Like any technology, if we have the ability to put a microdevice into someone it is going to be used for both noble and horrible purposes. However, science does march on and we’d better start getting used to the possibility that one day you may wind up with a chip (or two) somewhere inside of you.

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Video: High Speed License Plate Monitoring

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Aspen Daily News – July 28, 2007:

About 20 patrons of a Louisiana truck stop ATM noticed something weird going on with their withdrawals about a month ago. The machine was spitting out $20 bills when it was supposed to be issuing $5’s.

Folks got slightly richer than they’d expected and the local parish lawman vowed to send the posse after them.

What would you do if an ATM spontaneously enriched you?

Back in Louisiana, an online service, reporting the glitch in DeSoto Parish, polled visitors to its news pages. Should ATM customers give back their loot? The result was nearly a toss-up, with the edge (55 percent) going to the Right Thing To Do.

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This has flop written all over it.

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Where is Mao when you need him?

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So what?

EETimes.com – Court ruling supports claims that Microsoft’s first OS was stolen — I didn’t even know this lawsuit was going on. I discuss the folklore of this story on today’s Tech5 podcast here. Look for the episode titled: Who Wrote DOS

Dismissing a defamation suit brought by the inventor of DOS against a British writer, a judge has left unchallenged computer industry lore that holds the operating system Microsoft licensed to IBM in the 1980s — thereby launching Bill Gates’ multibillion dollar software empire — was a knock off.

In a book on American innovation, author Sir Harold Evans wrote that DOS inventor Tim Paterson relied heavily on an existing OS called CP/M (Control Program/Monitor) created by a programmer who has since died. Microsoft in 1980 struck a licensing deal with Paterson’s company — Seattle Computer Products — to obtain access to DOS and resell it to IBM.

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The U.S. may be unable to pay its bills this fall.

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But there is good news and bad news.

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The folks over at Time have a nice slideshow of the Antarctic, click on the picture to see more.

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International donor funds are better spent, she says, on emergency aid like food, water and medicine.

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The next time you’re in Beijing and fancy kissing someone in public, be warned – you could be caught on closed-circuit television, and labeled as a criminal by the computers who monitor the footage

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Physicians who are more religious are less likely to practice medicine among the underserved.

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Eat meat? No sex for you!

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The promise of one less allergen in popular foodstuffs has been realized by a researcher who has developed an allergen-free peanut. If this can be commercialized it will be a boon to everyone. Let’s hope the process doesn’t otherwise remove what makes it a peanut.

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What, you were expecting a computer? Ha!

The website this is on, Cyberheritage, is a great reference on British military history with a staggering number of photos and other stuff.

Found by my brother, Don.

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