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UK GOVERNMENT PLANS CELL PHONE TOWER TRACKING SYSTEM
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uses mobile phone masts to enable security officials to watch vehicles and
people in real time almost anywhere in Britain. The Celldar technology,
which works wherever there is cell phone coverage, "sees" the shapes made
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through walls and look into people's homes. UK Ministry of Defence
officials are hoping to introduce the system as soon as resources allow,
appalling idea. The government is just capitalizing on current public fears
over security to introduce new systems that are neither desirable nor
necessary," says Simon Davies, director of Privacy International.
(The Observer 13 Oct 2002)
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,811027,00.html
GADGET TRANSLATES BABY'S CRIES
Spanish engineer Pedro Monagas has come up with the answer to many new
parents' prayers -- a pocket-sized device that interprets a baby's crying
so that the parent can respond appropriately. The battery-powered "Why Cry"
device contains a microchip that monitors volume, pattern and interval to
determine if the baby is tired, hungry, sleepy, uncomfortable or stressed
out. "My own son Alex was always crying and after night after night of not
very much sleep I decided I had to find a way of finding out what he was
trying to say to me -- if only for my own sanity," says Monagas, who spent
three years visiting nurseries and analyzing the crying patterns of around
100 babies. Some child-rearing experts have expressed doubts about the
machine and one pediatrician notes that "Why Cry" won't do anything that
mother, will tell you they are capable of telling the difference between a
hunger cry, a cry of pain, or an overtired cry with reasonable accuracy.
What can a machine offer that a parent can't?" Monagas says his device
boasts a 98% accuracy rate, and will be available at Spanish pharmacies by
the end of the month, priced at 95 euros. (BBC News 15 Oct 2002)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2329205.stm
FORGETFUL BOOMERS SPAWN MARKET FOR MEMORY AIDS
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that always seem to go missing just when you're in a hurry to leave. The
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DIPO started out as the brainchild of the company's absent-minded CEO,
Bruno Enea, who says, "I kept losing my credit card. I always forgot my
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online, but the government has added new rules after a fire in August
killed 25 in an Internet cafe. Under the new rules, smoking is banned,
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content they access. These rules are added to already strict
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online gambling and pornography.
Associated Press, 11 October 2002 (registration req'd)
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PEER-TO-PEER EFFORTS AIM TO DEFEAT CENSORSHIP
Several peer-to-peer efforts aim to allow users in countries that block
certain Internet content to access that content with the help of users
in uncensored countries. One such effort, called Peekabooty, responds
when a user in a country with censorship tries to access a site that is
blocked. The user sends a request to the Peekabooty community, and a
computer in a country without restrictions will send that content,
encrypted to sidestep filters, to that user. It's just a theory so
far, because the current version lacks the encryption tool and is
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initiative, as well as others working in projects including Hacktivismo
and SafeWeb, argue that breaking down censorship in countries like
China and Iran is an important and noble cause.
Washington Post, 13 October 2002
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