What would have likely been a routine flight out of a Florida airport this weekend ended with a woman being sent to the emergency room after TSA agents insisted on groping a traumatized rape victim in a security pat-down that put her in the hospital.
I thought the founding of Chatr, the 2nd subsidiary of Rogers, located only in major metropolises where Wind Mobile & Mobilicity operated was an anti-competitive "crime".
They'd had years of operation prior in which they could've set up such a company, or better yet offered better prices, but no - wait until there's some real competition then try to steal their potential customers (I say steal because they noticeably did not use the Rogers name as so many people are / were disgusted with them and looking for someone else to do business with).
Anyway, fuck Rogers, as soon as 35.5 months of my 36 month contract were up, I ported to Wind (Rogers tried to charge me early termination even though I was paying for that 36th month - I refused to pay).
Now I get unlimited North America wide talk, unlimited global SMS, voice mail, call display, conference calling, and unlimited internet (throttled after 5 Gb/m) with tethering... for $40/m. Yeah, fuck you Rogers. (And no, I have no affiliation with Wind other than customer.)
Interesting that US WMDs are still poisoning a country half a world away, whilst US forces are in another country, nearly half a world away (other direction) on a hunt for bogus WMDs.
Can I use your corporate logo on my web page to link to you?
Yes. You can always use a trademark in a truthful manner to refer accurately to an entity.
What about logo usage not linking to OSI?
Well, I read about Nominative Use and... don't understand.
The nominative use test essentially states that one party may use or refer to the trademark of another if:
The product or service cannot be readily identified without using the trademark (e.g. trademark is descriptive of a person, place, or product attribute).
The user only uses as much of the mark as is necessary for the identification (e.g. the words but not the font or symbol).
The user does nothing to suggest sponsorship or endorsement by the trademark holder. This applies even if the nominative use is commercial, and the same test applies for metatags.
Seems like dilution to me, but IANAL, etc.
Also, it says the symbol can be used for linking to the OSI website.
Finally, it seems that the logo is to be accompanied by the text, "We recommend using the Futura Md BT Medium fonts as complementary fonts to the OSI Logo."
Having rambled on through all that, I have to assume Slashdot is in compliance and I'm too tired to make sense of it all.
If she wasn't watching it with you; sorry mate, you need a new gf.
Could be worse - every time I raised my eyes from NASA.gov there was an unending parade of gorgeous HK actresses on the TV screen - not a bad diversion; not at all. Sheh Sze Man FTW!
Congratu-fuckin-lations everyone at JPL & NASA and anyone that had a hand in this.
I was rivitted to my screen for 2 full hours and was almost as ecstatic as the control room as each stage's success came in.
Poor gf can't be much bothered and is trying to watch a DVD with me calling out each stage and cheering... Sorry gf, no apologies - this is fucking GREAT!
Er? Vista was buggy and slow. Win 7 on the same hardware was actually fast and responsive and stable.
Thanks for the reply, one that actually contains some info unlike the ACs.
Vista was horribly buggy & slow prior to SP 1 (or 2?), which is when I switched to Linux - so it's been a while since I've used it. However, it seemed okay last time I booted into it with those SPs applied.
However I have used Win7 in a VirtualBox a couple times and it just seemed to me like another service pack on Vista.
And, since there wasn't enough time to develop a new OS in the short time between Vista & Win 7, I think that backs up my original claim.
My main experience with Win7 was in the Network Connections area which I found just as dreadful as Vista's.
Here we go again.. I'm sure I heard these same lame arguments when Windows 95 came out. Here we are 17 years on and MS is still winning and open source alternatives are still in the toilet.
MS is still winning, but LO/OO are hardly in the toilet. They are perfectly acceptable for ~95% of the tasks that ~95% of users perform.
For those that missed it the first 37 times, Joe Average doesn't mind paying for the latest toy with the latest shiny on it.
Problem is - many Joe Averages are pirating MS Office when they need not to.
No amount of gloating about your crappy 1% market share will change this. And I thought Slashdot is supposed to be where the smart people hang out....
If more people realized there was a highly functional alternative, things may well change for some of those users not locked into the MS ecosystem and not using that ~5% functionality not found in the LO/OO offerings.
Note that many of the 99% you refer to are there by inertia or lock-in, so yes, MS is "winning", but their customers are losing.
I am a little bit surprised that Vista will not be supported. I expect Vista just never had the market penetration to be worth the aggravation.
I haven't looked into it much, but my understanding is that Windows 7 is just Vista SP2 (or 3). I have 2 computers here that came with Vista (now running only Ubuntu), and Win 7 in a Virtual Box, and I cannot see a difference, especially in the network connectivity area where I'm sometimes condemned to fiddle settings. That's an area that is atrocious and needs rework, IMHO.
So it's likely for the same reason as not supporting XP - force an OS upgrade on suckers^W customers.
But really, who cares? Open Office (actually I prefer Libre Office since 3.5 came out) does everything I need, and everything everyone else I know needs. The only reason for Microsoft Office is cross compatibility with other MS Office users but it has been a few years since Open Office failed me in that regard. And even then, the sender did not actually need anything that Open Office didn't do. They used MS Office "just because."
100% in agreement there.
Although, come to think of it, I recently send a 1-page ODT file with 3 images in it (and nothing else) to someone with MS Office 2007 (I think) and it coughed and sputtered opening the document (in a completely open format), and when it "fixed" the thing, it got the z-order wrong so the print-out was 1/3 useless. But I fully blame MS for that, though I probably should've sent a PDF instead, I wanted it to be editable if necessary.
If you're not making your photo gallery with Views, you're doing it wrong. And it's been done with Views for a long time.
That looks interesting but incomplete: galleries? access control? only displays single column? Also, it's written for D4, so likely in need of revision.
However, I have no interest in converting a couple dozen photo albums to some other format, hence I'm stuck at D6, and may well move to ZenPhoto if I must migrate. The photo site hasn't had new albums created in at least a year, and probably no photos added since last summer; it's gone mostly inactive.
And Misery? You can't seriously be using a module that has only 123 users (at time of posting) and complain about lack of support!
Note that I wasn't complaining. I also probably shouldn't have used "rely" -- they were hobby projects that, once found by spammers, became honey pots -- I make them suffer Misery so they don't spam everyone else.
Finally, Drupal 8 isn't there yet at all, and may be released in August next year.
I'm curious if there will be any API changes between D7 & D8?
Personally, I mostly rely on Photo Album, which is now abandoned, so cannot upgrade my multi-site installation. I've considered moving to ZenPhoto instead but frankly can't be bothered.
Most of my sites also rely on Misery, which may finally move to D7.
I find Drupal is nice to set up for basic functionality provided by plugins, and I like the forms development, but frankly *hate* digging in further than that.
Maybe I should've made more use of a debugger to understand the code I was trying to modify, but I've sworn off Drupal.
I guess what I came here to say was, Drupal 7?!? NEVER. Too many modules require too much updating to be compatible. Drupal 7 will have the uptake of Perl 6, IMHO. And now there on to Drupal 8, I cannot fathom it.
Parent didn't claim "average". They claimed higher summer peak temps. These can be offset by colder winter temperatures leaving averages little changed.
What sort of mechanism are you proposing by which a global increase of a degree will change local peak temperatures by 15-19 degrees?
Chaos theory. What mechanism are you proposing that would create a flat global average without fluctuations?
Furthermore, what region of the world has actually seen that effect? I'd really like to hear this, it sounds like an interesting piece of weather.
Naturally, you purposefully or carelessly overlooked the statement I made: "Of course, I'm not saying the GP is correct about the amount of temperature swing".
In reality, you were probably talking without thinking, trying to prove your point, and don't actually have a mechanism.
Project much? Instead of, maybe, addressing the fact that I pointed out that the orig. poster said nothing about averages, the poster I replied to addressed that straw man.
I highly doubt in 25 years the average climate in your region has changes from highs of 80 to highs of 95-99.
Parent didn't claim "average". They claimed higher summer peak temps. These can be offset by colder winter temperatures leaving averages little changed.
That would be a cataclysmically drastic climate shift. Even the most alarmist of IPCC scientists is looking at global warming on the scale of 2-3 degrees in 40-50 years.
Agreed.
I really wish people would stop blaming hot days on global warming, it just makes us all look stupid.
I really wish everyone pointing out changing weather patterns over the course of our lifetimes would stop saying it cannot be due to climate change. It makes us^W them look stupid.
Keep this in mind the next time you have an unseasonably cold day:P
You keep that in mind when re-reading the GP post: he said more hot summer days, you said he claimed averages.
Of course, I'm not saying the GP is correct about the amount of temperature swing, but it does jive with my personal experience and with scientific predictions.
I posted it above, in response to someone that critiqued my original post by saying "You haven't told us the number of visitors to your site or its location. No one ever does."
Sorry, I'm trying my best not to shill for my site.:-D
It's not shilling when asked for it.
It says so right here... Oh. My. Gawd. Well, it must be before Internet Rule 34 but I'm now afraid to look.
Anyway, I searched your comments, found the site. I'm in Vancouver (west of Cascades) and was pretty please with myself for picking "turnip tips" (aka collard greens?) and lemon mint all through the winter. It's the first time I've had any winter garden.
Oh, I couldn't agree more: digging up potatoes is the best part of gardening; along with walking out and picking and eating peas in the pod straight from the plant and raspberries too.
I bought an HTC Amaze 4G (aka Ruby?) from Wind Mobile in Canada and it had a Facebook app on it. Which was always running. When I killed the app and the service, it would come back, restarted by HTC Sense I suppose.
The app's permissions were... everything. And I couldn't uninstall it.
I hooked it up to my computer, set to "Internet Pass-through" and ran tcpdump - no sign of "phoning home". Back to the store for a return. I called HTC and told them why.
But, after a couple more weeks of research (phoneless), I bought it again (the only phone I really liked) with the intention of rooting and removing FB app.
Before I could though, I added a contact's phone & email. They later sent me an SMS and... the contact had a photo. WTF?!? How'd that happen?
Turns out it was the photo from that person's FB account. So the app did phone home, probably dumping all my contacts to the mothership. It certainly sent back my new contact's email and/or phone number.
I'm still considering filing a complaint with Canada's Privacy Commissioner.
Meanwhile ICS has been pushed out, so I set that app's data bandwidth cap to zero. Guess I'd better root the thing sooner rather than later.
I thought it came with a double-sided remote control: touch screen on one side and keyboard on the other (I hope it rejects key presses when upside down)?
The biggest feature of this thing is Made In USA as far as I'm concerned. I'd like that to be the beginning of a trend to bring manufacturing back to N America.
I don't really care about electronic voting. Lets start with a system that is mathematically closer to reality, where voting actually matters.
I believe you've hit the nail on the head. The single most important electoral change we can make.
Then we can start trying to explain to the populous how private key cryptography can solve the problem you are describing then move to electronic voting.
Cryptography will not solve the problem of having all votes consolidated onto a server where access cannot be suitably restricted. Votes must be decrypted to be counted. Hence they can be changed with an update query.
Perhaps some write-once redundant servers hosted in various locations can mitigate some of the issue(s), but too many new facets of exposure to vulnerabilities, IMHO.
Paper works, it's cheap, it's usually highly reliable and recountable.
Remember the staggering cost of the long gun registry? A great deal of that went to servers, software, etc. i.e. A shift to electronic voting would also cost > $1,000,000,000 with no guarantees of performance acceptability, security, etc. (It could likely be done somewhat cheaper, but not as long as we have lobbyists bribing politicians.) And, who verifies the voting hardware?
I don't really care about electronic voting. Lets start with a system that is mathematically closer to reality, where voting actually matters.
This was worth repeating, I just cannot agree more.
I'm with everything you said, right up until the final sentence.
You know, we have instant communication now, right?
The instant communication = potential instantaneous, nation-wide, non-reversible election fraud, and the recount would be SELECT party, COUNT(party) FROM votes GROUP BY party; In other words, it would make voting even less useful than today.
The only potential usefulness of e-voting is to get out the voters that can't be arsed to either advance vote or walk 10 minutes (generally max in urban areas) to line up for a few minutes to cast their vote. Can't afford 30 minutes every 4 years to vote? Then they don't care enough to introduce major vulnerabilities to the system for.
Think Pierre Poutine working at the central server site where votes are stored. Think he's above a little "UPDATE votes SET vote=$party WHERE vote=$other_party LIMIT ($enough_to_tip_the_scale_to_a_win);
I'm on the conservative/libertarian side of things most (but not all) days,
Full disclosure: I'm the same way, but on the other side of the spectrum. So right off the top, you're my kind of conservative: not rigid & ideological: that is a bad thing to have coming from either side.
We've had issues with robocalls and funding irregularities in Canada, but not, as far as I am aware, any significant credible allegations of ballot or vote fraud.
That used to be the case, but it gives me no joy to show that you're probably wrong on this one:
allegations that at least 2,700 voters made applications for late registration to vote in Eglinton—Lawrence and that many failed to provide addresses or gave false or non-residential addresses, all of which failed to meet Election Canada rules.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Thomas Lederer declared Conservative MP Ted Opitz's narrow defeat over Liberal Wrzesnewskykj "null and void" under the Canada Elections Act, on the basis of a number of voting irregularities.
The Canadian system is far from perfect, though I'm inclined to think, like the banking system up here, it's somewhat superior to the current US system.
Again I agree with you, but fear that the current regime is intent on changing the status quo. My pet theory is that the Bill C-30 ("Internet Spying Act") is not to "Protect children on the Internet" but to allow Pierre Poutine to scour the telecom records of opposition candidates. Otherwise it makes no sense to allow anyone chosen by the minister to have these powers instead of just police.
And the old election fraud techniques by the CPC are being exposed, need something new. Besides, Mssr Poutine isn't above *planting* some "evidence", IMHO. And if nasty, false allegations are flung at opposition hopefuls, it would take years to clear the record. Like the "Robocall" election fraud: think that will be prosecuted before the next election is held? I personally highly doubt it.
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From the same site:
What would have likely been a routine flight out of a Florida airport this weekend ended with a woman being sent to the emergency room after TSA agents insisted on groping a traumatized rape victim in a security pat-down that put her in the hospital.
Live free or die indeed.
Also, see Judge Willian Alsup and Judge Richard Posner.
Yes, these two are amazing. Any judge who learns to program Java for a trial deserves credit.
I seem to recall that the judge had learned Java previously for reasons unrelated to the trial, perhaps as a hobby.
Did you hear otherwise, and if so, have you got a link? That would be quite a feat and a sign of being dedicated to his job.
I thought the founding of Chatr, the 2nd subsidiary of Rogers, located only in major metropolises where Wind Mobile & Mobilicity operated was an anti-competitive "crime".
They'd had years of operation prior in which they could've set up such a company, or better yet offered better prices, but no - wait until there's some real competition then try to steal their potential customers (I say steal because they noticeably did not use the Rogers name as so many people are / were disgusted with them and looking for someone else to do business with).
Anyway, fuck Rogers, as soon as 35.5 months of my 36 month contract were up, I ported to Wind (Rogers tried to charge me early termination even though I was paying for that 36th month - I refused to pay).
Now I get unlimited North America wide talk, unlimited global SMS, voice mail, call display, conference calling, and unlimited internet (throttled after 5 Gb/m) with tethering ... for $40/m. Yeah, fuck you Rogers. (And no, I have no affiliation with Wind other than customer.)
Interesting that US WMDs are still poisoning a country half a world away, whilst US forces are in another country, nearly half a world away (other direction) on a hunt for bogus WMDs.
If I were cynical, I'd call that hypocritical.
Slashdot uses the OSI logo as seen on this very story, so I wonder what the rules are on that.
The OSI web site FAQ says:
What about logo usage not linking to OSI?
Well, I read about Nominative Use and ... don't understand.
Seems like dilution to me, but IANAL, etc.
Also, it says the symbol can be used for linking to the OSI website.
Finally, it seems that the logo is to be accompanied by the text, "We recommend using the Futura Md BT Medium fonts as complementary fonts to the OSI Logo."
Having rambled on through all that, I have to assume Slashdot is in compliance and I'm too tired to make sense of it all.
If she wasn't watching it with you; sorry mate, you need a new gf.
Could be worse - every time I raised my eyes from NASA.gov there was an unending parade of gorgeous HK actresses on the TV screen - not a bad diversion; not at all. Sheh Sze Man FTW!
Congratu-fuckin-lations everyone at JPL & NASA and anyone that had a hand in this.
I was rivitted to my screen for 2 full hours and was almost as ecstatic as the control room as each stage's success came in.
Poor gf can't be much bothered and is trying to watch a DVD with me calling out each stage and cheering... Sorry gf, no apologies - this is fucking GREAT!
Er? Vista was buggy and slow. Win 7 on the same hardware was actually fast and responsive and stable.
Thanks for the reply, one that actually contains some info unlike the ACs.
Vista was horribly buggy & slow prior to SP 1 (or 2?), which is when I switched to Linux - so it's been a while since I've used it. However, it seemed okay last time I booted into it with those SPs applied.
However I have used Win7 in a VirtualBox a couple times and it just seemed to me like another service pack on Vista.
And, since there wasn't enough time to develop a new OS in the short time between Vista & Win 7, I think that backs up my original claim.
My main experience with Win7 was in the Network Connections area which I found just as dreadful as Vista's.
Cheers
I just haven't been able to see a difference between Vista & Windows 7, yet one is reviled and one is revered.
So, changing the name and nothing else may be a good move - people seem guilible.
the real thing holding back Linux is games?
how about the fact that opening MS Office docs on Linux with one of the many "Open Office" solutions is still a nightmare?
You may be correct, but opening ODT files (you know, the open, well defined standard) in MS Office can be a nightmare.
Who's more at fault here?
Here we go again.. I'm sure I heard these same lame arguments when Windows 95 came out. Here we are 17 years on and MS is still winning and open source alternatives are still in the toilet.
MS is still winning, but LO/OO are hardly in the toilet. They are perfectly acceptable for ~95% of the tasks that ~95% of users perform.
For those that missed it the first 37 times, Joe Average doesn't mind paying for the latest toy with the latest shiny on it.
Problem is - many Joe Averages are pirating MS Office when they need not to.
No amount of gloating about your crappy 1% market share will change this. And I thought Slashdot is supposed to be where the smart people hang out....
If more people realized there was a highly functional alternative, things may well change for some of those users not locked into the MS ecosystem and not using that ~5% functionality not found in the LO/OO offerings.
Note that many of the 99% you refer to are there by inertia or lock-in, so yes, MS is "winning", but their customers are losing.
Smart people indeed... *sigh*
I am a little bit surprised that Vista will not be supported. I expect Vista just never had the market penetration to be worth the aggravation.
I haven't looked into it much, but my understanding is that Windows 7 is just Vista SP2 (or 3). I have 2 computers here that came with Vista (now running only Ubuntu), and Win 7 in a Virtual Box, and I cannot see a difference, especially in the network connectivity area where I'm sometimes condemned to fiddle settings. That's an area that is atrocious and needs rework, IMHO.
So it's likely for the same reason as not supporting XP - force an OS upgrade on suckers^W customers.
But really, who cares? Open Office (actually I prefer Libre Office since 3.5 came out) does everything I need, and everything everyone else I know needs. The only reason for Microsoft Office is cross compatibility with other MS Office users but it has been a few years since Open Office failed me in that regard. And even then, the sender did not actually need anything that Open Office didn't do. They used MS Office "just because."
100% in agreement there.
Although, come to think of it, I recently send a 1-page ODT file with 3 images in it (and nothing else) to someone with MS Office 2007 (I think) and it coughed and sputtered opening the document (in a completely open format), and when it "fixed" the thing, it got the z-order wrong so the print-out was 1/3 useless. But I fully blame MS for that, though I probably should've sent a PDF instead, I wanted it to be editable if necessary.
If you're not making your photo gallery with Views, you're doing it wrong. And it's been done with Views for a long time.
That looks interesting but incomplete: galleries? access control? only displays single column? Also, it's written for D4, so likely in need of revision.
Create an image gallery using CCK and Views is more promising.
However, I have no interest in converting a couple dozen photo albums to some other format, hence I'm stuck at D6, and may well move to ZenPhoto if I must migrate. The photo site hasn't had new albums created in at least a year, and probably no photos added since last summer; it's gone mostly inactive.
And Misery? You can't seriously be using a module that has only 123 users (at time of posting) and complain about lack of support!
Note that I wasn't complaining. I also probably shouldn't have used "rely" -- they were hobby projects that, once found by spammers, became honey pots -- I make them suffer Misery so they don't spam everyone else.
Finally, Drupal 8 isn't there yet at all, and may be released in August next year.
I'm curious if there will be any API changes between D7 & D8?
Drupal 7 is already more popular than Drupal 6, your personal opinion notwithstanding. http://drupal.org/project/usage/drupal
Well, so it is.
Personally, I mostly rely on Photo Album, which is now abandoned, so cannot upgrade my multi-site installation. I've considered moving to ZenPhoto instead but frankly can't be bothered.
Most of my sites also rely on Misery, which may finally move to D7.
Finally, "And now they're on to Drupal 8".
I find Drupal is nice to set up for basic functionality provided by plugins, and I like the forms development, but frankly *hate* digging in further than that.
Maybe I should've made more use of a debugger to understand the code I was trying to modify, but I've sworn off Drupal.
I guess what I came here to say was, Drupal 7?!? NEVER. Too many modules require too much updating to be compatible. Drupal 7 will have the uptake of Perl 6, IMHO. And now there on to Drupal 8, I cannot fathom it.
Parent didn't claim "average". They claimed higher summer peak temps. These can be offset by colder winter temperatures leaving averages little changed.
What sort of mechanism are you proposing by which a global increase of a degree will change local peak temperatures by 15-19 degrees?
Chaos theory. What mechanism are you proposing that would create a flat global average without fluctuations?
Furthermore, what region of the world has actually seen that effect? I'd really like to hear this, it sounds like an interesting piece of weather.
Most visible in the arctic, where there's an arctic amplification effect.
Naturally, you purposefully or carelessly overlooked the statement I made: "Of course, I'm not saying the GP is correct about the amount of temperature swing".
In reality, you were probably talking without thinking, trying to prove your point, and don't actually have a mechanism.
Project much? Instead of, maybe, addressing the fact that I pointed out that the orig. poster said nothing about averages, the poster I replied to addressed that straw man.
I highly doubt in 25 years the average climate in your region has changes from highs of 80 to highs of 95-99.
Parent didn't claim "average". They claimed higher summer peak temps. These can be offset by colder winter temperatures leaving averages little changed.
That would be a cataclysmically drastic climate shift. Even the most alarmist of IPCC scientists is looking at global warming on the scale of 2-3 degrees in 40-50 years.
Agreed.
I really wish people would stop blaming hot days on global warming, it just makes us all look stupid.
I really wish everyone pointing out changing weather patterns over the course of our lifetimes would stop saying it cannot be due to climate change. It makes us^W them look stupid.
Keep this in mind the next time you have an unseasonably cold day :P
You keep that in mind when re-reading the GP post: he said more hot summer days, you said he claimed averages.
Of course, I'm not saying the GP is correct about the amount of temperature swing, but it does jive with my personal experience and with scientific predictions.
I posted it above, in response to someone that critiqued my original post by saying "You haven't told us the number of visitors to your site or its location. No one ever does."
Sorry, I'm trying my best not to shill for my site. :-D
It's not shilling when asked for it.
It says so right here... Oh. My. Gawd. Well, it must be before Internet Rule 34 but I'm now afraid to look.
Anyway, I searched your comments, found the site. I'm in Vancouver (west of Cascades) and was pretty please with myself for picking "turnip tips" (aka collard greens?) and lemon mint all through the winter. It's the first time I've had any winter garden.
Oh, I couldn't agree more: digging up potatoes is the best part of gardening; along with walking out and picking and eating peas in the pod straight from the plant and raspberries too.
Cheers,
Maow
Are you sure it's not their Google profile picture too?
When I emailed them a screen-shot of the image, she identified it as her FB profile pic.
Pretty sure she doesn't have a Google+ account, and uses HotMail as primary email - if she has gmail, I don't know it.
So, pretty sure that the unstoppable FB app is responsible.
I bought an HTC Amaze 4G (aka Ruby?) from Wind Mobile in Canada and it had a Facebook app on it. Which was always running. When I killed the app and the service, it would come back, restarted by HTC Sense I suppose.
The app's permissions were... everything. And I couldn't uninstall it.
I hooked it up to my computer, set to "Internet Pass-through" and ran tcpdump - no sign of "phoning home". Back to the store for a return. I called HTC and told them why.
But, after a couple more weeks of research (phoneless), I bought it again (the only phone I really liked) with the intention of rooting and removing FB app.
Before I could though, I added a contact's phone & email. They later sent me an SMS and ... the contact had a photo. WTF?!? How'd that happen?
Turns out it was the photo from that person's FB account. So the app did phone home, probably dumping all my contacts to the mothership. It certainly sent back my new contact's email and/or phone number.
I'm still considering filing a complaint with Canada's Privacy Commissioner.
Meanwhile ICS has been pushed out, so I set that app's data bandwidth cap to zero. Guess I'd better root the thing sooner rather than later.
I thought it came with a double-sided remote control: touch screen on one side and keyboard on the other (I hope it rejects key presses when upside down)?
The biggest feature of this thing is Made In USA as far as I'm concerned. I'd like that to be the beginning of a trend to bring manufacturing back to N America.
I don't really care about electronic voting. Lets start with a system that is mathematically closer to reality, where voting actually matters.
I believe you've hit the nail on the head. The single most important electoral change we can make.
Then we can start trying to explain to the populous how private key cryptography can solve the problem you are describing then move to electronic voting.
Cryptography will not solve the problem of having all votes consolidated onto a server where access cannot be suitably restricted. Votes must be decrypted to be counted. Hence they can be changed with an update query.
Perhaps some write-once redundant servers hosted in various locations can mitigate some of the issue(s), but too many new facets of exposure to vulnerabilities, IMHO.
Paper works, it's cheap, it's usually highly reliable and recountable.
Remember the staggering cost of the long gun registry? A great deal of that went to servers, software, etc. i.e. A shift to electronic voting would also cost > $1,000,000,000 with no guarantees of performance acceptability, security, etc. (It could likely be done somewhat cheaper, but not as long as we have lobbyists bribing politicians.) And, who verifies the voting hardware?
I don't really care about electronic voting. Lets start with a system that is mathematically closer to reality, where voting actually matters.
This was worth repeating, I just cannot agree more.
Cheers
Hello fellow Vancouverite.
I'm with everything you said, right up until the final sentence.
You know, we have instant communication now, right?
The instant communication = potential instantaneous, nation-wide, non-reversible election fraud, and the recount would be SELECT party, COUNT(party) FROM votes GROUP BY party; In other words, it would make voting even less useful than today.
The only potential usefulness of e-voting is to get out the voters that can't be arsed to either advance vote or walk 10 minutes (generally max in urban areas) to line up for a few minutes to cast their vote. Can't afford 30 minutes every 4 years to vote? Then they don't care enough to introduce major vulnerabilities to the system for.
Think Pierre Poutine working at the central server site where votes are stored. Think he's above a little "UPDATE votes SET vote=$party WHERE vote=$other_party LIMIT ($enough_to_tip_the_scale_to_a_win);
Cheers,
If people cannot be bothered to vote because they cannot do it online then fuck 'em and their opinions.
Elderly people in wheelchairs and oxygen masks can and do get out to vote every election, so convenience isn't a valid excuse.
I do subscribe to the disillusionment with the choices as a reason for people not voting, but it becomes a self-fulfilling act.
Paradoxically, I'm also sympathetic to the view that if voting could change the system, it would be illegal.
I'm on the conservative/libertarian side of things most (but not all) days,
Full disclosure: I'm the same way, but on the other side of the spectrum. So right off the top, you're my kind of conservative: not rigid & ideological: that is a bad thing to have coming from either side.
We've had issues with robocalls and funding irregularities in Canada, but not, as far as I am aware, any significant credible allegations of ballot or vote fraud.
That used to be the case, but it gives me no joy to show that you're probably wrong on this one:
And, in Scarborough:
The Canadian system is far from perfect, though I'm inclined to think, like the banking system up here, it's somewhat superior to the current US system.
Again I agree with you, but fear that the current regime is intent on changing the status quo. My pet theory is that the Bill C-30 ("Internet Spying Act") is not to "Protect children on the Internet" but to allow Pierre Poutine to scour the telecom records of opposition candidates. Otherwise it makes no sense to allow anyone chosen by the minister to have these powers instead of just police.
And the old election fraud techniques by the CPC are being exposed, need something new. Besides, Mssr Poutine isn't above *planting* some "evidence", IMHO. And if nasty, false allegations are flung at opposition hopefuls, it would take years to clear the record. Like the "Robocall" election fraud: think that will be prosecuted before the next election is held? I personally highly doubt it.
Meh, turned into a long rant, sorry...