Half-baked Homeland Security is spending millions to develop sensors capable of detecting a person's level of 'malintent' as a counterterrorism tool. The program is right out of the supposedly canceled Total Information Awareness program aka big brother incarnate. The idea is to detect (at a distance) physiological cues of malintent, enabling police to arrest people based on malintent before they can act on it.

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http://www.alternet.org/rights/144443/homeland_security_embarks_on_big_brother_p...

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http://delicious.com/reikiman/7gen

Nipple ring search procedures faulty, TSA admits

Submitted by David Herron on March 29, 2008 - 10:44am

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Apparently a woman, Mandi Hamlin, recently had an embarrassing incident in airport security screening. She has several body piercings, including nipple rings, which set off the metal detectors in the airport screening. The TSA officials forced her to remove the nipple rings so they could inspect them and determine that she isn't a dangerous terrorist. Geez.

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Nipple ring search procedures faulty, TSA admits

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TSA Travel Assistant

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_security

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HP reveals tiny, tiny wireless chip

Submitted by David Herron on July 17, 2006 - 12:14pm

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HP reveals tiny, tiny wireless chip discusses a new chip designed by Hewlett-Packard engineers. The article has one important feature, a visual demonstration of the tiny size of the chip. It is a device between 2mm and 4mm square, which can hold between 256kb and 4mb of memory, plus an antenna, plus wireless communications capability of transmitting 10mb/second. The visual demonstration shows it circled by pencils, demonstrating the chip is slightly larger than the size of a pencil tip.

That's tiny.