The problem with write-ins is that in some states, Georgia for example, a write-in candidate gets your ballot thrown out since the Diebold machine can't handle those. I confirmed this with the Secretary of State's office.
What needs to happen is that we need to get more 3rd parties on the ballot so that we can exercise our choices and have them counted.
This of course assumes the voting machines haven't been tampered with to award the election to one of the two major parties already.
...someone decides to spoof one (or both) of the candidates email addresses and begins sending out viruses. I'm sure that'll be a boon for their campaigns.
If you can gain access to the elevator shaft I'd see about running conduit (to cut out electrical noise from the motors) between each of the floors and whichever floor where the broadband connection is going to be setup on. Run CAT5 thru the conduits so you can wire up an access point on each floor. Have all the cables terminate at a Router (I've had good experiences with Linksys). Turn off SSID Broadcast and enable WEP. You should also consider getting the MAC's of everyone in your building and adding those to the list of clients that can get an address (Linksys has this feature iirc) so you can cut down on wardriving.
While I agree that it's not very smart and makes them look bad (go media) it's not entirely their fault. Do you expect them to stake-out the house first and watch with binoculars who is using Kazaa?
I agree that there is no way for them to know, but with the broad swath of users their going after it was only a matter of time before they found themselves, inadvertently, suing such mediapathetic targets as little girls living in public housing and elderly men living on their social security. It's not going to help their image as the victims, it will mainly perpetrate the appearance of them as bullies.
I find it amusing (but not unexpected) that Darl uses such flawed logic and mudslinging to support his shakey arguments. He paints a picture that the OSS community as a whole has perpetrated the DDoS attacks on SCO's website. I'm surprised he didn't invoke the "T" word during his pleas for justice. He also makes a call for the OSS community to divert their attention to all the infringing code in Linux, yet SCO refuses to show the "million lines of infringing code" they claim is in Linux. Then he not so masterfully spins Bruce's words to mean something completely different thus creating the illusion [*rolls*...makes Will save to disbelieve] that Bruce actually admits to the veracity of their position.
How many points has SCO's stock gone up since that letter was posted and how many shares have SCO exec's divested themselves of?
If you have a device that blocks or scrambles the RFID tags' signal couldn't it be used to thwart the anti-theft functionality of them? Then it becomes an issue of aiding shoplifters. Yay, let's make the RFID folks look like saints while the implementers of this technology look like pirates and thieves. Yay!
Also, how long before the DMCA gets invoked on this? It is circumventing or disabling a security device.
I like the idea, but I'm afraid it'll never make it to market.
...if it doesn't have a leg to stand on. I think that either way this case goes it will, in the long run, be beneficial to the OSS movement. I also think that IBM and the GPL will win out if this case goes to trial. Once the GPL is upheld in a court of law I have a feeling Linux and OSS will gain a great deal of credibility and more people will be open to using it.
The "Borrowed Ladder" concept in Gattaca would seem to indicate that even DNA based ID's aren't impossible to thwart.
I agree with the Gefiltefish11 tho, I'd prefer to tote a Smart Card passport around than be implanted with a chip or bleed on command to confirm my identity.
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The problem with write-ins is that in some states, Georgia for example, a write-in candidate gets your ballot thrown out since the Diebold machine can't handle those. I confirmed this with the Secretary of State's office.
What needs to happen is that we need to get more 3rd parties on the ballot so that we can exercise our choices and have them counted.
This of course assumes the voting machines haven't been tampered with to award the election to one of the two major parties already.
...someone decides to spoof one (or both) of the candidates email addresses and begins sending out viruses. I'm sure that'll be a boon for their campaigns.
If you can gain access to the elevator shaft I'd see about running conduit (to cut out electrical noise from the motors) between each of the floors and whichever floor where the broadband connection is going to be setup on. Run CAT5 thru the conduits so you can wire up an access point on each floor. Have all the cables terminate at a Router (I've had good experiences with Linksys). Turn off SSID Broadcast and enable WEP. You should also consider getting the MAC's of everyone in your building and adding those to the list of clients that can get an address (Linksys has this feature iirc) so you can cut down on wardriving.
Hope this helps!
Yay! Gratuitous Snow Crash reference. Next thing you know the next expansion pack will have sword-fighting and sims with tattoos on their foreheads.
Finally a reason to buy a Gamecube, as none of the other games have struck my fancy or were available on the other consoles/PC.
Count me in.
Enter the Matrix
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Black and White
Hunter the Reckoning
Tribes: Aerial Assault
I agree that there is no way for them to know, but with the broad swath of users their going after it was only a matter of time before they found themselves, inadvertently, suing such mediapathetic targets as little girls living in public housing and elderly men living on their social security. It's not going to help their image as the victims, it will mainly perpetrate the appearance of them as bullies.
I find it amusing (but not unexpected) that Darl uses such flawed logic and mudslinging to support his shakey arguments. He paints a picture that the OSS community as a whole has perpetrated the DDoS attacks on SCO's website. I'm surprised he didn't invoke the "T" word during his pleas for justice. He also makes a call for the OSS community to divert their attention to all the infringing code in Linux, yet SCO refuses to show the "million lines of infringing code" they claim is in Linux. Then he not so masterfully spins Bruce's words to mean something completely different thus creating the illusion [*rolls*...makes Will save to disbelieve] that Bruce actually admits to the veracity of their position.
How many points has SCO's stock gone up since that letter was posted and how many shares have SCO exec's divested themselves of?
If you have a device that blocks or scrambles the RFID tags' signal couldn't it be used to thwart the anti-theft functionality of them? Then it becomes an issue of aiding shoplifters. Yay, let's make the RFID folks look like saints while the implementers of this technology look like pirates and thieves. Yay!
Also, how long before the DMCA gets invoked on this? It is circumventing or disabling a security device.
I like the idea, but I'm afraid it'll never make it to market.
...if it doesn't have a leg to stand on. I think that either way this case goes it will, in the long run, be beneficial to the OSS movement. I also think that IBM and the GPL will win out if this case goes to trial. Once the GPL is upheld in a court of law I have a feeling Linux and OSS will gain a great deal of credibility and more people will be open to using it.
The "Borrowed Ladder" concept in Gattaca would seem to indicate that even DNA based ID's aren't impossible to thwart.
I agree with the Gefiltefish11 tho, I'd prefer to tote a Smart Card passport around than be implanted with a chip or bleed on command to confirm my identity.