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Electronic Voting: Your Worst Nightmares are True
jfreon writes "On Democracy Now Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting fame, disclosed (near the end of the transcript) that in the compromised 1.8Gigs off Diebold's FTP site they uncovered "an actual election file containing actual votes on election day from San Luis Obispo County, California". Problem is, the date stamp was 3:31pm - during voting hours! The Diebold system uses a wireless network card. Worse: "So that means if they can pull the information in, they can also send information back into those machines. ""
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, run for your lives it's raining nuclear fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of Thomas Jefferson's descendants is now licensing votes. He claims he owns all votes. He has even sent out licensing invoices to all American citizens. You can continue to vote at your own risk. Does sound familiar?
We have people suing over spilled coffee
Insert standard disclaimer from the American Trial Lawyers Association explaining how, in fact, it was only fair that Stella Liebeck received an award of six gazillion dollars for being one of the 700 cases of burn injuries caused by the 700,000,000 cups of McDonalds' coffee served over a 10-year period.
yes geeks vote for me and if you are arrested for hacking and i get in office i will give you a presidental pardon.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered IIS community when IDC confirmed that IIS market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than 24 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that IIS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. IIS is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict IIS' future. The hand writing is on the wall: IIS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for IIS because IIS is dying. Things are looking very bad for IIS. As many of us are already aware, IIS continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
IIS is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IIS developers Bteve Stallmer and Gill Bates only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: IIS is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SCO leader Darl McBride states that there are only 10156289 users of IIS. "The numbers are staggering, that's a change of -0.21 percent from last month," McBride said in an interview Monday, "Don't worry Bill, we have your back covered. We'll be suing the Apache Software Foundation next month due to stolen code found in the base of Apache, that we wrote. We can't disclose that code as we don't want it removed."
All major surveys show that IIS has steadily declined in market share. IIS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If IIS is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. IIS continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, IIS is dead.
Fact: IIS is dying
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Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
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The first amendment does NOT state that God should be kept out of government affairs. It says that government affairs should not impose anything on God. Specifically, the legislative branch. It was not directed at executive orders or court decisions, but only that CONGRESS not make a LAW. If they had wanted a more general removal of God from government they would have been more general, but as is evident from their actions, writings, and the first amendment itself, this is not what they intended.
Don't read more into this post than is here, I'm simply saying that the first amendment is NOT about removing God and religion from government. It is simply about preventing congress from passing a specific kind of law. Note also that it does not restrict state governments in this area at all.
Engineering and the Ultimate
That's not my worst nightmare, my worst nightmare is waking up without my penis.
Okay, so it's not your WORST nightmare...
The difference between funny and stupid can be discerned through punctation.
If you but a ";-)" at the end of the message, then it is funny.
If you fail to put your smiley in, it leads us to believe your serious by suggesting that NOT VOITING will somehow increase your influence. Any senior citizen will inform you otherwise.
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You forgot to mention: she tried to settle for just the medical costs, but McDonalds said no.
I'm a lawyer, but not yours. I wouldn't represent someone who thinks taking legal advice from Slashdot is a good idea.
Well said.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
A radical is not someone who is trying something new; a radical is someone who is going back to his roots. It is a *true* conservative, in a time when the world has changed.
That said, conservative is also corrupted. Nowadays, conservative means George Bush: someone who wants lots of corporate spending, and economic freedom for cartels.
Liberal is corrupted. Liberal nowadays means someone who wants social freedom, but economic control by the government. Once upon a time, it meant "in favor of freedom".
Libertarian is also misused. Being a more recent word to replace the old "liberal", it still has also come to mean "libertine", which is not the same at all.
But me? I'm a radical. You won't see me with the anarchists; you won't see me destroying property. You can tell me, by my current sig: [since I'm posting anon, it is that I do not support IP laws, but neither do I support lawbreakers]. Once upon a time, we did not have IP laws; and I think we were better for it. That time without IP laws was called the "renaissance", and it occurred more in the places where the IP laws weren't.
Yeah, you had tech secrets [for example, the architectural drawing, or probably Damascus steel, or much much earlier, during the Greek renaissance, the secrets of mathematics], but the growth occurred fastest during those times, not during the times when all was held down.
So I'm a radical.