The idea would be that you'd hit the button for the person you wanted to vote for and this is what would happen.
1. A unique key would be generated 2. This key and your vote would be printed onto a spool inside the machine. 3. This key and your voite would be printed on a receipt and ejected from the machine. 4. The vote would be encrypted using PKE and sent over a link using something like SSL to a database server. Or stored locally and sent as a batch.
Also, that internal spool would also have bar code versions of the votes as well, so if the harddrive (which should be raid 1 anyway!) decided to crap out, they could just take the spool and load it into a machine that would just scan the votes in one by one.
Now, you've got the vote in 3 places. And the ability to retrieve the votes from multiple places. Also because of the unique key, it would be really tough to ballot box stuff...
Now, on none of these pieces of paper would your name be printed. The only place your name would be is checked off by the register when you entered the premesis to vote.
The bigger problem is how lax the security is when it comes to verifying that you are who you say you are. There are lots and lots of cases of people who vote multiple times under different names.
Now, coming up with a system that is both comprehensive and not personally intrusive would be a huge challenge.
That's the whole thing right there... If he had called ahead and asked their weather station what was going on they would have told him "You've got 35km/hr head wind actually..." Then he wouldn't have gotten his ass stuck there...
Personally though, I think they should sell him fuel at an inflated price and call it a deal.
There was a story on space.com last week about how NASA was testing a new material that could be woven into space suits and used in the construction of spacecraft, etc... Inital testing had shown it could effectly block most/all radiation or turn it into a form that isn't harmful.
Actually, after I quickly posted the response, I got thinking about how much disk I actually have.
I have two EMC Clariions each with about 4TB of usable disk.
Aside from that I've also about 1.5TB of good old directly attached fibre disk.
So, I've got the disk space at least.
As for the computers, I've got whole company full of machines (~3k) all connected to a 100MB full duplex networks.
It's not the amazingly interconnected IBM blue machine but it would do.
I suppose I could write a taskbar app and push it out with SMS that would have lots of machines all using their idle CPU time to crunch away on salts and passwords.
So, even though I'm not a haX0r, with some work, I've probably got a teraflop machine in the making...
Read "The Diamond Age", Neal Stephenson addresses lots of these issues.
Personally, I think the government would step in and use imminate domain and just take over any company that would create a nano assembler.
Just for the sake that this technology would, if allowed to spread uncontrolled would deconstruct everything.
Also, think of the military implications of this technology.
You'd be able to design and churn out materials that you could only dream of. So you want a tank that's got carbon nanotube diamond honeycomb impregnated armor? No problem, whip the baby up in cad and presto.
So you want that army of droids... no problem.
What if you've now got a replicator in your house? Unless the government is going to tax you on the raw materials that you use to create stuff, how are they going to collect any income tax?
There's pretty much no need for malls at this point. What can you not create in a matter compiler?
What if you want a car. If you've got the money to pay for the raw materials, you'd just go down to the post office and use their really large matter compiler, pay the money for the raw materials (or bring your own), put in the plans for your car and presto out it comes.
Mail is another good example of a technology that would be eliminated by a matter compiler.
Having spent nearly 10 years working on my Comp Sci degree (while working at a 8-5 job, house, etc) I've realized something.
Universities are a bit like ancient japan.
All departments are like little islands in a sea. Each has a ruler that does their own thing with no consideration to the other islands.
Firstly, nobody talks to anybody. If a process can be duplicated and screwed up at the same time, it will be.
Secondly, All processes will be documented in such a way that people from other departments will have no idea how to interpret or use them.
Thirdly, when purchasing software licenses and/or hardware, instead of pooling all the resources to drive down costs, each department will just do their own thing.
So, it doesn't suprise me that MIT pissed all over their own shoes.
MIT's got students who put together a grant and bought 3000 CD's, then setup a system where students could listen to any of them over the cable network for free.
Somehow I don't think the courseware stuff would have been that over their head.
I took a class in management of software engineering projects and we had to build a web interface that would allow students to access their grades, add/drop for classes, give them billing information, etc. We managed to crank out that system in one 15 week semester. We all got A's and the system worked great for over 5 years and it cost them zero. Even the server it ran on was a retired desktop (350mhz pentium 2)
It didn't get retired until the university moved away from their aging db system.( Digital unix based collegate DB system)
Tragically, the expensive commerical system they replaced it is horrible and disliked by everybody.
Why wouldn't it be in US dollars? I thought the number was based on the studio that was making it. Even though the LOTR's movies were made in NZ, it was still an American company and its american dollars that went into the francize.
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Your not the only one... I'm reading slashdot instead of writing a paper that's due dec. 10th...
In this company of 1000 employees there are 4 cars in the parking lot.
Currently google is getting ready todo an IPO. From what I've heard investors are really psyched about this.
Now SCO comes along and tries to put the squeeze on google. I can only imagine that those investors who were looking forward to googles IPO are going to very pissed at SCO.
Suddenly, SCO sees it's stock becoming penny shares...
I learned me lession that day... don't try to be technical with users, they have very small brains.
Needless to say, the woman called HR because she thought my terminology for the different connectors ("male" / "female") and the converter ("gender bender") were offense.
Okay, so maybe referring to connecting the ethernet cable as "getting the cat5 freak on" was a little out of line, but seriously, she over reacted.
I guess it didn't help we referred to viruses as FTD's (Floppy transmitted dieseases)
Personally, every time I see those stupid Jared Subway commerials, I just cringe.
The problem with them is that their solution to the countries obesity problem is to eat more fast food.
Though I do like the "What would Jared do" ads. At least it would seem they can laugh at their own obsurdity. Which in a world of overly PC crap, is refreshing.
We could solve the whole middle east problem AND get lots of minerals out of the whole deal. Granted, we'd be dooming a couple billion people to death.
OH wait, we're already doing that by ignoring the whole AIDS pandemic...
It could be that in the future the best chess playing computer isn't programmed at all. Instead it's merely told what the rules of the game are and it's then left to figure out on it's own the best strategies to play. Sort of a genetic chess algorithm.
There is a good example of this put into practice by a researcher who was experimenting with neural nets implemented in FPGA chips to create rectifying circuits. He'd setup a random set of interconnections and then through elimination have a program make changes to the chip until it got the desired results. Only keeping the changes that improved the design and discarding the others.
When it was all said and done, the researcher got an rectifying circuit that uses alot less space and gates then it should, and he didn't clearly understand how it worked. Turns out his program had stumbled into a previously unknown characteristic of the interaction of gates in proximity.
Now just imagine if this were done to create a chess computer.
You could possibly get a chess computer that can beat anybody, but nobody would entirely understand how it works on the inside...
1. I'm sure somewhere a senator/president/judge is figuring out someway to use this to further erode our rights in this country.
2. Why doesn't the current hate speech laws on the books take care of this sort of thing?
If some kid puts up a site about how I'm a piece of shit and offers to pay anybody 20 dollars to beat me up, don't I have recourse to go to the police?
What's considered a hollow threat and what's considered authentic?
I also stand proudly among the many fellow geeks who were pushed around and told repeatidly that I was going to die either at lunch, in the hall or after school at the hands of [insert random roving band of fucktards].
That's it, my child is going to he homeschooled. I figure the money I save on bulletproof vests and lunch money, I can put towards social interaction classes;-)
So, if I've got a movie on my harddrive and it's encrypted.... when the MPAA shows up, can I play the DMCA card on them?
So, here's the solution.
1. Only share with people you know face to face. Using p2p systems where you don't know the person at the other end is just stupid. Invariably, that person will end up being an MPAA goon...
2. Use strong encryption and dice up everything. put the keys on a usb keychain and share them that way.
3. If your ultra paranoid about the whole thing, only share stuff via physical media.
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Not if you name is not next to the vote...
The idea would be that you'd hit the button for the person you wanted to vote for and this is what would happen.
1. A unique key would be generated
2. This key and your vote would be printed onto a spool inside the machine.
3. This key and your voite would be printed on a receipt and ejected from the machine.
4. The vote would be encrypted using PKE and sent over a link using something like SSL to a database server. Or stored locally and sent as a batch.
Also, that internal spool would also have bar code versions of the votes as well, so if the harddrive (which should be raid 1 anyway!) decided to crap out, they could just take the spool and load it into a machine that would just scan the votes in one by one.
Now, you've got the vote in 3 places. And the ability to retrieve the votes from multiple places. Also because of the unique key, it would be really tough to ballot box stuff...
Now, on none of these pieces of paper would your name be printed. The only place your name would be is checked off by the register when you entered the premesis to vote.
The bigger problem is how lax the security is when it comes to verifying that you are who you say you are. There are lots and lots of cases of people who vote multiple times under different names.
Now, coming up with a system that is both comprehensive and not personally intrusive would be a huge challenge.
That's the whole thing right there... If he had called ahead and asked their weather station what was going on they would have told him "You've got 35km/hr head wind actually..." Then he wouldn't have gotten his ass stuck there...
Personally though, I think they should sell him fuel at an inflated price and call it a deal.
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Yeah, but then they'll get in a fight and picard will end up with a knife stuck in his chest and he'll end up with a fake heart...
oh wait...
Actually, after I quickly posted the response, I got thinking about how much disk I actually have.
I have two EMC Clariions each with about 4TB of usable disk.
Aside from that I've also about 1.5TB of good old directly attached fibre disk.
So, I've got the disk space at least.
As for the computers, I've got whole company full of machines (~3k) all connected to a 100MB full duplex networks.
It's not the amazingly interconnected IBM blue machine but it would do.
I suppose I could write a taskbar app and push it out with SMS that would have lots of machines all using their idle CPU time to crunch away on salts and passwords.
So, even though I'm not a haX0r, with some work, I've probably got a teraflop machine in the making...
Here's the more important question...
In ten years, how many haX0rs will have access to TerFLOP machines?
Answer: Lots...
Umm, can I surmize that your 10mb harddrive was quickly filled with ascii fisting porn, based on the link you left in your sig?
Read "The Diamond Age", Neal Stephenson addresses lots of these issues.
Personally, I think the government would step in and use imminate domain and just take over any company that would create a nano assembler.
Just for the sake that this technology would, if allowed to spread uncontrolled would deconstruct everything.
Also, think of the military implications of this technology.
You'd be able to design and churn out materials that you could only dream of. So you want a tank that's got carbon nanotube diamond honeycomb impregnated armor? No problem, whip the baby up in cad and presto.
So you want that army of droids... no problem.
What if you've now got a replicator in your house? Unless the government is going to tax you on the raw materials that you use to create stuff, how are they going to collect any income tax?
There's pretty much no need for malls at this point. What can you not create in a matter compiler?
What if you want a car. If you've got the money to pay for the raw materials, you'd just go down to the post office and use their really large matter compiler, pay the money for the raw materials (or bring your own), put in the plans for your car and presto out it comes.
Mail is another good example of a technology that would be eliminated by a matter compiler.
Ah. Makes sense now. It might be the snow swirling outside, it's distracting me terribly.
Having spent nearly 10 years working on my Comp Sci degree (while working at a 8-5 job, house, etc) I've realized something.
Universities are a bit like ancient japan.
All departments are like little islands in a sea. Each has a ruler that does their own thing with no consideration to the other islands.
Firstly, nobody talks to anybody. If a process can be duplicated and screwed up at the same time, it will be.
Secondly, All processes will be documented in such a way that people from other departments will have no idea how to interpret or use them.
Thirdly, when purchasing software licenses and/or hardware, instead of pooling all the resources to drive down costs, each department will just do their own thing.
So, it doesn't suprise me that MIT pissed all over their own shoes.
MIT's got students who put together a grant and bought 3000 CD's, then setup a system where students could listen to any of them over the cable network for free.
Somehow I don't think the courseware stuff would have been that over their head.
I took a class in management of software engineering projects and we had to build a web interface that would allow students to access their grades, add/drop for classes, give them billing information, etc. We managed to crank out that system in one 15 week semester. We all got A's and the system worked great for over 5 years and it cost them zero. Even the server it ran on was a retired desktop (350mhz pentium 2)
It didn't get retired until the university moved away from their aging db system.( Digital unix based collegate DB system)
Tragically, the expensive commerical system they replaced it is horrible and disliked by everybody.
Why wouldn't it be in US dollars? I thought the number was based on the studio that was making it. Even though the LOTR's movies were made in NZ, it was still an American company and its american dollars that went into the francize.
Your not the only one... I'm reading slashdot instead of writing a paper that's due dec. 10th...
In this company of 1000 employees there are 4 cars in the parking lot.
This would be a rather stupid thing for SCO todo.
Currently google is getting ready todo an IPO. From what I've heard investors are really psyched about this.
Now SCO comes along and tries to put the squeeze on google. I can only imagine that those investors who were looking forward to googles IPO are going to very pissed at SCO.
Suddenly, SCO sees it's stock becoming penny shares...
Though I had heard that they cut out the scene where Gandalf confronts Saurman at Orthanc and shatters his staff.
This troubles me because I always saw it as a pivital part of the book.
Hmm, maybe I'm wrong.
Also there's the whole finding where the cable failed.
I know nothing of undersea cables other than the fact that they're usually jacketed in steel and a shit load of rubber.
Lets just hope it didn't fail in 7000 feet of water...
I was hoping for a yotta byte capable filesystem.
Well, we've got IPv6 ;-) That should be none standard enough ;-)
Actually, I've had this happen.
I learned me lession that day... don't try to be technical with users, they have very small brains.
Needless to say, the woman called HR because she thought my terminology for the different connectors ("male" / "female") and the converter ("gender bender") were offense.
Okay, so maybe referring to connecting the ethernet cable as "getting the cat5 freak on" was a little out of line, but seriously, she over reacted.
I guess it didn't help we referred to viruses as FTD's (Floppy transmitted dieseases)
Ding, we have a winner...
This is a kin to when Ballmer was quoted comparing Redhat 6 vs. Longhorn or XP or whatever.
This guy's just following the first rule of "marketbenching"
"When in doubt, squew results in favor of the company that's paying you the most..."
Personally, every time I see those stupid Jared Subway commerials, I just cringe.
The problem with them is that their solution to the countries obesity problem is to eat more fast food.
Though I do like the "What would Jared do" ads. At least it would seem they can laugh at their own obsurdity. Which in a world of overly PC crap, is refreshing.
We could solve the whole middle east problem AND get lots of minerals out of the whole deal. Granted, we'd be dooming a couple billion people to death.
OH wait, we're already doing that by ignoring the whole AIDS pandemic...
I don't even use google for my news... If I did, I'd never get my daily dose of anti microsoft, pro linux, anti sco news!
Mixed in with a bunch of banter about quantum entanglment!
It could be that in the future the best chess playing computer isn't programmed at all. Instead it's merely told what the rules of the game are and it's then left to figure out on it's own the best strategies to play. Sort of a genetic chess algorithm.
There is a good example of this put into practice by a researcher who was experimenting with neural nets implemented in FPGA chips to create rectifying circuits. He'd setup a random set of interconnections and then through elimination have a program make changes to the chip until it got the desired results. Only keeping the changes that improved the design and discarding the others.
When it was all said and done, the researcher got an rectifying circuit that uses alot less space and gates then it should, and he didn't clearly understand how it worked. Turns out his program had stumbled into a previously unknown characteristic of the interaction of gates in proximity.
Now just imagine if this were done to create a chess computer.
You could possibly get a chess computer that can beat anybody, but nobody would entirely understand how it works on the inside...
1. I'm sure somewhere a senator/president/judge is figuring out someway to use this to further erode our rights in this country.
;-)
2. Why doesn't the current hate speech laws on the books take care of this sort of thing?
If some kid puts up a site about how I'm a piece of shit and offers to pay anybody 20 dollars to beat me up, don't I have recourse to go to the police?
What's considered a hollow threat and what's considered authentic?
I also stand proudly among the many fellow geeks who were pushed around and told repeatidly that I was going to die either at lunch, in the hall or after school at the hands of [insert random roving band of fucktards].
That's it, my child is going to he homeschooled. I figure the money I save on bulletproof vests and lunch money, I can put towards social interaction classes
Here's a quandry.
So, if I've got a movie on my harddrive and it's encrypted.... when the MPAA shows up, can I play the DMCA card on them?
So, here's the solution.
1. Only share with people you know face to face. Using p2p systems where you don't know the person at the other end is just stupid. Invariably, that person will end up being an MPAA goon...
2. Use strong encryption and dice up everything. put the keys on a usb keychain and share them that way.
3. If your ultra paranoid about the whole thing, only share stuff via physical media.