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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.""
VOTE LINUX!
, and then he will change everything so that he can stay in power for the rest of his miserable life. ps. I got the first post! shouldn't have gone AC cos now you wont believe me.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
Oh , so true.
And here's how my team and I solved it in our contract work: apt-get.
Right, contractors, thanks. Here today, screw tomorrow.
We even spent a couple of weeks hacking dselect to launch OpenOffice when necessary to create a kind of crude distributed document management system. The users loved it! It's the UNIX way!
A "couple of weeks"?!? You (presuming you are halfway competent) could have encapsulated the entire functionality using a simple <whatever> scripting language in a few days. Perhaps you should get out of the consulting business into what you are most likely best at, used car sales.
Using an advanced search engine (like a rackmounted google box) plus a q&d <script lang> munging launcher could deliver superior functionality based on what requirements you have poorly fulfilled. Your complicity in providing substandard technology and then boasting about it is shameful.
Yea, that's right, go on kazaa and type in Diebold and you'll find the mail....on over a hundred different hosts with quick speedy downloads to par!
Same's true for all the p2p apps, even the waste network I'm on! Sorry Diebold, I'm not gonna stop hosting your memo's until your entire goddamn corperation is taken down and the lie is revealed.
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