Something that hasn't been pointed out is how useful this will be in high energy physics. The basic way of measuring a lot of particles is to look for the photons emitted when they interact with materials.
This should help reduce the cost of certain detectors. Especially for measuring neutrinos that can only be spotted by the cherenkov radiation they give off as they pass through massive detectors (look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation)
I think the main problem with the system as it stands now is that with some e-voting systems that are set up poorly you cannot tell if rigging or similar has occured. In a paper system if all else fails you can still go back and re count everything.
An electronic system would allow, not just the finally result to be manipulated but the original data to be changed. You couldn't even tell if there had been any rigging.
E-voting is a lot better than postal votes though, they may increase voter turn out and allow the bed bound etc to vote but, if people can't be bothered to leave the house to vote then it seems they shouldn't vote I would say having a travelling polling station is a better solution for the bed bound voters anyway.
You have to remember that 50% of the population is below average intelligence; now remember that your average TV news report tends to be written FOR average intelligence. Newspapers have a slightly broader spectrum but they still tend to stay within the central 25%.
The next thing is that for any news it has to be watchable and engaging - most people find it very hard to engage with something that isn't emotive. Its even harder to write something that isn't at least slightly emotive/ subjective. To extend your example is: tragedy a boy dies in crash OR joy rider dies in fatal accident, OR young man who suffered from life long depression and bullying, while drunk crashes stolen car.
Emotions allow people to connect to the story and understand it better. It should be a core topic at school: how to extract the facts form a story.
Anyway this is all reasonably off topic; subjective reporting is needed to sell news and engage most people.
More on topic: technical reporting to the main stream will ALWAYS be incorrect to some degree, how do you dismantle the concept of say the higgs boson (im a physics student) and the methods to detect it into a 2 minute report on the LHC being turned on?
The aim is to inform people so if they are interested they can go and find out more.personally I thought the interview was interesting but un-illuminating but thats to be expected.
I think there is a difference between rewarding the originators of the IP and rewarding a hulking behemoth that happens to employ them.
*AA has failed to see that physical media (CD DVDs etc) are dead maybe not completly but its only a matter of years. As a group they have failed to adapt, iTunes (now) makes money, Radiohead's "in rainbows" made money NIN's various online escades have made money.
*AA has failed to see this.
Smaller production groups are doing well online (see warprecords)
Its just a little sad that *AA haven't spotted this yet
I expect that the vast majority today would agree that an abortion is bad I think that when it comes to morals this kind of blanket statement is very dangerous, in fact about the only moral statement that I would agree with is abuse is morally wrong (as in the dictionary definition).
That being said I think a hippocratic oath for scientists is a good idea, I also think it should be enforcable and inspected upon - certainly in any science that can have an immediate consequence upon the wider world (ie particle physics is unlikely to kill anyone through falsified evidence but a drugs trial might).
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Something that hasn't been pointed out is how useful this will be in high energy physics. The basic way of measuring a lot of particles is to look for the photons emitted when they interact with materials.
This should help reduce the cost of certain detectors. Especially for measuring neutrinos that can only be spotted by the cherenkov radiation they give off as they pass through massive detectors (look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation)
I think the main problem with the system as it stands now is that with some e-voting systems that are set up poorly you cannot tell if rigging or similar has occured. In a paper system if all else fails you can still go back and re count everything.
An electronic system would allow, not just the finally result to be manipulated but the original data to be changed. You couldn't even tell if there had been any rigging.
E-voting is a lot better than postal votes though, they may increase voter turn out and allow the bed bound etc to vote but, if people can't be bothered to leave the house to vote then it seems they shouldn't vote I would say having a travelling polling station is a better solution for the bed bound voters anyway.
A good example is from here in the UK. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6681209.stm where the royal mail lost the votes.
I would imagine that if you'r determined to rig an election you will manage it, there is no such thing as an infallible system.
You have to remember that 50% of the population is below average intelligence; now remember that your average TV news report tends to be written FOR average intelligence. Newspapers have a slightly broader spectrum but they still tend to stay within the central 25%.
The next thing is that for any news it has to be watchable and engaging - most people find it very hard to engage with something that isn't emotive. Its even harder to write something that isn't at least slightly emotive/ subjective. To extend your example is: tragedy a boy dies in crash OR joy rider dies in fatal accident, OR young man who suffered from life long depression and bullying, while drunk crashes stolen car.
Emotions allow people to connect to the story and understand it better. It should be a core topic at school: how to extract the facts form a story.
Anyway this is all reasonably off topic; subjective reporting is needed to sell news and engage most people.
More on topic: technical reporting to the main stream will ALWAYS be incorrect to some degree, how do you dismantle the concept of say the higgs boson (im a physics student) and the methods to detect it into a 2 minute report on the LHC being turned on?
The aim is to inform people so if they are interested they can go and find out more.personally I thought the interview was interesting but un-illuminating but thats to be expected.
I think there is a difference between rewarding the originators of the IP and rewarding a hulking behemoth that happens to employ them.
*AA has failed to see that physical media (CD DVDs etc) are dead maybe not completly but its only a matter of years. As a group they have failed to adapt, iTunes (now) makes money, Radiohead's "in rainbows" made money NIN's various online escades have made money.
*AA has failed to see this.
Smaller production groups are doing well online (see warprecords)
Its just a little sad that *AA haven't spotted this yet