Once you pull the card out of the template, it looks like just a bunch of random holes.
The ballots themselves aren't printed? I've never seen a punch-card ballot, but I always assumed that they would be printed like a regular ballot and the punching part would just knock a hole in your choice in the same way you could mark it with a pencil.
Then you can inspect the "finished product" and insure that the holes are where you want them.
This means that by enfranchising blind people we disenfranchise far more people.
As I just stated in response to an earlier comment here, enfranchising blind people is dead simple. You create a cardboard template that the (paper)ballot fits behind, with holes where the marks go and maybe braille writing on the template. The blind person can feel the holes and count from the top to where he wishes to mark the ballot, make his X inside of the hole, remove the ballot from the template, fold it up and turn it in at the collection desk. No problem...
Actually, when I wrote that I was forgetting two groups of people: people with physical or visual disabilities. But I'm quite sure there are simple means which can be used to enable them to register their vote, without requiring any sort of electronic solution.
There are indeed. Cardboard templates with cutout holes and maybe even braille writing where a ballot can be placed under the template and a blind voter can move his hand over the template to find the hole that he wishes to mark.
Over 1000 attempts at activation with that single code within only a few days, but only the first 3 were lucky enough to get it for free
First 3? Why would it be more than one? If it's a unique key number, then why would you allow activation more than once using that key? Second try, fuggeddaboudit jack.
the white light starts blinking, and that means don't fucking drive through the intersection. The lights themselves don't actually change color.
The lights don't change colour but the flashing white light means don't go through the intersection even if you have a green light?
Now just exactly how am I, the out-of-state driver who's never heard of such a thing (stopping at a flashing white light even if you have a green light) supposed to know about this, should I ever have reason to drive through your fair city?
There is a reason why traffic control devices are uniform across the country/continent; red means stop, green means proceed everywhere that I've ever been.
If they are really good, they stop and make sure they have the right of way.
One of the major problems when approaching an intersection is the OTHER emergency response vehicle that's going to the same place you are. He can be coming up the other road and you won't hear his siren over your own siren.
It's far from uncommon for two emergency vehicles to collide at an intersection.
Isn't the simplest method to simply flash the red-light camera at whoever uses the device and send big fat nasty tickets to those caught doing it fraudulently?
So I, the big bad guy with the device, activate it from 1500 feet away and the light turns green in front of me. My car and 46 others drive on through the nice green light.
Um, just curious: exactly how is the mine going to know that ID #3141592345 is say, Cartridges, 50 cal and not Boots, size 10?
With a bit of intellegence work. (Where have I seen that before....)
Nobody is saying it'll be easy to accomplish. But it would be possible to accomplish, and it's another avenue for the enemy to explore and posssibly exploit.
The big question here is, is it wise to provide that avenue to potential enemies?
he could be charged with libel for his "SCO has become a nest of liars and thieves" comment, and probably should.
I don't think it is libel. I believe that a simple statement of one's opinion doesn't open you up to a libel prosecution. If he said, "They robbed the candy store on the corner and I think they are a bunch of crooks" then he would have to have some evidence that they did, in fact, rob the candy store. A mere "They are a bunch of crooks" statement is different, though. He's not alleging that they have done or have not done any specific heinous act or action, he's just stating his opinion.
I've got a few CP/M programs on 8" floppy disks somewhere in a pile here. Tell me how I can use that software today. 20 years is a lot less than "perpetuity", too...
when the company disappeared, the source escrow was discovered to be a lie.
This isn't entirely clear to me. I got the impression that the escrow agreement stated that the customers would get the source code if the company went bankrupt. Since the company hasn't actually declared bankruptcy but has simply stopped doing business instead, I'm not convinced that the escrow agreement would apply in those circumstances.
What if a voter makes a mistake and then claims his vote is recorded incorrectly? Do they void the vote and let him vote again? Or if it's "too bad you pushed the wrong button" what's the point of the validation?
In any paper-based election that I've had involvement in (and I've been a deputy returning officer for a few municipal elections in the past) a voter can return his ballot and request a new one for any reason. So if he voted for the "wrong" guy, or over-voted (too many X's) he can get a replacement ballot and his original ballot goes into the "spoiled" pile.
I don't see why an electronic voting system should work differently than that. On the other hand, I don't see why an electronic voting system is necessary.
Note, of course, that I meant it can't be *quickly* fixed. Not overnight. Might take a few days or so.
No, overnight will do. The state warehouse apparently said they would supply extra product before shutting down. The end-user businesses say they can't afford to pay for the extra product to carry them for a couple of weeks; I say that any reasonably profitable small business (or even large business) should be able to arrange a short-term loan from their friendly neighbourhood bank to cover the cost of the extra product.
I don't know why no-one else has picked up on this.
Any reasonable business should be able to arrange a loan for a few thousand dollars for a few weeks. If your business isn't sufficiently credit-worthy for this, then you have greater problems than a shut-down of the state liquor warehouse.
isn't there some sort of fallback system so that at least partial distribution comes to mind?
According to the articles, the government did offer to deliver extra product to the restaurants, bars, clubs, what-have-you, before shutting down the system for this update. The problem wasn't/isn't the lack of supply, but rather the lack of ability of the end-user businesses to pay for the product. Apparently the government liquor warehouse requires cash-on-the-dash, and a lot of smaller businesses don't have the cash to plonk down for 3x their regular order all in one shot.
This seems odd to me; if I had a bar and this situation arose it seems to me that I should be able to negotiate a short-term loan for those couple of weeks -- a friendly banker would probably be happy to front the cash needed in a situation like this. Sure, I'd be out the interest on that loan but if it's only for two or three weeks it wouldn't amount to that much, and it beats running out of booze to sell to paying customers.
Indeed, that seems accurate. However, I still think it should not be necessary for you or anyone else to jump through hoops or attempt "estimates" in regard to matters like these.
There is obviously a fixed dollar amount that exists somewhere; an organization who has its figurative hand out looking for donations from others should be forthcoming in respect of the amounts collected/required/anticipated/etc.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong about or shady in respect of this organization. What I am saying is that they need to be a lot more transparent if they want to engender trust in the masses, as it were.
Until thyey pass a Digital Millenium Public Networking Act which makes running or using an unofficial root server a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and being permanently banned from producing content or software to be used or deployed on any public network.
So the USA becomes a "commercial" backwater and the Internet in the rest of the world continues along its merry way. Sounds a lot like offshoring programming jobs, doesn't it.
The words, "Lead, follow, or get the hell out of my way" come to mind.
I think that this link will help answer your question.
But it doesn't answer anything. It merely says We're not going to tell you in a long-winded manner.
I still believe that a proper accounting and public financial reporting would go a long way toward generating confidence in potential donors to the fund.Here is a good, tax deductible way to help fight against it.
In the USA. The world is larger than the USA and has more tax authorities than the IRS, too.
In a stunning development, the justice department has enacted legislation which effectively places the computer industry on a "feature freeze".
...
Software developers in countries around the world cheer as their competition is kneecapped in the USA and shares in off-shore development houses and hosting operations go through the roof. Many American software houses move their head offices and development facilities to Canada.
A guy I used to work with several years back did that many times to siding salesmen and furnace cleaners. Told them to come right on over -- he lived in a small apartment too.
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Once you pull the card out of the template, it looks like just a bunch of random holes.
The ballots themselves aren't printed? I've never seen a punch-card ballot, but I always assumed that they would be printed like a regular ballot and the punching part would just knock a hole in your choice in the same way you could mark it with a pencil.
Then you can inspect the "finished product" and insure that the holes are where you want them.
This means that by enfranchising blind people we disenfranchise far more people.
As I just stated in response to an earlier comment here, enfranchising blind people is dead simple. You create a cardboard template that the (paper)ballot fits behind, with holes where the marks go and maybe braille writing on the template. The blind person can feel the holes and count from the top to where he wishes to mark the ballot, make his X inside of the hole, remove the ballot from the template, fold it up and turn it in at the collection desk. No problem...
Actually, when I wrote that I was forgetting two groups of people: people with physical or visual disabilities. But I'm quite sure there are simple means which can be used to enable them to register their vote, without requiring any sort of electronic solution.
There are indeed. Cardboard templates with cutout holes and maybe even braille writing where a ballot can be placed under the template and a blind voter can move his hand over the template to find the hole that he wishes to mark.
Over 1000 attempts at activation with that single code within only a few days, but only the first 3 were lucky enough to get it for free
First 3? Why would it be more than one? If it's a unique key number, then why would you allow activation more than once using that key? Second try, fuggeddaboudit jack.
the white light starts blinking, and that means don't fucking drive through the intersection. The lights themselves don't actually change color.
The lights don't change colour but the flashing white light means don't go through the intersection even if you have a green light?
Now just exactly how am I, the out-of-state driver who's never heard of such a thing (stopping at a flashing white light even if you have a green light) supposed to know about this, should I ever have reason to drive through your fair city?
There is a reason why traffic control devices are uniform across the country/continent; red means stop, green means proceed everywhere that I've ever been.
If they are really good, they stop and make sure they have the right of way.
One of the major problems when approaching an intersection is the OTHER emergency response vehicle that's going to the same place you are. He can be coming up the other road and you won't hear his siren over your own siren.
It's far from uncommon for two emergency vehicles to collide at an intersection.
Isn't the simplest method to simply flash the red-light camera at whoever uses the device and send big fat nasty tickets to those caught doing it fraudulently?
So I, the big bad guy with the device, activate it from 1500 feet away and the light turns green in front of me. My car and 46 others drive on through the nice green light.
Which one of us has the device?
Um, just curious: exactly how is the mine going to know that ID #3141592345 is say, Cartridges, 50 cal and not Boots, size 10?
With a bit of intellegence work. (Where have I seen that before....)
Nobody is saying it'll be easy to accomplish. But it would be possible to accomplish, and it's another avenue for the enemy to explore and posssibly exploit.
The big question here is, is it wise to provide that avenue to potential enemies?
he could be charged with libel for his "SCO has become a nest of liars and thieves" comment, and probably should.
I don't think it is libel. I believe that a simple statement of one's opinion doesn't open you up to a libel prosecution. If he said, "They robbed the candy store on the corner and I think they are a bunch of crooks" then he would have to have some evidence that they did, in fact, rob the candy store. A mere "They are a bunch of crooks" statement is different, though. He's not alleging that they have done or have not done any specific heinous act or action, he's just stating his opinion.
you'd be able to use it in perpetuity,
Really?
I've got a few CP/M programs on 8" floppy disks somewhere in a pile here. Tell me how I can use that software today. 20 years is a lot less than "perpetuity", too...
when the company disappeared, the source escrow was discovered to be a lie.
This isn't entirely clear to me. I got the impression that the escrow agreement stated that the customers would get the source code if the company went bankrupt. Since the company hasn't actually declared bankruptcy but has simply stopped doing business instead, I'm not convinced that the escrow agreement would apply in those circumstances.
But then, what do I know.
sometimes it works a little too well.
I agree. I can't even make out all three nonsense words in the second example in the posted article. In fact, there is only one that I think I "know".
It doesn't seem very useful when the gatekeeper software is keeping the PEOPLE out.
Take a look at gxmame for a really cool and very pretty Linux frontend for xmame.
And with xmame, the Linux/Unix Mame version, you can use
-[no]skip_disclaimerSkip displaying the disclaimer screen
-[no]skip_gameinfo Skip displaying the game info screen
on the commandline, or specify these options in your xmamerc file.
I have one too! Here - The Lamb's Arcade Machine. *tee hee*
What if a voter makes a mistake and then claims his vote is recorded incorrectly? Do they void the vote and let him vote again? Or if it's "too bad you pushed the wrong button" what's the point of the validation?
In any paper-based election that I've had involvement in (and I've been a deputy returning officer for a few municipal elections in the past) a voter can return his ballot and request a new one for any reason. So if he voted for the "wrong" guy, or over-voted (too many X's) he can get a replacement ballot and his original ballot goes into the "spoiled" pile.
I don't see why an electronic voting system should work differently than that. On the other hand, I don't see why an electronic voting system is necessary.
Note, of course, that I meant it can't be *quickly* fixed. Not overnight. Might take a few days or so.
No, overnight will do. The state warehouse apparently said they would supply extra product before shutting down. The end-user businesses say they can't afford to pay for the extra product to carry them for a couple of weeks; I say that any reasonably profitable small business (or even large business) should be able to arrange a short-term loan from their friendly neighbourhood bank to cover the cost of the extra product.
I don't know why no-one else has picked up on this.
Any reasonable business should be able to arrange a loan for a few thousand dollars for a few weeks. If your business isn't sufficiently credit-worthy for this, then you have greater problems than a shut-down of the state liquor warehouse.
isn't there some sort of fallback system so that at least partial distribution comes to mind?
According to the articles, the government did offer to deliver extra product to the restaurants, bars, clubs, what-have-you, before shutting down the system for this update. The problem wasn't/isn't the lack of supply, but rather the lack of ability of the end-user businesses to pay for the product. Apparently the government liquor warehouse requires cash-on-the-dash, and a lot of smaller businesses don't have the cash to plonk down for 3x their regular order all in one shot.
This seems odd to me; if I had a bar and this situation arose it seems to me that I should be able to negotiate a short-term loan for those couple of weeks -- a friendly banker would probably be happy to front the cash needed in a situation like this. Sure, I'd be out the interest on that loan but if it's only for two or three weeks it wouldn't amount to that much, and it beats running out of booze to sell to paying customers.
I hope this helped.
Indeed, that seems accurate. However, I still think it should not be necessary for you or anyone else to jump through hoops or attempt "estimates" in regard to matters like these.
There is obviously a fixed dollar amount that exists somewhere; an organization who has its figurative hand out looking for donations from others should be forthcoming in respect of the amounts collected/required/anticipated/etc.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong about or shady in respect of this organization. What I am saying is that they need to be a lot more transparent if they want to engender trust in the masses, as it were.
Until thyey pass a Digital Millenium Public Networking Act which makes running or using an unofficial root server a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and being permanently banned from producing content or software to be used or deployed on any public network.
So the USA becomes a "commercial" backwater and the Internet in the rest of the world continues along its merry way. Sounds a lot like offshoring programming jobs, doesn't it.
The words, "Lead, follow, or get the hell out of my way" come to mind.
I think that this link will help answer your question.
But it doesn't answer anything. It merely says We're not going to tell you in a long-winded manner.
I still believe that a proper accounting and public financial reporting would go a long way toward generating confidence in potential donors to the fund.Here is a good, tax deductible way to help fight against it.
In the USA. The world is larger than the USA and has more tax authorities than the IRS, too.
"Our real costs are less than what are quoted, but we still need money."
So what are the "real costs", then? How much do you currently have, and how much more do you require?
"Give us money" will work a lot better with a real accounting of where said money is going....
The feds are supposed to be a bit aggressive on the side of prosecuting, just like defenders are supposed to be aggressive in their defence.
Actually, no.
The State can never lose, because the State's "interest" is (theoretically) the truth and administration of justice.
Therefore, "aggressive" is not an actual requirement of the State's prosecutors, but rather the search for the truth.
At least, that's supposed to be how it works. In practice, though....
In a stunning development, the justice department has enacted legislation which effectively places the computer industry on a "feature freeze".
...
Software developers in countries around the world cheer as their competition is kneecapped in the USA and shares in off-shore development houses and hosting operations go through the roof. Many American software houses move their head offices and development facilities to Canada.
A guy I used to work with several years back did that many times to siding salesmen and furnace cleaners. Told them to come right on over -- he lived in a small apartment too.