Bush would not have won the electoral vote if the US Supreme Court didnt step out of its bounds and stop a recount. Elections are left to the states by the constitution so the case shouldn't have gotten further than the florida supreme court. BTW 4 out of 9 justices where appointed by King Bush I and the chief justice was elevated to that status by him as well. Also GWBs brother excluded minorites who were more likely to vote for democrats.
What you use in CS depends on what program you're writing. For instance for scientific applications you need to know numerical methods of calculus and differential equations but for an OS you dont. Proofs are rarely needed in CS but I'm assuming you included it because they need to think about a problem from different angles. In crytography you may need a ton of number theory but in other applications you dont. CS student need a diverse background in math so If the need arises they have some idea of how to do a problem.
Actually IP was made for this very reason. WIth IP rights creators can share their discoveries and not having to worry about anyone ripping them off.
I agree with you here; Works have to be disclosed to becopy righted ie. if you write a book you can not have copyright protection until it is published before that it is just a trade secret. I'm going to be flamed by the 'open-source is communist' ACs but this means that if the source isnt disclosed software shouldn't be protected by copyrights since the software is not technically disclosed. If I make a device I have to disclose how it works to get a patent; If I write software I should have to disclose the source for copyright protection.
Like you said copyrights are a balance between promoting creativity and the consumers rights to copy. The under the first copyright law in the US they lasted 28 years. Back then you needed a printing press or a lot of free time to copy something. So only publishers were affected but most consumers were giving up rights they couldn't afford to exercise anyway for incentive for authors to provide new works. When The Copy machine came along people were able to copy the books so the duration of the copyrights should have been reduced to preserve the balance. Now with digital media its easier to copy. Instead of life of the author+70 years it should be significantly less than the original 28 years.
Patents should also be shorter than the original 14 years. In the 18th and early 19th centuries technology was not obsolete for far more than 14 years after its invention. Now technology is often obsolete within 14 years.
for the system below each person generates an RSA public & private key and a random # with a range such that it is very unlikely for 2 people to share the #.
for each person a structure will be stored beginning with the random # followed by the voting data followed by a signature formed from a backwards-encrypted MD5-hash using the private key. If the database is publicly accessable you can check your vote but no one else can because they dont know your random # which is used for identification.
with mechanical voting systems you can see the mark made on the ballot. With electronic voting systems it may tell you but thats like having someone mark your ballot for you without looking at it yourself and later asking them if they punched a chad for the right person. this system has no way to prevent dishonesty on either the voting side or the votecounting side, where with mechanical systems you can it least see the vote was marked properly.
Even if the code and hardware (if one can examine the microcode) appears to be entirely pristine, Ken Thompson explained in his classic 1984 essay "Reflections on Trusting Trust" (available online, do a Google search) that the compiler that compiled all of that code can be rigged such that malicious code can be concealed.
A compiler that does that and propagates its backdoors to other compilers would still need to put a backdoor in disassemblers, debuggers, hex dumps etc. so no one could see the backdoor in the voting system. Such a compiler would probably be unneccesarily large and complex considering the difficulty in recognizing these programs esp. differentiating the backend of voting software with a database or the front end with numerous other applications which allow multiple choices to be made.
there is a major flaw in your idea. whats to stop it form listing the result as a vote for A when you check it using your random number but
incrementing the number of votes for B instead. It could be counted by hand but that defets the purpose of using electronic voting systems to begin with.
there are 2 problems with your analogy. First copyright violation is not stealing because they still hhave the information. Second they are sending the signals into everybodys house, so its more like the baker throwing loaves into peoples houses and them taking those loaves then
A while back I tried to find an optimum price assuming the # of customers was inversely proportional to the price. You get the most profit giving your product out for free to an infinite # of people so volume might just work
too many americans violate drug laws to imprison them all. This will only be enforced against a few people, just like drug laws are enforced primarily against minorities.
It gives the cops a reason to arrest those they are prjudiced against of dislike
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Bush would not have won the electoral vote if the US Supreme Court didnt step out of its bounds and stop a recount. Elections are left to the states by the constitution so the case shouldn't have gotten further than the florida supreme court. BTW 4 out of 9 justices where appointed by King Bush I and the chief justice was elevated to that status by him as well. Also GWBs brother excluded minorites who were more likely to vote for democrats.
What you use in CS depends on what program you're writing. For instance for scientific applications you need to know numerical methods of calculus and differential equations but for an OS you dont. Proofs are rarely needed in CS but I'm assuming you included it because they need to think about a problem from different angles. In crytography you may need a ton of number theory but in other applications you dont. CS student need a diverse background in math so If the need arises they have some idea of how to do a problem.
I agree with you here; Works have to be disclosed to becopy righted ie. if you write a book you can not have copyright protection until it is published before that it is just a trade secret. I'm going to be flamed by the 'open-source is communist' ACs but this means that if the source isnt disclosed software shouldn't be protected by copyrights since the software is not technically disclosed. If I make a device I have to disclose how it works to get a patent; If I write software I should have to disclose the source for copyright protection.
Patents should also be shorter than the original 14 years. In the 18th and early 19th centuries technology was not obsolete for far more than 14 years after its invention. Now technology is often obsolete within 14 years.
for the system below each person generates an RSA public & private key and a random # with a range such that it is very unlikely for 2 people to share the #. for each person a structure will be stored beginning with the random # followed by the voting data followed by a signature formed from a backwards-encrypted MD5-hash using the private key. If the database is publicly accessable you can check your vote but no one else can because they dont know your random # which is used for identification.
anubi made an exellent point; I'm surprised it hasnt been modded up yet
with mechanical voting systems you can see the mark made on the ballot. With electronic voting systems it may tell you but thats like having someone mark your ballot for you without looking at it yourself and later asking them if they punched a chad for the right person. this system has no way to prevent dishonesty on either the voting side or the votecounting side, where with mechanical systems you can it least see the vote was marked properly.
It may seem obvious to us how to use the machine put some people aren't even intelligent enough to figure out how to use a GUI
A compiler that does that and propagates its backdoors to other compilers would still need to put a backdoor in disassemblers, debuggers, hex dumps etc. so no one could see the backdoor in the voting system. Such a compiler would probably be unneccesarily large and complex considering the difficulty in recognizing these programs esp. differentiating the backend of voting software with a database or the front end with numerous other applications which allow multiple choices to be made.
incrementing the number of votes for B instead. It could be counted by hand but that defets the purpose of using electronic voting systems to begin with.
there are 2 problems with your analogy. First copyright violation is not stealing because they still hhave the information. Second they are sending the signals into everybodys house, so its more like the baker throwing loaves into peoples houses and them taking those loaves then
I know interstate commerce is not the states job thats why I said unless the signals are being sent across state boundaries
This is the states job(see the 10th amendment) unless the signals are being sent across state boundaries(where the commerce clause allows it)
Three engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible designers of the human body.
One said, "It was a mechanical engineer. Just look at all the joints."
Another said, "No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has many thousands of electrical connections."
The last said, "Actually it was a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?"
the gnu site has a humor page herewith funny C code(including variable declarations and code to the human body, GPLed of course and more)
Its not the number of sides thats an issue but the area to perimeter ratio(this is known as the isoperimetric problem)
PATRIOT 2 is not law yet
A while back I tried to find an optimum price assuming the # of customers was inversely proportional to the price. You get the most profit giving your product out for free to an infinite # of people so volume might just work
The california constitution guaruntees the right to sunshine
It gives the cops a reason to arrest those they are prjudiced against of dislike
AOL/TW is part of the RIAA so im not sure they would support p2p
It violates the 10th amendment as well
Microwave is not terahertz, Microwave is low frequency.
Most people hated davis they just hated simon worse
thats why Davis wants to charge over 100% taxes