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Posted by unregistered user at 1/19/08 11:03 p.m.

Vanhanen scannin pill bottles while discussing climate change & energy issues, how a pro pre ate.

Posted by unregistered user at 1/20/08 5:27 p.m.

This is like having a big, expensive stationary nose hair trimmer built into the wall above my dresser, that can be used nowhere else.

What if I prefer a tiny (thumb drive size) handheld wireless barcode reader that I can use with software on any PC or cell phone, to read the barcodes on my pill bottles as well as on any product with a UPC code? It could bring up consumer information, cautions, reviews and forum discussions about any identifiable product.

And what if I prefer not to trust Microsoft to write bug-free software to identify and give me information about my medicines?

Posted by unregistered user at 1/20/08 5:36 p.m.

How about making a sensor that would tell rave kids what that pill, that's supposed to be Ecstasy or some other supposed drug, actually contains?

Not just look up the pill's size, shape, color and markings in a database. But take a scraping of it, send the raw sensor data over a secure Net channel, analyze it on some university's mainframe, and send back the results?

Posted by unregistered user at 1/20/08 5:58 p.m.

Something I can use to send a pet food sensor reading away to be checked to see if it's contaminated.

Something to check the level of pollutants in fish that I catch around here.

Something to scan anything made in China for toxins because the Fed can't and won't do it.

Posted by unregistered user at 1/21/08 2:01 a.m.

free email for students free students from parents the net educator has spoken so the rest of us don't get to the machine will tell you what's in those bottles that your doc doesn't know what's that ohs know

Posted by unregistered user at 1/23/08 1:58 a.m.

Since when is Matti Vanhanen an expert in educational software, to agree to deliver our school kids into the clutches of Microsoft? MS will be testing its software at the expense of our education system and will then start charging for it. Most of our schools already have systems in place that work fine and that are often open-source, no-strings-attached, cross-platform programs that keep down IT cost and support needs.