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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

Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines

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

Answering a Very Important Call

Answering a Very Important Call 04/09/2004 05:14 PM
It's been a few hours beyond 365 days since I last hosted Call for Help on TechTV. That streak is about to be broken. I've been invited to "fill in the blank" for a couple of non-live shows on Monday; these recordings will air on Wednesday and Thursday. My schedule was clear, my mind was ready, and my heart is willing. There has been much speculation as to what happened to me - even though most Gnomies know that I've been here all along, long before the first ZDTV broadcast. I don't know if I'll be asked to help them again in the future, but I'll welcome this opportunity (and any others) with open arms. Take it for what it is: another chance to say 'hello' to millions of old friends. No doubt, this bit of news will shock a few faithful viewers, but I'm doing what I can do to ensure that the show (proverbially) goes on until Leo can return. I promise to cut my coffee consumption in half that morning, just to be on the safe side. Not nervous, just very excited - overjoyed, actually. If you can tune in, please do. If you can send feedback, it's most welcome. I'll probably photoblog my fingers off, since I won't be staying in SF for much longer than a day. I hate saying this because it sounds incredibly trite, but this is a dream come true. Yes, I've had nocturnal visions about returning to the set I once called 'home base.' Just for grins, I'll be active in the official CFH chat room when the episodes are first run - a luxury one host can afford when everything's produced to tape. Perhaps we'll be able to break a few records before all is said and done? They don't really make LPs anymore. I wonder if busting a cassette tape is just as good? Regardless, a fun time is set to be had by all involved. From director to production assistant, it takes a lot of hands to make one hour come off without a hitch. To some, I'll be a new face. To others, old hat. To everybody else, the same little guy who fell off a 14' camper when he was in the seventh grade. True story, and I've got the slightly-curved spine to prove it. I'd tell you more about that, but... I've got an overnight bag to pack. FYI, I'll be on David's show to talk about this whole thing in a few hours....

Ask Jeeves Still Answering Questions

Ask Jeeves Still Answering Questions 02/03/2003 06:21 PM
BURLINGAME, CALIF. - It may be hard to remember, but there was a time when Google wasn't the search engine of choice on the Web. ...

"answering machine messages"

"answering machine messages" 08/15/2004 03:44 PM

SAM: Skype Answering Machine

SAM: Skype Answering Machine 04/05/2005 02:42 PM

Answeri ng Machine for Skype users: Nice. I want a VRU next.

When you are away from your PC and there is no one to answer your incoming Skype calls, SAM will pick up the call, play a greeting message and the "all-time clasic beep" so that the calling party will leave a voice recorded message.

Who's not answering e-mail: you'd be
surprised

Who's not answering e-mail: you'd be
surprised 07/30/2004 03:30 PM
InternetRetailer.com Jul 30 2004 8:16PM GMT

New Google Answering Facts

New Google Answering Facts 04/08/2005 06:29 PM
"Queries return answer at top of page."

NSIR - Question Answering System

NSIR - Question Answering System 01/17/2004 10:48 PM
NSIR - Question Answering System
http://tangra.si .umich.edu/clair/NSIR/NSIR.cgi

NSIR is a Question Answering System being developed by CLAIR research group at the University of Michigan.

Answering Call for Phone Tickets

Answering Call for Phone Tickets 04/12/2004 04:56 AM
An Alberta company will set up shop in the United States using wireless technology to allow customers to log on to a venue's website with their mobile phones to book tickets for impromptu events.

10.3: Enable Disctinctive Ring fax
answering

10.3: Enable Disctinctive Ring fax
answering 11/18/2003 01:59 PM
In SBC's world, it is called Disctinctive Ring (DR from now on), where you can have up to four phone numbers assigned to the same phone line -- the main phone number plus three additional numbers. Each number has a different ...

Man Robbed After Answering the Door Nude
(AP)

Man Robbed After Answering the Door Nude
(AP) 06/22/2004 06:56 PM
AP - Police say a Rapid City man was robbed early Monday after he answered the door in the nude. The man told police he had been sleeping unclothed before he answered a knock at the door. Assailants overpowered him, hit him on the head and ran out with his wallet and blue jeans.

Answering cell phone in English class is
fun

Answering cell phone in English class is
fun 02/16/2004 08:07 PM
Hahaha, Ashley is the funniest person ever...man, English without that kid would be just so boring Yeah so, the beginning...

Cops Mace Couple For Answering Phone In
Theater

Cops Mace Couple For Answering Phone In
Theater 07/29/2004 03:32 PM
Just last month we had a story about all that mobile phone induced anger, and it should be noted that police are not immune to such things. The Associated Press is reporting that a woman who answered a phone call from her mother during the opening credits of a movie was confronted by an off-duty cop who pulled her and her boyfriend out into the lobby and maced them, followed up with a charge of disorderly conduct. The police claim the story happened a bit differently, so choose who you want to believe. Either way, it's yet another story of mobile phone induced anger getting a bit out of hand.

BrainBoost™ - Question Answering
Search Engine

BrainBoost™ - Question Answering
Search Engine 08/13/2004 05:05 AM
BrainBoost™ - Question Answering Search Engine
http://www.brainboost.com/

BrainBoost is a Question Answering search engine. It was specifically designed to answer questions, asked in plain English. BrainBoost is 100% automated. Unlike other Question Answering engines, BrainBoost does not rely on human editors to locate answers. Instead, BrainBoost employs cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technology to understand your question and match it with relevant answers it locates on the web. BrainBoost outputs actual sentences extracted from web pages. The BrainBoost engine determines that these sentences are potential answers to the original question. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer Information Blog. This will be added to the search engines section of all Internet MiniGuides 2004-05.

Answering 50 Frequently Asked Questions
About The War On Terrorism - Right Wing
News (Conservative News and Views)

Answering 50 Frequently Asked Questions
About The War On Terrorism - Right Wing
News (Conservative News and Views) 03/13/2003 11:44 AM
RIGHT WING NEWS: Answering 50 Frequently Asked Questions About The War On Terrorism .. The Most Reverend John Hawkins .. answers

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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?

Screen Telephone Calls Over the Internet
In Real-Time - ThePhoneBOT.com
Releases New Version of Telephone
Answering Machine Software and New
Remote Client Application for Real-Time
Voicemail Screening Over Networked PCs

Screen Telephone Calls Over the Internet
In Real-Time - ThePhoneBOT.com
Releases New Version of Telephone
Answering Machine Software and New
Remote Client Application for Real-Time
Voicemail Screening Over Networked PCs 08/27/2004 01:57 PM
ThePhoneBOT.com announced today the availability of ThePhoneBOT version 4.0, the latest release of its popular web-based voicemail retrieval software. Also released today is the new PhoneBOT Remote Client application, an innovative new technology that allows users to expand the Windows-based answering machine and voicemail screening capabilities to serve multiple locations over networked PCs. Designed to replace a standard home/office answering machine or telephone company voicemail, ThePhoneBOT and PhoneBOT Remote Client software is now available for download at www.ThePhoneBOT.com [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

Rage Against the Machines

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

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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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.

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.

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...

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"

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

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)

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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Fla. vote machines flawed

Fla. vote machines flawed 06/14/2004 06:15 PM
USA Today Jun 14 2004 9:54PM GMT

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.

Right-Click, add Machines to a
Collection!

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

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]

Rise of the (sewing) machines

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

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" 05/06/2004 09:52 PM

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!)

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
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