Dude, where the hell do you live and how do I emigrate there? If you are suggesting that the USA is anything BUT a corporate controlled nightmare I think you have a lot of 'splaining to do.
You sure are sum dum ass. Whatever happened to the right to a trial by a jury of our peers? This may not be a right you care about, but it is one that I feel is worth keeping around.
Yes, but those in jail get the opportunity to work for third-world pay by packaging products for companies like Microsoft and Starbucks. This is the only way we can compete with the cheap labor that can be found outside the US.
As long as mega corps control the US governemnt, expect this trend to continue.
a cleverly placed (and sized, ie 1 pixel) embedded image to an external site with a unquie string keyed to your email address is yet another trick spammers have for confirming your address
Actually, the image doesn't have to be transparent or small. they can use any image from the HTML to perform such tracking.
You consistently post on every slashdot article having anything to do with voter fraud that the election wasn't stolen. I would like you to explain exactly what proof you have that it wasn't.
That rant aside, I agree with the rest of your comment, that we should amend the HAVA to include a paper trail and expose the source code.
~Jaeson
May be a bit off topic, but...
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This is one of my two favorite parts from this article:
"...a clause inserted by Claria about 3,000 words into a 5,936-word licensing agreement. It reads: 'You agree that you will not use, or encourage others to use, any unauthorized means for the removal of the GAIN Adserver, or any GAIN-supported software from a computer.'"
Of course the only "supported" way is through Add/Remove Programs, and NOT through the use of Spybot, etc.
And here is the second tidbit (also from the linked article):
"Edelman also found that Claria's licensing agreement tries to prohibit users from deploying network monitors to inspect and report transmissions made between their computer, their local network, and the GAIN servers."
Fraud is one thing, unsolicited advertising is another. Currently there are no laws against unsolicited advertising by snail mail and IMHO there should be.
Yes, but you are forgetting that the Governator "Groper" Schwarzenegger is the one who repealed the increased car registration fees in California which was put in place by Republicrat Gray Davis. The Governator himself is a *big* fan of those Humvees, and isn't about to eat the cost of maintaing the roads just because of a silly thing like fuel efficiency.
Oh yeah, and California would have a lot more money to spend on roads if Arnie wasn't settling the whole Enron court case that California had filed for cents on the dollar. Link Here
I can't belive people actually want to change the Constitution to allow this fuck to run for President.
Do you know anything about email? If so, please explain how we would track them by sending them an email message. I would really love to hear how this is done.
Here's a clue for you: Once you have delivered an email message to a remote mail server, the only way to track what happens with that message is if you embed some image (such as a web bug, etc.) which causes their email client to send a request to your webserver when the email is opened and viewed. This can be easily defeated by turning off HTML rendering of the message.
You are the same type of person who falls for those scams that say, "Microsoft is working on a new secret email technology and they need people to test it. They are paying people for it too! Send this email message to 10 people and receive a check for $50.00 from Microsoft. My friend Tom did it and it really works!"
You always talking the same shit Dave. The last article on blackboxvoting I saw you posted 10 comments all spouting the same crap. You seem to be very fired up about this topic, perhaps because you either voted for Bush or perhaps you are a closet Republican.
The big point you don't seem to get is that without an audit trail these machines are totally unaccountable. NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE, so yes, even the "300M Kerry campaign" wouldn't be able to find out what really happened. This is the whole fucking point. So, please, pull your head out of your ass. You can't say with *ANY* certainty that Bush actually won.
The reason Monsanto can claim patent infringement on a crop is because they modified the organism, patented it, and then sold it. I could be wrong, butI am not aware of any patents held by Monsanto for Coca. If they *did* have a patent, then the existence of this plant wouldn't be really much of a surprise, would it?
Or might it be that you don't have any idea what elements might be used for in proprietary software.
I notice that you don't offer any other reasonable explanation for having two sets of voting records beyond "its a proprietary system".
I don't know about you, but when a monkey can alter the votes of an electronic voting machine I get a little worried. I know I am not the only one. Without truly open standards and auditable results (ie paper trail) from these machines how can you say that the votes weren't tampered with? The current US administration hasn't exactly been a shining example of trustworthiness.
They have been busted in California for using revisions of the software on their machines which were *never* reviewed. How can you (or anyone) say that turning on the modem is the only way to modify votes when you have no idea what that software release contained? It was certainly never reviewed by the state or the (ahem) "independent reviewers" that Diebold touts so vociferously.
Besides that, who knows if someone doesn;t go visit the machine and touch a few key places on the touch screen to modify votes. Who says it has to be done remotely by modem or otherwise?
Please pull your head out of your ass and realize that people are fucking stealing our elections; Elections which are supposed to represent the very core of our so-called "democracy". You are the fucking reason they are able to get away with shit like this.
These are generally quite easy to detect, though, so they do not generally lead to the victim's website being shut off.
If they shut down a website "even if junk mail messages are sent through a third-party or over a different network", then how do you propose someone detects who originated the message? Was it the site that got shut down? or one of their competitors? If the traffic came from a 3rd party network how would you ever find this out?
http://nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200401260838. asp
Today's Kerry excoriates Attorney General John Ashcroft for violating American civil liberties with his evil tool, the Patriot Act. "We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night," Kerry huffs. "So it is time to end the era of John Ashcroft. That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time." Maybe Kerry should have thought about that before voting for the Patriot Act in 2001 -- since laws and liberties are pretty important and all.
Back before he had to worry about competing with one Howard Brush Dean, Kerry was positively delighted by the Patriot Act. "It reflects," he said on the Senate floor, "an enormous amount of hard work by the members of the Senate Banking Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee. I congratulate them and thank them for that work." While supportive of "sunset" provisions in the bill, Kerry pronounced himself "pleased at the compromise we have reached on the anti-terrorism legislation." These are not the words of a man about to help inaugurate an era of brown-shirt law enforcement.
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some fantasy corporate-controlled nightmare world
Dude, where the hell do you live and how do I emigrate there? If you are suggesting that the USA is anything BUT a corporate controlled nightmare I think you have a lot of 'splaining to do.
Then we should be able to get rid of that odious piece of crap legislation that no legislators even read before voting for it.
You sure are sum dum ass. Whatever happened to the right to a trial by a jury of our peers? This may not be a right you care about, but it is one that I feel is worth keeping around.
And to be competitive, all of them use sweatshop labor in third world countries. Fuck them all.
They have. The rotten bastards.
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Yes, but those in jail get the opportunity to work for third-world pay by packaging products for companies like Microsoft and Starbucks. This is the only way we can compete with the cheap labor that can be found outside the US.
As long as mega corps control the US governemnt, expect this trend to continue.
a cleverly placed (and sized, ie 1 pixel) embedded image to an external site with a unquie string keyed to your email address is yet another trick spammers have for confirming your address
Actually, the image doesn't have to be transparent or small. they can use any image from the HTML to perform such tracking.
Yes, and they have a much better program than the Springfield Heights Insitute of Technology.
Also, IBM is awesome.
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Yes, who wouldn't love a company that was actively helping the Nazi's in WWII?
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Dave,
You consistently post on every slashdot article having anything to do with voter fraud that the election wasn't stolen. I would like you to explain exactly what proof you have that it wasn't.
That rant aside, I agree with the rest of your comment, that we should amend the HAVA to include a paper trail and expose the source code.
~Jaeson
This is one of my two favorite parts from this article:
Of course the only "supported" way is through Add/Remove Programs, and NOT through the use of Spybot, etc.
And here is the second tidbit (also from the linked article):
Fucking Asshats.
How do you know that someone hasn't spamvertised a competitors website?
What Lycos is doing is at best stupid, and at worst illegal. There are better ways to fight spam.
Fraud is one thing, unsolicited advertising is another. Currently there are no laws against unsolicited advertising by snail mail and IMHO there should be.
~Jaeson
Yes, but you are forgetting that the Governator "Groper" Schwarzenegger is the one who repealed the increased car registration fees in California which was put in place by Republicrat Gray Davis. The Governator himself is a *big* fan of those Humvees, and isn't about to eat the cost of maintaing the roads just because of a silly thing like fuel efficiency.
Oh yeah, and California would have a lot more money to spend on roads if Arnie wasn't settling the whole Enron court case that California had filed for cents on the dollar. Link Here
I can't belive people actually want to change the Constitution to allow this fuck to run for President.
Do you know anything about email? If so, please explain how we would track them by sending them an email message. I would really love to hear how this is done.
Here's a clue for you: Once you have delivered an email message to a remote mail server, the only way to track what happens with that message is if you embed some image (such as a web bug, etc.) which causes their email client to send a request to your webserver when the email is opened and viewed. This can be easily defeated by turning off HTML rendering of the message.
You are the same type of person who falls for those scams that say, "Microsoft is working on a new secret email technology and they need people to test it. They are paying people for it too! Send this email message to 10 people and receive a check for $50.00 from Microsoft. My friend Tom did it and it really works!"
You always talking the same shit Dave. The last article on blackboxvoting I saw you posted 10 comments all spouting the same crap. You seem to be very fired up about this topic, perhaps because you either voted for Bush or perhaps you are a closet Republican.
The big point you don't seem to get is that without an audit trail these machines are totally unaccountable. NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE, so yes, even the "300M Kerry campaign" wouldn't be able to find out what really happened. This is the whole fucking point. So, please, pull your head out of your ass. You can't say with *ANY* certainty that Bush actually won.
The reason Monsanto can claim patent infringement on a crop is because they modified the organism, patented it, and then sold it. I could be wrong, butI am not aware of any patents held by Monsanto for Coca. If they *did* have a patent, then the existence of this plant wouldn't be really much of a surprise, would it?
Or might it be that you don't have any idea what elements might be used for in proprietary software.
I notice that you don't offer any other reasonable explanation for having two sets of voting records beyond "its a proprietary system".
I don't know about you, but when a monkey can alter the votes of an electronic voting machine I get a little worried. I know I am not the only one. Without truly open standards and auditable results (ie paper trail) from these machines how can you say that the votes weren't tampered with? The current US administration hasn't exactly been a shining example of trustworthiness.
NPR has a copy of the photo of the undercover Swiss police here
In fact the odds of being struck by lightning in your lifetime are 1/3000.
Not sure what the odds are for getting 0wn3d...
If you read the bills and quit listening to others you find out these laws are as "far out" as they seem.
I totally agree. These laws are totally far out man.
They have been busted in California for using revisions of the software on their machines which were *never* reviewed. How can you (or anyone) say that turning on the modem is the only way to modify votes when you have no idea what that software release contained? It was certainly never reviewed by the state or the (ahem) "independent reviewers" that Diebold touts so vociferously.
Besides that, who knows if someone doesn;t go visit the machine and touch a few key places on the touch screen to modify votes. Who says it has to be done remotely by modem or otherwise?
Please pull your head out of your ass and realize that people are fucking stealing our elections; Elections which are supposed to represent the very core of our so-called "democracy". You are the fucking reason they are able to get away with shit like this.
Ha! Ha!
These are generally quite easy to detect, though, so they do not generally lead to the victim's website being shut off.
If they shut down a website "even if junk mail messages are sent through a third-party or over a different network", then how do you propose someone detects who originated the message? Was it the site that got shut down? or one of their competitors? If the traffic came from a 3rd party network how would you ever find this out?
http://nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200401260838. asp
Today's Kerry excoriates Attorney General John Ashcroft for violating American civil liberties with his evil tool, the Patriot Act. "We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night," Kerry huffs. "So it is time to end the era of John Ashcroft. That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time." Maybe Kerry should have thought about that before voting for the Patriot Act in 2001 -- since laws and liberties are pretty important and all.
Back before he had to worry about competing with one Howard Brush Dean, Kerry was positively delighted by the Patriot Act. "It reflects," he said on the Senate floor, "an enormous amount of hard work by the members of the Senate Banking Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee. I congratulate them and thank them for that work." While supportive of "sunset" provisions in the bill, Kerry pronounced himself "pleased at the compromise we have reached on the anti-terrorism legislation." These are not the words of a man about to help inaugurate an era of brown-shirt law enforcement.