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Wormbot Crawls Through Your Intestines 169

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the quite-a-case-of-the-runs dept.
holy_calamity writes "NewScientist is reporting on a new robot modeled on a worm to crawl through your intestines made by European researchers. The plan is to replace endoscopes, but from the look of the videos these things are too scary to ever be allowed into hospitals."

Crashing the Wiretapper's Ball 178

Posted by Zonk from the hardly-shocking dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Wired is running an article with some great investigative journalism. Writer Thomas Green snuck into the ISS World Conference, a trade show featuring communications-tapping equipment and normally a press-free event. There, he got some very interesting quotes from the attendees." From the article: "You really need to educate yourself ... Do you think this stuff doesn't happen in the West? Let me tell you something. I sell this equipment all over the world, especially in the Middle East. I deal with buyers from Qatar, and I get more concern about proper legal procedure from them than I get in the USA."

The Failure of Information Security 172

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the everyone-is-happy-until-something-breaks dept.
Noam Eppel writes to share a recent editorial regarding the current state of information security. From the article: "It is time to admit what many security professional already know: We as security professional are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect. Too many of our security layers of defense are broken. Security professionals are enjoying a surge in business and growing salaries and that is why we tolerate the dismal situation we are facing. Yet it is our mandate, first and foremost, to protect."

Evolution of the Netflix Envelope 238

Posted by Zonk from the uhoh-used-the-e-word dept.
An anonymous reader wrote to mention an article over on CNN Money. They go into some detail on what seven years of tinkering has done for the simple red Netflix envelope. From the article: "Years of experimentation went into creating the perfect DVD envelope. In 1999, Netflix started out with a heavy cardboard mailer. With only 100,000 subscribers, costs weren't a concern yet. Then the company experimented with plastic envelopes, which proved not to be recyclable, and padding, which added too much to postage costs. Both top-loading and side-loading envelopes made an appearance."

Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? 928

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the come-see-the-violence-inherent-in-the-system dept.
sycodon writes "Global Warming has become more than just a scientific issue and has been portrayed as nothing less than the End of the World by some. However, despite all the hoopla from Hollywood, Politicians and Science Bureaucrats, there is another side, but it's being suppressed according to Richard Lindzen, an Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT. From the article: 'Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis.'"
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Journal Journal: Dark Monday, Stanford commencement

Journal by chancycat

Monday the 27th (June 2005) was a dark day around here - of the ~30 of us in our web-services software section, five were given notice. Looks like they get two weeks to locate jobs elseware in the company or they get the nine-week layoff package.
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Journal Journal: Work severances and axings

Journal by chancycat

Lay-offs loom around site - Back on Wednesday the 13th of April (2005) our section manager and functional manager let our section know that the IT budget has been cut (OpEx) and our group was in a dire deficit. We could stand to lose up to 15 folks to the axe. Yucky feeling and nightmares that night. And my project is cut, seemingly randomly. The past two weeks have been OK though as we scramble for recovery, outside funding and realignment. Maybe most/all of of software types will make it th
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Journal Journal: a post

Journal by chancycat

Just another post, 11 August 2004 - what is an online journal supposed to be to me? I can't trust slashdot entirely, so no major secrets... shall I just recap the recent past?

Work has me traveling more. Soon to travel to France for 10 days on business. Going to a coworker of Erin's wedding in Salt Lake City soon - Betsy and Rob. Should be fun.
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Journal Journal: Space Shuttle lost

Journal by chancycat

This morning (1 Feb 2003) I woke up at 5:40PST to go out in the dark of Oregon with my dog to try to see the STS-107 Space Shuttle Columbia re-entry trail. It was suprisingly a clear sky - it is usually raining around here. I was supposed to be able to see the trail at 5:54am. Didn't see anything, I thought perhaps mission control had the shuttle come down on another pass, 90 minutes later. I came back inside to check the status of the landing on the web - only to eventually learn that the sh

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