You should read up on what a security nightmare the voting machines are, it's appalling. Doesn't help that there are a dozen or more manufacturers, all of them being sold on the basis of friendly back slaps with local politicians rather than actual analysis of the hardware and software (which is always closed source). Testing procedures are a joke, by design, and even systems that fail testing get sold on the promise of an update in future firmware versions. Don't overlook punch card counters either, they put out by far the largest deviations from exit polls of any of the machines.
I'd be very surprised if the "alternative interface" isn't installed by rebooting the machine off the USB stick. The Diebold voting machines were configured to preferably boot off a USB, and Diebold is still the largest manufacturer of ATMs in the US.
Yeah, it's going to crimp his after-government lifestyle a bit, rather like Henry Kissinger and The Dick Cheney have to be careful which countries they visit while trying to corrupt government officials.
Odds of . . . well, what? Since the current system has not prevented a single terrier attack so far I'm not sure what "odds" have improved for them. From 0% chance of getting caught they now have a 0% chance? Since it's painfully obvious that the fundies aren't really what the scare-mongers make them out to be and the OMFG WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE rhetoric is doesn't even cause an eye blink among the populace any more I think your whole propaganda campaign is a dud.
Can you doubt for an instant that there wouldn't be a lawsuit? That's the default anti-science position, "Do what I say or spend the next year in court and half a gazillion dollars in legal fees!"
My folks used to know some folks who lived across a field from the enormous DEW line radar towers. They died in their early 80s, even having lived directly downrange from one of the largest EM emitters on the planet for decades. I've worked on an antenna farm on top of a local mountain, and the people with houses right next to the gate have lived there for 20+ years. When Ma Bell long distance relays were still microwave links I used to hunt near a couple, one of which was in the back yard of a farmhouse. I'd like to see a survey of the medical records of people who live in locations like those, but no one seems to be doing it.
And for all the young Rand-bots, Love Canal was the norm for disposal of chemical waste before the creation of the EPA. For all your whining about how the government can't do anything right, you little twits haven't grown up on top of a waste chemical disposal trench. Our tax dollars made sure of that. You're welcome.
You might be interested in a book called 'Brittle Power', written in the Reagan era but still very relevant in many areas. The picture has improved slightly in some areas since then, but not enough and not everywhere.
Security systems that actually have the correct date/time are quite possibly rarer than those that have the date/time wrong. Most often the things get installed by an overworked and undertrained electrician who doesn't have any incentive to set the time, and even if he did it's just a standard PC clock that wanders and no one ever goes back to maintain the thing until it fails.
Ah. I thought you were serious for a minute. There are some posters here who would be.
BTW, have you seen the recent remake of 'Red Dawn'? If you thought the original was a crapfest you should watch this one. Believe it or not, NORTH KOREA invades the US and occupies at least some portion of it, apparently for an extended period of time. The next time I've got some pot and my wife isn't home I'm going to get really, really stoned and watch it again. It's that bad.
The Apollo 15 crew had made the same arrangements as previous crews, that nothing they carried would be sold until all crew members retired from the space program. Unfortunately for them the people they worked with were not as trustworthy as those of previous crews.
Coincidentally I was just reading Al Worden's book (the Command Module pilot for the mission). The agreement that the astronauts had with stamp suppliers and the sculpture artist was the same as previous astronaut crews had; that nothing would be sold until the entire crew had retired from the space program or had passed away. Of course stamp collectors being what they are they couldn't just sit on their treasure while the value gradually decreased, and the resulting tempest in a teapot damaged the reputation of the crew of the Apollo 15 mission.
hire and train more people willing to be killed, and get them into place simultaneously before security responds.
Are you under the impression that utilities employ squads of armed tactical response teams to respond to attacks? The utility that I used to work with had a total of 10 contracted security guards, none of them armed, only two of whom might be able to fight their way out of a wet paper bag, to provide 24x7 coverage over an entire county including two very remote power dams. Of the half dozen large infrastructure sites near my house only two even have video cameras, one of those I'm pretty sure has only local recording. If there were an issue at any of those sites repair crews would be sent first, when the SCADA system threw alerts. Then police might be called.
violent attacks require much more commitment since the a highly probably outcome is dying.
You don't know many security guards then. I work in the profession, and if you think the TSA staff are a bunch of babbling incompetents the security staff at most of the country's infrastructure sites make them look like brain surgeons. That's at the few sites where there actually ARE security guards, in my area that includes the headquarters, primary command and control sites, two refineries, an LNG storage tank, and a vehicle storage/repair yard. All the natural gas pipeline pumping stations, gasoline pipeline pumping stations, electrical substations, switching centers, generation stations, wind farms, you name it, there are no guards. At the other sites almost none of the guard staff are armed with anything more than a tazer, their function is to lock the doors and call police in the case of trouble. A lot of these guys I rather wonder about their competence to manage that much.
Actually in practice this happens several hundred times a year, as bored and/or drunk rednecks shoot up insulators and cause local blackouts. Several dozen times a year meth heads steal (or die attempting to steal) live power lines and cause local blackouts.
Let's head down to North Carolina, where I'll introduce you to several companies of enemy soldiers in possession of the largest non-governmental arsenal on the planet, including helicopter gunships, tanks, armored personnel carriers, a submarine, gunboats, and helicopter aircraft carriers, some of which they manufacture themselves and sell to whoever forks over the money. Formerly called Blackwater, then Xe, today's Academi staff includes (supposedly former) drug smugglers, internationally sought war criminals, and former African child soldiers. They're just the largest of a couple dozen mercenary corporations based in the US, any of whom would be happy to provide a platoon or two of bloodthirsty scum for whatever dirty work you want done.
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You should read up on what a security nightmare the voting machines are, it's appalling. Doesn't help that there are a dozen or more manufacturers, all of them being sold on the basis of friendly back slaps with local politicians rather than actual analysis of the hardware and software (which is always closed source). Testing procedures are a joke, by design, and even systems that fail testing get sold on the promise of an update in future firmware versions. Don't overlook punch card counters either, they put out by far the largest deviations from exit polls of any of the machines.
I'd be very surprised if the "alternative interface" isn't installed by rebooting the machine off the USB stick. The Diebold voting machines were configured to preferably boot off a USB, and Diebold is still the largest manufacturer of ATMs in the US.
Also destroying Youtube and Twitter in the process.
We can only hope.
Yeah, it's going to crimp his after-government lifestyle a bit, rather like Henry Kissinger and The Dick Cheney have to be careful which countries they visit while trying to corrupt government officials.
To people like Hayden "the public" **is** the enemy. They're actively at war against them.
Odds of . . . well, what? Since the current system has not prevented a single terrier attack so far I'm not sure what "odds" have improved for them. From 0% chance of getting caught they now have a 0% chance? Since it's painfully obvious that the fundies aren't really what the scare-mongers make them out to be and the OMFG WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE rhetoric is doesn't even cause an eye blink among the populace any more I think your whole propaganda campaign is a dud.
Closing fairly rapidly the last I heard. What does this have to do with anything at all?
Journalism is dead, all that's left is the media.
Can you doubt for an instant that there wouldn't be a lawsuit? That's the default anti-science position, "Do what I say or spend the next year in court and half a gazillion dollars in legal fees!"
My folks used to know some folks who lived across a field from the enormous DEW line radar towers. They died in their early 80s, even having lived directly downrange from one of the largest EM emitters on the planet for decades. I've worked on an antenna farm on top of a local mountain, and the people with houses right next to the gate have lived there for 20+ years. When Ma Bell long distance relays were still microwave links I used to hunt near a couple, one of which was in the back yard of a farmhouse. I'd like to see a survey of the medical records of people who live in locations like those, but no one seems to be doing it.
Massive moobs? Count me in, the little tiny ones aren't fooling anyone. BRB, gotta fax everyone an invitation to the costume party!
And for all the young Rand-bots, Love Canal was the norm for disposal of chemical waste before the creation of the EPA. For all your whining about how the government can't do anything right, you little twits haven't grown up on top of a waste chemical disposal trench. Our tax dollars made sure of that. You're welcome.
You might be interested in a book called 'Brittle Power', written in the Reagan era but still very relevant in many areas. The picture has improved slightly in some areas since then, but not enough and not everywhere.
Security systems that actually have the correct date/time are quite possibly rarer than those that have the date/time wrong. Most often the things get installed by an overworked and undertrained electrician who doesn't have any incentive to set the time, and even if he did it's just a standard PC clock that wanders and no one ever goes back to maintain the thing until it fails.
Ah. I thought you were serious for a minute. There are some posters here who would be.
BTW, have you seen the recent remake of 'Red Dawn'? If you thought the original was a crapfest you should watch this one. Believe it or not, NORTH KOREA invades the US and occupies at least some portion of it, apparently for an extended period of time. The next time I've got some pot and my wife isn't home I'm going to get really, really stoned and watch it again. It's that bad.
MTV was a decade late.
The Apollo 15 crew had made the same arrangements as previous crews, that nothing they carried would be sold until all crew members retired from the space program. Unfortunately for them the people they worked with were not as trustworthy as those of previous crews.
Coincidentally I was just reading Al Worden's book (the Command Module pilot for the mission). The agreement that the astronauts had with stamp suppliers and the sculpture artist was the same as previous astronaut crews had; that nothing would be sold until the entire crew had retired from the space program or had passed away. Of course stamp collectors being what they are they couldn't just sit on their treasure while the value gradually decreased, and the resulting tempest in a teapot damaged the reputation of the crew of the Apollo 15 mission.
Vasco de Gama's trip around Africa to India cost a larger percentage of the Portuguese GNP than the entire Apollo program cost America.
hire and train more people willing to be killed, and get them into place simultaneously before security responds.
Are you under the impression that utilities employ squads of armed tactical response teams to respond to attacks? The utility that I used to work with had a total of 10 contracted security guards, none of them armed, only two of whom might be able to fight their way out of a wet paper bag, to provide 24x7 coverage over an entire county including two very remote power dams. Of the half dozen large infrastructure sites near my house only two even have video cameras, one of those I'm pretty sure has only local recording. If there were an issue at any of those sites repair crews would be sent first, when the SCADA system threw alerts. Then police might be called.
Yes, IAAPSP (physical security professional).
violent attacks require much more commitment since the a highly probably outcome is dying.
You don't know many security guards then. I work in the profession, and if you think the TSA staff are a bunch of babbling incompetents the security staff at most of the country's infrastructure sites make them look like brain surgeons. That's at the few sites where there actually ARE security guards, in my area that includes the headquarters, primary command and control sites, two refineries, an LNG storage tank, and a vehicle storage/repair yard. All the natural gas pipeline pumping stations, gasoline pipeline pumping stations, electrical substations, switching centers, generation stations, wind farms, you name it, there are no guards. At the other sites almost none of the guard staff are armed with anything more than a tazer, their function is to lock the doors and call police in the case of trouble. A lot of these guys I rather wonder about their competence to manage that much.
in practice, this almost never happens
Actually in practice this happens several hundred times a year, as bored and/or drunk rednecks shoot up insulators and cause local blackouts. Several dozen times a year meth heads steal (or die attempting to steal) live power lines and cause local blackouts.
You need to talk to a electrical system engineer for an hour or so. You'll come away with an entirely different opinion.
Let's head down to North Carolina, where I'll introduce you to several companies of enemy soldiers in possession of the largest non-governmental arsenal on the planet, including helicopter gunships, tanks, armored personnel carriers, a submarine, gunboats, and helicopter aircraft carriers, some of which they manufacture themselves and sell to whoever forks over the money. Formerly called Blackwater, then Xe, today's Academi staff includes (supposedly former) drug smugglers, internationally sought war criminals, and former African child soldiers. They're just the largest of a couple dozen mercenary corporations based in the US, any of whom would be happy to provide a platoon or two of bloodthirsty scum for whatever dirty work you want done.
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