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Brazil migrates voting machines to GNU/Linux - The INQUIRER

Posted 9 April, 2008 - 22:16 by marco

Brazil migrates voting machines to GNU/Linux - The INQUIRER

Connaissiez-vous les open sauce softwares ? Dans la première phrase j'ai pensé à une erreur de "The INQUIRER" mais quand j'ai lu ça dans la deuxième, je me suis demandé si j'avais raté quelque chose... On retrouve cette expression à plusieurs endroits dans ce journal sur d'autres sites... Peut etre une bonne âme pour nous expliquer ça :P

Ceci dit, interressant pour le Brésil. À suivre de près.

THE BRAZILIAN Electoral Supreme Court announced last Friday that Brazil's 2008 elections will use 430,000 electronic voting machines running GNU/Linux and open sauce voting applications.

The voting machines will be migrated from VirtuOS and Microsoft Windows CE to GNU/Linux and open sauce software in order to meet legal requirements for security and auditability.

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PeoplePC - News

Posted 29 March, 2008 - 08:48 by marco

PeoplePC - News

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Friday that the huge profits generated from piracy and counterfeiting are fostering terrorism.

Terror groups are taking their cues from organized crime and funding their operations with money they make committing intellectual property crimes, he told a gathering of Silicon Valley executives.

"Criminal syndicates, and in some cases even terrorist groups, view IP crime as a lucrative business and see it as a low-risk way to fund other activities," Mukasey said. "A primary goal of our IP enforcement mission is to show these criminals that they're wrong."

Mukasey, who did not elaborate and did not take questions, said his department is devoting increasing resources to prosecuting such crimes and filed 7 percent more IP cases in 2007 than in 2006 and 33 percent more than in 2005.

Before Friday's speech, Mukasey met privately with representatives from companies including Apple Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc.

A day earlier, the attorney general also met with entertainment industry executives in Los Angeles during his three-day California trip.

ouache.

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The BRAD BLOG : Filling in the Ovals on LA County’s Super Tuesday ‘Double Bubble’ Debacle

Posted 9 February, 2008 - 19:32 by marco

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We believe we can now pull this issue up out of the weeds a bit, after more than 24 hours of trying to make sense of what the Los Angeles County Registrar's office has been describing to the media as "real clear."

What's clear is that the only thing that's clear is the fact that the county's new acting Registrar of Voters, Dean Logan, has seriously blown his first outing since coming South from his disastrous 2004 Washington state gubernatorial election debacle.

Unless swift action is taken by Logan and CA Sec. of State Debra Bowen, it's likely that hundreds of thousands of voters may have been disenfranchised in last Tuesday's Democratic Primary Election...

As we reported in some detail Tuesday, there was, and still is, massive confusion about how Independent (also called Non-Partisan, also called Decline-to-State or DTS) voters were to cast their ballots to ensure they were counted in the LA County election.

Décidément, non les États-unis d'Amérique ne sont pas une démocratie... Pas plus que le Canada d'ailleurs...

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En gros sympatico décide de ce qu’on regarde

Posted 5 November, 2007 - 22:03 by marco

Pour Bell, internet et la TV c'est pareil

BitTorrent blocking goes north: Canadian ISP admits to throttling P2P

BitTorrent blocking goes north: Canadian ISP admits to throttling P2P

In response to consumer complaints posted in the company's official forum, Canadian ISP Bell Sympatico has admitted that it uses bandwidth throttling technologies to impose limitations on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing during peak hours. This revelation is further evidence that net neutrality—the principle of equal treatment for all traffic through a network—is eroding.

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