Slashdot | Your Rights Online – Los Alamos Reconsiders Touch Screen Voting. goombah99 writes “Los Alamos county, which boasts the highest geek PhD per capita in the world and considerable clout in secure computing, has voted to rescind its previous plans to purchase Touch Screen voting systems and will ask the New Mexico's secretary of [...]

London Has Wi-Fi Fever. Hot zones are popping up everywhere in London: This Guardian story is a very thorough roundup of hot zones and hotspots in London. It notes that a company called MyZones is planning to use gear from Vivato to set up a zone in central Manchester–the company is waiting for Vivato's radios [...]

New Wireless POS Gadget. Axalto, the new name for smart-card maker Schlumberger, has an 802.11b-enabled point of sale terminal: I've seen a handful of announcements about these devices so I think it's likely we'll start seeing certain types of retail shops using them that need temporarily cash registers or roaming salespeople…. [Wi-Fi Networking News]

Interland Platinum helps me help others. My employer, Interland, announced Business Solutions Platinum that bundles “Do It Yourself” tools with “Do It For You” service and ongoing phone coaching and support to give you a “Do It With You” system. This acknowledges that no matter how easy you make something to use many people still [...]

Railroad Servers. I ran into an ad for Railroad Tycoon 3 just now and started thinking how nice it would be to have railroad servers for me to visit and to build within.  What is a railroad server?  It's basically a persistent, modifiable 3D model server specialized in trains, tracks, passengers, buildings, and landscapes.  Well, [...]

Don't work for Ebay. You don't want to work for Ebay. Pity the poor bastards who have to put up with that. [Ceejbot]

BBC.  Shuttle slated for late 2004 launch.  I wish we spent even a fraction of the money we spent on Iraq to get a new low-cost heavy launch vehicle.  This was the reason I wanted to see the “Star Wars” program get funded in the eighties.  The byproduct of the program would have been a [...]

Because he opens his mouth and words come out.. I had the dubious pleasure today of listening to the speech by George Bush described as the keynote speech to his visit over here I have to say I cannot work out how this man got elected to anything, he is a terrible speaker! I spent [...]

Recommended Web Design Firm. I always liked Chris Pfrang of Fancy Media, the firm that designed my law firm's website. He was easy to deal with, had a reasonable quote, met his budget, and designed a great site (actually he designed several and offered… [Ernie The Attorney]

How little does law school prepare you for practice?. Gerry Spence, famed trial attorney from Wyoming, recounts his impressions of law school: “I did not learn much that was of real use. I learned how to speak, but not to people. I learned how to think, but not in… [Ernie The Attorney]