Keep in mind that you don't have to secure the connection but also the box. If online voting were to become common practice how long do you think it will take before a virus is written that interfaces between you and the software (keylogging, interface, etc) and tells the software what it wants while showing you what you think you need to see.
There are of course solutions to this problem. One being trusted computing (bleh) or a verification system whereby you get some kind of code back so you can call via phone and verify that the vote was placed correctly and specify an option to revote from a polling station if something is wrong.
I personally think this is great. If somebody wants to watch a show and not see those scenes then this just makes easier on them what they'll already do (fast forward).
He also says that what makes security hard is that it's a 'negative deliverable.'"
I'm certain there are countless flaws in this idea. But hey, you don't post to slashdot without some risk of being shown what a moron you are right?
How about having DSL/Cable companies give an incentive to customers whose computers do not become infected during the blitz of mass email worms and trojans. Something like a few bucks off of your ISP bill to free software. Some kind of incentive for NOT getting infected besides the fact that you don't have anything on your computer.
It would benefit them in that it lowers their costs and increases their reliability if hundreds to thousands of their customers aren't sending DOS, etc.
Of course, there are issues such as privacy implications (how would they know you're infected or not) to hardware costs for the ISP.
"There ought to be limits to freedom," he said. "We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man." - GW Bush on what he thinks of www.gwbush.com
Why? Because it will give him that much more clout with the studios on future projects...
Although I must say that I agree with you I believe that the following is more than enough clout:
Fellowship of the Ring - $861 million
Two Towers - $921 million
Return of the King - $8 million from 2,100 midnight screenings
I think the studios are definitely interested in any future projects Jackson could possibly work on.
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I agree... that is one downfall to my proposed solution.
However, that would require a bruteforce of going through a list (calculated or static) and creating addresses and then checking them in the hash. If they can do that (and they do already, I'm certain) then why bother with checking the list anyway to see if an address is on there or not? Unless they really do want to abide by the list, they wouldn't bother with the check and instead would just use the method you describe to send messages to.
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"Far more worring, is the provision of an opt-out list. If the world can see that my e-mail, even if only so that I can say I don't like spam"
A technilogical solution to this problem would be a one way hash algorithm. The government would keep a list of email addresses which are converted into one way hashes. These hash lists are given to mail list operators (read spammers). These mail list operators only have to convert an email they have and see if it's hash matches another. Thus they can't get email addresses from the opt-out list only compare with addresses they already have in their possession.
the Center for Disease Control issued a warning today stating that jacking into other peoples 'pods is dangerous.
Dr Smith of the Mayo Clinic warns "Remember, when you jack into somebody elses 'pod you're jacking with every other 'pod they've jacked too. Who knows what you might catch from this action of sharing. And we have to remember that it's not just the audiofiles that have anything to worry about. Anybody could catch anything from this dangerous behaviour."
The RIAA has also released a statement saying that people should "abstain" until they get their license.
I think Nintendo went for cheaper production to allow it to sell the console at a lower cost. That was the reason for the not accepting DVD media. No onboard LAN or Harddisk, etc.
"How many whacks with a Clue Stick does it take to penetrate the thick skulls at the RIAA? Evidently it takes a lot."
You think they don't get it? Oh... they get it. They know very well the cause for the drop in sales. But they're willing to take the hit to give them an excuse for more control of the market. More control of distribution channels and pricing.
Once they have the control they want they'll have an effective monopoly and pricing won't matter. And if at that time they think that dropping prices will help they'll do so not because consumers might go elsewhere but rather to generate sales from consumers who have no choice at all.
I would agree except for the fact that the reason some of these investigators have the access they do is because state legislators didn't think there would be much harm in it because of it's limited scope.
"Visual Basic is still around, but I don't know of any serious programmers who really use it hard core - it's more for very small, internal apps (yes, there are visual basic apps out there, but last I checked, nobody's programming Doom III in Visual Basic, move on)"
Wel.. There is this feature rich, stable and FREE CD Burning Software written in Visual Basic 6.
You can find CDBurner XP here
VB does have it's uses. No. Nobody's going to write Doom 3 with VB but it's not as limited as people tend to think it is.
"I understand that voters have turned down an increase in the tax over the past few years"
Isn't this the entire basis of our "democracy"?
The will of the people is that they don't want to be taxed anymore on gas. This isn't an invititation to find another way to charge them for the same thing.
Why can't states figure out that if they are spending more than they are getting in income then cut programs, cut spending, cut, cut, cut. If people want those programs bad enough then they will authorize a gas tax and if not then they obviously didn't feel it was worth paying taxes for.
Even though this link is from FoxNews this article from the CATO institute is rather interesting. Especially the part about Colorado
"Seems like a high cost plan with lower voter approval to me". I have to agree that you hit the nail on the head there
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Who says that what is recorded in the Bible as Ararat is the same mountain we know of today as Ararat?
Keep in mind that you don't have to secure the connection but also the box. If online voting were to become common practice how long do you think it will take before a virus is written that interfaces between you and the software (keylogging, interface, etc) and tells the software what it wants while showing you what you think you need to see.
There are of course solutions to this problem. One being trusted computing (bleh) or a verification system whereby you get some kind of code back so you can call via phone and verify that the vote was placed correctly and specify an option to revote from a polling station if something is wrong.
I'm coo coo for Cocoa Nuts (oh, shell... nevermind)
Actually he wrote "Practical Unix and Internet Security" along with Gene Spafford
This is much better than just banning all movies that have sexually explicit scenes.
Think it can't happen?Ashcroft disagrees
I personally think this is great. If somebody wants to watch a show and not see those scenes then this just makes easier on them what they'll already do (fast forward).
He also says that what makes security hard is that it's a 'negative deliverable.'"
I'm certain there are countless flaws in this idea. But hey, you don't post to slashdot without some risk of being shown what a moron you are right?
How about having DSL/Cable companies give an incentive to customers whose computers do not become infected during the blitz of mass email worms and trojans. Something like a few bucks off of your ISP bill to free software. Some kind of incentive for NOT getting infected besides the fact that you don't have anything on your computer.
It would benefit them in that it lowers their costs and increases their reliability if hundreds to thousands of their customers aren't sending DOS, etc.
Of course, there are issues such as privacy implications (how would they know you're infected or not) to hardware costs for the ISP.
You haven't met my inlaws...
Sorry, had to say it. You are correct and I wouldn't leave the US. Love my country too much. But, for some, it's a viable option.
I figure you meant it as a joke... but I gotta comment anyway :)
The cost of living in India is far below that in the US. You may be making less money but end up better off or the same as you are now.
Of course, that's until India loses all of their work to China.
Somebody already did
"There ought to be limits to freedom," he said. "We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man." - GW Bush on what he thinks of www.gwbush.com
Although I must say that I agree with you I believe that the following is more than enough clout:
I think the studios are definitely interested in any future projects Jackson could possibly work on.
I agree... that is one downfall to my proposed solution.
However, that would require a bruteforce of going through a list (calculated or static) and creating addresses and then checking them in the hash. If they can do that (and they do already, I'm certain) then why bother with checking the list anyway to see if an address is on there or not? Unless they really do want to abide by the list, they wouldn't bother with the check and instead would just use the method you describe to send messages to.
"Far more worring, is the provision of an opt-out list. If the world can see that my e-mail, even if only so that I can say I don't like spam"
A technilogical solution to this problem would be a one way hash algorithm. The government would keep a list of email addresses which are converted into one way hashes. These hash lists are given to mail list operators (read spammers). These mail list operators only have to convert an email they have and see if it's hash matches another. Thus they can't get email addresses from the opt-out list only compare with addresses they already have in their possession.
the Center for Disease Control issued a warning today stating that jacking into other peoples 'pods is dangerous.
Dr Smith of the Mayo Clinic warns "Remember, when you jack into somebody elses 'pod you're jacking with every other 'pod they've jacked too. Who knows what you might catch from this action of sharing. And we have to remember that it's not just the audiofiles that have anything to worry about. Anybody could catch anything from this dangerous behaviour."
The RIAA has also released a statement saying that people should "abstain" until they get their license.
I think Nintendo went for cheaper production to allow it to sell the console at a lower cost. That was the reason for the not accepting DVD media. No onboard LAN or Harddisk, etc.
"How many whacks with a Clue Stick does it take to penetrate the thick skulls at the RIAA? Evidently it takes a lot."
You think they don't get it? Oh... they get it. They know very well the cause for the drop in sales. But they're willing to take the hit to give them an excuse for more control of the market. More control of distribution channels and pricing.
Once they have the control they want they'll have an effective monopoly and pricing won't matter. And if at that time they think that dropping prices will help they'll do so not because consumers might go elsewhere but rather to generate sales from consumers who have no choice at all.
I just don't fall for the RIAA being so stupid.
"We will shift from the deterministic designs of today to probabilistic and statistical designs of the future"
Statistics? There are lies, damn lies, and 824633702441(WARNING! STAT FLOATING POINT ERROR)
I would agree except for the fact that the reason some of these investigators have the access they do is because state legislators didn't think there would be much harm in it because of it's limited scope.
This is about to change all that.
States Archive of Terrorist Actions Network
OR
S.A.T.A.N
Yeah... that's it
"draft-ietf-secsh-gsskeyex"
Yeah! Well, your mother!
"Visual Basic is still around, but I don't know of any serious programmers who really use it hard core - it's more for very small, internal apps (yes, there are visual basic apps out there, but last I checked, nobody's programming Doom III in Visual Basic, move on)"
Wel.. There is this feature rich, stable and FREE CD Burning Software written in Visual Basic 6.
You can find CDBurner XP here
VB does have it's uses. No. Nobody's going to write Doom 3 with VB but it's not as limited as people tend to think it is.
"I understand that voters have turned down an increase in the tax over the past few years"
Isn't this the entire basis of our "democracy"?
The will of the people is that they don't want to be taxed anymore on gas. This isn't an invititation to find another way to charge them for the same thing.
Why can't states figure out that if they are spending more than they are getting in income then cut programs, cut spending, cut, cut, cut. If people want those programs bad enough then they will authorize a gas tax and if not then they obviously didn't feel it was worth paying taxes for.
Even though this link is from FoxNews this article from the CATO institute is rather interesting. Especially the part about Colorado
"Seems like a high cost plan with lower voter approval to me" . I have to agree that you hit the nail on the head there
A. Interesting.
B. Really? quite interesting.
C. American. Is it really THAT obvious. I gotta watch what I type.
Thanks for the catch.
This...
'I'm sorry to say that as a [fairly] law abiding citizen, I am pleased about this.'
... is an interesting perspective from somebody with this...
'"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking up your skirt" [Oscar Wilde]'
...for their signature.
From this evidence I must assume that you are either A) Joking or B) A cop who gets off on using public surveillance to look up skirts.
"money is the root of all evil?"
No. Read the verse and the context. the LOVE of money is the root of all evil not the money itself.