My opinion is that there is no 'secure' e-voting system.
I also do not see any reason to abandon paper-based voting, which still is not 100% secure, but much more difficult to 'hack' due to transparency by distribution of control.
"Rhett Dawson is President and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI). Immediately prior to being selected as President of ITI, Dawson was Senior Vice President of Law and Public Policy for the Potomac Electric Power Company. In the Reagan administration, Dawson was Assistant to the President for Operations. At the White House, he managed the staff and decision-making process for President Reagan and was responsible for three White House support units: the White House Office, the Office of Administration, and the White House Military Office. He also was Executive Director of two presidential commissions, the President's Special Review Board (the Tower Board) that investigated the Iran-Contra matter, and the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (the Packard Commission). During the 1980s Dawson was a partner in two Washington law firms. Earlier in his career, he was Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Minority Counsel for the Senate Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (the Church Committee), and Minority Counsel for the Joint Committee on Defense Production. He is a member of the statutory Commission on National Guard and Reserve, and he is Vice Chair of the State Department's advisory committee on International Communication and Information Policy. Dawson received his undergraduate degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, where he was recognized in 2001 as the Alumni of the Year. He was awarded his law degree from Washington University."
"Does Google censor search results?
Yes, they sometimes do, in different countries, like Germany, France or China. Sometimes, specific content is censored globally (including US results, e.g. in the case of certain censored newsgroup messages)."
Quote (Craig Murray, British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004):
"In fact there was no evidence of the existence of this organisation other than that given by the Uzbek Security Services. There are, for example, no communications intercepts between senior terrorists referring to themselves as the Islamic Jihad Union....
There are some peculiar points about it: why are the German authorities connecting a Turk and two ethnic Germans, who allegedly trained in Pakistan, to an obscure and possibly non-existent Uzbek group?"
If you look further into the matter, it seems the whole thing is staged.
There will be an amazing new discovery in physics on a par with the discovery of radio waves or the discovery of nuclear reactions. This new discovery will involve a fuller understanding of the level of reality that lies "below" the haze of quantum mechanics--suppose we call this new level the domain of the subdimensions.
Endless free energy will flow from the subdimensions. And, by using subdimensional shortcuts akin to what is now called quantum entanglement, we'll become able to send information over great distances with no energy cost. In effect the whole world can become linked like a wireless network, simply by tapping into the subdimensional channel.
This universal telepathy will not be limited to humans; it will extend to animals, plants, and even ordinary objects. Via the subdimensions you'll be able to see every object in the world. Conversely, every object in the world will be in some limited sense conscious, in that it will be aware of all the other objects in the world.
A useful corollary is that any piece of brute matter will be a computer just as it is. That is, once we can reach into the inner self of an object, we'll become able to program the behavior of things like rocks or log--without our having to attach any kind of microprocessor as an intermediary.
Humans will communicate at a vastly enhanced level. Presently I communicate an idea by broadcasting a string of words that serves as a program for reconstructing one of my thoughts. Once we enjoy subdimensional telepathy, I can simply send you a link to the location of some particular idea in my head.
Machines will fade away and, in particular, digital computers will be no more. The emerging interactions of Earth's telepathically communicating beings will become a real and knowable Gaian mind. And then we will become aware of the other higher minds in our cosmos."
How old is this CEO - 13? He sounds like a whiny little whatever.
More like 31.
Quote:"On the professional side: After 10 years as the CEO of the recruitment company U-MAN Norge AS, I moved on and started my own consulting company Creo Pario AS. I then started working for the leading Norwegian Linux company Linpro AS. From March 2003 till March 2004 I was the CEO. In the summer of 2004 I started my own company - FreeCode It is fully dedicated to free software. As of February 2006, we are 15 people and expanding quickly.
On the private side: I was born in Oslo, Norway in 1966. I have been a scientologist since 1984 (see my rather out-dated scientology home page). I am spiritual rather than materialistic. I believe in the good in people and that everyone can reach their potential. I believe that giving is more important than receiving and that being productive toward a constructive goal is what make people happy." (emphasis mine)
Any further comment — except this one — seems void.
Brown, David L.; Henshaw, William D.; Kreiss, Heinz-Otto; Chesshire, Geoffrey
Affiliation: AA(Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM), AB(IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY), AC(California, University, Los Angeles; Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, Stockholm, Sweden)
"The fundamental principles, implementation, and applications of CMPGRD are reviewed; CMPGRD is a software package developed by Brown et al. (1988) to generate two- and three-dimensional curvilinear composite overlapping grids for flow computations. Particular attention is given to the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on composite grids: discretization, interpolation, FDM convergence rates, and the treatment of elliptic and time-dependent PDEs. Results for a typical problem involving supersonic channel flow are presented graphically."
Maybe a place to start. Kreiss seems to be specializing in the field. Not exactly new, but the problem is not either, I guess.
For the stuff that counts, something like that. It does help to have 1-1 teaching. The rest of the junk you could learn from TV or the internet. Like "why does the french milatary suck so bad ?"
And, of course, touch typing as well as the subsequent use of a spell checker, at least until utter proficiency is attained.
German gov't PCs hacked; China offers to investigate — Trojan horse programs were found on a number of computers
Quote(August 27, 2007):"Security experts from Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and Federal Data Protection Office discovered Trojan horse programs in computers used in several government ministries, including the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Economics and the Research and Development Ministry, as well as Merkel's office, Der Spiegel reported."
*grins diabolically*
The best leaders are those that have a value system that matches the values of those being led.
... who are able to best fit the goals of 'those who are led' to the goals/values of the corporation (and themselves)*2 have no value system at all, thus exploiting human resources most conveniently.
I thought it was pretty standard that most of the "high profile sites" out there are the ones least likely to understand the importance of keeping their software up to date.
Probably also — my bias — because all the persons in charge are so qualified (along the lines: younger than ever, experience > age, always only A++ level grades, superb team-players with ultimate social and leadership capabilities) that they more care about quantum career leaps.
Slashdot Mirror
My opinion is that there is no 'secure' e-voting system.
I also do not see any reason to abandon paper-based voting, which still is not 100% secure, but much more difficult to 'hack' due to transparency by distribution of control.
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More like a lobby for corporate US.
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The rest of the board is similar (link).
"Rhett Dawson is President and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI). Immediately prior to being selected as President of ITI, Dawson was Senior Vice President of Law and Public Policy for the Potomac Electric Power Company. In the Reagan administration, Dawson was Assistant to the President for Operations. At the White House, he managed the staff and decision-making process for President Reagan and was responsible for three White House support units: the White House Office, the Office of Administration, and the White House Military Office. He also was Executive Director of two presidential commissions, the President's Special Review Board (the Tower Board) that investigated the Iran-Contra matter, and the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (the Packard Commission). During the 1980s Dawson was a partner in two Washington law firms. Earlier in his career, he was Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Minority Counsel for the Senate Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (the Church Committee), and Minority Counsel for the Joint Committee on Defense Production. He is a member of the statutory Commission on National Guard and Reserve, and he is Vice Chair of the State Department's advisory committee on International Communication and Information Policy. Dawson received his undergraduate degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, where he was recognized in 2001 as the Alumni of the Year. He was awarded his law degree from Washington University."
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Well-funded governments or criminal organizations could take advantage of this, ...
... rendering your encryption shields worthless, and, besides, what is the difference?
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... about prior art, patenting the interrupt, yadda yadda ...
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I'm sorry but the only time the military/police isn't a good thing is when individual members are doing bad things, ...
Like when some individuum sends the military into some strange foreign land to find virtual weapons?
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>> In theory theory and practise are the same in practise they are not.
> Only if your theory is deficient.
If your theory is not deficient it is either not a theory or your theory of science is deficient.
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"Does Google censor search results?
Yes, they sometimes do, in different countries, like Germany, France or China. Sometimes, specific content is censored globally (including US results, e.g. in the case of certain censored newsgroup messages)."
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-03-02-n19.html
1984 is calling.
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... to the problem is mandatory use of software prescribed by those whith ethics beyond any shade of doubt.
...
From the top of my mind: government, MS, RIAA&Co, SONY, Verizon,
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Quote (Craig Murray, British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004):
...
There are some peculiar points about it: why are the German authorities connecting a Turk and two ethnic Germans, who allegedly trained in Pakistan, to an obscure and possibly non-existent Uzbek group?"
"In fact there was no evidence of the existence of this organisation other than that given by the Uzbek Security Services. There are, for example, no communications intercepts between senior terrorists referring to themselves as the Islamic Jihad Union.
If you look further into the matter, it seems the whole thing is staged.
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You might like this vision (RUDY RUCKER):
"A Knowable Gaian Mind
There will be an amazing new discovery in physics on a par with the discovery of radio waves or the discovery of nuclear reactions. This new discovery will involve a fuller understanding of the level of reality that lies "below" the haze of quantum mechanics--suppose we call this new level the domain of the subdimensions.
Endless free energy will flow from the subdimensions. And, by using subdimensional shortcuts akin to what is now called quantum entanglement, we'll become able to send information over great distances with no energy cost. In effect the whole world can become linked like a wireless network, simply by tapping into the subdimensional channel.
This universal telepathy will not be limited to humans; it will extend to animals, plants, and even ordinary objects. Via the subdimensions you'll be able to see every object in the world. Conversely, every object in the world will be in some limited sense conscious, in that it will be aware of all the other objects in the world.
A useful corollary is that any piece of brute matter will be a computer just as it is. That is, once we can reach into the inner self of an object, we'll become able to program the behavior of things like rocks or log--without our having to attach any kind of microprocessor as an intermediary.
Humans will communicate at a vastly enhanced level. Presently I communicate an idea by broadcasting a string of words that serves as a program for reconstructing one of my thoughts. Once we enjoy subdimensional telepathy, I can simply send you a link to the location of some particular idea in my head.
Machines will fade away and, in particular, digital computers will be no more. The emerging interactions of Earth's telepathically communicating beings will become a real and knowable Gaian mind. And then we will become aware of the other higher minds in our cosmos."
Not immediately, though.
s/Other, more exotic means of energy generation/Dark Energy/
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How old is this CEO - 13? He sounds like a whiny little whatever.
More like 31.
Quote:"On the professional side: After 10 years as the CEO of the recruitment company U-MAN Norge AS, I moved on and started my own consulting company Creo Pario AS. I then started working for the leading Norwegian Linux company Linpro AS. From March 2003 till March 2004 I was the CEO. In the summer of 2004 I started my own company - FreeCode It is fully dedicated to free software. As of February 2006, we are 15 people and expanding quickly.
On the private side: I was born in Oslo, Norway in 1966. I have been a scientologist since 1984 (see my rather out-dated scientology home page). I am spiritual rather than materialistic. I believe in the good in people and that everyone can reach their potential. I believe that giving is more important than receiving and that being productive toward a constructive goal is what make people happy." (emphasis mine)
Any further comment — except this one — seems void.
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... Overture Documentation
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http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989feaf.proc...54B
Brown, David L.; Henshaw, William D.; Kreiss, Heinz-Otto; Chesshire, Geoffrey
Affiliation: AA(Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM), AB(IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY), AC(California, University, Los Angeles; Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, Stockholm, Sweden)
"The fundamental principles, implementation, and applications of CMPGRD are reviewed; CMPGRD is a software package developed by Brown et al. (1988) to generate two- and three-dimensional curvilinear composite overlapping grids for flow computations. Particular attention is given to the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on composite grids: discretization, interpolation, FDM convergence rates, and the treatment of elliptic and time-dependent PDEs. Results for a typical problem involving supersonic channel flow are presented graphically."
Maybe a place to start. Kreiss seems to be specializing in the field. Not exactly new, but the problem is not either, I guess.
Disclaimer: IANAP/M
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Don't think for a moment you can win if the government decides to get tough.
Once upon a time, you could. See American Revolution, as an example from a country of the distant past.
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For the stuff that counts, something like that. It does help to have 1-1 teaching. The rest of the junk you could learn from TV or the internet. Like "why does the french milatary suck so bad ?"
And, of course, touch typing as well as the subsequent use of a spell checker, at least until utter proficiency is attained.
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German gov't PCs hacked; China offers to investigate — Trojan horse programs were found on a number of computers
Quote(August 27, 2007):"Security experts from Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and Federal Data Protection Office discovered Trojan horse programs in computers used in several government ministries, including the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Economics and the Research and Development Ministry, as well as Merkel's office, Der Spiegel reported."
*grins diabolically*
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http://moss.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/cluster/ps3/
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8+1 nodes, 2 TFLOPS
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BUSH WANTS TO BAKE A CAKE FOR MY CHILDREN
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True: http://anysoldier.com/Stuff/Articles/2006/Ferrari
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The best leaders are those that have a value system that matches the values of those being led.
... who are able to best fit the goals of 'those who are led' to the goals/values of the corporation (and themselves)*2 have no value system at all, thus exploiting human resources most conveniently.
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The question being asked is "Is it legal?".
My impression is that US authorities do not care much about law if national security issues are conjured up to be involved.
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So it's time for chinese and eastern people, the new young and culture-less (thanks to communism) countries.
Last time I checked, Chinese culture was said to be one of the oldest worldwide, India being close up.
to be very paranoid i'd say USA has expired its role as young culture-less country because it has developed a kind of culture
Kinda - to quote Hunter S. Thompson: "In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile." (more)
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Computer Eye, formerly Computerworld (1983); backcover with synopsis.
Just a reminder.
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I thought it was pretty standard that most of the "high profile sites" out there are the ones least likely to understand the importance of keeping their software up to date.
Probably also — my bias — because all the persons in charge are so qualified (along the lines: younger than ever, experience > age, always only A++ level grades, superb team-players with ultimate social and leadership capabilities) that they more care about quantum career leaps.
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