don't be silly. you can't fiddle with nearly enough settings in windows to yield drastic improvements of any kind......not unless you like frequent bluescreens and reboots.
It's nice that they did that and all, but I feel duped. There was no hacking involved here! Just some analysis and scanning...
I wanted to hear a thrilling story of how the good guy hackers took on the evil bank robbing scammers single-handedly (...well really two-handedly unless they can type like boris from goldeneye)!
I wasn't expecting to hear a story about my routine when I get spam...sheesh. Does this really deserve front page of slashdot?
Perhaps they should print out two receipts...a "customer copy" and a "merchant copy"...heck, the U.S. is corporatized enough, why not? That way, a manual recount is still possible...
And if people are so into their "secret" ballot, what's wrong with simply printing out a receipt with a bar code, then having to scan the barcode (by feeding the receipt into a reader) in order to accept your vote? Once it's in the reader and your vote record was updated (to indicate that it was cast), then you can't get the receipt back.
I.e. You go to vote. You enter whatever info you need to enter (voter ID # / ss # whatever), and of course your votes, and then the system updates your record in its database saying who you voted for...but doesn't actually tally your vote. Only when you manually feed in the receipt will it scan your ID again and know that you've committed your vote.
Does anyone know how these things work, from a user's standpoint?
I mean, if the people at Diebold and the election officials had their heads on straight they ensure that each voter receives a paper receipt!
The receipt would have a unique vote verification ID # so that the user could go to a website or call their local government, enter their social and that ID # and ensure that their vote was tallied correctly.
And of course to dummy proof it further, it should also have just plain old English output of who they voted for...
Technically, no, your LAN is not part of the Internet, but your gateway/router is. That's what the term Intranet is for!
Simply because you can communicate with something, doesn't mean you are part of it...for example, let's say you've got a "cool" friend (unlikely:P) and you use him/her to find out if some chick/dude in some social clique that he's in likes you or not. You're not in the clique, but you can still communicate with it, indirectly.
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don't be silly. you can't fiddle with nearly enough settings in windows to yield drastic improvements of any kind... ...not unless you like frequent bluescreens and reboots.
just 3 comments when i clicked on the link and already slashdotted. thats ridiculous.
It's nice that they did that and all, but I feel duped. There was no hacking involved here! Just some analysis and scanning...
I wanted to hear a thrilling story of how the good guy hackers took on the evil bank robbing scammers single-handedly (...well really two-handedly unless they can type like boris from goldeneye)!
I wasn't expecting to hear a story about my routine when I get spam...sheesh. Does this really deserve front page of slashdot?
if systems administrator is on that list i'll kick someone.
then again, based on the work some of my friends put into their sysadmin jobs, its very plausible...
ok here is the contest: try to be the worlds crappiest and most annoying crap-ware!
and the contestants!:
1) Gator
2) Real One Player
3) Your entries here!
Anyone else care to add to this list!?
Perhaps they should print out two receipts...a "customer copy" and a "merchant copy"...heck, the U.S. is corporatized enough, why not? That way, a manual recount is still possible...
And if people are so into their "secret" ballot, what's wrong with simply printing out a receipt with a bar code, then having to scan the barcode (by feeding the receipt into a reader) in order to accept your vote? Once it's in the reader and your vote record was updated (to indicate that it was cast), then you can't get the receipt back.
I.e. You go to vote. You enter whatever info you need to enter (voter ID # / ss # whatever), and of course your votes, and then the system updates your record in its database saying who you voted for...but doesn't actually tally your vote. Only when you manually feed in the receipt will it scan your ID again and know that you've committed your vote.
Make sense to anyone else, or just me?
Does anyone know how these things work, from a user's standpoint?
I mean, if the people at Diebold and the election officials had their heads on straight they ensure that each voter receives a paper receipt!
The receipt would have a unique vote verification ID # so that the user could go to a website or call their local government, enter their social and that ID # and ensure that their vote was tallied correctly.
And of course to dummy proof it further, it should also have just plain old English output of who they voted for...
Technically, no, your LAN is not part of the Internet, but your gateway/router is. That's what the term Intranet is for!
:P) and you use him/her to find out if some chick/dude in some social clique that he's in likes you or not. You're not in the clique, but you can still communicate with it, indirectly.
Simply because you can communicate with something, doesn't mean you are part of it...for example, let's say you've got a "cool" friend (unlikely