Better solution: mark-sense paper ballots that are filled out with a _permanent_ marker. That way, they can be both machine and hand counted.
Here we have machines that use electronic input, and after reviewing the screen it prints it on a scrolling paper roll to let you review it again.
I don't know how they're counted, but due to the limited possibilities on the paper, an appropriate typeface would make the countable by both hand and machine.
If only printed receipts are counted, then would it not be even easier for a fraudster to mass print lots of "receipts" that would be indistinguishable from actual receipts?
The easiest method seems to be to just "lose" a bunch of votes from a precinct that you don't expect to vote the way you want it to. We'll be hearing about some instances of that on the news Wednesday.
However, a completely electronic system with Diebold machines, Diebold networking, and a Diebold central tabulator is what politicians will pass off on us someday to implement democracy theater.
0) the voters being educated and informed enough to make the right decisions for themselves (yes people are different but too often they are actually voting for candidates who aren't aligned with their own interests)
The primary skill for a politician is getting people to vote against their own best interests.
But I'm sure some comic-book-guy can give you half a dozen arguments about 'canon' and likely as it applies to various timelines or whatever given that they've retconned and rebooted the franchise plenty over the years.
And once we've worked out the answer to this, we can get back on whether balrogs have wings.
If you look at the actual comic, they are trying to help Superman determine if his planet of origin, Krypton, is still intact or detectable.
What they forget is that any light from Krypton's system is so many light years away that we would effectively be seeing Superman's homeworld *before* it was destroyed. NDGT didn't think of this?
The Badass Tronomer's blog hints that that time delay plays a role in the plot.
What I don't get is, if just a handful of kryptonite brings Superman to his knees, how did his parents survive on a whole planet of the stuff?
What's with the trend of these guys spending time calculating fictional things? Wasn't there a mathematician last week who tried calculating some Cthulhu/wormhole fantasy? Waste...of...reputation.
I think the uncertainty of threatened budget cuts have NSF reluctant to give out research grants, so the scientists have to find something to do with their time.
If they have an obligation to report losses by fire, storm, vandalism, or theft in meatspace, they should have the same obligations regarding over-the-net attacks.
Businesses don't report these tings to their customers or account holders or even their shareholders. They report these things to the police and their insurance companies in the hope of recovering from their losses. Even then, they are not obligated to do so, it is simply the most logical and prudent action.
So, I guess your answer to the question of; Should Hacked Companies Disclose Their Losses? your answer is no.
If you happen to have your facts right (which I seriously doubt), then I will draw the same conclusion that you did.
If they have an obligation to report losses by fire, storm, vandalism, or theft in meatspace, they should have the same obligations regarding over-the-net attacks.
Killer asteroids are good to life that might emerge after the collision. But if you poll the existing life on the planet? meh! Its popularity is going to be very very bad.
Polls showed that dinosaurs were strongly against the KT event, but more mammals showed up to vote. And the avian protest vote didn't help the dinos either.
Yes, I get this is not upstanding behavior. Is it a 'dealing in stolen property' felony? What the heck is an 'offenses against computer users' felony? Misdemeanor theft, yes. But 'handling lewd materials'? That's a crime?
It feels like most of the laws are on the books just so the police can hit you with a zillion for anything then drop most of them to appear like the good guys.
How 'bout "violation of customer privacy".
(OTOH, smart people don't take or allow pictures of themselves that they don't want the whole world to see. There's a whole internet out there eagerly waiting to spread them around for you.)
The "War on Christmas" is actually a war on inclusive society. It exists only in the minds of people who feel persecuted if they aren't allowed force their ways on everyone else.
Also, I would be willing to wager that the people screaming loudest about the (imagined) incorporation of Sharia into US law are the same people who are demanding loudest to have US law to force *their* religious scruples on the rest of us.
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Better solution: mark-sense paper ballots that are filled out with a _permanent_ marker. That way, they can be both machine and hand counted.
Here we have machines that use electronic input, and after reviewing the screen it prints it on a scrolling paper roll to let you review it again.
I don't know how they're counted, but due to the limited possibilities on the paper, an appropriate typeface would make the countable by both hand and machine.
With this election looking to be another close to tie, that'll make 3 out of the last 4 elections questionable.
Not to worry: there's an odd number of people on the Supreme Court.
If only printed receipts are counted, then would it not be even easier for a fraudster to mass print lots of "receipts" that would be indistinguishable from actual receipts?
The easiest method seems to be to just "lose" a bunch of votes from a precinct that you don't expect to vote the way you want it to. We'll be hearing about some instances of that on the news Wednesday.
However, a completely electronic system with Diebold machines, Diebold networking, and a Diebold central tabulator is what politicians will pass off on us someday to implement democracy theater.
0) the voters being educated and informed enough to make the right decisions for themselves (yes people are different but too often they are actually voting for candidates who aren't aligned with their own interests)
The primary skill for a politician is getting people to vote against their own best interests.
That's so far off topic that I can't resist commenting on it!!!
John Boehner was spotted with tears streaming down his sun-baked face
He must have been spending time on Krypton, because our sun doesn't bake faces orange.
Romney is probably somewhere rolling around in a pile of hundred dollar bills, consoling himself.
Right. That's like you or me rolling around in a pile of paper towels for consolation.
and Paul Ryan was seen runnning for the nearest church to pray
More likely he's running for campaign headquarters, to make sure he gets the shiv in first. And put in an order for some Ryan 2016 buttons.
Let the lawsuits begin!!!
Any wagers on whether they sue Google, based on some strained argument that they are responsible for his views, even when acting independently?
But I'm sure some comic-book-guy can give you half a dozen arguments about 'canon' and likely as it applies to various timelines or whatever given that they've retconned and rebooted the franchise plenty over the years.
And once we've worked out the answer to this, we can get back on whether balrogs have wings.
If you look at the actual comic, they are trying to help Superman determine if his planet of origin, Krypton, is still intact or detectable.
What they forget is that any light from Krypton's system is so many light years away that we would effectively be seeing Superman's homeworld *before* it was destroyed. NDGT didn't think of this?
The Badass Tronomer's blog hints that that time delay plays a role in the plot.
What I don't get is, if just a handful of kryptonite brings Superman to his knees, how did his parents survive on a whole planet of the stuff?
What's with the trend of these guys spending time calculating fictional things? Wasn't there a mathematician last week who tried calculating some Cthulhu/wormhole fantasy? Waste...of...reputation.
I think the uncertainty of threatened budget cuts have NSF reluctant to give out research grants, so the scientists have to find something to do with their time.
What's with the newscientist link? I thought this was the badastronomy discussion board.
Why do people have so many problem's with apostrophe's? Its not difficult.
What's a postrophe?
possibly violating a few privacy laws and their own policies.
Those concerns are so 20th Century.
If they have an obligation to report losses by fire, storm, vandalism, or theft in meatspace, they should have the same obligations regarding over-the-net attacks.
Businesses don't report these tings to their customers or account holders or even their shareholders. They report these things to the police and their insurance companies in the hope of recovering from their losses. Even then, they are not obligated to do so, it is simply the most logical and prudent action.
So, I guess your answer to the question of; Should Hacked Companies Disclose Their Losses? your answer is no.
If you happen to have your facts right (which I seriously doubt), then I will draw the same conclusion that you did.
If they have an obligation to report losses by fire, storm, vandalism, or theft in meatspace, they should have the same obligations regarding over-the-net attacks.
Killer asteroids are good to life that might emerge after the collision. But if you poll the existing life on the planet? meh! Its popularity is going to be very very bad.
Polls showed that dinosaurs were strongly against the KT event, but more mammals showed up to vote. And the avian protest vote didn't help the dinos either.
If it's not an accident, then it's intentional. For it to be intentional, it must have been designed.
Sounds to me like they are trying to make a teleological argument for the existence of God.
Yes, if the FSM hadn't moved Jupiter out a little, we might have evolved enough intelligence to reject silly arguments.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that Christians can't even agree amongst themselves what Christmas is about.
For most people in the USA it's just an orgy of commercialization and excess spending. You'd think Christians would be complaining about it.
Yes, I get this is not upstanding behavior. Is it a 'dealing in stolen property' felony? What the heck is an 'offenses against computer users' felony? Misdemeanor theft, yes. But 'handling lewd materials'? That's a crime?
It feels like most of the laws are on the books just so the police can hit you with a zillion for anything then drop most of them to appear like the good guys.
How 'bout "violation of customer privacy".
(OTOH, smart people don't take or allow pictures of themselves that they don't want the whole world to see. There's a whole internet out there eagerly waiting to spread them around for you.)
Oh... I know... but every time I differentiate myself from the crowd by refusing or bowing out, I feel it... you know what I'm talking about.
Good grief. I've spent my whole life refusing and bowing out of everything under the sun, and people just don't give a damn.
There is classes for re-training behavior issues of what is/isn't acceptable
Yeah, I've seen A Clockwork Orange too.
What we are in right now with situations like the ID movement is denial.
I suspect that for the leaders of the movement it is just a cynical scam to keep hoi polloi opiated and obedient.
Not everyone asks "who guards the guards?".
The "War on Christmas" is actually a war on inclusive society. It exists only in the minds of people who feel persecuted if they aren't allowed force their ways on everyone else.
Also, I would be willing to wager that the people screaming loudest about the (imagined) incorporation of Sharia into US law are the same people who are demanding loudest to have US law to force *their* religious scruples on the rest of us.
It's not bad behavior if you're doing the lord's work... right? right? And of course, nothing can harm me because God's got my back... right??
Best to find out if God's got your back in court before you start harassing your coworkers.
Are you seriously claiming that people are offended when you pass on dessert?[*]
[*]Except Grandma, or course.
You're just another theist trying to carve out special privileges for your beliefs
And complaining that he's being discriminated against when he isn't allowed to.