And that's just it. Ideally, any election would be run by an impartial third party, which is effectively impossible in the highly charged and partisan atmosphere encouraged by our system. I would be much more at ease if another country like Sweden stepped in to control the whole thing, just because theoretically they're less likely to attempt outright subversion of the process.
Or hell, at least someone less partial than one of the candidate's relatives. Fuck, even McDonalds has sweepstakes rules that employees and family members can't win prizes for similar reasons. Are we saying our elections are less important than McDonalds sweepstakes? Maybe not, but our actions sure are.
I don't really understand this about US (or possibly any other) election system. In science, the margin of error for measurements being taken, or due to inherent flaws in a mechanism used gets quoted and becomes part of the results. If the margin of error is too large, results are inconclusive. Can we really vouch for any president elected by votes well within the margin of error for the combined effect of disparate tallying systems, vendors, and human fallibility? Has any system in the country ever been more accurate than 1% margin of error—or some ridiculous amount like 269 votes?
You're making the false assumption that the millions of people currently commuting to/from their jobs and clogging the nation's highways can sufficiently relocate or find alternate transportation. Even if the asshole you refer to does his part, that still leaves the country-wide infrastructure of highways which were all built to facilitate commute-based businesses.
It's also highly unnecessary. This is 2008; we and other countries have technological solutions which are being ignored mostly due to momentum. What we have now is "how it's always been," rife with anecdotal evidence in both directions concerning simplifying. Why don't we have adequate network bandwidth for those promised video-phones? Why hasn't most of the country spent more time and resources establishing effective mass-transit?
Millions of people commute that don't strictly need to be on-site, every day of the year, for most of their adult lives, wasting billions of gallons of fuel and polluting the very air they breath for what exactly? So people at the office can micromanage that person's time, or satisfy themselves that work is being done? We have issue tracking systems, status reports, and several other tools that solve all of these problems. If someone isn't performing, they can be fired just as easily in or out of the office.
The truth is we're in the beginning of such a transition phase. Without a good answer to global oil demand increasing, we'll be squeezed and forced into many of these solutions. In fifty years, we'll wonder how it was ever any different. But for now, it's painful and obviously flawed. Telecommuting is only the first step of many.
Not to shit all over your rant, but the site is clearly satire. They list China as "Communist China" for fuck's sake! What, does something have to be Maddox level before your spoof sensors start going off?
It's odd. I've never been an easy sleeper. Sometimes it takes me hours to fall asleep, but once there, I'm a damn log. Because of this, I often just don't sleep at all unless the circumstances are conducive. One time I took Amtrak, not realizing the movement, staying in a sitting position, and numerous other factors would keep me awake for the three day trip. I've heard the stories of hallucinations and various other problems with lack of sleep, but I never had any. To be honest, I was somewhat despondent over it, actually. I mean, if I was going to be exceptionally tired and sleep-deprived, I should at least get some entertainment out of it.
I've never pushed it past three days, and I'm certain there are varying levels of deprivation to sleep, but you're lucky you know your own cutoff.:)
That's because you've never seen After Dark. I've never so badly wanted a movie unmade save for House of a Thousand Corpses by Rob Zombie.
About the only thing he took from the video-game was the fact some of it took place in the dark. The issue of it being terrible is just redundant. Though I'd love to see if it anyone could successfully MST3k the thing.:p
If only there were a method of building something in such a way it could be automated for lengthy periods of time after initial construction, thereby reducing its maintenance costs. Seriously... do traffic-lights themselves cost $3800/mo? Sure they cost a lot to build, but once they're there, aside from the occasional bulb, they're self-maintaining. How the hell are they justifying nearly 4k per month on these things?
There's a sound you just missed... and that's the point flying right over your head. The grandparent post marked a bunch of things that basically amount to staying the fuck out of other countries' business, yet point 12 says "ZOMG FIREBOMB DRUGZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!" which are located in fields spread across the world.
I'm sure launching a giant military strike against several countries simultaneously to thwart something that probably shouldn't be illegal anyway, is a great method of earning trust.
That's what I don't understand. The pirate version will just have all the copy-protection stripped out, so the pirates can play the game without the CD, not have to be online to play (Steam), not need a code-wheel, etc. The legit customers? They have to make sure they entered the CD-key right, and even after that, need the CD with them at all times, so if they're on the road, they're pretty fucked, and so on.
One of the first things I do when I buy a game is search for the no-cd crack. It's a game I fucking bought yet I'm being punished. Well, fuck that. I stopped buying PC games four years ago... the last one I purchased (bargain bin, used) and played: Diablo II, served me well with a no-cd crack. Since then, I've not played a single PC game. Not one. I keep hearing about Bioshock and the Orange Box, and all these great games, and I refuse to buy them because I'll need to be online so I can't play on a train, or I'll need a stack of CDs with me everywhere I go. Fuck that, and fuck copy protection, and fuck games that use it. The pirates get to play your game, and I get a dick in the ass. Thanks, assholes.
Gedit and Kate both give column-markers, line-numbers, function collapsing, syntax highlighting, tabbing, and integrated file browsers. But I disable auto-* because those behaviors are seriously aggravating. Vi and emacs can both suck it; this isn't 1992. I 'vi' over ssh, and nano for quick local edits, but my local system is for my convenience. Yes, I'm fully aware you can ALT-B to jump to the beginning of a word, then ALT-U to uppercase it; but that's slower than hitting capslock and just typing it that way to begin with, so fuck you.
I'd also like to see you use vim to control a PostgreSQL or MySQL connection, negotiate SMTP through an open socket, or type in your favorite webmail site. Yeah, none of these require capitalization, but it makes reserved words stand out much better, constants easier to spot, and I'm pedantic enough to care about these things. When you're done fellating vim as the solution to all problems, I'll be over here typing IN FUCKING CAPS at full speed.
You'll pry my capslock key from my cold, dead, pinky.
As a coder and DBA, I often type out long strings of capitalized text, and without capslock, I'd likely shoot myself in the head.
As for the windows key, Compiz has a lot of keyboard shortcuts that use ctrl-alt-[whatever] to control effects. Well, I can make that one key: the windows key, and save myself hand-acrobatics.
But yeah... every time I accidentally hit 'insert', I frantically ctrl-z to fix whatever I overwrote. That key must die.
A friend of mine refers to Bath and Body Works as "The Stripper Store." Why? Because he used to be a connoisseur of strip clubs, and apparently the girls always smelled like various products from that store. I guess that means skanks smell freaking awesome!
This is not a cause/effect relationship, just good news.
I don't know about you, but I'm personally ecstatic that—whether or not video games are a serious political topic—politicians who happen to subscribe to such scapegoatism are unlikely to win for whatever other reason.
The point of course, is that the likelihood of an anti video-game candidate being elected has demonstrably dropped. Sure, that's ignored by everyone except folks like us, and likely irrelevant to the caucus votes themselves, but it's still good news nevertheless.
Ever played The Sims? Could you control a game of The Sims where instead of maybe a dozen people you control, it's septillions of entities spread across an entire planet, or several galaxy clusters?
The easiest way to simulate something is to set up generic rules that control it, and let it run itself. Sure the simulation system could lie to us, but it could just as easily not.
But mass-transit within every urban area in the US is an embarrassment, far below the standards in every major country. Even China has high-speed rail. So we get 1-hour commutes and requisite suburbs. Thanks, Federal Highway Commission!
police and fire protection
Which, thanks to the war on drugs, is probably at least one order of magnitude more expensive than it could be. Prisons, court time, raids, etc., are not free. I'm not saying police are bad, but they've been allowed, in general, to run amok. It's why you get things like Chicago cops beating up waitresses while off duty, and not being summarily fired for making the whole force look bad.
The money that gets culled from your paycheck is generally managed like a teenie-bopper with their parents' platinum card. Even discounting the Iraq war, we're being royally reamed, and yet more budget increases go through every month, on every level of government. What gets me, is that all previous budgets are based on percentage, so you'd think that with inflation, the government would have all the money it needs since people would be, by definition, paying more already. Yet the sales tax in Chicago and most of its suburbs is just shy of 10%. Government never trims its belt. You pay so much because nobody has audited the fucking system, and so much pork gets in pretty much permanently.
Sure, your money pays for a few good programs, but those are solidly embedded in an ocean of shit.
They do this in hospitals; it's called triage. Hospitals have a nurse, or more than one, whose only job (ideally) is to assess and prioritize patients who can't objectively determine their own need, so those who truly need immediate care are serviced.
eg. "This guy got his arm mangled by a wood-chipper. I think he should go in before the lady who sprained her pinkie, and furthermore, this guy needs to be fixed up NOW."
Big corporations should have a very similar tiered setup. In the software world, we generally call these people project managers; they manage the projects and try to prioritize what can realistically get done in a specific time-period. This particular ask-slashdot is way too rigid, because there's (seemingly) no provision made for quick-turnaround on emergency triage. If a bug would put a client out of business, or ruin your company's reputation, or otherwise damage data, 48-hours is not unreasonable. There needs to be a short-circuit around the bureaucracy of meeting->design->meeting->confirm->write->test->qa->stage->production->rinse->repeat sometimes when the patient is hemorrhaging.
I think you miss the true point of greylisting. See, the delay is only half of the whole equation. Sure, the host may try again, but I'm also subscribed to a few relatively non-strict DNSBL lists. Now, imagine the combination:
Spammer sends a spam.
Spam gets delayed by 5 minutes.
Lazy Spammer neglects to resend. EOM.
Spammer gets put into a DNSBL sometime during the day.
Creative Spammer resends several hours later.
Rejected as bad host, due to DNSBL.
Also, postgrey, like most greylist plugins, will automatically whitelist an IP that has had several successful deliveries over the course of a few days. It regularly purges this list every 30 days, so if a spammer accidentally gets whitelisted, that doesn't last long. And like I said, DNSBL is checked *before* the greylist is invoked. So, 95+% of spam sent to me every day, never makes it past my SMTP server. And if I bothered to bolt a bayesian filter on top, I'd probably get a handful of spam per year, but I can handle deleting the half dozen that make it through every week.
It may not work for everyone, but Email Purgatory seems damn good to me.
I hate to bring up anecdotal evidence, but, while I still get spam, my flood has gone down to a relative trickle simply by plugging postgrey into postfix. I could probably reduce it to zero with a bayesian filter, but I won't bother. Scanning through my logs, my server rejects literally thousands of spams every day, and I'm just one guy with two email addresses and a handful of aliases.
So, it would come as no surprise to me that spam volume is that high, I just never see it. I almost want to turn off my filter for a day just to see what would happen.
That was true, until "No Child Left Behind!" Now, many schools will not allow teachers to fail students. Ever. Or classes are taught exclusively so that students can pass upcoming standardized tests.
Yes, even the special-ed kid who drools all day, is held to the same standard as the girl who experiments with integrated electronics in second grade.
Tell me that's not a recipe for disaster? The problem isn't old school teaching, because we've already abandoned that. It's the new school stuff that's the issue. Every other country using these supposedly antiquated systems seem to be doing just fine.
The whole God Damn point of the article and the scientist's questioning, is that Islam once contributed to a golden age of human progress, and now actively campaigns against such endeavors. The scientist wonders—as well he should—why this is the case. It's even in the first stanza, for Christ's sake. From TFA:
Internal causes led to the decline of Islam's scientific greatness long before the era of mercantile imperialism. To contribute once again, Muslims must be introspective and ask what went wrong.
Directly to the grandparent's point, it only proves just how far Islam has fallen from greatness, and how ahead everyone could have been, save for the whim of religious interpretation. From neurosurgery way back in the 13th century to outright intellectual intolerance and xenophobia currently? That's pretty damning, especially if you're an Islamic scientist trying to reverse the trend. In order to understand how to affect a renaissance, one must learn the history of the opposition, and in this case, seven hundred years of strict interpretation of Islam is significant, even now.
Worse. Not to launch into a conspiracy tirade, but who says the machine prints out the user's selection? In a perfectly—or even halfway competent—world, all it would take is one dishonest group of people (Diebold?) to code the system with two result columns. The first stores the user's actual vote, the one it can print out on request given an encrypted value, or present on a confirmation screen for the user. The other stores the desired vote; maybe on a statistically weighted basis for a specific candidate or party as to make the slant non-obvious. The second column is used for tallies.
Suddenly your printed receipt is absolutely worthless. Sure, you can rest easy the system correctly registered your vote, but it's the master counting system, and the values it receives, that matters.
Paper ballots require a massive concerted effort with hudreds, or even thousands of conspirators. With Electronic voting, since the code is closed (and even if it was open, we can't ensure that's the code they used in the final machine), it takes one manager with an agenda and a handful of hand-chosen coders to implement it.
There may be a way around this, but I sure as hell don't know what it is.
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And that's just it. Ideally, any election would be run by an impartial third party, which is effectively impossible in the highly charged and partisan atmosphere encouraged by our system. I would be much more at ease if another country like Sweden stepped in to control the whole thing, just because theoretically they're less likely to attempt outright subversion of the process.
Or hell, at least someone less partial than one of the candidate's relatives. Fuck, even McDonalds has sweepstakes rules that employees and family members can't win prizes for similar reasons. Are we saying our elections are less important than McDonalds sweepstakes? Maybe not, but our actions sure are.
I don't really understand this about US (or possibly any other) election system. In science, the margin of error for measurements being taken, or due to inherent flaws in a mechanism used gets quoted and becomes part of the results. If the margin of error is too large, results are inconclusive. Can we really vouch for any president elected by votes well within the margin of error for the combined effect of disparate tallying systems, vendors, and human fallibility? Has any system in the country ever been more accurate than 1% margin of error—or some ridiculous amount like 269 votes?
Seems unlikely.
Illogical.
You're making the false assumption that the millions of people currently commuting to/from their jobs and clogging the nation's highways can sufficiently relocate or find alternate transportation. Even if the asshole you refer to does his part, that still leaves the country-wide infrastructure of highways which were all built to facilitate commute-based businesses.
It's also highly unnecessary. This is 2008; we and other countries have technological solutions which are being ignored mostly due to momentum. What we have now is "how it's always been," rife with anecdotal evidence in both directions concerning simplifying. Why don't we have adequate network bandwidth for those promised video-phones? Why hasn't most of the country spent more time and resources establishing effective mass-transit?
Millions of people commute that don't strictly need to be on-site, every day of the year, for most of their adult lives, wasting billions of gallons of fuel and polluting the very air they breath for what exactly? So people at the office can micromanage that person's time, or satisfy themselves that work is being done? We have issue tracking systems, status reports, and several other tools that solve all of these problems. If someone isn't performing, they can be fired just as easily in or out of the office.
The truth is we're in the beginning of such a transition phase. Without a good answer to global oil demand increasing, we'll be squeezed and forced into many of these solutions. In fifty years, we'll wonder how it was ever any different. But for now, it's painful and obviously flawed. Telecommuting is only the first step of many.
Not to shit all over your rant, but the site is clearly satire. They list China as "Communist China" for fuck's sake! What, does something have to be Maddox level before your spoof sensors start going off?
It's odd. I've never been an easy sleeper. Sometimes it takes me hours to fall asleep, but once there, I'm a damn log. Because of this, I often just don't sleep at all unless the circumstances are conducive. One time I took Amtrak, not realizing the movement, staying in a sitting position, and numerous other factors would keep me awake for the three day trip. I've heard the stories of hallucinations and various other problems with lack of sleep, but I never had any. To be honest, I was somewhat despondent over it, actually. I mean, if I was going to be exceptionally tired and sleep-deprived, I should at least get some entertainment out of it.
I've never pushed it past three days, and I'm certain there are varying levels of deprivation to sleep, but you're lucky you know your own cutoff. :)
That's because you've never seen After Dark. I've never so badly wanted a movie unmade save for House of a Thousand Corpses by Rob Zombie.
:p
About the only thing he took from the video-game was the fact some of it took place in the dark. The issue of it being terrible is just redundant. Though I'd love to see if it anyone could successfully MST3k the thing.
$3800 monthly *per camera* !?
If only there were a method of building something in such a way it could be automated for lengthy periods of time after initial construction, thereby reducing its maintenance costs. Seriously... do traffic-lights themselves cost $3800/mo? Sure they cost a lot to build, but once they're there, aside from the occasional bulb, they're self-maintaining. How the hell are they justifying nearly 4k per month on these things?
There's a sound you just missed... and that's the point flying right over your head. The grandparent post marked a bunch of things that basically amount to staying the fuck out of other countries' business, yet point 12 says "ZOMG FIREBOMB DRUGZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!" which are located in fields spread across the world.
I'm sure launching a giant military strike against several countries simultaneously to thwart something that probably shouldn't be illegal anyway, is a great method of earning trust.
That's what I don't understand. The pirate version will just have all the copy-protection stripped out, so the pirates can play the game without the CD, not have to be online to play (Steam), not need a code-wheel, etc. The legit customers? They have to make sure they entered the CD-key right, and even after that, need the CD with them at all times, so if they're on the road, they're pretty fucked, and so on.
One of the first things I do when I buy a game is search for the no-cd crack. It's a game I fucking bought yet I'm being punished. Well, fuck that. I stopped buying PC games four years ago... the last one I purchased (bargain bin, used) and played: Diablo II, served me well with a no-cd crack. Since then, I've not played a single PC game. Not one. I keep hearing about Bioshock and the Orange Box, and all these great games, and I refuse to buy them because I'll need to be online so I can't play on a train, or I'll need a stack of CDs with me everywhere I go. Fuck that, and fuck copy protection, and fuck games that use it. The pirates get to play your game, and I get a dick in the ass. Thanks, assholes.
VIM can stick it where the sun don't shine.
Gedit and Kate both give column-markers, line-numbers, function collapsing, syntax highlighting, tabbing, and integrated file browsers. But I disable auto-* because those behaviors are seriously aggravating. Vi and emacs can both suck it; this isn't 1992. I 'vi' over ssh, and nano for quick local edits, but my local system is for my convenience. Yes, I'm fully aware you can ALT-B to jump to the beginning of a word, then ALT-U to uppercase it; but that's slower than hitting capslock and just typing it that way to begin with, so fuck you.
I'd also like to see you use vim to control a PostgreSQL or MySQL connection, negotiate SMTP through an open socket, or type in your favorite webmail site. Yeah, none of these require capitalization, but it makes reserved words stand out much better, constants easier to spot, and I'm pedantic enough to care about these things. When you're done fellating vim as the solution to all problems, I'll be over here typing IN FUCKING CAPS at full speed.
You'll pry my capslock key from my cold, dead, pinky.
:qw
As a coder and DBA, I often type out long strings of capitalized text, and without capslock, I'd likely shoot myself in the head.
As for the windows key, Compiz has a lot of keyboard shortcuts that use ctrl-alt-[whatever] to control effects. Well, I can make that one key: the windows key, and save myself hand-acrobatics.
But yeah... every time I accidentally hit 'insert', I frantically ctrl-z to fix whatever I overwrote. That key must die.
A friend of mine refers to Bath and Body Works as "The Stripper Store." Why? Because he used to be a connoisseur of strip clubs, and apparently the girls always smelled like various products from that store. I guess that means skanks smell freaking awesome!
This is not a cause/effect relationship, just good news.
I don't know about you, but I'm personally ecstatic that—whether or not video games are a serious political topic—politicians who happen to subscribe to such scapegoatism are unlikely to win for whatever other reason.
Of course not, that would be preposterous!
The point of course, is that the likelihood of an anti video-game candidate being elected has demonstrably dropped. Sure, that's ignored by everyone except folks like us, and likely irrelevant to the caucus votes themselves, but it's still good news nevertheless.
Ever played The Sims? Could you control a game of The Sims where instead of maybe a dozen people you control, it's septillions of entities spread across an entire planet, or several galaxy clusters?
The easiest way to simulate something is to set up generic rules that control it, and let it run itself. Sure the simulation system could lie to us, but it could just as easily not.
Well, we all thought Japan was better than that. ;)
I get a top-notch highway system
But mass-transit within every urban area in the US is an embarrassment, far below the standards in every major country. Even China has high-speed rail. So we get 1-hour commutes and requisite suburbs. Thanks, Federal Highway Commission!
police and fire protection
Which, thanks to the war on drugs, is probably at least one order of magnitude more expensive than it could be. Prisons, court time, raids, etc., are not free. I'm not saying police are bad, but they've been allowed, in general, to run amok. It's why you get things like Chicago cops beating up waitresses while off duty, and not being summarily fired for making the whole force look bad.
The money that gets culled from your paycheck is generally managed like a teenie-bopper with their parents' platinum card. Even discounting the Iraq war, we're being royally reamed, and yet more budget increases go through every month, on every level of government. What gets me, is that all previous budgets are based on percentage, so you'd think that with inflation, the government would have all the money it needs since people would be, by definition, paying more already. Yet the sales tax in Chicago and most of its suburbs is just shy of 10%. Government never trims its belt. You pay so much because nobody has audited the fucking system, and so much pork gets in pretty much permanently.
Sure, your money pays for a few good programs, but those are solidly embedded in an ocean of shit.
They do this in hospitals; it's called triage. Hospitals have a nurse, or more than one, whose only job (ideally) is to assess and prioritize patients who can't objectively determine their own need, so those who truly need immediate care are serviced.
eg. "This guy got his arm mangled by a wood-chipper. I think he should go in before the lady who sprained her pinkie, and furthermore, this guy needs to be fixed up NOW."
Big corporations should have a very similar tiered setup. In the software world, we generally call these people project managers; they manage the projects and try to prioritize what can realistically get done in a specific time-period. This particular ask-slashdot is way too rigid, because there's (seemingly) no provision made for quick-turnaround on emergency triage. If a bug would put a client out of business, or ruin your company's reputation, or otherwise damage data, 48-hours is not unreasonable. There needs to be a short-circuit around the bureaucracy of meeting->design->meeting->confirm->write->test->qa->stage->production->rinse->repeat sometimes when the patient is hemorrhaging.
I also now realize I don't know math. ;) 5*12+10 = 70-inches, folks... making 35 for a waist measurement, easily doable. I obviously need more sleep.
Let's take an average 5'10" male. That's 60 inches. Half of that is 30 inches.
Yeah... good luck with that.
- Spammer sends a spam.
- Spam gets delayed by 5 minutes.
- Lazy Spammer neglects to resend. EOM.
- Spammer gets put into a DNSBL sometime during the day.
- Creative Spammer resends several hours later.
- Rejected as bad host, due to DNSBL.
Also, postgrey, like most greylist plugins, will automatically whitelist an IP that has had several successful deliveries over the course of a few days. It regularly purges this list every 30 days, so if a spammer accidentally gets whitelisted, that doesn't last long. And like I said, DNSBL is checked *before* the greylist is invoked. So, 95+% of spam sent to me every day, never makes it past my SMTP server. And if I bothered to bolt a bayesian filter on top, I'd probably get a handful of spam per year, but I can handle deleting the half dozen that make it through every week. It may not work for everyone, but Email Purgatory seems damn good to me.Seriously.
:)
I hate to bring up anecdotal evidence, but, while I still get spam, my flood has gone down to a relative trickle simply by plugging postgrey into postfix. I could probably reduce it to zero with a bayesian filter, but I won't bother. Scanning through my logs, my server rejects literally thousands of spams every day, and I'm just one guy with two email addresses and a handful of aliases.
So, it would come as no surprise to me that spam volume is that high, I just never see it. I almost want to turn off my filter for a day just to see what would happen.
Well, maybe not.
That was true, until "No Child Left Behind!" Now, many schools will not allow teachers to fail students. Ever. Or classes are taught exclusively so that students can pass upcoming standardized tests.
Yes, even the special-ed kid who drools all day, is held to the same standard as the girl who experiments with integrated electronics in second grade.
Tell me that's not a recipe for disaster? The problem isn't old school teaching, because we've already abandoned that. It's the new school stuff that's the issue. Every other country using these supposedly antiquated systems seem to be doing just fine.
The whole God Damn point of the article and the scientist's questioning, is that Islam once contributed to a golden age of human progress, and now actively campaigns against such endeavors. The scientist wonders—as well he should—why this is the case. It's even in the first stanza, for Christ's sake. From TFA:
Directly to the grandparent's point, it only proves just how far Islam has fallen from greatness, and how ahead everyone could have been, save for the whim of religious interpretation. From neurosurgery way back in the 13th century to outright intellectual intolerance and xenophobia currently? That's pretty damning, especially if you're an Islamic scientist trying to reverse the trend. In order to understand how to affect a renaissance, one must learn the history of the opposition, and in this case, seven hundred years of strict interpretation of Islam is significant, even now.
God Damn lazy mods.
Worse. Not to launch into a conspiracy tirade, but who says the machine prints out the user's selection? In a perfectly—or even halfway competent—world, all it would take is one dishonest group of people (Diebold?) to code the system with two result columns. The first stores the user's actual vote, the one it can print out on request given an encrypted value, or present on a confirmation screen for the user. The other stores the desired vote; maybe on a statistically weighted basis for a specific candidate or party as to make the slant non-obvious. The second column is used for tallies.
Suddenly your printed receipt is absolutely worthless. Sure, you can rest easy the system correctly registered your vote, but it's the master counting system, and the values it receives, that matters.
Paper ballots require a massive concerted effort with hudreds, or even thousands of conspirators. With Electronic voting, since the code is closed (and even if it was open, we can't ensure that's the code they used in the final machine), it takes one manager with an agenda and a handful of hand-chosen coders to implement it.
There may be a way around this, but I sure as hell don't know what it is.