cut off their testicles to 'get closer to God' following advice from 'guru'

Multi-millionaire religious "guru" Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh persuaded around 400 of his estimated 50 million followers worldwide to cut off their own testicles to "bring them closer to God".

The details of the bizarre incident have only just come to light despite reportedly taking place in 2000 at a hospital run by Ram Rahim in India.

India's Central Bureau of Investigation has reportedly accused Ram Rahim of grievous bodily harm and he is under investigation. He has previously been questioned over the murder of an investigative journalist in 2002 and has also been accused of sexual assault by female followers but has never been charged.

Navkiran Singh, who is the lawyer for Hans Raj Chauhan, the only castration victim so far to come forward, said his client and other victims believed they would become social outcasts if they refused to perform the "operation" demanded of them by Ram Rahim.

"They were told that only those who get castrated will be able to meet God," said Navkiran, in a report in the Daily Mail.

Ram Rahim, 47, dubbed the "guru in bling", is head of the socio-political organisation Dera Sacha Sauda and is estimated to be worth £26m.

The guru stars in a spectacular new movie, Messenger of God, in which he appears to walk on air, tear tree trunks in half and perform other miracles. Though 157,000 people are thought to have attended the film's premiere in Gurgaon, near Delhi, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, the revelations have caused sales of tickets for the movie to dwindle dramatically.

Gurus are big business in India, where their endorsements can help political parties get elected, and where millions of people seek spiritual guidance every year. Sathya Sai Baba, who was said to be able to conjure ash from thin air, was worth an estimated US$7bn when he died.

Even after death, some gurus retain a hold over devotees. Ashutosh Maharaj, who was certified deceased by medical examiners last year, has had his body frozen by followers who apparently believe he is merely in a state of deep meditation called "samadhi".

Guy Writes Amazon Review After Finding Out His Wife Is Leaving Him. This Is Gold.

TERROR ALERT: ISIS POSTS WARNING: “We Have Trained Soldiers in 15 States” – NAMES 5 TARGETS

ISIS released a new online threat today on JustPasteIt.

The terrorist group says they will murder Pamela Geller and kill anyone who shields her.

The terrorists also say they have 71 fighters in 15 different states and they 23 have signed up already for missions like the failed Sunday attack in Garland, Texas.

Health and Medicine Ebola Survivors Should Use Condoms Indefinitely

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have warned the public that the Ebola virus may survive in semen long after it is undetectable in other bodily fluids. Consequently, they have recommended that men who survive Ebola use condoms after recovery until more is known about transmission through this mechanism.

The announcement comes after a Liberian woman contracted Ebola, apparently through sex with a man who had recovered from the disease. Tests of the man’s semen revealed the presence of the virus five months after his recovery, a point at which transmission was previously thought highly unlikely.

UK: Muslim husbands with more than one wife to get extra benefits as ministers recognise polygamy

Husbands living in a "harem" with multiple wives have been cleared to claim state benefits for all their different partners.

A Muslim man with four spouses - which is permitted under Islamic law - could receive £10,000 a year in income support alone.

He could also be entitled to more generous housing and council tax benefit, to reflect the fact his household needs a bigger property.

3 women kidnap and gang rape man for 4 days

A man filed a complaint with the police, saying that he was gang raped by a group of women, police in South Africa said.

Hacker discovers how to crack any Master Lock combination in minutes

TORONTO – A well-known hacker has discovered a way to crack the combination of any Master Lock padlock in less than two minutes, using fewer than eight combinations.
According to Samy Kamkar – best known for unleashing the so-called “Samy” worm on once-popular social network Myspace back in 2005 – the technique involves fiddling with the padlocks locked shackle to find various “locked positions” that will eventually reveal the combination.

President Obama Is ‘Enjoying’ Baltimore Riots

Sheriff David Clarke from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been no stranger to newcasts recently, as he has been outspoken in expressing his opinion on the Baltimore riots and related events.

He continued putting together the pieces of the puzzle on a recent episode of “Hannity,” where he focused his comments strictly on President Obama.

Did You Know Your Energy Drinks Contain BULL URINE & SEMEN

 Energy Drinks Contain Ingredient Extracted From Bull Urine And Semen. A study done by Longhorn Cattle Company, tested some of the top energy drink brands such as Red Bull, Monster, etc. What they found might leave your stomach in a knot. They found that the drinks do, in fact, contain bull semen.

Pay to Be Kidnapped and Tortured

Why on earth would someone spend hundreds of dollars to fly to Detroit to be willingly kidnapped and tortured? Good question, but people are doing it! In a city, with its fair share of crime, lies a controversial rapper Mr. Scrillion who has created Extreme Kidnapping.

“This service caters to the extreme sports adventurer who is bored with what’s currently available; this takes it to a whole other level,” says entrepreneur Adam Thick aka in the rap world as Mr. Scrillion. “If you don’t feel like you’re really being kidnapped and your life is in danger, then we’re not doing our job.”

The controversial service was recently brought to light after a GQ writer experienced it first-hand and wrote about his night of torture.

For $1,500 Drew Magary was handcuffed, duct taped, soaked, slapped and zapped with a stun gun (and more) by Thick, a convicted counterfeiter and his henchmen.

Now there are more affordable kidnapping adventures. Thick customizes each abduction and unlike an old-fashioned kidnapping, an Extreme Therapy hostage has the ability to call off the goons and abort the torture at any moment by uttering a preselected safe word.

As a memento, all customers get a video of willingly being held against their will.

The Michael Douglass film “The Game” provided the idea for Extreme Kidnapping.

I personally think this is sick and twisted, especially when people are actually getting kidnapped and tortured against their own free will. If I were to be kidnapped I’d only want it to be by a hot guy that I knew and whisked away to Paris or the beach.

The case against Google that the European Commission has filed is said to be based on 19 complainants.

Google's upcoming battle with the European Commission is reportedly based upon 19 complainants, according to Re/code. We first learned of the groundwork being laid out for the case in the beginning of April, and mid-month the EU formally filed the charges.

The European Union's decision to take on Google last week stems from official complaints by 19 companies in Europe and the United States, including Microsoft and a number of small firms, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Urban Legends That Turned Out to Be True

Urban legends are those stories that we love to tell that are so creepy or far-fetched that they cant possibly be real. Or are they?

#1 Buried Alive


Before advances in modern medicine, this shockingly occurred very regularly. In the 19th century, William Tebb compiled all known instances of premature burial. He collected 219 cases of near premature burial, 149 cases of actual premature burial and few cases where embalming had begun on an undead body.

Fast and Furious 8 Gets 2017 Release Date

Following the huge success of Furious 7, Universal is moving ahead with the eighth installment.
The next entry in Universal's blockbuster Fast & Furious franchise has been scheduled for April 14, 2017. The news was revealed during the studio's CinemaCon presentation, following an emotional speech by Vin Diesel.

Garage Sale? Nope! It’s Now Illegal to Use Cash to Buy Used Goods in Washington, USA !!!

Holding a garage sale? Well, that’s a problem if you live in this 1 state. Because they just passed a bill BANNING the use of cash in 2nd-hand sales.

If you’re scratching your head like we are, then you’re a normal person. How in the world does a state ban cash?

Woman accused of faking cancer, heart condition charged with fraud

CALGARY- A single mother of two who was the beneficiary of $20,000 worth of donations due to her supposed health problems has been charged with fraud.

Police say that between December 2012 and last June, a woman told her employer and co-workers that she had both a fatal heart condition and Stage 4 breast cancer, and provided a fake doctors note. As a result, a number of fundraisers were held for her, which resulted in about $20,000 worth of donations.

One held last June raised $12,000.

Would you fake cancer to make a buck? Health blogger’s story falls apart

This woman, Belle Gibson, lied about having a cancer.


TORONTO — It’s an incredible story: a woman with a terminal medical diagnosis who changed her way of eating and living, and found a new lease on life. Well, it turns out the health tale of blogger Belle Gibson was a lie.

“No, None of it’s true,” Gibson told Australian Women’s Weekly, in an article published Thursday.

The 23-year-old Australian is coming under fire for her false claims, and the money she has made as a result of her fabricated story.

Mexican girl returns home after forcibly sent to U.S. in mistaken identity case

GUANAJUATO, Mexico -- A 14-year-old Mexican girl who was taken by authorities and sent screaming to live in the United States was returned home Wednesday after DNA tests showed she is not the daughter of the Houston woman who claimed her.

The case of Alondra Luna Nunez drew international attention after a video of the distraught girl being forced into a police vehicle last week circulated in media and on social networks.

Montreal woman convicted of posting anti-police graffiti on Instagram

MONTREAL – A woman who posted an image online of a senior Montreal police officer with a bullet in his head was convicted Thursday of criminal harassment.

Jennifer Pawluck was charged in 2013 after snapping a photo of graffiti, which she didn’t draw, and uploading it to Instagram, a photo-sharing social media site.

Quebec court Judge Marie-Josee Di Lallo said she had no doubt the criteria necessary to find Pawluck guilty of harassment had been met.

The judge also made it clear that online behavior can have repercussions.

Canada is 5th happiest country on the planet, where is your country?

Canada is the fifth happiest country on the planet, according to a new report that attempts to determine the level of happiness in 158 different countries.

Absolutely everything you need to know to understand 4chan, the Internet’s own bogeyman

4chan, that most elusive of Internet beasts, has seen a whole lot of press lately — little of it good. First the site was blamed for leaking the stolen nude photographs of dozens of female celebrities. Later it invented an unfunny and inexplicable “mascot” for Ebola, and encouraged witless new iPhone owners to microwave their phones. (That latter rumor gained so much traction, the Los Angeles Police Department felt compelled to weigh in.)

Confused Twitter users point out image used in @Canada tweet not a photo of Toronto

TORONTO – It seems one of the Canadian government’s official twitter accounts might be confused about what the country’s largest city looks like.
The @Canada Twitter account tweeted Monday that Toronto had been recognized as a city showcasing sustainable building. The twitter account attached a photo of a large tower in a dense city – but not the CN Tower, it was the TV Tower in Berlin, Germany.

Fast Food Workers Say: NEVER Order These Items (Top 10 Worst)

While fast food tends to be bad for you in general, some fast food items go far beyond just being bad for you due to what they are made of and into horror story. This is just a selection of top 10 with reasons why you might want to skip them.

15 Things You Have Probably Been Cleaning Wrong Your Entire Life

We learn how to clean from our parents. They learned how to clean from their parents. And so on. Cleaning is one of those things where we do it the way it's always been done. If your dad mopped a certain way, you're bound to do it that way too, but what if I told you that cleaning knowledge that's been handed down from generation to generation might be wrong? Well, not wrong per se, but there is a better, more efficient way that will make your home cleaner and take less time.

Don't believe me? Check out these 15 things you've been cleaning wrong your entire life:

Google joins search for the Loch Ness Monster

TORONTO- Google is taking its street view cameras off the street and throwing them under water in an attempt to map Loch Ness and find the much sought-after Loch Ness Monster.

Many have tried to find the gentle creature, and others have plotted to assassinate it. While Google hasn’t been able to find it – yet – it has uploaded the imagery, allowing anyone to explore the lake and see the world the way Nessie would.

Michigan woman gets 3-7-years for shooting over bacon-less burger

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – A Michigan woman has been sentenced to three to seven years in prison for opening fire at a McDonald’s restaurant after workers twice failed to put bacon on her burgers.

Authorities say 30-year-old Shaneka Torres became angry in February 2014 when the first burger she ordered at the restaurant’s drive-up station was missing bacon. She was offered a free meal, but bacon also wasn’t added to a second burger order.

Fatal Toronto home explosion gas related: Fire Marshal

TORONTO – A preliminary investigation by the Ontario Fire Marshal indicates a massive explosion that levelled a Toronto home on Monday and left one man dead was gas related.

“There was very little fire damage to the debris,” said Wayne Romaine of Ontario’s Office of the Fire Marshal during a press conference Tuesday morning.

1 dead, another injured after explosion flattens house in Scarborough

TORONTO — One man has died and a woman was injured after an explosion rocked a Scarborough street Monday afternoon, flattening a home.

The incident happened around 4 p.m. at 3356 Brimley Rd., just north of Eagledance Drive. Toronto Fire Services said a natural gas leak was detected and rescue efforts were underway. Toronto Fire Services said as many as 12 nearby residences were also damaged.

Charge reduced against Quebec driver after deadly crash in Wyoming

LARAMIE, Wyo. -- Authorities have dropped an aggravated vehicular homicide charge against a Quebec truck driver involved in a fiery chain-reaction crash in southeast Wyoming that killed two people.

Instead, Alex Dragaytsev, 45, was cited Tuesday for failure to use caution for hazardous conditions -- a charge that carries a $60 fine.

Man who escaped custody 40 years ago turns himself in

FRANKFORT, Ky. – A Kentucky sheriff says a man who spent decades as a fugitive after escaping custody in North Carolina has turned himself in to authorities.

Franklin County Sheriff Pat Melton says 66-year-old Clarence David Moore was arrested Monday. He says Moore was taken to a hospital to be evaluated before being taken to the county jail.

RIT readies solar energy farm to begin operation in April

2-megawatt solar array among the largest of any college in New York state

Six-and-a-half acres of a farm field on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus has been transformed this winter into a massive solar array, which is scheduled to be operational early next month.

Renewable energy officially just overtook fossil fuels

The world just passed a turning point - and for once, that's a good thing. According to a report presented in New York last week, we're now adding more capacity for renewable energy each year than coal, natural gas and oil combined.

10 Horrible People Who Faked Cancer For Cash

There is just something horrible about faking certain diseases. Type of diseases that makes most people cringe just at a thought of. Diseases like cancer. These ten people chose to exploit empathy of others.

iPhone VS Android Argument Leads To Roommates Stabbing Each Other

A pair of roommates in Tulsa, Oklahoma are in the hospital after they got drunk and began fighting over which was a superior smart phone; the Apple iPhone or the Android.

The real Odd Couple reportedly broke beer bottles and began stabbing each other in an effort to prove that the iPhone has a cool fingerprint sensor Touch ID or that the Android –Samsung Galaxy has a 16 MP camera! Who ya got?!

Skyrunner: The dune buggy that can fly

The dream of having a car capable of comfortable day-to-day driving and winged sky soaring has been part of the American psyche for generations.

Until recently, this ambitious goal has been out of reach. Soon, though, the wealthiest among us will be able to achieve this lofty goal, as SkyRunner is set to unveil its flying car, capable of all-terrain driving and actual flight.

Federal Govt Admits Marijuana Kills Brain Tumors, But You Still Can’t Have It

The federal government admits in newly funded research that compounds found in marijuana have an unprecedented ability to go in and kill brain tumors without any negative side effects. But you’re still going to jail if you try to use it as a medication.

Are airplane seats getting smaller? U.S. committee investigating why (with infographic)

TORONTO – Ever feel like the seats on airplanes are getting smaller? Well, you’re not alone. A U.S. Department of Transportation Committee is looking into why the size of the seats are changing and how that affects passenger comfort.

10 Things You Probably Don't Know About Orgasms

Author and TED talker Mary Roach describes orgasms as "a reaction of the autonomic nervous system, the part of the nervous system we don't consciously control... and can be triggered by a surprisingly broad range of input."

But did you know you can stimulate a dead person to orgasm? Or that the Journal of Ultrasound Medicine published a paper describing "observations of in-uteri masturbation" - yes you read that right, observations of a fetus apparently masturbating.
 
It's become startlingly clear you guys are fascinated with all things with sexual connotations, so on both of those notes, take a look at this TED talk that walks you through 10 Things You Didn't Know About Orgasms.


Mary Roach TED Talk: 10 things you didn't know... by jackhunterxxx

Why Men Lie Up and Women Lie Down

Both men and women lie, but they lie about different (and predictable) things. Whether in personal ads or in face-to-face conversations, men tend to lie about their earnings and their height. In contrast, women tend to lie about their age and their weight. And both men and women often lie about the number of sexual partners they have had in their lives.

There’s A Japanese Game Show Where Guys Sing While Getting Jerked Off

When it comes to weird game shows, Japan is leaps and bounds above the rest of the world. Perhaps the most famous game Japan ever produced was Za Gaman, known to the rest of the world as Endurance. Contestants on that show were put through some punishing mental and physical challenges that to our eyes looked more like Medieval torture sessions. Some of that stuff looked BRUTAL.

APPT Nanjing Millions shut down by police

The APPT Nanjing Millions has been dramatically shut down after the Chinese National Police raided the tournament today.

 WGM broke the story this afternoon after learning that police had blocked the entrance to the Wutaishan Sports Center, where the event had been running since Tuesday. A sign on the door of the stadium read: “Due to the APPT Nanjing Millions tournament being suspected of illegal gambling, the police are now investigating and the event is being ceased. All related staff should go and register at the designated location and co-operate with the police for the investigation.”