Assuming you can trust the people making the machine (and by trust, I mean that they are severely scrutinized to where they cannot get anything by), and those working with it, it is not very hard to secure. Obviously, that is a dangerous assumption, but it goes along with pen/paper and punch cards too.
Sure, in theory optical scanners and punch card readers could be tampered with and give the wrong votes. Difference is, there is a verifiable paper trail of the actual votes cast (aside from 'hanging chad' issues). Pen and paper is far superior - you don't have to trust the pen or paper companies, and the results are 100% understandable and verifiable to any voter that can read names and write numbers. Optical scanner tampering can be rechecked by hand count of the actual votes cast. Tampering with the paper ballot is far more difficult and forensically traceable than hacking software, where erased tracks are very hard to trace.
Agreed. For every conceited stuck-up spoiled brat I've met, I've met a down to earth, honest, good sort. Still, his point was relevant, and not sprung from jealousy. I don't recall him saying 'All rich people are the same. Every rich daddy will buy their spoiled brat of a daughter a Mustang as a sorority toy'.
So chill out. These people do exist, and Ford seems to model cars for them.
Fair enough, but generally all that you stated is Not Safe For Work. The intent seems to be not what you find acceptable, but what your boss would find acceptable in a place of work. Unless you work in the porn or martial arts industries, sex and violence are probably NSFW.
I don't think the problem is not in the binary nature, it's in the nature of censorship of the net. This will be distorted into a Not Safe For Children tag by the aforementioned mouth breathers and self-censorship will become a government ordered legal requirement instead of voluntary.
I would prefer a decent metadata classification scheme like the ones you mentioned, and incorporating this feature into any HTML specification is just unneeded clutter.
I wish MS would go back to the old system of adding ones after their version number for each release. Then, by the time of the consumer rollout we could be enjoying Vista Revision 1 Version 3.111111111111111 and rejoicing at knowing they gave us enough 'features' to require only two more revisions and an endless stream of patches, culminating in the day they need scientific notation to fit their product number on the box.
It was the first ad for me, and what a whacky site that is. I'm sure everyone is faster (snigger), more stable & secure (cough cough) and millions of dollars better off (wait.. what?) now that they chose Windows Server over Linux. I guess that makes Linux the Rolls Royce of the server world, and Windows is like a surprisingly affordable Ferrari/Volvo cross. True, such a car does not exist, but if you look at these TCO charts you'll see the rusty tractor over there is in fact a miracle wonder car.
All this "protection" in IE7 is there to try and limit which software you run.
If they don't 'protect' you from their competitors who will? The Mafia? Triads?
Well without Windows the virus writers would be practically out of business, and the kids these days wouldn't even understand simple assembler. Sounds innocent, but 20 years down the track no-one will remember how to program the low level machines so we will make the fatal mistake - we will let the machines program themselves! Then it's gonna be like RuR, Metropolis, Terminator and the Matrix all at once worldwide! So thank M$, they are holding back the terror of Skynet.
JAPAN - Population: 127,463,611 (July 2006 est.)
US - Population: 298,444,215 (July 2006 est.)
So some of the Zelda games have a higher sales per head of population in the US, some in Japan. The series is popular in both countries, I believe.
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Assuming you can trust the people making the machine (and by trust, I mean that they are severely scrutinized to where they cannot get anything by), and those working with it, it is not very hard to secure. Obviously, that is a dangerous assumption, but it goes along with pen/paper and punch cards too. Sure, in theory optical scanners and punch card readers could be tampered with and give the wrong votes. Difference is, there is a verifiable paper trail of the actual votes cast (aside from 'hanging chad' issues). Pen and paper is far superior - you don't have to trust the pen or paper companies, and the results are 100% understandable and verifiable to any voter that can read names and write numbers. Optical scanner tampering can be rechecked by hand count of the actual votes cast. Tampering with the paper ballot is far more difficult and forensically traceable than hacking software, where erased tracks are very hard to trace.
Agreed. For every conceited stuck-up spoiled brat I've met, I've met a down to earth, honest, good sort. Still, his point was relevant, and not sprung from jealousy. I don't recall him saying 'All rich people are the same. Every rich daddy will buy their spoiled brat of a daughter a Mustang as a sorority toy'. So chill out. These people do exist, and Ford seems to model cars for them.
Fair enough, but generally all that you stated is Not Safe For Work. The intent seems to be not what you find acceptable, but what your boss would find acceptable in a place of work. Unless you work in the porn or martial arts industries, sex and violence are probably NSFW.
I don't think the problem is not in the binary nature, it's in the nature of censorship of the net. This will be distorted into a Not Safe For Children tag by the aforementioned mouth breathers and self-censorship will become a government ordered legal requirement instead of voluntary.
I would prefer a decent metadata classification scheme like the ones you mentioned, and incorporating this feature into any HTML specification is just unneeded clutter.
I wish MS would go back to the old system of adding ones after their version number for each release. Then, by the time of the consumer rollout we could be enjoying Vista Revision 1 Version 3.111111111111111 and rejoicing at knowing they gave us enough 'features' to require only two more revisions and an endless stream of patches, culminating in the day they need scientific notation to fit their product number on the box.
It was the first ad for me, and what a whacky site that is. I'm sure everyone is faster (snigger), more stable & secure (cough cough) and millions of dollars better off (wait.. what?) now that they chose Windows Server over Linux. I guess that makes Linux the Rolls Royce of the server world, and Windows is like a surprisingly affordable Ferrari/Volvo cross. True, such a car does not exist, but if you look at these TCO charts you'll see the rusty tractor over there is in fact a miracle wonder car.
So preventing any alternatives from the manufacturers isn't anti-competitive monopolistic business practice?
All this "protection" in IE7 is there to try and limit which software you run. If they don't 'protect' you from their competitors who will? The Mafia? Triads?
Well without Windows the virus writers would be practically out of business, and the kids these days wouldn't even understand simple assembler. Sounds innocent, but 20 years down the track no-one will remember how to program the low level machines so we will make the fatal mistake - we will let the machines program themselves! Then it's gonna be like RuR, Metropolis, Terminator and the Matrix all at once worldwide! So thank M$, they are holding back the terror of Skynet.
JAPAN - Population: 127,463,611 (July 2006 est.) US - Population: 298,444,215 (July 2006 est.) So some of the Zelda games have a higher sales per head of population in the US, some in Japan. The series is popular in both countries, I believe.