Here's a fun one. If they're minor changes, why did they conspicuously change the model number? I bet that's the only reason they got caught. The contract says model 100 and no changes, but we'll give them the 200 anyway. Some official looked at the logo on the box and thought, "that's not what we ordered." If they'd called it a 100A in the small print and left the 100 on the front, they would have avoided this mess.
Do you want your vote counted by people who can't read a contract? We used to have client documentation requirements of two ring binders for some and three ring binders for others. If we did it wrong, we would have lost 10% of the payment for a 20 million dollar machine. You bet the requirements were checked and double checked.
This case also serves as a warning that California will not take any crap from the vendors. It may prevent any further 'mistakes.'
I was thinking the same thing. The problem is you can raise the bar high enough that corruption becomes viable for both sides. This case will hopefully make the chuckle-heads behind the voting machines realize that they need to be building bulletproof systems and not barely good-enough consumer goods. Think embedded system rather than an MS Access 'solution.'
It was all the sub-genius chemists that got rid of chemistry sets. It's a balance between some kids learning how stuff works and a larger number learning how stuff maims and kills. Can you imagine them trying to sell an old-school chemistry set now. The thing would come wrapped in warning labels.
I had a guy get one stolen from the back seat of his car. It wasn't a problem though, because he backed everything up to CD. He kept these in the bag with the laptop. His boss then yelled at us because it was 'all our fault.' A four hour turnaround on a fully configured replacement machine got a please explain from management.
My biggest problem with laptops was the people who 'needed' them versus the people who needed them. People who need a laptop will use it and live with the deficiencies and are often low maintenance, ie. self-supporting. People who 'need' a laptop want it now and it has to be better than any desktop and they have to have VPN access. The laptop sits on their desk for weeks at a time. At the same time they're telling the boss how much work they're doing from home. When you tell the boss that you're fixing the VPN that has had issues for a couple of weeks, things get interesting. I was the only one trying to use it, so I gave it a low priority.
The story after this on the front page was about an atomic spy. I wondered if it would be Klaus Fuchs. It wasn't, but it would have been a weird coincidence.
More like 18.5 months. Or if you go back to 2003, it will be about 60 months.
Do George and Dick handle their email. I bet they have staff for it, which kinda defeats the advantages of it. It means if anybody gets in trouble for this, it will be the low-level 'email' flunky.
Just make them follow Sarbanes-Oxley. With their ties to corporate America, it should be a no brainer. That and they'll get some practice with the rules they need to enforce. Put NASA under Six Sigma and get the US military certified to ISO 9000 and maybe 14000. Let me give you a tip, consulting will be the wave of the future.
Midwinter? That's that white Christmas thing isn't it? Down here at the back end of down-under it's shorts and t-shirt weather, anyone roasting anything over an open fire is going to jail and the beer flows freely.
Don't talk to me about Halloween. The yanks buggered the export of that one. We get gangs of hooligans with shopping bags banging on the door yelling "Trick or treat" and expecting us to give them stuff. I reckon if none of the little monsters are willing to dress up then I won't turn the sprinklers off. (Although water restrictions have played havoc with that plan.)
Really? I can't get to google.com. If I ask for it, I get a redirect to google.com.au. I can't even get at it to check the logo in question. It's an unfortunate artifact of the Internet that.com et al point to the US. It's even stranger when local businesses in.au use.com addresses. I guess they're 'international' plumbers and electricians.
As for an American holiday, do the Americans have a minute of silence at 11AM?
At a high enough level, "Gardening Leave" is paid for. You pay an executive to sit at home and do nothing for six months. Hmmm, there's a joke in there.
I don't mind the streaming, so long as the pinheads involved allow buffering and caching. If a video is taking too long from Youtube, you can pause it and let it buffer the damn thing. The CBS innertube wouldn't do this, and gods was it annoying getting a word every five seconds. That was for the mandatory ad, I gave up on the whole thing after that.
As an aside, the only videos I see with Windows DRM are porn spam that use a 'feature' of WMP to take you to a website for licenses and malware.
or ignore them and start looting the fridge. I could just see a couple having a domestic and some players are sitting on the couch trying to find porn on the TV.
I don't know about Vista, but I just wish they'd added the ability to type a path name. You have to point and click every part of the path. I don't think it's changed since NT 3.51 at least.
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Here's a fun one. If they're minor changes, why did they conspicuously change the model number? I bet that's the only reason they got caught. The contract says model 100 and no changes, but we'll give them the 200 anyway. Some official looked at the logo on the box and thought, "that's not what we ordered." If they'd called it a 100A in the small print and left the 100 on the front, they would have avoided this mess.
Do you want your vote counted by people who can't read a contract? We used to have client documentation requirements of two ring binders for some and three ring binders for others. If we did it wrong, we would have lost 10% of the payment for a 20 million dollar machine. You bet the requirements were checked and double checked.
This case also serves as a warning that California will not take any crap from the vendors. It may prevent any further 'mistakes.'
I was thinking the same thing. The problem is you can raise the bar high enough that corruption becomes viable for both sides. This case will hopefully make the chuckle-heads behind the voting machines realize that they need to be building bulletproof systems and not barely good-enough consumer goods. Think embedded system rather than an MS Access 'solution.'
Sounds like slashdot should send the judge a personal thank you email. Remember kids, we're all individuals.
Paranoiamount have a bad reputation for this. Modellers have contacted them for colors for licensed kits. They've been threatened with legal action.
It was all the sub-genius chemists that got rid of chemistry sets. It's a balance between some kids learning how stuff works and a larger number learning how stuff maims and kills. Can you imagine them trying to sell an old-school chemistry set now. The thing would come wrapped in warning labels.
Nah, if you want to shock teachers you need to give him plutonium, preferably weapons grade. That'll shock them. So will a stun gun.
What would he do with a rugby player? Protection racket?
You're on the highway to hell for dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.
I had a guy get one stolen from the back seat of his car. It wasn't a problem though, because he backed everything up to CD. He kept these in the bag with the laptop. His boss then yelled at us because it was 'all our fault.' A four hour turnaround on a fully configured replacement machine got a please explain from management.
My biggest problem with laptops was the people who 'needed' them versus the people who needed them. People who need a laptop will use it and live with the deficiencies and are often low maintenance, ie. self-supporting. People who 'need' a laptop want it now and it has to be better than any desktop and they have to have VPN access. The laptop sits on their desk for weeks at a time. At the same time they're telling the boss how much work they're doing from home. When you tell the boss that you're fixing the VPN that has had issues for a couple of weeks, things get interesting. I was the only one trying to use it, so I gave it a low priority.
More importantly, how many of them were extrapolated. He 'polled' 1 million random IPs and went from there.
The story after this on the front page was about an atomic spy. I wondered if it would be Klaus Fuchs. It wasn't, but it would have been a weird coincidence.
More like 18.5 months. Or if you go back to 2003, it will be about 60 months.
Do George and Dick handle their email. I bet they have staff for it, which kinda defeats the advantages of it. It means if anybody gets in trouble for this, it will be the low-level 'email' flunky.
Just make them follow Sarbanes-Oxley. With their ties to corporate America, it should be a no brainer. That and they'll get some practice with the rules they need to enforce. Put NASA under Six Sigma and get the US military certified to ISO 9000 and maybe 14000. Let me give you a tip, consulting will be the wave of the future.
Yeah, it's not like it's hidden in a cluttered page. Time to get better glasses.
WND makes Fox News look fair and balanced.
Zombies that know how to shoot. Ooh, that's going on my list of writing topics. Raise a WWI cemetery from the dead.
We used to have a blow-hard head of a veterans group in Australia. The fake quote from him was "I died in three world wars for this country."
Midwinter? That's that white Christmas thing isn't it? Down here at the back end of down-under it's shorts and t-shirt weather, anyone roasting anything over an open fire is going to jail and the beer flows freely.
Don't talk to me about Halloween. The yanks buggered the export of that one. We get gangs of hooligans with shopping bags banging on the door yelling "Trick or treat" and expecting us to give them stuff. I reckon if none of the little monsters are willing to dress up then I won't turn the sprinklers off. (Although water restrictions have played havoc with that plan.)
Really? I can't get to google.com. If I ask for it, I get a redirect to google.com.au. I can't even get at it to check the logo in question. It's an unfortunate artifact of the Internet that .com et al point to the US. It's even stranger when local businesses in .au use .com addresses. I guess they're 'international' plumbers and electricians.
As for an American holiday, do the Americans have a minute of silence at 11AM?
At a high enough level, "Gardening Leave" is paid for. You pay an executive to sit at home and do nothing for six months. Hmmm, there's a joke in there.
goatse and tubgirl would be better.
As always, when you have problems with one of those 127. hosts, you should report it to your ISP. You may also want to inform law enforcement.
I don't mind the streaming, so long as the pinheads involved allow buffering and caching. If a video is taking too long from Youtube, you can pause it and let it buffer the damn thing. The CBS innertube wouldn't do this, and gods was it annoying getting a word every five seconds. That was for the mandatory ad, I gave up on the whole thing after that.
As an aside, the only videos I see with Windows DRM are porn spam that use a 'feature' of WMP to take you to a website for licenses and malware.
or ignore them and start looting the fridge. I could just see a couple having a domestic and some players are sitting on the couch trying to find porn on the TV.
I don't know about Vista, but I just wish they'd added the ability to type a path name. You have to point and click every part of the path. I don't think it's changed since NT 3.51 at least.