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TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway 578

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 20, 2011 @06:49PM from the papers-please dept.

OverTheGeicoE writes "TSA is expanding its presence to the American road system. As part of its Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) program, TSA agents are now working at 5 weigh stations and two bus stations in Tennessee. They are randomly checking trucks with 'drug and bomb sniffing dogs', and encouraging truck drivers to join their First Observer Highway Security Program and report anything suspicious that they see to authorities. VIPR is allegedly not a response to any particular threat."

Comment link to high qual youtube (Score 1) 518

by isthisorigional on Monday September 29, 2008 @12:39AM (#25190641) Attached to: On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit

it's not up on their site yet, so until then here's the launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To-XOPgaGsQ

Journal Journal: Google's Secret 10GbE Switch

Journal by Alien54 on Monday November 19, 2007 @12:35AM

It is the opinion of Nyquist Capital that Google has designed and deployed home-grown 10GbE switches as part of a secret internal initiative that was launched when it realized commercial options couldn't meet the cost and power consumption targets required for their data centers. This decision by Google, while small in terms of units purchased, is enormous in terms of

Submission + - Simple Comm Technique Beats Quantum Crypto

Submitted by

Atario

on Saturday May 26, 2007 @08:46AM

Atario writes: "Spying is big business, and avoiding being spied on an even bigger one. So imagine if someone came up with a simple, cheap way of encrypting messages that is almost impossible to hack into?

American computer engineer Laszlo Kish at Texas A&M University in College Station claims to have done just that. He says the thermal properties of a simple wire can be exploited to create a secure communications channel, one that outperforms quantum cryptography keys."

Submission + - New Superbug to Replace Failing Antibiotics

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @02:16AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Researchers in British Columbia have identified a peptide that can fight infection by boosting the immune system. Because antibiotics are under threat due to an explosion of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, this may be just in time."

Radioactive Snails Crawl Up From Beneath 397

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 12, 2006 @02:39AM from the all-the-powers-of-a-man-sized-snail dept.

slidersv writes "Reuters is reporting discovery of radioactive snails in the area where three hydrogen bombs were lost by US in the 1966. The radioactive creatures crawl up from underground, where authorities suspect deposits of uranium and plutonium may be located."

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