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  1. Why worry? Sequoia machines aren't being audited on Can Static Electricity Generate Votes? · · Score: 1

    No paper trail, no audit trail and a judge just blocked the release of the report saying so. Diebold machines are similar.

  2. Check out this voter's experience on How To Spot E-Vote Tampering? · · Score: 1
  3. and we wonder why the US space program sucks on Will Mars be a One-way Trip? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "The current American astronauts are picked for things such as their speaking ability and social skills" I'd like to see some attribution but it wouldn't surprise me in the least. Many of the reasons others in this thread are giving for going are primarily social goals eg. "to be in the history books". I'd go to do the work.

  4. Re:Overuse on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 1

    SSRI's are addictive? When did that start? Do they have their own 12th program? Is this, like, documented somewhere? I've been on and off them a few times (I was on the wrong thing) with nary a problem if done correctly (ie. DON'T DO IT COLD TURKEY or you'll get whopping side effects)

  5. Why not use Solaris 10 or Open Solaris on NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    so you can use ZFS's capabilities.

  6. Check everything's up, mail, tech sites, perf on First Thing IT Managers Do In the Morning? · · Score: 1

    As I walk in the door, I can see the network monitoring station off in the distance. I can see if there's any red lights and if so, go over and investigate. If not, I've got my own monitoring console so I look for any red lights there. Then I open my email and look for my diagnostic emails that would go off if anything's gone messy. Then I check my "situation normal" mail to make sure everything's there. Finally I see if the users are complaining about anything. Then slashdot, user friendly, roughly drafted, digg, DU for the news. Then orca and some other diagnostics to check system performance.

  7. Democratic Underground on Where Do You Get Your IT News? · · Score: 1

    http://www.democraticunderground.com/ especially Late Breaking News

  8. Re:Anyone tested it? on Solaris Telnet 0-day vulnerability · · Score: 1

    I tried on all my boxes (yes, I'm days away from transitioning away from telnet as soon as all the users get a Windows SSH client) and couldn't duplicate the exploit. That is includes two Solaris 10 boxes.

  9. But consider the near canonization of Ayn Rand on U.S. Classrooms Torn Between Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    I don't believe any Objectivist is going to expect any form of Divine Intervention from the departed spirit of Ayn Rand.

  10. They're gonna nail a lot of Aspies on Smart Cameras Detect Crime, Erode Privacy · · Score: 1
    ...and people from other cultures who have different views on eye contact.

    Whenever I go in a large department store, I've almost immediately get tailed by security people because I make inappropriate eye contact (or lack of it) with customers, clerks and the security camera.

    I'm interested in security (I do something related for a living) and like to see where they've sited their cameras etc.

    I also have issues with eye contact.

  11. Toronto isn't Canada on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    as much as it would like to think it is. I'm not aware of any laws abridging speech in Canada other than blatant hate speech.

  12. Move to Alberta on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    We're screaming for qualified workers in practically every field.

  13. Some people having auditory issues on ChatterBlocker — Block Distracting Speech at Work · · Score: 1

    Specifically, central auditory processing deficits that prevent them from hearing more than one conversation at a time. Hearing the clutter from several competing, but incomprehensible conversations can be distracting.

  14. Re:Blind leading the blind on Misconfigured Webserver, Threats to Call FBI · · Score: 1

    Managers are not hired for their competence. They are hired for their social skills or their contacts (eg. within the "good ol' boys" network).

  15. So their definition of "No child left behind" on Misconfigured Webserver, Threats to Call FBI · · Score: 1

    ...is for every child to get left behind.

  16. It's an orbit on Mars Recon Orbiter Nearing Mars Orbit · · Score: 1

    confirmed by two-way doppler radar

  17. Contact on Mars Recon Orbiter Nearing Mars Orbit · · Score: 1

    They're checking the orbit now.

  18. It's a matter of the 'document of record' on Maryland Votes To Ban Diebold Voting Machines · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With paper ballots (as in Canada's X on a slip), scannable hand-marked ballots, and paper receipts, the piece of paper is the legal document of record. With fully electronic voting, the electronic log is the document of record. Easily hacked.

  19. ...at the box office on Movies Losing Popularity at Box Office · · Score: 1

    It's reached the point where I refuse to enter a theatre because they're filthy, noisy and smelly. I've got a better sound system at home. The only movies I'll go to see are ones where it's nice to have a crowd around you eg. kids enjoying a Harry Potter movie or a wide-screen epic that just isn't gonna fit on my poor old 21" Samsung. Even then, I'll wait 'til the end of a run at a budget theatre when I've got the place pretty much to myself.

  20. Saw a bit of this on TV last night (Edmonton) on Single Molecule Transistor A Reality · · Score: 1

    This is hardly desktop science. They had a roomful of equipment that seemed to need a hellish amount of cooling.

  21. Re:You can't argue with these people on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1
    Sorry, you'll have to point out the contradiction to me. Please use an appropriate literary analysis and the original Hebrew where appropriate.

    Here ya go.

    http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/accou nts.html

  22. Re:One possible effect... on Symantec to Buy Veritas · · Score: 1

    DiskSuite has been bundled with the OS since Solaris 8

  23. My father-in-law held a code funeral on Programmers Hold Funerals for Old Code · · Score: 1

    They rented part of a farmer's field and buried the source code, the tapes and most of the hardware.

  24. SNMP management system pricing on Goodbye SNMP? Hello, WS-Management · · Score: 1

    net-snmp - free
    What's up Gold, about $200.00

  25. Re:64 bits is awfully big already on ZFS, the Last Word in File Systems? · · Score: 1

    You obviously haven't spent any time trying to maintain file systems for mappers. To them, "the map is not the territory" is a logical fallacy.