.Net Vote Rigging Illustrates Importance Of Web Services
News ZDNet UK logs reveal rather obvious vote rigging, and prove that it originated from within Microsoft: The one that wins the prize made 228 attempts to vote. Several of the voters evidently followed a link contained in an email, the subject line of...
[January 9, 2002, 15:31]
Crackers Suspected Of Rigging Big Brother Vote
News The Big Brother Web team suspect crackers may have unleashed a mailbomb on the voting section of the site, in order to rig the vote for unpopular housemate Paul. Holt suspects that pranksters may have designed a mailbomb to automatically update the...
[July 3, 2001, 17:07]
Doesn't Sound Like The EU Is Demanding MS-OOXML.
Talkback The firm is accused of vote-rigging and underhanded tactics. According to the Wall Street Journal, European regulators are investigating whether Microsoft violated antitrust laws during the OOXML standardization struggle.
[February 11, 2008, 15:18]
Microsoft: Don't Be So Quick To Attack OOXML
News When asked about an alleged vote-rigging incident that occurred in relation to the upcoming International Organization for Standardization (ISO) decision last year, Microsoft's Thomas described it as "an unfortunate accident".
[February 7, 2008, 8:29]
Top Ten Stories Of The Year
News Net vote rigging Well perhaps not, until you consider that one person made 228 attempts to vote (our script blocked most attempts at multiple voting) and several of the voters evidently followed a link contained in an email, the subject line of...
[December 27, 2002, 6:10]
Racketeering, Plain And Simple...
Talkback Buying influence, paying people to shut up, vote-rigging, evading fines, protection rackets, forcing people to buy products they don't want. Microsoft long ago ceased to be a technology-driven company.
[September 13, 2007, 17:02]
News Burst: Pranksters Hack Into Big Brother Nomination Lines
News Morgan Holt, editor of the Big Brother Web site is adamant that "this is not an effective way of rigging the nomination vote". When intrigued office workers return the call, they find themselves being transferred to the "vote Thomas out" hotline.
[August 24, 2000, 10:16]
Microsoft OOXML Debacle Continues
News The move follows criticism of SIS's earlier decision to vote "yes" to Office Open XML (OOXML) by the Free Software Foundation Europe, which accused Microsoft of ballot rigging. The Swedish Standards Institute has decided to invalidate its Microsoft...
[August 31, 2007, 12:22]
Coersion Vs. Corruption
Talkback When you have so many votes laying idle, you have far more of a chance of getting away un-noticed, you need to do much less rigging to make it count and you have far more slack to work in. I have a postal vote set up permanently now, as I am never...
[February 2, 2007, 12:18]
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]
Pranksters Hit Big Brother Nomination Lines
News Morgan Holt, editor of the Big Brother Web site is adamant that "this is not an effective way of rigging the nomination vote". When intrigued office workers return the call, they find themselves being put through to the "vote Thomas out" hotline.
[August 24, 2000, 16:06]
OOXML Standard Will Tarnish ISO
Blog There are suggestions of vote rigging and dubious procedures in several countries, including Norway, Germany and Croatia, with the gory details on Groklaw. From what I can read, there were enough irregularities in the process, that ISO should...
[March 31, 2008, 9:27]
Michael Moore Attacks E-voting
News Moore ridiculed the variety of voting technologies used in the US, claiming the pencil-and-paper systems used in countries such as the UK and Canada were the still the best method of avoiding vote-rigging.
[November 10, 2003, 15:10]
Microsoft Promise Great News For Hobbyists!
Talkback Or maybe they just try for dueling standards, by vote-rigging, deceit and buying headlines because their so called OOXML (even the name is deceitful) standard probably can't be implemented properly by anybody but Microsoft and I have my doubts...
[February 23, 2008, 8:51]
OpenOffice.org Dismisses Pro-OOXML Report
News Referring to the ISO vote-rigging allegations, the report suggested that those "disruptions" might cause the ISO to revise its procedures, "so, in some respects, the OOXML episode will produce some useful stimulus/response improvements within ISO".
[January 17, 2008, 11:28]
Microsoft Blogger Defends Standards Expertise
Blog I guess it doesn't make sense to think they were as bad at is as McKee claims - his excuse for why they played "catch-up" so hard and alienated so many standards bodies in the process around claims of vote-rigging - but although Microsoft has...
[July 1, 2008, 10:46]
Big Brother: The Inside Story
News Thu, 24 Aug Telephone rigging could push out Irish Thomas Wed, 26 Jul Enemy lines are closing in on Sada and Caroline as the public vote draws to a close, but will Sada stick it out till Friday? Host of the site, Intel, is having to cope with "the...
[July 25, 2000, 11:52]
Vote Bill Gates On Clerihew Day!
Blog I should point out that, despite the headline of this post, I'm not advocating any form of ballot rigging, 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]
Microsoft Accused Of Rigging OOXML Votes
News The Free Software Foundation Europe has accused Microsoft of "stuffing the ballot boxes" in a vote designed to establish Office Open XML as a recognised industry standard. Membership of the Swiss body saw a surprising growth before the vote, while...
[August 30, 2007, 16:27]
