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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17931-blasted-into-space-from-a-giant-air-gun.html
Raytheon is exporting its pain ray to a US ally despite how US commanders Afghanistan and Iraq haven't been allowed to use it despite their requests. This is the first operational sale for a directed energy weapon of any kind:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/07/silent_guardian_export/
The UN warns that the next world war may be via cyber attacks instead of physical attacks:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1557663/un-warns-world-war-online
Global water scarcity due to climate changes is creating a global security problem that could lead to wars:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Water-scarcity-will-create-global-security-concerns-Pachauri-/articleshow/5097048.cms
Conservatives in Egypt are upset about a gadget that enables a woman to appear to be a virgin on her wedding day:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-fake-hymen7-2009oct07,0,6868813.story
New software paradigm called XMT is apparently so easy to learn that high school students have been taught to program it but so powerful that it provides a 10x or even 100x speed improvement for computer operations. eXplicit Multi Threading could be standard on most desktops by 2013:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/10/uzi-vishkin-who-has-new-computer.html
Cornell got $1.5 million from NSF stimulus money to upgrade their self-driving car:
http://www.physorg.com/news174034872.html
The University of Washington got a *huge* win today with the announcement of their partnership with Italian sports-car company Automobili Lamborghini. Washington is the first university in the US to collaborate with Lamborghini and the company will provide substantial funding for lab equipment and support for their students. So, they get a lot of money, equipment, and the prestige of Lamborghini!
http://www.rdmag.com/Materials-Lamborghini-Lab-to-acclerate-automotive-composite-R-D/?wnnvz=cIpb87iV1KLzkFCg
Study found that doctors might need to stop wearing white coats due to concerns over how the coats can spread infectious germs. Doctors in England and Scotland have recently been banned from wearing their white coats:
http://www.parade.com/health/2009/10/04-should-doctors-wear-white-coats.html
Report projects that there will be 4.6 billion cell phone users by the end of the year:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=45601&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
The first generation LTE download speeds (over networks and devices that will be available next year) will be 20 Mbps. The over-the-air speeds can hit 100 Mbps in downlink and 50 Mbps in uplink, but real-world speeds are expected to be 20 Mbps downlink and 5 Mbps uplink...which is still a 10x or so improvement over high-speed networks now:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/lte-mobile-broadband-will-deliver-20mbps-download-speeds-754?source=IFWNLE_nlt_mobilehdwr_2009-10-07
Motorola's co-CEO said that Verizon Wireless's plan to support the Android operating system will boost demand for Android, which will benefit Motorola's Android efforts:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJJPyjRD2lQo
Hackers use social engineering to load spyware on their device, enabling them to listen to phone conversations, steal contact lists, read text messages, taking and viewing photos, and tracking the user via GPS:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/security-researcher-shows-how-hackers-spy-blackberry-and-other-smartphones-895?source=IFWNLE_nlt_mobilehdwr_2009-10-07
Dell and HP are aggressively discounting netbook prices try to get market share...they concede that their profit margins will be slim to none, but they want to establish themselves in this growing market:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=45600&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
After cutting 17 days off the school year, Hawaii schools will have the shortest school year in the country:
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20091007/NEWS07/910070361/Isles+could+have+shortest+school+year+in+nation++once+dust+settles
The developers behind the football stadium in the City of Industry are happy with how their stadium plans are moving forward and they named the NFL teams that they will be contacting. My guess is that the San Diego Chargers will move to LA to play in that stadium in 2012:
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/oct/06/bn06industry-offer-bolts/?metro&zIndex=178436
For Lori--the man blackmailing Letterman apparently says that it wasn't about the money, he just wants to hurt Letterman and Stephanie:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/letterman_blackmail_revenge_Rs43WR8tJEX8VWg0IfaX1H
Idaho woman thought that her hearing aid was a milk dud and tried to eat it:
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/02/n-idaho-woman-mistakes-hearing-aid-candy/
Bank robber had such poor handwriting that her threatening note could not be read...so she walked to a counter to write her note again, giving the teller time to hit the silent alarm to get help:
http://www.kptv.com/news/21164584/detail.html
38% of Boston women and 19% of Boston men are more willing to give up sex for a year than they are willing to give up their cell phones for a year:
http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2009/10/05/daily22.html?ed=2009-10-06&ana=e_du_pap
Miami man was upset that Taco Bell wouldn't let him order food after they were closed, so he waited outside the Taco Bell until 3:40am last night and shot at the employees as they came out of the restaurant:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/06/national/a104432D91.DTL&feed=rss.bondage
41-year-old Florida woman was arrested after she chased two boys (both under 16 years old), telling them she would catch them and have sex with them. After she gave up chasing them, she pulled her pants down in front of the boys and played with herself:
http://www.ocala.com/article/20091004/ARTICLES/910049987