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Aired May 8, 2004 - 15:00 ET
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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: And here are the headlines. Violence in the southern Iraqi city of Basra leaves two Iraqis dead. Three British soldiers were also hurt in the fighting between coalition troops and backers of radical Shiite Cleric Moqtada al Sadr.
An American marine is dead and another wounded following violence in Afghanistan. The marines were attacked overnight in a province just north of Kandahar. Two opponents were killed.
The new commander of detention operations in Iraq says the U.S. military will continue to operate the Abu Ghraib prison. Major General Jeffrey Miller is blaming the facility's former leadership for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. Some U.S. lawmakers have called for Abu Ghraib to be closed. Miller says a probe into the abuses is under way.
Representative Steve Buyer will be a guest on "CNN Live Saturday" at 6:00 p.m Eastern. The Indiana Republican says the Pentagon denied a plan to have him oversee the military police at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq where the alleged detainee abuse took place.
Thomas Hamill has spent this day at home in Mississippi. The American contractor who escaped his kidnapper in Iraq. He returns today to Macon. A family spokesman says Hamill is thrilled to be back with his family. Meanwhile Hamill is staying quiet and doesn't plan to make any public statements as of yet.
Great weather for much of the country this weekend. Meteorologist Rob Marciano has the Mother's Day forecast.
ROB MARCIANO, METEOROLOGIST: Across the Northeast today temperatures a good 20 to 25 degrees cooler than yesterday. When places like Boston was 84 degrees, today you will be lucky if you hit 60. Showers and storms are racing across the Great Lakes today and they will be heading into western parts of New York and Pennsylvania later on tonight and eventually into New York tomorrow and the rest of the northeast.
The southeast continues to be warm and rather dry with high levels of ozone in some of the bigger cities. Across the southeast coast of Texas, we will look for showers and storms there and also some cool showers on and off across the Pacific Northwest. And in Seattle it will be 63 and Salt Lake it will be 79. In St. Louis, 88 degrees today. Here's the heat across the southeast and east. Here are the cool temperatures across the northeast.
Tomorrow for Mother's Day, a little warmer across the northeast. But there will be a threat for some showers and maybe a couple of thunderstorms from D.C. to Boston and New York and in between. 81 degrees in Chicago tomorrow, it will be 75 in Denver and 68 degrees in Los Angeles.
I'm Rob Marciano. That's a quick weather check. Enjoy your Saturday.
WHITFIELD: And I'm Fredricka Whitfield at the CNN Center in Atlanta. More news at the bottom of the hour. "Next@CNN" begins right now.
DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, I'm Daniel Sieberg. Today on NEXT@CNN, what will it take to realize the president's ambitious plans for manned exploration of the moon and Mars? We'll look at some ideas for big changes at NASA.
Also, some computer experts take to the air to draw attention to a growing cyber security problem.
How do you find out if a garbage can is bear proof? We'll watch a panel of furry experts put some cans to the test. All that and more on "Next."
With the presidential election just six months away, there are growing concerns about electronic voting machines. Can the machines be trusted? Well, a federal commission held its first hearings Wednesday on that question and as Kathleen Koch reports, it's far from reaching a conclusion and time is getting short.
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KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT, (voice over): Casting a vote with a touch. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission was told such systems may be easy to use, but they are far from secure.
AVI RUBIN: Right now we are sitting very very close to terrible. We need to develop systems that do not require totally trusting the vendor with the outcome of the election.
KOCH: Maryland, Georgia, and California had touch screen failures in the presidential primaries. The California Secretary of State last week decertified all touch-screen voting machines in the state and proposed charges against one manufactor Diebold Election Systems. At the hearing Diebold insisted it's technology is solid but still apologized.
MARK RADKE, DIEBOLD DIR. IF MARKETING: We sincerely regret that this issue in convinced voters and affected precincts.
KOCH: The short term solution for most at the hearing paper receipts that way there is a record of votes cast making recounts possible. But companies insisted there's not time to retrofit many of the electronic machines by Election Day.
WILLIAM WELSH, ELECTION SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE: The time to develop and the time to get certified, we're talking a minimum of a year. KOCH: California's secretary of state, the first to require such a paper trail, disputes that.
KEVIN SHELLY, CALIFORNIA SECRETARY OF STATE: I know many say that we can't have a voter verified paper trail in place by November, but I come here to challenge that notion.
KOCH: But some California precincts found receipt printers on touch screens frequently jammed.
CONNY MCCORMACK, CLERK & REGISTRY: And required the machines to be taken out of service. And I quote, when the printed record is stuck, they had to be extracted with many creative tools at hand, including a windshield wiper and a back scratcher.
KOCH: Disabled Americans who until now had to rely on assistance to vote, asked commissioners to fix the technology that offers them new freedom.
JIM DICKENSON, AMERICAN ASSN. OF PEOPLE WITH DISABLITIES: Because of touch-screen voting, I voted secretly and independently for the first time in my life. That was an incredibly empowering experience.
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KOCH: The commission this week begins distributing $2.6 billion to states to update their voting equipment. But because of the recent problems, it may also recommend that all new technology for the first time meet national standards.
SIEBERG: A nasty computer worm called Sasser stalled or shut down millions of pcs worldwide this week. Sasser took advantage of vulnerability in windows 2000 and xp operating systems. Unlike a virus a worm launches its mayhem without any human intervention like clicking on an e-mail. Home and business users found their pcs repeatedly crashing or just miserably slow. Get a personal firewall, especially if you have broadband. There are even some free ones you can download. If possible automate both your Antivirus software and a frequent security patches that come from Microsoft so your safeguards are up to date.
NASA released a spectacular new picture from the currant Mars mission this week. The image comes from the Rover Opportunity and shows the crater called endurance. The crater is nearly 500 feet in diameter and at least 65 feet deep. Some big overhanging cliffs. Mission controllers say in terms of scenic grandeur, this is the most spectacular picture they've taken so far. It may not be the Grand Canyon, but it's certainly a grand crater.
Rovers are one thing. But what will it take to get astronauts to the moon and Mars. It isn't even worth doing, well those and some of the questions being considered by a panel advising President Bush on his face plans. As Peter Viles reports there's not much doubt that things will have to change at NASA if the president's vision is to become reality.
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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE U.S: Do not know where this journey will end, yet we know this -- human beings are headed into the cosmos.
PETER VILES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The president's plan to go back to the moon by 2020 and on to Mars, without busting the budget, means tough questions for NASA.
JOHN HIGGINBOTHAM, SPACEWEST: With the greatest respect, I don't understand why deep space agency runs a cable channel. I don't get it, OK? I'm sure there are a lot of people at NASA right now about ready to strangle me, but --
VILES: But NASA's administrator essentially agreed telling a presidential commission; we've got to change.
SEAN O'KEEFE, NASA ADMINISTRATOR: There is no way that the present organizational structure and how we do business today will be the most appropriate way to go about doing this.
VILES: That commission headed by Former Air Force Secretary Pete Aldridge will recommend exactly how NASA should move beyond the space shuttle and space station and go back to the moon and on to Mars, while living on a budget.
PETER ALDRIDGE, PRESIDENT COMMISION ON MOON, MARS AND BEYOND: Over the next 30 years, NASA is going to spend $500 billion over that 30-year period for activities in space. With that kind of money, we should be able to do this mission.
VILES: One potential key to all of this, privatize more of the space program, perhaps launch services, which in theory helps, build a sustainable space industry in the private sector.
HIGGINBOTHAM; I think we can be doing a let more, a lot better are a lot quicker if we can focus in on the core missions that are government spin off, privatize, outsource anything that's not core.
VILES: There was a warning though from Wall Street. Institutional investors are not explorers. In fact, they are somewhat timid. And with or without commercialization, the government will have to lead the way in space.
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SIEBERG: All right if you are more interested in watching the moon than traveling to it, people in some parts of the world got to see a complete lunar eclipse Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. Some sky gazers in England saw the moon turn a reddish shade as the earth's shadow passed across it. Others saw nothing but clouds. Where weather permitted the eclipse was visible from Europe to the Middle East to Thailand and Australia. Alas, not in North America.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Coming up, some day in the not too distant future, you may see orange traffic barrels parading down the road. We'll tell you why you shouldn't panic.
And later in the show researchers use some controversial science in an effort to save an endangered wild cat.
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SIEBERG: If you think of all hybrid vehicle as little and cute, think again. This week General Motors delivered the first full-size hybrid pickup truck to the Miami-Dade county government. It's a Silverado with a v8 engine and it runs on a combination of gas and electric power. The truck was delivered at the National Clean Cities Conference and it's the first of 50 extended cab hybrid pickup trucks to be added to the Miami-Dade county fleet.
Well the number of people killed by cars is increasing and not all of them die in wrecks. A new report pools together statistics on non-crash motor vehicle accidents. Julie Vallese has the story.
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JULIE VALLESE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: They occur in parking lots and driveways, considered private, not public roadways, and the government is not required to track them. But each year, hundreds of deaths do occur in cars that never crash.
JOAN CLAYBROOK: Whether it's leaving children in the car, whether it's carbon monoxide, whether it's power windows, these are not freak accidents.
VALLESE: An analysis of various 1998 public sources such as death certificates and news reports by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration assisted in projecting totals of fatalities. 120 people died when a vehicle backed over them. 29 from heat. Approximately 200 from carbon monoxide and four from window strangulation.
SALLY GREENBERG, CONSUMERS UNIONS: The numbers could be and should be zero. What we're trying to do is give parents and their caregivers, other drivers, the technology that they need to prevent something from happening.
VALLESE: When the government noticed children were dying after getting locked in car trunks it mandated internal car trunk releases. Now a push to mandate more technology, automatic retractable windows and cameras or devices to detect people behind cars.
But all of these things cost money. The average price of a new car is around $30,000; so mandating these features is not necessarily something the government is willing to do.
DR. JEFFREY RUNGE, NHTEA (ph) ADMINISTRATION: Do we risk keeping a family from getting into a safer vehicle sooner or do we drive up the price of that new vehicle and keep them in their old, less safe vehicle longer?
VALLESE: The wheels of government do move slowly, but Congress may speed that up. A bill before it could require car manufacturers to add specific safety features to all vehicles.
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SIEBERG: One dangerous task for highway workers is moving those orange barrels used to block off lanes temporarily. What if barrels could move themselves? A professor in Nebraska is trying to make that happen. Mike Dejockamo (ph) from our affiliate KETV has the story.
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MIKE DEJOCKAMO (ph), KETV: Just imagine an army of these orange and white barrels marching down the road.
PROF. SHANE FARRITOR, UNO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: We've been work on this maybe two years.
DEJOCKAMO (ph): UNO mechanical engineer Shane Farrritor says it just may happen.
FARRITOR: There are two motors that can turn in both directions.
DEJOCKAMO: Farritor and his team have designed robotic construction barrels.
FARRITOR: And then finally a little communication device so the barrels can talk to each other.
DEJOCKAMO: This test video shows how road crews would be able to close lanes during quite times and reopen them during peak traffic hours, all while staying out of harm's way.
FARRITOR: The goal is pretty straightforward. We want to remove workers from this dangerous task of deploying these safety devices.
DEJOCKAMO: They hope it will cut down on the more than 100 construction workers who lose their lives on American roads every year. The system uses GPS technology.
FARRITOR: Then you designate where you want them. I want a barrel on each of these locations and they go.
DEJOCKAMO: And while they are smart enough to follow small moving maintenance vehicles, you don't have to worry about them taking over the world.
FARRITOR: The robots themselves we made very dumb. Sometimes they get hit so we want to make them very cheap and inexpensive.
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SIEBERG: And icon of the automotive world turned 100 years old this week. Diana Muriel looks back at a century of Rolls Royce.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DIANA MURIEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT, (voice over): It was here in this Manchester hotel on May 4th, 1904 that one of the greatest engineering partnerships was born. English aristocrat and aviator, the honorable Charles Rolls, met Henry Royce, the son of a Miller, but a man who had already risen to manage his own engineering company.
TONY GOTT, CEO. ROLLS ROYCE MOTOR CARS: They created an idea, really, which was to produce the finest engineered products that they knew how to do. And, to me, that is just as resident today as it was yesterday.
MURIEL: Rolls Royce quickly gained a reputation for exquisite workmanship and reliability. Some think it's evident today. Vintage cars are still on the road, thanks in part to the care and attention lavished on them by their owners, like John Kennedy from Zimbabwe and his 1905 model light 20.
JOHN KENNEDY, ROLLS ROYCE: The reputation is built on the excellence of their engineering that's enabled cars like this to still be around 99 years later.
MURIEL: Rolls Royce was also building airplane engines as early as 1910. In 1971, spiraling costs for the prototype of this engine, the rb211 brought Rolls Royce to the brink of bankruptcy. The company was nationalized and was privatized again in 1987. But the car division was sold off to Germany's BMW. The rb211 engine also survived.
PHILIP O'DELL: We have so much faith in it because of the effort that we put into at the time and the way we turned it around.
MURIEL: That faith in this engine eventually paid dividends. It went on to power the Lockheed Tri-Star and Boeing jumbo jet.
JOHN WORTHY: Pound for pound or kilogram for kilogram, is worth more than the equivalent weight of silver. So the added value in a product like that is absolutely enormous.
MURIEL: Rolls Royce also built engines for Concorde and the new "Queen Mary II" liner. They are developing engines for Boeing 7e7 dream liner and the airbus 8380 super jumbo, an order worth more than $5 billion.
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MURIEL: And you need a small fortune to buy one of these. The new (UNINTELLIGIBLE) will set you back $417,000, and it's not just an exclusive price. Only 35 are being made. But if you hurry, you might just get one.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Coming up -- we'll check out technology designed to keep you from hearing naughty words on the radio.
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SIEBERG: Hot and dry conditions made much of southern California a tinderbox this week. Wildfires destroyed dozens of structures and forced hundreds of people to evacuate. The fire season started Monday. That's three weeks earlier than usual because of dry weather and an infestation of bark beetles. The bugs have killed millions of trees across the west, turning them into kindling. Authorities say this could become one of the worst fire seasons on record.
Out pacing last years record breaking blazes that killed 22 people in southern California. Another fire at the Grand Canyon in Arizona forced officials to close park entrances and some of the most popular lookout spots Wednesday. The fire had been a prescribed burn to clear out underbrush and reduce the danger of wildfire, but it jumped a containment line. No structures were threatened and everything was reopened after several hours.
In the jungle of Guatemala, at a little know mian (ph) ruin archaeologists have made a big discovery. They found evidence that the ruin named Sival was once one of the most sophisticated cities in the early mian period, along with caches of jade artifacts, researchers found large stucco masks dating back to 500 B.C. They think they masks flanked the stairway of a pyramid. The site is being excavated by Vanderbuilt University with the support of the National Geographic Society.
Tuning in some music news now Sony, a pioneer in the portable music industry with its walkmans is now getting into online music. This week is launched Sony Connect, which offers half a million tracks at 99 cents each and albums, starting at 10 bucks? You'll be able to transfer songs to compatible devices like walkmans, but not to Apple's iPod which has captured 30 percent of the sales of portable digital music players.
Some analysts say Sony has enter the game too late to make it in digital music. Sony says it can expand the market and attract people that I pod hasn't.
Well it's been a banner year for FCC indecency fines. Figures show that the Federal Communication Commission has proposed more fines for broadcast indecency in the first four months of 2004 than it did during the previous 10 years combined. As JJ Ramberg reports, radio stations are turning to technology to keep the FCC off their backs.
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JJ RAMBERG, CNN FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENT, (voice over): For radio stations under the watchful eye of the Federal Communication Communication, just 20 seconds and this yellow button could save them thousands in fines.
RICHARD FACTOR, CEO, EVENTIDE: The purpose of the devise is specifically to allow broadcasters to decide this guy just said something I don't want it on my radio station, I'm going to push that button.
RAMBERG: That button erases what ever the DJ or caller just said before it hits the airwave. FACTOR: It works by creating a delay between the input and the output. Right now you hear me speaking in real-time. But when I release the button, the delay starts building up without altering my voice too much. Right now we've got about a second of delay and about a second and a half, which is plenty of time for me to say a dirty word and press the button and have that dirty word disappear.
RAMBERG: With the FCC cracking down on indecency on radio and television, New Jersey based Eventide and Washington based Symmetric have been receiving orders for their audio delay devices at a record pace.
FACTOR: During March and April we've basically gotten orders for the full year's forecast.
RAMBERG: The stacks for ignoring the FCC are high. Recently the commission fined Clear Channel $495 thousand dollars for an incident on the "Howard Stern Show." Infinity Broadcasting $357,000 for indecent behavior on the defunct "Opy and Anthony" show and Clear Channel another $715,000 for a segment hosted by radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge. And the government is stepping up its effort.
MICHAEL POWELL, FCC CHAIRMAN: We will begin license revocation procedures for egregious and continuing disregard of decency laws.
RAMBERG: Chilling words to executives at radio stations across the country, including those at WTHK in Princeton, New Jersey. While they only silence a few phrases each week, they say they installed the device as much for its symbolism as its practicality.
JEFF SMITH, NASSAU BROADCASTING COMPANY: Without it we would be liable for a lot more. Without it, we wouldn't be proving to the government that the company is taking a stands on indecency and what we're put on our airwaves. Without it, I don't think we would be as comfortable doing a lot of things on the air.
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RAMBERG: The biggest windfall for the audio delay device makers came from Clear Channel Communications in an effort to ensure the decency of its programs. That company recently purchased half a million dollars worth of the equipment.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ahead in our next half hour, can you really save a species when its natural habitat has disappeared? We'll hear some arguments on both sides.
And we'll find out how wi-fi equipped motorbikes are bringing the Internet to a remote village in Cambodia. Those stories and a lot more are coming up right after a break.
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SIEBERG: Welcome back to NEXT@CNN.
Well, you might not think that sharks and tuna have much in common other than one might be food for the other. But according to new research, they do. Lamnid sharks, which includes Makos and Great Whites share the same design of their swimming muscles. Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography analyzed swim technique and muscle movement in Mako sharks. They determined that powerful muscles in the front of the animals transfer energy to the trail, thereby creating strong propulsion. Previous research on tunas showed they swim in the same way. The technique is unique in the fish world. The research was in the journal "Nature."
And fisherman and conservation groups hope a $25,000 prize will get folks busy designing safer fishing gear. The World Fisheries Congress in Vancouver announced the smart gear contest. The aim is to reduce bycatch, that's the accidental deaths of birds, sea turtles, and dolphin. Some nets are already designed with escape hatches like this one for turtles. While safer nets could help protect some endangered species in the oceans, but saving species from the brink of extinction takes more than that. Some researchers are cloning threatened animals, but as Sharon Collins reports, the project is not without its critic.
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SHARON COLLINS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): You're about to witness something few people ever get to see. These scientists are trying to clone an African wildcat, an animal in danger of going extinct. Here's how it works: The DNA of a wildcat was placed in the egg of a domestic cat. The nucleus of that egg was removed so only features of the wildcat will replicate.
BETSY DRESSER, DIRECTOR OF THE AUDUBON CENTER FOR RESEARCH: I see you.
COLLINS: And they have proof the process works. This is "Miles," a cloned African wildcat from a former procedure. He's healthy and equally important to researchers, he's genetically pure.
(on camera): Does it make you really proud to hold a cloned cat?
DRESSER: It does. Because, this is history, you know? Nobody's ever -- ever cloned these cats before and so, this is really history.
COLLINS: There is more history to be made. After months of trying, they have also cloned a female wildcat that will mate with miles. The goal is to have two cloned wildcats reproduce naturally, giving researchers one more tool in the battle to stop extinction.
(on camera): It seems hard to argue with a scientific procedure that could save an endangered species. But some ask, will cloning really stop animals from going extinct or simply maintain collection for zoos around the world?
ARTHUR CAPLAN, CENTER FOR BIOETHICS, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: If you use cloning to try and save something near extinct or rare, part of the reason that it's near extinct or rare is that its habitat is disappearing. If its habitat is disappearing, then all you are doing is clone the animals, but you'll have to wind up putting them in zoos or some other special area because places that they would normally live in nature don't exist.
COLLINS (voice-over): But, other researchers say it would be morally wrong to let an animal go extinct when we have the means to save it.
DRESSER: I think it's worth saving every species that we can. And, you know, we don't know what the future is going to bring 100 years from now, for example. We don't know what this planet's going to be like or we may be on other planets, and so I think we have to learn as much as we absolutely can now while we have the living species so that for the future our kids' kids, future generations can look back and say, they had the foresightedness to at least save the genetic material, save the DNA and in some way so they can use their future technologies to apply to the genetic material that we have today.
COLLINS: The center keeps DNA of about 5,000 animals frozen as it works to perfect the process of cloning. By using this technology, they're already working to boost populations of rare bongo antelopes in Africa. But, even with cloning, researchers say there are some species that simply cannot be saved. A 2002 United Nations report said almost a quarter of the world's mammals face extinction within 30 years. Scientists at the Audubon Center say, they feel like they are working in the emergency room of the wildlife business.
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ANNOUNCER: Coming up: Patrolling the skies for wireless internet connections. And why some of them could make computer users nervous.
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SIEBERG: You may have heard of war driving. That's where people with laptops and a wireless card drive around finding hot spots in places they can access the internet using other folks' Wi-Fi access points. Well, the staff of the tech website TomsHardware.com recently took that a step further, or should we say higher. They went war flying to publicize the security problems that Wi-Fi users should deal with, but usually don't.
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HUMPHREY CHEUNG, TOMSHARWARE.COM: The way that this whole thing came together -- the war flying project came together was, I'm an editor for Tom's Hardware and we do technical articles, and we thought of a good article to do would to be take a plane and find wireless access points.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All set?
CHEUNG: Yes.
We took two airplanes, one was a Cessna 172 and the second one was a Hyper Cherokee. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
CHEUNG: What we're doing right now is we're scanning for wireless network, these are all wireless networks on the ground and we're using the software to scan while we're passing over these ground-based networks.
If they have personal banking records, Excel files, Word files anything from work that's on their computer, someone could drive up, park right outside their house and access it all. That's definitely a problem they don't have any sort of protection or encryption on their wireless network.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just this short little turn here we picked up another 50 or so access points and most of them are unencrypted.
CHEUNG: I have about 1,400, so far. How much do you guys have?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well over 3,000.
CHEUNG: Wow!
Out of the 5,000 access points we found, approximately 30 percent were encrypted -- protected and 70 percent were unencrypted. A lot of consumers, they think that, I don't have any secret documents on my computer. The bigger concern is someone going up close to your house -- close to your house and putting information on to the internet. It's going to look as if it came from that person's house and not from the car that is sitting outside.
The worst case scenario would probably be someone who has illegal materials such as child pornography, he wants to put it on a website. He uploads the material and when he drives off, there's no trace of him being at that wireless access point, it would be completely invisible.
MIKE OUTMESGUINE, COFOUNDER OF SOCALWUG: And how do you protect yourself? Ideally what someone would do when they get a new wireless device, consumer or business is get an encryption method set up. If it's a consumer, I would say just set up the basic encryption that comes with it. For a business, they should have somebody come that knows how to set it up and make it -- encrypt the signal for their -- everybody in the company.
Oh, that was not good, but real life.
And we have 1430 locations that we're going to plot now on this map of North America. And there we are, that's where we flew today when we had our scanning software running. And you can see there are so many wireless access points, it was just finding them by the dozens.
CHEUNG: I think the reason we found so many access points that were unencrypted, it's very simple -- people are lazy. They just want to plug a box in and turn it on. When you buy it, everything's turned off. And we could fault companies such as Linksys that make these access points, perhaps what they should do is when they sell it, have all the security turned on and make the consumer turn it off, then that way, at least out of the box it would be 100 percent more secure than what we saw, today. What we saw today is people pop it in, and your next door neighbor would be able to read your e-mail without a problem.
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SIEBERG: The war flying project also accomplished something that no one had apparently done before. The folks in the two planes connected with each other using Wi-Fi and conducted a plane to plane video chat. We can only hope they kept an eye on the sky at the same time. And you can find links to more information on this and other stories on our show on our website, that's at cnn.com/next.
Well so far, most Wi-Fi fans are in tech savvy industrialized countries. Well, when we come, we'll find out what Wi-Fi is doing for people in a remote corner of Cambodia.
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SIEBERG: How can you access the internet in a remote village with no electric utilities and no phone lines? That's easy, Wi-fi and motorbikes. Ram Ramgopal in a report from northeast Cambodia.
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RAM RAMGOPAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From the air, it's easy to see why Ratanakiri has a reputation for being one of the world's last remote frontiers.
This distant province in northeastern Cambodia is two-day's drive from the capital Phnom Penh on bumpy dirt tracks.
On the ground in Ratanakiri, life proceeds at a gentle pace. First the cows are chased off the landing strip, then the plane comes in to land.
It's a region filled with natural beauty, waterfalls and lakes, destinations that have not been discovered by many tourists. And even the name of the province is wrapped in romance -- Ratanakiri means mountain of jewels in many Asian languages, a reference to the area's gem mining industry.
But for all the beauty, the comforts of modern life are hard to find. There are no paved roads in this province. Electricity isn't available outside the main town, Banlung, and running water is a luxury.
Like the rest of Cambodia, Ratanakiri faces a variety of other problems: There are few schools or hospitals and its people are still desperately poor. But change is coming, slowly, thanks in no small part to Bernie Krisher.
Krisher is a popular figure here. Among other things, he's helped set up hundreds of schools, giving Cambodian kids basic education, even access to computers.
BERNIE KRISHER, PHILANTHROPIST: What do you want to be when you grow up?
RAMGOPAL: Krisher has found a number of sponsors around the world to help support the schools and he's also looking toward technology. In the absence of electricity, human muscle helps generate power for the computers, as do solar panels. What they don't have is a direct link to the Internet, no phone lines, no satellite dishes.
Enter the Motomen. These men and their metallic machines are the modern day equivalent of the postmen in Ratanakiri. On roads that can test even the toughest four-wheel drive vehicles, the Motoman has to weave a careful path. On his bike, precious cargo of stored e-mail that has been downloaded wirelessly to a chip inside a box on the bike.
The wireless system was developed by a Boston-based company, First Mile Solutions, building on the Wi-Fi technology that's become commonplace in offices and homes in the developed world.
As the bike rides up to the door of a remote school, in a matter of seconds the e-mail is uploaded to the school's computer and any of the school's outgoing messages get transferred to this box. Once the Motoman returns to the hub, the e-mail is sent by satellite to the Internet.
KRISHER: The Internet and e-mail opened up many opportunities. It's like building a highway, it's a highway that permits transportation, transportation produces commerce, and so on.
RAMGOPAL: At Ratanakiri's only hospital, the patient's line up for urgent attention. They've heard there are visiting doctors this day from the capital Phnom Penh.
(on camera): For many of these people, this is the only access they will have to healthcare. While there many be smaller clinics for minimal first aid, for anything serious the people of Ratanakiri have to come to this hospital.
(voice-over): One of the most serious cases, 64-year-old Tengdo (PH). Doctors examine Tengdo (PH) and come to the conclusion that he's got a testicular tumor. They believe he needs prompt attention, but they'd like to get a second opinion.
In that, they're luckier than many similar hospitals in developing countries.
Doctors at the Ratanakiri Rural Hospital take photographs of their patient, gather their vital signs and then send them via the Internet to the best medical minds on the other side of the world in Boston. There, doctors with the Massachusetts General Hospital and a volunteer practice called TelePartners look at the data and e-mail back their own diagnoses.
Hours later, the conclusion in Tengdo's (PH) case, he needs to be checked out at a larger hospital. He'll take a flight out to Phnom Penh as soon as possible.
One day, what the rest of the world calls development will come to Ratanakiri. But Bernie Krisher is just happy knowing these people have already leap-frogged to the information age with the help of some big thinking and some high-tech tools.
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ANNOUNCER: Coming up: Is it possible to make a trash container that bears can't get into? We'll see what happens when grizzlies take on technology.
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SIEBERG: Ah, summer. I bet you can hardly wait for those days and extra rays. Well, while you loungee on your patio at 8:00 in the evening, did you ever wonder why the sun hadn't disappeared yet? Think you know, but aren't entirely sure? Well, pack your bags, because the reason has to do with the earth's yearly trip around the sun. As the earth revolves around the sun, its axis is tilted slightly. Part of the year, the earth's North Pole points away from the sun and part of the time toward it. When axis of the earth in the North Pole points to the sun, its rays hit the northern half of the world more directly, causing -- you guessed it, summer. And because of the angle of the axis, the sun is higher in the sky, meaning more time to wear those new shades. But in the winter, the earth's axis tilts away from the sun. That makes the sun appear lower in the sky for a shorter period of time and, therefore, shorter daylight hours. Either way, don't forget your sunscreen.
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SIEBERG: Agoura Hills, California, is an upscale suburb of L.A., but not too far from the wilderness. Residents got a reminder of that on Tuesday when a black bear turned up walking through backyards. He was so well behaved and calm that wildlife officials saw no need to take drastic measures. They popped him with a tranquilizer dart and gave him a ride to a remote area of the Santa Monica Mountians.
One main reason that bears wander into populated areas is all that yummy garbage, so there's a market for bear-proof trash cans. A Colorado company took trash can designs to Montana to be tested by the ultimate experts. Amanda Martin from our affiliate KUSA has the story.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Push it tight.
AMANDA MARTIN, KUSA CORRESPONDENT: It takes the brain power of four men and the brawn of a front end loader to move this 400-pound dumpster. Remember that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That worked pretty good.
MARTIN: When you see what happens to it later.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK everybody, keep voices down, please -- tuna fish and the jam...
MARTIN: Loaded with smelly goodies, naturalists bait the container.
See, what they get from pushing on it is a little bit of a bend which makes them think like, if I keep going I'm going to get a reward.
MARTIN: Dan Beach hopes they don't get the reward. He wants his Colorado containers to withstand the grizzly test.
DAN VEATCH, DUMPSTER DESIGNER: I think our dumpsters will prevail.
MARTIN: Once the trash cans are deliciously dressed, it's time to get out and call in the testers. Three grizzlies leave their dens.
VEATCH: Here they come.
MARTIN: Rebel, Nokita, and Koba (PH) enter cautiously, smelling something new.
VEATCH: Look, he just covers up that container.
MARTIN: Even though they're big and strong, the cans can still make them nervous. Outside this refuge, some were pelted with rubber bullet or booby traps to scare them from getting into trash.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When bears have conflict with humans, the bear loses.
MARTIN: Eight grizzlies live here at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, Montana. They can no longer live in the wild.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Basically, were you get the saying "a fed bear is a dead bear," it is dead to the wild population.
MARTIN: But here in captivity, they teach humans how to protect other bears. Grizzlies are extremely smart and very persistent, so they're the best testers to show which cans won't work. The grizzlies have learned that if they try hard enough, they'll get the food inside. If the container gives an inch...
VEATCH: He's going to get it.
MARTIN: ...the grizzly will try to force it to give in. But, this strength is nothing compared to the big bear.
VEATCH: Look how quick he is.
MARTIN: Sam is a 900-pound grizzly and knows how to push a dumpster around. Remember the 400-pound dumpster?
VEATCH: Oh, he's got it, he's got it, he's got it!
MARTIN: While the big bear can get into almost anything, many products held up well.
VEATCH: I think this is a -- the maximum test you could give any of these bear-proof containers.
MARTIN: Leaving the manufacturers with the bare proof.
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SIEBERG: And you thought you had problems keeping raccoons out of your garbage.
Well, that's all the time we have for now, but here's what's coming up next week:
Time once again to game on. It's the tenth anniversary of the video game industry's extravaganza, The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3. You can expect sequels to some of your favorite games and big announcements for gaming on the go.
That's coming up on NEXT as we take our show on the road. Until then, we'd like to hear from you. You can send us an e-mail anytime at next@cnn.com and don't forget to check out our website at cnn.com/next.
Thanks so much for joining us, for all of us on the CNN SciTech beat, I'm Daniel Sieberg, we'll see you next time.
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