Well I'll be

By Melissa Blanton  

AUGUST 20, 2010 7:33 a.m. (0)

Nope. Not. Giving. Up. Forget the fact he’s been indicted on a felony obscenity charge, Alvin Greene will remain in the race for the senate. The bizarre saga made it onto “Fox News Sunday” when National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (R-Tex) used Greene during a discussion about “voter’s rights.”

Terry Thomas just wanted to run for school board in Beaufort County. He did his homework, too, gathering almost 200 signatures and filling out the paperwork. He went to check his mailbox last week and while he was gone, his dog, Spencer, a lab and bull mastiff mix, had a snack. And it included Thomas’ paperwork for filing. And you guessed it, he won’t be able to run this year. Apparently the dog was worried he’d be left home along too often.

And you thought video games were good for nothing. Not any more. Doctors at Medical University of South Carolina this week used a first-in-the-state technique that allowed them to perform endoscopic back surgery on a 21-year-old by watching their instrument’s maneuvers on television screens. The surgery is aptly named Nintendo surgery.

So wireless is supposed to be the wave of the future. And carmakers are increasingly using the technology to help control certain mechanical processes. Like tire pressure monitoring. Sounds great. Not so fast says a group of University of South Carolina researchers. They released a paper last week detailing just how easy it is to tamper with a car’s wireless mechanisms. The researchers demonstrated how easy it was to get a car’s dashboard warning lights to indicate a tire pressure problem. The research was presented this week at the USENIX security Symposium.

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