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Can Your ATM Play Beethoven?
bpiltz writes "A funk band in Harrisonburg, VA, called Midnight Spaghetti, has posted a story with photos about a newly installed Diebold Opteva 520 ATM at Carnegie Mellon University that crashed, then rebooted. The Windows XP operating system initialized without the actual ATM software. The result was a public desktop computer, with only a touch screen interface, left wide open for the amusement of the students at the most wired university in the U.S. Interestingly, Diebold is one of the leading manufacturers of e-voting machines."
...Before the 2004 elections.
Puff the Nuclear Weapon
Puff the Nuclear Weapon was pointed at Iraq,
and waited in his submarine for the signal to attack.
Little George Bush Junior, he loved that rascal puff,
and all those days, he nightly prayed for the UN to get tough.
oh
Puff the Nuclear Weapon lived in the sea,
protecting all our freedoms to
a brand new SUV.
Puff the Nuclear Weapon lived in the sea,
protecting all our freedoms to
a brand new SUV.
Now Puff he liked to travel, so he wore travelling clothes
While Bush was home and on the phone, from locations undisclosed.
Presidents and Princes, they bowed when'ere he came,
and Nation States lowered their flags when Puff roared out his name.
oh
Puff the Nuclear Weapon defender of the peace,
securing the world's oil supply
and the occasional golden fleece.
Puff the Nuclear Weapon defender of the peace,
securing the world's oil supply
and hte occasional golden fleece.
Plutonium lasts for ever, but not so little boys.
ICBMs and M-16s give way to... other toys.
And one grey day it happened: The traders broke the Dow.
So Puff the Nuclear Weapon's on the open market now.
His warhead packed in plastic, green crates that bore his name.
Poor Puff would not intimidate for the Stars and Stripes again.
Without his life long friend, poor puff could not be brave,
so al-Qaida hid that that weapon in a deep, dark, man-made cave.
oh
Puff the Nuclear Weapon lived in the sea,
but now he's in a backpack
some where close to you and me.
Puff the Nuclear Weapon defender of the free,
and you can blame it all upon
Bush fiscal policy.
lyrics fully GPL. And it's satire too.
I just killed my friend my roomate. it was an accident i swear we were just mucking around and then he sliped and knocked his head and shit fuck what do I do oh shit oh shit ohs hittt what you fuck do i do I mean hes dead oh fuck shit I knew his partents to oh fukc fuck oh ds of fdjsoifh
How are we supposed to trust a voting system, when the system itself is owned and operated by staunch supporters of the Bush administration?
I came across the following in the Graydon Carter's "Editor's Letter" section in the latest issue of Vanity Fair (April 2004):
"Walden O'Dell is chairman and CEO of Diebold, one of the largest electronic-voting-machine manufacturers in the country. He also happens to be a Bush 'pioneer,' which means he's raised at least $100,000 for the president's re-election campaign. In mid-2003, he helped organize a fund-raiser attended by Vice President Dick Cheney that brought in a further $600,000. A few months later, O'Dell called upon Ohio Republicans for even more money for the party, proclaiming his commitment to help 'Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.' Diebold itself has given $100,000 in soft-money contributions to the Republican National Committee. (The company has donated nothing to the Democrats.) One of the company's directors raised $200,000 for the Bush re-election campaign, and 11 other Diebold executives anted up $2,000 apiece."
Shouldn't these voting machines be operated by some kind of non-partisan/bi-partisan organization?
-- anthony