I don't understand how nobody ever mentions this but voting machines can't be both anonymous AND verifiable. The only way to check on the count is to ask the machine itself so it's no verification at all. That should be obvious to anyone thinking about it for more than 2 minutes.
You can't discriminate based on race, religion, sexual preference. You can discriminate based on whether or not somebody decides to wear a shirt. This is the way it is because at large, we deem it to be fair and prevent people from being discriminated against based on characteristics that are fundamental to living as they want or were born.
We don't deem being able to live your entire life without wearing a shirt to be fundamental to living your life freely. Pretty fucking simple.
I think you mean that it's somewhat acceptable to discriminate about something someone does, not about something someone is.
What you want is an ideology... a belief system. Science is not a belief system.
I think the whole point is that everything is a belief system, even science. At some point it always boils down to some core beliefs. Everything else is built on top of them.
And what does it say about feminists if they're acting like an organised religion?
Living in France i've never met anyone being afraid to talk about their religious beliefs. What I did encounter is people that would rather not say that they are part of a feminist movement. They grow tired of the endless discussion with people that will argue about realities that they do not understand in any way because they just don't live them from the other side.
I think i'm more aware of the issue than the average guy but i do know that i can't really imagine what it's like to be a woman in our world.
Dear anonymous coward, come back when you've decided to stand for a cause that is being ridiculed at every corner.
I agree that this implicitly says that only women have eating disorders.
On the other hand, it is possible that mainly women are concerned (isn't that the case for anorexia?) so it could somewhat make sense. Anyone with proper references ?
I worked for a manager once that didn't believe that anyone who practiced WFH actually worked when they were at home. His position was, you must be visibly in your cube to be considered to be working. Or, an employee at all. One might argue that just being seen at one's desk doesn't necessarily mean one is working, but I didn't make that argument, because I wanted to keep my job.
Yeah, obviously the guy never heard of presenteeism...
Sure v28 is built on Blink? I just put chrome://version/ in my address bar, and it shows my UA string as -- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.71 Safari/537.36
Did you notice there's also Mozilla and Safari mentioned there ?
I think the problem is that a code repository is very much a moving target. They didn't say whether they had backups, so they probably didn't and that's stupid, but it would also be a problem if they had a week old backup
- What about asynchronous rendering? fast text scrolling in a windows like "find/" or "make -j32" thru a modem connection works in X11, I'd be surprised to see the same on Wayland.
You mean text showing up in a terminal through ssh ? How does that relate to the display server ?
Exactly. There is nothing in X that requires a rewrite. Everything that you want in Wayland can be done in X with incremental improvements and refactoring.
If, however, someone's notion of cyberspace starts and ends at Tron, then they're going to have a hard time understanding the lack of control they have over the system.
Seeing how programs behave in Tron, i'd say it pretty much explains the lack of control anyone would have over the system !
One can be polite, and even friendly, while still giving negative feedback. This "no negative feedback" bullshit is a result of those defunct social theories that we had to bolster kids' self-esteem at the cost of truth.
I believe that it's related to the widespread confusion of form and substance. You can point at issues in someone's performance in a very nice manner and alternatively you can give some praise in a very displeasing way.
It could also be connected to the fact that it's often confusing to like and not like something at the same time and possibly for the very same reasons (btw, that's ambivalence).
They should do the same thing as the doctype and drop the number altogether. Like anyone would understand HTML as "the old html from before the beginning of time, when netscape was a browser and people used newsgroups as forums and irc and whatever".
Let legacy apps use HTML 4, xhtml et al and just move forward.
Electronic voting will always be a democratic failure because there's simply no way to actually check the result without an output from the system itself (wich is therefore also tainted).
Word of advice for would be users of this technique, please generate a specific private key to carry around. It will be less problematic the day you lose your thumb drive.
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Such a hacking can compromise a large part of the internet. Because someone can introduce backdoors, the nasty ones I mean, so deep to evade any check.
Well, as far as git goes, you can't make changes undetected because all commits are signed and all clones of a repository have the whole history log.
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I don't understand how nobody ever mentions this but voting machines can't be both anonymous AND verifiable.
The only way to check on the count is to ask the machine itself so it's no verification at all.
That should be obvious to anyone thinking about it for more than 2 minutes.
Even if their throughput claims aren't 100% bullshit...
Do you mean as much bullshit or twice as much bullshit ? I'm confused...
You can't discriminate based on race, religion, sexual preference. You can discriminate based on whether or not somebody decides to wear a shirt. This is the way it is because at large, we deem it to be fair and prevent people from being discriminated against based on characteristics that are fundamental to living as they want or were born.
We don't deem being able to live your entire life without wearing a shirt to be fundamental to living your life freely. Pretty fucking simple.
I think you mean that it's somewhat acceptable to discriminate about something someone does, not about something someone is.
What you want is an ideology... a belief system. Science is not a belief system.
I think the whole point is that everything is a belief system, even science.
At some point it always boils down to some core beliefs. Everything else is built on top of them.
Don't know what version you're running but android does support multiple accounts since 4.2.
I've being enjoying it for a while now.
AFAIK it's the only mobile OS doing so.
No directly related but that reminds me of the time i saw an EJB error displayed on a credit card terminal :-)
Ever heard of asm.js ?
And what does it say about feminists if they're acting like an organised religion?
Living in France i've never met anyone being afraid to talk about their religious beliefs.
What I did encounter is people that would rather not say that they are part of a feminist movement.
They grow tired of the endless discussion with people that will argue about realities that they do not understand in any way because they just don't live them from the other side.
I think i'm more aware of the issue than the average guy but i do know that i can't really imagine what it's like to be a woman in our world.
Dear anonymous coward, come back when you've decided to stand for a cause that is being ridiculed at every corner.
I agree that this implicitly says that only women have eating disorders.
On the other hand, it is possible that mainly women are concerned (isn't that the case for anorexia?) so it could somewhat make sense.
Anyone with proper references ?
A bit of search told me that it's actually Mou, not Moc.
I worked for a manager once that didn't believe that anyone who practiced WFH actually worked when they were at home. His position was, you must be visibly in your cube to be considered to be working. Or, an employee at all. One might argue that just being seen at one's desk doesn't necessarily mean one is working, but I didn't make that argument, because I wanted to keep my job.
Yeah, obviously the guy never heard of presenteeism...
Sure v28 is built on Blink? I just put chrome://version/ in my address bar, and it shows my UA string as -- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.71 Safari/537.36
Did you notice there's also Mozilla and Safari mentioned there ?
I think the problem is that a code repository is very much a moving target. They didn't say whether they had backups, so they probably didn't and that's stupid, but it would also be a problem if they had a week old backup
I'd take old backups over no backups any day...
- What about asynchronous rendering? fast text scrolling in a windows like "find /" or "make -j32" thru a modem connection works in X11, I'd be surprised to see the same on Wayland.
You mean text showing up in a terminal through ssh ?
How does that relate to the display server ?
Exactly. There is nothing in X that requires a rewrite. Everything that you want in Wayland can be done in X with incremental improvements and refactoring.
Of course, you'll be the one doing that...
If, however, someone's notion of cyberspace starts and ends at Tron, then they're going to have a hard time understanding the lack of control they have over the system.
Seeing how programs behave in Tron, i'd say it pretty much explains the lack of control anyone would have over the system !
You mean a project that just started with a single guy isn't complete or near completion ?
Yeah it's gonna be tough but it doesn't mean it can't be useful or grow much bigger than it is now (rember this thing called Linux ?).
One can be polite, and even friendly, while still giving negative feedback. This "no negative feedback" bullshit is a result of those defunct social theories that we had to bolster kids' self-esteem at the cost of truth.
I believe that it's related to the widespread confusion of form and substance.
You can point at issues in someone's performance in a very nice manner and alternatively you can give some praise in a very displeasing way.
It could also be connected to the fact that it's often confusing to like and not like something at the same time and possibly for the very same reasons (btw, that's ambivalence).
Encouraging someone does not require lying.
They should do the same thing as the doctype and drop the number altogether.
Like anyone would understand HTML as "the old html from before the beginning of time, when netscape was a browser and people used newsgroups as forums and irc and whatever".
Let legacy apps use HTML 4, xhtml et al and just move forward.
Electronic voting will always be a democratic failure because there's simply no way to actually check the result without an output from the system itself (wich is therefore also tainted).
This is not an engineering problem, period.
Word of advice for would be users of this technique, please generate a specific private key to carry around.
It will be less problematic the day you lose your thumb drive.
Such a hacking can compromise a large part of the internet. Because someone can introduce backdoors, the nasty ones I mean, so deep to evade any check.
Well, as far as git goes, you can't make changes undetected because all commits are signed and all clones of a repository have the whole history log.
I believe The Onion has it right.
as Linus is on the warpath this week, I think he should shoot whomever came up with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Beta 1
I believe Shuttleworth wouldn't be too happy about that (being shot)...
There is a "simple" workaround for the notification area problem :
http://ubuntugenius.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/ubuntu-11-04-fix-show-all-iconsindicators-in-unity-panels-notification-area/
I'll grant you that it can be kind of annoying but nothing a small script can't fix.