One morning at the office all the files in the home directory of a colleague were missing.
After digging around a bit he concluded that someone had apparently
mkdir ~/.remember_to_log_out
mv ~/* ~/.remember_to_log_out
You can't ignore problems like an overzealous volunteer counting a few hundred more votes for his favorite candidate.
Which is why standard counting practices include having multiple unaffiliated people count the same ballot stacks independently to confirm any recorded result.
- or to achieve an even smaller risk of conspiracy:
Two or more people of different, publicly known affiliations.
Actually, Odessa
is a major port.
Not many years ago it was even more so, when it harboured vessels
with naval nuclear propulsion. Some thought that the seamen of those
vessels were little different from pirates.:-)
The (two) diagonals of a 600X600 segment of the 800X600 matrix will not have 600X[sqrt(2)] pixels, but exactly 600 pixels. Each pixel is located in a separate row and in a separate column. In just the same way one cannot use the
Pythagorean Theorem (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PythagoreanTheorem.h tml) to find the pixels on the diagonals of the 800X600 matrix. Instead, those diagonals will effectively have one pixel for each of the 800 columns of the matrix.
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One morning at the office all the files in the home directory of a colleague were missing. After digging around a bit he concluded that someone had apparently mkdir ~/.remember_to_log_out mv ~/* ~/.remember_to_log_out
http://xkcd.com/323/
>... exploits usually are not particularly portable.
OK, but there has been at least one attempt at planting a portable back-door in the linux kernel: http://kerneltrap.org/node/1584
Success is a mental transformation.
A. Vayner.
PS. Impossible Is Nothing!
You can't ignore problems like an overzealous volunteer counting a few hundred more votes for his favorite candidate.
Which is why standard counting practices include having multiple unaffiliated people count the same ballot stacks independently to confirm any recorded result.
- or to achieve an even smaller risk of conspiracy: Two or more people of different, publicly known affiliations.
Actually, Odessa is a major port. Not many years ago it was even more so, when it harboured vessels with naval nuclear propulsion. Some thought that the seamen of those vessels were little different from pirates. :-)
The (two) diagonals of a 600X600 segment of the 800X600 matrix will not have 600X[sqrt(2)] pixels, but exactly 600 pixels. Each pixel is located in a separate row and in a separate column. In just the same way one cannot use the Pythagorean Theorem (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PythagoreanTheorem.h tml) to find the pixels on the diagonals of the 800X600 matrix. Instead, those diagonals will effectively have one pixel for each of the 800 columns of the matrix.