Preventing unknown code from running in kernel-space is a good idea - though it's no silver bullet.
However, the issue at hand is simply:
Does it work?
It looks like their solution is badly implemented, ref. pagefile attack. So no, it doesn't work. So trusting this is like installing a new lock when you know your enemies has the master key to the new lock.
"Home of the Brave, Land of the Free". There's a causal relation between these two. Brave people are not afraid to stand up to their elected Government when it fails to represent those who elected it. That's how you get your freedom - you fight for it. You defeated the British. Now you gotta fight again. Shake that fear and march. Day and night until you've fixed your Democracy. Get outa your couch and get those banners flying!
Seriously - how hard is it to create something that's sufficiently secure and tamper-proof?
Of course, there may be a need for custom hardware - but it should be possible to create the software using OSS!
The requirements are IIRC:
1. tamper-proof - no open back-doors. 2. usability - grandma must understand how to use it 3. verifiable - a recount must be possible
I envision something like
A - Client computers inside the voting cabinets, running a touch-screen system and a printer writing ballots that contains both human-readable names and barcodes. B - These clients are connected to a set of redundant databases that register the votes, and once the vote is registered they send a command to the originating client to print the ballot. C - The voter sticks their paper ballot into the locked box. When voting ends, one of the database servers tallies up the vote, encrypts and transmits the results to the central server.
Since the boxes are not required to be opened for tallying when the polling is over, then nobody at the polling station would require the keys.
As easy as ABC!
And if some VC person is reading this, get in touch or steal my idea. I don't care as long as there will an open-sourced system that we can pressure our governments into implementing..
I'm not convinced. "They" would find other ways of spending the money elsewhere.
The problem is that the politicians are dependent upon donations. Why not prohibit donations and just give x cents per person in the electorate to whoever wants to run for a seat? They would of course need to account for the money spent afterwards, but you'd eliminate the democratic problem of representatives feeling more accountable to their voters than to their donors.
Of course this is dreaming. You'd have to do a LOT of demonstrating in the streets before Congress would consider such a proposal..
(By the way, things are not rosy here in Norway either. The current government was given substantial support by the unions - which are now demanding a say in policy decisions. But it's not as bad as Washington..)
Campaign finance, because the money dependency in politics means those with money get to dictate/influence policy. After all, the politicians feel more accountable to the donors than they do to the public. With enough money, the politicians can just buy the necessary amount of advertising - and they will get that money if donors know the representative delivers the votes & influence in Congress the donors' agenda requires.
Voting reform, because there is pretty much no way for a third party to establish itself - it needs to win several seats rather than get a substantial amount of votes. Though it seems Joe Liebermann is about to prove me wrong on this one..
Plants react to stimuli - that's well-known. They grow in the direction of light, the fruits ripen when there is ethylene in the air. Hell - you even have insect-trapping plants..
So, if there are unique chemicals that the prey species give off, there is no surprise the doddler can detect them and react to them. Cool that scientists did the study and found this example, though:)
So everyone should work within a large, hugely profitable organization...
Seriously, we cannot afford to be so cavalier about delivery dates etc in a team of four. In general, when the margin on the product isn't that great and/or you're understaffed, you'll run into trouble if you spend three days polishing how that button works.
So, how do you create great software when the resources are limited?
Actually, if the solution is designed correctly, the voter should be able to leave the location assured that their vote has been registered correctly. Preferably, they'll get a receit with an id on it that they can enter on a website to make sure their vote made it all the way through and was correctly tallied.
Since the unique ID does not need to be traceable, it would not mean a loss of privacy. But it WOULD mean that the voters for the first time in history had the power to discover fraud.
In fact, the story behind lutefisk is less impressive.
Most likely, there was a fire. And then lye was created by combination of ashes+water, and the lye damaged the fish. But throwing away the fish was not an option, so the hungry folks did their best with what they had - and hey presto! Lutefisk was born..
But yeah, only crazy people eat lutefisk. And crazy people are not to be messed with!
And while we're at nasty Norwegian food, check this out! Yep - baked sheep's head.
If you want to take astounding pictures, a DSLR makes life a helluvalot easier. While you can take fairly good photographs with some of the upscale compacts, operating them as anything but a automated compact camera seems to be pretty awkward. (Setting ISO, setting aperture priority, modifying aperture, etc etc.). Oh - and RAW. RAW is king - those extra 4 bits per channel makes life much easier when you edit afterwards.
But I agree, to the "average" consumer, flickr top10 is not the place to look. It is much better to go to a good camera store and explain what you want to use the camera for. You may spend a few extra bucks compared to buying online, but you won't end up with something you're dissatisfied with.
You do if you google for practically anything. Sometimes the complaints have substance, of course..
The big questions are of course: How widespread the problem? And how widespread compared to the alternatives?
We'll see what happens with my MagSafe. It's been working perfectly so far - detaching as designed when I've tripped over the wire, and otherwise doing what it should: Power my MacBook.
It's still possible that they use realiable memory chips, good quality motherboards, good quality harddrives, good batteries, good quality LCDs. Why? Because not all Intel-compatible parts are created equal.
Oh - and switching to Intel does not mean Apple had to stop innovating. Have you seen MagSafe?
Vendor lock-in is something I'm willing to live with as long as the alternatives are insufficient - and there is an alternative. I'd like the choice to be between OSX and Linux. I quite like my MacBook. It's easy to use, it looks good, it performs well for its price. While I do Linux development at work, I like to have an enjoyable experience at home.
Slower than Linux or Windows? I'd like to see those numbers, please!
As for serious, by what standard? I'd readily admit I would not recommend running OSX on servers unless OSX adds geniune value (as it might in a Mac-based business).
In my world, Linux is best for backend. OSX is best for front-end. (while Windows is probably best at the standard business desktop)
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That totally depends on whether he's doing in-depth interviews or statistical analysis.
Preventing unknown code from running in kernel-space is a good idea - though it's no silver bullet.
However, the issue at hand is simply:
Does it work?
It looks like their solution is badly implemented, ref. pagefile attack. So no, it doesn't work. So trusting this is like installing a new lock when you know your enemies has the master key to the new lock.
Yeah. I meant "useful" benchmarks.
As for the total power usages, these quad-cores are meant for servers. And in servers, heat production matters.
It also kinda matters for the desktop users - I am currently being annoyed by the noisy fan on my coworker's desktop.
You are badly confused.
The ends is a well-performing processor that doesn't produce too much heat or cost too much.
The means is technology. The implementation details may be fascinating, but what matters is benchmarks vs total power usage.
Seriously.
"Home of the Brave, Land of the Free". There's a causal relation between these two. Brave people are not afraid to stand up to their elected Government when it fails to represent those who elected it. That's how you get your freedom - you fight for it. You defeated the British. Now you gotta fight again. Shake that fear and march. Day and night until you've fixed your Democracy. Get outa your couch and get those banners flying!
Seriously - how hard is it to create something that's sufficiently secure and tamper-proof?
Of course, there may be a need for custom hardware - but it should be possible to create the software using OSS!
The requirements are IIRC:
1. tamper-proof - no open back-doors.
2. usability - grandma must understand how to use it
3. verifiable - a recount must be possible
I envision something like
A - Client computers inside the voting cabinets, running a touch-screen system and a printer writing ballots that contains both human-readable names and barcodes.
B - These clients are connected to a set of redundant databases that register the votes, and once the vote is registered they send a command to the originating client to print the ballot.
C - The voter sticks their paper ballot into the locked box. When voting ends, one of the database servers tallies up the vote, encrypts and transmits the results to the central server.
Since the boxes are not required to be opened for tallying when the polling is over, then nobody at the polling station would require the keys.
As easy as ABC!
And if some VC person is reading this, get in touch or steal my idea. I don't care as long as there will an open-sourced system that we can pressure our governments into implementing..
The exoplanet was detected in 1989, then retracted, and then the retraction was retracted. Appearantly.
So why is it that exit polling used to be predictive within a known margin of error, but stopped being so in 2004 - and only in certain areas?
I'm not convinced. "They" would find other ways of spending the money elsewhere.
The problem is that the politicians are dependent upon donations. Why not prohibit donations and just give x cents per person in the electorate to whoever wants to run for a seat? They would of course need to account for the money spent afterwards, but you'd eliminate the democratic problem of representatives feeling more accountable to their voters than to their donors.
Of course this is dreaming. You'd have to do a LOT of demonstrating in the streets before Congress would consider such a proposal..
(By the way, things are not rosy here in Norway either. The current government was given substantial support by the unions - which are now demanding a say in policy decisions. But it's not as bad as Washington..)
Those are the two reforms you'll need.
Campaign finance, because the money dependency in politics means those with money get to dictate/influence policy. After all, the politicians feel more accountable to the donors than they do to the public. With enough money, the politicians can just buy the necessary amount of advertising - and they will get that money if donors know the representative delivers the votes & influence in Congress the donors' agenda requires.
Voting reform, because there is pretty much no way for a third party to establish itself - it needs to win several seats rather than get a substantial amount of votes. Though it seems Joe Liebermann is about to prove me wrong on this one..
Plants react to stimuli - that's well-known. They grow in the direction of light, the fruits ripen when there is ethylene in the air. Hell - you even have insect-trapping plants..
:)
So, if there are unique chemicals that the prey species give off, there is no surprise the doddler can detect them and react to them. Cool that scientists did the study and found this example, though
Hey - if Microsoft read this story, they might stop making product that stink.
Good thing for us they're busy panicing about Vista.
So everyone should work within a large, hugely profitable organization...
Seriously, we cannot afford to be so cavalier about delivery dates etc in a team of four. In general, when the margin on the product isn't that great and/or you're understaffed, you'll run into trouble if you spend three days polishing how that button works.
So, how do you create great software when the resources are limited?
Does that mean I can't bring my leather jacket?
mvh,
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Actually, if the solution is designed correctly, the voter should be able to leave the location assured that their vote has been registered correctly. Preferably, they'll get a receit with an id on it that they can enter on a website to make sure their vote made it all the way through and was correctly tallied.
Since the unique ID does not need to be traceable, it would not mean a loss of privacy. But it WOULD mean that the voters for the first time in history had the power to discover fraud.
Yeah.
The environmentalists have had a steady theory - "carbon emissions are causing climate change".
While those in denial are changing positions all the time in order to avoid admitting those pesky environmentalists probably indeed are right.
In fact, the story behind lutefisk is less impressive.
Most likely, there was a fire. And then lye was created by combination of ashes+water, and the lye damaged the fish. But throwing away the fish was not an option, so the hungry folks did their best with what they had - and hey presto! Lutefisk was born..
But yeah, only crazy people eat lutefisk. And crazy people are not to be messed with!
And while we're at nasty Norwegian food, check this out! Yep - baked sheep's head.
If you want to take astounding pictures, a DSLR makes life a helluvalot easier. While you can take fairly good photographs with some of the upscale compacts, operating them as anything but a automated compact camera seems to be pretty awkward. (Setting ISO, setting aperture priority, modifying aperture, etc etc.). Oh - and RAW. RAW is king - those extra 4 bits per channel makes life much easier when you edit afterwards.
But I agree, to the "average" consumer, flickr top10 is not the place to look. It is much better to go to a good camera store and explain what you want to use the camera for. You may spend a few extra bucks compared to buying online, but you won't end up with something you're dissatisfied with.
but of course, they want to check new business models that checkout has made possible!
anyhow - great initiative!
Very strange (and worrying) that nobody offers fair and balanced reporting on this story. Maybe main-stream media don't care?
You do if you google for practically anything. Sometimes the complaints have substance, of course..
The big questions are of course: How widespread the problem? And how widespread compared to the alternatives?
We'll see what happens with my MagSafe. It's been working perfectly so far - detaching as designed when I've tripped over the wire, and otherwise doing what it should: Power my MacBook.
It's still possible that they use realiable memory chips, good quality motherboards, good quality harddrives, good batteries, good quality LCDs. Why? Because not all Intel-compatible parts are created equal.
Oh - and switching to Intel does not mean Apple had to stop innovating. Have you seen MagSafe?
Aha! Thanks!! I'm not advocating running OSX servers anyhow - but this probably means that dual/quad core Macs still have more potensial.
Anyhow, this should be easier to double-check now that Mac Pro is around, running on Intel.
Vendor lock-in is something I'm willing to live with as long as the alternatives are insufficient - and there is an alternative. I'd like the choice to be between OSX and Linux. I quite like my MacBook. It's easy to use, it looks good, it performs well for its price. While I do Linux development at work, I like to have an enjoyable experience at home.
Slower than Linux or Windows? I'd like to see those numbers, please!
As for serious, by what standard? I'd readily admit I would not recommend running OSX on servers unless OSX adds geniune value (as it might in a Mac-based business).
In my world, Linux is best for backend. OSX is best for front-end. (while Windows is probably best at the standard business desktop)
You paid to go to concerts and theaters and circuses etc. That's how the artists and the composers and screenwriters etc made their money.
That model is still around. Maybe we should use it more?