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NASA considers non-NASA uses of the shuttle landing strip.
How to modify an original Linksys WEP11 to use a Senao WiFi card. Not sure about the purpose of this.
Stuart Berman writes about the death of the firewall. Slashdot then points people towards XenSE.
Google wins typesquatting disputs. Finally those pesty typos domains will be taken care of.
New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission has approved to provide support to drivers who adopt hybrid taxis through the to research an antimatter engine.
A patent describing iris recognition, which is current owned by Iridian, is about to expire.
Someone wrote CJ Miner, which graphs the trends of jobs listed on the Computer Jobs site.
Someone takes apart a Wolfgang Puck self-heating container, which heats up a can’s contents before you drink it.
This article describes how Scholastic is protecting the Harry Potter books from being opened before its release date. Slashdot names it “old fashioned DRM”.
TimesOnline is writing to say that body scanners are now planned to be installed at entry stations of London’s subway system.
A zlib buffer overflow seems that it might have a lot of destructive ability.

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