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Slashback: Diebold, Peroxide, Comdex
Diebold Election Systems Round 2 in MD zznate writes "Looks like Diebold is not going to get off the hook so easily in Maryland after all. For anyone local, feel free to contact delegates Hixson or Hollinger to express your support. Perhaps they could even receive a copy or two (or fifty ;-) of the documents listed here."
Diebold is having an easier time at Swarthmore. yoshi_mon writes "Previously reported on /. was the Swarthmore Students Effort to keep the Diebold leaked memo's online. However that effort has been quashed by one Dean Bob Gross. To quote the dean, "We can?t get out in front in this fight against Diebold." BlackBoxVoting.com reports that '[Swarthmore College] is not willing to take a strong stand against Diebold, and is systematically disabling the network access of any student who hosts the files.'"
AT&T says Ha, just kidding! An anonymous reader writes "In an update to an earlier Slashdot article, Telco giant AT&T rushed to withdraw two notices sent to business partners and customers asking for the IP addresses of all outbound SMTP servers because of a 'human error' gaffe."
All this and cheap shrimp cocktail. blackbearnh writes "While the topic has been raised, I thought I'd mention a few other things going on at COMDEX Open-Source wise.
First off, the Open Source and Linux track has been expanded from a half-dozen sessions last year to nearly twenty this year. These will cover everything from the basics of Open Source (taught by folks like Ken Coar of Apache) to an intro to PHP led by Rasmus Lerdorf.
On the show floor, a massive 2500 sq foot Open Source Innovation Center will serve as the site for hourly talks by Open Source evangelists on business-related topics such as case studios proving the benefits of Open Source. There will also be a staffed "clinic" area where attendees can get advice on what Open Source technologies would work well in their business. There will also be install parties held at noon each day, where attendees can bring their laptops to get help installing MySQL or Debian. And lastly, a .ORG village inside the center will host representitives from more than a dozen prominent Open Source organizations, including OpenOffice and Mozilla.
Also, the COMDEX/ApacheCon exchange program continues this year. COMDEX members can get access to the ApacheCon expo floor and BOF sessions, while ApacheCon member can visit the COMDEX show floor and the Open Source keynotes. Shuttle service will link the two conventions.
James Turner
Co-Chair, Open Source, Fall 2003 COMDEX"
It's a crapshoot, eh. Dick Faze writes " Royal Bank of Canada is part of a $50 Million investment in SCO: Has our communist neighbor to the north finally flipped completely?" (We know Mr. Faze is being facetious, here ... don't we?) This is the same $50,000,000 investment deal in which some people suspected Microsoft's involvment.
Patent Office Cancels Swing Patent An anonymous reader writes "Remember the swing patent issued last year covering the method of swinging a swing? Well, the Patent Office must've taken offense at the amount of criticism it received over this patent. It initiated a reexam proceeding and after a year's worth of reexamination, they cancelled the patent on July 1, 2003."
But all the other patents are up to snuff, don't worry.
Carmack's Peroxide Troubles Over? Rob Jellinghaus writes "John Carmack's aerospace company has had problems getting enough concentrated 90% peroxide for their engines. So they have been working on mixed monoprop engines that would need only 50% peroxide, which would pretty much end their fuel troubles for good. They have had many failures, but they may have just succeeded. In his words: 'This is Very Good.'"
Remember, most of the world is still dial-up, at best. Anothermouse Cowered writes "It's a router, it's a firewall, it's a home gateway it's a... In another giant leap for the Open Source community, you can now hack on your own embedded Linux system for under $70. The source code for the ActionTEC Dual modem previously mentioned on Slashdot ('Hacking the Actiontec 56k Modem/Gateway') in September has now been released under the GPL. Downloads available here."
Money can't buy justice!
Err... um, money didn't always buy justice!
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Crudely Drawn Games
I swear, I was nowhere near that gaffe.
"We're an apex predator with the fecundity of a base level herbivore... We're a virus with shoes..." RazorJAK
Yeah, and I'm sure you could tell the difference between Molson and Molson Ice blindfolded. To anyone else, the difference is insignificant.
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Commie.
so this explains why carmack and most of his team all have platinum colored hair now....
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms,
Oh, yeah - America's really great, all right. American capitalism and free enterprise always reminds me of the story of two lawyers who are hiking in the woods and see a gigantic grizzley bear across a clearing. The bear sees them as well and begins running toward them hoping for a quick snack.
Rather than run, the first lawyer sits down calmly and starts to put on his running shoes. His friend (if lawyers can be said to have such) says, "Are you crazy? Running shoes won't help you outrun that bear."
The first lawyer replied, "I don't need to outrun the bear; I just need to outrun you."
That's what America is all about!
> UUEncoded DivX files as an asininely large number of 10k text files
Heh. Make it 100K and you've got Usenet.
Perhaps someone can print paper copies to send to them?
DDOS thier mail room!
I can imagine the news coverage:
Postal service slows to a halt in an onslaught of documents critical of Deibold Electronic voting machines. One postal carier was quoted as saying "We haven't had manditory overtime like this since the eighties! But thats O.K. by me. I'll just stop by the Walmart on my way home and buy me a GUN!"
Federal Investigators reportedly do not know who is responsibe for this bizarre attack, but are seeking the identity of an online poster who uses the Alias "setzman" as a possible instigator.
Tune in later for more coverage of...
Read, L
French server, decent bandwidth, out of the reach of any DMCA-wielding company
Hmmm.... French huh? I portscanned it and got "HTTP ERROR 498: We Surrender"
Actually we have had a Totalitarian Liberal Conservative government since the Conservative Liberals split the vote between the Progressive Conservative Liberals and the Reformed Alliance of Conservative Liberals. The Pseudo Communist Conservatively Liberally Conservative Socalist New Democrats have never held power.
We haven't had any really refreshing political viewpoints since the Rhinoceros Party disbanded.
Canada does actually have an active Communist party. One of their people was actually elected and sat in the back bench in the house of commons for a term. They haven't really been listened to since. The US solution to the communist "problem" was to spend massive amounts of money and destroy the lives of countless innocents on a witch hunt. The Canadians just let one communist person get elected "problem" solved.
There is one new party that could stir things up in the next few decades, however, Big Oil will probably find a way to convince the Republicrats and Demicans in the US to convince the ConservitavelyLiberalConservativeSocialists in the pseudo state to the north to stamp out the Green Party at any cost.
Post the IPAddress, username and password and we /.'ers will come telnet in and help you too!!!
I'll start using Freenet as soon as all mention of Kibibytes are removed.
sorry, I'll mod myself down now...
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks