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Submission + - TSA to retest full body scanners for radiation (usatoday.com)

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on Friday March 11, 2011 @11:24PM

cultiv8 writes: "The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation — 247 machines at 38 airports — after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected."

Submission + - US judge orders Twitter to give up WikiLeaks data (breitbart.com) 3

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on Friday March 11, 2011 @09:26PM

cultiv8 writes: "A US judge Friday ordered Twitter to hand over the data of three users in contact with the activist site WikiLeaks, rejecting arguments the move would violate their rights to privacy and free speech.

I think the rapper Ice T said it best, "freedom of speech, just watch what you say""

Submission + - Meth Dealer Faces loss of 18,753 Comic Books (thesmokinggun.com)

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on Saturday March 05, 2011 @01:09PM

cultiv8 writes: "A large-scale methamphetamine dealer who allegedly laundered drug profits by purchasing valuable comic books is in danger of forfeiting his 18,753-volume collection to Uncle Sam, according to a new court filing."

Submission + - How To Preserve Videos Pirated in the 1930s? (npr.org)

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on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:04AM

cultiv8 writes: "From an interview on NPR:

The Institute of the American Musical in Los Angeles is home to footage collected by one of the earliest pirates —Ray Knight of Jacksonville, Fla. Between 1931 and 1973, Knight would make trips up to Broadway and sneak a 16 mm camera into theaters. He eventually collected footage of over 175 musicals. Knight's family gifted the films — which, in many cases, are the only visual record of many of the earliest musicals — to the Institute of the American Musical when Knight died. But, there's a problem. The institute is a one-person operation that has been housed in a Los Angeles duplex for the past 30 years. The tiny nonprofit is having a hard time finding a way to preserve the Knight films — and the rest of its archives.

How would you recommend they preserve the Knight films?"

Submission + - Robot hummingbird passes flight tests (physorg.com)

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on Friday February 18, 2011 @09:50PM

cultiv8 writes: "A prototype robot spy "ornithopter," the Nano-Hummingbird, has successfully completed flight trials in California. Developed by the company AeroVironment Inc., the miniature spybot looks like a hummingbird complete with flapping wings, and is only slightly larger and heavier than most hummingbirds, but smaller than the largest species."

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