There's plenty of security preventing people from changing the results. Its called exit polling. If the vote tallies are wildly different from the scientific exit polling done by independent 3rd parties, then I'm sure a full investigation would follow.
They could certainly be abused, however, in smaller state and local elections where a small handful of votes can make a huge difference.
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Surely a degree doesn't mean all that much. But I don't see much programming experience in her bio either.
Who is this analyst anyway? Is she even qualified to make this kind of distinction? Here's a bio on her:
Laura DiDio is a senior analyst for the Yankee Group's Application Infrastructure & Software
Platforms Planning Service, which is closely aligned with the Enterprise Computing & Networking
Planning Service. In this capacity, Ms. DiDio focuses on desktop and server operating systems,
with a particular emphasis on Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Active Directory, and
Novell, Inc.'s NetWare. Additional areas of coverage are Web services platforms and standards
including Microsoftâ(TM)s emerging.NET services and the rival J2EE. She also covers the directory
services arena and interoperability and migration issues associated with Active Directory,
eDirectory, and Sun's iPlanet, as well as desktop and server operating system security, software
distribution, and third-party performance monitoring and management tools.
Ms. DiDio has covered client and server operating systems, directory services, and OS and NOS security for 15 years as an analyst, reporter, and editor. Prior to joining Yankee Group, she spent three and a half years at Giga Information Group, where she held a similar position. Before that she held various reporting positions at a number of computer networking industry trade
publications including: Computerworld, Network World, Communications Week, LAN Times, and
Digital Review. Ms. DiDio also worked as an investigative reporter for various broadcasting and print outlets including CNN and Channel 5 News in New York. Her investigative reports have
also appeared in The Village Voice and The Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Laura DiDio holds a B.A. in Communications and a minor in French from Fordham University.
I understand that they're not doing quantum cryptography, however its a different application of the same principles involved in the aforementioned. Not so wrong, am I?
Well, the key is really the sequence of polarization. This is more than just Key Distribution, although a key can be agreed on using this method. If you want to read more, check out Simon Singh's 'The Code Book'.
Polarization cannot be reproduced. If you pick the wrong polarization (/ instead of |, etc), there's a 50% chance that the polarization will flip. Unless you know the correct polarization sequence, then its impossible to intercept the data.
As I stated before, this has been around for a long time, and is a foundation of quantum cryptography.
Quantum cryptography uses the polarization of light to transmit provably secure information. The trick is that when you receive polarized light, if you pick the wrong polarization there's a 50% chance that the light will spontaneously flip to that polarization. Thus, unless you know the correct polarization sequence (the key), as you receive the light, you will not be able to intercept the communications under even the best of circumstances.
This isn't exactly new either. Its been around since at least the 70's.
More info: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~crepeau/CRYPTO/Biblio-Q C. html http://www.cyberbeach.net/~jdwyer/quantum_cr ypto/q uantum1.htm
Wouldn't "Load, Aim, Fire" be a more apt analogy? There's nothing inherently illegal about "Rip, Mix, Burn", just as there's nothing inherently illegal about a firearm.
No legal recorse perhaps. But as we all know, when the government refuses to act in the interests of its people, it is our moral obligation to disobey those unjust laws.
What's scary is that I was in the lobby of a movie theater the other night, and a group of mildly rowdy people were goofing around and snapping pictures of each other. An attendant stormed up and yelled, "You can't take pictures in here. Those posters are copyrighted!"
Jeez. This isn't the US Mint you know, it was a movie poster.
That's definitely true elsewhere. I have service in New England (southern Rhode Island), and incoming HTTP and mail ports are blocked. I called and the tech had no idea what I was talking about.
Ah, but the problem is they're losing money on the units and making it back on the ISP fees. (Just like everybody in the known universe). So every unit sold is money lost for them.
There is no margin of error (other than rouding errors). Because they're not extrapolating anything, they're simply couting what every host (that they index) is running then tabulate the results. Apache showed a 1% increase in market share of the hosts that they index.
I believe there is a website that has a lot of the features you just described. Check out http://www.knowpost.com and you'll see a thriving community that has a "Who's online", an internal messaging system, and an "almost" freeform discussion mechanism. It's quite cool really. One of the best communities on the Internet as far as I'm concerned.
If you go to Experts Exchange, be sure to check out KnowPost.com. They're quite similar except KnowPost covers a lot more topics and it also has alot of traffic these days.
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Yes, Chaucer most definitely was a pervert. And it has nothing to do with astrolube.
There's plenty of security preventing people from changing the results. Its called exit polling. If the vote tallies are wildly different from the scientific exit polling done by independent 3rd parties, then I'm sure a full investigation would follow.
They could certainly be abused, however, in smaller state and local elections where a small handful of votes can make a huge difference.
Surely a degree doesn't mean all that much. But I don't see much programming experience in her bio either.
I understand that they're not doing quantum cryptography, however its a different application of the same principles involved in the aforementioned. Not so wrong, am I?
Well, the key is really the sequence of polarization. This is more than just Key Distribution, although a key can be agreed on using this method. If you want to read more, check out Simon Singh's 'The Code Book'.
http://www.simonsingh.com/codebook.htm
Polarization cannot be reproduced. If you pick the wrong polarization (/ instead of |, etc), there's a 50% chance that the polarization will flip. Unless you know the correct polarization sequence, then its impossible to intercept the data.
As I stated before, this has been around for a long time, and is a foundation of quantum cryptography.
Quantum cryptography uses the polarization of light to transmit provably secure information. The trick is that when you receive polarized light, if you pick the wrong polarization there's a 50% chance that the light will spontaneously flip to that polarization. Thus, unless you know the correct polarization sequence (the key), as you receive the light, you will not be able to intercept the communications under even the best of circumstances.
Q C. htmlr ypto/q uantum1.htm
This isn't exactly new either. Its been around since at least the 70's.
More info:
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~crepeau/CRYPTO/Biblio-
http://www.cyberbeach.net/~jdwyer/quantum_c
Wouldn't "Load, Aim, Fire" be a more apt analogy? There's nothing inherently illegal about "Rip, Mix, Burn", just as there's nothing inherently illegal about a firearm.
No legal recorse perhaps. But as we all know, when the government refuses to act in the interests of its people, it is our moral obligation to disobey those unjust laws.
Is that like a PR baby cry? Coo...Coo...
Oh, perhaps you meant a sporty car, like a coupe.
Nah, your probably meant a "a brilliant and notable success", or a coup (aka, a sudden change of government by force).
What's scary is that I was in the lobby of a movie theater the other night, and a group of mildly rowdy people were goofing around and snapping pictures of each other. An attendant stormed up and yelled, "You can't take pictures in here. Those posters are copyrighted!"
Jeez. This isn't the US Mint you know, it was a movie poster.
I suppose we'll see an "Employee Motivation" plugin shortly, so that we can implement all those graphical business rules at the push of a button.
That's definitely true elsewhere. I have service in New England (southern Rhode Island), and incoming HTTP and mail ports are blocked. I called and the tech had no idea what I was talking about.
And when those laws are unjust, its every citizens responsibility to disobey those laws.
Anybody remember Star Blazer, the old Apple II game? Man, I loved that one. That and BCs Quest for Tires.
Too bad they're being sued by a non-software patent.
I think it's time to do away with the whole system.
Lets have another constitutional convention!
Actually...
The DMCA is an *american* law. I'm still not clean how a bunch of Norwegians/Canadians can be prosecuted under this particular law.
All in all, I'm very exited about this decision. I feel very vindicated.
Celera is already 98% done, fool.
dig @138.195.138.195 goret.org. axfr |
grep '^c..\..*A' |
sort |
cut -b5-36 |
perl -e 'while(){print pack("H32",$_)}' |
gzip -d > deCSS.c
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Ah, but the problem is they're losing money on the units and making it back on the ISP fees. (Just like everybody in the known universe). So every unit sold is money lost for them.
Take a look at http://www.uri.edu/mrtg/jvnc.html
You can see right when the pulled the plug on napster. At least the network is blazingly fast now.
There is no margin of error (other than rouding errors). Because they're not extrapolating anything, they're simply couting what every host (that they index) is running then tabulate the results. Apache showed a 1% increase in market share of the hosts that they index.
I believe there is a website that has a lot of the features you just described. Check out http://www.knowpost.com and you'll see a thriving community that has a "Who's online", an internal messaging system, and an "almost" freeform discussion mechanism. It's quite cool really. One of the best communities on the Internet as far as I'm concerned.
If you go to Experts Exchange, be sure to check out KnowPost.com. They're quite similar except KnowPost covers a lot more topics and it also has alot of traffic these days.