He may not be a pure politician but theres a lot of political optimism in the numbers he's looking for regarding growth. Indian IT will not keep growing the at the rate it is now for much longer, I'n not saying it wont grow, just not at the rate they are projecting. It strikes me as very naive and shortsighted for a leader to put so many economic eggs in one basket by baking on IT to prop up the economy. Its not oil or Gold, customers can get it somewhere else.
But the penalies against IBM will be higher if the code cannot be retracted and breach of contract is proven. I was just reading the Business Week article and they only talk about suing IBM for breach of contract, not IP issues.
What the hell are you doing !! Get a hold of yourself man and stop trying to point out the facts in this story. Most posters so far have already managed to increase MS's few reported cases to 600,000 broken updates. Let them have their fun.
We have wrecked the earth by then and will all be living on other planets in the solar system. Set your tivo's now cos presumably they will televise it.
This should be enough to pop off numerous tiny black holes, with masses of just a few hundred protons. Black holes of this size will evaporate almost instantly, their existence detectable only by dying bursts of Hawking radiation.
I had a vision of the experiment going disasterously wrong and instantly consuming the earth. Scene then cuts to a couple of very nervous scientist standing before a very pissed God saying 'Ah your Supreme beingness what actually happened was we miscalculated slightly and then some diet coke was spilled on the control panel and...'
The OJ verdict came as a surprise to a many people, ie those who still felt it was possible to obtain justice throught the courts. Given that SCO's position seems tenuous are we to assume that they will now not only win but probably have the Judge award them 10 billion instead of 1.
Look at the mess in Florida in the last US presidential elections. The system there worked as everything was on paper, so they just needed to go through all the ballot notes and re-count and re-evaluate them. After the extensive re-counts and press and public auditing of the result, it was found to be correct.
Whether or not the result was 'correct' is still open to debate in many parts. But that aside I recall the recount as being a lot more involved than just a simple recounting of ballots. Have we all forgotten how we laughed at the description of pregnant and hanging chads (cracked me up anyway) and the counters trying to guess voter intention from dimples in the ballot papers. Very scientific and auditable system indeed.
Apparently there were several audits performed and I believe the source was available under NDA to the govt. Next time they will be entitled to distribute the source if they so desire.
this was the govt's response to a series of questions in the Dail
Security and integrity have been paramount in the design,
testing and implementation of the electronic voting and counting
system. Original tender submissions were assessed and the successful
solution selected on the basis of, inter alia, functionality and
product quality including hardware and software security and
application of the count rules as in the case of a paper ballot.
Detailed functional specifications, likewise, made extensive
reference to security aspects of the system.
The testing programme has been thorough and involved independent
examination of the voting machine and voting machine software by
a number of recognised international test institutes and private
companies. The voting machine hardware and software has been tested
by PTB, the National Institute for Science and Technology in
Germany. Separate reports have been prepared by two test institutes
in the Netherlands: TNO subjected the voting machine to a range of
environmental tests and KEMA Quality BV tested the machine for
compliance with international safety standards.
An Irish company, PMI Software Ltd. carried out an architectural and
code review of the system software. My Department also engaged the
Electoral Reform Society in the UK, which has extensive experience of
STV election counts, to test the software against its database of over
300 elections. The count software was, in addition, tested for
functionality and accuracy both by my Department and a number of
Dáil returning officers. Finally, in relation to vote counting, the
system can produce, after the votes are mixed, vote tables to enable
progress of the count to be monitored and also to trace a vote at any
stage of the count.
If necessary, following a High Court order in an election petition
case, the system can also produce a ballot paper, with preferences,
to allow a manual count to be carried out.
At the general election and referendum pilots in 2002, the software
was used under license from the supplier and at present, the source code
is not available to the public. The software is currently being
modified for use at the European and local elections in June 2004
and when this work has been completed and tested, I will give
careful consideration to the making of the source code available.
The Zerflow report, which was the subject of recent media
reporting, was commissioned by my Department as an addition to the
principal reports to which I have referred. The company was requested
to carry out a security assessment of the procedures to be applied in
the use of voting machines in polling stations to ensure that
procedures proposed by the Department were adequate. The issues
raised by the Zerflow report, which dealt mainly with possible
threats to the external physical features of the voting machine, were
assessed by my Department and by Nedap/Powervote - the machine
manufacturers. The assessment by both was that the main scenario
identified was implausible and that the likelihood of its occurrence
without detection was extremely remote.
I should emphasise that the version of the voting machine used in this
country has more security features than the versions used in the
Netherlands and Germany where the issues raised by Zerflow have
not been identified in any risk assessments. In addition, the
integrity of the Irish voting process is protected on polling day by
a set of protocols operated by polling staff and the Gardai under the
supervision of the returning officer. My Department will continue to
keep these arrangements under review and will update advice
provided to returning officers, as necessary, including advice in
relation to the presence of audio, video or
I dont think steering is an issue with this sort of project. Its simply to collect data from as many wide ranging sources as possible for trend analysis at a later point as opposed to the majority of past/current efforts which can only focus on a few square metres of the planets surface. I imagine they dont really care where it goes if it broadens the sample pool.
In the time honoured tradition of women forcing men to wait for them this is only right and proper. First she will have to root in her bag for the key which she is pretty sure is in there somewhere. Then you wait some more while she pop's down to 7-11 for a couple of AA's cos the batteries are flat. Then went you think you are all set she needs you to press the button cos shes crap with mechanical things and it's not doing anything when she presses it
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He may not be a pure politician but theres a lot of political optimism in the numbers he's looking for regarding growth. Indian IT will not keep growing the at the rate it is now for much longer, I'n not saying it wont grow, just not at the rate they are projecting. It strikes me as very naive and shortsighted for a leader to put so many economic eggs in one basket by baking on IT to prop up the economy. Its not oil or Gold, customers can get it somewhere else.
Book has good points and bad points. Reviewer prefers other books.
Even more importantly how badly are they going to fuck with SCO for selling IP they dont own. We all know how Bill feels about IP abuse.
But the penalies against IBM will be higher if the code cannot be retracted and breach of contract is proven. I was just reading the Business Week article and they only talk about suing IBM for breach of contract, not IP issues.
And MS sue SCO for charging for IP they dont own.
I own the IP rights to UNIX System V
apparently was incompatible with popular security software from other companies, such as Symantec Corp.
hmm popular security software like McAfee I wonder.
Maybe the reason you had to reinstall is because you cant read or just dont understand whats on your system.
What the hell are you doing !! Get a hold of yourself man and stop trying to point out the facts in this story. Most posters so far have already managed to increase MS's few reported cases to 600,000 broken updates. Let them have their fun.
We have wrecked the earth by then and will all be living on other planets in the solar system. Set your tivo's now cos presumably they will televise it.
guestimates that it will take over 100 years to replace all failing/obsolete tech And would those be earth years, saturnian, mercurian, dog, light ?
This should be enough to pop off numerous tiny black holes, with masses of just a few hundred protons. Black holes of this size will evaporate almost instantly, their existence detectable only by dying bursts of Hawking radiation.
I had a vision of the experiment going disasterously wrong and instantly consuming the earth. Scene then cuts to a couple of very nervous scientist standing before a very pissed God saying 'Ah your Supreme beingness what actually happened was we miscalculated slightly and then some diet coke was spilled on the control panel and...'
Someone tell them their craft has been infected with a dalmation virus.
Because they would only end up suing themselves when they buy out SCO?
The OJ verdict came as a surprise to a many people, ie those who still felt it was possible to obtain justice throught the courts. Given that SCO's position seems tenuous are we to assume that they will now not only win but probably have the Judge award them 10 billion instead of 1.
A positive outcome from the war with Iraq. Mohammed Said Sahaf got a job in the Qualcomm PR department
is a certain Mr Anderson
Ah that might explain why the unknown Hans Lederhosen Beckenbauer was elected by a landslide majority in Dublin.
Look at the mess in Florida in the last US presidential elections. The system there worked as everything was on paper, so they just needed to go through all the ballot notes and re-count and re-evaluate them. After the extensive re-counts and press and public auditing of the result, it was found to be correct.
Whether or not the result was 'correct' is still open to debate in many parts. But that aside I recall the recount as being a lot more involved than just a simple recounting of ballots. Have we all forgotten how we laughed at the description of pregnant and hanging chads (cracked me up anyway) and the counters trying to guess voter intention from dimples in the ballot papers. Very scientific and auditable system indeed.
Apparently there were several audits performed and I believe the source was available under NDA to the govt. Next time they will be entitled to distribute the source if they so desire.
this was the govt's response to a series of questions in the Dail
Security and integrity have been paramount in the design, testing and implementation of the electronic voting and counting system. Original tender submissions were assessed and the successful solution selected on the basis of, inter alia, functionality and product quality including hardware and software security and application of the count rules as in the case of a paper ballot. Detailed functional specifications, likewise, made extensive reference to security aspects of the system. The testing programme has been thorough and involved independent examination of the voting machine and voting machine software by a number of recognised international test institutes and private companies. The voting machine hardware and software has been tested by PTB, the National Institute for Science and Technology in Germany. Separate reports have been prepared by two test institutes in the Netherlands: TNO subjected the voting machine to a range of environmental tests and KEMA Quality BV tested the machine for compliance with international safety standards. An Irish company, PMI Software Ltd. carried out an architectural and code review of the system software. My Department also engaged the Electoral Reform Society in the UK, which has extensive experience of STV election counts, to test the software against its database of over 300 elections. The count software was, in addition, tested for functionality and accuracy both by my Department and a number of Dáil returning officers. Finally, in relation to vote counting, the system can produce, after the votes are mixed, vote tables to enable progress of the count to be monitored and also to trace a vote at any stage of the count. If necessary, following a High Court order in an election petition case, the system can also produce a ballot paper, with preferences, to allow a manual count to be carried out. At the general election and referendum pilots in 2002, the software was used under license from the supplier and at present, the source code is not available to the public. The software is currently being modified for use at the European and local elections in June 2004 and when this work has been completed and tested, I will give careful consideration to the making of the source code available. The Zerflow report, which was the subject of recent media reporting, was commissioned by my Department as an addition to the principal reports to which I have referred. The company was requested to carry out a security assessment of the procedures to be applied in the use of voting machines in polling stations to ensure that procedures proposed by the Department were adequate. The issues raised by the Zerflow report, which dealt mainly with possible threats to the external physical features of the voting machine, were assessed by my Department and by Nedap/Powervote - the machine manufacturers. The assessment by both was that the main scenario identified was implausible and that the likelihood of its occurrence without detection was extremely remote. I should emphasise that the version of the voting machine used in this country has more security features than the versions used in the Netherlands and Germany where the issues raised by Zerflow have not been identified in any risk assessments. In addition, the integrity of the Irish voting process is protected on polling day by a set of protocols operated by polling staff and the Gardai under the supervision of the returning officer. My Department will continue to keep these arrangements under review and will update advice provided to returning officers, as necessary, including advice in relation to the presence of audio, video or
that 70% of all wesites now are blogs
The plan is to fool the Martians into thinking they are beach balls so they take them home and thus provide lots of useful information.
I dont think steering is an issue with this sort of project. Its simply to collect data from as many wide ranging sources as possible for trend analysis at a later point as opposed to the majority of past/current efforts which can only focus on a few square metres of the planets surface. I imagine they dont really care where it goes if it broadens the sample pool.
In the time honoured tradition of women forcing men to wait for them this is only right and proper. First she will have to root in her bag for the key which she is pretty sure is in there somewhere. Then you wait some more while she pop's down to 7-11 for a couple of AA's cos the batteries are flat. Then went you think you are all set she needs you to press the button cos shes crap with mechanical things and it's not doing anything when she presses it
Before we geek geeks trying to reverse engineer this jacket to help them attract members of the opposite sex ?
the new improved with vampire slaying skills Dawn thats going to take over from Buffy ?