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Hacking Democracy

Paul Westbrook | 08 November, 2006 11:49

Last night, I watched Hacking Democracy.  This movie documents, in several ways, how Diebold voting machines can be "hacked" in order to change the results of an election.

I think the US government should require a open and transparent audit of all electronic voting machines.  Ideally, the software running on these machines would be required to be open source, so there would be complete transperancy to the code, but that is unlikely to happen

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SeeThru Hard Case

Paul Westbrook | 08 November, 2006 00:46

15-Seethru-D6Last week, my MacBook Pro, and me, fell down the stairs.  The computer is fine (and I am as well), but It made me want to get some additional protection for the computer.  I bought the clear SeeThru Hard Case for the MacBook Pro.  This case snaps over the laptop, while still allowing you to open and close, and have access to all of the ports.

[via TUAW]

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timezone offset and apache/php

Paul Westbrook | 08 November, 2006 00:24

I noticed a strange thing last week.  After the time change for Daylight Saving time, the internal time on this blog was off.  When I entered a new post via xmlrpc, the resulting post would appear an hour in the future.

After some investigation, I realized that the date php command was returning the local time, but with the time zone offset that corresponds to before the time change.  Once I restarted apache, the offset got reported correctly.

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