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August 22, 2006
DIY Nuke Detector Patrols SF Bay
From Wired.com:
"Last month, the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to bolster U.S. port defenses with radiation scanners. The program, primarily aimed at detecting nukes smuggled by terrorists in shipping containers, will cost an estimated $1.15 billion, but won't be completed until 2011.
Here on the San Francisco Bay, a group of do-it-yourself volunteer researchers are not waiting for the mushroom cloud. They say they are close to perfecting a portable device that could do much the same thing right now, for total out-of-pocket costs of about $12,000."
Cheap, voluntary, and immediately deployable. That's why people acting to protect their own interests trumps the gov's blundering, bureacracy, bid process, pork barrel efforts to accomplish anything everyfookin'time!
Posted by Ali Massoud at August 22, 2006 09:59 AM
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