The Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions are obviously a completely different movie from the Matrix. They just share the same characters and environment in the hope of locking the spectators into a movie theater.
In the first one, Neo and Morpheus are the most important persons in the movie; in the sequel they turn out to be just small pawns in a much bigger play.
Reminds me a lot of Rambo. First blood was an excellent movie with a great story and a psychological side, Rambo II and III featured the same actor playing the same character in a war movie and a completly different situation setting.
Did you ever try to create a directory called simply ".net" or ".NET"?
Well, under windows it is just not possible: no file name error, because ".net" is the file extension, but there's no file name!
Obviously, this is no problem under *nix; so I guess Microsoft's marketing must be using linux or MacOS (which makes sense, since they are Microsoft's most productive departement).
Personally I think Internet-voting should be avoided until it's implemented by an open zero-knowledge protocol and checkable afterwards. Who can give a guarantee that nobody tampers with the results or creates a database with citizens voting information?
I think that internet voting should provide an improvement compared to casting paper ballots, but from there to saving the world, the expectations are quite high! Can you ensure that nobody tampers with your paper ballots? (Of course not).
My father went many times counting ballots and told me that he could recognize the vote's owner from his or her writing (out of about 500 ballots cast there). And in Ticino (southern Switzerland), all vote results are published by town: some are so small that they have only a dozen voters, so that it's quite easy to reverse engineer the vote!
I think this vote was an improvement, not because it was more secure that casting paper ballots (nor was it less secure), but because it encouraged more people to vote. 22% of the voters where regular abstainers.
Airport security won't prevent hijacking, if a group really wants to perform it; even when the security checks will detect 100% of the weapons, knifes and co! Security won't stop a terrorist cell from buying the majority of the tickets on a flight and boarding it. There would be no (or few) passengers on the plane and only the crew to overwhelm, and thus it could be done without weapons (or only with the forks and knifes the airline gives you for the lunch).
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The Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions are obviously a completely different movie from the Matrix. They just share the same characters and environment in the hope of locking the spectators into a movie theater.
In the first one, Neo and Morpheus are the most important persons in the movie; in the sequel they turn out to be just small pawns in a much bigger play.
Reminds me a lot of Rambo. First blood was an excellent movie with a great story and a psychological side, Rambo II and III featured the same actor playing the same character in a war movie and a completly different situation setting.
As J.J. Rousseau said: "The first one to put a fence around a ground and to find somebody stupid enough to believe him, did invent private property"
Did you ever try to create a directory called simply ".net" or ".NET"?
Well, under windows it is just not possible: no file name error, because ".net" is the file extension, but there's no file name!
Obviously, this is no problem under *nix; so I guess Microsoft's marketing must be using linux or MacOS (which makes sense, since they are Microsoft's most productive departement).
-Patrik
I think that internet voting should provide an improvement compared to casting paper ballots, but from there to saving the world, the expectations are quite high! Can you ensure that nobody tampers with your paper ballots? (Of course not).
My father went many times counting ballots and told me that he could recognize the vote's owner from his or her writing (out of about 500 ballots cast there). And in Ticino (southern Switzerland), all vote results are published by town: some are so small that they have only a dozen voters, so that it's quite easy to reverse engineer the vote!
I think this vote was an improvement, not because it was more secure that casting paper ballots (nor was it less secure), but because it encouraged more people to vote. 22% of the voters where regular abstainers.
-Patrik
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Airport security won't prevent hijacking, if a group really wants to perform it; even when the security checks will detect 100% of the weapons, knifes and co! Security won't stop a terrorist cell from buying the majority of the tickets on a flight and boarding it. There would be no (or few) passengers on the plane and only the crew to overwhelm, and thus it could be done without weapons (or only with the forks and knifes the airline gives you for the lunch).