So did the authorities actually test them?

They have sample explosives for bomb dogs to find surely they could test the detectors in the same way. Its not an expensive test process.

Any American's thought of starting a thing on the White House Petition thing? Get 25k American's and Obama has to comment on it. Would have thought that would be a cheap easy way to raise some awareness on the topic.

It seems that the NZ government is meant to represent the voters wishes, but it does seem to do what the US and Multinationals want. The Office of the United States Trade Representative said clause excluding software from patent-ability "departed from patent eligibility standards in other developed economies" (http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7570288/Govt-accused-of-Patent-Bills-betrayal), umm so can't one country take the lead and see a problem, address it and move on to a better place?

Basically a company who has extended and NOT given back to the community is now wanting the trademark the name of the Open Source product.

Umm Sensorly already does this http://sensorly.com/ and is for whole world

Does this mean more IT companies base themselves outside of the US and do the work there where they are not forced to put back doors in? Taking jobs out of American and having the work done in other countries.

If you have GPS who cares about a clock which keeps time? As you are being sent the time from GPS all the time

Testers only give an exit report to the person taking delivery and is up to them to make the go/no go decision. We just provide evidence and metrics for the recipient if they want to push it out or not.

Anyway software is different from a lot of products as it isn't fixable and upgradeable. So long as the vendor can provide timely and free security and fixes for issues that affect data integrity they are doing what they should.

Also remember this chip is running seven times faster than current chips. Maybe run every calculation until get two or three the same or maybe a win by two scenario and pick that as the correct answer, so long as on average you will get two agreeing ones in less that seven iterations you are still running faster with less watts to do the calculation.

Well have tried keeping tabs on what dozens and dozens are up to? As some bands do slip through the cracks. Though MusicBrainz is now offer this with their collections service telling you when a band has a new album out.