Friday Reviews
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on July 8, 2005 at 2:45:00 PM
And life moves on.
Wireless robots everywhere! Run away!
Sasser author gets jail time. Punk kid.
Teleportation, science fact.
Shuttle managers watch hurricane Dennis.
Wireless robots everywhere! Run away!
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IBM filed a patent last year on a roving machine equipped with a Wi-Fi location tracking system and an RFID reader. Its purpose is to help stores and factories take an inventory of supplies. Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs is reportedly combining robots, RFID systems and photo sensors to guide robots and locate inventory on assembly lines. Hewlett-Packard is tackling the problem by throwing ultrasound and ultra-wideband short-range radio technology into the mix.
Sasser author gets jail time. Punk kid.
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In addition, 19-year-old Sven Jaschan has to complete 30 hours of community service while on probation, the court in Verden, Germany, said in a statement. The sentence marks one of few successful prosecutions of a virus writer. Authors of malicious code have typically proven difficult for law enforcement to track and catch.
Teleportation, science fact.
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Teleporting a person would require a machine that isolates, appraises, and keeps track of over a trillion trillion atoms that constitute the human body, then sends that data to another locale for reassembly—and hopefully without mussing up your physical and mental makeup.
Shuttle managers watch hurricane Dennis.
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In a written shuttle update, NASA officials said the agency’s weather officers are carefully tracking the approach of Hurricane Dennis – currently headed toward the Gulf Coast – and its possible impact at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, where Discovery currently sits atop Launch Pad 39B.