You wouldn't need to infect the.c files, just the Makefile.:)
Actually, considering all of the automated tools that are commonly used in the build process, (GNU autoconf, awk, flex, bison), I'll bet you could a write a source code virus... true hackers would never be affected, but someone who just downloads the.tar.gz file and blindly types './configure && make && make install' could easily have problems. How hard is to edit the 'configure' shell script to put a "stupid people" virus in it?
TiK and other clients that use the TOC protocol are fully supported and allowed by AOL.
TOC is *not* a fully-supported protocol. A lot of the features are missing, plus it's only half-implemented. Furthermore, the FCC has *mandated* that AOL open up their servers to any compatible clients.
AOL's terms of service are meaningless here...the FCC has told AOL that they must allow any clients, not just their own. That was one of the conditions of their buyout^H^H^H^H^H^Hmerger with Time Warner.
Hi! My new company name and trademark is Hot Trailer Trash Products (TM), HTTP(TM) for short and I'm suing this Web site and all the others that use my company's initials in their URLs!!
Muahahahahah!!!
Oh yeah, don't forget my other division, Uniquely Raunchy Lingerie... I'm suiding for the use of those initials too! (oops, guess I have to sue myself!!:)
I agree... too many stupid people. Stupid people should be forced to wear an "S" on their foreheads, so that the rest of us know to stay the hell away from them!!:)
I was at a Wendy's the other day and the person behind the counter, despite having the cash register telling them SPECIFICALLY, could not give me the correct change. People like that shouldn't be allowed to go out in public! They could hurt somebody!:)
Only in 1942 did America's foriegn policy at last become outward directed, but unfortunately its culture is still very inward looking.
Actually, that's not entirely true. The U.S. was heavily involved in World War I, in the early part of the 20th century. After WWI, there was a big movement to once again turn a blind eye to the world and again look inward...this was heavily motivated by the Great Depression.
You have to realize that the U.S.A. is a relatively young country...still only a little over 200 years old, so prior to the 20th Century, it was a necessary thing to concentrate inward because as a nation our government, our economic system, and our infrastructure were still developing. It wasn't until industrialization hit in th 20th Century that it became necessary to pay attention to what was going on in the rest of the world. Ben Franklin (to keep this on topic:-) was waaaayy ahead of his time, and that is one of the main reasons his legacy is so revered in this country.
As far as American culture goes: as my friend from India would ask, WHAT American culture?:-)
Furthermore, how effective are anti-telemarketing laws? This is the same concept: anti-telemarketing laws allow you to "opt out" by telling the telemarketer to quit calling.
I've had situations where I've told telemarketers to quit calling and they don't. They just get more and more aggressive.
Sure, the laws are a deterrent to legitimate companies. I worked for a telemarketer who made their opt out database (DNC list, do not call list) a really big thing. But how many spammers are running legitimate companies?
I'm sorry, but anti-telemarketing legislation has been very ineffective, I wouldn't expect anti-spamming legislation to do any better, especially when it is framed in exactly the same manner.
Yeah, I ran T.A.G. (TG's chief rival in those days:) which had online voting probably as early as 1986 or 1987...I haven't read the patent, so I don't know if it specifically states that these are Web-based or not, but it meets all the requirements: uses a table to see who voted what, uses a table to store the questions, uses automated tools for creating the poll, you can see a tabulation at the end, and so on.
First of all, in choice (a), why would you lose your vested stock options? In all the options agreements I've ever read, you will only lose them if you're terminated for cause. They can't take them from you otherwise.
Well, actually there are quite a few companies, including Microsoft that give you options, but you can't exercise them until you've worked at a company for so much length of time (i.e., you become "fully vested.") This is perhaps the case here.
Who cares? Maxtor makes crappy hard drives anyways. Every Maxtor I've ever owned blew up right before the warranty went out. At first I thought it was particular models and sizes, but after a while I realized, heck, they just make crappy hard drives.
Well, of course they lack technical expertise. Would you really have government run by a bunch of people like Linus Torvalds, Eric Raymond, and Richard Stallman.
Ahhh...well, bear in mind that this is likely not the real info... Paramount has a history about as long the distance between Voyager and the Alpha quadrant of spreading disinformation to throw people off as to the *real* story... this "anonymous source" really has me suspicious.
Wait a minute...reading what is supposed to be "patented", these are things that have been in common use for quite a while now...they patented something that could be learned in any basic course on physics.
Besides, isn't this fighting over something that's pretty stupid anyways? I mean, who really pays that much attention to their CPU fans anyways? No matter what kind I buy, they seem to last about a year and then the bearings go out in them in. And most of these off-the-shelf pieces of crap you buy at CompUSA or Best Buy or places like that don't even have CPU fans. They're able to get to that sub-$1000 price point by cutting corners, and one place they cut corners is the CPU fan...they just put a nice big heat sink on it and hope that'll be good enough. They figure if your system has random crashes and you're buying one of those (meaning you usually a consumer), you won't give a rats ass...most of those pieces of junk have random crashes, hangs, reboots, BSODs, etc. because of inadequate CPU cooling.
Well, FWIW, Gates did rewrite the book and changed the whole twist from "the Internet will never take off" to "the Internet will be in your refrigerator." Actually, Gates probably didn't even write the book, but that's another story.:)
Microsoft has a consistent business strategy of waiting to see what their competitors do, watch them make the mistakes, and then release software that's a generation behind what their competitors are sporting, but tie it close enough to their other products that the other vendors' products aren't as worthwhile to use. With a few exceptions (Microsoft Bob), few Microsoft products have ever failed miserably due to the level of integration and marketing
You're right... but let's not forget Microsoft Money. I wouldn't put it in the category of miserable failure, but I'll bet some people at Microsoft do. They intended that thing to take over the personal finance market, but Intuit continues to beat 'em...Microsoft even tried to buy Intuit until the FTC came in.:) In any respect, Quicken continues to be the most popular product because they beat Microsoft at their own game... to begin with, it was first to market, but Microsoft underestimated the popularity of market because they felt you could do everything you can do with Quicken in Microsoft Excel (which is ostly true). Then they came out with a product that was too little too late... Intuit just couldn't be tripped up, because they had done their research, and they knew that they could continue to own that market. They continued to innovate, and Microsoft continued to chase them... now they've rolled the whole thing into MSN to try to make Quicken irrelevant, but i don't think it's working...
So, the idea is that Enlightenment will be fast because the tons of junk that it does will be hardware-accelerated?
It seems like they are saying that Enlightenment will be faster because it will specifically coded for the accelerated X server.
I still kinda doubt it. Just because something's hardware accelerated, it doesn't mean that it will be fastest necessarily. Enlightment just has too much JUNK in it...it tries to do EVERYTHING...its a victim of rampant featuritis, or at least freeping creaturism.
Rob, please lose the "can of SPAM luncheon meat" icon for topic spam.
Why should he? Unless Hormel comes after VA Linux or OSDN, I don't see a compelling reason to do so. Even then, it's not likely that Hormel would win such a suit. Wouldn't the image of the can fall under fair use exemptions?
Aside: I dislike the use of the term "broadband" to apply to fast Net access. Broadband basically means analog, while baseband basically means digital. Cable Modems *are* broadband, but DSL is not. A 56K modem, on the other *is* broadband.
For Quake (PC-based) over NAT, or RealPlayer, both of which use UDP, you need a special kernel module to support it. I'm guessing that for some games, this will be the case...
This has gotta be some kind of cruel joke. It's virtually impossible to go from 0-$60 billion in five years.... I agree with the original poster, this is a swibble.
I read recently (maybe on Slashdot) about how Dow Chemical laid off a bunch of employees for being involved in porn email, and I totally disagreed with this. I think, as a manager myself, that privacy is highly important. Privacy, closely related to security, is one of the key ingrediants in keeping up employee morale, however there are some drawbacks:
It's interesting that you would say that. But I have to tell you that because of the way the law is structured, it is very difficult to allow employees total privacy. For example, in the instance of e-mail security. If you tell employees that e-mail is totally private and we don't do any monitoring bad things can happen.
For instance, yesterday on Slashdot I read about some people who got busted for spamming people with an old newspaper ad scam that makes people beleive that they will be paid for stuffing envelopes in exchange for a, in their case a fee of 24 pounds. If they had used, say, your companies e-mail system to do the scam, then that would make *THE COMPANY* liable for damages (in their case it was something like 65,000 pounds they had to pay back). (Sorry, to lazy to insert a link)
The only way to avoid such things is to actually reserve the right to monitor. A reasonable company would only monitor when there was reason to believe that a problem existed (for example, when system logs point out that one user sent 6 million e-mails from his account. Ya gotta be just a LITTLE suspicious their:) but would choose to respect privacy in normal situations.
Now I'm not normally one to defend Microsoft, the Ultimate Source of All That is Evil In the Computer Industry (TM), but give me a break.
First of all, African Americans only make up 12% of the U.S. population, not the 50% or more some people seem to think, even though it might not seem that way if you either A) live in a big city (like I do) or B) watch lots of movies. Secondly, a large portion of those African Americans live in disadvantaged neighborhoods and don't think they have access to education.
BTW--Notice that I didn't say they DON'T have access to education. The reader in doubt is referred to "The Ten Things You Can't Say in America" by Larry Elders, an excellent Libertarian African American gentleman who has a radio show out on the left coast.
In any case, for whatever reasons, the college-educated African American is a rarer bird than one might think. You have to give credit to those who work hard and manage to get their degrees, because they are really a very small percentage of the overall population.
Yes, it does. It says, "Congress shall make no law...yada yada" which roughly translated means: "Like I give a fuck about your goddamn motherfucking assfuckers who don't like it when I fucking swear."
BTW--NSI registered "likeigiveafuck.com" along with many others (hit the web site and see) so why are they now giving people a hard time?
First you say that programs do not need to be specifically written to support multiprocessing and then you say that using multiple threads is the path of least resistance [to support multiprocessing.]
Actually, applications can run on SMP machines with no problem, but if they use only ONE process or thread (about the same thing on Linux, but very different things on Solaris, as a previous poster mentioned), then they will not be running on more than one processor, thus not taking advantage of multiprocessing... Yes, there will be SOME benefit when running other processes, but the application taken by itself (not counting other processes...) will not have any added advantage other than the fact that the proocessor it is running on will have more cycles free.
I've been an IE user for a while now mainly because Netscape has been losing the feature war. While I'm certainly not a Microsoft fan, I like Netscape and I like standards conformance (which Netscape has typically been better at)...
Ummm...both IE and Netscape suck at being standards compliant.
The only browser that is fully standards compliant (as far as HTML is concerned) is Opera, which is designed from the ground up around standards compliancy.
Yes, yes, I know the Mozilla people say the same thing, but I'm not sure how standards compliant they are. Maybe I'll test it against one of the W3C tests or something...
Which of them is most stable (with HUGE databases) ?
What does HUGE mean? Gigabytes? Terabytes? Exebytes? Also, size is not the only metric involved in stability. Stability with a given number of records or fields, for instance. A 100 gigabyte database could have 10 records or a million records. Depends on how big each record is. Another metric is the number of simulatenous requests it can handle. One might work fine if it gets a 100 requests at a time, but chokes if it gets a 1000 requests at a time. A million record database might be only accessed by 2 clients at a time...size doesn't equal number of users.
Which of them is most likely to be able to recover withouth glich from an "impure" shutdown ?
Good point, but they're probably about the same in that regard (just taking an educated guess here).
Which will benefit more from a HUGE ram quantity or multiple cpus ?
Most well-written software will take advantage of as much RAM as it can get. The question would be which program is better at managing its own memory?
As far as mutiple CPUs go, programs have to be written specifically to support multiprocessing. On Linux or Windows NT, for the most part, this means writing the code to use multiple threads. I'm not sure if either of them are or are not, but that would be a very good point.
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Your token idea is fine, except that doesn't take into account people who want to vote from their homes, as the story suggests. You would have to provide readers for your "token" to the *millions* of registered voters.
Even the tokens do not provide complete data security. I'm sure it would be trivial for some skr1pt k1dd13s to get ahold of one of those token readers and modify to put out whatever identification authorization they wanted.
Also, your tokens do not necessarily preserve anonymity. It would be fairly simple, for example, for that same volunteer who gave you a token to write down some unique serial number written down on the token in his or her log book. In fact, it would probably be a requirement, since people could, theoretically speaking, take the token, don't vote, and then take it home so they could figure out how to reverse engineer the token or something like that. A log book would tell you who had what token, and any tokens found to be tampered with, could be traced back to the voter could then be charged with election fraud or tampering.
I'll admit, no system of voting is 100% secure from fraud. Actually, no system made by mere humans can be considered 100% secure. We can only speak in terms of relative security. I think that physical ballots are still more secure than electronic ones.
Physical ballots can examined for tampering or other kinds of voter fraud, which is likely to happen with the recent Presidential election, at least in Florida, if not several other states that were close. Electronic ballots really cannot be: system logs can be changed or erased.
Don't get me wrong, I *love* the idea of electronic voting. I hate standing in line as much anyone else, and it would be nice to not have to take time off of work or home life to go to my polling place. But I still don't think that it would be secure enough.
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You wouldn't need to infect the .c files, just the Makefile. :)
.tar.gz file and blindly types './configure && make && make install' could easily have problems. How hard is to edit the 'configure' shell script to put a "stupid people" virus in it?
Actually, considering all of the automated tools that are commonly used in the build process, (GNU autoconf, awk, flex, bison), I'll bet you could a write a source code virus... true hackers would never be affected, but someone who just downloads the
TiK and other clients that use the TOC protocol are fully supported and allowed by AOL.
TOC is *not* a fully-supported protocol. A lot of the features are missing, plus it's only half-implemented. Furthermore, the FCC has *mandated* that AOL open up their servers to any compatible clients.
AOL's terms of service are meaningless here...the FCC has told AOL that they must allow any clients, not just their own. That was one of the conditions of their buyout^H^H^H^H^H^Hmerger with Time Warner.
Hi! My new company name and trademark is Hot Trailer Trash Products (TM), HTTP(TM) for short and I'm suing this Web site and all the others that use my company's initials in their URLs!!
:)
Muahahahahah!!!
Oh yeah, don't forget my other division, Uniquely Raunchy Lingerie... I'm suiding for the use of those initials too! (oops, guess I have to sue myself!!
I agree... too many stupid people. Stupid people should be forced to wear an "S" on their foreheads, so that the rest of us know to stay the hell away from them!! :)
I was at a Wendy's the other day and the person behind the counter, despite having the cash register telling them SPECIFICALLY, could not give me the correct change. People like that shouldn't be allowed to go out in public! They could hurt somebody! :)
Only in 1942 did America's foriegn policy at last become outward directed, but unfortunately its culture is still very inward looking.
:-) was waaaayy ahead of his time, and that is one of the main reasons his legacy is so revered in this country.
:-)
Actually, that's not entirely true. The U.S. was heavily involved in World War I, in the early part of the 20th century. After WWI, there was a big movement to once again turn a blind eye to the world and again look inward...this was heavily motivated by the Great Depression.
You have to realize that the U.S.A. is a relatively young country...still only a little over 200 years old, so prior to the 20th Century, it was a necessary thing to concentrate inward because as a nation our government, our economic system, and our infrastructure were still developing. It wasn't until industrialization hit in th 20th Century that it became necessary to pay attention to what was going on in the rest of the world. Ben Franklin (to keep this on topic
As far as American culture goes: as my friend from India would ask, WHAT American culture?
Furthermore, how effective are anti-telemarketing laws? This is the same concept: anti-telemarketing laws allow you to "opt out" by telling the telemarketer to quit calling.
I've had situations where I've told telemarketers to quit calling and they don't. They just get more and more aggressive.
Sure, the laws are a deterrent to legitimate companies. I worked for a telemarketer who made their opt out database (DNC list, do not call list) a really big thing. But how many spammers are running legitimate companies?
I'm sorry, but anti-telemarketing legislation has been very ineffective, I wouldn't expect anti-spamming legislation to do any better, especially when it is framed in exactly the same manner.
Yeah, I ran T.A.G. (TG's chief rival in those days :) which had online voting probably as early as 1986 or 1987...I haven't read the patent, so I don't know if it specifically states that these are Web-based or not, but it meets all the requirements: uses a table to see who voted what, uses a table to store the questions, uses automated tools for creating the poll, you can see a tabulation at the end, and so on.
I mean, they might as well have ruled that Microsoft is responsible if users of Windows use xcopy32.exe to "pirate" music.
Or that General Motors is responsible if someone uses a Chevy to commit a bank robbery.
Or that Smith & Wesson are responsible if someone uses one of their shotguns to kill someone.
First of all, in choice (a), why would you lose your vested stock options? In all the options agreements I've ever read, you will only lose them if you're terminated for cause. They can't take them from you otherwise.
Well, actually there are quite a few companies, including Microsoft that give you options, but you can't exercise them until you've worked at a company for so much length of time (i.e., you become "fully vested.") This is perhaps the case here.
Who cares? Maxtor makes crappy hard drives anyways. Every Maxtor I've ever owned blew up right before the warranty went out. At first I thought it was particular models and sizes, but after a while I realized, heck, they just make crappy hard drives.
Well, of course they lack technical expertise. Would you really have government run by a bunch of people like Linus Torvalds, Eric Raymond, and Richard Stallman.
:-)
Wow, that would be scary.
Ahhh...well, bear in mind that this is likely not the real info... Paramount has a history about as long the distance between Voyager and the Alpha quadrant of spreading disinformation to throw people off as to the *real* story... this "anonymous source" really has me suspicious.
Wait a minute...reading what is supposed to be "patented", these are things that have been in common use for quite a while now...they patented something that could be learned in any basic course on physics.
Besides, isn't this fighting over something that's pretty stupid anyways? I mean, who really pays that much attention to their CPU fans anyways? No matter what kind I buy, they seem to last about a year and then the bearings go out in them in. And most of these off-the-shelf pieces of crap you buy at CompUSA or Best Buy or places like that don't even have CPU fans. They're able to get to that sub-$1000 price point by cutting corners, and one place they cut corners is the CPU fan...they just put a nice big heat sink on it and hope that'll be good enough. They figure if your system has random crashes and you're buying one of those (meaning you usually a consumer), you won't give a rats ass...most of those pieces of junk have random crashes, hangs, reboots, BSODs, etc. because of inadequate CPU cooling.
You're right... but let's not forget Microsoft Money. I wouldn't put it in the category of miserable failure, but I'll bet some people at Microsoft do. They intended that thing to take over the personal finance market, but Intuit continues to beat 'em...Microsoft even tried to buy Intuit until the FTC came in.
So, the idea is that Enlightenment will be fast because the tons of junk that it does will be hardware-accelerated?
It seems like they are saying that Enlightenment will be faster because it will specifically coded for the accelerated X server.
I still kinda doubt it. Just because something's hardware accelerated, it doesn't mean that it will be fastest necessarily. Enlightment just has too much JUNK in it...it tries to do EVERYTHING...its a victim of rampant featuritis, or at least freeping creaturism.
Rob, please lose the "can of SPAM luncheon meat" icon for topic spam. Why should he? Unless Hormel comes after VA Linux or OSDN, I don't see a compelling reason to do so. Even then, it's not likely that Hormel would win such a suit. Wouldn't the image of the can fall under fair use exemptions?
Aside: I dislike the use of the term "broadband" to apply to fast Net access. Broadband basically means analog, while baseband basically means digital. Cable Modems *are* broadband, but DSL is not. A 56K modem, on the other *is* broadband.
For Quake (PC-based) over NAT, or RealPlayer, both of which use UDP, you need a special kernel module to support it. I'm guessing that for some games, this will be the case...
This has gotta be some kind of cruel joke. It's virtually impossible to go from 0-$60 billion in five years.... I agree with the original poster, this is a swibble.
I read recently (maybe on Slashdot) about how Dow Chemical laid off a bunch of employees for being involved in porn email, and I totally disagreed with this. I think, as a manager myself, that privacy is highly important. Privacy, closely related to security, is one of the key ingrediants in keeping up employee morale, however there are some drawbacks:
:) but would choose to respect privacy in normal situations.
It's interesting that you would say that. But I have to tell you that because of the way the law is structured, it is very difficult to allow employees total privacy. For example, in the instance of e-mail security. If you tell employees that e-mail is totally private and we don't do any monitoring bad things can happen.
For instance, yesterday on Slashdot I read about some people who got busted for spamming people with an old newspaper ad scam that makes people beleive that they will be paid for stuffing envelopes in exchange for a, in their case a fee of 24 pounds. If they had used, say, your companies e-mail system to do the scam, then that would make *THE COMPANY* liable for damages (in their case it was something like 65,000 pounds they had to pay back). (Sorry, to lazy to insert a link)
The only way to avoid such things is to actually reserve the right to monitor. A reasonable company would only monitor when there was reason to believe that a problem existed (for example, when system logs point out that one user sent 6 million e-mails from his account. Ya gotta be just a LITTLE suspicious their
Now I'm not normally one to defend Microsoft, the Ultimate Source of All That is Evil In the Computer Industry (TM), but give me a break.
First of all, African Americans only make up 12% of the U.S. population, not the 50% or more some people seem to think, even though it might not seem that way if you either A) live in a big city (like I do) or B) watch lots of movies. Secondly, a large portion of those African Americans live in disadvantaged neighborhoods and don't think they have access to education.
BTW--Notice that I didn't say they DON'T have access to education. The reader in doubt is referred to "The Ten Things You Can't Say in America" by Larry Elders, an excellent Libertarian African American gentleman who has a radio show out on the left coast.
In any case, for whatever reasons, the college-educated African American is a rarer bird than one might think. You have to give credit to those who work hard and manage to get their degrees, because they are really a very small percentage of the overall population.
Yes, it does. It says, "Congress shall make no law...yada yada" which roughly translated means: "Like I give a fuck about your goddamn motherfucking assfuckers who don't like it when I fucking swear."
BTW--NSI registered "likeigiveafuck.com" along with many others (hit the web site and see) so why are they now giving people a hard time?
Erhm... you just contradicted yourself.
First you say that programs do not need to be specifically written to support multiprocessing and then you say that using multiple threads is the path of least resistance [to support multiprocessing.]
Actually, applications can run on SMP machines with no problem, but if they use only ONE process or thread (about the same thing on Linux, but very different things on Solaris, as a previous poster mentioned), then they will not be running on more than one processor, thus not taking advantage of multiprocessing... Yes, there will be SOME benefit when running other processes, but the application taken by itself (not counting other processes...) will not have any added advantage other than the fact that the proocessor it is running on will have more cycles free.
I've been an IE user for a while now mainly because Netscape has been losing the feature war. While I'm certainly not a Microsoft fan, I like Netscape and I like standards conformance (which Netscape has typically been better at)...
Ummm...both IE and Netscape suck at being standards compliant.
The only browser that is fully standards compliant (as far as HTML is concerned) is Opera, which is designed from the ground up around standards compliancy.
Yes, yes, I know the Mozilla people say the same thing, but I'm not sure how standards compliant they are. Maybe I'll test it against one of the W3C tests or something...
Which of them is most stable (with HUGE databases) ?
What does HUGE mean? Gigabytes? Terabytes? Exebytes? Also, size is not the only metric involved in stability. Stability with a given number of records or fields, for instance. A 100 gigabyte database could have 10 records or a million records. Depends on how big each record is. Another metric is the number of simulatenous requests it can handle. One might work fine if it gets a 100 requests at a time, but chokes if it gets a 1000 requests at a time. A million record database might be only accessed by 2 clients at a time...size doesn't equal number of users.
Which of them is most likely to be able to recover withouth glich from an "impure" shutdown ?
Good point, but they're probably about the same in that regard (just taking an educated guess here).
Which will benefit more from a HUGE ram quantity or multiple cpus ?
Most well-written software will take advantage of as much RAM as it can get. The question would be which program is better at managing its own memory?
As far as mutiple CPUs go, programs have to be written specifically to support multiprocessing. On Linux or Windows NT, for the most part, this means writing the code to use multiple threads. I'm not sure if either of them are or are not, but that would be a very good point.
Your token idea is fine, except that doesn't take into account people who want to vote from their homes, as the story suggests. You would have to provide readers for your "token" to the *millions* of registered voters.
Even the tokens do not provide complete data security. I'm sure it would be trivial for some skr1pt k1dd13s to get ahold of one of those token readers and modify to put out whatever identification authorization they wanted.
Also, your tokens do not necessarily preserve anonymity. It would be fairly simple, for example, for that same volunteer who gave you a token to write down some unique serial number written down on the token in his or her log book. In fact, it would probably be a requirement, since people could, theoretically speaking, take the token, don't vote, and then take it home so they could figure out how to reverse engineer the token or something like that. A log book would tell you who had what token, and any tokens found to be tampered with, could be traced back to the voter could then be charged with election fraud or tampering.
I'll admit, no system of voting is 100% secure from fraud. Actually, no system made by mere humans can be considered 100% secure. We can only speak in terms of relative security. I think that physical ballots are still more secure than electronic ones.
Physical ballots can examined for tampering or other kinds of voter fraud, which is likely to happen with the recent Presidential election, at least in Florida, if not several other states that were close. Electronic ballots really cannot be: system logs can be changed or erased.
Don't get me wrong, I *love* the idea of electronic voting. I hate standing in line as much anyone else, and it would be nice to not have to take time off of work or home life to go to my polling place. But I still don't think that it would be secure enough.