Actually, a ballot would only be shredded if it was incorrect (i.e. for some reason the voter picked a candidate accidentally for example) and wanted to correct his vote before "submitting" it. Otherwise it would go into the second machine. The vote would not be registered in machine B until the paper ballot was inserted (and presumably scanned as it was inserted). Not only is the vote electronically validated by two sources, but there is a paper ballot and the voter gets to verify that his vote was cast correctly.
Turbine blades, made of low-defect, high-strength microfabricated materials, spin at 20,000 revolutions per second -- 100 times faster than those in jet engines.
And you thought a hot battery in your lap was scary.
Well, to me there are advantages with the two machine process:
First, you get to see for yourself that your paper ballot is correct before your vote is submitted. No more hanging chads/confusing ballots/whatever. Second, at no point in the vote counting process is one vendor in control. One box controlling everything could probably work just as well, as long as you have the intermediate step (voter verifies the paper ballot), though then you have no "independent" (i.e. second party) verification of results without physically recounting every single paper ballot.
Ahh, but why would box B be willing to slurp in and count ballots that weren't printed by box A (some kind of hash would help here) And box A wouldn't count them to start with, since it never generated them, so unless there was a recount, no one would ever see them. It would be pretty obvious there was a problem if there was a huge discrepency between box A and box B (technically there should never be any discrepency).
Voter votes and gets a printout of his votes from machine A. He verifies that the votes are correct (if not, the printout gets shredded) and puts the printout into machine B (which signals to machine A that it got the printout). Note that machine A and machine B could be made by seperate vendors, and B also contains a paper trail in case a recount is needed.
If machine A and B don't agree, you recount the paper ballots. Gee, sounds quite a bit harder to subvert eh? With added paper ballot goodness no less.
So basically their voting boxes are much more open than everyone originally thought? The best part of all is it sounds like basically anyone can look at/download their code and heck even patch it on local machines. Long live the open voting machine!
I can't wait to see billboards that target specific products carried by people. For example, who is gonna carry an iPod anymore when every billboard shows penis enlargement ads when they walk by????
Combine them all and behold, we have the uber-nerd! He who is beaten up by regular nerds, and can walk through the women's locker room unseen, since he is utterly invisible to the female gender.
Actually I could sell by the kilogram to make other Americans feel like they are getting more. I always figured the first gas station to start selling by the liter here would make a killing. I made fun of us 'merkins in a journal entry which explains it all.....
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. On the flip side, I am considering selling sodium on ebay by the pound, and then shipping buyers two pounds of salt. Just think of the free chlorine as an added bonus!
Use steganography. Basically you could send images with extra encrypted data tacked on the end; can the product detect that??? And if some unlucky admin type looks at the image, they get to see goatse in all his glory, but don't see the encrypted data hidden in the image.
... you can't really un-ring the bell of publishing something online...
For the life of me I can't figure out what ringing a bell and publishing something online have in common. Maybe if we didn't use digital clocks we could turn back the sands of time and use a different mixed metaphor instead?
I have mirrored machines with dd before, but I have always wondered: what if the disk dies, and I replace it with a different type of disk? Am I screwed, or does it work if the disk is the same size (or bigger)? I have never had to restore to a different disk before, and have been meaning to try, but I never got around to it.
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Actually now that I think about it, cane toads might work: simply put enough of them into orbit to block out the sun. Can Australia spare a few??
Actually, a ballot would only be shredded if it was incorrect (i.e. for some reason the voter picked a candidate accidentally for example) and wanted to correct his vote before "submitting" it. Otherwise it would go into the second machine. The vote would not be registered in machine B until the paper ballot was inserted (and presumably scanned as it was inserted). Not only is the vote electronically validated by two sources, but there is a paper ballot and the voter gets to verify that his vote was cast correctly.
And you thought a hot battery in your lap was scary.
A real pirate would never ask! A quick cut with your cutlass and they are yours forever! Or until you meet someone with a quicker cutting cutlass.
First, you get to see for yourself that your paper ballot is correct before your vote is submitted. No more hanging chads/confusing ballots/whatever. Second, at no point in the vote counting process is one vendor in control. One box controlling everything could probably work just as well, as long as you have the intermediate step (voter verifies the paper ballot), though then you have no "independent" (i.e. second party) verification of results without physically recounting every single paper ballot.
Ahh, but why would box B be willing to slurp in and count ballots that weren't printed by box A (some kind of hash would help here) And box A wouldn't count them to start with, since it never generated them, so unless there was a recount, no one would ever see them. It would be pretty obvious there was a problem if there was a huge discrepency between box A and box B (technically there should never be any discrepency).
Voter votes and gets a printout of his votes from machine A. He verifies that the votes are correct (if not, the printout gets shredded) and puts the printout into machine B (which signals to machine A that it got the printout). Note that machine A and machine B could be made by seperate vendors, and B also contains a paper trail in case a recount is needed.
If machine A and B don't agree, you recount the paper ballots. Gee, sounds quite a bit harder to subvert eh? With added paper ballot goodness no less.
I think the same thing happened the last time I voted.
So basically their voting boxes are much more open than everyone originally thought? The best part of all is it sounds like basically anyone can look at/download their code and heck even patch it on local machines. Long live the open voting machine!
I think the analogous Trek term would be "...that doesn't make the fans feel as if they have been molested by Captain Kirk...".
I can't wait to see billboards that target specific products carried by people. For example, who is gonna carry an iPod anymore when every billboard shows penis enlargement ads when they walk by????
Wait, are you hitting on Arnie???
Combine them all and behold, we have the uber-nerd! He who is beaten up by regular nerds, and can walk through the women's locker room unseen, since he is utterly invisible to the female gender.
What hardware are you using (specifically, which tuner card(s))? And are you doing TV out, and again with what specific hardware?
My guess is a big story about habitable planets sells more magazines than one titled, Crap, We Really Don't Know Anything.
Right; it is like an antpile wondering why humans on the other side of the earth haven't visited yet.
First good thing to have is a lawyer on retainer.
I wish they could at least open source the ultimate hacking file browser, as made famous in Jurassic Park.
Actually I could sell by the kilogram to make other Americans feel like they are getting more. I always figured the first gas station to start selling by the liter here would make a killing. I made fun of us 'merkins in a journal entry which explains it all.....
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. On the flip side, I am considering selling sodium on ebay by the pound, and then shipping buyers two pounds of salt. Just think of the free chlorine as an added bonus!
Plus you can make them double-sided with a simple hole punch! Don't try that with your usb thumb drives kids.
Based on the gunshot noises in your environment, can I interest you one of the following: a Dirty Harry dvd or a bulletproof vest?
Use steganography. Basically you could send images with extra encrypted data tacked on the end; can the product detect that??? And if some unlucky admin type looks at the image, they get to see goatse in all his glory, but don't see the encrypted data hidden in the image.
For the life of me I can't figure out what ringing a bell and publishing something online have in common. Maybe if we didn't use digital clocks we could turn back the sands of time and use a different mixed metaphor instead?
I have mirrored machines with dd before, but I have always wondered: what if the disk dies, and I replace it with a different type of disk? Am I screwed, or does it work if the disk is the same size (or bigger)? I have never had to restore to a different disk before, and have been meaning to try, but I never got around to it.