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- A smart VC should eat this one up: what's in my food?
- There're actually a few problems technology can handle. And I think I've run across one recently. There's a growing move that combines green tech and personal health. And it's starting to gain momentum in many countries as a combined social and political trend. We've come a...
- Tags: Food, Michael Pollan, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- New climate change report in November will heat up CO2 debate
- There'll be another report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It'll come out during the U.N.-sponsored group's meeting in Valencia, Spain. That meeting starts November 12. One sub-topic will be the IPCC's CO2 emission findings. They are expected to release the latest data...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Doubts arise over fate of breathalyzer source code in Minn. case
- Doubts arise over fate of breathalyzer source code in Minn. caseBettera drunk driver get off scott-free, than justice be done.Closed-source voting machine software, anyone?:o)Remember stateshiding the code is not a good idea and if justice is to fairly rule on the full status of the accused, the govt may...
- Tags: source code, conviction, blood test
- Discussion threads 2007-08-10
- Police Blotter: Defendant wins breathalyzer source code
- Police Blotter: Defendant wins breathalyzer source codeGoodif in a court with full knowledge of all the key factors a defendant is found guilty or innocent at the end of the day, justice has been served. Hiding components could be hiding flaws in technique or code in general, even if...
- Tags: Police Blotter
- Discussion threads 2007-08-10
- Blood alcohol device can't handle new date for time change
- When the new, early daylight savings time rolls around on Sunday, many computers and handheld devices are expected to have problems, requiring users to reset them by hand. But for New Jersey police, and especially for the drunk drivers they stop, the early time change will be a little...
- Tags: Handhelds, alcohol, blood alcohol
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- What comes after seat belts
- Todays top story concerns a surveillance technology aimed at putting the government behind the wheel of your car (well, motorcycle). The UK is considering installing GPS-enabled governors in motorcycles. Under the scheme, the speed limit for your current road would be transmitted to the bikes, whose governors would actively ensure...
- Tags: Legal, General, Government
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Study finds near-zero growth in methane levels
- Study finds near-zero growth in methane levelsCutting emmisions is uselessWhile emmission are a problem and cutting them could help it would only help if at the same time the populations of the world stopped destroy old growth rain forest and started planting more trees.The problem today is we can't cut...
- Tags: emmision, gigaton, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2006-11-20
- On wearable electronics
- Canada-based Solestrom has developed a bikini with a built-in dosimeter that's sensitive to sunlight. It will warn you when your cumulative exposure over the course of a day becomes dangerously high, and if you have the good sense God gave Gruyere, you'll head for the shade when it tells you...
- Tags: electronics
- Blog posts 2006-08-19
- The open source imperative hits breathalyzers
- What happens when law enforcement relies on proprietary technology? A case in Miami is showing governments another benefit of open source. When Timothy Muldowny was busted for drunk driving, his lawyers hit on an interesting defense strategy: Demand to see the source code of the breathalyzer...
- Tags: DUI, source code
- Blog posts 2006-03-13
- Take a deep breath and check your health
- After several other newspapers, the Los Angeles Times is looking at the Heartsbreath test, which is a billion times more sensitive than police breathalyzers. These breath sensors can already check for asthma, ulcers or trouble with a heart transplant. But as says one of the researchers who worked on the...
- Tags: breath
- Blog posts 2005-12-24
- Breathalyzer source code must be disclosed
- Breathalyzer source code must be disclosedGo straight to the blood testand forget all this other crap. A DNA test can prove it's the drunk's blood...Technical information on devices used to convict someone must be public!I personally believe at this point that the defense here is grasaping at straws, and...
- Tags: Voting Machine, source code, blood test, trade secret
- Discussion threads 2005-11-03
- Police blotter: Closed-source breathalyzer on trial
- Police blotter: Closed-source breathalyzer on trialRE: Closed sourse breathalyzerDon't tell me that folks can get off scott free because of a non-certified piece of code? Or because some wealthy person can hire a lawyer that can unravel the legal system to allow buzzed or drunk driving to continue? ...
- Tags: Police Blotter
- Discussion threads 2005-10-21
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