Electronic systems - including electronic voting machines [princeton.edu] - will always be able to be tampered with, no matter who makes them, no matter what their CEOs stupidly say, no matter what ongoing audit mechanisms are implemented, whether they're open or proprietary, and no matter what legislation or other initiatives mandate or recommend them.
ALL SYSTEMS - be they electronic or otherwise - will always be able to be tampered with, no matter who makes them, no matter what their CEOs stupidly say, no matter what ongoing audit mechanisms are implemented, whether they're open or proprietary, and no matter what legislation or other initiatives mandate or recommend them.
I think we need to keep site of that, especially one day after Slashdot posts stories like this.
Does electronic voting have to be perfect or better? (Rhetorical question)
Can electronic voting be better than our current system? (I really want to know)
Considering that Firefox is the more common browser on Slashdot, how about doing a story about Firefox 1.5.07 fixing four separate critical heap corruption exploits and an honest to god RSA signature spoofing exploit? These stories about IE exploits comes off as pure Microsoft-hate masturbation.
I don't like DRM any more than you do but it is not the cause of every single consumer ill. Many people (read enormous numbers) do not know what DRM is and why it is bad. There are still plenty of reasons to not buy online music. Here are some:
1. Fear of buying on the Internet. Everyone isn't a slashdot nerd.
2. Relatively low quality. 128kbps mp4
3. Fear of viruses/malware destroying system. No it doesn't have to come from the music to make you lose everything. Backups are not that common among the masses. I think I read a slashdot submission discussing this recently.
4. Built in backup system in the CD. For whatever reason, it's great to have a backup and the original CD makes a good one.
5. $.99 isn't that great of a price if you want most/all of an album. It solves the problem of having to pay $15 for an album to get a single song but considering the above, it isn't exactly cut-rate pricing.
6. Selection. There is still more available on CD than itunes.
7. Sony. They make me never want to buy anything legit again.
8. XXIA. See 7 above. I know 7 and 8 sound like DRM issues but they aren't here. It's not the DRM infestation, it's the business practices. I can live with Fairplay, not with these guys.
9. Trust. While I don't recall Apple breaking it (have they?), many have. Will my purchases be tracked? Will the music I play in my computer be sent to Real?
10. Format. Sure, mp4 is the flavor of the month now but what's next? I can always re-rip a CD (been there, done that) into the newer better format but my $.99 music is stuck for life.
There you go, ten reasons I can think of while my oatmeal gets cold that DRM shouldn't be blamed for market share. Perhaps ten reasons also why people who get p2p music are still trying to get what they want in a world that has turned their backs on the consumer.
by gormanly (134067) on Sunday September 10, @01:50PM (#16076472)
Of course. Because the iPod only sold 1/3 more in both the first and second quarters than last year. But wait - it's down on last year's Christmas rush sales!!!! It's in decline!! The death of the iPod is here!!!!!!! Oh wait. WTF??
Come on people, your supposed to be geeks and nerds and so inclined to actually care about real figures. Or is that not cool any longer?
For all of the mediocre posts that received a 5 before this one, I really wish I had the mod power to give you a 6. You merrit a 5 for the first statement alone. The last line puts you over the top.
"French researchers have found that Egyptians, Greek and Romans were using nanotechnology to dye their hair several thousands years ago.At a moment where many people wonder if the use of nanoparticles is safe, it's good to know that nanotechnology has been widely used for a very long time."
Yes, but all of these people are now dead, many under yet to be determined causes. I think it is clear that using nanotechnology on or near your head for prolonged periods causes near 100% fatality.
Which just goes to show how cool the 50's really were.
Seriously, after decades of political correctness, we see that some stereotypes aren't always that far off. These guys aren't guessing that women want this, it's part of the feedback/research. My own experience (my wife and her friends) supports this. I know, my own experience doesn't offer a sample size large enough to reject the null hypothesis but it makes it a little easier to believe when I hear someone else say he same thing.
My big concern is that the very people who have HDMI, particularly at this point, are not very likely to be interested in risking any video quality for the sake of wireless.
The worst thing about the dirt throwing smear campaign concept is that they (he?) fired first with the "Mac user base aura of smugness on security." comment. Sorry folks, that couldn't be taken as flattery by anyone. In fact, given Apple's lawyers, you might not be surprised if they considered that the proverial throwing down of the gauntlett. It was a poor choice of words in any event and could in no way be expected to endear them to Apple.
I can hear it now: (Entering Johny Cache dream sequence)
Lynn Fox: Hey Steve, these hackers just announced an exploit and demoed it on one of our new Macbooks. They thought we would appreciate it because of our current Mac user base aura of smugness on security.
Steve jobs: Wow! That's great. Hey Lynn, how about calling the legal department and having them issue a letter of congratulations on my behalf to these very helpful young men.
Lynn Fox: I'll take care of it immediately. Would you like for me to acknowledge our failure as a company on Macworld too?
Steve Jobs: Sure Lynn, that would be swell. Oh, we might want to contact one of our programmers to see if there is any possibility of fixing this.
Lynn Fox: Good idea Steve.
Steve Jobs: Maybe we should give these guys a grant.
Lyn Fox: I'm sure our guys in legal will take care of that too.
Steve Jobs: I have a really good feeling about this.
Considering the expense of making the best game and that fewer and fewer games are exclusive to one platform or another, aren't we just going to see ports for the most part? Can any serious game maker really just focus on one platform? Not from the press I've been reading.
If that's true, we aren't likely to see much difference between one platform and the next. How much effort will a developer put into tweaking their game for the features of any one box? As long as the consoles are fairly close, I'm not sure Medal of Honor 3 is really going to be any different on the Xbox or PS3. Perhaps the Wii will let me aim at the Nazis with my wand, I don't know. I am pretty sure I have some titles for the original Xbox that were ports and never really took full advantage of the hardware.
Have I missed something? Will we really see something on the PS3 that can't be seen anywhere else? Perhaps the seven or eight people in America that own 1080p capable HDTVs will see something wonderful.
I've been using these personal firewalls for years without a single occurance of malware or rooting.
See for yourself, they run on a variety of architecture. They can be found here and here.
A couple of others that are nearly as good (in my personal experience) are here and here. .
Give them a try. You'll be impressed with the increased security.
Easy guys. I'm not promoting bigger is better, I'm pointing out the US consumer mentality. Bigger is better. More is better (you know, the thing that won the VCR war?). Sorry, I figured everyone would get it.
I must really be behind the times if I want to pay more money for something with less quality and features...
Well, you can't buy a CRT over 36", nor an HDCRT over 34" anymore. While I understand your feelings about CRT superiority, if you don't think bigger is always better, not only are you behind the times, you're living on another planet.
From the article: Meteorologists use supercomputers to predict climate patterns decades into the future by analyzing huge databases of statistics.
It all makes sense now. When they predict 90% chance of rain three days in a row and we don't see a drop, they relly meant that it will rain sometime between now and thirty or forty years from now.
Because everyone knows all the minimum wage jobs are the easy ones... Strawberry picking, aspalt laying, etc aren't hard at all
No, strawberry picking isn't hard, it's easy compared to learning how to apply statistical measures to processes to find improvements (I know, I've done both).
Sometimes laziness is defined by the choices people are willing to make not the physical effort required to do their job. Are (were) they too lazy to get an education? Are they too lazy to put the work in necessary to lift themselves up?
My wife is a school teacher of many years and she has never said that a child was too dumb to do well in school but many times too lazy.
Hard physical labor is easy compared to the effort of building yourself into something better and more desirable to employers. I'm sure we've all seen our friends or high school classmates take the easy way out and not study, not work, not use their minds. I don't care if they do lift more than me everyday, they can still qualify as lazy.
Your example of some public high schools in poor areas doesn't quite hold either. All it takes is one success story to demonstrate that it CAN be done. If it CAN be done (through a lot of hard work, no doubt) then you need to look at the real cause for why it isn't done every time. The best private school in our city (considered one of the best in the country) spends almost exactly the same amount of money per student that our abysmal public school system (considered one of the worst in the country) does on theirs. MONEY IS NOT THE ANSWER! Repeat that with me, please. MONEY IS NOT THE ANSWER. That goes for our social issues as well.
Oh, and don't confuse "hard jobs" with "undesirable jobs". Just because a job is undesirable doesn't mean its worker isn't lazy. I worked hard for MANY years to ensure that I wouldn't have to lay "asphalt" for a living.
This is why I get irritated when people (particularly on/.) are so abusinve to the Republican party as if things would have been different had Gore/Kerry whomever been elected. 410-15 means bipartisan support for stupidity.
Want to make a difference? Voting Democrat isn't going to do it. I don't know the solution but whatever it is I'm pretty sure it hasn't been offered to us yet.
The question is what is the right thing to do? Ban the batteries or make better efforts in consumer education?
Perhaps we can use the same methods to educate the consumer about phishing, viruses, and clicking on those cute little pop-up windows that tell us we have just won a free weekend at Katie Couric's Thigh-high Boot Camp too.
Your right. They should have said "Comes with five USB port until you inevitably start using them and then there will be fewer". That would have been more accurate.
I have built several bat houses to place around my yard to try and increase their population in my local vicinity. and decrease the biting insect population.
What are you thinking, man? Bats? BATS! You've got allergies to garlic, no reflection, lost soul and a greatly increased susceptibility to sun induced skin cancer. I'd rather have the mosquito bite.
I find it interesting that we see these numbers from Sony shortly after Official Xbox Magazine (I think that's who it was) reports that $60 games aren't really catching on and that we may see lower prices soon.
OTOH: We are expected to pay $10 to $15 for a map pack that PC users get for free so I don't feel like we are making too much progress.
Slashdot Mirror
Electronic systems - including electronic voting machines [princeton.edu] - will always be able to be tampered with, no matter who makes them, no matter what their CEOs stupidly say, no matter what ongoing audit mechanisms are implemented, whether they're open or proprietary, and no matter what legislation or other initiatives mandate or recommend them.
ALL SYSTEMS - be they electronic or otherwise - will always be able to be tampered with, no matter who makes them, no matter what their CEOs stupidly say, no matter what ongoing audit mechanisms are implemented, whether they're open or proprietary, and no matter what legislation or other initiatives mandate or recommend them.
I think we need to keep site of that, especially one day after Slashdot posts stories like this.
Does electronic voting have to be perfect or better? (Rhetorical question)
Can electronic voting be better than our current system? (I really want to know)
Considering that Firefox is the more common browser on Slashdot, how about doing a story about Firefox 1.5.07 fixing four separate critical heap corruption exploits and an honest to god RSA signature spoofing exploit? These stories about IE exploits comes off as pure Microsoft-hate masturbation.
I don't know, perhaps because they were fixed??
I don't like DRM any more than you do but it is not the cause of every single consumer ill. Many people (read enormous numbers) do not know what DRM is and why it is bad. There are still plenty of reasons to not buy online music. Here are some:
1. Fear of buying on the Internet. Everyone isn't a slashdot nerd.
2. Relatively low quality. 128kbps mp4 3. Fear of viruses/malware destroying system. No it doesn't have to come from the music to make you lose everything. Backups are not that common among the masses. I think I read a slashdot submission discussing this recently.
4. Built in backup system in the CD. For whatever reason, it's great to have a backup and the original CD makes a good one.
5. $.99 isn't that great of a price if you want most/all of an album. It solves the problem of having to pay $15 for an album to get a single song but considering the above, it isn't exactly cut-rate pricing.
6. Selection. There is still more available on CD than itunes.
7. Sony. They make me never want to buy anything legit again.
8. XXIA. See 7 above. I know 7 and 8 sound like DRM issues but they aren't here. It's not the DRM infestation, it's the business practices. I can live with Fairplay, not with these guys.
9. Trust. While I don't recall Apple breaking it (have they?), many have. Will my purchases be tracked? Will the music I play in my computer be sent to Real?
10. Format. Sure, mp4 is the flavor of the month now but what's next? I can always re-rip a CD (been there, done that) into the newer better format but my $.99 music is stuck for life.
There you go, ten reasons I can think of while my oatmeal gets cold that DRM shouldn't be blamed for market share. Perhaps ten reasons also why people who get p2p music are still trying to get what they want in a world that has turned their backs on the consumer.
O.K. Have at it.
by gormanly (134067) on Sunday September 10, @01:50PM (#16076472) Of course. Because the iPod only sold 1/3 more in both the first and second quarters than last year. But wait - it's down on last year's Christmas rush sales!!!! It's in decline!! The death of the iPod is here!!!!!!! Oh wait. WTF??
Come on people, your supposed to be geeks and nerds and so inclined to actually care about real figures. Or is that not cool any longer?
For all of the mediocre posts that received a 5 before this one, I really wish I had the mod power to give you a 6. You merrit a 5 for the first statement alone. The last line puts you over the top.
"French researchers have found that Egyptians, Greek and Romans were using nanotechnology to dye their hair several thousands years ago.At a moment where many people wonder if the use of nanoparticles is safe, it's good to know that nanotechnology has been widely used for a very long time."
Yes, but all of these people are now dead, many under yet to be determined causes. I think it is clear that using nanotechnology on or near your head for prolonged periods causes near 100% fatality.
The 1950s called. They want their mentality back.
Which just goes to show how cool the 50's really were.
Seriously, after decades of political correctness, we see that some stereotypes aren't always that far off. These guys aren't guessing that women want this, it's part of the feedback/research. My own experience (my wife and her friends) supports this. I know, my own experience doesn't offer a sample size large enough to reject the null hypothesis but it makes it a little easier to believe when I hear someone else say he same thing.
My big concern is that the very people who have HDMI, particularly at this point, are not very likely to be interested in risking any video quality for the sake of wireless.
The Segway is a solution looking for a problem.
I think you're exacty right.
The worst thing about the dirt throwing smear campaign concept is that they (he?) fired first with the "Mac user base aura of smugness on security." comment. Sorry folks, that couldn't be taken as flattery by anyone. In fact, given Apple's lawyers, you might not be surprised if they considered that the proverial throwing down of the gauntlett. It was a poor choice of words in any event and could in no way be expected to endear them to Apple.
I can hear it now: (Entering Johny Cache dream sequence)
Lynn Fox: Hey Steve, these hackers just announced an exploit and demoed it on one of our new Macbooks. They thought we would appreciate it because of our current Mac user base aura of smugness on security.
Steve jobs: Wow! That's great. Hey Lynn, how about calling the legal department and having them issue a letter of congratulations on my behalf to these very helpful young men.
Lynn Fox: I'll take care of it immediately. Would you like for me to acknowledge our failure as a company on Macworld too?
Steve Jobs: Sure Lynn, that would be swell. Oh, we might want to contact one of our programmers to see if there is any possibility of fixing this.
Lynn Fox: Good idea Steve.
Steve Jobs: Maybe we should give these guys a grant.
Lyn Fox: I'm sure our guys in legal will take care of that too.
Steve Jobs: I have a really good feeling about this.
"The launch had to be postponed because the new format's digital rights management system did not yet satisfy every Hollywood studio.'"
Hahahhahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahhahahahaha
Whew! Wait a moment. No, oh no.......
Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha
For all of the sewing Sony has done, it's good to see a little reaping.
Considering the expense of making the best game and that fewer and fewer games are exclusive to one platform or another, aren't we just going to see ports for the most part? Can any serious game maker really just focus on one platform? Not from the press I've been reading.
If that's true, we aren't likely to see much difference between one platform and the next. How much effort will a developer put into tweaking their game for the features of any one box? As long as the consoles are fairly close, I'm not sure Medal of Honor 3 is really going to be any different on the Xbox or PS3. Perhaps the Wii will let me aim at the Nazis with my wand, I don't know. I am pretty sure I have some titles for the original Xbox that were ports and never really took full advantage of the hardware.
Have I missed something? Will we really see something on the PS3 that can't be seen anywhere else? Perhaps the seven or eight people in America that own 1080p capable HDTVs will see something wonderful.
_____________
A weapon unused is a useless weapon.
If we cannot defeat terrorists on and from our own homeland, why did we have to lose so many of our rights and freedoms to fight terrorism?
I've been using these personal firewalls for years without a single occurance of malware or rooting. See for yourself, they run on a variety of architecture. They can be found here and here.
A couple of others that are nearly as good (in my personal experience) are here and here. .
Give them a try. You'll be impressed with the increased security.
Easy guys. I'm not promoting bigger is better, I'm pointing out the US consumer mentality. Bigger is better. More is better (you know, the thing that won the VCR war?). Sorry, I figured everyone would get it.
I must really be behind the times if I want to pay more money for something with less quality and features...
Well, you can't buy a CRT over 36", nor an HDCRT over 34" anymore. While I understand your feelings about CRT superiority, if you don't think bigger is always better, not only are you behind the times, you're living on another planet.
You do realize this has been done (unsuccessfully) by dozens of city governments against a variety of gun manufacturers and importers?
You do realize that the gun lobby is much better funded than the P2P lobby, right?
From the article: Meteorologists use supercomputers to predict climate patterns decades into the future by analyzing huge databases of statistics.
It all makes sense now. When they predict 90% chance of rain three days in a row and we don't see a drop, they relly meant that it will rain sometime between now and thirty or forty years from now.
Because everyone knows all the minimum wage jobs are the easy ones... Strawberry picking, aspalt laying, etc aren't hard at all
No, strawberry picking isn't hard, it's easy compared to learning how to apply statistical measures to processes to find improvements (I know, I've done both).
Sometimes laziness is defined by the choices people are willing to make not the physical effort required to do their job. Are (were) they too lazy to get an education? Are they too lazy to put the work in necessary to lift themselves up?
My wife is a school teacher of many years and she has never said that a child was too dumb to do well in school but many times too lazy.
Hard physical labor is easy compared to the effort of building yourself into something better and more desirable to employers. I'm sure we've all seen our friends or high school classmates take the easy way out and not study, not work, not use their minds. I don't care if they do lift more than me everyday, they can still qualify as lazy.
Your example of some public high schools in poor areas doesn't quite hold either. All it takes is one success story to demonstrate that it CAN be done. If it CAN be done (through a lot of hard work, no doubt) then you need to look at the real cause for why it isn't done every time. The best private school in our city (considered one of the best in the country) spends almost exactly the same amount of money per student that our abysmal public school system (considered one of the worst in the country) does on theirs. MONEY IS NOT THE ANSWER! Repeat that with me, please. MONEY IS NOT THE ANSWER. That goes for our social issues as well.
Oh, and don't confuse "hard jobs" with "undesirable jobs". Just because a job is undesirable doesn't mean its worker isn't lazy. I worked hard for MANY years to ensure that I wouldn't have to lay "asphalt" for a living.
This is why I get irritated when people (particularly on /.) are so abusinve to the Republican party as if things would have been different had Gore/Kerry whomever been elected. 410-15 means bipartisan support for stupidity.
Want to make a difference? Voting Democrat isn't going to do it. I don't know the solution but whatever it is I'm pretty sure it hasn't been offered to us yet.
I've had my eyes on snakes ever since Edengate.
I use Blockbuster online. They don't come fast enough to ever collect dust.
The question is what is the right thing to do? Ban the batteries or make better efforts in consumer education?
Perhaps we can use the same methods to educate the consumer about phishing, viruses, and clicking on those cute little pop-up windows that tell us we have just won a free weekend at Katie Couric's Thigh-high Boot Camp too.
Works in Vista, too!
I know this cannot be true since Microsoft Says Vista Most Secure OS Ever.
Your right. They should have said "Comes with five USB port until you inevitably start using them and then there will be fewer". That would have been more accurate.
I have built several bat houses to place around my yard to try and increase their population in my local vicinity. and decrease the biting insect population .
What are you thinking, man? Bats? BATS! You've got allergies to garlic, no reflection, lost soul and a greatly increased susceptibility to sun induced skin cancer. I'd rather have the mosquito bite.
You've got to think these things through man.
I find it interesting that we see these numbers from Sony shortly after Official Xbox Magazine (I think that's who it was) reports that $60 games aren't really catching on and that we may see lower prices soon.
OTOH: We are expected to pay $10 to $15 for a map pack that PC users get for free so I don't feel like we are making too much progress.