Blackhacker

As you may know President Bush spoke to the UN this week, and gave them a tongue lashing. This is what the New York Times had to say about it.

Mr. Bush might have done better at wooing broader international support if he had spent less time on self-justification and scolding and more on praising the importance of international cooperation and a strengthened United Nations. Instead, his tone-deaf speechwriters achieved a perverse kind of alchemy, transforming a golden opportunity into a lead balloon.

It’s already the last full of September and Diebold still can’t get it right.

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But Harris said it’s possible to change the voting summaries without using GEMS by writing a script in Visual Basic — a simple, common programming language for Windows-based machines — that tricks the system into thinking the votes haven’t been changed. GEMS runs on the Windows operating system.

It also bothers me that Diebold also makes ATM machines. I would hope that they don’t use the same shoddy stands for them. But being that banks are more conscious of data security issues I would think they would come better than that to them.