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Submission + - Mexico's cartels build own national two-way radio (yahoo.com)

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K7DAN

on Monday December 26, 2011 @07:12PM

K7DAN writes: "The AP reports that Mexico's drug cartels have built their own sophisticated two-way radio communications system using computer controlled linked and local repeaters on mountain tops, walkie-talkies, mobile transceivers and and base stations. The the solar powered system covers vast areas of Mexico that are unserved by cellular phone network and has the advantage of being more difficult to trace."

Submission + - Study finds P2P has no effect on legal music sales

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MBrichacek

on Monday February 12, 2007 @07:52PM

MBrichacek writes: "A new study in the has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry. Analyzing data from the final four months of 2002, the researchers estimated that P2P affected no more than 0.7% of sales in that timeframe. The study reports that 803 million CDs were sold in 2002, which was a decrease of about 80 million from the previous year. The RIAA has blamed the majority of the decrease on piracy, and has maintained that argument in recent years as music sales have faltered. Yet according to the study, the impact from file sharing could not have been more than 6 million albums total in 2002, leaving 74 million unsold CDs without an excuse for sitting on shelves."

Submission + - VeriSign implants 222 people with RFID chips

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cnet-declan

on Monday February 12, 2007 @07:40PM

cnet-declan writes: "Anyone remember VeriChip, a company that came up with the idea of implanting chips in humans for tracking them? They've been behind ideas like RFID tagging immigrant and guest workers at the border, and they've persuaded a former Bush Health Secretary to get himself chipped. In this CNET News.com article, we offer an update on how successful the idea has been. It turns out that, according to IPO documents, 222 people have been implanted, with sales revenue of $100,000."

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