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Finnish Court Dismisses E-Voting Result 114

Posted by kdawson on Saturday April 11, 2009 @05:02PM from the go-back-jack-do-it-again dept.

wizzor writes in with a follow-up on the Finnish municipal election in which 2% of the votes were lost by a defective e-voting system, and which the Helsinki Administrative Court had found acceptable. Now the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland has rejected the election results (original in Finnish; bad Google translation here) and ordered the election to be re-run. The submitter adds, "Apparently 98% of the votes isn't enough to determine how the remaining 2% voted, after all."

Submission + - Skype caught out over video enhancement 'hack' (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by

superglaze

on Thursday November 22, 2007 @06:16AM

superglaze writes: "When Skype signed a deal with Logitech to enable "high quality" video calls, what it didn't make clear is that an option already existed within Skype to manually boost video quality. But Skype removed the feature, possibly to protect its new partnership. Guess what? The users of that feature cried foul, and now Skype has been forced to do a U-turn, reintroducing the option to manually increase resolution. Surely a victory for the consumer, albeit of a free product. I wonder how this will affect Skype's ongoing problem with being profitable."

Submission + - Pirate Bay WILL NOT Be Shutdown After All (zeropaid.com)

Submitted by

Jared Moya

on Monday July 09, 2007 @10:48PM

Jared Moya writes: "Considers filing charges for slander or official misconduct against the Swedish police officer involved.The decision to not include the Pirate Bay in this week's blocklist merely reinforces the fact that the charges were dubiously propagated by people higher up the chain in a bid to smear the Pirate Bay and get it shut down for good. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8891/The+Pirate+Bay+W ILL+NOT+Be+Shutdown+After+All"

Submission + - Johnathan Schwartz comits to patent defense?

Submitted by mowa on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @12:40AM

mowa writes: Following on the heals of his widely praised (and linked) initial response to Microsoft's patent threat; Johnathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, seems to commit to a position of mutual defense with FOSS leaders Redhat and Ubuntu against patent aggression. It's good to see Sun taking an increasingly constructive and consistent stand.

Submission + - Microsoft kills off J# language

Submitted by

twofish

on Saturday March 03, 2007 @06:39AM

twofish writes: "Microsoft have announced that J#, its Java clone for .NET, and the Java Language Conversion Assistant will be discontinued and will not appear in the next version of Visual Studio. At the same time they have announced pans for a 64-bit version of the J# Redistributable this year."

Submission + - Samba Success in the Enterprise?

Submitted by

gunnk

on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @10:11AM

gunnk writes: "We've deployed a Samba server here to replace some aging Novell Netware boxes. It works great: fast, secure, stable. However, we have one VIP that feels that Samba is "amateur" software and that we should be buying Windows servers. I've been searching with little success for large Samba deployments in enterprise environments. Anyone out there care to share stories of places that are happily running large Samba installations for their file servers? Or not so happy, for that matter — better to be informed!"

Comment Re:Starfleet Academy? (Score 1) 482

by infinidim on Friday April 21, 2006 @10:05AM (#15172838) Attached to: J.J. Abrams To Direct New 'Star Trek' Film

Or perhaps Police Acdemy in space?

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