AFAIK, in the US of A, the elected administration chooses closed source methods/implementations of e-voting.
That is plain madness and gives way not only to intransparent, uncheckable elections and manipulations.
You get to know how to type once you do it enough.
I'm typing pretty fast, still I had no formal ryping training, just the usual sit-in-front-of-a-workstation for aboout 12 yrs.
...gave a flaming speech (german, sorry) for software patents and the protection of intellectual property as the new resources of the 21st century in Munich, 2 days ago. Note the european parliament voted AGAINST the draft, now the senate is clandestinely pushing for it's implementation.
We're talking, demonstrating, doing everything in our possibilities here as german software developers, but the "social democratic" guys in power do not care, and do not have a fucking clue what they're talking about. Destroying innovation to appease the big companies:(
If you're in europe, come on join at the FFII and help in the fight, please. It might be our last chance.
So I'm sitting at a console connected to the Kerberos server of a 2x6 machine AIX HACMP cluster.
Connected to that is this way cool 4x2m "Enterprise" style display.
I'm supposed to install the newest version of our software, and via phone our admin tells me to "shut down the subsystems"
So I fire up smitty, asking "all the subsystems" and getting an Answer I reason to be affirmative.
"Shutdown all subsystems."
"Are you sure you want to shutdown *ALL* subsystems?"
"Yes, I'm alway sure..."
And the large-ass screen goes "Ziiiing" as is shutdown the german telecoms network management cluster.
Needless to say, all the telecomicans around me go "WTF?!" and a sweating, shaking me takes the cluster back up in about an hour.
Moral: _Think_ before beeing sure as always.
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AFAIK, in the US of A, the elected administration chooses closed source methods/implementations of e-voting. That is plain madness and gives way not only to intransparent, uncheckable elections and manipulations.
You get to know how to type once you do it enough. I'm typing pretty fast, still I had no formal ryping training, just the usual sit-in-front-of-a-workstation for aboout 12 yrs.
...gave a flaming speech (german, sorry) for software patents and the protection of intellectual property as the new resources of the 21st century in Munich, 2 days ago. Note the european parliament voted AGAINST the draft, now the senate is clandestinely pushing for it's implementation. We're talking, demonstrating, doing everything in our possibilities here as german software developers, but the "social democratic" guys in power do not care, and do not have a fucking clue what they're talking about. Destroying innovation to appease the big companies :(
If you're in europe, come on join at the FFII and help in the fight, please. It might be our last chance.
So I'm sitting at a console connected to the Kerberos server of a 2x6 machine AIX HACMP cluster. Connected to that is this way cool 4x2m "Enterprise" style display. I'm supposed to install the newest version of our software, and via phone our admin tells me to "shut down the subsystems" So I fire up smitty, asking "all the subsystems" and getting an Answer I reason to be affirmative. "Shutdown all subsystems." "Are you sure you want to shutdown *ALL* subsystems?" "Yes, I'm alway sure..." And the large-ass screen goes "Ziiiing" as is shutdown the german telecoms network management cluster. Needless to say, all the telecomicans around me go "WTF?!" and a sweating, shaking me takes the cluster back up in about an hour. Moral: _Think_ before beeing sure as always.