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Submission + - Netcraft shows RNC running Ohio election servers

Submitted by goombah99
goombah99 writes: Netcraft is showing a very hard to explain event happened in the Ohio 2006 election. The Secretary Of states website IP address, which normally is directed to an Ohio based IP address and handles all the election reporting, was transferred on election night to the Smarttech Corp owned servers out of state. According to the American Registry on Internet Numbers Smartech's block of IP address 64.203.96.0 — 64.203.111.255 encompasses the entire range of addresses owned by the Republican National Committee. This includes hosting the recently notorious gbw43.com used in the Whitehouse. Can Slashdotters suggest any good explanations for this seemingly dubious transfer?
Republicans

Submission + - 2004 vote count manipulated on GOP servers

Submitted by
hugecabbage
hugecabbage writes: "The Free Press published an interesting article stating that not only did the Republicans alter the actual Ohio vote count during the 2004 presidential election, they also controlled how the tallies of those manipulated votes were disseminated over the web, affecting media and public perception of the returns as they occurred. FTA: 'There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004, Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website — which gave the world the presidential election results — was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's firing of eight federal prosecutors.'"
Editorial

Submission + - Professor Fired for Using VATech Shooting in class

Submitted by Anon E. Mouse
Anon E. Mouse writes: from: http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/04/ac counting_prof.html

Accounting Professor Fired for Using Virginia Tech Shooting in Class to Illustrate Efficacy of Guns in Preventing Violence

Nicholas Winset, an adjunct professor of accounting at Emanuel College in Boston, was fired last week after using a classroom exercise to illustrate that guns may help prevent violence: he walked among his students and pointed a marker at some of them and said "bang" — a student he had prepped before class then pointed another marker at Winset who fell to the ground:

        "Why did I stop?" Winset asked his 23 undergraduate students. "Why was this possessed person stopped in Virginia?" he asked, before someone replied that Cho was shot. "So guns maybe aren't all bad," Winset told the group. ...

        After class, students and parents contacted officials at the Catholic liberal arts school in Boston, which released a statement Friday saying the school prohibits "any behavior or action which makes light of or mimics the terrible tragedy at Virginia Tech. ...

        Christopher J. Stephens, an adjunct professor of English at Wentworth Institute of Technology, posted a response to Winset's dismissal early Sunday on an online independent news publication. He said Winset misunderstood his role as an adjunct professor. "The whole point of being an adjunct professor is to write your syllabus, do your job and move on," Stephens said in a telephone interview. "There's no room for grandstanding, and I think that's what he did in his act."
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Vista Advanced Heuristics

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "The Register has an article on Program Names govern admin rights in Vista.

From the article :

"If Vista sees that you have created a Microsoft Visual C++ project with install in the project name, then that .exe will automatically require Admin Rights to run. Create exactly the same project, but call it, say, Fred, and the problem disappears"

And more :
"Windows Vista heuristically detects installation programs"... named install.exe...

AC Bryan"
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft responds to EU with another question

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has responded to the latest round of EU requests by asking how much the EU thinks they should charge for Windows Server Protocols. The EU has stated the Microsoft should charge based on "innovation, not patentability" and that they have "examined 160 Microsoft claims to patented technologies" concluding "only four may only deserve to claim 'a limited degree of innovation.'" The EU is also starting to discuss structural remedies as opposed to the behavioral remedies they are currently enforcing. At what point has/will the EU overstepped its bounds?
The Internet

Submission + - Why are T1 lines still expensive?

Submitted by badfrog
badfrog writes: Over the last 10 years, DSL and cable modem has upped its speed (although in some instances only slightly) and dropped its price. However, the price of a T1 has stayed almost exactly the same. If you had asked me 10 years ago, I would have predicted any geek that wanted to would have fiber or their own T1 line to the house by now. What is with this sad state of affairs that a 'business class' 1.544Mbit connection is hundreds of dollars more than a 6Mbit cable connection? Is it a legitimate case that a high upload rate should increase cost so significantly?
Microsoft

Windows Vulnerability in Animated Cursor Handling 338

Posted by Zonk from the mind-those-hilarious-icons dept.
MoreDruid writes "Secunia reports a vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling. According to the linked article, the rating is "extremely critical". Microsoft has put up their own advisory on the subject, confirming this is a vulnerability that affects Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. The exploit has already been used in the wild. From the Secunia page: The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the handling of animated cursors and can e.g. be exploited by tricking a user into visiting a malicious website using Internet Explorer or opening a malicious e-mail message. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code."
Networking

Submission + - CPUShare: Grid Computing On The Cheap

Submitted by
Diablo-D3
Diablo-D3 writes: "Andrea Arcangeli, famed kernel hacker, has decided to take on all the grid computing systems out there and has created CPUShare. As he describes it, "CPUShare allows the home users to profit from the significant power of their hardware that otherwise would be wasted every day," allowing us geeks with a thousand idle computers to profit for other people's need of CPU power."
Software

Submission + - OpenOffice 2.2 Released

Submitted by
xsspd2004
xsspd2004 writes: "http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3561829136.html

The OpenOffice.org Community on March 29 announced the release of a major upgrade to OpenOffice: version 2.2. The group claims that with upgrades to its word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software, the free office suite provides a real alternative to Microsoft's recently-released Office 2007 product."
Security

Submission + - Navy Wants Dolphins to Patrol Nuclear Sub Base

Submitted by
NewsCloud
NewsCloud writes: "Many Seattle residents don't realize they live across the water from a major nuclear submarine base, one which the Navy hopes to begin patrolling with sea lions and dolphins (like the ones that escaped after Hurricane Katrina). Aside from ethical concerns, Puget Sound is home to the endangered killer whale (technically a dolphin but apparently not interested in mercenary work) and its waters are often too cold (40F) for the softer warm water military dolphins. Ironically, we might end up with sea lions defending our country inside Puget Sound, while being shot with rubber bullets nearby to protect endangered salmon runs. Meanwhile, California has reinitiated lawsuits against the Navy for continued use of sonar suspected of harming wild mammals."
Software

Submission + - Blackboard Not Playing Nice with Vista on Campuses

Submitted by
scott3778
scott3778 writes: "On college campuses, Microsoft's Vista operating system may be in danger of failing courses that use Blackboard, a key software program for communication between teachers and students. Some campuses in the U.S. and elsewhere using Blackboard are discovering that the software and some of its functionality is being hindered as students and teachers begin to update their systems with Microsoft Vista. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2109454,00.as p"
Announcements

Submission + - Riding the Tesla Roadster

Submitted by
DigitalDame2
DigitalDame2 writes: "Due on the market this fall at a price of $92,000, the Tesla Roadster is powered by the same lithium-ion battery cells that drive the average laptop or smartphone, and you can charge it from an ordinary wall socket. Although PCMag's Cade Metz wasn't allowed to drive one, he did have the chance to ride in the passenger seat. Just how fast is it? It does zero to 60 mph in about 4 seconds. Plus, the dream car reaches 100 percent torque from the instant it starts forward. You don't wait even a moment for that acceleration to kick in! Check out over 50 images of the Tesla electric car, but wipe your drool!"
Censorship

Submission + - Supreme Court Will Hear "Bong Hits 4 Jesus"

Submitted by slimjim8094
slimjim8094 writes: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case, covered previously on Slashdot here.

The case forces the court to reconsider the line between a student's right to free expression and a principal's authority to limit what is said and done at school.

The message seemed designed to provoke Principal Deborah Morse, and it succeeded in doing so. She tore it down and sent Frederick to the office. She planned to suspend him for five days, but when he invoked Thomas Jefferson and the First Amendment, she doubled the suspension to 10 days.
Interestingly enough:

Several religious-rights groups filed briefs supporting the student's free-speech right in this case. Their lawyers worry that school officials might, for example, say it was inappropriate for a student to wear a T-shirt that praised Jesus Christ.
Windows

Submission + - ReactOS Revealed

Submitted by reactosfanboy
reactosfanboy writes: DRM Hacker Alex Ionescu explains the internals of ReactOS in a recent talk. Ionescu indicates that ReactOS is nearly 100% binary and API compatible with the Windows 2003 kernel, and that they are aiming for full Vista compatibility. Ionescu attempted to demonstrate ReactOS but only managed to successfully install it after two BSoD's. This alone should make it clear that ReactOS is still not ready for prime time.

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