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Wireless Sensor Networks for Killing Mosquitoes
aaditeshwar writes "It looks like sensor networks have some applications afterall, other than the usual stuff for defense and US military! AmBio has created a wireless mesh network of bugspraying "magnets" that report back data on the temperature, air conditions, and wind directions, and a central controller uses this data to turn ON or OFF the magnets in different areas. They plan to cover entire cities with such wireless meshes, and create an anti-mosquito shield around the city!"
...unknown will fill the vaccuum that was once balanced by the mosquitos. This is the same of what happens when hunters displace dinosaurs, or PETA and mountain-lions displace hunters, or attorneys and lawyers displace sea cucumbers, or mortgages displace people, or Slashvertisements displace Slashdot articles, or beans displace rice, or buttered-toast displaces...buttered toast-man.
The truth is universal. When people don't like Slashdot anymore, jumping ship to Digg would cause a catapulting effect to what few people remain on their Slashdot addictions...all that displaced bandwidth usage would cause a ripple in the force, and there will be silence AT LAST.
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Jury rigging? Man that epithet has drifted over time. Those institutions slipping greenbacks to your technology to win a verdict? I assume it derived from "gerry-rigging" (as in German-rigging) which turned into the distasteful "nigger-rigging" (though I suspect Germans consider gerry-rigging pretty distasteful themselves) to represent tampering with something in a hardhanded way to get it to do something other than its intention.
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