Over a decade ago, there was a GNU project for internet voting. With no financial incentive, the driving force was a belief that there would be a benefit in making voting easier. The project was abandoned after they realized how difficult creating a secure, reliable and anonymous internet voting system actually is.
The founder of the project quotes Bruce Schneier as saying, "a secure Internet voting system is theoretically possible, but it would be the first secure networked application ever created in the history of computers."
Of course, if someone here wants to show their credentials and explain why Schneier is wrong, I'm sure many of us would love to hear their reasoning.
Administrators care only about getting more students through the door and the tuition dollars rolling in therefrom.
If you want to quickly solve this problem, have US News add percentage of faculty in full-time tenured position as a weighting factor to school rankings. Overnight you'll see tens of thousands of adjuncts being offered tenure.
While a simple faculty/student ratio is used there is actually a huge pressure to have the highest number of faculty, and therefore pressure to drive down cost. Quantity is weighted more highly than quality.
Supply and demand. If you make travel by road artificially cheap (which it is - at least 1/3 of road budgets come from general taxation) then people will drive more rather than looking for public transit alternatives. The result is those alternatives are never created and those who would otherwise rely on them, for example the disabled who are unable to drive, lose out big time.
I wonder if this price is more about maintaining AT&T exclusivity than being a real reflection of the phone cost. Still, I think the contract requirement while being tied to a single network is going to be a deal breaker.
Good thing people hosted their stuff on the cloud...
Hosting stuff on the cloud wasn't the problem. It's really no different from hosting anywhere else. The problem was a lack of off-site backups.
Something as simple as s3cmd and cron would have protected them. Or if really necessary they could have backed up servers to an independent s3 account.
This is a simple case of someone keeping all their eggs in a single basket, breaking the fundamental rule of backups needing to be independent of their source.
Amazon does highlight if the item was purchased through amazon though, so there is a way to pick reviews from those you can be fairly certain paid cash for the product.
Just this once, being Scottish doesn't make you right.
Here's an explanation. I notice you said everyone else is doing it wrong, but neglected to explain why your car lets you ride the clutch without wearing parts.
If permission is granted there is no infringement. So it's incorrect to say the only response is to send a cease and desist. It would seem that they may be able send a letter saying "we grant you permission to use the ikea name and colors in exchange for a clear disclaimer on each page that you are unaffiliated." They could even state that permission is revokable at any time, in case they want some degree of protection should the site do something Ikea later dislikes.
Apple doesn't care as much about profit after the fact because they got 45% off of you as soon as you bought their phone.
Even if you turn off every function on your phone--including the phone--and kept it in airplane mode the whole time like some sort of absurdly expensive iPod, Apple already made a profit.
So there's no need for Apple to take a 30% cut on ever transaction you made, because they already made a profit. The only reason they do so is they want to make more money. yes somehow you think that, when it comes down to user data, they don't want to make money from selling it to partners?
Come on, I think it's pretty obvious that the OP meant he could lift his feet clear of the pedals and the car kept accelerating, not that he was ignoring what the car was doing.
That's still astronomical. There was a time, about twenty years ago when UK GSM providers simply charged you the local rate for service when roaming plus a 15% markup. Local calls were cheap when roaming. Other calls more expensive, but affordable. In the meantime, the cost of calls has plummeted in just about every nation, yet the cost of roaming has soared.
Your daughter would be best going to either Glasgow,Aberdeen,Edinburgh or Dundee universities as those will have the best coverage being the biggest places.
Only on/. would we find people who recommend making a choice of college based on network coverage for your cell phone.
This. It seems like the US carriers pretty much hated 3G and invested more heavily in 4G when it became available.
In the UK, 3G coverage is strong and widespread (assuming your daughter will be studying in one of the cities). If you're daughter is in fact planning to attend one of the more rural colleges, choice of carrier may be more of a concern.
Indeed, because there is always the prospect of tyranny of the majority, so the right to organize, to protest, to campaign, to speak may always be under threat and should be protected. That doesn't make westboro baptist church any less objectionable just because they exercise their constitutional rights in their protests.
Well, of course you can look at it that way, but absent the constitution or another social contract you have only the state of nature - where life is nasty, brutish and short.
Certainly you could say we have many rights protected under the constitution, but really it's just semantics; the rights exist but to fully enjoy the benefits that flow therefrom might require discretion over which rights we exercise and when and how we do so.
Seriously? For the most part, someone who is not a convicted felon or diagnosed as suffering from mental illness can buy a gun in a gun shop. The others can (illegally, but apparently with some ease) buy a gun at a gun fair.
We have many rights under the US constitution, but having the right and choosing when and how to exercise that right are two very different things. The constitution permits and protects a great many anti-social activities, yet I don't believe the founding fathers were attempting to promote anti-social behavior. They simply recognized that to fully protect beneficial behavior there was a need to make the safeguard as wide as possible.
It is a mistake to think the impact is restricted to the United States. This is a man who said "We're so dissatisfied in participating in traditional politics, that we're looking for other kinds of projects that are still innately political and contest what can be done in political terms."
There is no meaningful restriction on access to guns in the US. And were any restriction to come into effect, it is likely to be on where guns can be carried not on whether you can own one. The real impact of these weapons will therefore be felt by those in other countries - countries Cody Wilson has likely never visited let alone lived in.
Can the social costs outweigh the right or privilege? Do other countries where there is broad acceptance of restrictions on gun ownership, such as the UK, have any right 'not to hear' this free information?
Has any analysis been done as to the feasibility of the oppressed in obtaining suitable 3d printers and the 'correct' material for printing, then using these weapons to defeat their oppressor versus the ability of criminals to do likewise and use the weapons in the pursuit of their crimes?
Note: that's not a monitor, technically, but a TV.
Besides the addition of a tuner, is there really a difference in this day and age? Some TVs come with higher and lower refresh rates, resolutions, etc., as do some monitors.
So, we are to believe that the electric variant costs $46,650. I can only believe that must include a huge amount for the sunk costs - designing the electric car, rather than each electric car being $30k more expensive than the gas equivalent.
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Over a decade ago, there was a GNU project for internet voting. With no financial incentive, the driving force was a belief that there would be a benefit in making voting easier. The project was abandoned after they realized how difficult creating a secure, reliable and anonymous internet voting system actually is.
The founder of the project quotes Bruce Schneier as saying, "a secure Internet voting system is theoretically possible, but it would be the first secure networked application ever created in the history of computers."
Of course, if someone here wants to show their credentials and explain why Schneier is wrong, I'm sure many of us would love to hear their reasoning.
Administrators care only about getting more students through the door and the tuition dollars rolling in therefrom.
If you want to quickly solve this problem, have US News add percentage of faculty in full-time tenured position as a weighting factor to school rankings. Overnight you'll see tens of thousands of adjuncts being offered tenure.
While a simple faculty/student ratio is used there is actually a huge pressure to have the highest number of faculty, and therefore pressure to drive down cost. Quantity is weighted more highly than quality.
Supply and demand. If you make travel by road artificially cheap (which it is - at least 1/3 of road budgets come from general taxation) then people will drive more rather than looking for public transit alternatives. The result is those alternatives are never created and those who would otherwise rely on them, for example the disabled who are unable to drive, lose out big time.
1280x720 resolution on a 4.7" screen is plenty.
My Moto X and Nexus 4 are both clear. of course they're both half the price of Amazon's offering.
I wonder if this price is more about maintaining AT&T exclusivity than being a real reflection of the phone cost. Still, I think the contract requirement while being tied to a single network is going to be a deal breaker.
Hosting stuff on the cloud wasn't the problem. It's really no different from hosting anywhere else. The problem was a lack of off-site backups.
Something as simple as s3cmd and cron would have protected them. Or if really necessary they could have backed up servers to an independent s3 account.
This is a simple case of someone keeping all their eggs in a single basket, breaking the fundamental rule of backups needing to be independent of their source.
Amazon does highlight if the item was purchased through amazon though, so there is a way to pick reviews from those you can be fairly certain paid cash for the product.
Just this once, being Scottish doesn't make you right.
Here's an explanation. I notice you said everyone else is doing it wrong, but neglected to explain why your car lets you ride the clutch without wearing parts.
If permission is granted there is no infringement. So it's incorrect to say the only response is to send a cease and desist. It would seem that they may be able send a letter saying "we grant you permission to use the ikea name and colors in exchange for a clear disclaimer on each page that you are unaffiliated." They could even state that permission is revokable at any time, in case they want some degree of protection should the site do something Ikea later dislikes.
Or simply grant permission?
How many mass shootings has the UK experienced since they banned ownership of handguns?
So there's no need for Apple to take a 30% cut on ever transaction you made, because they already made a profit. The only reason they do so is they want to make more money. yes somehow you think that, when it comes down to user data, they don't want to make money from selling it to partners?
Come on, I think it's pretty obvious that the OP meant he could lift his feet clear of the pedals and the car kept accelerating, not that he was ignoring what the car was doing.
That's still astronomical. There was a time, about twenty years ago when UK GSM providers simply charged you the local rate for service when roaming plus a 15% markup. Local calls were cheap when roaming. Other calls more expensive, but affordable. In the meantime, the cost of calls has plummeted in just about every nation, yet the cost of roaming has soared.
Only on /. would we find people who recommend making a choice of college based on network coverage for your cell phone.
This. It seems like the US carriers pretty much hated 3G and invested more heavily in 4G when it became available.
In the UK, 3G coverage is strong and widespread (assuming your daughter will be studying in one of the cities). If you're daughter is in fact planning to attend one of the more rural colleges, choice of carrier may be more of a concern.
Indeed, because there is always the prospect of tyranny of the majority, so the right to organize, to protest, to campaign, to speak may always be under threat and should be protected. That doesn't make westboro baptist church any less objectionable just because they exercise their constitutional rights in their protests.
Well, of course you can look at it that way, but absent the constitution or another social contract you have only the state of nature - where life is nasty, brutish and short.
Certainly you could say we have many rights protected under the constitution, but really it's just semantics; the rights exist but to fully enjoy the benefits that flow therefrom might require discretion over which rights we exercise and when and how we do so.
Seriously? For the most part, someone who is not a convicted felon or diagnosed as suffering from mental illness can buy a gun in a gun shop. The others can (illegally, but apparently with some ease) buy a gun at a gun fair.
Here's an NRA guide by state
We have many rights under the US constitution, but having the right and choosing when and how to exercise that right are two very different things. The constitution permits and protects a great many anti-social activities, yet I don't believe the founding fathers were attempting to promote anti-social behavior. They simply recognized that to fully protect beneficial behavior there was a need to make the safeguard as wide as possible.
It is a mistake to think the impact is restricted to the United States. This is a man who said "We're so dissatisfied in participating in traditional politics, that we're looking for other kinds of projects that are still innately political and contest what can be done in political terms."
There is no meaningful restriction on access to guns in the US. And were any restriction to come into effect, it is likely to be on where guns can be carried not on whether you can own one. The real impact of these weapons will therefore be felt by those in other countries - countries Cody Wilson has likely never visited let alone lived in.
Can the social costs outweigh the right or privilege? Do other countries where there is broad acceptance of restrictions on gun ownership, such as the UK, have any right 'not to hear' this free information?
Has any analysis been done as to the feasibility of the oppressed in obtaining suitable 3d printers and the 'correct' material for printing, then using these weapons to defeat their oppressor versus the ability of criminals to do likewise and use the weapons in the pursuit of their crimes?
We already have relatively cheap two-way satellite comms. Go visit any mountaineering store - and those are niche items.
I don't see why low cost, two-way, internet capable devices would be impossible given sufficient economies of scale.
I think you might be surprised at some of the case studies surrounding mobile/cell phone use in central Africa.
here's a study from Tufts showing farmers in Ghana establishing the market price for crops, and labourers searching for job opportunities.
There's lots of more recent coverage too if you do some Google searches.
Besides the addition of a tuner, is there really a difference in this day and age? Some TVs come with higher and lower refresh rates, resolutions, etc., as do some monitors.
So, we are to believe that the electric variant costs $46,650. I can only believe that must include a huge amount for the sunk costs - designing the electric car, rather than each electric car being $30k more expensive than the gas equivalent.