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Seems like there was once a day when politicans would accept defeat. When Truman beat Dewey, was there legal action?

Well, maybe, but we didn’t hear about it.

Today, Oak Ridger says that David Stuart (who I full on supported in the campaign, and wish well to, even if he is a lawyer) is considering dropping a lawsuit challenging the election results. The unofficial tally is 6,847 to 6,996 in favor of incumbent Don Layton. Problem is, it appears that some of the lines were so long that people took off without voting, and thats in violation of some 5 minute “get off the pot” Tennessee rule.

Y’know, I’d like to see Dave have won the thing. I’d like to have seen Gore win back in 2000. I think it would have been neat, in a nuclear winter kinda way, if Perot won back in the ’90s. But I say that when the election drops, those are the numbers. If theres some evidence that Layton and his people were responsible for causing the long lines by flooding the polling places with the senile, then maybe we have a case.

I don’t think that happened, and I fear that David Stuart is going to burn every bridge he has in A.C. by turning this into a ‘thing’. I’m really not interested in some soap opera case that we all know would go nowhere.

So, don’t do it, Dave.

However, I think its pretty lame of the Oak Ridger to jump in and talk about this as if its a done deal on the first page. Seriously, guys, what gives? Slow news day?

so the pot walked up to the kettle and says…

Firefox has updated itself today, again, for the 4th time this month.  Each time, I end up having to reboot my computer because some mystery process doesn’t want firefox to update causing an eternal cycle of “Failed to update, OH GOD” errors segueing into another install attempt, and back again. Good stuff.

Wordpress did it too.  I was sailing fine on 1.5 until the great Magnethands incident, and I took the opportunity to bump up to 2.0.  2.0.1 and .2 came out without me noticing, until a friend needed help with 2.0.2.  It appears that the text editor in 2.0.2 didn’t like working properly, and was a common problem.  Of course, Wordpress support has been maligned a bit as of late, but since then there have been two additional updates, one of which I received an email saying “YOU MUST UPDATE OR BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN”.

So I did, and no problems yet.  However, Firefox today got me to thinkin.

It appears that the open source software crowd is running into the same problem that used to be its big trump card over Microsoft and its closed source crowd, in that the software WORKS without patching.  Firefox, Wordpress, and plenty others end up having some vulnerability found, prompting an immediate patch, which opens another one, perpetuating an endless cycle of updates for something that probably wouldn’t have been a problem left unpublicized to begin with.  Once the patch comes out, the script kiddies start exploiting it

What to do?  Linux?  Mac?