by David Brooks | Nov 9, 2016 | Blog
Tuesday night results of a few ballot initiatives of interest to Granite Geek types: In Maine, there was an effort to allow ranked-choice voting for all statewide and federal elections (not local races). That system is one of several alternatives to the...
by David Brooks | Nov 6, 2016 | Blog
I have a story and video in the Concord Monitor about how to fake your ballot selfie, so you can go to your blowhard brother-in-law and pretend that you supported his candidate even if you didn’t want to. The column and video are here, and they’re highly...
by David Brooks | Nov 4, 2016 | Blog
News about the Mirai botnet – millions of tainted Internet of Things devices being used to tandem to swamp targets with DDoS attack, as happened to Dyn last month – just keeps getting worse. Now an entire country, Liberia in west Africa, has been...
by David Brooks | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog
I must admit to never having heard of claims by Shiva Ayyadurai, an MIT graduate, that he invented email in the 1970s, but Boston Business Journal reports that he “won $750,000 Wednesday in a bankruptcy court settlement with Gawker Media, according to court...
by David Brooks | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog
The United State Department of Transportation (DOT) is establishing 48 national electric vehicle charging corridors, which it’s saying cover nearly 25,000 miles, in 35 states. I can’t find a map and am awaiting DOT response so I don’t know what, if...
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