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Oracle plan exposes Java rift
News Borland continues to have concerns about the scope and constraints implied by this JSR," according to the voting record. Oracle submitted its Java Specification Request (JSR) 198 proposal last month to the Java Community Process (JCP), the Sun...
[December 20, 2002, 8:09]
Brave New Ballot review
Reviews DRE is wholesale: it's comparatively difficult to rewrite voting machine software — but if you can, that software can end up being deployed on every machine in the country. Rubin's public involvement in e-voting began in July 2003, when a phone...
[February 2, 2007, 11:54]
Software patents face-off delayed until spring
News Voting on a controversial European Union software patents proposal has been delayed until April, amid intensified lobbying against the proposal by multinational tech companies and European mobile phone makers.
[December 1, 2003, 13:20]
Fujitsu Services settles union dispute
News A dispute between Unite the Union (formerly Amicus) and Fujitsu Services ended on Wednesday, with members of the union agreeing to work normally and the management agreeing to accept a number of key terms including union recognition — something it...
[September 13, 2007, 14:43]
the perils of tendering
Talkback if you take the lowest tender you automatically get the lowest quality a generalisation but usually true
[July 18, 2008, 19:21]
Finally..
Talkback Some one with there head screwed on right is putting something good into motion.
[August 19, 2009, 23:42]
Secure over obscure?
Talkback I don't know, seems that a report, by a software company in Redmond, Washington, found windows to be the most secure OS on the planet.
[August 21, 2009, 12:24]
Pros and cons
Talkback I've heard of similar systems. Advantages: You have a real paper trail. The ballots are counted electronically, and the papers only need to be stored for the statutory time - not counted unless there's a dispute.
[January 31, 2007, 14:16]
Re: Pros and Cons
Talkback > 1. The electronic system is still a black box, and it will keep records of the votes that could be reverse-engineered in a matter of moments instead of the work that it takes to audit" a paper-only ballot.
[January 31, 2007, 14:44]
No worries!
Talkback This exchange has certainly demonstrated the conundrum facing the DCA though, hasn't it?
[February 1, 2007, 15:05]
Ballot tracability
Talkback Hi there, Totally agree with the tracability of ballots, but any eVoting system implemented for wide scale use in the UK would have to meet this requirement as well. Practically it's a moderately difficult problem to solve, but can be done AND be...
[February 6, 2007, 11:01]
Vote Bill Gates on Clerihew Day!
Blog Voting ends today, the birthday of Edmund Clerihew Bentley, the inventor of the form (well explained on Wikipedia, of course). Technologists figure prominently as the subjects of amusing poems, in a competition to celebrate Clerihew Day, july 10.
[July 10, 2008, 10:37]
Survey: European patents have quality problems
Talkback On an aside, voting for a party that wishes to take the UK out of europe would have absolutely no effect on the EPO except to dilute any say that we, as UK citizens, have over patenting. It is also an indictment of the system whereby the EPO makes...
[July 10, 2004, 0:00]
Ubuntu takes community ideas from Dell
News Voting makes it clear which ideas have the most support in the user community and should be given priority," wrote Albisetti. A feedback site for the Ubuntu community has been launched, inspired by the success of Dell's IdeaStorm website.
[February 29, 2008, 10:56]
UK's leading CIO announced
News Voting was based on a CIO's leadership ability, delivery and execution track record, innovation and influence — both within their organisation and externally among their peers and the wider IT industry.
[June 7, 2007, 10:27]
UKIP bashes software patents
Talkback There are 12 UKIP MEPs who work within a block of like minded EUsceptics in the Parliament to try and stop the worst excesses of the Commission by [tadaah] voting against the relevant directives. > is delighted that the neo-Fascist UKIP
[May 5, 2005, 11:12]
Naughton jury: Cops 'screwed up'
News When polled by Rafeedie, the jury foreman said jurors were pretty evenly split on whether to convict Naughton, voting 7-5 in favour of conviction on the traveling charge and 6-5 (with 1 undecided) on the charge of using the Internet to set up the...
[December 17, 1999, 8:42]
The Internet of the 21st century
News Saffo says we are all revolutionaries on the Net, voting with our mouses. Picture the scene: Dad in the living room video-conferencing with his boss in the States. In the study, Mum is teleworking while little Johnny is upstairs online gaming and...
[December 27, 1999, 6:00]
A Year Ago: The Internet of the 21st century
News Saffo says we are all revolutionaries on the Net, voting with our mouses. 1999 is just the beginning. Futurists believe the Net and the PC will become practically invisible - and will fundamentally change our lives
[December 27, 2000, 6:04]
Best Firefox plug-ins for work review
Reviews I say 'somewhat' random because it fine-tunes its selections for you based on what you indicate you like and don't like, using voting buttons. I use Firefox, and not just because it's a more secure browser with better user interface features.
[June 8, 2006, 9:05]
