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Rise of the Machines

Rise of the Machines 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
Conn Hallinan, an "analyst" for Foreign Policy in Focus, a liberal/left-wing think tank, has written a strange agitprop piece on military robotics. In it he explains that the DARPA Grand Challenge and military robots in general are a "coldly calculated" conservative plot masterminded by Bush, a "powerful circle of arms manufactures", and an "empire-minded group of politicians" to develop "Frankenstein killing machines" that target civilians. His article also appears in the Asia Times online with an amusing illustration that adds to the humor.

Rise of the (sewing) machines

Rise of the (sewing) machines 09/22/2004 10:52 PM
Sympatico Sep 23 2004 2:48AM GMT

Rise of the Machines at Toyota

Rise of the Machines at Toyota 01/06/2005 03:21 PM
Forget low-cost labor. Toyota's testing no-cost labor in Japan.

Wired News: E-Vote Machines Drop More
Ballots

Wired News: E-Vote Machines Drop More
Ballots 02/10/2004 05:01 AM
E-Vote Machines Drop More Ballots .. happens if the vote .. Read article

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Yahoo! News - Fla. Voting Machines Have
Recount Flaw

Yahoo! News - Fla. Voting Machines Have
Recount Flaw 06/13/2004 07:32 AM
Fla. Voting Machines Have Recount Flaw. The Jeb Bush Florida Theft of the Election 2004 Update .. Florida officials knowingly certified a voting machine that they knew had a flaw! .. AP

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SignOnSanDiego.com > News >
Politics -- Panel: Don't use Diebold
touch-screen voting machines

SignOnSanDiego.com > News >
Politics -- Panel: Don't use Diebold
touch-screen voting machines 04/23/2004 03:03 PM
Panel: Don’t use Diebold touch-screen voting machines .. black-box, "trust-us-we're-Republicans" vote counting .. Buh-Bye, says California .. has now decertified

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Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines

Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines 06/14/2004 03:33 AM
It appears that making sure gambling is fair is much more important than making sure our elections are fair. One of the defenses pulled out by those who want to keep going with existing electronic voting machines is that no one seems to complain about electronic gambling machines. Perhaps that's because electronic gambling machines are held to a much higher standard than electronic voting machines. This NY Times editorial lists six different ways in which gambling machines in Nevada are under much more scrutiny than electronic voting machines. These include things like the fact that the state requires copies of the source code of all electronic gambling software, as well as their stringent licensing procedure for any company that wishes to sell electronic gambling machines. Employees of any such company have to go through background checks to make sure they have no criminal record. Considering that Diebold had convict ed felons involved with their electronic voting systems - you wonder if a similar licensing procedure might make sense for voting machines as well.

2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004

2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004 03/27/2005 05:50 AM
ZDNet Mar 27 2005 10:35AM GMT

The Rise of a New News Network

The Rise of a New News Network 02/01/2005 10:07 PM
Business 2.0: “I think what we are seeing is the rise of a new kind of news network, thanks in large part to technology. Average Joes and Janes are now armed to the teeth with technology that can capture and distribute news almost anywhere.”

Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines

Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines 12/04/2003 01:10 PM
Slashdot Dec 4 2003 12:50PM ET

Stocks Likely to Rise Ahead of Fed News
(AP)

Stocks Likely to Rise Ahead of Fed News
(AP) 06/30/2004 08:06 AM
AP - U.S. stocks are seen slightly higher at the open as investors remain on edge ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, which concludes later Wednesday.

Rise and Fight: Morning News Wars

Rise and Fight: Morning News Wars 05/22/2004 02:14 PM
The three major television networks are in a race for morning program audiences that are growing, even as the networks' nightly broadcasts lose more viewers to cable news.

Stocks Rise on Microsoft, Earnings News

Stocks Rise on Microsoft, Earnings News 07/21/2004 10:59 AM
Los Angeles Times Jul 21 2004 3:27PM GMT

CBS News | 'The Righteous Army' On Rise
| February 6, 2004 10:59:53

CBS News | 'The Righteous Army' On Rise
| February 6, 2004 10:59:53 02/10/2004 09:18 AM

Yahoo! News - Study Blames Corn Syrup
for Rise of Diabetes in US

Yahoo! News - Study Blames Corn Syrup
for Rise of Diabetes in US 04/26/2004 10:57 PM
Corn syrup and increasing diabetes

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NEWS ALERT | 3:00 p.m., Manila Rapid
rise of Internet use in RP, e-commerce
to follow: IDC

NEWS ALERT | 3:00 p.m., Manila Rapid
rise of Internet use in RP, e-commerce
to follow: IDC 03/30/2005 03:45 AM
Business World Mar 30 2005 8:16AM GMT

CBS News | 'The Righteous Army' On Rise
| February 6, 2004 10:59:53

CBS News | 'The Righteous Army' On Rise
| February 6, 2004 10:59:53 02/10/2004 05:01 AM
this Sunday's report on evangelicals .. Rise Of The Righteous Army .. Will YOU be 'Left Behind'? .. this 60 Minutes story .. these idiots .. links .. two

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Oil futures rise above $44 a barrel Best
Buy 3Q earnings rise 21 percent Stocks
extend rally with mo

Oil futures rise above $44 a barrel Best
Buy 3Q earnings rise 21 percent Stocks
extend rally with mo 12/19/2004 03:28 PM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Wed Dec 15, 11:20 pm GMT

Telus targets 28% rise in 2004 profit
per share on 5% revenue rise, cost cuts

Telus targets 28% rise in 2004 profit
per share on 5% revenue rise, cost cuts 12/20/2003 09:51 AM
Canadian Press Dec 20 2003 9:07AM ET

The rise and rise of embedded Linux

The rise and rise of embedded Linux 04/08/2005 11:52 AM
ZDNet Apr 8 2005 2:54PM GMT

Rise and rise of file-sharing

Rise and rise of file-sharing 03/29/2005 03:58 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Mon Mar 28, 03:48 pm GMT

The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators

The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators 12/06/2003 01:06 PM
maffstephens writes "Have you noticed how difficult it's become to develop software? Not because software is more complex, but because there seems to be an ...

Mean machines

Mean machines 07/29/2004 11:32 AM
With "I, Robot," Hollywood has returned to Asimov's three laws to keep robots in their place. But what would it really take to stop robots from hurting humans?

Rise of Nations Demo AvailableMicrosoft
has announced the availability of a demo
version of Rise of Nations: T

Rise of Nations Demo AvailableMicrosoft
has announced the availability of a demo
version of Rise of Nations: T 04/23/2004 09:52 PM
Gigex Apr 24 2004 1:41AM GMT

Speaking machines!

Speaking machines! 01/04/2004 01:14 PM
A brief history of speech synthesis : an interesting read, with photos and sound samples!

Better Answering Machines

Better Answering Machines 12/05/2003 02:11 AM
My old faithful answering machine is a dinosaur and I had to re-record my message on it this morning for...

When machines breed

When machines breed 08/12/2004 09:23 AM
Evolvable hardware -- gadgets that design themselves -- can get the job done, even if humans have no idea how they do it.

How Many Google Machines, Really?

How Many Google Machines, Really? 05/02/2004 12:51 PM

Inferior machines

Inferior machines 11/12/2003 10:24 PM

Les Orchard: I see that Mark Pilgrim has posted a picture of himself as a kid, working at an Apple //e. Based on what I wrote this past Summer about being Newly Digital in 1983, I would guess that around the same time I was working on a Commodore 64, and I would have teased him in a relentlessly geeky way about his clearly inferior machine.

Bah.  In 1983, I was working on a 3033.  (16 MB RAM, 4.7 MIPs).

Of course, this probably could have been replaced with a Palm Pilot Tungsten W...

"How many Google machines"

"How many Google machines" 05/03/2004 09:24 AM

Rage Against the Machines

Rage Against the Machines 12/25/2004 04:45 PM
Slashdot Dec 24 2004 7:37PM GMT

Sex Machines At Work

Sex Machines At Work 08/29/2004 03:57 PM
Xeni Jardin: Online photo gallery with portraits of garage-geek inventors of "sex machines" -- and the people who use them -- shot by photographer Timothy Archibold. I hatehatehate the site's 1.5MB gorilla Flash interface, and I hate that I can't copy and paste some of the project notes for you here in text. But the images and the subject matter they detail (online communities that connect people who imagine, build, and use these machines) are fascinating. At left: "Scott at his kitchen table, Sex Machines Unlimited." Link (NSFW). (Thanks, alfie)

Segways May Become War Machines

Segways May Become War Machines 12/02/2003 06:32 AM
A Pentagon program drafts inventor Dean Kamen's self-balancing scooters, hoping to create an army of battlefield helpers capable of transporting injured troops and hauling soldiers' gear.

How many Google machines

How many Google machines 05/03/2004 02:23 AM
Google's bajillion servers. Everywhere I've worked, they never have enough servers. Apart from Time Out, I guess. They had enough. Oh yeah .. How many systems does Google have? .. Quote

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Getting Misty Over Old Machines

Getting Misty Over Old Machines 08/19/2004 03:21 PM

You ever get sentimental over an old computer? One that you just can't throw away?

Back in 1998, I worked part-time at Best Buy so Annie and I could pay cash for our wedding the next summer. That Christmas season was the year a complete PC system (computer, monitor, printer) broke the $1,000 barrier.

I still remember the doors opening on Sunday mornings to a throng people nearly drooling at the prospect of a system for $999. You used to have to hold up the weekly flier, point to a package, and say, "Everyone who wants this, go over there, and, " — pointing at a different one — "everyone who wants this, come over here." It was crazy.

Anyway, sometime during that job, someone returned a Compaq Presario 4508 mini-tower, and I persuaded the inventory guy to let me buy it as-is for $200. The box said it was 200 MHz, but BIOS told me 233. It had 24MB of RAM, but only 1MB of video memory, so I dropped $20 on a used 4MB video card, taking up one of the two PCI slots in the process. The hard drive was a monstrous 4.3GB.

That computer served me well for almost four years. I managed to cram 48MB of memory in it — the most it would take (the case design was so poor that adding memory was a 30-minute operation). It ran Windows 95 for all those years until I got a new machine (a 1 GHz Athlon, which I still use today) and I put Linux on it briefly. I remember installing Office 2000, then having to uninstall it because it was just too slow.

About three years ago, I passed the computer on to my mother-in-law. She's one of those folks who does two things: surfs the Web and sends email. In that capacity, the little machine has worked great, until now.

I think it's finally started to die. The hard drive cycles endlessly, and every once in a while it reboots to Safe Mode, a phenomenon I can only attribute to some obscure bit of hardware going to pieces so that it doesn't respond correctly on reboot. I have it running Windows 98 SE, stripped down to virtually nothing. Everything that can be removed has been, but it's still using 10MB more memory than it has immediately after rebooting.

I'm going to start looking for another machine for my mother-in-law, but I just can't bear to throw the old Presario away. It's chugged along for seven years now, and enabled the sending and receiving of countless baby pictures. I'm a little sentimental about the old bird, and I think I'll just store it away in the basement for a while in the hopes that my wife never finds it and sells it at a garage sale one day.

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Japanese vending-machines

Japanese vending-machines 05/05/2004 12:52 PM
Great page with photos and notes on vending machines that can be found in and around Tokyo. Link (Thanks, Infospigot!)

"Vending Machines of Japan"

"Vending Machines of Japan" 05/06/2004 09:52 PM

Right-Click, add Machines to a
Collection!

Right-Click, add Machines to a
Collection! 07/29/2004 08:21 PM

Print on the old RISO machines

Print on the old RISO machines 04/15/2004 11:43 AM
If you are using an old RISOgraph with OS 9 because the company that makes RISO claims that the old printers will not work with the new drivers, don't upgrade to their new $30,000 printer just yet. Instead, use the old RISO w...
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