Or stored on anything connected to the net at all? Do you really think most people's personal computing equipment (including - maybe especially - their smart phones) is more secure than a cloud service?
If I were betting on which, as a class of internet connected storage - cloud services, or personal hardware - is more secure, I'd bet on cloud services.
I guess I have the same problem with that scope as I did with the healthcare reform push by Barack Obama and the democrats - you really need to aim for something much higher than what you'll settle for. We need to be selling paper ballots - not agreeing to a system we know is extremely problematic, before there is even a discussion. There's so little benefit gained from using OSS in computerized voting machines, when compared with not using computerized machines at all. I don't see the point in making it a goal. In other words, seek what you want, not what you'll settle for.
Cheating is always possible and will always be attempted. What you want is a system that makes it harder to cheat. Paper ballots required a coordinated effort by a lot of people to cheat - that's why you see so much voter intimidation and other screwy (and visible) tactics when votes are cast on paper.
E-Voting machines - they just need one or two strategically placed individuals to heavily skew the results - that's why voter intimidation tactics decrease with these machines (come on NAACP - why do you think intimidation decreases?).
Open source does nothing to address this problem - using these machines, all you do is boil the system down to a very small target for tampering, and at the same time, increase the impact of that tampering. Open source software provides only false assurance, and can still be easily replaced by tampering with just a few people.
If it was open source software running on a micro architecture, it still wouldn't matter. The fact that they are machines is what the problem is. In NY we use a lever system - they are also problematic for the same reason, though at least you can look inside the thing and see what it's doing - and tell when tampering has occurred. With a computer you can NEVER EVER look inside and see what it's running, no matter how clean you think the millions of lines of open source code you looked at last week are.
Please gain some sanity - you can never EVER trust these machines. It's a PHYSICAL impossibility. Wise up.
Pen and paper is the least problematic, most accurate way to do polling. It's even the cheapest - but it's the hardest to tamper with - which is why politicians don't like it. This isn't hard to understand, so let's get with understanding it.
I have to say, out of all the alternative languages (to the web languages I'm used to JavaScript/ActionScript/PHP) I've been most interested in learning that one. All I need is a Mac!:-/
I think I'll look for a good Snow Leopard hacintosh guide.
Does that do object literals (json), closures, and dynamic (untyped) variables (sometimes those are nice to have). I know on the desktop there is a garbage collector, but that's not available on the iPhone (not necessarily bad).
That's why I once held hope for Adobe's Actionscript 3.0 - it promised static (I read lower level) language support with the richness of ECMAScript (JavaScript) - but they seem to have implemented their static class system on top of ECMAScript underpinnings, without addressing the shortcomings of their dynamic runtime (it's still crazy hard to debug dynamic code written in AS3, and it's slow). So we ended up with all the bondage and discipline of a static language, without any of the performance benefit. I guess that's par for the course for Adobe.
Anyway, I'd still love to see a language like that - one that provides all the lower level, bare metal features of a language like C, with the higher level runtime sweetness of JavaScript (one for performance critical libraries, the other for tying it together).
Well, you are talking about the dumb crap the corporate media is whining about - I don't care how much emotion he shows, I don't think it matters.
What I want is a bold mission statement, a vision - something to get behind. I want him to lead. His problem is he's a process guy, and so he comes off as wishy washy, aimless and emotionless (which is what the no-nothing media has picked up on). He needs to have some kind of vision to point to in all of his messaging. Something different from the Reagan era, something new - something that signifies change is coming. A Green energy push would be nice - or anything that indicates real benefit for working and middle income citizens.
Ultimately I do think he is just another trickle-down free-market Chicago school of economics failure - but I was hoping he could see the error of his ways, and reach for something a bit more inline with the truest American values. THat's maybe a tall ordre, considering the place the culture in DC is today, but I don't think that's too much to ask.
Fox News is a serious problem for all Americans, and especially for Democratic presidents. I won't argue that.
Obama needs to step up his game - if only to make the politically wise moves to sure up his base, though I dislike expressing ideas like these in purely political terms.
He needs to reach farther from the start, so we end up somewhere that makes sense. The healthcare bill is the example there. All that energy, and what did we end up with? Light health insurance reform modeled on a compromised reform bill from the 90s. We can do better. He can do better, and to save his presidency, he must.
This country needs a point at the moon mission statement from Obama, but all he gives are let's all work together and figure this out, return to the past (republican/free market plan for healthcare from 1994? Seriously?), incremental nonsense that makes no one happy, and frustrates everyone. Obama's response to the oil spill is more of the same bland soup - and it's pissing people off. He doesn't have to stop the leak, but for the sake of this country, he needs to be a lot more bold, and take a stand on some principle for a change.
It's this kind of story that gets ignored by the medical community, who still operate on a 1950s authority model. They should be adjusting to an information culture, and embracing information technology. Like it or not, consumer - including consumers of medical servicees - no longer take an authorities word for it. So far the medical community in general have completely resisted this change, and they are losing the prestige they so tightly cling to over it.
Did you catch his ridiculous shift there? He said Flash Player is closed (didn't mention swf format, or open screen project), then he switched to talking about "open standards" - platform on one hand, standard on the other.
Swf standard vs HTML standard - there are important differences, including one being engineered entirely by one company, and the other engineered by a group of companies. But they are both well defined standards.
To compare a runtime to a standard is simply boneheaded.
It seems as though you believe that appeals courts only concern themselves with what is "Constitutional" (and therefor in the actual Constitution) and not with applying all the laws that congress makes. Did I read that incorrectly?
Courts deal with all laws - in addition to previously decided case law - not just the Constitution.
OMFG!! Why is hollywood so fixated on this ridiculous lie. Piracy isn't the reason no one buys DVDs. They don't buy DVDs because the movies suck.
They were saying the same stupid nonsense about why no one goes to the movies anymore, then what happened? Good movies came out, and look! People went to the movies in record numbers (and it wasn't the god damn 3D that was just icing - the movies were good!!).
This has always been a non-issue. I develop websites for a living - both dhtml (yeah, dhtml that's how long I been doing this) and Flash, and I can tell you that most sites will work fine (sites that rely on only hover/mouseover, will suffer, but that's an extreme minority).
Symbian and Nokia are almost completely absent from US markets. I had a European friend that came states side with a Nokia phone. It was quite an impressive unit. But it's the only one I've ever seen.
For me on the tablet front - I have to be able to let my kids play nickjr, disney, and webkins - not to mention robot galaxy, build-a-bear etc. on long trips - it needs Flash, and Apple is being wrong headed about it. The Android tablets are likely to let me put whatever plugins I want on it (if not, I won't buy those either), and that has appeal (even if it's less important on a phone - it should be my damn choice).
It's worth noting, that Android having only been pushed for a few months (it's been out longer, but the big push was last Christmas season) it's catching up to iPhone in terms of market share very very quickly. People's preferences are often trumped by other factors - most notably - price. Android will come to dominate despite the chaos that surrounds it. This is a repeat of the Windows vs. Mac competition of the 80s, only this time it's Apple vs. Google (MS is playing the role of UNIX this round - perpetually behind/slow).
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> But even if it is harder to break into a cloud service, the reward:effort ratio is much, MUCH higher for the cloud service.
That's a darn good point.
Or stored on anything connected to the net at all? Do you really think most people's personal computing equipment (including - maybe especially - their smart phones) is more secure than a cloud service?
If I were betting on which, as a class of internet connected storage - cloud services, or personal hardware - is more secure, I'd bet on cloud services.
I guess I have the same problem with that scope as I did with the healthcare reform push by Barack Obama and the democrats - you really need to aim for something much higher than what you'll settle for. We need to be selling paper ballots - not agreeing to a system we know is extremely problematic, before there is even a discussion. There's so little benefit gained from using OSS in computerized voting machines, when compared with not using computerized machines at all. I don't see the point in making it a goal. In other words, seek what you want, not what you'll settle for.
Cheating is always possible and will always be attempted. What you want is a system that makes it harder to cheat. Paper ballots required a coordinated effort by a lot of people to cheat - that's why you see so much voter intimidation and other screwy (and visible) tactics when votes are cast on paper.
E-Voting machines - they just need one or two strategically placed individuals to heavily skew the results - that's why voter intimidation tactics decrease with these machines (come on NAACP - why do you think intimidation decreases?).
Open source does nothing to address this problem - using these machines, all you do is boil the system down to a very small target for tampering, and at the same time, increase the impact of that tampering. Open source software provides only false assurance, and can still be easily replaced by tampering with just a few people.
If it was open source software running on a micro architecture, it still wouldn't matter. The fact that they are machines is what the problem is. In NY we use a lever system - they are also problematic for the same reason, though at least you can look inside the thing and see what it's doing - and tell when tampering has occurred. With a computer you can NEVER EVER look inside and see what it's running, no matter how clean you think the millions of lines of open source code you looked at last week are.
Please gain some sanity - you can never EVER trust these machines. It's a PHYSICAL impossibility. Wise up.
Pen and paper is the least problematic, most accurate way to do polling. It's even the cheapest - but it's the hardest to tamper with - which is why politicians don't like it. This isn't hard to understand, so let's get with understanding it.
I have to say, out of all the alternative languages (to the web languages I'm used to JavaScript/ActionScript/PHP) I've been most interested in learning that one. All I need is a Mac! :-/
I think I'll look for a good Snow Leopard hacintosh guide.
Does that do object literals (json), closures, and dynamic (untyped) variables (sometimes those are nice to have). I know on the desktop there is a garbage collector, but that's not available on the iPhone (not necessarily bad).
That's why I once held hope for Adobe's Actionscript 3.0 - it promised static (I read lower level) language support with the richness of ECMAScript (JavaScript) - but they seem to have implemented their static class system on top of ECMAScript underpinnings, without addressing the shortcomings of their dynamic runtime (it's still crazy hard to debug dynamic code written in AS3, and it's slow). So we ended up with all the bondage and discipline of a static language, without any of the performance benefit. I guess that's par for the course for Adobe.
Anyway, I'd still love to see a language like that - one that provides all the lower level, bare metal features of a language like C, with the higher level runtime sweetness of JavaScript (one for performance critical libraries, the other for tying it together).
Well, you are talking about the dumb crap the corporate media is whining about - I don't care how much emotion he shows, I don't think it matters.
What I want is a bold mission statement, a vision - something to get behind. I want him to lead. His problem is he's a process guy, and so he comes off as wishy washy, aimless and emotionless (which is what the no-nothing media has picked up on). He needs to have some kind of vision to point to in all of his messaging. Something different from the Reagan era, something new - something that signifies change is coming. A Green energy push would be nice - or anything that indicates real benefit for working and middle income citizens.
Ultimately I do think he is just another trickle-down free-market Chicago school of economics failure - but I was hoping he could see the error of his ways, and reach for something a bit more inline with the truest American values. THat's maybe a tall ordre, considering the place the culture in DC is today, but I don't think that's too much to ask.
Fox News is a serious problem for all Americans, and especially for Democratic presidents. I won't argue that.
Obama needs to step up his game - if only to make the politically wise moves to sure up his base, though I dislike expressing ideas like these in purely political terms.
He needs to reach farther from the start, so we end up somewhere that makes sense. The healthcare bill is the example there. All that energy, and what did we end up with? Light health insurance reform modeled on a compromised reform bill from the 90s. We can do better. He can do better, and to save his presidency, he must.
This country needs a point at the moon mission statement from Obama, but all he gives are let's all work together and figure this out, return to the past (republican/free market plan for healthcare from 1994? Seriously?), incremental nonsense that makes no one happy, and frustrates everyone. Obama's response to the oil spill is more of the same bland soup - and it's pissing people off. He doesn't have to stop the leak, but for the sake of this country, he needs to be a lot more bold, and take a stand on some principle for a change.
It should read "Police want to limit your right to video record them".
I read text all day on an LCD and find it superior to the hard to look at reflective surface of curved printed paper. To each their own I guess.
It's this kind of story that gets ignored by the medical community, who still operate on a 1950s authority model. They should be adjusting to an information culture, and embracing information technology. Like it or not, consumer - including consumers of medical servicees - no longer take an authorities word for it. So far the medical community in general have completely resisted this change, and they are losing the prestige they so tightly cling to over it.
Did you catch his ridiculous shift there? He said Flash Player is closed (didn't mention swf format, or open screen project), then he switched to talking about "open standards" - platform on one hand, standard on the other.
Swf standard vs HTML standard - there are important differences, including one being engineered entirely by one company, and the other engineered by a group of companies. But they are both well defined standards.
To compare a runtime to a standard is simply boneheaded.
That's the case law part of what I wrote, so yeah I'd agree with that statement. :-)
Prevailing jurisprudence does change over time though, which can be good or bad (textualist jurisprudence being a particular retarded legal theory).
Game "pirates" weren't going to buy your software anyway. You didn't lose millions of sales due to piracy.
Crytek CEO: Get over yourself.
It seems as though you believe that appeals courts only concern themselves with what is "Constitutional" (and therefor in the actual Constitution) and not with applying all the laws that congress makes. Did I read that incorrectly?
Courts deal with all laws - in addition to previously decided case law - not just the Constitution.
Naw! Fox News has a monopoly on that. ;)
OMFG!! Why is hollywood so fixated on this ridiculous lie. Piracy isn't the reason no one buys DVDs. They don't buy DVDs because the movies suck.
They were saying the same stupid nonsense about why no one goes to the movies anymore, then what happened? Good movies came out, and look! People went to the movies in record numbers (and it wasn't the god damn 3D that was just icing - the movies were good!!).
Hollywood is run by morons.
And a huge backer of h.264 - no Theora support - and I really doubt they'll support VP8 either.
This has always been a non-issue. I develop websites for a living - both dhtml (yeah, dhtml that's how long I been doing this) and Flash, and I can tell you that most sites will work fine (sites that rely on only hover/mouseover, will suffer, but that's an extreme minority).
Symbian and Nokia are almost completely absent from US markets. I had a European friend that came states side with a Nokia phone. It was quite an impressive unit. But it's the only one I've ever seen.
For me on the tablet front - I have to be able to let my kids play nickjr, disney, and webkins - not to mention robot galaxy, build-a-bear etc. on long trips - it needs Flash, and Apple is being wrong headed about it. The Android tablets are likely to let me put whatever plugins I want on it (if not, I won't buy those either), and that has appeal (even if it's less important on a phone - it should be my damn choice).
It's worth noting, that Android having only been pushed for a few months (it's been out longer, but the big push was last Christmas season) it's catching up to iPhone in terms of market share very very quickly. People's preferences are often trumped by other factors - most notably - price. Android will come to dominate despite the chaos that surrounds it. This is a repeat of the Windows vs. Mac competition of the 80s, only this time it's Apple vs. Google (MS is playing the role of UNIX this round - perpetually behind/slow).