The police have a system where they record the 50Hz mains hum and claim to be able to detect it on recordings, thus providing a timestamp. It's useful for dating recordings they fine and for proving that they didn't edit recordings and stitch them together... Except that apparently now criminals are wise to it they add recorded 50Hz hum from times when they have a watertight alibi and use it to discredit the prosecution.
it is a sort of "yes man" issue. People coming up with tools, yet no one asks "How might this be defeated?"
But know this - unless this is some silly ruse, the Chinese have made a database of gait and now have a true Ministry of Silly Walks.
The capacity of renewable energy has overtaken that of fossil fuels in the UK for the first time, in a milestone that experts said would have been unthinkable a few years ago
Anyone who, a few years ago, couldn't predict that renewable capacity would overtake fossil fuels' hasn't been paying attention. True: past performance is no indication of future results; but the trend has been clear for quite a few years now.
True that. But the deniers here on Slashdot are still denying.
Amory Lovins, a well-known advocate of renewable energy, likes to tell the story of how the whales were saved from extinction in the mid-1800s by "profit maximizing capitalists" who brought kerosene to market, which rapidly wrecked the market for whale oil.
Silly person, there is no profit in saving whales.
This three years guaranteed updates policy is a complete and utter BS, Google. Modern smartphones are more than capable of serving the user not just for three years, they may work for up to a decade and this support window just doesn't cut it. It's bad for the environment, it's bad for people (since Google basically forces them to replace their perfectly working devices just to feel safe), it's bad for Android's popularity in general because when you e.g. buy into the Apple ecosystem you can expect more than five years of support and that leaves a bitter taste in your mouth since a lot of Android phones cost as much as or even more than the most expensive iPhones (Samsung Note9 512GB, Huawei Mate 20 Pro 256GB, etc).
This must change.
Yeah - last time the family upgraded, my son wanted to go android. He was yapping about how that would save money. Then the bill came in.
But you aren't getting it right. The way this works is you take the most expensive Apple model, than compare it to the cheapest rock-bottom Android phone. Then yell "See, SEE? Applez shitz too spensive!"
I'm allergic to latex. Most people are not. So should the doctor just dismiss my allergy?
Do you need me to explain that "default" is not the same as "answer that can never be changed"?
I dunno if many slashdotters area war of this, but for critical experiments and activities, a check list is used. If I was ever working on something that was explodey or other possible bad outcomes, one of the first thing we did was make up a checklist.
And the checklist had some really simple things on it, such as "turn on such and such power supply", "Last sweep before ignition check power supply again for operation", "Open exhaust doors", "remove intake protective cover", and on and on and on.
Was it because we were stupid? No - it was because we were busy, and forgetting one thing could make a hella mess.
Were we being imposed upon by this demeaning list? No - we were quite thankful for it, and the person making up the list was among the most important individuals in the group. And depending on the experiment, things to choose on the list could sometimes change.
Considering the potential and documented cases of busy physicians inflicting harm on or killing their patients, a list that gives booboo feelings to their egos might just be a really good idea. The number of patients mistakenly killed by their doctors is higher than the number of people killed by gun violence or traffic accidents.
A lot of different things to consider is seldom a bad thing - this approximation of the checklists thaat we used kept us from making simple mistakes that could destroy the project or even kill us was a good thing. It slowed us down and made us think and make certain that things were done correctly. And we were often busy and damn tired. Many is the night I didn't get home until after Midnight. Would you rather be killed because the doctor forgot to check for something that might have been simple, and just a check box that made him or her think "O crap!, I forgot about that!"kept them from doing just that. I suspect not.
And while were asking questions, it seems kinda like ther are questions that should not ever be asked? Weird - In my field questions are welcomed.
I read this whole thing as doctors falling prey to the same thing as some Airplane pilots do. The idea that they are invincible and incapable of error. Egos as big as all outdoors, they know what is right, and to hell with anyone getting in their way.
For many of the "required field" questions I've seen, the question isn't really necessary. The doctor, and many busy people, work on the least amount of information required to get by, rather than the most comprehensive.
The date was a few years back, when we didn't torture doctors with demands to think about what they were doing.
Then again, apparently you are fine if you or a loved one is harmed because the Doctor was too busy to do anything but as little as possible. Too busy you know
Because they need to use as little information as possible. Jeezuz H K Ryste, Funny what you promote. Tell us what hospital you work for - I'd love to tell them what you support and if the least amount of information and charge ahead is their policy. Challenge accepted?
Having doctors muscle memory their way through a list of 50 radio buttons to say 'no' is more likely to cause a problem than having the buttons default to no, and make the doctor deliberately select the ones that are relevant
Medical mistakes apparently have outcomes that kill between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year https://www.npr.org/sections/h... Now of course the reason that range is so wide is that like any group that is responsible for killing people, they kinda want to keep it as quiet as possible.
Have any of you folks given some thought to the idea that what seems to be an insufferable imposition on these Doctors might just be a way to keep them from fucking up and killing people?
Then again I suppose that if a doctor kills you, on your tombstone you'll want written " At least the Doctor Wasn't Inconvenienced"
Making the doctor say "no" when "no" is the answer the vast majority of the time is shitty UI design.
Now, you may decide to do that anyway because this is medical and you want to avoid having the doctor say "whoops, I forgot to change the default", but then you're accepting shitty UI because the non-UI reasons are more important.
Making the Doctor say "No" when there is Never ever any reason at all to ever say "Yes" would be a shitty design.
I'm allergic to latex. Most people are not. So should the doctor just dismiss my allergy? If I get opened up by someone wearing latex gloves when they should be wearing Nitrile - I am in trouble. But hey, it doesn't matter because most of the time, people aren't allergic, so filling out that box is just wasting the doctor's time, so very important. He could then spend more time with me as a I suffer the reaction, amirite?
Funny how people who know exactly how this sort of thing needs to be implemented, completely dismiss the outliers. Like it is useless and unimportant knowledge.
Grade 13 to 16, perhaps grade 17 to 21 with the same costs as HS +++ and trades track like germany!
I see nothing wrong with that.
Of course, the "degree or you're a moron" sycophants will bitch and moan. But they need to lose their bigoted idea that only the intelligent can have degrees.
Want to see intelligent? take a look at a Master Machinist. I've worked with a number of them, and they are like masters degree mathematicians that wear blue jeans and short sleeved shirts. And the intestinal fortitude to work on huge pieces of metal that can be easily destroyed, costing millions if a mistake is made. The masters are well paid and I've never heard of one who was out of work.
But in 21st Century USA, someone with a philosophy, English, or gender studies major is somehow superior to that machinist.
Or you can just fuck off. Here lets' take that lovely computer system and shove it up your ass. You have a biggest enough ass-hole to accommodate it.
You didn't have anything intelligent to say, but you didn't let that stop you.
And quit fixating on shoving things up my ass. Homie ain't wired that way. Not even if you buy me dinner and take me to a movie.
Systems are suppose to be built for people, not the other way around. Ponder that moron.
And? How does one build a system for people without letting people try it out? The implementation mode here was bad, that is obvious. But the concept that doctors should not have knowledge of certain things - which is really what some are bitching and moaning about - is stupid.
Love your arrogance. Are you sure you're not a doctor yourself?
I am arrogant. Arrogant enough to have self assurance. I am intelligent enough to know I am not the only person in the room, and that others have work to do too. Deal with it.
The field probably shouldn't be required, and the doctor probably doesn't have the answer and shouldn't be expected to.
Why should the doctor not be required to know the answer to a simple question? Useless knowledge perhaps? What is the logic behind knowledge that should not be known, and why are doctors better off in ignorance?
Yet some clueless yahoo in a meeting wanted it for analytics or because they're a Slashdot poster with an ego, and required it, and the result is annoyed users. Harrumph!
And look who a couple of seconds ago called me arrogant! Hah! And the ego comment added for a little spice. Have I perhaps inflicted booboo feelings on an arrogant person who believes they are the epitomy of humble?
Physician? Heal thyself!
Hint: Analytics has a use. Accounting has a use. Evidence that might support the good doctor in case of a lawsuit has a use.
Alternatively, that field shouldn't actually be required. Which is why they skipped it on the paper forms.
Let's say it's something on an MRI form like "Do you want contrast?" and the answer is "no" 90% of the time. Better to default the entry to "no" than to make the doctor choose no almost every single time.
Seriously, it sounds more like a "Not thought of here" problem. Not to mention a real resistance to change.
The implementation of this system was bad, no doubt. Never should have been a total rollout. But there are multiple groups that deal with patient data.
The idea that only the doctors should have such godlike powers, and screw everyone else is hubris personified.
It wasn't that computers are less efficient than old school / antiquated methods. It was a matter of incompetence. Before the transition all people involved should have been properly trained.
This needs to get to +5 insightful - mods, do your work.
I don't know about that last point, but I do know non-tech people hire people they know, not people *who* know.
Damn - that should be your sig unless you're open to me plagiarizing it! 8^)
If something like a Field Required is a terrible inconvenience, a bridge too far, an insurrerable inconvenience that destroys th eprecious time that the doctor spends with their patient.........
Yer doin something wrong doctors.
If there is one thing about the medical profession that needs changed badly, it is the concept that doctors are some sort of infallible super being who dare not be questioned.
The stated goal of the OP is to flesh out the resume not to learn anything.
The goal of most students at the University is to get a degree so they can get a higher paying job than packing Amazon packages (1). So who cares what they teach you? Just pay the price for the degree and move on. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just pay for the degree without all the classes? Oh, they have that too! They are called online Universities. They just need to work on the speed at which they give you what you paid for. Why wait the year or year and a half that the online University makes you wait? Why can't they just hand over the degree when you hand over the money?
(1) This assumes the student is not majoring in liberal arts in which case a job that requires you can ask "You want fries with that" is probably in this student's future.
Sometimes the truth is brutal, is it not?
After years of proclaiming that the larvae either had to have a degree, or that they were subhuman pieces of excrement, the students and parents bought into it.
And ended up believing that any degree at any cost was worth it. And set out to prove it, ending up in debt to sometimes the tune of 100K, for a degree based on giving your opinion on something.
In a work situation that is now based on lifetime learning, that degree is merely an early step, and people should think of it as Grade 13 to 16, perhaps grade 17 to 21 as well. Nothing more.
I'm not certain how useful a solar sail would be on a device that came from another solar system. Yaknow, there's that interstellar space between thier system and ours.
Meanwhile the "Ancient Aliens" crowd just orgasmed with this BS.
The system is easy to audit, and hard to cheat - especially on a systematic nation-wide level (which is much easier if there is a electronic system to attack)
The same people who claim that there is election fraud are not making the claim because they want to eliminate election fraud.
So they would hate your rather nice system with a passion.
According to the article, every single one of the 10 states where these machines were used are Republican states where Donald Trump won.
Why doesn't anyone look surprised by that?
If the voting machinery was not corruptly designed to be intentionally hacked, they missed a good chance to do just that.
Carnegie Mellon performed a test to see how secure voting machines were. They were not secure at all. They had a pretend election, and could easily go in and switch votes so that the loser won.
There are still some rumblings regarding the Kerry vs Bush outcome in Ohio, and Karl Rove's election night meltdown when he refused to accept that the Kenyan Terror baby won Ohio. In the first case, apparently a lot of people decided to lie in the exit polls, and in the second, Rove seemed to suggest the sort of magic that the Carnegie Mellon people showed was pretty trivial to do.
Or are you opposed to proving identity when voting, like most of the rest of the world requires?
Greetings from the rest of the world. Here in Finland we do in fact have to provide ID upon voting,
The voter ID kerfuffle in the US is based on political machinations more than anything else. Having an ID of course makes sense. What doesn't is the transparent practice of bitching and moaning about it shortly before every election.
and we do not have to to register to vote because your ID is checked against a list of eligible voters upon arrival to the voting site.
Excellent! I like that idea.
However, social services also funds the cost of the ID for those who cannot afford it (which is why essentially everyone in Finland has an ID).
Here in Murrica we spend truly insane amounts of money in the election process. So money should be no object. I had outlined a process - phasing in of voter ID with a photo ID provided at polling places and courthouses - wherever one registers (although I do like the simple database process you spoke of)
But in reality, and harking back to what I posted at the beginning, This voter ID fight has nothing to do with an operating system. It is merely one of the touchstones that is used by one group to keep people from voting.
One group, the crypto-conservative Republicans, understands that they do better when they disenfranchise as many people as possible.
The other group, the Democrats has a large group that doesn't bother to come out and vote.
Which is why I blame Democrats as much as Republicans for the present sorry state of US politics. The Demoncrats have allowed the kooks to run the show.
This being the case, the ID requirement does not prevent anyone from voting regardless of income status. This point is often conveniently left out in the american discussions over voter IDs when the 'pretty much everyone else does it' -argument is presented because from what I've seen so far, voter ID proposals in the States don't have provisions for providing an ID for people who can't pay for it, and that's the crux of the problem.
Voting is such a fundamental right that it should never be gated behind a financial barrier of any kind, wouldn't you agree?
I just sit back and watch you as they come after you. The snowflake resolution is a self curing problem.
It's already happening, I get pulled up a lot for using gendered words like 'systems guy' by idiot millennials because I describe the world as I experience it rather than how it isn't.
And yet, young ladies will often say "Hi Guys!" when they see a group of lady friends. "Guy" has become genderless, but people with issues that cause them to hate won't let that get in the way.
You should read the biography of Jesse Owens and ear what he says about germany in the 30's. He could actually have a meal on a restaurant with white people. Something he couldnt on his home country.
Strange isnt it? Guess Jesse Owens was a blatant lier...
Nothing strange at all. The German people underwent a short period of time when they were under orders to be really accommodating during the Olympics. For all of his eating accommodation glory, they still considered him as a member of an inferior race. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now they didn't exterminate Dark pigmented people in their concentration camps. Then again, neither did Americans.
That Americans have a racist past that is going to take a long time to get rid of, perhaps not ever totally, is true, and not at all anything to be happy about. But your celebrating the exemplary habits of your beloved National Socialist party simply doesn't mean that they and probably most of the world are as we say -RAAF Racist As All Fuck.
Meanwhile, here are some of the racist societies for you to check out:
Dare I say that those asterisks are enough to trigger some folks?
Yeah but the right way to help people like that is with psychiatric care and the offer of work in a more caring environment, like a charity shop. Not to remove asterisks from keyboards.
Oh, just wait until you see what happens to you when you suggest psychiatric care.
I just sit back and watch you as they come after you. The snowflake resolution is a self curing problem.
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The police have a system where they record the 50Hz mains hum and claim to be able to detect it on recordings, thus providing a timestamp. It's useful for dating recordings they fine and for proving that they didn't edit recordings and stitch them together... Except that apparently now criminals are wise to it they add recorded 50Hz hum from times when they have a watertight alibi and use it to discredit the prosecution.
it is a sort of "yes man" issue. People coming up with tools, yet no one asks "How might this be defeated?"
But know this - unless this is some silly ruse, the Chinese have made a database of gait and now have a true Ministry of Silly Walks.
Anyone who, a few years ago, couldn't predict that renewable capacity would overtake fossil fuels' hasn't been paying attention. True: past performance is no indication of future results; but the trend has been clear for quite a few years now.
True that. But the deniers here on Slashdot are still denying.
Amory Lovins, a well-known advocate of renewable energy, likes to tell the story of how the whales were saved from extinction in the mid-1800s by "profit maximizing capitalists" who brought kerosene to market, which rapidly wrecked the market for whale oil.
Silly person, there is no profit in saving whales.
This three years guaranteed updates policy is a complete and utter BS, Google. Modern smartphones are more than capable of serving the user not just for three years, they may work for up to a decade and this support window just doesn't cut it. It's bad for the environment, it's bad for people (since Google basically forces them to replace their perfectly working devices just to feel safe), it's bad for Android's popularity in general because when you e.g. buy into the Apple ecosystem you can expect more than five years of support and that leaves a bitter taste in your mouth since a lot of Android phones cost as much as or even more than the most expensive iPhones (Samsung Note9 512GB, Huawei Mate 20 Pro 256GB, etc).
This must change.
Yeah - last time the family upgraded, my son wanted to go android. He was yapping about how that would save money. Then the bill came in.
But you aren't getting it right. The way this works is you take the most expensive Apple model, than compare it to the cheapest rock-bottom Android phone. Then yell "See, SEE? Applez shitz too spensive!"
I'm allergic to latex. Most people are not. So should the doctor just dismiss my allergy?
Do you need me to explain that "default" is not the same as "answer that can never be changed"?
I dunno if many slashdotters area war of this, but for critical experiments and activities, a check list is used. If I was ever working on something that was explodey or other possible bad outcomes, one of the first thing we did was make up a checklist.
And the checklist had some really simple things on it, such as "turn on such and such power supply", "Last sweep before ignition check power supply again for operation", "Open exhaust doors", "remove intake protective cover", and on and on and on.
Was it because we were stupid? No - it was because we were busy, and forgetting one thing could make a hella mess.
Were we being imposed upon by this demeaning list? No - we were quite thankful for it, and the person making up the list was among the most important individuals in the group. And depending on the experiment, things to choose on the list could sometimes change.
Considering the potential and documented cases of busy physicians inflicting harm on or killing their patients, a list that gives booboo feelings to their egos might just be a really good idea. The number of patients mistakenly killed by their doctors is higher than the number of people killed by gun violence or traffic accidents.
A lot of different things to consider is seldom a bad thing - this approximation of the checklists thaat we used kept us from making simple mistakes that could destroy the project or even kill us was a good thing. It slowed us down and made us think and make certain that things were done correctly. And we were often busy and damn tired. Many is the night I didn't get home until after Midnight. Would you rather be killed because the doctor forgot to check for something that might have been simple, and just a check box that made him or her think "O crap!, I forgot about that!"kept them from doing just that. I suspect not.
And while were asking questions, it seems kinda like ther are questions that should not ever be asked? Weird - In my field questions are welcomed.
I read this whole thing as doctors falling prey to the same thing as some Airplane pilots do. The idea that they are invincible and incapable of error. Egos as big as all outdoors, they know what is right, and to hell with anyone getting in their way.
Perhaps the Doctors need to learn a little?
Are you saying the doctors do little?
If we could talk to the animals - just imagine it......
For many of the "required field" questions I've seen, the question isn't really necessary. The doctor, and many busy people, work on the least amount of information required to get by, rather than the most comprehensive.
So I take it you are okay with this: https://www.npr.org/sections/h...
The date was a few years back, when we didn't torture doctors with demands to think about what they were doing.
Then again, apparently you are fine if you or a loved one is harmed because the Doctor was too busy to do anything but as little as possible. Too busy you know
Because they need to use as little information as possible. Jeezuz H K Ryste, Funny what you promote. Tell us what hospital you work for - I'd love to tell them what you support and if the least amount of information and charge ahead is their policy. Challenge accepted?
Having doctors muscle memory their way through a list of 50 radio buttons to say 'no' is more likely to cause a problem than having the buttons default to no, and make the doctor deliberately select the ones that are relevant
Medical mistakes apparently have outcomes that kill between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year https://www.npr.org/sections/h... Now of course the reason that range is so wide is that like any group that is responsible for killing people, they kinda want to keep it as quiet as possible.
Have any of you folks given some thought to the idea that what seems to be an insufferable imposition on these Doctors might just be a way to keep them from fucking up and killing people?
Then again I suppose that if a doctor kills you, on your tombstone you'll want written " At least the Doctor Wasn't Inconvenienced"
Making the doctor say "no" when "no" is the answer the vast majority of the time is shitty UI design.
Now, you may decide to do that anyway because this is medical and you want to avoid having the doctor say "whoops, I forgot to change the default", but then you're accepting shitty UI because the non-UI reasons are more important.
Making the Doctor say "No" when there is Never ever any reason at all to ever say "Yes" would be a shitty design.
I'm allergic to latex. Most people are not. So should the doctor just dismiss my allergy? If I get opened up by someone wearing latex gloves when they should be wearing Nitrile - I am in trouble. But hey, it doesn't matter because most of the time, people aren't allergic, so filling out that box is just wasting the doctor's time, so very important. He could then spend more time with me as a I suffer the reaction, amirite?
Funny how people who know exactly how this sort of thing needs to be implemented, completely dismiss the outliers. Like it is useless and unimportant knowledge.
Grade 13 to 16, perhaps grade 17 to 21 with the same costs as HS +++ and trades track like germany!
I see nothing wrong with that.
Of course, the "degree or you're a moron" sycophants will bitch and moan. But they need to lose their bigoted idea that only the intelligent can have degrees.
Want to see intelligent? take a look at a Master Machinist. I've worked with a number of them, and they are like masters degree mathematicians that wear blue jeans and short sleeved shirts. And the intestinal fortitude to work on huge pieces of metal that can be easily destroyed, costing millions if a mistake is made. The masters are well paid and I've never heard of one who was out of work.
But in 21st Century USA, someone with a philosophy, English, or gender studies major is somehow superior to that machinist.
Or you can just fuck off. Here lets' take that lovely computer system and shove it up your ass. You have a biggest enough ass-hole to accommodate it.
You didn't have anything intelligent to say, but you didn't let that stop you.
And quit fixating on shoving things up my ass. Homie ain't wired that way. Not even if you buy me dinner and take me to a movie.
Systems are suppose to be built for people, not the other way around. Ponder that moron.
And? How does one build a system for people without letting people try it out? The implementation mode here was bad, that is obvious. But the concept that doctors should not have knowledge of certain things - which is really what some are bitching and moaning about - is stupid.
Love your arrogance. Are you sure you're not a doctor yourself?
I am arrogant. Arrogant enough to have self assurance. I am intelligent enough to know I am not the only person in the room, and that others have work to do too. Deal with it.
The field probably shouldn't be required, and the doctor probably doesn't have the answer and shouldn't be expected to.
Why should the doctor not be required to know the answer to a simple question? Useless knowledge perhaps? What is the logic behind knowledge that should not be known, and why are doctors better off in ignorance?
Yet some clueless yahoo in a meeting wanted it for analytics or because they're a Slashdot poster with an ego, and required it, and the result is annoyed users. Harrumph!
And look who a couple of seconds ago called me arrogant! Hah! And the ego comment added for a little spice. Have I perhaps inflicted booboo feelings on an arrogant person who believes they are the epitomy of humble?
Physician? Heal thyself!
Hint: Analytics has a use. Accounting has a use. Evidence that might support the good doctor in case of a lawsuit has a use.
Alternatively, that field shouldn't actually be required. Which is why they skipped it on the paper forms.
Let's say it's something on an MRI form like "Do you want contrast?" and the answer is "no" 90% of the time. Better to default the entry to "no" than to make the doctor choose no almost every single time.
Seriously, it sounds more like a "Not thought of here" problem. Not to mention a real resistance to change.
The implementation of this system was bad, no doubt. Never should have been a total rollout. But there are multiple groups that deal with patient data.
The idea that only the doctors should have such godlike powers, and screw everyone else is hubris personified.
It wasn't that computers are less efficient than old school / antiquated methods. It was a matter of incompetence. Before the transition all people involved should have been properly trained.
This needs to get to +5 insightful - mods, do your work.
I don't know about that last point, but I do know non-tech people hire people they know, not people *who* know.
Damn - that should be your sig unless you're open to me plagiarizing it! 8^)
If something like a Field Required is a terrible inconvenience, a bridge too far, an insurrerable inconvenience that destroys th eprecious time that the doctor spends with their patient.........
Yer doin something wrong doctors.
If there is one thing about the medical profession that needs changed badly, it is the concept that doctors are some sort of infallible super being who dare not be questioned.
tl;dr Hey doc? Just fill out the damned form.
Agree completely.
The stated goal of the OP is to flesh out the resume not to learn anything.
The goal of most students at the University is to get a degree so they can get a higher paying job than packing Amazon packages (1). So who cares what they teach you? Just pay the price for the degree and move on. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just pay for the degree without all the classes? Oh, they have that too! They are called online Universities. They just need to work on the speed at which they give you what you paid for. Why wait the year or year and a half that the online University makes you wait? Why can't they just hand over the degree when you hand over the money?
(1) This assumes the student is not majoring in liberal arts in which case a job that requires you can ask "You want fries with that" is probably in this student's future.
Sometimes the truth is brutal, is it not?
After years of proclaiming that the larvae either had to have a degree, or that they were subhuman pieces of excrement, the students and parents bought into it.
And ended up believing that any degree at any cost was worth it. And set out to prove it, ending up in debt to sometimes the tune of 100K, for a degree based on giving your opinion on something.
In a work situation that is now based on lifetime learning, that degree is merely an early step, and people should think of it as Grade 13 to 16, perhaps grade 17 to 21 as well. Nothing more.
Meanwhile the "Ancient Aliens" crowd just orgasmed with this BS.
Just get youor degree. The degree is the "goal". Worrying about it's relevance to today will not get you anywhere.
The system is easy to audit, and hard to cheat - especially on a systematic nation-wide level (which is much easier if there is a electronic system to attack)
The same people who claim that there is election fraud are not making the claim because they want to eliminate election fraud.
So they would hate your rather nice system with a passion.
According to the article, every single one of the 10 states where these machines were used are Republican states where Donald Trump won.
Why doesn't anyone look surprised by that?
If the voting machinery was not corruptly designed to be intentionally hacked, they missed a good chance to do just that.
Carnegie Mellon performed a test to see how secure voting machines were. They were not secure at all. They had a pretend election, and could easily go in and switch votes so that the loser won.
There are still some rumblings regarding the Kerry vs Bush outcome in Ohio, and Karl Rove's election night meltdown when he refused to accept that the Kenyan Terror baby won Ohio. In the first case, apparently a lot of people decided to lie in the exit polls, and in the second, Rove seemed to suggest the sort of magic that the Carnegie Mellon people showed was pretty trivial to do.
Greetings from the rest of the world. Here in Finland we do in fact have to provide ID upon voting,
The voter ID kerfuffle in the US is based on political machinations more than anything else. Having an ID of course makes sense. What doesn't is the transparent practice of bitching and moaning about it shortly before every election.
and we do not have to to register to vote because your ID is checked against a list of eligible voters upon arrival to the voting site.
Excellent! I like that idea.
However, social services also funds the cost of the ID for those who cannot afford it (which is why essentially everyone in Finland has an ID).
Here in Murrica we spend truly insane amounts of money in the election process. So money should be no object. I had outlined a process - phasing in of voter ID with a photo ID provided at polling places and courthouses - wherever one registers (although I do like the simple database process you spoke of)
But in reality, and harking back to what I posted at the beginning, This voter ID fight has nothing to do with an operating system. It is merely one of the touchstones that is used by one group to keep people from voting.
One group, the crypto-conservative Republicans, understands that they do better when they disenfranchise as many people as possible.
The other group, the Democrats has a large group that doesn't bother to come out and vote.
Which is why I blame Democrats as much as Republicans for the present sorry state of US politics. The Demoncrats have allowed the kooks to run the show.
This being the case, the ID requirement does not prevent anyone from voting regardless of income status. This point is often conveniently left out in the american discussions over voter IDs when the 'pretty much everyone else does it' -argument is presented because from what I've seen so far, voter ID proposals in the States don't have provisions for providing an ID for people who can't pay for it, and that's the crux of the problem.
Voting is such a fundamental right that it should never be gated behind a financial barrier of any kind, wouldn't you agree?
It's already happening, I get pulled up a lot for using gendered words like 'systems guy' by idiot millennials because I describe the world as I experience it rather than how it isn't.
And yet, young ladies will often say "Hi Guys!" when they see a group of lady friends. "Guy" has become genderless, but people with issues that cause them to hate won't let that get in the way.
...I get it, ya'll are Poe'd here, ...
Meaning subjected to Poe's Law, rather than pissed off. That would be p.o.'ed.
Yeah - I'm pretty hard to piss off.
You should read the biography of Jesse Owens and ear what he says about germany in the 30's. He could actually have a meal on a restaurant with white people. Something he couldnt on his home country. Strange isnt it? Guess Jesse Owens was a blatant lier...
Nothing strange at all. The German people underwent a short period of time when they were under orders to be really accommodating during the Olympics. For all of his eating accommodation glory, they still considered him as a member of an inferior race. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now they didn't exterminate Dark pigmented people in their concentration camps. Then again, neither did Americans.
That Americans have a racist past that is going to take a long time to get rid of, perhaps not ever totally, is true, and not at all anything to be happy about. But your celebrating the exemplary habits of your beloved National Socialist party simply doesn't mean that they and probably most of the world are as we say -RAAF Racist As All Fuck.
Meanwhile, here are some of the racist societies for you to check out:
Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Africa: This is a melting pot of Racism : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Europe, the home of the superior and sophisticated : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'd give you more examples, but if you don't get it by now, you aren't capable of getting it.
Yeah but the right way to help people like that is with psychiatric care and the offer of work in a more caring environment, like a charity shop. Not to remove asterisks from keyboards.
Oh, just wait until you see what happens to you when you suggest psychiatric care.
I just sit back and watch you as they come after you. The snowflake resolution is a self curing problem.