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After Presidential Draft Candidate System Debuts, Who’s Talking About Americans Elect and How?
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On the last day of January 2012, Americans Elect rolled out its online voting system by which identity-verified delegates could draft candidates to appear on the ballot for the Americans Elect presidential nomination. Americans Elect has indirectly referred to the …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Americans Elect, Election 2012, Media, Politics, Tech
Tagged 2012, americans elect, buddy roemer, candidates, delegates, draft, graph, mentions, nick troiano, nodexl, numbers, participation, president, Ron Paul, sam edelen, social media, third party, twitter
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What the CafePress Merch Meter Didn’t Predict for the 2012 Elections… And Why
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Direct-to-Garment printer CafePress has a “Cultural Barometer” of sales records it’s been using to track trends of support for 2012 Republican presidential contenders. Here are the CafePress Barometer’s readings from November 14 through December 31 of 2011. Just a few …
Posted in Election 2012, Politics, Republicans, Shirts, Tech
Tagged buddy roemer, cafepress, caucuses, gary johnson, generalization, herman cain, iowa, jon huntsman, michele bachmann, Mitt Romney, newt gingrich, rick perry, rick santorum, Ron Paul, sales, Shirts, statistics, t-shirts
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Americans Elect Voting System Still Broken with <5 months to the First Ballot
Americans Elect is a corporation that wants to run its very own national online vote to nominate a president in less than five months. Is the Americans Elect online voting system ready to perform as any voting system must? Is …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Americans Elect, Election 2012, Politics, Tech, Video
Tagged 2012, americans elect, broken, democracy, election, president, vote, voting, youtube
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Americans Elect Holds its First Vote… and it’s Broken
Visit Americans Elect’s home page at americanselect.org and you’ll see the 501c4 corporation’s countdown to its first ballot. According to Americans Elect, the nation’s first-ever 50-state online election to nominate a presidential candidate will be held in just 150 days. …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Americans Elect, Election 2012, Politics, Tech
Tagged americans elect, capability, election, glitch, online, snafu, technical, Video, voting
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Why Do So Many People Hate Computers?
Recently, in many separate arenas of my life, I have run into people who have expressed and extreme hatred and fear of the use of computers. I’ve even run into this emotion in my interactions with people on the Internet …
Governments Request More User Data from Google in 2011. Which Countries are the Biggest Culprits?
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Earlier this month, I shared with you a map showing results from Google’s report on the number of requests for user data from the governments of the world, current through December 2010: Google has just updated its report to include …
Posted in Homeland Insecurity, Liberty, Media, Outside the USA, Tech
Tagged capitalist, chart, communism, data, france, google, hong kong, map, per capita, population, privacy, singapore, soviet, surveillance, united kingdom, united states, user data
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Freedom Plaza And The Battle Of The Drones
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Occupy DC protesters closed down the offices of General Anomics, manufacturer of military attack drones, just as Wired magazine reported that a computer virus has infected the software used to control the drones.
Posted in Activism, Tech, War and Peace
Tagged drones, freedom plaza, general atomics, hackers, protest, robots, virus, washington d.c.
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Occupy Together Movement Snapshot: 218,098 Participants in 147 Movement Centers (USA)
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This map is a snapshot in time, capturing the extent of participation (tallied via Facebook) in 147 Occupy Together movement centers across the United States of America. There is no one organizer of this movement — just 147 communities that …
Posted in Activism, State and Local, Tech
Tagged cities, count, data, facebook, grassroots, map, movement, movement centers, occupation, occupy together, participation, social movement
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For a Frozen Windows Boot, msconfig is Your Friend
30 years ago, I wouldn’t have known what a “frozen windows boot” was. I’d have suspected it was this thing you used to get out of a car during a snowstorm, maybe. Since then, I’ve come to know all too …
Posted in Tech
Tagged boot, msconfig, selective startup, services, startup, windows, windows 7
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Americans Elect Internet Vote for President? Consider how it worked in DC 2010
Apart from the various considerations of political ideology, influence and process regarding Americans Elect, there’s the simple matter of technology. Americans Elect plans to use all-internet-voting to nominate a presidential candidate and to broker the selection of the actual president …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Americans Elect, Election 2012, Politics, Tech
Tagged americans elect, dc, democracy, estonia, hacking, honolulu, internet, j. alex halderman, jim soper, voting
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The Rise of Dragonfly Surveillance
In 2007, people reported dragonfly-like machines hovering in the air near protests in Washington DC and New York City. In the same year, the U.S. government reported success creating living moth cyborgs fully steerable with brain implants. In 2008, the …
Posted in Homeland Insecurity, Tech
Tagged dragonflies, drones, elisabeth bumiller, military, robots, surveillance
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Aviary Chrome App can Access all the Data and Programs on your Computer
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The Aviary music creator named “Roc” lets you create little techno-loops of music. If you install Aviary “Roc” as an extension to your Chrome browser, you have to agree to this: Access to the programs and data on your computer. …
2012 Republican Correlates: Palin=Stealth Banjo, Gingrich=Office Rug
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In which states are searches for “Ron Paul 2012″ running hot? Where are people looking up “Mitt Romney 2012″? Google Correlate lets us find out where the interest in various 2012 presidential candidates is high or low (see here for …
Posted in Election 2012, Politics, Republicans, Tech
Tagged correlations, google, google correlate, herman cain, Mitt Romney, newt gingrich, office rug, region, regionalism, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, tim pawlenty, top 10, top ten
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Do Solar Energy Pods Rock You?
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Solar panels on the top feed into lights inside the Soft Rocker that can be turned on at night to allow for outside evening reading. The Soft Rockers also have a power port that can be used to charge small electronic devices through USB ports.
Hot or Not: Where’s interest in 2012 Republican Presidential Contenders Highest?
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Hot or not? Introduced quietly last month to little fanfare, Google Correlate is a service that allows anybody to track variation in the volume of any frequent Google search across the 50 states of the USA (plus the District of …
Posted in Election 2012, Politics, Republicans, Tech
Tagged 2012, contenders, cross-state, gary johnson, google, google correlate, gop, hot or not, Mitt Romney, newt gingrich, president, republican party, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, search, standard deviation, states, tim pawlenty, variation, z score
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The 3 Ways Americans Elect Could Improve Politics (and the 3 Ways it Could Go Wrong)
The summer is an empty stage. With Congress and the President going on extended vacations, with students away from campus and student activism on hold, there is a vacuum of traditional political news during the summer months, a vacuum that …
Posted in Alternative Parties, Americans Elect, Election 2012, Politics, Tech
Tagged 2012, americans elect, campaign, choice, citizens united, control, michael bloomberg, online, political parties, Politics, president, silly season, summer, top 5, unity08, voting
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USA: Hack our Computers and We’ll Kill You
That’s what the upcoming Pentagon policy document on cyber-war boils down to. When a person messes with U.S. government computers, that could be considered an “act of war,” with the weapons of war to be rained down upon that person …
Posted in Tech, War and Peace
Tagged civilian, cybersecurity, cyberwar, government, hacking, military, power, trial, united states, war
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