I' waiting for this to happend, but it seems
americans (USA americans, that is) don't
give a damm for basic democratic principles.
"The vote is secret" but a black box can record
the order in which votes were cast, and *anybody*
in the room knows the order in which voters
came to the booth.
"votes must be independently counted"
black-box == !record
there is no way for the representants of any
party to check by hand.
I was born in Costa Rica, the original
banana-republic, but every costarrican child
can explain to you why electronic voting
in its present form is an invitation to
electoral fraud.
Do you trust the goverment of Florida to
count the no-longer-exixting-ballots
the right way?
The study's conclusions are beyond logic: if developers can be sued for bugs, how come the buyers are only protected from severe negligence??
The german term for severe negligence (grobe Fahrlässigkeit) means that you are guilty only if you are aware that what you are donating is dangerous; for example: if you write a virus or other malicious software and give it away, you can be prosecuted (not sued!), but not for a honest mistake. The prosecution should prove that you either had a malicious intention or totally disregarded standard programming practice, i.e., you didn't debug your code at all.
Remember that this is only a legal opinion -not ruling- written on behalf of an institution that represents mostly closed-source companies.
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I' waiting for this to happend, but it seems americans (USA americans, that is) don't give a damm for basic democratic principles. "The vote is secret" but a black box can record the order in which votes were cast, and *anybody* in the room knows the order in which voters came to the booth. "votes must be independently counted" black-box == !record there is no way for the representants of any party to check by hand. I was born in Costa Rica, the original banana-republic, but every costarrican child can explain to you why electronic voting in its present form is an invitation to electoral fraud. Do you trust the goverment of Florida to count the no-longer-exixting-ballots the right way?
The study's conclusions are beyond logic: if developers can be sued for bugs, how come the buyers are only protected from severe negligence?? The german term for severe negligence (grobe Fahrlässigkeit) means that you are guilty only if you are aware that what you are donating is dangerous; for example: if you write a virus or other malicious software and give it away, you can be prosecuted (not sued!), but not for a honest mistake. The prosecution should prove that you either had a malicious intention or totally disregarded standard programming practice, i.e., you didn't debug your code at all. Remember that this is only a legal opinion -not ruling- written on behalf of an institution that represents mostly closed-source companies.