All you people who agree with Fox's actions DISGUST me!!! Two *MILLION* American dollars handed to TERRORISTS. WTF!?!?! If you take a job in a war zone then you're part of the war. It's their own fault for being there. Fox SOLD OUT the USA and the best all you can do is argue partisan politics. No doubt about it. That money is going to buy weapons that will kill far greater than TWO people, and it's not going to be some faceless foreigner. It's going to be OUR TROOPS blood on Fox's hands. Shame on each and evey one of you for supporting their actions. You're all complicit in the deaths of our soldiers.

High-Purity Oxygen Free Copper? GIVE ME A F'ING BREAK! The same suckers that think it makes a damn bit of difference in the analog world can't wait to chow down on as much of that same marketing tripe for digital! Oxygen free no less! Now your bits don't have to worry about free radicals! PT Barnum, meet Darwin.

I believe instead of 'build' or 'modify' the word that has escaped EVERYONE here but Shane is 'program'. Building something from scratch is NOT a hack. Modifying or repurposing existing tech is. That is not the case here. This could easily be built for under $30. $90 seems a might pricey for a PIC color mixing a hand full of LEDs.

Quantumphysics on xboxlive: Quit trying to sound intelligent just because you chose to put 'quantum physics' in your screen name. The inverse square law ALWAYS applies to electromagnetic radiation. It may NOT be selectively applied (or omitted) by those who do not understand the science. The fact is the strength of ALL electormagnetic radiation falls off the farther it gets from the point of emission. The farther you are, the weaker the exposure.

Also, electromagnetic radiation DOES NOT penetrate everything as you said. Much, if not all, of it is absorbed by just about anything depending on wavelength. Anyone who has had poor cell phone reception inside a building can attest to that.

Your comment about 'TVs and lamps' not being high voltage are also incorrect. Wall current, although lower than the high tension lines that deliver it, are considered high voltage. There has not been a TV manufactured in the last 30 years that doesn't carry a warning of just that. Further more, power lines DO NOT 'produce' thousands of volts. They carry it. HUGE difference.

Lastly, don't rip off wikipedia in order to make yourself sound smart. All the drivel about serotonin was directly copied from wikipedia. Please, for the love of all that is good in this world, GO BACK TO SLASHDOT! The comments here DO NOT need a plagiarizing ignoramus mucking them up.

To #16: Glad to hear you and the fam is OK, but the notion that an alternating field is 'limited' is complete bullshit. Whether it's 60[K|M|H|T]Hz, if it's electromegnetic, it travels at the speed of light. The size of the field is proportional to the power being radiated.

To #18: The answer is "George Bush"

All you that would agree to chip the population are sick fucks! So tell me guy, when all six of your family members had crimes perpetrated against them, did you scan the perp? Take a picture of them? Ask for a copy of their already existing state issued ID? What in the world makes you think having everyone chipped makes *ANYONE* any safer let alone *PREVENT* anything? (Lets forget for the sake of argument the logistics of chipping 295,734,134 people, and installing enough readers to make such a system end somewhat effective) In a chipped world you'll still be a victim (hey! what a great way to identify your body!) with no more information about the perp than you've had in the past. Why? Crooks are going to replace, remove, or destroy their chip! For the rest of us anonymity will be gone. Soon to follow will be anonymous speech and political protest for fear of being marked on some list or database. Papers? Papers? Don't need 'em anymore. When they come to get you for your [race|religion|political beliefs|genetic profile|over due library book], they'll know *right* where to find you. The guy who car jacked you and raped your wife? Who knows. These things happen.

It's attitudes like these that are sending this country into the toilet. Over 500,000 American solders died in WWI and WWII defending FREEDOM for this country. Those that would give up those rights so that can *FEEL* safer SHIT on the graves of each and every one of those that fell. All of you should be ashamed for so nonchalantly dismissing the ultimate sacrifices of so many young Americans.

You are naive for believing that mass monitoring would lead to a safer America. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely! You are condoning the same soviet style tactics the right has been using to frighten us since the 50's. Phone taps (up 85% since 9/11) without warrants, searches on the subway, video cameras everywhere (ok, those *do* make us safer, but what about cameras in the home proposed this week in Texas?), databases on everyone. Now a govt request for RFID readable at a distance with the intended application of monitoring American citizens? Are you NUTS!? We're being watched and our actions are being logged (cell phones, credit cards, rental cars, and soon RFID) all day, every day as it is now. Who is watching the watchers? Without oversight and laws to protect us from abuse we're setting ourselves up for a BIG hurt. Why haven't any of us learned from those we loathe throughout recent history? Nazi Germany, Cold war Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba. Our leadership is heading us there and we�re next. There *ARE* things we should fear in this country, but they are not the bogey men we have been sold. It is stolen elections, unchecked power, secret government agendas, secret torture camps and never ending wars. As has been mentioned in this thread, we're honest and law abiding citizens. *WE* are NOT the problem. Why the need for all the draconian measures? The real question we should be asking is, what are *THEY* afraid of?

"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tsu (6th century B.C.)

Ha! They *were* $.99. Going price is now between $20-$40 on eBay. Oh well. Looked like a fun project.

I've had to do this numerous times both for my electronics, and others. His advice is spot on. It should be stressed how important it is to remove power from the device ASAP! Current running through wet electronics will disolve traces and feedthroughs in as little as a 5 minutes.

#2: Salt water is the worst. The salt compounds the electrolysis, and Apple doesn't give you an easy way to get the battery out. The best you could hope for is to rinse it with fresh water and get it apart.

WD40 is key to displacing water under larger chips, which tends stay due to surface tention.

Dry the device with paper towels and place on top of a CRT monitor and cover with a box over night, or place your oven on it's lowest setting (less than 200 deg), and place device on the rack for 1-2 hours. The oven method should only be used if there is no plastic attached to the device.