If I look at the photo taken with the Canon 400D, then I would say the person who did make the shot had no idea how to operate the white balance of the camera properly. The same user would probably have done a same miserable shout with an Nikon D2Xs together with some highclass lens of total value well above 5000$. Any dSLR with an halfway fine lense does make much better photos than a poor camera phone regardless of what megapixel number they come up with. One just needs to know how to operate a dSLR camera. So the photo just disqualifies the user in this case.
You do not understand the very principal problem with voting machines:
A voting machine is a black box. I do not mean a black box in the sense of those black boxes used in planes, trains etc. I mean a black box in the meaning of a dark black box where nobody can see what is in.
One of the most important things about a election is -- beside that it lets people decide about the their government and other things -- that the public can observe the election process.
When a person votes with a regular paper ballot, everyone who is interested in it can see how the ballot is being placed into the ballot box, how the ballot box is opened, how the ballots in the ballot box are counted etc. etc. Moreover it is very difficult (but not impossible) under this supervision change/remove/falsify a noticeable amount of ballots.
But with e-voting it is not anymore possible to supervise the counting process: the people cast their votes on one side of the voting machine... and then in the end the voting machine gives a result. And between the people and the result is the black box which is unverifiable by the public.
By using electronic voting machines -- regardless what system is used -- one gives up the public verification process of the election. And by this one gives up one essential property of a public election which again is an essential part of democracy!
Any electronic voting procedure is a cathastrophy. Plain simple as that. A electronic voting machine is a black box and it is impossible to verify the correctness of the result.
Votes have to be counted in public! Nothing less. An electronic voting machine can help to get a faster estimate of the result but without paper ballots being produced and without paper ballots making the only official result a election is worthless.
Plain simple as this. Any objection?
- Martin
I would suggest that still most academics have not an.edu e-mail address. I don't have. Mine ends with rock.helsinki.fi. Hey!, the world is bigger then the edu realm.
Albums -- well crafted albums -- are the only thing I am interested in. What shall I do with a single song?! An album is more than just a collection of single songs. It is the arrangement of the songs, their choice, how they fit together, how the album begins, how it develops, how it ends... and then of course all the cover, the original CD... that makes an album an album and important for me to posses. If they would just sell them at a reasonable price (~10, 15 max).
And: in case they just would produce such albums. Nowadays the most of the albums feel like loose collections of songs, one popular one and rest rubbish. Guess why I didn't buy anything for the last 5 years? (No, I did not download since then...)
Meglena Kuneva: "Do you find it reasonable that a CD will play in all CD players, but an iTunes song will only play on an iPod?"
So basically she demands DRM free music. Isn't that the reason why CDs (those ones which have the official CD logo from Philips) play on all CD players?:-)
...it is already now possible to easily rip and copy DVDs, so why even bother to protect the images. Sell the downloadable images for half the price and let people burn them! What do you gain by "protecting" them?!
What is the porblem?!? I don't get it, the iPods are open for others. They happily support MP3's. Or don't they?! You just need to sell MP3's and the customer can play them. Ah, you do not want to sell MP3's?! Not my porblem, I am happy with it...:-)
So why get Vista in the first place if hardly any rights are left for the user? I think more and more people will think like this. This OS together with this company are not working for you but rather against you.
There are better alternatives available. More people will see it.... when things like this happen.
Maybe I have the same files on my computer, but they are save there. Protected by a strong hard drive encryption. What a pity for whoever wants to prove that I would have them....:-)
Before you invest so much time into ridiculous secondary "solutions", take the problem at the source. How about finally signing the Kyoto protocol? Just for a change?
From my point of few I do not see any reason why the hard drive of a cooperate laptop computer should not be encrypted as soon as the mobile computer contains sensitive data (and it usually does). In my opinion it is just irresponsible to carry any mobile device (laptop, USB stick, etc.) out of the company if the data is not secured there, and the series of data leaks known to us all proves this. It might be a bit more inconvenient, it might cause some overhead in computing, but in my opinion this measures needs to be done.
I have a Linux laptop (IBM T30, 2GHz Pentium 4) and I have not a full disc encryption, but/tmp,/var,/usr/local,/home,/root and the swap area are encrypted (256bit AES). With the 2.6 kernel series it has become easy to set up encrypted partitions with dm-crypt and recently with my new acquired external harddrive I started to use the Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) which makes it even more convenient to have encrypted drives (now I can give away my external harddrive to a friend and he can use it without knowing my key, the system allows up to 8 keys and each of them can be revoked easily). I have never noticed any lack in performance and nowadays computers are even faster than my Pentium 4.
Further, if it comes to data loss due to a lost key, then may I ask, where is the backup? I have a backup of my system, for sure encrypted (Dar is here for me a great help). In a cooperate setting backups should be standard as well (harddrive failures happen as happen that keys get forgotten). So loosing a key should not be a problem. One does not need to encrypt the backup either, after all the encryption should only prevent data from being read when the laptop gets stolen and into wrong hands. If the backup is secure in the cooperation than there is nothing (big) to fear if it is not encrypted.
So what point really justifies to take the risk of data leak in a cooperate setting??
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...the country of the infinite possibilities.
The important stuff was encrypted... Wasn't it? ... Dough!
Did it think "Cheese!" .. or was that the other half of the brain?
- Martin
The tag you are looking for is the "haha" tag. :-)
- Martin
If I look at the photo taken with the Canon 400D, then I would say the person who did make the shot had no idea how to operate the white balance of the camera properly. The same user would probably have done a same miserable shout with an Nikon D2Xs together with some highclass lens of total value well above 5000$. Any dSLR with an halfway fine lense does make much better photos than a poor camera phone regardless of what megapixel number they come up with. One just needs to know how to operate a dSLR camera. So the photo just disqualifies the user in this case.
One word? "Paper ballots" are two words! At least according to my counting.
You do not understand the very principal problem with voting machines:
... and then in the end the voting machine gives a result. And between the people and the result is the black box which is unverifiable by the public.
A voting machine is a black box. I do not mean a black box in the sense of those black boxes used in planes, trains etc. I mean a black box in the meaning of a dark black box where nobody can see what is in.
One of the most important things about a election is -- beside that it lets people decide about the their government and other things -- that the public can observe the election process.
When a person votes with a regular paper ballot, everyone who is interested in it can see how the ballot is being placed into the ballot box, how the ballot box is opened, how the ballots in the ballot box are counted etc. etc. Moreover it is very difficult (but not impossible) under this supervision change/remove/falsify a noticeable amount of ballots.
But with e-voting it is not anymore possible to supervise the counting process: the people cast their votes on one side of the voting machine
By using electronic voting machines -- regardless what system is used -- one gives up the public verification process of the election. And by this one gives up one essential property of a public election which again is an essential part of democracy!
Any electronic voting procedure is a cathastrophy. Plain simple as that. A electronic voting machine is a black box and it is impossible to verify the correctness of the result. Votes have to be counted in public! Nothing less. An electronic voting machine can help to get a faster estimate of the result but without paper ballots being produced and without paper ballots making the only official result a election is worthless. Plain simple as this. Any objection? - Martin
The movie industry should just download the "lost" movies from the net as everyone does ;-)
I would suggest that still most academics have not an .edu e-mail address. I don't have. Mine ends with rock.helsinki.fi. Hey!, the world is bigger then the edu realm.
- Martin
Albums -- well crafted albums -- are the only thing I am interested in. What shall I do with a single song?! An album is more than just a collection of single songs. It is the arrangement of the songs, their choice, how they fit together, how the album begins, how it develops, how it ends ... and then of course all the cover, the original CD ... that makes an album an album and important for me to posses. If they would just sell them at a reasonable price (~10, 15 max).
And: in case they just would produce such albums. Nowadays the most of the albums feel like loose collections of songs, one popular one and rest rubbish. Guess why I didn't buy anything for the last 5 years? (No, I did not download since then...)
...all are equal, just some are more equal than others. At least a variant of it. :)
Nothing to see. Move on. And if that does not help, anything which is not online cannot be "craweld"...
Meglena Kuneva: "Do you find it reasonable that a CD will play in all CD players, but an iTunes song will only play on an iPod?"
:-)
So basically she demands DRM free music. Isn't that the reason why CDs (those ones which have the official CD logo from Philips) play on all CD players?
...it is already now possible to easily rip and copy DVDs, so why even bother to protect the images. Sell the downloadable images for half the price and let people burn them! What do you gain by "protecting" them?!
What is the porblem?!? I don't get it, the iPods are open for others. They happily support MP3's. Or don't they?! You just need to sell MP3's and the customer can play them. Ah, you do not want to sell MP3's?! Not my porblem, I am happy with it... :-)
...did neither contribute nor pay?! Strange...
Does it respect robots.txt?
Does it run on Linux?
Just some people are more equal than other.
Sounds familiar.
And not surprising.
So why get Vista in the first place if hardly any rights are left for the user? I think more and more people will think like this. This OS together with this company are not working for you but rather against you.
.... when things like this happen.
There are better alternatives available. More people will see it
- Martin
Isn't spam a DoS on my Inbox? So can spam be prosecuted with 10 years imprisonment? Nice :)
Maybe I have the same files on my computer, but they are save there. Protected by a strong hard drive encryption. What a pity for whoever wants to prove that I would have them.... :-)
Before you invest so much time into ridiculous secondary "solutions", take the problem at the source. How about finally signing the Kyoto protocol? Just for a change?
With no offense,
- Martin
How about to put some good music on the CD? For a change...
From my point of few I do not see any reason why the hard drive of a cooperate laptop computer should not be encrypted as soon as the mobile computer contains sensitive data (and it usually does). In my opinion it is just irresponsible to carry any mobile device (laptop, USB stick, etc.) out of the company if the data is not secured there, and the series of data leaks known to us all proves this. It might be a bit more inconvenient, it might cause some overhead in computing, but in my opinion this measures needs to be done.
I have a Linux laptop (IBM T30, 2GHz Pentium 4) and I have not a full disc encryption, but /tmp, /var, /usr/local, /home, /root and the swap area are encrypted (256bit AES). With the 2.6 kernel series it has become easy to set up encrypted partitions with dm-crypt and recently with my new acquired external harddrive I started to use the Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) which makes it even more convenient to have encrypted drives (now I can give away my external harddrive to a friend and he can use it without knowing my key, the system allows up to 8 keys and each of them can be revoked easily). I have never noticed any lack in performance and nowadays computers are even faster than my Pentium 4.
Further, if it comes to data loss due to a lost key, then may I ask, where is the backup? I have a backup of my system, for sure encrypted (Dar is here for me a great help). In a cooperate setting backups should be standard as well (harddrive failures happen as happen that keys get forgotten). So loosing a key should not be a problem. One does not need to encrypt the backup either, after all the encryption should only prevent data from being read when the laptop gets stolen and into wrong hands. If the backup is secure in the cooperation than there is nothing (big) to fear if it is not encrypted.
So what point really justifies to take the risk of data leak in a cooperate setting??