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The point is that it happens everywhere. This one just happened not too far from me, and affected people I know. http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=11188978

It's worse at Microsoft. MS wants congress to allow more H1b visas.

Falcon

Did you even read the posting? It wasn't Microsoft that did this. It was a vendor that contracts with Microsoft. But framing this as a Microsoft is evil topic gets it on to the /. home page because everyone gets their panties in a twist and drives /. traffic up.
Dumb.

Looked at alone Microsoft isn't stupid. But it is stupid when MS asks congress for more H1b visas. Just before Obama entered office MS asked Microsoft to "remove caps that bar entry into the U.S. by high-skilled immigrants." If MS can import cheap labor and put US citizens on the street it will.

Falcon

That can be applied to sightings of many other things.

The problem is, how does one determine which patterns indicate something and which patterns are just convincing illusions?

Forty-nine of the 85 people who this year have given Republican Ohio secretary of state Kenneth Blackwell the maximum $10,000 allowed an individual donor have done so since May 2. Members of Cincinnati financier Carl Lindner's family led the way by combining for $90,000. The maximum-donor list also includes Mitch Given, who is a registered lobbyist for Diebold Election Systems.

you know full well the goal of electronic voting, eliminate those unnecessary, time consuming and democracy demanding voters from the whole election process

You're right, but I just can't help it--I grew up in the 60's!

Here is antother link from the local news [CBS] in northwest Ohio.

2 ominous quotes:

"Investigators are considering charges of theft and telecommunications fraud."
"If any of the computer hackers are convicted, they could be looking at one to five years in prison."