It really is not the problem. It's what can be done while the counting is in process, and whether or not a non-technical person can confirm the count, and such.
Your 3rd party could save a copy, but the best evidence that would give is that the three agree. If they don't agree, then there could be evidence of wrongdoing, but on whose part?
Cryptographic checksum and timestamp are necessary before e-mail should be allowed as evidence.
At least hacking into a mailserver is getting harder.
To make e-mails admissable, they need two things that are not really available to ordinary office e-mail (and shouldn't be):
First, they need a cryptographic checksum. (I don't like the term digital signature, as long as the digital signature has no trace of the personality of the signer.)
Second, they need an independent registration service, such as a CPA provides in the US.
Without that, they are too subject to manipulation.
Like I say, does the Livedoor mess here in Japan make the news there?
So long as we are all understood that the government copies must not contain any indication of who cast the vote.
However, I am still concerned about the potential for observation. If there are electronics in operation, there is an increased risk of an observer having some kind of receiver capable of decoding the waste radiation from the voting box.
I know that tiny cameras and mirrors could theoretically be placed to catch the inside of voting booths, but there is an order of magnitude more probability of discover using those kinds of tools.
Sexy as electronic voting is, I think it's one of those great ideas that should not be implemented, period.
On the other hand, we should be able to afford ballot counters at every polling station. That might be something to consider, since it would reduce the opportunity for lost ballots on the way to the county or parish offices. If the voting judges run the counter in small batches, they could even spot check some batches by hand.
At least, that's what the wikipedia entry said some people expect. It's a monofilament of carbon, remember?
Still, the length of the thing, and the strength of the cable, even if it doesn't crush what it falls on, I would not want to be trying to get out from under it.
Given that the expected speeds have to be in the thousands of miles per hour along most of the distance, I'd prefer non-contact.
And days to orbit? Not at tens of mph.
I guess, even if it were a year to geosynchronous, if you had enough climbers running at once, it might be worthwhile. Mostly for structural materials, I'd suppose.
50 Hz in the north half of the country, 60 Hz down here in the south half. Used to have to check your appliances to make sure they took the right power. A fan my wife bought back in her college days has a timer with two scales printed on it because of that.
These days I think pretty much everything converts to DC, so frequency at the tap doesn't matter. At least our fridge and washer both now say 50/60 Hz.
But AC. Definitely AC out of the wall.
Now, as to whether the high tension transmission might be DC, I'd have to ask my wife's little brother. I suspect he'd know, since he's a licensed electrician. (Used to tell me I should switch from computers, and I have more than once seriously considered it.)
I'll have to pay more attention next time. I know I've seen some huge open-air capaciters at local power conversion stations.
I'll say one thing, I'd welcome something to get rid of all the octopus taps with clots of transformers and wire knots around our house. I've often thought, with all the 9V and 24V converters in the mix, it'd be nice to have 9V and 24V coming out of the wall for the phone, the iBook, the Mac Mini, the various hubs (which, starting late this year could start being replaced with Motorola's UWB wireless, if iNTEL would just give up their NIH piggishness on pseudo-UWB that's less than half the efficiency, less than half the potential speed, and noisy to boot), the stereo,....
I found the wikipedia entry, and it looks like they are thinking in terms of 200kph at low altitudes, and centrifugal forces would indeed induce rocket speeds beyond geosynchronous.
Lengthening the cable enough to remove need of counterweight is mentioned as a possible way to launch things out of earth orbit.
Rocket speeds tangential to the cable? I'm sure they've thought that one through, though.
I know this has been mentioned before, but exactly what sort of speeds are those space elevators expected to maintain?
100 mph? Well, just under two years transit on freight wouldn't be too bad, I guess.
10 mph?
That would take real long-term planning to do much with.
Maybe I should go hit google before I get all cynical.
Maybe 3554 Amun could be the counterweight. Oh, wait, somebody's thought of that one before. Sorry.
One thing to worry about is what would happen if it snapped? Would it wrap around the earth like yarn? Would the counterweight be launched in some unpredictable path (away from the earth, at any rate)?
Hmm. Guess I'd better go home and try it before I diss it. I mean, I used to eat pickles on peanut butter. Probably soy miso since wheat or rice miso on bread seems kind of redundant.
Now, sesame paste (goma paste, or I think the Greeks call it tahini or something) is pretty good as a peanut butter substitute, especially with a bit of soy flour sprinkled on top.
One of these days, I suppose I should try natto as a sandwich spread.
Actually, not digital rights management, but network permissions management.
What we need is some way for me to put my family pics up and pass (non-identical) keys out to all my siblings and their cousins. (Auto-generate the keys against they user names they log into my site with, maybe?) With enough hackers working on it, we should be able to get something close to seamless functionality.
Then the MPAA and RIAA (sp?) or whoever could also use it, for whatever they want to use it for. Hackable? Who cares. It would give them the _feeling_ that they could keep control over their useless IP, and then they could start competing on who could give out free samples faster. (You know that's how it would end up.)
When it becomes clear that a workable system can be done without the DMCA and draconian copyright, Congress would probably quietly forget about it. (We'd rather they had the sense to repeal laws they realize should never have been made, but we know they always seem more interested in their version of the next big thing.)
So, what if the bomb that is _not_ there is (not) in the alternate universe through which the 50% probability of a(n unblocked) photon passes through, while the bomb that _is_ there is in the universe you are in, where you blocked the photon?
And then you open the box and let 100% probable photons in, right?
I'd say that the article's description of the device as _sometimes_ giving the correct answer is correct.
(I'll also guess that quantum computing is always going to be a statistical phonemenon.)
Multiple mail addresses, user picks. Examples: junk.joe@example.com, private.joe@example.com, knock.joe@example.com, tru-pr1v8.joe@example.com, slashdot.joe@example.com, alt.ufo.joe@example.com, blacklist.this.joe@example.com, etc.joe@example.com...
User managed white-list and black-list. Black list can be set by user to either bounce or black-hole. Anything not on either list goes to a junkmail box.
Anything the user forwards to the blacklist.this.user@ address gets examined, and the sender automatically added to the black-list, to make it easier to manage the blacklist.
Multiple junkmail boxes possible if the user wants. shaded-lists and associated junkmail box for junk filters, also.
Knocking address, publicly given away. Also, a publicly known bulk mail target address. (Advertisers! USE THIS ADDRESS OR GET AUTO-BLACKLISTED! I won't even see it first if you don't.) Knocking provides the contact point for people you don't know, the junk-mail address provides a valid place for real advertisers to target you if you wish them to.
Dedicated mail-list addresses which are set to accept mail only from the list server and can be set by the user to auto-blacklist anything else. To help with contacting people on the mailing list, the mail list server provides list-only mail addresses for registered users and the server to handle the list-member private mail.
Other variations can be thought of. ISPs who aren't providing these things are the primary source of the problem.
If you don't enjoy your job at least part of the workday, you're either working a job that needs not to be done or working a job you're not fit to do.
On the other hand, if your job is nothing but fun and games all day long and never hard, you can say the same thing.
Somewhere in between those two extremes is the work that keeps the world running, and where in the spectrum any particular job falls on a particular job is a bit random.
I was all gung-ho for a company that was looking for programmers willing to telecommute. But when I told the vp I was ready to go to work, he asked me why I didn't say I _wanted_ to work for them. In the process of the discussions while I was trying to figure out if I could communicate well enough with them to bet a few years on his company, he said he wasn't intending to pay me to think.
You can bet I backed out of that one fast. I'm sure he didn't mean it that way, but it's no good trying to work for someone when you can't agree on how to even talk about things like this.
It's the same thing. Solitaire? Water cooler? Sitting back and staring at the ceiling for more than a few seconds? Failing to put the right cue words in a work report?
The employer needs to understand the meaning behind the words and the deeds.
What I don't get is why anyone defends homosexual sexuality.
Near as I can tell, strict homosexual sexuality is one of those things that shows how selection works in evolution.
And if that is not what homosexuality is all about, then is it just an excuse for promiscuous sexuality? For taking whatever sexual partner is handy at the moment, and intimacy and permanency be damned?
Or is it a misguided attempt to recognize that pink shirts and ballet tights on men are not necessarily evil? When I do ballet, I prefer black or navy, but, hey, some guys even like pink tights. It doesn't mean they inherently prefer sexual intimacy with guys.
Or is there some fantasy about making those jokes like the Schwarz/de Vito movie Junior reality? Is there lack of comprehension that changing a man so he can have a baby makes him a woman in the only meaningful sense?
Life's toughest problems aren't meant to be solved an easy way, and human relationships are not meant to be easy. Making the problems artificially easy solves a different set of problems.
Complementary angles don't appear both in the same quadrant.
Second first, language is in constant change, so any law is stale as soon as it is put in writing. (You thought that it was only computer hardware and software...) That means that any attempt to enforce "right" action is going to be full of holes, and, the more effort given to enforcement, the more holes. Thus, a legislative body doesn't even have to try to leave themselves loopholes.
Campaign reform was a bad idea, and now it needs to be reformed again, no surprise. The best reform would be to make the representatives more answerable to their constituency, but that's too obvious. Besides, the legislators will then mewl that such things leave them open to (ahem) bribes. (And?)
First things second, it is us^H^Hwe who have voted these guys in and who do not refrain from voting them out. We need geeks who will be willing to learn how to be sociable enough to get elected.
Big sacrifice, I know, but that has always been the first condition for a free society.
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Okay, ... ... therefore there are no secure OSses.
It really is not the problem. It's what can be done while the counting is in process, and whether or not a non-technical person can confirm the count, and such.
Your 3rd party could save a copy, but the best evidence that would give is that the three agree. If they don't agree, then there could be evidence of wrongdoing, but on whose part?
Cryptographic checksum and timestamp are necessary before e-mail should be allowed as evidence.
At least hacking into a mailserver is getting harder.
To make e-mails admissable, they need two things that are not really available to ordinary office e-mail (and shouldn't be):
First, they need a cryptographic checksum. (I don't like the term digital signature, as long as the digital signature has no trace of the personality of the signer.)
Second, they need an independent registration service, such as a CPA provides in the US.
Without that, they are too subject to manipulation.
Like I say, does the Livedoor mess here in Japan make the news there?
So long as we are all understood that the government copies must not contain any indication of who cast the vote.
However, I am still concerned about the potential for observation. If there are electronics in operation, there is an increased risk of an observer having some kind of receiver capable of decoding the waste radiation from the voting box.
I know that tiny cameras and mirrors could theoretically be placed to catch the inside of voting booths, but there is an order of magnitude more probability of discover using those kinds of tools.
Sexy as electronic voting is, I think it's one of those great ideas that should not be implemented, period.
On the other hand, we should be able to afford ballot counters at every polling station. That might be something to consider, since it would reduce the opportunity for lost ballots on the way to the county or parish offices. If the voting judges run the counter in small batches, they could even spot check some batches by hand.
Can't tell from the article if it applies, but I can sure think of a few reasons why e-mail is not the best evidence.
Does the livedoor mess make it into the English news?
At least, that's what the wikipedia entry said some people expect. It's a monofilament of carbon, remember?
Still, the length of the thing, and the strength of the cable, even if it doesn't crush what it falls on, I would not want to be trying to get out from under it.
maglev has been considered, apparently.
Given that the expected speeds have to be in the thousands of miles per hour along most of the distance, I'd prefer non-contact.
And days to orbit? Not at tens of mph.
I guess, even if it were a year to geosynchronous, if you had enough climbers running at once, it might be worthwhile. Mostly for structural materials, I'd suppose.
It's AC out of my wall, 100V.
....
50 Hz in the north half of the country, 60 Hz down here in the south half. Used to have to check your appliances to make sure they took the right power. A fan my wife bought back in her college days has a timer with two scales printed on it because of that.
These days I think pretty much everything converts to DC, so frequency at the tap doesn't matter. At least our fridge and washer both now say 50/60 Hz.
But AC. Definitely AC out of the wall.
Now, as to whether the high tension transmission might be DC, I'd have to ask my wife's little brother. I suspect he'd know, since he's a licensed electrician. (Used to tell me I should switch from computers, and I have more than once seriously considered it.)
I'll have to pay more attention next time. I know I've seen some huge open-air capaciters at local power conversion stations.
I'll say one thing, I'd welcome something to get rid of all the octopus taps with clots of transformers and wire knots around our house. I've often thought, with all the 9V and 24V converters in the mix, it'd be nice to have 9V and 24V coming out of the wall for the phone, the iBook, the Mac Mini, the various hubs (which, starting late this year could start being replaced with Motorola's UWB wireless, if iNTEL would just give up their NIH piggishness on pseudo-UWB that's less than half the efficiency, less than half the potential speed, and noisy to boot), the stereo,
I found the wikipedia entry, and it looks like they are thinking in terms of 200kph at low altitudes, and centrifugal forces would indeed induce rocket speeds beyond geosynchronous.
Lengthening the cable enough to remove need of counterweight is mentioned as a possible way to launch things out of earth orbit.
Rocket speeds tangential to the cable? I'm sure they've thought that one through, though.
I know this has been mentioned before, but exactly what sort of speeds are those space elevators expected to maintain?
100 mph? Well, just under two years transit on freight wouldn't be too bad, I guess.
10 mph?
That would take real long-term planning to do much with.
Maybe I should go hit google before I get all cynical.
Maybe 3554 Amun could be the counterweight. Oh, wait, somebody's thought of that one before. Sorry.
One thing to worry about is what would happen if it snapped? Would it wrap around the earth like yarn? Would the counterweight be launched in some unpredictable path (away from the earth, at any rate)?
Sounds like a toy my son would like to play with.
Yuck.
Miso is not dolomite.
Hmm. Guess I'd better go home and try it before I diss it. I mean, I used to eat pickles on peanut butter. Probably soy miso since wheat or rice miso on bread seems kind of redundant.
Now, sesame paste (goma paste, or I think the Greeks call it tahini or something) is pretty good as a peanut butter substitute, especially with a bit of soy flour sprinkled on top.
One of these days, I suppose I should try natto as a sandwich spread.
Actually, not digital rights management, but network permissions management.
What we need is some way for me to put my family pics up and pass (non-identical) keys out to all my siblings and their cousins. (Auto-generate the keys against they user names they log into my site with, maybe?) With enough hackers working on it, we should be able to get something close to seamless functionality.
Then the MPAA and RIAA (sp?) or whoever could also use it, for whatever they want to use it for. Hackable? Who cares. It would give them the _feeling_ that they could keep control over their useless IP, and then they could start competing on who could give out free samples faster. (You know that's how it would end up.)
When it becomes clear that a workable system can be done without the DMCA and draconian copyright, Congress would probably quietly forget about it. (We'd rather they had the sense to repeal laws they realize should never have been made, but we know they always seem more interested in their version of the next big thing.)
So, what if the bomb that is _not_ there is (not) in the alternate universe through which the 50% probability of a(n unblocked) photon passes through, while the bomb that _is_ there is in the universe you are in, where you blocked the photon?
And then you open the box and let 100% probable photons in, right?
I'd say that the article's description of the device as _sometimes_ giving the correct answer is correct.
(I'll also guess that quantum computing is always going to be a statistical phonemenon.)
Multiple mail addresses, user picks. Examples: junk.joe@example.com, private.joe@example.com, knock.joe@example.com, tru-pr1v8.joe@example.com, slashdot.joe@example.com, alt.ufo.joe@example.com, blacklist.this.joe@example.com, etc.joe@example.com ...
User managed white-list and black-list. Black list can be set by user to either bounce or black-hole. Anything not on either list goes to a junkmail box.
Anything the user forwards to the blacklist.this.user@ address gets examined, and the sender automatically added to the black-list, to make it easier to manage the blacklist.
Multiple junkmail boxes possible if the user wants. shaded-lists and associated junkmail box for junk filters, also.
Knocking address, publicly given away. Also, a publicly known bulk mail target address. (Advertisers! USE THIS ADDRESS OR GET AUTO-BLACKLISTED! I won't even see it first if you don't.) Knocking provides the contact point for people you don't know, the junk-mail address provides a valid place for real advertisers to target you if you wish them to.
Dedicated mail-list addresses which are set to accept mail only from the list server and can be set by the user to auto-blacklist anything else. To help with contacting people on the mailing list, the mail list server provides list-only mail addresses for registered users and the server to handle the list-member private mail.
Other variations can be thought of. ISPs who aren't providing these things are the primary source of the problem.
Like that ever really does any good?
If you don't enjoy your job at least part of the workday, you're either working a job that needs not to be done or working a job you're not fit to do.
On the other hand, if your job is nothing but fun and games all day long and never hard, you can say the same thing.
Somewhere in between those two extremes is the work that keeps the world running, and where in the spectrum any particular job falls on a particular job is a bit random.
Fun is a red herring in this discussion.
if you want the ox to do any useful work.
I was all gung-ho for a company that was looking for programmers willing to telecommute. But when I told the vp I was ready to go to work, he asked me why I didn't say I _wanted_ to work for them. In the process of the discussions while I was trying to figure out if I could communicate well enough with them to bet a few years on his company, he said he wasn't intending to pay me to think.
You can bet I backed out of that one fast. I'm sure he didn't mean it that way, but it's no good trying to work for someone when you can't agree on how to even talk about things like this.
It's the same thing. Solitaire? Water cooler? Sitting back and staring at the ceiling for more than a few seconds? Failing to put the right cue words in a work report?
The employer needs to understand the meaning behind the words and the deeds.
It is official; The Observer confirms: *SPAM is dying
...
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *SPAM community when The Observer confirmed that *SPAM market share has dropped yet again,
erm,
No, I'm not up to this one. Somebody else do it.
If the resolution is high enough, you might as well quit messing with the fake stuff and go after something real?
of this article.
What I don't get is why anyone defends homosexual sexuality.
Near as I can tell, strict homosexual sexuality is one of those things that shows how selection works in evolution.
And if that is not what homosexuality is all about, then is it just an excuse for promiscuous sexuality? For taking whatever sexual partner is handy at the moment, and intimacy and permanency be damned?
Or is it a misguided attempt to recognize that pink shirts and ballet tights on men are not necessarily evil? When I do ballet, I prefer black or navy, but, hey, some guys even like pink tights. It doesn't mean they inherently prefer sexual intimacy with guys.
Or is there some fantasy about making those jokes like the Schwarz/de Vito movie Junior reality? Is there lack of comprehension that changing a man so he can have a baby makes him a woman in the only meaningful sense?
Life's toughest problems aren't meant to be solved an easy way, and human relationships are not meant to be easy. Making the problems artificially easy solves a different set of problems.
Complementary angles don't appear both in the same quadrant.
Orbit low enough to still feel gravity?
I dunno, microgravity sounds to me like it might not be something ordinary people would feel.
Yes. That is correct.
ECMA has no knowledge of the subject.
Second first, language is in constant change, so any law is stale as soon as it is put in writing. (You thought that it was only computer hardware and software ...) That means that any attempt to enforce "right" action is going to be full of holes, and, the more effort given to enforcement, the more holes. Thus, a legislative body doesn't even have to try to leave themselves loopholes.
Campaign reform was a bad idea, and now it needs to be reformed again, no surprise. The best reform would be to make the representatives more answerable to their constituency, but that's too obvious. Besides, the legislators will then mewl that such things leave them open to (ahem) bribes. (And?)
First things second, it is us^H^Hwe who have voted these guys in and who do not refrain from voting them out. We need geeks who will be willing to learn how to be sociable enough to get elected.
Big sacrifice, I know, but that has always been the first condition for a free society.