Emerging Science and Technology
Surviving a fall from 35,000 feet
By cdharris at November 24, 2005 | 12:00 pm | 0 Comment
In illustration of the fact that there is now a website for everything, see this one to learn how to survive an unplanned freefall from 35,000 feet.Among the more amusing instructions: "Think of the pluses in your situation. For example, although you fall faster and faster for the first fifteen seconds or so, you soon reach "terminal velocity"—the more...
Camphones seen as a security risk
By cdharris at September 15, 2005 | 4:13 pm | 0 Comment
Camera and video-camera phones already pose a security risk. Phones which run an OS and are essentially small computers escalate that risk. Recently, while visiting the Giza plateau outside Cairo, a device scanner somewhere in the vicinity of the guard booths detected my Treo, identified it as a mini-computer (distinct from the many cellphones in pockets all around me) , more...
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