This isn't security by obscurity, it's security by distraction!
Yes, yessss, we'll get them to ignore the ATM machines by getting them to attack the whole network! We'll save the leaves by cutting down the whole tree! Yes, yes, brilliant!
Not to defend Diebold, but they wouldn't even be allowed to patch the systems. The software on those voting machines (at least in theory) all needs to be checked and double checked by this independant authority before its installed, and ONLY THAT approved softwate can be installed on the machines.
which is a crippling inherent flaw in the whole idea. If you allow patching then the system would be vulnerable to arbitrary patching. If you don't allow patching you can't fix any other security holes you might find. Whether or not you allow patching the system is unacceptably insecure.
Conclusion: electronic voting boxes are a bad idea.
I suspect over the next hundred years some of the more verbose letter-based written languages will start condensing down to be more like English, which is one of the more compact letter-based languages. Thank the Anglo-Saxons.
You mean thank the Angles and the Saxons (two different groups). And what's with the prejudice against the Jutes?
Google are instead intending to IPO by auctioning off shares. It's an unusual approach, but they're an unusual company. Still, this doesn't preclude Microsoft or another party with specific interests from acquiring Google. With this in mind, we should still be considering the possibility that something could go very wrong in Google's future.
Bzzt! Wrong.
Google is selling off a fraction of its shares < 50%. Even if one person bought every single publically traded share of Google they would not be able to control the company, since in order to do that you'd need > 50% of all shares.
People are so crippled by the more expensive == better heuristic they don't notice when the rug is being pulled out from under them. Electronic voting should be unconstitutional.
The market isn't any "larger" because of the internet -- it didn't create more people -- but it reduces transaction costs so that the distance between buyer & seller has less of an effect on price.
Various people have found ways to share a library between different users on Mac OS X, I would assume that similar hacks can be used with the Windows version
China is actually coming along nicely in a lot of ways. It's beginning to embrace capitalism. Socialism is a nice idea, but greed breeds innovation better. As China's economy heats up it's people are going to come into closer contact with the rest of the world and mainstream world ideas. The communist regime might not be overthrown, but its a safe bet they're going to gradually become more and more moderate. With China's vast natural resources and immense population their economy could easily dwarf that of the U.S. within a couple decades. Say what you will, 1 billion+ is a heckuva tax base!
Things will get better and better and better and better! Trust me, it's only a matter of time!
.... this isn't the only time I've seen it, but I've never seen so many otherwise level-headed people buy into evidenceless assertions about the future about China. Sure it's a nice theory that China will slowly slide down an inevitable slippery slope to a capitalist democracy, but can you give me a reason why I should find this rationally compelling?
As much as I loathe Dell and love Apple, competition can only make the market better.
What would I do if I were Apple right now? Start selling iPods at cost. 'Course, Apple's got its nose too high in the air to ever consider such a thing, and that's what burns them every time.
I don't know how you guys do it, but in my district we use these large mechanical voting machines. There is a wide board of switchs, you flip the switches for the candidates you want and then pull a big lever that resets all the switches to a neutral position and records your vote.
I don't have a verifiable paper trail, but I've never worried about something "hacking" a big box of gears, "bugs" in the gears, the big box of gears going on the fritz, or the gears being made to somehow fit some nefarious purpose. You can't "patch" the gears remotely.
I see no ways that this system is inferior to a touch screen system. THEY SHOULD USE WHATEVER VOTING SYSTEM WORKS THE BEST, NOT THE ONE THAT'S THE MOST "ADVANCED" AND EXPENSIVE.
I, for one, barely even noticed this thing, because I longer actually manually type in addresses. I use google. Even if I know the address, even if I have a bookmark, I still use google with the "I'm feeling lucky" button, because it's just easier.
Haha, I just turned it on (thanx, by the way) and I noticed when I went to a "creative" fake domain I made up, it still remembered the Verisign/favicon.ico bookmark icon from when I tried it before, even though the site obviously no longer responded...
Seriously though, someone should write a Windows virus that disables this thing from half the internet...
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I once has a robot like this... thing was, for some reason the think only wanted to read Tom Clancy novels. It was weird.
yes, it saves you a little bit of trouble, but you'd still have to *read* the book. I want a robot that will learn for me.
Yes, yessss, we'll get them to ignore the ATM machines by getting them to attack the whole network! We'll save the leaves by cutting down the whole tree! Yes, yes, brilliant!
which is a crippling inherent flaw in the whole idea. If you allow patching then the system would be vulnerable to arbitrary patching. If you don't allow patching you can't fix any other security holes you might find. Whether or not you allow patching the system is unacceptably insecure.
Conclusion: electronic voting boxes are a bad idea.
Which would actually make sense, given what they want to do to Linux.
You mean thank the Angles and the Saxons (two different groups). And what's with the prejudice against the Jutes?
Bzzt! Wrong.
Google is selling off a fraction of its shares < 50%. Even if one person bought every single publically traded share of Google they would not be able to control the company, since in order to do that you'd need > 50% of all shares.
But remember: why would he say this?
- Believes in full disclosure, doesn't like keeping secrets
- He's required to disclose that according to some federal regulation
- Because he wants to discourage potential competitors from entering the market
Well?Wanna start a politico-slashdot?
Answer: You don't even need a wiretap order to intercept radio signals.
How big is a .torrent file?
People are so crippled by the more expensive == better heuristic they don't notice when the rug is being pulled out from under them. Electronic voting should be unconstitutional.
In 20 years slashdot will have the headline "Robot Salesmen are exploding."
The market isn't any "larger" because of the internet -- it didn't create more people -- but it reduces transaction costs so that the distance between buyer & seller has less of an effect on price.
chmod?
I think that really, voting is as important as the counting, and neither can be had without the other.
Things will get better and better and better and better! Trust me, it's only a matter of time!
It's open source! Port it yo' damn self.
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What would I do if I were Apple right now? Start selling iPods at cost. 'Course, Apple's got its nose too high in the air to ever consider such a thing, and that's what burns them every time.
sigh...
I don't have a verifiable paper trail, but I've never worried about something "hacking" a big box of gears, "bugs" in the gears, the big box of gears going on the fritz, or the gears being made to somehow fit some nefarious purpose. You can't "patch" the gears remotely.
I see no ways that this system is inferior to a touch screen system. THEY SHOULD USE WHATEVER VOTING SYSTEM WORKS THE BEST, NOT THE ONE THAT'S THE MOST "ADVANCED" AND EXPENSIVE.
Thank you.
Maybe they'll start using Access to secure Neil Bush's cell.
I, for one, barely even noticed this thing, because I longer actually manually type in addresses. I use google. Even if I know the address, even if I have a bookmark, I still use google with the "I'm feeling lucky" button, because it's just easier.
Seriously though, someone should write a Windows virus that disables this thing from half the internet...
I bet baby Luke Skywalker and baby Han Solo will have a chance meeting! Maybe baby Han Solo will throw a tater-tot at baby Greedo