Posts by Marking Time

Worried about election hacking? There's a technology fix – Helios

>the voter is given a tracking number to keep. That number can be checked against an election tally system to ensure that the vote was cast as specified

Issue right there.

NZ unfurls proposed new flag

Re: Research

Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that “the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag”.

NSW to expand e-voting

How do you know that what is printed out is what you entered?

NBN collapses^* into chaos^*

Re: Brownfields? Greenfields?

Brownfields are are existing dwellings and greenfields are new dwellings being built.

Council IT bod in the dock for flogging scrap work PC parts

I was cheaper for our Council to pay AU$12,000 to have 350 of our old desktop machines and Monitors taken away and crushed than to try and sell them.

Fedora 'Spherical Cow' delayed by bugs, Secure Boot

Cinnamon on fc17 is pretty good

IBM prepares to demo 125TB MONSTER tape

Hard drives aren't hermetically sealed ether air exchange is permitted between the outside and inside of the drive to allow the drive to adjust to changes in air pressure.

Microsoft takes on tablets with keyboard-equipped Surface

typewriters

CSIRO patent-trolls ALL OF AMERICA!

Re: Speaking from Oz....

I think he's talking about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogard