Raw Intel Log:
Big Brother
- New WiFi and RFID Technology Used to Track Inmates 8/9/07
Alanco Technologies, Inc. announced the first U.S.A. installation of its new WiFi compatible RFID inmate tracking technology at the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. - Savi Announces First Participants in its Standardized RFID E-Seal Licensing Program 8/9/07
A Lockheed Martin company has first six companies using their RFID tech to track cargo. - Fingerprint payments taking off despite security concerns 10/19/05
No need for wallet or credit card anymore; scan your finger and go. Convenience outweighs security. - The Crime of "Unauthorized Reproduction" - New law will require marriage as a legal condition of motherhood 10/14/05
Frightening legislation stripping freedoms away, giving the "state" more power over our lives. - Secrecy Power Sinks Patent Case 9/23/05
Inventors on the losing end when government cites "state secrets privilege." - NSA granted Net location-tracking patent 9/23/05
If someone's visiting a "bad" website, "the NSA might want to know where they are." - Are private firms helping Big Brother too much? 9/17/05
Businesses and people quietly becoming government informants without a subpoena. - US Can Confine Citizens Without Charges, Court Rules 9/13/05
Court backs Presidential power to indefinitely detain Americans; appeal may go to Supreme Court. - Toyota Computer Makes You Watch the Road 9/13/05<
Soon, Lexus drivers will literally be watched as they drive. If their eyes do not remain straight ahead, lights and beeps are the only warning before the car's brakes "kick in." - ID Revolution - prepare to meet the new you 9/13/05
The rules are changing that dictate acceptable proof of who we are. - Smiling on British passports now forbidden 9/13/05
New identification technology fights terrorism; no smiles allowed; photo now reveals less of your identity than before.
Electronics
- 'Smart' Buildings to Guide Future First Responders 11/18/05
Linking intelligent building systems with people, computers. - EU deal threatens end to US dominance of internet, US says No 9/30/05
The US stands alone against the world in fight to retain control of system it built. - Spy agency taps into undersea cable 9/23/05
NSA pursues difficult underwater wiretapping. - Solar-Powered Underwater Autonomous Robots 9/13/05
NSF-funded project, RiverNet, to unveil robot; its goal is long-term undersea observation and water monitoring. - Robot in Touch With Its Emotions 9/13/05
Japanese robotics team creates artificial intelligence that expresses emotions; next goal is exhibiting personal taste. - Gadget Tells Kids in Greece, NY, When School Bus Is Near 9/13/05
No need to wait in the rain for the school bus in Greece, NY; new device beeps in home when bus is half-mile away. - Teeny Phones for Tweety Birds 9/13/05
Strapping little cell phones on birds is the plan to assist scientists in tracking the mysteries of their migration. - Backpack generates a powerful punch 9/13/05
With each step, more comfortable design generates electricity to power equipment needed by soldiers.
Global Change
- ESA selects targets for asteroid-deflecting mission Don Quijote 9/29/05
Scientists will determine which asteroid to "practice on" in 2007. - Vancouver Island Moves West in Quake Lasting Two Weeks 9/16/05
Measuring an earthquake that creeps along; superquake is 30 times more likely this month.
Gov Watch
- Republican Congressman Slams Bush On Militarized Police State Preparation 10/14/05
Texas Congressman rips Bush's plan wide open to frighten Americans, take their guns and finish turning this into a military police state. - Bush will veto anti-torture law after Senate revolt 10/14/05
Awkward dilemma for Bush as Congress revolts against torture. - UN Human Rights Body to Scrutinize U.S. Abuses 9/23/05
UN investigating implications of the USA Patriot Act and treatment of those detained outside the US.
Human Engineering
- Doctors Warn Against Infrared Thermometers 8/7/07
Infrared thermometers that scan heat radiation are not taking accurate readings. - Compound in wine reduces levels of Alzheimer's disease-causing peptides 11/8/05
More study needed to figure out how it works. - Scientists Crack Code for Motor Neuron Wiring 11/8/05
Another step closer to recovery from spinal cord injuries. - Cheap, rapid hand-held check for HIV 11/8/05
As simple as checking blood sugar levels. - Exxon-Mobil employees given fake flu shots 10/28/05
FBI informs company shots were fake, but does not reveal source of knowledge. - Remote Control Device 'Controls' Humans 10/27/05
Device generates galvanic vestibular stimulation, makes you move. - Human body to become network cable with RedTacton 9/23/05
New tech uses the "minute electric field emitted on the surface of the human body." - Halliburton serves contaminated water to troops 9/20/05
KBR serves rotten food and contaminated water to troops longer than one year. - Harvard Professor Being Investigated For Hiding Fluoride-Cancer Link 9/15/05
Professor's own student's thesis work is considered the most rigorous human study to date on a possible connection between fluoridation and osteosarcoma.
New Science
- Explaining why the Millennium Bridge wobbled 11/8/05
Crowd dynamics and engineering solve the puzzle. - CIA Invests In No-Fuel Power Generators 10/19/05
CIA gets rugged solar/wind power generators; not available to public.
Nuke-Bio-Chem
- World prepares for new flu pandemic 9/30/05
Action now, including stockpiling vaccine, underway to prevent up to 150 million deaths. - Bio-Hazard Update: No deadly viruses released from "hot labs." 9/15/05
Decades of research lost, but bolt-cutters and bleach successfully help prevent release of deadly viruses. - Russia Warns U.S. Against New Nuclear Doctrine 9/13/05
Russia warns US against DoD policy change to allow pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons. - Hurricane Bio-Hazard? Infectious Disease Research in New Orleans 9/13/05
Bio-weapon research in NOLA; so, what happened to the stored anthrax, plague and infected monkeys? - Rural Montana Prepares for Major Bio Defense Lab 9/13/05
Controversial new building at Montana site to become fifth Biosafety Level-4 facility in US.
Weapons of War
- Ultramicro, Nonlethal, and Reversible: Looking Ahead to Military Biotechnology 10/14/05
A well-written look at lots of ways to make new weapons that will save civilization. - Xtreme Defense: Lightning guns, heat rays, weapons that can make you hear the voice of God. This is what happens when the war on terror meets the entrepreneurial spirit. 10/14/05
Interview with owner of start-up company selling non-lethal weapons to our military, and to other countries, too. - The Mind Has No Firewall: Army article on psychotronic weapons. 10/14/05
Energy-based weapons, psychotronic weapons and other ways to alter the ability of the human body to process stimuli. - Uranium Bullets Not Used for Practice 9/29/05
Incognito Colonel does not deny existence of DU rounds on Fort Chaffee, though. - US Mulling New Generation of Land Mines 9/15/05
Pentagon spent $100 million developing "better" land mines; deciding whether to build them and send to South Korea. - Air Force Moves to Reopen Bomb Competition 9/13/05
Conflict of interest at Boeing prompts Air Force to take new bids for bomb project.
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