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Cell Phone Radiation Detectors Proposed to Protect Against Nukes
crosshatch brings us news out of Purdue University, where researchers are developing a radiation detection system that would rely on sensors within cell phones to locate and track potentially hazardous material. From the Purdue news service:
"Such a system could blanket the nation with millions of cell phones equipped with radiation sensors able to detect even light residues of radioactive material. Because cell phones already contain global positioning locators, the network of phones would serve as a tracking system, said physics professor Ephraim Fischbach. 'The sensors don't really perform the detection task individually,' Fischbach said. 'The collective action of the sensors, combined with the software analysis, detects the source. Say a car is transporting radioactive material for a bomb, and that car is driving down Meridian Street in Indianapolis or Fifth Avenue in New York. As the car passes people, their cell phones individually would send signals to a command center, allowing authorities to track the source.'"
I think one of the most amazing things about Slashdot is how people can always find a way to somehow start ranting about Bush and Iraq, no matter what the subject is.
Follow the money. DHS research funds come from the executive budget, which means...
Anyone?
Right! Bush.
We can blame Bush for so much because he oversees so much. The War on Drugs? Bush -> FDA -> DEA -> multi-year sentences for simple posession. Air travel dying due to the nuissance factor? Bush -> DHS -> TSA -> grandma gets tazed for her knitting needles. Media consolidation? Murdoch -> Bush -> FCC -> ignoring overwhelmingly negative public response in favor of three comments by the CEOs of the biggest media companies on the planet.
When you complain that it all goes back to Bush, well, it does all go back to Bush. Or congress. Or the USSC. But usually Bush.
Godwin's law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_lawMaybe in time it will expanded be with Bush... There _are_ similarities with the nazi-regime and the current situation in the USA... Kind of ironic since the US was needed to stop nazi-Germany
yeah yeah flamebait I know...The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Wouldn't that make cellphones illegal in New York City? The local piggies don't like when people have radiation detector, or any other detector for that matter.
Ghoulani is a fascist asshole!!!
Vote for Ron Paul!
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