It wasn't a celeron, but I had a PIII notebook with 128mb RAM and a *realy* slow hard drive. Today's xubuntu don't run on it by any way, but I installed xubuntu 6.04 on it and it ran perfectly with a really snappy interface.
I believe xubuntu has lost its path running along with ubuntu towards bloatness.
No, if the process demands the printout and the prints stops, the process stops. Gigantic lines will begin on that machine and people will start to complain and scream. The poor guys that are working there will just go insane.
I know it because I've been working on brazillian elections for 4 years
That's a good question that I would like to have an answer...
My guess is that currently that voting process doesn't depend upon the printer. If it malfunctions, it would be at the begining of the day and the machine could be replaced. If the voting process needs the printer during all day long and it stops working, we will have hell on earth.
If you can cite the source for this info, I'd be grateful. I've searched for it for some time and I just gave up because there's no official info anywhere. Where can I get the source code? I really don't think it's open source. Really.
As the parent said: "he code is available in advance for the parties". Emphasis mine.
As a good Brazilian, I don't trust our government and our politicians at all. Some weeks ago, the people that design the voting system published some comments in a technology blog saying the system is unsafe and anyone could boot it using an external device. And I won't even argue about the unavaiable source code.
The source code is available, but not to general public. The parties have access to it and to the machines for testing prior to the election
And it will get worse. Last week, I saw some of the Elections big guys saying that in 2016 we'll have a biometric checking in every voting machine. Without the source code, how can I know some dirty goverment agency, hidden in some obscure basement, will not have an excel spreadsheet with 'name - vote'??? 1984 is getting closer, I thought. And nobody here seems to care.
I don't mean to scary you, but nowadays this could happen too. The staff at the elections type in you voter id at the machine. It shouldn't be saving it, but who knows... To save the id or the fingerprint is just the same. At this point you have to thrust the parties that can audit the software
Neither the Brazilian box nor mine is truly auditable. Ours at least has a paper tally report that gets printed at the end, so one could trace the tally on the flash drives to a tape.
The brazillian one does the same report at the end.
The hardware do include a printer. When the voting process begins, the machine prints a report saying there is no vote saved. At the end, it prints a couple of reports saying how many voter where exprected, how many came to vote and it gives the *result* of the election for that specific machine.
One copy is posted on the wall at the place were the machine was installed. Many other are distributed to the parties and archived for future reference
That being said. The machine can still be rigged to print false data, but it is another obstacle to faud
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I short: he knows what he is doing, but what the computer is doing is quite a different matter
There should be a contest of obfuscated english! I would vote on your post! kudos
It wasn't a celeron, but I had a PIII notebook with 128mb RAM and a *realy* slow hard drive. Today's xubuntu don't run on it by any way, but I installed xubuntu 6.04 on it and it ran perfectly with a really snappy interface.
I believe xubuntu has lost its path running along with ubuntu towards bloatness.
Oops. Sorry, too much coffee!! ;-)
4. Funny mods don't get you any karma
I could swear your post was about the insighfullness of your ass. My mistake! Sorry
The user's, of course
What the smiley has to do with it?! Oh, wait!
If PS3 runs linux, that makes it an excellent gaming platform! Oh, wait...
Was. MSNBC changed it to the proper spelling. TFA is correct by now
And I am sure it was ellected video game of the year!
Its really funny to see a post like this tagged as insightful. This is why I love slashdot so much.
Cmon guys, I meant closer to the black hole. This is not insightful at all!
You can always get closer for better pictures.
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Errr. We have these already. Its called metamoderation
It is important to tag trolls. I, for one, don't even bother to read posts tagged as such. The sooner they get tagged the better
People will use the gold mod point on the first week and spend the rest of the semester posting "If I had my gold mod point..."
No, if the process demands the printout and the prints stops, the process stops. Gigantic lines will begin on that machine and people will start to complain and scream. The poor guys that are working there will just go insane.
I know it because I've been working on brazillian elections for 4 years
That's a good question that I would like to have an answer...
My guess is that currently that voting process doesn't depend upon the printer. If it malfunctions, it would be at the begining of the day and the machine could be replaced. If the voting process needs the printer during all day long and it stops working, we will have hell on earth.
Either this or its to make fraud easier ;-)
If you can cite the source for this info, I'd be grateful. I've searched for it for some time and I just gave up because there's no official info anywhere. Where can I get the source code? I really don't think it's open source. Really.
As the parent said: "he code is available in advance for the parties". Emphasis mine.
As a good Brazilian, I don't trust our government and our politicians at all. Some weeks ago, the people that design the voting system published some comments in a technology blog saying the system is unsafe and anyone could boot it using an external device. And I won't even argue about the unavaiable source code.
The source code is available, but not to general public. The parties have access to it and to the machines for testing prior to the election
And it will get worse. Last week, I saw some of the Elections big guys saying that in 2016 we'll have a biometric checking in every voting machine. Without the source code, how can I know some dirty goverment agency, hidden in some obscure basement, will not have an excel spreadsheet with 'name - vote'??? 1984 is getting closer, I thought. And nobody here seems to care.
I don't mean to scary you, but nowadays this could happen too. The staff at the elections type in you voter id at the machine. It shouldn't be saving it, but who knows... To save the id or the fingerprint is just the same. At this point you have to thrust the parties that can audit the software
Neither the Brazilian box nor mine is truly auditable. Ours at least has a paper tally report that gets printed at the end, so one could trace the tally on the flash drives to a tape.
The brazillian one does the same report at the end.
If you dont wanna vote, you can nullify your vote at the machine. Mandatory voting means you have to be there at election day. Just that.
The hardware do include a printer. When the voting process begins, the machine prints a report saying there is no vote saved. At the end, it prints a couple of reports saying how many voter where exprected, how many came to vote and it gives the *result* of the election for that specific machine.
One copy is posted on the wall at the place were the machine was installed. Many other are distributed to the parties and archived for future reference
That being said. The machine can still be rigged to print false data, but it is another obstacle to faud