My friend will rig his machine to show the voter the correct name, but my name will be recorded in the memory of the machine. Voters will be reassured that the system is secure because they will see the name of the person they voted for and will NOT raise the alarm. In fact, because I'm not greedy, no one will raise the alarm.
That's why Voter Verified Paper Trail systems need to be paired with randomly selected hand recounts of a significant percentage of precincts.
When broken down by categories, the percentages were disproportionate for minority (84.2% for white 78.2% for black voters), low income (78.9% income under $40K vs. 89.3% for income from $40K to $80K), very young/very old (78.0% 18-34 years old 80.6% for 70 years and up, 83.8 35-54 years and 85.9 55-69 years old), and lower education (HS grad 79% vs 88.9% for college grads), and by political party (86.2% for Republicans, 81.7% for Democrats.)
The study concludes:
While the ability of rigid voting requirements to achieve the goal of reducing voter fraud is debatable at best, our results from four separate locations clearly indicate that these requirements have significant electoral implications. Not only does the Indiana law disproportionately impact the communities most vulnerable to changes in the electoral process, there is also a clear partisan bias associated with these laws as well.
Our data suggests that a greater number of Democrats than Republicans or Independents are excluded from voting under Indianaâ(TM)s voter identification laws. This is particularly concerning given the very narrow vote margins associated with several federal, state, and local races in recent memory. While the state interest of preventing voting fraud is an important one, our results here question whether this interest should be advanced despite apparent evidence that this ostensible method of fraud prevention disproportionately impacts specific segments of the electorate.
There is a nice package out there called Readerware. It does lookups on major retailers on the web, and can scrape information out of their websites, or other sites on the net.
Hasn't been updated in a while, but the scrapers still seem to work, and the barcode reader integration is really nice.
(If you have a collection of DVDs, CDs and books and you want to file for insurance, being able to build a catalog like that is VERY nice.)
That's incorrect. The act in the Senate was passed on a basically straight party line vote. See 106th Congress, Senate Roll Call Vote 105 54-44. 53 Republicans voted for the bill, 1 Deomcrat. 44 Democrats voted against the bill.
Why can't he be a bad guy AND be surrounded by morons-- you know, the old "bad guy surrounded by morons" routine...???
Dark Helmet: Who is he? Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole sir. Dark Helmet: I know that! What's his name? Colonel Sandurz: That is his name sir. Asshole, Major Asshole! Dark Helmet: And his cousin? Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole too sir. Gunner's mate First Class Philip Asshole! Dark Helmet: How many asholes do we have on this ship, anyway? [Entire bridge crew stands up and raises a hand] Entire Bridge Crew: Yo! Dark Helmet: I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes! [Dark Helmet pulls his face shield down] Dark Helmet: Keep firing, assholes!
I suggest a milk crate. If you don't want to go the milk crate route, a file storage crate will work really well also.
Put the power strip in an out of the way corner. Plug in all the pluggables. Flip the crate over, and put it over the power strip. Feed the ends out of the crate. Put a fancy covering or something on top.
This way, the power strips are pretty much out of sight. You can put things on top of the crate while they're charging.
I seem to recall that scientists are developing tools that can run DNA analysis in the field on the cheap. Essentially, they can run this on very young plants and leave only the plants that meet the genetic expression the producers want.
S. 2248 has already passed. If this passes the House, the House and Senate will probably conference these two bills together and take the immunity provisions of the House version.
I would wonder what this would do for "common carrier" status held by these ISPs?
It's like a cable company changing the channel ads with their own
Seen it. In a very small city I used to live in, Time Warner injected their own ads over other ads on the cable network. You could always tell it was an injected ad because it was local and it was off by a fraction of a second, so you saw the beginning or end of an alternate commercial.
They also messed around with the "typing" notification, moving it from the tab/window pane to inside the IM text.
It gets really annoying when you're trying to read a message that was just sent to you, and suddenly the text is shifted up a line because the person on the other end just started typing.
I joined in on a bug report regarding the notification, asking for a configuration option to be created so that the previous style could be used.
Reminds me of a former professor's work, "GenJam", from Al Biles at RIT.
It really sounds like something similar. Al Biles' software incorporates a genetic algorithm along with training from a human ear to choose "what sounds good".
It looks like the difference is that this generates full chord structures, instead of individual notes, and is designed to work with voices, which aren't as well trained.
Al's project has been at work for quite some time now, but he wrote a couple of chapters for "Evolutionary Music", released in 2007.
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My friend will rig his machine to show the voter the correct name, but my name will be recorded in the memory of the machine. Voters will be reassured that the system is secure because they will see the name of the person they voted for and will NOT raise the alarm. In fact, because I'm not greedy, no one will raise the alarm.
That's why Voter Verified Paper Trail systems need to be paired with randomly selected hand recounts of a significant percentage of precincts.
Actually, not "sadly" really. In Indiana, the state with the most stringent ID requirements, only 85.9% of 2006 voters had an ID that exactly matched their voter registration.
When broken down by categories, the percentages were disproportionate for minority (84.2% for white 78.2% for black voters), low income (78.9% income under $40K vs. 89.3% for income from $40K to $80K), very young/very old (78.0% 18-34 years old 80.6% for 70 years and up, 83.8 35-54 years and 85.9 55-69 years old), and lower education (HS grad 79% vs 88.9% for college grads), and by political party (86.2% for Republicans, 81.7% for Democrats.)
The study concludes:
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There's a bunch of round tuits out on the internets.
There is a nice package out there called Readerware. It does lookups on major retailers on the web, and can scrape information out of their websites, or other sites on the net.
Hasn't been updated in a while, but the scrapers still seem to work, and the barcode reader integration is really nice.
(If you have a collection of DVDs, CDs and books and you want to file for insurance, being able to build a catalog like that is VERY nice.)
It's happened. ESPN connived a way to get to another sites private database and reported the data as its own. The website injected some fake data which ESPN picked up and reported and were caught.
That's incorrect. The act in the Senate was passed on a basically straight party line vote. See 106th Congress, Senate Roll Call Vote 105 54-44. 53 Republicans voted for the bill, 1 Deomcrat. 44 Democrats voted against the bill.
You're looking at the Senate accepting the conference report, which was the 90-8 vote. (106th Congress, Senate Roll Call Vote 354).
My search-fu is sort of weak, but the last time I could find that the Senate outright rejected a Conference Report (filibusters excluded) was in 1918.
Voter verified paper trail. IIRC, the machines in Brazil have one. In addition random hand recounts of precincts are needed as well.
yeah right. Puerto Vallarta is a child molestors destination and your looking to encrypt your pics.
Get real fool.
Oh, come on, even Rush Limbaugh knows the Dominican Republic is where it's at
Wow, you don't say!
Dilbert: I'm the victim of an ugly rumor at work.
Dogbert: Are you saying that the rumor is ugly or that the rumor is that you are ugly?
Dilbert: I'm saying that the rumor itself is ugly.
Dogbert: I have some more bad news for you.
"The purpose of a lawsuit is not to win, but to harass" - L. Ron Hubbard.
Ironically, the largest fine under SLAPP went against $cientology, I think the fine was in the range of $500,000
Why can't he be a bad guy AND be surrounded by morons-- you know, the old "bad guy surrounded by morons" routine...???
Dark Helmet: Who is he?
Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole sir.
Dark Helmet: I know that! What's his name?
Colonel Sandurz: That is his name sir. Asshole, Major Asshole!
Dark Helmet: And his cousin?
Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole too sir. Gunner's mate First Class Philip Asshole!
Dark Helmet: How many asholes do we have on this ship, anyway?
[Entire bridge crew stands up and raises a hand]
Entire Bridge Crew: Yo!
Dark Helmet: I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes!
[Dark Helmet pulls his face shield down]
Dark Helmet: Keep firing, assholes!
I suggest a milk crate. If you don't want to go the milk crate route, a file storage crate will work really well also.
Put the power strip in an out of the way corner. Plug in all the pluggables. Flip the crate over, and put it over the power strip. Feed the ends out of the crate. Put a fancy covering or something on top.
This way, the power strips are pretty much out of sight. You can put things on top of the crate while they're charging.
Something like Marker Assisted Selection?
I seem to recall that scientists are developing tools that can run DNA analysis in the field on the cheap. Essentially, they can run this on very young plants and leave only the plants that meet the genetic expression the producers want.
Perhaps Windows ME was New Coke and Vista is just Pepsi.
So, which OS is Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper?
Mention the bill number, HR 6304.
S. 2248 has already passed. If this passes the House, the House and Senate will probably conference these two bills together and take the immunity provisions of the House version.
Changing content and injecting different ads?
I would wonder what this would do for "common carrier" status held by these ISPs?
It's like a cable company changing the channel ads with their own
Seen it. In a very small city I used to live in, Time Warner injected their own ads over other ads on the cable network. You could always tell it was an injected ad because it was local and it was off by a fraction of a second, so you saw the beginning or end of an alternate commercial.
Sanford Wallace?
LART That Pinhead!
I wonder if Comcast will run afoul of any anti-competitive/monopoly laws. Don't forget that Comcast is also a content provider and content creator.
They also messed around with the "typing" notification, moving it from the tab/window pane to inside the IM text.
It gets really annoying when you're trying to read a message that was just sent to you, and suddenly the text is shifted up a line because the person on the other end just started typing.
I joined in on a bug report regarding the notification, asking for a configuration option to be created so that the previous style could be used.
No response from the authors yet.
Here's another review of the article.
I considered this odd because Astraware released a version of Bejeweled that did this for Valentines Day 2007.
Pssst: Ed Felten is a constituent of Rush Holt.
Reminds me of a former professor's work, "GenJam", from Al Biles at RIT.
It really sounds like something similar. Al Biles' software incorporates a genetic algorithm along with training from a human ear to choose "what sounds good".
It looks like the difference is that this generates full chord structures, instead of individual notes, and is designed to work with voices, which aren't as well trained.
Al's project has been at work for quite some time now, but he wrote a couple of chapters for "Evolutionary Music", released in 2007.