This is precisely why both KDE and GNOME are standardising on GStreamer, a framework that will allow inputs and outputs to chain together on the backend, allowing the frontend to be simple (much like DirectShow).
A right wing dictator who overthrew a democratically elected leader, liberalised the economy while being best friends with the Chicago economics set, and had an internal war with disappearances, killings, and the subjugation of all alternative political speech.
Does that count for you? Of course, this means nothing. It merely proves that human rights are an orthagonal issue to a free market. Other right wing, free market examples include Argentina and Spain. Different in degree, but not in type. Or do you believe that if Hirohito (certainly right wing, certainly with companies) had taken all of China and moved back to a free market from the command and control war economy that the UK (to pick an example) also used that the average Chinese would be better off? It certainly doesn't seem that way for US blacks during slavery (a capitalist economy also).
I'm sorry, I just can't see your point at all here. Is there a more general statement that you wish to make?
To break personal privacy for this would require someone with access to the FEC central server to inform the local voting centre that the vote had been made so they could check who had been in there, something that you would think might well be a felony (and an obvious one too, involving real civilian level operatives and people with). I would also like to imagine that it would be queried by the officials of one party if those of the others were making calls.
But to avoid this, I suppose you could merely have the machine send data every 10 votes.
Good call, thanks.
It may actually only be a few weeks worth of coding, and I can think of only a dew things that need to be covered.
1: Graphic selection via a touch screen. 2: Voice reading of the candiate names for the blind. 3: A safe, intepreted language to provide a sandbox. 4: An aim for the minimum number of LOC to make it easy to verify. 5: No open ports, but constant transmission of votes as they are made on an SSH, public-key encrypted tunnel (so it will be noticed if the total changes fast). 6: A paper trail (viewable by voter).
This could be less then 2000 lines of code (addmittedly with hookups to ogg123 etc).
Windows XP + network connection + data held in an *Access DB* and then transferred by memory card with no crypographic checksum.
If I prepared work like that for a client, I'd expect to get chucked out by security.
I'll also note the following:
a) Diabold say that a paper trail is not needed for security, but provide one on their own ATMs. Apparently independent verification of election results is less important then $$$ transactions.
b) Both local and remote vulns have been demonstrated on their voting machines, but the ATMs have not been pwned.
c) Diabold refuses to let the source code be reviewed, and chose to run on Windows XP so neither the program or the OS of the box can be verified safe.
d) Diabold machines can have the vote totals rewritten on their memory sticks as they do not cryptographically sign or encrypt the totals. That's plain text on a card that can be removed from the machine and has a standard file format.
e) Diabold security is fucked whether or not they put the same code they have tested on the box. With tested, verfied boxes they cannot add XP security patches for known flaws after te verification date (and if there is one thing worth keeping an 0-day for...). If they do add security patches etc then we are trusting closed source biaries to be added to election counting machines without the possibility of review. One bad actor and the elecetion is up for grabs.
No thanks. I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist but is is as if they were designed to be broken into.
Would a BSD box with one simple program, output to the framebuffer, a results paper trail and a constant SSH tunnel to the FEC be that hard? *sighs*
Counter example: DeBeers - still over 90% of the world diamond market and holding sufficient diamond stockpiles to keep the price *way* over true market value. They have replaced governments, were an unapologetic supporter of the South African apartheid-era regime, and still continue to buy conflict diamonds to maintain their hold on the market. Over 100 years and still counting.
The fact that the law was rejected rather then modified means that the existing patents are still in a legal grey area - look forward to a lot of pressure being put on national governements to pass legislation.
The UK PTO in particular has quite a hard on for patenting, and it is a UK Labour MEP who has been pushing hardest for patents.
Indeed the cynical might just see this as a way for Sun to look open without having to unlock anything important in any useful way whatsoever (yes, I think that the OpenSolaris licence was designed to exclude).
Wake me when Sun a) stops changing their mind on every subject every day and
b) actually open sources anything related to the actual language.
So Microsoft are finally properly going at a least-rights solution, but on a per app basis? This is quite a concession, as it shows that the MS campaign to have people not run as admin is not really working at all in the real world. There are still far, far too many shops who are used to coding for 9x to make multiuser practical, even among coders who should know better (I'm looking at you EA/Medal of Honor!).
The other way that this will be fun is watching all of the *really* bad ISVs who assume that IE is a complete solution for their apps and will of course be able to alter the system config when they use it as a component.
The RAW format wars seem an odd competiton between camera manufacturers, who are actively hurting their presence in the professional space by making their imafes less useful for archive purposes and less interoperable for press agencies to sell. The thing that is particually noticible is that manufacturers are now being actively co-opted into sharing this information under NDA with MS to allow the hardware to work seamlessly with Longhorn. This mass move from open to propriatory standards (something MS will, of course, encourage) is meaning that the camera manufacturers are seeing their poduct become commoditised, and apparently feeling unable to compete on hardware quality alone.
Thanks Canon, you just made me finally feel confident about buying Taiwanese.
I will never understand why the authors of software like this that is almost guarenteed to attract legal threats do not initally release on Freenet. For those converned about the slow speed, I will point out that only the inital seeding needs to be done this way, and once the code is out on the net all is normal. But risking a few grand in legal fees for no reason? This is what Freenet is designed for.
No, not in the slightest. This line of logical reasoning would allow people to be arrested for using the phone network on the grounds that crimes have been planned via phone in the past... *Rolls eyes*
What? Bringing down a power grid during rush hour, changing details of patient notes on a hospital network, or sending false messages and checking the content of sent messages all have the potential to kill.
Yes. KHML is a fully GPLed engine, and Safari is based on that for all HTML rendering. It would be a breach of licence for Apple not to release any fixes, not to mention entirely out of character with Apple's good co-operation so far.
It should also be noted that all of the fixes done on the Safari KHTML codebase will eventually work their way back to Konqueror proper, meaning that GNU/Linux will benefit directly from this. *smiles* Thanks, Apple.
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Is the space simulator Elite? Screenshot. If so, hand in your geek card now for not knowing the name. ;)
Since CentOS are down, I have mirrored the whole exchage at http://jaduncan.net/centos-vs-city-of-tuttle.
This is precisely why both KDE and GNOME are standardising on GStreamer, a framework that will allow inputs and outputs to chain together on the backend, allowing the frontend to be simple (much like DirectShow).
The original host is down, so I have taken my life and bandwidth allowance in my hands and stuck a mirror up. http://jaduncan.net/google-calendar-cl2-leaked-pic tures
Chile under Pinochet.
A right wing dictator who overthrew a democratically elected leader, liberalised the economy while being best friends with the Chicago economics set, and had an internal war with disappearances, killings, and the subjugation of all alternative political speech.
Does that count for you? Of course, this means nothing. It merely proves that human rights are an orthagonal issue to a free market. Other right wing, free market examples include Argentina and Spain. Different in degree, but not in type. Or do you believe that if Hirohito (certainly right wing, certainly with companies) had taken all of China and moved back to a free market from the command and control war economy that the UK (to pick an example) also used that the average Chinese would be better off? It certainly doesn't seem that way for US blacks during slavery (a capitalist economy also).
I'm sorry, I just can't see your point at all here. Is there a more general statement that you wish to make?
To break personal privacy for this would require someone with access to the FEC central server to inform the local voting centre that the vote had been made so they could check who had been in there, something that you would think might well be a felony (and an obvious one too, involving real civilian level operatives and people with). I would also like to imagine that it would be queried by the officials of one party if those of the others were making calls. But to avoid this, I suppose you could merely have the machine send data every 10 votes. Good call, thanks.
I'm actually now seriously considering that.
It may actually only be a few weeks worth of coding, and I can think of only a dew things that need to be covered.
1: Graphic selection via a touch screen.
2: Voice reading of the candiate names for the blind.
3: A safe, intepreted language to provide a sandbox.
4: An aim for the minimum number of LOC to make it easy to verify.
5: No open ports, but constant transmission of votes as they are made on an SSH, public-key encrypted tunnel (so it will be noticed if the total changes fast).
6: A paper trail (viewable by voter).
This could be less then 2000 lines of code (addmittedly with hookups to ogg123 etc).
Interesting...
Windows XP + network connection + data held in an *Access DB* and then transferred by memory card with no crypographic checksum.
If I prepared work like that for a client, I'd expect to get chucked out by security.
I'll also note the following:
a) Diabold say that a paper trail is not needed for security, but provide one on their own ATMs. Apparently independent verification of election results is less important then $$$ transactions.
b) Both local and remote vulns have been demonstrated on their voting machines, but the ATMs have not been pwned.
c) Diabold refuses to let the source code be reviewed, and chose to run on Windows XP so neither the program or the OS of the box can be verified safe.
d) Diabold machines can have the vote totals rewritten on their memory sticks as they do not cryptographically sign or encrypt the totals. That's plain text on a card that can be removed from the machine and has a standard file format.
e) Diabold security is fucked whether or not they put the same code they have tested on the box. With tested, verfied boxes they cannot add XP security patches for known flaws after te verification date (and if there is one thing worth keeping an 0-day for...). If they do add security patches etc then we are trusting closed source biaries to be added to election counting machines without the possibility of review. One bad actor and the elecetion is up for grabs.
No thanks. I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist but is is as if they were designed to be broken into.
Would a BSD box with one simple program, output to the framebuffer, a results paper trail and a constant SSH tunnel to the FEC be that hard? *sighs*
Fuck Diabold.
"M M M M M MONSTER-KILL!"?
Counter example: DeBeers - still over 90% of the world diamond market and holding sufficient diamond stockpiles to keep the price *way* over true market value. They have replaced governments, were an unapologetic supporter of the South African apartheid-era regime, and still continue to buy conflict diamonds to maintain their hold on the market. Over 100 years and still counting.
2 million dollars? Surely MILF fits just fine....
The UK PTO in particular has quite a hard on for patenting, and it is a UK Labour MEP who has been pushing hardest for patents.
Wake me when Sun
a) stops changing their mind on every subject every day and
b) actually open sources anything related to the actual language.
*yawns*
How is it that AMDs highest performing chip is still not as bad heat wise as most of the P4 family? Intel has fallen far...
The other way that this will be fun is watching all of the *really* bad ISVs who assume that IE is a complete solution for their apps and will of course be able to alter the system config when they use it as a component.
And you thought SP2 broke things? *laughs evily*
Thanks Canon, you just made me finally feel confident about buying Taiwanese.
I will never understand why the authors of software like this that is almost guarenteed to attract legal threats do not initally release on Freenet. For those converned about the slow speed, I will point out that only the inital seeding needs to be done this way, and once the code is out on the net all is normal. But risking a few grand in legal fees for no reason? This is what Freenet is designed for.
Hint: Do you not now think that the box may well have been a proof of concept box for intel to demo to Apple?
Get the ARM port of Debian on there and compile mplayer to an ARM target. Failing that use the debian port of Xine. Does this rate a /. article?
No, not in the slightest. This line of logical reasoning would allow people to be arrested for using the phone network on the grounds that crimes have been planned via phone in the past... *Rolls eyes*
Have you no imagination at all? ;)
Either MS is wanting to suck up to the /. crowd, or they are anticipating really bad virus problems this time round.
Unintrusive? No. Effective? Apparently.
Yes. KHML is a fully GPLed engine, and Safari is based on that for all HTML rendering. It would be a breach of licence for Apple not to release any fixes, not to mention entirely out of character with Apple's good co-operation so far.
It should also be noted that all of the fixes done on the Safari KHTML codebase will eventually work their way back to Konqueror proper, meaning that GNU/Linux will benefit directly from this. *smiles* Thanks, Apple.