If they can't figure out to push the VOTE button to count their selection, maybe they shouldn't be voting anyway...
True, but out of all the voting systems, computer systems could be more idiot-proof than any of them. I quickly thought of several simple ways for the system to prevent a luser (I mean voter) from leaving the booth before they actually voted. This same non-voting problem may have happened with the chad-machines. And even pen and paper isn't immune from UI problems.
I honestly can't think of many reasons. The one obvious answer is that it makes the votes easier to count. The winner could be determined both quickly (computers count a lot faster than humans) and cheaply (no one must find volunteers or pay people to count). This is why the "chad" contraptions were created. In 2000 we saw that the contraptions had a margin of error created by mechanical failures (and also a bad UI), so a computer eliminates those mechanical failures, and therefore the margin of error, and they're even faster at counting.
However, it seems that when Diebold is involved, we're getting a larger margin of error than with the contraptions, and forces more manual recounts.
This is exactly the thinking that got all the other search pages left behind in Google's dust. Degrading your product to make more money, such as by allowing webmasters to pay for a better page ranking, is a good decision in the short-term, but a bad decision in the long-term. Google will probably not make the same mistakes of their competitors that allowed them to be the top search engine.
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Similarly, Machiavelli's The Prince, a 500-year old text, also has useful advice. Its advice is meant for rulers who wish to keep their country such that the ruler will not be overthrown. It's easy to apply to management.
ATMs are generally "secure" primarily because they operate on a fully-closed network, there's massive cross-checking, and interaction with users is very strictly limited.
But, there is no reason that E-Voting cannot have all these same things.
Yeah, why would they possibly want to take things one step at a time? It's not like China doesn't know anything about space exploration that NASA does. NASA has all their knowledge and experiences freely available to the public. Really, in this day and age, if I had a whole lot of money, I'm sure I could build a spaceship and travel to the moon. How primitive.
how come on 364 days a year we tell our kids not to talk to strangers and certainly not to take sweets from them, but on one day of the year we actively encourage it? Such is our modern society.
Simple, it's Halloween, an evil, pagan holiday. Asking for handouts, taking candy from strangers, egging and TP'ing houses, dressing ridiculously or even cross-dressing, scaring people for no reason, and listening to Michael Jackson. All terrible things to do regularly, but they're all accepted and even encouraged on Halloween.
Emergency services can't override all lights in the US, because not all of them have this feature. If the light's red, an ambulance WILL just jump the light, but it has to be more cautious.
Now, maybe this is an exaggeration, or just plain not true, but I heard somewhere that emergency services in the UK didn't have ANY priority in traffic! Urban legend?
I'm the absent-minded kind of/.er. If I lost a $100 pen (which I would), I wouldn't feel too good about it. Cheap pens all the way! Bic pens are good. I don't like Pilot, I tend to break them.
Same problem, some spammer could really not like you, and send a bunch of spam advertising for your company. So it looks like you are the sponsor, when you really aren't.
BTW, doing this or making the Reply-To address as someone you don't like is referred to as a "Joe Job."
Someone around/. said "If it doesn't exist on Google, then it doesn't exist." And someone even translated that phrase into Latin and made it their sig. If that isn't proof, I don't know what is.
Popular stories are not necessarily stretched and reinvented in order to increase sales.
The two styles of typical American comics and manga are certainly different, as are sitcoms and soap operas (bad Slashdot metaphor, I know). But they each have their fan base, and there are advantages and disadvantages to each style. Batman and Evangelion make for very different reading, but both are good.
Could you imagine the effect of these sites closing down?
Google? Are you serious? That would just make a lot of people pissed off. Leave it to sites that would not affect people negatively, like the ones presently in the protest, or entertainment sites, or anything that would not be vital to anyone for a day. Google IS vital IMHO. So is E-Bay, some people make their living off that site.
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LOL, "You are now trapped. To get out, please vote your next president."
Ha, this would kill off the weak-minded people of Florida... sounds Darwinian!
Well, at least the e-voting programmers are figuring out how to idiot-proof their systems in the right place.
If they can't figure out to push the VOTE button to count their selection, maybe they shouldn't be voting anyway...
True, but out of all the voting systems, computer systems could be more idiot-proof than any of them. I quickly thought of several simple ways for the system to prevent a luser (I mean voter) from leaving the booth before they actually voted. This same non-voting problem may have happened with the chad-machines. And even pen and paper isn't immune from UI problems.
I honestly can't think of many reasons. The one obvious answer is that it makes the votes easier to count. The winner could be determined both quickly (computers count a lot faster than humans) and cheaply (no one must find volunteers or pay people to count). This is why the "chad" contraptions were created. In 2000 we saw that the contraptions had a margin of error created by mechanical failures (and also a bad UI), so a computer eliminates those mechanical failures, and therefore the margin of error, and they're even faster at counting. However, it seems that when Diebold is involved, we're getting a larger margin of error than with the contraptions, and forces more manual recounts.
This is exactly the thinking that got all the other search pages left behind in Google's dust. Degrading your product to make more money, such as by allowing webmasters to pay for a better page ranking, is a good decision in the short-term, but a bad decision in the long-term. Google will probably not make the same mistakes of their competitors that allowed them to be the top search engine.
Similarly, Machiavelli's The Prince, a 500-year old text, also has useful advice. Its advice is meant for rulers who wish to keep their country such that the ruler will not be overthrown. It's easy to apply to management.
ATMs are generally "secure" primarily because they operate on a fully-closed network, there's massive cross-checking, and interaction with users is very strictly limited.
But, there is no reason that E-Voting cannot have all these same things.
Yeah, why would they possibly want to take things one step at a time? It's not like China doesn't know anything about space exploration that NASA does. NASA has all their knowledge and experiences freely available to the public. Really, in this day and age, if I had a whole lot of money, I'm sure I could build a spaceship and travel to the moon. How primitive.
how come on 364 days a year we tell our kids not to talk to strangers and certainly not to take sweets from them, but on one day of the year we actively encourage it? Such is our modern society.
Simple, it's Halloween, an evil, pagan holiday. Asking for handouts, taking candy from strangers, egging and TP'ing houses, dressing ridiculously or even cross-dressing, scaring people for no reason, and listening to Michael Jackson. All terrible things to do regularly, but they're all accepted and even encouraged on Halloween.
I wonder why they didn't get past my threshold of 4? Heh.
Internet Week describes some of the goals: avoiding viruses, worms, and 'building apps that are as smart as Outlook.'
Insert obvious joke here.
Emergency services can't override all lights in the US, because not all of them have this feature. If the light's red, an ambulance WILL just jump the light, but it has to be more cautious.
Now, maybe this is an exaggeration, or just plain not true, but I heard somewhere that emergency services in the UK didn't have ANY priority in traffic! Urban legend?
See how that fails?
Well done! That's one of the first things you learn in logic class. It's a common logic error, called denying the antecedent.
P.S. Wow, parent is a non-trolling, non-funny AC!
I'm the absent-minded kind of /.er. If I lost a $100 pen (which I would), I wouldn't feel too good about it. Cheap pens all the way! Bic pens are good. I don't like Pilot, I tend to break them.
Hopefully they track you fast before you throw-away (or recycle) your winning can....
Maybe they would just award the prize to the trash can. But, how would a trash can spend a million dollars?
I'd imagine he would just waste it.
what about going after the sponsors of the spam?
Same problem, some spammer could really not like you, and send a bunch of spam advertising for your company. So it looks like you are the sponsor, when you really aren't.
BTW, doing this or making the Reply-To address as someone you don't like is referred to as a "Joe Job."
Right!
/. said "If it doesn't exist on Google, then it doesn't exist." And someone even translated that phrase into Latin and made it their sig. If that isn't proof, I don't know what is.
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I've always wondered why electronic equipment on planes was so much more sensitive then the regular stuff we have down on earth.
Well, the electronic equipment in hospitals are more sensitive as well, apparently. Can't use cell phones in there either.
Yes, you'll also find that the most stolen cars are also the most numerous, not the ones with the least security features.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
I'm thinking about registering a domain... which registrars would these people switch to? Know any good ones in particular?
Maybe they're updating it manually or something, because here's what I got, AC...
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What is wrong with this picture?
If there was some kind of "read-only memory," I'm sure they would have given it a name by now.
Popular stories are not necessarily stretched and reinvented in order to increase sales.
The two styles of typical American comics and manga are certainly different, as are sitcoms and soap operas (bad Slashdot metaphor, I know). But they each have their fan base, and there are advantages and disadvantages to each style. Batman and Evangelion make for very different reading, but both are good.
Could you imagine the effect of these sites closing down?
Google? Are you serious? That would just make a lot of people pissed off. Leave it to sites that would not affect people negatively, like the ones presently in the protest, or entertainment sites, or anything that would not be vital to anyone for a day. Google IS vital IMHO. So is E-Bay, some people make their living off that site.
No new Jeff Minters?? What a shame.