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Re:I call bullshit."Apple didn't want to get rid of the traffic meters so that customers wouldn't need to pay; they wanted to get rid of them because (they think) they look ugly."
I'm really disinclined to believe the "quotes" and "motives" from TFA when it looks more and more to me like an editorial rather than an actual news article (one that conveniently caters to Canada's old anglophone/francophone blood feud at that). The only other source of information I can easily find is this, which includes:The city says it's open to making some accommodations, but will not get rid of the meters completely.
One would assume that, of all people, Apple's architectural design team could "think differently" and find some way to redecorate the meters in order to not ruin the ambiance or whatever, and the city seems amenable to that, but wanting the meters removed outright sounds less like "They're ugly" and more "They inconvenience our car-driving customers." -
Re:False AlarmExcellent analysis. However it seems the null-hypothesis is that there was no significant difference between the 2000 and 2004 votes. It may be that other factors are in play as well. Regardless, this is a start. This sort of analysis *needs* to continue so that there is no doubt in anyone's mind that it wasn't the voting machines at fault, but rather the 59 million Americans who voted for Bush.
Electronic voting, while a neat idea to speed up the vote counting process, seems to have run into a number of glitches (over 1100 nationwide) this November 2nd. In addition to seemingly random problems in Florida [1, 2], Ohio [1], and North Carolina [1], there are allegations of systematic fraud based on statistical comparison of exit polls to final results in precincts with audit trails and those without. It is also interesting that in Florida, the voting patterns do not match the voter registration patterns as they do nationwide. This has attracted the attention of numerous civil rights groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation that has filed at least two lawsuits since election day, and BlackboxVoting.org that has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain computer logs and documents from 3000 counties and districts across the US. Equally disturbing is the fact that CNN has (since Nov 2) changed its exit polling results to reflect the actual results. This has attracted the attention of Congressmen John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, Jerrold Nadler of New York and Robert Wexler of Florida who have jointly requested that the GAO immediately investigate the efficacy of e-voting machines.
In case you are thinking that this is just sour grapes from Democrats who lost the election, think again. BlackboxVoting.org has been investigating e-voting fraud for years. Likewise, the CEO of Diebold, one of the e-voting machine manufacturers has been quoted as saying "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president." And if that's not conflict of interest enough for you, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel (now resigned) is an owner of the largest e-voting machine company ES&S.
Other numerous problems have been found with the machines from nearly every company in the past [1, 2, 3]. Avi Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University, has been investigating such machines on his own and has found a number of security issues. Swarthmore students stood up to Diebold in November of 2003 after discovering
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Re:hmmm
Israel's genocidal policies continue when today they kill 10 children and teens.
Way to go, Israel, slaughter children!