Archive for January, 2004
Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
I'd come across this story a few years ago, but was prompted to relocate it after various conversations with friends where I found myself quoting it. In essence, God Kills Babies, and an activist had the reference engraved in a sponsored brick outside a library, between various religiously tinged slogans.
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Monday, January 26th, 2004
Good to see my friend and fellow GEO steward, Dave Rowland, has started a blog. He's pointed, in commenting on my story about David Kay, to his theory that Kay is part of a grand scheme by the US administration to manage the fallout of the WMD story.
There does seem ...
Posted in International Affairs, Online communication | Comments Off on Rowland on Kay
Monday, January 26th, 2004
Steve Jones, communication professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and co-founder of the Association of Internet Researchers, recently gave a talk at Northwestern University about the state of internet research. The following sums up his points of the talk and raises questions about internet research.
(by guest author Sabryna ...
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Sunday, January 25th, 2004
The press speculation on Michael D Higgins running for president continues. As a Labour member from Galway I've obviously been involved with campaigning for Michael for many years. I think he would be a strong candidate - I know his candidacy would be popular within the Labour Party, and he ...
Posted in Electoral politics, Personal | Comments Off on MDH for President?
Sunday, January 25th, 2004
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Sunday, January 25th, 2004
Please help promote the campaign by including a banner in your site. You can do this by copying the html code corresponding to the appropriate image:
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Saturday, January 24th, 2004
In a written answer to several questions from Dáil members in February, 2003, Minister Martin Cullen stated that "The software is currently being modified for use at the European and local elections in June 2004 and when this work has been completed and tested, I will give careful consideration to ...
Posted in Electronic Voting | Comments Off on Conflict in responses about availability of source code
Saturday, January 24th, 2004
From RTE:The head of the American weapons inspection team in Iraq, David Kay, has resigned, saying he does not believe the country had any weapons of mass destruction.
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Saturday, January 24th, 2004
There's a heart-rending story in the New York Times today about a Palestinian man, who was married to an Israeli Jew and whose son is in the Israeli army, who is now an illegal worker/resident within Israel, under constant threat of eviction and unable to return - due to threats ...
Posted in International Affairs | Comments Off on Family ties in Israel and Palestine
Friday, January 23rd, 2004
In more news from the United States, there are multiple articles today covering a report for the Pentagon that gave a damning analysis of an internet-based voting system to be used by ex-pat and military voters in at least seven states for the primary and Presidential elections this year. Prepared ...
Posted in Computing Technology, Electronic Voting | Comments Off on Internet voting is fundamentally insecure – report