If you have fond memories of recounts from the 2000 election–I know I do!–then you need to see this film. The 2004 election is going to be _worse_ because of the explosion of electronic voting machines that do not produce a Voter Verifiable Paper Ballot. Without a non-electronic storage mechanism for recording official vote tallies, there will be NO WAY TO HAVE A MEANINGFUL VOTE RECOUNT.

Well, this site has gone stagnant for almost a year now for reasons that I’d rather not go into.

I recently got a ReplayTV 5040 for a steal on closeout at buy.com and just love it. One of the most attractive features is how it is network-aware by default and that the community has created some great free software for integrating with it. I have been using DVArchive to expand the capacity for recording without having to violate my ReplayTV warranty by hacking the hardware. DVArchive enables your PC to act as a software-based ReplayTV unit for replay, archival, vending photos, as well as playing recorded mpegs remotely on your PC.

Within the past month or so, I received a warning from Sony about fraudulent e-mails claiming to be from Sony but that actually were not. The deceptive e-mails were designed to lure Sony customers into divulging personal information at a fake Sony site. It “falsely indicates that it is from SonyStyle.com” and “includes a link to a bogus SonyStyle.com registration site”

This is such a great line.

SPAM is a truly egregious problem. This article does some analysis of popular spam filtering software. It is no surprise to me that signature-based programs tend to have slightly higher false positive rates and that Bayesian filters work best when trained properly, and have low or zero false positive rates.

Sorry for not keeping up. Been enjoying the summer too much!

Here is an excerpt from an e-mail I got today. If you ever get e-mail purportedly from a company that asks for you to divulge personal information, there is a high likelihood that it is one of the many social engineering attacks running around. Popular ones try to snag AOL and eBay/Pay Pal users. Be wary of what e-mails and Internet sites you trust your personal information to!!

This does not look good for Netflix, which is too bad. They have been a great service.

Good stuff to refer to from Lawrence Lessig.