Founding Fathers were very reluctant to label as treason anything that could be used by a tyrant to strike down on legitimate internal opposition.
That was good and wise and as it should be. You don't want the ruling party to define treason to include "speeding, if my opponent is doing it".
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them
I'm willing to accept that they staged direct attacks on their political enemies. Our own government doesn't hold that warfare must include physical action; ref.: the new Cyber Command.
it's a flaw in the design, but it's not like flaws that allow you to manipulate the vote database with impunity and without an audit trail, or manipulate the machines totals.
Understood and agreed. It's more of a bad specification than an outright bug in that the screen works (IMHO incorrectly) as designed. Still, that and the unexpected ATM behavior you described are security issues, even if someone thought they were good ideas at one point.
Badly designed GUI + social engineering != security flaw.
It most certainly does! We've held MS to that standard for years with such things as "nakedgirl.gif.exe" tricking users into running unknown binaries, and rightfully so. Social engineering alone doesn't indicate a problem, as con men have been around since roughly the beginning of time. Software misfeatures (such as a button labeled "Vote" that doesn't actually cast your vote) that make fraud trivially easy absolutely are vulnerabilities.
But the headline leads you to believe this was somehow a voting machine flaw, rather than a social engineering attack based around shitty UI design ("Vote" means vote, not, "Confirm my Choices").
In what way is that not a security flaw? If an ATM were to fail to log me out for several minutes after returning my card and money and receipt unless I know to hit a specific button, it is a problem with the ATM.
Elected officials subverted the voice of the people for personal profit. Execute them. I am serious. There needs to be an example made, quickly and decisively.
Animal or human, it's never revealed, but these are not infected Majini. There are no red bloodshot eyes. These are ordinary Africans, who stop and stare at you menacingly as you approach.
When I was in Kenya, it was the custom for angry mobs to stop shoplifters in the streets, shove tires down over their bodies, then light them. I personally saw the aftermath of such vigilante justice. Newsflash to people crying racism: the world is violent when you get outside the safe zones.
the only answer is to convict them of treason and hang them from the nearest high tree.
I don't have a good counterargument. These people worked hard to subvert the most fundamental principal of our republic: without trusted elections, we have nothing. Given that the losing party in any Diebold-sponsored mock election now has a pretty legitimate grievance, and that we can't really know who we actually elected or which proposals we truly approved or rejected, what's left?
Given that Diebold might well have installed a government unlikely to punish them through the courts, why shouldn't the people responsible for that state of affairs be dragged out of their offices and dealt with? I'm not advocating that anyone actually do this, but I'm very interested in hearing a valid reason why it shouldn't be done.
Scantron ballots are used in Texas, and there's always a paper ballot trail of the actual vote in case of a ballot contest. I'm no Luddite, but I've never understood this rush to replace technology that works with the next big thing just because it's the next big thing.
Or why make the technology so complicated in the first place? My proposal: the electronic voting machine prints out a filled-in ballot. You can look at it to make sure the correct circles are filled in and complain right there on the spot if not. Use the machine totals for preliminary results if your citizens demand such things, but use the paper ballots for the official totals. End result: you get the speedy answers people seem to want with the auditability that free elections require.
outside information can prejudice a juror. The role of juror is to come to a conclusion based on the allowed 'facts' in that court room. If the internet was an unimpeachable source [...]
While I agree with you regarding the Internet, I disagree about bringing in outside knowledge. The summary mentions a juror who might "examine an intersection using Google Maps". While that would clearly be inappropriate, if I happen to have grown up near an intersection and seen two car wrecks a month there for my entire life because it was poorly designed, that's going to weight in my decision whether or not the lawyers bring it up.
However I have never seen a Dell that was more than 5 years old that either hasn't been replaced yet or had some major (hardware) problems with it.
Seriously? About 6 months ago, I replaced my 6-year-old Dell workstation mainly because it couldn't hold all the RAM I wanted. Other than that, it was working perfectly. The same is true for the rest of our office; we're starting the next wave of hardware replacements strictly for the sake of upgrades. I haven't heard of our IT guy actually having to replace a Dell due to breakage. I'm not saying they're all great, but we've certainly had good luck.
So ask yourself, is Apple just too stupid to please an arrogant but anonymous coward, or are you perhaps uninformed on what might be involved in developing secure copy and paste on a new platform with a unique security model?
This is true, and the idea of being able to securely exchange snippets of text between different processes on the same machine, possibly owned by different users, is generally held to be impossible.
In reality, text-only copy-and-paste (which is the only kind I hear people clamoring for) is widely accepted as pretty damn easy.
Since you're not incrementing "data" in the loop, if write() only managed a partial write, wouldn't that just keep writing the first few bytes of "data" over and over again?
The Delica looks vicious, sure, but I carry it for the same reason a policeman or soldier would: it's good at cutting things. I bet not a day goes by that I don't open a carton or stab into a plastic clamshell wrapper or discover that I don't have a steak knife and the waitress seems to have gone on vacation. My dad always said that men should carry knives and I agree with him. Mine is fiber and serrated alloy and his was a Buck penknife, but that's mostly a cosmetic difference for my uses.
I got out of the habit of carrying the Leatherman (Wave) every day, but it was amazing how many times I found myself needing to use a pliers or screwdriver in the course of a day.
I did exactly that when trying to buy an iMac without Applecare. After being held up for 5 minutes at the checkout while he kept trying to coerce me into getting the warranty, I loudly asked him exactly how big a piece of crap this thing was if it's so likely to break in the next 6 months and started to walk away. He decided that maybe it wasn't absolutely mandatory after all.
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Founding Fathers were very reluctant to label as treason anything that could be used by a tyrant to strike down on legitimate internal opposition.
That was good and wise and as it should be. You don't want the ruling party to define treason to include "speeding, if my opponent is doing it".
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them
I'm willing to accept that they staged direct attacks on their political enemies. Our own government doesn't hold that warfare must include physical action; ref.: the new Cyber Command.
it's a flaw in the design, but it's not like flaws that allow you to manipulate the vote database with impunity and without an audit trail, or manipulate the machines totals.
Understood and agreed. It's more of a bad specification than an outright bug in that the screen works (IMHO incorrectly) as designed. Still, that and the unexpected ATM behavior you described are security issues, even if someone thought they were good ideas at one point.
Badly designed GUI + social engineering != security flaw.
It most certainly does! We've held MS to that standard for years with such things as "nakedgirl.gif.exe" tricking users into running unknown binaries, and rightfully so. Social engineering alone doesn't indicate a problem, as con men have been around since roughly the beginning of time. Software misfeatures (such as a button labeled "Vote" that doesn't actually cast your vote) that make fraud trivially easy absolutely are vulnerabilities.
But the headline leads you to believe this was somehow a voting machine flaw, rather than a social engineering attack based around shitty UI design ("Vote" means vote, not, "Confirm my Choices").
In what way is that not a security flaw? If an ATM were to fail to log me out for several minutes after returning my card and money and receipt unless I know to hit a specific button, it is a problem with the ATM.
Bear in mind that the people who write the laws are the winners of elections.
That's why it's critical that this be handled harshly. When the guardians deliberately attack their charges, the penalties must be severe.
Elected officials subverted the voice of the people for personal profit. Execute them. I am serious. There needs to be an example made, quickly and decisively.
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Animal or human, it's never revealed, but these are not infected Majini. There are no red bloodshot eyes. These are ordinary Africans, who stop and stare at you menacingly as you approach.
When I was in Kenya, it was the custom for angry mobs to stop shoplifters in the streets, shove tires down over their bodies, then light them. I personally saw the aftermath of such vigilante justice. Newsflash to people crying racism: the world is violent when you get outside the safe zones.
"Bloated" is one of the most overused words on this site.
I agree. It's totally bricked.
Yes, but they generate tons of nuclear waste that doesn't go away for thousands of years.
Q: What you call radioactive waste with a half-life in the tens of thousands of years?
A: Inert.
the only answer is to convict them of treason and hang them from the nearest high tree.
I don't have a good counterargument. These people worked hard to subvert the most fundamental principal of our republic: without trusted elections, we have nothing. Given that the losing party in any Diebold-sponsored mock election now has a pretty legitimate grievance, and that we can't really know who we actually elected or which proposals we truly approved or rejected, what's left?
Given that Diebold might well have installed a government unlikely to punish them through the courts, why shouldn't the people responsible for that state of affairs be dragged out of their offices and dealt with? I'm not advocating that anyone actually do this, but I'm very interested in hearing a valid reason why it shouldn't be done.
Scantron ballots are used in Texas, and there's always a paper ballot trail of the actual vote in case of a ballot contest. I'm no Luddite, but I've never understood this rush to replace technology that works with the next big thing just because it's the next big thing.
Or why make the technology so complicated in the first place? My proposal: the electronic voting machine prints out a filled-in ballot. You can look at it to make sure the correct circles are filled in and complain right there on the spot if not. Use the machine totals for preliminary results if your citizens demand such things, but use the paper ballots for the official totals. End result: you get the speedy answers people seem to want with the auditability that free elections require.
outside information can prejudice a juror. The role of juror is to come to a conclusion based on the allowed 'facts' in that court room. If the internet was an unimpeachable source [...]
While I agree with you regarding the Internet, I disagree about bringing in outside knowledge. The summary mentions a juror who might "examine an intersection using Google Maps". While that would clearly be inappropriate, if I happen to have grown up near an intersection and seen two car wrecks a month there for my entire life because it was poorly designed, that's going to weight in my decision whether or not the lawyers bring it up.
However I have never seen a Dell that was more than 5 years old that either hasn't been replaced yet or had some major (hardware) problems with it.
Seriously? About 6 months ago, I replaced my 6-year-old Dell workstation mainly because it couldn't hold all the RAM I wanted. Other than that, it was working perfectly. The same is true for the rest of our office; we're starting the next wave of hardware replacements strictly for the sake of upgrades. I haven't heard of our IT guy actually having to replace a Dell due to breakage. I'm not saying they're all great, but we've certainly had good luck.
So ask yourself, is Apple just too stupid to please an arrogant but anonymous coward, or are you perhaps uninformed on what might be involved in developing secure copy and paste on a new platform with a unique security model?
This is true, and the idea of being able to securely exchange snippets of text between different processes on the same machine, possibly owned by different users, is generally held to be impossible.
In reality, text-only copy-and-paste (which is the only kind I hear people clamoring for) is widely accepted as pretty damn easy.
then its 110% fine.
Unless they indicate that he wasn't acting impartially, in which case it's 110% not.
Nobody calls it "Frisco."
Correct. My mom worked for a railroad named after a sandwich.
Well if he is looking at traffic shaping he should consider bumping priorities rather than heavy handed throttling.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Who cares what a customer is downloading as long as it can't interfere with more interactive traffic?
Since you're not incrementing "data" in the loop, if write() only managed a partial write, wouldn't that just keep writing the first few bytes of "data" over and over again?
For pure .NET applications (fully MSIL) is should not matter as long as the runtime is available..
How likely is it that they can tune a version of .NET to run well on an ARM?
The Delica looks vicious, sure, but I carry it for the same reason a policeman or soldier would: it's good at cutting things. I bet not a day goes by that I don't open a carton or stab into a plastic clamshell wrapper or discover that I don't have a steak knife and the waitress seems to have gone on vacation. My dad always said that men should carry knives and I agree with him. Mine is fiber and serrated alloy and his was a Buck penknife, but that's mostly a cosmetic difference for my uses.
I got out of the habit of carrying the Leatherman (Wave) every day, but it was amazing how many times I found myself needing to use a pliers or screwdriver in the course of a day.
I've carried a Spyderco Delica for years, but I dread trying to explain that I just use it as a pocketknife.
I did exactly that when trying to buy an iMac without Applecare. After being held up for 5 minutes at the checkout while he kept trying to coerce me into getting the warranty, I loudly asked him exactly how big a piece of crap this thing was if it's so likely to break in the next 6 months and started to walk away. He decided that maybe it wasn't absolutely mandatory after all.
Hmm. I wonder why "sync" is not a default mount option?
It is on the BSDs.
No, it's excellent advice. Why? Updating software brings your system from a state that you know works to a state that may or may not work for you.
That would've made sense, except that Ubuntu updates (within the same release) are bug and security fixes.