No go on back to the internets, fox, or wherever you get your "news."
I know you're---sorry, "your"---probably going to want to throw a nice party with some bud and hamburgers and freedom fires to celebrate your overwhelming mandate of 3%, so y'all best get to it. (You probably had a tough time with learning maths and stuff, so understand that squiggly thing at the end of the number three means 'out of 100').
Ironically, diebold also manufactures ATM machines used in
major US banks, and so far, we've heard few complains.
It is very easy to tell if your ATM withdrawal/deposit went through,
by simply calling the bank/going on-line/waiting for your monthly
statement. If there was any hint of a impropriety, the bank would drop
Diebold like a hot rock (banks rely on their own reputation of
trustworthiness in order to be successful).
There is no way to check if your vote was recorded, let alone tallied
correctly. The unelected civil servants who run the elections don't give
a Tinker's Damn whether your vote went through or not; they just care
about their yearly rating and doing just enough to not get written
up. The cherry on top of the cupcake is the fact that the average politician
is incapable of understanding the technical issues and operational risks
behind e-voting, so you won't get any help from that corner.
We all know how you want to work for Microsoft when you graduate from high school, but Mrs. Phelps in Science said she wasn't going to pass you unless you turned in all your homework.
Man, that's like 3, 2-page papers!!! Better use 1.75" spacing and 1.25" margins and 14 point type.
The "value" in the Music companies sending payola to radio stations that I don't listen to, screwing the artist out of easily 90% of the cost of the CD, and then whining when their profit margin is "threatened"?
Actually, I need to thank the RIAA, and---of course---ClearChannel. By promoting only mainstream music (Mindless "Pop-40," Mainstream "Alternative," thug-only "Rap," catch-all "Jazz," Balding "Rock," and baroque-only "Classical") I pretty much only listen to indie bands these days. I only listen to the radio to catch NPR/CarTalk. Oh, and I have disposable income to spend too! Too bad I won't be spending it on those over-hyped, culturally-void, no-talent "acts" y'all have sunk so much money into "promoting." Boo-friggin-hoo.
On a side not, anyone that says that it is OK to take out any president cause you don't agree with his views/policy/action? Well, that aint Democracy its assanation politics.
You have that one wrong: it is Chimpy's foreign policy.
America: Spreading freedom--whether you want it or not!--at the point of a bayonet for over 100 years.
If this were a country that celebrated freedom of speech, you'd be
okay.
Unfortunately for you, Americans are a small, scared, nasty bunch who
like nothing more than beat their chests and show how they're much
Holier than Thou, and they know how you should act. In fact, they'll
pass some laws to force you to act their way.
So, freedom of speech may have worked back in 1776, but in the
technological vastness of today's future, it is an idea that is as
obsolete as "freedom from unreasonable searches," "separation of church
and state," and "innocent until proven guilty."
With that in mind, when the SS comes to your door, do not make any
sudden movements; do not look them in the eye; and follow their
directions quickly and without protest.
"Your alternative is worse. Every professional agrees that a paper ballot is a formula for disaster. Your alternative is to go to an emergency ballot or an absentee ballot."
I'm a "professional" and I say that paper is more secure and less prone to problems than a half-baked tech idea that was selected based upon the strength of its glossy brochure than its functionality.
I notice that the Voting terminals here in Texas had wide-open USB ports. What's to say that my little keyfob wouldn't accidentally be inserted, and that pesky autorun.inf would do strange, scary things to the machine? How are you then going to prove that you voted for who you say you voted for? You can't. How is that not a formula for disaster?
Here's a novel idea: combine the best of both worlds. Tech is great at constraining input in appropriate ways (only pick ONE, etc), whereas paper is harder to counterfeit. Have the terminal as the input device that then prints out the completed ballot, which is then dropped in the box. This eliminates the problems with people not being able to punch holes in cards correctly, while providing the security of knowing your vote was recorded correctly.
Not having a paper trail at all means your vote can be changed easily and without detection; having a paper that is only a "receipt" also means that your vote can be changed easily and without detection. Having a paper that IS your vote means that it is harder to change your vote, and would take some collusion and effort: printing money is easy; altering money is hard.
The fact that you TRIVIALIZE September 17th for some piss-ass event on 9/11 shows you to be a heartless, *o*-hating, freedom-hating, american-hating, biscuit-eating, GLEEP!!!!!!!
You must follow ---'s LAW AT ALL TIMES. Those who fail to heed Dt 18:21-22 will have WICKED children and will BURN in the HELLfires for all ETERNITY!!!!
Thank you for the rigorous response; I appreciate a debating with
someone who has more than the usual vacuous replies one usually
encounters here.
Firstly, do you really believe that it is possible to make any
use of Knuth's work "without having ever taken one college
class"?
Would you claim that it is impossible to use any of Knuth's work
without attending a single college class? If so, which class?
~ yet you then denigrate the very education system which
endeavors to produce that same talent ~.
I would aregue the education system in America (and possibly other
countries) does not exist to educate the masses; their goal is to make
money---they are a business, after all. As such, their function is to
sell product (degrees) or research in exchange for grants and
prestige.
A degree does not indicate or preclude learning of any sort; only
that the possessor "attended" some classes, wrote a thesis or
dissertation (quality notwithstanding) and supposedly passed some
oral/written tests.
~ the fundamental theoretical skills necessary to excel in such
[coding] are obtained in college.
That is an assumption, and it is incorrect. My own ability to excel
in coding was not obtained in college, as a) I was programming
professionally prior to attending college, b) the coding classes I did
take (undergraduate "breadth") were irrelevant to what I do
professionally; we learned no such magic techniques. All the
understanding I gained came from self-study of Knuth, McConnell, and
from various and sundry mentors, well after I earned my degree.
Software is a science as much as a trade ~.
I agree and would add there is an "art" component that is equally
important.
2. Consider yourself a long-term contractor, not an employee. The company will discard you when it becomes expedient. You should be prepared to do the same. -- Ripples
... from the article, the author states that 'coding is dead'
because
The advent of the Codeless Development Environment
Ahh, the mythical Blue Unicorn; users will be able to make their own
Uber Apps and developers will sink into the La Brea Tar Pits. That could
be the case if development was only banging code. It is actually
deconstructing a business process/issue into manageable chunks, then
writing code to make those chunks work together. I have yet to meet a
business person who can explain the function of their job in a linear
process, so there is no way that person could write their own program,
unless you had a magical CDE that could translate abstract, random
process descriptions into real code (forget about efficient
code/processes).
The emergence of the software factory
Ahh, the anonymous factory that churns out components that our
business person can then assemble into a working application? Been
there, tried that with EJB. Somehow that whole promise of component EJBs
never really took off. I wonder why? Could it be that this idea is CRAP?
Hmm...
The decrease in the number of programming jobs in IT
Non Sequitur. The number of quality jobs aren't decreasing. The
monkeys that thought they could get a MCSE and start making $65k with no
experience are (hopefully) flushed out of the pool. Soon the monkeys who
are unable to do the work of Business Analyst/Junior Project Manager
will also be gone/outsourced. The jobs are there; you just have to
know how to
look for them.
Fewer students enrolled in computer science courses
Another non-sequitur. A degree means nothing in terms of fitness for
doing a job---except to PHBs who don't know how to judge a candidate's
worth other than by dead trees (resume/degree: equally worthless). You
can certainly be a good developer without having ever taken one college
class. What matters is skill, experience, adaptability, talent, and self
motivation to learn new stuff.
More:
When was the last time you cracked open one of Knuth's volumes?
Do you even know who Knuth is?
Yes, last week, in fact. I've been plowing through Vol 3 looking for
a better way to search a bunch of stuff across multiple iSeries/DB2
files. So what? Reading Knuth doesn't mean you're a better code monkey.
It can help, but just like any other resource, it is in the application.
Einstein said something to the effect that the most important fact one
could know is the Library's address.
Thanks to the DMCA, any attempt to add/subtract functionality from any corporation's products or services is in immediate violation and will be proscecuted to the fullest extent of the defendant's pocketbook.
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So, to sum, None of the Above is Our Fault.
No go on back to the internets, fox, or wherever you get your "news."
I know you're---sorry, "your"---probably going to want to throw a nice party with some bud and hamburgers and freedom fires to celebrate your overwhelming mandate of 3%, so y'all best get to it. (You probably had a tough time with learning maths and stuff, so understand that squiggly thing at the end of the number three means 'out of 100').
You used "responsibility" and "USA" in the same sentence; you are obviously naïve.
The USA takes responsibility for nothing, including:
When was the last time you tried to return EGGS?
You need to get plugged into the FK circle - there are easily 150 active accounts that journal regularly.
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Which country you live in...
Caffene is a diruetic, so that could explain it, especially if he's drinking mass quantities.
A nice chunk of quartz will scratch any wimpy plastic disk...
It is very easy to tell if your ATM withdrawal/deposit went through, by simply calling the bank/going on-line/waiting for your monthly statement. If there was any hint of a impropriety, the bank would drop Diebold like a hot rock (banks rely on their own reputation of trustworthiness in order to be successful).
There is no way to check if your vote was recorded, let alone tallied correctly. The unelected civil servants who run the elections don't give a Tinker's Damn whether your vote went through or not; they just care about their yearly rating and doing just enough to not get written up. The cherry on top of the cupcake is the fact that the average politician is incapable of understanding the technical issues and operational risks behind e-voting, so you won't get any help from that corner.
Man, that's like 3, 2-page papers!!! Better use 1.75" spacing and 1.25" margins and 14 point type.
Actually, I need to thank the RIAA, and---of course---ClearChannel. By promoting only mainstream music (Mindless "Pop-40," Mainstream "Alternative," thug-only "Rap," catch-all "Jazz," Balding "Rock," and baroque-only "Classical") I pretty much only listen to indie bands these days. I only listen to the radio to catch NPR/CarTalk. Oh, and I have disposable income to spend too! Too bad I won't be spending it on those over-hyped, culturally-void, no-talent "acts" y'all have sunk so much money into "promoting." Boo-friggin-hoo.
So what do you do about multinationals?
America: Spreading freedom--whether you want it or not!--at the point of a bayonet for over 100 years.
If this were a country that celebrated freedom of speech, you'd be okay.
Unfortunately for you, Americans are a small, scared, nasty bunch who like nothing more than beat their chests and show how they're much Holier than Thou, and they know how you should act. In fact, they'll pass some laws to force you to act their way.
So, freedom of speech may have worked back in 1776, but in the technological vastness of today's future, it is an idea that is as obsolete as "freedom from unreasonable searches," "separation of church and state," and "innocent until proven guilty."
With that in mind, when the SS comes to your door, do not make any sudden movements; do not look them in the eye; and follow their directions quickly and without protest.
I'm a "professional" and I say that paper is more secure and less prone to problems than a half-baked tech idea that was selected based upon the strength of its glossy brochure than its functionality.
I notice that the Voting terminals here in Texas had wide-open USB ports. What's to say that my little keyfob wouldn't accidentally be inserted, and that pesky autorun.inf would do strange, scary things to the machine? How are you then going to prove that you voted for who you say you voted for? You can't. How is that not a formula for disaster?
Here's a novel idea: combine the best of both worlds. Tech is great at constraining input in appropriate ways (only pick ONE, etc), whereas paper is harder to counterfeit. Have the terminal as the input device that then prints out the completed ballot, which is then dropped in the box. This eliminates the problems with people not being able to punch holes in cards correctly, while providing the security of knowing your vote was recorded correctly.
Not having a paper trail at all means your vote can be changed easily and without detection; having a paper that is only a "receipt" also means that your vote can be changed easily and without detection. Having a paper that IS your vote means that it is harder to change your vote, and would take some collusion and effort: printing money is easy; altering money is hard.
The fact that you TRIVIALIZE September 17th for some piss-ass event on 9/11 shows you to be a heartless, *o*-hating, freedom-hating, american-hating, biscuit-eating, GLEEP!!!!!!!
Considering the site you saw this on doesn't even validate, itself...
...just remember that PowerPoint is not "multimedia."
The POWER OF ------ compels YOU!!!!
Thank you for the rigorous response; I appreciate a debating with someone who has more than the usual vacuous replies one usually encounters here.
Would you claim that it is impossible to use any of Knuth's work without attending a single college class? If so, which class?
I would aregue the education system in America (and possibly other countries) does not exist to educate the masses; their goal is to make money---they are a business, after all. As such, their function is to sell product (degrees) or research in exchange for grants and prestige.
A degree does not indicate or preclude learning of any sort; only that the possessor "attended" some classes, wrote a thesis or dissertation (quality notwithstanding) and supposedly passed some oral/written tests.
That is an assumption, and it is incorrect. My own ability to excel in coding was not obtained in college, as a) I was programming professionally prior to attending college, b) the coding classes I did take (undergraduate "breadth") were irrelevant to what I do professionally; we learned no such magic techniques. All the understanding I gained came from self-study of Knuth, McConnell, and from various and sundry mentors, well after I earned my degree.
I agree and would add there is an "art" component that is equally important.
I'm here 'til Thursday. Try the veal!
... from the article, the author states that 'coding is dead' because
Ahh, the mythical Blue Unicorn; users will be able to make their own Uber Apps and developers will sink into the La Brea Tar Pits. That could be the case if development was only banging code. It is actually deconstructing a business process/issue into manageable chunks, then writing code to make those chunks work together. I have yet to meet a business person who can explain the function of their job in a linear process, so there is no way that person could write their own program, unless you had a magical CDE that could translate abstract, random process descriptions into real code (forget about efficient code/processes).
Ahh, the anonymous factory that churns out components that our business person can then assemble into a working application? Been there, tried that with EJB. Somehow that whole promise of component EJBs never really took off. I wonder why? Could it be that this idea is CRAP? Hmm...
Non Sequitur. The number of quality jobs aren't decreasing. The monkeys that thought they could get a MCSE and start making $65k with no experience are (hopefully) flushed out of the pool. Soon the monkeys who are unable to do the work of Business Analyst/Junior Project Manager will also be gone/outsourced. The jobs are there; you just have to know how to look for them.
Another non-sequitur. A degree means nothing in terms of fitness for doing a job---except to PHBs who don't know how to judge a candidate's worth other than by dead trees (resume/degree: equally worthless). You can certainly be a good developer without having ever taken one college class. What matters is skill, experience, adaptability, talent, and self motivation to learn new stuff.
More:
Yes, last week, in fact. I've been plowing through Vol 3 looking for a better way to search a bunch of stuff across multiple iSeries/DB2 files. So what? Reading Knuth doesn't mean you're a better code monkey. It can help, but just like any other resource, it is in the application. Einstein said something to the effect that the most important fact one could know is the Library's address.
...and if you use a debit card, you are pretty must a waste of skin.
Thanks to the DMCA, any attempt to add/subtract functionality from any corporation's products or services is in immediate violation and will be proscecuted to the fullest extent of the defendant's pocketbook.