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Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos
bllfrnch writes "Mary Hodder, over at The Berkeley School of Journalism's bIPlog, reports that electronic voting bigwig Diebold has begun sending cease-and-desist letters to universities whose students are linking to hijacked internal company memos that elucidate the company's level of respect for citizens' right to vote. Particularly shocking is the line: "If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.""
first post????
first post! Again.
Thank you, thank you. Yes, I know. I couldn't have done it without the help of my untrustworthy slow machine which forces me to wait while it starts up tomcat so i can test the site I'm working on.
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I'm in love with a UT bot!!!!!!
No matter whether it's a republican or democrat as president, they will be looking out for their corporate buddies.
I'm sure the people of Iraq would have loved to vote a new leader when Saddam Hussein was in power
Saddam Hussein actually did a lot of good things for the Iraqi, such as nationalising the oil industry. And Hussein had a point about the fairness of tiny puppet states like Kuwait controlling an enormously disproportionate amount of oil reserves. Unfortunately, reality is not as simple as Fox News would have you believe.
But the question now is if and when the Iraqi people will get the right to vote. Since Afghanistan, which was invaded way back in `01, still hasn't had a single democratic election, Iraq's chances are slim. You see, the people of Iraq aren't exactly handing out flowers to the American invasion force (which indiscriminately slaughter opposition). In fact, most Iraqis would prefer independence, much as America's forefathers did. But the US occupation forces hardly want a government which might demand national autonomy and national control of the oil supply.
And guess what - the Baath party has been outlawed. What an auspicious beginning for American-style democracy.
Shocking because it's the BEST TROLL EVER!
My hat is off.
Microsoft shoots the Windows Messenger
By John Leyden
Posted: 29/10/2003 at 12:16 GMT
Microsoft is to disable Windows Messenger and will activate Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) by default on XP boxes, in a move to better shield Windows PCs against hostile attack.
Windows Messenger, a function used to exchange data between computers unrelated to MSN Messenger, has become more trouble than its worth in recent months since spammers latched onto the service as a way of launching pop-up spam boxes on targeted PCs. The service was also subject to a security flaw this month which created a mechanism for crackers to commandeer vulnerable Windows boxes. Microsoft has issued a patch but even so, the problem is another black mark against a not terribly useful service.
So Microsoft has decided to turn off Messenger with Windows XP Service Pack 2, due in the first half of next year. Microsoft is yet to detail how it intends to disable the service on other versions of Windows. Windows Messenger is seldom used by consumers; and businesses, which might use it, have the expertise to turn the service back on.
Last week, AOL took the unilateral decision to kill off Windows Messenger for its subscribers.
Security Fence
Microsoft execs this week outlined various plans to improve Windows security at the firm's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles.
IDG reports that Microsoft is developing a new API (application programming interface) for RPCs (remote procedure calls) to more tightly control the operation of the protocol in MS environments. The security shortcomings of Microsoft's implementation of RPC within its distributed component object model (DCOM) were highlighted by the devastating Blaster worm. Further Microsoft security alerts about this same RPC component of Windows since the August spread of Blaster have merely underlined the problem.
Microsoft also plans to apply more restrictive default configurations on its ubiquitous Internet Explorer web browser Local Machine and Local Intranet security zones. (R)
Sorry. Reality has changed theory. Alot of people now define communism as "A form of government that may have started as a half-based attempt to bring on a utopian collectivist society - as defined by Karl Marx - but is in reality a murderous totalitarian state." Given that those totalitarian states called themselves communist, the new definition stuck. There has never been true communism, which like any form of anarchy will not work for large groups due to human nature. Instead there were megadeaths brought on by the likes of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. ...not that a pseudo-socialist corporate republic like the USA is a good thing.
If I were the Iraqi people I wouldn't be best pleased with the way things went, in great part thanks to the US.
Daniel
Carpe Diem
The United States never sold Iraq any weapons of mass destruction. It hardly sold Iraq any weapons at all (just some lightly armored helicopters). The U.S. accounted for less than 1% of Iraq's weapons. Iraq was a Soviet client state and bought arms mainly from the Soviet Union and France. The money for Iraq's weapons came from Iraq itself, other Arab oil states, the USSR and France.
The U.S. did give Iraq some agricultural loans in the mid-1980s when it was trying to improve relations with Iraq.
These are just outrageous lies that people have come to believe through repetition. Believe it or not, the United States is not responsible for every bad regime in the world.
Very mature.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden