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Remote e-voting
Talkback One of the arguments oft used against remote e-voting is that it opens up vote selling and coercion (taken from the ORG briefing pack : "Elections held using remote voting can be contentious because it is difficult to verify that the voter is who...
[January 31, 2007, 16:41]
Nasa hacker loses extradition appeal
News The Court of Appeal took a dim view of the alleged coercion applied to McKinnon, saying that it "viewed with a degree of distaste the way in which the American authorities are alleged to have approached the plea bargain negotiations" with McKinnon.
[April 3, 2007, 14:16]
Remote e-voting
Talkback You're correct in that it provides a paper trail, but surely doesn't prevent coercion or vote buying. Hi David, Any method of voting that isn't conducted within a polling booth is open to these things.
[February 1, 2007, 12:01]
Report: Microsoft expects Adobe to file antitrust suit
Talkback Adobe and Symantec make software people use by choice, not by coercion; let them flourish! Better idea: let Microsoft die for being so ruddy arrogant.
[June 4, 2006, 17:33]
Clarification
Talkback My angle was that it's not entirely fair to attack remote e-voting on the grounds of vote selling / coercion whilst advocating postal votes. Hi again David, We've got our wires crossed. I'm an advocate of remote e-voting.
[February 1, 2007, 14:24]
stop selling Linux netbooks
Talkback Their track record indicates they have used coercion before. I would not be surprised to learn that a large company in Redmond had sent a memo telling them to drop the Linux line, or prices on windows products might rise.
[June 4, 2009, 14:09]
OOXML clears ISO voting
Blog Comment Some members of the technology community are so emotionally committed to their own point of view that they cannot possibly accept that somebody would do anything contrary to that without coercion of one form or another.
[March 30, 2008, 14:52]
AMD under fire in the courtroom
News In its lawsuit filed in June, AMD claimed that Intel imposed scare tactics and coercion on 38 companies, including large-scale computer makers, small system builders, wholesale distributors and retailers.
[September 2, 2005, 8:55]
AMD and Intel prepare for war
News AMD filed a 48-page suit in a Delaware federal court last month, alleging that Intel uses scare tactics and coercion to prompt computer makers and other companies to use more Intel chips than ones sold by its rivals.
[July 18, 2005, 9:00]
AMD vs Intel spills over into Japan
News AMD claimed in that suit that Intel imposed scare tactics and coercion on 38 companies, including large-scale computer makers, small system builders, wholesale distributors and retailers. AMD's subsidiary in Japan has filed two lawsuits against...
[June 30, 2005, 15:10]
Ecma: So why is our process suddenly broken?
Blog Comment You have seen the same reports that I have, of packing the committee with Microsoft employees, sympathizers and puppets, veiled coercion and threats to various members, and attempts to confuse the process with sheer quantity rather than quality.
[September 25, 2008, 17:39]
A matter of scale
Talkback The scale of coercion would be massive. As we know from a recent election postal votes are far from secure. It's a matter of scale. The best possible way of voting is in a booth with a piece of paper.
[February 2, 2007, 12:18]
AMD vs Intel: The chips are down
News With Intel's profit margins running at 40 percent and nobody else in double figures, Intel can afford to maintain its market share though 'economic coercion'. This week the gloves came off in the struggle between up-and-coming chipmaker AMD and...
[June 29, 2005, 13:15]
Intel 'raided' in Korean antitrust inquiry
News The nub of the cases is what amounts to coercion. The Korean Fair Trade Commission popped into Intel unannounced this week to seek more documents on an antitrust claim in South Korea. The KFTC is looking into whether Intel has used marketing...
[February 10, 2006, 8:00]
US Report: Sound and fury surround MS
News Utah Senator Orrin Hatch and Washington Senator Slade Gorton also squared off, with Hatch urging on the investigation of Microsoft and saying that the rally and letter writing campaign smacked of coercion.
[May 11, 1998, 8:02]
AMD pulls in more firms to Intel battle
News In its complaint, AMD claimed that Intel imposed scare tactics and coercion on 38 companies, including large-scale computer makers, small system builders, wholesale distributors and retailers. AMD said on Thursday that it served more than 15...
[October 7, 2005, 8:50]
Does AMD have a case?
News Coercion or circumstance - that's the big question in the antitrust case filed by AMD against Intel. The suit, filed late on Monday, provides a fairly detailed and lengthy laundry list of alleged misdeeds by Intel.
[June 29, 2005, 14:15]
OOXML Approval System has already been seriously abused
Talkback The 'stuffing of ballot boxes' by means of interfering with the makeup of the committees, coercion and vote rigging that is going on at the moment is nothing short of horrendous and, to us lesser mortals, thoroughly corrupt.
[August 30, 2007, 20:02]
Lords to consider Nasa hacker appeal
News At the time, the Court of Appeal took a dim view of alleged coercion applied to McKinnon by US prosecutors, saying that it "viewed with a degree of distaste the way in which the American authorities are alleged to have approached the plea bargain...
[August 1, 2007, 12:52]
BT responds to 'unethical' contract criticism
News They don't have to take the service — there is no coercion. BT has given a three-month grace period to customers of its standard business phone lines who do not want to receive an automatic "upgrade" that locks them into a new 12-month contract.
[February 20, 2008, 14:12]
