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Maryland Fights to Keep E-voting
crystalattice writes "Apparently Maryland election officials never have computer problems. That's why they're fighting so hard to keep their Diebold e-voting machines. Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher received nothing but bad attitudes, dodges, and excuses when he attempted to discuss the issue with the state elections administration and Diebold." From the article: "I asked the state's elections administrator, Linda Lamone, whether Maryland wasn't just a bit too quick to adopt electronic voting. Doesn't the computer at your desk ever freeze up on you? 'No,' she replied. Never? 'No.' But surely people in your office have had that experience? 'No.' (Maybe we've found the solution to Maryland's voting problem: Everybody head on down to Linda Lamone's office, where the machines work 100 percent of the time.)"
1999 called, they want their outmoded ideas of desktop computing back.
Frankly, I basically have come to believe that anybody that whines about the stability of Windows is either griping because they can't figure out how to upgrade from Win 98 or because they just don't have any idea how to use a computer. I have never, not even once, in the three and a half years I've owned a version of Windows XP had even one crash that wasn't ultimately traced back to a hardware failure of some sort (most commonly overheating caused by a crappy budget case and a Radeon that was running too warm).
As an amusing side note, the last crash I had on Linux was nine and a half days ago when I accidentally bumped my USB stick partly out of the port and didn't realize it. When I went to do a umount the kernel panicked and the system, naturally, crashed.
Yea, Windows is such crap compared to the competition.