For some people, just the sound of a dental drill is enough to cause panic—but the good news is that this barbaric procedure may be a thing of the past. UK researchers have developed a technology that is based on Raman spectroscopy (a method that’s currently used to identify chemicals) to spot tooth decay before it begins. A new study has determined that harmful bacteria can be detected by analyzing how light is scattered when a laser is fired at the tooth.

This method would make it possible to detect damage much faster than X-rays, nipping the problem in the bud before drilling is necessary. The testing is ongoing, but the researchers hope that the lasers could be available commercially within the next five years. Of course, you would have to actually go to the dentist on a regular basis to benefit from the procedure, so my guess is that drilling won’t disappear anytime soon. [eurekalert via ZDNet]

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Hip hip hooray! Power Pack 1 is ready for download and the most notable feature is support for Windows machines running Vista x64. Otherwise, the service pack should resolve all data corruption issues that WHS was plagued with at launch. Download it here.

Hip hip hooray! Power Pack 1 is ready for download and the most notable feature is support for Windows machines running Vista x64. Otherwise, the service pack should resolve all data corruption issues that WHS was plagued with at launch. Download it here.

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According to reporter Nobuyuki Hayashi, the camera of the iPhone 3G sold in Japan will make a shutter sound each time you take a photo, even if you put the telephone in silent mode. The reason: all those pervs taking pics up the skirts of unsuspected women in public places.

According to Hayahi, the problem of up-skirt photography is so bad in Japan that most new cellphones have this feature (if you’re a women) or bug (if you’re a perv.) According to him, “some manufacturers have even put a louder shutter sound.” The Japanese edition of the iPhone, however, just makes the normal one.

I really don’t see the point of this measure however: the iPhone doesn’t have a physical photo button, which really makes extremely difficult to take a clear up-skirt shot.

I mean, I have the ability to only guess that’s the case.

Two things to Japanese pervs everywhere: fiber optics and video cameras.

Update: as readers have noticed, you can use Pwnage to jailbreak your iPhone and remove the sound. Why would you want to do this, I don’t know.

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Before reading this, I recommend you watch the documentary Freedom Downtime, made by the folks at 2600. Go ahead, the whole thing is on Google Video. Kevin Mitnick has signed a book deal with Little, Brown and Company, giving him the chance to refute the outrageous claims made against him—really, he could start a nuclear war […]

Before reading this, I suggest you watch the documentary Freedom Downtime, made by the folks at 2600. Go ahead, the whole thing is on Google Video.

Kevin Mitnick has signed a book deal with Little, Brown and Company, giving him the chance to refute the outrageous claims made against him—really, he could begin a nuclear war by whistling into a telephone?—while making a few dollars in the process. A tell-all, if you’ll.

Mitnick, if you don’t already know and didn’t bother to watch the movie, is probably the most famous “hacker” out there, imprisoned in 1999 for destroy the Western World for all time. So we were led to believe, that is.

Hooray, for sure.

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