The Man of Steel may return for a  ninth season of CW’s superhero drama.

The reports of Smallville’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. The Popular belief had the long-running Superman drama flying off into the sunset at the end of season eight,  but now it seems there’s a cry to move forward.
An inside source who says that main star Tom Welling is in discussions to renew his contract for a ninth season, and both sides are so close to striking a mega deal, that will make Tom Welling rich.
Tom is the key to keeping Smallville on the air, and  CW is apparently willing to add some pretty nice zeroes to his salary to keep him. When Allison Mack pondered leaving, producers resigned her for what is rumored to be some serious dooh.
With season nice hovering in the shadows, there promise of more Justice League of America action and a recent jump in quality has loyalists excited for the future of the show.
Tell us what you think?: should Smallville continue on? Or should it go out with a bang at the conclusion of season eight?
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The Detroit Red Wings are Stanley Cup champions because they excel at both ends of the rink. For the 11th time in franchise history the Detroit Red Wings are Stanley Cup champions after defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 in Game 6. None of them does it better than Henrik Zetterberg, whose two-way play earned him the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.The Swede’s goal midway through the third period proved to be the series winner and he had an assist to lift Detroit to a 3-2 win Wednesday night over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6.

He became just the second European to win the award, joining fellow Swede and teammate Nicklas Lidstrom, who won it in 2002.

The Penguins made it very interesting as with less than two minutes remaining Marian Hossa scored on the power play to pull the Pens within a goal.

The tension mounted even more for Detroit as Sidney Crosby’s backhander flipped over Chris Osgood but stayed out of the net with no time left on the clock.  After the series it was revealed that Crosby played the series with both injured ribs and groin. Following the game Crosby appeared emotionally spent.

The Wings accomplished the rare feat of clinching all four playoff series on the road.

The win was extra sweet for Dallas Drake who earned his first Stanley Cup ring in his 16th season.

History was also made as forward Dan Cleary became the first player from Newfoundland and Labrador to have his name etched on the Stanley Cup.

With the victory Mike Babcock became only the third ever head coach to capture both the Stanley Cup and the CIS Championship, which he did with the University of Lethbridge in 1994.

Eight Red Wings remain from the 2002 team that won the Stanley Cup: Lidstrom, Crhis Chelios, Dominic Hasek, Tomas Holmstrom, Draper, Kirk Maltby, Datsyuk and Darren McCarty.

Way to Go Red Wings it was a well fought hard season for you, and now you have the Stanley Cup back in Motor City…. Hockey Town USA.. Detroit Michigan..

Thanks Nick Molnar

RFID is like any other kind of identifying technology… it can be used for either purpose. The reason why RFID is in the hot seat right now is that, unlike bar-codes, it can be read without line-of-sight, and be read from a distance.

The main concern right now is that the distance can be quite large depending on what technology is used, and the person does not know they are being identified. So obviously, privacy violations would depend on how RFID was being used to ID people, and who had access to that data.

At this point, you can be triangulated and tracked based on your cell phone signal, even when you’re not talking on it. You can also be tracked and your privacy invaded by checking your bank statements and credit card purchase history.

Biometrics offer an even greater chance to abuse and invade your privacy. In the UK, authorities have setup public city cameras that watch intersections and public areas. They have connected these cameras to a centralized computer that uses biometric facial recognition to track random individuals from place to place.

There is no way for anyone to know that they are being tracked by biometric methods like this, and there is no way for them to opt-out or protect themselves from this privacy invasion. RFID on the other hand can be shielded, removed, or otherwise opted-out of.

That being said… the largest privacy concerns surrounding RFID revolve around RFID tags that are embedded into the things we buy and wear and walk around with. Clothing has been one huge area of concern. The thought is that the clothes we buy will have tags in them, and these tags will be tied to us at the time of purchase. Then as we walk around with these RFID tags, they can be read by a yet-to-be setup infrastructure of readers that can place us in a specific location at a specific time… essentially tracking us around.

At this time, clothes with RFID tags in them are designed to have the tags removed before wearing or washing. The tags even say “remove before washing or wearing”, and have a “cut here” line on them. The tags, at this point, will not survive more than a wash cycle or two, and there is no economical reason for clothing manufactures to spend the extra millions to make those tags resistant to the washing machine… it’s just not that big of a concern… not at this point anyways.

Other forms of privacy invasion revolve around things like kids wearing RFID enabled name badges which allow the schools to track kids and make sure they are in class or wherever they are supposed to be. That in itself isn’t a big issue, but the problem lies in the fact that once the kids leave school property, those RFID tags will continue to function, and could possibly be used to track kids around outside of school… should an interested party be willing to put the millions of dollars into building the infrastructure of thousands of connected readers that would enable a “tracking grid”.

At this point, there just isn’t enough of an RFID infrastructure to warrant mass-panic about privacy invasion. It’s wise for people to stay on top of the issue and fight invasion advances wherever they occur, but I think people are focusing on the wrong thing… they have tunnel vision fixed on RFID while public biometric tracking is being setup under their very noses.