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Submission + - Oft-Burglarized Store Uses Hidden GPS (wpxi.com)

dave981 writes: This story takes RFID tag security to the next level — GPS tags that call home: After five burglaries at his store this summer, Chris Rowland decided to plant Global Positioning System devices in some of his merchandise. The decision paid off with burglary No. 6. The devices informed Rowland that the stolen items were at an apartment complex less than half a mile from his store. Later, the devices showed the merchandise had been moved to a house in Lawrence. Rowland called police, who recovered the merchandise.
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Submission + - Is Global Warming starting to Cool? (prnewswire.com)

dave981 writes: Last summer saw the remarkable success of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and the Anti-[anthropogenic]Global warming crowd was riding high. Now, a little over a year later, the 11th Hour barely raises anyone's pulse. (but gets a response from a co-founder of Greenpeace.) Live Earth didn't fare too well either. Is this issue slowly fading, is it just waiting for the '08 elections to really pick up to come roaring back to center stage? Or will more articles like this, Analysis Finds Hundreds of Scientists Have Published Evidence Countering Man-Made Global Warming Fears, continue to show up and cause the issue to 'fizzle'...

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