The Post

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and was very much in favor of the redistribution of wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a
professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the addition of more government welfare programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father.

He responded by asking how she was doing in school.

Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, "How is your friend Audrey doing?"

She replied, "Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties, and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over."

Her wise father asked his daughter, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA."

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, "That wouldn't be fair! I have worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work!
Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!"

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, " Welcome to the Republican party."

Stop voting fraud with reliable biometric authentication

2008-10-09T10:18:00.000-07:00

We now have reliable, cheap, and effective technology for biometrica uthentication (e.g, fingerprints, voice recognition, facial structure or the iris). There are many applications that could benefit from these authentication scheme including airport security checks, bank transactions, immigration checkpoint, etc.

With the presidential election just days away we hear again and again about the concerns of voting fraud. It is clear that if we had any of the above technologies available for voters registration and the actual voting, these concerns will be laid to rest.

It is too late to introduce these technologies to this year voting process. But it is not too early to seriously considerthe use of Biometrics in the next election.

Let's get America back on Track

2008-10-08T11:41:00.000-07:00

It is time for the American People to take control of their country and their own destiny.

Lets send a strong signal to the Congress on Election day.

Let's agree that we will NOT vote for any incumbent. Let's start with
a fresh new House of Representatives! Whatever the outcome, it can
not be worse than what we currently have.

Congress Spending Bills

2008-10-03T08:43:00.000-07:00

One way to stop Pork Barrel is to require that any bill passed by Congress will cover exectly ONE item. This will ensure that votes are casted in the most fair way possible.

To whom the bell tolls

2008-09-30T14:55:00.000-07:00

Can you imagine a world where during a presidential debate we had a "this is a lie" detector who rang a bell evrytime one of the candidates told a lie?

If so, will the bells ever stop ringing?

On the CPU and I/O rates of politicians

2008-09-15T15:21:00.000-07:00

One measure of the speed of of a computing device is the CPU rate and the Input/Output (I/O) rate. The CPU rate is usually orders of magnitude faster than the I/O rate.

Translating to humans, the CPU corresponds (roughly) to the brain and the I/O corresponds (roughly) to the ears/mouth.

Unfortunately, many politicians exhibit a behaviour that is inverse to a computing device; their I/O rate tends to be much faster than their CPU rate. If they could only place a filter on their I/O device they will spare us the common phrase we so often hear

"my quote was taken out of context"

A moratorium on political attacks!

2008-09-14T07:22:00.000-07:00

Wouldn't be nice if the two presidential candidates declared a moratorium on political attacks and spend their entire airtime discussing what their agenda is?

I bet that what we will hear is the sound of silence.

What the popular media is NOT telling us?

2008-09-10T16:17:00.000-07:00

Will Venezuela build a missile defense shield in South America?

2008-09-10T16:05:00.000-07:00

Now that the United States and Poland agreed on building defense shield in Eastern Europe will Venezuela allow Russia to build one in South America.

Only time will tell.

The Day the World Stood Still

2006-02-21T14:26:00.000-08:00

In the movie "The Day the World Stood Still," the alien, upon landing inWashington DC, asked that he be taken to the "smartest person on earth",so that they could discuss the the dangerous state of affair on Earth.The person he was taken to was a Physicist!
One can argue that if that alien spaceship landed in the sixties, the personwho most people would identify as that person is Albert Einstein.
So who would you put on your list, if the alien spaceship landed in 2005?

The Rosalyn Franklin Story!

2006-02-21T14:23:00.000-08:00

Rosalyn Franklin is one of the greatest woman scientist of the last century.Many believe that she should have gotten the Nobel prize for her work on DNA.She died in 1958 at the age of 37. History had not been kind to her and shenever got the recognition she richly deserve.
Is there anything that can do to honor this great woman pioneer?