With the greener thinking of the world, Oklahoma's power may be from nuclear/coal plants, making Google a not so green business.
Please do not group coal and nuclear together. Nuclear is currently the "greenest" electricity production option for a large scale output whereas coal releases heaps of nasty stuff in the air, specially as electric co. are slow to use filters to clean the exhaust of their coal burning plants.
It looks like the curernt OCR engine they use, Tesseract OCR, only supports English as its roadmap includes "support for languages other than English" but from a quick look at the various links, they are developing other engines as well.
Besides, the research group being based in Germany, you'd assume that German and latin based languages will be supported pretty soon...
Basic support for String.format was added recently in retroweaver. If you let me know what you need or submit a patch for enhanced support, we can make sure the features you need are incorporated in future versions of retroweaver.
I'm the current maintainer for Retroweaver and the article does not mention all the Retroweaver features:
Annotations are supported, the concurrent backport is used for the concurrent packages, runtime classes can provide support for new features or replace classes entirely,...
I suppose the article is based on the 1.2.5 version and not the beta version(s). I guess I followed the Google model of having a really long beta cycle with a stable product...
Seeing the possible confusion with the Beta tag, I just decided to release the official 2.0 version earlier today.
One major drawback of absentee voting is that it opens the door to vote buying as your employer/spouse/[...] can bully you to have the form filled out in front of them to make sure your vote is correctly cast.
But I guess that's fraud at a small scale level compared to the possibility of hacking the tabulation machines with e-voting when there's no paper trail...
What a jaded comment... Get involved and change the system even if it's just by asking for reforms by sending a comment to your local paper but at least make your voice heard.
But I do agree that there is a missing option in the US system: none of the above.
In the French system, where each candidate has his/her own paper ballot that needs to be inserted in an envelope, a vote can be for a candidate (one unmodified ballot in the envelope), invalid (garbage or several ballots in the envelope) or blank (the envelope is empty).
So on top of each candidate count, there is also a count of invalid votes and a separate count of blank votes (i.e. none of the above) that is reported for each voting place and for consolidated results at various levels up to national.
This is in my view an important feature of an election to show the dissatisfaction of the electorate with the given choices.
As much as I like Open Source, this is not the solution in this case. Each time the issue comes up and the answer is always the same: if you cannot trust the entire chain, Open Source is not an advantage. Yes, you can verify that the code you're shown does not have obvious bugs or backdoors but:
- you do not control the hardware, you don't know what goes on at the lower level, i.e. you need to inspect the firmware too.
- in past elections, some counties were using uncertified software version. how do you trust that the version you reviewed is the one used?
So in fact, promoting open source is kind of misleading in fact as it gives the impression of extra security while not solving the real issues.
Having a paper trail that the voter can verify on the premises before it's locked in a ballot box with the standard security associated with paper ballots is the solution to have an auditable trail for a recount of an electronic voting system.
Do you have a linux box on the public net with SSH open? I gaurantee you are getting more than 1000 attempted logins per day.
You could install something like DenyHosts on your server. This will cut down the attacks as after 5 failed attempts the IP is banned for a while. At least it will reduce the size of the log file.
you will receive 100 points per incident you resove. [...] Points can be traded in for cash (100 points = $100 dollars) or merchandise (such as an Xbox 360).
Is PSA a fuel? I thought it was the company behind Peugeot and Citroen.
That's right, in the context of this thread, PSA stands for "Peugeot Société Anonyme", or "anonymous company" Peugeot, i.e. the Peugeot Corporation and the PSA group owns the Peugeot and Citroën brands.
The basics of RFID technology say there won't be a RFID-Sniper.
You just don't get it, do you?
RFID readers are both POWER SOURCES and radio trancievers.
You may want to brush up on your telecommunication skills, specially the part about antenna technologies...
And what makes you think that passive RFIDs can be read at close range by regular readers but they cannot be read at a longer range with a custom reader with a focused beam?
What happened to the tech(s) discussed here a few years ago about refining farm waste or even more general "landfill" type waste into oil? Did they run in problems scaling up? Do any of you have links to recent developments in that field?
If you're not going to need a powerful CPU, you could give linode.com a try (shared hardware based on User-mode Linux). The only problem I see based on your earlier description is for the encrypted partition as the initial Linux image comes from their server so you'll have to trust them that no trojan was installed but otherwise, you can manage the server as a regular Linux box.
I've been using them for a while now and I'm pretty happy with the price and reliability.
members of both parties were informed aboit the activities since the program was undertaken, and there was no grave concern expressed then.
This is not a valid argument, the democrats that were briefed were on the intelligence committee and the briefings were classified. Some of them sent secret letters to the administration voicing their concerns as was revealed recently but they could not voice their concerns publicly as that would be illegaly revealing state secrets.
it was not wiretapping, but international call interception. huge difference.
Could you explain how intercepting phone calls, even if they are international, is not wiretapping?
my usual disclosure policy is to not publicize details of a bug once it has been acknowledged until after it gets fixed.
You could contact their security team again and tell them you'll post to BugTraq or other security list if they don't give you a timeframe for the fix prior to the deadline. That way you'd still give them a chance to correct the problem but also prevent less ethical people from exploiting the bug.
The idea is that the IT staff would use the.msi to deploy Firefox on all workstations and thus would be responsible to push updates of the software the same way they're doing it for other software applications. The end user would then not have to install and manage/update anything. So it's just a matter of adding one package to the managed applications. Note: I haven't done this myself but that's the way it should work or at least one possible use of the.msi files...
When I pressed them, their response was "with IE, even if there are 100 patches released every week - at least we have an automated way to distribute them to the thousands of systems in the corp. With Firefox, there is _no_ way to do this - so a single vulnerability puts us at a much greater risk"
The solution to the horse shit problem was to replace horses with another technology. Now what is the conclusion for the problems with nuclear waste?
The solution seems to be to use nuclear energy until a better technology is discovered, just like people kept using horses until a better solution came along.
I like the way they have a specialized "bureautique suite", for generating red tape!
As mentioned elsewhere, they switched to OpenOffice a while back. Bureau can be translated as Office but that term has been used in France for at least two decades to mean a software office suite.
Does it really matter? I'm of the opinion that schoolchildren on a remote Indian Ocean island are unlikely to do anything that would cause Sun to chase after them.
Apart from the fact that this would be breaking the license terms, something people usually involved in Open Source do not want to do, no matter who the IP owner is, Reunion Island is part of France and thus French laws apply there. If somebody in the Paris headquarters of Sun France had a bad day or wanted to vacation in an exotic place^W^W^W^W^Wpay a visit to the people violating their license, they could be in for a lot of trouble...
Except with a regular line I have the option of keeping an cheap corded phone around for emergencies and it'll be powered from the central office. That's a BIG advantage for me and a reason I will never go entirely to VOIP. There's simply no major advantages for me since I need to keep my phone line around for DSL anyway.
You know that at least here in California, a disconnected line still has a dial tone so that you can order service and call 911 from that line. I switched to Vonage about 2 years ago and I still get a dial tone on my disconnected landline. I haven't dialed 911 on that line yet but if there's a dial tone, it should work. Maybe I'll test it later tonight to make sure...
Encryption will be implemented via a key printed on the passport, which will be read by an optical scanner.
If an optical scanner needs to be used to read the encryption key, doesn't that defeat the no-contact advantage of RFID as the passport then needs to be close to the scanner. Why not just use some smart card technology and avoid the radio part altogether?
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Please do not group coal and nuclear together. Nuclear is currently the "greenest" electricity production option for a large scale output whereas coal releases heaps of nasty stuff in the air, specially as electric co. are slow to use filters to clean the exhaust of their coal burning plants.
It looks like the curernt OCR engine they use, Tesseract OCR, only supports English as its roadmap includes "support for languages other than English" but from a quick look at the various links, they are developing other engines as well.
Besides, the research group being based in Germany, you'd assume that German and latin based languages will be supported pretty soon...
(Voltaire or Montesquieu ?). Montesquieu.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_Of_Powers or as we're talking about France: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9paration_des_
I see you've got a French url in your profile so you should know that or don't they teach that stuff in High School over there any more
Basic support for String.format was added recently in retroweaver. If you let me know what you need or submit a patch for enhanced support, we can make sure the features you need are incorporated in future versions of retroweaver.
Xavier
I'm the current maintainer for Retroweaver and the article does not mention all the Retroweaver features:
...
Annotations are supported, the concurrent backport is used for the concurrent packages, runtime classes can provide support for new features or replace classes entirely,
I suppose the article is based on the 1.2.5 version and not the beta version(s). I guess I followed the Google model of having a really long beta cycle with a stable product...
Seeing the possible confusion with the Beta tag, I just decided to release the official 2.0 version earlier today.
Xavier
One major drawback of absentee voting is that it opens the door to vote buying as your employer/spouse/[...] can bully you to have the form filled out in front of them to make sure your vote is correctly cast.
But I guess that's fraud at a small scale level compared to the possibility of hacking the tabulation machines with e-voting when there's no paper trail...
What a jaded comment... Get involved and change the system even if it's just by asking for reforms by sending a comment to your local paper but at least make your voice heard.
But I do agree that there is a missing option in the US system: none of the above.
In the French system, where each candidate has his/her own paper ballot that needs to be inserted in an envelope, a vote can be for a candidate (one unmodified ballot in the envelope), invalid (garbage or several ballots in the envelope) or blank (the envelope is empty).
So on top of each candidate count, there is also a count of invalid votes and a separate count of blank votes (i.e. none of the above) that is reported for each voting place and for consolidated results at various levels up to national.
This is in my view an important feature of an election to show the dissatisfaction of the electorate with the given choices.
As much as I like Open Source, this is not the solution in this case. Each time the issue comes up and the answer is always the same: if you cannot trust the entire chain, Open Source is not an advantage. Yes, you can verify that the code you're shown does not have obvious bugs or backdoors but:
- you need to inspect the compiler and other tools as well (see the famous Trusting Trust compiler hack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor)
- you do not control the hardware, you don't know what goes on at the lower level, i.e. you need to inspect the firmware too.
- in past elections, some counties were using uncertified software version. how do you trust that the version you reviewed is the one used?
So in fact, promoting open source is kind of misleading in fact as it gives the impression of extra security while not solving the real issues.
Having a paper trail that the voter can verify on the premises before it's locked in a ballot box with the standard security associated with paper ballots is the solution to have an auditable trail for a recount of an electronic voting system.
You could install something like DenyHosts on your server. This will cut down the attacks as after 5 failed attempts the IP is banned for a while. At least it will reduce the size of the log file.
That's right, in the context of this thread, PSA stands for "Peugeot Société Anonyme", or "anonymous company" Peugeot, i.e. the Peugeot Corporation and the PSA group owns the Peugeot and Citroën brands.
You may want to brush up on your telecommunication skills, specially the part about antenna technologies...
And what makes you think that passive RFIDs can be read at close range by regular readers but they cannot be read at a longer range with a custom reader with a focused beam?
What happened to the tech(s) discussed here a few years ago about refining farm waste or even more general "landfill" type waste into oil? Did they run in problems scaling up? Do any of you have links to recent developments in that field?
If you're not going to need a powerful CPU, you could give linode.com a try (shared hardware based on User-mode Linux). The only problem I see based on your earlier description is for the encrypted partition as the initial Linux image comes from their server so you'll have to trust them that no trojan was installed but otherwise, you can manage the server as a regular Linux box.
I've been using them for a while now and I'm pretty happy with the price and reliability.
This is not a valid argument, the democrats that were briefed were on the intelligence committee and the briefings were classified. Some of them sent secret letters to the administration voicing their concerns as was revealed recently but they could not voice their concerns publicly as that would be illegaly revealing state secrets.
Could you explain how intercepting phone calls, even if they are international, is not wiretapping?
You could contact their security team again and tell them you'll post to BugTraq or other security list if they don't give you a timeframe for the fix prior to the deadline. That way you'd still give them a chance to correct the problem but also prevent less ethical people from exploiting the bug.
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The solution seems to be to use nuclear energy until a better technology is discovered, just like people kept using horses until a better solution came along.
As mentioned elsewhere, they switched to OpenOffice a while back. Bureau can be translated as Office but that term has been used in France for at least two decades to mean a software office suite.
Apart from the fact that this would be breaking the license terms, something people usually involved in Open Source do not want to do, no matter who the IP owner is, Reunion Island is part of France and thus French laws apply there. If somebody in the Paris headquarters of Sun France had a bad day or wanted to vacation in an exotic place^W^W^W^W^Wpay a visit to the people violating their license, they could be in for a lot of trouble...
You know that at least here in California, a disconnected line still has a dial tone so that you can order service and call 911 from that line. I switched to Vonage about 2 years ago and I still get a dial tone on my disconnected landline. I haven't dialed 911 on that line yet but if there's a dial tone, it should work. Maybe I'll test it later tonight to make sure...
What's to stop you from uploading all the info that you would've taken out via a camera on a blog?
From the GP: "Also,if I remember correctly (I'm at home now), [...]" so I don't think you have a point here.
Encryption will be implemented via a key printed on the passport, which will be read by an optical scanner.
If an optical scanner needs to be used to read the encryption key, doesn't that defeat the no-contact advantage of RFID as the passport then needs to be close to the scanner. Why not just use some smart card technology and avoid the radio part altogether?
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