Think Kim Zetter has it dead-on… [Optican scan and touch-screen] systems have experienced problems in elections. But when optical-scan machines misread ballots or miscalculate votes, election officials can re-scan the ballots or recount them by hand. Touch-screen votes, however, exist only in digital form, so officials can’t know if a machine records votes inaccurately. Nor can…
This quote bothers me from an article about an ultra rare hurricane in the South Atlantic Ocean. “The hurricane season in the North Atlantic runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.” Right… and in the Northern Hemisphere, summer starts in June and ends in Sept. For the Southern Hemisphere has different summer months because they…
Why does the presence of methane increase the possibility of life on Mars? I can buy that methane survives for only a short time in the atmosphere. I can buy there are no active volcanos on Mars. However, does that leave microbes as the final possibility? Is there no other explanation? Methane is simply 1 carbon and…
There should be some truth in advertising, I guess. However, so much of what is said in advertisements are not well supported. How does one know when one crosses the line before the NAD comes after you?
New toy… wanting to learn about RSS feeds. Installed RSS Reader at work. Lots of other blog software automatically generate the feeds. News web sites seem to now post feeds. Hopefully, in the near future we will have various RSS feeds for the topics of interest to various populations at work. Ought to be very…
Using email vacation messages to say, “Hey, I am not going be home until __,” to anyone willing to send me email strikes me as a tad risky. Sure the odds are low for this scenario… Crook receives email like the vacation below. Notes they both live in the same city. Puts in the name.…
Somehow I cannot see the SEC allowing the sale of AOL to Microsoft. This seems like an obvious no-brainer of a hoax or misunderstanding. Apparently the idea of it was popular enough to be posted in many papers. Time Warner has had to deny it. Somehow the setting of the lawsuit where MS had to…
Insects are the most numerous of creatures with unbelieveable diversity. Fossil records show that they die off in these mass wavves. Some British studies indicate that humans are the cause of the most recent problem of mass extinctions instead of the usual global killer… asteroids.
There are only a finite number of objects moving around in our Solar System with the potential of being a “global killer” or causing an “Extinction Level Event”. We really do not have a clear idea of how many there are. Based on estimates, some scientists think we have found about 1/2. It could easily be…