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EFF Announces 2004 Pioneer Award Winners

Posted by simoniker on from the paper-voting-methods-used? dept.

Christopher Soghoian writes "In an announcement earlier this week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has revealed the winners of the Thirteenth Annual Pioneer Awards. Focusing on the area of electronic voting security and accountability, they have highlighted the work of Kim Alexander, the president of the California Voter Foundation, David Dill, a Stanford Professor and founder of VerifiedVoting.org, and Avi Rubin, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who co-authored the highly publicized Diebold report of 2003."

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  2. Pioneer Awards? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And yet no mention of this?

    I don't know whether to be amazed or disgusted.

  3. Re:BENEDICT ARNOLDS OF THE OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    This is offtopic (mod me down, karma-bonus isn't working anyway), but I'll bite:

    What do you have to look forward to?
    Following in their footsteps: creating a wildly successful capitalist business that uses others' open-source to reduce costs, in the process possibly contributing back in minor amounts. It worked for Apple, it worked for Google, it worked for countless others I won't bother to name, it'll work for me.

  4. Heather Has Two Mommies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Future is Here: Heather has Two Mommies

    Thanks to this innovation, it will be even more difficult in the future for geeks to "get some." Why go to a man when a woman can give you everything you need?

  5. oh yeah? by dj245 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I triple dog dare anyone to score a +5 funny of this thread. Really. This one is about as funny as, well, three linux guys winning an minor award.

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    1. Re:oh yeah? by MikeXpop · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well hey, at least it's not the Grammy's.

      --
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  6. I AM on TEH SPOKE!!!1!@~!one! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  7. OT - Ungrateful PHB's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Today I have just had my first KPI issue put against my name. Why? Because I ran a couple of weeks over on a year long project.

    Yes, I probably deserved it for that reason

    But, take into account that I also am the sole developer on this project - a customised CRM for a large company, I am expected to do tech support 24x7 if required even though its not in my contract, it is critical to the business so requires thorough testing of everything, they change the business logic after we have agreed on them, I have other projects dumped on me which I am ordered to give priority to, and then they have the hide to fucken KPI me when I run 2 weeks late!

    All I can say...FUCK OFF! Give me the first chance and Im outta here, ungrateful FUCKS! Pay the FUCKEN CEO millions, work developers like myself fucken 24x7 then the CEO talks his way out of fuckups he creates, while I get permanent marks against my record.

    Anyway, glad to get that off my chest. And yes I am feeling a lot better.

  8. Re:You are not very good at trolling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm not good at trolling? I just got one shiny "Troll" point. So there. ;p