They just take votes and record them. The only remotely novel programming problem should be the security, and they don't appear to have implemented any! How can these machines keep screwing up when ATMs keep on not screwing up?
I'm not a computer scientist, but I know many of you are. Is there some hidden level of difficulty here? Some reason why making voting machines should be such a challenge for Diebold?
3) "Underground experts" such as black-hat security experts value their anonymity greatly.
Is it possible to provide an anonymous identity that's certified to belong to only one person, so that people could build reputation under a pseudonym? It could be used by the black hats, and more importantly, by whistleblowers and political dissidents.
If anyone wants to do that, I hereby put this super-cool idea into the public domain.
I can see where you'd rather go to Citizendium for mission-critical information, but the same relative anonymity that enables vandalism at Wikipedia also enables objective independence, especially from the politics of academia. Besides, which Harvard professor is going to sign off on the All Your Base Are Belong To Us article?
...but they help us too. For instance, I am a professional pirate, and my business faces ruin. I don't mean that I have an eyepatch and cutlass and go around robbing ships. I mean I have an eyepatch and cutlass and go around robbing record stores. My trade has survived for years, but I now face the prospect of bankruptcy. Every day I ask myself why this is happening.
I inherited the title about 12 years ago from the Dread Pirate R0b3rtz. It was one of those practices that struck without warning, carried away as many CDs as possible, then scuttled the small, independent record stores as we left. I decided that to grow the business I'd need to aim for a different demographic, the family market. My practice specialised in aquiring family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to. I don't steal sick stuff like Marilyn Manson or cop-killer rap, and I'm proud to have stolen one of the most extensive Christian rock catalogues that I know of.
The business strategy worked. People flocked to my illegal fencing operation, knowing that they (and their children) could safely purchase records without profanity or violent lyrics. Over the years I expanded the business and took on even more cutthroat and ruthless employees. It took hard work and long hours but I had achieved my dream - owning a profitable pirate fleet that I had built with my own hands. But now, this dream is turning into a nightmare.
Every day, fewer and fewer of my stolen songs can be played. Why can no one play them? Do their players use proprietary formats? Are they not technologically inclined? I don't know. But there is one, inescapable truth - the RIAA is mostly to blame. The statistics speak for themselves - one in three song files world wide is encrypted with DRM. On the Internet, you can hardly find any music that hasn't been locked down by the RIAA. It has the potential to destroy the piracy industry, from buccaneers, to swashbucklers, to Dread Pirates like myself. Before you point to the supposed "social conscience of consumers", I'll note that the book store just across from my store is getting robbed daily. Unlike music files, it's harder to apply DRM to books.
A week ago, an unpleasant experience with record industry executives gave me an idea. In my favorite bordello, I overheard a slick, ponytailed record executive talking to his rockstar friend.
"Babe, I'm going to lock down your music so hard that if you play it with your windows down, you'll be able to sue the pedestrians."
"Gnarly, man. I'm going to be coked up in the VIP room for life!"
I was fuming. So they were out to destroy record piracy from right under my nose? Fat chance. I grabbed the little ponytailed, bluetooth-wearing flake by his shirt. "Arrr...you're going to lock down the piracy industry, eh?" I asked him in my best Blackbeard/Erik The Viking voice.
"Uh y-yeh." He mumbled, shocked.
"That's it. What's your name? You shall bear the mark of the Black Dot. Now take yourself and your greasy toothpick of a friend out of my bordello - and don't come back." I barked. Cravenly, they complied and scampered off.
So that's my idea - give RIAA executives the Black Dot. If somebody cannot respect the superiority of pirates, then they shall die by my cutlass. If the music industry wants to exclude pirates, then pirates should keel-haul them. It's that simple. One strike, and you're out - one instance of DRM, and it's off the plank with you. If you want to play tough, you should expect the big dogs to take notice. It's really no different than the ATF setting Branch Davidians on fire.
I have just written a letter to the pirates guild outlining my proposal. Impaling RIAA executives one by one isn't going far enough. Not to mention record executives use the fact that they're being drawn and quartered to unfairly portray themselves as victims. A national register of record executives would make the problem far easier to deal with. People would be encouraged to give the names of suspected record
Pirate1: "Dude, I'm going to put this CD on the Internet right away."
Pirate2: "Yeah, dude, that's really lete [sic], you'll get lots of respect."
Are you quite sure that's what they said? Are you telling me characters from Reefer Madness shop at your store?
I grabbed the little shit by his shirt. "So...you're going to copy this to your friends over The Internet, punk?" I asked him in my best Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry voice.
Did you ever get in trouble for committing assault? Were they impressed with your Dirty Harry voice?
I am inspired by artists such as Metallica that have taken a stand against the powerful pirate lobby.
Could you post some information on the powerful pirate lobby, including how much money they've donated to each party?
Since this is going to a girls school, Red Mars should get extra points for having so many female characters in the forefront - though I think Red Mars may be a tad long-winded for high school students. (Use this as a yardstick: Have they read Atlas Shrugged? If so, Red Mars is terse by comparison.)
Also, another poster mentioned Cosmos by Carl Sagan. This is an excellent suggestion. Not only is the main character female, but the story is captivating, and the science is impeccable.
And how does that impact the debate? Do you open your argument with, "Shut up, Flanders!"
It depends on the person's relationship to me. If it's a coworker or family member, I grunt noncommittally. If it's a stranger on the sidewalk, I accept a Chick Tract and give him the rest of my french fries. If it's a boss or a policeman at my car window, I agree enthusiastically and maybe quote a few bible verses.
You don't have to buy anything, just walk up to a representative sample of people who think that global warming is anthropogenic and say, "actually I think it's probably just a natural cycle." [...] The shock, hostility and downright hatred you will come across will very quickly render claims of death threats highly believable.
You'd get the same reaction if you said, "I think homosexuality is a conscious choice." Is it really? I'm not sure, but I know that it's in the best interest of religious conservatives for people to think so, and I know that religious conservatives vastly outnumber those with the means and motive to find out how orientation is determined. Therefore, when someone starts a conversation this way, I tend to start with the assumption that they're fundamentalists.
I agree that it's a shame as far as getting real science done is concerned, but I wouldn't assume that the shocked and outraged parties aren't open minded. They're just acting like hyper-vigilant spam filters that send the occasional legitimate email to the junk drawer in order to successfully filter through mountians of garbage. If you want to convince them that you'll argue on an adult level, the burden of proof is unfortunately on you.
Our country was designed (and was most efficiently operated) as a loosely coupled federation of states[...]rather than centrally by a bureaucratic federal dictatorship.
As a resident of Alabama with practical reasons keeping me from moving, let me be the first to welcome our bureaucratic federal overlords.
Per the movie, you can destroy the asteroid with as little as eighteen hours to go, provided you recruit not just any sea platform oil driller, but the best sea platform oil driller in the world..
Apple did the same thing when it bought Emagic, cancelling development of the Logic digital audio workstation for Windows. This is exactly the sort of thing that makes me want to switch to Linux's free alternatives, even when they're less user-friendly.
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I just installed Ubuntu Edgy on a 400 MHz Gateway G6 with 256 megs of RAM. I had to go into the command line twice to get all the extra 1998 hardware working, and the responsiveness felt just a tad sub-optimal.
Ubuntu Edgy is just a few months older than Vista. I wonder how Vista would have fared?
Amen to your policy. I started out in print design, and got my current skills ((X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, etc...) entirely through online tutorials and documentation. I write copy with the help of Reference.com, stop first at Wikipedia to learn the outline of any unfamiliar technology, and of course, keep up with tech news here. None of these sites were work-related when I worked in print, but they enabled me to move to web development.
And MySpace? I use it to keep up with old college friends. It's not directly productive, but it helps me avoid burnout. For those who use the full potential of the internet, restricting their access to it is like forbidding them from using a portion of their brain.
Boot Camp is a program that simplifies the process of getting Windows/Linux/Whatever to boot on an Intel Mac alongside OS X. It was programmed by Apple, in California.
But see, in this instance, the Chinese child went to an actual boot camp, where he was programmed (which is to say brainwashed) against the use of the internet.
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They just take votes and record them. The only remotely novel programming problem should be the security, and they don't appear to have implemented any! How can these machines keep screwing up when ATMs keep on not screwing up?
I'm not a computer scientist, but I know many of you are. Is there some hidden level of difficulty here? Some reason why making voting machines should be such a challenge for Diebold?
And poorly implemented antitrust rulings. Does anyone have a cheaper phone bill because of their "choice" between Bellsouth, Pacific Bell, etc?
For all you know, he could be the "automotive engineer" that designs engines for BMW.
Also, remember that there can be no certification in a field until that field has been explored by the non-certified.
3) "Underground experts" such as black-hat security experts value their anonymity greatly.
Is it possible to provide an anonymous identity that's certified to belong to only one person, so that people could build reputation under a pseudonym? It could be used by the black hats, and more importantly, by whistleblowers and political dissidents.
If anyone wants to do that, I hereby put this super-cool idea into the public domain.
I can see where you'd rather go to Citizendium for mission-critical information, but the same relative anonymity that enables vandalism at Wikipedia also enables objective independence, especially from the politics of academia. Besides, which Harvard professor is going to sign off on the All Your Base Are Belong To Us article?
Why don't they have a DARPA-BSD or something, so they can secure the code themselves? Can the government not afford any CS majors?
...but they help us too. For instance, I am a professional pirate, and my business faces ruin. I don't mean that I have an eyepatch and cutlass and go around robbing ships. I mean I have an eyepatch and cutlass and go around robbing record stores. My trade has survived for years, but I now face the prospect of bankruptcy. Every day I ask myself why this is happening.
I inherited the title about 12 years ago from the Dread Pirate R0b3rtz. It was one of those practices that struck without warning, carried away as many CDs as possible, then scuttled the small, independent record stores as we left. I decided that to grow the business I'd need to aim for a different demographic, the family market. My practice specialised in aquiring family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to. I don't steal sick stuff like Marilyn Manson or cop-killer rap, and I'm proud to have stolen one of the most extensive Christian rock catalogues that I know of.
The business strategy worked. People flocked to my illegal fencing operation, knowing that they (and their children) could safely purchase records without profanity or violent lyrics. Over the years I expanded the business and took on even more cutthroat and ruthless employees. It took hard work and long hours but I had achieved my dream - owning a profitable pirate fleet that I had built with my own hands. But now, this dream is turning into a nightmare.
Every day, fewer and fewer of my stolen songs can be played. Why can no one play them? Do their players use proprietary formats? Are they not technologically inclined? I don't know. But there is one, inescapable truth - the RIAA is mostly to blame. The statistics speak for themselves - one in three song files world wide is encrypted with DRM. On the Internet, you can hardly find any music that hasn't been locked down by the RIAA. It has the potential to destroy the piracy industry, from buccaneers, to swashbucklers, to Dread Pirates like myself. Before you point to the supposed "social conscience of consumers", I'll note that the book store just across from my store is getting robbed daily. Unlike music files, it's harder to apply DRM to books.
A week ago, an unpleasant experience with record industry executives gave me an idea. In my favorite bordello, I overheard a slick, ponytailed record executive talking to his rockstar friend.
"Babe, I'm going to lock down your music so hard that if you play it with your windows down, you'll be able to sue the pedestrians."
"Gnarly, man. I'm going to be coked up in the VIP room for life!"
I was fuming. So they were out to destroy record piracy from right under my nose? Fat chance. I grabbed the little ponytailed, bluetooth-wearing flake by his shirt. "Arrr...you're going to lock down the piracy industry, eh?" I asked him in my best Blackbeard/Erik The Viking voice.
"Uh y-yeh." He mumbled, shocked.
"That's it. What's your name? You shall bear the mark of the Black Dot. Now take yourself and your greasy toothpick of a friend out of my bordello - and don't come back." I barked. Cravenly, they complied and scampered off.
So that's my idea - give RIAA executives the Black Dot. If somebody cannot respect the superiority of pirates, then they shall die by my cutlass. If the music industry wants to exclude pirates, then pirates should keel-haul them. It's that simple. One strike, and you're out - one instance of DRM, and it's off the plank with you. If you want to play tough, you should expect the big dogs to take notice. It's really no different than the ATF setting Branch Davidians on fire.
I have just written a letter to the pirates guild outlining my proposal. Impaling RIAA executives one by one isn't going far enough. Not to mention record executives use the fact that they're being drawn and quartered to unfairly portray themselves as victims. A national register of record executives would make the problem far easier to deal with. People would be encouraged to give the names of suspected record
Pirate1: "Dude, I'm going to put this CD on the Internet right away."
Pirate2: "Yeah, dude, that's really lete [sic], you'll get lots of respect."
Are you quite sure that's what they said? Are you telling me characters from Reefer Madness shop at your store?
I grabbed the little shit by his shirt. "So...you're going to copy this to your friends over The Internet, punk?" I asked him in my best Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry voice.
Did you ever get in trouble for committing assault? Were they impressed with your Dirty Harry voice?
I am inspired by artists such as Metallica that have taken a stand against the powerful pirate lobby.
Could you post some information on the powerful pirate lobby, including how much money they've donated to each party?
Is it the one where all twelve are nude except for loincloths and headdresses?
Um... no, I'm not familiar with it.
Typical geek attitude. If it's not Vorbis, it's LAME.
Studies have shown that 43% of all people who search for "Donkey Love" will buy our product within 3 years if they see our ads.
...and that number rises to 98.3% if we mention we found that item in their search history.
Cosmos, by Carl Sagan, was the voyage through the universe documentary done in conjunction with PBS. Contact is the novel.
Whoops. Wish I could edit that.
Since this is going to a girls school, Red Mars should get extra points for having so many female characters in the forefront - though I think Red Mars may be a tad long-winded for high school students. (Use this as a yardstick: Have they read Atlas Shrugged? If so, Red Mars is terse by comparison.)
Also, another poster mentioned Cosmos by Carl Sagan. This is an excellent suggestion. Not only is the main character female, but the story is captivating, and the science is impeccable.
And how does that impact the debate? Do you open your argument with, "Shut up, Flanders!"
It depends on the person's relationship to me. If it's a coworker or family member, I grunt noncommittally. If it's a stranger on the sidewalk, I accept a Chick Tract and give him the rest of my french fries. If it's a boss or a policeman at my car window, I agree enthusiastically and maybe quote a few bible verses.
You don't have to buy anything, just walk up to a representative sample of people who think that global warming is anthropogenic and say, "actually I think it's probably just a natural cycle." [...] The shock, hostility and downright hatred you will come across will very quickly render claims of death threats highly believable.
You'd get the same reaction if you said, "I think homosexuality is a conscious choice." Is it really? I'm not sure, but I know that it's in the best interest of religious conservatives for people to think so, and I know that religious conservatives vastly outnumber those with the means and motive to find out how orientation is determined. Therefore, when someone starts a conversation this way, I tend to start with the assumption that they're fundamentalists.
I agree that it's a shame as far as getting real science done is concerned, but I wouldn't assume that the shocked and outraged parties aren't open minded. They're just acting like hyper-vigilant spam filters that send the occasional legitimate email to the junk drawer in order to successfully filter through mountians of garbage. If you want to convince them that you'll argue on an adult level, the burden of proof is unfortunately on you.
Our country was designed (and was most efficiently operated) as a loosely coupled federation of states[...]rather than centrally by a bureaucratic federal dictatorship.
As a resident of Alabama with practical reasons keeping me from moving, let me be the first to welcome our bureaucratic federal overlords.
Don't drag Cheney into this. Yes, he was hunting again, but he was hundreds of miles away when Captain America was shot.
Are you telling me Essjay claimed to be a theologian, but all he really did was peddle bullshit?
from the relativity-also-out dept.
On the contrary, my pastor has done several sermons about the cultural relativity of liberal Hollywood.
Per the movie, you can destroy the asteroid with as little as eighteen hours to go, provided you recruit not just any sea platform oil driller, but the best sea platform oil driller in the world..
Apple did the same thing when it bought Emagic, cancelling development of the Logic digital audio workstation for Windows. This is exactly the sort of thing that makes me want to switch to Linux's free alternatives, even when they're less user-friendly.
I just installed Ubuntu Edgy on a 400 MHz Gateway G6 with 256 megs of RAM. I had to go into the command line twice to get all the extra 1998 hardware working, and the responsiveness felt just a tad sub-optimal.
Ubuntu Edgy is just a few months older than Vista. I wonder how Vista would have fared?
Was it the part about doubling their staff?
Was it the part about "more and better information"...
"We have to get more and better information and make sure the examiners have the right tools and information to make the best decisions."
...where the "more and better information" consists of assertions by applicants?
Amen to your policy. I started out in print design, and got my current skills ((X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, etc...) entirely through online tutorials and documentation. I write copy with the help of Reference.com, stop first at Wikipedia to learn the outline of any unfamiliar technology, and of course, keep up with tech news here. None of these sites were work-related when I worked in print, but they enabled me to move to web development.
And MySpace? I use it to keep up with old college friends. It's not directly productive, but it helps me avoid burnout. For those who use the full potential of the internet, restricting their access to it is like forbidding them from using a portion of their brain.
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I hate doing this to a joke, but here goes:
Boot Camp is a program that simplifies the process of getting Windows/Linux/Whatever to boot on an Intel Mac alongside OS X. It was programmed by Apple, in California.
But see, in this instance, the Chinese child went to an actual boot camp, where he was programmed (which is to say brainwashed) against the use of the internet.
There. Now laugh.