Archives for: October 2006
Oct
31
ACCURATE Submits Comments on VSTCP Manual
elections, certification/testing, accessibility, reform, vendors, standards, news, berkeley, problems, litigation, friends, research, policy, usability, legal##### Cross-posted on the ACCURATE blog: [*"ACCURATE Submits Comments on VSTCP Manual"*](http://accurate-voting.org/2006/10/31/accurate-comments-on-vstcp-manual/)
Today ACCURATE submitted a [public comment][1] to the U.S. [Election
Assistance Commis… more »
Oct
30
I love carving pumpkins... here's my take on a [Cthulu] design.
[Cthulu]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulu more »
Oct
25
Here's a Macro that replaces carriage return characters in a selection with nothing. This is useful if you get a chunk of text where someone has ended each line of a paragraph with a carriage return instead of allowing the software to wrap the lines.… more »
Oct
24
[FireFox 2.0] is out and works pretty neat.
One tip: [Make most of your old extensions compatible] with the 2.0 version by get the [Nightly Tester Tools] extension so that you can go to Tools -> AddOns and then click on "Make all compatible". This… more »
Oct
24
A must read piece on why you (if you're a CA voter) should vote NO on Prop. 83 from danah boyd, [*"Prop 83: Sex Offenders is not what it seems. SAY NO!"*](http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/10/24/prop_83_sex_off.html). more »
Oct
23
This is one part [fucking ridiculous and one part fucking hilarious](http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/10/22/Goodness-Gracious). more »
Oct
22
This is a curious little wikipdedia page: [Tech Law Prof](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Law_Prof). Comments?
##### (Comments are open for a bit on this one) more »
Oct
21
My father has entered the blogosphere: [Rousing from Lethargy]... stand the hell back.
[Rousing from Lethargy]: http://mkchall2.blogspot.com/ more »
Oct
18
Election Technology and Problems in the Field
elections, problems, San Francisco, friends, research, policy, legalIn conjunction with [Election Protection 2006], I gave a short talk at the firm [Fenwick and West](http://www.fenwick.com/) in San Francisco today on the various flavours of voting technology and problems that we've seen with them in the field. You can… more »
Oct
13
Problems with The Alameda County Report
elections, certification/testing, vendors, news, research, policyAlameda county released a security vulnerability assessment of their voting system last Thursday, conducted by a firm called [Pacific Design Engineering]. [Thad Hall] over at [Election Updates] has a new post, [*"ALAMEDA COUNTY E-VOTING REPORT"*](http:… more »
Oct
11
Marc Smith, "Pictures of Traces of Places, People, and Groups" (iSchool DLS)
berkeley, research, podcasts, iSchoolToday, [Marc Smith][1] from [Microsoft Research][2] gave the third
[iSchool][3] Distinguished Lecture of the 2006-2007 academic year, "Pictures of Traces of Places, People, and Groups".
Here is the abstract for his talk and the audio is linked
bel… more »
Oct
07
(Sorry, I just had to post this as I've probably spent hours looking for Amazon Prime crap.)
**UPDATE [2006-10-23T18:09:53]:** Another interesting search tool for Prime items (with a better UI): . more »
Oct
06
Fred Schneider, "What Price Insularity? ..." (iSchool DLS)
copyright, privacy, berkeley, policy, DRM, legal, podcasts, iSchoolThis past Wednesday, [Fred Schneider][1] from [Cornell's Computer Science Department][2] gave the second
[iSchool][3] Distinguished Lecture of the 2006-2007 academic year, "What Price Insularity? Dialogs about Computer Security Failings".
Fred's ta… more »
Oct
05
Barriers to TOR Research at UC Berkeley
chilling effects, privacy, berkeley, friends, research, policy, legal, iSchoolI'm giving a talk today here at the TRUST Privacy workshop entitled [*"Barriers to TOR Research at UC Berkeley"* (slides)](http://slideshare.net/joebeone/barriers-to-tor-research-at-uc-berkeley).
The paper is available here:
(Thanks to [Ryan](h… more »
Oct
02
Book Review: Avi Rubin's "Brave New Ballot"
elections, copyright, chilling effects, friends, research, policy, usability, legalAs [Freddie Oakley] put it to me, "Who wouldda thunk Avi could write a page-turner about life through the looking glass in Electionland." That's exactly what [Avi Rubin] has done with his new book, **[Brave New Ballot]** (Morgan Road Books, A Division… more »
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