Using similar methods for e-voting sounds appealing; dispute resolution, notificaiton of out of pattern activity, etc, but this could be solved by giving you a receipt for your vote, scanning it with your phone or inputting the key into the website, and protesting anything that looks wrong.
This would destroy the secrecy of the ballot. It is essential that no one be able to ascertain how you voted, even with your cooperation. The paper ballot does this in a simple, transparent manner.
The "bug" in this case was Facebook's decision to modify their users' contact info without permission.
Nonsense. You gave them persmission when you enabled "syncing".
Only a fool would allow an advertising agency with which they have no contract to not only run unaudited software on a computer containing their only copy of important data but also permit that software write access to the data.
The utility has a contractual right of access. In the USA the owner has the legal right to exclude them but in doing so he breaches the contract and so service may be terminated. The utility cannot use force to enter or use stealth after being warned off. Thus you can, if you wish, run the guys from the power company off when they come to install the smart meter but you'll be sorry.
The power company's only recourse should he deny them access is to shut off his power. The meter is on his land pursuant to a contract, not an easement. (They could eventually get a court order to retrieve their property.)
>...it would not create any real problem for hundreds of years.
It need not ever create any problems. Put the leapseconds in zoneinfo. There is no more reason to jigger the system clock to deal with the fact that the planet's rate of rotation varies than there is to jigger it to deal with the fact that the sun rises at different times at different longitudes.
Like a number of other plants, Bermuda grass produces cyanide when stressed. Under extreme stress (as in a drought) it can produce lethal quantities. See
Animal Health and many others.
With the older commercial encyclopedias, accuracy and reliability reputations made or broke companies.
Exactly: accuracy and reliability reputations. Not quite the same as accuracy and reliability.
With Wiki being free and volunteer, these restraints famously don't exist, leading to exactly this kind of thing. Not good or bad, it just is.
Actually, I've never seen evidence of this sort of thing in articles on subjects about which I really cared.
I LIKE arguments in my research sources; sources should be challenged. If the challenges are in the source itself, so much the better.
And, of course, in Wikipedia it's all there. What are the chances that a commercial encyclopedia would publish all the correspondence between its authors and editors?
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This would destroy the secrecy of the ballot. It is essential that no one be able to ascertain how you voted, even with your cooperation. The paper ballot does this in a simple, transparent manner.
> why should you expect extreme care for voting?
Your money is important only to you, and you have many choices as to how you manage it.
E-voting cannot be transparent and therefor cannot be acceptable.
We have one. It's called the "paper ballot".
...how will they convince anyone that they were, in fact, decoys?
What will they do when other agencies believe the decoy docs and act on them?
What is it that you imagine they could learn that way?
...that the bankruptcy courts can't fix.
Nonsense. You gave them persmission when you enabled "syncing". Only a fool would allow an advertising agency with which they have no contract to not only run unaudited software on a computer containing their only copy of important data but also permit that software write access to the data.
+4 funny
The utility has a contractual right of access. In the USA the owner has the legal right to exclude them but in doing so he breaches the contract and so service may be terminated. The utility cannot use force to enter or use stealth after being warned off. Thus you can, if you wish, run the guys from the power company off when they come to install the smart meter but you'll be sorry.
The power company's only recourse should he deny them access is to shut off his power. The meter is on his land pursuant to a contract, not an easement. (They could eventually get a court order to retrieve their property.)
> Are these things potentially harmful?
They are every bit as dangerous as cellphones.
> Are they an invasion of privacy?
Of course. They are telling the power company how much electricity you are using. What business is that of theirs?
So maybe you should bathe in it rather than drink it?
> Ever seen a man wearing an in-ear phone and not thought
> it looked silly?
No one wearing an Apple product ever looks silly. When iGlasses hit the market they will be incredibly cool. Google will rush to imitate them.
> ...it would not create any real problem for hundreds of years.
It need not ever create any problems. Put the leapseconds in zoneinfo. There is no more reason to jigger the system clock to deal with the fact that the planet's rate of rotation varies than there is to jigger it to deal with the fact that the sun rises at different times at different longitudes.
> I haven't had a TV for 15 years or so. ...Netflix ...iTunes...Stanley Cup...soccer...Olympics...
>
But you still watch television.
> And if you get bored with the TV you can look at the radio
> as well.
The TV can be just as interesting to watch as the radio if you turn it off. I agree that on it is more boring, though.
We don't all watch TV.
Like a number of other plants, Bermuda grass produces cyanide when stressed. Under extreme stress (as in a drought) it can produce lethal quantities. See Animal Health and many others.
Exactly: accuracy and reliability reputations. Not quite the same as accuracy and reliability.
Actually, I've never seen evidence of this sort of thing in articles on subjects about which I really cared.
And, of course, in Wikipedia it's all there. What are the chances that a commercial encyclopedia would publish all the correspondence between its authors and editors?
"Editing wars" over trivialities such as the deaths of celebrities are of no significance.
The death of a person famous for being well known is not a "major event".
...or promise?
"Nuclear free" is sooo 1980s. It's all about "greenness" now. You need to update your pc checklists monthly.
Finite tape -> state machine.