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Diebold Fails Again in San Diego
ptudor writes "An article in today's San Diego Union Tribune reveals nearly 3000 absentee ballots in the San Diego primary one month ago were miscounted. 'The miscounts occurred because multiple scanners simultaneously fed the absentee ballot data into the computer tabulation system. The large number of ballots and candidates on them overwhelmed the system. Diebold spokesman David Bear said the company has provided a software fix to the county for the new problem.' The irregularities were found in a routine post-election review." You can also read more about the problems on election day.
...and it smells goooood
I hope these don't have any Cisco equipment built in to them...
-Patrick
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
Hi, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda here, admin of slashdort "News for Nerds - Stuff that matters."
I normally post in the quiet haven of my journal, where I can block out unfriendly voices and just listen to the ass kissers, so you may be surprised to find me posting here, in the rough and tumble world of Slarshdot! Well, let me just say, it's not by choice! I avoid this awful place like the plague!! And by the way -I'm not gay.
But I need to tell you, the widest possible audience, about an exciting new opportunity opening up. Many of you have been around here a long time, as you can see from your low UID. (Those, that is, that survived the "Night of The Long Bitchslaps", that is!!). Some of you are new. Many of you haven't found that special someone, like I have. In fact most of you. But there are some, out there who have families, families who do not read Slashdort.
Maybe it's the foul language. Maybe it's because of those offensive trolls. (I am NOT gay). But probably they are driven away by the inane babbling of the mob, and appallingly poor moderation by halfwits. Anyway, that doesn't matter. The other day, when I was baking a sponge cake, I came up with a promising proposal. I've thought it through, and with the almost unanimous approval of the editorial staff (stfu Michael) and the posters to my journal, I've decided to implement "SlashTot - For the little ones". The slogan will be "News for Tots. Stuff about rabbits."
Basically it's a Slashdot for kids! It looks a bit like normal Slashdot, but has a big smiley sun with rays coming out of it permanently stuck up in the top right hand corner of the screen. And we've had years of experience of talking down to our audience, so we think we'll be able to make things understandable for the 12-16 age range we're aiming at. 12-16 year olds love rabbits, so we're replacing all the usual icons with pictures of them. We'll keep the normal technology news though, it's all we can do to keep up as it is, trawling through the user submissions and cut and pasting across, so it would be just too hard to have dedicated SlashTot articles, at least until the 12-14 year olds start writing their own we can just cut and paste across. Everything will be filtered at +5 so there's no worry about your darlings reading words like fuckass, bitchpus or bumcunt.
Imagine the whole family being able to have conversations about their Slash(d/t)ot experience of the day! The playful banter. Little Johnny asking why there is still a BSD section. Young Britney wants to talk about the SCO group. The whole family can LOL together.
Yes, this will be a significant step forward. You can now sign up your little ones for a subscriber account, just look for the new option in your preferences. Well, check it out, at $1 a month, it's very reasonable. Anyway, thanks for taking the time, catch you later!!
Rab "CmdrTaco(01)" Maldo.
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The power of DDoSing yourself.
And for you it's:
if ( humor_ability < 1 ) {
plz(die, thx);
}
SUCKER!!!