Technological Revolution

Full-body scan technology deployed in street roving vans

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 19:14

BOSTON, Massachusetts - August 24, 2010 - As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.

States eye license plate cameras as source of cash

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 18:52

TAMPA, Florida - August 23, 2010 - When Martin O'Malley became Maryland's governor in 2007, one of his first moves was to double the number of cameras used to spy on cars. The cameras, stationed at tollbooths and parking garages and mounted on police cars, scan license plate numbers and instantly match them with a database for tracking stolen cars.

Touch screen voting machine hacked without breaking seals

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 18:48

DETROIT, Michigan - August 23, 2010 - This is your Sequoia touch-screen voting machine with Pac-Man hacked onto it without disturbing any of the "tamper-evident" seals supposedly meant to protect it from hackers

Officials unveil high-tech ray gun to be installed in county jail

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 18:45

CASTAIC, Kalifornia - August 20, 2010 - A high-tech ray gun built for the military that fires an invisible heat beam capable of causing unbearable pain will be tested on unruly inmates in the sheriff's detention facility in Castaic, officials said Friday at an unveiling event.

The "Assault Intervention System" (AIS) developed by the Raytheon Co. could give the Sheriff's Department another tool to quell disturbances at a 65-inmate dormitory at the Pitchess Detention Center's North County Correctional Facility, said Cmdr. Bob Osborne, head of the technology exploration branch of the sheriff's Department of Homeland Security Division.

Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 08/18/2010 - 19:36

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - August 11, 2010 - The tire pressure monitors built into modern cars have been shown to be insecure by researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina. The wireless sensors, compulsory in new automobiles in the U.S. since 2008, can be used to track vehicles or feed bad data to the electronic control units (ECU), causing them to malfunction.

New research shows human mad cow disease may result from surgery

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 08/18/2010 - 19:34

August 4, 2010 - There is probably no more horrific and frightening incurable disease than Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Also known as the human form of mad cow disease, this degenerative, always fatal brain disorder strikes about one person in every million worldwide each year, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). CJD results in the brain literally being turned into sponge-like, hole-filled tissue (the reason the disease is also known as spongiform encephalopathy). It usually runs a rapid course, causing failing memory, hallucinations, lack of coordination and visual disturbances followed by total mental deterioration, involuntary movements, blindness and coma.

An evil atmosphere is forming around geoengineering

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 08/11/2010 - 18:29

July 24, 2010 - In 1892 Edvard Munch witnessed a blood-red sunset over Oslo, Norway. Shaken by it, he wrote in his diary that he felt "a great, unending scream piercing through nature". The incident inspired him to create his most famous painting, The Scream.

The striking sunset was probably caused by the eruption of Krakatoa, which sent a massive plume of ash and gas into the upper atmosphere, turning sunsets red around the globe and cooling the Earth by more than a degree.

Drugs found in drinking water throughout the United States (MUST SEE)

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 08/04/2010 - 21:05

According to a recent series of tests conducted by the Associated Press National Investigation Team, over 41 million people are currently drinking treated water that contains countless pharmaceutical poisonous drugs; and while the testing was comprehensive it did not cover the entire country. We are allowing the poisoning of our water, and all approved by our federal government! When is enough, enough? Revolution Now! Independence Forever!

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New technology being used by police to predict crimes

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 08/04/2010 - 20:57

LONDON, England - July 25, 2010 - Software that can predict when and where future violent crimes will be committed is being used in Britain for the first time.

Two police forces have begun trialing the sophisticated program, which has echoes of the Tom Cruise film Minority Report, where psychics are used to stop criminals before they commit a crime.

The system, known as Crush (Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History) evaluates crime records, intelligence briefings, offender profiles and even weather reports, to identify potential flashpoints where a crime is most likely to occur.

Computers to translate ancient lost languages

Submitted by Freedomman on Wed, 08/04/2010 - 20:51

BOSTON, Massachusetts - July 20, 2010 - Scientists have used a computer program to decipher a written language that is more than three thousand years old.

The program automatically translated the ancient written language of Ugaritic within just a few hours.

Scientists hope the breakthrough could help them decipher the few ancient languages that they have been unable to translate so far.

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