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Comment Not going back again (Score 2, Informative) 1123

by adamqaisar on Friday August 01, 2008 @08:56AM (#24431579) Attached to: DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely

This is going to put me off visiting the US for a long time now. The last time I flew out, I was detained for almost 3 hours by DHS - and then did sh*t all, just kept me in a room and didn't ask a single question, only to then be told it was a matter of "national security" why I got detained and that I had to apply to have that reason given to me. 2 years later, I'm still waiting.

Freakin' morons. I wouldn't trust them with some play-doh let alone my laptop and phone.

Look foreign?
Prepare to have your life sent back to the 1800's while the US government sifts through all your electronics to make sure you're not some America-bashing foreigner.

Nuclear Scanning Catches a Radioactive Cat On I-5 594

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 24, 2008 @04:09AM from the paging-dr.-schrodinger-line-4-please dept.

Jeff recommends Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat's story from a community meeting with Northwest border control agents. Seems their monitoring for dirty bombs from the median of Interstate 5 caught a car transporting a radioactive cat. "It turns out the feds have been monitoring Interstate 5 for nuclear 'dirty bombs.' They do it with radiation detectors so sensitive it led to the following incident. 'Vehicle goes by at 70 miles per hour... Agent is in the median, a good 80 feet away from the traffic. Signal went off and identified an isotope [in the passing car]. The agent raced after the car, pulling it over not far from the monitoring spot.' Did he find a nuke? 'Turned out to be a cat with cancer that had undergone a radiological treatment three days earlier.'"

Single Photons Bounced Off Orbiting Satellite 131

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 17, 2008 @11:00AM from the pling-pling-pling dept.

KentuckyFC writes "If we're ever going to benefit from the perfect security of quantum communication, we're going to need ways of transmitting entangled photons around the globe and certainly further than the current record of 144km through the atmosphere. Anton Zeilinger at the University of Vienna and colleagues have taken an important step towards this by bouncing individual photons off the Ajisai geodetic satellite (essentially a space-based disco ball) which is orbiting at 1400km. The group says the experiment is an important proof of principle for satellite-based quantum communications."

Feed Engadget: Apple's 2.4GHz 24-inch aluminum iMac gets benchmarked (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Sunday August 12, 2007 @02:12PM

Filed under: Desktops

Although we certainly noticed that Apple's latest iMac felt snappy enough, the folks over at Primate Labs have cranked out a few numbers for the data freaks in the crowd to chew on. Granted, these benchmarks do not include the Core 2 Extreme iMac nor are they the most complete set of tests we've ever seen, but they do seem to give those on the fence a decent look at what level of performance increases they'll be dealing with. Put simply, the new 2.4GHz 24-inch iMac posted "modest gains" across the board compared to the previous iterations that clocked in at 2.33GHz / 2.16GHz, and while the results don't seem earth-shattering, those who rely on "memory-intensive applications (like Aperture or Photoshop)" would likely benefit most from the improved "integer, floating point. and memory / stream performance." As you'd expect, the full skinny on the test results await you in the read link.

[Via AppleInsider]

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