Honestly, I think if you are selling them on dual booting, you may have won the battle but lost the war. They may do it for a week or two, but will quickly come to see it as a major hassle, eventually returning to Windows full time, with Linux being a memory of "that thing that couldn't run any of my software."
I seriously don't understand how a black box can be considered an invasion of privacy. They only time they are accessed is when something happens and the information is required to settle a dispute. Maybe if they were keeping track of where you went, or using RFID to monitor what you bought at the grocery store, but they are only logging the last few SECONDS before IMPACT.
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I have been testing XP Service Pack 2 for about a month now, and when I tried to apply the patch it came back with a message saying I did not need to...
Maybe instead of putting fully networked machines in front of the voter, we should look at this a different way:
1) Start with each machine being configured to run stand-alone. 2) The voter places their votes, and is issued a paper reciept containing who you voted for, and what booth you used (perhaps a machine readable only side to give to the attendant, and a human readable side that you keep, for privacy) with their entries encoded into a bar code of sorts, as well as being recorded locally. 3) They bring the reciept to the person administrating the voting at that location, who takes their reciept and runs it though a reader which tabulates the votes for the whole voting session.
In the end those results are tallied against the individual voting booths, and as well as having a paper trail to fall back on, and it prevents someone in the booth from being able to do any more damage than corrupt whatever was done on their machine. And if the attendant tries anything with his machine, the count between the different booths will also be thrown off, and it would be very difficult (never say impossible) to destroy reciepts for one specific person because of the encoding.
Throw strong encryption and a minimal and hardened OS into the mix, and it might actually be reliable.
What if it were offered as a class of service? Many ISP's offer different packages (5 Personalized E-Mail Addresses! Wow!) why not just make this another "Value Added"?
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Honestly, I think if you are selling them on dual booting, you may have won the battle but lost the war. They may do it for a week or two, but will quickly come to see it as a major hassle, eventually returning to Windows full time, with Linux being a memory of "that thing that couldn't run any of my software."
I didn't know you were called Dennis!
You are looking for a SAN...
I seriously don't understand how a black box can be considered an invasion of privacy. They only time they are accessed is when something happens and the information is required to settle a dispute. Maybe if they were keeping track of where you went, or using RFID to monitor what you bought at the grocery store, but they are only logging the last few SECONDS before IMPACT.
That would be called SSL.
I have been testing XP Service Pack 2 for about a month now, and when I tried to apply the patch it came back with a message saying I did not need to...
I thought that was interesting...
Maybe instead of putting fully networked machines in front of the voter, we should look at this a different way:
1) Start with each machine being configured to run stand-alone.
2) The voter places their votes, and is issued a paper reciept containing who you voted for, and what booth you used (perhaps a machine readable only side to give to the attendant, and a human readable side that you keep, for privacy) with their entries encoded into a bar code of sorts, as well as being recorded locally.
3) They bring the reciept to the person administrating the voting at that location, who takes their reciept and runs it though a reader which tabulates the votes for the whole voting session.
In the end those results are tallied against the individual voting booths, and as well as having a paper trail to fall back on, and it prevents someone in the booth from being able to do any more damage than corrupt whatever was done on their machine. And if the attendant tries anything with his machine, the count between the different booths will also be thrown off, and it would be very difficult (never say impossible) to destroy reciepts for one specific person because of the encoding.
Throw strong encryption and a minimal and hardened OS into the mix, and it might actually be reliable.
What if it were offered as a class of service? Many ISP's offer different packages (5 Personalized E-Mail Addresses! Wow!) why not just make this another "Value Added"?