The computer should be used to print the filled out ballot, because American elections throw in voting for other stuff like sherif and dog catcher. The human readable paper ballot should then be taken by the voter, verified, and inserted into the ballot box. The ballot boxes are opened and counted by humans, and the totals and winners announced. And those computers don't have a network connection, and all software is a standard load with audits done.
Dear Mr Trump, If you don't want the Lefty Media deleting your Tweets and censoring your Alt-Right Media you should issue a Presidential Order mandating this thing called Network Neutrality. Network Neutrality means nobody shuts down your Nazi friends, ever. Maga!
It's easier to put polution scrubbers on a stationary power plant, and generators don't idle. This means lower emmisions even if they use the same power source. It's easier to change out 500 generators than 5,000,000 IC cars. This means quicker technology updates instead of keeping 30 year old IC cars on the road.
A publicly owned self driving car network, with express lanes, would solve most of the problems. Summon a car using your phone, ride directly to your destination. Cheap, not crammed with strangers, faster than a car. Done as a National Project it would make owning a car very undesirable. Make the express lanes underground or overhead and you can install power rails to recharge the car batteries while they drive.
Arrest someone your government dislikes, take phone, demand pin, change pin, tell detainee their pin doesn't work so you must have lied, put in jail for 10 years.
Given the stuff Snowden released and a basic understanding of how Intelligence agencies work, you should assume that ALL cellphones come pre-installed with government spyware.
Forest fires naturally clear out the dead wood in a forest but without killing the trees. When you supress forest fires the dead wood builds up to the point where the (eventual) forest fire burns very hot and kills the trees. We need to do controlled burns in the forest every year, and only stop forest fires when they threaten us.
Make your choices on the computer. Print out ballot. Verify choices printed. If wrong do over or complain. Once satisfied put ballot into ballot box to be counted. There is no need to have the computer count the votes or transmit them to a central location or be connected to a network.
With electronic voting you can't see the ballot box. How can you tell if the ballot box is tampered with if you can't see it? If you want to involve a computer, then at least have it print the ballot out so the voter can put it into the ballot box.
I wonder how hard it would be to have a employee "sick day" app on the phones of every employee that checks for the voter app, and if it doesn't find it then it downloads the voter app and signes you up to vote. Getting a short selfie vid would be easy (company promotion vid?). A "Smart" employer could ensure 100% of his/her voters exerced their voter rights.
The spectrum auctions should be by region, with the carrier who wins the contract legally required to cover all of it. Or have the government handle the cell towers nation wide just like roads, billing the phone companies for bandwidth their customers phones use.
Adding complexity always increases bug count. Adding software after you screen it for bugs always increases bug count. Automated bug screening should filter out code that does nothing, so your fake bugs will be ignored.
In the 60's Ford gave up the low end market and concentrated on the high profit market. This resulted in Japan eating their lunch (taking the market). Now they are doing the same thing, I expect China will be delighted.
If you eliminate the requirement to improve gas milage then the new car will get the same milage as the old one (assuming they buy the same size and performance, a reasonable assumption).
If growing plants for personal consumption in your garden is "Interstate Commerce" then you can apply that label to anything. I believe the excuse used is "your (local) activities affect demand in other states".
1-A coal fired generator far away kills fewer children than a city full of diesel cars. 2-It's easier to put polution scrubbers on a stationary plant. 3-Once you have the electric cars it's quicker and cheaper to build a new generator than it is to replace a number of gas powered cars producing the same quantity of polution.
Do you think Russian intelligence has gotten lazy, having (reasonable assumption) FULL access to everything the American government is doing? Will it undermine their ability to get inteligence in places the Americans don't go?
At no time in history has the US Government been able to keep spies out of their systems. Compartmentalization and limiting access to "Need to Know" are required for any national intelligence agency. For the volume of secrets Snowden took, he should have needed to subborn thousands of people at the NSA.
It's trivially easy to get secure voting machines: Just build secure voting machines and sell them below cost so you're always the lowest bidder. Secure electronic voting is still a bad idea though, because it undermines democracy when the voters don't understand and trust the voting system.
Russia wants the American Empire to collapse so America will stop meddling with Russia (including nearby countries the Russians claim as their sphere of influence). Given that the Republican party appears to be trying to spend America into ruin I suggest they ARE allies (at some level).
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The computer should be used to print the filled out ballot, because American elections throw in voting for other stuff like sherif and dog catcher. The human readable paper ballot should then be taken by the voter, verified, and inserted into the ballot box. The ballot boxes are opened and counted by humans, and the totals and winners announced. And those computers don't have a network connection, and all software is a standard load with audits done.
Dear Mr Trump, If you don't want the Lefty Media deleting your Tweets and censoring your Alt-Right Media you should issue a Presidential Order mandating this thing called Network Neutrality. Network Neutrality means nobody shuts down your Nazi friends, ever. Maga!
It's easier to put polution scrubbers on a stationary power plant, and generators don't idle. This means lower emmisions even if they use the same power source. It's easier to change out 500 generators than 5,000,000 IC cars. This means quicker technology updates instead of keeping 30 year old IC cars on the road.
A publicly owned self driving car network, with express lanes, would solve most of the problems. Summon a car using your phone, ride directly to your destination. Cheap, not crammed with strangers, faster than a car. Done as a National Project it would make owning a car very undesirable. Make the express lanes underground or overhead and you can install power rails to recharge the car batteries while they drive.
You get wet in the rain, ice and snow hazards in winter, and drastically higher risk of death in an accident.
Arrest someone your government dislikes, take phone, demand pin, change pin, tell detainee their pin doesn't work so you must have lied, put in jail for 10 years.
Given the stuff Snowden released and a basic understanding of how Intelligence agencies work, you should assume that ALL cellphones come pre-installed with government spyware.
Forest fires naturally clear out the dead wood in a forest but without killing the trees. When you supress forest fires the dead wood builds up to the point where the (eventual) forest fire burns very hot and kills the trees. We need to do controlled burns in the forest every year, and only stop forest fires when they threaten us.
The old saying: "Americans can always be relied upon to do the right thing, after they have tried every other choice".
Make your choices on the computer. Print out ballot. Verify choices printed. If wrong do over or complain. Once satisfied put ballot into ballot box to be counted. There is no need to have the computer count the votes or transmit them to a central location or be connected to a network.
With electronic voting you can't see the ballot box. How can you tell if the ballot box is tampered with if you can't see it? If you want to involve a computer, then at least have it print the ballot out so the voter can put it into the ballot box.
I wonder how hard it would be to have a employee "sick day" app on the phones of every employee that checks for the voter app, and if it doesn't find it then it downloads the voter app and signes you up to vote. Getting a short selfie vid would be easy (company promotion vid?). A "Smart" employer could ensure 100% of his/her voters exerced their voter rights.
Allow any cellphone company that can prove a gap in coverage to claim that geographic region, and take the spectrum monopoly for it, for free.
The spectrum auctions should be by region, with the carrier who wins the contract legally required to cover all of it. Or have the government handle the cell towers nation wide just like roads, billing the phone companies for bandwidth their customers phones use.
Adding complexity always increases bug count. Adding software after you screen it for bugs always increases bug count. Automated bug screening should filter out code that does nothing, so your fake bugs will be ignored.
In the 60's Ford gave up the low end market and concentrated on the high profit market. This resulted in Japan eating their lunch (taking the market). Now they are doing the same thing, I expect China will be delighted.
If you eliminate the requirement to improve gas milage then the new car will get the same milage as the old one (assuming they buy the same size and performance, a reasonable assumption).
If growing plants for personal consumption in your garden is "Interstate Commerce" then you can apply that label to anything. I believe the excuse used is "your (local) activities affect demand in other states".
Rich people assume that ALL problems go away if you have money.
1-A coal fired generator far away kills fewer children than a city full of diesel cars. 2-It's easier to put polution scrubbers on a stationary plant. 3-Once you have the electric cars it's quicker and cheaper to build a new generator than it is to replace a number of gas powered cars producing the same quantity of polution.
Do you think Russian intelligence has gotten lazy, having (reasonable assumption) FULL access to everything the American government is doing? Will it undermine their ability to get inteligence in places the Americans don't go?
At no time in history has the US Government been able to keep spies out of their systems. Compartmentalization and limiting access to "Need to Know" are required for any national intelligence agency. For the volume of secrets Snowden took, he should have needed to subborn thousands of people at the NSA.
It's trivially easy to get secure voting machines: Just build secure voting machines and sell them below cost so you're always the lowest bidder. Secure electronic voting is still a bad idea though, because it undermines democracy when the voters don't understand and trust the voting system.
Russia wants the American Empire to collapse so America will stop meddling with Russia (including nearby countries the Russians claim as their sphere of influence). Given that the Republican party appears to be trying to spend America into ruin I suggest they ARE allies (at some level).
If you eliminate the Electoral Collage and just add up the votes nation wide (popular vote wins), that would be democracy, right?