How hard is this?
In our Municipal elections (Toronto), we used bubble in ballots read by a machine. The machine was programmed to reject the ballot if no votes were detected. We could then ask the voter if they really meant to cast a "none of the above" ballot. If yes, the ballot would be re-entered, and you could press a button to tell the machine it was not spoiled, and it would tabulate it correctly. This system would certainly pick up if the pen was not the correct type!
"We had private discussions about this issue with some of our customers, and they were quite concerned about the uncertainty and the potential for a legal quagmire. What we've done is ensure that it's not an issue for our customers."
I'm not a customer of EV1, but if you are, and were not 'privately consulted', and seriously consider taking my buisness elsewhere.
According to EV1, they use and are very happy with RedHat. Too bad they didn't take a page from Lehman Brothers. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200402172 31311568
Then again, according to SCO, they aren't the first company to buy a license. They are the first company to buy a license *and* permit their name to be used. Who benefits from this publicity? And what did it cost them?
"It's a myth that hackers find the holes," said Nigel Beighton, who runs a research project for security firm Symantec that attempts to predict which vulnerabilities will be exploited next.
So can I sue Microsoft for providing hackers the information they need to hack my machine. Sounds like they're aiding and abetting according to that logic.
In our November municipal election (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), people voted with ballots read by an optical scanner. If the scanner didn't register any votes, it spit the ballot back out and asked if this was intentional. If it was, you pressed a button to confirm the "spoiled" ballot, and it would register as a vote for no candidate.
Results were tabulated by the scanner immediately, with results available as soon as the polls closed, and the paper ballots were sealed and could be re-counted by hand in the event of a challenge.
This is all speculation until such a suit is filed, though.
People keep saying SCO is a litigious company. But apart from threats to sue Novell, linux users, Google, my cat, in order to fuel speculation (stock price), have they actually carried through with any of it apart from the original IBM case? SCO's buisness model appears more to bark than to bite. Wake me when court documents are actually filed.
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How hard is this? In our Municipal elections (Toronto), we used bubble in ballots read by a machine. The machine was programmed to reject the ballot if no votes were detected. We could then ask the voter if they really meant to cast a "none of the above" ballot. If yes, the ballot would be re-entered, and you could press a button to tell the machine it was not spoiled, and it would tabulate it correctly. This system would certainly pick up if the pen was not the correct type!
"We had private discussions about this issue with some of our customers, and they were quite concerned about the uncertainty and the potential for a legal quagmire. What we've done is ensure that it's not an issue for our customers."
I'm not a customer of EV1, but if you are, and were not 'privately consulted', and seriously consider taking my buisness elsewhere.
According to EV1, they use and are very happy with RedHat. Too bad they didn't take a page from Lehman Brothers. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200402172 31311568
Then again, according to SCO, they aren't the first company to buy a license. They are the first company to buy a license *and* permit their name to be used. Who benefits from this publicity? And what did it cost them?
So can I sue Microsoft for providing hackers the information they need to hack my machine. Sounds like they're aiding and abetting according to that logic.
In our November municipal election (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), people voted with ballots read by an optical scanner. If the scanner didn't register any votes, it spit the ballot back out and asked if this was intentional. If it was, you pressed a button to confirm the "spoiled" ballot, and it would register as a vote for no candidate. Results were tabulated by the scanner immediately, with results available as soon as the polls closed, and the paper ballots were sealed and could be re-counted by hand in the event of a challenge.
This is all speculation until such a suit is filed, though. People keep saying SCO is a litigious company. But apart from threats to sue Novell, linux users, Google, my cat, in order to fuel speculation (stock price), have they actually carried through with any of it apart from the original IBM case? SCO's buisness model appears more to bark than to bite. Wake me when court documents are actually filed.