Visual porn is overwhelmingly designed with the male (gay and straight alike) in mind, while tactile stimuli (sex toys, vibrators, etc.) are marketed primarily to females. I don't think this is by accident.
maybe that's because a hand can simulate a vagina better that it can simulate a penis
It means mankind will need to perform massive global search and replace operations: Find: Southeast Asians Replace with: Northwest Asians
That sort of thing.
exactly. The real problems are legal and regulatory in nature. The software might collect and tally the votes perfectly, but if Diebold is dialing up remotely and performing "end runs" in the database between the collecting and the tallying,then we have a problem. It's a matter of security. You gotta look at the potential points of attack. They would theoretically embed a chip in the machine, so that the source code for collecting and tally is perfect, but another, undocumented routine, running on a ROM they didn't tell anyone about is manipulating the results. Don't think this isn't possible, we are talking about millions and millions of dollars going into these elections.
no no you got that all wrong. We don't want the open source community to write the code...we just want the code to be open to public review and scrutiny. weirdo.
but we know how to work around the mistakes in SendMail in order to get it to work, and getting it to work is goal. open source encryption code in the cryptography community has been a real success in designing encypting schemes that withstand assault from mathmaticians and computer scientists around the world.
But I argue that the bigger threat legal and regulator in nature: controlling access to the database file. Today Diebold can dial-in to their machines remotely and before "end runs" to the database using MS Access.
yup, it's that simple. Except for the fact that the votes are stored in a database, and that database can be accessed but a program which which randomly alter votes until the winner loses his or her advantage. simple as that.
Scantron is the word you were looking for, and yes, there are a gazillion ways to mechanically process paper votes. eVoting seems very dangerous to me simply becuase the standards used to evaluate evoting systems are poor. I've read the leaked Diebold emails and documents and that system is NOT tamperproff and should not have been approved for use but it was. The biggest problems are legal and regulatory issues, not technology issues, in my opinion.
I'm going to rant, but my Karma is already bad and I don't know how to get good karma, so I don't really care because I'm going for insightful.
I didn't spend thousands of dollars for my direct gain Acurus audiophile amplifier, CD player and NHK speakers to listen to crappy lossy mp3 files.
Technology is making music more convenient, but sound decidedly worse sounding. So much music today is digitized, overdubbed, multitracked, noise reduced, filtered, and over produced into something that is decidedly inauthentic in artistic expression. The same can be said for digital photography; or the recent Star Wars films. I've never paid for any mp3, and never will because PC sound cards and speakers suck ass. Most people have never even heard how good music can sound because mass consumer electronics warp and distort it. Compare the THD of your Japanese receiver with a Macintosh amplifier. Listen to Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" and compare 1950s era recording studio technology to todays. Is that progress?
>Don't ask, don't tell is the operating mode for much of the nanotechnology industry these days when it comes to where discarded products end up.
because the Bush Administration wants to hid it's non-competitive contacts with Waste Management for the use of Hot Wheels hauling services to mini-landfills.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004U3E4/ ref%3Dnosim/emvb-20/002-4563813-9619230
the real threat is that even if I do prevent hackers and worms and viruses, what protects me from installing a program that I bought and paid for, but that does something mischevious.
For example, what if RealPlayer decides to include a key-logger whenever you install their app? True, they would get their ass sued when people found out, but what if it was some contractor working for Real who slipped it in under the code-review radar?
That is something that really bothers me. Whenever I run an install program, it can basically has a license to be god. I want to be able to decide which files a program can read from, which directories it can write too. Which IP address it can communicate with. I want a protected space where I can run that program, and not have to worry that it can interfere with anything outside that space.
I'm not an expert on computers or security, but I do have files on my system which I consider to be very valuable and it really bothers me how insecure computers really are.
Create a secure environment to protect people's valuable work, and the world will arrive on your doorstep.
Basically, the goal is to get static IPs for all your devices: you mobile phone, pocket PC, laptop, desktop--so that with your data can find you no matter where you happen to be. So we need about 5 or 6 IP addresses for each person on the planet. Given that we currently don't even have enough IP addresses for all the people in China, looks like we need to upgrade IP.
The intended purpose of this technology is to disable satellites. America's superior control of space yields some distinct military advantages, and they don't want some country like China--who incidently has a much larger standing army, to undermine that advantage by equalizing.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9710/02/laser.test/
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Visual porn is overwhelmingly designed with the male (gay and straight alike) in mind, while tactile stimuli (sex toys, vibrators, etc.) are marketed primarily to females. I don't think this is by accident.
maybe that's because a hand can simulate a vagina better that it can simulate a penis
It means mankind will need to perform massive global search and replace operations:
Find: Southeast Asians
Replace with: Northwest Asians
That sort of thing.
not only fesible, easy-to-do in fact.
BotBlock offers the easiest to OCR CAPTHCA I ever cracked! Is there a market for selling a BotBlock crack as a web services to spammers?
exactly. The real problems are legal and regulatory in nature. The software might collect and tally the votes perfectly, but if Diebold is dialing up remotely and performing "end runs" in the database between the collecting and the tallying,then we have a problem. It's a matter of security. You gotta look at the potential points of attack. They would theoretically embed a chip in the machine, so that the source code for collecting and tally is perfect, but another, undocumented routine, running on a ROM they didn't tell anyone about is manipulating the results. Don't think this isn't possible, we are talking about millions and millions of dollars going into these elections.
no no you got that all wrong. We don't want the open source community to write the code...we just want the code to be open to public review and scrutiny. weirdo.
but we know how to work around the mistakes in SendMail in order to get it to work, and getting it to work is goal. open source encryption code in the cryptography community has been a real success in designing encypting schemes that withstand assault from mathmaticians and computer scientists around the world.
But I argue that the bigger threat legal and regulator in nature: controlling access to the database file. Today Diebold can dial-in to their machines remotely and before "end runs" to the database using MS Access.
the fear isn't so much that there will be subtle minor mistakes, but that there will be intentional manipulation of votes.
yup, it's that simple. Except for the fact that the votes are stored in a database, and that database can be accessed but a program which which randomly alter votes until the winner loses his or her advantage. simple as that.
private is the operative word here: then see how their vote was tallied on a secure, private terminal
Scantron is the word you were looking for, and yes, there are a gazillion ways to mechanically process paper votes. eVoting seems very dangerous to me simply becuase the standards used to evaluate evoting systems are poor. I've read the leaked Diebold emails and documents and that system is NOT tamperproff and should not have been approved for use but it was. The biggest problems are legal and regulatory issues, not technology issues, in my opinion.
It's pretty hard to receive payment in a manner that is untracable. How are they mitigating that?
http://www.mapleshaderecords.com/main/aboutus.php
I'm going to rant, but my Karma is already bad and I don't know how to get good karma, so I don't really care because I'm going for insightful.
I didn't spend thousands of dollars for my direct gain Acurus audiophile amplifier, CD player and NHK speakers to listen to crappy lossy mp3 files.
Technology is making music more convenient, but sound decidedly worse sounding. So much music today is digitized, overdubbed, multitracked, noise reduced, filtered, and over produced into something that is decidedly inauthentic in artistic expression. The same can be said for digital photography; or the recent Star Wars films. I've never paid for any mp3, and never will because PC sound cards and speakers suck ass. Most people have never even heard how good music can sound because mass consumer electronics warp and distort it. Compare the THD of your Japanese receiver with a Macintosh amplifier. Listen to Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" and compare 1950s era recording studio technology to todays. Is that progress?
outlaw GPS-less trucks
and only outlaws will drive GPS-less trucks
the joke disappeared...let me guess: something about anal love beads?
>Don't ask, don't tell is the operating mode for much of the nanotechnology industry these days when it comes to where discarded products end up.
/ ref%3Dnosim/emvb-20/002-4563813-9619230
because the Bush Administration wants to hid it's non-competitive contacts with Waste Management for the use of Hot Wheels hauling services to mini-landfills. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004U3E4
>That said, having nano-devices in my body makes me feel a little queasy
you'll get over it, just like people get over the inital squimishness of putting inserting and removing contacts from their eyeballs.
the medical industry seems to be a target for nanotech killer apps, so maybe it is appropriate for the manufacture of nanotechnology to make us sick.
The manufacture of CD produces all kinds of environmentally dangerous chemicals, but that is just of cost of time-shifting Yanni.
the real threat is that even if I do prevent hackers and worms and viruses, what protects me from installing a program that I bought and paid for, but that does something mischevious.
For example, what if RealPlayer decides to include a key-logger whenever you install their app? True, they would get their ass sued when people found out, but what if it was some contractor working for Real who slipped it in under the code-review radar?
That is something that really bothers me. Whenever I run an install program, it can basically has a license to be god. I want to be able to decide which files a program can read from, which directories it can write too. Which IP address it can communicate with. I want a protected space where I can run that program, and not have to worry that it can interfere with anything outside that space.
I'm not an expert on computers or security, but I do have files on my system which I consider to be very valuable and it really bothers me how insecure computers really are.
Create a secure environment to protect people's valuable work, and the world will arrive on your doorstep.
>>I dont even see why this is news. No code is perfect, especially at the OS level. console.writeline "Hello World!" Perfect code. Works everytime.
Basically, the goal is to get static IPs for all your devices: you mobile phone, pocket PC, laptop, desktop--so that with your data can find you no matter where you happen to be. So we need about 5 or 6 IP addresses for each person on the planet. Given that we currently don't even have enough IP addresses for all the people in China, looks like we need to upgrade IP.
it might be "carbon neutral" (?) but it's not nitrate neutral or methane neutral.
The intended purpose of this technology is to disable satellites. America's superior control of space yields some distinct military advantages, and they don't want some country like China--who incidently has a much larger standing army, to undermine that advantage by equalizing. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9710/02/laser.test/
because you don't have to worry about software being written for them?