No no, it just incremented the number of ballot sheets it had been fed. Actually displaying the vote tallies in real time would be insanely illegal, wouldn't it?
Yeah, my wife joked that the Diebold machine was actually a paper shredder. I laughed at the time, but the more I think about it, the less funny that is.
Voted in western IL about 20 minutes ago. No lines (but lots of people), 8 polling booths, paper ballots filled out with a marker. A rather menacing-looking Diebold machine increased its displayed tally when I fed it my ballot.
All in all I hope everyone's voting experience was as painless as mine.
After watching the video, I can say with near-certainty that this is a calibration issue COMBINED with poor UI. The buttons you have to hit are narrow (not much taller than the finger hitting them), and they are arranged one on top of the other. Obviously whoever designed these has NEVER worked with a touchscreen before. You simply can't do designs like that on a touchscreen. Buttons must be large on both X and Y, and they must be a fair distance from each other. Touchscreens ALWAYS lose calibration.
Is it illegal for someone to take a cellphone into the booth and record this happening? A couple of youtube videos would probably raise public awareness of the problem and encourage a fix, whatever the problem is (having worked with a LOT of touchscreens in the past, I'm going to guess it's a calibration and/or screen angling issue).
Something that's always bothered me about Alien sightings and 'abductions' is that the sightings really didn't kick off until 1897 which coincides closely with the release of the War of the Worlds. And, interestingly enough, alien abductions didn't really take off until the 1960s when movies about abductions had been in circulation since the 50s (as any devout MST3K fan knows).
And what's even more interesting is that, long before 1897, humans were being abducted/visited/molested in their sleep by an amazing variety of fairies, Sidhe, elves, devils, succubi, incubi, djinn (djinns? djinni?), demons and, if you go back far enough, gods.
Either aliens have been playing catch-and-release with us for much of human history, or one of the many things that binds us to our fellow man is a tendency to dream of supernatural beings doing unspeakable things to us.
Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that specific software will be endorsed and/or required to meet this new requirement? Probably whichever one spends the most money to "demonstrate" its capabilities to the lawmakers by treating them all to free vacations in the Bahamas. How much do you want to bet that a free solution like Truecrypt just won't meet the "standards" set by this new law?
Wake me up when a mutant is using hypnotic mind-control to make me believe I'm actually in the game. Until then I don't think this is going to be a particularly compelling MMORPG.
Naturally, I cannot find the quote now, but I remember hearing yesterday (I want to say it was on the BBC world service) that the judge involved "was aware that the ruling could affect other countries' access to the gambling sites, but said he was only concerned with Kentucky.".
In other words, he knew perfectly well what he was doing was going to affect people outside KY and he did it anyway. Can't we do something do him for that?
I wonder if they actually believe this is going to change how people feel about the DRM, or if they just don't care and are trying to curb the Amazon comments?
Of course, that assumes the almost uniformly Republican-favoring "errors" found in the 2000 and 2004 elections are actually "mistakes" on Diebold's part. I outgrew most conspiracy theories years ago, and yet I find that part of my brain giving off all kinds of warning signals as we approach this most important election...
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No, he goes by Ghandi 2. As in, no more Mr. Passive Resistance.
Nothing complicated here. They move fast because they're hungry.
No no, it just incremented the number of ballot sheets it had been fed. Actually displaying the vote tallies in real time would be insanely illegal, wouldn't it?
Yeah, my wife joked that the Diebold machine was actually a paper shredder. I laughed at the time, but the more I think about it, the less funny that is.
Voted in western IL about 20 minutes ago. No lines (but lots of people), 8 polling booths, paper ballots filled out with a marker. A rather menacing-looking Diebold machine increased its displayed tally when I fed it my ballot.
All in all I hope everyone's voting experience was as painless as mine.
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After watching the video, I can say with near-certainty that this is a calibration issue COMBINED with poor UI. The buttons you have to hit are narrow (not much taller than the finger hitting them), and they are arranged one on top of the other. Obviously whoever designed these has NEVER worked with a touchscreen before. You simply can't do designs like that on a touchscreen. Buttons must be large on both X and Y, and they must be a fair distance from each other. Touchscreens ALWAYS lose calibration.
Is it illegal for someone to take a cellphone into the booth and record this happening? A couple of youtube videos would probably raise public awareness of the problem and encourage a fix, whatever the problem is (having worked with a LOT of touchscreens in the past, I'm going to guess it's a calibration and/or screen angling issue).
It's called "game rental". Learn it. Use it. Love it. Avoid buying crap like "Starfox Adventures".
Something that's always bothered me about Alien sightings and 'abductions' is that the sightings really didn't kick off until 1897 which coincides closely with the release of the War of the Worlds. And, interestingly enough, alien abductions didn't really take off until the 1960s when movies about abductions had been in circulation since the 50s (as any devout MST3K fan knows).
And what's even more interesting is that, long before 1897, humans were being abducted/visited/molested in their sleep by an amazing variety of fairies, Sidhe, elves, devils, succubi, incubi, djinn (djinns? djinni?), demons and, if you go back far enough, gods.
Either aliens have been playing catch-and-release with us for much of human history, or one of the many things that binds us to our fellow man is a tendency to dream of supernatural beings doing unspeakable things to us.
Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that specific software will be endorsed and/or required to meet this new requirement? Probably whichever one spends the most money to "demonstrate" its capabilities to the lawmakers by treating them all to free vacations in the Bahamas. How much do you want to bet that a free solution like Truecrypt just won't meet the "standards" set by this new law?
Be fair, mosquitoes and their larva are very important food sources for other animals.
So grind up spammers and feed them to pigs! We need more bacon!
Wake me up when a mutant is using hypnotic mind-control to make me believe I'm actually in the game. Until then I don't think this is going to be a particularly compelling MMORPG.
Naturally, I cannot find the quote now, but I remember hearing yesterday (I want to say it was on the BBC world service) that the judge involved "was aware that the ruling could affect other countries' access to the gambling sites, but said he was only concerned with Kentucky.".
In other words, he knew perfectly well what he was doing was going to affect people outside KY and he did it anyway. Can't we do something do him for that?
So "hacking" now includes password guessing?
I wonder if they actually believe this is going to change how people feel about the DRM, or if they just don't care and are trying to curb the Amazon comments?
If only they'd used 7zip instead! Oh, you fools!
Wow, I actually threw up in my mouth a little!
BraVO!
You want the Tor Button plugin + NoScript, then.
Of course, that assumes the almost uniformly Republican-favoring "errors" found in the 2000 and 2004 elections are actually "mistakes" on Diebold's part. I outgrew most conspiracy theories years ago, and yet I find that part of my brain giving off all kinds of warning signals as we approach this most important election...
So, from the studios' point of view, not only is this facilitating piracy, but RealNetworks is profiting by it? That sounds like a real winner.
This might be explained in TFA but I don't have time to Bugmenot the NYTimes right now.
Quit bitching and just knot it around your waist like the rest of us :)
You should make that a bumper sticker. I guarantee you'll have buyers.
What worries me is that the recording companies will now scrape the bottom of the barrel for talent
Funny, they've been doing that for years and people have paid voluntarily for it.
A friend of mine in college used to make the phrase work well for him: "I could care less, but it would take too much effort."