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Submission + - Imprisonment without trial proposed in UK (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by on Sunday July 15, 2007 @07:24AM

An anonymous reader writes: According to a BBC article, the head of the UK Association of Chief Police Officers has asked for terrorism suspects to be held "for as long as it takes" to finish an investigation, without being charged, without being given a trial, and with no upper limit to the time this could go on for. I, for one, would be more afraid of the police than of the terrorists if they were given this power.

Submission + - Is Your Printer Spying on You?

Submitted by

gnujoshua

on Friday July 13, 2007 @02:57PM

gnujoshua writes: "In 2005, the EFF alerted the world to how laser printers are spying their users by providing tracking information in the form of a unique smattering of barely detectable yellow dots that appear on every printout. Revitalizing this issue, the Computing Counter Culture Group at the MIT Media Labs has launched Seeing Yellow. They provide instructions to see the tracking dots, as well as provide you with a list of clever questions, and appropriate contact information so that you can confront your laser printer manufacturer. Let's act before this issue slips through the cracks again and send the message that manufacturers' must respect our privacy and our right to anonymous free speech."

Submission + - Oregon man flies lawn chair 193 miles at 13,000 ft (newscloud.com)

Submitted by

Jeff

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @02:22AM

Jeff writes: "Kent Couch, an Oregon cluster balloonist has flown a lawn chair above Oregon at an altitude of 13,000 feet using helium balloons. The AP reports he received rope burns trying to hang on during a bout of turbulence having forgotten to buckle his seat belt.

Couch, 47, is the latest American to emulate Larry Walters — who in 1982 rose three miles above Los Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by balloons. Walters surprised an airline pilot, who radioed the control tower that he had just passed a guy in a lawn chair with a gun.
Snopes confirms the Walter flight but has no entry yet for Couch."

Feed Games That Map Depression (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday March 02, 2007 @06:12PM

Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health use a video game to help determine the link between the hippocampus and depression. In Game|Life.

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