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With Lawsuit Settled, Hackers Working With MBTA 90

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 22, 2008 @06:41PM from the how-it-should-be dept.

narramissic writes "The three MIT students who were sued earlier this year by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority for planning to show at Defcon how they had had reverse engineered the magnetic stripe tickets and smartcards said Monday that they are now working to make the Boston transit system more secure. 'I'm really glad to have it behind me. I think this is really what should have happened from the start,' said Zack Anderson, one of the students sued by the MBTA."

Comment Because adobe doesn't care about you. (Score 2, Insightful) 963

by Max_Abernethy on Sunday August 17, 2008 @04:40PM (#24636567) Attached to: Why Is Adobe Flash On Linux Still Broken?

Adobe cares about the folks buying expensive site and server licenses. Those guys don't really care about you because there aren't enough of ya to have much impact on their website's success, so why should adobe invest in your platform, besides the bare minimum quality implementation as a hedge in case desktop linux becomes more important some day. There's no economic incentive.

Submission + - Microfluidic Chips made with Shrinky Dinks

Submitted by

SoyChemist

on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @05:25AM

SoyChemist writes: "When she started her job as a new professor at UC Merced, Michelle Khine was stuck without a clean room or semiconductor fabrication equipment, so she went MacGyver and started making Lab-on-a-Chip devices in her kitchen with Shrinky Dinks, a laser printer, and a toaster oven. She would print a negative image of the channels onto the polystyrene sheets and then make them smaller with heat. The miniaturized pattern served as a perfect mould for forming rounded, narrow channels in PDMS — a clear, synthetic rubber."

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