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[conuly]

Stricter Autism Criteria Unlikely To Reduce Services For Kids

http://n.pr/1f7nGYZ

China's imperiled Jade Rabbit moon rover: 'Goodnight, humanity'

http://cnn.it/1ee1Ftt

Researchers find 300,000-year-old hearth in Israel

http://fxn.ws/1bvNQSC

NSA Surveillance Divides the Republican Party

http://bit.ly/L6qGeD

GPS Tracking Devices for Kids with Autism?

http://huff.to/1cpudzU

Pentagon, scientists closing in on rapid DNA technology

http://usat.ly/1hFCksh

Request to SEC for AIG Files Nets Heavily Redacted Documents
Regulator Keeps Details—and Much More—Secret Despite Request for Info on AIG Probe

http://on.wsj.com/1bvGaQh

JPMorgan Chase Confirms That Crime DOES Pay

http://bit.ly/1e4HIH3

Spy Agencies Probe Angry Birds and Other Apps for Personal Data

http://bit.ly/1fqKovF

This is the one map you need to understand Ukraine’s crisis

http://wapo.st/KRT6ZI

You don’t want your privacy: Disney and the meat space data race

http://bit.ly/1dR0PSe

How Vaccine Fears Fueled The Resurgence Of Preventable Diseases

http://n.pr/1aW1q1C

Atheist Senator Ernie Chambers Tells Religious Organizations: 'PAY YOUR TAXES'

http://huff.to/1f8i1Dp

Comments

[siderea]

GPS Tracking Devices for Kids with Autism

Yeah, Lojack for people.

The article you linked to is kinda stupid. The difference between the kids with autism "eloping" that have their parents concerned and thinking Lojack is a good idea, and kids -- with or without autism -- who bolt but don't cause their parents to think "a tracking device would be really useful", is that in the latter case, the kid can be assumed to fend for him or herself while they're off on their own. Most fifteen year olds who ditch school to hop on the subway aren't "eloping", they're truant, nobody thinks they're going to drown if unattended for, honestly, several days, and nobody feels the need to give them a Lojack bracelet, not least because they don't want to be found and will remove the bracelet to do so.

No, the people for whom Lojack bracelets make sense are people of any age who can't safely fend for themselves, such as Alzheimer's patients, who are also not trying to evade supervision.

[conuly]

Autism articles are about the only ones I don't always read, or don't read all the way through. If I tried, I'd be too angry much of the time to post them.