I thought you were equating registrars and registries. The registrars charge the user and pay the registry. Problem solved. (It's certainly not a technical issue. Karl Auerbach has done some testing just using Bind and 10,000+ TLDs. There was no performance issue at all and there were zero administrative headaches.)
It's not mangled because the address is totally arbitrary and unimportant. Bookmarks and Google have solved this problem.
Sex.com was only an issue because the some asshole stole it from someone else. This is a security problem and has nothing to do with.com.
I like the comment on this article where the guy said Sony should just have.sony (where us.sony would be US, uk.sony for UK, etc.). He has the right idea. Why the hell should anyone have to buy 40zillion 2LDs when one TLD would suffice?
If lawyers and lawmakers understood the complete arbitrariness of it, they wouldn't make their laws fit an artificially small namespace. They won't understand that it's completely arbitrary until they have a demonstration of it. That demonstration is opening up arbitrary TLDs. Once that is understood, trademarks won't have to be defended in every namespace and stupid DNS lawsuits will stop clogging up my courts.
This is a non-issue. They *already* manage the insanely huge.com 2LD namespace. Making TLDs like "eat%20at%20joes" would not be hard in computation, network traffic, or space. It just devalues the trademark lawyers (OH NO!).
Importance has nothing to do with it. In an "anything goes" TLD system, anything can be TLD, so it doesn't matter what country it is. DNS is just a bloody address. 1234 Anywhere St. If you don't know a site by memory, you go to Google. I do this already, don't you?
The error in your thinking is that you assume TLD = Registry. If TLD = JoeBlow, who cares if JoeBlow isn't accessible anymore? Any registry should be able to support any TLD or 2LD.
Furthermore, it will devalue 2LDs so much, it will help end their use as the basis for frivolous lawsuits.
Clearly, the Semantic Web suffers from the same problem as Total Information Awareness. As the amount of junk data increases in the system, it statistically devalues all data because you don't know which information to trust. This is where we are today, with regard to [META] data. What would be cool is to use Google technology to find data-to-data connections at high PageRanks and then use Semantic properties to further sort and sift results. That way, meta data can leverage the trust and "likeness" vectors assessed from PageRanking.
Uh-oh, did I just make TIA work? Bruce is gonna kill me.
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in comparison with the rapidly farmed oak and birch of today, yes, in comparison to those woods of the past, no way (according to my handyman sources).
not to mention lumber quality. old, natural growth wood is WAAAAY better than that softie southern yellow pine crap and fertilized tree farm trees they're using these days. heh, hard wood. anyway, ask any maintenance man 40+ yrs old and they'll tell you the old stuff was a lot harder and better quality than the tree farm shit these days.
I get a sweet rate from Farmer's auto here in Texas. Every competitive quote I've ever gotten has been orders of magnitude higher. No one can explain why, so I stick with Farmer's. Yay.
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They say that printers jam, etc, then in the next line item, they say paper records are required by Fedreal law.
VVPT are paper records seen and used by voters at the time the ballot is cast. "Records" are just printouts the polling places get from the machines' electronic counts.
I also don't see how VVPT really prevent disabled or non-English speaking people from voting properly, the argument doesn't specify. If they can't grab a slip of printed paper, I don't see how a touch screen is going to be that much better.
If the paper trail is the ballot, then they have a point about the disabled not being able to have a secret ballot: someone still has to "hold their hand", so to speak. OTOH, if the paper trail is just a backup, it's less of an issue. The main thing is you should NOT be able to look up your vote on the Internet. That's just an invitation for abuse and breaks secret balloting.
The printing can be dynamically multi-lingual based on user selection.
Yep, and if it's a scantron, the computer won't care what language it's in as long as A, B, C, or D is properly marked by the printer.
I don't see VVPT really being a problem. They say VVPT isn't foolproof, but really no election system is foolproof.
Agreed.
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Question for Speaker: What's up with national being against paper trails?
(From what I understand, they're afraid that the paper trail becomes the ballot instead of the machine count which makes it harder for disabled persons to have a secret ballot (need someone else to check the paper).)
Follow-up Question: If the paper trail were like a Scantron, would this alleviate national's concerns about huge handcounts (instead of just a few needing manual intervention)?
Question 3: The League wants source code to be available to officials, but think that allowing the public to review it will mean that people might find flaws in it! <gasp>! What is wrong with the code and process being completely open and documented so guys like Bruce Schneier can review the code and the system that supports it?
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You vote at the poll on the machine. The machine records the vote locally (and later to the poll team and later to the central office). The machine prints out a scantron. You check the bubbles are right for your vote and put it in the box.
The machine vote is the main vote, the scantron is just a backup. The backup will later be used to check the machine vote. Due to printing errors, there will be statistical anomalies taken into account and some will be checked by hand.
Hackers would have to fool two separate, complementary systems: machine and optical scan.
You would NOT have the ability to verify your vote over the Internet or ex post facto as this breaks secret balloting.
I'm just annoyed that they pooh-pooh VVPT through an either/or fallacy: "Either electronic only or crappy handcount paper receipts." Nevermind that the printout could be a scantron ballot that would be easy to verify by people and computers. The e-vote could still be the real vote, but the scantron would give a chance for people to doublecheck and stand as a backup. The backups can also be used to check the e-votes weren't compromised.
Good point about the source, though. I mean, how many state employees know what a buffer overflow is? Still, the real problems with Diebold et al. have been endemic to the social system surrounding the software (e.g., pushing uncertified updates, having poor corporate security, etc.), not so much on the hackers.
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The League of Women Voters opposes voter-verified paper trails. More.
My response to the doctor: Bzzt, wrong. The guy went to the "wrong" hospital. You have to go to the correct Austin hospital to get into ER without insurance. Furthermore, last time I checked, malpractice rates for doctors have NOT gone down since Prop 12 was passed, contrary to what the Industry promised. Why? Because the real problem is that the Texas Board of Medical Examiners doesn't do its job: revoking the licenses of quacks who drive up the rates for everyone else. It only takes a few to make the risk pool go waaaay up for every other doctor (thus, increasing costs).
Not everyone needs this, but I'm sure this itch will be scratched eventually. Maybe it will be scratched with in a similar way to how I envision the tax law solution in [2].
Due to the "flexible" nature of tax law, what gnucash really needs is companies in each country to develop for-pay plugins for each tax year. You pay your $20 and you get the latest tax law updates in your country of residence.
Does your bank have an open API? If so, this could happen relatively painlessly.
You chose to be locked into Quicken. You may have to bite the bullet and convert if you want another solution. You'd have the same problem if you switched to MS Money.
The fact that you've brought up some fairly non-trivial shortcomings demonstrates that gnucash has come along way and it's completed the core feature set.
That's quite a compliment you've given them. Thanks.
"We" as in "you and yours" not "we" as in "us". It's you and your god that have the problem, not me and mine. I suggest you reevaluate your condemnation of Creation and its godly beauty because the problem originates inside of you and your inability to appreciate it properly. If you can't view a nude woman without lusting, if you cannot appreciate form and grace, if you cannot separate eroticism and lust, that's YOUR problem, mister, not mine. If you still cannot abide it, I suggest a blindfold. At least then, you won't be ruining Creation with your temptation problems and the rest of us can appreciate or lust as we see fit.
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How the hell do you bike and play gameboy at the same time?!
Seriously!
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I thought you were equating registrars and registries. The registrars charge the user and pay the registry. Problem solved. (It's certainly not a technical issue. Karl Auerbach has done some testing just using Bind and 10,000+ TLDs. There was no performance issue at all and there were zero administrative headaches.)
.com.
.sony (where us.sony would be US, uk.sony for UK, etc.). He has the right idea. Why the hell should anyone have to buy 40zillion 2LDs when one TLD would suffice?
It's not mangled because the address is totally arbitrary and unimportant. Bookmarks and Google have solved this problem.
Sex.com was only an issue because the some asshole stole it from someone else. This is a security problem and has nothing to do with
I like the comment on this article where the guy said Sony should just have
If lawyers and lawmakers understood the complete arbitrariness of it, they wouldn't make their laws fit an artificially small namespace. They won't understand that it's completely arbitrary until they have a demonstration of it. That demonstration is opening up arbitrary TLDs. Once that is understood, trademarks won't have to be defended in every namespace and stupid DNS lawsuits will stop clogging up my courts.
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This is a non-issue. They *already* manage the insanely huge .com 2LD namespace. Making TLDs like "eat%20at%20joes" would not be hard in computation, network traffic, or space. It just devalues the trademark lawyers (OH NO!).
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Importance has nothing to do with it. In an "anything goes" TLD system, anything can be TLD, so it doesn't matter what country it is. DNS is just a bloody address. 1234 Anywhere St. If you don't know a site by memory, you go to Google. I do this already, don't you?
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The error in your thinking is that you assume TLD = Registry. If TLD = JoeBlow, who cares if JoeBlow isn't accessible anymore? Any registry should be able to support any TLD or 2LD.
Furthermore, it will devalue 2LDs so much, it will help end their use as the basis for frivolous lawsuits.
An address should not be a brand!
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Uh-oh, did I just make TIA work? Bruce is gonna kill me.
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in comparison with the rapidly farmed oak and birch of today, yes, in comparison to those woods of the past, no way (according to my handyman sources).
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not to mention lumber quality. old, natural growth wood is WAAAAY better than that softie southern yellow pine crap and fertilized tree farm trees they're using these days. heh, hard wood. anyway, ask any maintenance man 40+ yrs old and they'll tell you the old stuff was a lot harder and better quality than the tree farm shit these days.
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I get a sweet rate from Farmer's auto here in Texas. Every competitive quote I've ever gotten has been orders of magnitude higher. No one can explain why, so I stick with Farmer's. Yay.
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VVPT are paper records seen and used by voters at the time the ballot is cast. "Records" are just printouts the polling places get from the machines' electronic counts.
If the paper trail is the ballot, then they have a point about the disabled not being able to have a secret ballot: someone still has to "hold their hand", so to speak. OTOH, if the paper trail is just a backup, it's less of an issue. The main thing is you should NOT be able to look up your vote on the Internet. That's just an invitation for abuse and breaks secret balloting.
Yep, and if it's a scantron, the computer won't care what language it's in as long as A, B, C, or D is properly marked by the printer.
Agreed.
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(From what I understand, they're afraid that the paper trail becomes the ballot instead of the machine count which makes it harder for disabled persons to have a secret ballot (need someone else to check the paper).)
Follow-up Question: If the paper trail were like a Scantron, would this alleviate national's concerns about huge handcounts (instead of just a few needing manual intervention)?
Question 3: The League wants source code to be available to officials, but think that allowing the public to review it will mean that people might find flaws in it! <gasp>! What is wrong with the code and process being completely open and documented so guys like Bruce Schneier can review the code and the system that supports it?
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League of Women Voters opposes voter verified paper trails.
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You vote at the poll on the machine. The machine records the vote locally (and later to the poll team and later to the central office). The machine prints out a scantron. You check the bubbles are right for your vote and put it in the box.
The machine vote is the main vote, the scantron is just a backup. The backup will later be used to check the machine vote. Due to printing errors, there will be statistical anomalies taken into account and some will be checked by hand.
Hackers would have to fool two separate, complementary systems: machine and optical scan.
You would NOT have the ability to verify your vote over the Internet or ex post facto as this breaks secret balloting.
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I'm just annoyed that they pooh-pooh VVPT through an either/or fallacy: "Either electronic only or crappy handcount paper receipts." Nevermind that the printout could be a scantron ballot that would be easy to verify by people and computers. The e-vote could still be the real vote, but the scantron would give a chance for people to doublecheck and stand as a backup. The backups can also be used to check the e-votes weren't compromised.
Good point about the source, though. I mean, how many state employees know what a buffer overflow is? Still, the real problems with Diebold et al. have been endemic to the social system surrounding the software (e.g., pushing uncertified updates, having poor corporate security, etc.), not so much on the hackers.
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My response to the doctor: Bzzt, wrong. The guy went to the "wrong" hospital. You have to go to the correct Austin hospital to get into ER without insurance. Furthermore, last time I checked, malpractice rates for doctors have NOT gone down since Prop 12 was passed, contrary to what the Industry promised. Why? Because the real problem is that the Texas Board of Medical Examiners doesn't do its job: revoking the licenses of quacks who drive up the rates for everyone else. It only takes a few to make the risk pool go waaaay up for every other doctor (thus, increasing costs).
Pissed and offtopic,
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The fact that you've brought up some fairly non-trivial shortcomings demonstrates that gnucash has come along way and it's completed the core feature set.
That's quite a compliment you've given them. Thanks.
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"We" as in "you and yours" not "we" as in "us". It's you and your god that have the problem, not me and mine. I suggest you reevaluate your condemnation of Creation and its godly beauty because the problem originates inside of you and your inability to appreciate it properly. If you can't view a nude woman without lusting, if you cannot appreciate form and grace, if you cannot separate eroticism and lust, that's YOUR problem, mister, not mine. If you still cannot abide it, I suggest a blindfold. At least then, you won't be ruining Creation with your temptation problems and the rest of us can appreciate or lust as we see fit.
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"ex-fundie"
Explicit hardcore vending machines! Thank you -- my life now has a purpose! ;)
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