But as we found in the UK in the last election, voting from home allows for coercion of family. You end up with junior family members being forced to vote in a certain way with the father confirming their votes before posting them.
Being able to vote without other people being able to find out what you voted for is essential to democracy!
Does anyone want the U.S. and other foreign troops to stay in Iraq?
Yes - me. I was totally against going into Iraq, but I am even more against leaving until we put right the mess we made. At the very least we have an obligation to restore the infrastructure (medical, power, water, security forces and schools) to the same levels of efficiency as before we invaded.
More than that, I don't want to see a power vacuum in a nation so ruled by religious antagonism. Sunni vs Shiite running battles throughout the streets of Iraq is not something I want to see.
We made this mess, we owe it to the innocent victims of both the previous administration and our 'allies' to clean it up.
The problem as I understand it goes way beyond the source code.
Who is going to verify that the code on the machines remains unchanged all the way through the election? Who will verify that no-one snuck a change on at 10:00 after certification that alters votes in a certain way, and put the old software back at 19:00?
There is absolutely no way for election officials to monitor this for a number of reasons: 1. Not enough people have the technical know-how to do this 2. The voting booth is private
With paper votes, you get to vote in private, but representatives from ALL parties present get to see you put your ballot in the box. That makes it a LOT harder to stuff the ballot box or otherwise tamper with it. It gives you privacy for marking your vote, but also public oversight of the vote being entered into the box - best of both worlds. There is no way to have both of those with electronic voting.
There's one very good reason to NOT offer PHP as a hosting company though.
Far too often you are forced to upgrade because of security issues, but that upgrade breaks functionality. So as a hosting provider, you either have to have insecure servers or angry customers, and dealing with those angry customers takes time and costs money.
We're a regulated industry subject to audits. The cost of telling an auditor that I don't know what is on a box on my internal network, specifically on a trusted VLAN would be far too high.
"No sir, I have no idea what OS that person might be using to connect to those highly sensitive machines, nor do I know when it was last patched or how up to date it is. Why do you ask?" - That conversation would cost me my job and I think that's perfectly fair. Play with your favourite distro at home on your own equipment, not here on company kit. People in this industry get paid more than well enough to have their own toys at home:)
On top of that, these are company resources, they don't belong to the employees. If we need your machine in an emergency, we need to be able to use it and manage it. Hotdesking is important as well, so we need standards. I'm not paying for a load of extra desks for visitors from overseas branches just so that some 'free spirits' can use their preferred Linux distro:)
Awww cute! Someone who's never worked in an enterprise with Linux deployed:)
At my last company our users use what we will support, and that means RHEL WS only. Use of anything else is a breach of their terms of employment and will result in them being fired.
When we chose to use Linux, we did not choose to have chaos on our systems.
You statement is contradicted by the fact that we have completely open emmigration
Bullshit! The only ways into the US that I know are marriage, winning the green card lottery or as an indentured slave. I spent 10 years of my life trying to get into the USA and couldn't.
That just blows my mind! Being the second fattest girl at the bar does NOT make you skinny. You should never use the worst example as your benchmark.
That kind of attitude is how totalitarian regimes come into being - the sheeple comfort themselves with statements like 'ah well, it could be worse...'
A lot of people here seem to be missing the point about losing...
What Google is doing is VERY different in today's market - they are building things that they know might suck, and they don't care about taking a few hits.
Too many companies respond to failure by never trying anything outside of their core competencies again, and this limits the potential of these companies. The fact that Google are prepared to fail, prepared to lose at some things is definitely a major asset for a company today, and I think that's what the author was referring to.
What bugs me most about this whole mess with Lik-sang is that it shows how broken globalisation is.
Companies have the right to ship my job to a country where they can get stuff done cheaper. But I don't have a right to buy their products from a country where they are cheaper.
We've seen this with Levis and Tesco and with the BPI and CDWOW. Why can't I ALSO benefit from globalisation ?
This is why I was saying in the discussion about FC6 yesterday that Fedora is just _not_ a production system, despite what some members of the project say:)
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You sir, live in one of the most beautiful places on earth. Do you spend any time at the bridge?
But as we found in the UK in the last election, voting from home allows for coercion of family. You end up with junior family members being forced to vote in a certain way with the father confirming their votes before posting them.
Being able to vote without other people being able to find out what you voted for is essential to democracy!
What, like all the people who voted on the PATRIOT act without even reading it? Yep, that seems to work real well!
I'd take a 48 hour nap :)
Does anyone want the U.S. and other foreign troops to stay in Iraq?
Yes - me. I was totally against going into Iraq, but I am even more against leaving until we put right the mess we made. At the very least we have an obligation to restore the infrastructure (medical, power, water, security forces and schools) to the same levels of efficiency as before we invaded.
More than that, I don't want to see a power vacuum in a nation so ruled by religious antagonism. Sunni vs Shiite running battles throughout the streets of Iraq is not something I want to see.
We made this mess, we owe it to the innocent victims of both the previous administration and our 'allies' to clean it up.
I would be one of those people. I used to travel to the US at least twice a year on vacation and between 1 and 3 times a year for business.
Vacation's would put about $4000 into the US economy by my wife and myself, and business would inject closer to $5000 for a one week trip.
That's foreign revenue of between $13000 and $23000 per year that the US have lost just off my wife and I.
What album is that on? I can't seem to find it...
This post explains most of my issues with PHP far more eloquently than I ever could.
The problem as I understand it goes way beyond the source code.
Who is going to verify that the code on the machines remains unchanged all the way through the election? Who will verify that no-one snuck a change on at 10:00 after certification that alters votes in a certain way, and put the old software back at 19:00?
There is absolutely no way for election officials to monitor this for a number of reasons:
1. Not enough people have the technical know-how to do this
2. The voting booth is private
With paper votes, you get to vote in private, but representatives from ALL parties present get to see you put your ballot in the box. That makes it a LOT harder to stuff the ballot box or otherwise tamper with it. It gives you privacy for marking your vote, but also public oversight of the vote being entered into the box - best of both worlds. There is no way to have both of those with electronic voting.
There's one very good reason to NOT offer PHP as a hosting company though.
Far too often you are forced to upgrade because of security issues, but that upgrade breaks functionality. So as a hosting provider, you either have to have insecure servers or angry customers, and dealing with those angry customers takes time and costs money.
We're a regulated industry subject to audits. The cost of telling an auditor that I don't know what is on a box on my internal network, specifically on a trusted VLAN would be far too high.
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"No sir, I have no idea what OS that person might be using to connect to those highly sensitive machines, nor do I know when it was last patched or how up to date it is. Why do you ask?" - That conversation would cost me my job and I think that's perfectly fair. Play with your favourite distro at home on your own equipment, not here on company kit. People in this industry get paid more than well enough to have their own toys at home
On top of that, these are company resources, they don't belong to the employees. If we need your machine in an emergency, we need to be able to use it and manage it. Hotdesking is important as well, so we need standards. I'm not paying for a load of extra desks for visitors from overseas branches just so that some 'free spirits' can use their preferred Linux distro
Awww cute! Someone who's never worked in an enterprise with Linux deployed :)
At my last company our users use what we will support, and that means RHEL WS only. Use of anything else is a breach of their terms of employment and will result in them being fired.
When we chose to use Linux, we did not choose to have chaos on our systems.
You statement is contradicted by the fact that we have completely open emmigration
Bullshit! The only ways into the US that I know are marriage, winning the green card lottery or as an indentured slave. I spent 10 years of my life trying to get into the USA and couldn't.
That just blows my mind! Being the second fattest girl at the bar does NOT make you skinny. You should never use the worst example as your benchmark.
That kind of attitude is how totalitarian regimes come into being - the sheeple comfort themselves with statements like 'ah well, it could be worse...'
A lot of people here seem to be missing the point about losing...
What Google is doing is VERY different in today's market - they are building things that they know might suck, and they don't care about taking a few hits.
Too many companies respond to failure by never trying anything outside of their core competencies again, and this limits the potential of these companies. The fact that Google are prepared to fail, prepared to lose at some things is definitely a major asset for a company today, and I think that's what the author was referring to.
I personally could care less about the next-generation consoles
How much less could you care?
What bugs me most about this whole mess with Lik-sang is that it shows how broken globalisation is.
Companies have the right to ship my job to a country where they can get stuff done cheaper. But I don't have a right to buy their products from a country where they are cheaper.
We've seen this with Levis and Tesco and with the BPI and CDWOW. Why can't I ALSO benefit from globalisation ?
Europe doesn't love waiting - Europe loves buying from Lik-Sang, but now we can't any more.
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That's what I meant, yes...
Castrol (can of the best)
.45 of shotgun if you can't aim for shit
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This is why I was saying in the discussion about FC6 yesterday that Fedora is just _not_ a production system, despite what some members of the project say :)
Joy - can't update any servers because of this. Doh!
Is there any way to upgrade without a re-install and without the DVD?
I know that with CentOS, you can do something like 'up2date metapackage' and that will perform a full update of your system to the latest version.
Is there anything similar to this for FC6 ?
What is the best distro for a small home server? I'm tired of doing a full re-install every year because FC is no longer supported.
So Red Hat compromise on their flagship product so that they don't compete with Oracle, and Oracle turn around and compete with them. I love this!
Now I feel better about all that time I spent debugging their commercial apps for free!