Howie Hawkins Files Wisconsin Ballot Access Lawsuit Ballot Access News

Sep 042020
 

On September 3, Howie Hawkins asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to put him on the ballot. He had enough signatures, but the Wisconsin Elections Commission on a 3-3 tie vote removed him, because some of the petitions had been collected before his vice-presidential running mate had moved her residence (so those petitions showed her old address); and later petitions showed her newer, more current address. Hawkins v Wisconsin Elections Commission. Here is the filing.

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Satellite mega-constellations risk ruining astronomy forever New on MIT Technology Review

Sep 032020
 

The astronomy community is on edge. The growing number of satellites streaming through low Earth orbit is making it almost impossible to get a clear view of the sky.  The true threat these mega-constellations pose to the astronomy community is only just beginning to be understood. A report released last week by the American Astronomical Society concluded that they will “fundamentally change astronomical observing” for optical and near-infrared investigations moving forward. “Nighttime images without the passage…

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U.S. District Court Refuses to Enjoin New, More Severe Definition of a Qualified Political Party in New York Ballot Access News

Sep 032020
 

On September 1, U.S. District Court Judge John G. Koeltl, a Clinton appointee, refused to enjoin the new, more severe definition of a qualified party that was created in New York in April 2020. The old vote test was that a group had to poll 50,000 vote for Governor. The new test, effective in November 2020, is that it must poll the greater of 2% or 130,000 votes for the office at the top of…

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Masahiko Sawada: Parallelism comes to VACUUM Planet PostgreSQL

Sep 032020
 

Vacuum is one of the most important features for reclaiming deleted tuples in tables and indexes. Without vacuum, tables and indexes would continue to grow in size without bounds. This blog post describes the PARALLEL option for VACUUM command, which is newly introduced to PostgreSQL13.  Vacuum Processing Phases Before discussing the new option in depth […]

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Feds can’t ask Google for every phone in a 100-meter radius, court says Ars Technica

Sep 032020
 

Enlarge (credit: Page Light Studios) Federal courts in the Chicago area have three times rejected government applications for warrants to force Google to produce a list of smartphones near two particular commercial establishments during one of three 45-minute intervals. The most recent ruling was handed down last week and was recently made public. The decisions are significant because Google has reported massive growth in law enforcement use of such “geofence” searches. Google says there was…

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Amazon deletes anti-union listing, watches workers’ “secret” social groups Ars Technica

Sep 032020
 

Enlarge / An Amazon Flex driver delivers an armload of packages in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 18, 2018. (credit: Pat Greenhouse | The Boston Globe | Getty Images) Amazon is working extremely hard to counter both internal unionization efforts and external bad press even as working conditions for its Flex drivers seem to get ever more desperate amid the persistent pandemic, a set of new reports reveals. The Internet’s biggest everything store has been busy…

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CenturyLink L3 outage knocks out web giants and 3.5% of all internet traffic The Register

Sep 012020
 

Cloudflare fingers intertwined BGP and Flowspec SNAFUs Internet backbone operator CenturyLink has experienced an outage that degraded performance of major web companies around the world.…

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CenturyLink L3 outage knocks out web giants and 3.5 percent of all internet traffic The Register

Aug 312020
 

Cloudflare fingers intertwined BGP and Flowspec SNAFUs Internet backbone operator CenturyLink has experienced an outage that degraded performance of major web companies around the world.…

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A California wildfire nearly destroyed the historic Lick observatory Ars Technica

Aug 312020
 

Enlarge / Lick Observatory (credit: Bill Dally | Getty Images) On the morning of Sunday, August 16, freak summer thunderstorms rolled into the Bay Area, peppering the ultra-dry landscape with lightning, setting nearly 400 fires across Northern California. Ten miles to the north of the historic Lick Observatory, atop Mount Hamilton near San Jose, one such blaze was closing in, and fast: By Tuesday morning, the flames were 6 miles away. That night, the California…

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Is It Time To Overhaul The GNU Dynamic Linker? Phoronix

Aug 312020
 

At the GNU Tools Track during this week’s Linux Plumbers Conference was an interesting talk by Red Hat’s Ben Woodard. He shares his perspective on how the GNU dynamic linker (ld.so) could be ripe for an overhaul in the 2020’s…

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No Petition Since the Health Crisis Began, for Any Independent Candidate or Minor Party, That Required More than 5,000 Signatures, Succeeded Ballot Access News

Aug 272020
 

So far, no independent candidate or minor political party has managed to overcome any petition requirement greater than 5,000 signatures, during the period starting in March 2020. This statement might cease to be true if Kanye West is able to … Continue reading →

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Relying on plain-text email is a ‘barrier to entry’ for kernel development, says Linux Foundation board member The Register

Aug 262020
 

Microsoft’s ‘open source wonk’ Sarah Novotny wants to see easier ways for people to get involved Interview  Linux kernel development – which is driven by plain-text email discussion – needs better or alternative collaborative tooling “to bring in new contributors and maintain and sustain Linux in the future,” says Sarah Novotny, Microsoft’s representative on the Linux Foundation board.…

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An Archive of a Different Type Internet Archive Blogs

Aug 262020
 

It was supposed to be magazines.Elaine Wooton contacted me as many people do – in the middle of a shutdown and discard project, asking if the Internet Archive might want some of what is destined for deep storage or the trash compactor. In this case, she said, there might be some old journals and magazines I’d want. They were centered around the culture and innovations of the modern office, “modern” being the 1970s and 1980s.…

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Relying on plain-text email is a ‘barrier to entry’ for kernel development, says Linux Foundation board director The Register

Aug 262020
 

Microsoft’s ‘open source wonk’ Sarah Novotny wants to see easier ways for people to get involved Interview  Linux kernel development – which is driven by plain-text email discussion – needs better or alternative collaborative tooling “to bring in new contributors and maintain and sustain Linux in the future,” says Sarah Novotny, Microsoft’s representative on the Linux Foundation board.…

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CBP Now Has a Massive Searchable Database for Devices Seized at the Border Motherboard

Aug 252020
 

Every year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents seize tens of thousands of cell phones, laptops, and other devices from travelers at or near the country’s borders, often without charging them with a specific crime. Those seizures give the agency access to massive amounts of highly personal information—data that CBP will now upload to a searchable, agency-wide surveillance database and maintain for up to 75 years, according to a privacy assessment recently published by…

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The first 3D animations of a human face are wonderfully creepy Boing Boing

Aug 252020
 

While a graduate student at the University of Utah in the early 1970s, computer graphics pioneer Frederic Parke created some of the first 3D models of human faces. The research was supported by the Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (now called DARPA). Parke’s wife Vicky was one the models. Here’s the full technical report from 1972: “Computer generation animation of faces”

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Pete Buttigieg Hoping To Leverage Rising Star Status Into Becoming Mayor Of Evansville, Indiana The Onion

Aug 222020
 

SOUTH BEND, IN—Calling his presidential run a “perfect launchpad” for becoming a leader on a larger scale, Pete Buttigieg told reporters Friday that he was hoping to leverage his rising star status into ultimately becoming the mayor of Evansville, IN. “After the incredible year I’ve had serving not just as the mayor…Read more…

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Anti-Piracy Outfit Hires VPN Expert to Help Track Down The Pirate Bay TorrentFreak

Aug 222020
 

Tracking down, prosecuting, blocking and otherwise trying to prevent The Pirate Bay from operating has become an entertainment industry project for the last 15 years. The torrent site has faced more adversaries than any other on the planet yet today the site remains stubbornly online. Exactly where and operated by whom remains either a mystery or a topic of speculation. After a period of what seemed like calm, this year it became clear that the…

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In these uncertain times, a smile goes a long way… jwz

Aug 222020
 

…on an eviction notice.The single mother of two says she lost her job in March when the restaurant where she was working cut hours. She was denied unemployment and fell behind on rent for June, July and August.The letter goes on to say, “Pay your outstanding balance, or release your apartment and turn in your keys to the leasing office by 6 p.m. today. Eviction will be filed promptly Tuesday morning.””The notice wasn’t there until…

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The Supreme Court’s Failure To Protect The Right To Assemble Has Led Directly To Violence Against Protesters Techdirt.

Aug 222020
 

It appears the Supreme Court is unwilling to address a another problem it created. The first major problem created by the Court has been discussed here quite frequently. Qualified immunity was created by the Supreme Court in 1967 as a way to excuse rash decisions by law enforcement if undertaken in “good faith.” Since then, it has only gotten worse. Fifteen years later, the Supreme Court added another factor: a violation of rights must be…

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