http://dog.beckament.net Kono kanji... Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:14:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/12/america-may-create-copyright-police.html http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/12/america-may-create-copyright-police.html#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:33:05 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=173 ARS Technica reports the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008 (s3325) got approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee by 14-4 vote. If passed into law this empowers the Justice Department of the USofA to litigate civil suits (and seize property) on behalf of IP owners (corporate interests). ARS Technica reports “Critics have blasted ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/12/america-may-create-copyright-police.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/09/voting-machine-hacked-video.html http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/09/voting-machine-hacked-video.html#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:19:17 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=164 Watch the videos and read the article, I am really too busy to summarize this one, but if you live in the USofA it is important. This has to do with vote swapping on modern voting systems]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2008/09/09/voting-machine-hacked-video.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/07/a-moment-of-sanity-or-why-i-dont-trust-diebold.html http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/07/a-moment-of-sanity-or-why-i-dont-trust-diebold.html#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:18:21 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=109 Ohio sues Diebold over voting machines that ‘drop’ votes, finally! Election Systems & Software (formerly Diebold) manufactures voting machines and they have gotten a lot of bad press, but nobody I know really seems to care. A paper ballot system can be audited by any rational adult. An electronic ballot system can not… you can’t ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/07/a-moment-of-sanity-or-why-i-dont-trust-diebold.html/feed 0 http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/02/barack-obama-fisa-and-voting.html http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/02/barack-obama-fisa-and-voting.html#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:00:19 +0000 Chris http://dog.beckament.net/?p=81 Ok, I was going to vote for Barack Obama, he seemed like the ‘big-time’ candidate that had more of my interests at heart. Then he voted for the recent FISA Amendments Act of 2008 that grants telecoms immunity for helping the government break the law. This floored me… A law that protects lawbreakers. This just ]]> http://dog.beckament.net/2008/08/02/barack-obama-fisa-and-voting.html/feed 0