Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes (40)
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Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, has finally admitted that a ten-year-old error has caused votes to be dropped. It's unclear if this error is random or systemic. If it's random -- a small percentage of all votes are dropped -- then it is highly unlikely that this affected the outcome of any election. If it's systemic --...
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Eebs said:
*shudder* I don't even want to think about the implications here.
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Drewcipher said:
All your vote are belong to us. Ehhhhhh.
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Erik S said:
Diebold should receive a death sentence. Current and past execs should be criminally charged, some deserve life sentences. Their personal assets should be attacked with civil suits.The company should be stripped of all assets. Siezed personal and corporate assets should be auctioned and the proceeds used to refund the cost of voting equipment. Any remaining funds should be dispursed to the govt treasury.
Denver police arrest almost 100 protesters during DNC (1)
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Democratic National Convention coverage By Carlos Miller And when Denver police were not arresting journalists for standing on the sidewalk, they were clad in indistinguishable uniforms and masks - sans name tags - and arresting protesters. In the second video, one of these officers shoves a Code Pink woman to the ground by slamming his baton against her chest. She is less than half his size. Quite a threat, I imagine. Then another officer comes ...
How to Shoot for Adidas in China, with Monte Isom (6)
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I had an illuminating conversation the other day with photographer Monte Isom. Isom recently returned from China, where he created several Olympic-themed ads for Adidas. The one above is the big kahuna. See all those people in there? They're real people. Who needed to be cast and wrangled and directed. And then be put together all pretty through the glory of post-production.How long did all of this take? Isom was in China for six weeks, ...
Understanding context in your New Tab (13)
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Aza Raskin and the Mozilla Labs team looks like they are having a lot of fun. They have been putting up proposals for new UIs and the latest involves a smarter new tab screen. Aza discusses how opening a blank screen doesn’t really help you. Opera already allows you to have a quick dial screen show up there, but what else can be done? Often a new tab is opened to do a search, so ...
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Dom Derrien said:
I especially like the "contextual sequence" proposal. Imagine the benefits from linking automatically sites not knowing each others: developers enter defects in bug tracking systems, often send notifications by e-mail, and update their time sheets accordingly. While it can be cumbersome to develop a front-end that will organize the sequences automatically, using that new browser feature is an excellent alternative...If they just come with "Web search + awesome bar", the reduction from {Ctrl+T; Ctrl+E; ; Enter} to {Ctrl+T; ; Enter} will be unnoticed by most of power users... Let's encourage them going further ;)
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tjp said:
as a firefox user who often opens new tabs, i'd like zero cost results rightaway
Kids Add Audio Systems To Their Bikes (9)
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A group of immigrant teens from Trinidad that now live in Queens, New York call themselves the Stereobike crew and add bad-to-the-ass audio systems to their bicycles. Systems that put the boombox I keep in my front basket to shame. The speakers, powered by car batteries and run through amps, output thousands of watts, capable of rattling the paint clean off my Prism. Just imagine, when these kids are old enough to drive and start ...
Deputy threatened to arrest 12-year-old daughter for “unlawful photography” (3)
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By Carlos Miller After arresting Scott Conover for “unlawful photography” in Tennessee last June, Johnson County Sheriff’s Deputy Starling McCloud threatened to arrest Conover’s 12-year-old daughter with the same charge after she snapped two photos of her father getting handcuffed. As it turns out, she is a better photographer than her father because she actually managed to photograph the camera shy deputy. The fact that she snapped the photos knowing it could get her arrested ...
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ecocentrik said:
looks like carlos miller's blog got hacked
Mozilla creates the concept cars of the Web (14)
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The video above is a “concept” called Aurora, created by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path. Give it a play and you will see his vision for a very visual immersive, space-age-like environment that is very social. There are a couple of others too, such as Wei Zhou’s bookmarking concept and Aza Raskin’s mobile phone concept that we have discussed in the past. This isn’t about these concepts though. The Mozila Labs folks have a ...
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ecocentrik said:
Aurora, cool interface idea from adaptive path
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Julius said:
haha idioten ... jetzt werden wir alles für bubbles klauen :) ... im ernst sind die dämlich so krasse konzepte einfach vorzustellen. viel besser ist mit sowas einfach bääms rauszukommen. wie iphone.
NYPD cop demonstrates why cops do not want to be filmed or photographed (3)
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By Carlos Miller A New York City police officer who claims he was assaulted by a bicyclist was stripped of his badge and gun after an anonymous video proved otherwise, according to the New York Post. Patrick Pohan, 22, a rookie cop and son of a highly respected NYPD detective, accused Christopher Long of trying to use his bike as a weapon in trying to mow him down during a critical mass bike ride in ...
Lawmakers head home after impasse on gas prices - Yahoo! News (1)
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Lawmakers sped for the exits Friday as Congress was to begin a five-week recess after a summer session noteworthy for bitter partisanship and paralysis on the issue topmost in the minds of many voters: the cost of gasoline.
This Is What Happens... (7)
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When your neighbors are a nuclear power plant. The Chinese pig, dubbed 'Monkey Face', is apparently healthy despite being fugly as hell and having extra long back legs that cause it to hop around instead of walk. I gotta admit though, it's cuter than my sister's new baby. Hit the jump to see the uncensored picture and be scarred and saddened.
If You Can't Measure Your Power Consumption, You Can't Manage It | EcoTech Daily (1)
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TED--short for The Energy Detective--is the smallest, cheapest phantom power solution we've seen so far. Is it the answer to greening your home?
Americans must diet to save their economy (4)
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Plankton turn tropical Atlantic into a huge carbon sink (2)
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As much as I love books, the kind that can be held in one's hands and flipped through at will, the idea of online books is also something I appreciate for a number of reasons, such as saving on paper use, availability to a wider audience, and the potential of formats different than double-sided pages bound together. Here's a couple online books, as different from each other in subject as in execution.Piel.Skin by Ethel Baraona ...
Carving Cartoons (1)
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CraftVillageUK is a web portal for a community of soapstone carvers in Kenya designed to allow them to sell their intricate carvings directly to consumers worldwide. According to their website, the carvers earn four times as much per sculpture by selling through the web, and their earnings represent a significant increase in quality of life. Unfortunately, these skilled carvers - descended from a long line of historic soapstone carvers in the region - are being ...
Kayaks You Can Build (7)
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I have built several simple fiberglass canoes and repaired my sailboats, but using this book I was able to build my first "real," high-performance boat, a Pygmy Coho stitch and glue plywood construction sea kayak. I read a lot of books on kayak construction, stitch and glue type in particular. I also used the Coho building manual from Pygmy some. But I absolutely would not have been as successful with my boat had I not ...
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Brad Lauster said:
If only I had a garage in which to build one of these beautiful kayaks.
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CraftVillageUK is a web portal for a community of soapstone carvers in Kenya designed to allow them to sell their intricate carvings directly to consumers worldwide. According to their website, the carvers earn four times as much per sculpture by selling through the web, and their earnings represent a significant increase in quality of life. Unfortunately, these skilled carvers - descended from a long line of historic soapstone carvers in the region - are being ...
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