Did E-Vote Firm Patch Election?. Once voting machine software is certified for use in elections, no one is supposed to change the code. But a former Diebold contractor says that's exactly what happened in Georgia. By Kim Zetter. [Wired News]

This article calls into question the veracity of last year's election of Gov. Perdue by pointing out how changes to the voting machines could have been made that could have tainted  or rigged the election.

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Public Library of Science Launches

Posted by Hemos on Monday October 13, @08:44AM
from the taking-flight dept.
limbicsystem writes "The first issue of the free journal Public Library of Science Biology hits the presses tonight. With Lawrence Lessig on the Board, the PLOS team are taking the Creative Commons to the world of science publishing and hope to compete with the big-name journals Science and Nature. The move towards freely-available scientific journals is supported by major funding bodies who are tired of seeing their grant money spent on subscriptions to commercial journals that can cost thousands of dollars a year. PLOS-Biology is available online at plos.org. The inagural issue has an essay by the executive director of the creative commons, Glen Otis Brown. Oh, and it's all running on Linux ;)"  [Slashdot]

How's about a Public Library of Law?  Same principles, bringing legal information to the public without the hefty subscriptions being charged now.  Uses CC licensing, gets case law, statutes, regulations, etc from all jurisdictions to one place, includes scholarly work.  Might just work.

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NY Times Reveals SCO/Canopy Group Hypocrisy 

NY Times Reveals SCO/Canopy Group Hypocrisy

Posted by timothy on Monday October 13, @07:34AM
from the strangely-enough dept.
rjamestaylor writes "The New York Times reports that 'SCO, the company that touched off a computer industry slugfest last spring by suing I.B.M. over its use of Unix software, may find itself embarrassed by a similar claim against a company once related to SCO.' Note that the reporter, John Markoff, ties together Noorda's Canopy Group companies, revealing that: 'Canopy is now SCO's largest shareholder, with two seats on the company's board, and has played an important role, analysts say, in shaping SCO's legal strategy.' He even quotes SCOSource shill Laura Didio as saying, 'All roads lead to Canopy...'"

 [Slashdot]

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