jakartadean writes senator ted stevens of alaska famed internet regulator has lost his senate seat. the ap is reporting that stevens was declared the loser in alaska on tuesday night after a twoweeklong process of counting nearly 90000 absentee and early votes from across alaska. with this victory democrat mark begich the mayor of anchorage has defeated one of the gi......
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mallumax writes obama has launched change.gov. according to the site change.gov provides resources to superior understand the transition process and the decisions being made as part of it. it also offers an opportunity to be heard about the challenges our country faces and your ideas for tackling them. the obama administration will reflect an essential lesson from the success of the ......
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mr. slippery writes think hanging chads illegal purges of the voter rolls and insecure voting machines are bad the new yorker looks back at how we used to vote back in the good old days a man carrying a musket rushed at him. another threw a brick knocking him off his feet. george kyle picked himself up and ran. he never did cast his vote. nor did his brother who died of his wou......
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a number of folks have been submitting topics that indicate that they want to have a serious discussion on the issues surrounding this election. since were under a week now ive decided to run a series of discussion stories to give you guys a place to discuss the issue. so heres the first one the economy. its the biggest topic these days eclipsing even war as the most......
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szentigrade writes popular science is running a letter by daniel engber of the on the internet slate magazine in which he offers the us presidential nominees advice on using the full potential of the world wide web upon their election into office. some examples discussed in the letter include a project already being developed that speeds up the patent approval process a uk site that aims ......
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farkinga writes for those of us that no longer have a television live tv events can be a challenge to watch. fortunately tonights presidential debate has attracted the attention of most us broadcasters many of whom will provide on the internet viewing options. leading the way is hulu a joint venture between nbc universal and news corp who will stream the foxbranded feed tonight......
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longacre writes for all their incessant bickering in the first two presidential debates over conflicts of interest and government regulation popmech columnist glenn derene is puzzled that the candidates have yet to be challenged on a vital issue directly related to both those topics net neutrality. john mccain and barack obama have stated elsewhere their opposing views on the issue with ......
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neste ultimo domingo dia da votaaao me encontrei com um amigo no caminha e fomos conversando votamos e voltamos no caminho novamente estavamos conversando a respeito das urnas eletranicas que estao fazendo uso do linux como sistemas e em algum momento eu disse o brasil desenvolveu o voto eletranico porque sera que nenhum outro paas menciona alguma cosa a respeito do tipo brasil t......
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information architect sean tevis is running for the state house in kansas. he has no political experience just a diedinthewool idealism. he launched an online fundraising campaign on 16 july. heres his 13 august report by using the ability to collaborate online connect with an audience and communicate in a way that say mailing a brochure simply cant we were able to break the re......
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oh oh oh very interesting so we have a republican president whos executive branch contains the fbi which is in turn assisting local law enforcement in minneapolisst. paul minnesota with actively oppressing protesters as they prepare for the republican national convention rnc this week. links on the story from slashdot here and a note here about some of these......
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dozens detained ahead of convention nytimes.com in mn massive police raids on suspected protestors slashdot i really want to see someones ass chewed out for this. nothing i have seen reported led to any evidence of anything illegalaoccurring. if they want to protest then that is their right however i think it is an empty gesture that accomplishes little to nothing. ......
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9th circuit chief judge alex kozinski made headlines today because his website contains adult material and some people think judges arent allowed ribald humor or libidos. it seems a litigant before kozinskis court modified a url pointing at alex.kozinski.com and found an unpublicized directory containing the embarrassing material. larry lessigs take on the kozinski mess ......
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in honor of earth day im going to talk a little bit about why these new utility computing services or cloud computing quot are good for the environment and business too. one of the tenets of cloud computing is that you use what you need and you pay for what you use. amazon s3 and simple db and google app engine all charge based on storage bandwidth a......
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irvu writes the us house of representatives is considering hr. 5036 the emergency assistance for secure elections act of 2008 as introduced by representative rush holt. the bill is scheduled for a floor vote later today. it would provide for emergency paper ballots money for the addition of voter verifiable paper ballots to existing systems and postelection audits. crucial......
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tonight on geeknights we discuss the it helpdesk. in the news google draws the unjustified ire of retailers the xmsirius merger is approved and pakistan broke the internet . scotts thing mozilla prism ryms thing donotreply .com......
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tonight on geeknights lacking anything better to talk about we discuss underwear. in the news we have nanotech windshields of the future and a local runin with the law . scotts thing too many men ryms thing diebold leaks 2008 election......
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habaamos escuchado la semana pasada que pakistan bloquearaa youtube por contenido considerado como blasfemia por ellos pero nunca pensamos que nos afectaraa a todos. ase fijaron lo erratico que estuvo el servicio el fin de semana pues bien ya saben quien es el culpable. la telecom pccw que entrega la salida a internet de pakistan tuvo que desconectarlos ya que el isp pakistana p......
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numerous websites around the world reported earlier this week that pakistan had blocked youtube. this in itself is not news as pakistan regularly blocks websites but what is interesting is the manner in which they blocked it managing to take down youtube for the entire world the bbc news websites technology editor darren waters says that to block pakistans citizens from ......
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harrington writes in another stunning blow to the security and integrity of diebolds electronic voting machines someone has made a copy of the key which opens all diebold evoting machines from a picture on the companys own website. update 0206 1740 gmt by z we previously discussed this story early last year. read more of this story at slashdot. ......
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larry lessig the popular stanford uni professor and eff creative commons board member is considering running for an open seat in congress. i hope he does and i hope he makes it. larry is a great guy intelligent with drive for change. check his pledge below......
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the rumors have been floating around for a week or two will the legal guru lawrence lessig run for congress now the man himself informs us that...hes not sure yet at lessig08.org you can watch a 10 minute video explaining the launching of a change congress movement and the decision i am trying to make about whether to run for congress. that decision will be made soon. iv......
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by reihan the following post closely resembles outright hackery. rest assured it is very sincere and heartfelt hackery. the special election to replace the late tom lantos is only a few weeks away and it looks as though former state senator jackie speier has the race sewn up. but a group of free culture enthusiasts led by harvards john palfrey are working to persuade lawr......
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kevin kelly proves how amazing he is today . the internet has opened doors wide open and our economy is now dependent on it but the transition isnt over yet. obamas running but not in office yet either these eight qualities require a new skill set. success in the freecopy world is not derived from the skills of distribution since the great c......
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