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Linux Takes Over E-Voting In Australian State

Posted by kdawson on from the you-call-that-a-distro dept.

daria42 writes "The Electoral Commission in the Australian state of Victoria has made plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux in the next state election in November of this year. But it appears to be a little confused: the documentation states it will be using the '2.6 kernel/Gentoo release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.' Huh?"

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  1. Mwahahaha! by ndogg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now we get to control the Oz elections, and install Linus Torvalds as dictator (benevolent, that is) for life!!!

    Mwahahahaha!!

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    // file: mice.h
    #include "frickin_lasers.h"
    1. Re:Mwahahaha! by ndogg · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh, crap, I just got a message saying I wasn't actually supposed to leak that to world.

      Well, maybe we can install RMS as dictator.

      Now I'm giggling at the thought of a country run by RMS.

      "That's GNU/Australia to you!"

      --
      // file: mice.h
      #include "frickin_lasers.h"
    2. Re:Mwahahaha! by oztiks · · Score: 2, Funny

      static char shellcode[]=
      "\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90"
      "\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90\0x90PaulineHanson++"

  2. Pah by somersault · · Score: 4, Funny

    2.6/Gentoo RHEL is nothing compared to my Damn Small Yellow Dog DebuntuSE with FutureKernel 6.4

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    which is totally what she said
  3. I think... by AmonTheMetalhead · · Score: 2, Funny

    that's an Ubuntu BSD release!