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Submission + - The Top 10 real life Star Trek inventions (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Thursday November 01, 2007 @02:45PM

coondoggie writes: "In the past few months a number of technologies and products that invoke the Star Trek name have been rolled out. MIT was the latest with a tractor beam-like device, but all manner of other new stuff from Star Trek funeral products to healthcare items are also out there. We've gathered up some of the more recent products so you can have a quick look-see. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21418"

Submission + - Hiroshima Bomb Pilot Dies at 92 (go.com)

Submitted by

mytrip

on Thursday November 01, 2007 @02:42PM

mytrip writes: "Paul Tibbets, the pilot and commander of the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, died Thursday. He was 92.

Tibbets' historic mission in the plane Enola Gay, named for his mother, marked the beginning of the end of World War II. It was the first use of a nuclear weapon in wartime. The plane and its crew of 14 dropped the five-ton "Little Boy" bomb on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945"

Submission + - Shell gas station customers can pay by fingerprint 2

Submitted by Carnth on Thursday November 01, 2007 @11:19AM

Carnth writes: The biometric devices, made by a San Francisco-based company called Pay By Touch, are one part of a technological trifecta Shell is rolling out at its gas stations. Customers will be able to initially scan their fingerprints at a kiosk inside the gas station and can link payment information either at the store or online. In addition, gas station attendants are testing hand-held wireless devices that allow full-service customers to pay electronically at their car window. "I think it scares people," said Debbie Britton, a store manager. "They're more confused about the whole system. Some of them say, 'Well, now the FBI can find me.'" Shell said it will not share personal information of Pay By Touch customers with third parties, and it still offers traditional forms of payment for those uncomfortable with the system.

Submission + - Major conflict of interest between Firefox/Google? (news.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 01, 2007 @11:16AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Firefox browser may not be as independent as previously thought. However, the open secret in the tech sector is that at the end of the day, Google calls the shots. When a pro-user security feature in the browser threatens Google's business model, it is the feature that is made to compromise — not the search engine. Google provides real-time updated blacklists for the Firefox Phishing Protection system. However, the company has whitelisted all of its own domain names while at the same time refusing to fix major security vulnerabilities reported to it by respected security researcher Robert "RSnake" Hansen. Can Google be trusted to run the phishing blacklists? Should Firefox go ahead with its plans to use Google's anti-malware blacklists in Firefox 3.0, or should the browser switch to the community-generated PhishTank blacklists? CNET has more on the story...

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