Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Cullen's waffle
Below is Martin Cullen’s downright misguided and ill informed statement on e-voting. Adrian Colley deals with him point by point here.
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E-Voting Machines Run Into Some Problems
This AP article has been making the rounds on the Internet.
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Scattered e-voting problems anger computer scientists
“We have to hope for the best” said one voter. All too true.
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E-voting: The 'E' stands for 'easy'
A really bad piece of journalism here – it says very little about the issues, and fails to ask any hard questions.
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E-voting problems drive voters away
Scary, scary stuff. How can the government continue with this e-voting nonsense?
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My experience as an Election Judge in Baltimore County
Avi Rubin [via Slashdot] with his thoughts on the new e-voting machines used in Baltimore. Excellent reading. It shows huge problems with the smart cards being used – if only Cullen would listen. Rubin concludes: I continue to believe that the Diebold voting machines represent a huge threat to our democracy. I fundamentally believe that…
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Say Goodbye to Hollywood
« Say Goodbye to Hollywood » is a song that Eminem has dedicated to his fans. A song that expresses the sour aftertaste of fame. A song in which he offers us a retrospective of the drama that happened when he caught Kim cheating with John Guerra. An incident that still hurts him, but that…
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NASA announce evidence of water on Mars
Ongoing NASA press conference, on as I write, Slashdot quote “Drenched with Water”: They are saying that the crater that the second rover has landed in has convincing evidence that it was once drenched or covered in liquid water. They cite the tiny spherules, odd holes in the rocks, sulfur in the spectrometric analyses, and…
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10 Tech Trends to Bet On
Fortune magazine list out the top 10 tech trends for the future, some interesting ones in there. Wi-Fi sounds like it really should not be in there – I was writing about that technology 3 years ago – and I am sure it figured back then in other tech trends to bet on. 1. Smart…
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The Comedy Blog
Clare over at the BBC’s Comedy Blog has linked to my Bill Hicks site. Interesting blog they have there. My Hicks site needs a serious overhaul though.
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