This is old news. The only reason that I am posting it is because it has to do with the contractor who is handling the improperly programmed People First Employment Portal. Offshore outsourcing cited in Florida data leak Employees who worked for the state during the 18-month period between Jan. 1, 2003, and June...
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My dealings with technology.
Vixenk.net: Why Should I Use Free Software as Opposed to Pirating Non-free Software
I had come to the conclusion that pirating software was not at all in my best interests quite some time ago. I just found Vixenk.net‘s post Why Should I Use Free Software as Opposed to Pirating Non-free Software. The author lays down the argument against pirating software far more eloquently than I could have....
Survived a digging!
This site got dugg yesterday in response to my post about the State of Florida’s People First job portal shutting out alternate browsers. The post rose to the front page of Digg and remained there for several hours. It continued to be included in the rss feed after it was no longer on the...
Email to state – PeopleFirst@dms.myflorida.com
I followed the the advice of a user of digg, Sillywampa, on Digg’s entry about my earlier post on Florida’s People First Job Portal and emailled PeopleFirst@dms.myflorida.com about this issue. Here is what I wrote:
IVTV DMA error fix? Patch from Author
Hans Verkuil, the developer behind ivtv, thinks that he may have found the source of the DMA problems that some have been experiencing. From the mailing list:
Hugg / The American Voting System: HACKED
Found this from:Hugg / The American Voting System: HACKED Watch this video, and I think that you too will be convinced that we need to have a paper trail in our elections. Not even just a paper trail that is printed out at the end of the day at each polling station. We need...
State of Florida job portal shuts out alternative browsers
Update: I wrote a post about an email I sent to the State of Florida and the response I received. This was suggested by Sillywampa on Digg. Thanks Sillywampa for the email address. The State of Florida’s People First job portal is still running an outdated script that locks out users of alternative browsers...
fredericiana: Flash video and no sound on OSX
I just found the solution for a problem that I have been having. When visiting Youtube, I was not getting sound on any of the videos. The Flash video and no sound on OSX at fredericiana had the solution. Thanks fredericiana!
New Scientist: A fuel tank full of water
New Scientist Premium- A fuel tank full of water: Forget cars fuelled by alcohol and vegetable oil. Before long, you might be able to run your car with nothing more than water in its fuel tank. It would be the ultimate zero-emissions vehicle. While water, plain old H2O, is not at first sight an...
Tesla Roadster, an Electric Sports Car?!?!
The Tesla Roadster was recently unveiled. It is an electric sports coupe. I want one! (Well… if I had a much larger income) It goes 0-60 in around 4 seconds according to the company. Autoblog produced a video of Tesla Motor’s Roadster: