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Raspberry Pi started manufacture-> 0

Submitted by jon287 on Tuesday January 10, @07:41PM

jon287 writes "Raspberry Pi has started manufacture on the first 20,000 "Model B" boards."
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Comment: Monkey Mecha! (Score 1) 146

by jon287 on Thursday January 17 2008, @12:48AM (#22077198) Attached to: Monkey's Thoughts Make Robot Walk

The mind boggles.

Drug Testing Entire Cities at Once 562

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 22 2007, @07:59PM
from the be-careful-where-you-go dept.

Ellis D. Tripp writes "Researchers have developed a technique for determining what illicit drugs people might be consuming in a given area, by testing a sample from the local sewage treatment plant. As little as a teaspoonful of untreated wastewater can reveal drug use patterns in a given community. Obviously, any drugs found can't be tied to any specific user, but how much longer until the drug warriors want to deploy automatic sampling units farther upstream of the sewage treatment plant?" From the article: "one fairly affluent community scored low for illicit drugs except for cocaine. Cocaine and ecstasy tended to peak on weekends and drop on weekdays, she said, while methamphetamine and prescription drugs were steady throughout the week."

How to silence free speech silently-> 1

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quizzicus

on Wednesday August 22 2007, @07:56PM

quizzicus writes "The Washington Post writes today about a sensitive White House document detailing how to screen for, silence, and remove protesters who show up at the President's public appearances. Obtained by an ACLU subpoena in the Rank v. Jenkins case, the Presidential Advance Manual (pdf) lays out strategies such as searching audience members at the door for hidden protest material, strategically placing "rally squads" throughout the crowd to intercept and shout down hecklers, and forcefully removing dissenters who cannot be squelched. The manual advises, however, that staff should "decide if the solution would cause more negative publicity than if the demonstrators were simply left alone.""
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Hackers release universal PSP unrbicker-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2007, @07:49PM

An anonymous reader writes "A collective group of hackers including the likes of Dark_Alex, Noobz and Booster have released a new piece of software which will replicate the exact functions of Sony's Jigkick battery (even better) — that means it is now possible for homebrew enabled PSP's to UNBRICK and DOWNGRADE their systems at their own will."
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