Couldn't the software falsify the paper trail? Why? The paper trail is verified by the voter at the machine. If the electronic vote tally didn't match the paper trail tally, it would invalidate the result. A lot of invalidations would likely call into question the precinct or even election. It would be like a burglar intentionally setting off the alarm when he's already in the house.
Sure, you need to trust the voter to verify the paper trail at the machine, but you also need to trust the voter to take voting seriously anyway.
I understood his point just fine. The laptop's usefulness outweighs the near-zero access to information they had before. If a gov't shuts down the laptops (after it just paid for them?) then it's not like anything was lost.
As far as surveillance, that happens on any network, all the time. We're only quibbling about the degree, not if.
The author was probably thinking the cables would look and be attached like other truck trailer connections, making it more simple than adding 50 new types of connectors to figure out.
I'm not sure about the tone. Was he saying that IT would be so simple a longshoreman could do it? Or that a longshoreman would be better than some IT workers?
I work for Google, so I'm not entirely impartial, but we use Gmail here with well over 10k employees, and it is by far the best corporate email experience I've had.
The problem with your argument is that Gmail is internal to and controlled by Google. Many other businesses may have a problem with using a third-party email service which scans the email for advertising purposes (no privacy) and permanently stores all emails (no forward liability protection). All of which is then subject to the business' ISP's data inspection as it transits the wires multiple times. And that's just internal company email. For those reasons alone, Gmail will always be viewed as a mom and pop solution. There are other solutions available to healthily-solvent companies that don't compromise privacy or at least contribute to the problem.
Gmail has many legitimate uses. But it shouldn't be used carte blanche for many legitimate reasons, too.
I saw only one quote in that article, and that is: "Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food," which only talks about food prices.
Until I see the letter and where they link the price of food to global warming, I won't believe the letter's authors wrote anything like it. Nor should anyone else believe that they did.
Seriously now, this is good news. What bottle of wine should I open on the release day? Cab, merlot, syrah, late harvest... yup, late harvest cabernet it is!
...after the intial install an online registration you never have to bother validating your copy of the game if you don't want to get new patches or play online... they dropped the overly silly requirement of having the CD/DVD in the drive while playing the game
Shelving the new requirement of needing a connection every few days, and then dumping the old requirement of occupying my DVD drive with a disk, is excellent news. Alcohol 120% will be out of business, but I'm glad I won't need them.
This is a win for both sides. Company saves money on non-game related development and infrastructure; customers' frustration level drops.
I can't get Windows XP to stay up more than a month without something going wrong to make it unusable. I feel sorry for him. Imagine going to sleep and then once a month not being able to wake up without a power cycle? What if his face just disappeared every couple of weeks? Damn, that'd be disorienting.
Since when is utilitarian a bad thing? I think the lists should be swapped. I can't work with a laptop and papers on couch in bright sun with other people sharing that same space and jabbering on and on with no barriers to sound.
If you don't like a gray cube wall, put something on it! And why are desks and privacy walls the enemy?
Maybe if you're in sales, you'll like the open architectures and bright colors, but all I want is to have the equipment I need to do my job properly.
if the NSA wants to sniff your communications, it would be a lot easier for them to just break into your house
Yup. It's easier to set up a way to detect interception than to completely prevent it. And, this is not Bruno or even just a well-funded adversary. This is the government. If they want it, they get it. Unless he has an equivalently powerful government and standing army hidden in his closet?
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But the viewer is 126G.
Exactly. Why do people think that breaking a key involves starting from scratch each time?
Congratulations on missing the nuances and turning this into a binary argument.
Which is nothing different than any previous election.
Sure, you need to trust the voter to verify the paper trail at the machine, but you also need to trust the voter to take voting seriously anyway.
I understood his point just fine. The laptop's usefulness outweighs the near-zero access to information they had before. If a gov't shuts down the laptops (after it just paid for them?) then it's not like anything was lost.
As far as surveillance, that happens on any network, all the time. We're only quibbling about the degree, not if.
Maybe it was married.
No more than I'd look fondly at a criminal who was honest about his intention to mug me.
Exchange is open source? What's the license?
Really? Where does it say that?
AFAIK, VISA only takes a percentage of the total charges at the end of the month.
Is that a strict or interim defense? Where's your DTD? Gaah! I feel so invalid.
The author was probably thinking the cables would look and be attached like other truck trailer connections, making it more simple than adding 50 new types of connectors to figure out.
I'm not sure about the tone. Was he saying that IT would be so simple a longshoreman could do it? Or that a longshoreman would be better than some IT workers?
A quote from my OS agnostic book:
"Windows is only $199 if your time is worthless."
So what's your point?
they do not really simulate their actual counterparts
Duh!
Here's an F chord for you.
Those are the "Melt Values" not the cost of manufacturing.
Today, a penny costs $0.026, and a nickel costs $0.077 to make.
Whoosh!
Was that the sound of your head getting cut off?
I work for Google, so I'm not entirely impartial, but we use Gmail here with well over 10k employees, and it is by far the best corporate email experience I've had.
The problem with your argument is that Gmail is internal to and controlled by Google. Many other businesses may have a problem with using a third-party email service which scans the email for advertising purposes (no privacy) and permanently stores all emails (no forward liability protection). All of which is then subject to the business' ISP's data inspection as it transits the wires multiple times. And that's just internal company email. For those reasons alone, Gmail will always be viewed as a mom and pop solution. There are other solutions available to healthily-solvent companies that don't compromise privacy or at least contribute to the problem.
Gmail has many legitimate uses. But it shouldn't be used carte blanche for many legitimate reasons, too.
Link to the actual letter, please.
I saw only one quote in that article, and that is: "Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food," which only talks about food prices.
Until I see the letter and where they link the price of food to global warming, I won't believe the letter's authors wrote anything like it. Nor should anyone else believe that they did.
Just 2 more years until the actual 1.0 release?
Seriously now, this is good news. What bottle of wine should I open on the release day? Cab, merlot, syrah, late harvest... yup, late harvest cabernet it is!
...after the intial install an online registration you never have to bother validating your copy of the game if you don't want to get new patches or play online... they dropped the overly silly requirement of having the CD/DVD in the drive while playing the game
Shelving the new requirement of needing a connection every few days, and then dumping the old requirement of occupying my DVD drive with a disk, is excellent news. Alcohol 120% will be out of business, but I'm glad I won't need them.
This is a win for both sides. Company saves money on non-game related development and infrastructure; customers' frustration level drops.
I can't get Windows XP to stay up more than a month without something going wrong to make it unusable. I feel sorry for him. Imagine going to sleep and then once a month not being able to wake up without a power cycle? What if his face just disappeared every couple of weeks? Damn, that'd be disorienting.
Since when is utilitarian a bad thing? I think the lists should be swapped. I can't work with a laptop and papers on couch in bright sun with other people sharing that same space and jabbering on and on with no barriers to sound.
If you don't like a gray cube wall, put something on it! And why are desks and privacy walls the enemy?
Maybe if you're in sales, you'll like the open architectures and bright colors, but all I want is to have the equipment I need to do my job properly.
Hey! For once you actually looked something up. It only took.. how many comments?
A volume of water at STP holds more energy than the same volume of air at STP. Which is what this whole thread boils down to.
Here's what you said earlier: "Citations for the idea that the ocean holds heat while the air radiates it harmlessly?"
Here's what you say now, "It also takes about 4 times as much energy to raise a mass of liquid water by one degree as the same mass of air."
Epic, epic FAIL. You can't even troll correctly. Yes, kindergarten indeed.
Did you even bother to think about the experiment? It was about how much energy each medium can contain.
An epic fail for you. Go back to kindergarten.
if the NSA wants to sniff your communications, it would be a lot easier for them to just break into your house
Yup. It's easier to set up a way to detect interception than to completely prevent it. And, this is not Bruno or even just a well-funded adversary. This is the government. If they want it, they get it. Unless he has an equivalently powerful government and standing army hidden in his closet?