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A coalition calling itself Just Label It released the results today of a survey it commissioned from The Mellman Group, a national pollster. The survey found that 91 percent of voters favor the labeling of food with genetically modified ingredients.
from News
Gallery: OnStar Family Link hands-on
Zach Honig contributed to this report.
Continue reading OnStar’s Family Link tracking package launching in mid-April (updated: hands-on)
from Engadget
Uh oh… man, I don’t wanna carry around my credit cards anymore! Â At least not the ones with RFID!
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Here is something that you might not know. Mythbusters had planned to air an episode on how “hackable and trackable†RFID chips are – it never saw the light of day. What happened was this: calls were made to arrange a meeting with someone at Texas Instruments and when the meeting was scheduled to happen a bunch of legal heavies from Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover explained that showing the episode would be a really, really bad idea.
So the episode never happened and Mythbusters won’t be examining any RFID-related myths anytime soon.
I’ve got to admit that I am finding myself curious. It isn’t like the Mythbusters episode was going to show people how to defraud their credit card company – so the card companies’ objections more likely stemmed from other aspects of RFID that they might be uncomfortable with customers finding out about.
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from The UberReview
For years, the 40-hour work week was recognized as the sweet spot for workplace productivity and profits, a system, which AlterNet’s Sara Robinson points out, is backed by 150 years of research. Every hour you work beyond 40 actually makes you “less effective and productive over both the short and the long haul.” But you don’t have to be a social scientist to notice that this wisdom seems to be going by the wayside. In fact, most of us just need to take a glance at our own working hours. More »
from Lifehacker
Filed under: Etc., Videos, Russia
We imagine that many a Russian Lada has been compared to a ticking time bomb – which is not to say that there aren’t any good Ladas out in the wild, of course – but the example you’ll see in the video pasted below takes the cake. It is, quite literally, an Improvised Explosive Device.
If an exploding Lada alone isn’t enough reason for you to watch, perhaps the reaction of the passengers is more of a draw. Their reaction to the impending doom is so quick that it’s almost as if the two occupants were just waiting for the engine of this poor machine to reach its glorious and destructive demise.
See what we’re talking about in the video pasted below.
Continue reading Lada emergency is no mere fire drill
from Autoblog
Ewww………… be careful what you buy from now on… “meat” may not be really meat…Â >.<
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An estimated 70 percent of the ground beef supply contains these lean bits of meat derived from muscle and connective tissue. The industry calls the trimmings Lean Finely Textured Beef.
from Morning Edition
