That's not what's meant by "voter verifiable". The printed slip shows that you voted and for whom, but you put the slip into an actual ballot before you leave the station. That way, if the electronic result is questioned, the ballots can be counted by hand.
Obviously, we don't want to go back before an anonymous ballot system and the corruption that happened back then.
Wow, that's a horrible law. Actually cutting someone completely out of the democratic process because they don't have a popular belief. That's getting dangerously close to fascism.
Do you realize how easy it is to get a certificate from a vendor? There's no real verification if you're not getting one of those extended certs, and SSL works just fine without them.
I could probably go obtain a certificate saying I was Mircosoft, Inc. without any human intervention right now. The user wouldn't look at the certificate and see the small spelling mistake because the browser would load the site without any warnings, since it was a validly signed certificate.
SSL is encryption, nothing more. Verisign et al just want you to believe that there's more to it and to lock out the free encryption that is so easily done if it weren't for over-the-top browser responses.
IANAL but I'm almost certain you cannot give up your right to sue without some other fair alternative dispute resolution measure (arbitration?) specified.
Yeah, the internet is a great equalizer for keeping pay for freelancers reasonable, at least on some of the freelancing websites. It's also how I learned I was not getting paid nearly enough in my old job.;^)
Ultimately though, I've found you can sidestep this sort of idiocy by working for smaller companies; these companies generally have a bigger slice of the revenue pie to share so it ends up about equalizing in pay, while still giving you the benefit of working for someone competent in their field (enough to start and maintain a successful business, anyway).
Same thing goes for freelancing, which is an excellent way of doing part time work for full time rates (though beware, you are in effect running your own business here, so be professional).
In my current gig, I could probably learn most of the new stuff that is necessary for each job on the fly and be fine. And that is another thing about being a successful tech worker: you must, must be willing to try new things, all the time. Otherwise, you'll be as outdated and worthless in a year or two as that computer you're storing in your basement.
I actually subscribe to some of those "silly" ideas (in this case that copyright itself needs to go as it's incompatible with technology that allows widespread free copying, and that artists should move to something like the Digital Art Auction so they can continue to survive in a copyright-free world).
That said, I'm at least rational with it in that I think it'll be a good 50 years before the rest of the world realizes this and can change their businesses accordingly. In the meantime, I support any moves that slowly erode a system that is, for all intents and purposes, broken, but I'll still participate because I want to support quality products even if they "don't get it" yet.
Even the schools know this, which is why the MSDNAA program (whereby college students can get Microsoft OSes and IDEs free [included in tuition]) is so widespread.
Parent's post is incredibly important in this matter.
If Psystar is actually getting legal licenses to OS X, then the question is whether, say, Apple could tell you you could only run your legally purchased software on a Tuesday between 3 PM and 6 PM while doing a handstand and recording it for YouTube.
Right of first sale, folks. I think Apple might be in the wrong here.
We waste a lot of money without building fast networks because our telecoms are slowly becoming one company without any competition at all *again* and we let them get away with it.
I think for computer controlled cars to work, the biggest issue would be the non-computer controlled cars still on the road.
For that, we need an entirely new set of lanes strictly for computer controlled cars, and that it would need to be illegal to "turn on the autopilot" per se if you were not in one of those lanes.
At least, until the AI gets much, much better. Humans are unpredictable.
The evil there is in the corruption that's preventing people from getting the drugs they need, not the ideology of paying for them from one source.
If the state is evil, then the populace needs to elect / otherwise put in place a new state.
One example of a bad system does not make the idea itself unworkable, it simply means that that one example (Oregon, in this case) needs to fix their system.
And yet, even in an "evil socialist regime" where people don't directly pay for drugs they need, the makers still get their (possibly) billions of dollars. It's simply coming from one source, rather than many, and that source is funded by taxes.
It means that everyone can get cured of dementia equally, and that the makers and producers will still profit from their efforts.
It means no one is cut out from drugs that they need.
Do some research before you blindly accept the idea that universal healthcare is "evil".
Then you have either not used Ubuntu or have had a really weird hardware setup.
Either way, it's not the nightmare you make it out to be; it's actually a lot easier than messing with Vista's wireless in some instances (and I have extensively used both).
Not everyone who uses Linux is a zealot, but you have proved yourself to be an asshole.
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That's not what's meant by "voter verifiable". The printed slip shows that you voted and for whom, but you put the slip into an actual ballot before you leave the station. That way, if the electronic result is questioned, the ballots can be counted by hand.
Obviously, we don't want to go back before an anonymous ballot system and the corruption that happened back then.
Wow, that's a horrible law. Actually cutting someone completely out of the democratic process because they don't have a popular belief. That's getting dangerously close to fascism.
Corruption.
(Was that obvious?)
Well geez, you could at least have inserted yourself as the winning candidate.
*sigh* Supervillainy doesn't have the same draw it used to...
It is at this point that I would normally point people to the Open Voting Consortium, but unless I'm missing something, the project stalled some time back in 2006. Yet they're still taking donations...
Am I missing something or is it time for a fork? Because I think we definitely need an open, easily verifiable voting system.
I don't even think it needs to be a LiveCD as the current project seems to have. What is so difficult about making a paper trail?
Do you realize how easy it is to get a certificate from a vendor? There's no real verification if you're not getting one of those extended certs, and SSL works just fine without them.
I could probably go obtain a certificate saying I was Mircosoft, Inc. without any human intervention right now. The user wouldn't look at the certificate and see the small spelling mistake because the browser would load the site without any warnings, since it was a validly signed certificate.
SSL is encryption, nothing more. Verisign et al just want you to believe that there's more to it and to lock out the free encryption that is so easily done if it weren't for over-the-top browser responses.
IANAL but I'm almost certain you cannot give up your right to sue without some other fair alternative dispute resolution measure (arbitration?) specified.
Yeah, the internet is a great equalizer for keeping pay for freelancers reasonable, at least on some of the freelancing websites. It's also how I learned I was not getting paid nearly enough in my old job. ;^)
Ultimately though, I've found you can sidestep this sort of idiocy by working for smaller companies; these companies generally have a bigger slice of the revenue pie to share so it ends up about equalizing in pay, while still giving you the benefit of working for someone competent in their field (enough to start and maintain a successful business, anyway).
Same thing goes for freelancing, which is an excellent way of doing part time work for full time rates (though beware, you are in effect running your own business here, so be professional).
In my current gig, I could probably learn most of the new stuff that is necessary for each job on the fly and be fine. And that is another thing about being a successful tech worker: you must, must be willing to try new things, all the time. Otherwise, you'll be as outdated and worthless in a year or two as that computer you're storing in your basement.
Congratulations, you have irreparably broken the internets.
Just about zero.
I actually subscribe to some of those "silly" ideas (in this case that copyright itself needs to go as it's incompatible with technology that allows widespread free copying, and that artists should move to something like the Digital Art Auction so they can continue to survive in a copyright-free world).
That said, I'm at least rational with it in that I think it'll be a good 50 years before the rest of the world realizes this and can change their businesses accordingly. In the meantime, I support any moves that slowly erode a system that is, for all intents and purposes, broken, but I'll still participate because I want to support quality products even if they "don't get it" yet.
Even the schools know this, which is why the MSDNAA program (whereby college students can get Microsoft OSes and IDEs free [included in tuition]) is so widespread.
Parent's post is incredibly important in this matter.
If Psystar is actually getting legal licenses to OS X, then the question is whether, say, Apple could tell you you could only run your legally purchased software on a Tuesday between 3 PM and 6 PM while doing a handstand and recording it for YouTube.
Right of first sale, folks. I think Apple might be in the wrong here.
Dude owns a business and is up-front with it. Is it a crime to try to expand your audience?
Plus, it's nice to see someone who isn't immediately hostile to "us evil pirates."
Fixed that for you. I'm looking at you, AT&T.
Someone *this* in touch with not only their customers but with obvious potential customers definitely knows what they're doing.
I'm seriously considering buying a few of his games even though I've never heard of the company before.
PS: If you need a very experienced web developer...
I think for computer controlled cars to work, the biggest issue would be the non-computer controlled cars still on the road.
For that, we need an entirely new set of lanes strictly for computer controlled cars, and that it would need to be illegal to "turn on the autopilot" per se if you were not in one of those lanes.
At least, until the AI gets much, much better. Humans are unpredictable.
You win two internets and an AOL.
Sorry about that last one.
The evil there is in the corruption that's preventing people from getting the drugs they need, not the ideology of paying for them from one source.
If the state is evil, then the populace needs to elect / otherwise put in place a new state.
One example of a bad system does not make the idea itself unworkable, it simply means that that one example (Oregon, in this case) needs to fix their system.
And yet, even in an "evil socialist regime" where people don't directly pay for drugs they need, the makers still get their (possibly) billions of dollars. It's simply coming from one source, rather than many, and that source is funded by taxes.
It means that everyone can get cured of dementia equally, and that the makers and producers will still profit from their efforts.
It means no one is cut out from drugs that they need.
Do some research before you blindly accept the idea that universal healthcare is "evil".
Then you have either not used Ubuntu or have had a really weird hardware setup.
Either way, it's not the nightmare you make it out to be; it's actually a lot easier than messing with Vista's wireless in some instances (and I have extensively used both).
Not everyone who uses Linux is a zealot, but you have proved yourself to be an asshole.
He was.
Nah. They'll just ban you, but keep your data.
That's an important difference from deletion.
*defriends you for having such bad taste*