Cryptography? Hardly, unless every voter is able to verify the cryptographic algorithms and hardware themselves. Paper, ballot boxes: that's the acme of voting technology.
As if this horse wasn't dead; paper ballots are not the pinnacle of voting procedures... boxes from "Certain" districts get "lost", machines that count get broken, ballots of questionable authenticity get slipped in... there are so many ways for it to go wrong that are not correctable. Of course electronic voting systems are susceptible to their own host of issues, but much like the fact that banks no longer rely on paper in any way shape or form (since electronic analogs for money are doing just fine) there is no reason to shackle the future of voting to dead trees.
You can get 45 feet of Velcro ties for like $3 over in the garden center.
Looks like someone confused Velcro the company with Velcro the "stuff". 45 feet of that and not an inch of it will stick to any other... You can get velcro the stuff at HD but dont bother with the garden variety (hah) get the version in the electrical/electronic aisle. It will run you closer to $6: find it here
My point is that it's actually hard to build a successful business, but everyone who does it fails to recognize that they beat the odds and they become convinced that they simply cannot ever fail. There are a few guys who really can turn every business they start into a success, but most can't repeat the success.
You make a good point but overlook the huge number of wildly successful businessmen who have had one or more utter failures in their lives. The ones who end up being really successful are NOT the ones who "never fail" (with or without that attitude), they are the ones who fail with enough grace to get right back up and try it again. If someone starts off with a win and then has a hard loss, it says nothing about how the third venture will go. The difference that matters is if they lost everything they had, or were sensible enough to play carefully and can move on to the next big thing.
Parent is talking about selling his vote and you comment on his grammar?
There is de facto vote buying going on in every race, every election. It's called advertising. Ad dollars translate into votes, plain and simple. The only difference is that in the current model, only media conglomerates benefit from the process. In almost every election (upwards of 90%, except in the case of the presidency) the most money spent already wins. If they just let votes be bought/sold on an open market, the individuals would stand to benefit and be forced to get involved (and might even think twice about simply not voting at all). Maybe then we can see what democracy really means to Americans (of which a staggering number simply don't even bother to vote.)
Wish I could mod this up. Absolutely right - especially when unions get involved. Or abusive spouses. Or that pastor who drives you to the polls. Just too many ways this can be abused. Having said that, it does make it difficult to audit the system - how can you be sure that the machine isn't switching your vote after you leave? Ideally, people would be able to go back some other time and confirm that the vote they cast was in the system correctly. I think the only way to do this would be to allow you to go to a secure facility where you could confirm, in private, how you voted and insure that at least your vote was correctly accepted
It's as if we need some sort of magical one-way information process that allows you to verify your choice is present, but allows your particular choice to not be able to verify you...
(in case i wasn't laying it on thick enough, this is a simple exercise in cryptography)
Can you offer 24x7 support? How is your manageability and maintenance? Recovery? How are you going to make the thing? Those are basic questions. Are you going to sell direct or via channels? blah blah blah.
This is the first thing I thought of, too. The only thing killing storage density today is serviceability. Everyone wants a box that offers per-disk replacement. This is a different model entirely; most likely they would just write off the failed disks and at some point as the chassis ages just throw the whole thing away. Going to work for Facebook to make this work in their model is a great path. Trying to do it on your own, to sell to the masses and put up with the constant headaches of support, is going to make you go nuts by the time you're 30.
Especially considering they took VC funding, which certainly came with some sort of strings attached. No way is your investor going to sit on the sideline while Facebook waves a 2x valuation in front of yo; no matter how much you "want" to be the next EMC your VCs will have their say.
Let's say this is the best case scenario, that you actually figured out something in your garage, with little to no experience in other high density storage applications, that EMC, NetApp, and the other major players simply couldn't come up with despite having hundreds (thousands?) of very talented engineers. If you manage to get a patent on it (you don't have one yet... interesting) then just license the rights nonexclusively. But then again, hopefully you have at least one lawyer around to give you the same advice.
Worst case scenario, is you just "invented" something that is already patented (this is highly likely) and your visibility just isn't high enough to have the hellhounds attack yet. In this case, again, a lawyer is your friend.
TFA is pretty useless and doesn't indicate what sorts of fiber this works on, or why it is different from other OOFDM-related work; but is there any reason to suspect that a technology that improves fiber transmit rates wouldn't help the CO backbone link speed as well?
Given the, um, vigorous state of competition in the broadband market, it isn't clear that that will matter much; but if they have some new secret sauce that makes transmissions over fiber faster it would, naively, seem to be something that could be added to any part of the network carried over fiber.
Maybe it won't because tossing in a router that is capable of processing 1000x more packets is NOT going to happen with "COTS" parts? Fiber is only as fast as the hardware on either end. These are little strands of glass barely wide enough to feel, if doubling/tripling/1000x'ing bandwidth were as simple as tossing a few more in the trench don't you think they would have done that already? Gracefully processing the light at either end is the hard part.
Would you really be that interested in a 1000x increase in last mile speed, even if it meant that NONE of your actual applications (except maybe bittorrent) were going to go any faster at all? I would rather see them invest in the backbone than trying to out-do a 100mbit last mile which is probably pretty freaking hard to saturate as it is.
If MMP were somehow not part of the equation, the MSRP would just be something ridiculous like $599 and then each outlet would offer a "great deal" to their own liking (this is what happens with goods that aren't as easy to MMP like an iPad) and the consumer would end up shelling out $329 or something close, depending on how discriminating (in the economic sense) they were. The profit WILL be had.
The $35 in extra cost turns into $130 at the consumer level. That's actually pretty much right for a manufactured good. You see, when someone makes a product they typically want to charge MORE for it than it costs to produce. This difference is called Profit. The more it costs, the more you must charge. Plus, it's apple. Even if it cost less, they are selling you the device plus the brand. Or did you think Phil Shiller worked for free?
permissions are vague. I can't know what the hell they plan to do!
what I'd want is a watcher that gives pop-ups or some notification and STOPS THE APP until I let it thru. very very fine grained permit/deny and also a lot of all info that is captured and sent.
How's this for fine grained: When an app isn't installed, it does nothing. When an app is installed, it does what it says it will do in the permission list (which has a particularly thorough amount of detail). Is it really a requirement of a phone ecosystem that you be able to install whatever shitty app you feel like with no chance that it will do something you dont want it to? If it is, then yes stick with your iPhone. If you *can* be bothered to do some simple reading before installing your 6th fart app, then maybe you can make your way through the Android ecosystem (as many other seem to be enthusiastic to do).
And what about those of us that don't want to bother with such things? I don't build my own computers. I don't jailbreak my iDevices.. I don't tinker with my car.. I don't mod my fridge. If I have to immediately start hacking my device in order to get the security I want then it's not really much good to me.
You are completely missing the point. If you are holding an android device in your hand then, much like an iPhone, it is already secure. If you choose to install a shitty app, that's on *you* and just because the OS or the ghost of Steve Jobs doesn't step in and smack your hand, that doesn't mean the only way to maintain security is to "immediately start hacking". Security first, shitty flashlight apps second. That should be the workflow. If it's too much to grasp, then sure stick with your iPhone.
If anything it punishes developers who want to "kitchen sink" their permissions and then get bit by users who refuse to install their app because the permissions look sketchy. I (and i suspect most other informed Android users) look at permissions before deciding to buy/install, and that is a big factor. The bonus of this is that I avoid installing apps that are almost certainly a waste of space anyway. How many shitty flashlight apps does one really *need*?
Congratulations, you have arrived at the crux of the dilemma of American Society. Fortunately, the thing about being a hypocrite is that you aren't expected to be consistent, and you are almost always relatable.
This will then be your primary computing device that follows you around.
This will then be your primary computing device that:
A) you leave on the roof of your car.
B) gets dropped in the toilet.
C) you spill your beverage on.
D) gets chewed up by your dog.
E) you get mugged for.
F) you leave in your hotel room.
G) you have confiscated by the authorities (should you find yourself at the wrong place/time)
H) gets reverse-engineered/stress-tested by your toddler
Shall I continue? Seriously; fuck all this smartphone nonsense; give me a borderline-disposable Nokia 2600-series and I'll happily call it a day!:p
Seriously? After about 5 years of carrying a smartphone on a daily basis the only test mine have faced have been H, and they all managed to pass (i have a drawer of obsolete but otherwise perfect smartphones...)
That would make any sense at all if, in addition to processing power, the phone also had multiple gigabytes of primary memory and could utilize multiple peripherals for input (keyboard, mouse, etc) and output (monitors, printers, speaker systems), store hundreds of gigabytes of data, connect to multiple networks (including high-speed wired ones).
Let's see: 2GB primary memory (a little light but hey, it's almost 6 months old) 96GB nonvolatile storage, dual core 1.5ghz, 100+Mbit A/B/G/N wifi plus 100Mbit LTE (wires are for old people)... full monitor output via HDMI, plus bluetooth or usb peripherals. I'm sure in another year or two they will be able to add whatever it is that is still missing...
I guess it works for me as I can easily separate my working life from my personal life (Yes, I live in North America but I derived my only-work-at-work mentality from the other side of the pond).
Or in the smartphone era, "sync email after hours?" OFF. How hard was that box to find?
Holy shit, when did memes get banned from the internet?
reddit is down, he is expecting to see nothing but NEW shitty in-jokes and hasty photoshops as he takes refuge from the storm... your attempt to re-use old humor would normally earn you a downvote but he cant find the thumb buttons on this jalopy of a website.
Tablet fads have come and gone... the iPad has actually done really well this time around, but I remember how the 486 tablets (that did all the same stuff at much lower resolution) were going to make PCs obsolete... sure they did.
Due to e-readers, I think this time around tablets might actually settle into a durable niche of their own. But a lot of people (such as myself) will never really have a use for one.
Capacitive (and multi-touch) screens completely change the way that tablets are used. No tablet in the past is worth comparing to something that you can comfortably (as long as you know where your fingers are) type a document up *with the screen*. This was really the turning point for tablets, before that they were a cool thing you could maybe use as an E-reader (but battery life tended to be pathetic) or a VERY clumsy virtual clipboard/sketchpad.
You know what I like the best about the BlackBerry's email handling system? When my coworkers all get emails on their iPhones and Galaxy phones, they have to scroll through like ten different apps and all their notifications and then they finally get to the new email message. With my Blackberry, I just click on it from the main messages app and then i can --- TRUNCATED ---
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Cryptography? Hardly, unless every voter is able to verify the cryptographic algorithms and hardware themselves. Paper, ballot boxes: that's the acme of voting technology.
As if this horse wasn't dead; paper ballots are not the pinnacle of voting procedures... boxes from "Certain" districts get "lost", machines that count get broken, ballots of questionable authenticity get slipped in... there are so many ways for it to go wrong that are not correctable. Of course electronic voting systems are susceptible to their own host of issues, but much like the fact that banks no longer rely on paper in any way shape or form (since electronic analogs for money are doing just fine) there is no reason to shackle the future of voting to dead trees.
velcro cable ties
Whoa, dude, are you made of money?!!
You can get 45 feet of Velcro ties for like $3 over in the garden center.
Looks like someone confused Velcro the company with Velcro the "stuff". 45 feet of that and not an inch of it will stick to any other... You can get velcro the stuff at HD but dont bother with the garden variety (hah) get the version in the electrical/electronic aisle. It will run you closer to $6: find it here
My point is that it's actually hard to build a successful business, but everyone who does it fails to recognize that they beat the odds and they become convinced that they simply cannot ever fail. There are a few guys who really can turn every business they start into a success, but most can't repeat the success.
You make a good point but overlook the huge number of wildly successful businessmen who have had one or more utter failures in their lives. The ones who end up being really successful are NOT the ones who "never fail" (with or without that attitude), they are the ones who fail with enough grace to get right back up and try it again. If someone starts off with a win and then has a hard loss, it says nothing about how the third venture will go. The difference that matters is if they lost everything they had, or were sensible enough to play carefully and can move on to the next big thing.
Parent is talking about selling his vote and you comment on his grammar?
There is de facto vote buying going on in every race, every election. It's called advertising. Ad dollars translate into votes, plain and simple. The only difference is that in the current model, only media conglomerates benefit from the process. In almost every election (upwards of 90%, except in the case of the presidency) the most money spent already wins. If they just let votes be bought/sold on an open market, the individuals would stand to benefit and be forced to get involved (and might even think twice about simply not voting at all). Maybe then we can see what democracy really means to Americans (of which a staggering number simply don't even bother to vote.)
Wish I could mod this up. Absolutely right - especially when unions get involved. Or abusive spouses. Or that pastor who drives you to the polls. Just too many ways this can be abused.
Having said that, it does make it difficult to audit the system - how can you be sure that the machine isn't switching your vote after you leave? Ideally, people would be able to go back some other time and confirm that the vote they cast was in the system correctly. I think the only way to do this would be to allow you to go to a secure facility where you could confirm, in private, how you voted and insure that at least your vote was correctly accepted
It's as if we need some sort of magical one-way information process that allows you to verify your choice is present, but allows your particular choice to not be able to verify you...
(in case i wasn't laying it on thick enough, this is a simple exercise in cryptography)
Can you offer 24x7 support? How is your manageability and maintenance? Recovery? How are you going to make the thing? Those are basic questions. Are you going to sell direct or via channels? blah blah blah.
This is the first thing I thought of, too. The only thing killing storage density today is serviceability. Everyone wants a box that offers per-disk replacement. This is a different model entirely; most likely they would just write off the failed disks and at some point as the chassis ages just throw the whole thing away. Going to work for Facebook to make this work in their model is a great path. Trying to do it on your own, to sell to the masses and put up with the constant headaches of support, is going to make you go nuts by the time you're 30.
Especially considering they took VC funding, which certainly came with some sort of strings attached. No way is your investor going to sit on the sideline while Facebook waves a 2x valuation in front of yo; no matter how much you "want" to be the next EMC your VCs will have their say.
Let's say this is the best case scenario, that you actually figured out something in your garage, with little to no experience in other high density storage applications, that EMC, NetApp, and the other major players simply couldn't come up with despite having hundreds (thousands?) of very talented engineers. If you manage to get a patent on it (you don't have one yet... interesting) then just license the rights nonexclusively. But then again, hopefully you have at least one lawyer around to give you the same advice.
Worst case scenario, is you just "invented" something that is already patented (this is highly likely) and your visibility just isn't high enough to have the hellhounds attack yet. In this case, again, a lawyer is your friend.
Please, don't feed the trolls.
Then again, that law is just another form of corruption...
TFA is pretty useless and doesn't indicate what sorts of fiber this works on, or why it is different from other OOFDM-related work; but is there any reason to suspect that a technology that improves fiber transmit rates wouldn't help the CO backbone link speed as well?
Given the, um, vigorous state of competition in the broadband market, it isn't clear that that will matter much; but if they have some new secret sauce that makes transmissions over fiber faster it would, naively, seem to be something that could be added to any part of the network carried over fiber.
Maybe it won't because tossing in a router that is capable of processing 1000x more packets is NOT going to happen with "COTS" parts? Fiber is only as fast as the hardware on either end. These are little strands of glass barely wide enough to feel, if doubling/tripling/1000x'ing bandwidth were as simple as tossing a few more in the trench don't you think they would have done that already? Gracefully processing the light at either end is the hard part.
Would you really be that interested in a 1000x increase in last mile speed, even if it meant that NONE of your actual applications (except maybe bittorrent) were going to go any faster at all? I would rather see them invest in the backbone than trying to out-do a 100mbit last mile which is probably pretty freaking hard to saturate as it is.
Just sayin'
If MMP were somehow not part of the equation, the MSRP would just be something ridiculous like $599 and then each outlet would offer a "great deal" to their own liking (this is what happens with goods that aren't as easy to MMP like an iPad) and the consumer would end up shelling out $329 or something close, depending on how discriminating (in the economic sense) they were. The profit WILL be had.
The $35 in extra cost turns into $130 at the consumer level. That's actually pretty much right for a manufactured good. You see, when someone makes a product they typically want to charge MORE for it than it costs to produce. This difference is called Profit. The more it costs, the more you must charge. Plus, it's apple. Even if it cost less, they are selling you the device plus the brand. Or did you think Phil Shiller worked for free?
I guess the government (local, state, and federal) is mistreating and abusing workers. Who knew.
There oughta be a law...
permissions are vague. I can't know what the hell they plan to do!
what I'd want is a watcher that gives pop-ups or some notification and STOPS THE APP until I let it thru. very very fine grained permit/deny and also a lot of all info that is captured and sent.
How's this for fine grained: When an app isn't installed, it does nothing. When an app is installed, it does what it says it will do in the permission list (which has a particularly thorough amount of detail). Is it really a requirement of a phone ecosystem that you be able to install whatever shitty app you feel like with no chance that it will do something you dont want it to? If it is, then yes stick with your iPhone. If you *can* be bothered to do some simple reading before installing your 6th fart app, then maybe you can make your way through the Android ecosystem (as many other seem to be enthusiastic to do).
And what about those of us that don't want to bother with such things? I don't build my own computers. I don't jailbreak my iDevices.. I don't tinker with my car.. I don't mod my fridge. If I have to immediately start hacking my device in order to get the security I want then it's not really much good to me.
You are completely missing the point. If you are holding an android device in your hand then, much like an iPhone, it is already secure. If you choose to install a shitty app, that's on *you* and just because the OS or the ghost of Steve Jobs doesn't step in and smack your hand, that doesn't mean the only way to maintain security is to "immediately start hacking". Security first, shitty flashlight apps second. That should be the workflow. If it's too much to grasp, then sure stick with your iPhone.
If anything it punishes developers who want to "kitchen sink" their permissions and then get bit by users who refuse to install their app because the permissions look sketchy. I (and i suspect most other informed Android users) look at permissions before deciding to buy/install, and that is a big factor. The bonus of this is that I avoid installing apps that are almost certainly a waste of space anyway. How many shitty flashlight apps does one really *need*?
Isn't that their daughter?
Congratulations, you have arrived at the crux of the dilemma of American Society. Fortunately, the thing about being a hypocrite is that you aren't expected to be consistent, and you are almost always relatable.
The current homepage shows the normal logo with a blurb about entering the contest for October. Is that next October?
This will then be your primary computing device that follows you around.
This will then be your primary computing device that:
A) you leave on the roof of your car.
B) gets dropped in the toilet.
C) you spill your beverage on.
D) gets chewed up by your dog.
E) you get mugged for.
F) you leave in your hotel room.
G) you have confiscated by the authorities (should you find yourself at the wrong place/time)
H) gets reverse-engineered/stress-tested by your toddler
Shall I continue? Seriously; fuck all this smartphone nonsense; give me a borderline-disposable Nokia 2600-series and I'll happily call it a day! :p
Seriously? After about 5 years of carrying a smartphone on a daily basis the only test mine have faced have been H, and they all managed to pass (i have a drawer of obsolete but otherwise perfect smartphones...)
That would make any sense at all if, in addition to processing power, the phone also had multiple gigabytes of primary memory and could utilize multiple peripherals for input (keyboard, mouse, etc) and output (monitors, printers, speaker systems), store hundreds of gigabytes of data, connect to multiple networks (including high-speed wired ones).
Let's see: 2GB primary memory (a little light but hey, it's almost 6 months old) 96GB nonvolatile storage, dual core 1.5ghz, 100+Mbit A/B/G/N wifi plus 100Mbit LTE (wires are for old people)... full monitor output via HDMI, plus bluetooth or usb peripherals. I'm sure in another year or two they will be able to add whatever it is that is still missing...
I guess it works for me as I can easily separate my working life from my personal life (Yes, I live in North America but I derived my only-work-at-work mentality from the other side of the pond).
Or in the smartphone era, "sync email after hours?" OFF. How hard was that box to find?
Holy shit, when did memes get banned from the internet?
reddit is down, he is expecting to see nothing but NEW shitty in-jokes and hasty photoshops as he takes refuge from the storm... your attempt to re-use old humor would normally earn you a downvote but he cant find the thumb buttons on this jalopy of a website.
Tablet fads have come and gone... the iPad has actually done really well this time around, but I remember how the 486 tablets (that did all the same stuff at much lower resolution) were going to make PCs obsolete... sure they did.
Due to e-readers, I think this time around tablets might actually settle into a durable niche of their own. But a lot of people (such as myself) will never really have a use for one.
Capacitive (and multi-touch) screens completely change the way that tablets are used. No tablet in the past is worth comparing to something that you can comfortably (as long as you know where your fingers are) type a document up *with the screen*. This was really the turning point for tablets, before that they were a cool thing you could maybe use as an E-reader (but battery life tended to be pathetic) or a VERY clumsy virtual clipboard/sketchpad.
You know what I like the best about the BlackBerry's email handling system? When my coworkers all get emails on their iPhones and Galaxy phones, they have to scroll through like ten different apps and all their notifications and then they finally get to the new email message. With my Blackberry, I just click on it from the main messages app and then i can
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