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- Government watchdog to investigate election
- Government watchdog to investigate electionNeeds InvestigatingI had four friends over the night of the election.Three of us had been mysteriously un-registered to vote.One was un-registered from the precienct where she has voted since she was old enough - where she voted in the last election. She was told that...
- Tags: Government, Kinda, ballot, provisional ballot
- Discussion threads 2004-11-23
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- Election Day '08: Where to get live results
- There's no better time in history to watch election results on the fly. Some, but not all, of us will have access to a television, where you can watch results stream in on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC or Fox. But for those of you...
- Tags: Result, Associated Press, Election Day, Twitter, CNN, Palm Beach Post, Northwestern, Corporate Communications, Blogging, RSS, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Election-day technology watches the polls
- Election-day technology watches the pollsReffer back to President Clinton for a clue.He also promised a middle class cut and then didn't come through when elected. You can be sure about the tax raising however. No Democrat has ever failed to keep that promise.My biggest concern.Energy. If Obama...
- Tags: Election Day, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?RE: Will e-voting machines tilt the election?First the reported problems are far more widespread than Tennessee and West Virginia. The e-voting systems are being reported as having the similar issues nationwide and even with different manufactures.See http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6616The behavior being reported is hardly the type of...
- Tags: Keyboards, e-voting system, e-voting, e-voting machine, touch screen
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?
- Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 24 months, you should be well aware that tomorrow millions of Americans will be going to the polls to select their representative, one-third of their senators, and the next president. In general, Americans have become wary of the...
- Tags: Touch Screen, E-voting, Keyboards, Government, Hardware, Peripherals, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Hacking the vote
- Hacking the voteYou'd think soBut lots of very smart people have spent lots of time not solving it.i think your server idea is right except that programmable clients make it possible to attack the server data store - something that can't be done with Sun Rays.Downside to having people pick...
- Tags: Scanners, E-voting, SECURITY, VOTING MACHINES, ballot, hacking, programmer, server
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Report: NJ voting machines easily hacked
- Report: NJ voting machines easily hacked"when an optical reader and paper ballot solve everything?? "It doesn't solve the problem of how to allow elections to be manipulated, which is what this is all about.The ability to produce a desired election result without having any way to challenge it is a...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, ballot, paper ballot
- Discussion threads 2008-10-20
- No FireWire over Ethernet; but maybe in Snow Leopard
- Since Apple announced the new MacBook last week sans FireWire, there's been a backlash from the Apple community about the omission. Users love the high-speed data protocol for things like Target Disk Mode TDM, transferring clips from digital video cameras and for connecting to external hard drives....
- Tags: Ethernet, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., FireWire, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Resurrecting E-voting
- Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...
- Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Dancing on E-voting's grave
- Dancing on E-voting's graveAgreed - but consider the slippery slopeBecause once you recognized the problem in kind, you ended up arguing (accurately, I think) about degree.Why client-server can't workBecause the expert has to say "yes" to the question in court - no matter how difficult or impractical it may actually...
- Tags: Fair Use, e-voting, client-server, Fairness Doctrine
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Google.org invests in geothermal
- Google.org invests in geothermal$1 billion is even lesswhen compared to welfare payouts. Chew on that the next time you want to make a political statement.And while you're masticating, figure this one out: If you have to beg for a government handout, your business isn't viableNuclear power, coal and oil PAY...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, What-If, geothermal energy, tax break, Google.org
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?....It's pioneers like Colorado that will finally propel us into the 21st century. Great news! Love it when the old ways are trounced by new tech AND soundly at that!"[B]Despite a continuing boom, oil and gas companies here are on the...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Telecom & Utilities, Westinghouse, mW, tax, Xcel Energy Inc., renewable energy
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXML
- Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXMLSo let me get this straight....... during an investigation of irregularities in the vote they are allowing an appeal after the dealine. Priceless!Glad to see it.When a company can't even implement their own creation that speaks for itself.No surprise on...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Process improvement, Venezuelan Government, ISO, Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, irregularity
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXML
- This really can't come as much of a surprise, but the list of countries protesting the ISO approval of OOXML is getting longer. Venezuela's appeal has been accepted by the IEC International Electrotechnical Commission but the jury is still out on Denmark. Friday, the IEC said that...
- Tags: Venezuela, Appeal, Office Open XML, Denmark, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote
- Brazil, India and South Africa have filed appeals to the ISO/IEC approval of Microsoft's OOXML. At the Standards Blog, Andy Updegrove outlines some of the issues: Brazil's objections fall under two main headings, the second of which was also raised by South Africa. That...
- Tags: Brazil, Appeal, South Africa, Office Open XML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Email voting for overseas troops?
- Email voting for overseas troops?So what's wrong with absentee ballots?I'm under the distinct impression that mail call is still a major part of military life. I think it's even still possible to send US mail out of war zones.A couple of more comments1. The Australian ballot, if my...
- Tags: ballot, e-voting, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- A professor deals with political climate around climate change
- I am NOT a scientist but I have two brothers who are. My father was a phycsics professor. I even admit to knowing and liking folks who are in the sciences, regardless of their reputation among certain politico-business factions in America. In the interest of dialogue, I...
- Tags: Food, Science, Humans, Trite, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-27
- Leading with LED
- Some random smatterings of information to report today, related to the adoption of LED technology. First off, the folks that gave away all those LED holiday lights at the end of last year are saying thanks with a $1,000 donation to a non-profit organization with a mission...
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-26
- Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test
- Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance testYes Microsoft said this months agoThey have not yet changed Office to keep up with spec changes negotiated during the ISO standardization process. They have long ago made announcements regarding this and their plans for bringing it into compliance.I can't decide which was more...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, ISO, software, Microsoft Office 2007
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- Urban food deserts in major cities
- Canadian researchers at the University of Western Ontario have studied the evolution of food deserts in urban areas. Food deserts are areas where people have low or no access to food shops. In other words, they are neighburhoods with low average home incomes and poor access to healthy food. As...
- Tags: Supermarket, Food, Food Desert, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
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