I've purchased a RPi Model B via Allied. They have great customer service, and a friendly sales staff. After ordering online, I got a confirmation phone call from their CS department, confirming the order and wanting to know if they could help out with any issues. One issue: Order backlog is high, but they do keep you informed of ETS. +1, would order again.
You've missed the point. Secret ballots protect each voter from reprisal for their vote. Given the heated political environment these days, I'm pretty certain that if your suggestion were followed, there would be post-election reprisals, ranging from discrimination to criminal acts.
The point is not that Diebold sold the division making the Accuvote TS. The point is that thousands of these are deployed and in use, and therefore the vulnerability is real and has an impact on the 2012 elections. Comment fail.
I'm an election judge, and I forwarded this to my county Board of Elections, with a note recommending we need to conduct a machine inspection, along with a review of how the machines are physically secured. Once the machines are fielded to the polls, usually days before the election, we need to find a way to seal them at the poll until they are used. On the subject of DRE versus other methods of vote registration/counting, I agree that DRE is still an inherently un-secure technology, but my county/state made a massive investment, and cannot afford to replace them. The best thing we can do as poll workers is to take whatever steps needed to reassure the voting public their vote is accurately recorded and secure from tampering at the poll. We have no control beyond that.
I take your point, but frankly, anyone who connects command & control system to an external network, let alone The Internet is just asking for trouble. I can see remote access out-of-band, using dialback and caller ID screening. Also, we cannot let ourselves get stampeded into more regulation by fearmongering like this. Folks who take the time to think about it will realize that this rapidly becomes a game of diminishing returns. If you think the budget deficit's big now, just wait until we add a new agency, and regulations for them to enforce. I might add that we are going to trust the Fed to get it right, and these are the people who could not get systems implemented for the IRS, the FAA, etc. Need I go on? Ah, but I hear you say, they can hire some of the best and brightest consultants in the business! Sure, but they've done that before as well. How's that new FBI case management system working out for ya, Sparky?
Speak for yourself. I'm a/.er who bitches, moans, and runs two private networks, the one at work, and the one at home. I agree that the government cannot be trusted to be impartial, but I also agree that cooperative action must be taken to forestall a network issue. Perhaps the best way to handle this would be a mutual cooperation agreement between the upstream ISP, and the private network admin. That would be sufficient for most problems. Since the Internet is non-deterministic, anything widespread enough to require a national response is going to have probably brought down the net anyway. Top-tier ISPs, (if they don't already) should have co-op agreements in place. This means that the fed only has to coordinate with the Tier 1 ISPs on national/international issues. I would also point out that the government cannot (and in many cases will not,) act to preserve data that it considers irrelevant to it's current concerns.
Even if I was still coding, (moved on to sys/netadmin several years ago,) this book would deserve a huzzah! OK, now we've made it readable, when can we make it efficient, and get rid of all the bells&whistles that have turned software into bloatware!?
I am an election judge in Baltimore County, MD. We are using the Diebold Accuvote TS. Simply put, what practical steps could we take to minimize the possibility of error or fraud in the poll? During the past few elections, my precinct has encountered it's share of problems, but the scrutiny of the general promises to be especially intense. I do not want to give anyone an excuse to invalidate our results.
I'm sorry, but this semantic trick is old and busted. In the context of this project, my statement is valid. Not in any other context. By implying that I intend to apply this to all contexts is fallacious.
Yes, they will. It is called a "discontinued product", also known as "obsolete"./
I'll concede that possibility, but why should this hold up deployment? The OS Community has plenty of time to reverse engineer a solution.
No. Hell, if the U.S. decided to invade Sudan, for example, and completely take over -- not the half-assed job they're doing in Iraq, but full-fledged colonialism -- would the potential to improve education, sanitation, infrastructure and nutrition mitigate any other consideration? [Try not to use the word "any" in a context like you did. It can open some horrendous doors.]
I'll stand by my use of any in this particular context. Your comparison is not valid, in my opinion, because the improvements you posit are potential, whereas OLPC will have a real and unqualified positive impact on levels of education. There aren't any downsides that I can see, thus "any".
I would have to disagree with one of Theo's statements: "OLPC should disclose why they picked the Marvell chip." Why? What impact does disclosing their design decisions openly have besides opening OLPC to criticism from the community? What does it matter if they feel that the Marvell chip is the only one to meet their needs? Considering that this project has the potential to improve education over the entire world, does that not mitigate any other consideration? It's not as if Marvell is going to pull their technology out of this project after the devices are fielded.
I'm running Opera 10 on Ubuntu Dapper Drake on my Dell Laptop. I tried the beta, but it would not load completely, as it appears it uses an ActiveX control. I switched back after a couple of tries. Am I missing something? I haven't seen any other comments indicating a problem in Linux
Ah, I'm used to this from motorcycles, not from cars. I spotted one of those the other day, actually. Why in hell would you put glass-packs on a Hyundai?!?!
Upset? Nah. Just didn't recognize the origin. I can take being flamed for my disty choice, it wouldn't be the first time. I used to work with SCO Unixware and OpenServer. Now that'll getcha flambe'd!
- Gentoo is for ricers! People that want their work done use Ubuntu!
Perhaps I am too genteel to understand this insult. Ricers? Please explain. (BTW, My workstation was Gentoo until the mobo died, I'm now falling back on my Ubuntu laptop...)
(*jamaican accent*) What you mean only, two datacenter!? Why when me was a bay, me had 47 datacenter running, and that was caonsidered lazy!(*/jamaican accent*)
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I've purchased a RPi Model B via Allied. They have great customer service, and a friendly sales staff. After ordering online, I got a confirmation phone call from their CS department, confirming the order and wanting to know if they could help out with any issues. One issue: Order backlog is high, but they do keep you informed of ETS. +1, would order again.
You've missed the point. Secret ballots protect each voter from reprisal for their vote. Given the heated political environment these days, I'm pretty certain that if your suggestion were followed, there would be post-election reprisals, ranging from discrimination to criminal acts.
The point is not that Diebold sold the division making the Accuvote TS. The point is that thousands of these are deployed and in use, and therefore the vulnerability is real and has an impact on the 2012 elections. Comment fail.
I'm an election judge, and I forwarded this to my county Board of Elections, with a note recommending we need to conduct a machine inspection, along with a review of how the machines are physically secured. Once the machines are fielded to the polls, usually days before the election, we need to find a way to seal them at the poll until they are used. On the subject of DRE versus other methods of vote registration/counting, I agree that DRE is still an inherently un-secure technology, but my county/state made a massive investment, and cannot afford to replace them. The best thing we can do as poll workers is to take whatever steps needed to reassure the voting public their vote is accurately recorded and secure from tampering at the poll. We have no control beyond that.
that SSL was found to be compromised several months back (At least in the case of 128-bit AES). Or is that no longer the case?
Do want post-industrial punk sheep!
I take your point, but frankly, anyone who connects command & control system to an external network, let alone The Internet is just asking for trouble. I can see remote access out-of-band, using dialback and caller ID screening. Also, we cannot let ourselves get stampeded into more regulation by fearmongering like this. Folks who take the time to think about it will realize that this rapidly becomes a game of diminishing returns. If you think the budget deficit's big now, just wait until we add a new agency, and regulations for them to enforce. I might add that we are going to trust the Fed to get it right, and these are the people who could not get systems implemented for the IRS, the FAA, etc. Need I go on? Ah, but I hear you say, they can hire some of the best and brightest consultants in the business! Sure, but they've done that before as well. How's that new FBI case management system working out for ya, Sparky?
Speak for yourself. I'm a /.er who bitches, moans, and runs two private networks, the one at work, and the one at home. I agree that the government cannot be trusted to be impartial, but I also agree that cooperative action must be taken to forestall a network issue. Perhaps the best way to handle this would be a mutual cooperation agreement between the upstream ISP, and the private network admin. That would be sufficient for most problems. Since the Internet is non-deterministic, anything widespread enough to require a national response is going to have probably brought down the net anyway. Top-tier ISPs, (if they don't already) should have co-op agreements in place. This means that the fed only has to coordinate with the Tier 1 ISPs on national/international issues. I would also point out that the government cannot (and in many cases will not,) act to preserve data that it considers irrelevant to it's current concerns.
+1, would read again.
Quoting Bill Gates: "640K is enough memory for anybody." And look what happened to him! ;-)>
Butterscotch pudding?
Actually, I'm running a rack, wearing IPCHAINS. Can't afford plate.
Even if I was still coding, (moved on to sys/netadmin several years ago,) this book would deserve a huzzah! OK, now we've made it readable, when can we make it efficient, and get rid of all the bells&whistles that have turned software into bloatware!?
I take exception to this! The most annoying kid in TNG was that little brat Worf had!
I am an election judge in Baltimore County, MD. We are using the Diebold Accuvote TS. Simply put, what practical steps could we take to minimize the possibility of error or fraud in the poll? During the past few elections, my precinct has encountered it's share of problems, but the scrutiny of the general promises to be especially intense. I do not want to give anyone an excuse to invalidate our results.
I'm sorry, but this semantic trick is old and busted. In the context of this project, my statement is valid. Not in any other context. By implying that I intend to apply this to all contexts is fallacious.
I would have to disagree with one of Theo's statements: "OLPC should disclose why they picked the Marvell chip." Why? What impact does disclosing their design decisions openly have besides opening OLPC to criticism from the community? What does it matter if they feel that the Marvell chip is the only one to meet their needs? Considering that this project has the potential to improve education over the entire world, does that not mitigate any other consideration? It's not as if Marvell is going to pull their technology out of this project after the devices are fielded.
I'm running Opera 10 on Ubuntu Dapper Drake on my Dell Laptop. I tried the beta, but it would not load completely, as it appears it uses an ActiveX control. I switched back after a couple of tries. Am I missing something? I haven't seen any other comments indicating a problem in Linux
Ah, I'm used to this from motorcycles, not from cars. I spotted one of those the other day, actually. Why in hell would you put glass-packs on a Hyundai?!?!
Upset? Nah. Just didn't recognize the origin. I can take being flamed for my disty choice, it wouldn't be the first time. I used to work with SCO Unixware and OpenServer. Now that'll getcha flambe'd!
Is this the same Kevin Rose that's hosting AOTS on G4?
Ah, that would explain why I got QC's page last night, but couldn't get back into the archives this morning! Thank you.
(*jamaican accent*) What you mean only, two datacenter!? Why when me was a bay, me had 47 datacenter running, and that was caonsidered lazy!(*/jamaican accent*)