Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Day: December 18, 2003

  • Diebold is back in the news. Poor company. Not a good week for sure. First, some of the software on machines was not certified for elections. This is the sentence that nails them hard. “The audit uncovered discrepancies between what Diebold said was installed in counties and what auditors actually found.” Some of it is…

  • Diebold

    Diebold is back in the news. Poor company. Not a good week for sure. First, some of the software on machines was not certified for elections. This is the sentence that nails them hard. “The audit uncovered discrepancies between what Diebold said was installed in counties and what auditors actually found.” Some of it is undoubtedly…

  • CAN-SPAM Act

    Spam, hacking, and identity theft is the worst it has ever been. Next year might be even worse. Hurrah?  Despite the CAN-SPAM Act, I really do not foresee so significant a decrease in spam that I will not be bothered by getting so much of it. For one, a company could produce a log which shows that someone provided “affirmative…

  • Ebola

    Another outbreak of Ebola in Africa? Ebola is a scary disease from which to die.

  • Spam, hacking, and identity theft is the worst it has ever been. Next year might be even worse. Hurrah?   Despite the CAN-SPAM Act, I really do not forsee so significant a decrease in spam that I will not be bothered by getting so much of it. For one, a company could produce a log which shows that…