Topic: - on October 18, 2002 at 11:56:19 PM CEST
X-Ray Vision for G.I. Joe
The US Army can see through walls.
Point the SoldierVision unit from Time Domain at a wall, for example, "and what you see is an outline of the room behind, with people showing up as yellow blobs," explains Ralph Petroff, CEO of the Huntsville (Ala.) UWB pioneer. The system is designed to focus on "large bags of salty water, which is what humans are," he adds. But metallic objects, such as guns, show up as blue. So a yellow blob with a blue streak "could be cause for concern," says Petroff.
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Topic: - on October 18, 2002 at 11:40:07 PM CEST
Hacker breaks into Microsoft server
20,000 beta testers told to change their passwords Microsoft has had to tell more than 20,000 software testers to change their passwords after a server at a company development site was hacked. The software giant said that the server handles the details of Microsoft's BetaPlace, where thousands of people participate as beta testers of new software.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 18, 2002 at 11:34:39 PM CEST
Record update: FTP
Tsunami, the IU-developed file transfer protocol, helps break records for high-speed data transfer
Using a network file transfer protocol developed by researchers at Indiana University's Advanced Network Management Lab, physicists at TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, were able to transfer 4.7 gigabits of data between their laboratories in Vancouver, British Columbia, and CERN, the European organization for nuclear research in Geneva, Switzerland, in less than 60 seconds.
The data was transfered at speeds reaching 769 megabits per second. This is the equivalent of transferring a full compact disc in less than eight seconds or a full-length DVD movie in less than one minute.
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Topic: - on October 18, 2002 at 11:29:44 PM CEST
Has killer sent '9-11' message?
Conspiracy Theorists Unite
9 dead out of 11 hit, and shootings seem to have stopped. It's been more than 72 hours since the Beltway sniper last struck, the longest stretch so far. To date, he's killed nine out of the 11 people he's shot.
He's 9 for 11, or 9-11.
Is it a sick Sept. 11 message from Islamic terrorists? "To be honest, I've thought of that," said Montgomery County Police Officer Joyce Utter in Maryland, where six of the shootings occurred.
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Topic: - on October 18, 2002 at 11:24:30 PM CEST
Two F-18 Navy Jets Crash Off California Coast
Two Navy fighter jets crashed into the Pacific off the California coast during a training mission Friday, military officials said. All four crew members were missing. The F/A-18-F Super Hornets crashed 80 miles southwest of Monterey during an exercise with six other aircraft, the Navy said. The two F-18s were not carrying any weapons.
¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank">Associated Press
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Topic: - on October 18, 2002 at 11:20:47 PM CEST
Space Shuttle Atlantis Lands in Florida
Welcome back to Earth," Mission Control told shuttle commander Jeffrey Ashby as he steered the craft down at 11:44 a.m. "Nice job, skipper." The six Atlantis astronauts, working side-by-side with the three-person space station crew, added a new $390 million truss segment to the orbiting habitat during the mission.
¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank">REUTERS
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Topic: - on October 18, 2002 at 11:16:41 PM CEST
63-year-old is Britain's oldest ecstasy victim
An English grandfather, who liked to boast of his drug intake, died as a result of "ecstasy intoxication", a coroner in the northern English town of Warrington stated on Friday.
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Topic: - on October 18, 2002 at 10:29:59 PM CEST
Marijuana Found Among Christmas Trees
A load of artificial Christmas trees had some extra greenery. U.S. customs agents directed a tractor trailer carrying the shipment to a thorough inspection after an x-ray inspection detected a dense area.
A total of 1 thousand 900 marijuana filled bundles were found among the tree filled truck. The bust was made at the Bridge of the Americas. The driver fled to Mexico.
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Topic: - on October 18, 2002 at 8:09:38 PM CEST
Another Blast Rocks Philippines
A bomb ripped through a bus in suburban Manila late Friday, killing at least three people and injuring 20 others, police said. The incident at 10 p.m. occurred on a EDSA highway, one of the capital's main thoroughfares, in Quezon City, despite tightened security following two deadly bombings Thursday in the southern Philippines and a grenade blast early Friday morning in Manila's financial district.
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Topic: - on October 18, 2002 at 8:05:21 PM CEST
Ray of Light for the Blind
Computerized, brain-implanted eyewear could be the answer to seeing again. Jens is able to see through inventive technology from New York's Dobelle Institute, which produces a form of artificial vision. See how this revolutionary piece of eyewear works. It's not perfect, but it's enough for Jens to drive a car around a parking lot.
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Topic: - on October 18, 2002 at 7:42:42 PM CEST
Can't afford a Segway?
LegWay Program
The program for LegWay was written in BrickOS (LegOS) and uses EOPDs to maintain a constant distance to the ground. As the distance decreases, LegWay moves forward. As the distance increases, LegWay moves backward. Every 50 ms, LegWay attempts to re-calculate the balance point by measuring the current distance and motor speed.
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Topic: - on October 18, 2002 at 7:23:59 PM CEST
NASA releases new photos from Mars Global Surveyor
They represent some of the highest resolution images ever obtained by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor. This image shows a view of gullies on the walls of a meteor impact crater.
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