It is not because you understand something that it's trustworthy.
It's not because you understand how it can be rigged, that it wil not be rigged. Understanding does not exclude fraud. Understanding how fraud can be committed does not give the system credibility or trust. One does not trust the system, but rather those who implement it. Regardless of the system in use.
You don't need paper for that.
In belgium it's recorded on a chip (creditcard-size).
You can re-insert the card into the computer and verify (not change) your vote.
Afterwards the cards/chips can be recounted.
I understand that there are problems in the US since the 2000 presidential election and the us is searching for a new system.
But you don't have to re-invent the wheel. It's working in Belgium, come take a look. It's working to that extent that no mayor problems are known, such as losing 100000 votes.
Nothing works a 100%. not even doing everything with paper, because that leads to counting problems. You can't count accurately several hundred million votes.
Another point.US is also one of the few countries where 2 wheeled vehicles like motorbikes/scooters are almost non existent. They are pretty widespread in European counties like Spain and in Asia. Not only are they more fuel efficient, but release lower amounts of polluting gases (atleast the 4 stroke versions, 2 stroke engines release more harmful gases for the same amount of fuel). I have noticed a growing use of scooters in the US, atleast in and around college campuses.
Where I live (in europe) you have to be 18 to be allowed to drive a car. But for a scooter, (up to 45km/h, I think) you only have to be 16. Many schoolkids have a scooter, especially girls.
The Schedule dialogue box saves electricity and time by shutting down the Mac automatically each night, and turning it on just in time to greet you each morning.
Euhm, Either it goes to sleep and wakes up in time without saving energy. Or it shuts down, saves energy and...
Well, if it's shut down, how can it know how to wake up? Perhaps there is an always awake chipset somewhere inside that stores the info, but then why did they wait until now to implement it? And if there isn't such a chip, how is it supposed to know when to power up.
anyway, I can't wait to get my hands on expose...
You don't have to know how to build an atomic bomb or how to create the killer-virus. But that doesn't mean humanity (read: scholars) hasn't have the right to know such things.
Sometimes you need to know the nasty things to get to the good things.
It's not knowledge, but applications that could be wrong/harmfull.
Perhaps Bush has read one book, one about the spanish inquisition.
And why wouldn't the chinese version of your nsa be able to read the nsa mainframes?
If you can read theirs, than assumes they can read your stuff as well.
Want to give more people a job. Then stop forcing them to work overtime. That way, more people will have jobs and more time can be spend with the family, or doing a hobby.
Great. More lights which means nothing to me. I am colour-blind. Worse is that more and more things try to give me information by changing the color of the leds, leaving me standing in the desert of ignorance. So it tells me nothing and I pay for the power usage.
"stop wasting money" by looking for health damage.
I don't regard research into health issues as wasted money. I rather waste money and find nothing than know nothing about the possible effects and slowly die ignorant.
And every (decent) research that denies any effect, simple puts to rest any concerns. It would simply say that it is save to use a mobile.
Unwilling to do research might cause unnecessary concern and can give the impression that there is something to hide.
Hopefully it doesn't end here.
I live in Europe and I have to download most TV-series from kazaa. It's the only thing that keeps virtual pc around.
Why do I download them?
1) I like to see them.
2) They are not (yet) available. I don't want to be 2 or 3 years behind USA.
3) I only watch that what is worth watching, and thus worth downloading. I don't spend that much time on worthless TV-junk anymore.
However, I don't download movies. The quality sucks. I go to apple trailer site and to movie reviews sites, and a lot to the theaters. Actually I have been going more lately. I prefer to view less movies in the theatre then more (rented or downloaded) movies a smal screen with lousy sound quality.
Now, au contraire to popular/. thinking, I recognise the hard work put in, and that it deserves rewarding.
I could buy the DVD, if they are even available. But I find that wasted money if you only watch it once. Actually I bought the LOTR extended edition and I only saw it once so far.
So I am waiting for something like IMovie Movie Store (ref: ITMS), with the same rights as for ITMS and the same price-range or lower.
I hope it ain't whishfull thinking. Afterall most of the world is still waiting for ITMS.
Get this: I don't want to steal. But I don't want to get ripped of either.
Some movies and TV-series are worth having on DVD. But most are mindless entertainment, that isn't worth paying much.
I have read the comments at level 4 as usual, but there is something I missed in the discussion.
Loan a copy, or lend it out. The author makes an analogy with giving a book to a friend.
They are not the same.
When you install the software, then you can still use it. Even when you give the cd to a friend for a few days. A book you can't read when it's somewhere else.
Suppose you give your cd to a friend, whom installs it and gives back the cd. That friend can still use the software. You have not loaned it out, you have giving it in effect.
This can be circumvent by requiring that a cd is the drive while using it. But most of us run multiple apps at the same time. This is impractical. And not all software is obtained by cd. You can also download it.
So while I agree with most rights, I have my doubts about this one.
Indeed. But don't stop with software. Do it with everything.
Books, software, music, film, medications,...
Take a book as an example. If you pay the author for the right of reading his/her book, then it becomes your problem how you read it. Do you pay a publisher for a physical copy, do you pay a website for an e-book, or do just download a copy with bittorent.
You might have to pay numerous times for downloading or for a physical copy. It's your fault if you lose it or mistreat it. But you pay the author only once.
Same for medication. Pay whomever invented it once, and pay the manufacturer for you daily supply.
And if it is an important medication, like a vaccin for aids, then have the government pay for a global license.
I am not saying they shouldn't be punished, but jailtime is not the only means of punishment.
I don't know NYC (or USA) that well. It may just be that crime moved somewhere else or that it's not that visible anymore.
Cops with big sticks and tough judges are nice to watch, but not to meet. Innocent people do get in contact with cops, you know.
I do know about the USA that its jail population is ever increasing, with minimal or no effects.
Jail time should be mandatory
Yeah, right. You do know that more jails and more jail time doesn't lead to less crime?
There are other ways to convince people not to commit crimes or to annoy the common people.
Have them do community service or something like that. Something with wich they are confronted with the negative effects of their acts.
In this case that would be:... euh... writing oss-code?
We also need a better email protocol which would make it difficult to fake headers.
Indeed, yes. Why don't you lett those hackers/crackers design it? Don't they know the (failing) system the best.
Reminds me of that movie 'Gets me if you can'. The main character was a cheque fraud, gets caught and designs the new, improved cheques.
And if there is a new system out there. Why is everyone waiting with its implementation?
The translated article is short, because the original one was short too. I just glanced over this translation, but I think it was complete.
I fear that If you want more information, you should buy the magazine itself.
No, I am not going to buy it. I have broadband.
I fear that once SCO is dead and buried,/. nerds will fall in the biggest black hole ever found. Depression will be their part, afterall what to discuss/flame/hate/ridicule now? SCO, please don't go down. We need you for our daily laughter.
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Do you have faith in those counting all those paper ballots?
Why? (not a rhetorical question)
It is not because you understand something that it's trustworthy.
It's not because you understand how it can be rigged, that it wil not be rigged.
Understanding does not exclude fraud.
Understanding how fraud can be committed does not give the system credibility or trust.
One does not trust the system, but rather those who implement it. Regardless of the system in use.
Just wait until they evolve into a humanoid-like species.
You do know what we did to the Neanderthals?
You don't need paper for that.
In belgium it's recorded on a chip (creditcard-size).
You can re-insert the card into the computer and verify (not change) your vote.
Afterwards the cards/chips can be recounted.
I understand that there are problems in the US since the 2000 presidential election and the us is searching for a new system.
But you don't have to re-invent the wheel. It's working in Belgium, come take a look. It's working to that extent that no mayor problems are known, such as losing 100000 votes.
Nothing works a 100%. not even doing everything with paper, because that leads to counting problems. You can't count accurately several hundred million votes.
recount by hand?
Who says that is more accurate than a computer count?
But if my family were in danger, I'd certainly rethink that policy
Getting a gun = putting your family in danger
a gun is a false sense of securtiy
Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people.
Yes, but it is more difficult for people to kill people with their bare hands.
We can do without devices whose sole purpose is killing.
Another point.US is also one of the few countries where 2 wheeled vehicles like motorbikes/scooters are almost non existent. They are pretty widespread in European counties like Spain and in Asia. Not only are they more fuel efficient, but release lower amounts of polluting gases (atleast the 4 stroke versions, 2 stroke engines release more harmful gases for the same amount of fuel). I have noticed a growing use of scooters in the US, atleast in and around college campuses.
Where I live (in europe) you have to be 18 to be allowed to drive a car. But for a scooter, (up to 45km/h, I think) you only have to be 16. Many schoolkids have a scooter, especially girls.
Okay.
Thanks for the answer.
The Schedule dialogue box saves electricity and time by shutting down the Mac automatically each night, and turning it on just in time to greet you each morning.
Euhm, Either it goes to sleep and wakes up in time without saving energy. Or it shuts down, saves energy and...
Well, if it's shut down, how can it know how to wake up?
Perhaps there is an always awake chipset somewhere inside that stores the info, but then why did they wait until now to implement it? And if there isn't such a chip, how is it supposed to know when to power up.
anyway, I can't wait to get my hands on expose...
You don't have to know how to build an atomic bomb or how to create the killer-virus. But that doesn't mean humanity (read: scholars) hasn't have the right to know such things.
Sometimes you need to know the nasty things to get to the good things.
It's not knowledge, but applications that could be wrong/harmfull.
Perhaps Bush has read one book, one about the spanish inquisition.
And you thought that being colorblind didn't have any advantages.
And why wouldn't the chinese version of your nsa be able to read the nsa mainframes?
If you can read theirs, than assumes they can read your stuff as well.
Want to give more people a job. Then stop forcing them to work overtime. That way, more people will have jobs and more time can be spend with the family, or doing a hobby.
Great. More lights which means nothing to me. I am colour-blind. Worse is that more and more things try to give me information by changing the color of the leds, leaving me standing in the desert of ignorance. So it tells me nothing and I pay for the power usage.
"stop wasting money" by looking for health damage.
I don't regard research into health issues as wasted money. I rather waste money and find nothing than know nothing about the possible effects and slowly die ignorant.
And every (decent) research that denies any effect, simple puts to rest any concerns. It would simply say that it is save to use a mobile.
Unwilling to do research might cause unnecessary concern and can give the impression that there is something to hide.
I live in Europe and I have to download most TV-series from kazaa. It's the only thing that keeps virtual pc around.
Why do I download them?
1) I like to see them.
2) They are not (yet) available. I don't want to be 2 or 3 years behind USA.
3) I only watch that what is worth watching, and thus worth downloading. I don't spend that much time on worthless TV-junk anymore.
However, I don't download movies. The quality sucks. I go to apple trailer site and to movie reviews sites, and a lot to the theaters. Actually I have been going more lately. I prefer to view less movies in the theatre then more (rented or downloaded) movies a smal screen with lousy sound quality.
Now, au contraire to popular /. thinking, I recognise the hard work put in, and that it deserves rewarding.
I could buy the DVD, if they are even available. But I find that wasted money if you only watch it once. Actually I bought the LOTR extended edition and I only saw it once so far.
So I am waiting for something like IMovie Movie Store (ref: ITMS), with the same rights as for ITMS and the same price-range or lower.
I hope it ain't whishfull thinking. Afterall most of the world is still waiting for ITMS.
Get this: I don't want to steal. But I don't want to get ripped of either.
Some movies and TV-series are worth having on DVD. But most are mindless entertainment, that isn't worth paying much.
Loan a copy, or lend it out. The author makes an analogy with giving a book to a friend.
They are not the same.
When you install the software, then you can still use it. Even when you give the cd to a friend for a few days. A book you can't read when it's somewhere else.
Suppose you give your cd to a friend, whom installs it and gives back the cd. That friend can still use the software. You have not loaned it out, you have giving it in effect.
This can be circumvent by requiring that a cd is the drive while using it. But most of us run multiple apps at the same time. This is impractical. And not all software is obtained by cd. You can also download it.
So while I agree with most rights, I have my doubts about this one.
Indeed. But don't stop with software. Do it with everything. Books, software, music, film, medications,...
Take a book as an example. If you pay the author for the right of reading his/her book, then it becomes your problem how you read it. Do you pay a publisher for a physical copy, do you pay a website for an e-book, or do just download a copy with bittorent.
You might have to pay numerous times for downloading or for a physical copy. It's your fault if you lose it or mistreat it. But you pay the author only once. Same for medication. Pay whomever invented it once, and pay the manufacturer for you daily supply.
And if it is an important medication, like a vaccin for aids, then have the government pay for a global license.
I am not saying they shouldn't be punished, but jailtime is not the only means of punishment.
I don't know NYC (or USA) that well. It may just be that crime moved somewhere else or that it's not that visible anymore.
Cops with big sticks and tough judges are nice to watch, but not to meet. Innocent people do get in contact with cops, you know.
I do know about the USA that its jail population is ever increasing, with minimal or no effects.
Gets me if you can'
that's 'Catch me if you can' about Frank W Abagnale with tom hanks and leona...
oh, just forget it.
Yeah, right. You do know that more jails and more jail time doesn't lead to less crime?
There are other ways to convince people not to commit crimes or to annoy the common people.
Have them do community service or something like that. Something with wich they are confronted with the negative effects of their acts.
In this case that would be:
We also need a better email protocol which would make it difficult to fake headers.
Indeed, yes. Why don't you lett those hackers/crackers design it? Don't they know the (failing) system the best.
Reminds me of that movie 'Gets me if you can'. The main character was a cheque fraud, gets caught and designs the new, improved cheques.
And if there is a new system out there. Why is everyone waiting with its implementation?
The translated article is short, because the original one was short too. I just glanced over this translation, but I think it was complete.
I fear that If you want more information, you should buy the magazine itself.
No, I am not going to buy it. I have broadband.
eye candy.
Sure it works, but It looks so ugly.
Not everything is about functionality.
What is wrong with caring about something looks?
I fear that once SCO is dead and buried, /. nerds will fall in the biggest black hole ever found.
Depression will be their part, afterall what to discuss/flame/hate/ridicule now?
SCO, please don't go down. We need you for our daily laughter.