Man, I hope you mean involving "sex, drugs, and rock and roll."
The last time I used sex drugs on a high schooler I was in prison for 10 years.... if it hadn't been for that murderous panda who made me his bitch, I don't think I would have survived.
No, they used demographics and past elections to show that in counties that used electronic voting there was a statistically significant trend towards a larger number of Bush votes than Kerry votes
In a nice, random system there should have been no noticeable pattern to vote distribution in regards to electronic vs. paper ballots. That is to say: in some places where electronic voting was used Bush got a similar number of votes, in some places a lesser number of votes, and in some places a larger number of votes compared to last election's results.
This statement would also be true when comparing paper based ballots: in some places where paper based voting was used Bush got a similar number of votes, in some places a lesser number of votes, and in some places a larger number of votes compared to last election's results.
Statistically, this is what you would expect to happen if paper and electronic voting systems do the exact same thing (i.e. accurately record who a person voted, record no more votes than were placed for a candidate, and record no fewer votes than were placed for a candidate).
The fact that there is a paper based voting showed this randomness trend, but electronic did not is extremely disturbing for anyone interested in the will of the people being accurately carried out by the system.
This basically means that if you were to pick, at random, an electronically placed voted it's chance of being for Bush is higher than it's chance of being for Kerry when compared to the smaller subgroup (paper based votes) or when compared to the larger supergroup (all votes placed in Florida).
All this does is a show a trend and cannot offer an explanation. The trend alone is enough, in my mind, to want some way of independently verifying vote results.
I've had the same trouble as you! There seem to be a damn lot of books catered at teaching design people to write good HTML, or work in Flash, or do CSS, but hardly any books giving code monkeys a good basis in design.
Like some other posters, I am dating a boy who is a designer. Hearing about some obscure designers in Oslo a billion times a day is sooooooo worth getting him to do my design work for me:D
plus, creative types can be very, um, inventive, in um, other, um areas.
MacOS already propmts for your username/pass when installing some items and when running an app for the firs time.
I expect we'll see a security update in the near future that will prompt for admin username/pass on trying to install this software and another prompt that warns "An Application is attempting to add an item to your StartUp Items folder.
Add Item | Don't Add Item
Hell, you could enable folder actions, attach an action to StartUpItems and write an applescript that did this for you
In the lab I work in the thermostat and heat registers are kept in two different parts of a large room divided by some bookshelves.
Result: Thermowar.
I come in, sit at my desk, and it's coooooold (sometimes near 60). So, I go turn the thermostat up to a lovely 68. Heat registers pump out heat, but by the time it reaches the thermostat it's close to 70F in my part of the lab.
So, we turn the heat down. But, then it's too cold for people on the other end of the lab, who turn the heat up making my area like a trip to Guantanamo (without the snazzy orange suit). So, thermostat goes down, other workers get cold, pump it up.
This goes on all day long.
The result of my own personal study: after 71F, I start to get WPS (Warm Puppy Syndrome).
To see what I am talking about, take one (1) puppy and apply heat and food liberally.
Hmmm.... that does uniquely look just like the cube box that came with my ipod and isight. Black and white, cubed.
I wonder if it is as cool on the inside though. I still pull out my ipod box and marvel at how wonderful a design it is (Yes, I kept the box. I'm a mac nut and a design nut; I love showing my friends whose toys usually come in brown cardboard or squeaky styrofoa)..
I've looked at these sites just to see the quality of writing of the papers they have available (often looking at sample papers they provide as an indication of what the rest of their collection will offer) and there is no way you could use these papers at a major university (or at least not mine).
Professors here rarely assign papers that lack specificity. I've never been able to write "What did you think about Mansfield Park" type papers before - topics are usually several paragraphs in length, center on *very* specific topics within a book, and always want you to relate your paper to specific things we've discussed in our discussion sessions.
Maybe I am just limited by my experience at my school... do students at other schools actually turn these papers in as-is?
I wonder how many will fight these suits in court? All enrolled students as UM get free access to a law office (Student legal services http://studentlegalservices.dsa.umich.edu/) who have helped me successfully sue two slumlords in Ann Arbor (and got helped resolve a work dispute at my non-U job).
I know if I were sued by the RIAA (not that they would have any reason to) I would be totally f*%^ed since I've graduated and cannot afford a major legal battle on my crappy IT wages.
But, if I had 4 trained lawyers for free, I might consider fighting for a bit of fun!
Slashdot Mirror
seems like I haven't seen that in a while
Man, I hope you mean involving "sex, drugs, and rock and roll."
The last time I used sex drugs on a high schooler I was in prison for 10 years.... if it hadn't been for that murderous panda who made me his bitch, I don't think I would have survived.
No, they used demographics and past elections to show that in counties that used electronic voting there was a statistically significant trend towards a larger number of Bush votes than Kerry votes
In a nice, random system there should have been no noticeable pattern to vote distribution in regards to electronic vs. paper ballots. That is to say: in some places where electronic voting was used Bush got a similar number of votes, in some places a lesser number of votes, and in some places a larger number of votes compared to last election's results.
This statement would also be true when comparing paper based ballots: in some places where paper based voting was used Bush got a similar number of votes, in some places a lesser number of votes, and in some places a larger number of votes compared to last election's results.
Statistically, this is what you would expect to happen if paper and electronic voting systems do the exact same thing (i.e. accurately record who a person voted, record no more votes than were placed for a candidate, and record no fewer votes than were placed for a candidate).
The fact that there is a paper based voting showed this randomness trend, but electronic did not is extremely disturbing for anyone interested in the will of the people being accurately carried out by the system.
This basically means that if you were to pick, at random, an electronically placed voted it's chance of being for Bush is higher than it's chance of being for Kerry when compared to the smaller subgroup (paper based votes) or when compared to the larger supergroup (all votes placed in Florida).
All this does is a show a trend and cannot offer an explanation. The trend alone is enough, in my mind, to want some way of independently verifying vote results.
I've had the same trouble as you! There seem to be a damn lot of books catered at teaching design people to write good HTML, or work in Flash, or do CSS, but hardly any books giving code monkeys a good basis in design.
Like some other posters, I am dating a boy who is a designer. Hearing about some obscure designers in Oslo a billion times a day is sooooooo worth getting him to do my design work for me :D
plus, creative types can be very, um, inventive, in um, other, um areas.
Let's hope they have a way to communicate to non-combatants. Maybe ATT's speech synthesis?
Example:Fear not.
MacOS already propmts for your username/pass when installing some items and when running an app for the firs time.
I expect we'll see a security update in the near future that will prompt for admin username/pass on trying to install this software and another prompt that warns "An Application is attempting to add an item to your StartUp Items folder.
Add Item | Don't Add Item
Hell, you could enable folder actions, attach an action to StartUpItems and write an applescript that did this for you
In the lab I work in the thermostat and heat registers are kept in two different parts of a large room divided by some bookshelves. Result: Thermowar. I come in, sit at my desk, and it's coooooold (sometimes near 60). So, I go turn the thermostat up to a lovely 68. Heat registers pump out heat, but by the time it reaches the thermostat it's close to 70F in my part of the lab. So, we turn the heat down. But, then it's too cold for people on the other end of the lab, who turn the heat up making my area like a trip to Guantanamo (without the snazzy orange suit). So, thermostat goes down, other workers get cold, pump it up. This goes on all day long. The result of my own personal study: after 71F, I start to get WPS (Warm Puppy Syndrome). To see what I am talking about, take one (1) puppy and apply heat and food liberally.
Hmmm.... that does uniquely look just like the cube box that came with my ipod and isight. Black and white, cubed.
I wonder if it is as cool on the inside though. I still pull out my ipod box and marvel at how wonderful a design it is (Yes, I kept the box. I'm a mac nut and a design nut; I love showing my friends whose toys usually come in brown cardboard or squeaky styrofoa)..
I've looked at these sites just to see the quality of writing of the papers they have available (often looking at sample papers they provide as an indication of what the rest of their collection will offer) and there is no way you could use these papers at a major university (or at least not mine).
Professors here rarely assign papers that lack specificity. I've never been able to write "What did you think about Mansfield Park" type papers before - topics are usually several paragraphs in length, center on *very* specific topics within a book, and always want you to relate your paper to specific things we've discussed in our discussion sessions.
Maybe I am just limited by my experience at my school... do students at other schools actually turn these papers in as-is?
I wonder how many will fight these suits in court? All enrolled students as UM get free access to a law office (Student legal services http://studentlegalservices.dsa.umich.edu/) who have helped me successfully sue two slumlords in Ann Arbor (and got helped resolve a work dispute at my non-U job). I know if I were sued by the RIAA (not that they would have any reason to) I would be totally f*%^ed since I've graduated and cannot afford a major legal battle on my crappy IT wages. But, if I had 4 trained lawyers for free, I might consider fighting for a bit of fun!