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The "Techie" Vote?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they're-just-starting-to-get-it dept.

Ironica writes "This Los Angeles Times article discusses a compelling trend: techies are making their collective voice heard in politics. Quote from the article: "After years as political agnostics, the programmers and engineers who orchestrated the technological revolution of the 1990s are trying to reboot government...They have money, earned during the boom. They have time, found since the bust. And they are using their technological savvy to recruit even casual Internet users to their causes." Perhaps instead of "boxers or briefs," our next presidential candidate will have to answer "POP3 or IMAP?""

6 of 376 comments (clear)

  1. POP3 or IMAP by fyonn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm an imap guy personally, I run my own mailserver, with spamassassin marking anything at 6 or over as spam and bouncing anything at 30 or over (I've not yet had a false positive that hgih so I figure it's probabaly safeish)

    anyways, for me imap is a superset of pop3 and allows me to run webmail so I can read my mail when not at home too. TLS support too of course. I'm happy to leave my mail on the server, but then, it's my server so I don't have any limits on storage etc.

    dave

  2. They're genreally? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And those who don't know how to spell are ridiculed. Of course I probably mispalled ridiculed, but I don't care.

  3. Re:POP3 vs IMAP by Kethinov · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    So if I voted for the IMAP candidate... ...does that mean everyone gets to see my vote, until I purge it?
    No. It means you don't have to get pissed off that the votes are POP3 when you format the voting machine multiple times a month because it's running an absurdly unstable OS which shall remain nameless.

    I've formatted 5 times in the last 3 weeks and the one thing I feel fortunate about is the fact that my E-mail is IMAP. I've lost none of it. Needless to say, I'm dropping my absurdly unstable OS which shall remain nameless and learning Gentoo Linux. (Not an easy task. Been trying to install Gentoo for about 24 hours now. But I refuse to use a "lesser" distro for Linux newbies. Cold turkey's the way to go.)
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    You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
  4. Lucky that India is ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Lucky that India is a democratic country and so......

    Oops... got that wrong now I guess... No offense intended....

  5. Re:This reminds me... by Tirel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Soon we will turn into a technocracy (and then robots will kill us all, but let's not get ahead of things).

  6. Privacy ??? Hello, anybody at home ?? by frost22 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gosh, Taco... ...you actually think I'm going to declare my annual household income (amoung other things) to some stinkin' web site, just to read some article you found great ???

    Slashdot is getting worse by the day lately :-(

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    ...and here I stand, with all my lore, poor fool, no wiser than before.