And I bet that OPEC et al are looking into the most efficient way to convert oil into hydrogen - I mean, what else are they going to do with it once eveyone starts driving fuel-cell powered cars?
Have you ever noticed most of the OPEC countries are countries with large deserts, perfect sites for vast solar panel farms? They still could be a major energy supplier, but now with a renewable energy source!
1 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms router.whitehosue.gov 2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 81.23.243.16 3 20 ms 20 ms 21 ms centcom.iraq.dod.mil 6 37 ms 32 ms 35 ms battlefield.iraq.dod.mil 7 * * * 8 * * *
Yeah, that's crazy! Hey, lets look to the backgrounds of people who walked on the moon, except Americans, they have such a large portion of the dataset....:-?
The tech.net.ru computers were meticulously organized to make the crimes as efficient as possible, investigators said. Each victim's information was kept in its own file; the hacking programs were placed in a folder labeled "badstuff."
How meticulously organized!! Must be evil hackers!
I watched a two-part series about some very disturbing developments in the US police and justice system. They are availible online and although it's a Dutch program almost everything is spoken English so it's worth to watch for non-Dutchies
I want to add to my own post that the documentary is about the absurd punishments as a result of the War on Drugs. People who have committed no crime whatsover but were only involved with it because their partner did something wrong getting years and years of prison. Astonishing is the fact that the police is allowed to keep the money earned by selling seized property of suspects, not convicted criminals. In the United States you have to prove you're innocent when you're accused of a civil crime. the whole prison system is not about punishment anymore buit about earning money, your justice system has been capitalized, this is a very dangerous development!
Another astonishing law is the three strike system, commit three simple crimes and get prison for life. Judges telling they had to give life sentences to people who had only small amounts of drugs for own use, while a rapist got only a few years. Where the hell is justice in that? The chairman of the committee which proposed this law is saying it is his biggest mistake in his life.
Watch it with Realplayer, its simply astonishing...
I watched a two-part series about some very disturbing developments in the US police and justice system. They are availible online and although it's a Dutch program almost everything is spoken English so it's worth to watch for non-Dutchies
The thought that there was nothing (well, almost nothing) in between me and those huge, huge objects that were so very far away still sends tingling down my spine whenever I think about it. It reminds me, when I think that there is pretty much nothing left to do or discover, that there is indeed a whole universe out there, waiting for (or perhaps indifferent to) us.
There is also another big example of bad managment in this sector in Holland: UPC. This company bought many small cable networks in The Netherlands, some which were of very good quality, like A2000. In has now grown into a monstruous orginization where all quality and service has gone into thin air... Worst off all, it may go bankrupt taking with it all those small previously well functioning networks:(
The oldest gamer I know of is about 53, member of the clan Quake 4 Oldies. One of the requirements to join the clan is that you are at least 30 years old. They even have a skin with wheelchairs:)
New Software Quietly Diverts Sales Commissions By JOHN SCHWARTZ and BOB TEDESCHI
ome popular online services are using a new kind of software to divert sales commissions that would otherwise be paid to small online merchants by big sites like Amazon and eToys.
Critics call the software parasite-ware and stealware. But the sites that use the software, which is made by nearly 20 companies and used by dozens, say that it is perfectly legal, because their users agree to the diversion.
The amounts involved are estimated by those in the industry to have mounted into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and are likely to continue to grow -- in part because most users are unaware that the software is operating on their computers.
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There is no cost to the customer, but those who run small Web sites that funnel sales to the big merchants say that they are being hurt. "It's painful when someone walks in and takes sales right from under me," said Shawn Collins, who runs a number of sites that feed customers to Amazon and other merchants. "I probably saw a drop-off of 30 percent in income for the past six months."
The diversion begins when consumers get software from the Internet that helps them swap music or other files, or find bargains online. As they install the software, they are asked whether they would also like to show support for the software maker by shopping through an online affiliate program. These programs typically give a percentage of each purchase back to the affiliate -- in this case, the software maker -- as a commission.
What the consumers are not told clearly is that if they agree to participate, their computers may be electronically marked: all future purchases will look as if they were made through the software maker's site, even if they were not.
In many versions of the software, a purchase will look as if it was made through the software maker's site even if the shopper came in through another site that has its own affiliate agreement with the online store in question. Those affiliate sites include small businesses and even charities that use affiliate links as fund-raisers.
Some version of the diversion software is used by some of the most popular music trading sites that have tried to fill the void left by the collapse of Napster, including Morpheus, Kazaa and LimeWire. The companies say their software has been downloaded by tens of millions of Web surfers.
Although estimates are hard to come by, those in the business say that the amount of money involved could be large. The affiliate market, in which smaller sites funnel sales to larger ones in return for commissions, accounts for roughly 15 to 20 percent of the estimated $72 billion online market, said Carrie Johnson, an analyst with Forrester Research. A successful affiliate Web site can make $60,000 a month from referrals alone, said Haiko De Poel Jr., chief executive of Abestweb, an online forum devoted to affiliate marketing. He has organized owners of sites to fight Morpheus and others.
A spokeswoman for Amazon, which has 800,000 affiliate sites feeding it customers, said the company worked to protect those sites from hijacking. "We don't allow sites that use a download or a tool to redirect a shopping session to their account if they do not initiate the shopping session," said the spokeswoman, Patty Smith. "We've kicked out a number of sites for doing that."
Last week, Amazon cut off affiliate payments to Morpheus, one site that employs the shopping software, said an online executive. Coldwater Creek, an online clothing store, has also blocked Morpheus.
Some companies that make and use the diversion software said they were rewriting the programs so that they would no longer take money intended for others. But these changes may not affect copies of the software already installed on millions of computers. "We're not interested in stealing any Web site's revenue," said Greg Bildson, chief operating officer for LimeWire. "We know that this is sort of a new and sort of strange area, but we're interested in doing the right thing." He referred calls to TopMoxie, the maker of the software that LimeWire uses to get affiliate money.
Patrick Toland, a vice president for sales and marketing at TopMoxie, said that the company did not intend for its software to displace other affiliates' rights and that his company had altered the software in the last two weeks to stop substituting its affiliate identification code for those of other sites. "The second we realized this is a problem, we turned that boat around and said, `Let's get this out,' " he said. He added that the amount of money involved was minuscule.
Mr. Toland attributed the losses that the Web sites claimed to a tougher marketplace for small players.
Morpheus referred inquiries to Wurld Media, which operates its shopping rebates program. Kirk H. Feathers, the chief technical officer of Wurld Media, said that it had been wrongly accused of stealing and that the company would readily go to court to defend itself.
He acknowledged that an earlier version of the company's software did divert commissions away from other affiliate sites but said that new versions dealt with that situation. Now, the company said, the softwareoffers a choice to the consumer before each purchase: whether to give the commission to the affiliate or to himself in the form of a rebate, with a portion of the rebate going to Morpheus. The software does not misrepresent the user's computer to sellers' sites, Mr. Feathers said.
Arguments that the diversions are somehow the fault of an unintentional flaw do not persuade Erik Petersen, the chief technical officer at an Internet security company, Polar Cove, in Providence, R.I. Mr. Petersen said that he had received complaints about TopMoxie and LimeWire from friends and took a closer look. After conducting a detailed analysis of the software, he concluded that the TopMoxie program was intricately designed to substitute its affiliate identification code for that of other sites as transactions were made. He said that the program remained on the computer even if the user removed the original LimeWire music sharing software. "I don't buy their explanation," he said. "What kind of accident is that?"
Mr. Petersen also pointed to a statement made in an online forum where the technology was discussed, in which a LimeWire developer characterized accusations that the software diverts money as "pretty accurate," but said, "While I agree that this is really a bit of a scam, it is a way for us to pay salaries while not adversely affecting our users."
A chief executive of one software company was similarly unapologetic about the diversion of commissions. "We look at affiliates as competitors," said Avi Naider, the chief executive of WhenU.com, which makes the diversion software used by the music swapping services Kazaa and BearShare. The software, he said, provides services to users and money to each company "so it doesn't have to charge" for the currently free software and services.
The companies also argue that consumers give consent to the terms of the contract when they download the software, whether they read the agreement carefully or not. An expert in online consumer protection said the companies had a point. In the case of the LimeWire agreement, for example, "there does seem to be some indication to the user of what's going on," said David Medine, a Washington lawyer and former Federal Trade Commission official.
Mr. Medine said that he was, however, uncomfortable with the degree of disclosure. "The question is whether the quality of the notice is as good as it could be," he said. "They don't tell you that it's interfering with other business relationships."
Jeff Pullen, the president of Commission Junction, a company that helps link affiliates with Web sites, said that he was not inclined to cut off companies that divert commissions if the customer has agreed to the diversion. "The tactics that they use, maybe they're on the edge," he said. "Maybe, personally, I don't find them particularly attractive. But if they aren't illegal, it's hard for me to point to my public service agreement and say, `I have a reason to kick you off my network.' "
Still, other online merchants are taking action after being confronted by angry affiliates -- and they find that they are dealing with a moving target. TigerDirect, an online computer and electronics store, blocked Morpheus from its program earlier this year after discovering that the company was diverting online commissions. "I obviously thought it wasn't honorable," said Andy Rodriguez, the company's manager of affiliate marketing. "They said, `It's our right.' I said, `It's our right to remove you.' "
Morpheus changed its software, Mr. Rodriguez said, but a few weeks ago TigerDirect noticed that sales through Morpheus were "going through the roof" at the same time that many affiliates were complaining of a drop in commissions. So he blocked them again. "Guys at Morphus wanted a piece of the pie for each of our sales," he said. "I'm sorry. Absolutely not.
The diversion programs have made life difficult for affiliate marketers in the last year, said Steve Messer, chief executive of LinkShare, a company that runs a major affiliate network. But he sees a silver lining. "It's showed affiliate marketing has come of age," Mr. Messer said. "If you look at it, the volume of transactions passing through LinkShare's affiliate marketing got so big that when affiliates get upset, the largest merchants in the world react. If it's just a few dollars, nobody would've noticed."
LinkShare is working with other companies in their market to come up with industry standards to govern ethical practices in online advertising, Mr. Messer said. "For some people, WWW stands for the Wild, Wild West," he said. "Hopefully, that's coming to an end."
You can say what you want but it's defenitly not an act of cowards, maybe of dumb people, but not cowards... (to the contrary of flying high above a city with tens of thousands of civilian people an dropping your nuclear thingy!)
Show the Japanese we weren't kidding, and that they had better surrender. They didn't understand the first time so we said it again a few days later.
The U.S. used violence to get a message to the Japanese so it is 'ok' , and now Al-Qaeda does sort of the same on a smaller scale it is terrorism?
Note: I'm not trying to approve the actions of Al-Qaeda merely condeming the use of nuclear weapons in 1945.
In any case, dropping the bomb was done well within international law and the protocols of war.
I always thought minimizing civilian casualties was part of this, but I have to be wrong.
Personally, I think the U.S. should put a bullet in Sadam and then pull out of the region 100%. No more support for Israel. No troops in Saudia Arabia.
If you hadn't got in in the first place there wouldn't be a Saddam and a bin Laden. I'm afraid it's the main reason why you have a Ground Zero in NYC now and I hope the US Gov. agrees with your second half of the sentence, the first half alone doesn't solve anything, may even make things worse.
A few years ago I was member of a Dutch student team called wISCIT which had several projects related to smartcards. One of the projects (not mine) goals was to setup a electronic online voting system, identification through smartcards. They had a succesful test with 13.000 students at Delft University of Technology
Most of the technical papers are unfortunately in Dutch, but this publication is a good read about the theory behind the system.
CPUs are a special case because they do care about power consumption but not really. They care in the sense that power turns into heat, and heat is bad. But again, nobody bases a CPU buying decision on power consumption per se
This old crap again... The per-capita homicide rate in comparable U.S. and European cities (comparable income, education and population) is almost identical. Fewer Europeans are killed with guns, true, but if a gun isn't available angry people find other means. Europe has more fatal stabbings per-capita than the U.S. does, for example
By the way, I was talking about 2500 (mostly) innocent kids. That adults kill eachother is worse enough, but under no circumstance children should become victim of adult madness.
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And I bet that OPEC et al are looking into the most efficient way to convert oil into hydrogen - I mean, what else are they going to do with it once eveyone starts driving fuel-cell powered cars?
Have you ever noticed most of the OPEC countries are countries with large deserts, perfect sites for vast solar panel farms? They still could be a major energy supplier, but now with a renewable energy source!
...according to this site!
North Korea can barely keep its electrical grid up - not to mention feed its people.
Like the United States?
tracert commander.3rdinfantry.dod.mil
1 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms router.whitehosue.gov
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 81.23.243.16
3 20 ms 20 ms 21 ms centcom.iraq.dod.mil
6 37 ms 32 ms 35 ms battlefield.iraq.dod.mil
7 * * *
8 * * *
Sir? I think we have a problem...
Yeah, that's crazy! :-?
Hey, lets look to the backgrounds of people who walked on the moon, except Americans, they have such a large portion of the dataset....
The tech.net.ru computers were meticulously organized to make the crimes as efficient as possible, investigators said. Each victim's information was kept in its own file; the hacking programs were placed in a folder labeled "badstuff."
How meticulously organized!!
Must be evil hackers!
You can find them here:
Full movie
Movie clips
Better have ten real criminals costing some money then one innocent convicted one death row! Death cannot be made undone.
I watched a two-part series about some very disturbing developments in the US police and justice system. They are availible online and although it's a Dutch program almost everything is spoken English so it's worth to watch for non-Dutchies
Realplayer stream part 1:
http://info.vpro.nl/rmstreams.db?7273010
Realplayer stream part 2:
http://info.vpro.nl/rmstreams.db?7273012
With this kind of articles even women will start reading
Loads of info at http://www.6net.org/
Cheers!
I want to add to my own post that the documentary is about the absurd punishments as a result of the War on Drugs. People who have committed no crime whatsover but were only involved with it because their partner did something wrong getting years and years of prison. Astonishing is the fact that the police is allowed to keep the money earned by selling seized property of suspects, not convicted criminals. In the United States you have to prove you're innocent when you're accused of a civil crime. the whole prison system is not about punishment anymore buit about earning money, your justice system has been capitalized, this is a very dangerous development!
Another astonishing law is the three strike system, commit three simple crimes and get prison for life. Judges telling they had to give life sentences to people who had only small amounts of drugs for own use, while a rapist got only a few years. Where the hell is justice in that? The chairman of the committee which proposed this law is saying it is his biggest mistake in his life.
Watch it with Realplayer, its simply astonishing...
I watched a two-part series about some very disturbing developments in the US police and justice system. They are availible online and although it's a Dutch program almost everything is spoken English so it's worth to watch for non-Dutchies
Realplayer stream part 1:
http://info.vpro.nl/rmstreams.db?7273010
Realplayer stream part 2:
http://info.vpro.nl/rmstreams.db?7273012
Adaptive optics is also used in the VLT's on mount Paranal: http://www.eso.org/projects/aot/
A nice introduction into AO: http://www.eso.org/projects/aot/introduction.html
The thought that there was nothing (well, almost nothing) in between me and those huge, huge objects that were so very far away still sends tingling down my spine whenever I think about it. It reminds me, when I think that there is pretty much nothing left to do or discover, that there is indeed a whole universe out there, waiting for (or perhaps indifferent to) us.
You're talking 'bout the girl now right?
... id Software finally found a proper testing environment for Doom 3!
I guess you work for Wanadoo?
:(
There is also another big example of bad managment in this sector in Holland: UPC. This company bought many small cable networks in The Netherlands, some which were of very good quality, like A2000. In has now grown into a monstruous orginization where all quality and service has gone into thin air... Worst off all, it may go bankrupt taking with it all those small previously well functioning networks
On the other hand, if you don't normally eat the thing, I wouldn't suggest trying to use it as a host for organs.
:P
I suggest to use whale organs for Norwegian and Japanese transplants! That should teach them a lesson
The oldest gamer I know of is about 53, member of the clan Quake 4 Oldies. One of the requirements to join the clan is that you are at least 30 years old. They even have a skin with wheelchairs :)
New Software Quietly Diverts Sales Commissions
By JOHN SCHWARTZ and BOB TEDESCHI
ome popular online services are using a new kind of software to divert sales commissions that would otherwise be paid to small online merchants by big sites like Amazon and eToys.
Critics call the software parasite-ware and stealware. But the sites that use the software, which is made by nearly 20 companies and used by dozens, say that it is perfectly legal, because their users agree to the diversion.
The amounts involved are estimated by those in the industry to have mounted into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and are likely to continue to grow -- in part because most users are unaware that the software is operating on their computers.
Advertisement
There is no cost to the customer, but those who run small Web sites that funnel sales to the big merchants say that they are being hurt. "It's painful when someone walks in and takes sales right from under me," said Shawn Collins, who runs a number of sites that feed customers to Amazon and other merchants. "I probably saw a drop-off of 30 percent in income for the past six months."
The diversion begins when consumers get software from the Internet that helps them swap music or other files, or find bargains online. As they install the software, they are asked whether they would also like to show support for the software maker by shopping through an online affiliate program. These programs typically give a percentage of each purchase back to the affiliate -- in this case, the software maker -- as a commission.
What the consumers are not told clearly is that if they agree to participate, their computers may be electronically marked: all future purchases will look as if they were made through the software maker's site, even if they were not.
In many versions of the software, a purchase will look as if it was made through the software maker's site even if the shopper came in through another site that has its own affiliate agreement with the online store in question. Those affiliate sites include small businesses and even charities that use affiliate links as fund-raisers.
Some version of the diversion software is used by some of the most popular music trading sites that have tried to fill the void left by the collapse of Napster, including Morpheus, Kazaa and LimeWire. The companies say their software has been downloaded by tens of millions of Web surfers.
Although estimates are hard to come by, those in the business say that the amount of money involved could be large. The affiliate market, in which smaller sites funnel sales to larger ones in return for commissions, accounts for roughly 15 to 20 percent of the estimated $72 billion online market, said Carrie Johnson, an analyst with Forrester Research. A successful affiliate Web site can make $60,000 a month from referrals alone, said Haiko De Poel Jr., chief executive of Abestweb, an online forum devoted to affiliate marketing. He has organized owners of sites to fight Morpheus and others.
A spokeswoman for Amazon, which has 800,000 affiliate sites feeding it customers, said the company worked to protect those sites from hijacking. "We don't allow sites that use a download or a tool to redirect a shopping session to their account if they do not initiate the shopping session," said the spokeswoman, Patty Smith. "We've kicked out a number of sites for doing that."
Last week, Amazon cut off affiliate payments to Morpheus, one site that employs the shopping software, said an online executive. Coldwater Creek, an online clothing store, has also blocked Morpheus.
Some companies that make and use the diversion software said they were rewriting the programs so that they would no longer take money intended for others. But these changes may not affect copies of the software already installed on millions of computers. "We're not interested in stealing any Web site's revenue," said Greg Bildson, chief operating officer for LimeWire. "We know that this is sort of a new and sort of strange area, but we're interested in doing the right thing." He referred calls to TopMoxie, the maker of the software that LimeWire uses to get affiliate money.
Patrick Toland, a vice president for sales and marketing at TopMoxie, said that the company did not intend for its software to displace other affiliates' rights and that his company had altered the software in the last two weeks to stop substituting its affiliate identification code for those of other sites. "The second we realized this is a problem, we turned that boat around and said, `Let's get this out,' " he said. He added that the amount of money involved was minuscule.
Mr. Toland attributed the losses that the Web sites claimed to a tougher marketplace for small players.
Morpheus referred inquiries to Wurld Media, which operates its shopping rebates program. Kirk H. Feathers, the chief technical officer of Wurld Media, said that it had been wrongly accused of stealing and that the company would readily go to court to defend itself.
He acknowledged that an earlier version of the company's software did divert commissions away from other affiliate sites but said that new versions dealt with that situation. Now, the company said, the softwareoffers a choice to the consumer before each purchase: whether to give the commission to the affiliate or to himself in the form of a rebate, with a portion of the rebate going to Morpheus. The software does not misrepresent the user's computer to sellers' sites, Mr. Feathers said.
Arguments that the diversions are somehow the fault of an unintentional flaw do not persuade Erik Petersen, the chief technical officer at an Internet security company, Polar Cove, in Providence, R.I. Mr. Petersen said that he had received complaints about TopMoxie and LimeWire from friends and took a closer look. After conducting a detailed analysis of the software, he concluded that the TopMoxie program was intricately designed to substitute its affiliate identification code for that of other sites as transactions were made. He said that the program remained on the computer even if the user removed the original LimeWire music sharing software. "I don't buy their explanation," he said. "What kind of accident is that?"
Mr. Petersen also pointed to a statement made in an online forum where the technology was discussed, in which a LimeWire developer characterized accusations that the software diverts money as "pretty accurate," but said, "While I agree that this is really a bit of a scam, it is a way for us to pay salaries while not adversely affecting our users."
A chief executive of one software company was similarly unapologetic about the diversion of commissions. "We look at affiliates as competitors," said Avi Naider, the chief executive of WhenU.com, which makes the diversion software used by the music swapping services Kazaa and BearShare. The software, he said, provides services to users and money to each company "so it doesn't have to charge" for the currently free software and services.
The companies also argue that consumers give consent to the terms of the contract when they download the software, whether they read the agreement carefully or not. An expert in online consumer protection said the companies had a point. In the case of the LimeWire agreement, for example, "there does seem to be some indication to the user of what's going on," said David Medine, a Washington lawyer and former Federal Trade Commission official.
Mr. Medine said that he was, however, uncomfortable with the degree of disclosure. "The question is whether the quality of the notice is as good as it could be," he said. "They don't tell you that it's interfering with other business relationships."
Jeff Pullen, the president of Commission Junction, a company that helps link affiliates with Web sites, said that he was not inclined to cut off companies that divert commissions if the customer has agreed to the diversion. "The tactics that they use, maybe they're on the edge," he said. "Maybe, personally, I don't find them particularly attractive. But if they aren't illegal, it's hard for me to point to my public service agreement and say, `I have a reason to kick you off my network.' "
Still, other online merchants are taking action after being confronted by angry affiliates -- and they find that they are dealing with a moving target. TigerDirect, an online computer and electronics store, blocked Morpheus from its program earlier this year after discovering that the company was diverting online commissions. "I obviously thought it wasn't honorable," said Andy Rodriguez, the company's manager of affiliate marketing. "They said, `It's our right.' I said, `It's our right to remove you.' "
Morpheus changed its software, Mr. Rodriguez said, but a few weeks ago TigerDirect noticed that sales through Morpheus were "going through the roof" at the same time that many affiliates were complaining of a drop in commissions. So he blocked them again. "Guys at Morphus wanted a piece of the pie for each of our sales," he said. "I'm sorry. Absolutely not.
The diversion programs have made life difficult for affiliate marketers in the last year, said Steve Messer, chief executive of LinkShare, a company that runs a major affiliate network. But he sees a silver lining. "It's showed affiliate marketing has come of age," Mr. Messer said. "If you look at it, the volume of transactions passing through LinkShare's affiliate marketing got so big that when affiliates get upset, the largest merchants in the world react. If it's just a few dollars, nobody would've noticed."
LinkShare is working with other companies in their market to come up with industry standards to govern ethical practices in online advertising, Mr. Messer said. "For some people, WWW stands for the Wild, Wild West," he said. "Hopefully, that's coming to an end."
...cowardly suicide bombing...
You can say what you want but it's defenitly not an act of cowards, maybe of dumb people, but not cowards... (to the contrary of flying high above a city with tens of thousands of civilian people an dropping your nuclear thingy!)
Show the Japanese we weren't kidding, and that they had better surrender. They didn't understand the first time so we said it again a few days later.
The U.S. used violence to get a message to the Japanese so it is 'ok' , and now Al-Qaeda does sort of the same on a smaller scale it is terrorism?
Note: I'm not trying to approve the actions of Al-Qaeda merely condeming the use of nuclear weapons in 1945.
In any case, dropping the bomb was done well within international law and the protocols of war.
I always thought minimizing civilian casualties was part of this, but I have to be wrong.
Personally, I think the U.S. should put a bullet in Sadam and then pull out of the region 100%. No more support for Israel. No troops in Saudia Arabia.
If you hadn't got in in the first place there wouldn't be a Saddam and a bin Laden. I'm afraid it's the main reason why you have a Ground Zero in NYC now and I hope the US Gov. agrees with your second half of the sentence, the first half alone doesn't solve anything, may even make things worse.
Check this
A few years ago I was member of a Dutch student team called wISCIT which had several projects related to smartcards. One of the projects (not mine) goals was to setup a electronic online voting system, identification through smartcards. They had a succesful test with 13.000 students at Delft University of Technology
Most of the technical papers are unfortunately in Dutch, but this publication is a good read about the theory behind the system.
Greets,
Vincent Ludden
CPUs are a special case because they do care about power consumption but not really. They care in the sense that power turns into heat, and heat is bad. But again, nobody bases a CPU buying decision on power consumption per se
Laptops, Transmeta Crusoe, anyone?
This old crap again... The per-capita homicide rate in comparable U.S. and European cities (comparable income, education and population) is almost identical. Fewer Europeans are killed with guns, true, but if a gun isn't available angry people find other means. Europe has more fatal stabbings per-capita than the U.S. does, for example
By the way, I was talking about 2500 (mostly) innocent kids. That adults kill eachother is worse enough, but under no circumstance children should become victim of adult madness.