It's amazing how complex the system is to replace a simple little piece of paper. These E voting machines won't even give me a little receipt?...and how much do they cost?......
It is amazing how trusting (or maybe it's just ignorant) the population is as regards e-voting.
It seems as if they blindly trust our gov't to protect them from voting fraud. It's my opinion that the voting booth is really (short of violence) the ONLY tool that the population has to control their government.
To trust the gov't to keep the vote safe is kind of like putting the fox to work gaurding the henhouse.
The right to a secure, private, verifiable vote is the very foundation our country was built on. It's a shame that more people don't take it seriously.
Well, it's been a while, but the last time I used Ingres, was to be polite, not a pleasent experience.
Ingres had a locking scheme that positively sucked. It had a scheme were rows existed in "pages" (re, oracle's DB_BLOCK_SIZE), and these "pages" then made up tables. If any session had write locks to more than 10 "pages" it would escalate the lock to the entire table. Caused all sorts of multiuser update issues.
Can't speak for the newer Ingres version though.
MySQL doesn't have real transaction processing mechanisms (and yes, I know about InnoDB, that that is not GPL'ed). MySQL is very fast reading data, and it's parser is pretty darn good.
Postgres does have transaction mechanisms very well implemented, though it is not as fast as MySQL for table reads.
Oracle is the gold standard, does pretty much everything a DBA might need, but gold isn't free, and neither is Oracle. You will probably need more than a platinum Visa card to get a commercial license. Maybe if you threw in your house?...
I used to work as a sysadmin for a large oil company managing their datacenter in Alaska. This was back in the 80's so we are talking big iron. IBM 3090's, 4381's, VaxCluster with 8600's, 785's, and a about a 2,000 square foot disk farm. I was out fishing, (it being a weekend and all) when I got a 911 page. The ENTIRE datacenter had crashed, every single server with the exception of a an ancient Vax750 sitting all alone in the corner. Following a panicked drive back to the datacenter, I was joined by the several of the Operations team when we discovered that the tape librarian had hooked up a degauser to about a 300ft extension cord and was walking around flirting with a janitor while she degaussed tapes on any available surface, mostly the disk farm........
Absolutely, electronic voting systems need a paper trail.
However in voting systems systems there can legally and technically be only one "ballot". And that is a piece of paper deposited in a ballot box. The "voting workstation" role in that scenario is to act merely as an audit for the paper ballots.
Furthermore let each voter have as many ballot "receipts", with whatever results on them that they want. That way voters are free from coercion or corruption. They can sell as many of these "fake" receipts as they want. Only the state voting commission server would know which had been cast as the official ballots, and which "receipts" were sham "receipts".
Walking upright also gives a substantial increase in line-of-sight. Thus allowing upright primates to observe potential predators long before their quadrapedal buddies.
Okay, so instead of calculating earnings from subscriptions on a monthly basis, RedHat is now going to calcuate subscriptions revenue on a daily basis. Big "F" deal. Total number of recorded subscriptions will stay the same, total subscription revenue will stay the same. The only difference might arise from how RedHat might have invested that money during an accounting cycle.
All they effectively did was change a "YY/MM" field to "YY/MM/DD".
Hmmm, anyone who says that Linux is no more Secure than Microsoft probably needs to do a little security homework. Yes, Microsoft owns ~95% of the desktop market. Does that mean that it is okay for them to have about a factor of 20 more security holes than other OS's just because MS has more market-share? Hmmm....not in my opinion....There must be a reason the NSA chooses Linus over MS.
The article states
"Biological synthesis becomes fairly easy once the basic building blocks -- the oligonucleotides -- have been built, so the regulation of the whole process could be centered on licensing and tracking them."
And this has worked soooo well in preventing virii in the computing world (can you say Microsoft?).
The article goes on to say
Tom Knight, who directs MIT's BioBrick wet lab in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "There is an opportunity here because the oligonucleotides contain a lot of information which can be used to track and monitor what is being done with them."
Well, that assumes of course, that the development of potentially new and nasty little buggers is under your control
And finally
"Even if we don't have bioterrorists and teen-age biohackers, we will still create things that do not have the properties that we thought they would," Church said.
and will these "things" go on to further adapt and mutate on their own?....Hmmm, can you say Darwin?
I very much want to see what her website has to say. And I very much don't want the FBI/NSA/SS (Social Security, not their Nazi counterparts also known as the SS, though it may be getting difficult to see the difference(stifling free speach etc, ya know))/whomever, to investigate me for that. Hmmm where is FreeNet when you need them?
I really wish there was a popularily used replacement for the IP address space that would gaurentee anonymity. Isn't that part of the good 'ol USA? free speach?....Or did we lose that when Prez Ford left office?....
85% of an organizations IP, excluding proprietary software development firms, is NOT tied directly to proprietary software.
There are subject matter, finanacial, operational, management, engineering, and other experts in any successful organization. Open software has no effect on them organizationally, except to reduce the overall operating overhead.
The bottom line is this: a non-IP future means that all companies in the Baruch Lev study go to from 85% to 0% in intangible asset value.
That article fails to address the point that their costs associated with developing and maintaining IP (Intellectual Property for the uninitiated) will also drop to near $0. This allows most business to focus on, well for instance, their business. It frees them in some regards from worrying about how much budget to allocate for the overhead of purchasing and maintaining closed source IT "solutions".
I wonder what percentage of people who go into the wilderness are unprepared?, I lived in Alaska for 8 years, and Colorado for another 15. There is a real simple rule to follow in the backcountry: "Don't get into a place you can't get out of". Couldn't even begin to count the number of times I've loaned (my spare pair of course!) gloves, raingear, jackets, food, water, stove fuel, hats, etc, to underprepared hikers/backpackers. It's simple, take what you need, add some spares, prepare for the worst, and expect to do a good deed by helping some underprepared moron out.
How can you patent a Data Structure???, I mean seriously, Since I started programming in the 80's there was a Customer table, with a title prefix, first name, middle initial, last name, three address lines, city code, region code, country code, and postal code. Can I patent that simple idea?...get real!
This is almost about "patenting" logic or problem solving skills. Anyone but a complete moron would come up with a similar solution for describing a customer.
Most people can't type fast enough to tax even an 80286 at 10Khz. Now if you are web serfing, multitasking, media/game playing fool, then 3Ghz, 512 Meg machine, with a decent 128Meg Vid card, is still a smokin' machine. And microsoft is proposing DOUBLE that as a medium class machine for longhorn?, (sigh), sloppy coding again, and a bloated OS, again, and will it finally fix the BSOD?
Longhorn, even the name brings forth the image of thundering herds of cattle mindlessly following the leader who has absolutely no idea where they are going, while they are all charging mindlessly in the same direction across the limitless prairie!
The worm typically shuts down the computer then automatically re-boots it, repeating the procedure several times. Hyppoenen said computers behind a firewall should be spared from the attack.
And how is this different than a typical Windows install?
Okay,
Major/. mistake but what the hell, mod me down scotty. Some anonymous (anonymouse?, that's alway's the way I type it, and then get a "530 This FTP server is anonymous only." lol) coward modded me down for being "Overrated". Well, i beg to differ. It's not overrated when the only system I am willing to surf naked on the 'net is Linux, with the iptables screwed down tight, and ntop, snort, and ethereal watching what is coming in and going out.
Why should I pay $$ for Anti-Virus software for that other O/S when I have to cross my fingers and pray that their instant updates are timely?.
"Overrated"?, NOT!! Would you put a fresh Windows-XP install out on a cable modem without spending money on a firewall/anti-virus program? Probably not, and if you did you are a fool....
I REALLY don't get the "MY LINUX IS BETTER THAN YOURS!" debate. 99% of the kernel, tools and utilities are the same.
I was talking to a few guys from RedHat about this last week. They said it was more of a marketing/pricing thing than any grand plan to abandon home users. It just helps their image in the "Suits" world to say they are focusing on "Corporate" clients. And guess what, you can still buy RedHat workstation, and still pay about the same amount of $, and still get support for your system.
I really don't see any big change here.
Do I need a new pair of contacts?
Hey Dubbya, wanna serve your country, get a gun and join those boys in Iraq to see what "service" is really about.
Installed yum did a "yum upgrade", and voila Fedora. I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel a while back and xosview was broken for a few months. Everything else works just fine.
BTW I really don't feel like anybody is tied into any particular "flavour" of linux. If you need to keep an older LIBC around, just install it somewhere else, and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to it. Pretty much the only differences I see are in the config tools, but Vim and a command prompt look pretty much the same to me regardless of distro.
PS:and if I'm wrong, I am sure someone will let me know!;)
Seems like California is doing the right thing by limiting their use. It isn't anybody's business to know if I am wearing boxers, tighty whities, nothing at all, even even pink panties under my pants...
Nahh you are still missing the part that....OSS is obsolete....probably will not be supported in releases after the 2.6 kernel.....and how many users are going to be sitting at one desktop simultaneously trying to listen to MP3's?...and it they are trying to play them on a server, well then what's the point? the music is going to play on the server, probably in a different room where the user couldn't even hear it, n'est ce pas?....
Slashdot Mirror
It's amazing how complex the system is to replace a simple little piece of paper. These E voting machines won't even give me a little receipt?...and how much do they cost?......
It seems as if they blindly trust our gov't to protect them from voting fraud. It's my opinion that the voting booth is really (short of violence) the ONLY tool that the population has to control their government.
To trust the gov't to keep the vote safe is kind of like putting the fox to work gaurding the henhouse.
The right to a secure, private, verifiable vote is the very foundation our country was built on. It's a shame that more people don't take it seriously.
Visit the Open Voting Consortium" for more indepth thoughts and ideas on this topic.
Ingres had a locking scheme that positively sucked. It had a scheme were rows existed in "pages" (re, oracle's DB_BLOCK_SIZE), and these "pages" then made up tables. If any session had write locks to more than 10 "pages" it would escalate the lock to the entire table. Caused all sorts of multiuser update issues.
Can't speak for the newer Ingres version though.
MySQL doesn't have real transaction processing mechanisms (and yes, I know about InnoDB, that that is not GPL'ed). MySQL is very fast reading data, and it's parser is pretty darn good.
Postgres does have transaction mechanisms very well implemented, though it is not as fast as MySQL for table reads.
Oracle is the gold standard, does pretty much everything a DBA might need, but gold isn't free, and neither is Oracle. You will probably need more than a platinum Visa card to get a commercial license. Maybe if you threw in your house?...
These are just my opinions.
I used to work as a sysadmin for a large oil company managing their datacenter in Alaska. This was back in the 80's so we are talking big iron. IBM 3090's, 4381's, VaxCluster with 8600's, 785's, and a about a 2,000 square foot disk farm. I was out fishing, (it being a weekend and all) when I got a 911 page. The ENTIRE datacenter had crashed, every single server with the exception of a an ancient Vax750 sitting all alone in the corner. Following a panicked drive back to the datacenter, I was joined by the several of the Operations team when we discovered that the tape librarian had hooked up a degauser to about a 300ft extension cord and was walking around flirting with a janitor while she degaussed tapes on any available surface, mostly the disk farm........
However in voting systems systems there can legally and technically be only one "ballot". And that is a piece of paper deposited in a ballot box. The "voting workstation" role in that scenario is to act merely as an audit for the paper ballots.
Furthermore let each voter have as many ballot "receipts", with whatever results on them that they want. That way voters are free from coercion or corruption. They can sell as many of these "fake" receipts as they want. Only the state voting commission server would know which had been cast as the official ballots, and which "receipts" were sham "receipts".
Please see for just such a solutionThere is also an OSS project underway to provide just such a system at Sourceforge. Any volunteers?
Walking upright also gives a substantial increase in line-of-sight. Thus allowing upright primates to observe potential predators long before their quadrapedal buddies.
All they effectively did was change a "YY/MM" field to "YY/MM/DD".
Check out their Secure Linux.
What if it's only a flat tire?, does that mean I can only take it to a Firestone dealer?, or a Pontiac dealer that also sells Firestone Tires?
Hmmmmmm, this is getting really complicated.
PS: what about washing machines, stoves, televisions, egads, even, gasp
COMPUTERS
And this has worked soooo well in preventing virii in the computing world (can you say Microsoft?).
The article goes on to say Tom Knight, who directs MIT's BioBrick wet lab in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "There is an opportunity here because the oligonucleotides contain a lot of information which can be used to track and monitor what is being done with them."
Well, that assumes of course, that the development of potentially new and nasty little buggers is under your control
And finally
"Even if we don't have bioterrorists and teen-age biohackers, we will still create things that do not have the properties that we thought they would," Church said.
and will these "things" go on to further adapt and mutate on their own?....Hmmm, can you say Darwin?
Patent Apple (trees that is)
Check out This URL
I very much want to see what her website has to say. And I very much don't want the FBI/NSA/SS (Social Security, not their Nazi counterparts also known as the SS, though it may be getting difficult to see the difference(stifling free speach etc, ya know))/whomever, to investigate me for that. Hmmm where is FreeNet when you need them?
I really wish there was a popularily used replacement for the IP address space that would gaurentee anonymity. Isn't that part of the good 'ol USA? free speach?....Or did we lose that when Prez Ford left office?....
Yes, I agree, with one major caveat,
85% of an organizations IP, excluding proprietary software development firms, is NOT tied directly to proprietary software.
There are subject matter, finanacial, operational, management, engineering, and other experts in any successful organization. Open software has no effect on them organizationally, except to reduce the overall operating overhead.
The report state:
The bottom line is this: a non-IP future means that all companies in the Baruch Lev study go to from 85% to 0% in intangible asset value.
That article fails to address the point that their costs associated with developing and maintaining IP (Intellectual Property for the uninitiated) will also drop to near $0. This allows most business to focus on, well for instance, their business. It frees them in some regards from worrying about how much budget to allocate for the overhead of purchasing and maintaining closed source IT "solutions".
Darwin had it right, natural selection works!!!
I wonder what percentage of people who go into the wilderness are unprepared?, I lived in Alaska for 8 years, and Colorado for another 15. There is a real simple rule to follow in the backcountry: "Don't get into a place you can't get out of". Couldn't even begin to count the number of times I've loaned (my spare pair of course!) gloves, raingear, jackets, food, water, stove fuel, hats, etc, to underprepared hikers/backpackers. It's simple, take what you need, add some spares, prepare for the worst, and expect to do a good deed by helping some underprepared moron out.
Just my opinion of course.
How can you patent a Data Structure???, I mean seriously, Since I started programming in the 80's there was a Customer table, with a title prefix, first name, middle initial, last name, three address lines, city code, region code, country code, and postal code. Can I patent that simple idea?...get real!
This is almost about "patenting" logic or problem solving skills. Anyone but a complete moron would come up with a similar solution for describing a customer.
When will this madness end?
Since selling "sex" was one of the first profitable "businesses" on the 'net, it would make perfect sense for robots to go there too.
Are we going to have people cross-dressing robots to camouflage their sexual preferences?
Would having sex with an anotomically correct robot be cheating on your spouse? (or is that just masturbation?)
Gives new meaning to "Brave New World"!
Most people can't type fast enough to tax even an 80286 at 10Khz. Now if you are web serfing, multitasking, media/game playing fool, then 3Ghz, 512 Meg machine, with a decent 128Meg Vid card, is still a smokin' machine. And microsoft is proposing DOUBLE that as a medium class machine for longhorn?, (sigh), sloppy coding again, and a bloated OS, again, and will it finally fix the BSOD?
Longhorn, even the name brings forth the image of thundering herds of cattle mindlessly following the leader who has absolutely no idea where they are going, while they are all charging mindlessly in the same direction across the limitless prairie!
The new worm
The worm typically shuts down the computer then automatically re-boots it, repeating the procedure several times. Hyppoenen said computers behind a firewall should be spared from the attack.
And how is this different than a typical Windows install?
Did you look at the bottom of the page to see the sponsored advert by MS?.
Does this meant that they are supporting this movement?,
Never saw one of these Virii infect my Linux box?.
Is there a link between organized Microsoft and organized crime here?
Okay, Major /. mistake but what the hell, mod me down scotty. Some anonymous (anonymouse?, that's alway's the way I type it, and then get a "530 This FTP server is anonymous only." lol) coward modded me down for being "Overrated". Well, i beg to differ. It's not overrated when the only system I am willing to surf naked on the 'net is Linux, with the iptables screwed down tight, and ntop, snort, and ethereal watching what is coming in and going out.
Why should I pay $$ for Anti-Virus software for that other O/S when I have to cross my fingers and pray that their instant updates are timely?.
"Overrated"?, NOT!! Would you put a fresh Windows-XP install out on a cable modem without spending money on a firewall/anti-virus program? Probably not, and if you did you are a fool....
I REALLY don't get the "MY LINUX IS BETTER THAN YOURS!" debate. 99% of the kernel, tools and utilities are the same.
I was talking to a few guys from RedHat about this last week. They said it was more of a marketing/pricing thing than any grand plan to abandon home users. It just helps their image in the "Suits" world to say they are focusing on "Corporate" clients. And guess what, you can still buy RedHat workstation, and still pay about the same amount of $, and still get support for your system.
I really don't see any big change here.
Do I need a new pair of contacts?
Hey Dubbya, wanna serve your country, get a gun and join those boys in Iraq to see what "service" is really about.
Installed yum did a "yum upgrade", and voila Fedora. I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel a while back and xosview was broken for a few months. Everything else works just fine.
;)
BTW I really don't feel like anybody is tied into any particular "flavour" of linux. If you need to keep an older LIBC around, just install it somewhere else, and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to it. Pretty much the only differences I see are in the config tools, but Vim and a command prompt look pretty much the same to me regardless of distro.
PS:and if I'm wrong, I am sure someone will let me know!
Only dead fish go with the flow....
Seems like California is doing the right thing by limiting their use. It isn't anybody's business to know if I am wearing boxers, tighty whities, nothing at all, even even pink panties under my pants...
Nahh you are still missing the part that ....OSS is obsolete....probably will not be supported in releases after the 2.6 kernel.....and how many users are going to be sitting at one desktop simultaneously trying to listen to MP3's?...and it they are trying to play them on a server, well then what's the point? the music is going to play on the server, probably in a different room where the user couldn't even hear it, n'est ce pas?....