MN has paper ballots and also has automatic recounts of random precincts within each county regardless of the vote margin. We have had two major state wide recounts in recent years and both have been successful - they have been transparent and fully auditable.
There are other issues about whether certain people are eligible to vote, and how to handle that on election day and what to do if it is later determined that someone who shouldn't have voted did vote. (Answer: not much you can do, since their vote is anonymous... BUT there are VERY VERY few cases where this happens and is discovered.)
I'm sure it isn't "change for sake of progress," it is almost certainly because it is MUCH cheaper.
Running a responsive e-mail server has always been expensive. Now that google has set people's expectations at 2+GB quotas, it is just ridiculous.
Google used their massive infrastructure to make scalability affordable, and ISPs can't compete. Most of their customers probably already use gmail, so why continue offering the service?
It matters because it shows how they think about everything. There is evidence about how economic systems work and there is dogma about how economic systems work.
Someone who follows dogma might say "lower taxes and less regulation will make poor people better off because of trickle down economics"
Someone who follows evidence will say "Reagan and Bush both tried trickle down economics, and in both cases the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Trickle down economics doesn't work."
The same can be said for nation building (welcome us with open arms my a**) and almost everything else in government.
Counting votes by hand works when there are one or two issues on the ballot. When you have ballots with hundreds of races, and ammendments, etc. It does not scale well.
Open Source does not mean Free or free. You can release the source to your customers without giving your customers the right to redistribute it or their changes.
Your customers could benefit from this because they could make any customizations they want to the program -- which may not be possible with your competitor's product -- and because if there is a bug in your program which they must have fixed right away and they have the ability they might be able to fix it themselves faster than you would fix it.
You benefit because your customers might give you that bug fix so you'll incorporate it in new releases, and you'll have a competitive advantage over other vendors who don't release the source code.
If your customers redistribute the code, it is piracy, just like if they redistributed the compiled program.
Not true. SSL sessions are signed by certificate authorities such as verisign, thawte, and godaddy. You can distinguish between SSL sessions which are signed by well known CAs and unknown CAs, and prioritize the well known ones.
1. Honda will face more liability and will get more insurace. 2. The car will cost slightly more. 3. The car will be safer, and thus your insurance rates will go down. 4. Because the number of crashes will go down, the total costs should go down.
The problems with SPF is that its broken with regards to forwarding accounts.
Unless the forwarding account is SPF aware (which is not trivial to do) legit e-mail will say its from ebay.com but the ip will be for forward-mail.com and ebay won't be able to send e-mail to those customers.
Until everyone makes sure their servers are SPF compatible I can't see how companies like ebay can possibly use SPF records and reliably get their mail to their customers.
Just think how much more it would be if Mao hadn't killed 30-60 million of his own people during "The Great Leap Forward" (plus another million or so during the "Cultural Revolution"), and if the current regime didn't perform forced abortions for population control.
um, yes. except that 30-60 million is, what 3-6% of china's 1 billion people...
The one child policy has had a much greater effect at keeping their population to only 1 billion.
So they were able to pick out 5-6 features that OO.o couldn't support that they did. That's hardly proof that they support more excel features than OO.o.
If an independent group created a bunch of hard to read excel files and they compared how many each displayed correctly -- then I'd believe that their support is better. For all I know they went out of their way to find limitations of OO.o and implement those features first so they could make those images.
but that makes generic terms meaningless, as long as I can find a country where they don't use the generic term (say, even, japan if they would katakanize the term but I write my "trademark" in roman letters) then I can usurp a generic term.
Thus there are no generic terms because someone somewhere translates it.
That misses the point. Microsoft _shouldn't_ own the term windows. It was their own stupidity to use a generic term for their product name.
Maybe Lindows _is_ a cheap knockoff of Windows, but it is also a windowing operating system, and it has just as much right to use the word Windows as Microsoft does.
Except that Microsoft didn't make up the name "windows" it pre-dates Microsoft Windows.
Next thing, I'll come up with "MyCompany MouseGestures," it will become the most well known mose gesture software, and I'll sue anyone who uses anything that sounds like MouseGestures. Except that I didn't invest MouseGestures, but somehow I've come to own it.
Microsoft didn't invent windowing operating systems, and it shouldn't get to own the term "windows" just because its windowing operating systems is the most popular and it chose a generic term for its name.
The reason they do that isn't for security, as he said it provides none. What it does do is prevent someone from accidently forgetting to zero out test votes.
And it does provide security from 11 year olds who can get access to the right equipment before the election, which is worth something.
I recently wrote a paper on how schools should use Open Source Software. Linux isn't quite as good (in some ways) as windows or Macs on the desktop, but its good enough for most cases.
I would have a touch screen, which printed out a human readable piece of paper with SAT style optical ballots filled out. So the voter could look at the paper and make sure it was correct. The ballots would always have perfectly filled in circles (no hanging chad) and there can't be any security problems we don't already have.
You could even have the computers count the votes as they are cast so you can give a quick result which has to be verified by the paper ballots before the vote can be certified.
Take a look at http://l7-filter.sf.net it looks at the application protocol (layer-7 data) to determine what protocol is being used, so port jumping doesn't help.
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MN has paper ballots and also has automatic recounts of random precincts within each county regardless of the vote margin. We have had two major state wide recounts in recent years and both have been successful - they have been transparent and fully auditable.
http://www.ceimn.org/ceimn-state-recount-laws-searchable-database/states/Minnesota
There are other issues about whether certain people are eligible to vote, and how to handle that on election day and what to do if it is later determined that someone who shouldn't have voted did vote. (Answer: not much you can do, since their vote is anonymous... BUT there are VERY VERY few cases where this happens and is discovered.)
I'm sure it isn't "change for sake of progress," it is almost certainly because it is MUCH cheaper.
Running a responsive e-mail server has always been expensive. Now that google has set people's expectations at 2+GB quotas, it is just ridiculous.
Google used their massive infrastructure to make scalability affordable, and ISPs can't compete. Most of their customers probably already use gmail, so why continue offering the service?
It matters because it shows how they think about everything. There is evidence about how economic systems work and there is dogma about how economic systems work.
Someone who follows dogma might say "lower taxes and less regulation will make poor people better off because of trickle down economics"
Someone who follows evidence will say "Reagan and Bush both tried trickle down economics, and in both cases the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Trickle down economics doesn't work."
The same can be said for nation building (welcome us with open arms my a**) and almost everything else in government.
Counting votes by hand works when there are one or two issues on the ballot. When you have ballots with hundreds of races, and ammendments, etc. It does not scale well.
Open Source does not mean Free or free. You can release the source to your customers without giving your customers the right to redistribute it or their changes.
Your customers could benefit from this because they could make any customizations they want to the program -- which may not be possible with your competitor's product -- and because if there is a bug in your program which they must have fixed right away and they have the ability they might be able to fix it themselves faster than you would fix it.
You benefit because your customers might give you that bug fix so you'll incorporate it in new releases, and you'll have a competitive advantage over other vendors who don't release the source code.
If your customers redistribute the code, it is piracy, just like if they redistributed the compiled program.
Google should just stop serving Verizon.
Simple solution, Verizon thinks google is getting a service from THEM?
Google shuts them off and 24 hours later every verizon customer will think their internet connection is broken.
Not true. SSL sessions are signed by certificate authorities such as verisign, thawte, and godaddy. You can distinguish between SSL sessions which are signed by well known CAs and unknown CAs, and prioritize the well known ones.
Presumably this will be made up by the market.
1. Honda will face more liability and will get more insurace.
2. The car will cost slightly more.
3. The car will be safer, and thus your insurance rates will go down.
4. Because the number of crashes will go down, the total costs should go down.
The problems with SPF is that its broken with regards to forwarding accounts.
Unless the forwarding account is SPF aware (which is not trivial to do) legit e-mail will say its from ebay.com but the ip will be for forward-mail.com and ebay won't be able to send e-mail to those customers.
Until everyone makes sure their servers are SPF compatible I can't see how companies like ebay can possibly use SPF records and reliably get their mail to their customers.
Just think how much more it would be if Mao hadn't killed 30-60 million of his own people during "The Great Leap Forward" (plus another million or so during the "Cultural Revolution"), and if the current regime didn't perform forced abortions for population control.
um, yes. except that 30-60 million is, what 3-6% of china's 1 billion people...
The one child policy has had a much greater effect at keeping their population to only 1 billion.
So they were able to pick out 5-6 features that OO.o couldn't support that they did. That's hardly proof that they support more excel features than OO.o.
If an independent group created a bunch of hard to read excel files and they compared how many each displayed correctly -- then I'd believe that their support is better. For all I know they went out of their way to find limitations of OO.o and implement those features first so they could make those images.
" designed to autonomously detect, track and destroy hostile ballistic missiles."
does it leave the friendly ballistic missiles alone?
I agree, I think there should be high penalties for falsly sending a takedown order. (I donno, $1000 + costs per false accusation)
um, yes there is -- iSCSI.
but that makes generic terms meaningless, as long as I can find a country where they don't use the generic term (say, even, japan if they would katakanize the term but I write my "trademark" in roman letters) then I can usurp a generic term.
Thus there are no generic terms because someone somewhere translates it.
That misses the point. Microsoft _shouldn't_ own the term windows. It was their own stupidity to use a generic term for their product name.
Maybe Lindows _is_ a cheap knockoff of Windows, but it is also a windowing operating system, and it has just as much right to use the word Windows as Microsoft does.
Except that Microsoft didn't make up the name "windows" it pre-dates Microsoft Windows.
Next thing, I'll come up with "MyCompany MouseGestures," it will become the most well known mose gesture software, and I'll sue anyone who uses anything that sounds like MouseGestures. Except that I didn't invest MouseGestures, but somehow I've come to own it.
Microsoft didn't invent windowing operating systems, and it shouldn't get to own the term "windows" just because its windowing operating systems is the most popular and it chose a generic term for its name.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .slashdot.org%2F works fine though. You need a trailing /
The reason they do that isn't for security, as he said it provides none. What it does do is prevent someone from accidently forgetting to zero out test votes.
And it does provide security from 11 year olds who can get access to the right equipment before the election, which is worth something.
I recently wrote a paper on how schools should use Open Source Software. Linux isn't quite as good (in some ways) as windows or Macs on the desktop, but its good enough for most cases.
Check it out: http://ossadvocacy.org
check out ossadvocacy.org
it has a well worded paper on why schools should use OSS.
This is great. See all those animes about mecha were right. And Japan IS going to make them first!
I would have a touch screen, which printed out a human readable piece of paper with SAT style optical ballots filled out. So the voter could look at the paper and make sure it was correct. The ballots would always have perfectly filled in circles (no hanging chad) and there can't be any security problems we don't already have.
You could even have the computers count the votes as they are cast so you can give a quick result which has to be verified by the paper ballots before the vote can be certified.
Take a look at http://l7-filter.sf.net it looks at the application protocol (layer-7 data) to determine what protocol is being used, so port jumping doesn't help.
Take a look at http://l7-filter.sf.net it is a layer-7 analyzer/blocker/shaper thingy :)