But, as I tried to mention, last time I checked (last elections) there was no assurance the signed binaries were actually the audited code. There's noone auditing the compilation of the binaries.
I still have serious concerns about the current voting system.
Heck, last time I heard, the version which had its source inspected by the Supreme Court wasn't necessarily the final version. If they don't really know what's in there, who does? How hard would it be to bribe someone in the company.
And, worse than technological flaws, are always the human flaws. Cases of people who work at the polling stations (they do unpaid compulsory work) voting for people who didn't vote are not unheard of. Besides, the statistical samples taken to avoid frauds are VERY, VERY weak.
Some americans have some pretty funny ideas about things which they don't have well implemented but work quite well elsewhere.
Where the hell do you get these ideas about public transport?
A car is in 99.9% of all cases more risky and more expensive for the owner. Of course you don't have as much freedom as with a car and, unless the place you're going to has no parking spots, a car will always be faster, but that doesn't mean one shouldn't have a good subway network.
You don't even know what you're talking about. Symbian has the biggest market share of any of the systems you mentioned and it powers excellent phones such as the N95 and the upcoming N97 (and also the E series for businesses).
Everywhere in the world (perhaps except in the US cause of CDMA phones) Symbian is far ahead of any of its competitors.
Also, did I mention the thousands of applications that are available for S60 phones?
There isn't a voter verified paper trail. And there are lots of security risks in the system adopted by Brazil.
The Supreme Electoral Court, aware of those risks, has stopped a report from a third-party audit from being released.
I've checked some of the maths and apparently, if someone finds a way of altering the results of half the machines of a city in a way that wouldn't be detected by usual security procedures, enough to elect the mayor and a majority in the city council, the parallel election method used to check legitimacy would only discover the fraud once in 20000 years. Also, there's no way to know if the source code that is compiled is the same shown to the political parties, which aren't present during the compilation process and the code could be legally reviewed before being compiled. The Supreme Electoral Court ministers could use a tainted binary and elect whoever they wanted.
I'm sorry but to qualify to those titles, the country must not possess a legal nuclear weapon stockpile. As far as I am aware China has a reasonable amount of nukes and decent rockets, nobody sane would want to invade and create a nuclear war.
The problem is Microsoft's policy to keep compatibility with software made for DOS/Windows 3.11...
In my opinion, they'll only be able (not that I think they'll do it properly) to really get rid of the old API and create a new one would be by abandoning binary compatibility, which they might do in the next version of Windows.
Keeping 2 APIs (*cough*.NET, which also isn't a great deal) would also be redundant and would require lots of maintenance efforts, killing all old crap is the only way to go.
Your government will begin with this, soon they'll be deploying cameras in people's houses.
It is totally absurd for any government agency to have access to private data without a court order.
If things are going to work like that, then a corrupt agent will be able to browse through a lot of confidential information without having to pass through any bureaucracy...
One of the best things of Linux is the huge amount of different distributions with different focus.
There's no such thing as 'the best' distribution.
A begginer desktop user wouldn't want to use Gentoo Linux while an advanced user might prefer the former to Ubuntu.
Also, distributions such as CentOS focus on servers.
Comparing distributions with different objectives and target end-users is totally pointless.
Why doesn't the brazilian federal government stop wasting money on new computers and advertising and instead raise the teachers' salaries, buy books, even chairs, which sometimes are missing in public schools, etc?
Perhaps because it's very easy to fraud a public licitation involving thousands of computers...
Not sure if the numbers are correct but there is really a federal program to switch all computers from Windows to Linux. Perhaps this refers to the numbers of the whole program, including computers in all public offices (which are MANY in Brazil and possibly includes state-owned companies).
And, in the case of schools, it's not really a switch from Linux to Windows, many of these schools never had a computer before.
Too bad ubundu (however you spell that) is a Linux-wannabe distribution and not even worth being compared to other operational systems.
I don't see any point in this comparison, I think noobs should just leave the smart people of the Linux community alone and buy a paid easy-to-use OS because freedom is for those who can handle it.
People just need to accept that Linux is a system made for hackers, not a system made for noobs.
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Give me 1/10 of that and I'm out of Google forever and ever.
But, as I tried to mention, last time I checked (last elections) there was no assurance the signed binaries were actually the audited code. There's noone auditing the compilation of the binaries.
I still have serious concerns about the current voting system. Heck, last time I heard, the version which had its source inspected by the Supreme Court wasn't necessarily the final version. If they don't really know what's in there, who does? How hard would it be to bribe someone in the company. And, worse than technological flaws, are always the human flaws. Cases of people who work at the polling stations (they do unpaid compulsory work) voting for people who didn't vote are not unheard of. Besides, the statistical samples taken to avoid frauds are VERY, VERY weak.
I'm just a mindless borg drone.
Some americans have some pretty funny ideas about things which they don't have well implemented but work quite well elsewhere. Where the hell do you get these ideas about public transport? A car is in 99.9% of all cases more risky and more expensive for the owner. Of course you don't have as much freedom as with a car and, unless the place you're going to has no parking spots, a car will always be faster, but that doesn't mean one shouldn't have a good subway network.
Yes, as that is the standard unit for weight (at this scale, the s) in most parts of the world. Stupid imperial measurement system.
Symbian will soon be open sourced by Nokia (who has completely acquired the system).
You don't even know what you're talking about. Symbian has the biggest market share of any of the systems you mentioned and it powers excellent phones such as the N95 and the upcoming N97 (and also the E series for businesses). Everywhere in the world (perhaps except in the US cause of CDMA phones) Symbian is far ahead of any of its competitors. Also, did I mention the thousands of applications that are available for S60 phones?
Rubbing alcohol is actually accepted as safe for electronics as far as I'm aware.
Everyone knows that isopropanol is better than ethanol to clean electronic devices.
There isn't a voter verified paper trail. And there are lots of security risks in the system adopted by Brazil. The Supreme Electoral Court, aware of those risks, has stopped a report from a third-party audit from being released. I've checked some of the maths and apparently, if someone finds a way of altering the results of half the machines of a city in a way that wouldn't be detected by usual security procedures, enough to elect the mayor and a majority in the city council, the parallel election method used to check legitimacy would only discover the fraud once in 20000 years. Also, there's no way to know if the source code that is compiled is the same shown to the political parties, which aren't present during the compilation process and the code could be legally reviewed before being compiled. The Supreme Electoral Court ministers could use a tainted binary and elect whoever they wanted.
Erm, TFA seems to contain more "facts" about ADA than real information about the project or the release of the source code (license?).
It's always worth reminding Blizzard releases all their games for Mac OS X and, as they support OpenGL, porting to Linux would be quite easy for them.
I'm sorry but to qualify to those titles, the country must not possess a legal nuclear weapon stockpile. As far as I am aware China has a reasonable amount of nukes and decent rockets, nobody sane would want to invade and create a nuclear war.
Well, you forget that the station orbit is quite quick and by the time you lock on their signal, they'll probly be above the other side of the planet.
The N95 has a TV-output cable and there should be some Symbian program to play powerpoint slideshows if the integrated office apps don't.
The problem is Microsoft's policy to keep compatibility with software made for DOS/Windows 3.11... In my opinion, they'll only be able (not that I think they'll do it properly) to really get rid of the old API and create a new one would be by abandoning binary compatibility, which they might do in the next version of Windows. Keeping 2 APIs (*cough* .NET, which also isn't a great deal) would also be redundant and would require lots of maintenance efforts, killing all old crap is the only way to go.
Your government will begin with this, soon they'll be deploying cameras in people's houses. It is totally absurd for any government agency to have access to private data without a court order. If things are going to work like that, then a corrupt agent will be able to browse through a lot of confidential information without having to pass through any bureaucracy...
One of the best things of Linux is the huge amount of different distributions with different focus. There's no such thing as 'the best' distribution. A begginer desktop user wouldn't want to use Gentoo Linux while an advanced user might prefer the former to Ubuntu. Also, distributions such as CentOS focus on servers. Comparing distributions with different objectives and target end-users is totally pointless.
Why doesn't the brazilian federal government stop wasting money on new computers and advertising and instead raise the teachers' salaries, buy books, even chairs, which sometimes are missing in public schools, etc? Perhaps because it's very easy to fraud a public licitation involving thousands of computers...
Not sure if the numbers are correct but there is really a federal program to switch all computers from Windows to Linux. Perhaps this refers to the numbers of the whole program, including computers in all public offices (which are MANY in Brazil and possibly includes state-owned companies). And, in the case of schools, it's not really a switch from Linux to Windows, many of these schools never had a computer before.
In Soviet Amerika, you kill space shuttles.
In Soviet Amerika, policemen fire 'potentially dangerous lasers' at YOU.
Too bad ubundu (however you spell that) is a Linux-wannabe distribution and not even worth being compared to other operational systems. I don't see any point in this comparison, I think noobs should just leave the smart people of the Linux community alone and buy a paid easy-to-use OS because freedom is for those who can handle it. People just need to accept that Linux is a system made for hackers, not a system made for noobs.
Erm, the standard frequencies in Europe are actually different from that in the US (which adopts mainly 850).