Category — General

Microsoft Offers to License the Internet:
NW writes “According to an eWeek story Microsoft is beginning to assert IP rights over 130 protocols including many basic Internet protocols including TCP/IP, DNS, etc. The story originates with a mailing list post to the IETF’s IPR list.”

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yet one more thing to watch….

Yahoo! News – Wisconsin School OKs Creationism Teaching:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=20&u=/ap/evolution_debate

where souls brimful of love – :
http://www.livejournal.com/users/wayfairer/456769.html

most people know the ideological foundations, but don’t know the social movement that relates to individual behavior.

Bandwidth Theater:
http://www.bandwidththeater.com/morethan.html

filthy gophers…… heheheheh

TAYLOR: Death is result of debate about God :
http://www.freep.com/news/cfp/3/vshoot28_20041028.htm

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yep, this is america….

Stats on the Public Debt:

From the Bureau of the Public Debt, the following data, as of November 3, 2004: Debt Held by the Public

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that’s all you really need to know…. the debt is more than the gnp.

No Child Left Behind … Alive:

A National Guard F-16 strafed an elementary school in New Jersey last night with 25 rounds from its M61-A1 Vulcan Cannon:

A National Guard F-16 fighter jet on a nighttime training mission strafed an elementary school with 25 rounds of ammunition, authorities said Thursday. No one was injured. The military is investigating the incident that damaged Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School shortly after 11 p.m. Police were called when a custodian who was the only person in the school at the time heard what sounded like someone running across the roof. Police Chief Mark Siino said officers noticed punctures in the roof. Ceiling tiles had fallen into classrooms, and there were scratch marks in the asphalt outside.

I take it this is an early warning of the attack on the Blue States that will be launched early in the new year, after Colin Powell makes a presentation to the U.N. demonstrating the existence in New Jersey of large research and production facilities most likely devoted to the manufacture of lethal chemical weapons.

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death to the blue infidels… i can hear it now. the roar of the tanks down madison avenue…..

Tinfoil or For Real?:
A scary item (is it true?) submitted to Dave Farber’s Interesting People mailing list by one Ken Deifik:

It occurs to me that one of the questions that could be answered without too much trouble, at least for someone with lots of access to data and a knowlege of statistics, would be: is there any difference in the Bush – Kerry percentages in precincts that used eVoting, especially Diebold but all eVoting machines, as opposed to those that used paper ballots or some other method of voting.  If this question has any meaning for you, I’d ask you to pose to the list, to see anyone with the proper skills and access could carry out such a study.

I hope in the next few days statisticians examine the issue of the exit polls.  Since the early 70’s the exit polls have always been spot on.  I feel ashamed for any journalist who says the exit polls got it wrong in FLA in 2000, because it is clear they got it right.

I have to wonder how John Zogby, who predicted 312 electoral votes for Kerry at 5PM EST 11/2, could have gotten the exit polls so wrong.  Or really if he did.

One reason may be who votes at what time of day?

I just found this posting in the Democratic Underground site
…on several swing states, and EVERY STATE that has EVoting but no paper trails has an unexplained advantage for Bush of around +5% when comparing exit polls to actual results.

In EVERY STATE that has paper audit trails on their EVoting, the exit poll results match the actual results reported within the margin of error.

So we have MATCHING RESULTS for exit polls vs. voting with audits
vs.
A 5% unexplained advantage for Bush without audits.

Say it ain’t so…

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I wonder…. i just sent this question to some of more quantitative colleagues in political science to see what they can make of it…..

IOL: A Step Beyond:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=iol109947220026A551&set_id=1&click_id=29

“This time next year, let’s be laughing together”.

Spitting Image: How?:
http://www.spitting-image.net/archives/002284.html

hehehe

well… who knows.