Even if you can check the code, how can you be sure it's the one that has been executed? Why couldn't it just be the result of
print "The winner is : FooBar"
?
Simple: You use your brain and design the software in a way where that's impossible.
eg. Set up a website where all votes are listed on a big HTML page and voters can verify their vote by looking for their voter number (encrypted with a password they chose) and the vote they cast. You can see all the votes and add them up for yourself.
(Or some variation of that: I only spent ten seconds thinking about it, I'm sure you can do better...)
Yep. We're always being told how Apple is the best quality, best operating system and how they keep prices lower than everybody else by buying up massive amounts of chips for years in advance of production, etc.
Now they're saying they can't compete in a fair marketplace?
My first thought: They're setting up a 'partnership' to do this?? Surely they either (a) already know, or (b) can do it in less time than it took to type out that summary.
Ideas seem not so important is because today's society is based on GREED.Instant wealth and power
Try reading a history book. Every important society in the whole of history was based on exactly those principles.
The only examples I can think of where that wasn't true are societies where there's nothing much to steal from each other, eg. the Bushmen of the Kalahari.
The point is supposed to be that regardless of how you feel about the foreign policy they are executing, you hold no animosity towards the individual soldiers who execute it.
In Vietnam there was drafting of soldiers, they could use this excuse.
"I was just following orders" doesn't work this time around - most of them signed up voluntarily while the current 'wars' were already in progress (admittedly when they were 17 years old, ignorant and easy for well-rehearsed military recruiters to manipulate...)
Ever hear of things called superchargers?* They allow you to change the power output of your engine by pushing a button.
Do you think it's necessary to drive something that guzzles 100% of the time when it only needs to guzzle a couple of times a year?
(Superchargers...or similar technologies)
A few months ago I drove an 'Eco' car which had a supercharger in the gas pedal. When the pedal hit bottom you could give it an extra push; it went 'click' and suddenly you got a load more power for overtaking. Do you not think this sort of thing should be more common?
Yep. Does anybody know why it's going to take until 2025 to achieve this?
2025 is so far away that they might as well not bother. Nobody's going to lift a finger until at least 2020 (and when they do it'll be to lobby the politicians for more time).
As for privacy/tracking: I'm in two minds. If the data is anonymized (only distances traveled are freely accessible, the 'places visited' is separate) and proper court procedures are in place then this *could* help catch an awful lot of criminals.
OTOH, we know that the chances of it being done properly are somewhere between slim and none so we should oppose it.
This sort of system *is* coming though because almost 100% of people are going to switch to electric cars - no more gas revenue.
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Even if you can check the code, how can you be sure it's the one that has been executed?
Why couldn't it just be the result of
?
Simple: You use your brain and design the software in a way where that's impossible.
eg. Set up a website where all votes are listed on a big HTML page and voters can verify their vote by looking for their voter number (encrypted with a password they chose) and the vote they cast. You can see all the votes and add them up for yourself.
(Or some variation of that: I only spent ten seconds thinking about it, I'm sure you can do better...)
Yep. We're always being told how Apple is the best quality, best operating system and how they keep prices lower than everybody else by buying up massive amounts of chips for years in advance of production, etc.
Now they're saying they can't compete in a fair marketplace?
Mine's been called "FBI Headquarters" for years...
but a third of people surveyed admit that they do not check ATMs for tampering before withdrawing cash.
Two thirds of them do? I find that very hard to believe.
How do you define a smartphone...
I think he means: "Something that people with lower status than him shouldn't be allowed to own."
You might be missing out on some great deals just because they can't connect you to the relevant offers.
My first thought: They're setting up a 'partnership' to do this?? Surely they either (a) already know, or (b) can do it in less time than it took to type out that summary.
Ideas seem not so important is because today's society is based on GREED.Instant wealth and power
Try reading a history book. Every important society in the whole of history was based on exactly those principles.
The only examples I can think of where that wasn't true are societies where there's nothing much to steal from each other, eg. the Bushmen of the Kalahari.
...and absolutely nobody is working on completely pie-in-the-shy ideas like, eg., space elevators, SETI, etc.
I'm going to wait for HTML 6.
If I setup my computers for WPA2/AES and change the key on a regular basis, is this considered secure enough?
Yes.
Only WEP is truly broken. WPA and WPA2 are only vulnerable to weak passwords.
Doesn't bicycling make you breath harder and exhale more CO2 than somebody sat comfortably in a car? I hope they took that into account.
its not like they design them to be crippled, they make a batch, they test that batch and sort that batch
Nope.
They make a batch, they check what today's CPU orders are, they sort/cripple as needed.
Interesting that Microsoft is above Apple on that page. I guess the fanbois didn't think that was terribly important...
Ever hear of things called superchargers?* They allow you to change the power output of your engine by pushing a button.
Do you think it's necessary to drive something that guzzles 100% of the time when it only needs to guzzle a couple of times a year?
(Superchargers...or similar technologies)
A few months ago I drove an 'Eco' car which had a supercharger in the gas pedal. When the pedal hit bottom you could give it an extra push; it went 'click' and suddenly you got a load more power for overtaking. Do you not think this sort of thing should be more common?
Yep. Does anybody know why it's going to take until 2025 to achieve this?
2025 is so far away that they might as well not bother. Nobody's going to lift a finger until at least 2020 (and when they do it'll be to lobby the politicians for more time).
we can still be wealthy enough...
Good luck selling that one...
You mean like the ones which prevent us from using NiMH batteries in cars?
You're not allowed to 'big' large NiMH batteries, for some definition of the word 'big' defined by the oil companies.
So basically it's an electronic toll road...
As for privacy/tracking: I'm in two minds. If the data is anonymized (only distances traveled are freely accessible, the 'places visited' is separate) and proper court procedures are in place then this *could* help catch an awful lot of criminals.
OTOH, we know that the chances of it being done properly are somewhere between slim and none so we should oppose it.
This sort of system *is* coming though because almost 100% of people are going to switch to electric cars - no more gas revenue.
Not to mention a huge-ass cooling system to condense the steam back into water.
Came here to say this: How come we haven't built one of those loaders yet? All the tech for that is definitely available...
Huh?
Just find a partner with AIDS ... and go at it all you want...
Wouldn't it be better to listen in to the messages and use the info to catch people in the act?
Even better, send false info, tell all the rioters to go to a certain place at a certain time ... where the police vans will be waiting for them.
Why would a hardcore extremist be living with mommy?
Are hardcore extremists actually washing their t-shirts...?