I need one. and i do have a smartphone, corporate IM, email, etc. though Skype is officially forbidden for some reason.
For my previous job, i'm not sure i ever had a work related phone call in almost 14 years. at my new job, i'm on the phone a lot. what i found is that just using my cell would be more expensive than getting a voip kit like Ooma for my home office, and connect a desk phone to that. then i use a Google Voice phone number that rings both that and my cell, so i can still take calls if i'm travelling or something, but by far mostly use the desk phone as it's cheaper than upgrading my cell plan to work with this many minutes.
i do use IM as well as email, but phone is still a big part of it.
Laws either require something, or forbid something. In the absence of a law on any particular topic, nothing is required, and nothing is forbidden, thus anything is allowed. So, in the absence of a law that would protect the internet from corporate trolls, they are allowed to put up as many profiteering tollbooths as they want, and take their steps to wreck the whole thing. If laws that would prohibit such maliciousness are disallowed, then we're screwed.
I buy textbooks from Amazon when they are cheaper than the university approved bookstore.mbsdirect.net Oh the unhumanity I've caused! Sometimes MBS is cheaper though, and sometimes they have self-published things that can't be had anywhere else. But fir the most part, Amazon is cheaper. And it's not (yet) illegal to buy books from them.
A counterfeiter trying to copy a real bill would have to precisely measure all the attributes of the embedded quantum particles — which is impossible under the tricky laws of quantum mechanics (PDF).
OK, so how does this help to authenticate a genuine note?
I'm really enjoying the testbook for the VHDL/FPGA RTL design class I'm taking now. RTL Hardware Design Using VHDL: Coding for Efficiency, Portability, and Scalability by Pong Chu. It doesn't bog down talking about all possibilities the language allows for legal syntax. The author really seems to focus on common practice for coding into a chip. There's very little if any testbench/simulation in this book, so look elsewhere for that, this one is all about the circuit design. Rather than only explaining what an FSM is, or just that you need a combination of registers and combinational logic, it gives some good suggestion on how to organize your code, such as using two or three separate processes rather than a single one. It talks about coding styles to minimize logic stages for some types of circuits. And it's the first one to explain why getting latches in synthesis is "bad" in a way I could understand, where other books just seem to say "don't allow latches" and I didn't understand why. I find this very refreshing now, as my first exposure to VHDL back in the mod 1990's had a terrible textbook that left me horribly confused about how to do anything useful with the language. And that was very frustrating as I was very interested in FPGAs, and there was no Verilog course at my university. After working with Verilog for the past few years at work, Chu's VHDL textbook has made it a lot easier for me to see how to create Verilog as well, rather than just read to understand other people's code. Chu has some other books that come in VHDL and Verilog pairs. They have project examples to play with in an inexpensive FPGA board. Check them out too.
For firmware and coding hardware, look for books on Embedded style programming, and about driver development. Look up some programmer guides for some ARM chips, they will tell you register definitions and fields and such to program to. I don't know how good these will be, but on my todo list are "Essential Linux Device Driver", "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition", and "Hardware/Firmware Interface Design: Best Practices for Improving Embedded Systems Development". I looked at "Atmel AVR Microcontroller Primer: Programming and Interfacing (Synthesis Lectures on Digital Circuits and Systems) " which may be a good example of some of this as well, and check out some Arduino project books, that seems likely to talk about some of this stuff as well. A reviewer of one of the many AVR books says to go look up the http://www.avrfreaks.net/ website for some free such info. They and similar sites for Pic and Arm should have some relevant information for you. If these all seem too much of the "this is the language" or "this is what the hardware looks like" but not enough of "common practice is to..." type, maybe get a kickstarter project going to make what you need, and start interviewing people that do this every day.
OK, I've seen a few people concerned that the hotmail/live login is needed for EVERYTHING. How is this different than Android? Your gmail login is your phone account is your app store account is your docs/drive account is your scholar account is...
Have I missed where people complained that Google is the same way?
If the average joe is not allowed to get investment in his company, then how do companies with wealthy venture capital investors work? What's the difference?
I forgot to mention in my initial post, there's also FPGA based hardware clones of the "Classic" Amiga computers to run the old M68k based OS on. Minimig is an open-source one available for a variety of FPGA boards such as Terasic's DE1 and Minimig-branded boards for some time now. Natami is a proprietary one that's been produced for their FPGA code developers only so far but have been seen on YouTube and such doing demonstrations of what's working so far. Even without the Amiga name at all, they to many of the community are more "Amiga" than the official name licensees like this Commodore thing.
Understand that this has nothing to do with what people know to be or remember having been an Amiga. The "True Amiga" and the name have gone in somewhat different directions. Amiga the company licensed Amiga the name to these Commodore people to stick on whatever they want to stick it on. it has nothing to do with "Classic" Amiga computers, AmigaOS, or what the remaining Amiga user community is interested in. Most of us feel that this Amiga the name thing is nothing more than Amiga the company flipping us all off and doing everything it can to cause confusion and harm to the user community and AmigaOS platform. We the community use computers now called "Classic" Amigas running AmigaOS (the old M68K/PowerPC based Amiga 1000, 500, 2000, 3000, 4000 models), more modern AmigaOS4 or MorphOS computers called AmigaOnes or SAMs, Pegasos(1 or 2), Efika, or some Powerbook models for MorphOS, or nearly any PC running AROS or WinUAE.
AmigaOS4.x is the current "True Amiga" OS platform with the officially licensed name and source code origin, and is PowerPC based. MorphOS is also PowerPC based and at one time was considered as a candidate to become the "True" AmigaOS, not it is an -alike competitor. MorphOS recently suggested they are considering switching or adding support for ARM and/or x86 at some point in the future. AROS is an open-source clone and runs on x86 and other processors.
This "Commodore Amiga" thing is an annoyance to many in the Amiga user community. It's not the return of anything Amiga other than a stupid sticker. The "Real" Amiga platform is elsewhere. You all on slashdot probably wouldn't like that either, as it's also expensive and a nanoscopic market (Though expensive at least makes more sense in the non-mass-market hardware scale of economy, though that's still difficult to accept at times)
The Commodore name went a different direction than the Amiga platform long ago. This company seems to want to bring the two names together again for some reason, but they don't seem at all interested in anything resembling the Amiga platform. Their Amiga 1000X (likely yet another lame PC running Linux Mint) product name seems to be an attack on the existing AmigaOne X1000 motherboard (Runs AmigaOS4 on a PowerPC chip) They even say that the free and open-source AROS is of no interest to them. I really don't understand what genuine purpose this company offers to the Amiga community. I don't really care about the sticker at this point. Give me a Quigibo 4240 running AmigaOS (or an -alike) and I'm happy. Give me a Linux box that says Amiga on it, and without anything -alike, it's just a Linux PC like any other.
AmigaOS today is for people that are obsessed with it. Either you are, and enjoy it, or you are not, and don't care. It can be a useful platform, though yes it does have some limitations today. I don't know why people post Amiga stuff to the non-caring Slashdot etc. sites. Move along and let us enjoy our hobby, we obsessors don't need your counseling and it won't bring us to our senses anyway.
Look at the R's to choose from. Even if people were "smart enough" to choose the best candidate, we don't really have a good candidate on the list. Then, for all the D's who were disappointed with how little change we got from Obama, why is there not a second choice there? The system is completely rigged to avoid the possibility of a "best" or even a "good" candidate to vote for.
It's something for Amiga fans. For the most part, anyone that does not already want a portable Amiga can disregard this notice. You don't care, that's fine, don't trash talk those of us that do. I hate seeing Amiga news on Slashdot, while it does seem to be rather nerdy news, it's just not an accepted topic here. But being portable and relatively cheap for an Amiga platform today, maybe some who have drifted away might consider spending a few hundred bucks to check it out and enjoy Amiga again for a bit. No one thinks we'll be competing with Android on local superstore shelves with this thing. Amiga fans still around today may make Apple fans look like tremendously lucid normal people, but we aren't stupid to think we'll just walk into BestBuy or Fry's and sell millions of units. So don't go thinking this is anything we're expecting to see with this thing.
I myself would really prefer to see a higher performance laptop with optical drive, 15inch screen, and a Freescale AMP or the PA Semi chips they somehow got their hands on for the X1000 tower. I'd really prefer they port x86 or ARM so it's easy to get whatever hardware to run it on. But this is the only portable choice we've ever really had. As I haven't used a tower in years, they're buried in storage with no desk space to be hooked up on and I don't want to be tethred to said desk in some room anyway, I'm very happy about this tiny netbook thing. But that's my hobby interest. Nothing practical. Nothing useful to you. Just fun for me. And however many other Amiga fans are still around for it. And that's plenty good enough reason for me that this (will) exists.
57% of Italian Households voted in this public measure. While democracy should trump all, is it wise to hold majority opinion so high that it slows down progress?"
interviewer: "The people voted to end nuclear power." DC: "So?"
It's kind of nice to see a government that doesn't feel so much contempt for its people as to ignore their view of things.
I'd hope that whatever they voted on exactly offers periods of review to consider advances in nuclear power planting that make things safer, and have a path back to nuclear in the future if it makes sense again someday to them.
I'm not sure what habits are good or bad for web guys or software guys. I suppose there is likely some overlap.
I have two monitors.
Right now I'm auditing simulation tests for an SoC, we're updating an older design with current peripheral revisions, newer CPU core revision, DMA controller connections, memory configuration, etc.
I have a spec doc open, a test spreadsheet showing what tests came with the original design, and a shell with a dozen tabs showing the RTL netlist, individual test C code, chip configuration.h files and my audit result file, simulation GUI, test description GUI, and some other things. It's nice to have the C code on one screen while the test description GUI is on the other screen. Or the description GUI and the audit results each on a screen. Or the audit results and the test spreadsheet. Or the HDL code and the simulation waves. Or C code and simulation waves. I don't need individual screens for every window, but different combinations of do things work out well on two screens. I think that a single screen would be too confining. Lucky me I'm one of the last to get a second screen, so there's not really anyone to give one of mine to.:)
If the economy is so dependent on this that we would all suffer tremendously if they had to stop, how did we ever manage to do anything before this capability arrived?
OK, sure, I'd love an android phone, but I'm not willing to pay the hefty data plan fees.
I'd really been considering how to get a good android phone without a phone plan at all, and use it like an iTouch, only with wifi and no voice or cellular data whatsoever. The *pads are too big, I want something phone/iTouch sized that will fit in my normal sized pockets. Too bad the demoted the camera on this compared to it's Galaxy S phone cousin. I've not seen an amoled screen to know if I care that's gone too. I'd really like to see someone do as good of a product as the really good smartphones and just leave out the cellular part of it, without degrading any other features in the process. But at least this sort of thing is being seen now.
So, closed source is a problem. But there are other problems inherent to electronic voting that I don't think changing the license or opening the source will improve on.
As the summary says, there is no proof that a system behaves the same on voting day as it does on test day. How does open-source fix that? I don't think it does. Do you or me or any general public person get to audit the code on both days, and compare checksums or hashes on the binaries? How do we know that the test day binary wasn't swapped back in before the "after audit" to hide the fact that a malicious binary was running during voting?
If certifying equipment by registrars is optional, how does open-source fix that? I don't think it does. If something is optional, it doesn't matter what the code license is, only that the relevant people choose to exercise that option.
In general, how open-source do you want? Even GPL doesn't require that every citizen gets to see the sources. Only that those receiving the binary do. Who is it that receives the binary distribution such that they are also owed the sources? The registrars? The election officials at every polling place? None of them, because the machines are owned by the state, and only some state official gets to see it?
Even if a government election license states that anyone and everyone gets to see the sources, how can I know that what looks to me like acceptable source code is what is actually running when I cast my ballot?
In terms of tampering, how does open-source prevent that? I don't think it does. It really all comes down to how do we know what is running on that machine during times when we care. If someone can still use a standard file cabinet or hotel refrigerator key to swap compact flash cards back and forth, then it doesn't matter if your or I can parse the alleged source code or not.
I think there's a number of places where things can go wrong, and open source doesn't do much at all to affect most of those potential problems.
After all, the iPhone is simply one part of the overall fragmented smartphone market. People are confused, choosing not just between one Android phone and another vs choosing a consistent iPhone separate market, they also have to bother with confusion in choosing Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows 6, or Windows 7, etc. iPhone provides consistency on Apple devices, but that's a very particular corner of the smartphone market, and is only consistent with itself in the same way that all Droid X phones are consistent with other Droid X phones. It's all semantics, it's marketing, and it's B.S.
An old roommate of mine was from India, and he could order engineering textbooks from back home in India for equivalent of US$3 or $5 or so, the bookstore would sell the same title to me for $85 or so. Amazon wasn't up quite yet back then, but still not nearly as cheap as India anyway. My friend says the price difference must be due to lower quality of paper the Indian coy was printed on. Eh, sorry, your paper may be a bit floppier, but I don't think that difference is worth around US$80.
This could be a start for those of us not willing to pay monthly data plan fees to get a smart phone out of our dumb phone. I don't want to pay a hefty monthly fee just to own a smarter phone. Oh, wait, I have Verizon, no SIM slot. So I can't use it anyway. What about a microSD equivalent, with some brains as well as a radio and of course some flash memory?
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I need one. and i do have a smartphone, corporate IM, email, etc. though Skype is officially forbidden for some reason.
For my previous job, i'm not sure i ever had a work related phone call in almost 14 years. at my new job, i'm on the phone a lot. what i found is that just using my cell would be more expensive than getting a voip kit like Ooma for my home office, and connect a desk phone to that. then i use a Google Voice phone number that rings both that and my cell, so i can still take calls if i'm travelling or something, but by far mostly use the desk phone as it's cheaper than upgrading my cell plan to work with this many minutes.
i do use IM as well as email, but phone is still a big part of it.
Laws either require something, or forbid something. In the absence of a law on any particular topic, nothing is required, and nothing is forbidden, thus anything is allowed. So, in the absence of a law that would protect the internet from corporate trolls, they are allowed to put up as many profiteering tollbooths as they want, and take their steps to wreck the whole thing. If laws that would prohibit such maliciousness are disallowed, then we're screwed.
And I'm talking buying brand-new USA editions (I'm in USA), not used or from 3rd-world importers.
I buy textbooks from Amazon when they are cheaper than the university approved bookstore.mbsdirect.net Oh the unhumanity I've caused! Sometimes MBS is cheaper though, and sometimes they have self-published things that can't be had anywhere else. But fir the most part, Amazon is cheaper. And it's not (yet) illegal to buy books from them.
A counterfeiter trying to copy a real bill would have to precisely measure all the attributes of the embedded quantum particles — which is impossible under the tricky laws of quantum mechanics (PDF).
OK, so how does this help to authenticate a genuine note?
I'm really enjoying the testbook for the VHDL/FPGA RTL design class I'm taking now. RTL Hardware Design Using VHDL: Coding for Efficiency, Portability, and Scalability by Pong Chu. It doesn't bog down talking about all possibilities the language allows for legal syntax. The author really seems to focus on common practice for coding into a chip. There's very little if any testbench/simulation in this book, so look elsewhere for that, this one is all about the circuit design. Rather than only explaining what an FSM is, or just that you need a combination of registers and combinational logic, it gives some good suggestion on how to organize your code, such as using two or three separate processes rather than a single one. It talks about coding styles to minimize logic stages for some types of circuits. And it's the first one to explain why getting latches in synthesis is "bad" in a way I could understand, where other books just seem to say "don't allow latches" and I didn't understand why. I find this very refreshing now, as my first exposure to VHDL back in the mod 1990's had a terrible textbook that left me horribly confused about how to do anything useful with the language. And that was very frustrating as I was very interested in FPGAs, and there was no Verilog course at my university. After working with Verilog for the past few years at work, Chu's VHDL textbook has made it a lot easier for me to see how to create Verilog as well, rather than just read to understand other people's code. Chu has some other books that come in VHDL and Verilog pairs. They have project examples to play with in an inexpensive FPGA board. Check them out too.
For firmware and coding hardware, look for books on Embedded style programming, and about driver development. Look up some programmer guides for some ARM chips, they will tell you register definitions and fields and such to program to. I don't know how good these will be, but on my todo list are "Essential Linux Device Driver", "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition", and "Hardware/Firmware Interface Design: Best Practices for Improving Embedded Systems Development". I looked at "Atmel AVR Microcontroller Primer: Programming and Interfacing (Synthesis Lectures on Digital Circuits and Systems) " which may be a good example of some of this as well, and check out some Arduino project books, that seems likely to talk about some of this stuff as well. A reviewer of one of the many AVR books says to go look up the http://www.avrfreaks.net/ website for some free such info. They and similar sites for Pic and Arm should have some relevant information for you. If these all seem too much of the "this is the language" or "this is what the hardware looks like" but not enough of "common practice is to..." type, maybe get a kickstarter project going to make what you need, and start interviewing people that do this every day.
OK, I've seen a few people concerned that the hotmail/live login is needed for EVERYTHING. How is this different than Android? Your gmail login is your phone account is your app store account is your docs/drive account is your scholar account is...
Have I missed where people complained that Google is the same way?
If the average joe is not allowed to get investment in his company, then how do companies with wealthy venture capital investors work? What's the difference?
I forgot to mention in my initial post, there's also FPGA based hardware clones of the "Classic" Amiga computers to run the old M68k based OS on. Minimig is an open-source one available for a variety of FPGA boards such as Terasic's DE1 and Minimig-branded boards for some time now. Natami is a proprietary one that's been produced for their FPGA code developers only so far but have been seen on YouTube and such doing demonstrations of what's working so far. Even without the Amiga name at all, they to many of the community are more "Amiga" than the official name licensees like this Commodore thing.
To get an idea of what the Amiga community thinks of this, look here:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6305&start=0
Understand that this has nothing to do with what people know to be or remember having been an Amiga. The "True Amiga" and the name have gone in somewhat different directions. Amiga the company licensed Amiga the name to these Commodore people to stick on whatever they want to stick it on. it has nothing to do with "Classic" Amiga computers, AmigaOS, or what the remaining Amiga user community is interested in. Most of us feel that this Amiga the name thing is nothing more than Amiga the company flipping us all off and doing everything it can to cause confusion and harm to the user community and AmigaOS platform. We the community use computers now called "Classic" Amigas running AmigaOS (the old M68K/PowerPC based Amiga 1000, 500, 2000, 3000, 4000 models), more modern AmigaOS4 or MorphOS computers called AmigaOnes or SAMs, Pegasos(1 or 2), Efika, or some Powerbook models for MorphOS, or nearly any PC running AROS or WinUAE.
AmigaOS4.x is the current "True Amiga" OS platform with the officially licensed name and source code origin, and is PowerPC based. MorphOS is also PowerPC based and at one time was considered as a candidate to become the "True" AmigaOS, not it is an -alike competitor. MorphOS recently suggested they are considering switching or adding support for ARM and/or x86 at some point in the future. AROS is an open-source clone and runs on x86 and other processors.
This "Commodore Amiga" thing is an annoyance to many in the Amiga user community. It's not the return of anything Amiga other than a stupid sticker. The "Real" Amiga platform is elsewhere. You all on slashdot probably wouldn't like that either, as it's also expensive and a nanoscopic market (Though expensive at least makes more sense in the non-mass-market hardware scale of economy, though that's still difficult to accept at times)
The Commodore name went a different direction than the Amiga platform long ago. This company seems to want to bring the two names together again for some reason, but they don't seem at all interested in anything resembling the Amiga platform. Their Amiga 1000X (likely yet another lame PC running Linux Mint) product name seems to be an attack on the existing AmigaOne X1000 motherboard (Runs AmigaOS4 on a PowerPC chip) They even say that the free and open-source AROS is of no interest to them. I really don't understand what genuine purpose this company offers to the Amiga community. I don't really care about the sticker at this point. Give me a Quigibo 4240 running AmigaOS (or an -alike) and I'm happy. Give me a Linux box that says Amiga on it, and without anything -alike, it's just a Linux PC like any other.
AmigaOS today is for people that are obsessed with it. Either you are, and enjoy it, or you are not, and don't care. It can be a useful platform, though yes it does have some limitations today. I don't know why people post Amiga stuff to the non-caring Slashdot etc. sites. Move along and let us enjoy our hobby, we obsessors don't need your counseling and it won't bring us to our senses anyway.
Look at the R's to choose from. Even if people were "smart enough" to choose the best candidate, we don't really have a good candidate on the list. Then, for all the D's who were disappointed with how little change we got from Obama, why is there not a second choice there? The system is completely rigged to avoid the possibility of a "best" or even a "good" candidate to vote for.
It's something for Amiga fans. For the most part, anyone that does not already want a portable Amiga can disregard this notice. You don't care, that's fine, don't trash talk those of us that do. I hate seeing Amiga news on Slashdot, while it does seem to be rather nerdy news, it's just not an accepted topic here. But being portable and relatively cheap for an Amiga platform today, maybe some who have drifted away might consider spending a few hundred bucks to check it out and enjoy Amiga again for a bit. No one thinks we'll be competing with Android on local superstore shelves with this thing. Amiga fans still around today may make Apple fans look like tremendously lucid normal people, but we aren't stupid to think we'll just walk into BestBuy or Fry's and sell millions of units. So don't go thinking this is anything we're expecting to see with this thing.
I myself would really prefer to see a higher performance laptop with optical drive, 15inch screen, and a Freescale AMP or the PA Semi chips they somehow got their hands on for the X1000 tower. I'd really prefer they port x86 or ARM so it's easy to get whatever hardware to run it on. But this is the only portable choice we've ever really had. As I haven't used a tower in years, they're buried in storage with no desk space to be hooked up on and I don't want to be tethred to said desk in some room anyway, I'm very happy about this tiny netbook thing. But that's my hobby interest. Nothing practical. Nothing useful to you. Just fun for me. And however many other Amiga fans are still around for it. And that's plenty good enough reason for me that this (will) exists.
I just hate it when my random number generator only returns a single value of 4
57% of Italian Households voted in this public measure. While democracy should trump all, is it wise to hold majority opinion so high that it slows down progress?"
interviewer: "The people voted to end nuclear power."
DC: "So?"
It's kind of nice to see a government that doesn't feel so much contempt for its people as to ignore their view of things.
I'd hope that whatever they voted on exactly offers periods of review to consider advances in nuclear power planting that make things safer, and have a path back to nuclear in the future if it makes sense again someday to them.
I'm not sure what habits are good or bad for web guys or software guys. I suppose there is likely some overlap.
I have two monitors.
Right now I'm auditing simulation tests for an SoC, we're updating an older design with current peripheral revisions, newer CPU core revision, DMA controller connections, memory configuration, etc.
I have a spec doc open, a test spreadsheet showing what tests came with the original design, and a shell with a dozen tabs showing the RTL netlist, individual test C code, chip configuration .h files and my audit result file, simulation GUI, test description GUI, and some other things. It's nice to have the C code on one screen while the test description GUI is on the other screen. Or the description GUI and the audit results each on a screen. Or the audit results and the test spreadsheet. Or the HDL code and the simulation waves. Or C code and simulation waves. I don't need individual screens for every window, but different combinations of do things work out well on two screens. I think that a single screen would be too confining. Lucky me I'm one of the last to get a second screen, so there's not really anyone to give one of mine to. :)
If the economy is so dependent on this that we would all suffer tremendously if they had to stop, how did we ever manage to do anything before this capability arrived?
OK, sure, I'd love an android phone, but I'm not willing to pay the hefty data plan fees.
I'd really been considering how to get a good android phone without a phone plan at all, and use it like an iTouch, only with wifi and no voice or cellular data whatsoever. The *pads are too big, I want something phone/iTouch sized that will fit in my normal sized pockets. Too bad the demoted the camera on this compared to it's Galaxy S phone cousin. I've not seen an amoled screen to know if I care that's gone too. I'd really like to see someone do as good of a product as the really good smartphones and just leave out the cellular part of it, without degrading any other features in the process. But at least this sort of thing is being seen now.
So, closed source is a problem. But there are other problems inherent to electronic voting that I don't think changing the license or opening the source will improve on.
As the summary says, there is no proof that a system behaves the same on voting day as it does on test day. How does open-source fix that? I don't think it does. Do you or me or any general public person get to audit the code on both days, and compare checksums or hashes on the binaries? How do we know that the test day binary wasn't swapped back in before the "after audit" to hide the fact that a malicious binary was running during voting?
If certifying equipment by registrars is optional, how does open-source fix that? I don't think it does. If something is optional, it doesn't matter what the code license is, only that the relevant people choose to exercise that option.
In general, how open-source do you want? Even GPL doesn't require that every citizen gets to see the sources. Only that those receiving the binary do. Who is it that receives the binary distribution such that they are also owed the sources? The registrars? The election officials at every polling place? None of them, because the machines are owned by the state, and only some state official gets to see it?
Even if a government election license states that anyone and everyone gets to see the sources, how can I know that what looks to me like acceptable source code is what is actually running when I cast my ballot?
In terms of tampering, how does open-source prevent that? I don't think it does. It really all comes down to how do we know what is running on that machine during times when we care. If someone can still use a standard file cabinet or hotel refrigerator key to swap compact flash cards back and forth, then it doesn't matter if your or I can parse the alleged source code or not.
I think there's a number of places where things can go wrong, and open source doesn't do much at all to affect most of those potential problems.
After all, the iPhone is simply one part of the overall fragmented smartphone market. People are confused, choosing not just between one Android phone and another vs choosing a consistent iPhone separate market, they also have to bother with confusion in choosing Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows 6, or Windows 7, etc. iPhone provides consistency on Apple devices, but that's a very particular corner of the smartphone market, and is only consistent with itself in the same way that all Droid X phones are consistent with other Droid X phones. It's all semantics, it's marketing, and it's B.S.
The people running this site have been trying to contact Paypal but get no response in trying to get things sorted out. amigans.net thread about this
Puts to shame those guys that still only toss a stick of dynamite in the lake during their fishing trip.
An old roommate of mine was from India, and he could order engineering textbooks from back home in India for equivalent of US$3 or $5 or so, the bookstore would sell the same title to me for $85 or so. Amazon wasn't up quite yet back then, but still not nearly as cheap as India anyway. My friend says the price difference must be due to lower quality of paper the Indian coy was printed on. Eh, sorry, your paper may be a bit floppier, but I don't think that difference is worth around US$80.
This could be a start for those of us not willing to pay monthly data plan fees to get a smart phone out of our dumb phone. I don't want to pay a hefty monthly fee just to own a smarter phone. Oh, wait, I have Verizon, no SIM slot. So I can't use it anyway. What about a microSD equivalent, with some brains as well as a radio and of course some flash memory?