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• On the post: Cause For Concern: 'Experimental' Patches Applied To Ohio Voting Machines Without Certification

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2012 @ 01:42pm

  Re:

  IT's a machine that records votes.
  
  Over here, in the upcoming elections, the system will be something like:
  
  1) Person assigned reference;
  2) Person takes reference to polling booth;
  3) Vote;
  4) Votes tallied;
  5) IF discrepancy, then confirm votes;
  6) Shred the database Key matching voter to vote reference once tallies concluded.
  
  95% of the issues go away.
  
  The Diebold (csorry, Premier Election Solutions) machines were hackable by USB drive. Think about that. A USB drive rigging an election.

• On the post: Wisconsin Warns: If You Tweet Photos Of Your Completed Ballot, You Can Go To Jail

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2012 @ 11:39am

  Re: Re: I had my ballot in my hands last week

  Yes, because you can't rig elections without IP.
  
  /s

• On the post: Another Key Motorola vs. Apple Patent Trial Tossed Out By A Judge Frustrated With Apple's Games

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2012 @ 06:27am

  Re: umm no

  I think it's simply a case of Apple sayign flat out that they would not abide by the Court's judgement. That can easily be construed as Apple shopping around for a verdict in their favour.
  
  The FTC going after Google for antitrust over patents is an absurd notion at best.

• On the post: Organizations Try To Shame People Into Voting By Revealing How Often They & Their Neighbors Voted

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2012 @ 04:50am

  Re: Zakida Paul

  But it's against the law to spoil your ballot in the US, if I recall correctly. So, what, precisely, is someone who wishes to voice that no-one best represents them to do? The only option is to stay away, which doesn't really help matters.

• On the post: George Lucas: Still Planning To Make Films, But They Won't Be Shown In Theaters

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2012 @ 12:04am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Meesa gonna get-ya! Messa gonna make-ya watch meesa all the time!

• On the post: The Public Apparently Isn't Interested In Sound Economics

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2012 @ 12:02am

  Re: Re:

  Episocial norms change at a rate of continental drift, barring some kind of "disaster", which ranges from "Civil War" to "9/11" to "Credit Crunch".

• On the post: Slovak Collection Society Tells High School Students To Pay Up For Music At Graduation Parties

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2012 @ 12:48pm

  Re: Re: "Put up a blog post"! THOSE EVIL BEASTS!

  Actually, they make me more faithful in humanity, because to counter ootb, there will be a genius who will figure out how to map the entirety of spacetime in sucha fashion as to make deep space navigable and reachable.

• On the post: Biden Takes Part In MPAA Board Meeting; Suggests Studios Tell Paying Customers They're Thieves

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2012 @ 11:11am

  Re: Re: A weeks worth of work

  No, the last 50 people are aliases for the execs. After all, it's no good paying yourself if you're not doing something sshady, am I right?

• On the post: New Jersey To Let 'Displaced' Voters Use Electronic Voting… If They Give Up Secrecy & Return A Hardcopy

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2012 @ 08:56am

  Re: sort of makes sense, but it is messy

  Because the votes would have needed to be in today to count. So, e-mail+hard-copy = delays.
  
  Plus, can you imagine the shitstorm should those votes make a difference after the ones who failed to send in hard-copy were taken into account?

• On the post: Apple Changes Its UK Samsung 'Apology,' But Makes Sure You Have To Scroll To See It

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2012 @ 06:37am

  Re:

  Protip - It's not the Feds. It's the High Court in Britain.
  
  The last company to try and fob them off was NewsCorp, whose management of the British arm ahs been eviscerated in the wake of phone hacking.

• On the post: Ridiculous: Vietnam Sentences Musicians To Jail For Songs That Protest Government Actions

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2012 @ 04:08am

  Re: Really?

  What was the rhyme again?
  
  "They came for the Gypsies, and I did not speak up, for I was not one of them.
  
  "They came for the Jews, but I did not speak up, for I was not one of them.
  
  "They came for the Communists, but I did not speak, for I was not one of them.
  
  "They came for me, but there was no-one to speak for me."

• On the post: Paul Ceglia's Case For 50% Of Facebook Falls Apart Soon After He's Arrested For Fraud

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2012 @ 01:05am

  Re: Re: Quoting out of context

  Well, it was Hallowe'en earlier this week, so he might be...

• On the post: Paul Ceglia's Case For 50% Of Facebook Falls Apart Soon After He's Arrested For Fraud

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2012 @ 01:04am

  Re: Re:

  That one's pretty easy. Now, if you'd said stupid, on the other hand...

• On the post: Spy Stories From The Murdoch Empire: News Corp Fights With Itself In Grand Game Of Espionage

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2012 @ 01:02am

  Re: "Would you believe.......:

  Nope. Get Smart is too unrealistic.

• On the post: Just In Time For The Holiday Season, Apple Loses iPhone Trademark In Mexico

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2012 @ 04:32pm

  Re:

  BUT APLLE IS BIG! BIGGER THAN YOUR PENIS!
  
  *For more penis call 1-800-iphone!

• On the post: LeakID And The DMCA Takedown Notice Farce

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2012 @ 03:36pm

  Re:

  It's made of handwavium! didn't you know?

• On the post: LeakID And The DMCA Takedown Notice Farce

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2012 @ 12:16pm

  Re: Knightmare

  IT's an old kids game show with massive amounts of special effects for its time.

• On the post: LeakID And The DMCA Takedown Notice Farce

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2012 @ 09:06am

  This is hilarious. It's like offshoring fraud to avoid the law! It's genius!

• On the post: EFF Reminds Us That Open WiFi Isn't A Bad Thing… And Should Actually Be Encouraged

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2012 @ 09:05am

  Re: Re: Re: This just redefines "open" to mean "firewalled".

  No, I am Mike's sockpuppet account!

• On the post: Rather Than Reinventing Education By Teaching A Million People At Once, Can We Perfect Teaching One Person At A Time?

  

  The eejit ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2012 @ 03:26am

  Re: While we're on technology for teaching...

  I've never lectured in a group larger than 170 before
  
  See, this is also an important point - at that scale there's far less time per person to actually engage your audience at a semi-intimate nature of the class/gig/whatever.

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