Let's say a person votes for candidate A, their screen shows candidate A, and the vote is recorded for candidate B. EVERY TIME you "recount" that machine, it's going to give you the wrong vote. Unless there's a printout that the voter can verify, and then place into a ballot box, ther IS NO REAL RECOUNT.
Sure, but there's nothing to recount that's worth recounting in the case of the elctronic votes. The votes were cast electronically, tallied electronically, and stored electronically. If the votes are inaccurate or have been tampered with, the damage has already been done to the data set. Unless there was a printout made after each voter voted, verified by the voter that the paper version matches their electronic vote, then there is no way to recount them.
Unless the printouts were done as each voter voted, there's no accountability. Of course printing out the total from the machine is going to give you the same total that the machine gave you.
Gotcha, thanks for the explanation. It seems that my issues have been not so much with your application, but with Adobe's SVG Viewer. In both IE and Firefox, it seems to eat up enough resources to slow my 2.4Ghz system down significantly. I'll be checking in as the project progresses.
So, you're saying that an anecdote about playing a few times and then stopping is going to promote problem gambling more than one about playing every day?
People don't need to hear other people's sucess stories to get hooked on anything. Trust me.
But they're not providing a backwards compatible media player, they're providing backwards compatible content. Which means it's playable on older, possibly non-DRM players. That's how it looks to me, anyway.
Have they come down on.avi, RealVideo, quicktime, mp4, ogg, DivX, or any other codec? No. Because that would be fucking stupid. Do you realize that there is surround sound content that is either free, or that people make themselves? They do too.
Should have said, "wont' lose anything important." In most cases, users don't even know how to change any meaningful settings or care to, so resetting them to defaults is a small price to pay for being up and running again quickly. Just copy the disk image with the OS, drivers, and apps already installed, and go.
For the less likely instances where all settings and configuration are essential, a regimen of full/incremental backups will ensure you have relatively recent copies of all files and registry entries. With RAID and a decently administered system, data loss is quite unlikely.
That's why you redirect the users' home folder to a properly managed server, and/or implement an automatic backup scheme. That way, if the machine crashes, or if you want to perform a fresh OS install, you won't lose anything.
Your experience is unique to anyone I've ever talked to about the subject, apparently. And, an upgrade from Windows 2000 to XP is not a patch. Just because most machines didn't finish the upgrade process doesn't mean the process was not an upgrade.
If they had done fresh CD installs, or maybe even used the OEM Preinstallation Kit to automate things and/or create a duplicatable drive image (which I'm so intimately familiar with due to my Win95-exclusive experience), this wouldn't have happened.
You can pray for your Windows upgrade to propogate over the network without incident in one hand, and take a crap in the other, and see which one fills up first.
Upgrades NEVER work! Not for Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Longhorn, whatever! It will never be a good idea to try and replace a MS OS without doing a clean install.
I've met so many people through message boards, chat rooms, and mailing lists (mostly related to the rave scene) over the years that have grown into long-term friendships, roommates, dates, etc. Pretty much all of which are the same online as in person.
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Let's say a person votes for candidate A, their screen shows candidate A, and the vote is recorded for candidate B. EVERY TIME you "recount" that machine, it's going to give you the wrong vote. Unless there's a printout that the voter can verify, and then place into a ballot box, ther IS NO REAL RECOUNT.
Yeah, but that doesn't really do anything to exclude vote tampering or inacurate vote count on each indiviidual machine.
Sure, but there's nothing to recount that's worth recounting in the case of the elctronic votes. The votes were cast electronically, tallied electronically, and stored electronically. If the votes are inaccurate or have been tampered with, the damage has already been done to the data set. Unless there was a printout made after each voter voted, verified by the voter that the paper version matches their electronic vote, then there is no way to recount them.
Unless the printouts were done as each voter voted, there's no accountability. Of course printing out the total from the machine is going to give you the same total that the machine gave you.
There is no way to recount the electronic "votes"
for free! What, you don't trust some random stranger on the internet? Many of us don't, and many of us don't get viruses or spyware.
when the service goes down.
/Simpsons quote
but this could be the next big thing in grammar education.
<sentence> <interjection>Hooray!</interjection>
Reading sentences tagged like this will teach you the parts of speech in no time!
Gotcha, thanks for the explanation. It seems that my issues have been not so much with your application, but with Adobe's SVG Viewer. In both IE and Firefox, it seems to eat up enough resources to slow my 2.4Ghz system down significantly. I'll be checking in as the project progresses.
Forgive me if this looks totally pointless. I know it's just a demo, but why include a text box and submit button that don't seem to do anything?
That's what my status bar says when I mouse over in IE.
Weather Center, Brought to you by AccuWeather. But that's it. Not incredibly impressed, yet.
Follow these directions: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows1.html
So far all it's managed to do is make Firefox use 100% CPU, and not much else. Let me know if you have better luck.
IE just crashes.
So, you're saying that an anecdote about playing a few times and then stopping is going to promote problem gambling more than one about playing every day?
People don't need to hear other people's sucess stories to get hooked on anything. Trust me.
But they're not providing a backwards compatible media player, they're providing backwards compatible content. Which means it's playable on older, possibly non-DRM players. That's how it looks to me, anyway.
Have they come down on .avi, RealVideo, quicktime, mp4, ogg, DivX, or any other codec? No. Because that would be fucking stupid. Do you realize that there is surround sound content that is either free, or that people make themselves? They do too.
That's Intel's new, big strategy? It sounds so futuristic and forward-looking... for 1979.
Should have said, "wont' lose anything important." In most cases, users don't even know how to change any meaningful settings or care to, so resetting them to defaults is a small price to pay for being up and running again quickly. Just copy the disk image with the OS, drivers, and apps already installed, and go.
For the less likely instances where all settings and configuration are essential, a regimen of full/incremental backups will ensure you have relatively recent copies of all files and registry entries. With RAID and a decently administered system, data loss is quite unlikely.
That's why you redirect the users' home folder to a properly managed server, and/or implement an automatic backup scheme. That way, if the machine crashes, or if you want to perform a fresh OS install, you won't lose anything.
Your experience is unique to anyone I've ever talked to about the subject, apparently. And, an upgrade from Windows 2000 to XP is not a patch. Just because most machines didn't finish the upgrade process doesn't mean the process was not an upgrade.
If they had done fresh CD installs, or maybe even used the OEM Preinstallation Kit to automate things and/or create a duplicatable drive image (which I'm so intimately familiar with due to my Win95-exclusive experience), this wouldn't have happened.
You can pray for your Windows upgrade to propogate over the network without incident in one hand, and take a crap in the other, and see which one fills up first.
Upgrades NEVER work! Not for Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Longhorn, whatever! It will never be a good idea to try and replace a MS OS without doing a clean install.
This is first day stuff.
I call it "using the hardware I paid for however I damn well feel like using it". There's nothing illegal or immoral about it.
Do you really believe that noone would associate a mod chip with piracy if the poster of a Slashdot article hadn't mentioned the possibility?
Come on now.
I've met so many people through message boards, chat rooms, and mailing lists (mostly related to the rave scene) over the years that have grown into long-term friendships, roommates, dates, etc. Pretty much all of which are the same online as in person.
IRC is a cesshole, that may be the difference.
As if there aren't real people at the other end of that IM client.