UPDATE: Evidently, there are some fundamental errors made by the original reporter that change the timbre of this story altogether. This report has Joseph Lorenzo Hall of the Centre for Democracy and Technology in DC, asserting very strongly that the tabulation machines are “air-gapped” — the tabulation results from the original voting system are in …
Category Archive: Computers
Oct 26 2012
Hard drive recovery 301
Let’s say you have a hard drive whose media is failing but whose controller card is still functional. Let’s further say you have a desire to pull a partition off that drive and see what’s still salvageable. And let’s further say you have a computer you’re okay with leaving on for a month or so …
Oct 13 2012
Install the OpenDyslexia font and tell us how it works for you
I’m interested in doing a little science experiment. I’ve read that a commercial font designed by a dyslexic university student apparently didn’t help reading speed, but does help with certain classes of reading errors. Readers of any Freethought Blogs would certainly classify as folks who read a lot on the internet (yeah, yeah, get the …
Sep 27 2012
Linus Torvalds on Mitt Romney and Mormonism
You folks are going to LOVE this one. On Mitt’s “joke” that he doesn’t know why airplane windows don’t open and how that’s a big problem when there’s an electrical fire in the cabin, Linus Torvalds — Linux’s progenitor and Grand Poobah — had a few words to say on Google+. He really seems to …
Sep 20 2012
Pinkification of The Internet, For Dummies
!["Internet pour Les Nulles", or "Internet For [Female] Dummies" cover](http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/files/2012/09/internetpourlesnulles-615-150x150.jpg)
The For Dummies series is arguably the best known computer self-help manual series in the world. It’s diversified into other fields, of course, with Sex For Dummies and Fishing For Dummies, but its bread and butter is still the computer industry. But it turns out that they evidently haven’t been capturing one all-important market with …
Sep 11 2012
Mock The Movie: Hercules, plus VLC live tweet stream!
Oh hey guess what time it is? Almost? In a few days? *crickets* That’s right, it’s time to MOCK THE MOVIE! YAY! *Kermit flail* Stephanie has the details, and our upcoming schedule: This Thursday, September 13, at 9 p.m. EDT, the mocking crew will subject ourselves to the Lou Ferrigno version of Hercules (currently available …
Aug 08 2012
Gamers Against Bigotry hacked repeatedly by computer-savvy bigots
Example #645,257,329 of why one must always sanitize every piece of user input that your code has to process. Doesn’t matter how foolproof or dead simple you think the action will be, or how safe or sane your users — someone will try to buffer overrun, break out of the current SQL statement and inject …
Jul 21 2012
Microsoft adds “Big Boobs” to Linux; apologizes
There are a number of relatively new phenomena in the server world that Microsoft has been rather slow to catch up on. Server virtualization is one of them. Where companies like VMWare and Sun (now Oracle) had pretty much already built the defining server virtualization software, with a robust hypervisor (software that lets you run …
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