Who says it has to be music? One company that placed me on hold played trivia and other fun facts. It was actually the most "enjoyable" time I ever spent on hold. The information was quite interesting. How about you help your customers stay informed and play the sound from CNN or NBC news?
Again, it's converted to XHTML for a few years. I only posted the original message because I was quite surprised to see it on Slashdot. It's not uncommon to see a story that is a month or two old on the homepage, but several years old is crazy.
Perhaps I am being naive and oversimplifying things but as I see it all that is needed is:
A small server and N computers per voting place all networked together but not on the Intranet.
A browser or GUI based application with simply radio buttons and/or checkboxes for the candidates with a single submit button.
Upon submission, the results are saved on the server.
At the end of the day connect the server to the Internet and submit to a centralized regional or state server (or optionally create a machine readable printout that can be manually submitted to a regional/state office for tally)
Since you must show a picture ID to verify your identity (at least where I vote), your uniquely identifiable information can be entered by the personnel working at the voting stations to show that you have voted (though obviously not used to track your vote)
CMU already offers this service on its campus, and the University of Pittsburgh will be offering it soon (though CMU's network overlaps Pitt's campus already). Even if the range is not that far, these two campuses cover a lot of area in Oakland.
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Who says it has to be music? One company that placed me on hold played trivia and other fun facts. It was actually the most "enjoyable" time I ever spent on hold. The information was quite interesting. How about you help your customers stay informed and play the sound from CNN or NBC news?
Did you read the post - he's only lost 300 CDN. That's only about $2.50 USD, so what's the big deal?
TWAJS
Again, it's converted to XHTML for a few years. I only posted the original message because I was quite surprised to see it on Slashdot. It's not uncommon to see a story that is a month or two old on the homepage, but several years old is crazy.
It's extremely useful for converting the "HTML" generated by Microsoft Office products into nice, clean, well formatted XHTML.
HTML Tidy has been our for years.
Check out the Tidy Homepage or the project on SourceForge.
Perhaps I am being naive and oversimplifying things but as I see it all that is needed is:
Since you must show a picture ID to verify your identity (at least where I vote), your uniquely identifiable information can be entered by the personnel working at the voting stations to show that you have voted (though obviously not used to track your vote)
CMU already offers this service on its campus, and the University of Pittsburgh will be offering it soon (though CMU's network overlaps Pitt's campus already). Even if the range is not that far, these two campuses cover a lot of area in Oakland.