And here is article claiming they installed Ubuntu. A couple of pictures.

The real question is drivers -- the article is pretty short on any real info on driver compatibility.

Sure, no that Ebola is in the news everyone wants more Ebola money. Obama was proposed budget cuts in the same budget in prior years too. I'm sure you can find Republicans that did & will do the same thing.

In this case I would half expect that Republicans would increase Ebola funding because it proves bi-partisanship, etc. I can't imagine Obama vetoing this either.

Yeah, it's all Dick Chaney's fault. Oh wait, it says in the article that Dick Cheney was largely responsible for the large funding increase for treatment of Ebola, etc.

Now the Bloomberg article clearly and accurately points out that Cheney did this to combat potential terrorism threats. But hey, no reason not to blame Republicans for being pro-death, anti-vaccine, etc. just because you have no idea about the actual funding details in this case.

Like most people, Dick Cheney has some things to like, some things to dislike. At least Cheney shot an attorney in the face.

Of couse, near fool-proof was only meant in terms of legitimate voter. Outright voter fraud via ballot stuffing or illegal voters (non-residents, felons, etc.) or other external factors cannot be solved by careful handling of real ballots.

We use mark sense locally. Voters feed their own ballots into the tabulating machine. It looks for pretty much all the detectable marking errors and kicks it back to the voter immediately. in the event of a detectable problem. Ballots can also be hand-counted.of course

There is no perfect system, but what we use is about as close to foolproof as possible.

Personally I have never noticed much difference in the nature of the scandals based on party. I just picked an article comparing 8 Rep. & 8 Dem. scandals that were selected for a different criteria. These are scandals you've probably heard of before.

6 Rep. scandals were drugs / sex
2 Dem. scandals were drugs / sex

Only 1 of the 16 was declared more or less as innocent (overzealous prosecution). It was Ted Stevens (R) -- a non drugs/sex scandal.

There may be a bias for scandal selection in that some Dem. don't considered family values important whereas some Rep. are preachy on same, so a Rep. sharing quality personal time with an aide or smoking some dope is inherently more scandalous than a Dem. doing the same because hypocrisy sells news.

But I have noticed a big difference in the reporting of the scandals. If the bum is Republican, the new story will almost certainly mention this, if the bum is a Democrat they news story usually does not consider party affiliation worth mentioning. In fact, this bias was why I selected the article that considered the coverage of the 16 scandals and the coverage in the press. This articles was the only article on the first page of Google results for "difference between republican and democratic scandals" that obviously related to news reporting. News busters is hardly top-notch unbiased journalism, but I expected that they handled basic facts correctly -- In an article like theirs, they probably did not care about the sex v. money difference in the scandals.

I've played this games for years, see a scandal, no party affiliation mentioned. Bet Democrat. Look up the answer and collect on the bet. It's even more reliable than betting against the Cubs.

They forgot to tell Chicago that you could not win an election by fraud. I know heritage.org is right-leaning, but the article is thorough and heavily footnoted documenting one of the largest voter fraud prosecutions ever conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice.

So both the R's & D's do it, yeah! We already knew both parties were pretty slimy.

The state does have a legitimate interest in tracking whether your vote -- I.e., have not voted for x years, lose your registered status.I think x is 8 in my state. I know that they also track which party you vote for in the primaries. And they furnish all of this info with the R's and D's, don't know who else can get it.

I would never be intimidated by one of these letters, but I can see how that others would consider it intimidating. Lots of things are more worrisome than this. Thuggery committed by cops, DA's, IRS, EPA, TSA, FDA, NSA, and a host of others bothers me a lot more. Abuse of power by politicians of every stripe is very concerning.

Air doors can be effective in many cases where automatic doors are not practical. Air conditioning the outdoors is never a sound strategy.

Yes, it runs linux.

Cray Linux® Environment (includes SUSE Linux SLES11, HSS and SMW software)
Extreme Scalability Mode (ESM) and Cluster Compatibility Mode (CCM)

system specs

If you are old enough, the mind starts to go.

The $80 plan supposedly unlimited 4G data. Over his $65 price but could be ideal for some people.

Speeds reduced after 1GB of data.

"By far the most common way of a car being stolen is still from thieves breaking into homes and stealing keys," he said.

Don't leave your keys in the obvious places, including the spare keys.

For bonus points: Have some keys labeled "neighbor's house" that are useless.

There are about a dozen states that allow (buyers choice) or require no-fault automotive insurance.

There used to be more, but average premiums were clearly higher for no-fault insurance, so some states reverted to traditional tort insurance.

You may be right about it making more sense for insuring robot cars.