police officers have begun patrolling the Internet sites where guilty parties sometimes freely admit to committing various crimes without apparent fear of reprisal, such as parties and protests.
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The Department of Homeland Security announced that the completion of a $20 million “virtual fence” pilot project along the Mexican border near Tucson would be delayed because its cameras and radar were unable to distinguish people and vehicles from bushes and cows.
[not a mexican]
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Raytheon unveiled Silent Guardian, a device that radiates unbearable pain which the US plans to use in Iraq. “You don’t have time to think about it,” said an executive. “You just run.”
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A Government official was charged with stalking his ex-girlfriend using homeland security data.
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Scientists in Britain made gum that won’t stick to your shoe.
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Google offered $30m to anyone that lands a robot rover on the Moon.
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Police are cracking down on Craigslist hookers. “Technology has worked its way into every profession,” said a Long Island detective, “including the oldest.”
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South Korea decided to build robot land.
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Japanese researchers have developed head gear that uses infrared sensors and a microcomputer so people can clench their teeth instead of reaching into their pockets to turn on their ipods.
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China Public Security, a U.S.-financed company contracted by the People’s Republic, was outfitting the city of Shenzen with 20,000 surveillance cameras and issuing identity cards to record each citizen’s name, address, employment status, education, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical-insurance status, reproductive history, and landlord’s phone number. “If they do not get the permanent card,” said a China Public Security executive, “they cannot live here.”
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Robots with machine guns are now patrolling Iraq
[don’t move]
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The average employee wastes about 20 percent of the workday.
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Unmanned aircraft drones now spend more that 14,000 hours a month in the skies of Iraq.
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Scientists figured out how to erase bad memories.
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The FBI wants technical universities to impose rules that will stop US university students from working late at the campus, travelling abroad, showing an interest in their colleagues’ work, or have friends outside the United States, engaging in independent research, or making extra money without the prior consent of the authorities.
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Scientists discovered that the sugar found in fruit such as apples and oranges can be converted into a new type of low carbon fuel for cars.
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Scientists developed a device that tells you if you are being boring or irritating.
[bored]
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Scientists made talking paper. “One interesting idea would be to use it on cigarette packaging,” the head researcher said.
[don’t smoke]
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YouTube’s co-founders on Thursday challenged the Pentagon’s assertion that soldiers overseas were sapping too much bandwidth by watching online videos, the military’s principal rationale for blocking popular Web sites from Defense Department computers.
“They said it might be a bandwidth issue, but they created the Internet, so I don’t know what the problem is,”
Chief Executive Chad Hurley said.
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Scientists made a treadmill with a computer on it for fat people to use at work.
[slimming]
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