Two things really distress me this year about the runup to the general election: first, the degree of dismally gratuitous mudslinging among the candidates, and second, the corporate steamroller toward electronic voting machines lead by Diebold, Inc. They boast that “over 130,000 Diebold electronic voting stations are in use” around the country, and [...]
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Electronic Voting Steamrolls On
Posted in Electronic Voting, Internet on October 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Free Lynndie England
Posted in Terrorism on October 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I will start out saying that I can’t believe that our US Congress approved a bill that makes it (retroactively) legal to torture people we decide need torturing, but they did. I can’t believe I fought to preserve the right of these people to do such a thing, everyone who voted for this bill [...]
General Incompetence in the Commerce Department
Posted in Internet on October 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Once again the Federal government, and once again the Commerce Department, have demonstrated how incapable they are of securing themselves against foreign penetration through Internet connections. In an article today (October 6th), the Washington Post reports:
“The attack targeted the computers of the Bureau of Industry and Security, which is responsible for controlling U.S. exports [...]
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