Large corporations (such as the government) frequently change funding levels to different departments rather arbitrarily. The way to avoid having your funding cut is to use every last dollar you are alloted to do your job successfully, even if it means spending more than you really had to. The last thing a department wants is to have itself red-flagged for budget review by the accounting people.
If they were allotted 15K for a project, you'd better believe they'll look to spend exactly that and not a penny more, both to ensure a successful project, and to meet budget expectations as to gaurentee themselves similar future funding AND to avoid internal audit.
I think digitizing the voting process is an outstanding idea. Instead of inept people voting for the wrong person (i.e. Florida) they would at least be made to understand their ineptitude before it was too late.
Clearly, running on a consumer - grade hardware/software platform is unacceptable for such a system. How about the government contracts some development firm to build the systems to spec from the ground up? The same is done with all manner of military equipment (i.e. F-22s Avionics, Submarine control systems), so why not do the same to protect our revered (if not outdated) federal electoral system.
Once it is proven on the federal level, license the technology to state governments and such.
Raises an interested question doesnt it? Do you trust the government more than Microsoft?
Don't they know that Al Gore invented the Internet?
No such thing as "no practicle application"
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'True to form, Lafforgue and Voevodsky's mathematical research has no known practical applications'
A little over 100 years ago the study of artificial language, number theory, algorithms, etc. were little more than intillectual curiosities. Only in the past 50 years have we seen all these "theoretical" areas of study be thrust into the forefront of science and engineering.
It seems a bit pretnentious and short-sighted to ignore discoveries or minimize their importance simply because we haven't learned enough as a society to figure out what those discoveries truly imply. Just mho
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Large corporations (such as the government) frequently change funding levels to different departments rather arbitrarily. The way to avoid having your funding cut is to use every last dollar you are alloted to do your job successfully, even if it means spending more than you really had to. The last thing a department wants is to have itself red-flagged for budget review by the accounting people.
If they were allotted 15K for a project, you'd better believe they'll look to spend exactly that and not a penny more, both to ensure a successful project, and to meet budget expectations as to gaurentee themselves similar future funding AND to avoid internal audit.
I think digitizing the voting process is an outstanding idea. Instead of inept people voting for the wrong person (i.e. Florida) they would at least be made to understand their ineptitude before it was too late.
Clearly, running on a consumer - grade hardware/software platform is unacceptable for such a system. How about the government contracts some development firm to build the systems to spec from the ground up? The same is done with all manner of military equipment (i.e. F-22s Avionics, Submarine control systems), so why not do the same to protect our revered (if not outdated) federal electoral system.
Once it is proven on the federal level, license the technology to state governments and such.
Raises an interested question doesnt it?
Do you trust the government more than Microsoft?
Don't they know that Al Gore invented the Internet?
'True to form, Lafforgue and Voevodsky's mathematical research has no known practical applications' A little over 100 years ago the study of artificial language, number theory, algorithms, etc. were little more than intillectual curiosities. Only in the past 50 years have we seen all these "theoretical" areas of study be thrust into the forefront of science and engineering. It seems a bit pretnentious and short-sighted to ignore discoveries or minimize their importance simply because we haven't learned enough as a society to figure out what those discoveries truly imply. Just mho