No, vote by mail is not the solution and in fact, vote by absentee ballot should be restricted as it is the easiest way to have vote buying.
In fact, up until the last US elections, I didn't fully understand why the French system restricted absentee ballots so much (you need to be traveling or to be too sick to vote and you must justify this before getting an absentee ballot). For me, living in the US, it means I have to drive 100 miles one way to the French consulate in Los Angeles to vote but after discussing the merits and disadvantages of various systems, I now understand why it's setup that way and accept that, even if it means a small inconvenience for a few...
This has been answered a few times already but the idea is that the voting machine prints a human readable ballot and this is the official ballot. The electronic count is just there to give a fast result but the paper ballots are available and can be audited randomly for a few polling places for each election.
Seals are still used to secure the paper ballots so the tampering issues are not different from the existing paper based systems, meaning that with the proper procedures in place, paper ballots could not suddenly appear or disappear into thin air...
Yes, I agree and for personal or home/office situations that's fine. My Vonage box is behind my router but when you are visiting a company in a different country during the summer, it's not always easy to find the person responsible for the firewall and to have them possibly ignore company policies to let your box acess the internet...
NAT is not a viable solution, at least not in a business setting. Just one example involving VOIP: a colleague of mine went to Europe last summer doing consulting work for a few small companies. He took his Vonage box with him as this worked great for both of us to communicate from our respective home offices. It was a nightmare to set up past the corporate firewalls and more often than not, he reverted to using regular phone lines.
Having had my card details circulate [in] Beijing and being alerted then fully reimbursed by my credit card company I'm quite happy to carry a card that's easier to use
And who do you think end up paying for that? All of us. So the higher level of fraud associated with the more convenient system is costing us money in higher transaction fees from the credit card companies. They have to make a profit after all...
I hate to break it to you, but if the "fancy restaraunt" you've been eating at serves burgers, chances are you aren't eating at a fancy restaraunt.
As a French living in Santa Barbara, I do appreciate quality food and wine and there's plenty to choose from around here and there's even some of them fancy restaurants in town.
I was just trying to relate to the poster I was responding to as he/she obviously hasn't developped appreciation for the finer foods or drinks or hasn't been exposed to them yet. Maybe I should have used Budweiser vs. microbrewery. Even the comments about the music was kind of weird as if in his world, everything is just done to impress people and not for their own merit or enjoyment. And BTW, I agree with you that you most likely wouldn't find burgers in truly fancy restaurants, not that I would order one if it was on the menu anyway...
Now if you excuse me, I think I'll go open a nice bottle of wine.
but what I want to know is why would people buy wine over the internet? Let's see: you've been on a trip to Napa Valley and went to a small vineyard there and bought a few bottles of a wine you enjoyed. Now back home, you'd like to get more of the same wine but can't find it at a retailer locally.
BTW, I don't really understand your comments: does the coffee taste the same everywhere (Mc Donalds, local Mom&Pop, Starbucks)? Is a burger from McDonalds the same as a burger from a fancy restaurant? I agree that some places are overrated but quality is something you have to pay for (not overpay though...)
Luna is the goddess of the moon according to the Romans (see http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=luna for reference). So that gives you Lune in French and Luna in Spanish/Italian.
Ignoring the assumption that the TSA needs to have a valid up-to-date list of foreign terrorists, you're assuming a foreign terrorist could only get on a plane with:
1) a valid foreign passport in his/her name or
2) a valid US ID card of some sort.
In reality, nothing would prevent a terrorist using a fake foreign passport to board a plane. So I would argue that your conclusion that the REAL ID act solves the problem of terrorist boarding planes is incorrect...
In this post 9/11 world, sarcasm is no longer allowed as it is unpatriotic. If you need proof of that, remember that it is often practised in old Europe and thus not in line with American values...
From the link to the italian blog where this was first posted (http://www.macchianera.net/archives/2005/05/il_ra pporto_cal.html), it's possible to access the original pdf document and from its properties page, it looks like it was generated with Acrobat PDFMaker 6.0 for Word. So is it Adobe's fault or Microsoft's?
Regardless of that, as mentionned in another post, black out parts should really be replaced with a fixed length text such as [REDACTED OUT] as even the length of the missing parts can provide some information to the bad guys...
On top of that, there was a way to insert something insightful about Google News: the fact that it was sued by AFP, a french news provider (slashdot story from exactly a month ago: French News Agency Sues Google News.
Maybe an editor could have added that, assuming of course they read their own site...
FYI, Russia is not in the EU so 3/4 of your comment is not applicable and as in the remaining part, there's no indication that the EU nations benefit from daylight saving time, I think the grandparent point is still valid...
What she did doesn't seem any different than cheating on a final exam but cheating usually calls for expulsion rather than a felony criminal charge.
I'm sure you'd change your mind if you had just signed up for an insurance policy in the branch she worked at like I did a few weeks ago. We'll see if I receive a notice from the company saying customer information has been compromised.
I'd like to elaborate more, but I've got to go check my credit reports now...
I was in a Realtor's office the other day, and wanted to print out my bank statement (e-statement)... She wouldnt let me use it for 'security' reasons!
She was right, even if she didn't know the real reason why: what garantee did you have that there wasn't a key logger (hardware dongle or software version) installed on the machine? Anything you type on a computer you don't have full control of should be assumed to be potentially available to hackers. You could connect to a remote server if there's enough safeguards (one time passwords,...) but using somebody else's computer to access a bank account is the last thing you should be doing securitywise, specially if you value the money in your accounts...
France (actually i think it's more of a Parisien-thing) seems to have a habit of ridiculing Belgians as being dumbasses, whilst they embrace/claim anything francophone coming from Belgium that's succesful as being French;
FYI, french fries are not called french fries in French and there's really no debate over where they're coming from. We don't debate them, we just eat them...
The aircraft is a trimaran-like construction with two huge external 'booms' which hold the landing gear, and 5,454 pounds of fuel on either side of the pilot's cockpit in the centre on top of which is the single Williams turbofan jet engine.
There's a simple solution. Have him contact his congressman or senator. I'm sure they'll get things moving as they already have contacts in the various departments. As everybody knows, older people do vote and they are aware of that...
It's a hell of a lot easier for a criminal to forge a PIN than a signature
I don't agree with that. Except for a dumb criminal (and there are lots of those), nothing prevents you from practicing until you get the signature right.
If you lose your card, the person finding it has everything needed to make a purchase (card and signature). If it's pin based, the criminal has to make the effort of shoulder surfing to get the PIN. So it's not a crime of opportunity any longer...
The investigation is still underway by a lot of organizations. So, lets just wait for all the facts to come in.
That was my point at least indirectly. More investigation is needed to see the role of the different actors including French and US nationals and/or companies. Note that I wasn't denying that a French national was involved but the tone and scope of the post I answered was over the edge. Let me requote it again, this time with a new highlighted word (shown):
Many high-profile Frenchmen have been shown to have made millions (possibly billions) off of Iraq's oil-for-food program.
You'll have to agree that this doesn't have the restraint that you displayed in your answer and that was what I was questionning...
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No, vote by mail is not the solution and in fact, vote by absentee ballot should be restricted as it is the easiest way to have vote buying.
In fact, up until the last US elections, I didn't fully understand why the French system restricted absentee ballots so much (you need to be traveling or to be too sick to vote and you must justify this before getting an absentee ballot). For me, living in the US, it means I have to drive 100 miles one way to the French consulate in Los Angeles to vote but after discussing the merits and disadvantages of various systems, I now understand why it's setup that way and accept that, even if it means a small inconvenience for a few...
This has been answered a few times already but the idea is that the voting machine prints a human readable ballot and this is the official ballot. The electronic count is just there to give a fast result but the paper ballots are available and can be audited randomly for a few polling places for each election.
Seals are still used to secure the paper ballots so the tampering issues are not different from the existing paper based systems, meaning that with the proper procedures in place, paper ballots could not suddenly appear or disappear into thin air...
Yes, I agree and for personal or home/office situations that's fine. My Vonage box is behind my router but when you are visiting a company in a different country during the summer, it's not always easy to find the person responsible for the firewall and to have them possibly ignore company policies to let your box acess the internet...
NAT is not a viable solution, at least not in a business setting. Just one example involving VOIP: a colleague of mine went to Europe last summer doing consulting work for a few small companies. He took his Vonage box with him as this worked great for both of us to communicate from our respective home offices. It was a nightmare to set up past the corporate firewalls and more often than not, he reverted to using regular phone lines.
That's bullshit!
That is three words...
For Windows, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe originally from Bruce Schneier himself but then released on sourceforge.
And who do you think end up paying for that? All of us. So the higher level of fraud associated with the more convenient system is costing us money in higher transaction fees from the credit card companies. They have to make a profit after all...
As a French living in Santa Barbara, I do appreciate quality food and wine and there's plenty to choose from around here and there's even some of them fancy restaurants in town.
I was just trying to relate to the poster I was responding to as he/she obviously hasn't developped appreciation for the finer foods or drinks or hasn't been exposed to them yet. Maybe I should have used Budweiser vs. microbrewery. Even the comments about the music was kind of weird as if in his world, everything is just done to impress people and not for their own merit or enjoyment. And BTW, I agree with you that you most likely wouldn't find burgers in truly fancy restaurants, not that I would order one if it was on the menu anyway...
Now if you excuse me, I think I'll go open a nice bottle of wine.
but what I want to know is why would people buy wine over the internet?
Let's see: you've been on a trip to Napa Valley and went to a small vineyard there and bought a few bottles of a wine you enjoyed. Now back home, you'd like to get more of the same wine but can't find it at a retailer locally.
BTW, I don't really understand your comments: does the coffee taste the same everywhere (Mc Donalds, local Mom&Pop, Starbucks)? Is a burger from McDonalds the same as a burger from a fancy restaurant? I agree that some places are overrated but quality is something you have to pay for (not overpay though...)
Luna is the goddess of the moon according to the Romans (see http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=luna for reference). So that gives you Lune in French and Luna in Spanish/Italian.
Ignoring the assumption that the TSA needs to have a valid up-to-date list of foreign terrorists, you're assuming a foreign terrorist could only get on a plane with:
1) a valid foreign passport in his/her name or
2) a valid US ID card of some sort.
In reality, nothing would prevent a terrorist using a fake foreign passport to board a plane. So I would argue that your conclusion that the REAL ID act solves the problem of terrorist boarding planes is incorrect...
Call me dense, but how would this help?
In this post 9/11 world, sarcasm is no longer allowed as it is unpatriotic. If you need proof of that, remember that it is often practised in old Europe and thus not in line with American values...
From the link to the italian blog where this was first posted (http://www.macchianera.net/archives/2005/05/il_ra pporto_cal.html), it's possible to access the original pdf document and from its properties page, it looks like it was generated with Acrobat PDFMaker 6.0 for Word. So is it Adobe's fault or Microsoft's?
Regardless of that, as mentionned in another post, black out parts should really be replaced with a fixed length text such as [REDACTED OUT] as even the length of the missing parts can provide some information to the bad guys...
On top of that, there was a way to insert something insightful about Google News: the fact that it was sued by AFP, a french news provider (slashdot story from exactly a month ago: French News Agency Sues Google News.
Maybe an editor could have added that, assuming of course they read their own site...
FYI, Russia is not in the EU so 3/4 of your comment is not applicable and as in the remaining part, there's no indication that the EU nations benefit from daylight saving time, I think the grandparent point is still valid...
What she did doesn't seem any different than cheating on a final exam but cheating usually calls for expulsion rather than a felony criminal charge.
I'm sure you'd change your mind if you had just signed up for an insurance policy in the branch she worked at like I did a few weeks ago. We'll see if I receive a notice from the company saying customer information has been compromised.
I'd like to elaborate more, but I've got to go check my credit reports now...
I was in a Realtor's office the other day, and wanted to print out my bank statement (e-statement)... She wouldnt let me use it for 'security' reasons!
...) but using somebody else's computer to access a bank account is the last thing you should be doing securitywise, specially if you value the money in your accounts...
She was right, even if she didn't know the real reason why: what garantee did you have that there wasn't a key logger (hardware dongle or software version) installed on the machine? Anything you type on a computer you don't have full control of should be assumed to be potentially available to hackers. You could connect to a remote server if there's enough safeguards (one time passwords,
France (actually i think it's more of a Parisien-thing) seems to have a habit of ridiculing Belgians as being dumbasses, whilst they embrace/claim anything francophone coming from Belgium that's succesful as being French;
FYI, french fries are not called french fries in French and there's really no debate over where they're coming from. We don't debate them, we just eat them...
B) How is he storing all that fuel?
Both answers can be found in the plane description at http://www.virginatlanticglobalflyer.com/Aircraft
There's a simple solution. Have him contact his congressman or senator. I'm sure they'll get things moving as they already have contacts in the various departments. As everybody knows, older people do vote and they are aware of that...
Yes, I stand corrected, although I guess Knuth popularized the saying a bit more.
See http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrematureOptimization for more details and other famous optimization quotes.
Donald Knuth wrote "We should forget about small efficiencies, about 97% of the time. Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
It's a hell of a lot easier for a criminal to forge a PIN than a signature
I don't agree with that. Except for a dumb criminal (and there are lots of those), nothing prevents you from practicing until you get the signature right.
If you lose your card, the person finding it has everything needed to make a purchase (card and signature). If it's pin based, the criminal has to make the effort of shoulder surfing to get the PIN. So it's not a crime of opportunity any longer...
The investigation is still underway by a lot of organizations. So, lets just wait for all the facts to come in.
That was my point at least indirectly. More investigation is needed to see the role of the different actors including French and US nationals and/or companies. Note that I wasn't denying that a French national was involved but the tone and scope of the post I answered was over the edge. Let me requote it again, this time with a new highlighted word (shown):
Many high-profile Frenchmen have been shown to have made millions (possibly billions) off of Iraq's oil-for-food program.
You'll have to agree that this doesn't have the restraint that you displayed in your answer and that was what I was questionning...
Quote from the grand parent post:
Many high-profile Frenchmen have been shown to have made millions (possibly billions) off of Iraq's oil-for-food program.
I never said there wasn't an oil for food program scandal. I was just trying to have facts backing the poster's specific claims.