tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69777152011-10-11T02:48:40.411-07:00Tech Chaos: random articles about chaos in the field of technology.smznoreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977715.post-1140691572034878122006-02-23T02:44:00.000-08:002006-02-23T02:51:46.740-08:00

smznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977715.post-1133763773781901572005-12-04T22:18:00.000-08:002005-12-04T23:24:19.740-08:00

A little too late, but Google knows everything. The Bombay Ballot - What the U.S. can learn from India's electronic voting machines. By Eric Weiner Posted on Slate on Sept, 29 2004. Some similarities with my First article on this blog, which was boingboinged and slashdoted in May 2004. Snip from Eric Weiner's Article on Slate: "Remember the Cold War tale of Soviet and American scientists

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In a recent Slashdot post, someone asked a question whether we will see a winner in the DARPA grand challenge in 2005? Well I want to see a winner too. Here is my winner. The best option to cross the DARPA race track is to fit a GPS navigation system, linked with some sort of mechanical device mounted on the back of a horse to pull the reins in right direction. The horse will need only directions

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This post is done with a GPRS modem of my Nokia 6510. This completes my usage of all the modes of Internet access available in India. I used the Plain Old Dial-up access, Leased Circuits of various speeds (at work ofcourse!), Cable (Crap), CDMA modems at 115kbps, and now GPRS at slow but cheapest rate. I describe my experience here. Dial-upGovernment Telecom companies are the most honest

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I am writing this while the results are coming out for the Indian Assembly Election of 2004. 8 news channels are showing results updating like stock prices on the screen. Yes a 3 second update. The counting is although very simple and fast because Electronic voting machines were used. But counting from 1.5 Million voting machines is expected to take almost 3 to 4 hours,

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