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  1. Re:mandatory/surprise on Electronic Voting in the News · · Score: 1

    I think mandatory can be replaced with 'quota' - not of every polling station, but a percentage of the locations, different each time.

  2. Re:E-voting Haiku on Electronic Voting in the News · · Score: 1

    Donated money?
    Diebold's vested interests
    make me very scared.

  3. Hang on a second... on Unix Network Programming, Vol. 1 · · Score: 1

    In a nutshell: Unix Network Programming is a must for anyone involved in writing network-enabled clients or server applications

    I thought the publisher was Addison-Whatever, not O'Reilly?

  4. Following the analogy on Real Security? · · Score: 1

    Your avg key has about 8 bumps on it. A 128 bit key would have 128. Thats a much longer key. You'd need much better machining tolerances and metals so that it wouldn't bend, and be made unusable, and I'd hate to fall on my keys with that in my pocket.

  5. Well stated on China Releases Cyber Dissident · · Score: 1

    And you cited up your sources. Nice to read an intelligent response on Slashdot.

  6. Re:Orac anyone? on Project Plex-Box · · Score: 1

    I wasn't thinking that way, but now I am.

  7. Oh, I like this on Project Plex-Box · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's whopping huge!

  8. Hangon just a second.. on Project Plex-Box · · Score: 1

    He took a console, of which many of the complaints center around 'its freakin huge' and made it BIGGER

  9. Re:cause: newsnet behind Google Groups on Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up · · Score: 1

    To me, it also suggests that they're hiving off older stuff to read only media.

  10. Binary on box not necessarily from same source on A Secure and Verifiable Voting System · · Score: 1

    How do you know its the same? No one reloaded it while your back was turned?

  11. How about on Rio Karma 20GB Reviewed · · Score: 1
    • You can't skin it, its only ion one colour, not allowing me to express my 'individuality'
    • The screen is to small, and not colour
    • Battery life sucks. Even if it doesn't


    Haven't read the article. Just guessing.
  12. Or Maybe on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    Top/Bottom (cable select can be a 'switch')

  13. Computer voting useful when vote is more complex on Can America Trust Electronic Voting? · · Score: 2, Informative

    ie: Australia has full preferential voting. You can say I vote for A. If A loses, my vote transfers to B. Then E. Then back to C. And finally, I vote for D, but hopefully someone else has won by then

    Recounting that, and redirecting those preferential flows is a PITA. I've done poll clerking, and counting. Its long.

    I believe America has a x marks the spot first past the post system. Electronic counting there not so important or diffucult.

  14. Dont set absolute sizes on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Use the 'em' as a size unit - it works out as the size of one glyph in your current font. I think. Means spaces are all proportional.

  15. Thats the point on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 1

    By grouping things semantically, you make it much easier for things like screen readers to work.

  16. Meh on Fox Considering a Return of "Family Guy" · · Score: 1

    I'd rather a spinoff 'Tales of the Slayer' type show - short story arcs of heroism etc, with quick nasty brutal violent deaths.

    Mmm, maybe I need to interact with other people in a more positive social environment.

  17. modus operandii on Fox Considering a Return of "Family Guy" · · Score: 1

    I get the distinct impression the people who get shows on the air don't have anything to do with what stays on air. There's no point in finding new talent if you're going to crush it under your bootheel by cancelling it and not letting it go to another station.

    Unless thats the whole point.

    *shakes fist*

  18. Daria, without butchered soundtrack on Fox Considering a Return of "Family Guy" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Whenever they release something for Daria, they don't include the amazing soundtrack/BGM that set the emotional level of each scene.

    I'm in to buy all 5 seasons and the movie if its done right.

  19. Isn't this barratry? on SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More · · Score: 1

    Can't someone get them shut down for this? Or have they not actually filed any suits, they're just _threatening_ to file suits.

    I'm confused.

  20. What? No scourging? on Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King' · · Score: 1

    But its the best bit. It brings home the anti-war message that these things affect the people at home too. It needs that to balance the gung-ho heroics.

  21. Research is continuing on Batteries Continue To Suck · · Score: 1

    My housemate works at the Inteligent Polymer Research Institute(IPRI) at Wollongong Uni. His thesis is on polymers for batteries. Interesting stuff. Talks about batteries that can be sprayed onto the chassis of a car in layers, to make a battery that lasts forever and is amazingly efficient.

  22. Wait for the new billion model on Belkin To Offer Firmware Fix For Router Hijacking · · Score: 1
    The 743ge is pretty nice - a review is here. However, the 7500 whatever they are promising is 802.11g instead of b, and also has achip to offload the ipsec crypto to, improving performance.

    Its apparently due 'early december' (christmas sales?) Oh, and the prices on that page are in AUD.

  23. And american companies don't lie? on Nintendo Resumes Production Of GameCube · · Score: 1

    What world are you living in?

  24. Oh, they are using the same standards on Touch-Screen Voting Snags Continue · · Score: 1

    What, you think the ATM network isn't held together with bubblegum and string? Banking industry is known for secrecy.

  25. He means... on Neil Gaiman Responds · · Score: 2, Informative

    They weren't ready for an alternate universe ecological warrior tale about the terrible effects of unrestrained technology on peoples souls and the environment.

    Throw in stuff about spirits, greed, redemption, possibly romance, and some particulalry gory special effects - shooting off peoples arms and heads with arrows - and it becomes something that Americans cannot accept as a 'cartoon'.
    Especially when its marketed as a wonderful childrens romp :P