I was an election official poll worker in SF. If you get at least one non-stupid person working it seems like a pretty good system. After the polls close, two things happen:
1) An election official comes by to pick up the memory card from the machine. (You have to break one of those counting seals to pull it out. I don't remember, but I think the seal goes with the memory.) That gets driven to the seccrit spot to be counted.
2) Poll workers count and checksum the number of paper ballots (used, counted from the machine, etc.) to account for everything. They seal it all up in different bags, put it in a box, and go and deliver the box.
Next day:
Everyone screams about the provisional ballots.
They discover ballots floating in the Bay.
They discover ballots that a stupid pollworker took home with them.
Etc...
Ok, so maybe it isn't perfect. But at least the EAGLE machine beeps differently at you if you try to do something stupid.
Computer labs for email-checking. Computer (or three these days) in the dorm room. Computer (fast and sweet) in the office on your desktop for your scientific research computing. (One for everyone in your group, plus some big number cruncher machines.)
Geez, no wonder my school didn't bother reporting numbers.
But it is very cheap to toss a dumb terminal up in the lobby. One ssh connection later and you can see if your boyfriend is meeting you for lunch or not.
We were able to use print servers to print to the big ass expensive laser printer behind the desk in our dorm lobby. They'd put it in your mailbox. How's that for service? Yay not *having* to buy a printer!
My campus (University of Chicago) had every dorm room wired for ethernet by the early 1990s. Everyone got an email account, and we all got personal webpages if you bothered to set one up. Savvy students would run their own linux servers. We had an active internal Usenet hiearchy.
We had dumb terminals and computer labs so you didn't have to walk back to your dorm room just to check your email. (That's what they're/really/ useful for.)
I'm sure it didn't vanish overnight once I left.
Oh, and our network security team had/has a blast.
I have celiac disease. Cross-contamination IS an issue for me, and severely limits my "safe" sources of grain. Needless to say, I've followed this issue for a while.
Why would they put wheat proteins in corn? Or rice? Maybe to fortify them? Who knows, who cares. Maybe I should trust the government to take care of my body, but guess what? I don't. Go ahead, call me paranoid, but USA government seems to care more about corporations' profits and less about people's well-being.
As to minimizing GM risks, it isn't being done. This is why I am worried. Do you know what percentage of USA corn and soy are GM NOW? Did you read the link another/. person posted about a farmer's entire crop/seed-stock becoming cross-contaminated with Monsanto's? He's kind of out of a farm now.
Some risks are worth taking. Going into space --- sure, you might die, but it would be worth it! Trying to "improve" your food supply for dubious reasons? Not worth it.
What would I be in favor of? Research in locked-down pathogen-style-isolation-Greenhouses. What do I get? No GM-labels on my food supply and my Uncle's crops being contaminated by God-only-knows, all because we've been hoodwinked that there are no risks. Which, if you are at all scientific, know is unlikely.
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I was an election official poll worker in SF. If you get at least one non-stupid person working it seems like a pretty good system. After the polls close, two things happen:
1) An election official comes by to pick up the memory card from the machine. (You have to break one of those counting seals to pull it out. I don't remember, but I think the seal goes with the memory.) That gets driven to the seccrit spot to be counted.
2) Poll workers count and checksum the number of paper ballots (used, counted from the machine, etc.) to account for everything. They seal it all up in different bags, put it in a box, and go and deliver the box.
Next day:
Everyone screams about the provisional ballots.
They discover ballots floating in the Bay.
They discover ballots that a stupid pollworker took home with them.
Etc...
Ok, so maybe it isn't perfect. But at least the EAGLE machine beeps differently at you if you try to do something stupid.
So what is this site supposed to do?
I just wanted to see it actually land....
Chicago:
Computer labs for email-checking.
Computer (or three these days) in the dorm room.
Computer (fast and sweet) in the office on your desktop for your scientific research computing. (One for everyone in your group, plus some big number cruncher machines.)
Geez, no wonder my school didn't bother reporting numbers.
But it is very cheap to toss a dumb terminal up in the lobby. One ssh connection later and you can see if your boyfriend is meeting you for lunch or not. We were able to use print servers to print to the big ass expensive laser printer behind the desk in our dorm lobby. They'd put it in your mailbox. How's that for service? Yay not *having* to buy a printer!
Yep. "NR" doesn't help ranking any.
/really/ useful for.)
My campus (University of Chicago) had every dorm room wired for ethernet by the early 1990s. Everyone got an email account, and we all got personal webpages if you bothered to set one up. Savvy students would run their own linux servers. We had an active internal Usenet hiearchy.
We had dumb terminals and computer labs so you didn't have to walk back to your dorm room just to check your email. (That's what they're
I'm sure it didn't vanish overnight once I left.
Oh, and our network security team had/has a blast.
She had an interesting history.
I have celiac disease. Cross-contamination IS an issue for me, and severely limits my "safe" sources of grain. Needless to say, I've followed this issue for a while.
/. person posted about a farmer's entire crop/seed-stock becoming cross-contaminated with Monsanto's? He's kind of out of a farm now.
Why would they put wheat proteins in corn? Or rice? Maybe to fortify them? Who knows, who cares. Maybe I should trust the government to take care of my body, but guess what? I don't. Go ahead, call me paranoid, but USA government seems to care more about corporations' profits and less about people's well-being.
As to minimizing GM risks, it isn't being done. This is why I am worried. Do you know what percentage of USA corn and soy are GM NOW? Did you read the link another
Some risks are worth taking. Going into space --- sure, you might die, but it would be worth it! Trying to "improve" your food supply for dubious reasons? Not worth it.
What would I be in favor of? Research in locked-down pathogen-style-isolation-Greenhouses. What do I get? No GM-labels on my food supply and my Uncle's crops being contaminated by God-only-knows, all because we've been hoodwinked that there are no risks. Which, if you are at all scientific, know is unlikely.
Not all science is good science.
/you/ trust Bush science?
Think about it, do