I am seeing a whole lot of angry and misleading rhetoric about the house bill on health care that passed last night. In case you want to know the facts, the whole text is online: H.R. 3962 (OpenCongress.org) It is interesting to note that most of the early commenters are always paid lobbyists; so disregard […]
According to the Verifiable Voting Coalition of Virginia, Virginia law requires that all new voting machines be optical scan tabulators that provide a voter-verified paper audit trail. So why did I have to vote on an unverifiable paperless electronic voting machines, known as DRE? Because our lame legislators have allowed for a very long, gradual […]
If you are able to vote, and you do not; you have no right to complain about the government you get stuck with. Virginia polling stations are open 6am to 7pm today. Don’t chance it, get to the station plenty early.
A friend has struck out on his own and landed some contracting work, and needs some help. He is brilliant with network gear and security services; and he needs: web content manager web developer systems/network admins (can be new to the field, and willing to learn) project manager (PMP, Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge) […]
Hello, hello; mainstream Americans… please vote. When you skip your chance to vote, you lend more power to the radicals on all sides. The power of each vote is inversely proportional to the number of votes being cast. In non-presidential elections most voters stay home, leaving only the most motivated with control of the off-year […]
David Pogue posted a public rant about the annoyingly long “voicemail instructions” messages on nearly all carriers now; not the personal ones people record, but the ones you have to wait through to even get that. My time is worth money and yours is too. Please call your own phone from work or a friend’s […]
Erci and went to Baltimore for a little weekend get-away this to see Rodrigo y Gabriela in concert and to have some time to ourselves. We stayed at Brookshire Suites in the Inner Harbor area (small, but clean with excellent service) and used their complimentary shuttle service to get over to Fells Point for dinner […]
All my html and php files on scottnolan.org, blog.scottnolan.org, labelle.org, and wiki.labelle.org have had the following bogus HTML code added to the files: (I hand recast the real greater than and less than signs so it would not execute) That means the malware somehow got shell access to my web servers on Dreamhost; I can […]
Pre-emptive Update: Turns out my assumptions were all wrong and this entire post is incorrect. Safari on both my laptop and iPhone are fine; hackers found an old WordPress blog on my website that I stopped caring about and updating, and used it to infiltrate the site and related websites. Deprecated material: Moral of the […]
For all of you who thought I was crazy for harping on the possibility that voting machines were rigged to skew an election one way or another… uh… I damn well told you so! http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/20/voting-machine-sourc.html Basically this proves that the logical check sum that most election processes in the United States require is simply not […]
