The radios were made by an older, different company. The latter computer company purchased the rights to the Packard Bell name to try to cash in on the existing goodwill that the name had as an old American manufacturer of electronics.

You must be in Europe? Packard Bell stopped selling computers in the US around 2000 due to their horrible quality reputation in North America.

"other countries who fingerprint visitors could be equally vulnerable — not least the United States", according to BBC Asia analyst Andre Vornic.

Vornic needs to do some research. Criminals in the US have been attempting to surgically alter or mask their fingerprints since at least the 1930s, and the FBI has been researching the techniques since then as well. I remember reading about this in a book from the 60's, where a counterfeiter surgically swapped his prints around, and the FBI recognized them, out of order, and matched them back up with the original fingers.

I believe that the previous poster may have made the same brilliant intellectual leap that I independently made, and went to the Company's web page.

There you will find a video:

http://www.bioagtive.com/index.php?p=0&videoID=852

that is full of fascinating information about the process, and explains it much more coherently than 4th person version of the events that we get from Slashdot's summary.

"and it my shit a cataleptic fit."

WTF?? I think you should be content with redundant and be glad there are no -1 Idiotic or -1 Disgusting mods.

I was poking fun at Flyingbishop for trying to create an evidence chain that starts with a belief in an omnipotent being.

Have you read Carl Sagan's Contact? The book was much better than the movie and it spent some time exploring the religion/science conflicts. I'm firmly in the pure science until proven otherwise category, but
that book allowed me to see your viewpoint.

One word:

malwarebytes

Detecting and removing botnet software is its purpose in life.

http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?tag=mncol

It is? Where is the evidence for any god?

Without reading the article, (this is slashdot after all), the summary seems to indicate that they are modeling the eel's body motion. They do not appear to be modeling a brain that controls a body's motion, and along with it, everything else that a creature's brain is supposed to do.

AMD x2 64 @ 3000 on win xp 64.
4 gb ram
firefox 3.5.2 1280x1024

By default it was utilizing both cores, but even when I forced it to one it rarely went over 10%, with the average under 6%.

Two different technologies to create two different materials that happen to share the same description. The 2004 story you linked to is about a product that is in production, with real world tangible benefits, and is actually transparent in the visual spectrum. The one in the current story can't claim any of that.