Knowing that very savvy people (like us Slashdot readers) would be on to the ploy of making the hole look like a really stupid mistake, I'd stay one step ahead and make it look like a very clever backdoor.
Never ascribe to malice anything that can be explained by stupidity.
Some people, in comments widely circulated on the Internet, contend that the company's software has been designed to allow voter fraud. Mr. Rubin called such assertions "ludicrous" and said the software's flaws showed the hallmarks of poor design, not subterfuge.
At any given time, as many as about 60 people with laptops equipped for WiFi can surf the Web.
If 60 people at a ballgame are surfing on laptops, one of them will almost certainly take a foul ball right in the face. Here's a tip - pay attention to the game.
a better choice of words than "troll" would be "attempt to data mine". From "troll" I get a picture of the government anonymously inflaming me by mocking my spending habits.
At the county office, there is a "host computer" with a program on it called GEMS.
GEMS receives the incoming votes and stores them in a vote ledger. But then, we found, it makes another set of books with a copy of what is in vote ledger 1. And at the same time, it makes yet a third vote ledger with another copy.
The Elections Supervisor never sees these three sets of books. All she sees is the reports she can run: Election summary (totals, county wide) or a detail report (totals for each precinct). She has no way of knowing that her GEMS program is using multiple sets of books, because the GEMS interface draws its data from an Access database, which is hidden.
Thanks for the link. I hadn't heard the part about the "2000 minor pieces". I'd like to know how the Guardian defined "major" and "minor" before I would agree that there was a significant loss.
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Principal Iamanazi - This incident will go down in your permanent record.
Now -
Principal Iamanazi - This incident will go down in your pervasive database.
Let's see ...
If you had done as much important work, I think you would be worthy of an interview, too. That's no guarantee that you'd have much to say, of course.
Most people find it hard to care about a "theoretical" problem until it happens in reality.
Sounds like something the "Your computer is broadcasting an internet address" guys could use. It could link to a place selling Raid by mail.
And protesters would have signs that say "It's all about the sun".
No VGA port for external video, or internal DVD burner, or full-size keyboard??? How the hell am I supposed to get any work done on this thing?
Knowing that very savvy people (like us Slashdot readers) would be on to the ploy of making the hole look like a really stupid mistake, I'd stay one step ahead and make it look like a very clever backdoor.
Some people, in comments widely circulated on the Internet, contend that the company's software has been designed to allow voter fraud. Mr. Rubin called such assertions "ludicrous" and said the software's flaws showed the hallmarks of poor design, not subterfuge.
here.
If 60 people at a ballgame are surfing on laptops, one of them will almost certainly take a foul ball right in the face. Here's a tip - pay attention to the game.
that they started putting full-face images in passports.
This will allow me to assist my Nigerian friend, Joseph Mbuto, in his attempt to free the $21 million dollar account his uncle once controlled.
And they aren't "jvm bugs", they are library bugs.
to fill up all the gaps in the FM band, what will happen to pirate radio stations?
a better choice of words than "troll" would be "attempt to data mine". From "troll" I get a picture of the government anonymously inflaming me by mocking my spending habits.
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The nominees in the category of Longest Lived Project to Never Release 1.0 are -
And the winner is ... the HURD! (Cue music as
RMS goes up to the stage).
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is a device that will allow me to point and click at mobile phone users and make them disappear.
Good one ... but I bet more Japanese percentage-wise know the difference between "its" and "it's" than Slashdot editors. (See article.)
(From the article - emphasis mine)
At the county office, there is a "host computer" with a program on it called GEMS.
GEMS receives the incoming votes and stores them in a vote ledger. But then, we found, it makes another set of books with a copy of what is in vote ledger 1. And at the same time, it makes yet a third vote ledger with another copy.
The Elections Supervisor never sees these three sets of books. All she sees is the reports she can run: Election summary (totals, county wide) or a detail report (totals for each precinct). She has no way of knowing that her GEMS program is using multiple sets of books, because the GEMS interface draws its data from an Access database, which is hidden.
What's next? NASDAQ running off of Access?
Thanks for the link. I hadn't heard the part about the "2000 minor pieces". I'd like to know how the Guardian defined "major" and "minor" before I would agree that there was a significant loss.
Previously 170,000 were reported stolen by the NY Times, and now there are only 30 verifiably lost, and that's the part that stuck out for you?
Read the quote yourself. ... a lot of them were removed ....
Perhaps you might find this relevant.