why would you need to? i know people who have worked for MS and they all say it's a brillant place to work. highly paid as well. i don't by that MS security is a bad place to work, in fact a lot of these are crap examples of a bad job. ones i will pay are hazmat diving for the danger factor and 0g tester for sounding like some kind of middle eastern torture method.
obviously you've never written any computer system for the general public. no one will check their ballot, and if it misprints a single ballot, all the ballots before it must be discarded because who knows how long it was misbehaving? that system is ripe for the picking.
atleast with electronic paper, you know for sure that each ballot was marked by the person casting the vote.
oh, and you never once mentioned that you'd use the paper ticket for counting, so you've only got yourself to blame for people not interpreting it correctly.
thats why you don't trust them, and make them count in pairs with strict oversight, rotating the pairs and doing random checks. clearly you know nothing of how they count ballots.
why not just use paper then? hell of a lot simpler and cheaper.
how does that paper assure you the recorded vote is saved in the system is the same as what the paper says? it doesn't.
the only form of electronic voting i can see working is a system of electronic paper, which lets you press directly on the box you want and fills it. you deposit it in the secure box as normal and it's then counted by a machine, advantage being that it's digital so your counter won't run into false positive problems like with pencil, and it's still human verifible like paper.
you quote "what does Bob Dylan know about what music sounds like" like it's something i actual said. that wasn't my point and wasn't what i said at all and you damn well know it. my point, was that after 30 - 40 years on stage bob dylans hearing definately shot to pieces, aside from the fact he is an old man and even naturaly would have lost many many audible tones.
"The digitization of the analog signal is what destroys information, resulting in distortion when the analog is reconstructed later."
i will pay that that might have been an issue in the 80's, but not now. do you really think your losing more audible tones through digital conversion hardware then your losing via a needle scratching over a piece of plastic?
as others posted, many drugs cause hearing loss. i suggest you stfu from here on in.
my whole problem with the 800lb gorilla anology when applied to google, is just HOW is google going to control how we use our pc's?
the only way they can do that is to make the best product. they can't threaten suppliers with higher OS prices like MS did if they tried to sell OS/2. they can't write in subtle incompatabilities to prevent uptake of standards.
if google started whacking great big annoying ads in gmail and search, i'd just move to another provider in the blink of an eye. no money lost, no inconvienence.
i don't believe for a second that someone like bob dylan who has been exposed to a million billion decibles over the last 30 years, not to mention all the drugs, still has enough hearing left to tell.
furthur more, on a technical level cd's use a lossless uncompressed format which should be a perfect reproduction of what was mixed. not to say that standards in mixing and recording aren't down, but don't try knock the technology that's used ok?
no, but DRM is the reason my $7000 has a broken hdmi port - firmware error because of an errornous signal sent by a digital TV channel and hdcp shit itself and disabled my port. so i've got 7000 reasons to be pissed off over having to wait 2 months for a new board to be sent from japan to fix it.
your an idiot and fail to understand the classic bob and alice encryption example. bob and alice are 2 seperate people divided over the internet, your TV is right there in your living room for you to disassemble. THAT is why drm fails, because you have both keys at hand.
also your police vs crime analogy is a moronic over simplification of the situation - police prevent many many different crimes, which one are you reffering to that we should give up on? ok i'll pick for you - someone carrying a small amount of cannabis, we won't ever stop it and it's very low impact (just like copying a movie) so yes police should stop worrying about pety crap like that.
this irritates me, because i'd love to play a game like this. certain people out there want to be everyones parents. to them i say - well mommy, come suck my dick, because i'm going to drink booze all night while playing manhunt
"There were some kids that stole cars after playing GTA because they thought it was cool. What kind of things could we expect those kids to do after playing this game"
this kind of rubbish has been debunked many many times... but *sigh* here we go again.
blaming the present day medium for childrens behavour is FLAWED logic, as this kind of behavour was present prior to video games, and till continue to be there if video games never depicted such acts.
the problem lays squarely with parents who allow the tv and computer to raise their children for them, and to continue to ignore this fact for the sake of screeching on and on about violence in video games is moronic.
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how the fuck is this anything killer? news flash storing files on teh intarweb is nothing new.
what the hell? how does do anything that isn't out there and million times better do?
no one except MS fan boys hates google, so far their track record is as good as you can hope for
so that's your excuse? the KGB probably did it so it's ok for the CIA? gee that makes it all better
why would you need to? i know people who have worked for MS and they all say it's a brillant place to work. highly paid as well. i don't by that MS security is a bad place to work, in fact a lot of these are crap examples of a bad job. ones i will pay are hazmat diving for the danger factor and 0g tester for sounding like some kind of middle eastern torture method.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0203101256a23 110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
1. blackbox does not make it saver 2. so what if it doesn't survive a boot, just reprogram it with your hacked code every boot
atleast with electronic paper, you know for sure that each ballot was marked by the person casting the vote. oh, and you never once mentioned that you'd use the paper ticket for counting, so you've only got yourself to blame for people not interpreting it correctly.
thats why you don't trust them, and make them count in pairs with strict oversight, rotating the pairs and doing random checks. clearly you know nothing of how they count ballots.
how does that paper assure you the recorded vote is saved in the system is the same as what the paper says? it doesn't.
the only form of electronic voting i can see working is a system of electronic paper, which lets you press directly on the box you want and fills it. you deposit it in the secure box as normal and it's then counted by a machine, advantage being that it's digital so your counter won't run into false positive problems like with pencil, and it's still human verifible like paper.
americans... duh they can build a power plant? where do you think think your power comes from now? the hot air eminating out of bush?
"The digitization of the analog signal is what destroys information, resulting in distortion when the analog is reconstructed later."
i will pay that that might have been an issue in the 80's, but not now. do you really think your losing more audible tones through digital conversion hardware then your losing via a needle scratching over a piece of plastic?
as others posted, many drugs cause hearing loss. i suggest you stfu from here on in.
the only way they can do that is to make the best product. they can't threaten suppliers with higher OS prices like MS did if they tried to sell OS/2. they can't write in subtle incompatabilities to prevent uptake of standards.
if google started whacking great big annoying ads in gmail and search, i'd just move to another provider in the blink of an eye. no money lost, no inconvienence.
furthur more, on a technical level cd's use a lossless uncompressed format which should be a perfect reproduction of what was mixed. not to say that standards in mixing and recording aren't down, but don't try knock the technology that's used ok?
if you really believe your no more intelligent then a chicken or a chimp... well maybe you and i DO come from seperate gene pools.
since when do i need to "report" every thing i do to anyone? this thing reads like a paranoia manual.
this is just an attempt to suck someone else into buying into it. no wow site is worth 1 million or even CLOSE
who the fuck watches anything much on youtube except for short clips? tiny low res movies anyone?
JVC hdtv, name and shame.
also your police vs crime analogy is a moronic over simplification of the situation - police prevent many many different crimes, which one are you reffering to that we should give up on? ok i'll pick for you - someone carrying a small amount of cannabis, we won't ever stop it and it's very low impact (just like copying a movie) so yes police should stop worrying about pety crap like that.
this irritates me, because i'd love to play a game like this. certain people out there want to be everyones parents. to them i say - well mommy, come suck my dick, because i'm going to drink booze all night while playing manhunt
this kind of rubbish has been debunked many many times... but *sigh* here we go again.
blaming the present day medium for childrens behavour is FLAWED logic, as this kind of behavour was present prior to video games, and till continue to be there if video games never depicted such acts.
the problem lays squarely with parents who allow the tv and computer to raise their children for them, and to continue to ignore this fact for the sake of screeching on and on about violence in video games is moronic.
the UK is not part of europe, do you moronic american's really no so little of the world?
fuck no.
you aren't worth capitals ok.