All the stories I've read concerning the state certifications of electronic voting machines remind me of Crow's line from the MST3k movie:
"Well, believe me, Mike, I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid, and... I went ahead anyway."
Highly visible flaws are found about a touchscreen, crashes, or a backdoor or something, then dismissed via declarations of "it will be fixed" and "we'll workaround it." I gather that the "advantages" of these machines are abstract promises of "moving toward the future," "looking hip," and possibly "cash under the table."
Put away your straw man. I'm sure this is for entertainment purposes only, and no sensible third party would ever take a half-baked Slashdot "feature" seriously.
Now, on another topic, I see that you've achieved a greater Days Read In A Row than me. Would you like to buy my speed-reading service?
Note: Non-serious reply to non-serious post, mainly because I've no mod points to give.
For what it's worth(lol anecdotal evidence), I once had to wait for a deceptively very long and slow moving semi while turning left out of an intersection. Light had turned yellow just as he entered. Probably red for a full second before he got out.
Debate of my own driving sense aside, I was definitely photographed(saw the flashes) with a visible plate and never got any ticket. It's possible there's some degree of sanity behind our cameras.
The HAVA set that standard for all voting systems in federal elections, not just electronic ones.
The scantron ballots we use, for example, are by far my favorite method for various reasons, but they can certainly misidentify a bubble.
Illinois interstates are also famous for their "Open Road Tolling" I-Pass lanes, which, up until recently, featured big blue signs providing a daily reminder of who the current governor was.
The tech in the article is already being done here to some degree -- if your vehicle of choice is registered with I-Pass and your transponder doesn't work (or you forgot it or something), your plate gets traced and your account gets a 'vToll' instead. You can do this some limited number of times before they start counting as violations.
But hey, think on those low fares while you're eating the pretzels... the wrappers they give you remind you about it like, six times.
Okay, being a flight noob, I didn't have well-set standards and was happy just to touch ground again. My more experienced relatives, on the other hand, were not so pleased about having to stay seated in a defective plane while a working one is being found. Or the wait/handling at baggage. Or our return passes having no gate on them. Or being told a gate that was across the terminal from the correct one.
I always thought this stuff was par for the course no matter who you chose.:E
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Causing psychological harm, impacting academic performance and safety... with a computer.
Why prevent it in a bill? It clearly satisfies the necessary innovation for a PATENT!
You can buy the whole company for Free*!
* You'll still have to give them your CC number for identification purposes, of course.
The bit about the "unprintable expletive" is a direct grab from the first article. BBC News didn't print it in the first place.
You didn't seriously think a slashdot editor actually checked a summary, did you? :)
YOU all are going to die. I'm moving to Madagascar.
He owns his own house, but doesn't live in it!
Jack Thompson is a slug, but i doubt he's using magic email lists that you can't remove yourself from.
They make ones where you can?
Do you have any idea how hard it is to code with a beautiful naked woman throwing herself at you?
I know how hard it is to code while contemplating such a thing!
"aplay -t raw" for the truly over-the-edge!
All the stories I've read concerning the state certifications of electronic voting machines remind me of Crow's line from the MST3k movie:
"Well, believe me, Mike, I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid, and... I went ahead anyway."
Highly visible flaws are found about a touchscreen, crashes, or a backdoor or something, then dismissed via declarations of "it will be fixed" and "we'll workaround it." I gather that the "advantages" of these machines are abstract promises of "moving toward the future," "looking hip," and possibly "cash under the table."
What? You labour in an open-topped fabric-covered doorless half-height cube? Good god, that's barbaric!
It's not that bad; it has free internet!
It is believable, a WB exec being as unsavvy about piracy as he would be about anime.
Put away your straw man. I'm sure this is for entertainment purposes only, and no sensible third party would ever take a half-baked Slashdot "feature" seriously.
Now, on another topic, I see that you've achieved a greater Days Read In A Row than me. Would you like to buy my speed-reading service?
Note: Non-serious reply to non-serious post, mainly because I've no mod points to give.
For what it's worth(lol anecdotal evidence), I once had to wait for a deceptively very long and slow moving semi while turning left out of an intersection. Light had turned yellow just as he entered. Probably red for a full second before he got out.
Debate of my own driving sense aside, I was definitely photographed(saw the flashes) with a visible plate and never got any ticket. It's possible there's some degree of sanity behind our cameras.
The HAVA set that standard for all voting systems in federal elections, not just electronic ones. The scantron ballots we use, for example, are by far my favorite method for various reasons, but they can certainly misidentify a bubble.
Illinois interstates are also famous for their "Open Road Tolling" I-Pass lanes, which, up until recently, featured big blue signs providing a daily reminder of who the current governor was.
The tech in the article is already being done here to some degree -- if your vehicle of choice is registered with I-Pass and your transponder doesn't work (or you forgot it or something), your plate gets traced and your account gets a 'vToll' instead. You can do this some limited number of times before they start counting as violations.
"Illinois... flat scenery, not so flat roadery."
Nope. He's just a chareholder. *rimshot*
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
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Here's all I needed to know:
... Potsdam University ... IT courses ... taught by a superficial model ... the end.
The difference is that the villain is after the victim's friends who may have things like spam filters in place.
Friendly Trust + Filter Circumvention -> Website Traffic -> Ad Revenue.
But hey, think on those low fares while you're eating the pretzels... the wrappers they give you remind you about it like, six times.
Okay, being a flight noob, I didn't have well-set standards and was happy just to touch ground again. My more experienced relatives, on the other hand, were not so pleased about having to stay seated in a defective plane while a working one is being found. Or the wait/handling at baggage. Or our return passes having no gate on them. Or being told a gate that was across the terminal from the correct one.
I always thought this stuff was par for the course no matter who you chose. :E
"Supposin' two Saturn V's carried it together!"
"Naww, they'd have to have it on a line!"
She's invisible, too!