Better compilers have a role to play. There was a great deal of work done on Ada compilers to be more intelligent about generating code for error checks. This greatly reduces the speed penalty for safe code.
Paper ballots are overrated. They are error-prone and subject to a range of problems and vulnerabilities. Politicians have stolen elections for well over a century with the "Australian ballot", which was an effort at election reform when it was introduced in the USA. When I was a child, I used to hear plenty of stories from my older relatives about ballot boxes that were stuffed or "lost" off the back of a truck while being transported to a counting station. If people want to steal an election, they will find a way.
Many people who are registered Democrats will vote for the Republican candidate for President. This is very common in the South. Some people register Democrat more out of a sense of family or regional tradition than affinity for the party. You also will find that in many areas, the local Democratic party is much more conservative than the national Democratic party.
When I voted, they asked me for my address and date of birth. While it isn't a strong security check, it can catch people who are trying to cast a vote under someone else's identity. The police do this sort of thing when they stop someone. They ask questions that you should be able to answer truthfully without thinking about it, and take note when someone has to think for a short time before answering the question.
We have this little thing called the Constitution, that gives the states broad powers on how to run elections and select electors for the electoral college.
Even at the state level, the responsibility for running elections is usually devolved to the cities and counties.
There are ways to improve reliability and detect failures. ECC can be used for memory and busses. Processing elements can be replicated and cross-checked. These are techniques that are used in mainframes and safety-critical computers. Due to their cost, they may not be practical for a voting machine. Some systems are designed with circuits to detect failures and other circuits to induce failures, to verify that the error detection circuits actually work.
For a voting machine, I would start with a list of every major component, list the failure modes, and then describe the consequences of each failure. A faulty machine can be turned off or replaced. I would be more worried about failures that could lead to the loss or corruption of accumulated vote totals.
The problem is when the costs of a failure are primarily born by a third-party. It may cost $100 to the manufacturer to replace a widget, but the end-user may suffer substantially higher costs in lost time, lost business, disruption to business. etc.
Bullshit, propaganda was a vital part of the NAZI regime. That's how they prepared the populace to accept eugenics, liquidation of the Jews and other "undesirables", and war against their neighbors. Part of their program was to spoon-feed this stuff to school children, as part of their curriculum, so that they would have proper "German" attitudes. For an example, see Der Giftpilz.
Ok here's a different question -- anyone ever had to use their own property to band-aid something within the company about ready to explode?
Yes, I've used stuff from my own junk box to keep stuff running at work. I've also made the occasional run to Radio Shack or the local electronics store for a part. That's what happens when you have a severely dysfunctional purchasing process.
These days, I'd just say "fuck it". The organization treats you like a disposable part, why do them any favors?
The Titan IV program is dead, deceased, pushing up daisies, pining for the fjords, over. The last launch is planned for 2005.
The last Titan IV was manufactured on April 11, 2002.
The standard configuration for ATMs used to be a leased line to the bank's mainframe. Even if the line was tapped, they used synchronous modems and weird IBM communications protocols.
The problem is that private networks are expensive. A business can save a lot of money in telecommunications costs by replacing their private network with the Internet. It's hard to argue against saving massive amounts of money every month by saying it exposes new security vulnerabilities. Someone will say "We will just add a firewall, problem solved. Let's play golf!".
I hope they file a complaint with the state bar association. Sending out letters with groundless threats may be marginally legal, but I would consider it unethical and unprofessional conduct.
The reality is that the BBC deservedly has one of the best (if not the best) reputations for high quality and balanced journalism on the planet.
They have a distinct and noticeable bias in many areas. For example, the Middle East. The BBC provides the liberal, London, urban viewpoint. Which isn't surprising, considering their staff.
I used to know a professional photographer who bought some cameras while visiting Japan, mumble years ago. He said that he had to have the manufacturer's name/logo erased from the cameras, otherwise US Customs would have seized them because they violated the trademark of the authorized importer/distributor. I never figured out how a trademark could be used to maintain a regional monopoly. All of the cameras came from the same factory in Japan, but only one company was legally able to import them into the US.
ADSL had a low upload speed because of business and marketing, not technical limitations. Symmetric lines are for businesses, and cost more. Asymmetric lines are for web "consumers", cost less and have restrictive TOS.
With the exception of the Shuttle and some sounding rockets, the launch vehicle market has been privatized for years. If you want a Delta or Atlas launch, you negotiate a contract with Boeing or Lockheed-Martin, not NASA.
I think that has happened with many films. If you saw a new print in 70mm as a kid. it is going to look much better than a current 35mm print with dirt, scratches, missing frames and faded color. Many of the old technicolor films still look great. Something about that process made it more stable.
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Better compilers have a role to play. There was a great deal of work done on Ada compilers to be more intelligent about generating code for error checks. This greatly reduces the speed penalty for safe code.
Paper ballots are overrated. They are error-prone and subject to a range of problems and vulnerabilities. Politicians have stolen elections for well over a century with the "Australian ballot", which was an effort at election reform when it was introduced in the USA. When I was a child, I used to hear plenty of stories from my older relatives about ballot boxes that were stuffed or "lost" off the back of a truck while being transported to a counting station. If people want to steal an election, they will find a way.
Many people who are registered Democrats will vote for the Republican candidate for President. This is very common in the South. Some people register Democrat more out of a sense of family or regional tradition than affinity for the party. You also will find that in many areas, the local Democratic party is much more conservative than the national Democratic party.
There are civilized programming languages that actually detect things like arithmetic overflow, range errors, etc.
When I voted, they asked me for my address and date of birth. While it isn't a strong security check, it can catch people who are trying to cast a vote under someone else's identity. The police do this sort of thing when they stop someone. They ask questions that you should be able to answer truthfully without thinking about it, and take note when someone has to think for a short time before answering the question.
Even at the state level, the responsibility for running elections is usually devolved to the cities and counties.
For a voting machine, I would start with a list of every major component, list the failure modes, and then describe the consequences of each failure. A faulty machine can be turned off or replaced. I would be more worried about failures that could lead to the loss or corruption of accumulated vote totals.
That's during a severe solar flare, which is a relatively uncommon event. Otherwise, we would have a lot of dead astronauts and cosmonauts.
See http://www.asi.org/adb/m/03/11/solar-flares.html.
The problem is when the costs of a failure are primarily born by a third-party. It may cost $100 to the manufacturer to replace a widget, but the end-user may suffer substantially higher costs in lost time, lost business, disruption to business. etc.
George Wallace got a fair number of electoral votes in 1968. He won the deep South. You get electoral votes if you have a regional base.
You have to add an MPEG encoder and some more software. Plus, they are not made in the same volumes as DVD players.
It's obvious that you don't understand it.
Bullshit, propaganda was a vital part of the NAZI regime. That's how they prepared the populace to accept eugenics, liquidation of the Jews and other "undesirables", and war against their neighbors. Part of their program was to spoon-feed this stuff to school children, as part of their curriculum, so that they would have proper "German" attitudes. For an example, see Der Giftpilz.
Yes, I've used stuff from my own junk box to keep stuff running at work. I've also made the occasional run to Radio Shack or the local electronics store for a part. That's what happens when you have a severely dysfunctional purchasing process.
These days, I'd just say "fuck it". The organization treats you like a disposable part, why do them any favors?
The Titan IV program is dead, deceased, pushing up daisies, pining for the fjords, over. The last launch is planned for 2005. The last Titan IV was manufactured on April 11, 2002.
The problem is that private networks are expensive. A business can save a lot of money in telecommunications costs by replacing their private network with the Internet. It's hard to argue against saving massive amounts of money every month by saying it exposes new security vulnerabilities. Someone will say "We will just add a firewall, problem solved. Let's play golf!".
I hope they file a complaint with the state bar association. Sending out letters with groundless threats may be marginally legal, but I would consider it unethical and unprofessional conduct.
They have a distinct and noticeable bias in many areas. For example, the Middle East. The BBC provides the liberal, London, urban viewpoint. Which isn't surprising, considering their staff.
I used to know a professional photographer who bought some cameras while visiting Japan, mumble years ago. He said that he had to have the manufacturer's name/logo erased from the cameras, otherwise US Customs would have seized them because they violated the trademark of the authorized importer/distributor. I never figured out how a trademark could be used to maintain a regional monopoly. All of the cameras came from the same factory in Japan, but only one company was legally able to import them into the US.
ADSL had a low upload speed because of business and marketing, not technical limitations. Symmetric lines are for businesses, and cost more. Asymmetric lines are for web "consumers", cost less and have restrictive TOS.
UL usually tests complete systems or assemblies, not component parts.
See http://www.thermacore.com/hpt_faqs.htm.
With the exception of the Shuttle and some sounding rockets, the launch vehicle market has been privatized for years. If you want a Delta or Atlas launch, you negotiate a contract with Boeing or Lockheed-Martin, not NASA.
I think that has happened with many films. If you saw a new print in 70mm as a kid. it is going to look much better than a current 35mm print with dirt, scratches, missing frames and faded color. Many of the old technicolor films still look great. Something about that process made it more stable.