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Submission + - Cell-phone's used for boarding passes (chron.com)

Submitted by

mtgarden

on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @01:02PM

mtgarden writes: "A new form of boarding pass (bar-code really) is being put into service in Houston, TX.

From the article "The TSA, which has had a problem with people trying to use fraudulent paper boarding passes in the past, is confident the technology can't be cracked."

That's like saying that DRM can't be hacked...."

Submission + - Bulgaria set to nuclear plant in eartquake zone

Submitted by holy_calamity on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @11:51AM

holy_calamity writes: In the 1980s Societ experts said it would be dangerous to build a nuclear power plant at Belene in Bulgaria because it is near an active fault, in 1977 an earthquake killed 120 people 15 kilometres away. Bulgaria's National Electricity Company now plans to do it anyway, and a European Commission panel is expected to soon rubberstamp the idea so it will qualify for EU aid for construction.

Submission + - Device to Smoke Weed During Brain Scan (wired.com)

Submitted by

dotancohen

on Saturday December 01, 2007 @11:56AM

dotancohen writes: "
Harvard Scientists Build a Device to Smoke Weed During Brain Scan. Why would you want to smoke pot during a brain scan? Because functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows researchers to observe activity in the brain, and doing so while smoking could enhance our understanding of addiction and how to treat it. Last Friday, Scott Lukas, the ringmaster for these studies and director of the Behavioral Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory was informed that he will receive a grant to conduct further studies with marijuana.
"

Submission + - The Ten Worst Products Of All Time

Submitted by on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @01:40PM

An anonymous reader writes: CNET's running a funny article listing the ten most disastrous tech products, "the gadgets and concepts we felt really surpassed themselves in being utterly crapulous. Many of these travesties aimed to reinvent the wheel, but were plagued by huge dollops of fail." Products that made the list include Windows Vista, the Barcode Battler and of course the ill-fated Gizmondo.

Submission + - Is CO2 useful? 1

Submitted by Zot on Friday November 09, 2007 @06:43PM

Zot writes: Is CO2 useful for anything? If there was an economic reason to recycle CO2, then everyone would want to do it. Otherwise, it seems that all that is done with captured CO2 is to treat it like waste. It would be great if someone could come up with a reason to capture CO2 that makes money. What are some of the ways to capture CO2? IS anyone working on finding uses for the stuff?

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