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Discuss the US Presidential Election 1912

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @10:47AM from the end-of-the-road dept.

We made it. It's election day. Tomorrow we'll know. So for today's election discussion story, I'm throwing it wide open: let's discuss the election itself. Who are your picks and why. And also what about your actual experience voting today? Did Diebold eat your vote or did everything go off without flaw?

Submission + - Latest Google Earth has a hidden flight simulator

Submitted by MMHere on Sunday September 02, 2007 @11:29PM

MMHere writes: Tips4Mac reports that Google Earth now sports an as yet unannounced flight simulator:

http://tips4mac.blogspot.com/2007/09/flight-simula tor-from-google.html

Submission + - Dan Rather uncovers flaws in touchscreen voting

Submitted by goombah99 on Sunday August 12, 2007 @11:12PM

goombah99 writes: Dan Rather Reports has posted a lengthy YouTube teaser of their upcoming touchscreen voting expose (to air tuesday at 8 or 11pm ET) This is sort of a "60-minutes" style investigation of touchscreen voting. It's apparently not a rehash either. Rather turns up some new evidence such as tracking down the dilapidated plant where the ES&S ivotronic touchscreens were assembled. There they were having a 30 to 40% rejection rate on the screen themselves. Apparently the issue here was a rush to market to meet the election schedule. They needed lots of machines, fast. So plant workers say the rejects got shipped too. The "rush to market" aspect demonstrates an often overlooked strength of the use of open source software with commodity hardware and a multiple vendor business model like open voting consortium. This should be much less subject to single source point failures and has a built-in adversarial oversight nature that might lend some quality control. I just hope their conclusion is not "we need perfect machines and perfectly trained operators" and instead is we need a different approach that is transparent, robust and self correcting in the face of errors.

Submission + - Joe Engressia, first phone phraek, dead at 58

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12, 2007 @11:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: He was known by a number of nicknames over the years. He was blind since birth and could whistle MF tones/2600 Hz.

See the Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joybubbles
entry on him

Submission + - Supreme Court rules Ebay sale binding. (smh.com.au)

Submitted by Slurpee on Friday August 03, 2007 @02:08AM

Slurpee writes: The NSW Supreme court has ruled that making an offer of sale on Ebay is legally binding. In other words — you can't change your mind. In a case that reached the NSW Supreme Court, Peter Smythe sued Vin Thomas after he changed his mind on the sale of a 1946 World War II Wirraway plane after the eBay auction had ended. "It follows that, in my view, a binding contract was formed between the plaintiff and the defendent and that it should be specifically enforced," Justice Rein said in his decision. The judgment sets a precedent for future cases and means eBay sales could now be legally binding (At least in Australia).

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