It is no more or less transparent than paper voting is today.
If that's your postition then this disscusion is useless. I maintain that even for programers who could understand the source code electronic voting is less transparent--auditing the source code and making sure that the code you have runs on the machine involves much more simple visual observation, which is sufficient to deal with large scale paper ballot tampering. The system is opaque to non-programers.
If voters are allowed to handle the printouts they can be substitutet with blanks to cast doubt over the results.
Verification of the computer count requires a full recount and since the proccess is non-transparent it shouldn't take much to require one. Bar code recounting by computer poses the same transparency problems as initial the computer counting. As I see it the system basicly reduces to a hand count with a delay and all delays between the voting and the definitive count introduce the risk of ballot tampering.
What have the studios allowed you and me to do that a non-commercial CC license doesn't. Remember, something they tolerateed after the fact doesn't count, as there is nothing stopping an author of a CC NC work from doing the same.
Neither copyright or parents protect ideas, one protects fixed forms of specific expressions and the other novel implementations, both get the hell stretched out of them more and more as time goes, but that does not change the general fact.
Please look up the term operating system in a textbook that dates back before the Microsoft vs Netscape courtcase
So sometime after 2000 UNIX was no long a word processor, but was pervesly redefined to be an operating system... Either way I specifically used "operating enviroment" where "operating system" is populary used and that wasn't obscured by run on paragraphs.
I'm not trying to be silly - I'm just writing in english instead of some sort of newspeak.
You may not be trying, but whatever call the system on your computer GNU/Linux or Linux has nothing to do with english, unless they included Linux in a dictionary with the definition like:
Linux: a computer operating enviroment that includes the kernel Linux.
In fact not only would that reflect popular usage, it is also a nice excercise in recrusion...:-D
Now excuse me, but I don't feel like reading all the megaparagraph. I will however say that I'm starting adding GNU/ more the less newbish I become, and while less then consistent (not everyone's RMS) I don't recal ever refering to the kernel iself as GNU/Linux.
So what do you prefer? Operating enviroment? How do would you answer the question: "What operating system do you use?" None? Or are you fluent and efficient in ABI?
If you spend most of the time editing the bitmap portions importing the vector portions into GIMP might work better. I'd really like to see copy and paste as well (and ways to call the other program to edit some elements), no idea why it's not done yet.
but if that's true, i have no idea why add new tool instead of making existing one more flexible (like allowing to resize it easily everywhere). or have i missed something ?:)
Probably easier, when the new tools are done they replace the old ones and for the user who hops from 2.2 to 2.4 it will seem like impoved verions of the same old tools.
GEGL is great, and its introduction is a good opportunity to abstract out all of the interface, so it can be customised and scripted to the hilt by adding to (and not forking) the codebase.
AFAIK the interface is already abstracted away from the engine in preperation for GEGL, as for more customization features--as I know the GIMP developers well writen bug reports/feature sugesitons should be best route outside of doing it yourself. Either way GEGL and it's integration will probably be what most development will consist of after 2.4 so UI overhauls are less likely.
However I would love the Gimp to have support for its dedicated clicker [note] for my left hand while I work with the pen in my right hand.
I remember seeing some generalized device settings in the 2.3.12 preferences dialog, wonder if I can set up a gamepad...;)
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Shipping new products with upgraded firmware is some entirely different from forcing firmware upgrades in products already sold.
People who host copyrighted content get punished and people providing links and checksums are left alone.
If voters are allowed to handle the printouts they can be substitutet with blanks to cast doubt over the results.
Verification of the computer count requires a full recount and since the proccess is non-transparent it shouldn't take much to require one. Bar code recounting by computer poses the same transparency problems as initial the computer counting. As I see it the system basicly reduces to a hand count with a delay and all delays between the voting and the definitive count introduce the risk of ballot tampering.
What have the studios allowed you and me to do that a non-commercial CC license doesn't. Remember, something they tolerateed after the fact doesn't count, as there is nothing stopping an author of a CC NC work from doing the same.
Voting machines must provide anonymity.
As he said he could have installed a modern OS on the current computer:
Many countries regulate it for truck drivers.
Neither copyright or parents protect ideas, one protects fixed forms of specific expressions and the other novel implementations, both get the hell stretched out of them more and more as time goes, but that does not change the general fact.
In fact not only would that reflect popular usage, it is also a nice excercise in recrusion... :-D
Now excuse me, but I don't feel like reading all the megaparagraph. I will however say that I'm starting adding GNU/ more the less newbish I become, and while less then consistent (not everyone's RMS) I don't recal ever refering to the kernel iself as GNU/Linux.
Gibibyte...
Have you been hiding under a moonrock? :-D IE6 supports PNGs binary transparency, IE7 finaly supports alpha channel as well.
So what do you prefer? Operating enviroment? How do would you answer the question: "What operating system do you use?" None? Or are you fluent and efficient in ABI?
What, you are telling me that the GNU project wasn't working on HURD and only HURD from 1984? Unpossible!
If you spend most of the time editing the bitmap portions importing the vector portions into GIMP might work better. I'd really like to see copy and paste as well (and ways to call the other program to edit some elements), no idea why it's not done yet.
Look at definition 3 of the word fox!