Is it possible that the language they are selecting for is simply some form of "prisoner's dialect", instead of a sampling of "sociopathy"? For example, Canadians tend to punctuate verbally with "Eh", and New England urban teens typically finish sentences with "Yo", and use the term "wicked" a lot (or at least they did 20 years ago when I was there). This could be an interpretation of a dialectical shift based on the environment the subject is now occupying, rather than any useful data. It might also be wise to consider the length of incarceration of the subjects of this study, and perhaps use the non-violent (or even non-offenders) occupying the same space as a control group.
Alternatively, one could assume these dangerously violent offenders are typically kept separated from the general population (of prisoners), and so perhaps the language they use is based more upon their observation of the guards and/or legal teams' speech. Assigning the term "psychopathic behavior" to the speech patterns of lawyers and psychiatrists would be amusing, but unhelpful with achieving the stated goal.
Finally, I would find it useful to analyze the recorded speech and writing patterns of someone who was not convicted of a crime until much later in their lifetime, allowing us to study the psychopathic patterns "in the wild".
'Self-replication' has a very specific definition, including having a coded representation. I forget the list of very specific properties you need to be considered a 'replicator' but it's more than just 'an ongoing chemical or physical reaction'. Neither of the things you mentioned have all of the properties sufficient to be considered 'self-replication'
By that argument, is human reproduction "replication"?
Honestly? I just read through the horrible formatting, blame the site authors for not bothering to code their site properly, and take my eyeballs elsewhere. The sites I frequent tend to not be completely buggered up with piss-poor code... and I let the ones with actual knowledge advertise at me.
In other words, if their site works without NoScript and AdBlockPlus, I usually whitelist them out of respect. The sites that have a clue how to display content without using JavaScript get to advertise to me, and the ones that look like shit without their JavaScript functioning don't deserve the hits or the click-throughs.
In retrospect, I think it is much more likely that the magnets were affecting the motherboard half an inch from the exterior wall of the tower, rather than the drives. It is even possible that the CPU was affected, which would explain the wonky behavior much better than the drives being affected. Data corruption doesn't necessarily indicate and issue with the storage device.
I'd much rather pay the extra 99c and not have to do a 10minute round trip in the car.
Agreed, the added value is worthwhile... however, your system is either piracy (frowned upon by the court system), or not quite there yet (I hear Netflix/Hulu have horrible selection).
My method allows me to hit a website, pick a movie, find out which nearby kiosk it's in, go pick it up, and be watching my chosen movie in just a few minutes.
As an aside, RedBox has spit in the face of the movie industry several times, and I kinda like their chutzpah. For example, when they were told they wouldn't be allowed to purchase DVDs at the same time as other rental outfits because they wouldn't wait to distribute them to their customers, they responded by buying retail DVDs at Wal-Mart and distributing those (or at least threatening to, I don't recall exactly how all that went down). They caved in eventually, but they stood up for themselves pretty well, and I've always rooted for the underdog. There's a bunch of stories at techdirt about Redbox, and they've had a fairly exciting legal career for the short (relatively speaking) time they've had their doors open (so to speak).
Agreed, but you can check their website to see what's available and which kiosk it's at (thus avoiding wandering all over looking for a decent movie). Also, the piracy thing requires a good bit of time (depending on your internet connection speed, but still likely to be greater than 10 minutes) to acquire the movie, whereas with the redbox I can be watching the movie I selected as soon as I go pick it up. Nevermind that it's completely legal;)
Creeping drive failure is not uncommon. Especially in that era.
A competent and reputable manufacturer would have replaced the drive.
On the first visit.
A: We weren't a manufacturer. B: We tested the drive before we wiped and reloaded, of course. C: Informing her to not put the magnets back on the case appeared to resolve the issue.
Hint: there are magnets IN the drive way stronger than a foot high stack of fridge magnets.
Open one up sometime.
Yeah, I'm "going with that". All I know is that when she stopped putting dozens of fridge magnets all over her computer, she stopped having her Windows installation harf all over itself every few days.
Sorry if that anecdotal evidence doesn't mesh with your view of reality; it was real, it happened, and I was there.
Where I'm from, $4.99 for a movie would not be considered affordable. For that matter, $1.99 wouldn't be
Where do you live the $1.99 isn't affordable for a movie?! Gees most people find that to be affordable for a song on iTunes.
I live within a 5-minute drive of over a dozen redbox kiosks, and so my current "acceptable" 24-hour rental fee is 1 USD.
In addition, my local library has hundreds of DVDs to choose from in each location, and I can go online to their website and request a hold/transfer of materials from the dozen locations that aren't within 3 blocks of my house. those movies are "rented" for a week, at NO cost to me. Of course, it's a dollar a day late fee if I don't bring them back on time, but I usually watch them within a day or two of borrowing them, and get them back with several days to spare... and that's still no more expensive than redbox.
If I could watch unlimited movies, on demand, of my choosing, from a catalog that had *everything* I might want to watch, I'd be willing to pay $30 a month for that service - assuming I could access those titles without having to even get up from my chair in my living room.
I still purchase movies off the "new" shelf, and of course I dig in the bargain bins for $5 popcorn-munchers, and I rip every single one of my purchased movies to avi files. I even bought that stupid "VHS-to-DVD" USB dongle from Best Buy so I could move my extensive VHS collection to digital media (there's a step in the middle where you export the MPEG to DVD media - I skip that step, and convert it to avi instead). I am in the process of moving my entire video collection to digital formats, and I play them on my desktop, my laptop, and even my phone. I used to rip the DVDs because I didn't want to worry about scratching up the originals and having to replace movies I already purchased simply because someone left the disks out, or used them for coasters. Now I store my movie collection in the garage, and simply watch what I want over my LAN from a server I store all my movies on. My "backups" are my original physical media, and I play the digital version with no worries that my movies will be destroyed by someone's 4-year-old throwing the disk across the room like a Frisbee. This also allows me to stop in the middle of a movie, wander into the bedroom, and fire it back up at roughly the same point - without having to eject a disk, drag the disk across the house, stick the disk into something else, then hold >> for 3 minutes to get to the part I was watching.
As for DRM and other media-control crap... well, it may be a legal gray area for me to format-shift my DVD and VHS media to avi files because I'm "circumventing copyright protection mechanisms", but I don't care, and I'm fairly certain that no jury in the country would convict me for watching content I have legally acquired in whatever manner I choose, whenever I want to, on any player I happen to own, in any "private" environment I wish to. The DMCA be damned, I bought the movie, I'll watch it however I want.
Further, the level of the magnetic field that would be required to corrupt a hard drive in a computer would yank the door knobs off and tools could be hung up just by throwing them against the wall.
Actually, I used to work in a mom'n'pop tech shop, doing sales and repairs of home computer equipment. We had a woman come in with a corrupted Win95 install (this was back in '98 or '99), which we responded to by backing up her data, wiping, and reloading the OS. She was back a week later with the same issue, and we responded in exactly the same way. The third time she came in, she was so upset at us, and in such a hurry, she didn't take the refrigerator magnets off the case. It seems she collected refrigerator magnets, and stuck them to any metal surface in her home. The computer's case was metal, so it made perfect sense to her to use it to display a portion of her collection.
The level of magnetism in most of the magnets was barely enough to keep it attached to the metal shrouding the PC, yet it was sufficient to corrupt her hard drive in a matter of days.
I've also seen a huge amount of magnetic media, including disks, tapes, and hard drives, corrupted by the user setting it on top of a television or speaker.
As an aside, but also supporting evidence: studies have shown that server hard drives can be affected by hard drives (in the same machine or in other servers) physically adjacent; causing issues not only via magnetic influence, but also via vibration. There are hard drive access algorithms built in to server systems to account for this, what makes you think a massive magnetic field is required for hard drive corruption?
On the other hand, I'll grant the physical proximity argument has quite a bit of value; I doubt magnetism is the actual issue with these houses. The radio interference of "charged" ferrous materials is a more likely culprit... It might even be an issue for the FCC to investigate.
I think you're not giving Jobs enough credit even for the first wave of personal computers.
Not to say Jobs doesn't deserve every ounce of credit he gets for what he accomplished in the last decade. Mainstreamed personal media players, dragged the music industry kicking and screaming into the 21st century with his online music store (and now with the cloud service that's set to go live in a week), mainstreamed smartphones, conjured a market for tablets out of thin air. Dude has absolutely accomplished way more in ten years than many of us will in six or seven lifetimes.
But for the first wave of personal computers? All Apple ever made in that era were computers that cost a shitload of money and did fuck-all. Especially the Lisa.
As much as I credit the TI 99/4a with being my first personal computer, the Apple II was my first introduction to them. The computer lab at the middle school I went to once a week for my "gifted" class (CATS, or PATS, I don't recall the exact acronym) when I was still in elementary school was just a classroom with a dozen of them, not even networked (not sure networks even existed at that point, at least outside of labs).
Yeah, I'm old. Whatever.
I'm not an Apple fanboi; far from it. I'm a Microsoft-certified, Android-phone using, Linux-loving geek, and I have won many debates over Apple products vs others. I hated the walled garden concept as much as anyone else.
That being said, this is still a sad day for the industry... and you're just an AC being a jackass.
apps that contain more than one activity tied to the launcher, the Android text-to-speech engine, Android cloud-to-device messaging service amongst a few others.
Ok, there's a few less-trivial-sounding things there. I don't even know what they are. Maybe the activity-tied-to-launcher or cloud-to-device thing (by any chance is it really Google-closed-API-to-device?) is something that someone will give a fuck about. I don't know. But this dude sure started off with a stupid example.
In android development, an "activity" is what any other programming language would call a "form", "window", "screen", or "dialog".
So, for instance, Angry Birds won't work, because it has a splash screen, a level select screen, a configuration screen, and the actual game screen. That's 4 activities.
You won't be able to install an android-based browser, because it has the browser screen and a configuration screen.
Come to think of it, there's only a tiny handful of apps that don't have at least two, if not a half-dozen "activities" associated with them. RIM may as well have not bothered.
I can't believe they will honestly try to claim "Android Compatibility" when one of the "restrictions" is that it doesn't support "apps that contain more than one activity tied to the launcher" - so, any game that has an about screen, any app that does more than one thing, any app at all that has a built-in config screen...
Note: if "more than one activity" is their bar, then even a text editor (other than the built-in post-it widget) won't work.
Of course most of the scientists are going to claim that religion and science are not in conflict - to claim otherwise is to either be excommunicated, or thrown off the gravy train.
The statistic I'd like to see in conjunction with this study is how the scientists voted, compared with whether they profess to be religious.
That is to say, the atheist scientist probably thinks religion is antithetical to science, but does that really matter? I want to know about the scientists who admit that faith circumvents the scientific method in the knowledge/discovery process, yet still go to church. I also want to know about the scientists who believe, despite all of the evidence to the contrary, that the world is only a few thousand years old; fossils are faked; and there's an invisible man in the sky who loves us so much that if we don't do exactly what he says then he'll burn us in a lake of fire for ever and ever, amen - because those motherfuckers are bat. shit. crazy.
The gist of this post is: Faith, noun: insanity, a belief that "because I told you so" is a good enough reason to think something is true, even if you discover evidence indicating the opposite.
This does not seem to explain how to make a scalable server. Just advice for making your website grow in a maintainable way. However, the title sounds more catchy this way. I think it is misleading advertising.
The full title is actually "Scalability Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites". Therefore, it is not about scalable servers, but about scalable web sites. I give your reading comprehension a D, or maybe a D=. -- The previous "typo" is actually an inside joke. For more information, please Google "Taylor Mali".
And why do they call it a "Man-In-The-Middle Remote Attack"??
"Man in the middle" refers to the fact that the alien hardware is able to intercept and modify the authorized information, between the authorized user (the voter) and the intended recipient (the cast ballot).
The "remote" portion of the descriptor refers to the fact that the "man in the middle" is using a remote control to "attack" the system; that is, the compromised unit is being controlled remotely by someone other than the person standing at the controls/interface.
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So... what you're saying is that the capitalist system/structure is designed to reward those with psychopathic tendencies?
Note to moderators: I'm not sure this should be modded "Funny"
"Yo, dawg, I heard you liked prison..."
Is it possible that the language they are selecting for is simply some form of "prisoner's dialect", instead of a sampling of "sociopathy"? For example, Canadians tend to punctuate verbally with "Eh", and New England urban teens typically finish sentences with "Yo", and use the term "wicked" a lot (or at least they did 20 years ago when I was there). This could be an interpretation of a dialectical shift based on the environment the subject is now occupying, rather than any useful data. It might also be wise to consider the length of incarceration of the subjects of this study, and perhaps use the non-violent (or even non-offenders) occupying the same space as a control group.
Alternatively, one could assume these dangerously violent offenders are typically kept separated from the general population (of prisoners), and so perhaps the language they use is based more upon their observation of the guards and/or legal teams' speech. Assigning the term "psychopathic behavior" to the speech patterns of lawyers and psychiatrists would be amusing, but unhelpful with achieving the stated goal.
Finally, I would find it useful to analyze the recorded speech and writing patterns of someone who was not convicted of a crime until much later in their lifetime, allowing us to study the psychopathic patterns "in the wild".
'Self-replication' has a very specific definition, including having a coded representation. I forget the list of very specific properties you need to be considered a 'replicator' but it's more than just 'an ongoing chemical or physical reaction'. Neither of the things you mentioned have all of the properties sufficient to be considered 'self-replication'
By that argument, is human reproduction "replication"?
Honestly? I just read through the horrible formatting, blame the site authors for not bothering to code their site properly, and take my eyeballs elsewhere. The sites I frequent tend to not be completely buggered up with piss-poor code... and I let the ones with actual knowledge advertise at me.
In other words, if their site works without NoScript and AdBlockPlus, I usually whitelist them out of respect. The sites that have a clue how to display content without using JavaScript get to advertise to me, and the ones that look like shit without their JavaScript functioning don't deserve the hits or the click-throughs.
Get Adobe Flash player
This page requires Flash Player version 10.2.0 or higher.
My browser only scored a 2 out of 4, yet was able to keep me from seeing most of the malicious content on the linked page.
NoScript and AdBlockPlus, thank you.
My browser: 1
Microsoft FUD: 0
Moving along, now... so much more internet to see, so little time.
In retrospect, I think it is much more likely that the magnets were affecting the motherboard half an inch from the exterior wall of the tower, rather than the drives. It is even possible that the CPU was affected, which would explain the wonky behavior much better than the drives being affected. Data corruption doesn't necessarily indicate and issue with the storage device.
I'd much rather pay the extra 99c and not have to do a 10minute round trip in the car.
Agreed, the added value is worthwhile... however, your system is either piracy (frowned upon by the court system), or not quite there yet (I hear Netflix/Hulu have horrible selection).
My method allows me to hit a website, pick a movie, find out which nearby kiosk it's in, go pick it up, and be watching my chosen movie in just a few minutes.
Or were you referring to iTunes? If so, then my response is that I'd just as soon not give any money to a company that thinks the "walled garden" is a good concept. Or that decides it's ok not to honor a warranty. Or that sued a major US city for having the nerve to be called "the Big Apple".
As an aside, RedBox has spit in the face of the movie industry several times, and I kinda like their chutzpah. For example, when they were told they wouldn't be allowed to purchase DVDs at the same time as other rental outfits because they wouldn't wait to distribute them to their customers, they responded by buying retail DVDs at Wal-Mart and distributing those (or at least threatening to, I don't recall exactly how all that went down). They caved in eventually, but they stood up for themselves pretty well, and I've always rooted for the underdog. There's a bunch of stories at techdirt about Redbox, and they've had a fairly exciting legal career for the short (relatively speaking) time they've had their doors open (so to speak).
Agreed, but you can check their website to see what's available and which kiosk it's at (thus avoiding wandering all over looking for a decent movie). ;)
Also, the piracy thing requires a good bit of time (depending on your internet connection speed, but still likely to be greater than 10 minutes) to acquire the movie, whereas with the redbox I can be watching the movie I selected as soon as I go pick it up. Nevermind that it's completely legal
Creeping drive failure is not uncommon. Especially in that era.
A competent and reputable manufacturer would have replaced the drive.
On the first visit.
A: We weren't a manufacturer.
B: We tested the drive before we wiped and reloaded, of course.
C: Informing her to not put the magnets back on the case appeared to resolve the issue.
Fridge magnets?
You're going with that?
Hint: there are magnets IN the drive way stronger than a foot high stack of fridge magnets.
Open one up sometime.
Yeah, I'm "going with that". All I know is that when she stopped putting dozens of fridge magnets all over her computer, she stopped having her Windows installation harf all over itself every few days.
Sorry if that anecdotal evidence doesn't mesh with your view of reality; it was real, it happened, and I was there.
Wait till 3d printers become affordable!
What do you define as "affordable"? You can get a RepRap for less monetary output than a color laser printer (the 2D kind).
Where I'm from, $4.99 for a movie would not be considered affordable. For that matter, $1.99 wouldn't be
Where do you live the $1.99 isn't affordable for a movie?! Gees most people find that to be affordable for a song on iTunes.
I live within a 5-minute drive of over a dozen redbox kiosks, and so my current "acceptable" 24-hour rental fee is 1 USD.
In addition, my local library has hundreds of DVDs to choose from in each location, and I can go online to their website and request a hold/transfer of materials from the dozen locations that aren't within 3 blocks of my house. those movies are "rented" for a week, at NO cost to me. Of course, it's a dollar a day late fee if I don't bring them back on time, but I usually watch them within a day or two of borrowing them, and get them back with several days to spare... and that's still no more expensive than redbox.
If I could watch unlimited movies, on demand, of my choosing, from a catalog that had *everything* I might want to watch, I'd be willing to pay $30 a month for that service - assuming I could access those titles without having to even get up from my chair in my living room.
I still purchase movies off the "new" shelf, and of course I dig in the bargain bins for $5 popcorn-munchers, and I rip every single one of my purchased movies to avi files. I even bought that stupid "VHS-to-DVD" USB dongle from Best Buy so I could move my extensive VHS collection to digital media (there's a step in the middle where you export the MPEG to DVD media - I skip that step, and convert it to avi instead). I am in the process of moving my entire video collection to digital formats, and I play them on my desktop, my laptop, and even my phone. I used to rip the DVDs because I didn't want to worry about scratching up the originals and having to replace movies I already purchased simply because someone left the disks out, or used them for coasters. Now I store my movie collection in the garage, and simply watch what I want over my LAN from a server I store all my movies on. My "backups" are my original physical media, and I play the digital version with no worries that my movies will be destroyed by someone's 4-year-old throwing the disk across the room like a Frisbee. This also allows me to stop in the middle of a movie, wander into the bedroom, and fire it back up at roughly the same point - without having to eject a disk, drag the disk across the house, stick the disk into something else, then hold >> for 3 minutes to get to the part I was watching.
As for DRM and other media-control crap... well, it may be a legal gray area for me to format-shift my DVD and VHS media to avi files because I'm "circumventing copyright protection mechanisms", but I don't care, and I'm fairly certain that no jury in the country would convict me for watching content I have legally acquired in whatever manner I choose, whenever I want to, on any player I happen to own, in any "private" environment I wish to. The DMCA be damned, I bought the movie, I'll watch it however I want.
Thanks for the giggle, and the nostalgic reference to Arthur's plight.
Static in relation to the house/room, perhaps, but are you missing that the platters of the hard drive are spinning?
Physics comprehension for the win; I didn't think the concept "motion is relative" was that difficult to understand.
Further, the level of the magnetic field that would be required to corrupt a hard drive in a computer would yank the door knobs off and tools could be hung up just by throwing them against the wall.
Actually, I used to work in a mom'n'pop tech shop, doing sales and repairs of home computer equipment. We had a woman come in with a corrupted Win95 install (this was back in '98 or '99), which we responded to by backing up her data, wiping, and reloading the OS. She was back a week later with the same issue, and we responded in exactly the same way. The third time she came in, she was so upset at us, and in such a hurry, she didn't take the refrigerator magnets off the case. It seems she collected refrigerator magnets, and stuck them to any metal surface in her home. The computer's case was metal, so it made perfect sense to her to use it to display a portion of her collection.
The level of magnetism in most of the magnets was barely enough to keep it attached to the metal shrouding the PC, yet it was sufficient to corrupt her hard drive in a matter of days.
I've also seen a huge amount of magnetic media, including disks, tapes, and hard drives, corrupted by the user setting it on top of a television or speaker.
As an aside, but also supporting evidence: studies have shown that server hard drives can be affected by hard drives (in the same machine or in other servers) physically adjacent; causing issues not only via magnetic influence, but also via vibration. There are hard drive access algorithms built in to server systems to account for this, what makes you think a massive magnetic field is required for hard drive corruption?
On the other hand, I'll grant the physical proximity argument has quite a bit of value; I doubt magnetism is the actual issue with these houses. The radio interference of "charged" ferrous materials is a more likely culprit... It might even be an issue for the FCC to investigate.
I think you're not giving Jobs enough credit even for the first wave of personal computers.
Not to say Jobs doesn't deserve every ounce of credit he gets for what he accomplished in the last decade. Mainstreamed personal media players, dragged the music industry kicking and screaming into the 21st century with his online music store (and now with the cloud service that's set to go live in a week), mainstreamed smartphones, conjured a market for tablets out of thin air. Dude has absolutely accomplished way more in ten years than many of us will in six or seven lifetimes.
But for the first wave of personal computers? All Apple ever made in that era were computers that cost a shitload of money and did fuck-all. Especially the Lisa.
As much as I credit the TI 99/4a with being my first personal computer, the Apple II was my first introduction to them. The computer lab at the middle school I went to once a week for my "gifted" class (CATS, or PATS, I don't recall the exact acronym) when I was still in elementary school was just a classroom with a dozen of them, not even networked (not sure networks even existed at that point, at least outside of labs).
Yeah, I'm old. Whatever.
I'm not an Apple fanboi; far from it. I'm a Microsoft-certified, Android-phone using, Linux-loving geek, and I have won many debates over Apple products vs others. I hated the walled garden concept as much as anyone else.
That being said, this is still a sad day for the industry... and you're just an AC being a jackass.
When they have the firesale in another couple months, we can just put Cyanogen on it.
apps that contain more than one activity tied to the launcher, the Android text-to-speech engine, Android cloud-to-device messaging service amongst a few others.
Ok, there's a few less-trivial-sounding things there. I don't even know what they are. Maybe the activity-tied-to-launcher or cloud-to-device thing (by any chance is it really Google-closed-API-to-device?) is something that someone will give a fuck about. I don't know. But this dude sure started off with a stupid example.
In android development, an "activity" is what any other programming language would call a "form", "window", "screen", or "dialog".
So, for instance, Angry Birds won't work, because it has a splash screen, a level select screen, a configuration screen, and the actual game screen. That's 4 activities.
You won't be able to install an android-based browser, because it has the browser screen and a configuration screen.
Come to think of it, there's only a tiny handful of apps that don't have at least two, if not a half-dozen "activities" associated with them. RIM may as well have not bothered.
I can't believe they will honestly try to claim "Android Compatibility" when one of the "restrictions" is that it doesn't support "apps that contain more than one activity tied to the launcher" - so, any game that has an about screen, any app that does more than one thing, any app at all that has a built-in config screen...
Note: if "more than one activity" is their bar, then even a text editor (other than the built-in post-it widget) won't work.
A shame that's too late for 2012, when Mayor Boris Johnson warns that mobile data demands during the Olympics may overload the current 3G network.
Gee, ya think?
Although, to be quite honest, there's no such thing as enough preparation/bandwidth/security/anything for an Olympics.
Of course most of the scientists are going to claim that religion and science are not in conflict - to claim otherwise is to either be excommunicated, or thrown off the gravy train.
The statistic I'd like to see in conjunction with this study is how the scientists voted, compared with whether they profess to be religious.
That is to say, the atheist scientist probably thinks religion is antithetical to science, but does that really matter? I want to know about the scientists who admit that faith circumvents the scientific method in the knowledge/discovery process, yet still go to church. I also want to know about the scientists who believe, despite all of the evidence to the contrary, that the world is only a few thousand years old; fossils are faked; and there's an invisible man in the sky who loves us so much that if we don't do exactly what he says then he'll burn us in a lake of fire for ever and ever, amen - because those motherfuckers are bat. shit. crazy.
The gist of this post is:
Faith, noun: insanity, a belief that "because I told you so" is a good enough reason to think something is true, even if you discover evidence indicating the opposite.
This does not seem to explain how to make a scalable server. Just advice for making your website grow in a maintainable way. However, the title sounds more catchy this way. I think it is misleading advertising.
The full title is actually "Scalability Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites". Therefore, it is not about scalable servers, but about scalable web sites. I give your reading comprehension a D, or maybe a D=.
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The previous "typo" is actually an inside joke. For more information, please Google "Taylor Mali".
Yes, absolutely. Can't have those non-nutritional BluRay players, now, can we?
And why do they call it a "Man-In-The-Middle Remote Attack"??
"Man in the middle" refers to the fact that the alien hardware is able to intercept and modify the authorized information, between the authorized user (the voter) and the intended recipient (the cast ballot).
The "remote" portion of the descriptor refers to the fact that the "man in the middle" is using a remote control to "attack" the system; that is, the compromised unit is being controlled remotely by someone other than the person standing at the controls/interface.