While electronic voting might (I hope) catch on in the future, the use of voting machines is a failed idea. It's not more comfortable as you have to go to the same place to vote anyway, and whatever costs it may save doesn't worth the security risks it introduces. When someone has physical access to the hardware, you already start from a very bad position.
The big security problem with Java software is that you can't differentiate between them since they all run on the jvm. For example, you can't block net access from a Java program in a firewall, because you would have to block the whole jvm.
we all could come up with scenarios where it might save lives to cut off service
Then come up with some if it's so easy. You made a bold statement without anything to back it up. As for me, I can't imagine that cutting communications could be helpful in any emergency.
As tidal forces depend on gravity, they push the inner boundary of the zone much further away than they push the outer one, thus the zone itself shrinks.
The problem with this kind of extrapolation is that measurement errors build up pretty quickly. This is why inertial navigation using accelerometers gets very inaccurate after only a few hours, and that's with precision equipment not a cheap mic.
You are free to express your opinions, but there are a few things to keep in mind. If you support an opinion by 'liking' it, you are basically supporting it with your name. It's like signing a petition: you surrender your anonymity in order to give more weight to the statement. But that will also mean that others disagreeing with you might like you less in the future, which is why you should only give your name to something you really agree with. This guy basically just republished the data others made publicly available on Facebook, which he is also free to do.
Given the creative accounting of the entertainment industry, it's impossible to get meaningful numbers for a research like this. But then again, until they become frank with society, they shouldn't ask for any legislatory help from society either. The right thing to do would be to tell the entertainment industry to come clean with their numbers, otherwise no copyright enforcement law will be based on an informed decision. If they refuse, then just let them die, assuming they really are dying.
True, the pirates have always represented a radical position in the matter, but with the demands of the copyright industry radicalizing even more, many people view them as a lesser evil. And if I have to choose, I would sacrifice rather the music industry than the internet and free speech.
IT is a field that is changing rapidly, and if you stick to only one service you may soon find yourself out of business. Therefore, big tech companies try to get a hold in every promising new market segment. Which is exactly how capitalism should work, developing a multitude of services for the users to choose from. Dropbox didn't invent renting online storage, and neither did Megaupload, it has been there long before them. The only difference is that they offer a limited bait service for free, and they have renamed it "cloud". And that hardly classifies as 'innovation' that could be copied. The author basically has problems that another company dares to compete with his favourite startup, raising shilling to a whole new level.
I did mention their ethnicity but it was apparently censored from the final post. Strange, as it's also in the article, and the pictures in it. Still, the first thing you notice upon entering Romania is that there are gipsies everywhere, and not even the somewhat settled ones but wandering nomadic tribes, beggar mafias, child labour etc. Many are sick, and from what I could tell there are many that starve. It can be argued whose fault it is, but from the eye of an outsider it certainly gives the place a certain Balcanic feel.
When you mentioned voter lists, I assumed that you meant a list of registered voters, which is legal to collect and in some places even made public. I have doubts, however, regarding the legality of voter affiliation lists. Of course it also depends on the methods that are used to collect them, but in most cases it would violate privacy and democratic voting. Sure, there are good uses for it, but the risks far outweight the possible advantages.
Voter lists and supporter databases are two different things. Yes, political parties can legally use voter lists for telemarketing/snailmail spamming, but that's fundamentally different from making a list of friends and enemies.
"Want to get a job in the public sector? Sorry, our database shows that you didn't support the currently ruling party last election."
What really surprised me is that the conservatives don't even try to hide that they are compiling a database of their supporters and rejecters. This goes against the very idea of secret ballot voting, and in most civilised countries is at least theoretically illegal.
Even if it's for the right cause, I can't help but find it weird that dealing with climate change in the US starts by the military declaring it a terrorist.
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While electronic voting might (I hope) catch on in the future, the use of voting machines is a failed idea. It's not more comfortable as you have to go to the same place to vote anyway, and whatever costs it may save doesn't worth the security risks it introduces. When someone has physical access to the hardware, you already start from a very bad position.
The big security problem with Java software is that you can't differentiate between them since they all run on the jvm. For example, you can't block net access from a Java program in a firewall, because you would have to block the whole jvm.
Encoding should be trivial to paralellize, you just cut up a movie to a sequence of n clips and encode them independently.
But information made public can be accessed without any action of Twitter already.
we all could come up with scenarios where it might save lives to cut off service
Then come up with some if it's so easy. You made a bold statement without anything to back it up. As for me, I can't imagine that cutting communications could be helpful in any emergency.
As tidal forces depend on gravity, they push the inner boundary of the zone much further away than they push the outer one, thus the zone itself shrinks.
The point of prescription drugs is to prevent unauthorised purchase. This system can be easily tricked.
[cyber]stalking is not about using illegal means to gather information.
Yes it is.
It is about using otherwise legal information in a threatening or intimidating way.
That's called, surpisingly, intimidation, and only applies in case of possible physical harm.
This is what happens when you treat hacking as warfare and make the military responsible for security.
The problem with this kind of extrapolation is that measurement errors build up pretty quickly. This is why inertial navigation using accelerometers gets very inaccurate after only a few hours, and that's with precision equipment not a cheap mic.
support Twitter too?
And why it was very different is one of the most interesting problems in climate research, and the article suggests a possible solution to that.
Kinect detects the position of objects, while this system can only detect movement.
You are free to express your opinions, but there are a few things to keep in mind. If you support an opinion by 'liking' it, you are basically supporting it with your name. It's like signing a petition: you surrender your anonymity in order to give more weight to the statement. But that will also mean that others disagreeing with you might like you less in the future, which is why you should only give your name to something you really agree with. This guy basically just republished the data others made publicly available on Facebook, which he is also free to do.
Given the creative accounting of the entertainment industry, it's impossible to get meaningful numbers for a research like this. But then again, until they become frank with society, they shouldn't ask for any legislatory help from society either. The right thing to do would be to tell the entertainment industry to come clean with their numbers, otherwise no copyright enforcement law will be based on an informed decision. If they refuse, then just let them die, assuming they really are dying.
True, the pirates have always represented a radical position in the matter, but with the demands of the copyright industry radicalizing even more, many people view them as a lesser evil. And if I have to choose, I would sacrifice rather the music industry than the internet and free speech.
IT is a field that is changing rapidly, and if you stick to only one service you may soon find yourself out of business. Therefore, big tech companies try to get a hold in every promising new market segment. Which is exactly how capitalism should work, developing a multitude of services for the users to choose from. Dropbox didn't invent renting online storage, and neither did Megaupload, it has been there long before them. The only difference is that they offer a limited bait service for free, and they have renamed it "cloud". And that hardly classifies as 'innovation' that could be copied. The author basically has problems that another company dares to compete with his favourite startup, raising shilling to a whole new level.
I did mention their ethnicity but it was apparently censored from the final post. Strange, as it's also in the article, and the pictures in it. Still, the first thing you notice upon entering Romania is that there are gipsies everywhere, and not even the somewhat settled ones but wandering nomadic tribes, beggar mafias, child labour etc. Many are sick, and from what I could tell there are many that starve. It can be argued whose fault it is, but from the eye of an outsider it certainly gives the place a certain Balcanic feel.
There have been ships running on renewable energy for centuries, using sails.
When you mentioned voter lists, I assumed that you meant a list of registered voters, which is legal to collect and in some places even made public. I have doubts, however, regarding the legality of voter affiliation lists. Of course it also depends on the methods that are used to collect them, but in most cases it would violate privacy and democratic voting. Sure, there are good uses for it, but the risks far outweight the possible advantages.
Voter lists and supporter databases are two different things. Yes, political parties can legally use voter lists for telemarketing/snailmail spamming, but that's fundamentally different from making a list of friends and enemies.
"Want to get a job in the public sector? Sorry, our database shows that you didn't support the currently ruling party last election."
What really surprised me is that the conservatives don't even try to hide that they are compiling a database of their supporters and rejecters. This goes against the very idea of secret ballot voting, and in most civilised countries is at least theoretically illegal.
Even if it's for the right cause, I can't help but find it weird that dealing with climate change in the US starts by the military declaring it a terrorist.
This is nothing more than a VR cylindrical display. Works like VR glasses but costs 10 times as much.
Theoretically you could implant only a wireless interface and the main module would stay outside, like in pacemakers.