Submission + - Ten Reasons Why Cloud Computing is a Bad Idea (techtangerine.com) 1
Futurepower(R) writes: "If you haven't jumped into the Cloud Computing bandwagon yet, here are ten reasons why you should reconsider."
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 128 declined, 15 accepted (143 total, 10.49% accepted)
Submission + - What makes Windows slow and unreliable?
Futurepower(R) writes: "Windows users often talk about re-loading Windows because it has become slow or unreliable. In your experience, what causes the problems?"
Submission + - Dave Chappelle show demonstrates Twitter's power. (oregonlive.com)
Futurepower(R) writes: "Rumors of a surprise show by Dave Chappelle demonstrated the power of social networking. Drawn by rumors on Twitter and Facebook of a free performance, a crowd estimated at 2,500 to 4,000 packed into a downtown Portland, Oregon square after midnight on Wednesday.
[IMPROVED FROM EARLIER SUBMISSION]"
Submission + - Dave Chappelle show demonstrates Twitter's power. (oregonlive.com)
Futurepower(R) writes: "Dave Chappelle's surprise show demonstrated the power of social networking. Drawn by rumors on Twitter and Facebook of a free performance, a crowd estimated at 2,500 to 4,000 packed into a downtown Portland, Oregon square after midnight on Wednesday."
Submission + - Sun Microsystems: What are your theories?
Futurepower(R) writes: "Why has Sun Microsystems not done particularly well in the last few years? Why are they finding it necessary to sell themselves to Oracle? My theory is that the highly reliable hardware Sun Microsystems sells is no longer popular because it is far cheaper to use consumer-grade hardware with software that is fault-tolerant. The excellent 2008 book Planet Google describes Google's experiences on page 54: "For about $278,000 in 2003, [Google] could assemble a rack with 176 microprocessors, 176 gigabytes of memory, and 7 terabytes of disk space. This compared favorably to a $758,000 server sold by the manufacturer of a well-known brand, which had only eight multiprocessors, one-third the memory, and about the same amount of disk space."
Why would Oracle buy Sun? Possibly because there are difficulties in making Oracle database products work with the new fault-tolerant technology. For example, fault-tolerant technology may require performing all database modifications on 4 computers at the same time, and Oracle may not want to sell 4 licenses for one application at the same price as the 1 license used with the more expensive high-reliability equipment.
What are your ideas about the sale of Sun, and Oracle's interest? There are many people with far more knowledge about this than I have."
Why would Oracle buy Sun? Possibly because there are difficulties in making Oracle database products work with the new fault-tolerant technology. For example, fault-tolerant technology may require performing all database modifications on 4 computers at the same time, and Oracle may not want to sell 4 licenses for one application at the same price as the 1 license used with the more expensive high-reliability equipment.
What are your ideas about the sale of Sun, and Oracle's interest? There are many people with far more knowledge about this than I have."
Submission + - Air France Flight 447 meteorological analysis (weathergraphics.com)
Futurepower(R) writes: "Detailed meteorological analysis of Air France Flight 447, that apparently crashed"
Submission + - Moving money to and from other currencies?
Futurepower(R) writes: "We need to move money to and from U.S. dollars, Euros, and Brazilian Reais. It's obvious that the banks are in control; our banks charge a large fee, take a percentage, and decide the exchange rate themselves. Is there a fair way to move money?"
Submission + - TrueCrypt web site is down. What's happening? (wikipedia.org)
Futurepower(R) writes: "The TrueCrypt web site is not responding as of Sunday, February 22, 2009, 21:00. Anyone know what's happening?"
Submission + - CNN pushes this year's most abusive EULA. (windowssecrets.com)
Futurepower(R) writes: "Windows Secrets has a story about CNN's use of software called Octoshape that presents an incredibly abusive EULA. If you agree to the EULA, you agree that CNN can use your bandwidth, and that you will pay any costs. Also, you lose the right to monitor your own network traffic. You can't even use information collected by your own firewall. Quoting the EULA:
"You may not collect any information about communication in the network of computers that are operating the Software or about the other users of the Software by monitoring, interdicting or intercepting any process of the Software. Octoshape recognizes that firewalls and anti-virus applications can collect such information, in which case you not are allowed to use or distribute such information."
Adobe is allowing the Octoshape company to use its Flash update install software.
What would YOU say to the CEOs of CNN and Adobe? Personally, I'm waiting for the time when all the CEOs with no appreciation of technological issues have retired."
"You may not collect any information about communication in the network of computers that are operating the Software or about the other users of the Software by monitoring, interdicting or intercepting any process of the Software. Octoshape recognizes that firewalls and anti-virus applications can collect such information, in which case you not are allowed to use or distribute such information."
Adobe is allowing the Octoshape company to use its Flash update install software.
What would YOU say to the CEOs of CNN and Adobe? Personally, I'm waiting for the time when all the CEOs with no appreciation of technological issues have retired."
Submission + - Election Fraud in the U.S. [MORE CORRECTIONS]
Futurepower(R) writes: "Rolling Stone magazine has an article about vote stealing in 2008: Block the Vote: Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters
and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president? That article
is also available as a PDF file.
The Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law has another article: Voter Suppression Incidents 2008. A PDF is available.
Neither of those articles discuss how votes are stolen using computer fraud. Slashdot has run 17 stories in 2007 and 2008 about computer vote fraud and electronic voting, listed here in reverse order by date:
West Virginia Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes.
Black Box Voting 2008 Election Protection Toolkit
How To Spot E-Vote Tampering?
Hard Evidence of Voting Machine Addition Errors
New Jersey E-Voting Problems Worse Than Originally Suspected
The Cost of Electronic Voting
Sequoia Vote Machine Can't Do Simple Arithmetic?
Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year
Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries
Ohio's Alternative to Diebold Machines May Be Equally Bad
All Fifty States May Face Voting Machine Lawsuit
Judge Voids Un-Auditable California Election
Re-Vote Likely After E-Vote Data Mishandling
A Flawed US Election Reform Bill
House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill
U.S. To Certify Labs For Testing E-Voting Machines
U.S. Bars Lab From Testing E-Voting Machines"
The Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law has another article: Voter Suppression Incidents 2008. A PDF is available.
Neither of those articles discuss how votes are stolen using computer fraud. Slashdot has run 17 stories in 2007 and 2008 about computer vote fraud and electronic voting, listed here in reverse order by date:
West Virginia Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes.
Black Box Voting 2008 Election Protection Toolkit
How To Spot E-Vote Tampering?
Hard Evidence of Voting Machine Addition Errors
New Jersey E-Voting Problems Worse Than Originally Suspected
The Cost of Electronic Voting
Sequoia Vote Machine Can't Do Simple Arithmetic?
Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year
Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries
Ohio's Alternative to Diebold Machines May Be Equally Bad
All Fifty States May Face Voting Machine Lawsuit
Judge Voids Un-Auditable California Election
Re-Vote Likely After E-Vote Data Mishandling
A Flawed US Election Reform Bill
House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill
U.S. To Certify Labs For Testing E-Voting Machines
U.S. Bars Lab From Testing E-Voting Machines"
Submission + - How votes are stolen. [CORRECTIONS]
Futurepower(R) writes: "Rolling Stone magazine has an article about vote stealing in 2008: Block the Vote: Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters
and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president? That article
is also available as a PDF file.
The Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law has another article: Voter Suppression Incidents 2008. A PDF is available.
Neither of those articles discuss how votes are stolen using computer fraud. Slashdot has run 17 stories in 2007 and 2008 about computer vote fraud and electronic voting, in reverse order by date:
West Virginia Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes.
Black Box Voting 2008 Election Protection Toolkit
How To Spot E-Vote Tampering?
Hard Evidence of Voting Machine Addition Errors
New Jersey E-Voting Problems Worse Than Originally Suspected
The Cost of Electronic Voting
Sequoia Vote Machine Can't Do Simple Arithmetic?
Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year
Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries
Ohio's Alternative to Diebold Machines May Be Equally Bad
All Fifty States May Face Voting Machine Lawsuit
Judge Voids Un-Auditable California Election
Re-Vote Likely After E-Vote Data Mishandling
A Flawed US Election Reform Bill
House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill
U.S. To Certify Labs For Testing E-Voting Machines
U.S. Bars Lab From Testing E-Voting Machines"
The Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law has another article: Voter Suppression Incidents 2008. A PDF is available.
Neither of those articles discuss how votes are stolen using computer fraud. Slashdot has run 17 stories in 2007 and 2008 about computer vote fraud and electronic voting, in reverse order by date:
West Virginia Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes.
Black Box Voting 2008 Election Protection Toolkit
How To Spot E-Vote Tampering?
Hard Evidence of Voting Machine Addition Errors
New Jersey E-Voting Problems Worse Than Originally Suspected
The Cost of Electronic Voting
Sequoia Vote Machine Can't Do Simple Arithmetic?
Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year
Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries
Ohio's Alternative to Diebold Machines May Be Equally Bad
All Fifty States May Face Voting Machine Lawsuit
Judge Voids Un-Auditable California Election
Re-Vote Likely After E-Vote Data Mishandling
A Flawed US Election Reform Bill
House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill
U.S. To Certify Labs For Testing E-Voting Machines
U.S. Bars Lab From Testing E-Voting Machines"
Submission + - How votes are stolen. (rollingstone.com)
Futurepower(R) writes: "Rolling stone has an article about vote stealing in 2008: Block the Vote: Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters
and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president? That article
is also available as a PDF file.
The Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law has another article: Voter Suppression Incidents 2008. A PDF is available.
Neither of those articles discuss how votes are stolen using computer fraud. Slashdot has run numerous stories about computer vote fraud and electronic voting. These are the articles in 2007 and 2008:
West Virginia Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes.
Black Box Voting 2008 Election Protection Toolkit
How To Spot E-Vote Tampering?
Hard Evidence of Voting Machine Addition Errors
New Jersey E-Voting Problems Worse Than Originally Suspected
The Cost of Electronic Voting
Sequoia Vote Machine Can't Do Simple Arithmetic?
Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year
Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries
Ohio's Alternative to Diebold Machines May Be Equally Bad
All Fifty States May Face Voting Machine Lawsuit
Judge Voids Un-Auditable California Election
Re-Vote Likely After E-Vote Data Mishandling
A Flawed US Election Reform Bill
House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill
U.S. To Certify Labs For Testing E-Voting Machines
U.S. Bars Lab From Testing E-Voting Machines"
The Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law has another article: Voter Suppression Incidents 2008. A PDF is available.
Neither of those articles discuss how votes are stolen using computer fraud. Slashdot has run numerous stories about computer vote fraud and electronic voting. These are the articles in 2007 and 2008:
West Virginia Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes.
Black Box Voting 2008 Election Protection Toolkit
How To Spot E-Vote Tampering?
Hard Evidence of Voting Machine Addition Errors
New Jersey E-Voting Problems Worse Than Originally Suspected
The Cost of Electronic Voting
Sequoia Vote Machine Can't Do Simple Arithmetic?
Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year
Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries
Ohio's Alternative to Diebold Machines May Be Equally Bad
All Fifty States May Face Voting Machine Lawsuit
Judge Voids Un-Auditable California Election
Re-Vote Likely After E-Vote Data Mishandling
A Flawed US Election Reform Bill
House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill
U.S. To Certify Labs For Testing E-Voting Machines
U.S. Bars Lab From Testing E-Voting Machines"
Submission + - Ed Foster of Ed Foster's GripeLog died. (gripe2ed.com)
Futurepower(R) writes: "Ed Foster of Ed Foster's GripeLog, The Reader Advocate died of a heart attack. He was 59.
I'm a grown man, and that makes me cry. For many, many years Ed has helped us realize how adversarial many computer companies have been toward their customers."
I'm a grown man, and that makes me cry. For many, many years Ed has helped us realize how adversarial many computer companies have been toward their customers."
Submission + - Congressional panel to review impeachment of Bush (latimes.com)
Futurepower(R) writes: "The Los Angeles Times reports that the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 238 to 180 to send Kucinich's impeachment article — for Bush's reasoning in taking the country to war in Iraq — to the Judiciary Committee...
But they don't intend to actually impeach Bush, the article says."
But they don't intend to actually impeach Bush, the article says."
Submission + - Free service tests if your server is down. (downforeveryoneorjustme.com)
Futurepower(R) writes: "The New York Times has a story about a free service that tests if your server is working: Down for everyone or just me.com"
