Other areas such as Cleveland, Ohio and Hartford, Connecticut were either unable to start their machines or found the touchscreens to be improperly displaying candidates' names, forcing election workers to move back to old-fashioned paper ballots.
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Once compromised the machines start to pump out junk mail on behalf of spammers.
The color layers in the machines start as 3D printed molds, micro-channels are then created with silicon that allow colored liquids to be pumped in to match the robots surroundings.
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And in South Carolina last weekend, some voting machines didn't start up on time.
Worse, the bug disabled essential instructions that tell the PC how to start-up, effectively reducing machines to an unusable empty shell.
According to the China Post, Quanta "will start production of low-cost machines for the One Laptop per Child project in September after a nine-month delay, " and interestingly, it even cites the recent hardware alterations as a culprit for the latest hangup.
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Bus ticket vending machines in central London could start to disappear from the beginning of 2013, Transport for London (TfL) has said.
Hence Vagrant to ensure that all your virtual machines are constructed identically from the start.
But then you start talking to the guys working on those machines, creating products all across the country, you go into the diner and you meet folks who are raising their kids and working hard and trying to keep things together, and I'm reminded of the strength and the resilience and the perseverance of the American people.
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Notice how bolts and moving parts and gears start out as smaller, less dominant parts of the machines, but then come to dominate it with massive parts until even the form of the particular machine itself becomes lost amid that sinking into parts that seem to grow larger around us.
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To jump-start consumer sales, Dell has designed a series of new machines that beg a second look.
But of course not all machines uses Intel's hardware and until companies start talking to each other our digital devices will remain a chain of islands rather than a border-free mainland.
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Klein also would like to see more employers kick fast-food restaurants out of their office buildings or off their campuses, and start offering healthier choices in their catered foods, cafeterias and vending machines.
It is a sign of maturity when companies start to understand, as the banking industry did over time with ATM machines, that they should charge less for using services that cost less to provide.
In 2004 TiVo sued EchoStar, the Dish parent company, alleging patent infringement. (TiVo has been on the market since 1999, and thus had a head start here.) Dish denied the charge, saying it designed its machines in a way that didn't infringe on any of TiVo's intellectual property, but lost in court.
For a start, the technical difficulties of reintroducing a national currency, reprogramming computers and vending machines, minting coins and printing notes are huge (three years' preparation was needed for the euro).
Five years with a company and we start looking towards greener pastures (read: more money, better-stocked snack-machines and lavish holiday parties).
Like other Windows 8 machines, the Surface starts up in the new, radically different, tile-based Start screen.
Hatch is looking to start small, with customized engravings via laser cutters, and then move on to larger projects using more complex machines.
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