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August 14th, 2003
Work

Brilliant solution to budget problems!

[I get it: it is a lot easier to deal with budget problems by importing teachers from across the globe, than it is to convince the tax paying public that teachers should be paid decent wages. Just wonderful! -Thomas]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=127564
America calling: Techies out, Teachers in
CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2003 10:16:19 PM ]
WASHINGTON: Last […]

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August 14th, 2003
Voting Machine Security

Says local registrar of voters: ATMs have “changed our paradigm of what we view as safe.”

[Whaddaya think the odds of a similar technique being used to attack a voting
system are? Is this the level of security we want in our voting systems?
Gail is our county registrar of voters. She’s a nice person, and they are dedicated folk who do an excellent job, but I can attest from personal experience that […]

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August 14th, 2003
Voting Machine Security

More concerns about electronic voting systems…

[I kind of view the computer scientists and consultants who poo-poo concerns about voting machine security in the same light as the scientists who don’t believe that global warming exists or who content there is no causal link between smoking and lung cancer. -Thomas]
A Vote for Less Tech at the Polls
By Joanna Glasner […]

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August 14th, 2003
Voting Machine Security

A Vote for Less Tech at the Polls

A Vote for Less Tech at the Polls
By Joanna Glasner | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 2 next »
02:00 AM Nov. 19, 2002 PT
In the national debate over upgrading election infrastructure, Peter Neumann is an unlikely defender of the low-tech approach.
As principle scientist at Stanford […]

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August 13th, 2003
Green Party

Nader Endorses Camejo!

[Hurrah for Peter and Arianna and Ralph! This campaign signals a turning point in the battle for the heart and soul of the progressive community… the Democrats have abandoned the field, and are reduced to impotent and resentful rants. -Thomas]
Candidates may join forces
Huffington, Camejo consider an alliance to appeal to progressives
By Herbert A. Sample — […]

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August 13th, 2003
Work

SiteProNews - useful content.

Site Pro News has a newsletter which, in my view, is essentially an advertorial - but… the content is worthwhile enough, such as in this example, “Google Friendly” Solutions to Graphic-Intense Sites, that I’ve left my subscription running… I delete two out of every three newsletters, but read the third. Pretty good hit rate, all […]

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August 13th, 2003
Voting Machine Security

Diebold web site cracked.

[Pathetic. -Thomas]
New Security Woes for E-Vote Firm
By Brian McWilliams | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 1
02:00 AM Aug. 07, 2003 PT
Following an embarrassing leak of its proprietary software over a file transfer protocol site last January, the inner workings of Diebold Election Systems have again been laid bare. […]

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August 13th, 2003
Voting Machine Security

Diebold web site cracked.

[Pathetic. -Thomas]
New Security Woes for E-Vote Firm
By Brian McWilliams | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 1
02:00 AM Aug. 07, 2003 PT
Following an embarrassing leak of its proprietary software over a file transfer protocol site last January, the inner workings of Diebold Election Systems have again been laid bare. […]

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August 13th, 2003
Work

E-Vote Machines Face Audit
By Kim Zetter | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 3 next »
02:00 AM Aug. 12, 2003 PT
After weeks of defending itself against charges of bad programming and lax security, Diebold Election Systems is facing an independent, third-party audit of the software for its touch-screen voting […]

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August 13th, 2003
Activism

Yours truly at a street protest.

Handing out literature to the public. Photo courtesy of fellow street activist Jim Ross.

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August 13th, 2003
Activism

Santa Cruz Downtown, 2003

Reality Check 2003

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/08.13.03/reality-0333.html
One year after this town’s cruel summer, we let Santa Cruz shout out about
the state of downtown
By Sarah Phelan
08/13/03
Last summer, when other local and even national papers were calling
downtown Santa Cruz a “powder keg” and doing everything in their
sensationalist powers to make it look like this town was dangerous and […]

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August 13th, 2003
Voting Machine Security

Forum on Voting Machines — Sept 7

Date: Friday, August 8, 2003 8:09 AM +0000
From: Notable Voting
To: NotableVoting@topica.com
Subject: Forum on Voting Machines — Sept 7

Forum on Voting Machines to be held in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA — A forum on “Voting Machines: A Threat To Democracy?”
will be held Sunday, September 7, from 2-5 pm at the Ethical Society,
1906 S. Rittenhouse Square, in Philadelphia, […]

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August 13th, 2003
War

Mysterious pneumonia cases plague American soldiers…

http://www.click2houston.com/news/1674340/detail.html
The Army says two more soldiers overseas have come down with serious pneumonia, bringing the unexplained cases to 17. Officials are investigating the cause of some 100 cases counted since March, focusing on a number of them so serious the patients had to be put on ventilators and flown to Europe.

***
Earlier, I received […]

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August 13th, 2003
The Recall

Is the recall democratic?

[Robert Scheer’s rant is impressive.
However - I don’t buy the basic premise. The recall is the product of a system so distorted by money and the power of incumbency that even one of the least popular governors in California’s history can scare off any real opposition, spend his money manipulating the opposition’s candidate selection process, […]

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