Sony has a similar idea with LocationFree TV.
You get an LCD that can get TV both wirelessly when you're at home, as well as streamed over the Internet when you're not.
While optiscan ballots do have the advantage of being recountable, there are still at least two problems:
1) The optiscanner can record an incorrect count through malfunction or maliciousness (there is not always a recount, unless things are close or suspicious).
2) If the ballots are stacked one on top of another after they are scanned, I can reconstruct everyone's vote (that is, I can find out who you voted for) by matching the ballots with a time-ordered list of everyone who voted.
To the people making the decisions, it's not enough that it works.
E-voting is being introduced in France and England because those in charge are operating from faulty assumptions, including:
- evoting will be cheaper
- evoting will give more accurate counts
- evoting will increase voter participation
I agree wholeheartedly with your clear analysis. However, the fact that paper ballot systems have many advantages doesn't stop officials from trying to replace them.
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The US does not count prisoners as unemployed. The US has a huge prison population, and a much higher percentage of its population in prison than other G7 nations.
Canada's election consultants are doing their best to replace paper ballots with electronic systems.
The Chief Election Officer of Ontario has issued a report in favour of trying out electronic and Internet voting, and has already issued an RFQ for a technology pilot project.
When I logged into Blogger I discovered that "edit post" on my Mac in Firefox now has two tabs, one which shows more of a word-processing type interface, and one to work just with the HTML.
I suspect that one of the attractions of Picasa for Google was their Hello site which provides photo hosting for Blogger. As more and more people move to photoblogging, this may have been an easy way for Google to provide more functionality.
People keep saying "how will Google limit people's accounts". The whole point is, Google is giving a gig because they want to gather as much data as possible, for their search analysis algorithm tuning and contextual ads. They've got a web text stream pouring in, a USENET feed, a news feed... now they want to add email as one of the main untapped sources of huge amounts of text. So they don't want to limit accounts. They're giving you free storage in exchange for providing them with tons of data that they can use to attract advertisers and better target their ads.
Most people are quite good about it and take the copy of the page down or respect my mirroring conditions. Others however, ignore all my requests.
For example, here my most popular page, which I use Google AdSense to pay for (cover bandwidth costs etc.)
Here is a ripoff of my page, with the email address changed, I'm not sure why. Maybe to claim a set of skills? I wish he would take the copy of my page down.
We need to be careful about Canadian smugness.
There was Internet-based voting in Markham in the municipal election and as far as I can tell, no one gave much though to any issues of security or verifiability.
In Physical security of electronic voting terminals Tobin Fricke says
"A cart of Diebold electronic voting machines was delivered today to the
common room of this Berkeley, CA boarding house, which will be a polling
place on Tuesday's primary election. The machines are on a cart which is
wrapped in plastic wrap (the same as the stuff we use in the kitchen). A few
cable locks (bicycle locks, it seems) provide the appearance of physical
security, but they aren't threaded through each machine."
See my site on the issue in Canada, including international reports: Paper Vote Canada.
1. disable the service
2. you may also want to add a software firewall, or enable the built-in firewalling, or both
3. you may also want to add a hardware firewall
My vote is for hand-counted, paper ballots.
Even if electronic voting is extremely well done, there are concerns with it.
And I have yet to see any indications that companies are doing anything other than a shoddy job.
People don't understand what Murphy's Law really meant. What he was saying is, people will inevitably do things wrong, intentionally or accidentally. You need to DESIGN THE SYSTEM so that it makes doing something wrong very difficult (or impossible) and so that if you do manage to do something wrong, it fails gracefully.
Microsoft Windows has almost none of those design attributes.
I find it quite amusing that this page about the legality of duplicating images of Canadian currency contains, in the upper right-hand corner... a partial image of Canadian currency.
I was glad to see that the Rules for Use site links to many different countries. However, I wonder in these sorts of cases, how many companies program their software to take into account the appropriate national law (and how are they going to know which one to apply, by reading some user-configurated environment setting?)
I suspect "make the software comply with US law (or US industry requests)" is the default position, which ends up forcing this on anyone in any country who uses the software.
A small translucent station logo in the corner I could handle. Useful actually, for navigating the channel universe. But these popup ads, big solid animated logos... I can't take it any more.
Slashdot Mirror
Sony has a similar idea with LocationFree TV. You get an LCD that can get TV both wirelessly when you're at home, as well as streamed over the Internet when you're not.
press release
SonyStyle store
While optiscan ballots do have the advantage of being recountable, there are still at least two problems:
1) The optiscanner can record an incorrect count through malfunction or maliciousness (there is not always a recount, unless things are close or suspicious).
2) If the ballots are stacked one on top of another after they are scanned, I can reconstruct everyone's vote (that is, I can find out who you voted for) by matching the ballots with a time-ordered list of everyone who voted.
I have a site on the issues in Canada: Paper Vote Canada.
To the people making the decisions, it's not enough that it works. E-voting is being introduced in France and England because those in charge are operating from faulty assumptions, including:
- evoting will be cheaper
- evoting will give more accurate counts
- evoting will increase voter participation
My blog on the topic: Paper Vote Canada.
See e.g. London to get e-voting?
and my site about the situation in Canada: Paper Vote Canada
The US does not count prisoners as unemployed. The US has a huge prison population, and a much higher percentage of its population in prison than other G7 nations.
See e.g. RE: unemployment figures
BetaVote.com does the same thing.
Canada's election consultants are doing their best to replace paper ballots with electronic systems.
The Chief Election Officer of Ontario has issued a report in favour of trying out electronic and Internet voting, and has already issued an RFQ for a technology pilot project.
You can read more about it on my blog Paper Vote Canada
I've used AVG. Some people prefer AntiVir.
When I logged into Blogger I discovered that "edit post" on my Mac in Firefox now has two tabs, one which shows more of a word-processing type interface, and one to work just with the HTML.
I suspect that one of the attractions of Picasa for Google was their Hello site which provides photo hosting for Blogger. As more and more people move to photoblogging, this may have been an easy way for Google to provide more functionality.
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An Anti-Spam Action Plan for Canada
Use less water.
This "only 3425 clicks away from the home page" stuff is baloney. Why not use http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=slashdot ?
People keep saying "how will Google limit people's accounts". The whole point is, Google is giving a gig because they want to gather as much data as possible, for their search analysis algorithm tuning and contextual ads. They've got a web text stream pouring in, a USENET feed, a news feed... now they want to add email as one of the main untapped sources of huge amounts of text. So they don't want to limit accounts. They're giving you free storage in exchange for providing them with tons of data that they can use to attract advertisers and better target their ads.
Most people are quite good about it and take the copy of the page down or respect my mirroring conditions. Others however, ignore all my requests.
For example, here my most popular page, which I use Google AdSense to pay for (cover bandwidth costs etc.)
Here is a ripoff of my page, with the email address changed, I'm not sure why. Maybe to claim a set of skills? I wish he would take the copy of my page down.
We need to be careful about Canadian smugness. There was Internet-based voting in Markham in the municipal election and as far as I can tell, no one gave much though to any issues of security or verifiability.
Paper Vote Canada Blog
See my site on the issue in Canada, including international reports: Paper Vote Canada.
My links on Windows Security Software should give you some starting points.
Also note that PPTP uses not only TCP/UDP but also GRE (protocol 47).
I have a blog about the issue in Canada: Paper Vote Canada.
They will tell you the port is IANA registered by EMC for CTX-bridge. It's up to you to decided whether that counts as a "real application".
Red Hat on Security: SELinux
People don't understand what Murphy's Law really meant. What he was saying is, people will inevitably do things wrong, intentionally or accidentally. You need to DESIGN THE SYSTEM so that it makes doing something wrong very difficult (or impossible) and so that if you do manage to do something wrong, it fails gracefully.
Microsoft Windows has almost none of those design attributes.
for making money for the certification companies.
Job experience and university degrees are the only things that I would recommend for improving your resume.
The relevant Canadian legislation can be found at http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/banknotes/legislatio n/457code/
I find it quite amusing that this page about the legality of duplicating images of Canadian currency contains, in the upper right-hand corner... a partial image of Canadian currency.
I was glad to see that the Rules for Use site links to many different countries. However, I wonder in these sorts of cases, how many companies program their software to take into account the appropriate national law (and how are they going to know which one to apply, by reading some user-configurated environment setting?)
I suspect "make the software comply with US law (or US industry requests)" is the default position, which ends up forcing this on anyone in any country who uses the software.
1. Buy TV shows on DVD
2. Cancel cable
A small translucent station logo in the corner I could handle. Useful actually, for navigating the channel universe. But these popup ads, big solid animated logos... I can't take it any more.