"The use of computer-based systems to improve voting is a continuing process that will demand the ongoing involvement of technical experts, usability professionals, voting rights advocates, and dedicated election officials.""Virtually all voting systems in use today (punch-cards, lever machines, hand counted paper ballots, etc.) are subject to fraud and error, including electronic voting systems, which are not without their own risks and vulnerabilities. In particular, many electronic voting systems have been evaluated by independent, generally-recognized experts and have been found to be poorly designed; developed using inferior software engineering processes; designed without (or with very limited) external audit capabilities; intended for operation without obvious protective measures; and deployed without rigorous, scientifically-designed testing."
La locura de la lucha por las patentes en EEUU
"Europe. Are you watching? Is this system what you want where you live? If you think you can have a patent system and just work around US "excesses", think again. If you read this history of patents in the US by Bitlaw, you will see that it started small here too, and everyone tried to make the kinds of distinctions you currently are trying to craft in Europe. But look at the results here. The same thing will happen to you, if you allow patents at all on software. The excesses are part of the system as it is eventually applied by greedy individuals and companies, and you can't legislate against greedy gaming of a system. It happens."
Sobre el gobierno de Internet
"The internet has become over the past quarter century so darn expensive that the huge tech multinationals that control the internet have become the world's new governments in fact. With war chests of billions of dollars in reserve and little debt on their balance sheets, certain ones are wealthier than the countries in which they are domiciled. Just compare the strength of our own country's Balance Sheet to that of one of our country's firms such as Microsoft or VeriSign - and you be the judge as to whom it is that "governs" quite more than the internet."
La Fuerza Aérea Estadounidense considera a cualquier dispositivo espacial en órbita, incluídos los satélites metereológicos, como potencial objetivo militar.
According to the document: "A planner must understand friendly space capabilities, provided by organic and/or third party assets. Identification of a friendly space COG [COG? Centre Of Gravity - perfectly clear if you think of it as something up there that's not space] is not always clear-cut, particularly when a third party provides space support. Extensive use of military, civil, and commercial space systems, and the resulting dependency on these systems, makes friendly COG identification an important step in counterspace operations." Adversary COGs are similarly difficult to nail down, but a "thorough analysis of adversary space capabilities, including insight into the owners, operators, and users of both organic and third party assets, should minimize unintended effects of counterspace operations." It's worth flagging here that the Air Force sees the development and maintenance of a detailed directory of space assets as absolutely vital, on the basis that the US needs to know what's up there and what it's doing." [PDF militar]