There is a new POS terminal in design to be available to software developers December 2014 which will comply with EMV rules effective in 2015. The hardware is available for cost $335.16 from Poynt and a developer kit is available for $552.66.
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Windows 10
http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-jumps-to-windows-10/ Microsoft Windows 10 will drop the insistence that desktops all be converted to touch screen and revert to a conventional user interface, enhanced by the Windows 8 features that people accepted. A hierarchical menu is back.
Utilities unprepared for EMP
If every residential and business building had a sufficient amount of solar panels to power itself during the day, then even if a disaster or attack destroyed a part of the grid, or the entire grid, it would not significantly affect people outside that one small area where the event occurred. As it is now, if the grid goes out in Pennsylvania several States could be without power for weeks. This is foolish and unnecessary with the technology we now possess.
Apostolic.edu v2.0 on-line
The Apostolic Information Service (AIS) at Indiana Bible College has brought its v2.0 web site on line. There are more details to add, but the main site is now open for business. http://apostolic.edu
Document Freedom Day
“Document Freedom Day”: a day for celebrating information accessibility for all people everywhere and for raising awareness of open standards. The open software movement and the corporate desire for it to end is very much like the American Second Amendment “Gun Control” movement — Software Patents are not about software and Gun Control is not about guns, but both are about CONTROL. And it behooves us as a global community to promote freedom and oppose protectionism in whatever form it may appear.