In Ohio, they had a law that 3% had to be counted by hand and matched to the tally. The problem was that the officials were preselecting the 3%, and chose a set that they knew would match.
I would go a step further and say that the only official count can be from a hand count of the paper ballots, thus requiring that all of them actually be counted, rather than a "random", pre-selected percentage be hand counted.
That is exactly how the default QOS on the Tomato firmware works: As the amount of bandwidth a connection has used rises, it gets placed in lower categories for QOS. Along with prioritizing DNS and ACKs, that makes the most of a limited connection.
Allowing a voter to verify their vote after they leave the polling place opens up voting to more kinds of coercion: If your boss/husband/union leader/etc. doesn't see that you voted for (Candidate X), then you are fired/beaten.
We might as well just announce our votes in public and have a official recorder write down our votes.
I got a step further, and have a primary browser that doesn't have flash installed, and then a second browser with flash and flashblock, for the rare time when I actually want to watch a flash video.
What happens when ISPs start to throttle (or block all together) encrypted or binary data ?
You have data that isn't binary? It would be cool to have a computer based on Balanced Ternary, but I don't think that would work on the internet without a translation to... binary.
Slashdot Mirror
Police officers.
Watch "Hacking Democracy"
In Ohio, they had a law that 3% had to be counted by hand and matched to the tally.
The problem was that the officials were preselecting the 3%, and chose a set that they knew would match.
I would go a step further and say that the only official count can be from a hand count of the paper ballots, thus requiring that all of them actually be counted, rather than a "random", pre-selected percentage be hand counted.
Sure C# has pointers, but it might need to be run in the unsafe environment:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/rajeshvs/PointersInCSharp11112005051624AM/PointersInCSharp.aspx
Behind the scenes it has to have pointers, of course.
What if democratvotes was a pointer?
That would mean that some machines wouldn't register democrat votes, right?
Sweet, I am now a "comedic slashdot posting robotic overlord"
One problem I have is that my kind of comedy only ever works on slashdot.
Another problem is that I am rarely funny, even on slashdot.
From your stasis chamber?
Save the world, use ed?
Burn them for warmth.
That is exactly how the default QOS on the Tomato firmware works:
As the amount of bandwidth a connection has used rises, it gets placed in lower categories for QOS. Along with prioritizing DNS and ACKs, that makes the most of a limited connection.
You mean Laserdisc?
They were usually used for movies, and the video on them was actually analog, so your comparison to a record is very apt.
Yeah, I hate it when I get something with dead magnets as well.
That is "something that spins for a long time with no external input of energy", not a perpetual motion engine.
People have been making that mistake for a long time.
Whatever you are looking for
you can get it on eBay.
www.eBay.com
What next, getting an actual perpetual motion engine from eBay?
Allowing a voter to verify their vote after they leave the polling place opens up voting to more kinds of coercion:
If your boss/husband/union leader/etc. doesn't see that you voted for (Candidate X), then you are fired/beaten.
We might as well just announce our votes in public and have a official recorder write down our votes.
Let me set up my auto-dialer to call your phone number every 30 minutes, with a blocked caller ID.
Have fun opting-out of that.
I got a step further, and have a primary browser that doesn't have flash installed, and then a second browser with flash and flashblock, for the rare time when I actually want to watch a flash video.
What about having it boot to FreeDOS?
I find people saying "Can I ask you a question?" is worse.
My response is often "You just did."
So you are saying astronauts should be interplanetary janitors and garbage men?
Subject says it all.
So then when are we going to invade ourselves to make us a Democracy?
Some governments are passing laws saying that documents must be stored in a format that is a documented standard.
This is just MS's way of checking that box without actually making their format open.
You are right in that they don't want to open their format, but they need to have the appearance of having one.
Which is a democracy?
The United States of America is NOT a democracy.
It is a Republic.