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Judge Suppresses Report On Voting Systems

Oct 3rd, 2008 · A New Jersey Superior Court Judge has prohibited the release of an analysis conducted on the Sequoia AVC Advantage voting system. This report arose out of a lawsuit challenging on constitutional grounds the use of these systems. The study was conducted …
see also: company · Public · Lawsuits · plaintiff · Constitutional · suppresses · orderRead

Comparing 3G Networks

May 13th, 2008 · Brian Nadel got hold of cellular network cards from AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon, and tried them out with a Lenovo ThinkPad X300 notebook. He watched videos on commuter trains, worked with e-mail at cafes, listened to Internet radio at the airport, and …
see also: video · network · download · cellular · Internet · New York · notebook

Wikileaks Gets Domain Back, Injunction Dissolved

Mar 1st, 2008 · The judge in the Wikileaks case has dissolved the injunction against Wikileaks, which means that it can get its .org domain back. He defended his prior ruling because it was based on the pittance of information the bank and registrar had provided him, …
see also: parties · Injunction · settlement · Dispute · Lawsuits · domain · registrar

Carnegie Mellon Wins Urban Challenge

Nov 4th, 2007 · The results from the Urban Challenge are in! Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team came in first (earning a $2 million prize), followed by Stanford's Stanford Racing team in second (earning $1 mil) and Virginia Tech's Victor Tango in third (earning $500k). …
see also: Virginia Tech · Stanford · MIT · urban · Carnegie · Mellon · Cornell

Pogue and the Bogusness of Advanced Gadget Reviews

Oct 14th, 2007 · New York Times gadget reviewer David Pogue got into an email back-and-forth with Valleywag after he was tricked into writing an article by advance misinformation on a pre-launch product. In theory, it's good for reviewers to test and write up products …
see also: blog · products · theory · consumer · David Pogue · gadget · blogger

New Version of Gmail Being Tested

Sep 23rd, 2007 · Gmail was launched on April 1, 2004, and has revolutionized the way many of us use email. The interface has remained largely untouched since it launched, but get ready, it's soon to undergo a change in what they describe as a 'New Version'. Only a select …
see also: ZDNet · Google · service · blog · 2004 · company · Texting

FISA Court Sides With ACLU Against Administration

Aug 17th, 2007 · jamie caught a breaking news story this evening: the secret FISA Court has ordered the Bush administration to respond by August 31 to an ACLU request for orders and legal papers discussing the scope of the government's authority to engage in the secret …
see also: administration · legal · Americans · secrets · authority · wiretaps · ACLU

Battlestar Galactica To Continue After All

May 12th, 2007 · According to executive producer David Eick, Battlestar Galactica is still an open-ended adventure and it will not be ending after the 4th season as previously reported. Evidently Edward James Olmos jumped the gun on confirming the show would be ending …
see also: adventure · executive · episode · Battlestar Galactica · Battlestar · Galactica · Edward James Olmos







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