When voting machines exist there's no real way for this kind of direct check.
A possible system is one that leaves a paper trail, verifiable by the voter but that cannot be taken away. For example, the machine could print a ballot with your choice and show it to you through a glass. You could accept or reject it. If you accept it, it goes in a container. If not, it's torn into pieces and you choose again. Then if you suspect fraud, you could count the paper trails in the container. In fact, you should always count a small percentage of them to statistically assure the absence of problems.
I don't get it. If men kill themselves for the big buck, why should they stay in it any longer than women when the jobs suck more and more and the pay lowers?
Obviously, MS is interested in weakening the position of any competitor. In this case, Oracle is a bigger player in the databases market than MS ever dreamed to be. Therefore, helping PostgreSQL damages the competition more than it does damage MS itself, which is a win for them, in terms of market share and potential risks due to loss of control over that market. Kind of the same reason why IBM supports PostgreSQL and other OSS in detriment of its own products.
If I were a terrorist who wanted to attack India, I would bomb the hell out of some place that appears blurred in Google Maps. I really don't see the point of doing this.
Contrast this situation to Europe, in which sensual breast exposures are ubiquitous and so European men get no thrill out of getting the same from their mates.
Besides this statement being a little bit too strong, my perception about public sensuality in the US is that here there's a very strong, well defined barrier of what's allowed and what not: You can show a side boob, but not even insinuate a nipple. Because of this, there is a little bit of obsession with showing as much (sens/sex)uality as possible without breaking the limits, and you get things like dry humping on MTV at 5pm, which would be not intolerable, but a little bit off record in most places in Europe. Not that I didn't enjoy my share of it when I used to go clubbing around here while in college (I came from Spain to study).
In case you also thought that Sol was the poster's way to say: "see, I can speak Spanish", Wikipedia comes at your rescue:
The term sol is used by planetary astronomers to refer to the duration of a solar day on planets other than Earth (e.g. Mars). A mean Earth solar day is approximately 24 hours. A mean Martian solar day, or "sol", is 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds.
While it is true that most ISP providers give free dialup access, the cost of the local call is so high that you're better off buying DSL, unless you just use it to check email a few minutes a day. Heck, it costs me about the same to call my family in Spain (from California) than it would cost to do the same call from a phone across the street! And about the DSL price, yeah, 30 euros/month might seem cheap, but Spain has half the GDP per capita than the US. Think 60 euros (about $75) comparatively.
In the end, it appears that each inbound link only increases traffic by a factor of 0.8.
What does this mean? Without any other reference, I would assume that each link takes 1 unit of traffic (ut) to (1 + 0.8)ut. If so, n links would take your traffic to 1.8^n ut, which is unbelievable. What's missing here?
I can't believe you've been modded insghtful. The only reason why I would choose to stay in the US instead of going back to Spain is because here I would get paid 3 times more for a more rewarding job, with a similar, if not more affordable cost of living. It's true that low skill labor in the US has a tough life, but start-ups feed on highly skilled professionals, and those are better treated here than anywhere else.
do you realize how many websites on thenet that have disappeared forever taking with them extremely useful information? I wish someone would have blatently ripped them off and perpetuated that information so that it was available today.
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A possible system is one that leaves a paper trail, verifiable by the voter but that cannot be taken away. For example, the machine could print a ballot with your choice and show it to you through a glass. You could accept or reject it. If you accept it, it goes in a container. If not, it's torn into pieces and you choose again. Then if you suspect fraud, you could count the paper trails in the container. In fact, you should always count a small percentage of them to statistically assure the absence of problems.
I don't get it. If men kill themselves for the big buck, why should they stay in it any longer than women when the jobs suck more and more and the pay lowers?
Ditto for Spain.
Obviously, MS is interested in weakening the position of any competitor. In this case, Oracle is a bigger player in the databases market than MS ever dreamed to be. Therefore, helping PostgreSQL damages the competition more than it does damage MS itself, which is a win for them, in terms of market share and potential risks due to loss of control over that market. Kind of the same reason why IBM supports PostgreSQL and other OSS in detriment of its own products.
Only in Slashdot would your comment get an "informative" moderation :).
I wonder if adding an additional first or second order derivatives to that persistence helps at all, at least in the short term.
If I were a terrorist who wanted to attack India, I would bomb the hell out of some place that appears blurred in Google Maps. I really don't see the point of doing this.
Heck, in the US watching poker is a passtime. Poker, for gawd's sake!
x^(-.5)
Besides this statement being a little bit too strong, my perception about public sensuality in the US is that here there's a very strong, well defined barrier of what's allowed and what not: You can show a side boob, but not even insinuate a nipple. Because of this, there is a little bit of obsession with showing as much (sens/sex)uality as possible without breaking the limits, and you get things like dry humping on MTV at 5pm, which would be not intolerable, but a little bit off record in most places in Europe. Not that I didn't enjoy my share of it when I used to go clubbing around here while in college (I came from Spain to study).
Not really A AND B is not the same as A OR B. He answered "yes" to the second.
You're welcome.
Actually, if errors are random, the more votes involved, the lower the expected error. Statistical variance.
Mythbusters on fingerprint hacking, here thanks to Gootube.
BTW... does anyone know what TFA is about anyway?
27. Off by 4 years... You should have followed the link to my website ;).
Ok, I use C++. Guess :).
Did you get this idea from Cryptonomicon?
While it is true that most ISP providers give free dialup access, the cost of the local call is so high that you're better off buying DSL, unless you just use it to check email a few minutes a day. Heck, it costs me about the same to call my family in Spain (from California) than it would cost to do the same call from a phone across the street! And about the DSL price, yeah, 30 euros/month might seem cheap, but Spain has half the GDP per capita than the US. Think 60 euros (about $75) comparatively.
Google fight! Well... that wasn't much of a fight.
What does this mean? Without any other reference, I would assume that each link takes 1 unit of traffic (ut) to (1 + 0.8)ut. If so, n links would take your traffic to 1.8^n ut, which is unbelievable. What's missing here?
I'm Spanish and I've never seen a steel soda can.
Stop it, guys, you're supposed to slow down or reverse Alzheimer, not make it progress!
I can't believe you've been modded insghtful. The only reason why I would choose to stay in the US instead of going back to Spain is because here I would get paid 3 times more for a more rewarding job, with a similar, if not more affordable cost of living. It's true that low skill labor in the US has a tough life, but start-ups feed on highly skilled professionals, and those are better treated here than anywhere else.