I don't know if this helps or isn't applicable at all, but http://www.gizmag.com/axsotic-3d-spheric-mouse-precision-digital-object-manipulation/16832/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=2e0cc2ef16-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email#comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7me4boq5Wyk

Who didn't see this kind of thing coming with with programmable voting machines? And who's gullible enough to think this is the extent of it?

Get back to me when they come up with something that doesn't look like it was peeled off of Shakespeare's corpse.

Looking at the OP, I wonder do the UK folk consider themselves "subjects" or "citizens"? I never really paid attention until I read http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/03/1935215/Spectral-Imaging-Reveals-Jefferson-Nixed-Subjects-for-Citizens

Keep the mercury spinning straight up, but use high quality mirrors to reflect the wanted image down the tube. There you go.

Logical.

I've heard for over a decade that when the Soviet Union fell that the communists migrated into the environmentalist movement. Maybe, and that would seem to be a relatively harmless place to keep them. Now with a grand attempt by environmentalists to wrest power from the industrialized nations via carbon taxes, and proven fabrications in data regarding climate change, and Dr. Lovelock here also on the side of doing away with democracy, it doesn't seem like such a silly thing after all.

Mankind has waded through millennia of rule by bullies, mafia type kings, religiously ordained kings, generals into kings, pick your poison of absolutist tyrant, etc. to finally obtain a somewhat working democracy. 234 years ago there was only one democracy. Now there are over 170. It may not be the perfect government, but I suspect there is no perfect government when imperfect people are involved.

Given the alternatives we've seen in the 20th century, I'll stick with democracy or republics for a while. We haven't given them nearly enough time to work the kinks out yet. Nothing else ever worked the kinks out either, even with hundreds or thousands of years to work things out. Communism is just subjugating yourself to another tyrant... the tyrantiest tyrant of a group of tyrants, just like it used to be.

I'm bald in red, green, blue, monochrome, or acoustic emissions (for any bats reading this). And the blind would figure it out if I let them. The question is will this approach cure baldness? If colorblindness is a by-product, that's fine with me.

If they speak dolphin, forget it!

World Series of Poker on the phone ain't bad.

How's that hope and change working out for ya?

China will do exactly what they're doing with the rest of industry... they make deals provided they do some manufacturing in China. They lift every secret they can, then open their competing industry. Of course their competing industry is well on its way. Remember, they have more honor students than we have students, and they're outproducing us in engineers around 9 to 1.

Maybe I can hope that the folks at the more impressive military contractors have lots of servers with files almost expertly tucked away, with firewalls almost strong enough to keep out brilliant scoundrels, that are chock full of military secrets... that are fake.