/* non-ATI hardware detection */ if (!startswith(hwid, "ATI") {
cout "You stupid Englishman! I wave my private parts at your aunties!";
return(FALSE); }
Problem with that is it produces an ordered record of votes. By observing the order of people entering the booth you could match people with votes, removing the anonymity.
Well, your system requires someone to build specialized printers, automated paper cutters and shredders and plexiglas boxes. Mine requires off-the-shelf hardware and the system runs entirely in software. If the printer jams on your system, the set-up has to be opened up and repaired, and that person has just lost his anonymity.
If EVERY OTHER kind of machine you make includes an auditable paper trail, wouldn't it seem logical to include such a capability in the voting machines, too?
The reason why the voting machine doesn't produce an audit trail is that it's rather difficult to produce such an audit trail AND assure that votes cast will be anonymous. Elsewhere in the world people who voted for the "wrong" candidate faced retaliation, and the US voting system was set up to try and prevent that. Some systems that will "chop up" receipts have been proposed, but a failure in the mechanism might cause it to lose anonymity. I've proposed a method of having both audit and anonymity, but it's a bit on the complex side.
How can I have confidence in a stock market where trades can be suddenly reversed if someone cries, "but it was a mistake!" That's like my buying a car and while driving out of the lot someone jumps in front of me and demands an extra $5,000 because they made a mistake. Sorry, I've got my receipt, the car is mine buddy.
For those people who can barely click a mouse, much less format a hard drive, you could create a small FAT16 partition on the device, then have a SETUP.EXE or even an autorun system that'll repartition as FAT32 and format the device.
Open the device manager, uninstall your CD-ROM drive, the IDE controllers, and all the drivers under System devices. Then restart. Your OS will probably make you reboot a few times while it reinstalls things, but when everything is over you should have your CD back.
BitTorrent already requires fixed servers for operation (the "trackers"), and serving torrent files from the same trackers isn't a terrible burden. Why on earth would someone want to abuse DNS for this purpose?
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So go ahead and offer it to consumers! It doesn't have to be a realistic offer; $10,000/mo for a POP account should be sufficient. This will enable you to sue spammers.
Why hasn't there been a class-action lawsuit initiated by shareholders in re. SCO executives' selling off stock while initiating these lawsuits to attempt to drive up the stock's value? Do they have to wait 'til later, when the price = 0.01 cent?
And what stops our current voting machines from modifying the ballot choices? Have you ever inspected the mechanism?
Get a plain vanilla computer with no hard drive, boot it off a CD containing open-source voting software. Worried the CD might be tainted? Make up a dozen of 'em, have one chosen randomly and let the poll watchers validate the others contained the correct binaries. This'd be a lot more easily verifiable than anything we have now.
The problem with this little scheme is that the printer generates a linear log of votes, and this might be used to figure out who voted for whom. There goes your anonymity. People might be afraid of retribution for voting the wrong way.
I recommend using blinded signature techniques to solve the problem. "Poll watchers" will network their computers to the voting machine, and when someone votes, their machines will sign the voter's choices through a blinding mechanism that will validate the vote. The vote will then be released to the poll watchers' machines mixed with "chaff".
The chaff would be generated prior to the vote; a large number of votes would be created, tabulated and signed blindly. Each vote broadcast on the network would be mixed with ten or so randomly chosen chaff votes. At the end of voting, the unused chaff votes would be tabulated again, the number of chaff votes cast would be calculated and subtracted from the total, giving the true number of votes cast.
Yup. This is one of the reasons I'm waiting for a really good HD DLP projector before making that kind of investment. I will say, however, that there are some CRT-based HD sets which aren't ideal but are inexpensive and have much better resolution than your typical TV. I managed to get a Zenith floor model set and it'll tide me over 'til I can get a triple-array, 1080i DLP projector.
It's still valuable to have one or a few really friggin' fast processors versus a whole lot of smaller processors if you're running tasks that can't easily be subdivided. This is why people are still buying single processor PCs rather than multiprocessor boxen. If you're buying the setup for a specific purpose and multiple slower CPUs will do the job for you, then that's great; but you'll get more flexibility with speedy processors.
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Yeah, Slashdot stripped the double-less-than.
/* non-ATI hardware detection */
if (!startswith(hwid, "ATI") {
cout "You stupid Englishman! I wave my private parts at your aunties!";
return(FALSE);
}
Problem with that is it produces an ordered record of votes. By observing the order of people entering the booth you could match people with votes, removing the anonymity.
But once again, why do not use the time-proven method of making marks on a piece of paper, and counting the ballots manually, under supervision?
Because it gets to be a big problem in large elections. There's a LOT of votes to tabulate manually. Ballot boxes get lost or stolen.
Well, your system requires someone to build specialized printers, automated paper cutters and shredders and plexiglas boxes. Mine requires off-the-shelf hardware and the system runs entirely in software. If the printer jams on your system, the set-up has to be opened up and repaired, and that person has just lost his anonymity.
If EVERY OTHER kind of machine you make includes an auditable paper trail, wouldn't it seem logical to include such a capability in the voting machines, too?
The reason why the voting machine doesn't produce an audit trail is that it's rather difficult to produce such an audit trail AND assure that votes cast will be anonymous. Elsewhere in the world people who voted for the "wrong" candidate faced retaliation, and the US voting system was set up to try and prevent that. Some systems that will "chop up" receipts have been proposed, but a failure in the mechanism might cause it to lose anonymity. I've proposed a method of having both audit and anonymity, but it's a bit on the complex side.
How can I have confidence in a stock market where trades can be suddenly reversed if someone cries, "but it was a mistake!" That's like my buying a car and while driving out of the lot someone jumps in front of me and demands an extra $5,000 because they made a mistake. Sorry, I've got my receipt, the car is mine buddy.
For those people who can barely click a mouse, much less format a hard drive, you could create a small FAT16 partition on the device, then have a SETUP.EXE or even an autorun system that'll repartition as FAT32 and format the device.
Open the device manager, uninstall your CD-ROM drive, the IDE controllers, and all the drivers under System devices. Then restart. Your OS will probably make you reboot a few times while it reinstalls things, but when everything is over you should have your CD back.
/. stripped out my "less than" sign.
255 12,000, 25,000, or I've seen torrents that were several hundred K.
Using DNS to cache a dozen or two kilobytes (or less, or more) where it's only meant to handle a few BYTES is likely to cause all sorts of problems.
BitTorrent already requires fixed servers for operation (the "trackers"), and serving torrent files from the same trackers isn't a terrible burden. Why on earth would someone want to abuse DNS for this purpose?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3242712. stm
So go ahead and offer it to consumers! It doesn't have to be a realistic offer; $10,000/mo for a POP account should be sufficient. This will enable you to sue spammers.
There are ways to make money by betting a stock can go down, with various levels of risk.
Why hasn't there been a class-action lawsuit initiated by shareholders in re. SCO executives' selling off stock while initiating these lawsuits to attempt to drive up the stock's value? Do they have to wait 'til later, when the price = 0.01 cent?
I never suggested voting over the internet; this would be a set of networked machines, with no attachment to the general net.
And what stops our current voting machines from modifying the ballot choices? Have you ever inspected the mechanism?
Get a plain vanilla computer with no hard drive, boot it off a CD containing open-source voting software. Worried the CD might be tainted? Make up a dozen of 'em, have one chosen randomly and let the poll watchers validate the others contained the correct binaries. This'd be a lot more easily verifiable than anything we have now.
The problem with this little scheme is that the printer generates a linear log of votes, and this might be used to figure out who voted for whom. There goes your anonymity. People might be afraid of retribution for voting the wrong way.
I recommend using blinded signature techniques to solve the problem. "Poll watchers" will network their computers to the voting machine, and when someone votes, their machines will sign the voter's choices through a blinding mechanism that will validate the vote. The vote will then be released to the poll watchers' machines mixed with "chaff".
The chaff would be generated prior to the vote; a large number of votes would be created, tabulated and signed blindly. Each vote broadcast on the network would be mixed with ten or so randomly chosen chaff votes. At the end of voting, the unused chaff votes would be tabulated again, the number of chaff votes cast would be calculated and subtracted from the total, giving the true number of votes cast.
Would someone who's managed to download the files please put up a torrent? Contact me for assistance if necessary. Thanks.
Yup. This is one of the reasons I'm waiting for a really good HD DLP projector before making that kind of investment. I will say, however, that there are some CRT-based HD sets which aren't ideal but are inexpensive and have much better resolution than your typical TV. I managed to get a Zenith floor model set and it'll tide me over 'til I can get a triple-array, 1080i DLP projector.
It's still valuable to have one or a few really friggin' fast processors versus a whole lot of smaller processors if you're running tasks that can't easily be subdivided. This is why people are still buying single processor PCs rather than multiprocessor boxen. If you're buying the setup for a specific purpose and multiple slower CPUs will do the job for you, then that's great; but you'll get more flexibility with speedy processors.