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Comment Re:R-71 has absolutely nothing to do with gay marr (Score 1) 1364

by Startrekd on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @04:21PM (#29813725) Attached to: Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law

R-71 is an attempt to overturn SB 5688.

Just to clarify and avoid any confusion among potential Washington voters: While the petition signers wanted R-71 to be on the ballot, they are hoping for a "Reject" vote to overturn SB 5688.

Supporters of domestic partnerships should APPROVE R-71 to preserve the domestic partnership law.

MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic Jams 243

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 10, 2008 @09:27AM from the get-me-outa-this dept.

Pioneer Woman writes "Microsoft announced plans to introduce a Web-based service for driving directions that incorporates complex software models to help users avoid traffic jams. The system is intended to reflect the complex traffic interactions that occur as traffic backs up on freeways and spills over onto city streets and will be freely available as part of the company's Live.com site for 72 cities in the US. Microsoft researchers designed algorithms that modeled traffic behavior by collecting trip data from Microsoft employees who volunteered to carry GPS units in their cars. In the end they were able to build a model for predicting traffic based on four years of data, effectively creating individual 'personalities' for over 800,000 road segments in the Seattle region. In all the system tracks about 60 million road segments in the US."

The Fine Line Between Security and Usability 195

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 19, 2007 @07:25PM from the discarding-old-tech dept.

SkiifGeek writes to ask, "Where should vendors be required to draw the line when supporting deprecated file formats and technology? In a recent case independent security researcher cocoruder found a critical bug with the JET engine, via the .mdb (Access) file format, he reported it to Microsoft, but Microsoft's response came as a surprise to him — it appears that Microsoft is not inclined to fix a critical arbitrary code execution vulnerability with a data technology that is at the heart of a large number of essential business and hobby applications."

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