How the court can even consider comparing stationary technology that operates up to a few hundred meters with something that is 20,000 kilometers away traveling at 14,000 km/h is beyond me. GPS accuracy is effected by builings, mountains, etc.

...compelling data visualizations and tools for customizable visualizations and widgets...we have rich expertise in knowing how users can best view and comprehend data...codify the incoming data-stream into cohesive, relevant data points...and they are building it on Sharepoint. I guess the USA will get a lot of web 2.0 stats, etc. but will you be able to see who got that contract for fitting the golden faucets in the governor's loo, and how much they were paid?

The Zebra printers have built in barcode fonts, no need to buy another printer or seperate fonts. A typical line of EPL code looks like [font],[position],[texttoprint], where the font can be any number of barcode fonts built into the printer firmware. Printing a barcode ends up using about 30bytes, much faster than sending the barcode as raster image, and works the same on any OS.

And which PHB idea was it to do POS over the internet?

They already fsckd up Freecell in Vista. Luckily you can still copy the older version over from XP. Probably violated their license agreement doing that as well.

Isn't this what Microsoft wanted to do with WinFS? Bold idea, but little difficult to implement?

Why does everything these days have to be prefixed with an i?