Aug 09: Election Monitors
Election Monitors
You know you are in democratic suspicion land, when you need election monitors. This is the stuff of wannabe dictators. According to CNN, An International team is to monitor presidential election the elections will be monitored. Phewww. Just last night on CNBC Topic A, Howard Dean (in for Tina Brown) was looking at the e-voting systems built by DieBold. It was Frightening, and I was wondering if international monitors could be called in.
Hacking the system
All you have to know to hack the results is know how to open an MS-ACCESS database in their so-called GEMS front-end system. Oh my god the schema of this database is something else. It's a case of way too much money spent on the front-end, too little on the engine.
Jon Stewart
I happened to catch this because I heard Jon Stewart would also be guesting on Topic A. This reminds me Jon has Bill Clinton on The Daily Show tonight.
Al Jazeera banned
This one is actually not that surprising, given the virulent feelings towards Al Jazeera in the Dubya administration. Rummy hates these guys with a passion. The Guardian argues closure a blow to democracy what about it? The last time they did this to Moqtada Al Sadr's paper it sparked off mayhem.
You know you are in democratic suspicion land, when you need election monitors. This is the stuff of wannabe dictators. According to CNN, An International team is to monitor presidential election the elections will be monitored. Phewww. Just last night on CNBC Topic A, Howard Dean (in for Tina Brown) was looking at the e-voting systems built by DieBold. It was Frightening, and I was wondering if international monitors could be called in.
Hacking the system
All you have to know to hack the results is know how to open an MS-ACCESS database in their so-called GEMS front-end system. Oh my god the schema of this database is something else. It's a case of way too much money spent on the front-end, too little on the engine.
Jon Stewart
I happened to catch this because I heard Jon Stewart would also be guesting on Topic A. This reminds me Jon has Bill Clinton on The Daily Show tonight.
Al Jazeera banned
This one is actually not that surprising, given the virulent feelings towards Al Jazeera in the Dubya administration. Rummy hates these guys with a passion. The Guardian argues closure a blow to democracy what about it? The last time they did this to Moqtada Al Sadr's paper it sparked off mayhem.
posted by knikik at 7:29 AM
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