I realize that the seemingly correct thing to do is to stay at home. But all that does is ensure the tyranny of those with an agenda. This stuff isn't rocket science. There are not that many candidates to choose from, and you're chosing the lesser of two evils anyway.
I'm certainly not choosing the lesser of two evils. In the grand scheme of things, I vote for who I think should be elected. Generally, that's a third-party/independent candidate. It's only when there are two equal evils with no choice of a third that I don't vote--the best way to express my opinion is by showing NO support for either of them. If either were elected, I would be equally dissatisfied.
So, you know that your vote has no effect in the grand total of millions. Why not vote your conscious? You'll know that you did the right thing.
If he had a cellphone, this could really screw things up.
Here in Atlanta, in whatever traffic condition, jam, whatever it is, you will STILL see someone on a cellular phone, weaving and going about 90MPH.
By the way, Atlanta is already well-covered. Lots of people whom I know make use of this map. I wonder what the GDOT could have up their sleeves with this project.
I think that the only reason that Diebold hardware is being used is that they are an established contractor. It's much the same way as how the federal government uses Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and the other BIG ones because they keep the government in their comfort zone. They have been around for a long time and continue to somewhat get the job done. They will continue to be around because the government keeps them alive. A smaller company (read large-sized corporation nonetheless) could do twice the job in a third of the time at a quarter of the cost.
You have Diebold in this same sort of scenario. The great thing here, though, is that they have NO idea what they are doing. How they have built these machines, I can't help but think that this would be the kind of scenario where a MasterLock-like comapny trying to branch out and make electronic security systems would just hire a bunch of fresh EE's and tell them to go at it.
Running Windows? We need SECURITY here. Write a simple OS in C or assembly, and post it as open-source for a year or two before releasing the units.
Physical security?? These are the guys who build ATM's. The voting machines are about as well-built as a cash register for sale at Wal-Mart. The locks on the side of the machines could be picked by the most novice of amateurs. Easy in, easy out. Or could be broken with a screwdriver or the CF card door could be popped right open with a crowbar. These things shouldn't be built out of what appears to be 16-gauge sheet metal. Casio would probably have obliged to build a better machine for a tenth of the cost.
I switched over to vinyl recently. I'm using a Technics 1210 direct drive turntable and a Shure M97xE cartridge because they killed off their audiophile V15VxMR cartridge about a year ago, causing NOS prices to go up about fivefold. I'm using a 45-year-old McIntosh MX110 preamp and two McIntosh MC30 tube amps. It's all tube by the way, no preamp stage on the turntable. I'm stuck with a set of Bose 901 V's for right now, but when time comes in about six months, I'm going to get some real speakers.
Real, old speakers. The kind where you might have 12", 8", 3", and 1" speakers to correspond to the different frequency cutoffs because it sounds better this way. Better than having all of the same cones and using heavy amounts of equalization to try to make the sound come out right. (By the way, the 901's were some of the first to do this--scoff.)
There's some investment in this; granted, my cousin gave me the Mac tube equipment...but it's worth it. When you listen to vinyl, which I started doing about six months ago, it sounds more realistic. You get the harmonics from the tubes. You get real cover art. What you don't get is a digital reconstruction of everything packaged into a bite-sized square and a little piece of plastic that you can conveniently pop into the player.
Oh, and by the way, it's really nice to be able to hear your song without speakers, whether that is from the vibration from the stylus, or resonation through unloaded tubes:)
Call a locksmith with an IQ greater than that of a grape, and he can come up with a solution. I have NO faith in Diebold. It's just another one of those large contractors that always get the bid because they were around first. Newer companies (read, non-stagnant) could create a working product for a tenth of the cost.
And why does Diebold design these machines in such a way that they *CAN* be hacked? I think that involving an Operating System and software in the design of such a machine is a critical error. As a computer engineer, I realize that overcomplicating things can lead to errors. DSP's can make hardware extremely cheap, but there are places where analog circuits are cheaper and more realiable! Why hasn't Diebold designed a hardwired electronic circuit or a mechanical system with failsafes such that the machine can't be hacked, and the wrong candidate will not be selected if the machine fails? There are so many places where their current design can and will go wrong. I believe that it's time for these loonies (or preferrably someone else who has more sense) to come up with a more rudimentary and failsafe design!
I'd like to see some substantial proof that his computer actually had large flames coming out. Seeing that there wasn't much damage to the PCB itself and that the computer was still running, I find this guy's story hard to believe.
About a year ago, I had a 120GB HDD that fizzled out in the exact same manner. One of the SMD chips on the PCB burned up. It left a hole in the chip with a bit of melted plastic/carbon around the tiny cavity. Considering how small the wires are inside the chip casing, this was probably the "fuse" of a short on the board. Perhaps the motor got a little out of phase, stopped while still powered, and this resulted. Just a little conjecture.
Oh, and by the way, the drive that suffered the same fate didn't explode in a fireball, and it was a Western Digital. Why this guy was railing on Maxtor, probably at his cube on company time, I will never know...
You could have put that OpenBSD box inline as a firewall (pf is cool) and still done monitoring. Then your XP box would have been safe.
That's how I normally operate my network. I run packet filtering and have a lovely, optimized pf.conf that operates smoothly and never gives me any problems. (For months, garbage and books accumulated on the keyboard. It took me a couple of minutes to clear all the stuff from the keyboard. I ran the uptime command as I was packing up shop and was pleasantly pleased to find a four-month uptime before I halted the box.) Turning off the "firewall," I was performing an experiment to prove to myself how quickly an unpatched WinXP box would be compromised--rather, totally owned--and it was quite an eye opener. I sort of expected it, though.
Yes, they may be ineffective in controlling outbound traffic. However, that's not the real point of a personal firewall.
Without a personal firewall, users have a huge issue with inbound traffic when it comes to security, especially in the Windows "territories." I'll never forget the day that I left open an unpatched WinXP box after a fresh install. I watched all of the script kiddies and automated worms go at it from my passive OpenBSD monitoring box. That machine was hacked in under ten minutes just because I left it there, open to the Internet. So, useless? No.
(23:24:48) Uncle_C: you can spell daamit with ati and amd
(23:25:03) parasonic: hahahaha
(23:25:08) parasonic: where did you figure that one out?
(23:25:18) Uncle_C: i'm kinda drunk, i'm jsut loking at it adn thats what it said
this system could possibly yield better voter turnout...if someone who wanted to vote republican lives in a traditionally "blue" state, they might not have voted knowing their vote wouldn't matter. if everyone's vote counted the same in the entire country, however, that person would be more likely to go to the polls.
Or, rather, it could do the opposite. A voter could be in a state with a small population where his vote would count more. Perhaps he would be in a state that is nearly split down the middle, and his vote may matter more with the electoral college than with the gross sum voting system. The electoral college is there to give each region (state) as much power as the next region in the federation, creating a balance of power in the federal level.
Yes it is. Not only do we not want to add another six-digit figure to this year's budget, but with how things are going with Novell--especially with this little issue--they're going to have a harder time selling us the next rev of their product. If they had just a little more business sense, we might actually stay with them. It just takes the little action of keeping the customers happy. How big of a deal is it to push out a 64-bit client?
The problem seems to be Novell drivers, not anything else. Try running it without Novell connectivity first.
Let me start by saying that I'm Dysfnctnl85's coworker. With our company's infrastructure, we *have* to have Novell access for the clients. We are using it primarily for NDPS and our NFS. All of the users' files are stored on Novell shares with a great deal of permissions settings, so there's no way of getting around needing Novell, short of migrating to another network architecture.
I think of Google as the "kindly predator." It makes its rounds around several industries and outdoes everyone whose services it competes with.
Do you really think that Google will settle with a lawsuit or court settlement? This may very well be one of the leading reasons to an upcoming auction service, perhaps an eBay killer, likely named gBay.
Why does Diebold design these machines in such a way that they *CAN* be hacked? I think that involving an Operating System and software in the design of such a machine is a critical error. As a computer engineer, I realize that overcomplicating things can lead to errors. DSP's can make hardware extremely cheap, but there are places where analog circuits are cheaper and more realiable! Why hasn't Diebold designed a hardwired electronic circuit or a mechanical system with failsafes such that the machine can't be hacked, and the wrong candidate will not be selected if the machine fails? There are so many places where their current design can and will go wrong. I believe that it's time for these loonies (or preferrably someone else who has more sense) to come up with a more rudimentary and failsafe design!
Is the ESRB even legally binding? Are publishers required to place the label on their games? You'd think that they could just make up their own "suggested age."
If the ESRB is legally binding, can a game just be rated NR, as some movies still are...think MPAA rating.
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So, you know that your vote has no effect in the grand total of millions. Why not vote your conscious? You'll know that you did the right thing.
By the way, Atlanta is already well-covered. Lots of people whom I know make use of this map. I wonder what the GDOT could have up their sleeves with this project.
Exactly.
I think that the only reason that Diebold hardware is being used is that they are an established contractor. It's much the same way as how the federal government uses Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and the other BIG ones because they keep the government in their comfort zone. They have been around for a long time and continue to somewhat get the job done. They will continue to be around because the government keeps them alive. A smaller company (read large-sized corporation nonetheless) could do twice the job in a third of the time at a quarter of the cost.
You have Diebold in this same sort of scenario. The great thing here, though, is that they have NO idea what they are doing. How they have built these machines, I can't help but think that this would be the kind of scenario where a MasterLock-like comapny trying to branch out and make electronic security systems would just hire a bunch of fresh EE's and tell them to go at it.
Running Windows? We need SECURITY here. Write a simple OS in C or assembly, and post it as open-source for a year or two before releasing the units.
Physical security?? These are the guys who build ATM's. The voting machines are about as well-built as a cash register for sale at Wal-Mart. The locks on the side of the machines could be picked by the most novice of amateurs. Easy in, easy out. Or could be broken with a screwdriver or the CF card door could be popped right open with a crowbar. These things shouldn't be built out of what appears to be 16-gauge sheet metal. Casio would probably have obliged to build a better machine for a tenth of the cost.
How about the law that you shall not be identified by your SSN?
How about the law that you shall not be required to give more than the last four digits of your SSN?
No wonder there are "305 lawsuits" per average company per year...
I'm a college-age guy.
:)
I switched over to vinyl recently. I'm using a Technics 1210 direct drive turntable and a Shure M97xE cartridge because they killed off their audiophile V15VxMR cartridge about a year ago, causing NOS prices to go up about fivefold. I'm using a 45-year-old McIntosh MX110 preamp and two McIntosh MC30 tube amps. It's all tube by the way, no preamp stage on the turntable. I'm stuck with a set of Bose 901 V's for right now, but when time comes in about six months, I'm going to get some real speakers.
Real, old speakers. The kind where you might have 12", 8", 3", and 1" speakers to correspond to the different frequency cutoffs because it sounds better this way. Better than having all of the same cones and using heavy amounts of equalization to try to make the sound come out right. (By the way, the 901's were some of the first to do this--scoff.)
There's some investment in this; granted, my cousin gave me the Mac tube equipment...but it's worth it. When you listen to vinyl, which I started doing about six months ago, it sounds more realistic. You get the harmonics from the tubes. You get real cover art. What you don't get is a digital reconstruction of everything packaged into a bite-sized square and a little piece of plastic that you can conveniently pop into the player.
Oh, and by the way, it's really nice to be able to hear your song without speakers, whether that is from the vibration from the stylus, or resonation through unloaded tubes
It's alive and well. It's just that the people who speak it are dead, one way or another.
Call a locksmith with an IQ greater than that of a grape, and he can come up with a solution. I have NO faith in Diebold. It's just another one of those large contractors that always get the bid because they were around first. Newer companies (read, non-stagnant) could create a working product for a tenth of the cost.
And why does Diebold design these machines in such a way that they *CAN* be hacked? I think that involving an Operating System and software in the design of such a machine is a critical error. As a computer engineer, I realize that overcomplicating things can lead to errors. DSP's can make hardware extremely cheap, but there are places where analog circuits are cheaper and more realiable! Why hasn't Diebold designed a hardwired electronic circuit or a mechanical system with failsafes such that the machine can't be hacked, and the wrong candidate will not be selected if the machine fails? There are so many places where their current design can and will go wrong. I believe that it's time for these loonies (or preferrably someone else who has more sense) to come up with a more rudimentary and failsafe design!
Correct.
I'd like to see some substantial proof that his computer actually had large flames coming out. Seeing that there wasn't much damage to the PCB itself and that the computer was still running, I find this guy's story hard to believe.
About a year ago, I had a 120GB HDD that fizzled out in the exact same manner. One of the SMD chips on the PCB burned up. It left a hole in the chip with a bit of melted plastic/carbon around the tiny cavity. Considering how small the wires are inside the chip casing, this was probably the "fuse" of a short on the board. Perhaps the motor got a little out of phase, stopped while still powered, and this resulted. Just a little conjecture.
Oh, and by the way, the drive that suffered the same fate didn't explode in a fireball, and it was a Western Digital. Why this guy was railing on Maxtor, probably at his cube on company time, I will never know...
Yes, they may be ineffective in controlling outbound traffic. However, that's not the real point of a personal firewall.
Without a personal firewall, users have a huge issue with inbound traffic when it comes to security, especially in the Windows "territories." I'll never forget the day that I left open an unpatched WinXP box after a fresh install. I watched all of the script kiddies and automated worms go at it from my passive OpenBSD monitoring box. That machine was hacked in under ten minutes just because I left it there, open to the Internet. So, useless? No.
(23:24:48) Uncle_C: you can spell daamit with ati and amd
(23:25:03) parasonic: hahahaha
(23:25:08) parasonic: where did you figure that one out?
(23:25:18) Uncle_C: i'm kinda drunk, i'm jsut loking at it adn thats what it said
this system could possibly yield better voter turnout...if someone who wanted to vote republican lives in a traditionally "blue" state, they might not have voted knowing their vote wouldn't matter. if everyone's vote counted the same in the entire country, however, that person would be more likely to go to the polls.
Or, rather, it could do the opposite. A voter could be in a state with a small population where his vote would count more. Perhaps he would be in a state that is nearly split down the middle, and his vote may matter more with the electoral college than with the gross sum voting system. The electoral college is there to give each region (state) as much power as the next region in the federation, creating a balance of power in the federal level.
Toner sold today is not simple carbon dust. Toner contains carbon but is a plastic with intrinsic electrostatic properties.
Check here for more info.
Yes it is. Not only do we not want to add another six-digit figure to this year's budget, but with how things are going with Novell--especially with this little issue--they're going to have a harder time selling us the next rev of their product. If they had just a little more business sense, we might actually stay with them. It just takes the little action of keeping the customers happy. How big of a deal is it to push out a 64-bit client?
The problem seems to be Novell drivers, not anything else. Try running it without Novell connectivity first.
Let me start by saying that I'm Dysfnctnl85's coworker. With our company's infrastructure, we *have* to have Novell access for the clients. We are using it primarily for NDPS and our NFS. All of the users' files are stored on Novell shares with a great deal of permissions settings, so there's no way of getting around needing Novell, short of migrating to another network architecture.
I think of Google as the "kindly predator." It makes its rounds around several industries and outdoes everyone whose services it competes with.
Do you really think that Google will settle with a lawsuit or court settlement? This may very well be one of the leading reasons to an upcoming auction service, perhaps an eBay killer, likely named gBay.
...the keyword is might :)
How well do these ideologies match up with our current Regime?
Chapter 1 - Ignorance is Strength
Chapter 2 - Freedom is Slavery
Chapter 3 - War is Peace
And at over 17lb you can even use it for weight training!**
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I guess that Jedi training will have to be added to the astronauts' checklist. They're going to need lightsabers now.
Why does Diebold design these machines in such a way that they *CAN* be hacked? I think that involving an Operating System and software in the design of such a machine is a critical error. As a computer engineer, I realize that overcomplicating things can lead to errors. DSP's can make hardware extremely cheap, but there are places where analog circuits are cheaper and more realiable! Why hasn't Diebold designed a hardwired electronic circuit or a mechanical system with failsafes such that the machine can't be hacked, and the wrong candidate will not be selected if the machine fails? There are so many places where their current design can and will go wrong. I believe that it's time for these loonies (or preferrably someone else who has more sense) to come up with a more rudimentary and failsafe design!
I thought that Tipper Gore is the Mother of the Internet...
...is in the body area most likely to be guarded.
To further your questions...
Is the ESRB even legally binding? Are publishers required to place the label on their games? You'd think that they could just make up their own "suggested age."
If the ESRB is legally binding, can a game just be rated NR, as some movies still are...think MPAA rating.