If you have a state or region that is more conservative than a neighboring state or region, you attack the servers that serves that voting district. You will cause the loss of votes in your favor, but you'll cause more votes to be lost that would have favored your opponent.
Another method would be to attack the infrastructure that supports a particular voting district (Obviously, you'd want to attack those districts that lean more heavily toward your opponents).
One big stumbling block to wide-spread acceptance for online voting is the possiblity for disrupting an election by launching a DDOS attack against the voting servers.
Want to skew the results? Attack the servers most likely to be used by a people of a particular political persuation.
Ever consider using a USB memory key? No moving parts and you can get a pretty big chunk of data on them these days. You can get a 256 Meg model nowdays for not that much money. They're tiny too.
I have a pretty big collection of 100 Meg Zip drives that I immediately stopped using the day I got my first CD burner.
Imagine how Micro$oft might react they could prove you'd seen their code and possibly transfered "valuble intellectual property" into open source software.
I don't have a large legal staff on hand, so I think I'll pass on my own personal copy of the source.
Actually, now Microsoft can pull a SCO and sue anyone who produces an OS with lots of security holes and cruft.
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Which is great. But by raising overhead rates to pay for the extra vacation time, the overall effect is to make German industry less cost effective than a less enlightened country (all other factors being equal).
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Personally, I'm in my dream job. I get paid nicely to play with computers.
I've had Directv for about 4 years and overall I'm very happy. Around here (Northern Virginia) our cable provider sucks and I don't have to give them a cent for providing their usually lousy service.
Directv signal is usually very good but I have had problems with loss of signal during severe thunderstorms and when snow covers the dish.
Other than that, I'm pretty happy with my satellite service.
I interviewed at the Dulles site a couple of years ago and got a tour of the data center as well as the NOC. Security is reasonably tight, but it ain't Fort Knox. It was kind of a trip seeing "the" servers.
Basically, they stole Time-Warner. AOLs stock was largely over-valued and the dot com blowup and recession hit at the same time.
I wasn't thrilled about the merger. When the deal was announced, the stock fell into the toilet and it's only now coming back up.
The company as a whole is pretty well off and the stock price is slowly coming back. That doesn't help those people who paid over $90/share anytime soon. I ended up dumping my high-priced AOL shares and took the loss. I bought them back at a much lower rate a few months later
(note: this is just what I choose to do. You may lose everything and have the tax man nail you as well. Don't construe this as advice, because I'm a not an expert. so there).
I gotta disagree with that idea. It's funny, but not especially accurate.
Most of the people I knew at AOL were pretty smart. There are a lot of extremely cool technologies behind the scenes that make the system as a whole work very well.
That being said, many of the upper level managers have risen from the ranks and "grew" into the position they occupy today. They're frequently much better at the technological end of things and not so good at people skills (e.g. feckless yuppie bastards who think that $$$:= intelligence).
There is also quite a bit of trust that whatever is done, the end users will swallow gladly and keep paying WAY too much money for fluff and busy signals. They also pinned too many hopes on people sticking around once they got broadband.
I used to think that most AOL users were idiots. When it comes to technology, many are. Most people are those who don't want to know about computers.
We use Dell's Complete Care package and I'm pretty impressed with their service. We had a guy at work back over his laptop after a company picnic (having kids will do that to you). I'm amazed at how quickly we got things resolved.
He was back in action within a couple of days.
I'd don't know if I'd pay the money for a home system unless you were dragging it all over the place.
In general, Dell's service is pretty good, although sitting through the troubleshooting flow with the tech is annoying sometimes. Nearly all of them don't have a good grasp of basic troubleshooting techniques once they have to leave the script behind.
On the positive side, the techs they send out on the calls seem fairly good and the systems tend to keep working afterwards.
We stepped outside the safe zone once and tried a small Linux laptop vendor in the midwest. What a mess!!
We've had a laptop with a bad external power supply and a user-damaged keyboard for about 9 months. They're refusing to replace the power supply because the keyboard was damaged by the end user.
They only provide e-mail support (assuming you can get them to e-mail at all). Usually, you have to write them nastygrams to get them to even respond.
Luckily, the hardware is owned by the military (we're contractors) and we can toss the issue of warranty support in the lap of the IGs office if we have to .
Seriously though, Tivo was out in front on this technology and whether or not we like it, the only way that tech companies can innovate and still survive is to defend their intellectual property. They put a lot of work into their system and it's not fair for someone else to come along and steal their ideas.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I'm a Tivo stockholder and a Tivo user for the couple of years. I'm biased!
Phase angle is used as a means of determining the azimuth relative to the antenna at one of the receiving stations. You need a reception on two sites in order to obtain a crossfix. A reception on three sites will usually yield a fairly small error ellipse.
My knowledge of TDOA technologies is fairly limited (I used to be fairly involved at one time with AOA methods).
There have been discussions of using signal strength and a received angle as well as hybred AOA/TDOA reception for single site receptions. Those are obviously not as accurate as a multiple site reception.
Another method that can be used is a combination of an AOA reception on a single site and matching the received angle over time with geographic features (roads). This method works best when roads with constant speeds and limited opportunities for changes of direction (such as freeways). The technique is similar to traditional Target Motion Analysis (TMA) that is used in the submarine community.
The Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) method doesn't require a directional antenna. It matches the incoming waveform for each signal in order to determine how long it took the signal to arrive and can derive a crossfix that way. The problem of course is that the timing between stations must be extremely accurate (luckily, it's possible to get a very accurate clock from a nearby GPS satellite).
The Angle of Arrival uses a set of three at each site spaced a quarter wavelength or so apart and the phase angle of the incoming signal gives a fairly accurate measurement of azimuth. If the incoming signal is close to the perpendicular of the antenna plane the most accuracy is obtained. If the signal arrives near the parallel of the antenna plane, a very fat lobe is the result. In that event, a different antenna set can be used.
A detection is required on at least two sites in order to obtain an accurate crossfix. It's not uncommon to detect the signal on three sites. Field trials using a site separation of up to 20 miles have been surprisingly accurate.
The biggest hurdle to deploying any of the infrastructure-based systems is the high cost of backfitting all cell sites with the proper gean. Integration of the system into the E911 system is also an issue.
In the old days, that was true. Now there are infrastructure-based technologies that are being deployed that can accurately measure your location within about 100 yards. These systems usually use either the phase angle of arrival or the time difference of arrival method to determine your location and don't require a GPS in the phone. Your phone simply has to be turned on. GPS systems require a special phone and an unimpeded view of enough GPS satelites in order to function.
Did Darl McBride take over Red Hat when we weren't looking? "Fedora is now a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat will defend this trademark in order to protect the integrity of The Fedora Project" Looks like Red Hat needs to find another name.
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If you have a state or region that is more conservative than a neighboring state or region, you attack the servers that serves that voting district. You will cause the loss of votes in your favor, but you'll cause more votes to be lost that would have favored your opponent.
Another method would be to attack the infrastructure that supports a particular voting district (Obviously, you'd want to attack those districts that lean more heavily toward your opponents).
One big stumbling block to wide-spread acceptance for online voting is the possiblity for disrupting an election by launching a DDOS attack against the voting servers.
Want to skew the results? Attack the servers most likely to be used by a people of a particular political persuation.
Ever consider using a USB memory key? No moving parts and you can get a pretty big chunk of data on them these days. You can get a 256 Meg model nowdays for not that much money. They're tiny too.
I have a pretty big collection of 100 Meg Zip drives that I immediately stopped using the day I got my first CD burner.
CD or Flash-based MP3 Player:
Because I can carry about 2500 songs that *I* like on a very nicely designed device.
FM:
Because I don't have to listen to idiotic DJ's or pay lots of bucks every month for Pay Radio.
Imagine how Micro$oft might react they could prove you'd seen their code and possibly transfered "valuble intellectual property" into open source software.
I don't have a large legal staff on hand, so I think I'll pass on my own personal copy of the source.
Actually, now Microsoft can pull a SCO and sue anyone who produces an OS with lots of security holes and cruft.
Which is great. But by raising overhead rates to pay for the extra vacation time, the overall effect is to make German industry less cost effective than a less enlightened country (all other factors being equal).
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Personally, I'm in my dream job. I get paid nicely to play with computers.
If you're wearing an analog watch and someone asks you what time it is, you say: a quarter to 10.
If you're wearing a digital watch: it's 9:43 and 17 seconds!!! Urk!!!
Geez... ya sound like a total dweeb!
I've had Directv for about 4 years and overall I'm very happy. Around here (Northern Virginia) our cable provider sucks and I don't have to give them a cent for providing their usually lousy service.
Directv signal is usually very good but I have had problems with loss of signal during severe thunderstorms and when snow covers the dish.
Other than that, I'm pretty happy with my satellite service.
I interviewed at the Dulles site a couple of years ago and got a tour of the data center as well as the NOC. Security is reasonably tight, but it ain't Fort Knox. It was kind of a trip seeing "the" servers.
Basically, they stole Time-Warner. AOLs stock was largely over-valued and the dot com blowup and recession hit at the same time.
I wasn't thrilled about the merger. When the deal was announced, the stock fell into the toilet and it's only now coming back up.
The company as a whole is pretty well off and the stock price is slowly coming back. That doesn't help those people who paid over $90/share anytime soon. I ended up dumping my high-priced AOL shares and took the loss. I bought them back at a much lower rate a few months later
(note: this is just what I choose to do. You may lose everything and have the tax man nail you as well. Don't construe this as advice, because I'm a not an expert. so there).
I gotta disagree with that idea. It's funny, but not especially accurate.
:= intelligence).
Most of the people I knew at AOL were pretty smart. There are a lot of extremely cool technologies behind the scenes that make the system as a whole work very well.
That being said, many of the upper level managers have risen from the ranks and "grew" into the position they occupy today. They're frequently much better at the technological end of things and not so good at people skills (e.g. feckless yuppie bastards who think that $$$
There is also quite a bit of trust that whatever is done, the end users will swallow gladly and keep paying WAY too much money for fluff and busy signals. They also pinned too many hopes on people sticking around once they got broadband.
I used to think that most AOL users were idiots. When it comes to technology, many are. Most people are those who don't want to know about computers.
We use Dell's Complete Care package and I'm pretty impressed with their service. We had a guy at work back over his laptop after a company picnic (having kids will do that to you). I'm amazed at how quickly we got things resolved.
He was back in action within a couple of days.
I'd don't know if I'd pay the money for a home system unless you were dragging it all over the place.
In general, Dell's service is pretty good, although sitting through the troubleshooting flow with the tech is annoying sometimes. Nearly all of them don't have a good grasp of basic troubleshooting techniques once they have to leave the script behind.
On the positive side, the techs they send out on the calls seem fairly good and the systems tend to keep working afterwards.
We stepped outside the safe zone once and tried a small Linux laptop vendor in the midwest. What a mess!!
We've had a laptop with a bad external power supply and a user-damaged keyboard for about 9 months. They're refusing to replace the power supply because the keyboard was damaged by the end user.
They only provide e-mail support (assuming you can get them to e-mail at all). Usually, you have to write them nastygrams to get them to even respond.
Luckily, the hardware is owned by the military (we're contractors) and we can toss the issue of warranty support in the lap of the IGs office if we have to .
actually, I thought that the age was defined in US Code
explain how I can use one vcr to record one show while I watch a previously taped show?
Or how I can pause live tv without having a tape running constantly 24/7?
Or how I can decide after the fact to record a show after it's already started (assuming that I do it in the first half hour or so)?
Or how I can keep one show for months on a tape while recording around it?
or erasing shows from the middle of the tape while still being able to record shows in the unused spots?
Hmmm??? I didn't think you could...
Sorry... The Japanese have prior art on that one.
Seriously though, Tivo was out in front on this technology and whether or not we like it, the only way that tech companies can innovate and still survive is to defend their intellectual property. They put a lot of work into their system and it's not fair for someone else to come along and steal their ideas.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I'm a Tivo stockholder and a Tivo user for the couple of years. I'm biased!
Mod parent down. The tarrato link will redirect you to goatse.cx
I read a bit about him a few different sites. Sounds like an interesting guy.
Yeah, you have to drink to stay sober.... taxes ones bank account after a while..... sigh....
Of course, some beers are more like dishwater than others.
Given the Chinese Govt's regard for their peoples rights and privacy, I'll bet that it has a bigger backdoor than goatxse man.
Phase angle is used as a means of determining the azimuth relative to the antenna at one of the receiving stations. You need a reception on two sites in order to obtain a crossfix. A reception on three sites will usually yield a fairly small error ellipse.
My knowledge of TDOA technologies is fairly limited (I used to be fairly involved at one time with AOA methods).
There have been discussions of using signal strength and a received angle as well as hybred AOA/TDOA reception for single site receptions. Those are obviously not as accurate as a multiple site reception.
Another method that can be used is a combination of an AOA reception on a single site and matching the received angle over time with geographic features (roads). This method works best when roads with constant speeds and limited opportunities for changes of direction (such as freeways). The technique is similar to traditional Target Motion Analysis (TMA) that is used in the submarine community.
The Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) method doesn't require a directional antenna. It matches the incoming waveform for each signal in order to determine how long it took the signal to arrive and can derive a crossfix that way. The problem of course is that the timing between stations must be extremely accurate (luckily, it's possible to get a very accurate clock from a nearby GPS satellite).
The Angle of Arrival uses a set of three at each site spaced a quarter wavelength or so apart and the phase angle of the incoming signal gives a fairly accurate measurement of azimuth. If the incoming signal is close to the perpendicular of the antenna plane the most accuracy is obtained.
If the signal arrives near the parallel of the antenna plane, a very fat lobe is the result. In that event, a different antenna set can be used.
A detection is required on at least two sites in order to obtain an accurate crossfix. It's not uncommon to detect the signal on three sites. Field trials using a site separation of up to 20 miles have been surprisingly accurate.
The biggest hurdle to deploying any of the infrastructure-based systems is the high cost of backfitting all cell sites with the proper gean. Integration of the system into the E911 system is also an issue.
In the old days, that was true. Now there are infrastructure-based technologies that are being deployed that can accurately measure your location within about 100 yards. These systems usually use either the phase angle of arrival or the time difference of arrival method to determine your location and don't require a GPS in the phone. Your phone simply has to be turned on. GPS systems require a special phone and an unimpeded view of enough GPS satelites in order to function.
Did Darl McBride take over Red Hat when we weren't looking?
"Fedora is now a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat will defend this trademark in order to protect the integrity of The Fedora Project"
Looks like Red Hat needs to find another name.