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For me, I like the iPhone because it feels like the future- it's a frigging tricorder.

Sure if you look at just the specs, nothing particular high-end, a 3 megapixel camera is run of the mill. But that's the mistake that many, including other computer and phone makers make. They treat their products like a pile of parts to be cobbled together- maximum bang for buck - and it shows.

You have to admit that Apple has shaken up the phone industry- when I go into the phone shop these days, all of the high-end plastic phone models look to be "inspired" by the iPhone, even down to the layout of little shiny icons on the touchscreen.

I have friends at work who have phones that they compare to the iPhone - "why would you want that thing? My LG Viewty has a 5 megapixel camera." Meanwhile the iPhones are actually used on a daily basis for uploading photos, playing music surfing the web- while the LG has reverted to just a phone.

People who buy computers and phones as a shopping list of components will never understand the lure of Macs or iPhones.

Blackberry bullet for the win!

*dark *actionpack *geek *viral ... and it's for a product from *Canada. LOVE IT!

This is too funny.

As funny, anyway as the comments here on the vid: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/the-blackberry-storm-ad-that-might-have-been/

They're right "nothing can touch it" is a daft slogan for a TOUCHSCREEN device

Also:
"We all know if they had ran that, Apple would have clapped back hard. They would have had a commercial of someone trying to use the BlackBerry storm saying "you're right, no one can touch it" and that would have been game over."

"I wish they had ran it because I would have liked seeing Apple's reply. I picture the cute little berry sitting there and then the apple falls from off screen and splatters his juicy little guts all over the place."

yeah this is a possible step in the right direction, but requires a touchscreen IMHO. With a mouse its step backwards I reckon from a usability POV

>> ^EDD:
Anybody that hasn't realized iPhone's success is only a matter of branding and thinks iPhone is technologically superior than any other average smartphone in the market needs their brain examined.


Allot of things about the iphone suck - including obnoxious marketing and intentional handicaps BUT until very recently it is definitely not like any other average smartphone.

The big difference is high resolution screen and touchscreen. Without those things you don't have a real full fledged usable web browser, the ability to intelligently zoom in on areas of interest or usable google maps. The average smartphone has a resolution of 320x240 with a very very crude web browser and not enough resolution to make navigation very practical IME.

Beyond that yeah it's the same old stuff and in many cases not done as well as the average smart phone - but a usable web browser and navigation are really important to most people.

I hope future android phones or the palm don't cripple things like disallowing stereo bluetooth and allowing alternate media players etc like the iphone and apparently the g1 do.

Everyone is assuming that polling matter. It does not matter. They have SOOOO many excuses this year of why the polling was wrong. Racism, Bradley effect, disgruntled Hillary supporters, Syrian attacks... etc.

You have to consider that Rove and his posse are targeting a few states, just like they did in FL00 and OH04. You'd have to be crazy to not realize they padded their vote in FL00 (bad punchcard stock, voter purges, etc) and OH04 (multiple methods like voting machine allocations, provisional ballots, punchcard rotation, DHS fake alerts, stickered ballots).

They will apply many of these techniques in places like PA, maybe CO, etc.

Here is what the election night map will look like just so you aren't surprised:
http://tinyurl.com/6alna7

And anyone who points to polling doesn't know what happened in Ohio and isn't paying attention to the HUGE lines that will be in PA and touchscreen counties in OH and just about every state on election day.

>> ^ElJardinero:
>Were touchscreens used in Florida in 2000?

I dont' think so.. I believe they were all paper ballots.

Greg Palast did some great investigative journalism about the Florida election and published a book in 2003, 'The best democracy money can buy', I highly recommend it. The first 100 pages are a bit boring but that's because he's going over all the voting statistics, after that the book gets very juicy.

Were touchscreens used in Florida in 2000?

>> ^NetRunner:

I didn't realize they had a state-by-state prediction market.
If someone wanted to gamble on this election (and I'm getting sorely tempted to), I'd say buy stock in Virginia -- Obama is more likely to win that than Nevada, IMO.
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I'd say buy stock in Diebold or ES&S ftw!:

http://www.videosift.com/video/From-The-Programmers-Mouth-How-The-2000-Election-Was-Fixed

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-architect-of-the-Sarasota-FL-13-stolen-election

http://www.videosift.com/video/Hacking-Democracy

http://www.videosift.com/video/Dan-Rather-Reports-Trouble-with-Touchscreens

http://www.videosift.com/video/Sarasota-Elections-2006

http://www.videosift.com/video/Invisible-Ballots-A-Temptation-for-Electronic-Voting-Fraud

http://www.videosift.com/video/Broken-Government-Electronic-Voting-Machines

http://www.videosift.com/video/How-Fox-News-Killed-John-Kerry-in-2004

http://www.videosift.com/video/Uncounted-The-New-Math-of-American-Elections

http://www.videosift.com/video/PBS-NOW-Republicans-illegal-use-of-Voter-Caging-in-2004

http://www.videosift.com/video/Fox-News-Rigged-Focus-Groups

http://www.videosift.com/video/Hack-a-US-Election-in-3-E-Z-steps-with-your-friend-Diebold

http://www.videosift.com/video/New-Hampshire-Primary-Sham-Chain-of-Custody

http://www.videosift.com/video/Yet-another-documentary-showing-stolen-broken-elections

http://www.videosift.com/video/Votergate

http://www.videosift.com/video/E-Voting-Machine-Maker-Admits-Miscounts

http://www.videosift.com/video/Stealing-America-Vote-by-Vote

http://www.videosift.com/video/Voting-Machine-Being-Compromised-by-UCSBs-Security-Group

... there was also an amazing newscast report video that showed the new electronic voting machines in California were decertified by some officials. This video has been stripped off of youtube several months and I haven't been able to find it since.

I did find this interesting article about a voting fraud investigator that found out "too much"...
http://www.bradblog.com/Docs/ClintCurtis_RayLemme_Hust0906.pdf

that's bollocks. file under "awweeeesum!!!!! (for 5 minutes)".

there's only 2 methods that have caught on enough so that you don't have to take the kit to the club with you: CDJs and turntables.

Then there's the final scratch / serrato guys who come along and annoy everybody by plugging in loads of cables to their laptop, which then crashes or runs out of battery (seen that happen to grooverider).

This system in comparison is expensive, heavy, fragile, large, and never gonna catch on. Added to that, a touchscreen is neither tactile enough nor fast enough. Perhaps the guy demonstrating this is just a shit DJ, but I expect he is being restricted by the performance of the system. Already there is a sense of "detachment" when playing CD instead of vinyl, and this system here just takes that detachment to a whole new level. In music, a delay of more than about 5ms can be noticeable and ruin your flow.

There is no benefit for the DJ here, just cool tech. (the large waveform display is not much more useful than the small display on serrato anyway, and anybody serious about scratching the record would use real vinyl or one of those technics CDJs with the real motor in it), and the audience can't even see your "kewl" screens, and they don't give a shit anyway...
most people don't even realise that DJs actually change the speed of records to blend them together. They don't realise, because they never tried to find out, because they don't give a shit.

So this looks to me like one of those "kewl" things that might eventually become the future, but only after several technological limitations are lifted. E.g if i could roll these two screens up and stick them in a small backpack, then we might start talking. but of course, if these things were light, they would move around the table when you touch them. Hmmmm.

But remember... most venues don't have space on their table for this shit, so you end up being restricted by a very basic and primitive limit. If you design your show around this technology you won't be able to play in a large percentage of venues. The main reason CDJs became standard was because they are small, cheap, and CDs are very very very universal. And CDs aren't heavy.

Sell this technosplurge to Bjork or something. Get Microsoft to buy you out because you are "youth" or whatever. Wait 20 years and you won't even need a screen, it will all be about waving your hands in the air or just "thinking" about the mix while wearing a braintooth headset. anyway by then live music will have killed the DJ. mark my words.

But lets face it, the music I just heard in this video was bullshit, not even in rhythm. Sort that out first, yeah? Music > tech.

pfff. very playable with only the motion sensor and touchscreen. useless

Tags for this video have been changed from '2008, election, politics, voting, touchscreen, hack, democracy, obama, clinton' to 'banned, redacted' - edited by Zifnab

Hey rembar, you know very little about voting machines, so don't say what does and does not happen.

Did you know in many places in the US, poll workers take the machines home with them overnight. Most machines are stored for days ahead of the elections in closets and semi-secure areas in churches, schools, libraries, communities rooms. Many people easily have access to these machines.

The only (ONLY) thing prevent someone from inserting a corrupted memory card is occasionally stickers and a lock that is about as high tech as on your luggage.

"The actual disks are never switched out" Huh? You mean the PCMCIA memory cards? In touchscreens there are other methods of interfacing the machine like the poll worker master cards. In opscan machines, for one thing the memory cards are often transported with no chain of custody to the board of elections to be tabulated. Anyone with a laptop could easily modify the results. Or just swap it out. Same goes for touchscreen memory cards, and most touchscreens in the US have zero paper trail. They may have internal harddisk or memory containing an audit file, but that is all you get.

There are many attacks that could be performed while voting on them behind a curtain. Read about the magnet and the PDA. Cheers.

And do NOT trust any crap the dkos puts out regarding elections. They are the biggest assholes regarding facts and lying about election issues. DHinMI is a really big asshole.

So let's look at the dkos MUST SHUT DOWN ANY DISCUSSION diary (it's their MO).

They start out talking about touchscreen. Ok, who cares, only a moran thinks that electronic tabulation matters if it comes from memory cards that came out of opscan or a touchscreen. Electronic tabulation is electronic tabulation. And, in fact, that PCOS is very vulnerable to attacks, like a switch can be toggle to put that very opscan Accuvote Opscan in and out of "counting" mode, and no one would notice. It still scans and operates normally.

They claim "Fewer than half the towns in New Hampshire tabulate votes with optical scanners". Ok, so what? 81% of the votes are tabulated from opscan memory cards. I think that is relevant and left out by mindless dkos zombie.

What kind of moran brings up the discussion of polling data, when all the polling data indicate something is wrong. That is like saying "these five polls from a week ago prove the polling data matches the election... just do not look at any recent polls or exit polls".

And my favorite... they claim if there was anything wrong the candidates would be saying something. Ha! Look at Kerry in Ohio. He had 10,000 lawyers all ready to go and told them to go home (in complete disbelief to everyone but Kerry).

While this is *extremely* cool on its own, think of the potential. An intuitive programmable synthesizer with a 20' interactive touchscreen display for the user interface. Playing such an instrument would rock my world I can assure you.

actually, now that i think about it, that's not the same thing because what radiohead uses has a touchscreen on it. question still stands though.