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Encrypted Ammunition? 909

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the really-bad-ideas dept.
holy_calamity writes "A patent has been filed for bullets with built-in encryption. Pulling the trigger sends a radio signal to the cartridge in the chamber, but the charge only goes off if the right encryption key is sent. The aim is to improve civilian firearm security." Not sure I'm quite ready to trust the average techno-gadget failure rate on something like this just yet.

FreeBSD Vows to Compete with Desktop Linux 370

Posted by Zonk from the moving-on-up dept.
AlanS2002 writes "FreeBSD developer Scott Long is being reported as saying that FreeBSD is quickly approaching feature parity with Linux. Apparently this is being achieved through efforts to more tightly integrate GNOME with FreeBSD, with one of the priorities being to 'GNOME's hardware abstraction layer--which handles hardware-specific code--working with FreeBSD'."

Comment Back To the Future? (Score 1) 534

by moderndayknight (#13869350) Attached to: The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel
If this really works, I wonder how long until we can use aluminum soda cans, like Doc did in the movie.

It would definitely help with recycling, because everyone would have a real-world incentive to save their cans and not junk them. Then again, the metal is probably too impure, and it would take a lot of soda cans. It would be a step in that direction, though.
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Journal Journal: Creation - recent Slashdot topic 8/2/05 1

Journal by moderndayknight
I read most of the recent topic about Intelligent Design being taught in public schools. I thought it quite amusing that 1) the posts that got any points were against ID and 2) did anyone ever think about the motivations of those on the side against ID? Why don't they like the idea of ID? A famous man once said, "People believe to be true what they prefer to believe." The older I get, the less I see arguing about something as effective. People really do believe what they want to, even in th

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