by David Brooks | Nov 9, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
There are folks in New Hampshire who have tried for decades, on and off, to institute some form of alternative voting, but our neighbors in Maine have gotten their first. Pine Tree State voters on Tuesday approved a statute to establish ranked-choice voting for...
by David Brooks | Nov 9, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
In light of the DDOS attack on Dyn from scads of infected Internet of Things items, I talked to Dyn fellow Andrew Sullivan about what we, as IoT buyers, should do. You can read his response here.
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...
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