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  1. Re:Captain Obvious Strikes Again... on Vote Tabulator Security Hole Exposed · · Score: 1
    You're close. Keep researching.

    I assume you know the outright manipulation available with electronic voting (www.blackboxvoting.com) that resulted in the first Republican governor of Georgia in 130 years; but, you probably haven't read the book "Votescam" (www.votescam.com), the story of a regular Joe who made a serious run for office in Florida in the 70's, lost, and wanted to know why. The latter will give great insight on your media theory.

    You are incorrect about living in a direct democracy. When is the last time you voted on legislation? You vote on a person to represent your vote on legislation - a representative democracy - a Republic.

    Now, throw in money (greed) and power (control) in your theory, mix in a little drama from the recent Disney movie "Antz" - remember the barroom scene when the grasshoppers didn't want to go back to teach the ant Z a lesson for standing up for something?

    Mandible (lead grasshopper) explained very clearly why one little ant is such a big deal: there's billions of them compared to the very few of us.

  2. Supply and Demand on U.N. Delays Debate on Cloning · · Score: 1

    If the US gets its way, the limited existing cell line(s) becomes a scarce resource and pricing and control becomes a US choice. Its all about power and money.

  3. Finally - irratating sales calls. on Ditching your Landline Just Got Easier · · Score: 1

    Blurring the distinction between wireless and wireline phones does have some drawbacks.

  4. Re:Anyone use Earthstartion? on RIAA/MPAA vs. xMule Author, EarthStation 5 · · Score: 1

    I'm uninstalling it now, and the excalibur trojan, and reloading service pack 3 to get good copies of my .dlls back (mfc42.dll, wmasf.dll, wmvcore.dll, etc.)

  5. TROJAN? on RIAA/MPAA vs. xMule Author, EarthStation 5 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    google group has some interesting things to say on 'earthstation5' An example. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=earthstation5&hl =en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=fnhggvoeut4ubuk5g2q d0rdqu4piuev8ob%404ax.com&rnum=7

  6. Re:I'm from the Show-Me State, prove it. on The Effect of Pirated CDs · · Score: 1

    video

  7. Re:Panhandling for internet dollars on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: 1
    I used BitTorrent for the first time only a few weeks ago. I was so impressed (the site was slashdotted), I immediately popped off $10.00 via paypal to him.

    He even replied with a "Thanks". (Personally autographed email)

    I would be interested in how much 'artisan' wages are for excellent programming. It would be excellent source data (and motivation) for contributions to the public domain.

  8. Personalized? Rather not! on Compute Google's PageRank 5 Times Faster · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I'd rather have a clean search, than a prejudiced search based on my past searches. Who knows what I'm really interested in that day - surely not Google.

    And don't call me Shirley!

  9. Spoof attacks on Windows Security Through Annoyances? · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...prevent "spoof attacks," where hackers plant a fraudulent Web page on a PC screen that looks, but isn't, a file from a person's doctor or accountant, for example.

    That happens _all the time_. Boy, I'm glad somebody is doing something about this.

    Wait, my doctors and accountants barely have time to use e-mail, much less, format html to send to me.