Tag Archives: longer-based

One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans

At the heart of the controversy over “body scanners” is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images. A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., obtained by a FOIA request after it was recently revealed that U.S. Marshals operating the machine in the Orlando, Florida courthouse had improperly-perhaps illegally-saved images of the scans of public servants and private citizens. http://gizmodo.com/5690749/these-are-the-first-100-leaked-body-scans added by: insaintity

Why are so many countries ahead of the US in Math and Science?

Now that the American economy is no longer based on manufacturing, what are some of the barriers for the next generation in acquiring enough knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)? added by: danielacapistrano