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Microsoft Sued for Defective Software
Door-opening Fascist writes "eWeek is reporting that a South Korean citizen action group, People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, is suing Microsoft for putting the SQL Slammer vulnerability into Windows. They are doing so on behalf of the South Korean people and businesses affected by SQL Slammer."
Nothing here. MOve along. BC
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-1 Get Over It
Yup they did, but that is the very hardest thing to get over. I mean, you can't expect much more from Republican and Democrat 'strategists' and spin-doctors, but that the highest court in the land should buy into it with such a palpably partial majority decision was the most disturbing aspect of the whole fiasco.
I'm sure a few thousand mostly African-American Floridians will have some problems dismissing the fact that their incredibly important vote was prevented from being made. Losing one's voting right for no good reason is not a trivial thing. I'm not talking about pregnant and hanging chads here--more people lost their right to vote in Florida in 2000 than the number of votes difference between Bush and Gore. Since the Democrats don't seem to be concerned with the matter, and the Republicans benefit from pushing the issue aside, these voters have no major political party to turn to for getting off those scrub lists and regaining their right to vote. A lot of the people on those scrub lists were believed to be Democratic Party voters too.
The same company that prevented these thousands of (disproportionately African-American) voters from voting in Florida in 2000 (a Choicepoint subsidiary called Database Technologies) stands to be paid millions of dollars by the Bush administration to collect detailed personal information on the populations of foreign countries.
If this is the first time you've heard of these would-be voters, consider reading "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast, an American investigative reporter for the BBC who broke the story that was largely ignored by American popular media (and appears to be treated as somehow trivial today).
So, no, I won't forget about it and I won't push it aside as some historical footnote. The U.S. Presidential election of 2000 was not as simple as pushing the election decision to a handful of U.S. Supreme Court judges.
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