One way of maintaining the integrity of a ballot is to have the machine ossue a printed receipt, but the major objection to this is that it allows post hoc determination of who an individual voted for, removing one of the 'tails' of the four-tailed (secret, universal, direct and equal) ballots which are considered the Gold Standard*.David Chaum (one of the original inventors of electronic cash) published a fascinating article about splitting printed receipts into two parts which are both required for the vote to be reconstructed, and handing half off to the voter, and retaining half until the election has been completed successfully. Highly interesting reading, and contains mathematical details and proofs of the integrity of the system.
*Don't get me started about the Electoral College system of electing the POTUS. Deliberately designed by the Founding Fathers to remove the 'direct' and weaken the 'equal' tails...
Is there any other real option for the government? I'm assuming everyone here wants a distro of Linux to be the government's OS of choice. Which one? Red Hat? Are they a large enough company to ensure 24/7 tech support on the governments' 140,000 computers? I don't know, and I don't think the government does either.
Which is why you don't just send some guy down to the local DC branch of CompUSA to pick up a RedHat box. If you look at the USA Today piece referenced in yesterday's/. article you will see that the city of Munich first hired a technology strategist company, Unilog Integrata to look at the situation. This company then reviewed the requirements, outlined various trade-offs in the two options, then recommended the SuSE/IBM option.
You can bet that 24/7 support for 140,000 computers is well within Big Blue's capabilities.
Also, I understand Andrew Wiles has been married all the years he worked on Fermat's Last Theorem, which he proved at the age of 41.
That's why it took him so long!
I'm reminded of the Monty Python sketch where John Cleese as Lv Beethoven is trying to compose the Fifth Symphony, but keeps getting distracted by Mrs. v B. played by Graham Chapman vacuuming and cleaning around him.
Most of the librarians that you know (which, lets be honest, is probably just one or two)
What an excellent assumption: I am married to a librarian, and know some seventy or eight people who are professional, full-time librarians. How's that for honesty?
Interestingly enough, Laura Bush, the First Lady, is a former Librarian. I wonder how she feels about PATRIOT...
Most librarians I know do NOT recognise Laura Bush as a librarian: she is a SCHOOL librarian, with no professional qualification AFAIK, and most librarians I know are offended by her attempting to pass herself off as one of their august body!
Anal rape and prositution in prison: always one of the mainstays of/. humour. How amusing. Given the proportion of the population of the US in jail, it strikes me that there is something deeply sick in the psyche of many American males...
Interviewer: SCO alleges that you need to focus more on getting clarification as to where the code that goes in the Linux kernel comes from. Linus:I allege that SCO is full of it.
I work for a company that manufactures and sells a controlled-release form of Ritalin. When the marketing was being disucssed, there were several countries where it was quite clear we were not going to market Ritalin, because a large (>80%) proportion of what the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, rich industrial countries think of, and what doctors diagnose as, ADHD in kids, is regarded as perfectly normal behaviour in countries such as Portugal, Greece, Mexico, India, &c.
Interestingly, these are countries that still have a culture based primarily around extended families.
"When I can't stop fiddlin', I just takes me Ritalin I'm poppin' and sailin' man!" -- Bart Simpson, having weaned himself of Focusyn
* How time-consuming would it be to replace all SCO code (if it does exist)? Should it be done now, with all the code they claim regardless of merit, to preempt their case?
Since SCO won't say what/where the code they claim is tainted can be found, this means a re-write of the whole of Linux. WHY do you think that SCO refuse to disclose?
I have karma to burn, so if I get modded off-topic, eh, fuck it. ANYWAYS, this is the ONLY time I have ever laughed out loud, belly-laugh, and REALLY regretted not having SuperMod (R) points (an imaginary type of mod point, which allows you to transcend the +5 maximum). So, thank you, AC, for brightening up my morning before I get into the depths of writing some RMAN scripts to back up my databases. Thanks.
A couple of thing surprise me: 1. So few UK companies. 2. So many Arab countries.
I'd also be interested to know how many of the companies not based in the US have a significant US shareholder base, or investments from big US software companies...
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One way of maintaining the integrity of a ballot is to have the machine ossue a printed receipt, but the major objection to this is that it allows post hoc determination of who an individual voted for, removing one of the 'tails' of the four-tailed (secret, universal, direct and equal) ballots which are considered the Gold Standard*.David Chaum (one of the original inventors of electronic cash) published a fascinating article about splitting printed receipts into two parts which are both required for the vote to be reconstructed, and handing half off to the voter, and retaining half until the election has been completed successfully. Highly interesting reading, and contains mathematical details and proofs of the integrity of the system.
*Don't get me started about the Electoral College system of electing the POTUS. Deliberately designed by the Founding Fathers to remove the 'direct' and weaken the 'equal' tails...
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has now issued more than 911 subpoenas
Reckon the RIAA's trying to make a point here?
Though InterTrust declines to place a pricetag on the suit, it's hard to imagine the company settling now for any sum that does not have a "B" in it.
So that would be about twenty bucks, then?
a copywritten mp3
Jeez, people, the word is "copyrighted". The root is "copyright", not "copywrite".
I wonder how long it's going to take Microsoft to figure out that it's not Linux that's the threat, it's open source.
/. tradition of not Ring TFA. It says that the number 2 risk is "Linux and non-commercial software".
Ah! The fine
That is Osama Bin Laden spelled in reverse order.
<Actor turns to look at camera, and waits for laugh/applause>
The Obligatory Unnecessary Punchline, as delivered excrutiatingly and endlessly by US TV.
Is there any other real option for the government? I'm assuming everyone here wants a distro of Linux to be the government's OS of choice. Which one? Red Hat? Are they a large enough company to ensure 24/7 tech support on the governments' 140,000 computers? I don't know, and I don't think the government does either.
/. article you will see that the city of Munich first hired a technology strategist company, Unilog Integrata to look at the situation. This company then reviewed the requirements, outlined various trade-offs in the two options, then recommended the SuSE/IBM option.
Which is why you don't just send some guy down to the local DC branch of CompUSA to pick up a RedHat box. If you look at the USA Today piece referenced in yesterday's
You can bet that 24/7 support for 140,000 computers is well within Big Blue's capabilities.
Also, I understand Andrew Wiles has been married all the years he worked on Fermat's Last Theorem, which he proved at the age of 41.
That's why it took him so long!
I'm reminded of the Monty Python sketch where John Cleese as Lv Beethoven is trying to compose the Fifth Symphony, but keeps getting distracted by Mrs. v B. played by Graham Chapman vacuuming and cleaning around him.
Most of the librarians that you know (which, lets be honest, is probably just one or two)
What an excellent assumption: I am married to a librarian, and know some seventy or eight people who are professional, full-time librarians. How's that for honesty?
Interestingly enough, Laura Bush, the First Lady, is a former Librarian. I wonder how she feels about PATRIOT...
Most librarians I know do NOT recognise Laura Bush as a librarian: she is a SCHOOL librarian, with no professional qualification AFAIK, and most librarians I know are offended by her attempting to pass herself off as one of their august body!
To allude authorities who will be looking for me in the bookstore
While you're there, make sure you look at a dictionary...
You work for Microsoft, don't you?
Your still in college, aren't you?
Bill? Is that you?
He can always... uhm.... pick up soap for money.
/. humour. How amusing. Given the proportion of the population of the US in jail, it strikes me that there is something deeply sick in the psyche of many American males...
Anal rape and prositution in prison: always one of the mainstays of
now he can print the ticket IN my car! Amazing
Screw that: he can print the ticket ON your car!
Why is this? As more and more people are putting in home networks, having at least the option to put in a second Ethernet port become more important.
I want to put in a small form factor, quiet machine running OpenBSD as a firewall, but I can't find what I'm looking for. Anybody got any suggestions?
you for doing us the "favor" of posting the
Cool! At last somebody who knows that this is not the correct way to spell "favour".
Interviewer: SCO alleges that you need to focus more on getting clarification as to where the code that goes in the Linux kernel comes from.
Linus:I allege that SCO is full of it.
So it's up the librarian to determine what should and should not be filtered if a teen asks them?
In the King County Library System, WA, it is up to the parent or guardian to request filtered or unfiltered access.
Someone needs to tell these guys about FreeBSD and Linux.
SCO says Linux is bootlegged software!! (And probably will for *BSD soon, too...)
I work for a company that manufactures and sells a controlled-release form of Ritalin. When the marketing was being disucssed, there were several countries where it was quite clear we were not going to market Ritalin, because a large (>80%) proportion of what the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, rich industrial countries think of, and what doctors diagnose as, ADHD in kids, is regarded as perfectly normal behaviour in countries such as Portugal, Greece, Mexico, India, &c.
Interestingly, these are countries that still have a culture based primarily around extended families.
"When I can't stop fiddlin', I just takes me Ritalin
I'm poppin' and sailin' man!"
-- Bart Simpson, having weaned himself of Focusyn
and have tried to wein myself off of caffeine
Does that make you a weiner?
OK, there are 2 identified CD's that won't play on certain systems, big deal. Nothing's perfect.
More than two: look at the Boycott RIAA website. There was also a site at http://www.fatchucks.com/ but that site has been suspended for some reason.
* How time-consuming would it be to replace all SCO code (if it does exist)? Should it be done now, with all the code they claim regardless of merit, to preempt their case?
Since SCO won't say what/where the code they claim is tainted can be found, this means a re-write of the whole of Linux. WHY do you think that SCO refuse to disclose?
I have karma to burn, so if I get modded off-topic, eh, fuck it. ANYWAYS, this is the ONLY time I have ever laughed out loud, belly-laugh, and REALLY regretted not having SuperMod (R) points (an imaginary type of mod point, which allows you to transcend the +5 maximum). So, thank you, AC, for brightening up my morning before I get into the depths of writing some RMAN scripts to back up my databases. Thanks.
Actually, there is one Australian company, Virtual Practice. The counts, by country, are:
USA:-- 83
UAE:-- 16
Egypt:-- 15
Brazil:-- 8
South Korea:-- 7
Austria:-- 6
Italy:-- 6
Puerto Rico:-- 5
Saudi Arabia:-- 5
Bulgaria:-- 4
France:-- 4
Kuwait:-- 4
Norway:-- 4
Poland:-- 4
UK:-- 4
Thailand:-- 4
Costa Rica:-- 4
Germany:-- 3
Lebanon:-- 3
Pakistan:-- 3
South Africa:-- 3
Philippines:-- 3
Jordan:-- 3
Bahrain:-- 2
Cyprus:-- 2
Venezuela:-- 2
Turkey:-- 2
Sweden:-- 2
Spain:-- 2
Romania:-- 2
Portugal:-- 2
Peru:-- 2
Panama:-- 2
Netherlands:-- 2
Malta:-- 2
Greece:-- 2
Czech Republic:-- 2
Canada:-- 2
Beirut:-- 2
Argentina:-- 1
Oman:-- 1
Uruguay:-- 1
Slovenia:-- 1
Slovakia:-- 1
Russian Federation:-- 1
Latvia:-- 1
Lithuania:-- 1
Ireland:-- 1
El Salvador:-- 1
Australia:-- 1
Indonesia:-- 1
Dominican Republic:-- 1
A couple of thing surprise me: 1. So few UK companies. 2. So many Arab countries.
I'd also be interested to know how many of the companies not based in the US have a significant US shareholder base, or investments from big US software companies...