each machine code must be signed and that signature must be verifiable for any voter (an interesting application for "fritz" chips)
they must generate paper trail, verifiable by voter on spot (ie. voter can't take his vote home, but can check if it was correctly printed)
their security must be based on strong assymetric encryption
interface must be simple. Brazilian voting machines are "type-number-to-vote", which is, IMO, a good solution.
Instant-runoff voting might be complicated to implement but, IMO, is the nicest way to represent people's will
Most of these requisites are matche by current machine voting system, except (1) and (2). Does anyone know of any voting machine system matching requisites (1) and (2)?
More on-topic, as a foreigner living on a country with mandatory voting: how does non-mandatory voting works in USA? I mean, once you register, are you required to vote on all elections or are you allowed to skip elections where you are not interested at all?
In a rough estimate, half of those 12% are voting for re-election and that could endanger Lula's success. Of course this is Judiciary branch bussiness, but most voters can't quite separate it from Executive branch, considering Brazil's democracy is relatively young (20 years or so).
This is not about Google's search logged information. This is about information posted by users at Orkut, which are meant to be visible to all Orkut's users. The summary is terribly misleading.
People who are already getting special treatment have maintenance of that special treatment as a constitutional right?
Not exactly. But it's wrong to cut a special treatment for a silly reason like that. Special treatment should be cut only if the receiver is wasting (e.g. skipping classes, endangering their health, etc) or if the funds are no longer available. Facebook doesn't fit in both cases.
2) The Kent State Athletics Department has decreed that if you have a Facebook profile, you had best get rid of it or you will no longer be eligible to participate in athletics at Kent State. This is quite legal. The NCAA itself has lots of restrictions on student athlete behavior.
If Kent State were to say for example that "a gay individual cannot be an athlete", would that be a reasonable policy? Both cases (gay athletes and facebook-user athletes) are not even reasonable! Both activities do not expose athlete (or group of athletes) to risk. Both activities do not affect one's athletic performance . Why should them be restricted?
No! The right in question is the right to not be discriminated (fund cutting) by the State as a consequence of freedom of speech exercise. Analogy: an athlete has a scholarship in a State University and decides to publish an anti-government website. Is it OK to the state to cut his funding? Hell no.
Someone posted above (GP, IIRC) the right way: the Uni could punish students who link Uni's activities with illegal activities. If an athlete put up an website showing people dressed in Uni's T-Shirts snorting lines or promoting underage drinking, this athlete should be expelled promptly. But, again, the Uni still have the burden-of-proof.
I beg to differ. IMO, recoignassance/scouting is a combat role. In militarism, non-combatant roles are things like medical care, telcommunications, etc.
Which I actually did. Currently, I'm storing cookies, passwords, bookmarks and "tabs and windows saving". Bookmarks save works great time, solving conflicts in an elegant fashion: I installed it first at my work's PC (fewer bookmarks) and then at home. I was afraid it would mangle my home collection, but fortunately it merged then folder-by-folder and inside folders. Tabs and windows saving are great too (and yes, I know Opera had this since day zero): it asks you which tabs you want to reload (which is convenient if some of the older tabs were loaded with p0rn).
Great plugin, IMO. A must have, at least for me.
I, for one, welcome our new indexing, synchonizing, mailing, chatting, reading, spreedsheeting and advertising robot overlords!
Actually, in the last 20 years, the most likely reason for a machine to "go bad" is a hard drive failure. Separate partitions aren't going to help you much if your head don't move. Not in my experience. Mostly it was registry-creep, virii or simply a user willing to format in order to restart a messy system from scratch, or upgrading to a new system.
So, you complain that joe user can't backup his data, and then admit that joe user can't figure out how to separate it anyway. I mean they are two separate, concurrent problems.
As for backing up...mmmmm...pretty much every new PC these days comes with a CD burner. If, instead of complaining, you spent the five minutes teaching your joe user friends how to back up their data with that tool, it wouldn't be a problem, would it? Yeah, of course... Hmmm I need to backup 40Gb of data, how many CDs I'm gonna need? And besides, I don't thrust CDs as a reliable media.
Aside from that, I NEVER partition drives. Linux, Windows, OSX, doesn't matter. I HATE partitioned drives. There's never enough space on one of them and I end up scrambling to to figure out how to balance it. In the last 20 years, I've never regretted having single-partitioned drives. For me, as a Linux user, partitions are a must: I keep/home mounted in a distinct (large) partition and I can change from distro to distro at will... (as a matter of fact: I do that pretty often)
And I guess there is some slight performance boost in working with smaller partitions. You would be incorrect. I don't know... it seems pretty easier to balance various small trees than balancing a gigantic one...
Ability to partition your hard drive is important. I've seen brand new PCs coming out with 120+Gb HDs with a single windows-already-installed partition. This is utterly idiot. All stuff (system, apps, data) packed together in C:\.
Should the system go bad (virii, etc), which happens often, the most used solution is to format. Hmm so, where do I backup my data before formatting when this data is in the same partition as the system and the apps... Not that joe-six-packs are organized enough to separate data from apps and system, thou.
And I guess there is some slight performance boost in working with smaller partitions.
Some Windows zealot once said me there's a good reason for this: most users won't even see they have another partition (usually D:\) with the remaining space for data and are likely to complain and annoy the vendor about it, saying "but I bought a 120Gb drive!!!!". This is utterly weak reason too: an user stupid enough to not notice the existence of D:\ is the same user who use his PC to play solitaire and read mail and is not likely to need 120Gb anyway...
So, IMHO, windows installer should have a decent partitioner... And brand new PCs should be sold with a reasonable partition scheme. E.g: a 120Gb should have about 20Gb for system and apps and 2x50Gb for data.
I study oil and gold extraction (I blog about gold mines, too) and I am amazed at how often scientists are proven wrong. I know that it is heretical to say that on slashdot (I was blasted about it earlier this morning on this very forum), but we as a society seem to have too much faith in scientific research finding facts that turn out to be just plain wrong.
Part of the scientific method is proving that other scientist are wrong.
In Brazil you can overtake over the speed limit, but you're limited to speed limit + 16%.
It sorta makes sense: if a truck is doing 70Km/h and you want to overtake it, doing 80Km/h is dangerous, for the relative speed will be 10Km/h and the maneuver (driving in the opposite lane) will last more than recommended. In such situations, doing 90Km/h is actually safer than doing 80Km/h.
Back on initial topic, sometimes speeding control is just money-sucking device. In the town I live, there are some safe spots (large lanes, no schools, no pedestrians, no obstacles) with 60Km/h limit (this is the limit in city-owned streets/roads in Brazil) and Gatsos/radars.
There are a lot of red-light cameras here too, but, for security reasons, they won't fine you past 10pm.
* The ads are WAY too intrusive. Can't you learn anything from Google Ads?
* The text body in screenshots 2 and 5 are clipped (by the ad? I dunno)
* C'mon M$. The "Allow or block" option at sender-address level is not going to work and you know it. GMail's spam filters (I guess they are bayesian) work much better. Few spam pass thru them.
Aeromóvel is a similar idea (eco-friendly elevated trains) that has been invented during the 80's in Brazil. There is a test track in Porto Alegre and a comercial implementation in an ecological park in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The main point in Aeromovel is rational use of vertical space: Digging the ground (subways) is too expensive for Brazilian reality and building trains along the streets creates "walls" in city's mobility. The Aeromovel then could be built over bus corridors (already existing in most of Porto Alegre's main avenues), thus avoiding competing with buses.
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- their project/design must be free/open source
- each machine code must be signed and that signature must be verifiable for any voter (an interesting application for "fritz" chips)
- they must generate paper trail, verifiable by voter on spot (ie. voter can't take his vote home, but can check if it was correctly printed)
- their security must be based on strong assymetric encryption
- interface must be simple. Brazilian voting machines are "type-number-to-vote", which is, IMO, a good solution.
- Instant-runoff voting might be complicated to implement but, IMO, is the nicest way to represent people's will
Most of these requisites are matche by current machine voting system, except (1) and (2). Does anyone know of any voting machine system matching requisites (1) and (2)?More on-topic, as a foreigner living on a country with mandatory voting: how does non-mandatory voting works in USA? I mean, once you register, are you required to vote on all elections or are you allowed to skip elections where you are not interested at all?
there is a solution
You know, Department of Education is a really good thing to invest. Or you'd rather give no access to education for the poorer?
This is a clear example of broken window fallacy
And what causes this need ? Pirated movies, games and music and porn.
In a rough estimate, half of those 12% are voting for re-election and that could endanger Lula's success. Of course this is Judiciary branch bussiness, but most voters can't quite separate it from Executive branch, considering Brazil's democracy is relatively young (20 years or so).
This is not about Google's search logged information. This is about information posted by users at Orkut, which are meant to be visible to all Orkut's users. The summary is terribly misleading.
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[1] Most likely a Sir, but anyway
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You should really transliterate as "vadka", which is more close to the actual sound of the famous drink.
The funniest meta-comment I've ever read around here. Chacham fits in most of the groups he described.
Not exactly. But it's wrong to cut a special treatment for a silly reason like that. Special treatment should be cut only if the receiver is wasting (e.g. skipping classes, endangering their health, etc) or if the funds are no longer available. Facebook doesn't fit in both cases.
If Kent State were to say for example that "a gay individual cannot be an athlete", would that be a reasonable policy? Both cases (gay athletes and facebook-user athletes) are not even reasonable! Both activities do not expose athlete (or group of athletes) to risk. Both activities do not affect one's athletic performance . Why should them be restricted?
It's a silly policy and won't stand in courts.
Someone posted above (GP, IIRC) the right way: the Uni could punish students who link Uni's activities with illegal activities. If an athlete put up an website showing people dressed in Uni's T-Shirts snorting lines or promoting underage drinking, this athlete should be expelled promptly. But, again, the Uni still have the burden-of-proof.
I beg to differ. IMO, recoignassance/scouting is a combat role. In militarism, non-combatant roles are things like medical care, telcommunications, etc.
what about recoignassance unmanned aircrafts?
Which I actually did. Currently, I'm storing cookies, passwords, bookmarks and "tabs and windows saving". Bookmarks save works great time, solving conflicts in an elegant fashion: I installed it first at my work's PC (fewer bookmarks) and then at home. I was afraid it would mangle my home collection, but fortunately it merged then folder-by-folder and inside folders. Tabs and windows saving are great too (and yes, I know Opera had this since day zero): it asks you which tabs you want to reload (which is convenient if some of the older tabs were loaded with p0rn).
Great plugin, IMO. A must have, at least for me.
I, for one, welcome our new indexing, synchonizing, mailing, chatting, reading, spreedsheeting and advertising robot overlords!
I wish I had mod points now...
None. Next!
I strongly suggest you add porn-get to this package
Actually, in the last 20 years, the most likely reason for a machine to "go bad" is a hard drive failure. Separate partitions aren't going to help you much if your head don't move.
/home mounted in a distinct (large) partition and I can change from distro to distro at will... (as a matter of fact: I do that pretty often)
Not in my experience. Mostly it was registry-creep, virii or simply a user willing to format in order to restart a messy system from scratch, or upgrading to a new system.
So, you complain that joe user can't backup his data, and then admit that joe user can't figure out how to separate it anyway.
I mean they are two separate, concurrent problems.
As for backing up...mmmmm...pretty much every new PC these days comes with a CD burner. If, instead of complaining, you spent the five minutes teaching your joe user friends how to back up their data with that tool, it wouldn't be a problem, would it?
Yeah, of course... Hmmm I need to backup 40Gb of data, how many CDs I'm gonna need? And besides, I don't thrust CDs as a reliable media.
Aside from that, I NEVER partition drives. Linux, Windows, OSX, doesn't matter. I HATE partitioned drives. There's never enough space on one of them and I end up scrambling to to figure out how to balance it. In the last 20 years, I've never regretted having single-partitioned drives.
For me, as a Linux user, partitions are a must: I keep
And I guess there is some slight performance boost in working with smaller partitions.
You would be incorrect.
I don't know... it seems pretty easier to balance various small trees than balancing a gigantic one...
Ability to partition your hard drive is important. I've seen brand new PCs coming out with 120+Gb HDs with a single windows-already-installed partition. This is utterly idiot. All stuff (system, apps, data) packed together in C:\.
Should the system go bad (virii, etc), which happens often, the most used solution is to format. Hmm so, where do I backup my data before formatting when this data is in the same partition as the system and the apps... Not that joe-six-packs are organized enough to separate data from apps and system, thou.
And I guess there is some slight performance boost in working with smaller partitions.
Some Windows zealot once said me there's a good reason for this: most users won't even see they have another partition (usually D:\) with the remaining space for data and are likely to complain and annoy the vendor about it, saying "but I bought a 120Gb drive!!!!". This is utterly weak reason too: an user stupid enough to not notice the existence of D:\ is the same user who use his PC to play solitaire and read mail and is not likely to need 120Gb anyway...
So, IMHO, windows installer should have a decent partitioner... And brand new PCs should be sold with a reasonable partition scheme. E.g: a 120Gb should have about 20Gb for system and apps and 2x50Gb for data.
I study oil and gold extraction (I blog about gold mines, too) and I am amazed at how often scientists are proven wrong. I know that it is heretical to say that on slashdot (I was blasted about it earlier this morning on this very forum), but we as a society seem to have too much faith in scientific research finding facts that turn out to be just plain wrong.
Part of the scientific method is proving that other scientist are wrong.
In Brazil you can overtake over the speed limit, but you're limited to speed limit + 16%.
It sorta makes sense: if a truck is doing 70Km/h and you want to overtake it, doing 80Km/h is dangerous, for the relative speed will be 10Km/h and the maneuver (driving in the opposite lane) will last more than recommended. In such situations, doing 90Km/h is actually safer than doing 80Km/h.
Back on initial topic, sometimes speeding control is just money-sucking device. In the town I live, there are some safe spots (large lanes, no schools, no pedestrians, no obstacles) with 60Km/h limit (this is the limit in city-owned streets/roads in Brazil) and Gatsos/radars.
There are a lot of red-light cameras here too, but, for security reasons, they won't fine you past 10pm.
don't forget poland!!!111oneoneeleveneleven
* The ads are WAY too intrusive. Can't you learn anything from Google Ads?
* The text body in screenshots 2 and 5 are clipped (by the ad? I dunno)
* C'mon M$. The "Allow or block" option at sender-address level is not going to work and you know it. GMail's spam filters (I guess they are bayesian) work much better. Few spam pass thru them.
Aeromóvel is a similar idea (eco-friendly elevated trains) that has been invented during the 80's in Brazil. There is a test track in Porto Alegre and a comercial implementation in an ecological park in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The main point in Aeromovel is rational use of vertical space: Digging the ground (subways) is too expensive for Brazilian reality and building trains along the streets creates "walls" in city's mobility. The Aeromovel then could be built over bus corridors (already existing in most of Porto Alegre's main avenues), thus avoiding competing with buses.