Saturday, 26 July, 2003

ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEMS FLAWED CNET: "University researchers delivered a serious blow to the current crop of electronic voting systems in an analysis of one such system's source code in which they concluded that a voter could cast unlimited ballots without detection." Especially windows machines are worthless: "Windows has a long history of new releases of patch just about every week," he said. "You can't run voting machines on Windows." That's right, this week alone, three security updates. When they introduce electronic voting here in the Netherlands, I will insist upon a paper vote. It is impossible to have control or knowledge of rigged systems or faulty systems. 11:52:17 AM

WHAT ABOUT FREE TRADE? Americans are not allowed to download lots of freely available books (from Gutenberg for instance, see link under literature left) because of copyright laws in the US. Now Apple is adding to the absurity: "Purchases from the iTunes Music Store are available only in the United States and are not available in any other location. You agree not to use or attempt to use the service from outside of the available territory. Apple may use technologies to verify such compliance." So, if you buy something it still isn't yours if you go abroad. Europeans are not allowed to download lots of books from Audible because of the franchise rights (even when the product is not available anywhere else in this world). For when free trade? 11:41:42 AM

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