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Quev in Mobtown Blues

August 31, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Quev in Mobtown Blues

has posted a good wrap-up of last night’s speeches at the RNC in Mobtown Blues: Well, I guess they’ve lost the disingenuous filmmaker vote.

Tags: US Politics

The SFGate is running a good article

August 31, 2004 by Michael Boyle

The SFGate is running a good article

by Benny Evangelista rounding up several of the recent threads in the current entertainment v technology development Battle Royale: Reining in tech – Learning from the Napster case, the entertainment industry is trying to block new technology before it takes off.

Tags: Media

Wow!

August 31, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Wow!

Just announced in Paris: the iMac G5. The whole computer’s inside the screen. Not sure if it’s for me, but a lot of people will love this.

Tags: Apple, Macintosh

The lovely and dogged folks

August 31, 2004 by Michael Boyle

The lovely and dogged folks

at BlackBoxVoting.org are spreading the word about yet another security concern related to Diebold equipment. This time, however, it isn’t the individual voting machine at issue. Rather, it seems that the Diebold GEMS central tabulator contains a stunning security hole. “By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set.” [via Boing Boing]

Tags: US Politics

John Nichols, from The Nation,

August 31, 2004 by Michael Boyle

John Nichols, from The Nation,

notes that Michael Moore was in the press box at Madison Square Garden when McCain took his jab at him last night at the Republican National Convention. Apparently Moore was there on assignment from USA Today.

Tags: US Politics

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