E-BUSINESS | TECHNOLOGY | CRM | LINUX | MAC | EXCLUSIVES | ECTNEWS. Part 2 explores whether open source software in electronic voting machines is the solution. One idea that has been tried out is attaching a printer to each machine so that a ballot could be printed out and deposited into the ballot box in paper form, Dill noted, but “printers are expensive, and they break often. What Dill’s group recommends now is a system in which voters fill out a paper ballot themselves, and then put it into a scanner, which is also the ballot box, he said. In the wake of Felten’s findings, renewed calls have been sounded for an open source voting system. The Open Voting Consortium believes that all aspects of an election need to be open to public scrutiny — something a paper trail alone can’t provide. read more
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E-BUSINESS | TECHNOLOGY | CRM | LINUX | MAC | EXCLUSIVES | ECTNEWS. The spammers masqueraded as Yahoo in order to con people out of hundreds of dollars, telling the victims that they won cash prizes, Yahoo alleges. In its court filing, Yahoo contends that the defendants masqueraded as the Internet company, sending out e-mails claiming recipients had won prizes ranging from a few thousand to a million dollars and instructing them to click on a link or forward personal information to a “Yahoo lottery coordinator” to get their prize. At times, recipients were instructed to contact another party to arrange for the prize payment, Yahoo said in the filing, and this other party would charge them “hundreds of dollars in various processing and mailing charges in order to complete the payment process. Although the defendants’ identities are unknown, Yahoo thinks that information acquired during a discovery period from third-party e-mail service companies will lead to their identification. Several days before Yahoo filed its suit, a federal judge ordered a notorious “Spam King” and his partner to pay News Corp. read more
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Please input the letters/numbers that appear in the image below. In that case, RIAA representatives accused Project Playlist of constructing a business model that “amounts to nothing more than a massive infringement. You may be able to find links to things thanks to say google, but at least sites like those aren’t actively gathering those such links to purposely help people get pirated works. I feel that if the laws accurately reflected the desires of those holding the IP, it would cover the situation, but it’s already a stretch to say these laws should cover special interest groups, and if their desires are being met we can reasonably say they desire for google, yahoo, etc, to also be forced not to index anything either. A torrent itself isn’t copyrighted content, it’s an open-source file format. Why should the internet be free, it has cost billions of dollars (the military at work, then our governments = your and my money). read more
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The South East Womenâs Mentoring Programme, designed and run by Business Link and financed by the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) and the European Social Fund (ESF), saw more than 70 volunteer mentors helping 100 women in senior management roles across the South East to re-examine how they progress their careers. At an event celebrating the culmination of the programme, 80% of the women who took part said they now feel in greater control of their career while 40% feel they have achieved a better work-life balance. There are currently 165,000 female led businesses in the region but if women matched the number of male business start-ups, 25,000 additional firms would be created. Business Link offers access to events, workshops, clinics and online tools â” designed for anyone, whether they are just thinking about starting a company or are well established. Business Link is producing a directory, due out this summer, which is designed to help women find the help and support they need with ease. Forthcoming networking opportunities include a Women in Business Luncheon with guest speaker Emma Jones, founder and editor of the home business website Enterprise Nation. read more
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The State Information Commission (SIC), Punjab, has held that public authorities cannot reject RTI applications on the ground that the information request was not in the form prescribed by the State Government. With more than 40 per cent polling stations declared sensitive in the district, strict security arrangements have been made by the administration to ensure smooth and fair voting in the gram panchayat elections tomorrow. Similarly, the up and down (2416/2415) Hazrat Nizamuddin-Indore- Hazrat Nizamuddin Intercity Express and the up and down (2910 /2909) Hazrat Nizamuddin-Bandra Terminal-Hazrat Nizamuddin Garib Rath Express trains were cancelled today. The 2452 New Delhi-Mumbai-Rajdhani Express and 2432 Hazrat Nizamuddin-Trivandrun Rajdhani Express trains were diverted to run via Mathura-Agra-Bhopal. In the same way, the 2951 Mumbai-New Delhi Rajdhani Express and the 2431A Trivandrun-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express trains were diverted to run via Bhopal-Agra-Mathura. read more
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Create a network that more easily complies with policies and regulations with NAC. Eliminate network threats and downtime - View the flash demo here. Dramatically reduce time spent troubleshooting your network and applications. Improve CDN performance by 12 times with distributed origin content. CIO | Computerworld | CSO | Demo | GamePro | Games. Copyright © 1994-2008 Network World, Inc. read more
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I’m thinking of the times where I’m doing a clean install of XP and my "internet usage" consists of downloading updates from Microsoft prior to the initial installation of any type of antivirus (which does require downloading from the vendor site). Anti-virus software is not always going to catch threats; these companies are having to deal with tens of thousands of new threats each day, and when it comes to so-called "zero day" threats — exploits for vulnerabilities no one knew about before — their detection of these threats is dismal (see my post Don’t Depend on Anti-virus to Save You and the related story linked in that blog post for an idea of the scale of this malware glut. Hate to sound like a broken record here, folks, but most of the malware out there today depends on the user running their OS/and/or Internet-facing apps like the browser under the all-powerful administrator account, which has complete rights to change vital system settings, delete files, etc. If the user had to enter a password mainly for installing software on Vista, I think that would probably make users think twice about what’s really going on, particularly when they didn’t request a software install. I have read every Microsoft "knowledge base" document on XP file sharing, sharing is enabled on all three machines, I have tried every combination of sharing settings for user, machine, and workgroup, and I still get "Access denied" when trying to move or copy files between "My Network Places. read more
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If that’s not enough, though, there are numerous third-party programs that also work with calendars–everything from full-blown iCal replacements such as Now Up to Date to simpler utilities, such as MenuCalendarClock for iCal, which we looked at back in 2005 , and again more recently in this Macworld video . We’re going to solve that problem by creating a symbolic link (something like an alias in the Finder) that “creates” ncal by connecting it to the existing cal executable. If ncal were to have completely vanished at this point, anyone who used it in scripts would have to go back and modify all their scripts to refer to cal instead of ncal. Thanks to this feature, people with scripts that used ncal didn’t have to modify their code, they just needed to create the ncal symbolic link, and all their scripts would keep working. To make it easy to run our “new” ncal program, we’ll create it in the /usr/local/bin directory, which is a directory that OS X knows about (i. read more
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As for the idiots blaming Kevin Rudd for the high price of petrol, just take a look at what has happened to world oil prices since your beloved John Howard decided to support George Bush's war on Iraq, dimwits. The plan is SIMPLE Take away the government tax funded fuel cards for MP's and let these arogant people "who are that far detached from real working class people and theier day to day issues" pay for their own fuel. Second, had the Government invested the billions of dollars it's been stripping from the public over the decades in fuel excise and invested it in our own oil production (as suggested by Peter of Rocky) then we would have our own independent oil supply. Rudd never said that he would bring down oil prices or food prices, he just said he would start a body to monitor the prices. To keep petrol prices low I suggest we invade Iraq (make up some nonsense about WMD & links to Al Qaeda to fool the voters) - then we can secure their oil reserves to ensure stable cheap oil prices so we dont have to bother conserving any. World Oil Prices seem to be set by the stock market, and Australian Oil Prices seem to be from Singapore, so whenever Singapore prices go up so does Australia's. read more
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In the spring and summer months, homeowners and contractors alike are in the full swing of things, planning all of their new projects. Fix The Home (FTH) is a website which serves as a link between homeowners and home improvement contractors. Covering projects related to kitchen, bathroom remodeling, windows and doors, roofing, siding and utilities, FTH is a resource for all homeowners to find information on all of their home improvement needs, and a means of finding a perfect professional to complete the project. With Fix The Home already on the top of their game in regards to home improvement contractor referral, it seemed only logical for them to branch out into the planning and designing of these large projects. read more
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