the only way to ensure that both votes are not counted is to associate the ballot with the voter-ID
The best, albeit not 100% complete, solution to this is to have the voter ID be non-identifying, i.e., a single-use ID for that election. The ID would have to be linked to an actual voter, but that information could be stored in a completely separate database (and most certainly NOT connected to any network). Access to that database would require specific legal justification and would have to be tightly controlled. Once the challenge period for the election passes, the "hidden" database (and all backups) would be erased. It's not a perfect system, but it makes it harder for privacy to be voliated and still allows specific voters' eligibility to be challenged without the challenger knowing what difference the invalidated ballot will make.
Personally, despite the problem of vote buying, the only way I can see to prevent fraud on the part of those counting the votes is for each voter to have a "receipt" with a non-identifying transaction ID and a list of the choices made. The election board should be required to publish a complete tally of votes, listed by ID. The voter then has the responsibility to check the published tally against his or her receipt to verify that his or her votes have not been changed. (Naturally, the receipt will need to be non-forgable and non-tamperable.)
As far as fraud from the voter side, there are many non-technical approaches that should be tried that are currently not done. First is verifying voter eligibility prior to the election (and especially so for absentee ballot applications). Just as importantly, identity should be checked at the polling location.
I also think that absetnee ballots need a major overhaul in general. Instead of mailing them, the absent voter should appear at any polling location (even in another state), prove his/her identity, and leave the sealed absentee ballot to be collected and forwarded home. Overseas travellers should report to an embassy or consulate; military personnel can have their sealed ballots counter-signed by a designated officer; etc. Anyone who can not otherwise submit a ballot under the types of rules outlined above can mail his or her ballot in, but the sealed ballot should be notarized; public notaries should be required as part of their duties to provide this service for free.
Not that I'm in favor of vote-buying, but so what? It's your vote, do what you want with it. If your voting franchise means so little that it can be bought from you in a cost-effective manner by someone trying to manipulate the election, then you'll probably wind up with the government you deserve...
I don't know about standalone TiVo, but the DirecTiVo pricing is $5/month flat for as many units as you have (of course, there's DirecTV's $5/month per unit mirroring charge, which would be charged whether or not the unit has TiVo built in).
keep it to ONLY geek related issues(no war protest/mongering)
And therein lies the problem. A political group will be run by the politically-minded, who will eventually use any clout created by the group they represent to advance their own personal agendas. It may be a cynical statement, but it is borne out by precedent.
In an ideal world, there really wouldn't be such a thing as major political parties (in the US case, Democrats and Republicans). Instead, candidates would need to line up the endorsements of individual interest groups that would reflect the candidate's positions. To a certain extent that is done now, but the party labels seem to carry many of these automatically, regardless of a candidate's actual ideology.
The fact is, party labels are so broad that they don't really tell much. Who is more representative of a "Democrat" -- John Breaux or Maxine Waters? Who is the more typical "Republican" -- Rick Santorum or Olympia Snowe? Even distinctions of "conservative", "liberal", and "moderate" aren't very helpful.
Knowing that a candidate is "pro-geek", on the other hand, does tell me something useful about what to expect from him or her.
If they do this, I hope that there's at least some form of time-delay built in... otherwise I could use a second computer to see what the other players were up to while I was playing...
Let's assume $1 million (USD) per episode. The show gets a little bit better than a 1.5 average rating in the US alone, which works out to a nice even 1.5 million viewer estimate for the US alone. If each viewer (on average) contributed less than $0.70 per week, this would cover the funding of the show. That's just with the US audience.
On the whole, I think it's a model I'd prefer compared to advertising -- if I could spend a couple of dollars a week to help produce the handful of shows I actually watch, it would much prefer that to the ad route...
Personally, I hate the "so which alighnment is Phath and which one is Thoth?" bug that caused me to accidentally "escape from the dungeon in celestial disgrace" rather than ascending for the one and only time I survived that far... (died two other times on the Astral Plane)
This is more akin to your neighborhood watch group kicking in the drug dealer's door.
Probably closer to the neighborhood watch kicking in a door that they think might belong to a drug dealer in order to see if the person who lives there is actually dealing drugs...
Not necessarily... there are external floppy drives with USB connectors -- perfect for the laptop user who only needs one occassionally.
Heck, my 7-year-old laptop has an external (though not USB) floppy drive that I only hook up when I need it. I chose to have the CD built it with the external floppy rather than the other way around.
In light of the compelling evidence compiled and presented by the Opera team, France has immediately announced that they are calling for a round of new inspections...
Oh, wait, different dictatorship at fault this time...
There's nothing stopping you from adding a floppy to a Dell system that comes without one, is there? What's wrong with Dell removing a device from their standard configuration if most people (in Dell's opinion) don't want or need it? If you are in the minority of people who still need floppies (and BTW, I'm in that minority), just install your own.
If the parent comment is selected as a question, will someone please use this corrected version:
What is your (as opposed to your publisher's) opinion on the subject of fair use as it applies to your weekly column? Do you have a problem with people quoting parts (or all) of it in email and via their web sites?
What are your (as opposed to your publisher's) opinion on the subject of fair use as it applies to your weekly column? Do you have a problem with people qoting parts (or all) of it in email and via their web sites?
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Pen marks have a few problems... first of all, there's no timestamp on them, so you can't verify that the patient filled it out at the time they took the medication (see below). Secondly, there's the issue of stray marks -- was that something the patient checked off or not?
As for just telling the doctor (or more likely, a nurse or PA) at the appointment, you have the problem of does the patient accurately remember the details from a few days (or weeks) ago, or are they just guessing. (This goes also for the patient who just fills out their paper card right before the appointment.) In a clinical trial, accurate data is very, very important and any mechanism that will increase the likelihood of collecting all of the required data with fewer chances for incorrect data is a good thing.
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No, the innovation has always been driven by military applications, and to a lesser extent, games. (BTW, just take a second to imagine the usefulness of such adaptive technology to military simulations.)
Pr0n usually makes new technology widespread and afforable by taking the hit as the eraly adopters. This makes it more accessible and affordable for the rest of you... er, I mean... us.
Re:Game developers shooting themselves in the foot
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I'll point out that at the end of 2000, there were only roughly 2000 etexts in the entire PG library (I copied them all to a single CD)... So if they're up well over 6,000, then they've made amazing progress in two years!
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The best, albeit not 100% complete, solution to this is to have the voter ID be non-identifying, i.e., a single-use ID for that election. The ID would have to be linked to an actual voter, but that information could be stored in a completely separate database (and most certainly NOT connected to any network). Access to that database would require specific legal justification and would have to be tightly controlled. Once the challenge period for the election passes, the "hidden" database (and all backups) would be erased. It's not a perfect system, but it makes it harder for privacy to be voliated and still allows specific voters' eligibility to be challenged without the challenger knowing what difference the invalidated ballot will make.
Personally, despite the problem of vote buying, the only way I can see to prevent fraud on the part of those counting the votes is for each voter to have a "receipt" with a non-identifying transaction ID and a list of the choices made. The election board should be required to publish a complete tally of votes, listed by ID. The voter then has the responsibility to check the published tally against his or her receipt to verify that his or her votes have not been changed. (Naturally, the receipt will need to be non-forgable and non-tamperable.)
As far as fraud from the voter side, there are many non-technical approaches that should be tried that are currently not done. First is verifying voter eligibility prior to the election (and especially so for absentee ballot applications). Just as importantly, identity should be checked at the polling location.
I also think that absetnee ballots need a major overhaul in general. Instead of mailing them, the absent voter should appear at any polling location (even in another state), prove his/her identity, and leave the sealed absentee ballot to be collected and forwarded home. Overseas travellers should report to an embassy or consulate; military personnel can have their sealed ballots counter-signed by a designated officer; etc. Anyone who can not otherwise submit a ballot under the types of rules outlined above can mail his or her ballot in, but the sealed ballot should be notarized; public notaries should be required as part of their duties to provide this service for free.
Not that I'm in favor of vote-buying, but so what? It's your vote, do what you want with it. If your voting franchise means so little that it can be bought from you in a cost-effective manner by someone trying to manipulate the election, then you'll probably wind up with the government you deserve...
I don't know about standalone TiVo, but the DirecTiVo pricing is $5/month flat for as many units as you have (of course, there's DirecTV's $5/month per unit mirroring charge, which would be charged whether or not the unit has TiVo built in).
... and order some herbal Viagra while you're at it!
And therein lies the problem. A political group will be run by the politically-minded, who will eventually use any clout created by the group they represent to advance their own personal agendas. It may be a cynical statement, but it is borne out by precedent.
In an ideal world, there really wouldn't be such a thing as major political parties (in the US case, Democrats and Republicans). Instead, candidates would need to line up the endorsements of individual interest groups that would reflect the candidate's positions. To a certain extent that is done now, but the party labels seem to carry many of these automatically, regardless of a candidate's actual ideology.
The fact is, party labels are so broad that they don't really tell much. Who is more representative of a "Democrat" -- John Breaux or Maxine Waters? Who is the more typical "Republican" -- Rick Santorum or Olympia Snowe? Even distinctions of "conservative", "liberal", and "moderate" aren't very helpful.
Knowing that a candidate is "pro-geek", on the other hand, does tell me something useful about what to expect from him or her.
If they do this, I hope that there's at least some form of time-delay built in... otherwise I could use a second computer to see what the other players were up to while I was playing...
On the whole, I think it's a model I'd prefer compared to advertising -- if I could spend a couple of dollars a week to help produce the handful of shows I actually watch, it would much prefer that to the ad route...
*wince*
Welcome to the wonderful world of localization... the spelling is correct in UK English.
Not to mention the full-price concession stand...
I thought it's supposed to be duct tape... if you can't fix it with duct tape, then it's *BROKEN*.
Personally, I hate the "so which alighnment is Phath and which one is Thoth?" bug that caused me to accidentally "escape from the dungeon in celestial disgrace" rather than ascending for the one and only time I survived that far... (died two other times on the Astral Plane)
Probably closer to the neighborhood watch kicking in a door that they think might belong to a drug dealer in order to see if the person who lives there is actually dealing drugs...
Is this a refernece to things such as Palladium, "Trusted Computing", and DRM?
Q: What's the difference between C and C++?
A: Nothing, as (C - C++ == 0). Note, however, that the value of C has been increased...
When the boy band du jour finishes their lip-synching performance on stage, Clear Channel can just have the soundtracks ready to go...
Not necessarily... there are external floppy drives with USB connectors -- perfect for the laptop user who only needs one occassionally.
Heck, my 7-year-old laptop has an external (though not USB) floppy drive that I only hook up when I need it. I chose to have the CD built it with the external floppy rather than the other way around.
In light of the compelling evidence compiled and presented by the Opera team, France has immediately announced that they are calling for a round of new inspections...
Oh, wait, different dictatorship at fault this time...
There's nothing stopping you from adding a floppy to a Dell system that comes without one, is there? What's wrong with Dell removing a device from their standard configuration if most people (in Dell's opinion) don't want or need it? If you are in the minority of people who still need floppies (and BTW, I'm in that minority), just install your own.
What are your (as opposed to your publisher's) opinion on the subject of fair use as it applies to your weekly column? Do you have a problem with people qoting parts (or all) of it in email and via their web sites?
Pen marks have a few problems... first of all, there's no timestamp on them, so you can't verify that the patient filled it out at the time they took the medication (see below). Secondly, there's the issue of stray marks -- was that something the patient checked off or not?
As for just telling the doctor (or more likely, a nurse or PA) at the appointment, you have the problem of does the patient accurately remember the details from a few days (or weeks) ago, or are they just guessing. (This goes also for the patient who just fills out their paper card right before the appointment.) In a clinical trial, accurate data is very, very important and any mechanism that will increase the likelihood of collecting all of the required data with fewer chances for incorrect data is a good thing.
No, the innovation has always been driven by military applications, and to a lesser extent, games. (BTW, just take a second to imagine the usefulness of such adaptive technology to military simulations.)
Pr0n usually makes new technology widespread and afforable by taking the hit as the eraly adopters. This makes it more accessible and affordable for the rest of you... er, I mean... us.
One word: "subscription"
I'll point out that at the end of 2000, there were only roughly 2000 etexts in the entire PG library (I copied them all to a single CD)... So if they're up well over 6,000, then they've made amazing progress in two years!