I think the easiest way to do this would be something as simple as a long band of thermal print paper (like a cash register, only behind a transparent window). The voter sees his vote on a screen, and confirms it, and watches it be printed on the paper.
If you alternate through 3 spools of paper at random, or skip back and forth on the paper, there's no way to connect a voter with a vote after the fact. However, it IS impossible for software (closed source, open source, or polkadotted source) to change the "receipt" after the fact.
I think thermal printers are under fifty bucks (probably well under) and I don't see why this couldn't be added to any voting system.
Well I haven't used Linux in several years, and when I install it this coming week it will probably be a non-RH-based variant like Gentoo or Debian, so I don't know much about the the "beginner" distros.
is that it leaves us without a really easy to install distro for new users.
I think Mandrake fills that hole to some extent, but they're largely a repackaged RH, and I can't help wondering whether they'll be able to maintain rpm, cygwin, and all the other widely used RH products on their own. Will RH still be employing Cox?
It *is* possible to make money off free software - look at Hans Reiser, or MySQL. For that matter, Slashdot and LiveJournal use totally open source software, even if the software isn't where they make their money.
Makes sense. I was thinking of it only in terms of a problem in AI of getting a scanning robot to work in order to get 3D objects into a computer.
If a grad student is modeling a bridge, he will realistically describe it in 3D (allowing him to incorporate things like material strength) rather than building a model and having a robot scan it. But of course the real world is different.
Well the problem with that DRM is that it was broken by some anonymous guy on Usenet a year or so ago. I wouldn't be surprised of WMA 9 follows quickly - the problem is that they have to put the keys into a binary that is sent to tens of millions of anonymous users. This is not a provably secure solution.
I don't usually read filesharing articles, but I saw this on metamod and had to reply.
I thought it wasn't opaque as much as actively radiating. I know that they have certain types of telescopes at the south pole, or in space, because the air radiates less.
If anyone's ever seen a glass-blowing demo, the glass reaches a point where it radiates visible light - and is impossible to see through, it looks like colored ceremic - but it never becomes opaque.
OK didn't realize. My overall point stands though - it's legal because there's no specific law about it.
Also, I'd expect that any OSHA regulation would be set up to prevent devices from causing blindness, cataracts, or burns - it'd affect things like CO2 lasers, not something like this that is a comparatively tiny power.
Heh - are these the same folks who published plans on how to power your house out of the phopne lines? Most of their textfiles will never be implemented. Especially the ones about things like making cocaine by concentrating espresso.
It's legal for a very basic reason - there's no law against it.
Some radar jammers and such things are illegal because they break FCC rules against unlisensed broadcasts. You can't set a licensing requirement for an infrared transmitter - my hands are putting out infrared right now, as is the air coming out the back of my PC - and so you need a special-purpose law against these specific devices (or more likely their use by ordinary people).
Are judges now obsolete? Or has the constitution been amended to add "innocent until determined guilty by a properly designed algorithm?"
Or is this just an implementation detail that the RIAA isn't worried about yet? I have a friend who TAs MIS majors who seem to know more about technology than these folks.
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Actually the L in LASER is for Light.
Thus we have MASERs and GRASERs for other wavelengths.
Well, I researched some on the net, and Neil has a wife and 2 kids. This would make homosexuality rather unlikely in my eyes.
Because I have friends who aren't total Linux experts, but are unsatisfied with Windows?
And at the time I posted my comment I was obviously unfamiliar with the state of the art.
So wait for 2 weeks after each release.
That's what I do with any distro (though I might forgo it for something as paranoid as Debian-stable).
I think the easiest way to do this would be something as simple as a long band of thermal print paper (like a cash register, only behind a transparent window). The voter sees his vote on a screen, and confirms it, and watches it be printed on the paper.
If you alternate through 3 spools of paper at random, or skip back and forth on the paper, there's no way to connect a voter with a vote after the fact. However, it IS impossible for software (closed source, open source, or polkadotted source) to change the "receipt" after the fact.
I think thermal printers are under fifty bucks (probably well under) and I don't see why this couldn't be added to any voting system.
Isn't there an option for sea bass at a penalty?
So basically they're renaming it so it doesn't get confused with their commercial product, and merging with an existing effort.
Sounds like we're losing about as much as we did in the move from the "GNU C Compiler" to the "GNU Compiler Collection."
I'm sorry for starting a panic on here.
Well I haven't used Linux in several years, and when I install it this coming week it will probably be a non-RH-based variant like Gentoo or Debian, so I don't know much about the the "beginner" distros.
So they just won't be publishing the desktop "redhat linux" variant then?
:).
And I guess Enterprise Linux probably in some way involves Linux, yes. And perhaps I should have thought of that
is that it leaves us without a really easy to install distro for new users.
I think Mandrake fills that hole to some extent, but they're largely a repackaged RH, and I can't help wondering whether they'll be able to maintain rpm, cygwin, and all the other widely used RH products on their own. Will RH still be employing Cox?
It *is* possible to make money off free software - look at Hans Reiser, or MySQL. For that matter, Slashdot and LiveJournal use totally open source software, even if the software isn't where they make their money.
Why hasn't RH been able to do the same?
Makes sense. I was thinking of it only in terms of a problem in AI of getting a scanning robot to work in order to get 3D objects into a computer.
If a grad student is modeling a bridge, he will realistically describe it in 3D (allowing him to incorporate things like material strength) rather than building a model and having a robot scan it. But of course the real world is different.
How about no for an answer, you Dutch bastard!
With frickin' laser beams on its head?
Or will vicious tuna be enough?
How does this thing figure out distances? Does it time the return of the laser reflections?
I also can't help wondering how it models the tops of things - it looks like it's fairly squat.
What's the advantage of a robot like this versus describing every object by hand, as 3d animators do (typically in some kind of interpreted language).
It seems like writing "there's a sphere of radius 3 centered here" would take less time than waiting for the robot to scan it.
Is he actually gay, or is this just a stupid slashdot troll?
Well the problem with that DRM is that it was broken by some anonymous guy on Usenet a year or so ago. I wouldn't be surprised of WMA 9 follows quickly - the problem is that they have to put the keys into a binary that is sent to tens of millions of anonymous users. This is not a provably secure solution.
I don't usually read filesharing articles, but I saw this on metamod and had to reply.
I thought it wasn't opaque as much as actively radiating. I know that they have certain types of telescopes at the south pole, or in space, because the air radiates less.
If anyone's ever seen a glass-blowing demo, the glass reaches a point where it radiates visible light - and is impossible to see through, it looks like colored ceremic - but it never becomes opaque.
OK didn't realize. My overall point stands though - it's legal because there's no specific law about it.
Also, I'd expect that any OSHA regulation would be set up to prevent devices from causing blindness, cataracts, or burns - it'd affect things like CO2 lasers, not something like this that is a comparatively tiny power.
Heh - are these the same folks who published plans on how to power your house out of the phopne lines? Most of their textfiles will never be implemented. Especially the ones about things like making cocaine by concentrating espresso.
It's legal for a very basic reason - there's no law against it.
Some radar jammers and such things are illegal because they break FCC rules against unlisensed broadcasts. You can't set a licensing requirement for an infrared transmitter - my hands are putting out infrared right now, as is the air coming out the back of my PC - and so you need a special-purpose law against these specific devices (or more likely their use by ordinary people).
Yeah, it's a lot of bull alright.
Do you think the Shoe Bomber will be a good cell mate to Rosen?
Or does Islam forbid what I'm thinking of?
Are judges now obsolete? Or has the constitution been amended to add "innocent until determined guilty by a properly designed algorithm?"
Or is this just an implementation detail that the RIAA isn't worried about yet? I have a friend who TAs MIS majors who seem to know more about technology than these folks.
Does anyone know if R. Kelly is a member of the RIAA?
Slashdot editors discover how to burn oxygen.
Expected future discoveries include playing games under Linux, convincing Katz to write a brief article, and getting rich off their stock options.