I assume they will follow their oath to "uphold and defend the CONSTITUTION of the USA" They do not swear to protect a President or political party.....
I wonder what books we should burn that have instructions to build something that a State does not like???
As I understand it the guy who designed the S curve committed suicide shortly after it was done. It will always be a traffic jam because the State lacks the foresight to put in enough road to handle the load and growth that they allow. They want us all in a bus using the HOT lane or waisting gas (tax revenue for them) sitting in traffic!
Here Washington is a very Blue State (Liberal Progressive Democrat for YEARS now) and this kind of abuse of power is very prevalent. Heck even our State Governor (Queen Cristine) will not disclose information under our Freedom of Information Act based on "Executive Privilege" even tho the exemptions for disclosure under the LAW does not include "Executive Privilege" as a reason to deny a request for information from the State. Yet nothing is done..... We can not trust our cops in some cases to follow the laws, we can not trust or Courts to enforce the law and we can not trust or politicians to tell us the truth. Our Rights crumble as fast as the Dollar and our Citizens just want more cake and circus. Somewhere in the foothills of the Cascade Mountain Range a fiddler plays......
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7001
There is a good writeup on 8 people arrested here in the US for tampering with electronic votes.
"KY Election Officials Arrested, Charged With 'Changing Votes at E-Voting Machines'"
Give me a paper ballot and keep a paper trail.
I was thinking the same thing. I remember reading about some guy who took a bunch of the disco ball mirrors and glued them to the dish and put a steam generator (coil of copper pipe basically) where the antenna was. He used the pressure to drive a steam turbine or engine and got a few KW of power, as long as the sun was shining and he continued to "steer" the dish to point at the sun all day. If I remember correctly he used a fluid that evaporated at a lower temp than water to help get more power from the heat.... but that was a while back and I have a memory leakage issue.
Or do what we did and bury it for the base of a fountain/water feature. It made for a nice round dish to put the fountain in the middle of, but ours was an old solid style and not the mesh kind.
Good luck!
It is already starting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkEu-PdVlK0 for a video of the new Lexus self park. The market will determine what people are willing to pay. If I would have asked you 20 years ago if you wanted an automatic door lock/unlock, location, directions and other GPS related services, phone, crash detection and emergency contact after airbag deployment, and much more via a satellite connection in your car. You would have said it would cost a fortune.... now it is $16USA a month. The nature of the progress of technology it this field and others will shape the world for generations to come.
Now where is my hover-car and house cleaning robot?
The U.S. government is far, far more corrupt than most people in the U.S. realize. Here is only one example: Context of '1996-September 11, 2001: Enron Gives Taliban Millions in Bribes in Effort to Get Afghan Pipeline Built' Even if I believe TFA your are linking to your premise is still flawed. You say the US government is corrupt and then go on to give an example of a PRIVATE COMPANY and not the GOVERNMENT. This is not to say that the Government does not have its problems, and show me a country that does not, but your example needs to be changed. Maybe you are from a country where the government does own the private companies. I think G Fab said it best a few posts back.
by G Fab (1142219)
The US government is unbelievably not corrupt. We have a two party system, and if one party even gets slightly corrupt, it's a massive scandal. People who think the US has a corrupt government are invariably lacking real perspective.
Corruption is a massive problem in the USA. but it's in the corporate culture, not the government. The fact that we have two very similar parties pretty much ensures that corruption will be brought to light quickly. Larry Craig tapping his foot is a scandal in the US. Compare that to Putin. Like I said that is well stated. For all the faults the US government has it is still the last and best hope for man.
Now back to the subject at hand. I do find it interesting that importing $500M worth of equipment can cost you $826M in taxes, fines, and interest......
Sorry as I am not "up to speed" on my quantum computing but from TFA "In the article, we give the limit of about 100 GHz, which is assuming a very high magnetic field, which would require superconducting magnets to achieve. "
and then...
"Proper error correction may reduce the speed of the quantum computer to 1-10 MHz." I already have 3+ GHz machines so why would I want to have the cost of a superconduction magnet and the cooling that goes with it to get a machine that is slower than an Intel P?
From TFA "A full moon is visible in this 2005 view above the Earth's horizon. China plans to survey all of the moon's surface before eventually bringing bits of the planet back to Earth."
When did the moon become a planet...???
Bart Sibrel and others: If China does map the moon will it show the American flag still flying proudly? If so will he shut up and apologize for his mistakes... I will not hold my breath...
Mars: WTF does mapping the moon have to do with Mars? Lets try to stay on topic here.
Bush sucks the US suck.. Again WTF does that have to do with TFA? Go post at the dailykos or DNC I am sick of reading it on/. and you never point out how Bush has taken YOUR rights away, or how you are sitting in Gitmo... it is always some vague crap about how our rights have been taken, we torture (by taking picts of terrorist in their underwear, show me someone with missing fingers and cigarette burns on them and I will agree but embarrassing someone is NOT torture) but you can not show me ONE instance of this actually happening... oh wait it think I hear a black helicopter.... put on the tin foil hat. STFU!
I once had the great opportunity to watch them stress test a wing (I think it was for a 757) to failure at an undisclosed location in South Seattle. They had run it 28 feet off center for some millions of times (that is 14 foot bend up then 14 foot bend down from its resting position) using a hydraulic ram. Then they did the final test to see how far, and how much pressure, it takes to break. It was amazing to watch, it is not like it starts to bend and then fails with a kink in it... it actually EXPLODED with a very loud snap sound. Pieces of aluminum fling all over in the room, we were behind very thick glass with metal reinforcements in the glass, the wing had ripped itself apart. I am sure they will do a similar test, probably at the same location, sometime in the future. I hope they release a video of it. I also wish I had a cell phone camera back then to snap a pic of the thing being tested and then breaking. I will tell you the Boeing planes are made to stay in one piece! This is one reason I do not fly on Airbus..... I ask for Boeing planes when I get my tickets.
"The most recent factoring record is RSA200, a 200-digit 'non-special' number whose two prime factors were identified in 2005 after 18 months of calculations that took over a half century of computer time."
And
"The international team factored the current 307-digit behemoth using the "special number field sieve," a method devised in the late 1980s by Lenstra (then at Bellcore), his brother Hendrik, then a professor at UC Berkeley, English mathematician John Pollard and Mark Manasse from DEC. The 11-month job took a century of computer time."
Now the part that jumped out at me is "computer time"
WTF is computer time? Cycles p/sec * number of procs in the cluster?
"8 months of calculations that took over a half century of computer time"
"11-month job took a century of computer time"
....so is a 14 month job one and half century of computer time? WTF??? I thought 8 months was 8 months not 1/2 century and 11 months is 11 months (or almost a year and not 100 F'ng years)...
Can someone please explain this crap to me....??? I just don't get the lingo...
The truth about 9/11???? WTF are you talking about??? As I stood and looked up at the buildings just before the plane hit I can tell you the truth: "A plane, moving very fast, hit each building causing major damage resulting in an eventual collapse of both buildings. As for Building 7 a fire broke out, caused by damage from the falling debris, (this was the emergency management building with something like 10K gallons of fuel in it for the backup generators) that was all but ignored by the first responders who were left alive partly because with the cloud of dust and smoke it was all but impossible to even see it let alone get new fire trucks there to put the fire out, that eventually weakened the structure causing its collapse." I know all you tin foil hat folks have a hard time with fire melting steel but look at what happened in California a few weeks ago when a tanker truck loaded with fuel crashed and caught fire causing the collapse of the overpass. Sorry to break the news to you but heat does soften steel long before it actually liquefies. If you do not like this country so much, or do not trust it then move to IRAN or somewhere that you will be more comfortable...... until you can show me proof that it was an "inside" job just shut the fuck up... BTW with the way all the "leaks" have been coming out of the CIA, FBI, NSA etc. do you really think our government could keep an "inside" job of this scale quite for so long? And if Bush is as dumb as you leftest keep telling me he is how could he have planed such a huge attack without blundering it in the few months he was in office prior to the attacks? Like I said STFU or leave you dumb bastard or should I say Anonymous Coward.... If you want to rant at least have the balls to give us your name!
I am shocked that a politician would do something so unethical! Come on people... 'if they are not kissing babys they are stealing their lollipops.' (mis- quoted from Hunt for Red October) I would never vote Democrat anyways... they all want my money for their own power (or in this case power grab) and the Republicans are not that much better... and the Independents just cant seem to win.... aaaahhhh crazy world we live in.
I play OGame http://ogame.org/ when it first started you could ship more resourses than you had. When you put them on the ship you could specify how much to send (and they had a button for max resources) but if you put in more than you had it would deliver to your other planet the amount you told it to send and it did not show you with negative (-) amounts from the first planet. This was great, until it was fixed.
For just plain bugs tho it has to be Slashdot. Using Firebug you will see and error on EVERY slashdot page
"urchinTracker is not defined
urchinTracker();
comments.pl (line 467)"
the page shown is this but every page does it..... so my question is what would urchinTracker do if it was defined and if you are not going to define it why not remove it????
Does anyone else see the "face" that is created during this explosion? I see closed eyes, a nose and even a mouth(all tongue in cheek) ROFLMAO... sorry poor joke..... would love to see this at full speed.
"When the product IDs and product keys found belong to legal software, Microsoft will delete the data right away; only in cases of suspected software piracy will it store the data, the company has said. In the blog, the company once again explicitly states that it does not use the information gathered to identify or contact users."
So let me get this straight... If it is a legal install they delete the info they receive but if it is not a legal install they retain that data but do not use the information gathered to identify or contact users.... so why keep the info if you are not going to use it to 'identify or contact users'
Does not seem right to me but does not supprise me either... AAAHHHH Windblows XPee
I know it is still in dev but the picture quality they show as examples look like shit... I would never take a pict of my wife and baby with a camera that made them look like a image made out of bathroom tile..... no matter how much battery life it saved. Also what would this do to a picture of something in motion. I could imagine taking a pict of a car driving by and get the front of the car and by the time the millions of mirrors switch and aim etc the car has passed and I only get a picture of what was behind the car... except for the front bumper or something. Keep working on it... but for now I will stay with my 8MegPix camera and charge the battery everynight.
I do not think you should start looking for land in Florida. If (I stress IF) the ice melts by 2040 then all the water stored in the ice will have to raise the sea level (I do not know how much) but with the highest natural elevation of Florida (Britton Hill) being only 345 feet, or 105 meters for everyone not in the USA, most of that state will be under water (maybe a new place for the coral reefs to grow and the Manatee to thrive)
I think this is great as we read earlier today about all the new species of life living up north I would love to go SCUBA diving there to check them out.
But wait now that cows are the cause of global warming (or at least more responsible for it then us mere mortals) we should immediately eradicate them from the face of the planet if we are ever to survive until 2050. Maybe that will slow this global warming down and with the removal of the harmful cow all the PETA people will stop bitching about abusing animals by eating them. We can all then be forced to be vegetarians (as there will be a major lack of red meat) So everyone will be happy (except the cows and the environmentalists as they will be pissed they are either dead or another species is now extinct and of course the Hindus will be mad because the cow is sacred oh and pregnant woman need red meat for the proper development of the baby's brain)
Maybe this is what happened to the dinosaurs.... our cavemen ancestors realized that dinosaur farts were the cause of global warming... so they killed them all.. but that caused an ice age due to lack of methane being introduced into the atmosphere.
Crap can't win this any way you look at it someone will always be upset.. except the guy in Michigan selling his beach front property for lots of $$
Get a grip on reality man... if the US really lost 100,000,000 jobs then 1 in 3 of US would not have one... (Current unemployment is around 4.6% one of the lowest in history compare that to our socialist friends in Europe) I know you were using that to show the $1/2T "lost" but my god man get a grip...
as for education we continue to spend more and more each year for "public education" but the more money you throw at the problem does not seem to be fixing the fact that kids now days are "dumb" They can not do math without the help of a calculator, they can not write in cursive, half axe you a question instead of ask, and no amount of money you throw at the public schools will fix that if most of the money is wasted on non-education purposes (like sports, art, or putting a condom on a cucumber)Also the fact that teachers have been unionized and can not be fired no matter how many students they have sex with also does not help... get your left wing ass out of my right wing country if you do not like it... ever heard of personal responsibility....
And as for paying bills... how much credit card debit or home mortgage do you have... probably average like most people well over $100K that you owe someone.. somewhere... maybe even in China where most our T bills are held.
Borders, language, culture
Well I guess I should be proud of what Washington State has done. As a lifetime resident I am a bit surprised they did this at all... you would have to live here to understand our local politics but back to the point at hand.
Not only did they use deceptive tactics to sell this "anti-spyware" to you once you installed the product it actually reduced your overall system security like delete your host file and turn on file and print sharing and disable you firewall while also removing the little pop up window that warns you your firewall is disabled..... and more...
If I could be your benevolent dictator for a day the company would have had it a lot worse than $1M in fines... and just you wait... I bet the company declares bankruptcy and never pays a penny.
ahh but to be a lawer in Washington...........
I work on large printers all the time (IBM 3900's and 4000's), many of them have touch screens. Often when you try to press a button on the screen the pointer will not land under your finger and it may even click the button above or below the selection (or off to one side even) that I am trying to make. It sounds to me that this is a similar problem the Vote Machines are having. When I am repairing the printers I have to run a calibration to fix this problem. It is quite easy... the screen shows 2 boxes (upper left and lower right corner of the screen) you have to touch the screen in each box for 5 seconds to recalibrate the screen video to the "touch" part of the screen. I think this is the same thing that the touch screens are doing in FL. I would not blame the Bush admin first... (if I hacked a vote machine I would show the voter that they voted for who they thought they did but update the database with the person I wanted to win some % of the time and not show them that they voted for the wrong person) So before everyone goes and puts their foil hats on and hide from the black helicopters why don't you use that stuff that holds your ears apart and think about it logically first... or you can freak out call the ACLU, the press and claim "They stole Florida again!!!!"
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I assume they will follow their oath to "uphold and defend the CONSTITUTION of the USA" They do not swear to protect a President or political party..... I wonder what books we should burn that have instructions to build something that a State does not like???
Wish I had mod points to give to you! Follow the money!
As I understand it the guy who designed the S curve committed suicide shortly after it was done. It will always be a traffic jam because the State lacks the foresight to put in enough road to handle the load and growth that they allow. They want us all in a bus using the HOT lane or waisting gas (tax revenue for them) sitting in traffic!
Here Washington is a very Blue State (Liberal Progressive Democrat for YEARS now) and this kind of abuse of power is very prevalent. Heck even our State Governor (Queen Cristine) will not disclose information under our Freedom of Information Act based on "Executive Privilege" even tho the exemptions for disclosure under the LAW does not include "Executive Privilege" as a reason to deny a request for information from the State. Yet nothing is done..... We can not trust our cops in some cases to follow the laws, we can not trust or Courts to enforce the law and we can not trust or politicians to tell us the truth. Our Rights crumble as fast as the Dollar and our Citizens just want more cake and circus. Somewhere in the foothills of the Cascade Mountain Range a fiddler plays......
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7001
There is a good writeup on 8 people arrested here in the US for tampering with electronic votes.
"KY Election Officials Arrested, Charged With 'Changing Votes at E-Voting Machines'"
Give me a paper ballot and keep a paper trail.
I was thinking the same thing. I remember reading about some guy who took a bunch of the disco ball mirrors and glued them to the dish and put a steam generator (coil of copper pipe basically) where the antenna was. He used the pressure to drive a steam turbine or engine and got a few KW of power, as long as the sun was shining and he continued to "steer" the dish to point at the sun all day. If I remember correctly he used a fluid that evaporated at a lower temp than water to help get more power from the heat.... but that was a while back and I have a memory leakage issue. Or do what we did and bury it for the base of a fountain/water feature. It made for a nice round dish to put the fountain in the middle of, but ours was an old solid style and not the mesh kind. Good luck!
It is already starting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkEu-PdVlK0 for a video of the new Lexus self park. The market will determine what people are willing to pay. If I would have asked you 20 years ago if you wanted an automatic door lock/unlock, location, directions and other GPS related services, phone, crash detection and emergency contact after airbag deployment, and much more via a satellite connection in your car. You would have said it would cost a fortune.... now it is $16USA a month. The nature of the progress of technology it this field and others will shape the world for generations to come. Now where is my hover-car and house cleaning robot?
It is also too bad their main page is not ssl..... If I were toting the benefits of ssl for everything I would at least have my main page ssl.
Sorry as I am not "up to speed" on my quantum computing but from TFA "In the article, we give the limit of about 100 GHz, which is assuming a very high magnetic field, which would require superconducting magnets to achieve. "
and then...
"Proper error correction may reduce the speed of the quantum computer to 1-10 MHz."
I already have 3+ GHz machines so why would I want to have the cost of a superconduction magnet and the cooling that goes with it to get a machine that is slower than an Intel P?
I am number two... sooo close... damn!!!!
From TFA "A full moon is visible in this 2005 view above the Earth's horizon. China plans to survey all of the moon's surface before eventually bringing bits of the planet back to Earth."
/. and you never point out how Bush has taken YOUR rights away, or how you are sitting in Gitmo... it is always some vague crap about how our rights have been taken, we torture (by taking picts of terrorist in their underwear, show me someone with missing fingers and cigarette burns on them and I will agree but embarrassing someone is NOT torture) but you can not show me ONE instance of this actually happening... oh wait it think I hear a black helicopter.... put on the tin foil hat. STFU!
When did the moon become a planet...???
Bart Sibrel and others: If China does map the moon will it show the American flag still flying proudly? If so will he shut up and apologize for his mistakes... I will not hold my breath...
Mars: WTF does mapping the moon have to do with Mars? Lets try to stay on topic here.
Bush sucks the US suck.. Again WTF does that have to do with TFA? Go post at the dailykos or DNC I am sick of reading it on
I once had the great opportunity to watch them stress test a wing (I think it was for a 757) to failure at an undisclosed location in South Seattle. They had run it 28 feet off center for some millions of times (that is 14 foot bend up then 14 foot bend down from its resting position) using a hydraulic ram. Then they did the final test to see how far, and how much pressure, it takes to break. It was amazing to watch, it is not like it starts to bend and then fails with a kink in it... it actually EXPLODED with a very loud snap sound. Pieces of aluminum fling all over in the room, we were behind very thick glass with metal reinforcements in the glass, the wing had ripped itself apart. I am sure they will do a similar test, probably at the same location, sometime in the future. I hope they release a video of it. I also wish I had a cell phone camera back then to snap a pic of the thing being tested and then breaking. I will tell you the Boeing planes are made to stay in one piece! This is one reason I do not fly on Airbus..... I ask for Boeing planes when I get my tickets.
Now the part that jumped out at me is "computer time"
WTF is computer time? Cycles p/sec * number of procs in the cluster?
"8 months of calculations that took over a half century of computer time"
"11-month job took a century of computer time"
....so is a 14 month job one and half century of computer time? WTF??? I thought 8 months was 8 months not 1/2 century and 11 months is 11 months (or almost a year and not 100 F'ng years)...
Can someone please explain this crap to me....??? I just don't get the lingo...
The truth about 9/11???? WTF are you talking about??? As I stood and looked up at the buildings just before the plane hit I can tell you the truth: "A plane, moving very fast, hit each building causing major damage resulting in an eventual collapse of both buildings. As for Building 7 a fire broke out, caused by damage from the falling debris, (this was the emergency management building with something like 10K gallons of fuel in it for the backup generators) that was all but ignored by the first responders who were left alive partly because with the cloud of dust and smoke it was all but impossible to even see it let alone get new fire trucks there to put the fire out, that eventually weakened the structure causing its collapse."
I know all you tin foil hat folks have a hard time with fire melting steel but look at what happened in California a few weeks ago when a tanker truck loaded with fuel crashed and caught fire causing the collapse of the overpass. Sorry to break the news to you but heat does soften steel long before it actually liquefies. If you do not like this country so much, or do not trust it then move to IRAN or somewhere that you will be more comfortable...... until you can show me proof that it was an "inside" job just shut the fuck up...
BTW with the way all the "leaks" have been coming out of the CIA, FBI, NSA etc. do you really think our government could keep an "inside" job of this scale quite for so long? And if Bush is as dumb as you leftest keep telling me he is how could he have planed such a huge attack without blundering it in the few months he was in office prior to the attacks? Like I said STFU or leave you dumb bastard or should I say Anonymous Coward.... If you want to rant at least have the balls to give us your name!
Troll this all you want!
I am shocked that a politician would do something so unethical!
Come on people... 'if they are not kissing babys they are stealing their lollipops.' (mis- quoted from Hunt for Red October)
I would never vote Democrat anyways... they all want my money for their own power (or in this case power grab) and the Republicans are not that much better... and the Independents just cant seem to win.... aaaahhhh crazy world we live in.
I play OGame http://ogame.org/ when it first started you could ship more resourses than you had. When you put them on the ship you could specify how much to send (and they had a button for max resources) but if you put in more than you had it would deliver to your other planet the amount you told it to send and it did not show you with negative (-) amounts from the first planet. This was great, until it was fixed. For just plain bugs tho it has to be Slashdot. Using Firebug you will see and error on EVERY slashdot page "urchinTracker is not defined urchinTracker(); comments.pl (line 467)" the page shown is this but every page does it..... so my question is what would urchinTracker do if it was defined and if you are not going to define it why not remove it????
I missed it the first time but now that I look again I see ears also.... The Mother Mary in a potato chip.....
Does anyone else see the "face" that is created during this explosion? I see closed eyes, a nose and even a mouth(all tongue in cheek) ROFLMAO... sorry poor joke..... would love to see this at full speed.
"When the product IDs and product keys found belong to legal software, Microsoft will delete the data right away; only in cases of suspected software piracy will it store the data, the company has said. In the blog, the company once again explicitly states that it does not use the information gathered to identify or contact users."
So let me get this straight... If it is a legal install they delete the info they receive but if it is not a legal install they retain that data but do not use the information gathered to identify or contact users.... so why keep the info if you are not going to use it to 'identify or contact users'
Does not seem right to me but does not supprise me either... AAAHHHH Windblows XPee
I know it is still in dev but the picture quality they show as examples look like shit... I would never take a pict of my wife and baby with a camera that made them look like a image made out of bathroom tile..... no matter how much battery life it saved.
Also what would this do to a picture of something in motion. I could imagine taking a pict of a car driving by and get the front of the car and by the time the millions of mirrors switch and aim etc the car has passed and I only get a picture of what was behind the car... except for the front bumper or something. Keep working on it... but for now I will stay with my 8MegPix camera and charge the battery everynight.
I do not think you should start looking for land in Florida. If (I stress IF) the ice melts by 2040 then all the water stored in the ice will have to raise the sea level (I do not know how much) but with the highest natural elevation of Florida (Britton Hill) being only 345 feet, or 105 meters for everyone not in the USA, most of that state will be under water (maybe a new place for the coral reefs to grow and the Manatee to thrive) I think this is great as we read earlier today about all the new species of life living up north I would love to go SCUBA diving there to check them out. But wait now that cows are the cause of global warming (or at least more responsible for it then us mere mortals) we should immediately eradicate them from the face of the planet if we are ever to survive until 2050. Maybe that will slow this global warming down and with the removal of the harmful cow all the PETA people will stop bitching about abusing animals by eating them. We can all then be forced to be vegetarians (as there will be a major lack of red meat) So everyone will be happy (except the cows and the environmentalists as they will be pissed they are either dead or another species is now extinct and of course the Hindus will be mad because the cow is sacred oh and pregnant woman need red meat for the proper development of the baby's brain) Maybe this is what happened to the dinosaurs.... our cavemen ancestors realized that dinosaur farts were the cause of global warming... so they killed them all.. but that caused an ice age due to lack of methane being introduced into the atmosphere. Crap can't win this any way you look at it someone will always be upset.. except the guy in Michigan selling his beach front property for lots of $$
Get a grip on reality man... if the US really lost 100,000,000 jobs then 1 in 3 of US would not have one... (Current unemployment is around 4.6% one of the lowest in history compare that to our socialist friends in Europe) I know you were using that to show the $1/2T "lost" but my god man get a grip... as for education we continue to spend more and more each year for "public education" but the more money you throw at the problem does not seem to be fixing the fact that kids now days are "dumb" They can not do math without the help of a calculator, they can not write in cursive, half axe you a question instead of ask, and no amount of money you throw at the public schools will fix that if most of the money is wasted on non-education purposes (like sports, art, or putting a condom on a cucumber)Also the fact that teachers have been unionized and can not be fired no matter how many students they have sex with also does not help... get your left wing ass out of my right wing country if you do not like it... ever heard of personal responsibility.... And as for paying bills... how much credit card debit or home mortgage do you have... probably average like most people well over $100K that you owe someone.. somewhere... maybe even in China where most our T bills are held. Borders, language, culture
Well I guess I should be proud of what Washington State has done. As a lifetime resident I am a bit surprised they did this at all... you would have to live here to understand our local politics but back to the point at hand. Not only did they use deceptive tactics to sell this "anti-spyware" to you once you installed the product it actually reduced your overall system security like delete your host file and turn on file and print sharing and disable you firewall while also removing the little pop up window that warns you your firewall is disabled..... and more... If I could be your benevolent dictator for a day the company would have had it a lot worse than $1M in fines... and just you wait... I bet the company declares bankruptcy and never pays a penny. ahh but to be a lawer in Washington...........
I work on large printers all the time (IBM 3900's and 4000's), many of them have touch screens. Often when you try to press a button on the screen the pointer will not land under your finger and it may even click the button above or below the selection (or off to one side even) that I am trying to make. It sounds to me that this is a similar problem the Vote Machines are having. When I am repairing the printers I have to run a calibration to fix this problem. It is quite easy... the screen shows 2 boxes (upper left and lower right corner of the screen) you have to touch the screen in each box for 5 seconds to recalibrate the screen video to the "touch" part of the screen. I think this is the same thing that the touch screens are doing in FL. I would not blame the Bush admin first... (if I hacked a vote machine I would show the voter that they voted for who they thought they did but update the database with the person I wanted to win some % of the time and not show them that they voted for the wrong person) So before everyone goes and puts their foil hats on and hide from the black helicopters why don't you use that stuff that holds your ears apart and think about it logically first... or you can freak out call the ACLU, the press and claim "They stole Florida again!!!!"