Archive 14. November 2005

e-Voting: Contesting the Bundestag Election Due to Voting Computers

Problems with voting machines in the federal election:

Wiesner criticizes in particular that the voting is indirect – via the voting machine and the software used – and it cannot be verified whether the vote is stored immediately and unchanged in the vote memory and subsequently in the electronic vote memory until the election result is determined is not changed.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he succeeds with his application, but I don't see any greater chances - because surely it will just be discussed to death again and by then the Federal Constitutional Court may decide, the current coalition will have long since gone to Orkus (they won't last 4 years) ...

Some things annoy me terribly

For example, if umlauts are not processed cleanly - as with pre_populate_from in Django. Therefore, I no longer use this in my CMSProject, but simply fill the slug in _pre_save. And then let a corresponding routine run there. Although this is not really perfect, but at least usable ...

And yes, this is a test post for the function to create a slug from a title with umlauts.

And then there was ...

... the bankruptcy of the Red-Black horror coalition and the loud howling and gnashing of teeth of all the interest group arse-lickers who now think they might lose their little butter. Meanwhile, the hunt against Hartz IV recipients continues and the welfare state is dismantled, but the police state is further expanded. Any sense is left out and therefore the little conjuncture is simply murdered with a VAT increase. The whole thing is then garnished with a clear violation of the constitution in the budget for next year. And these idiots stand up and celebrate themselves and their pathetic work.

When watching bad movies, you can always switch channels. Where is the remote control for reality, please?