If I open your comp's case, I can install chips, or replace your memory.
and if i can get a disk in the drive, i can hijack it at system boot.
I love how things get reverse engineered like this. I really do.
Though in a world where we have to have a govt committee to remind us to not put heavy TV's on flimsy tables, I wonder how many people could accomplish such a feat.
sure Mythbusters could do it, or a IT lab at a Ivy League college...
-------- but be honest, if we are set up to only have Republican leadership, they have more sense than to have a hijack the voting machine campaign. they would pay the guy who counts the votes.
It would only take a few machines in a few key precincts, and fixed machines stay fixed, they don't do blackmail; bribed guys can play both ends against the middle, too risky.
and yet it is a light blue college in a dark blue state using tax dollars (actually, the city I am in right as I type this) that is trying to figure out how to rig the machines,.. and shows how to do it, once you get the warez...
and from the staunch republicans I know and the staunch democrats I know and the independents I know...
I would gather that a chaote is more likely to rig it to always be a tie, than a socially functional republicrat is likely to do attempt this method to get their team in for the win.
unless it is an inside jobe from volunteers at the voting centers.
I agree something needs to be done about teck security, but this is some pretty macgyver stuff.
they got a machine ripped it apart, yanked the coding out, and exploited it in a way you could only do if you had a privately owned machine, or the source code to write a malicious program into it.
and most "grass root guerillas" are not going to do so, and I bet they keep good track of the people who order these "privately".
Re: Why I'm a Libertarian Party Memberbaal_kriahSeptember 14 2006, 22:05:33 UTC
Well, that's full of distortions, but I'll simply point out that many Democrats have said publicly that they want to pull our troops out of Iraq, and some Republicans have, too. Barbara Lee is a Democrat you should have heard of. Likewise, there is no party line that they all toe on other issues either. The fact that Gore won more popular votes than Shrub in 2000, and that Kerry would have won had the polls in Ohio and Florida not been tampered with seems to be lost on you. Which says a lot about the realistic chances of the Libertarian Party. Of course, no one has to steal an election from Libertarians, who'd party themselves silly if they captured more than 1% of the votes in a presidential election. The established parties are shaking in their boots :-)
Re: Why I'm a Libertarian Party MembergentlemanjSeptember 14 2006, 23:28:15 UTC
Um, if that were the case, why didn't Kerry contest the results? As I recall, he folded like a bad poker hand as soon as the results came in.
Besides, why are you banging the drum for the Democrats? I thought you were a Green Party stalwart! And you know as well as I do that Barbara Lee is a lonely voice crying in the wilderness. My personal opinion of her aside, you have to admit that Dianne Feinstein is a much closer approximation to the overall temper of the Democratic Party.
As for the Libertarian Party, it's true, we have not fared well in national elections--although we got four times the number of votes the Green Party did--but at least we are consistent in what we espouse. Furthermore, I predict that the Libertarian Party will get unprecedently high vote totals in 2006 and 2008.
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If I open your comp's case, I can install chips, or replace your memory.
and if i can get a disk in the drive, i can hijack it at system boot.
I love how things get reverse engineered like this. I really do.
Though in a world where we have to have a govt committee to remind us to not put heavy TV's on flimsy tables, I wonder how many people could accomplish such a feat.
sure Mythbusters could do it, or a IT lab at a Ivy League college...
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but be honest, if we are set up to only have
Republican leadership, they have more sense than to have a hijack the voting machine campaign. they would pay the guy who counts the votes.
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and from the staunch republicans I know
and the staunch democrats I know
and the independents I know...
I would gather that a chaote is more likely to rig it to always be a tie, than a socially functional republicrat is likely to do attempt this method to get their team in for the win.
unless it is an inside jobe from volunteers at the voting centers.
I agree something needs to be done about teck security, but this is some pretty macgyver stuff.
they got a machine ripped it apart, yanked the coding out, and exploited it in a way you could only do if you had a privately owned machine, or the source code to write a malicious program into it.
and most "grass root guerillas" are not going to do so, and I bet they keep good track of the people who order these "privately".
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Bingo.
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Besides, why are you banging the drum for the Democrats? I thought you were a Green Party stalwart! And you know as well as I do that Barbara Lee is a lonely voice crying in the wilderness. My personal opinion of her aside, you have to admit that Dianne Feinstein is a much closer approximation to the overall temper of the Democratic Party.
As for the Libertarian Party, it's true, we have not fared well in national elections--although we got four times the number of votes the Green Party did--but at least we are consistent in what we espouse. Furthermore, I predict that the Libertarian Party will get unprecedently high vote totals in 2006 and 2008.
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I'll be razzing you about this if you, as I expect, don't.
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