Groups Sue to Allow Vote Recounts

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Rights Groups Seek E-Vote System Source
Code Access

Rights Groups Seek E-Vote System Source
Code Access 06/29/2004 05:28 PM
Civil rights advocates and computer experts are urging all counties planning to use touch-screen, or "direct recording electronic," voting systems to immediately implement security precautions, including independent expert access to the systems' source code.

""the GOP is already calling a vote for
Democrats a vote for bin Laden (or if
you prefer, a vote for Hitler).""

""the GOP is already calling a vote for
Democrats a vote for bin Laden (or if
you prefer, a vote for Hitler)."" 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

Man recounts MRSA hospital ordeal

Man recounts MRSA hospital ordeal 03/25/2005 05:08 PM
A Lisburn man describes how he thought his world had ended after he contracted the MRSA superbug.

Fla. ban on touchscreen hand recounts
violates law

Fla. ban on touchscreen hand recounts
violates law 08/28/2004 12:32 AM
USA Today Aug 28 2004 5:11AM GMT

Along Public Trail, a Church Recounts
Its History

Along Public Trail, a Church Recounts
Its History 01/23/2004 01:22 AM
Tours to a federally owned historic site in Wyoming are run not by government employees but by the Mormon Church.

"Iraqi Recounts Hours of Abuse by U.S.
Troops "

"Iraqi Recounts Hours of Abuse by U.S.
Troops " 05/06/2004 04:21 AM

Saddam's doctor recounts ex-president's
whims (Reuters)

Saddam's doctor recounts ex-president's
whims (Reuters) 06/11/2004 07:58 AM
Reuters - Drawn away from needy patients and summoned in the middle of the night, the doctor of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein recounts in a new book his service to a man he considered a psychopath.

Fla. judge rules ban on touchscreen hand
recounts violates law

Fla. judge rules ban on touchscreen hand
recounts violates law 08/28/2004 06:11 AM
USA Today Aug 28 2004 9:21AM GMT

Falsely arrested Indymedia correspondent
recounts his 40 hours in jail during
RNC-NYC

Falsely arrested Indymedia correspondent
recounts his 40 hours in jail during
RNC-NYC 09/06/2004 05:54 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Eddie Codel recounts the endless processing, waiting in lines, handcuffing, and form-filling that goes into being arrested for civil disobedience during the RNC.

At this point we haven't been given a chance to use a bathroom facility, it's been about 3 hours. I see several ladies huddled up in a corner blocking others while they pee on the floor. Soon after, lines form on either ends of the cage for people wanting to use the port-o-john's that are now open for business. They are located behind a locked gate at either end where a police officer mans these gates while allowing one person at a time to enter. My turn is next, my plastic cuffs are cut off and I finally pee. I stretch my arms a bit, gulp down a cup off water from a nearby water cooler and prepare to be recuffed. I put my hands behind my back and am recuffed very loosely. I return to the general population in the main cage and pull my hands out of my cuffs as I see many others have done.

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CBS News | Atlanta Hostage Recounts
Ordeal | March 14, 2005 10:30:03

CBS News | Atlanta Hostage Recounts
Ordeal | March 14, 2005 10:30:03 03/17/2005 02:49 AM
Hostage Recounts Ordeal; Talked About God With Shooter .. It seems nothing less than a miracle,

cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/14/national/main679837.shtml
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Google Groups vs Yahoo! Groups

Google Groups vs Yahoo! Groups 05/14/2004 07:37 PM
Search Engine Positioning and Web Marketing weblog,CA-9 hours agoGoogle has just launched a beta version of Google Groups 2 an extension of the current Google Groups that is does not only include Usenet but is similar in ...

U.S. abuse cases reach to Afghanistan,
where a former police colonel recounts
similar treatment last summer

U.S. abuse cases reach to Afghanistan,
where a former police colonel recounts
similar treatment last summer 05/13/2004 03:45 AM
An Afghan Gives His Own Account of U.S. Abuse .. Drip

nytimes.com/2004/05/12/international/asia/12AFGH.html?hp
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"A vote for Bush is a vote for a
divided, unstable, paranoid America"

"A vote for Bush is a vote for a
divided, unstable, paranoid America" 08/05/2004 05:00 AM
Baby, we were born to run against Bush More than 20 artists, including Bruce Springsteen, the Dave Matthews Band, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, James Taylor and the Dixie Chicks, announced the launch of a ``Vote For Change'' tour yesterday. "A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America,'' Dave Matthews said in one of the more strongly worded statement....

"Iraq concedes that anyone the
insurgents don't want to vote won't get
to vote in the upcoming elections, as
Mr. Rumsfeld said and Mr. Allawi either
does or doesn't agree to and Mr.
Armitage denied"

"Iraq concedes that anyone the
insurgents don't want to vote won't get
to vote in the upcoming elections, as
Mr. Rumsfeld said and Mr. Allawi either
does or doesn't agree to and Mr.
Armitage denied" 09/27/2004 02:37 AM

A vote for kotte.org is actually a vote
for kottke.org (and freedom!)

A vote for kotte.org is actually a vote
for kottke.org (and freedom!) 12/07/2003 04:57 AM
Best Overall Blog? .. decidedly liberal

wizbangblog.com/poll.php#BOB
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Vote for a real change, vote ...For
Dummies!

Vote for a real change, vote ...For
Dummies! 05/05/2004 10:48 PM
Sunday Times South Africa May 6 2004 3:26AM GMT

Vote for this bill. Or vote for Pedro.

Vote for this bill. Or vote for Pedro. 04/12/2005 05:04 PM
Idaho House Resolution 29 WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Legislature of the State of Idaho who choose to vote "Nay" on this concurrent resolution are "FREAKIN' IDIOTS!" I wish all legislation were worded this way.

vote early, vote often

vote early, vote often 03/14/2005 05:43 PM
Oh dear. It appears that TV Guide is holding an online poll about Star Trek, and our dear, sweet young...

Don't Vote Your Conscience, Vote HIP!

Don't Vote Your Conscience, Vote HIP! 02/06/2005 01:09 AM
Yulia Timoshenko (her personal website) is the new premier of Ukraine (bio). She is the hippest politician I've ever laid my eyes on. Here is a picture of her giving a speech to the Ukrainian parliament when it approved her nomination to the premiership. Here's another picture of her being insufferably hip. Russia has issued an international arrest warrant for her through Interpol, but who cares when she's this cool? Don't you wish you had politicians who dressed like that? Strike that. Don't you wish you had politicians who could dress like that?

Groups! Help!

Groups! Help! 03/21/2003 10:21 AM
At the O'Reilly conference on emerging technology I agreed to talk about "the future of groups." How the hell would I know? So, I'm turning to you. I just want enough to stimulate a discussion, so all I need from you is 20 minutes worth of brilliant insights that are staggeringly fresh, indisputable, and vastly amusing. Here are the sorts of things I've been thinking about: The Eskimos may have 35 words for snow (they don't, and they're not called Eskmos any more), but we have 100 words for groups. (Note, we also have 100 words for dirt.) But we...

"more aid groups"

"more aid groups" 12/30/2004 04:30 AM

Groups, Individuals or both?

Groups, Individuals or both? 07/28/2004 02:54 PM

Jon Udell had an interesting post on Shibboleth, which is an authentication system for the Internet2 (among other applications....)

I met the Shibboleth folks at last year's DigitalID world. They're doing real stuff.

Anyway Jon brings up the notion of group identification, as opposed to individual. My feeling - is that we want - both!

Here's Jon's post....

In last week's column, I suggested that individuals and
corporations should be the authoritative sources of basic information about
themselves. That way, if an application needs my name, address, and phone
number, I can refer it to a source that I control and guarantee to be correct.
But how many applications really need my name, address, and phone number?
Capturing the identity of individuals, along with personal information about
them, has become a habit. In a climate of increasing concern about privacy,
it's a bad habit we must learn to resist. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

As I mention in this week's column, the notion of selective disclosure is a
core value of href="http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/">Shibboleth, an Internet2 project
that's gaining some real traction in the higher-ed world.

What's up with the name 'Shibboleth'? Here's the scoop:

A shibboleth is a kind of
linguistic password: A way of speaking (a pronunciation, or the use of a
particular expression) that identifies one as a member of an 'in' group. The
purpose of a shibboleth is exclusionary as much as inclusionary: A person
whose way of speaking violates a shibboleth is identified as an outsider and
thereby excluded by the group. (This phenomenon is part of the "Judge a book
by its cover" tendency apparently embedded in human cognition, and the use of
language to distinguish social groups).

The story behind the word is
recorded in the biblical Book of Judges. The word shibboleth in ancient Hebrew
dialects meant 'ear of grain' (or, some say, 'stream'). Some groups pronounced
it with a sh sound, but speakers of related dialects pronounced it with an s.
[Suzanne
Kemmer]

The federated identity system called Shibboleth deals
with group membership, rather than individual identity. It's interesting to
think about use cases, outside higher ed, that don't require the identification
of individuals. Consider website registration. The New York Times, or InfoWorld, or other media
sites that want to qualify readers to their advertisers, don't really need to
know me as an individual. They just need to aggregate readers into groups. From
the Times' perspective, I'm a member of the group of American male writers who
work in Media/Publishing/Broadcasting and who read the Times regularly but do
not subscribe. From InfoWorld's perspective, I'm a member of the group of
consultants (Technical) working in the area of Tech: Publishing who strategize
about (but do not directly purchase) IT assets.

What if it were possible -- and convenient -- to affiliate with these groups
without giving up personally identifying information? In reaction to
registration regimes that are too granular, the bugmenot.c om
hack abolishes granularity. But maybe there's a middle ground.

[Jon Udell]

Google Groups Art

Google Groups Art 07/20/2002 11:19 PM
Thanks to Karl Ove Hufthammer for pointing us to sun sky land rock brightflowers darkerock lushgrass, the first art piece I know of that takes advantage of Google's query highlighting feature to make colored ASCII art. Of course, if art's not your thing you could always take the hidden message approach... Fun stuff....

Yahoo! Groups

Yahoo! Groups 05/14/2004 01:39 AM
yahoo groups: log on to melblife for my Melb pics .. dead simple broadcast channels .. opt-in mailing list .. grupos de Yahoo .. y ahoo-groups .. YahooGroups .. eGroups .. Yahoo! .. eGroup .. forums .. groups .. Y

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Google Groups 2

Google Groups 2 05/12/2004 08:19 PM
Google finally bit the bullet and added mailing list support to Google Groups: Google Groups 2 - BETA. It even lets you create your own mailing list, just like Yahoo! Groups. Google says: Group creation: Users can easily create, join, and search email-based mailing lists; administrative interface enables customized access controls to designate a group as public or restricted Dynamic conversations: Postings appear within 10 seconds and are indexed within 10 minutes Enhanced user interface: Users can track and mark favorite topics using the "My Groups" feature and view postings in a variety of ways including by message summary, title, or conversation view...

WWW-Google-Groups-0.08

WWW-Google-Groups-0.08 01/03/2004 07:27 PM

WWW-Google-Groups-0.09

WWW-Google-Groups-0.09 01/04/2004 05:03 AM

FOAF and GROUPS

FOAF and GROUPS 01/07/2004 05:14 PM
FOAF and Groups. Right.

FOAF and Groups

Right. So, in the never ending struggle that is RDF, foaf:group is another property that's a "work in progress". Here are some notes:

In the spec, foaf:Group is a container of foaf:Agents (of which foaf:Person is a subclass). It's ideal for representing groups of anything, from companies to mailing lists to knitting clubs.

Bill Kearney tried to poke at it in July, and had some issues.

My particular issue is you can make a "group" FOAF file, in which the group describes all it's members, but there's no easy way for a "person" FOAF file to say that it's a member of a group.

Partly that's by design: "The current design names the relationship as pointing from the group, to the member."

So, if I wanted to represent group membership in a "Person" FOAF file, here's how I think I have to do it with the vocab of today:

...
<foaf:Person rdf:nodeID="me">
   <foaf:blah>...</foaf:blah>
</foaf:Person>
<foaf:Group rdf:nodeID="spelunkers">
   <rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://example.com/groupfile.rdf"
/>
   <foaf:member rdf:nodeID="me" />
</foaf:Group>
...

Now, that seems a bit complicated. I can parse it and fish around for the right way of looking at things, but wouldn't something like this make more sense:

...
<foaf:Person rdf:nodeID="me">
   <foaf:blah>...</foaf:blah>
   <foaf:memberOf
rdf:resource="http://example.com/groupfile.rdf#spelunkers" />
</foaf:Person>
...

So foaf:memberOf would have a domain of foaf:Person (foaf:Agent?) and a range of rdf:resource that points to the "authoritative" group file that has all the other info in it (join dates, membership classes, etc.).

(side rant: Here's where a really sticky part of FOAF which confuses the hell out of some, and others ignore. Where do I go to talk about this / suggest things? The Issue Tracker? The wiki? The IRC channel? The mailing list? The project web site? The weblog? Too many tools!)

So, what am I forgetting? Does this make sense? And if it doesn't make sense, how would you go about representing that a foaf:Person is a part of a group without the group FOAF file?[esigler.2nw.net/blog]

 

Charging for Groups

Charging for Groups 09/21/2004 10:14 AM

We discovered an intersting thing at 1UP.com - companies are willing to pay to get into the social networking space.

Whenever they hear about lots of people congragating - their ears perk up.

So Tony Perkins - and his AlwaysOn Network has decided to monetize that - and charge for Groups in it's Zaibatsu social network. The first one was announced yesterday - with Audi.

Here's the details:

We are pleased to announce that Audi of America is the first AlwaysOn Media Partner to launch its own Keiretsu on the AO network. AlwaysOn is the first media site to offer its partners a community building service that combines both blogging and social networking capabilities.

All AO members can join the Audi of America Keiretsu for FREE. It’s easy, so check it out!

http://audiamerica.alwayson-network.com

AO members who join the Audi of America’s Keiretsu will enjoy future special offers and privileges exclusive to members.

“Our new group social network and blog site on AlwaysOn provides Audi the unique opportunity to identify smart executives and entrepreneurs in the global Silicon Valley arena and gain their feedback and create a dialogue on technology trends in our industry,” said Jim McGough, Director of Audi America.

“Our new AO Keiretsu also allows Audi enthusiasts within the AlwaysOn
community to find and interact with each other. This kind of community building tool offers Audi an opportunity to target a market of smart executives in a way that has never been possible before.,” said Mr. McGough.

In the next couple of weeks, AlwaysOn is planning to roll-out additional Keiretsus on behalf of many of our other Media Partners including Sun Microsystems, KPMG, Quova, Porter Novelli and SupportSoft.

Commercial brands interested in launching their own AlwaysOn Keiretsu and learning more about our Media Partner Program should contact my partner Mike Sly at sly@alwayson-network.com.

AlwaysOn also offers related non-profits and trade associations the Keiretsu service for at no charge. To see if your group qualifies for the AO Keiretsu program, contact Brennan Igoe at brennan@alwayson-network.com.

As always, we look forward to any feedback on our new Keiretsu offering or any other service we provide. If you would like to make your comments public to other Ao members, check out my new post at:

http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=6012_0_2_0_C

Best/tp

Tony Perkins
Founder/Editor
www.alwayson-network.com

Next one up - Sun.

Search for Play Groups around the US

Search for Play Groups around the US 11/18/2003 09:16 AM
If you've got a kidlet and you're looking for a playgroup, check out The Playgroup Finder, recently announced and located at http://www.mommyandme.com . Before you can search you'll have to register. The registration looks intimidating but most of the information...

SQL Server News Groups

SQL Server News Groups 06/03/2004 12:17 PM

Ultrawideband groups band together

Ultrawideband groups band together 04/16/2004 02:25 PM
Two industry groups are teaming up to promote a de facto standard for ultrawideband, helping ease concerns that the wireless technology could become mired in red tape.

known cheerleading groups (when it's
shown at all)

known cheerleading groups (when it's
shown at all) 12/12/2003 06:52 AM
Glenn Reynolds is going on .. somewhat dissatisfied .. did anyone else .. Instapundit .. more

instapundit.com/archives/012972.php
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A New Beta from Google: Groups 2

A New Beta from Google: Groups 2 05/13/2004 03:45 AM

groups-beta.google.com
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"some of the more radical Shiite groups"

"some of the more radical Shiite groups" 05/21/2004 12:54 AM

Distinguishing Groups by Scope

Distinguishing Groups by Scope 08/10/2004 12:30 PM

Review of new Yahoo Groups

Review of new Yahoo Groups 03/27/2005 08:26 AM

Of couse I don't like the new Yahoo Groups user interface, no surprise there, when you've become accustomed the way a piece of software works, and it changes, unexpectedly, well, it's like waking from a dream, one you weren't even aware you were having.

Certain things seem totally wrong, like the huge places for pictures for each of the groups. Most groups don't have them, so the box says "add photo." I wonder if more people are going to add photos now (and was it an attempt to be like Flickr, I wonder?) The tradeoff seems unreasonable. Now there's room for far-fewer groups on a page.

They also vertically expanded the listing for members and messages, again, you can see fewer on a page. Maybe they're displaying more information, but there's also a lot more white space, which in some contexts could be nice, but here, is a waste, making you work harder to find the same information you found before.

They did change one thing that's not cosmetic, now all members can browse the member lists of groups. I wonder how much they thought this through, I'm pretty sure I don't belong to any groups I wouldn't want people to know about. Hmmm.

root-equivalent groups

root-equivalent groups 03/22/2005 06:53 PM
psz_at_maths.usyd.edu.au (Mar 22 2005)

Cloning Window Groups

Cloning Window Groups 12/25/2004 05:03 PM

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