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Submission + - Big Brother in the school cafeteria? (foxnews.com)

Submitted by AustinSlacker on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @04:49PM

AustinSlacker writes: An Iowa school district's lunch program asks children as young as 5 years old to memorize a four-digit PIN code so it can monitor what they eat in the school cafeteria — prompting some parents to claim it's an unhealthy case of "Big Brother." An over reaction by parents or an unnecessary invasion of privacy? Discuss...

Submission + - Electrically Conductive Plastic Polymer

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on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @11:06AM

AustinSlacker writes: "A Fox news article is reporting that a Dutch researcher is announcing a breakthrough in plastics. "Paulette Prins of the Delft University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Delft) demonstrated that specially rebuilt plastic conducts electricity just as well as the silicon wafers that are commonly used to make the semiconductor chips that are the brains of cell phones, MP3 players and other portable consumer electronics."

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