Road planning and surveying are mostly done in metric internally, and converted for public information. I've heard about one law that says no speed limit sign may be posted in metric, which is understandable, 60 MPH is about 100kph. Some jerk could just see the 100 and speed on his merry way as if it were MPH.
When we changed from the British system to the metric system here in Canada, my father used this to his advantage during the first few years after the change. He always told police that he thought the sign was in MPH so he wouldn't get a ticket!
That's been over 20 years that Canada adopted the IS, so now he has to pay for the tickets...
Based on their own survey results most respondants feel the opposite of what is being portrayed in this story. Most of them are happy with the FWS and don't feel pressured.
The fact that the majority had NOT been pressured doesn't mean that it's OK. 30% of those who answered feel pressured.
If this enjoys wide-spread use, then a great many people will simply ditch CallerID. After all, it won't serve much purpose anymore since any number could be anybody.
This won't get wide-spread use because it's mainly for crooks, and there ain't that many crooks interested in phone number spoofing. (well I hope so!) Most people you know wouldn't do this.
Opera is closed source. For all you know it could be infested with just as many nasties as IE. I mean, it probably isn't; but you just don't know, do you?
Here is my postulate: The only way you can trust any software is through independent audit of the source code.
I don't believe this, I mean, when Netscape 4.0 was in it's prime time closed source, it didn't have as many security issues as IE did. (Thought it had a lot of patches for bugs) The problem with IE is ActiveX, which is used (among other silly stuff) for Windows updates and by most vulnerabilities found in IE. The fact that it's closed source or not is irrelevant.
Opera and Mozilla don't have that unsecure ActiveX, so that removes some hurdles for both.
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Road planning and surveying are mostly done in metric internally, and converted for public information. I've heard about one law that says no speed limit sign may be posted in metric, which is understandable, 60 MPH is about 100kph. Some jerk could just see the 100 and speed on his merry way as if it were MPH.
When we changed from the British system to the metric system here in Canada, my father used this to his advantage during the first few years after the change. He always told police that he thought the sign was in MPH so he wouldn't get a ticket!
That's been over 20 years that Canada adopted the IS, so now he has to pay for the tickets...
Based on their own survey results most respondants feel the opposite of what is being portrayed in this story. Most of them are happy with the FWS and don't feel pressured.
The fact that the majority had NOT been pressured doesn't mean that it's OK. 30% of those who answered feel pressured.
Even 5% shouldn't be acceptable.
Labatt Breweries and Guinness really funded this research. Here goes objectiveness. /Junk Science
If this enjoys wide-spread use, then a great many people will simply ditch CallerID. After all, it won't serve much purpose anymore since any number could be anybody.
This won't get wide-spread use because it's mainly for crooks, and there ain't that many crooks interested in phone number spoofing. (well I hope so!) Most people you know wouldn't do this.
Well now only Canadians and Europeans will be able to buy delicious IPods. hum!
Opera is closed source. For all you know it could be infested with just as many nasties as IE. I mean, it probably isn't; but you just don't know, do you?
Here is my postulate: The only way you can trust any software is through independent audit of the source code.
I don't believe this, I mean, when Netscape 4.0 was in it's prime time closed source, it didn't have as many security issues as IE did. (Thought it had a lot of patches for bugs) The problem with IE is ActiveX, which is used (among other silly stuff) for Windows updates and by most vulnerabilities found in IE. The fact that it's closed source or not is irrelevant.
Opera and Mozilla don't have that unsecure ActiveX, so that removes some hurdles for both.
I hope that they don't use machines that don't have paper trail in november.
I mean, if the machine doesn't have paper, then they shouldn't say "Well we didn't have any other way to do reliable election".
Normal paper ballots (you know, with a PEN) are proven to work!