US elections baffle me. You use optical scanners? We use humans.
Our ballots are recorded with paper and pencil, and counted manually. Voting takes the average person no more than 10 minutes from the time they arrive at the polling station, until they have finished casting their ballot (yes, we actually have enough polling stations that we don't have long lines), and we have election results within an hour or two of the polls closing (short of any re-counts), and the process is transparent, and easily audited.
Why does the US continue to try to make voting as difficult and complex as possible? Is it really the end goal of the US government to prevent people from voting?
How big is your country, geographically and population wise?
I also think there are a lot of people who are in the "I would never vote for Trump" crowd, because they don't want to be associated with some of his more bizarre stances, who secretly voted for Trump when no one was looking.
Well, it's likely that seeing "Hillary Clinton" on the same page/screen provided an alarming and visceral context to their decision that the media outlets had not. The Republican faithful have been dreading her imminent Presidential bid since 1992. Twenty four years of "Oh, wait, there's no way I can let that happen" suddenly rushed back to them.
She lost in places that don't have the money to buy fancy electronic voting machines because the people are poorer.
No, she lost in places that do have the money to buy fancy electronic voting machines.
Either way, it tells us exactly nothing because there's no context for why one area chooses one voting tech over another or where the money to pay for it comes from, or what the cost difference is.
And that's the problem with this "news" story. Computer scientists, who are not sociologists or political scientists, made a statistical observation and have said that it could be caused by hacking, except they have no evidence of hacking and no way to provide evidence of hacking.
That said, at some point we're going to need to take measures to make sure that hacking/cheating/rigging doesn't occur, even if only to head off these kinds of accusations.
Yes, and the measures are: paper ballots.
People need to stop trying to make rocket science out of filling out a form.
For the uninitiated, the rules passed last year prevent companies internet providers from discriminating against any online content or services.
It was always BS. Until I don't have to pay extra through the nose to my ISP in order to be allowed to run an irc server I'll never believe this net neutrality crap was legit.
Good point, although I think most people are probably more concerned with being blocked from running their own mail and web servers. I'm sure there were decent reasons, but I think they are reasons that were decided upon a long time ago and has more to do with getting people to pay business-class ISP fees.
1. Put your shirts on hangers
2. Buy a bunch of the same kind of socks and just throw them all in a drawer
3. Pile underwear into a drawer flat
4. Only have to fold pants and shorts, and that's quick and easy
5. Way cheaper than this thing will probly be...
That's not an efficient way to store clothing and takes up a lot of space. Each item takes up the thickness of the garment plus the thickness of the hanger. And your garments aren't all the same size so there is going to be wasted space between bars.
Basically, few people have enough closet space for that.
It also is an incredibly cheap tool:
It requires a $5 Raspberry Pi, a microSD card of probably 4GB or greater, and a USB micro cable. It doesn't even need to be powered, as the Pi is powered from the host.
A $5 R-Pi is actually substantially more expensive for everyone who doesn't live near a Micro Center. (Why oh why can't they put it in Rat Shack? I have one of those near me. They are everywhere. Oh, that's why. They can't make that many.) But a $9 CHIP can be had for less than typical Pi Zero prices on the interwebs, and it has onboard flash.
Adafruit and other online vendors have had them in stock for most of the year. Can the CHIP connect as a USB device?
Something tells me that this won't entirely be text adventures. I suspect there has got be some within there that contain some form of graphics.
There are two things you're not taking into account. First, they can have images, audio, or video if they choose. Second, IF is first and foremost about the writing, not programming. If an author uses a 30MB framework for his or her masterpiece, so be it.
I can also plug an evil thing into the ethernet jack, and then plug that evil thing into the wired network, and do all manner of bad also. Hell I can substitute an evil hub for a good one and do even more bad. where will it end?
*snooze*
You didn't read TFA. It requires an available USB port and a minute or two. That's it. It does not require pass through and does not interrupt the network connectivity of the running machine, and has a good chance to work on an average workstation (a workstation that is locked with a web browser open). It also is an incredibly cheap tool:
It requires a $5 Raspberry Pi, a microSD card of probably 4GB or greater, and a USB micro cable. It doesn't even need to be powered, as the Pi is powered from the host.
It's roughly 2/3 the size of a business card. Even if it were the size of a paperback, would it be so easy to spot if it were taped under or behind your desk?
The summary is terrible. There are these things called site licenses. TFA indicates the developer claims the software was only licensed for 38 devices.
This sort of drivel is why we have Trump in the White House. Idiots who think a naive sound bite is a valid substitute for sane trade policy and economic reality.
I rather thought it was elitism and looking down on the other side that got him elected.
The only way to quasi-enforce anti-age-discrimination laws is to force studios to green light scripts with older lead characters. It is not age discrimination to pass over a 28-year-old, in favor of a 21-year-old, for the part of a 17-year-old.
If you voted for Trump, no matter what the reason, no matter what you believe, you have condoned racism, bigotry, misogyny, and homophobia making you no better then those people.
I think you may have been trolled by the next President. The media sure were.
At the last check I made, Hillary Clinton was leading Donald Trump by roughly a quarter million votes.
And it looks like less than 30 electoral votes. Is calling it a huge loss really accurate?
Yes. Hillary Clinton losing the Presidency to Donald Trump and all his craziness is a "huge loss" for the Democrats, even if she had 0.2% more of the popular vote.
The only reason this doesn't seem cataclysmic to you is that you've already become acclimated. Put yourself in your shoes from 2, 4--heck, even 10 years ago, and you'd agree.
If Facebook were to censor these stories, people who fall for them would assume Facebook was controlled by the "liberal media" and go elsewhere for their news. It would not keep the stories from spreading virally.
It was so obviously a non-story... but read through the comments here and you'll see how eager people were to lap it up. (I linked Snopes as it contains a variety of credible sources debunking the article).
RTFA! They had used a custom version of Ubuntu so they were likely doing the support themselves with a custom setup tuned to their environment and on that level (15 000 desktops) it was likely cheaper.
Does that really follow? A custom OS that you support yourself is cheaper for users?
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US elections baffle me. You use optical scanners? We use humans.
Our ballots are recorded with paper and pencil, and counted manually. Voting takes the average person no more than 10 minutes from the time they arrive at the polling station, until they have finished casting their ballot (yes, we actually have enough polling stations that we don't have long lines), and we have election results within an hour or two of the polls closing (short of any re-counts), and the process is transparent, and easily audited.
Why does the US continue to try to make voting as difficult and complex as possible? Is it really the end goal of the US government to prevent people from voting?
How big is your country, geographically and population wise?
I also think there are a lot of people who are in the "I would never vote for Trump" crowd, because they don't want to be associated with some of his more bizarre stances, who secretly voted for Trump when no one was looking.
Well, it's likely that seeing "Hillary Clinton" on the same page/screen provided an alarming and visceral context to their decision that the media outlets had not. The Republican faithful have been dreading her imminent Presidential bid since 1992. Twenty four years of "Oh, wait, there's no way I can let that happen" suddenly rushed back to them.
She lost in places that don't have the money to buy fancy electronic voting machines because the people are poorer.
No, she lost in places that do have the money to buy fancy electronic voting machines.
Either way, it tells us exactly nothing because there's no context for why one area chooses one voting tech over another or where the money to pay for it comes from, or what the cost difference is.
And that's the problem with this "news" story. Computer scientists, who are not sociologists or political scientists, made a statistical observation and have said that it could be caused by hacking, except they have no evidence of hacking and no way to provide evidence of hacking.
That said, at some point we're going to need to take measures to make sure that hacking/cheating/rigging doesn't occur, even if only to head off these kinds of accusations.
Yes, and the measures are: paper ballots.
People need to stop trying to make rocket science out of filling out a form.
If that does not include their App Store profits, then it's even more significant.
Since not all "entire islands" are created equal, I used Wikipedia so you do not have to.
"The land area of Tau Island is 44.31 square kilometers (17.11 sq mi) and it had a population of 873 persons as of the 2000 census.
It was always BS. Until I don't have to pay extra through the nose to my ISP in order to be allowed to run an irc server I'll never believe this net neutrality crap was legit.
Good point, although I think most people are probably more concerned with being blocked from running their own mail and web servers. I'm sure there were decent reasons, but I think they are reasons that were decided upon a long time ago and has more to do with getting people to pay business-class ISP fees.
1. Put your shirts on hangers 2. Buy a bunch of the same kind of socks and just throw them all in a drawer 3. Pile underwear into a drawer flat 4. Only have to fold pants and shorts, and that's quick and easy 5. Way cheaper than this thing will probly be...
That's not an efficient way to store clothing and takes up a lot of space. Each item takes up the thickness of the garment plus the thickness of the hanger. And your garments aren't all the same size so there is going to be wasted space between bars.
Basically, few people have enough closet space for that.
It also is an incredibly cheap tool: It requires a $5 Raspberry Pi, a microSD card of probably 4GB or greater, and a USB micro cable. It doesn't even need to be powered, as the Pi is powered from the host.
A $5 R-Pi is actually substantially more expensive for everyone who doesn't live near a Micro Center. (Why oh why can't they put it in Rat Shack? I have one of those near me. They are everywhere. Oh, that's why. They can't make that many.) But a $9 CHIP can be had for less than typical Pi Zero prices on the interwebs, and it has onboard flash.
Adafruit and other online vendors have had them in stock for most of the year. Can the CHIP connect as a USB device?
Comments like yours are why that game is circling the drain.
We must be reading different reviews. From what I see it has made quite a splash.
Something tells me that this won't entirely be text adventures. I suspect there has got be some within there that contain some form of graphics.
There are two things you're not taking into account. First, they can have images, audio, or video if they choose. Second, IF is first and foremost about the writing, not programming. If an author uses a 30MB framework for his or her masterpiece, so be it.
The latest Macs don't even have many ports of which to speak. Did the attacker bring a dongle with them?
The $9 adapter approximately doubles the cost of the kit, on top of the $5 pi, mSD card and usb micro cable:
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ1M2AM/A/usb-c-to-usb-adapter?fnode=85
I can also plug an evil thing into the ethernet jack, and then plug that evil thing into the wired network, and do all manner of bad also. Hell I can substitute an evil hub for a good one and do even more bad. where will it end?
*snooze*
You didn't read TFA. It requires an available USB port and a minute or two. That's it. It does not require pass through and does not interrupt the network connectivity of the running machine, and has a good chance to work on an average workstation (a workstation that is locked with a web browser open). It also is an incredibly cheap tool:
It requires a $5 Raspberry Pi, a microSD card of probably 4GB or greater, and a USB micro cable. It doesn't even need to be powered, as the Pi is powered from the host.
It's roughly 2/3 the size of a business card. Even if it were the size of a paperback, would it be so easy to spot if it were taped under or behind your desk?
Well, there's some precedence for one of your options:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How do you extinguish FOSS? It just gets forked.
The summary is terrible. There are these things called site licenses. TFA indicates the developer claims the software was only licensed for 38 devices.
It could happen: http://www.xtraice.com/us/synt...
. . . .is not what **I** would call a selling point. Sticking to Win7 on my Windoze gaming box, and Ubuntu for my main box. . .
Is an iPhone secure, then?
This sort of drivel is why we have Trump in the White House. Idiots who think a naive sound bite is a valid substitute for sane trade policy and economic reality.
I rather thought it was elitism and looking down on the other side that got him elected.
The only way to quasi-enforce anti-age-discrimination laws is to force studios to green light scripts with older lead characters. It is not age discrimination to pass over a 28-year-old, in favor of a 21-year-old, for the part of a 17-year-old.
If you voted for Trump, no matter what the reason, no matter what you believe, you have condoned racism, bigotry, misogyny, and homophobia making you no better then those people.
I think you may have been trolled by the next President. The media sure were.
At the last check I made, Hillary Clinton was leading Donald Trump by roughly a quarter million votes.
And it looks like less than 30 electoral votes. Is calling it a huge loss really accurate?
Yes. Hillary Clinton losing the Presidency to Donald Trump and all his craziness is a "huge loss" for the Democrats, even if she had 0.2% more of the popular vote.
The only reason this doesn't seem cataclysmic to you is that you've already become acclimated. Put yourself in your shoes from 2, 4--heck, even 10 years ago, and you'd agree.
If Facebook were to censor these stories, people who fall for them would assume Facebook was controlled by the "liberal media" and go elsewhere for their news. It would not keep the stories from spreading virally.
Also, I like the implication that Trump won due to FUD but the Democratic FUD is of no concern--like the incredibly stupid story posted right here about Trump's server secretly communicating with a Russian bank.
It was so obviously a non-story... but read through the comments here and you'll see how eager people were to lap it up. (I linked Snopes as it contains a variety of credible sources debunking the article).
RTFA! They had used a custom version of Ubuntu so they were likely doing the support themselves with a custom setup tuned to their environment and on that level (15 000 desktops) it was likely cheaper.
Does that really follow? A custom OS that you support yourself is cheaper for users?