There are lots of ways to create auditable trails for e-voting, but they aren't interested in offering the feature. Why not? I conclude it's because the lack of auditing is precisely the point. That's hos Diebold plans to "deliver" Ohio.
That reason why Database Technologies (DBT) was given the job of "scrubbing" felons from the Florida voting rolls was not that they were cheap (500 times more than the company they replaced) nor that they were efficient. Katherine Harris several times shifted the standards to INCREASE the error rate. False positives are a good thing when you are trimming likely Democratic voters, which was the point. (Race was identified, names munged. They were intentionally careless about getting names correctly, so the wrong people were scrubbed, but race was 100% on the money for each entry.) The error rate of 89% was just fine: and resulted in handing Bush the state. Sort of. It took other shenannigans to get the 500 vote margin.
Some Republicans have already proven they like monkeying with elections to gain power. Two of the 3 main e-voting vendors have strong partisan, Republican ties. This is a problem for believers in democracy, Democrats, and principled Republicans.
My daughter doesn't get the competition thing. When she was 5 and in soccar, she generally couldn't tell who "won". She could definitely tell you what they had for snack, though!
And that rocks. Kids like ritual and running around and screaming. I dunno if I want her in competitive leagues, though. There's a side of ourselves we don't see unless we push ourselves hard. On the other hand, that's where the parents get in fist fights with the refs.
Some managers who make critical business decisions based on "I can get tech support from a Linux newsgroup" should get promoted.
If they can get that support, they rock.
Do you really think it is hard to find fee-based support for Linux? My strong sense, based only on anecdotal evidence/personal experience, is that it is MUCH better than the minesweeper certified solitaire experts. I had an intern who had passed the core exams and had only to get a couple of electives before becoming a certified god of tech. I told him to open the control panel. Deer in headlights look. "Hit the start button." Deer in headlights look. "Bottom left corner of the screen."
And what kind of road map did they provide? Win95, OSR2, Win98, Win98SE, WinME, all in parallel with nt 3.5, 3.51, 4.0, 2000, xp, 2003, longhorn. All have to be tested on separately. All with bizarre half-breedisms depending on what version of IE you have. Yech. How many times did they announce the merging of the consumer and business os's? To me, it's a similar road the Japanese offered U.S. troops when Corregidor fell.
I was a contract tester on SMS for 6 months (before I got a real job) and the SMS team didn't even know within 1 year (!) when win2k was coming out. Seriously: they chopped a massive set of features for SMS 2.0 so they could release and not get lost in the turmoil of the win2k release. Which didn't happen for close to a year after they thought it was coming.
The whole roadmap thing is so wrong headed anyway. Linux has a decent architecture, scales from embedded devices to supercomputers, and supports the current toys. Basically: it's in a good place now, and you can run it for years. You can write something for the current state of the kernel and figure it will probably compile and run in the future. Can you say that for windows apps? How many vendors have pulled support for win98? Lots.
I think you outdid the most moronic statement in a while.
Granting your point that consumer spending leads to jobs, the GWB tax cuts went mostly to those whose spending is the lowest as a proportion of income. They were thus the least efficient targets for growth-oriented tax cuts. Payroll tax cuts and extended unemployment benefits would have been much stronger measures to boost the economy.
Are we up to 6th grade yet?
And since when have economists not been retards? Presumably there is a saddle point beyond which taking econ classes decreases intelligence. Fucking pseudo-science.
Does it fail the laugh test if you posit the 5 Republican Supremes going against the grain of decades of their own opinions upholding states' rights, to counter a state court's election decision favoring a Republican? Yes, indeedy. Shoe on other foot leads to other decision.
Does it fail the laugh test if you posit a Democrat running the Florida election and acting as state campaign chair, and ask whether you'd be content when every single decision favored the Democrat?
Real Razor time: what's the most obvious explanation for firing an inexpensive contractor and awarding a contract for purging voter rolls of ineligibles to the HIGH bidder? And repeatedly asking that the statistical methods for validation be less sound (generating more false positives)? What's the likely explanation for a 90% error rate, and the defiance of two court orders related to restitution of voter status?
I consider what Harris and Jeb Bush did to be treason against a democratic society.
and it's sooooo much worse for them to lose, because it's a failure on a massive scale. With their payroll, it's a professional embarassment to drop a game. That they missed the Series last year, ooooh my god how humiliating. That they got beat in the series the year before, oh that's bad. To a team with 2/3rds the payroll. Epic, epic fuck up. Every other team in the league has to decide who to give up. The yankees are the only ones who can upgrade everything they want.
If they win the series, big fucking deal. They have no excuse not to. They can't really achieve anything, they can only avoid underachieving. It's a bad position to be in. I pity them, in a way. I still hope Nelson's arm whithers, and that Rivera blows a game 7 save again.
And what's up with lionizing Jeffrey Maier in the 1996 ALCS for fan interference leading to a bad call? Yankees fans should regard that with shame, but they don't care if a win is tainted. Why doesn't Steinbrenner try to bribe some Marlins into throwing the game? That would be just as cool - it would be a "win".
Boston Red Sox payroll: $100,000,000 Yankee Payroll: $152,749,814
The yankers definitely underachieved. Getting taken to the 11th inning of game 7 in the ACLS with 50% more money shows the front office sucks, and the players they got lack character and talent. They just didn't lack enough character and talent that the Sox could hold them.
Zimmer said as much in his apology. Props to the man for that, by the way. It was dumb to go after the guy, but he was man enough to admit it. I also gotta agree with Zim that Pedro is an asshole.
The groundskeeper did not deserve a biker-gang style stomping, with or without cleats. I don't believe he's going to start a fight with a bullpen + outfield of yankees. Nelson is a thug.
And your point about the fans? Yankee fans are models of decorum. Riiiight. We could do a good job cleaning up the gene pool with a mass sterilization of the crowd at tonight's game. Bunch of eveready chuckin drunks and sociopaths.
Sox stands are full of drunks and sociopaths, too, but the yanks are worse.
They can never do well, they can only achieve adequacy. The K.C. Royals had an amazing season, without even getting to the postseason, but for a team with the Yankees payroll advantage, they must win the championship or underachieve to the point of self-castration.
The Yanks were catastrophic, humiliated failures the last couple of years. Absolutely epic failures. They haven't had the #2 payroll since the mid-1990s. That was once, I think. Have they ever had two years in the bottom half in the modern age?
Their payroll was 50% higher than the Diamondbacks, who beat them in the World Series. Their payroll was double that of the Angels, who didn't even let them into the world series.
It makes me sick to read about the canny front office, or the tradition of the organization. They have a spoiled old brat (and felon) for an owner, some accomplished suck-ups in the front office, and that's about it. Let's see them do something with the median payroll. Let's see how much savy they have then. Let's see whether Mystique and Aura hang on someone else's shoulders.
And Bloomberg should STFU about Pedro tossing Zimmer, the Designated Gerbil, to the ground. In NY he'd have been arrested? How about Nelson and Garcia jacking that groundskeeper, Hell's Angels style, for waving a towel in their bullpen? Garcia:"I didn't hit him, I only shoved him. I have no idea how my nuckles got cut." Must have forgotten the brass knucks, the thug. There were cleat marks in the guy's back - that's something I don't think the Hell's Angels ever did during a stomping.
Argh! Worse mental imagery than goatse!
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"I love the Stones...can't believe they're stilling doing it after all these years...Fred & Barney..." -Stephen Wright
I agree with you about posing. But I think this ad campaign is a completely wrong-headed approach to coopting symbols. It just won't work, I think.
I think the rock experience is visceral in its nature, and the cadillac car line exists pretty much just for rendering driving a not-visceral experience. It's like getting in a boat ride at an amusement park. Floating. A Lawrence Welk kind of thing. (The design for the previous line of cadillacs was bloated and puffy, like something that had died and been left in the sun for a few days.) You can't just change the soundtrack and expect the identity to change, especially when the essentials haven't. It just associates Led Zep with the polka-meister.
Compare that to a Miata, which is not a sports car. It's a roadster. It's not fast, but it feels like it. It handles nimbly, at the price of a certain visceral relationship with the act of driving. No cozy womb enclosure, no yearning for status...That's a car whose characteristics track with an adventurous self-perception.
Head bangers probably find it too effete, but they're usually found in muscle cars. I don't have much direct experience with those things.
Dunno - maybe we'll construct our personalities and identities through our purchases as much as many Japanese. We've already got Civil War re-enactors, and, much the same thing, yuppies on Harleys.
Did you see "Syd and Nancy" - a biopic about Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols? A black guy tells his friends he's tired of being a Punk. "What are you going to be, then?" "A Rude Boy."
You gotta be something, I guess.
And I think the Stones should retire because, well, they suck. They were pretty awful at the beginning of their career when they were doing blues covers - how did they get gigs? They were quite strong for about 15 years after that, then Bianca Jagger did some evil voodoo on them or something and turned them into zombies. David Bowie should retire, too. I have no problem with folks playing the same songs for 40 years- if that's the best song you can play, do so.
Doesn't work for me. Rather than tying Led Zep. to the car, it's tainted Zep for me. I'm not postmodern enough to think that "Sellout" == "cool".
I'm not sure there is a brand that would work here, but a line known chiefly for bad gas mileage isn't it. Rock & Roll is for rebels, not golf-playing, cigar puffing, Establishment folks.
"Song Remains the Same" wasn't filmed at a country club cotillion.
If I had been able to contain myself, we'd be spared another standard.
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If his copilot can complicate his attempt to crash the plane, a disgruntled pilot would find a gun useful. An ambushed copilot wouldn't have a chance to return fire. Advantage: wingnut
My point about drunk pilots (at least two sets on commercial airlines in the last few years) was that they are not perfectly reliable. As a class, they are more reliable than most any other grouping, but it's too big a group. I think the odds of a dangerous wingnut also being drunk are low. Either variable - drunk, or wingnut, is a problem.
A few air marshalls complicates the hijackers planning. I think having them on every flight increases the number of marshalls to the point where a wingnut slips through the recruitment process. In other words, we're past the saddle point of probability where the risk increases.
From time to time we hear of drunk pilots being dragged off the plane. All it takes is one wingnut pissed off about paying child support and we have a big problem.
Better to keep the pilots unarmed. Have air marshals on random flights, and secure the cockpit door vs. even them.
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There are lots of ways to create auditable trails for e-voting, but they aren't interested in offering the feature. Why not? I conclude it's because the lack of auditing is precisely the point. That's hos Diebold plans to "deliver" Ohio.
That reason why Database Technologies (DBT) was given the job of "scrubbing" felons from the Florida voting rolls was not that they were cheap (500 times more than the company they replaced) nor that they were efficient. Katherine Harris several times shifted the standards to INCREASE the error rate. False positives are a good thing when you are trimming likely Democratic voters, which was the point. (Race was identified, names munged. They were intentionally careless about getting names correctly, so the wrong people were scrubbed, but race was 100% on the money for each entry.) The error rate of 89% was just fine: and resulted in handing Bush the state. Sort of. It took other shenannigans to get the 500 vote margin.
Some Republicans have already proven they like monkeying with elections to gain power. Two of the 3 main e-voting vendors have strong partisan, Republican ties. This is a problem for believers in democracy, Democrats, and principled Republicans.
I lived in Juneau for a while, and got to see it a couple of times. V-e-e-e-r-y cool.
Referring to a website critical of him (but correct in every detail)
The odds are stacked, the game rigged.
My daughter doesn't get the competition thing. When she was 5 and in soccar, she generally couldn't tell who "won". She could definitely tell you what they had for snack, though!
And that rocks. Kids like ritual and running around and screaming. I dunno if I want her in competitive leagues, though. There's a side of ourselves we don't see unless we push ourselves hard. On the other hand, that's where the parents get in fist fights with the refs.
I got one, back in the day. Must be sort of dodgy.
No fucking way.
Some managers who make critical business decisions based on "I can get tech support from a Linux newsgroup" should get promoted.
If they can get that support, they rock.
Do you really think it is hard to find fee-based support for Linux? My strong sense, based only on anecdotal evidence/personal experience, is that it is MUCH better than the minesweeper certified solitaire experts. I had an intern who had passed the core exams and had only to get a couple of electives before becoming a certified god of tech. I told him to open the control panel. Deer in headlights look. "Hit the start button." Deer in headlights look. "Bottom left corner of the screen."
And what kind of road map did they provide? Win95, OSR2, Win98, Win98SE, WinME, all in parallel with nt 3.5, 3.51, 4.0, 2000, xp, 2003, longhorn. All have to be tested on separately. All with bizarre half-breedisms depending on what version of IE you have. Yech. How many times did they announce the merging of the consumer and business os's? To me, it's a similar road the Japanese offered U.S. troops when Corregidor fell.
I was a contract tester on SMS for 6 months (before I got a real job) and the SMS team didn't even know within 1 year (!) when win2k was coming out. Seriously: they chopped a massive set of features for SMS 2.0 so they could release and not get lost in the turmoil of the win2k release. Which didn't happen for close to a year after they thought it was coming.
The whole roadmap thing is so wrong headed anyway. Linux has a decent architecture, scales from embedded devices to supercomputers, and supports the current toys. Basically: it's in a good place now, and you can run it for years. You can write something for the current state of the kernel and figure it will probably compile and run in the future. Can you say that for windows apps? How many vendors have pulled support for win98? Lots.
I think they could port filter ssh, though.
I run a college net, but fortunately for SSH users I view my job as enabling stuff. I block what I have to that the stuff we need will be possible.
The U.S. is not upholding its principles.
So tax receipts will be infinite?
I think you outdid the most moronic statement in a while.
Granting your point that consumer spending leads to jobs, the GWB tax cuts went mostly to those whose spending is the lowest as a proportion of income. They were thus the least efficient targets for growth-oriented tax cuts. Payroll tax cuts and extended unemployment benefits would have been much stronger measures to boost the economy.
Are we up to 6th grade yet?
And since when have economists not been retards? Presumably there is a saddle point beyond which taking econ classes decreases intelligence. Fucking pseudo-science.
I have some Occam's Razor cuts for you:
Does it fail the laugh test if you posit the 5 Republican Supremes going against the grain of decades of their own opinions upholding states' rights, to counter a state court's election decision favoring a Republican? Yes, indeedy. Shoe on other foot leads to other decision.
Does it fail the laugh test if you posit a Democrat running the Florida election and acting as state campaign chair, and ask whether you'd be content when every single decision favored the Democrat?
Real Razor time: what's the most obvious explanation for firing an inexpensive contractor and awarding a contract for purging voter rolls of ineligibles to the HIGH bidder? And repeatedly asking that the statistical methods for validation be less sound (generating more false positives)? What's the likely explanation for a 90% error rate, and the defiance of two court orders related to restitution of voter status?
I consider what Harris and Jeb Bush did to be treason against a democratic society.
and it's sooooo much worse for them to lose, because it's a failure on a massive scale. With their payroll, it's a professional embarassment to drop a game. That they missed the Series last year, ooooh my god how humiliating. That they got beat in the series the year before, oh that's bad. To a team with 2/3rds the payroll. Epic, epic fuck up. Every other team in the league has to decide who to give up. The yankees are the only ones who can upgrade everything they want.
If they win the series, big fucking deal. They have no excuse not to. They can't really achieve anything, they can only avoid underachieving. It's a bad position to be in. I pity them, in a way. I still hope Nelson's arm whithers, and that Rivera blows a game 7 save again.
And what's up with lionizing Jeffrey
Maier in the 1996 ALCS for fan interference leading to a bad call? Yankees fans should regard that with shame, but they don't care if a win is tainted. Why doesn't Steinbrenner try to bribe some Marlins into throwing the game? That would be just as cool - it would be a "win".
Boston Red Sox payroll: $100,000,000
Yankee Payroll: $152,749,814
The yankers definitely underachieved. Getting taken to the 11th inning of game 7 in the ACLS with 50% more money shows the front office sucks, and the players they got lack character and talent. They just didn't lack enough character and talent that the Sox could hold them.
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Words to live by. Or be undead dwarf slave zombies by.
Zimmer said as much in his apology. Props to the man for that, by the way. It was dumb to go after the guy, but he was man enough to admit it. I also gotta agree with Zim that Pedro is an asshole.
The groundskeeper did not deserve a biker-gang style stomping, with or without cleats. I don't believe he's going to start a fight with a bullpen + outfield of yankees. Nelson is a thug.
And your point about the fans? Yankee fans are models of decorum. Riiiight. We could do a good job cleaning up the gene pool with a mass sterilization of the crowd at tonight's game. Bunch of eveready chuckin drunks and sociopaths.
Sox stands are full of drunks and sociopaths, too, but the yanks are worse.
They can never do well, they can only achieve adequacy. The K.C. Royals had an amazing season, without even getting to the postseason, but for a team with the Yankees payroll advantage, they must win the championship or underachieve to the point of self-castration.
The Yanks were catastrophic, humiliated failures the last couple of years. Absolutely epic failures. They haven't had the #2 payroll since the mid-1990s. That was once, I think. Have they ever had two years in the bottom half in the modern age?
Their payroll was 50% higher than the Diamondbacks, who beat them in the World Series. Their payroll was double that of the Angels, who didn't even let them into the world series.
It makes me sick to read about the canny front office, or the tradition of the organization. They have a spoiled old brat (and felon) for an owner, some accomplished suck-ups in the front office, and that's about it. Let's see them do something with the median payroll. Let's see how much savy they have then. Let's see whether Mystique and Aura hang on someone else's shoulders.
And Bloomberg should STFU about Pedro tossing Zimmer, the Designated Gerbil, to the ground. In NY he'd have been arrested? How about Nelson and Garcia jacking that groundskeeper, Hell's Angels style, for waving a towel in their bullpen? Garcia:"I didn't hit him, I only shoved him. I have no idea how my nuckles got cut." Must have forgotten the brass knucks, the thug. There were cleat marks in the guy's back - that's something I don't think the Hell's Angels ever did during a stomping.
Hot girl-girl action...
"I love the Stones...can't believe they're stilling doing it after all these years...Fred & Barney..."
-Stephen Wright
I agree with you about posing. But I think this ad campaign is a completely wrong-headed approach to coopting symbols. It just won't work, I think.
I think the rock experience is visceral in its nature, and the cadillac car line exists pretty much just for rendering driving a not-visceral experience. It's like getting in a boat ride at an amusement park. Floating. A Lawrence Welk kind of thing. (The design for the previous line of cadillacs was bloated and puffy, like something that had died and been left in the sun for a few days.) You can't just change the soundtrack and expect the identity to change, especially when the essentials haven't. It just associates Led Zep with the polka-meister.
Compare that to a Miata, which is not a sports car. It's a roadster. It's not fast, but it feels like it. It handles nimbly, at the price of a certain visceral relationship with the act of driving. No cozy womb enclosure, no yearning for status...That's a car whose characteristics track with an adventurous self-perception.
Head bangers probably find it too effete, but they're usually found in muscle cars. I don't have much direct experience with those things.
Dunno - maybe we'll construct our personalities and identities through our purchases as much as many Japanese. We've already got Civil War re-enactors, and, much the same thing, yuppies on Harleys.
Did you see "Syd and Nancy" - a biopic about Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols? A black guy tells his friends he's tired of being a Punk. "What are you going to be, then?" "A Rude Boy."
You gotta be something, I guess.
And I think the Stones should retire because, well, they suck. They were pretty awful at the beginning of their career when they were doing blues covers - how did they get gigs? They were quite strong for about 15 years after that, then Bianca Jagger did some evil voodoo on them or something and turned them into zombies. David Bowie should retire, too. I have no problem with folks playing the same songs for 40 years- if that's the best song you can play, do so.
then I missed out on this.
Now I'm really depressed.
That was the line that stuck in MY head.
About as lame a choice as the Seattle Mariners starting off the season with that rap song about choking in the pressure of the moment, blowing it...
Some of us catch the words, people.
Doesn't work for me. Rather than tying Led Zep. to the car, it's tainted Zep for me. I'm not postmodern enough to think that "Sellout" == "cool".
I'm not sure there is a brand that would work here, but a line known chiefly for bad gas mileage isn't it. Rock & Roll is for rebels, not golf-playing, cigar puffing, Establishment folks.
"Song Remains the Same" wasn't filmed at a country club cotillion.
If I had been able to contain myself, we'd be spared another standard.
If his copilot can complicate his attempt to crash the plane, a disgruntled pilot would find a gun useful. An ambushed copilot wouldn't have a chance to return fire. Advantage: wingnut
My point about drunk pilots (at least two sets on commercial airlines in the last few years) was that they are not perfectly reliable. As a class, they are more reliable than most any other grouping, but it's too big a group. I think the odds of a dangerous wingnut also being drunk are low. Either variable - drunk, or wingnut, is a problem.
A few air marshalls complicates the hijackers planning. I think having them on every flight increases the number of marshalls to the point where a wingnut slips through the recruitment process. In other words, we're past the saddle point of probability where the risk increases.
Oops - I'm off topic.
From time to time we hear of drunk pilots being dragged off the plane. All it takes is one wingnut pissed off about paying child support and we have a big problem.
Better to keep the pilots unarmed. Have air marshals on random flights, and secure the cockpit door vs. even them.