If you have a secret, just go to the public library and use one of those Bill and Melinda computers. If you need a library card number, just make one up. They will never catch you, besides, the librarians resist any efforts to turn them into cops.
Fax machines were very effective back around the time of the T-Square shootings. Caused all kinds of headaches. Email is a huge problem (from the Chinese government POV). But, it's hard to participate in modern business without communications technology. These folks have a lot to say about it.
Spamming for Freedom
In a completely different thread, someone was moaning about the demise of Basic as a starting point for youngsters with a programming kind of bent. What if we solve his problem and your problem in one stroke by requiring evoting systems to use an interpreted language such as BASIC. Then it will be our civic duty to keep basic alive.
I still agree. The problem with the Florida ballot is in how they organized the names. The butterfly ballot had been around for decades, I'm sure most of these people were not tripped up by that.
Punching holes in a card then mechanically collating them is old technolgy, understandable by anyone who cares. And if the need arises, the card can be read without equipment.
Making a total change in technology when not necessary leads to less confidence, not more.
Not only must a voting system be secure, it must alwo be trustworthy. I don't see how any closed system would be subject to the verification required for the level of trust required. A closed system works only when the "secrets" are held by a completely trustworthy group of insiders.
The more "security" features are incorporated, the less secure I feel. I used the butterfly system for decades, I felt secure. It's hard to move or remove a hole. The collating process is understandable. And, if necessary, the punch cards can be read with the human eye.
Any algorithm that requires a phd in encryption science to understand will be unverifiable by the typical voter. If the mechanics of the system are not transparent, we will be handing over the cornerstone of our political system to an unelectable group, not chosen for their honesty. I know that encrpytion geeks are probably the most trustworthy people in the world, but even they have a price and a political bias.
I'd rather see a simple system made simpler. I'd rather see public money spent on studying the biases of the butterfly and other simple sytems rather than development of whizzy new sytems that can't be explained with concepts understood by most qualified voters.
It doesn't matter how fair it is if the system requires faith in unknown technology and the people behind it.. If the ballot is badly organized, reorganize it. Fix only the problem, why replace the whole system?
Although American law is based on English Common Law, Americans see a loophole where ever anything isn't spelled out in plain legalese. If Common sense was assumed to be part of the system, we wouldn't have so many frivolous lawsuites. As it is, any creative person can be a victim of something.
The funny thing about the PO is that they give the bulk mailers the discount.
I know what I want, I want to be paid to open my email. The postage would be some sort of token that I and my legitimate corresponders would pass back and forth. Anyone with a need to mail more than he receives would be required to buy postage. The problem is that these tokens may be too easy to coounterfeit.
How does the Post Office sell postage on the internet? I mean, can't you just download postage and pay for it with a credit card?
Does it run all the time? Then it isn't like locate which only runs periodically. Unless I don't understand locate. I used to use locate in a script to find all of a certain type file, but it missed my newer files, so I switched to find. Find is slower, but doesn't rely on an index.
Anyway, penguins DO have wings (not fins) and they fly through water (not air). We call it swimming since it takes place in the water, but from a physical viewpoint, the bird is flying.
You could always become a Physicians Assistant. You won't get bedpan duty, in fact, you will get treated a lot like a doctor except you must always have a doctor somewhere supervising you.
Our library won't accept donations of computer books because most were too old. They prefer to buy them and replace them every year or so. They are among the most checked out books in the library and they try to get rid of the out of date ones. Usually the CD is still there when I check them out.
I doubt liability for a CD crashing a computer is any worse than for a tape falling apart and ruining a tape player.
IMO, the demographic of the library reflects the neighborhood it is in. My public library is in a rather comfortable suburb. Even well off people use the library, sorta millionaire next door people, I presume. Anyway, it not only has a small Gates cluster in the back (not on internet, it appears to be for people who need or choose to do wordprocessing at the library), a much larger cluster that goes onto the internet and/or the book catalog, and lots of books, DVDs, etc, for checkout.
amongst the books are quite a few of the well known OReilly, Sams, etc, and most of them have a CD inside. While in many cases, the CD only contains examples from the book, the books on such things as Linux have Linux (old version on 3 disks) So to that extent, the libary already has "Free" Software.
Right and the entire air traffic control system has been replaced by a network of Sony Playstations with all important maneuvers being determined by ten year old kids who think they are just playing a game.
Is the autopilot smart enough to tell me we're passing Pike's Peak on the right? And if it does, will it use an irritating automated voice? There's something to be valued in the human being even if pilots and stewards spend most of their time being tour guides and food venders and occassional emergency workers.
People seem to be misunderstanding what they've done. They've replaced all that radio voice chatter between the pilot and the tower. Autopilot complete with landing has been reality for years. What Qantas has done is replace the human conversation. They maybe have automated the decision making tasks. I don't understand why they chose the term "Virtual Pilot" for the machine in the tower, it confuses the issue.
I only watch "live TV" on Sunday night, all the rest of the time I watch DVD's I rent from Netflix. Cheaper than cable, cheaper than dish, and I can watch whenever I want. I'm not so uncool that I need the latest TV show to talk about, not when we have IP and OS's to talk about.
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If you have a secret, just go to the public library and use one of those Bill and Melinda computers. If you need a library card number, just make one up. They will never catch you, besides, the librarians resist any efforts to turn them into cops.
Google Disappears In China They can filter out your proxy as easy as any thing else
Fax machines were very effective back around the time of the T-Square shootings. Caused all kinds of headaches. Email is a huge problem (from the Chinese government POV). But, it's hard to participate in modern business without communications technology. These folks have a lot to say about it. Spamming for Freedom
In a completely different thread, someone was moaning about the demise of Basic as a starting point for youngsters with a programming kind of bent. What if we solve his problem and your problem in one stroke by requiring evoting systems to use an interpreted language such as BASIC. Then it will be our civic duty to keep basic alive.
Punching holes in a card then mechanically collating them is old technolgy, understandable by anyone who cares. And if the need arises, the card can be read without equipment.
Making a total change in technology when not necessary leads to less confidence, not more.
MU students voted more than once, survey finds
But not valid, this same flaw exists with the absentee system.
There's money to be made - if only I knew who will get the rubber glove contract.
Not only must a voting system be secure, it must alwo be trustworthy. I don't see how any closed system would be subject to the verification required for the level of trust required. A closed system works only when the "secrets" are held by a completely trustworthy group of insiders.
Any algorithm that requires a phd in encryption science to understand will be unverifiable by the typical voter. If the mechanics of the system are not transparent, we will be handing over the cornerstone of our political system to an unelectable group, not chosen for their honesty. I know that encrpytion geeks are probably the most trustworthy people in the world, but even they have a price and a political bias. I'd rather see a simple system made simpler. I'd rather see public money spent on studying the biases of the butterfly and other simple sytems rather than development of whizzy new sytems that can't be explained with concepts understood by most qualified voters.
It doesn't matter how fair it is if the system requires faith in unknown technology and the people behind it.. If the ballot is badly organized, reorganize it. Fix only the problem, why replace the whole system?
Although American law is based on English Common Law, Americans see a loophole where ever anything isn't spelled out in plain legalese. If Common sense was assumed to be part of the system, we wouldn't have so many frivolous lawsuites. As it is, any creative person can be a victim of something.
I know what I want, I want to be paid to open my email. The postage would be some sort of token that I and my legitimate corresponders would pass back and forth. Anyone with a need to mail more than he receives would be required to buy postage. The problem is that these tokens may be too easy to coounterfeit.
How does the Post Office sell postage on the internet? I mean, can't you just download postage and pay for it with a credit card?
http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.h tml
Does it run all the time? Then it isn't like locate which only runs periodically. Unless I don't understand locate. I used to use locate in a script to find all of a certain type file, but it missed my newer files, so I switched to find. Find is slower, but doesn't rely on an index.
but what if you actually want this type of email? Can you customize the filter to fit your own idea of spam?
Anyway, penguins DO have wings (not fins) and they fly through water (not air). We call it swimming since it takes place in the water, but from a physical viewpoint, the bird is flying.
You could always become a Physicians Assistant. You won't get bedpan duty, in fact, you will get treated a lot like a doctor except you must always have a doctor somewhere supervising you.
I was glad to see that you can throw emails into the trash, but then I started wondering if they ever get destroyed.
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I doubt liability for a CD crashing a computer is any worse than for a tape falling apart and ruining a tape player.
amongst the books are quite a few of the well known OReilly, Sams, etc, and most of them have a CD inside. While in many cases, the CD only contains examples from the book, the books on such things as Linux have Linux (old version on 3 disks) So to that extent, the libary already has "Free" Software.
Right and the entire air traffic control system has been replaced by a network of Sony Playstations with all important maneuvers being determined by ten year old kids who think they are just playing a game.
Is the autopilot smart enough to tell me we're passing Pike's Peak on the right? And if it does, will it use an irritating automated voice? There's something to be valued in the human being even if pilots and stewards spend most of their time being tour guides and food venders and occassional emergency workers.
People seem to be misunderstanding what they've done. They've replaced all that radio voice chatter between the pilot and the tower. Autopilot complete with landing has been reality for years. What Qantas has done is replace the human conversation. They maybe have automated the decision making tasks. I don't understand why they chose the term "Virtual Pilot" for the machine in the tower, it confuses the issue.
I only watch "live TV" on Sunday night, all the rest of the time I watch DVD's I rent from Netflix. Cheaper than cable, cheaper than dish, and I can watch whenever I want. I'm not so uncool that I need the latest TV show to talk about, not when we have IP and OS's to talk about.
Wouldn't that sort of make it all an infomercial? Kinda like Air America.