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Cash or plastic? How about fingerprint?
Post Date: 2005-08-02 11:41:11 by DeaconBenjamin
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Biometric transactions are faster and more convenient -- and closer than you may think. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Instead of keeping countless cards and pieces of information that verify your identification, soon there may be only one thing you need: yourself. As identity theft has become the bane of consumers everywhere, technologies aimed at making transactions more secure are gaining ground. Such "biometric technologies" include iris scans, as well as those for fingerprints, palm, skin, voice and face patterns. "In everyday life, the use of biometrics has been growing," said Philip Youn, a consultant at International Biometric Group. The underlying strength of ...
Redesign Is Seen for Next Craft, NASA Aides Say
Post Date: 2005-08-02 09:09:05 by crack monkey
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Redesign Is Seen for Next Craft, NASA Aides Say By WILLIAM J. BROAD For its next generation of space vehicles, NASA has decided to abandon the design principles that went into the aging space shuttle, agency officials and private experts say. Instead, they say, the new vehicles will rearrange the shuttle's components into a safer, more powerful family of traditional rockets. The plan would separate the jobs of hauling people and cargo into orbit and would put the payloads on top of the rockets - as far as possible from the dangers of firing engines and falling debris, which were responsible for the accidents that destroyed the shuttle Challenger in 1986 and the Columbia in 2003. By ...
Return to Flight -- NOT Yet ... Maybe ... NEVER!?
Post Date: 2005-08-02 04:12:40 by timetobuildaboat
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Return to Flight -- NOT Yet ... Maybe ... NEVER!? So, the Shuttle Fleet is grounded because of foam coming off the Tank ... again. Is this truly a surprise? What is surprising is that the Space Agency told us ... while Discovery is still in orbit! In striking contrast to the actions of the JPL management and scientific team controlling the increasingly mysterious Deep Impact Mission these past few weeks, NASA Shuttle managers overseeing the on-going STS-114 Discovery Mission have displayed a remarkable candor concerning both the potential problems with Discovery ... and the immense impact of these problems on the larger Shuttle Program. Like -- telling us IMMEDIATELY they were ...
Morons Continue Space Flights
Post Date: 2005-07-31 04:18:07 by timetobuildaboat
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This article was reported by John Schwartz, Andrew C. Revkin and Matthew L. Wald and written by Mr. Schwartz. "We are ready to fly." It was June 24, and William W. Parsons, NASA's shuttle program manager, was speaking to reporters on a telephone conference call from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Two and a half years of study and struggle, he told them, were over at long last. The shuttle Discovery could blast off in July. At a closed-door meeting that afternoon, senior shuttle managers had ruled that the chances that debris from the giant external fuel tank would strike the Discovery at liftoff - in the kind of accident that doomed the Columbia and its seven ...
Scientists create working brain cells
Post Date: 2005-07-30 21:06:24 by RickyJ
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SWEDISH researchers have created new functioning brain cells from stem cells drawn from the brains of living adults, sparking hope that effective treatments for devastating illnesses like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's could be at hand, media reported overnight. Neurosurgeons withdrew the stem cells from the brains of adults during routine surgery for hydrocephalus, or water on the brain, a researcher at the Stockholm Karolinska Institute told the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet. As long as an agent was present to induce cell division, the extracted stem cells created new and working brain cells. "So far we have managed to produce several millions of new cells from the original stem ...
MORE TECHNOLOGY IS IN THE PIPELINE TO BATTLE TERRORISM, BUT SKEPTICS QUESTION IF IT WILL BE ENOUGH.
Post Date: 2005-07-30 13:29:06 by RickyJ
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USING TECH TO THWART TERROR: MORE TECHNOLOGY IS IN THE PIPELINE TO BATTLE TERRORISM, BUT SKEPTICS QUESTION IF IT WILL BE ENOUGH. Red Herring July 7, 2005 Red Herring Article The four explosions that killed at least 37 and wounded hundreds on London's transport services Thursday will inevitably spark calls for new technology aimed at thwarting a low-tech terrorists. While there will surely be plenty of skeptics arguing that technology will never foil bombers exploiting the openness of a free society, research proceeds on production of new chemical sensors, surveillance cameras, face-recognition software, ID cards, phone monitoring systems, and other high tech anti-terrorism measures. In ...
Chasing a stealthy influenza virus
Post Date: 2005-07-30 11:48:49 by crack monkey
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Chasing a stealthy influenza virus By Rosie Mestel Times Staff Writer July 25, 2005 Nearly 70 years ago, a team of doctors entered a state mental colony and injected extracts from mice lungs into the arms of nearly 250 "feebleminded males." The liquid was teeming with influenza virus, a tiny infectious agent that had been discovered just three years earlier. Some of the boys and men got sore arms. Others developed rashes. As a flu epidemic swept through the nearby city of Philadelphia in the winter of 1936, the scientists crossed their fingers and hoped that what they had already seen in pigs and ferrets would prove true for people — that a shot of crude virus into the ...
'CyberBug,' can drop in and quietly gather intelligence
Post Date: 2005-07-29 13:21:33 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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'CyberBug,' can drop in and quietly gather intelligence Special to World Tribune.com GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT.COM Friday, July 29, 2005 A U.S. company has begun marketing a stealth micro-unmanned aerial vehicle that can blend in with its surroundings. The micro-UAV, dubbed CyberBug, weighs less than a kilogram and was designed for both military and security surveillance. The battery-powered UAV can fly undetected into a hostile environment, land on rocks or trees and relay video images and voice. The platform was developed by Proxity Digital Networks, based in West Palm Beach, Fla. Proxity's subsidiary, Cyber Aerospace, has marketed the platform to the U.S. military, law enforcement and state ...
Japanese develop 'female' android
Post Date: 2005-07-27 16:24:22 by TommyTheMadArtist
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Japanese develop 'female' android By David Whitehouse Science editor, BBC News website Repliee Q1 plus Professor Hiroshi Ishiguru (Getty) Professor Ishiguru (r) stresses the importance of appearance Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised - a "female" android called Repliee Q1. She has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow her to turn and react in a human-like manner. She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a human. She even appears to breathe. Professor Hiroshi Ishiguru of Osaka University says one day robots could fool us into believing they are human. Repliee Q1 is ...
Montana quake felt across Washington, Idaho too
Post Date: 2005-07-26 10:46:20 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Montana quake felt across Washington, Idaho too 12:05 AM PDT on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 By kgw.com, NWCN and AP staff HELENA, Montana -- A magnitude-5.6 earthquake struck southwestern Montana on Monday night, rattling windows and shaking buildings, but there were no immediate reports of any serious damage or injuries. Resources USGS Earthquake Information The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was centered about 23 miles northwest of Dillon and occured about 9:10 p.m. Pacific time. Residents across a wide swath of Montana, Idaho and Washington reported feeling the temblor. In Montana it was felt as far north as Helena, about 120 miles away, and Great Falls, more than 200 miles ...
Treasure from ancient Pompeii unveiled
Post Date: 2005-07-20 10:33:23 by robin
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ROME, Italy (AP) -- Decorated cups and fine silver platters were once again polished and on display Monday as archaeologists unveiled an ancient Roman dining set that lay hidden for two millennia in the volcanic ash of Pompeii.In 2000, archaeologists found a wicker basket containing the silverware in the ruins of a thermal bath near the remains of the Roman city, said Pietro Giovanni Guzzo, head of Pompeii's archaeological office.The basket was filled with the volcanic ash that buried the city when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. When experts X-rayed it, they saw the objects preserved in the ash, which killed thousands of people but kept the town almost intact, providing precious ...
Report: Ethanol as fuel is an energy loser
Post Date: 2005-07-18 10:21:52 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Report: Ethanol as fuel is an energy loser By MARK JOHNSON Associated Press writer ALBANY, N.Y. ? Farmers, businesses and state officials are investing millions of dollars in ethanol and biofuel plants as renewable energy sources, but a new study says the alternative fuels burn more energy than they produce. Supporters of ethanol and other biofuels contend they burn cleaner than fossil fuels, reduce U.S. dependence on oil and give farmers another market to sell their produce. But researchers at Cornell University and the University of California-Berkeley say it takes 29 percent more fossil energy to turn corn into ethanol than the amount of fuel the process produces. For switch grass, a ...
GALACTIC DUST STORM MAY ALSO BE HEATING SOLAR SYSTEM
Post Date: 2005-07-18 07:38:04 by gengis gandhi
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GALACTIC DUST STORM MAY ALSO BE HEATING SOLAR SYSTEM http://farshores.250free.com/jd071005.htm Galactic Dust Storm May Also Be Heating Our Solar System I received an interesting and alarming letter from science writer Paul Winter who notes that our solar system is being hit with a massive cosmic dust cloud from an ancient supernova event that could be causing a warming of all of the planets in our solar system. Winter, who has been researching data to support this theory, asked about the source of information used in one of my stories, Will Global Warming Lead To Arctic Winter? (2003). In that story I said that the NASA research vessel Ulysses has been measuring cosmic dust and found ...
Ringing the alarm for Earth
Post Date: 2005-07-17 23:48:55 by 1776
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Peter Raven is a botanist. He knows about photosynthesis, primary productivity and sustainable growth. He knows that all flesh is grass; that the richest humans and the hungriest alike depend ultimately on plants for food, fuel, clothing, medicines and shelter, and that all of these come from the kiss of the sun on warm moist soils, to quicken growth and ripen grain. So botanists such as Raven begin with the big picture of sustainable growth and can calculate to the nearest planet how much land and sea it would take to sustain the population of the world if everybody lived as comfortably as the Americans, British or French. The answer is three planets. The global population is about to ...
Want to Listen to Internet Audio Away From Your Computer? Get This Great Gadget!
Post Date: 2005-07-16 21:50:46 by Arator
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It's called Rocket FM and it's slick. Just plug it into your USB port and BAM...you can listen to Audio from your computer on FM from any radio/stereo in a 30 ft radius.
Works like a charm.
Human Feces Powers Rwandan Prison
Post Date: 2005-07-16 19:35:19 by RickyJ
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Imagine eating food that was cooked using natural gas generated from your own human waste. Thousands of prisoners in Rwanda don't have to imagine it -- they live it. Prisoners' feces is converted into combustible "biogas," or methane gas that can be used for cooking. It has reduced by 60 percent the annual wood-fuel costs which would otherwise reach near $1 million, according to Silas Lwakabamba, rector of the Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management, where the technology was developed. Last month, the Rwandan prison biogas facilities received an Ashden Award for sustainable energy. The award, which comes with a prize worth nearly $50,000, is given by the Ashden ...
Sea life in peril - plankton vanishing - Usual seasonal influx of cold water isn't happening
Post Date: 2005-07-16 11:45:51 by Red Jones
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Sea life in peril - plankton vanishing - Usual seasonal influx of cold water isn't happening Glen Martin, Chronicle Environment Writer Tuesday, July 12, 2005 Oceanic plankton have largely disappeared from the waters off Northern California, Oregon and Washington, mystifying scientists, stressing fisheries and causing widespread seabird mortality. The phenomenon could have long-term implications if it continues: a general decline in near-shore oceanic life, with far fewer fish, birds and marine mammals. No one is certain how long the condition will last. But even a short duration could severely affect seabird populations because of drastically reduced nesting success, scientists say. ...
Natural Petroleum: NO Connection With Biological Matter; abiotic oil noted by oil industry
Post Date: 2005-07-16 10:04:12 by Grumble Jones
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"The claims which have traditionally been put forward to argue a connection between natural petroleum and biological matter have been subjected to scientific scrutiny and have been established to be baseless." However, the Rockfeller family and their ilk recommend you continue to be duped because your attempt to believe otherwise endangers their political power and their profit margins. So if you want to endanger their political power, read on. Assorted PIMC links from the very hot debate (or rather the angry denial) of this phenomena. Understanding this really helps you grasp the whole power structure of the world at present: corporate fascist, fake environmentalist, eugenic ...
Tapping Gushers Beneath The Gushers
Post Date: 2005-07-16 09:51:47 by MUDDOG
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Many people think of oil deposits as vast underground lakes, and oil wells as big straws that suck up the liquid gold. Eventually, the lake is drained, so the oil company packs up its gear and moves on. If this were really how things worked, the dwindling size of recent oil and natural gas discoveries would be alarming -- feeding gloomy predictions that crude oil production is approaching its peak. In fact, when major oil outfits abandon wells, they usually leave a lot behind. The reservoirs under most U.S. wells drilled in the past century may still hold twice the amount of oil that has been sucked to the surface. The reason is Geology 101: Oil is locked in the pores of rock layers deep ...
Mouse study suggests Alzheimer's damage reversible
Post Date: 2005-07-15 08:20:18 by gengis gandhi
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Mouse study suggests Alzheimer's damage reversible By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent Thu Jul 14, 2:06 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tests on mice suggest the brain damage caused by Alzheimer's disease may be at least partly reversible, researchers reported Thursday. Their genetically altered mice regained the ability to navigate mazes after the genes that caused their dementia were de-activated. This suggests that the brain damage caused by Alzheimer's is not permanent, they wrote in their report, published in the journal Science. "I was astonished. I didn't believe the results when I saw them," said Alzheimer's researcher Karen Ashe of the University of ...
Hunting for Cops
Post Date: 2005-07-15 07:42:57 by historian1944
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Hunting for Cops by William S. Lind Until very recently, an article titled "Hunt for Cops" might have described a city's effort to recruit more police officers. Sadly, that was not the message of an article in the July 3, 2005, Cleveland Plain Dealer, my hometown newspaper. "Residents of the capital of the poor and chaotic Russian province of Dagestan have come to call it 'the hunt for cops' – more than two years of bold and brutal attacks on police. … 26 police officers have been killed in gun and bomb attacks this year alone." What is true in Dagestan is also true in Iraq: Iraqi police are being hunted and killed in large numbers by the Iraqi resistance. ...
In smarts, she's a perfect 10
Post Date: 2005-07-14 11:41:17 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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In smarts, she's a perfect 10'Pakistan's girl wonder' is likely the youngest certified Microsoft expert By TODD BISHOP SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Sitting down for a personal meeting with Bill Gates this week, 10-year-old Arfa Karim Randhawa asked the Microsoft founder why the company doesn't hire people her age. Under the circumstances, the question wasn't so unreasonable. Arfa, a promising software programmer from Faisalabad, Pakistan, is believed to be the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in the world. The designation, given to outside experts who prove their ability to work with Microsoft technologies, has also been achieved by some teenagers. But it's far more ...
CIA-backed tech can instantly spot terrorists in a crowd
Post Date: 2005-07-13 13:54:44 by timetobuildaboat
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community is investing in new technology meant to provide instant recognition of insurgency fugitives in such crowded facilities as airports and subways. A Los Altos, Calif. company, Pixlogic, has been developing technology meant to search for fugitives and insurgency suspects in a crowd. Pixlogic has employed new software based on visual pattern recognition and search technologies to match archived still or video images with those gathered from security cameras or other sources, Middle East Newsline reported. Executives said the CIA has been an investor in the development of technology by Pixlogic and other U.S. companies. "It does a ...
The Jobs Problem is Worse Than the War Problem [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-07-13 08:58:30 by Zoroaster
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July 12, 2005 The Jobs Problem is Worse Than the War Problem The No-Think Nation By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Thought is not an American forte. Consider the speed with which our government got us trapped in two quagmires, Iraq and Afghanistan. The CIA says that Bush's invasion of Iraq has created ideal conditions for training insurgents and terrorists. The longer we are there, the worse it gets. Our military is being worn down by a gratuitous war of no benefit to anyone except Osama bin Laden. Bush's war has provided substance for bin Laden's propaganda and radicalized the Middle East. Bush's war is being financed by debt, and the result is to give our foreign bankers more control over our ...
Amazing Find in Volcanic Ash-The fossils of human footprints preserved in volcanic ash may do nothing short of rewriting history.
Post Date: 2005-07-13 07:38:03 by gengis gandhi
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Amazing Find in Volcanic Ash The fossils of human footprints preserved in volcanic ash may do nothing short of rewriting history. Found in an abandoned quarry near Puebla, Mexico about 80 miles southeast of Mexico City, the footprints--definitively shown to be human--number in the hundreds. A third of them were made by children. Using radiocarbon testing, optically stimulated luminescence and several other testing methods, an international team led by researchers at Liverpool's John Moores University has shown that the footprints are about 38,000 years old. In what is sure to be a controversial conclusion, the scientists have determined that human settlers arrived in the Americas some 30 ...
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