I found this picture on Digg.com that has an easy 5 step process to hacking the voting machines to do your bidding. Remember when you go to vote soon, to thank your state's voting commission if they are using these well known, hackable, substandard, and completely worthless machines. Better yet sue them for incompetence or corruption (or both).
Tags: Diebold, Evoting, Your Rights
Historically, Sony has been on the losing end of format wars, but in this case, they appear to have won. Two of the major movie studios have decided to go with the Blu-Ray DVD format over the HD-DVD.
Tags: Blu-Ray, Sony
Ars Technica, usually a good resource for information ran this bonehead article today about how, despite the bad press, consumers are choosing Vista over XP.
Fact: Most (if not all) in-store computers are pre-installed with Windows Vista
Fact: Most standard consumers don't build their own computers
Therefore, if a normal person goes to a store to buy a computer, and all of their options are Windows Vista, Windows Vista, or, gosh maybe I'll take, Windows Vista, it follows that they'll "choose" Windows Vista. Dur…
Last I checked, lack of options doesn't mean that they made any choice at all. Besides, most normal computer users would automatically assume that the newest version of an operating system is the best option because they normally are. Unless they've studied the news and/or read site like this one, they wouldn't know to steer clear.
So… My point is that the Ars article says absolutely nothing of value. Even if it were true that people were "choosing" Vista, it wouldn't mean anything.
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