To be honest: would these people show any qualms about beating up little old ladies?
So, has the do-not-call list left the country yet?
It's a dumb, brute force string search. The only help it will give is if you want to look up, using exact spelling, a relatively uncommon phrase; and if said phrase is uncommon enough to give you a small enough result set to be comprehensible on a 10-item per page screen display downloaded over a phone line connection. For example, looking up "Nielsen Hayden" gives 100 entries and I don't think even Patrick and Teresa's mothers would have enough patience to scroll through the entire list.
Amazon has a lot of work to do, requiring professional librarians and information retrieval CS specialists, before this search can produce anything close to meaningful. Jeff Bezos was a CS major at Princeton and he has to know this. But I guess they had to get something up now for the publicity value, or stock price, or something.
It's those troops. We don't support them.
Polling predicted a clear Gore victory. Must have been an error.
If Internet Seer can do this, so can any other spammer.
Be very afraid.
No longer true, at least on the national level. Google on "exit polling" "Voter News Service".
I've heard that other publishers are working on their own Left Behind clones, to try and get some of that big apocalyptic lit market.
Those that think Diebold could fix this by using better tools or design need to think about this:
No programmers at that company will question any management decisions about design, security, or anything else, because they will be fired; and, in this economy, that means they are out of IT altogether. In fact, the people that worked on the original implementation are likely long gone and their jobs outsourced to India.
Well, I hope that the Arkansas voting officials don't record the names along with the IDs.
Uh, excuse me? For what possible reason would one want to record a "voter ID" ??
Erik seems to be describing (sans fancy video UI and electronics) the old New York State voting machines I and my parents and grandparents used all our lives.
Slashdot has been all over this story.
Latest (Tuesday 10/21): a group of Swarthmore students are defying a court order by posting Diebold confidential memos online.
Adding verification (printing or otherwise) to an electronic voting system will only increase costs and reduce potential profit. And, of course, if the customer has no reason to care about verification, why do it?
The real issue isn't Diebold trying to maximize its profit by using cheap labor and software tools; it's the very concept of an unauditable voting system. The problem would be no less severe if they were using a secure, unhackable implementation.
And some people still naively believe that there will be free elections in the United States next year.
>Who were they trying to silence
So, were any right-leaning blogs affected?
Anyone?
Sorry; the New York Times says there was at least one dead.
But these things don't count unless they are combat deaths, of course.
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