Automated systems can capture an electronic recording of every product movement thereby creating an electronic chain of custody.

Conveyors then become reusable assets. Modular 'plug and convey' designs allow conveyor sections to be moved and reconfigured to another location or building and into a different application.

I think what the detectives are looking to do is just basically enhance the chain of custody of that gun for evidentiary purposes.

After all, the chain of custody of these tapes is the one way to find bin Laden. He obviously feels secure enough that he can release a number of these tapes.

Geeks like to make things. Indeed, the drive to create is an intrinsic geeky quality (right up there with loving genre fiction and drinking too much Mountain Dew). And while many geeks may not think of themselves as creative in an artistic sense, most geeky pursuits--from rolling up a new D&D character to assembling the LEGO Star Wars Death Star kit (you know, the one with all the cool minifigures)--are acts of creation.

There was a huge boom in creating mainframe systems in the '60s and '70s, and we always felt they would be replaced, ... Much to our horror in some cases, today we've got 30-year-old systems that we thought would have outlived their useful life.