From over at Moore's Lore comes this piece on Another Voting Machine Scandal. This one's not a Diebold System.

We don't need this: the solution to hanging chads, punch cards that don't and confusing ballots is NOT untraceable, wide open and fatally flawed electronic systems running Windows! This is clearly a case of the "cure" being worse than the disease!
11:44:08 PM     comment []

In Eighteen Fourteen we took a little trip
along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip
we took a little bacon and we took a little beans
and we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans

... ARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!

Brain Itch!

[via My Applemenu] 11:16:09 PM     comment []

Via Secular Blasphemy comes this latest little addition to the Christian social agenda being pushed by the White House: Protection from Pornography Week

Just what we need, what with the War on Terrorism, the economy in the dumps and that nutball in North Korea waving nukes around. The "No nekkid wimmens!" faith based initiative!

I think this is the final nail in the coffin of my erstwhile support for this fanatic occupying the highest office in the land ...
1:56:27 PM     comment []

I do digital audio programming for embedded devices - this is gonna get interesting before it's all over. The Slashdot poster's concerns about virii in embedded devices are somwewhat misplaced - too specialized to attack with a general purpose virus, and no real input available to the end user (most of the time). Besides, we're talking IBM here - they'll have a Linux OS (if any real OS at all) in the device, not Windoze.

I can't see this evolving as far as IBM does, but I'm sure we'll see something like it. Real Soon Now.

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