> Sound powered phones are still another slick- no power needed tool that impress the heck out of me.
We actually sent a guy off looking for batteries for a sound powerd phone set. While this might seem like a normal "initiation" sort of thing, the real problem was that the guy was a second class Interior Comm Tech!
> But what everyone should remember - the single thing that make carriers so effective- are the people that run it.
Yeah, just like our captain that killed a poor guy because he was too impatiant to wait for the proper safety proceedures to be carried out, assholes that couldn't care less if a piece of equipment worked or not as long as it had a fresh coat of paint on it, etc. etc.
I can see it now. As soon as you point and select something, your cell # is saved to a database, and you start getting deluged with cell-spam for various items, i.e. " If you liked *movie name here* we're sure you'd like to rent these other fine movies at Blockbuster(tm)!" ad naseum... ( no pun intended )
Using purely electronic voting for anything other than informal polls and amusement is very, very dumb. Besides the potential for tampering, there is also the potential failure of the machine in general. ( How'z about a nice big lightning storm hitting and frying all of the machines in a polling station through a power surge. What'll you do, have the election over again? )
After all, one US judge said that the constitution does not state that election results have to be accurate. Just that they *tried* to have a fair election. Funny that he did not define *tried*.
If you want to use electronic type systems, it needs to print / punch out a paper ballot of some sort that the person feeds through a reader that displays how the ballot was marked ( to make sure the machine punched it correctly ) then they deposit it into the ballot box, And they keep a numbered receipt that shows who they voted for in each race.
The paper ballots are then machine counted a few times to ensure accurate counts. ( Get the same count each time they are checked ).
China intends to land a person on the moon to have them claim it as chinese territory, followed by a military base there. They should be stopped at all costs.
Boycott all products from china, do not travel there, and also please boycott the Olympics that will be hosted there. It's the 1936 Berlin Olympics all over again, just a different smiling dictator with the same ambitions...
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> Sound powered phones are still another slick- no power needed tool that impress the heck out of me.
We actually sent a guy off looking for batteries for a sound powerd phone set. While this might seem like a normal "initiation" sort of thing, the real problem was that the guy was a second class Interior Comm Tech!
> But what everyone should remember - the single thing that make carriers so effective- are the people that run it.
Yeah, just like our captain that killed a poor guy because he was too impatiant to wait for the proper safety proceedures to be carried out, assholes that couldn't care less if a piece of equipment worked or not as long as it had a fresh coat of paint on it, etc. etc.
I can see it now. As soon as you point and select something, your cell # is saved to a database, and you start getting deluged with cell-spam for various items, i.e. " If you liked *movie name here* we're sure you'd like to rent these other fine movies at Blockbuster(tm)!" ad naseum... ( no pun intended )
Using purely electronic voting for anything other than informal polls and amusement is very, very dumb. Besides the potential for tampering, there is also the potential failure of the machine in general. ( How'z about a nice big lightning storm hitting and frying all of the machines in a polling station through a power surge. What'll you do, have the election over again? ) After all, one US judge said that the constitution does not state that election results have to be accurate. Just that they *tried* to have a fair election. Funny that he did not define *tried*. If you want to use electronic type systems, it needs to print / punch out a paper ballot of some sort that the person feeds through a reader that displays how the ballot was marked ( to make sure the machine punched it correctly ) then they deposit it into the ballot box, And they keep a numbered receipt that shows who they voted for in each race. The paper ballots are then machine counted a few times to ensure accurate counts. ( Get the same count each time they are checked ).
China intends to land a person on the moon to have them claim it as chinese territory, followed by a military base there. They should be stopped at all costs. Boycott all products from china, do not travel there, and also please boycott the Olympics that will be hosted there. It's the 1936 Berlin Olympics all over again, just a different smiling dictator with the same ambitions...