People, I have programmed with plugboards and breadboards. I know the "proper design" is really hard to do with analog circuitry, and it's much easier to break analog problems down into digital processing. Especially with temperature variations messing with your resistance values...but I like to understate difficulties.
Brasil might indeed teach us something about electronic elections, particularly as U.S. laws which protect our elections don't apply to someone in another country. "Hello, I'm the Great Vote Robber of 2012, live on CNN from Sao Paulo."
"Saari advocates an election method called the Borda count election, in which each
voter ranks all of the candidates from top to bottom. If there are five candidates,
then a voter's leading candidate gets 5 points, his second-ranked candidate gets
4, etc. In the end, the points are added up to determine the winner."
Candidates qualify separately in each state. Each state can use various voting systems, and the winner in each state is used to select that state's electoral votes. But this system won't work interstate if different candidates are in each state, as the points can't be compared between states.
Not that I'd like to be forced to rank nine candidates. It would be quite enough work to rank the top four, as it involves finding out the issues of each of them and trying to compare various phrasing. "Okay, this one is totally in favor of bringing the dodo back from extinction, while that one is totally against it, but this one hasn't answered the question, and the last one is against it if it is found to be impossible do do it."
You're overlooking the obvious. If you want to do analog computing in silicon, you build an analog computer. Don't try to emulate analog in digital systems, instead you burn analog circuits on your wafers.
Proper design is left as an exercise for the reader.
Ax Man is a Minneapolis/St Paul business. I'm not aware of a nationwide franchised chain of surplus/junk stores. Incidentally, in the Twin Cities area at Dexis you can find electronics-oriented surplus -- check the shelves in the back room.
Well, this didn't go very far into the neutron star. This explosion was apparently only a layer of carbon on the surface which ignited. As the article mentions, there was a "normal" 10-second explosion at the beginning -- apparently this was a helium fusion blast, which apparently was the last straw and ignited the carbon fusion. This link describes a similar event, although the new one was 3 hours and thus much longer-lasting. Well, sometimes the dead wood piles up longer before something ignites it...
"The Company has, and has always had,
very specific and clear concerns about information flow..."
Good point. The CIA might have situations where they depend upon compartmentalization: they might give the same data to two groups and compare the results, or they might give pieces of the data to different groups in an attempt to disguise a common origin. The organization may prefer for information to not leak between groups.
If those CIA computers have keystroke monitoring software/hardware installed, I certainly hope they're connected in a way that doesn't allow someone other than their boss to monitor them.
Oh, yes, when you want to find all lines in a file with "1999", change all "1999" to "2000", and sort the result, instead of using three Unix commands piped together it's so much easier with Windows to...um... what?
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This is the year 2000. Everyone should have had a ray gun with which to dispatch the rabid bear.
Actually, in an area where bear live, most of the people should have had a gun in their car. One of them could have driven the fire truck out to fetch a gun -- assuming the fire truck wasn't equipped with one for dealing with dangers during brush/forest fires. [If you heard the story, you know there was a fire truck in the adjoining garage -- people were going to retreat to it if the bear got into the building.]
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You're assuming that people know what all their candidates look like. I know what some of the Presidential candidates look like -- well, I might not be able to tell Fred Stumpford apart from Al Gore, as Fred is running for President because he resembles Al Gore. I certainly don't know what all the local Judicial candidates look like. Pictures aren't necessarily useful information. I would like to see the T-shirts which some candidates will use to deliver last-second messages...
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"my receipt did not show who I voted for, just that I voted."
"As a civic-minded company, we ensure that only responsible people work for us. Before we continue the interview, may I see your proof of voting?"
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Maybe the second time they counted absentee ballots that had arrived during that time. Maybe the first results were unofficial results, reported before the officially-certified results were prepared.
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"No one's vote was taken away. Those 19,000 people voted again after the machine beeped when they fucked up their
first ballot."
Whoa -- the Palm Beach system was indeed using validity-checking equipment? Ballots were checked for validity by a machine when the voter turned in their ballot?
Of course, this is almost what Stoll did in "The Cuckoo's Egg". He measured network delays of the intruder and found the distance to the intruder. Unfortunately, he decided it was impossibly far and something was wrong with his measurement. It turned out that the actual location, Germany, was that distance away.
Let's see.. the induction charger in my bed was working, so my battery is charged. When I step by the window, my phone chirped in my ear to tell me the GPS unit and the phone are working. I just need to polish the webcam lens in my forehead, and I'll be ready to step out in Public where I have nothing to hide. I sure am not going to be like that sap last week that couldn't prove that he wasn't at the bar robbery...
I invite you to the Geographical Anonymizer Project, where people are streaming their timestamped NMEA data. Pick and choose from data over the past four weeks...and if you want to participate, note that you can delay the delivery of your data by up to two hours, so others know where you were two hours ago but not now; the software in your unit will only report data from areas you designate, so you can have it turn off before you get near home.
Uh... no. You're confusing two technologies. The "rice grain sized" device is a transponder which is often used on pets and racing animals. The reader is a book-sized device which can detect the device's serial number from a few inches away.
Well, can you run PPP through the serial port connected to the IR? You do need a serial-connected IR device on the other end, of course, but they're available.
A ten minute warning for preparation? What do you think can be prepared in ten minutes? No, it's more like "In ten minutes you'll notice increased activity on your server. This is not an attack. The story will be visible at http://slashdot.org/"
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People, I have programmed with plugboards and breadboards. I know the "proper design" is really hard to do with analog circuitry, and it's much easier to break analog problems down into digital processing. Especially with temperature variations messing with your resistance values...but I like to understate difficulties.
Brasil might indeed teach us something about electronic elections, particularly as U.S. laws which protect our elections don't apply to someone in another country. "Hello, I'm the Great Vote Robber of 2012, live on CNN from Sao Paulo."
Candidates qualify separately in each state. Each state can use various voting systems, and the winner in each state is used to select that state's electoral votes. But this system won't work interstate if different candidates are in each state, as the points can't be compared between states.
Not that I'd like to be forced to rank nine candidates. It would be quite enough work to rank the top four, as it involves finding out the issues of each of them and trying to compare various phrasing. "Okay, this one is totally in favor of bringing the dodo back from extinction, while that one is totally against it, but this one hasn't answered the question, and the last one is against it if it is found to be impossible do do it."
Proper design is left as an exercise for the reader.
Yes, there seem to be a lot of web sites with women's ankles and faces uncovered. Obviously more restrictions are needed.
Ax Man is a Minneapolis/St Paul business. I'm not aware of a nationwide franchised chain of surplus/junk stores. Incidentally, in the Twin Cities area at Dexis you can find electronics-oriented surplus -- check the shelves in the back room.
Well, this didn't go very far into the neutron star. This explosion was apparently only a layer of carbon on the surface which ignited. As the article mentions, there was a "normal" 10-second explosion at the beginning -- apparently this was a helium fusion blast, which apparently was the last straw and ignited the carbon fusion. This link describes a similar event, although the new one was 3 hours and thus much longer-lasting. Well, sometimes the dead wood piles up longer before something ignites it...
Good point. The CIA might have situations where they depend upon compartmentalization: they might give the same data to two groups and compare the results, or they might give pieces of the data to different groups in an attempt to disguise a common origin. The organization may prefer for information to not leak between groups.
If those CIA computers have keystroke monitoring software/hardware installed, I certainly hope they're connected in a way that doesn't allow someone other than their boss to monitor them.
"Don't be paranoid, what do you think this is, the NSA?"
Oh, yes, when you want to find all lines in a file with "1999", change all "1999" to "2000", and sort the result, instead of using three Unix commands piped together it's so much easier with Windows to...um... what?
Actually, in an area where bear live, most of the people should have had a gun in their car. One of them could have driven the fire truck out to fetch a gun -- assuming the fire truck wasn't equipped with one for dealing with dangers during brush/forest fires. [If you heard the story, you know there was a fire truck in the adjoining garage -- people were going to retreat to it if the bear got into the building.]
You're assuming that people know what all their candidates look like. I know what some of the Presidential candidates look like -- well, I might not be able to tell Fred Stumpford apart from Al Gore, as Fred is running for President because he resembles Al Gore. I certainly don't know what all the local Judicial candidates look like. Pictures aren't necessarily useful information. I would like to see the T-shirts which some candidates will use to deliver last-second messages...
"As a civic-minded company, we ensure that only responsible people work for us. Before we continue the interview, may I see your proof of voting?"
Maybe the second time they counted absentee ballots that had arrived during that time. Maybe the first results were unofficial results, reported before the officially-certified results were prepared.
Whoa -- the Palm Beach system was indeed using validity-checking equipment? Ballots were checked for validity by a machine when the voter turned in their ballot?
Of course, this is almost what Stoll did in "The Cuckoo's Egg". He measured network delays of the intruder and found the distance to the intruder. Unfortunately, he decided it was impossibly far and something was wrong with his measurement. It turned out that the actual location, Germany, was that distance away.
Let's see.. the induction charger in my bed was working, so my battery is charged. When I step by the window, my phone chirped in my ear to tell me the GPS unit and the phone are working. I just need to polish the webcam lens in my forehead, and I'll be ready to step out in Public where I have nothing to hide. I sure am not going to be like that sap last week that couldn't prove that he wasn't at the bar robbery...
I invite you to the Geographical Anonymizer Project, where people are streaming their timestamped NMEA data. Pick and choose from data over the past four weeks...and if you want to participate, note that you can delay the delivery of your data by up to two hours, so others know where you were two hours ago but not now; the software in your unit will only report data from areas you designate, so you can have it turn off before you get near home.
Here I am, in front of the Eiffel tower, holding a newspaper that says "Bush Wins!"...
A GPS antenna is significantly larger.
Well, can you run PPP through the serial port connected to the IR? You do need a serial-connected IR device on the other end, of course, but they're available.
Or make PPP run over another serial link: S-Video...
A ten minute warning for preparation? What do you think can be prepared in ten minutes? No, it's more like "In ten minutes you'll notice increased activity on your server. This is not an attack. The story will be visible at http://slashdot.org/"
Can you imagine the campaigning in any state that gets a chance to vote again?