However, you can consider every possible combination of cards your opponent might have, and what might be at the top of the deck. Then you can say things like "I have a 51% chance of coming out on top of this hand, so I'll stay in." No, you won't guarantee success on each hand, but, if the deal's fair, you'll win in the long run.
Either the machines are reliable and trustworthy, or they aren't. This can't be altered by the opinions of a bunch of people who know nothing about it.
Trustworthiness is the opinion of a bunch of people. It's their judgments about whether to trust the system that make it trustworthy or not. There is no objective standard.
San Francisco uses optical scan voting machines. They're not quite as simple as scantrons (they have hard disks that store the data, and various locks and tamper guards).
The system appears to work well. I've been an elections clerk for two elections since the introduction of these machines, and at this point, almost all voters are comfortable with them.
The physical ballot is retained, so that if a recount is needed, they're available, with the voters' original marks on them.
Besides a paper trail, there are other benefits.
Each polling place only needs one machine. Instead of half a dozen touch screen voting stations, we set up simple plastic booths and give the voter a paper ballot and a pen. When they're done voting, they walk over to the counting machine and feed their ballot in. Typically, they spend a long time filling out the ballot, and 30s having their votes counted).
If the machine breaks or if there's a power failure, we can continue to collect votes (the paper ballots go into a sealed, locked box to be machine-read later).
If there were a total failure of (or failure of confidence in) the technology, the ballots could be easily hand-counted by humans.
If a disabled voter needs to vote, it's a simple matter of getting a paper ballot and pen to them, rather than having to get them to come to a touch-screen station.
Who would get those pennies? Your ISP? The backbone provider? Whoever runs the mail server? I run my own mail server. Can I start making money by relaying other people's mail?
"FORTRAN --"the infantile disorder"--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use."
Yes. It was an interesting show. Unfortunately Chuck D and Lars just talked past each other the whole time. Lars essentially granted Chuck D's argument that Napster can be great for unknown bands who would otherwise be dominated by their labels. Chuck D didn't really address Lars's argument that Napster removes all control that an artist would have over his or her work. Neither really refuted anything the other said.
To stop people from using a file sharing system like Gnutella, you don't even have to shame them or threaten them with embarrassment. All you really need to do is make it hard for them to get what they actually want. Make it hard enough and even the most determined pirate/pedophile/innocent person looking for legal content/whatever will give up and look elsewhere.
It would be pretty easy to flood a network like this with lots of servers that claim to have the content that people are looking for, but actually contain garbage. White noise (or advertising!) masqerading as Metallica songs would be just as effective as bogus kiddie porn.
Private, invitation only networks seem like the next obvious step.
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However, you can consider every possible combination of cards your opponent might have, and what might be at the top of the deck. Then you can say things like "I have a 51% chance of coming out on top of this hand, so I'll stay in." No, you won't guarantee success on each hand, but, if the deal's fair, you'll win in the long run.
Either the machines are reliable and trustworthy, or they aren't. This can't be altered by the opinions of a bunch of people who know nothing about it. Trustworthiness is the opinion of a bunch of people. It's their judgments about whether to trust the system that make it trustworthy or not. There is no objective standard.
The system appears to work well. I've been an elections clerk for two elections since the introduction of these machines, and at this point, almost all voters are comfortable with them.
The physical ballot is retained, so that if a recount is needed, they're available, with the voters' original marks on them.
Besides a paper trail, there are other benefits.
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Who would get those pennies? Your ISP? The backbone provider? Whoever runs the mail server? I run my own mail server. Can I start making money by relaying other people's mail?
"FORTRAN --"the infantile disorder"--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use."
--Edsger Dijkstra, 1975
How do we tell truths that might hurt?
Yes. It was an interesting show. Unfortunately Chuck D and Lars just talked past each other the whole time. Lars essentially granted Chuck D's argument that Napster can be great for unknown bands who would otherwise be dominated by their labels. Chuck D didn't really address Lars's argument that Napster removes all control that an artist would have over his or her work. Neither really refuted anything the other said.
To stop people from using a file sharing system like Gnutella, you don't even have to shame them or threaten them with embarrassment. All you really need to do is make it hard for them to get what they actually want. Make it hard enough and even the most determined pirate/pedophile/innocent person looking for legal content/whatever will give up and look elsewhere.
It would be pretty easy to flood a network like this with lots of servers that claim to have the content that people are looking for, but actually contain garbage. White noise (or advertising!) masqerading as Metallica songs would be just as effective as bogus kiddie porn.
Private, invitation only networks seem like the next obvious step.
Aneel