I think electronic voting is excellent for surveys, no more than that. Where there is binary information that can't be physically viewed, there can be a flaw, a hack, a security hole.
The only hole you will ever find in a paper is if you do it yourself with a punch.
It's just like Linksys have done with its WRT54G series...
If you want to buy a cheapo WRT54Gv5 version of the wireless router, you get it packed with VxWorks, some kind of crappy and proprietary OS installed in DLink routers. If you want to have a stable and reliable router, you go with the WRT54GL (L for Linux), which is the "deluxe" Linux version.
Didn't anyone from Area 51 said that a very heavy element like Ununpentium (115) was supposed to shield us from gravity, thus empowering us to create a flying saucer and travel to other stars and galaxies? I guess that Unbibium (122) is even better...
It was a Pre-employment polygraph for the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police), so unless you A - Are a Canadian citizen and B - really want to get arrested by them, I won't have to remind you of anything on this side;-)
South of the Canadian border, the FBI and CIA make use in a VERY ABUSIVE way of pre-employment polygraphic tests, and sporadically test most of their staff. If you fail an FBI polygraphic test, I know you will have a freakin' hard time trying to get a job for any US government agency...
I personnaly had a pre-employment polygraph test, and I can assure you that, remotely or directly, a polygraph is no more than a more or less sophisticated vital signs recorder.
The test was 10 questions long, repeated 3 times in a different order each time, and out of those 10 questions, I intentionnaly lied to 4 of them. Strangely, the guy told me "this particular question about computer crimes, I think you lied to this one". In fact, when I was asked this question, I could feel my eart beating a little faster, and my skin got a little sweating. But I know I was telling the truth about this one. It's just that since it's my domain of expertise, I was a little more stressed about the question, but I am so straight when it comes to licenses and copyrights that I even personnaly bought a retail version of Microsoft Office, and all the games I have are boxed originals...
Strangely, when I was asked questions about other stuff for which I lied deliberately, I had no reaction at all, and the guy thought I was truthful about them.
Ok, I prepared myself for the polygraph, and I read an EBook on antipolygraph.org
. I guess the results are a little more biased than with someone who really believes the polygraph is a precision instrument to discover the truth, but maybe this is the reason NO FURTHER RESEARCH should be made about lie detection, except maybe with celebral flux, where I guess a different part of the brain creates lies than the part which effectively remembers the facts you actually lived.
Do they take into account that I AM using Vista but that I deeply hate it? I got no choice to use it since I have to support it for all those people who have trouble with it, but using it is such an incredible mess! Poor network performances, ridiculous boot up time, awful application startup performance. But I use it because I need it...
I think the winning of the BluRay format is mostly a marketing affair, more than a preferred format or technology... In fact, HD-DVD means "High Definition Digital Versatile Disk", which is pretty complicated to explain to consumer. It's not sexy nor simple.
BluRay is easy to remember, the blue color is the preferred color of A WHOLE LOT of people, and there's no true technical terms to associate with the name of the format (except that the laser is blue, but who really cares except the engineers who can focus the laser beam more precisely...). It's sexy, the logo looks great, the boxes are pretty.
On the other hand, it will probably take some time for the consumer to change its reflex of saying "I'm going to rent a DVD", while in fact he rents a BluRay Disc. But anyway, the name DVD is not sexy either...
I receive daily many security advisories about patches, updates and vulnerabilities discovered in most IT spheres. If I was to count flaws on every products, I would say that Linux and Unix products are the poorest products regarding vulnerabilities. Obviously it's not the case!
It is far more critical to have a Microsoft Windows flaw than a Mac or a Linux flaw, since the product is more widespread, so more likely to be actively and successfully exploited. Dumbly counting the numbers is a strange way to say that a product is more secure. Do I have to remember anybody that most viruses and spywares are.EXE files???
The egyptians first subdivided the day in 24, 12 hours for day and 12 for night. The duration of an hour was not always equal except on equinoxes... Then, for the duration of the second, the latest definition is "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom".
I don't think that this can vary a lot for anybody. It's just our perception of it that varies...
Don't spend that much money on studies to verify if time slows down, just look at a big-boobed-girl running down the road, I'm pretty sure you'll notice that slowdown...
HEY! I just crasked the initial survey after telling them how to start the Windows Registry (it's one of the questions...). I think they didn't like some characters (I typed "Start > Run > Regedit").
The Windows Vista Ultimate experience seems REALLY promising!!!
Well yes, but with a paper ballot, you can recount hard paper, not bits and bytes... We can also get back to hands-up voting at the acropolis, it's safer!;)
I'm sure it's hard to hack a sheet of paper and a cardboard box. Please, leave democracy "unhackable", because where there's no paper for voting, there's no hard proof that you really did it...
I think it would have been a little more clever if Microsoft did it in respect of their own password strenght good practices... If at least their algorythm randomized characters, like sometimes using an "i", sometimes using a "1", sometimes using capital letters. It's a classic, but it would have been a little more secure to have "trA1nIng" as a password, than to have "tgfryrmd". Brute forcing is a lot easier with only one character class...
I'm sure that, in a not-so-distant future, it will be as dangerous to walk in the streets of a wireless city than it is to put yourself in the microwave for 30 minutes. There will be corpses all over the sidewalks, and homes will be built with a lead insulating layer to protect us from the OH-SO-DANGEROUS WI-FI radiations.
But oh, anyway, isn't lead toxic too? Think I heard about that...
In french, we call them "Peurologues", or "Fear-o-logists" in english...
Thanks a lot! No, I'm not a radio guy. I understand a little about radio waves, but not enough to know that I can catch the signal of my wireless keyboard at home from my workplace 15 miles away!;-)
However, I can write a whole HTML website in notepad without ever using any reference guide, debug a 1500 server farm's DNS AD service in minutes, completely configure a Cisco router with a PAT and some static routes in less than 5 minutes, design a complex IP adressing scheme in my mind and completely implement it then document it by heart, navigate the Windows registry to anything I want to set in the blink of an eye...
But no, I don't know much about radio signals, and that's why I was asking the question! So thanks chuckymonkey, your comment is really welcome!:-)
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I proclaim the end of Atari...
I think electronic voting is excellent for surveys, no more than that. Where there is binary information that can't be physically viewed, there can be a flaw, a hack, a security hole. The only hole you will ever find in a paper is if you do it yourself with a punch.
Just in time for the olympic games!
It's just like Linksys have done with its WRT54G series...
If you want to buy a cheapo WRT54Gv5 version of the wireless router, you get it packed with VxWorks, some kind of crappy and proprietary OS installed in DLink routers. If you want to have a stable and reliable router, you go with the WRT54GL (L for Linux), which is the "deluxe" Linux version.
Didn't anyone from Area 51 said that a very heavy element like Ununpentium (115) was supposed to shield us from gravity, thus empowering us to create a flying saucer and travel to other stars and galaxies? I guess that Unbibium (122) is even better...
I am so excited!
It was a Pre-employment polygraph for the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police), so unless you A - Are a Canadian citizen and B - really want to get arrested by them, I won't have to remind you of anything on this side ;-)
South of the Canadian border, the FBI and CIA make use in a VERY ABUSIVE way of pre-employment polygraphic tests, and sporadically test most of their staff. If you fail an FBI polygraphic test, I know you will have a freakin' hard time trying to get a job for any US government agency...
I personnaly had a pre-employment polygraph test, and I can assure you that, remotely or directly, a polygraph is no more than a more or less sophisticated vital signs recorder.
The test was 10 questions long, repeated 3 times in a different order each time, and out of those 10 questions, I intentionnaly lied to 4 of them. Strangely, the guy told me "this particular question about computer crimes, I think you lied to this one". In fact, when I was asked this question, I could feel my eart beating a little faster, and my skin got a little sweating. But I know I was telling the truth about this one. It's just that since it's my domain of expertise, I was a little more stressed about the question, but I am so straight when it comes to licenses and copyrights that I even personnaly bought a retail version of Microsoft Office, and all the games I have are boxed originals...
Strangely, when I was asked questions about other stuff for which I lied deliberately, I had no reaction at all, and the guy thought I was truthful about them.
Ok, I prepared myself for the polygraph, and I read an EBook on antipolygraph.org . I guess the results are a little more biased than with someone who really believes the polygraph is a precision instrument to discover the truth, but maybe this is the reason NO FURTHER RESEARCH should be made about lie detection, except maybe with celebral flux, where I guess a different part of the brain creates lies than the part which effectively remembers the facts you actually lived.
I thought he'd at least stay to witness the election of Obama and have a nice dinner with former pres W Bush!
Do they take into account that I AM using Vista but that I deeply hate it? I got no choice to use it since I have to support it for all those people who have trouble with it, but using it is such an incredible mess! Poor network performances, ridiculous boot up time, awful application startup performance. But I use it because I need it...
I think the winning of the BluRay format is mostly a marketing affair, more than a preferred format or technology... In fact, HD-DVD means "High Definition Digital Versatile Disk", which is pretty complicated to explain to consumer. It's not sexy nor simple.
BluRay is easy to remember, the blue color is the preferred color of A WHOLE LOT of people, and there's no true technical terms to associate with the name of the format (except that the laser is blue, but who really cares except the engineers who can focus the laser beam more precisely...). It's sexy, the logo looks great, the boxes are pretty.
On the other hand, it will probably take some time for the consumer to change its reflex of saying "I'm going to rent a DVD", while in fact he rents a BluRay Disc. But anyway, the name DVD is not sexy either...
I receive daily many security advisories about patches, updates and vulnerabilities discovered in most IT spheres. If I was to count flaws on every products, I would say that Linux and Unix products are the poorest products regarding vulnerabilities. Obviously it's not the case!
.EXE files???
It is far more critical to have a Microsoft Windows flaw than a Mac or a Linux flaw, since the product is more widespread, so more likely to be actively and successfully exploited. Dumbly counting the numbers is a strange way to say that a product is more secure. Do I have to remember anybody that most viruses and spywares are
My nano-soup says "101110101101011100001101011011010110110111100010111100010110101"
Nano chicken soup for the soul...
The egyptians first subdivided the day in 24, 12 hours for day and 12 for night. The duration of an hour was not always equal except on equinoxes... Then, for the duration of the second, the latest definition is "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom".
I don't think that this can vary a lot for anybody. It's just our perception of it that varies...
Don't spend that much money on studies to verify if time slows down, just look at a big-boobed-girl running down the road, I'm pretty sure you'll notice that slowdown...
The brother in law!!! It's the worse one, because he is all 5 worst users in the same person!
HEY! I just crasked the initial survey after telling them how to start the Windows Registry (it's one of the questions...). I think they didn't like some characters (I typed "Start > Run > Regedit").
The Windows Vista Ultimate experience seems REALLY promising!!!
Well yes, but with a paper ballot, you can recount hard paper, not bits and bytes... We can also get back to hands-up voting at the acropolis, it's safer! ;)
Hmmmmm... Didn't you hear about debit card frauds?
I'm sure it's hard to hack a sheet of paper and a cardboard box. Please, leave democracy "unhackable", because where there's no paper for voting, there's no hard proof that you really did it...
I think it would have been a little more clever if Microsoft did it in respect of their own password strenght good practices... If at least their algorythm randomized characters, like sometimes using an "i", sometimes using a "1", sometimes using capital letters. It's a classic, but it would have been a little more secure to have "trA1nIng" as a password, than to have "tgfryrmd". Brute forcing is a lot easier with only one character class...
They're doing pretty well...
I'm sure that, in a not-so-distant future, it will be as dangerous to walk in the streets of a wireless city than it is to put yourself in the microwave for 30 minutes. There will be corpses all over the sidewalks, and homes will be built with a lead insulating layer to protect us from the OH-SO-DANGEROUS WI-FI radiations.
But oh, anyway, isn't lead toxic too? Think I heard about that...
In french, we call them "Peurologues", or "Fear-o-logists" in english...
Thanks a lot! No, I'm not a radio guy. I understand a little about radio waves, but not enough to know that I can catch the signal of my wireless keyboard at home from my workplace 15 miles away! ;-)
:-)
However, I can write a whole HTML website in notepad without ever using any reference guide, debug a 1500 server farm's DNS AD service in minutes, completely configure a Cisco router with a PAT and some static routes in less than 5 minutes, design a complex IP adressing scheme in my mind and completely implement it then document it by heart, navigate the Windows registry to anything I want to set in the blink of an eye...
But no, I don't know much about radio signals, and that's why I was asking the question! So thanks chuckymonkey, your comment is really welcome!