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Diebold Leaks 2008 Election Results 196

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @01:07PM from the vote-early-vote-often dept.

samzenpus writes "With all the scrutiny that Diebold has received in past few years you'd think that they would be more careful but apparently due to a malfunction in some machines, they have leaked the results to the 2008 presidential race early. Hopefully this will be the nail in Diebold's coffin. Surely we have another company in this country that can run a sham election better."

Free Phone Calls... If Advertisers Can Eavesdrop 246

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 24, 2007 @11:10AM from the why-are-my-ads-all-about-boobs dept.

Dekortage writes "Today, Pudding Media is introducing an Internet phone service similar to Skype's online service, but without any toll charges. The catch: they are eavesdropping on phone calls with voice recognition software to monitor calls, then push conversation-relevant the ads to the subscriber's computer screen. Interestingly, during tests, "conversations [were] actually changing based on what was on the screen," said the president. "Our ability to influence the conversation was remarkable.""

Comment Re:the magical fruit (Score 5, Informative) 355

by tssm0n0 on Thursday February 01, 2007 @09:13AM (#17841712) Attached to: Biology Could Be Used To Turn Sugar Into Diesel

In my country in Europe we make sugar out of beets and we even export it and make money off of it. If a 3rd world country like mine can do it, U.S. sure can, so why is it fixated on sugar cane when beets are easy to grow?

I think they produce a beet or two here in the US:

"U.S. farmers produced 33 million tons of sugar beets on 1.6 million acres in 2000, versus 28 million tons of sugar beets on 1.4 million acres in 1990"

http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/February05/Find ings/Sugarbeets.htm

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