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We need to make sure we have the right number of ballots, and make sure each voter has the correct ballot before them. And if we don't do that, we're in effect disenfranchising them." That's why Brunner wants to start with precinct-based vote centers, which would still require voters to report to an assigned place. But Williams has another idea. "The absolute first thing I would do is close every public school (on Election Day) and use those buildings as voting locations," he says. In Kentucky, Grayson says he supports the concept, but there are bigger hurdles: Technological barriers in rural counties would make it all but impossible for vote centers to communicate with each other. In 2004, election officials in more than a third of Kentucky counties did not have a personal computer.
Real Geeks Prefer Apple?
"I work for a very geeky company," wrote Swampash. "Development is our bread and butter, and we're doing it pretty well based on the past couple of annual reports and analyst forecasts. EVERY SINGLE ALPHA GEEK in the company has moved to using a Mac in the past 18 months. Every single one of them had to fight hard against an official 'Windows desktops' policy set by HR in order to get permission to use a Mac." Free Report from Keynote Systems 2007 Trends and Observations of the Mobile and Connected World examines how technologies, from the Web to the mobile phone, are specifically impacting key vertical industries, from financial services to new media. Download yours here. .
WWDC 2006 Live Keynote Update
Please visit our home page for more information. Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote address to attendees of Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco kicked off with a video of John Hodgman, better known to Mac enthusiasts as the PC in the recent spate of Mac versus PC television ads. Hodgman told developers to take the rest of the year off and perhaps help with Windows Vista, and began to remark on Vista's features — such as its Dashboard widget-like Gadgets, Aero user interface and more, when he's caught by Justin Long — the Mac in those same ads. “Good morning and welcome to WWDC 06," said Steve Jobs as the crowd applauded. “Thank you so much for coming. We've got a great week for you. Jobs told attendees that this year's WWDC has once again broken attendance records — 4,400 developers registered for the event, from 48 different countries.
PennDOT's plans may mean luncheonette's end
Third are on a PennDOT hit list to be demolished next year as part of a plan to widen and improve Route 412. The plan is to build extra turn lanes to allow easier access to Riverside Drive -- the street that separates Ginny's from Perkins restaurant -- which will ultimately connect to a new ramp for the Hill-to-Hill Bridge.
The state in October filed legal papers to take both properties by eminent domain. PennDOT holds title to both buildings, but still must complete the transaction and pay ''just compensation'' for both properties.
But what PennDOT has offered as ''just compensation'' does not come close to meeting the true value of the property, said Frank Halkias, who, along with his mother Irene, owns the restaurant and the real estate. The state's offer is the equivalent of what the Halkiases paid for the restaurant in 1987.
IBM’s ‘Blue Cloud’ signals the tipping point for enterprise IT ...
I recall a front page story I wrote for InfoWorld back in 1997. At the time there were still plenty of naysayers about whether websites were a plaything or a business tool. There was talk of clicks and mortar, and how the mortar would always determine business outcomes. And then General Motors — the very definition of a traditional big business — unveiled an expansive website that fully embraced the Internet across its businesses. We at InfoWorld wrote about GM's embrace of the Web then as a corporate tipping point, from which there was no going back. Clicks became mainstream for businesses. Case closed. And so it is today, with IBM's announcement of Blue Cloud — an approach that not only talks the services talk, but walks the services walk. We are all at the tipping point where IT will be delivered of, by and for services.
Verint Moves Into Financial Services With Workforce Optimization App
"When we were looking to expand our workforce optimization portfolio outside of the contact center, we were looking for a sector that would have a big uptake," explained Darryl Demos, general manager of Verint's enterprise solutions group. The financial services industry was the first obvious choice. PCI Compliance Made Easy Handling customer and credit card information electronically requires you prove you are safeguarding that data. Providing proof to auditors can be expensive and painstaking. Make it easy with an identity-based approach that simplifies and automates PCI compliance. Learn more. .
Windows Home Server Bug Causes Problems
Microsoft Windows Home Server has a bug showing its ugly head that can cause some corrupted files. Seeing that the point of having a home server is to store files, this corruption of files can cause some problems for this purpose. According to Microsoft, the bug only becomes an issue when the system is under an "extreme load" but have decided to sound an alarm and conduct an investigation of the issue before it becomes a serious issue. Microsoft says that the problem is not 100 percent reproducible and depends on several factors to make it happen. The server must be under an extreme load and doing a large file copy, and at the same time the server cache must be full and the user has to be editing a file to a previously shared folder. At some time in the future, a fix will be pushed to all Windows Home Server customers by way of Windows Update with the process to be determined by the server software's Automatic Updates settings.
Hot Ticket
When I stumbled onto it last week, the video had a total of 21 views. Next time, they should hire son-of-a-salesman Tagg Romney, whose video just passed "Sexy Girl Store" to move into eighth place with 145,000 views on Jumpcut. Ridge isn't the only Homeland Security washout on Homeland Security Television. Former FEMA Director Michael Brown has a video pitching "inferencing technology." While Brownie and George Bush might seem better suited for a cautionary video on the use of infer and imply, this video shows a photo of them together, as Brown recounts how he told the president that Katrina would be "the big one." Remarkably, Brown is pitching his data-mining company's ability to anticipate the unexpected: "It's easy to prepare for the things we know are going to happen, but not the things we don't know are going to happen." In his old job, he failed to prepare for either one—but then, FEMA didn't have inferencing algorithms.
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