... and Al Petrovsky is considered a troll on Groklaw.
How does this have anything to do with the facts that were presented? Regardless of what Al's status is on Groklaw, he is the one that actually did the work to get the copies of the Opposition and Reply memos so that we could be discussing them here. He should get credit for that and the other work that he's done. Groklaw even links to his site, scofacts.org, for copies of some of the documents.
Now if you don't like Al's analysis then that's fine, ignore it. I personally respect Al and the work that he's done and I enjoyed his analysis. Who cares whether or not Al and PJ had a falling out at Groklaw? Al has done a mountain of work to bring us audio and video recordings of hearings, copies of legal documents, and first-hand reports from court hearings. And all at his own expense. If all this work makes you a troll at Groklaw, then I hope that I become one too.
Lawywers always ask for fees, if they think they are going to win or not. It has little to do with the strength of their case.
IANAL and I know that Lawyers usually ask for legal fees when they win (or think they're going to win) a case, but do they normally ask for the fees involved in preparing an opposition memo? That's what I found entertaining. Specifically this piece right here:
The context of SCO's motion, the lack of legal authority to support it, and the absence of any plausible reason for tying the adjudication of this case to the outcome of the IBM litigation reveal SCO's motion for what it is -- a naked effort to manipulate the Court system, and DCC, for SCO's own benefit. DCC therefore respectfully requests that the Court deny SCO's Motion For Stay and award DCC its fees and costs incurred in preparing this Opposition.
For more info on the update, here's the description from Software Update (click on the link at the bottom for the full Knowledge Base Article)
Security Update 2004-12-02 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components:
As was demonstrated in Dan Rather's Memo flap, bloggers can sometimes be good fact checkers. In that instance people from all over the Internet scoured over what turned out to be fake documents. One person would offer his expertise and another would do the same. Eventually some people were able to contact real experts in the field and get them to verify that the documents were fake. Eventually the mainstream media took notice and the rest is history.
But bloggers are definitely not journalists. At best they offer their opinions on the news of the day, correct factual problems in news that was reported, and they also serve as a rallying point for other like-minded individuals. At worst though, blogs can be full of rumormongoring, hate and just noise. They won't be replacing any journalists any time soon, though their diligence may get one fired every now and then.
Since it wasn't mentioned if you could use the Flash cards with the Nintendo DS, here's the conclusion from the article:
From our tests you can see that most of the GBA Flash Cards can be used on Nintendo DS. If you have bought a backup device for GBA - don't trow away your gameboy as chances are you will have to use it for writing roms - no link port on DS. If you have NDS and want a flash card for GBA, GB Color, SNES, NES roms etc. - look at the Sets with the External Writers!
We've got plenty of statistical data over the elections of the last 30-40 years (or even over the last century) that we don't even need to have elections anymore. I mean, elections are so expensive and time consuming. Not to mention all the time and money spent campaigning before the election. We can get rid of all of that and just project the winners based on past voting data!
Well, sure people will complain that their votes aren't being counted, but since no one's vote is being counted it is completely fair. The candidates will just tell us what their party is, what their positions are (assuming they can nail them down themselves), and the computers will do the rest.
OK, enough of that. C'mon people get over this. People vote differently all the time. Trying to analyze election results based on past elections is just stupid. Count the damn votes already and let them speak for themselves!
REDMOND, WA--In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products containing zeroes and ones--the mathematical building blocks of all computer languages and programs--unless a royalty fee of 10 cents per digit used is paid to the software giant.
"Microsoft has been using the binary system of ones and zeroes ever since its inception in 1975," Gates told reporters. "For years, in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."
If ever there were an example of how completely broken and useless the current patent system is then this is it. This makes you think, what other obvious and trivial functions have been granted patents? Can I get a patent on strcmp? I'll just apply for a patent on my new, special function that I just recently came up with. It's called StringCompare!
As I right this my colleagues are writing up patent applications for the !=, ==, &&, ||, &, and | operators. I expect these applications to be granted shortly, after which we'll own all your code and Microsoft will be my bitch.
Well, it looks like the Japanese price is 19,800 Yen which turns out to be about $190. I don't know if that's what Sony will sell it for here and I expect they might sell it for lower considering the Nintendo DS will be selling for $150. But who knows.
Then I might be able to learn a bit more about it on its official website. Does anyone have a translation that isn't taken from BabelFish or some other lame auto translation site? I'd like to know all the official specs and stuff.
There is no excuse for this kind of behavior in the gaming industry, or any other industry for that matter. If I recall, the gaming industry is expected to make more money than Hollywood this year. An industry with these huge revenues can afford to treat their workers humanely. In fact, I believe that it is the developers and artists that make a game successful, that these are the people that should be getting the biggest share of the profits. Not some nitwit CEO or other executive.
There are those that say that working in the gaming industry is a privilege, that there are tons of people out there that would die for your job, that these programmers shouldn't complain. Well, frankly there are tons of people out there that want my job or that want your job. That doesn't mean that they will do it better than you or I do our jobs. And that sure as hell doesn't give my (or your) employer the right to treat me like an animal and work me until I'm burned out.
Employers like EA need to change and they'll eventually be forced to if they keep burning through their talent.
To get the sound out of a standard GBA all you need to do is plug it into your stereo using a standard stereo mini-jack to RCA type cable, but what about the GBA SP? I've seen custom headphones that you can buy that will plug into the SP's custom port, but where would you get something to convert that to a stereo line out? I haven't seen any of those anywhere.
So when are we going to start seeing news sites pop up that do nothing but cover the news that happens in an online world. Imagine digital reporters and journalists that have characters within the game world that do nothing but observe the events. Reporters that follow the top players and take "pictures" of events, sort of like the Paparazzi . They then report to the "news" sites their coverage.
Note that this would be different from someone who plays the game and then does a write-up of their experiences (1st person). A site like this would have other people, reporters (3rd person), that observe the events and then write about them. This type of alternate-universe news coverage may be a little ways off, but I'm sure we'll see it someday.
As soon as I finish StarCraft I'll give something else a try. I suppose my natural evolution will lean towards Warcraft III or WoW since I'm a Blizzard fan. But really, I just don't have much time for games right now, let alone taking up a new game or spending all the time required to attain Level 60!
Sigh. For now I'll just stick to quick, 20 min. StarCraft multiplayer battles.
I don'think so. Given that av-firms currently reverse engineer most of the viruses they scan for.
Well, yes, and that's sot of my point. We can all agree that viruses are evil and that they need to be stopped an taken care of as quickly and fully as possible. So it is OK for Anti-virus companies to reverse engineer the viruses (for financial gain) to provide a fix for them.
By the same logic, some people (but not all) can agree that Microsoft is evil and should be stopped as quickly and fully as possible. So by their logic it is OK to reverse engineer Microsoft products for financial gain.
The former is clearly acceptable and a viable and legitimate business model while the latter would get you taken to court by Microsoft's lawyers faster than you could get a virus running an unpatched install of Windows on the Internet. Oh and you'd also lose to Microsoft.
If major companies start promoting their products on your favorite P2P program, then perhaps the **IA will be less inclined to sue.
Somehow I doubt it. If anything the RIAA or MPAA will then start targeting companies that advertise on the P2P networks. Especially expect to see this if the Induce Act passes. These companies will be a good target simply because they have money which Joe Schmoe file-trader doesn't have. In fact, the **AA might be able to bankroll their lawsuits against Joe Schmoe by suing the larger companies and that way not even take a loss on the hundreds of lawsuits they file against the little guy.
Now, just wait for the authors of the Beagle virus to slap them down with a lawsuit for reverse engineering their software. Something to the effect of:
"You have violated the License Agreement of the Beagle virus through your reverse engineering activities. Your publication illustrating how to do this is a clear violation of the DMCA and induces others to also violate their license agreement. Please Cease and Desist all such activities and prepare to see us in court."
The Mac platform has a pretty good shareware community that is helped by sites like MacUpdate and VersionTracker. The Mac, having a smaller percentage of the market, has the benefit (for shareware developers at least) of having more holes that shareware developers can fill. So if you have a great idea and can turn it into a great app, then you have a good chance of finding success in the Mac market. Watson, Konfabulator, and NetNewsWire are a few great shareware apps on the Mac. Unfortunately Apple might decide to fill the same holes that your app might fill as was the case with Watson and now Konfabulator.
I have found a small amount of success myself with my Shareware app, HyperSpell. But its nothing I could ever quit my day job over. Mainly its something to do in my spare time and it filled a hole that I wanted filled. The biggest problem most shareware developers face is just getting people to know that their app exists (marketing).
The space shuttle isn't designed to fly like an airplane, it (like other rockets) are designed to get you into space. If you'll read a little more of the article:
The accomplishment will be included in the 2006 Guinness World Records book, set for release this time next year, as follows:
"On 27 March 2004, NASA's unmanned Hyper-X (X-43A) airplane reached Mach 6.83, almost seven times the speed of sound. The X-43A was boosted to an altitude of 29,000 m (95,000 ft) by a Pegasus rocket launched from beneath a B52-B aircraft. The revolutionary 'scramjet' aircraft then burned its engine for around 11 seconds during flight over the Pacific Ocean."
...
The X-43A flight easily set a world speed record for an air-breathing engine aircraft. The previous known record was held by a ramjet-powered missile, which achieved slightly more than Mach 5. A ramjet operates by subsonic combustion of fuel in a stream of air compressed by the forward speed of the aircraft itself, as opposed to a normal jet engine, in which the compressor section (the fan blades) compresses the air. A scramjet (supersonic-combustion ramjet) is a ramjet engine in which the airflow through the whole engine remains supersonic.
The highest speed attained by a rocket-powered airplane, NASA's X-15 aircraft, was Mach 6.7. The fastest air-breathing, manned vehicle, the SR-71, achieved slightly more than Mach 3. The X-43A more than doubled the top speed of the jet-powered SR-71.
The final flight in the Hyper-X program is scheduled to take place in October, when another X-43A aircraft will attempt to fly at Mach 10 -- ten times the speed of sound -- or 7,200 mph.
So if 10x the speed of sound is 7,200 mph, then the speed of sound is roughly 720 mph.
Yes, and there's nothing wrong with that. The idea is that ATMs are already accurate, scalable and speedy and widely available. Also, wouldn't it be great to use the huge network that ATMs already use to report the votes?
Basically my position/idea is that ATMs already do a good job at what they do and there are thousands of them. If we could use that existing infrastructure for electronic voting then it would be great. It does open electronic voting up to a lot of other problems, but it sure would be convenient.;)
Well, yes, exactly, but taking it a bit further. Why not use the nation-wide ATM banking network for electronic voting? Instead of going to a polling place to vote, just go to your bank. This could introduce a bunch of other problems (as well as introduce a lot more conspiracy theories), but they could be solved and with this solution the infrastructure is already in place (with thousands of ATMs nation-wide). Only the ATM software would need to be modified to handle voting.
With this kind of voting maybe you could limit it to just bank ATMs as opposed to the ATMs at a gas station or convenience store. Also, make each bank go through a certification process to make sure that their ATM software is up to par AND that they have people on location to help and collect the printed ballot (since all ATMs can already print a receipt just have the voting software print a receipt and have the voter deposit it into a ballot box. -- Not free as in effort, but I'm willing to try it. Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo
If we can make ATMs that work well then we should be able to make voting machines that work just as well. In fact, why don't we get the people that Make ATMs to make voting machines as well. Let's see, do ATMs stand up to his four criteria?
Accuracy - Yep.
Anonymity - No, but we could modify them.
Scalability - Yep, there's bazillions of these things.
Speed - Yep.
Let's take that a bit further, why not turn ATMs into voting machines? They're already part of a large, secure, nation-wide network, they're built for security, and there's bazillions of them. Wouldn't it be great to just go to your bank to vote? That would eliminate the need to go to a polling place and should reduce the lines tremendously.
Sure there might be other problems with this approach, but banks already have years of experience securing and relying on ATMs.
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Here's a (hopefully) working link:
SCO's claims Against Daimler-Chrysler Thrown Out
I'm not sure why the one in the article I submitted didn't work as it's the same one I'm posting here.
... and Al Petrovsky is considered a troll on Groklaw.
How does this have anything to do with the facts that were presented? Regardless of what Al's status is on Groklaw, he is the one that actually did the work to get the copies of the Opposition and Reply memos so that we could be discussing them here. He should get credit for that and the other work that he's done. Groklaw even links to his site, scofacts.org, for copies of some of the documents.
Now if you don't like Al's analysis then that's fine, ignore it. I personally respect Al and the work that he's done and I enjoyed his analysis. Who cares whether or not Al and PJ had a falling out at Groklaw? Al has done a mountain of work to bring us audio and video recordings of hearings, copies of legal documents, and first-hand reports from court hearings. And all at his own expense. If all this work makes you a troll at Groklaw, then I hope that I become one too.
Lawywers always ask for fees, if they think they are going to win or not. It has little to do with the strength of their case.
IANAL and I know that Lawyers usually ask for legal fees when they win (or think they're going to win) a case, but do they normally ask for the fees involved in preparing an opposition memo? That's what I found entertaining. Specifically this piece right here:
The context of SCO's motion, the lack of legal authority to support it, and the absence of any plausible reason for tying the adjudication of this case to the outcome of the IBM litigation reveal SCO's motion for what it is -- a naked effort to manipulate the Court system, and DCC, for SCO's own benefit. DCC therefore respectfully requests that the Court deny SCO's Motion For Stay and award DCC its fees and costs incurred in preparing this Opposition.
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798
(Doh! I hit while correcting spelling in the subject.)
For more info on the update, here's the description from Software Update (click on the link at the bottom for the full Knowledge Base Article)
S Normalizer
Security Update 2004-12-02 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components:
Apache
AppKit
HIToolbox
Kerberos
Postfix
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Safari
Terminal
For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798
As was demonstrated in Dan Rather's Memo flap, bloggers can sometimes be good fact checkers. In that instance people from all over the Internet scoured over what turned out to be fake documents. One person would offer his expertise and another would do the same. Eventually some people were able to contact real experts in the field and get them to verify that the documents were fake. Eventually the mainstream media took notice and the rest is history.
But bloggers are definitely not journalists. At best they offer their opinions on the news of the day, correct factual problems in news that was reported, and they also serve as a rallying point for other like-minded individuals. At worst though, blogs can be full of rumormongoring, hate and just noise. They won't be replacing any journalists any time soon, though their diligence may get one fired every now and then.
--
Sounds like a scam, but it works.
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Since it wasn't mentioned if you could use the Flash cards with the Nintendo DS, here's the conclusion from the article:
From our tests you can see that most of the GBA Flash Cards can be used on Nintendo DS. If you have bought a backup device for GBA - don't trow away your gameboy as chances are you will have to use it for writing roms - no link port on DS. If you have NDS and want a flash card for GBA, GB Color, SNES, NES roms etc. - look at the Sets with the External Writers!
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Free Nintendo DS
We've got plenty of statistical data over the elections of the last 30-40 years (or even over the last century) that we don't even need to have elections anymore. I mean, elections are so expensive and time consuming. Not to mention all the time and money spent campaigning before the election. We can get rid of all of that and just project the winners based on past voting data!
Well, sure people will complain that their votes aren't being counted, but since no one's vote is being counted it is completely fair. The candidates will just tell us what their party is, what their positions are (assuming they can nail them down themselves), and the computers will do the rest.
OK, enough of that. C'mon people get over this. People vote differently all the time. Trying to analyze election results based on past elections is just stupid. Count the damn votes already and let them speak for themselves!
--
Sounds like a scam, but it works.
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In other news... (From an old Onion article)
REDMOND, WA--In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products containing zeroes and ones--the mathematical building blocks of all computer languages and programs--unless a royalty fee of 10 cents per digit used is paid to the software giant.
"Microsoft has been using the binary system of ones and zeroes ever since its inception in 1975," Gates told reporters. "For years, in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."
Read More.
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Sounds like a scam, but it works.
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If ever there were an example of how completely broken and useless the current patent system is then this is it. This makes you think, what other obvious and trivial functions have been granted patents? Can I get a patent on strcmp? I'll just apply for a patent on my new, special function that I just recently came up with. It's called StringCompare!
As I right this my colleagues are writing up patent applications for the !=, ==, &&, ||, &, and | operators. I expect these applications to be granted shortly, after which we'll own all your code and Microsoft will be my bitch.
--
Sounds like a scam, but it works.
Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo |
Well, it looks like the Japanese price is 19,800 Yen which turns out to be about $190. I don't know if that's what Sony will sell it for here and I expect they might sell it for lower considering the Nintendo DS will be selling for $150. But who knows.
--
Sounds like a scam, but it works.
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Then I might be able to learn a bit more about it on its official website. Does anyone have a translation that isn't taken from BabelFish or some other lame auto translation site? I'd like to know all the official specs and stuff.
--
Sounds like a scam, but it works.
Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo |
There is no excuse for this kind of behavior in the gaming industry, or any other industry for that matter. If I recall, the gaming industry is expected to make more money than Hollywood this year. An industry with these huge revenues can afford to treat their workers humanely. In fact, I believe that it is the developers and artists that make a game successful, that these are the people that should be getting the biggest share of the profits. Not some nitwit CEO or other executive.
There are those that say that working in the gaming industry is a privilege, that there are tons of people out there that would die for your job, that these programmers shouldn't complain. Well, frankly there are tons of people out there that want my job or that want your job. That doesn't mean that they will do it better than you or I do our jobs. And that sure as hell doesn't give my (or your) employer the right to treat me like an animal and work me until I'm burned out.
Employers like EA need to change and they'll eventually be forced to if they keep burning through their talent.
--
Sounds like a scam, but it works.
Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo |
Ah yes, silly me. I was googling for '"gba sp" "line out"', and '"gba sp" headphones.' It wan't until later that I thought of googling for "adapters."
I'll go back to my hole now. Please ignore the grandparent.
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Sounds like a scam, but it works.
Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo |
To get the sound out of a standard GBA all you need to do is plug it into your stereo using a standard stereo mini-jack to RCA type cable, but what about the GBA SP? I've seen custom headphones that you can buy that will plug into the SP's custom port, but where would you get something to convert that to a stereo line out? I haven't seen any of those anywhere.
--
Sounds like a scam, but it works.
Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo |
So when are we going to start seeing news sites pop up that do nothing but cover the news that happens in an online world. Imagine digital reporters and journalists that have characters within the game world that do nothing but observe the events. Reporters that follow the top players and take "pictures" of events, sort of like the Paparazzi . They then report to the "news" sites their coverage.
Note that this would be different from someone who plays the game and then does a write-up of their experiences (1st person). A site like this would have other people, reporters (3rd person), that observe the events and then write about them. This type of alternate-universe news coverage may be a little ways off, but I'm sure we'll see it someday.
--
Sounds like a scam, but it works.
Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo |
As soon as I finish StarCraft I'll give something else a try. I suppose my natural evolution will lean towards Warcraft III or WoW since I'm a Blizzard fan. But really, I just don't have much time for games right now, let alone taking up a new game or spending all the time required to attain Level 60!
Sigh. For now I'll just stick to quick, 20 min. StarCraft multiplayer battles.
--
Sounds like a scam, but it works.
Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo |
I don'think so. Given that av-firms currently reverse engineer most of the viruses they scan for.
Well, yes, and that's sot of my point. We can all agree that viruses are evil and that they need to be stopped an taken care of as quickly and fully as possible. So it is OK for Anti-virus companies to reverse engineer the viruses (for financial gain) to provide a fix for them.
By the same logic, some people (but not all) can agree that Microsoft is evil and should be stopped as quickly and fully as possible. So by their logic it is OK to reverse engineer Microsoft products for financial gain.
The former is clearly acceptable and a viable and legitimate business model while the latter would get you taken to court by Microsoft's lawyers faster than you could get a virus running an unpatched install of Windows on the Internet. Oh and you'd also lose to Microsoft.
--
Sounds like a scam, but it works.
Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo |
If major companies start promoting their products on your favorite P2P program, then perhaps the **IA will be less inclined to sue.
Somehow I doubt it. If anything the RIAA or MPAA will then start targeting companies that advertise on the P2P networks. Especially expect to see this if the Induce Act passes. These companies will be a good target simply because they have money which Joe Schmoe file-trader doesn't have. In fact, the **AA might be able to bankroll their lawsuits against Joe Schmoe by suing the larger companies and that way not even take a loss on the hundreds of lawsuits they file against the little guy.
Oh isn't it all just so disgustingly evil?
--
Sounds like a scam, but it works.
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Now, just wait for the authors of the Beagle virus to slap them down with a lawsuit for reverse engineering their software. Something to the effect of:
"You have violated the License Agreement of the Beagle virus through your reverse engineering activities. Your publication illustrating how to do this is a clear violation of the DMCA and induces others to also violate their license agreement. Please Cease and Desist all such activities and prepare to see us in court."
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Not free as in effort, but I'm willing to try it.
Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo
The Mac platform has a pretty good shareware community that is helped by sites like MacUpdate and VersionTracker. The Mac, having a smaller percentage of the market, has the benefit (for shareware developers at least) of having more holes that shareware developers can fill. So if you have a great idea and can turn it into a great app, then you have a good chance of finding success in the Mac market. Watson, Konfabulator, and NetNewsWire are a few great shareware apps on the Mac. Unfortunately Apple might decide to fill the same holes that your app might fill as was the case with Watson and now Konfabulator.
I have found a small amount of success myself with my Shareware app, HyperSpell. But its nothing I could ever quit my day job over. Mainly its something to do in my spare time and it filled a hole that I wanted filled. The biggest problem most shareware developers face is just getting people to know that their app exists (marketing).
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Not free as in effort, but I'm willing to try it.
Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo
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Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo | It really works!
From the article:
The final flight in the Hyper-X program is scheduled to take place in October, when another X-43A aircraft will attempt to fly at Mach 10 -- ten times the speed of sound -- or 7,200 mph.
So if 10x the speed of sound is 7,200 mph, then the speed of sound is roughly 720 mph.
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Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo | It really works!
it'd need to have a complete software re-write.
;)
Yes, and there's nothing wrong with that. The idea is that ATMs are already accurate, scalable and speedy and widely available. Also, wouldn't it be great to use the huge network that ATMs already use to report the votes?
Basically my position/idea is that ATMs already do a good job at what they do and there are thousands of them. If we could use that existing infrastructure for electronic voting then it would be great. It does open electronic voting up to a lot of other problems, but it sure would be convenient.
Not free as in effort, but I'm willing to try it.
Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo
Well, yes, exactly, but taking it a bit further. Why not use the nation-wide ATM banking network for electronic voting? Instead of going to a polling place to vote, just go to your bank. This could introduce a bunch of other problems (as well as introduce a lot more conspiracy theories), but they could be solved and with this solution the infrastructure is already in place (with thousands of ATMs nation-wide). Only the ATM software would need to be modified to handle voting.
With this kind of voting maybe you could limit it to just bank ATMs as opposed to the ATMs at a gas station or convenience store. Also, make each bank go through a certification process to make sure that their ATM software is up to par AND that they have people on location to help and collect the printed ballot (since all ATMs can already print a receipt just have the voting software print a receipt and have the voter deposit it into a ballot box.
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Not free as in effort, but I'm willing to try it.
Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo
If we can make ATMs that work well then we should be able to make voting machines that work just as well. In fact, why don't we get the people that Make ATMs to make voting machines as well. Let's see, do ATMs stand up to his four criteria?
Let's take that a bit further, why not turn ATMs into voting machines? They're already part of a large, secure, nation-wide network, they're built for security, and there's bazillions of them. Wouldn't it be great to just go to your bank to vote? That would eliminate the need to go to a polling place and should reduce the lines tremendously.
Sure there might be other problems with this approach, but banks already have years of experience securing and relying on ATMs.
--Not free as in effort, but I'm willing to try it. Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo |