The secrecy of a person's vote is important to prevent vote-buying and other similar schemes (bullying people into voting and providing the slips as proof of company loyalty... etc).
Us tech nerds have had the answer forever, we just have to adapt it - Open Source.
But I don't mean "use OSS for the machines", I mean open-source the ACTUAL VOTES. How about this:
1) Voter votes on an electronic voting machine 2) Machine prints out a slip with their votes, and maybe a checksum/MD5 hash of the votes. 3) Voter verifies this on as many "neutral", 3rd party and/or official vote verification sites as possible, making the possibility of sabotage very slim since they can go to any one of these sites to see if any one of their vote counts are different. You can't hack 50 different servers in enough time to cover your tracks before someone sees that the vote counts are being screwed with.
Sure, it's an extra 30-60 seconds to go plug in the numbers, but....think about our current president and how much evidence is out there in the open that suggests that he is in office, making "decisions", with the possibility that he didn't even WIN the popular vote.
Give the power to the masses. Hierarchy just doesn't work here, because power corrupts.
My good friend works for the world's largest bicycle distribution companies, feeding Walmart amongst others. He has said a lot to me about RFID and the way it works in the field, as he has to deal with how everything works at a product distribution standpoint.
In a nutshell, he says it's CRAP, AND IT DOESN'T WORK.
I'm not going to give Adobe any slack until they release Shockwave for Linux. It's hurting many people, including the education sector, which is continuously switching to OSS platforms.
So with all of these all-encompassing features, the question of security/privacy has to be asked....how do the Japanese cope with the fact that since their whole lives are essentially on these phones, and the fact that they *are* wireless devices...can't people hack into them and essentially steal everything they hold so dear?
What would I do? I would stop the project. The potential for misuse far outweighs the "gained safety" it might bring. Do we really need technology to help curb crime? No, we need responsibility and respect between human beings.
=) Of course not. Don't ever believe anyone's "answers" - answers are for the individual and cannot be taught or pushed upon anyone else. What they can do, however, is serve as a motivator for you to find your own truths.
You're on the right track, investigating cues that catch your attention. Follow yourself and nobody else. You'll find your answers, and once you do you'll understand.
You obviously are talking about yourself, not those who agree with me. I've been in the industry plenty long (since '85?), and know its history in general entirety. Microsoft's game has never changed. Bait and switch tactic. Mac is pretty much the same, only they're jealous of MS's fanbase.
Linux is an exception because they aren't motivated by money. You can accept the same flaws that are shared between operating systems, but when you're paying $150-250 for an OS and you get the same bullshit error messages and glitches, you feel like you've been jipped. With open source software, you are actually motivated to help report bugs and get involved, because you want to see it thrive and succeed, just as the money-driven OS companies try to do with pushing new products onto customers who don't know any better. When's the last time any of you have hit 'Send error report to Microsoft' when a program/Windows crashed? "Fuck them" I say, they don't deserve to have free bug reporters for their billion dollar company.
Should be a good idea to maybe take care of our lifespans being not much longer than a mosquito in cosmic terms
Again, your quote, not mine. =)
My point has to do with your context of "lifespans". What you see with your two eyes does not constitute finality with respect to who we are. Time is a factor we don't look past, but we continue to learn, grow and evolve through the generations who built our foundational knowledge. Exploring caves on Mars and possibly finding history of life (let alone the minute possibility of civilization) will be a mythbuster for a lot of what people believe today (think religion).
"If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants." -Isaac Newton
I know I was overly vague in my original reply. I felt it was appropriate.
Microsoft internal text: Primary changes per release
1) Change location of 50% or more of system utilities. 2) Change "theme" of GUI. 3) Change names of common default programs. 4) Require faster hardware for "shiny" effect X.
?
Windows 1.0 --> Windows 3.1 Windows 3.1/3.11 --> Windows 95 Windows 95 --> Windows 98 Windows 98 --> Windows 98SE Windows 98SE --> Windows ME (ugh) Windows ME --> Windows 2000 Windows 2000 --> Windows XP Windows XP --> Windows Vista
So....again, I fail to see how they're breaking their self-induced mold.
If energy can be proven to exist by a balancing of two sides of an equation, how can you say it's a conceptual attribute? If it physically exists, at least to our scientific method of proving fact, since if you transfer it between two mediums... well, it's there! We can't just dismiss our scientific methods based on theories that it doesn't exist, or at least prove beyond our current system.
This is crazy, if it's true. Of all of the things we humans know to be true,
1) Energy exists 2) Energy is derived from the Sun, therefore, is part of astrology 3) Alignment of energy is something we have mastered (directional antennas is just the first thing that comes to mind) 4) Something so huge as the alignment of more than one galaxy may very well align their energy. 5) We have *no clue* what's beyond what we've already found in the universe.
Also, doesn't Mayan theory say something about aligning galaxies in 2012?
But name the lawsuit that Google has for illegally wiretapping US citizens and giving control to the NSA.
And name the shifty business practice Google has for overpriced services, fees for EVERYTHING (including disconnecting certain services), and...oh wait, what was that again? Secret wholesale of Teir 1 backbones.
And name one horribly bad thing that Google has done in the name of user privacy. Name their practices with security, openness, and usability. Humor me by saying they charged users up the ass for it, or even had a single morally wrong revenue stream, whatsoever.
Google deserves more power. Until they fuck up like AT&T has, I give them nothing but my best wishes.
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What's your plan for making it impossible for interested parties to watch over your shoulder as you verify your vote back at the office or union hall?
How about doing it in private, just as if you were entering in your online banking account number and password?
The secrecy of a person's vote is important to prevent vote-buying and other similar schemes (bullying people into voting and providing the slips as proof of company loyalty... etc).
Who said anything about breach of secrecy?
Us tech nerds have had the answer forever, we just have to adapt it - Open Source.
But I don't mean "use OSS for the machines", I mean open-source the ACTUAL VOTES. How about this:
1) Voter votes on an electronic voting machine
2) Machine prints out a slip with their votes, and maybe a checksum/MD5 hash of the votes.
3) Voter verifies this on as many "neutral", 3rd party and/or official vote verification sites as possible, making the possibility of sabotage very slim since they can go to any one of these sites to see if any one of their vote counts are different. You can't hack 50 different servers in enough time to cover your tracks before someone sees that the vote counts are being screwed with.
Sure, it's an extra 30-60 seconds to go plug in the numbers, but....think about our current president and how much evidence is out there in the open that suggests that he is in office, making "decisions", with the possibility that he didn't even WIN the popular vote.
Give the power to the masses. Hierarchy just doesn't work here, because power corrupts.
It's about goddamned time.
"Killing knowledge, one step at a time."
RTFC, dippie. Bicycle DISTRIBUTION company, not bicycle MANUFACTURER.
My good friend works for the world's largest bicycle distribution companies, feeding Walmart amongst others. He has said a lot to me about RFID and the way it works in the field, as he has to deal with how everything works at a product distribution standpoint.
In a nutshell, he says it's CRAP, AND IT DOESN'T WORK.
That is all.
Look at Adobe, releasing something that people don't even really know what it is, while Shockwave, a massively used browser plugin, continues to be untouched.
I'm not going to give Adobe any slack until they release Shockwave for Linux. It's hurting many people, including the education sector, which is continuously switching to OSS platforms.
'Let's back this license train up and look at why this picture is wrong: 1. I have a valid copy of Office 2007.'
Yep.
So with all of these all-encompassing features, the question of security/privacy has to be asked....how do the Japanese cope with the fact that since their whole lives are essentially on these phones, and the fact that they *are* wireless devices...can't people hack into them and essentially steal everything they hold so dear?
What would I do? I would stop the project. The potential for misuse far outweighs the "gained safety" it might bring. Do we really need technology to help curb crime? No, we need responsibility and respect between human beings.
We need to fix the wetware first.
for the first dispatch to investigate the "suspicious behavior" of two kids chasing each other down the street.
Seriously...what's that quote again? "Technologists always question whether they CAN do something, but never whether they SHOULD"...
=) Of course not. Don't ever believe anyone's "answers" - answers are for the individual and cannot be taught or pushed upon anyone else. What they can do, however, is serve as a motivator for you to find your own truths.
You're on the right track, investigating cues that catch your attention. Follow yourself and nobody else. You'll find your answers, and once you do you'll understand.
You obviously are talking about yourself, not those who agree with me. I've been in the industry plenty long (since '85?), and know its history in general entirety. Microsoft's game has never changed. Bait and switch tactic. Mac is pretty much the same, only they're jealous of MS's fanbase.
Linux is an exception because they aren't motivated by money. You can accept the same flaws that are shared between operating systems, but when you're paying $150-250 for an OS and you get the same bullshit error messages and glitches, you feel like you've been jipped. With open source software, you are actually motivated to help report bugs and get involved, because you want to see it thrive and succeed, just as the money-driven OS companies try to do with pushing new products onto customers who don't know any better. When's the last time any of you have hit 'Send error report to Microsoft' when a program/Windows crashed? "Fuck them" I say, they don't deserve to have free bug reporters for their billion dollar company.
Exploring caves on mars is somehow pointless
Your quote, not mine. =)
Should be a good idea to maybe take care of our lifespans being not much longer than a mosquito in cosmic terms
Again, your quote, not mine. =)
My point has to do with your context of "lifespans". What you see with your two eyes does not constitute finality with respect to who we are. Time is a factor we don't look past, but we continue to learn, grow and evolve through the generations who built our foundational knowledge. Exploring caves on Mars and possibly finding history of life (let alone the minute possibility of civilization) will be a mythbuster for a lot of what people believe today (think religion).
"If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants." -Isaac Newton
I know I was overly vague in my original reply. I felt it was appropriate.
Grasshopper, YOU must elaborate.
I used Vista today - it's more of the same.
Microsoft internal text: Primary changes per release
1) Change location of 50% or more of system utilities.
2) Change "theme" of GUI.
3) Change names of common default programs.
4) Require faster hardware for "shiny" effect X.
?
Windows 1.0 --> Windows 3.1
Windows 3.1/3.11 --> Windows 95
Windows 95 --> Windows 98
Windows 98 --> Windows 98SE
Windows 98SE --> Windows ME (ugh)
Windows ME --> Windows 2000
Windows 2000 --> Windows XP
Windows XP --> Windows Vista
So....again, I fail to see how they're breaking their self-induced mold.
You're missing the point entirely. We are the cosmos.
about 10-15 years ago?
If energy can be proven to exist by a balancing of two sides of an equation, how can you say it's a conceptual attribute? If it physically exists, at least to our scientific method of proving fact, since if you transfer it between two mediums... well, it's there! We can't just dismiss our scientific methods based on theories that it doesn't exist, or at least prove beyond our current system.
So it takes our intervention to direct this alignment?
This is crazy, if it's true. Of all of the things we humans know to be true,
1) Energy exists
2) Energy is derived from the Sun, therefore, is part of astrology
3) Alignment of energy is something we have mastered (directional antennas is just the first thing that comes to mind)
4) Something so huge as the alignment of more than one galaxy may very well align their energy.
5) We have *no clue* what's beyond what we've already found in the universe.
Also, doesn't Mayan theory say something about aligning galaxies in 2012?
275lbs, wielding his "chair of Google", the solar-panel-for-a-sex-machine, Steve BAAAALLLMMEEERR!
And in the BLUE corner, weighing in at 65lbs, with his slippery-slope of a stomach, sliding down icy hilltops, the racer himself, TUX!
*ding ding*
Google is powerful, yes.
But name the lawsuit that Google has for illegally wiretapping US citizens and giving control to the NSA.
And name the shifty business practice Google has for overpriced services, fees for EVERYTHING (including disconnecting certain services), and...oh wait, what was that again? Secret wholesale of Teir 1 backbones.
And name one horribly bad thing that Google has done in the name of user privacy. Name their practices with security, openness, and usability. Humor me by saying they charged users up the ass for it, or even had a single morally wrong revenue stream, whatsoever.
Google deserves more power. Until they fuck up like AT&T has, I give them nothing but my best wishes.
People should believe in who they vote for enough to be able to stand up for themselves if someone finds out and challenges it.