Jason was right in predicting that elections in Fairfax County were handed over to an electronic system that failed because officials didn’t understand it well enough. Turns out that yesterday’s voting was marred by glitches: The new machines, meant to simplify voting, made the tallying of the votes more problematic. More than half of precinct […]
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Jason Lefkowitz wrote about this two weeks ago and detailed how Fairfax County was not concerned with security flaws in system it purchased. Election officials pretty much admitted that they spent $3.5 million on a system they didn’t understand. Meanwhile, one vendor, Diebold is trying to suppress information about flaws in its system which could
Looks like he did the smart thing and installed movable type. In the Nyk of Time
I’ve been kind of annoyed that most everyone else had a spiffy log title and I was just sitting here using my domain name like a sucker. The Internet Anagram Server, pointed out that my first and last names are an anagram for “record as I am” which I think is a more interesting title.
Looks like the Man-In-Charge sent Mel Gibson a message about his latest movie project by striking the actor playing Jesus with lightning. It’s also not the first time that this has happened. I’d hate to be on that shoot. "Oh crap, looks like all our water is running blood red." An assistant director on the
Arcade cabinets and emulators were the topic of discussion on slashdot recently when they linked to Aaron Mahler’s site. Aaron has thoroughly documented his project and its one of the most well done and updated online resources on the subject. I’m particularly impressed by how he wired his control panel so nicely. He’s as free
Came across an interesting tip today that if your x-box magazine demo cd doesn’t work you should boil it. Back in my day we had cartridges and if they didn’t work you blew on the connectors. And we liked it!
First concerns the current stagnation of Microsoft’s web browser. While other browsers such as Mozilla, Konqueror, and Safari sport surfer friendly features such as pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing, IE has been stuck at version 6.0 longer than I was in college it seems. Bill addresses his critics saying, "How could we ignore the browser?,"
Besides wasting gas, SUVs are not very safe according to a study reported on CNN. Mid-size sport utility vehicles are nine times as likely as passenger cars to be involved in fatal rollover crashes and twice as likely to kill the occupants of other vehicles in crashes, a government study says. Public Citizen has a