Bachmann. Gingrich. Romney. Perry. Paul. Outside of Paul, that’s a murderer’s row of icky politicky politicans and a group so easy to poke fun of the jokes write themselves. More seriously though, the GOP believes hackers are targeting the Iowa caucus polling system to screw with results and mess with the Republicans. I wonder why!
Walk the polling plank, ye landlubbers! It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Scuttlebutt from over the briny seas says that the German Pirate party has ransacked the mainland, taking a seat in the Berlin parliament.
Tuesday’s US midterm elections could mean more than just a routine reshuffling of the House and Senate majorities. The fates of a number of important science and technology policies also hang in the balance.
When programmer Don Relyea tried to choose one candidate on his voting machine, the computer chose a different candidate – plus four other candidates from the same, incorrect party – right in front of him. He captured the whole thing on video.
A pilot internet voting program in Washington DC for this November’s elections has been scrapped. Why? Well, officials invited hackers to give the system their “best shot”, and some university kids did – and pulled off a pretty good prank.
I know the election is done and dusted – well, it will be next week once postal votes are counted and the two parties pucker up to kiss the independents’ butts – but I still couldn’t resist sharing the latest animation from NMA.
