Technically if you saw the EULA or it in any way informed you of it, you're legally bound to it, since it includes an "effective on first use of Services" clause.
No. You don't understand that this is a contract and as such, is subject to the definitions placed in the contract. IANAL, but I'm pretty sure I could define "Fuzzy Bunny" in the definitions section and use it throughout and it would be as legally binding, which is to say, very.
I didn't think this is what they meant in the EULA either but I just read it through, and this is clearly what they meant.
Anything you post, and arguably, anything you see that you own the copyright for, in Chrome, is irrevocably licensed to Google, and they could sell licenses to their own version of it, or give it away, or modify it, or...
You're wrong about immigration... people still come here in droves. The only unwelcomed ones are the ones that come here illegally, and that's always been the case and it's always been quite clear.
As someone who crosses the US - Canada land border regularly, I have to say that you don't know how frustrating USCBP border officers can be. They have way too much power to individually decide your fate. I know this because even as a visitor, there seems to be one officer at this specific crossing that puts me through more scrutiny than other officers, and has twice rejected me as a visa-waiver visitor for "not having enough ties to Canada" and, well, money on me, even though I was taking a flight from Detroit airport with a return ticket.
I now have to make sure to take at least $200 per week of visiting in cash and a few bills with me showing that I live here in Ontario because there seems to be a flag on my passport.
Yes, people might still come to the US in droves, but don't underestimate the effort that the US government, actively or passively, is putting into making it the most annoying process anyone's ever had to go through. As (I assume) a citizen, you wouldn't really experience what it's like to try to enter as an alien. It's a whole new ballgame.
Wait, without shenanigans? Like, you're suggesting that someone didn't double click a file with no security and change a number? Because that's all it takes to rig an election on a Diebold et al machine...
You're not avoiding the race condition in this case, and you have to worry about multi-user file writes as well; problems which RDBMSes have solved ages ago.
That's why. Also, as I said above, it keeps the relationality required to audit the correct working of the system; that one vote is given to one unique serial number representing a voter (with the actual voter information removed for privacy reasons).
And this is the whole point about having open source voting systems. How are you, as a concerned voter, going to verify that the Diebold system works as advertised? As it is now, you have to blindly accept their word that it's only a small bug and that they'll fix it before the election.
If it was open, you (or at least, many more knowledgeable programmers) would be able to look at the code and verify (and fix!) the bug way prior to the election, and others would peer-review the fix to ensure it doesn't cause other issues, and so on.
Think of open source as an extension of the academic system of scientific verification of published papers to software. When the system is open, we do not have to exclusively refer to one individual entity for information; we can be much more sure that they're not just selling us snake oil.
Indeed, and like I said below, a first year student with a basic knowledge of database design would know this. Keeping tallies is not something that should be done in a database for a variety of reasons unless very carefully thought out.
Besides, to keep relational integrity, we'd need the additional information that came with each vote, linking to some sort of unique identifier (that was still anonymous for security reasons), in order to make sure that the system wasn't counting, say, votes from dead people etc.
While I realize there are issues with printing verifiable ballots and having the code be easily audited and such, I could easily make a voting system in a few hundred lines of PHP code that wouldn't drop votes (that's what SQL transactions are for).
I just don't get it. It's so easy. A first year student with a basic knowledge of database design could do the same.
I don't think this "shows limits to open source". It shows that something might have gone wrong with this specific project (though the post below yours makes me believe even that might not be true).
You can't take one specific thing and generalize it; things don't work like that.
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Cap'n, I cannae give ye any more technobabble, we're fresh out!
So why are you still using them?
Technically if you saw the EULA or it in any way informed you of it, you're legally bound to it, since it includes an "effective on first use of Services" clause.
No. You don't understand that this is a contract and as such, is subject to the definitions placed in the contract. IANAL, but I'm pretty sure I could define "Fuzzy Bunny" in the definitions section and use it throughout and it would be as legally binding, which is to say, very.
I didn't think this is what they meant in the EULA either but I just read it through, and this is clearly what they meant.
Anything you post, and arguably, anything you see that you own the copyright for, in Chrome, is irrevocably licensed to Google, and they could sell licenses to their own version of it, or give it away, or modify it, or...
Fair enough, and that's your choice. I simply like having the fine control over my money that paying individual bills gives me.
As someone who crosses the US - Canada land border regularly, I have to say that you don't know how frustrating USCBP border officers can be. They have way too much power to individually decide your fate. I know this because even as a visitor, there seems to be one officer at this specific crossing that puts me through more scrutiny than other officers, and has twice rejected me as a visa-waiver visitor for "not having enough ties to Canada" and, well, money on me, even though I was taking a flight from Detroit airport with a return ticket.
I now have to make sure to take at least $200 per week of visiting in cash and a few bills with me showing that I live here in Ontario because there seems to be a flag on my passport.
Yes, people might still come to the US in droves, but don't underestimate the effort that the US government, actively or passively, is putting into making it the most annoying process anyone's ever had to go through. As (I assume) a citizen, you wouldn't really experience what it's like to try to enter as an alien. It's a whole new ballgame.
I love P&T's Bullshit. It's awesome.
There, fixed that for you.
Same deal. I never give a company access to withdraw anything from my bank account; that just seems dangerous...
"Oh, yes sir, we'll just take those $200 of long distance fees you didn't know you had from you right now!"
Push, not pull.
Next article: Stoners call foul when competitor brings twenty large pepperonis to competition.
Said one: Dude, not cool.
See, you're not stating that it's a false dichotomy there though, you're just disagreeing with it.
And for what it's worth, I'll vote for that third party that agrees with my views every time.
Exactly what I was going to ask. Hollenshead just wants them to do his job for him, for free.
You beat me to it. I really, really want to play that game (and learn to play guitar).
Wait, without shenanigans? Like, you're suggesting that someone didn't double click a file with no security and change a number? Because that's all it takes to rig an election on a Diebold et al machine...
You're not avoiding the race condition in this case, and you have to worry about multi-user file writes as well; problems which RDBMSes have solved ages ago.
That's why. Also, as I said above, it keeps the relationality required to audit the correct working of the system; that one vote is given to one unique serial number representing a voter (with the actual voter information removed for privacy reasons).
You win one (1) internet for best pun I've heard in a long time.
Good thing I'm Canadian. :^)
My sig doesn't suggest that those are the only two options and hence is not a false dichotomy.
And the repercussions of this decision could be predicted by anyone with a tiny bit of IT knowledge.
And this is the whole point about having open source voting systems. How are you, as a concerned voter, going to verify that the Diebold system works as advertised? As it is now, you have to blindly accept their word that it's only a small bug and that they'll fix it before the election.
If it was open, you (or at least, many more knowledgeable programmers) would be able to look at the code and verify (and fix!) the bug way prior to the election, and others would peer-review the fix to ensure it doesn't cause other issues, and so on.
Think of open source as an extension of the academic system of scientific verification of published papers to software. When the system is open, we do not have to exclusively refer to one individual entity for information; we can be much more sure that they're not just selling us snake oil.
I'd say Alaska but I'd worry what the Florida temperatures would do to the icecaps.
Indeed, and like I said below, a first year student with a basic knowledge of database design would know this. Keeping tallies is not something that should be done in a database for a variety of reasons unless very carefully thought out.
Besides, to keep relational integrity, we'd need the additional information that came with each vote, linking to some sort of unique identifier (that was still anonymous for security reasons), in order to make sure that the system wasn't counting, say, votes from dead people etc.
While I realize there are issues with printing verifiable ballots and having the code be easily audited and such, I could easily make a voting system in a few hundred lines of PHP code that wouldn't drop votes (that's what SQL transactions are for).
I just don't get it. It's so easy. A first year student with a basic knowledge of database design could do the same.
It boggles the mind.
But are you really going to say that being a Democrat or a Republican is a qualification necessary to being a trustworthy poll worker?
I don't think this "shows limits to open source". It shows that something might have gone wrong with this specific project (though the post below yours makes me believe even that might not be true).
You can't take one specific thing and generalize it; things don't work like that.