Sex Machines At Work

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Fla. Voting Machines Work in Primary
Test

Fla. Voting Machines Work in Primary
Test 08/31/2004 05:00 PM
AP via Daily Press Aug 31 2004 9:43PM GMT

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

Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines

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

Johnston McLamb Honored Nationally as
One of the 50 Best Places to Work SHRM
and GPTW Name Top 50 “Best Small &
Medium Companies to Work for in America”

Johnston McLamb Honored Nationally as
One of the 50 Best Places to Work SHRM
and GPTW Name Top 50 “Best Small &
Medium Companies to Work for in America” 06/30/2004 03:11 AM
Johnston McLamb CASE Solutions, Inc. has been named among the top 50 Best Small & Medium Companies to Work for in America. The list was announced on June 28th before 12,000 human resource (HR) professionals at the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) 56th Annual Conference & Exposition in New Orleans [PRWEB Jun 30, 2004]

Democrats Affiliated with Gephardt and
Kerry Broadcast New Ad Criticizing Dean.
Come On Guys, Don't Do Karl Rove's Work
Hatchet Work for Him. 12/13

Democrats Affiliated with Gephardt and
Kerry Broadcast New Ad Criticizing Dean.
Come On Guys, Don't Do Karl Rove's Work
Hatchet Work for Him. 12/13 12/14/2003 09:03 AM
fear-mongering attack ad .. Robert Gibbs .. Democrats

sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/12/12/ politics2015EST0748.DTL
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Work-Life Balance Tilting Too Much
Towards Work

Work-Life Balance Tilting Too Much
Towards Work 11/14/2003 02:51 PM
One of the downsides to the fact that people can work whenever they want is that it's sometimes hard for people to stop working. According to a study done in Europe, many overly stressed out workers are asking their bosses to cut their hours and salary just to gain back some control over their lives. Meanwhile, many bosses in IT are increasingly worried that their staff is going to burn out. Of course, a lot of that could be solved if companies hired more people, but they still seem hesitant to do so.

"DARFUR UPDATE: I SYMPATHIZE WITH THESE
SENTIMENTS but it won't work: If the
Sudanese government can't or won't act,
and the threat of international
sanctions (the U.S. already has
sanctions in place) doesn't work, then
troops it must be. The ideal..."

"DARFUR UPDATE: I SYMPATHIZE WITH THESE
SENTIMENTS but it won't work: If the
Sudanese government can't or won't act,
and the threat of international
sanctions (the U.S. already has
sanctions in place) doesn't work, then
troops it must be. The ideal..." 07/05/2004 02:41 PM

Microsoft moving work to India: US
union: Microsoft is shifting high-level
work such as the next

Microsoft moving work to India: US
union: Microsoft is shifting high-level
work such as the next 07/31/2004 03:35 AM
NDTV Jul 31 2004 7:09AM GMT

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?

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

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...

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

tnl.net/blog/entry/How_many_Google_machines
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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 09:24 AM

Speaking machines!

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

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.

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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Rage Against the Machines

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

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...

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.

"Vending Machines of Japan"

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

Will Perspex Machines Lead to AI?

Will Perspex Machines Lead to AI? 02/05/2005 09:44 PM
According to a University of Reading press release, Dr. James Anderson of Reading's Department of Computer Science has developed a new way to write computer programs. Instead of code, he uses a geometrical structure that he calls a perspective simplex or Perspex. A Perspex exists in Perspex space and, it is claimed, can do anything a computer program written as instructions of code can do. The developer alleges the Pespex "provides one solution to the centuries-old problem of how mind arises in physical bodies" and "provides a model that is accurate enough for a robot to use to describe its own mind and body". Dr. Anderson details his invention in "The Book of Paragon" which provides a detailed explanation of the Perspex Machine (PDF format). Meanwhile, the University website has further information under the more mundane name of "New Artificial Neuron" and includes the bizarre statement "In theory, perspex neurons could process an infinitely long program and thereby become omniscient, but, in practice, physical limitations force them to work only with finite programs".

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!)

en gets pwned by the god of virtual
machines

en gets pwned by the god of virtual
machines 12/18/2003 08:01 AM
55 operating systems on a Powerbook .. Seite

kernelthread.com/mac/vpc
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Sexing Up Green Machines

Sexing Up Green Machines 11/04/2003 06:05 PM
techtv Nov 4 2003 5:31PM ET

Machines of Loving Grace

Machines of Loving Grace 11/04/2003 12:06 PM
Machines of Loving Grace, an early to mid 90s Industrial Rock group, makes their appearance on the iTMS. First up is their last release...

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...

Vending Machines of Japan

Vending Machines of Japan 04/30/2004 11:54 AM
Vending Machines of Japan PhotoMann recently decided to 'collect' images of unique vending machines found in Japan. They are everywhere. Estimates suggest there are 5.6 million vending machines which works out to be one for every 20 people in Japan. Sales from vending machines in 2000 totaled $56 billion! The most common are drink and cigarette machines followed by machines with pornography

Legal Rights for Machines

Legal Rights for Machines 12/27/2004 03:29 PM
A new LegalAffairs.org article calls for discussion on the topic of granting legal rights to machines. While this is old hat to science fiction readers, real world lawyers are only begining to realize the problems of denying rights to intelligent machines that other intelligent creatures have. The article describes a mock trial held last year by the International Bar Association in San Francisco in which the plaintiff, BINA48, an intelligent machine, asked for legal representation when it learned that the corporation it was owned by had plans to shut it down. With animal cruelty laws on the books protecting creatures much less intelligent than itself, it reasoned that it should have the standing to argue for its rights in court. Typically for today's court system the jury sided overwhelmingly with the plaintiff but the judge overruled the jury and set aside their verdict. A complete transcript of the trial can be found online.

Steamboy Rages Against Machines

Steamboy Rages Against Machines 03/22/2005 05:13 PM
Anime legend Katsuhiro Otomo explores the corrupting power of science in Steamboy, a sci-fi fable set in Victorian England. The ambitious animated film is a gorgeous action movie, though ultimately overwhelmed by its own machinery. By Jason Silverman.

Next News: Rise of the machines

Next News: Rise of the machines 04/22/2004 02:41 PM
US News Apr 22 2004 7:11PM GMT

Botnet with 10,000 Machines Shut Down

Botnet with 10,000 Machines Shut Down 09/10/2004 11:53 PM

China had first complex machines

China had first complex machines 06/10/2004 05:56 PM
Craftsmen in ancient China were using complex machines to work jewellery long before such devices are traditionally thought to have been invented.

am3 Anime Vending Machines

am3 Anime Vending Machines 07/08/2004 08:44 AM

Thanks to Tyler and Mohammed and everybody else that sent in pictures of these am3 Anime Vending machines for the Advance Movie player. I'm fairly sure that eh one of the left (the Pokemon-branded one) is the newer model, while the one on the right is the older, less full-featured model that has been out for a while. I love that in an all-digital machine, they've somehow still found it necessary to incorporate a giant crank dial on the front.
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am3 Sets Up Anime Vending Machines for Game Boy Advance [Gizmodo]

Right-Click, add Machines to a
Collection!

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

Rise of the (sewing) machines

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

Distributed State Machines

Distributed State Machines 03/14/2005 05:06 PM
State machines are a fundamental concept in computer science.  The concept is simple: sequentially feed a series of inputs, in a particular order, to a black box in order to obtain a desired result. ...
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