And in my NH town, we just use a simple paper ballot with checkboxes. There are about 800 voters in a typical election and about ten volunteers spend an hour tallying them. I think the town buys a few sandwiches from the convenience store in appreciation. At the end, they use a website to report the results to the Secretary of State's office (used to be a phone call) and lock the ballots in a wooden chest in case of a recount or audit.
Somebody explain how this system doesn't scale to any appropriate-sized town/district/ward...
The 1-800 number is still a reference an attacker may control. They may even decide to sucker a few people into calling the "FBI switchboard" in order to rack up service charges on their phone bill.
How do they take control of the phone books?
Personally I think a central method of verifying government actors and actions as legitimate in the sense it was not something made up by an imposter would have a lot of value outside this specific issue.
But if you're rootkitted then you can't trust the computer anyway. There are lots of 'authority' authentication problems. I hear most home invaders shout "Police!" when they break in now.
Your idea of freedom is simply that your side gets to say
Yes, but that's only because my small group of friends and I are smarter than the next hundred million people. We can accurately foresee the consequences of rules placed upon a chaotic system with hundreds of billions decisions, because we've created a Department of Perfect Information. It's our responsibility to ensure their best efficiency, not their freedom, and if we have to prune a few thousand of them along the way, hey, they should have understood that we really believe in tough love.
his cornerstone bad idea is returning to the Gold Standard
Wrong. Read his Free Competition in Currency Act that was introduced in several of the past sessions. He only wants the Government's spending to be limited to a gold/silver currency, as the Constitution demands.
Ron Paul is sometimes the lone protest vote against everything. A lot of good that is.
Yeah, he should just go along with NDAA, USAPATRIOT, SOPA, ACTA, TARP, and all the rest to go-along-to-get-along. Principles are foolish.
A full audit of the Fed just passed out of committee unanimously. When he wrote the book "End the Fed" in 2008, he was the lone voice in the Congress even showing an interest in the subject. He's spent the past four years building support for it (Bernie Sanders, of all people, is his key ally in the Senate), and if it happens it will cause the single largest power shift in the USG is the past century.
But, go ahead and measure success based on bills brought forward if that's what keeps your narrative comfortable.
I don't get why Jobs would have thought it was 10" or bust.
I have a Nook Color 7" with ICS(pre-CM9) on it and the screen elements are too small for adult fingers with 'tablet' layout apps.
I should really take some video of me trying to use the thing and post some of the more dramatic comedy-of-errors to YouTube.
That said, the large Android tablets don't seem all that great and I'm not buying Apple gear, so instead I wait for better tech (with a working keyboard at that).
So how do you make a "You're infected with X" page people actually trust?
Don't offer to sell them anything and point this out.
Tell them to contact their local computer support folks but don't make specific recommendations.
Give them a link to a page on the FBI's website and give them an 800-number to call. Give them an extension that they can dial from the FBI's main switchboard as well.
As an accident of geography, my town has three power companies. In my corner, luckily, I have the power company that does preventative maintenance and when there's a bad ice storm, we lose power for usually a couple of hours, once nearly a day.
Seven miles away, they have two-week outages. The PUC sets the rates independently, so it's not a matter of funding. If anything, my part of town is lower profit (less dense).
I think at this point I've mentally checked out of the patent wars. 'Mutually assured destruction' was supposed to be a deterrent, not a gameplan. Time to make some popcorn, sit back, and watch the carnage.
You're a company. The fact that any constitutional rights apply to you is because of dirty lawmaking.
They're a corporation, which is a legal fiction created by the government for the purposes of removing liability from actors. In return, the government may regulate them to its ends (they are government, in a specific form).
A company is any group of people working together, usually for business purposes. The government may not take their individual rights away.
The distinction is critical, so please don't use the two interchangeably.
Quite true. I know some people who were reared in refrigerated homes and their bodies don't seem to be able to adapt to the heat. That seems like a strong claim, but I can at least vouch for their brains being unable to deal.
Do you have any evidence that Asteroid & ZFS were cancelled for Jobs' ego?
Yeah, we do. Both were 'big announcements' that got leaked and were immediately cancelled. In the case of ZFS, just a day before the announcement, to spite Jonathan Schwartz for not keeping the secret. That's not sound business practice.
But since coffee also has been show to cut the rates of liver cancer and Alzheimer.
But that was shown to be about equally protective for regular and decaf. Then again, I've seen several studies which effectively assert 'coffee==caffeine' and never give a second thought to the hundreds of other compounds in the beverage. 'Scientists'...
While you certainly have a point, I think Mozilla gets treated unfairly in this kind of thing. You'll never hear about Apple's failed projects; they might have a much worse history than we do with this sort of thing, for all either of us knows.
True. And one shouldn't mock failure - that's anti-productive. But does Apple have fundamentally important projects that it abandons because they're too hard? Sure, we know about some of their canceled projects (especially the ones canceled for Jobs' ego, e.g. Asteroid & ZFS) but was a firewire input box really critical?
I chose to highlight Electrolysis specifically because it was started as a response to Chrome's competitive advantage and everybody loudly agreed it was necessary for the future of Firefox when it was started - for security, stability, performance, OS integration, etc. But then it was suddenly too hard and not important. Yet, Chrome continues to grow in market share, for the same reasons as outlined at the start of Electrolysis. In my opinion, the narrative changed but the conditions on the ground did not.
It's like if Apple had said, "hell, we'll just make OS9 better."
So, here we have Mozilla saying, "porting Firefox to a process (nee thread) model is too hard, but we're going to build an operating system!"
PS - thanks for the link to the new bug. One dedicated hacker at Mozilla made a huge difference on the memory problem ("we can prove that we have no memory problem") so perhaps that really is their best development model. It gives me hope anyway!
1 - Judges are not educated enough to make a ruling need to be retired. Sorry, but why are you presiding over a technology case when you know nothing about technology?
Yep. The judges don't understand the technology, but neither do the lawyers or the jury.
This is how we create precedents in our system. Oh, but they told me it was the best on Earth in 5th grade, so nothing to see here then.
"Okay, here's the device and what it can do, now you all go figure out cool ways to use it."
Dear Google,
Put an engineer on getting a working mythtv / xbmc on linux distro going for the Q. Should take about a month. It doesn't have to be great - the drivers just have to be connected up properly. The community will figure out the spit and polish.
You'll recoup the investment the day after availability is announced.
Any poor country can create such things, or not, as it chooses.
But just think - if a small third-world company started manufacturing, say drugs that the local people who live on a dollar a day need, earning perhaps a trivial profit, it would be the end of the 1st world countries!
As if the idea weren't already impeding the progress of the arts and useful sciences. Because a company like Apple would never use such a system to try to band the competition from the marketplace or anything...
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And in my NH town, we just use a simple paper ballot with checkboxes. There are about 800 voters in a typical election and about ten volunteers spend an hour tallying them. I think the town buys a few sandwiches from the convenience store in appreciation. At the end, they use a website to report the results to the Secretary of State's office (used to be a phone call) and lock the ballots in a wooden chest in case of a recount or audit.
Somebody explain how this system doesn't scale to any appropriate-sized town/district/ward...
The 1-800 number is still a reference an attacker may control. They may even decide to sucker a few people into calling the "FBI switchboard" in order to rack up service charges on their phone bill.
How do they take control of the phone books?
Personally I think a central method of verifying government actors and actions as legitimate in the sense it was not something made up by an imposter would have a lot of value outside this specific issue.
But if you're rootkitted then you can't trust the computer anyway. There are lots of 'authority' authentication problems. I hear most home invaders shout "Police!" when they break in now.
libertarians always want. Freedom for corporations to run roughshod
Libertarians don't believe in corporations as they're artificial creations of government power. You're thinking of fascists.
Do you have another strawman that needs a beatdown?
Your idea of freedom is simply that your side gets to say
Yes, but that's only because my small group of friends and I are smarter than the next hundred million people. We can accurately foresee the consequences of rules placed upon a chaotic system with hundreds of billions decisions, because we've created a Department of Perfect Information. It's our responsibility to ensure their best efficiency, not their freedom, and if we have to prune a few thousand of them along the way, hey, they should have understood that we really believe in tough love.
his cornerstone bad idea is returning to the Gold Standard
Wrong. Read his Free Competition in Currency Act that was introduced in several of the past sessions. He only wants the Government's spending to be limited to a gold/silver currency, as the Constitution demands.
Ron Paul is sometimes the lone protest vote against everything. A lot of good that is.
Yeah, he should just go along with NDAA, USAPATRIOT, SOPA, ACTA, TARP, and all the rest to go-along-to-get-along. Principles are foolish.
those ideas don't translate to anything real.
A full audit of the Fed just passed out of committee unanimously. When he wrote the book "End the Fed" in 2008, he was the lone voice in the Congress even showing an interest in the subject. He's spent the past four years building support for it (Bernie Sanders, of all people, is his key ally in the Senate), and if it happens it will cause the single largest power shift in the USG is the past century.
But, go ahead and measure success based on bills brought forward if that's what keeps your narrative comfortable.
Gees, ten years isn't that long, have you folks forgotten already?
Two weeks after 9/11 the USAPATRIOT Act was highly controversial, despite the recent attack, and had sunset provisions.
Ten years later, it's renewed without any real debate.
"Keep us safe from the terr^H^H^H^H rootkits". In both cases the power-hungry gladly assume additional control and remove freedoms.
Anybody who knows anything about electronics bought a Roku already.
Oooh, please point me to instructions on how do do an XBMC install on a Roku.
The one I've had for the past three years is getting long in the tooth, so it would be great to repurpose it and upgrade.
Nice research. I wonder if anybody published such a metric?
Counterexample: Me. If I see "Made in the USA", I wouldn't expect to find out it had been made in China.
So, you expect all parts, pieces, components, and processes materials to be made, from raw materials, in the USA if it has that label?
Do the raw materials have to be mined or grown here as well?
I don't get why Jobs would have thought it was 10" or bust.
I have a Nook Color 7" with ICS(pre-CM9) on it and the screen elements are too small for adult fingers with 'tablet' layout apps.
I should really take some video of me trying to use the thing and post some of the more dramatic comedy-of-errors to YouTube.
That said, the large Android tablets don't seem all that great and I'm not buying Apple gear, so instead I wait for better tech (with a working keyboard at that).
Maybe they OEM'd parts from Bosch.
There is an implied meaning in the "Made in the USA" label that they're trying to take advantage of.
Nobody who knows anything about electronics thinks that the entire Q is made from raw minerals in the USA.
Heck, the Q is more 'Made in the USA' than many automobiles advertised as such.
So how do you make a "You're infected with X" page people actually trust?
Don't offer to sell them anything and point this out.
Tell them to contact their local computer support folks but don't make specific recommendations.
Give them a link to a page on the FBI's website and give them an 800-number to call. Give them an extension that they can dial from the FBI's main switchboard as well.
QUIT CRYING, AND PLAN + INVEST $$$ BETTER.
As an accident of geography, my town has three power companies. In my corner, luckily, I have the power company that does preventative maintenance and when there's a bad ice storm, we lose power for usually a couple of hours, once nearly a day.
Seven miles away, they have two-week outages. The PUC sets the rates independently, so it's not a matter of funding. If anything, my part of town is lower profit (less dense).
I think at this point I've mentally checked out of the patent wars. 'Mutually assured destruction' was supposed to be a deterrent, not a gameplan. Time to make some popcorn, sit back, and watch the carnage.
You're a company. The fact that any constitutional rights apply to you is because of dirty lawmaking.
They're a corporation, which is a legal fiction created by the government for the purposes of removing liability from actors. In return, the government may regulate them to its ends (they are government, in a specific form).
A company is any group of people working together, usually for business purposes. The government may not take their individual rights away.
The distinction is critical, so please don't use the two interchangeably.
That, and we are used to it that way.
Quite true. I know some people who were reared in refrigerated homes and their bodies don't seem to be able to adapt to the heat. That seems like a strong claim, but I can at least vouch for their brains being unable to deal.
Doing it retrospectively will, as the OP suggests, cost a fortune.
I figured it would cost $8/mo for an average ratepayer to bury all the lines in New Hampshire.
Strictly back of the envelope calculation, but the power company claims it would cost 10x that much.
Do you have any evidence that Asteroid & ZFS were cancelled for Jobs' ego?
Yeah, we do. Both were 'big announcements' that got leaked and were immediately cancelled. In the case of ZFS, just a day before the announcement, to spite Jonathan Schwartz for not keeping the secret. That's not sound business practice.
But since coffee also has been show to cut the rates of liver cancer and Alzheimer.
But that was shown to be about equally protective for regular and decaf. Then again, I've seen several studies which effectively assert 'coffee==caffeine' and never give a second thought to the hundreds of other compounds in the beverage. 'Scientists'...
While you certainly have a point, I think Mozilla gets treated unfairly in this kind of thing. You'll never hear about Apple's failed projects; they might have a much worse history than we do with this sort of thing, for all either of us knows.
True. And one shouldn't mock failure - that's anti-productive. But does Apple have fundamentally important projects that it abandons because they're too hard? Sure, we know about some of their canceled projects (especially the ones canceled for Jobs' ego, e.g. Asteroid & ZFS) but was a firewire input box really critical?
I chose to highlight Electrolysis specifically because it was started as a response to Chrome's competitive advantage and everybody loudly agreed it was necessary for the future of Firefox when it was started - for security, stability, performance, OS integration, etc. But then it was suddenly too hard and not important. Yet, Chrome continues to grow in market share, for the same reasons as outlined at the start of Electrolysis. In my opinion, the narrative changed but the conditions on the ground did not.
It's like if Apple had said, "hell, we'll just make OS9 better."
So, here we have Mozilla saying, "porting Firefox to a process (nee thread) model is too hard, but we're going to build an operating system!"
PS - thanks for the link to the new bug. One dedicated hacker at Mozilla made a huge difference on the memory problem ("we can prove that we have no memory problem") so perhaps that really is their best development model. It gives me hope anyway!
1 - Judges are not educated enough to make a ruling need to be retired. Sorry, but why are you presiding over a technology case when you know nothing about technology?
Yep. The judges don't understand the technology, but neither do the lawyers or the jury.
This is how we create precedents in our system. Oh, but they told me it was the best on Earth in 5th grade, so nothing to see here then.
"Okay, here's the device and what it can do, now you all go figure out cool ways to use it."
Dear Google,
Put an engineer on getting a working mythtv / xbmc on linux distro going for the Q. Should take about a month. It doesn't have to be great - the drivers just have to be connected up properly. The community will figure out the spit and polish.
You'll recoup the investment the day after availability is announced.
Any poor country can create such things, or not, as it chooses.
But just think - if a small third-world company started manufacturing, say drugs that the local people who live on a dollar a day need, earning perhaps a trivial profit, it would be the end of the 1st world countries!
As if the idea weren't already impeding the progress of the arts and useful sciences. Because a company like Apple would never use such a system to try to band the competition from the marketplace or anything...