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It's much easier to fraudently signup voters or submit fraudulent change of address forms like ACORN does.

Here's one blog with links and such.. (not mine.)

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/10/missouri -acorn-voter-fraud-scandal.html

Yep (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov 06/11-02NewsConferenceMA.mspx)
Denis the SQL Menace http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/

Now we have footage of some of his aides/operatives attacking a blogger who asked Allen if he had stopped spitting on his wife. Why would he say that? Because that is apparently what is included in Allen's divorce papers which are currently sealed.

As others on the media circuit have said, regardless if the question is valid or not, there was no reason to attack the person and the fact that Allen watched the whole thing and did nothing to stop the attack shows what a thug-based party the Republicans.

This isn't the first time that Allen's been accused of being violent. His one sister wrote a book in which she describes him beating and/or attacking the other children including dragging her by the hair up a flight of stairs.

And before anyone marks me as Troll or Flamebait, I am a Republican but people like Allen, or in my case Santorum, in no way represent me. I am thoroughly disgusted with what my party has become and I can't wait to see the results on November 8th.

"The problem is the psychology of EULA abuse: Forbid by default even while admitting (as here) when you are placing legal (non-technical accomplishing virtualization is just as easy with any version of Vista) restrictions on some users.

If they dont like these completely superfluous restrictions, defend it by saying there arent very many of them. Fascinating, like I said. This is truly a test of what people will put up with."

source:
http://btetc.blogspot.com/2006/11/eulas.html

Most commercials in the UK are utter shite. However, unlike in the US (where ALL commercials are utter shite - I lived in Houston for 7 years, so yes - I've seen them), there are the gems that make you stop fast forwarding the video - or stop you channel surfing.

Take for example the contrast between car ads in the US - where they are almost uniformly loud, in your face, and obnoxious - with a recent Honda Civic ad in the UK: http://tvadverts.blogspot.com/2006/01/honda-civic- choir.html .

Indeed - it's on YouTube too (get it before the DMCA does) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s22N8ZLPEaY - although it's not as effective as a poor quality YouTube video. It's fantastic on a hi-fi stereo system like I have hooked up to my satellite receiver.

Are you kidding? Internet Explorer has so many DoS/crash bugs, I don't think a new one would ever make Slashdot - it's just not news anymore (take a look at the Browser Fun blog for some examples, though it's out of date by now). Konqueror has a few too (take MangleMe to it and you'll see what I mean), and I bet Safari and Opera do as well.

>It also has a beginner's privacy bug: (full disclosure: my blog) http://tech-dissect.blogspot.com/2006/10/firefox-p rivacy-bug.html

Interestingly, your blog crashes Konqueror on my machine. Repeatedly.

Oh really ?

http://www.zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/corruptio n-of-media.html

Please explain how these 2 things never made it into the debate ...

It also has a beginner's privacy bug: (full disclosure: my blog) http://tech-dissect.blogspot.com/2006/10/firefox-p rivacy-bug.html.
In short: Ctrl-Shift-Del doesn't delete everything you expect it to delete, your browse history can still be recovered.

didn't they cover this in StarGate...?

then again, I guess it's only a matter of time before the Simpsons do it. No ancients to help them out though

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The repeater towers (which XM says they are already addressing) operate in the same band as the satellites anyway - I think it's between 2.5 and 2.6 GHz.

Those are not broadcast frequencies per se, so why are NPR and NAB are getting bent out of shape about that too, or are they? Seems only the personal FM modulators are really a problem for the broadcasters.

Moreover, XM has already been dinged for those overpower repeaters, and is correcting the problem, e.g: http://satelliteradiotechworld.blogspot.com/2006/1 0/xm-files-30-day-sta-concerning.html

A note about partisanship: Since Democrats figure prominently in the vast majority of examples of election fraud described in Stealing Elections, some readers will jump to the conclusion that this is a one-sided attack on a single party. I do not believe Republicans are inherently more virtuous or honest than anyone else in politics, and I myself often vote Libertarian or independent. Voter fraud occurs in both Republican strongholds such as Kentucky hollows and Democratic bastions such as New Orleans. When Republicans operated political machines such as Philadelphia's Meehan dynasty up until 1951 or the patronage mill pf Nassau County, New York, until the 1990s, they were fully capable of bending -- and breaking -- the rules. Earl Mazo, the journalist who exhaustively documented the election fraud in Richard Daley's Chicago that may have handed Illinois to John F. Kennedy in the photo-finish 1960 election, says there was also "definitely fraud" in downstate Republican counties "but they didn't have the votes to counterbalance Chicago."

While they have not had the control of local and administrative offices necessary to tilt the rules improperly in their favor, Republicans have at times been guilty of intimidation tactics designed to discourage voting. In the 1980s, the Republican National Committee hired off-duty policemen to monitor polling places in New Jersey and Louisiana in the neighborhoods of minority voters, until the outcry forced them to sign a consent decree forswearing all such "ballot security" programs in the future.

In their book Dirty Little Secrets, Larry Sabato and co-author Glenn Simpson of the Wall Street Journal noted another factor in why Republican election fraud is less common. Republican base voters are middle-class and not easily induced to commit fraud, while "the pool of people who appear to be available and more vulnerable to an invitation to participate in vote fraud tend to lean Democratic." Some liberal activists that Sabato and Simpson interviewed even partly justified fraudulent electoral behavior on the grounds that because the poor and dispossessed have so little political clout, "extraordinary measures (for example, stretching the absentee ballot or registration rules) are required to compensate." Paul Herrison, director of the Center for American Politics at the University of Maryland, agrees that "most incidents of wide-scale voter fraud reportedly occur in inner cities, which are largely populated by minority groups."

Democrats are far more skilled at encouraging poor people -- who need money -- to participate in shady vote-buying schemes. "I had no choice. I was hungry that day," Thomas Felder told the Miami Herald in explaining why he illegally voted in a mayoral election. "You wanted the money, you were told who to vote for." Sometimes it's not just food that vote stealers are hungry for. A former Democratic congressman gave me this exp

Some spam bots try to get around tough spam filters by using low priority MX records to deliver mail. There's a project that's helping to make this practice less effective at: slowspam.com. An explanation of how this is done is at: http://slowspam.blogspot.com/2006/09/slow-spam.htm l.

We already made some thoughts on this since we are involved in building the OLPC Children's Dictionary ( http://wiktionaryz.org/OLPC ) ... and there is so much to consider. I wrote about it - it is a very long consideration ... so that would be a bit long for slashdot. Who is interested can read it on my blog: http://sabinecretella.blogspot.com/2006/11/olpc-wh o-would-buy-laptop-at-which.html.
Thanks, Sabine.

Let's do an interesting collective experiment:

Send me screen shot of your taskbar as it looks now. Send it to slashdotwindows@gmail.com in any popular graphic format (jpg, gif, bmp, png).

I will post them all in my blog (http://tech-dissect.blogspot.com/).

Beware! The taskbar can reveal a lot of private information. Double check your submission and be sure to blur personal parts. But do not add or remove items. And don't open or close apps, send the taskbar as it looks now so we catch it in a natural position.

Feel free to add comments, I will post them too. I will not link the taskbars to sender's info.

Photon-photon scattering, with a Feynman diagram that explains all.

In THEORY its possible that you'd get 34 pages of images from the google.com search in china just as you would here.

Although. . . most of those pages would be blank broken links and/or little white icons with red x's....
Which is why google made google.cn in the first place - it makes good business sense. They needed a reliable way into the market to begin with.

From the article:

Google users in China today struggle with a service that, to be blunt, isn't very good. Google.com appears to be down around 10% of the time. Even when users can reach it, the website is slow, and sometimes produces results that when clicked on, stall out the user's browser. Our Google News service is never available; Google Images is accessible only half the time. At Google we work hard to create a great experience for our users, and the level of service we've been able to provide in China is not something we're proud of.

This problem could only be resolved by creating a local presence, and this week we did so, by launching Google.cn, our website for the People's Republic of China. In order to do so, we have agreed to remove certain sensitive information from our search results.

The answer is and has been - the country which plays home to the servers gets, ultimately, to control the content etc on the server. No amount of internet 'controling body' can change that without a drastic overhaul in legislation. Not to mention the US's ability/desire/willingness to follow law that isn't its own.

Actually, there is a very similar home treatment recommended here: http://www.fluwikie.com/uploads/Consequences/NewGu ideOct7b.pdf It's called Oral Rehydration Therapy, and I'm getting together the ingredients this week.

Another preparation that's recommended is that you have a surgical face mask to avoid breathing in the virus, and to avoid spreading it if you're infected but not showing symtoms. Here's a reference: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/infectioncont rol/maskguidance.htm

I've heard several speakers on this topic recently, including Dr. Michael Osterholm of Univ. of Minn., and it's just a matter of time before avian flu, specifically H5N1, comes to your town (and everybody's). Several city administrations that I'm familiar with (including Plymouth and Minneapolis, MN, and Alameda, CA) are making specific preparations, mainly around "how do we operate the city when 30-40% of our staff are out sick themselves or busy at home caring for their family members". Alameda is preparing centers to distribute vaccine, once one is available.

Here's an interview with Dr. Osterholm: http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com/2005/06/osterhol m-were-screwed.html

Here you go:

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/beware-vco dec.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-fa ke-codec-site_20.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/seen-in-wi ld-another-fake-codec.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-fa ke-codec-site.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/some-more- fake-codec-sites-for-ya.html

I suspect codecs themselves are immune as infection vectors as they are not executables.
And what do you think does the coding and decoding?

Here you go:

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/beware-vco dec.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-fa ke-codec-site_20.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/seen-in-wi ld-another-fake-codec.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-fa ke-codec-site.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/some-more- fake-codec-sites-for-ya.html

I suspect codecs themselves are immune as infection vectors as they are not executables.
And what do you think does the coding and decoding?

Here you go:

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/beware-vco dec.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-fa ke-codec-site_20.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/seen-in-wi ld-another-fake-codec.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-fa ke-codec-site.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/some-more- fake-codec-sites-for-ya.html

I suspect codecs themselves are immune as infection vectors as they are not executables.
And what do you think does the coding and decoding?

Here you go:

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/beware-vco dec.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-fa ke-codec-site_20.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/seen-in-wi ld-another-fake-codec.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-fa ke-codec-site.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/some-more- fake-codec-sites-for-ya.html

I suspect codecs themselves are immune as infection vectors as they are not executables.
And what do you think does the coding and decoding?

Here you go:

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/beware-vco dec.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-fa ke-codec-site_20.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/seen-in-wi ld-another-fake-codec.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-fa ke-codec-site.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/some-more- fake-codec-sites-for-ya.html

I suspect codecs themselves are immune as infection vectors as they are not executables.
And what do you think does the coding and decoding?

You did notice how 'interface-free' was in single quotation marks, didn't you? That's all you need to know.
It's also why I'll never eat at a place that has a sign that says "Fresh" Seafood, or the like.

How MythTV Skips Commercials

This is the answer to a question I asked on http://governanceimperative.blogspot.com/. Why do people vote the straight party ticket? Someone here suggested a 'none of the above' which causes a new election if it gets a certain percentage of the votes. I like that idea.

High Court Trims Whistleblower Rights

The Rise Of Pseudo Fascism

Conservatives Without Conscience

I mean, it's not like upgrading a server-oriented distro where all you care about is if [Apache|MySQL|Tomcat|Postfix|Bind] comes back to life and acts properly on reboot. I upgraded from Dapper Drake to Edgy Eft on my Dell laptop, and it involved some breakage and googling and stuff, but it's not out of line from my experience with upgrading other desktop-oriented distros. At least there's a lot of community resources available for Ubuntu, and since it has a huge userbase, it's fairly likely that someone else has run into the same issue before.

Edgy Eft is definitely worth the try, but if you don't have a few hours to spend downloading updates, installing, rebooting, finding breakages and fixing 'em, then just use VMware Server or Workstation or some other VM package and plop it in there.

Does a left wing CEO make his whole company left wing as well? Be fair. I bet you defend CNN as not liberal.

"All your post proves is that the Diebold CEO is a right winger. Bet he's never written a line of code in his life."

Our electoral system should be set up in such a way that its integrity shouldn't depend on the honesty of any one company or individual.

While you may have a point, you may want to read up a bit on what has actually been uncovered regarding electronic voting manipulation by the 'Right':
http://weazlsrevenge.blogspot.com/2006/10/sign-of- things-to-come-in-november.html

Could be this one: http://funel.blogspot.com/
Also, the wikipedia entry on Dimosthenis Liakopoulos is very entertaining: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimosthenis_Liakopoul os

I agree completely. I don't use firefox, and I'm sick of people who try to tell me it's "better". I really don't think it is, and they should get off their high horse. I'm also super sick of people talking about Firefox being more standards compliant. You don't get more standard then 80% marketshare.

The FBI visited.

They handed me with a written order to remove the boarding pass generator. By the time we were somewhere with internet access, the website had already been taken down.

http://slightparanoia.blogspot.com/2006/10/congres sman-calls-for-my-arrest.html

I didn't sleep at home last night. It's fair to say I was rather shaken up.

I came back today, to find the glass on the front door smashed.

Inside, is a rather ransacked home, a search warrant taped to my kitchen table, a total absence of computers - and various other important things. I have no idea what time they actually performed the search, but the warrant was approved at 2AM. I'm sincerely glad I wasn't in bed when they raided the house. That would have been even more scary.

I wonder why Christopher Soghoian didn't just create a site anonymously.

He's one guy, he's young, and he's been entirely open and straightforward about why he's doing this--that gives him a much better chance to shame the TSA. It would've hurt his case (with the public, at least) if he'd looked furtive.

And someone with determination (not to mention search warrants) could probably figure out who he was eventually anyway.

Unfortunately our society aplauds the whistleblower only well after the whistle has been blown

Well, I'm applauding.

You can also contribute to his legal defense fund, if you'd like to show your support.

The kid has a legal defense fund in the event that he can't find a lawyer to take the case Pro-Bono.

http://slightparanoia.blogspot.com/

Scroll down to the "Donate" link.

Let's help him out.

Soghoian is setting up a legal defense fund. You can learn more and donate at
http://slightparanoia.blogspot.com/2006/10/legal-d efense-fund.html

That's nothing. The FBI have since sacked his home while he was out. Fucking ridiculous.

It's here.

I have a list of sources for non-RIAA music on my blog, which I call "Liberated Music"

The FBI visited.

They handed me with a written order to remove the boarding pass generator. By the time we were somewhere with internet access, the website had already been taken down.

I am now safe (and no longer with the FBI).

Still trying to find a lawyer.....

Edit:

If you want to help, a good start would be to email Congressman Markey - who initially called for my arrest.

Blue Pill is bullshit. Don't believe me, believe the experts:

o Keith Adams, of VMware fame (binary translation and Intel VT work): http://x86vmm.blogspot.com/2006/08/blue-pill-is-qu asi-illiterate.html
o Anthony Liguori, of Xen fame (paravirtualization work): http://www.virtualization.info/2006/08/debunking-b lue-pill-myth.html

Someone tried that, the judge took it as an admission of guilt, and nailed them with everything the RIAA said they thought the guy had because there was no way to prove otherwise.

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2006 /08/where-defendant-wiped-hard-drive-in.html

I think you would be better off encrypting the data, having a third party examine it, and get the mutually agreed conditions to be that they only look for music files and signs that music files have been deleted, as nothing else pertains to their case, and is an evasion of your privacy. If someone ask what that big encrypted file is, tell them you made a home movie with your girlfriend and swore a blood oath that you would never let anyone else see it, or you would have to cut off certain valued parts of your anatomy featured in said video. Maybe that would fall under some kind of stipulation about discovery not causing harm.

because I did not support the zeitgeist regarding Hussein's trial.

I do believe that they have had communications with the hard drive experts which they have never disclosed to their adversaries, which they were required to disclose. They have an erroneous conception of (a) what communications with their experts are "privileged" and (b) what it means for a communication to be privileged. They think anything they're afraid of getting out there is privileged; the law doesn't agree with that. They think that if they think something is privileged it doesn't have to be mentioned at all; the law is that even if you think a communication is privileged, you are supposed to disclose its existence in a privilege log, and let your adversary know about it, and let the Court decide if it's privileged or not.

In UMG v. Lindor, they were supposed to disclose all documents concerning MediaSentry's investigation. They turned over some printouts MediaSentry had made, and a privilege log falsely claiming privilege for three engagement agreements between the RIAA and MediaSentry. They never turned over a single memo, email, invoice, letter, or any other form of communication between MediaSentry and the RIAA or its counsel. Do you really believe that there was no such communication? I don't.

I have seen a great deal of sharp practice and frivolous conduct by the RIAA's lawyers, and I do expect it to start catching up with them, now that a handful of litigants are starting to push back.

Yes, but the RIAA says this is the very first time this has happened to them. So I wouldn't diminish its significance. I predict that this decision will be the gold standard for future hard drive analyses in the RIAA v. Consumer litigations, and that the RIAA is not at all happy with it, since the RIAA's ability to manipulate the results of the analysis is greatly diminished. These are not the kind of lawyers that are on a quest for the truth.

A similar, slightly more restrictive, decision was handed down awhile back in Atlantic v. Andersen in Oregon, but the RIAA fought it, kicking and screaming. The judge wound up letting the RIAA have the hard drive. They found nothing, but still haven't turned in their report and still haven't dropped the case either. Most likely they'll claim that Ms. Andersen, a disabled, impoverished woman who never even used file sharing in her life, switched the hard drives on them, as they're now claiming with Marie Lindor, a home health aide who has never even used a computer.

Chris reports that the FBI is knocking on his door. The boarding pass generator is also (at least temporarily) down.

Go here and fill out the complain form. This is a federal offense, you know.

In all seriousness, Indiana University's legal team have essentially said I'm on my own. Thus, if this issue becomes serious, and the feds knock at my door, any offers of pro-bono legal assistance would be much appreciated.

I assumed the guy is a faculty member, but it turns out he's only a student. In that case it's true he can't rely on the university to give him legal help. Note, however, that even faculty aren't always protected -- during the SDMI Challenge bruhaha, Princeton's University Counsel was agressively defeneding Ed Felten and his team, but researchers in other universities didn't fare that well.