I like the simplicity of your system. But as ANY voting system, it is not perfect.
What would you do when someone challenges the outcome, and the ballot count doesn't match the real-time count?
You might want some proof-of-vote, that the voter receives. In case the ballots are challenged, any voter can have authorities check that his vote is indeed in the ballot box, unaltered.
At the same time you would need a relyable count of votes, so that no extra balots can be in the bin.
Note that this proof-of-vote must not reveal the vote that has been made, but must still allow to verify that the corresponding ballot has not been tampered with.
I'm sure our descendants (assuming we have them) will invent their own C02 extract factories to keep the Earth nicely carbonated when the time comes.
Think of our children! Burn more oil!
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With the age verification process of the original Leisure Suit Larry, at least people would learn a lot about US History during the 70's trying to run the thing
20 years from now you get full access if you still know what the twin towers were, and limited access if you can only describe what muslims were.
Perhaps the ultimate solution would be to encrypt data as it is entered, before it is saved into RAM, and arrange for programs that use it to decrypt it first.
That would be a nice one.. a program that can encrypt a password that is not stored in ram..
Godels theorem pretty much says that there are things that you can NEVER know are true or false...and that in some cases you can PROVE that you can never know them.
For the Godel impaired, this whole Godel thing is that there is a clever way to say "There is no proof fot this statement". Which must be true, but you can't proof it.
So Godel proofs that there are true things that can impossible be proven. You know they are true, given the rules of logic, and you know you can't proof them using the same rules of logic. So you know, you know that you know, and you know that you can't proof it.
As a diver, a PDA that is waterproof at depth is what I would like. Minimal 200 Meter Sea water, and equiped with a pressure sensor.
So I could play the latest games during deco stops..
At what stage does the encryption become overkill?
If you can proof that there is only a brute force attack possible (you can't, i'm afraid) then overkill would mean that the theoretical minimum energy needed to change the state of some fysical device 2^n times is more than the energy available in our solar system. Don't have the exact numbers, but i think 160 bits would fit the bill.
So if you are willing to believe that something like SHA has no efficient reversal algoritme, its 160 bit are all you would ever need. (ever meaning: untill the sun goes out and you have other problems to worry about than your word file being password protected) On the other hand, failing a mathematical proof that you can't efficiently reverse SHA, you might be worried and stick to one-time-pad encryption.
although -190 Celcius is indeed somewhat on the chilly side, I think N2 would be a sound choise: You need something with a boiling point somewhere below 0 celcius (so you have a nice temperature gradient to work with) and you don't want to worry about the environment too much when your liquid boils away. N2 fits, it is easily available and has the bonus benefit that it will nicely extinguish the small fires where the graphics card is trying to keep up with the CPU
A company does not sell itself: share holders can sell their shares. What they do with the money after they have sold is not for the CEO of the company to decide. So if the comany is sold (meaning shares sold by shareholders to a new owner) how does the CEO get to say that the sellers must bring 20% of the gold to mr Boyes?
The equation only seems to fit if 20% equals zero...
What if SCO *wants* to be purchased by MS?
If they were owned by MS, they would have to shut up and not get themselves into this mess. Which is not what MS wants to happen.
Big Blue has also countersued SCO over patent infringement, and recently subpoenaed the companies that took up SCO's offer to view code samples under its non-disclosure terms.
I would assume that a court order would overrule any non-disclosure. But could this mean that the courts get to see something that IBM doesn't, and then decides that there is a basis for the infringement?
It seems that the firm can not let this happen. So if they can't win the case, they have to stretch it. Strech and stretch, until SCO gets taken over...
I would say that the GPL does one other thing: It makes it clearly that anyone could benefit from the code for free (as in beer). Therefore, if i infringe it, the damage done would be zero. So if i violate your GPL, i do owe you, for the amount of zero dollar.
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Why don't we switch over to C02 instead of helium for balloons? We do. There doesn't go any helium in hot air baloons.
Shouldn't there be an economy of taxes, so that the most efficient state gets the corporations and the workers?
I like the simplicity of your system. But as ANY voting system, it is not perfect. What would you do when someone challenges the outcome, and the ballot count doesn't match the real-time count? You might want some proof-of-vote, that the voter receives. In case the ballots are challenged, any voter can have authorities check that his vote is indeed in the ballot box, unaltered. At the same time you would need a relyable count of votes, so that no extra balots can be in the bin. Note that this proof-of-vote must not reveal the vote that has been made, but must still allow to verify that the corresponding ballot has not been tampered with.
I'm sure our descendants (assuming we have them) will invent their own C02 extract factories to keep the Earth nicely carbonated when the time comes.
Think of our children! Burn more oil!
With the age verification process of the original Leisure Suit Larry, at least people would learn a lot about US History during the 70's trying to run the thing
20 years from now you get full access if you still know what the twin towers were, and limited access if you can only describe what muslims were.
Perhaps the ultimate solution would be to encrypt data as it is entered, before it is saved into RAM, and arrange for programs that use it to decrypt it first. That would be a nice one.. a program that can encrypt a password that is not stored in ram..
Godels theorem pretty much says that there are things that you can NEVER know are true or false...and that in some cases you can PROVE that you can never know them.
For the Godel impaired, this whole Godel thing is that there is a clever way to say "There is no proof fot this statement". Which must be true, but you can't proof it.
So Godel proofs that there are true things that can impossible be proven. You know they are true, given the rules of logic, and you know you can't proof them using the same rules of logic. So you know, you know that you know, and you know that you can't proof it.
As a diver, a PDA that is waterproof at depth is what I would like. Minimal 200 Meter Sea water, and equiped with a pressure sensor. So I could play the latest games during deco stops..
Doesn't happen often.. the article itself a troll. But the article explains that CA did not pay SCO for a licence, so the title is very trollish...
Proprietary software prefer a "call by value" scheme, while F/OSS use the "call by name".
please note that the box 'related internet links' includes www.sco.com.
Seems like the bbc doesn't even understand their own article..
You mean killing the bugs. So we won't find life on mars, just dead bacteria..
At what stage does the encryption become overkill?
If you can proof that there is only a brute force attack possible (you can't, i'm afraid) then overkill would mean that the theoretical minimum energy needed to change the state of some fysical device 2^n times is more than the energy available in our solar system. Don't have the exact numbers, but i think 160 bits would fit the bill.
So if you are willing to believe that something like SHA has no efficient reversal algoritme, its 160 bit are all you would ever need. (ever meaning: untill the sun goes out and you have other problems to worry about than your word file being password protected)
On the other hand, failing a mathematical proof that you can't efficiently reverse SHA, you might be worried and stick to one-time-pad encryption.
They all launch them in the same direction, thus kicking the earth forward a bit. Maybe Beagle3 could aim for something different than mars?
although -190 Celcius is indeed somewhat on the chilly side, I think N2 would be a sound choise: You need something with a boiling point somewhere below 0 celcius (so you have a nice temperature gradient to work with) and you don't want to worry about the environment too much when your liquid boils away. N2 fits, it is easily available and has the bonus benefit that it will nicely extinguish the small fires where the graphics card is trying to keep up with the CPU
oh no.. he said 'I want a full bottle in front of me'...
A company does not sell itself: share holders can sell their shares. What they do with the money after they have sold is not for the CEO of the company to decide. So if the comany is sold (meaning shares sold by shareholders to a new owner) how does the CEO get to say that the sellers must bring 20% of the gold to mr Boyes? The equation only seems to fit if 20% equals zero...
What if SCO *wants* to be purchased by MS?
If they were owned by MS, they would have to shut up and not get themselves into this mess. Which is not what MS wants to happen.
Big Blue has also countersued SCO over patent infringement, and recently subpoenaed the companies that took up SCO's offer to view code samples under its non-disclosure terms.
I would assume that a court order would overrule any non-disclosure. But could this mean that the courts get to see something that IBM doesn't, and then decides that there is a basis for the infringement?
Wanted to moderate as funny, but the wheel mouse managed to change the entry just before i hit the button. This reply will cncel that moderation
It seems that the firm can not let this happen. So if they can't win the case, they have to stretch it. Strech and stretch, until SCO gets taken over...
I would say that the GPL does one other thing: It makes it clearly that anyone could benefit from the code for free (as in beer). Therefore, if i infringe it, the damage done would be zero. So if i violate your GPL, i do owe you, for the amount of zero dollar.
Ah, you are little-endian. Most europeans are bigendians. Americans are middle-endians.
No need to talk bad about murrican judges. They have the finest that money can buy.
But the ')' after the return statement (2nd example, 2nd line) will prevent compilation of this code...