Just when you think life is boring and nothing of real interest well ever happen (after all some of us are waiting and waiting and waiting for real nanotech and real AI and real MBrainization of the solar system, ...) somedays are more interesting than others...
<br><br>E.g.<br><div class="ad1"></div>
<font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">Netcraft shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers</font><br><a href="http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/04/24/1735213.shtml">http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/04/24/1735213.shtml
</a><br><br>The title doesn't make the possible scandal clear. There is a suggestion that the Republican National Committee may have site-jacked some Ohio state web sites during the 2004 election.<br><br>Of course I found the following comment interesting...
<br> "<i>Nixon is not dead. How do I know? Always two there are, a Master and an Apprentice.<br><br></i><span style="font-weight: bold;">Quantum Physics Parts Ways with Reality</span><i><span style="font-style: italic;">
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><br></span></span></i>... "we must give up (some of) the idea that the world exists when we are not looking..."<i><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">
<br></span></span></i>So much for frigging reality as we know it (or at least as I would like it to be).<br>We are back in the land of the "blue people" (for those of you who have been around long enough to recall those discussions). I might ask if our reality is in a coherent state with another reality, what the hell happens when the differences are resolved?
<br><i><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br></span></span></span></i>And then of course, the simply mundane, we may be able to have have BBB (Boron BuckyBalls)
<i><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">.<br></span></span></span></span></i>Go ahead, kick them if you want, I feel nawthink! [1]
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<br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="2">Bucky's brother -- The boron buckyball makes its debut</font><br><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news96550194.html">http://www.physorg.com/news96550194.html
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<br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><br>And then of course my favorite...<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Laser Acceleration of Electrons Excites Physicists</span><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news96303978.html">
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<br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i>http://www.physorg.com/news96303978.html</a><br>I may be stretching things a bit but it looks like properly applied this technology gives me an honest to god phaser. Star Trek technology strikes again...
<br><br>Robert<br><br>1. This will mean nothing to those who never watched Hogan's Heros.<i><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">
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