you can vote for Skull or Bones - take your pick

Funny you mention that, as I hear they were both members...


http://www.johnwaitethehardway.com/index2.htm

What about the Scarecrow, er Nader?

does it really matter anyways??

you can vote for Skull or Bones - take your pick

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for JHVH-1 is a vengeful god, and I urinate on the heads of men."

Not to change the topic away from politics any, but does anyone find "[group] slams [topic]" to be interesting headline wording?

Upon seeing "Computer scientists slam.." I pictured my college Comp Sci professors inside a large paper mache battering ram, all blindly running and screaming into the side of a building. Is that wrong? :p

Always nice to have a new reason to hate the Folks in Charge of my state.

Computer voting just isn't something that is practical or desired. The only reason to have it is either to create a way to make money by trying to introduce a new way to vote (I didn't say better), or to have a whole new range of ways to manipulate results.

Canada has paper ballots, most of the country turns out to vote, and they all seem to get counted without controversy or confusion. Perhaps someone in government should ask Canada for their voting system details. Then again, accurate voting wouldn't be in the best interest of most politicians.

Anyone catch the voter registration denials in Ohio because they weren't the right weight of paper? Ken Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State and self-labeled Neo-Conservative, has invalidated thousands of voter registrations using an arcane Ohio law that says they had to be on a certain weighted cardstock make them valid. Now leaving aside the fact that Ohio Board of Elections has on their website a registration form that they encourage people to download and print out (without any such paper specifications), Blackwell said it was because it could possibly cause postal machines to jam. Not that any reports of that have happened, in the years since the website promoted this method of registration. This is in violation of the 1971 Voting Rights Act, by the way. Also, since Blackwell doesn't have jurisidction, any Federal voter registration forms printed out and sent in must be honored (so much for those poor postal workers). So what is the real reason to deny these registrations? Wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that, in Ohio, newly registered voters are 10 Democrats for every 1 Republican, right?

http://www.daytonforkerry.com/Blackwell.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/politics/campaign/26vote.html

Sec. 1971. - Voting rights

(a) Race, color, or previous condition not to affect right to vote; uniform standards for voting qualifications; errors or omissions from papers; literacy tests; agreements between Attorney General and State or local authorities; definitions

(1)
All citizens of the United States who are otherwise qualified by law to vote at any election by the people in any State, Territory, district, county, city, parish, township, school district, municipality, or other territorial subdivision, shall be entitled and allowed to vote at all such elections, without distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; any constitution, law, custom, usage, or regulation of any State or Territory, or by or under its authority, to the contrary notwithstanding.

(2)
No person acting under color of law shall -

(A)
in determining whether any individual is qualified under State law or laws to vote in any election, apply any standard, practice, or procedure different from the standards, practices, or procedures applied under such law or laws to other individuals within the same county, parish, or similar political subdivision who have been found by State officials to be qualified to vote;

(B)
deny the right of any individual to vote in any election because of an error or omission on any record or paper relating to any application, registration, or other act requisite to voting, if such error or omission is not material in determining whether such individual is qualified under State law to vote in such election.

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The site says that the infecting virus "phones home" - sends out to an IP address. Doesdn't this give them the address that the virus came from? Even if it was the last sender? So it can be traced.
...Steve

Yes, a paper trail is great! Why don't we have 2 paper receipts printed, one for the voter, and then another that's dropped into a ballot box. Then we tally up the Evotes and then tally up the paper votes!

Sure, it'd take forever, but then we'd be really really sure....right?

Bah.

Apple Computer is offering free replacement screens to owners of 15-inch PowerBook models whose machines have a flaw that causes the screen to display white spots.

Sweet! Mine just started showing those over the weekend (not sweet), although there's still two more years on the warranty. Glad to know I can just pick up a phone and say "white spots" into it and they'll take care of the rest though..

Looks to me like some of the reinforcing ribs in the monitor are putting pressure on the back of the LCD panel (or something along those lines)

These aluminium cases sure do look sexy, and I suppose they dissipate heat quickly, but I'm not really sure it's the best choice of material for a laptop case -- it's pretty bendy. I think I'd prefer a hard polycarbonate case, even though it would probably add to the weight and bulk somewhat..




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Yeah,

But the problem is that a lot of people want to see britney spears naked or whatever other xxx .jpeg file they spread it to.

Slashdot | First JPEG Virus Posted To Usenet

Only Microsoft could take something as ubiquitous and harmless as a JPEG and turn it into a disease-spreading agent.

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Slashdot | First JPEG Virus Posted To Usenet

This exploit has been around on Usenet for months now, it's not new. Only became public knowledge because Microsoft finally announced the problem. Newsgroups are filled with images right now that have some form of virus or spyware. Most of them are rather obvious since they are only a few kb in size and are labelled "BritneySpears naked.jpg" or something similar. It's the filenames that look legit that you have to be carefull of, such as CD or box covers.