User: laskoune

Re:$82 Billion Well Spent

On: Military Seeks Approval to Develop Space Weapons

efforts to later break that treaty are generally considered to be in poor taste (putting in very mildly)...
you do know what is Bush's opinion on international treaties & poor taste?

vending machines & democracy

On: Diebold Voting Systems Grossly Insecure

from the NYT article :

"This isn't the code for a vending machine," he said. "This is the code that protects our democracy."

but ... isn't this democracy one big vending machine ?

Re:What I'd like to see..

On: First HDD MPEG4 Video Camcorder

dv backup
DV Backup allows you to use your digital camcorder to backup hard disk data

Re:Similar concerns for normal voting

On: Swiss Town Holds First Internet Vote

They use a "town hall" style of voting, where they meet in the town square, debate and vote normaly by a show of hands
this is called "landsgemeinde" and is only used in two very small cantons. the rest of switzerland votes "normally" www.admin.ch

Yo may think that is arcane. But at least the woman got the right to vote in the late 1980s
women can vote on national elections/referendums since 1971 (not much better)
on the other hand, the death penalty was abolished in 1944 (mmm... maybe that's arcane too) ;-)

mutter, mumble

On: Two Directions for the Future of Supercomputing

tried mumble,mutter doesn't work, so i registered mutter,mumble