Being a brazilian myself, I have to assure you it's not the electronic booth only. The whole election process is audited from beginning to end, software source code is independently audited, compiled and the binary is signed, in a full day cerimony.
The software activates itself an hour before the elections begin, and it must be closed at most a couple of hours after the election ends, or the booth is invalidated. It stores only two information: if an registered elector voted, and the vote itself, but no link is made between information. Data itself is encrypted and only the Superior Electoral Court President Judge has the key, which is he/she hands off to the Regional Judges only after all booths are recovered to the regional courts.
The whole thing is very straightforward, but the process has many control points and locks, so it would require an army of fraudsters for the elections to be cheated.
They probably know this physical model will exhibit a magnetic field because they did a FEA and CFD simulations of the thing. So why then did it have to be built?
Because simulations do not substitute real experiments.
For instance, why would one need LHC if the simulations show the Higgs boson? (Q.E.D.)
This is much better, since you also overcome the 48h forgetting window.
If you don't force yourself to look for a piece of information for a time, it goes to oblivion. Your mind takes care of throwing unused info to the mental garbage bin, and our internal garbage collector runs on an average of 48h.
Writing it down creates some positive feedback that makes that information valuable, and copying it to the computer reinforces it (taking the internal reference counter to 2).
About 4,000 children were afflicted with cancer. Less well-known, however, is the fact that only nine of those 4,000 died -- thyroid cancers are often easy to operate on.
Great!! Having cancer and not dying of it is really something everyone should try!! No, thanks! I'd rather keep my thyroid where it is!
D:\Documents and Settings\y1ry>"c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
O sistema não pode encontrar o caminho especificado.
The atom is a bunch of bubbles floating around another bubble...
We live on a bubble, that goes around another bubble...
What if the universe is actually a HUGE bubble, floating around other bubbles??
That means BEER IS A UNIVERSE IN ITSELF!!! COOL!!!
Take Russian Roulette: if you fire the first shot and it is a blank, and then you give up, you did not win, but definitely you did not lose since you are still alive!!!!
It is amazing how someone can lose time doing such research!
Hindsight is 20/20! There is no research on well-known facts!!
Facts:
1) Video processors in PCs are usually much more powerful, even when compared to the high-end video equipments 2) The CPU is also much more powerful, as a typical consumer product uses a simpler one, typically an ARM processor 3) Most VGA monitors and panels in the market today have higher resolution and finer pitch than most consumer TV sets, even high-end...
Of course there are some exceptions (probably the most expensive ones), but it is much more likely to have a better image quality to price ratio on the PC than using consumer equipment.
People at CNN with lots of spare time and no knowledge of who is who or what is what...
They put Torvalds as a guy who does only the core of the system, while the remaining is done by RedHat, Novell, etc... This only shows that the guy who wrote the article don't know shit about operating systems. The "core" in Linux is the OS, all the rest are daemons and programs running over it.
To make it fair, I don't like Balmer, but let's face it: he IS the face of Microsoft today, with Bill Gates being just a nerdy guru..."
Lists of "popular people" and "losers" are for teenager high-schoolers! Grow up!!!
I learned the most by using *NIX systems for 10yrs or so, but sometimes we need help!
One of the most valuables sources I found is the forum of the distro I use (I will not name it, but let's say I like to watch gcc working;) ). When you ask politely, more often than not you get an answer! Just don't forget to help others!
Measuring molecular oxygen airglow emissions in the Earth's mesosphere
Performing the first space test of Alameda's micro-vacuum arc thrusters
Performing the first space test of Tether Application's SID processor board
Performing Earth imaging using a CMOS camera
Demonstrating attitude stabilization on a CubeSat
ION has a lot of sensors. Also, they are a wonderful learning tool for engineers, since it is not that easy to make an electronic circuit to live out in space, where radiation can fry it!
The pay as you go has no difference whatsoever on buying the OS!!! For the XP Home Editionm it costs R$1,00 (~US$ 0,40) per hour, and the OS is yours after 800 hours...
The retail Windows XP Home Edition costs around R$600,00 (~US$280,00), and can be bought in 3 payments with no interest.
In the end, it is the same as going on a personal loan...
... and a bumper sticker saying "You honk, I toast you!!!"
Man, that is insane!! Quarter million bucks?? Get seriuos, please...
There will never be a match for how STUPID the mankind can be or, as I saw once in a poster: "Artificial Inteligence will never be a match for the natrual stupidity!"
This kind of waste of money, man labor and time makes me really sick!
Brasil did that too. They created an immigration line exclusively for the USA citizens, were they would have a long questioning and identification process.
I know I shouldn't say that to an USA citizen, but it was really amusing!!
Specially because in Brasil we didn't have that nice fingerprint scanners and they would finish the trip with black ink all over their fingers
This don't seem to be much, but I was "selected" for manual scanning of my handbag in almost every USA airport.
Common sense and good diplomatics told me to accept that and never question authorities when you are a foreign citizen, but on the last scan, at MIA airport, though I created the guts to ask the nice TSA security agent why I was being scanned over and over. The answer shocked me: "It is all that electronics you carry. Makes very difficult to see what you have". I always carried my cellphone, myPDA, my digital camera and my CD player with me, on the same bag, and it really looked a mess.
The funny thing: I felt safer, because they were really looking at the x-ray. The only time I got stopped by airport security where I live, was because I told the guys my cellphone never made those portals beep... THAT DAY, it beeped!!!
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The software activates itself an hour before the elections begin, and it must be closed at most a couple of hours after the election ends, or the booth is invalidated. It stores only two information: if an registered elector voted, and the vote itself, but no link is made between information. Data itself is encrypted and only the Superior Electoral Court President Judge has the key, which is he/she hands off to the Regional Judges only after all booths are recovered to the regional courts.
The whole thing is very straightforward, but the process has many control points and locks, so it would require an army of fraudsters for the elections to be cheated.
They probably know this physical model will exhibit a magnetic field because they did a FEA and CFD simulations of the thing. So why then did it have to be built?
Because simulations do not substitute real experiments. For instance, why would one need LHC if the simulations show the Higgs boson? (Q.E.D.)
Widmore knows!! They're alive!! Linus told me!
I second that.
This is much better, since you also overcome the 48h forgetting window.
If you don't force yourself to look for a piece of information for a time, it goes to oblivion. Your mind takes care of throwing unused info to the mental garbage bin, and our internal garbage collector runs on an average of 48h.
Writing it down creates some positive feedback that makes that information valuable, and copying it to the computer reinforces it (taking the internal reference counter to 2).
From TFA:
About 4,000 children were afflicted with cancer. Less well-known, however, is the fact that only nine of those 4,000 died -- thyroid cancers are often easy to operate on.
Great!! Having cancer and not dying of it is really something everyone should try!!
No, thanks! I'd rather keep my thyroid where it is!
D:\Documents and Settings\y1ry>"c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
O sistema não pode encontrar o caminho especificado.
Damn! My OS uses another language!!
Should we start pirating Linux????
Oh, wait... It's free... Damn FOSS stuff...
And what about sharks?? That would be evil!
The atom is a bunch of bubbles floating around another bubble...
We live on a bubble, that goes around another bubble...
What if the universe is actually a HUGE bubble, floating around other bubbles??
That means BEER IS A UNIVERSE IN ITSELF!!! COOL!!!
Somehow, I think John Nash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash) would be laughing out loud on the topic! Sometimes, if you didn't win, it doesn't mean you lost!
Take Russian Roulette: if you fire the first shot and it is a blank, and then you give up, you did not win, but definitely you did not lose since you are still alive!!!!
It is amazing how someone can lose time doing such research!
Hindsight is 20/20! There is no research on well-known facts!!
Facts:
1) Video processors in PCs are usually much more powerful, even when compared to the high-end video equipments
2) The CPU is also much more powerful, as a typical consumer product uses a simpler one, typically an ARM processor
3) Most VGA monitors and panels in the market today have higher resolution and finer pitch than most consumer TV sets, even high-end...
Of course there are some exceptions (probably the most expensive ones), but it is much more likely to have a better image quality to price ratio on the PC than using consumer equipment.
A good joke never gets old...
Oh, yeah... I totally forgot...
People at CNN with lots of spare time and no knowledge of who is who or what is what...
They put Torvalds as a guy who does only the core of the system, while the remaining is done by RedHat, Novell, etc... This only shows that the guy who wrote the article don't know shit about operating systems. The "core" in Linux is the OS, all the rest are daemons and programs running over it.
To make it fair, I don't like Balmer, but let's face it: he IS the face of Microsoft today, with Bill Gates being just a nerdy guru..."
Lists of "popular people" and "losers" are for teenager high-schoolers! Grow up!!!
I learned the most by using *NIX systems for 10yrs or so, but sometimes we need help!
One of the most valuables sources I found is the forum of the distro I use (I will not name it, but let's say I like to watch gcc working ;) ). When you ask politely, more often than not you get an answer! Just don't forget to help others!
Crap! I don't know if I moderate this funny or insightful...
Read TFA... Or TF-Sattelite-Description
ION's missions include...
ION has a lot of sensors. Also, they are a wonderful learning tool for engineers, since it is not that easy to make an electronic circuit to live out in space, where radiation can fry it!
The pay as you go has no difference whatsoever on buying the OS!!! For the XP Home Editionm it costs R$1,00 (~US$ 0,40) per hour, and the OS is yours after 800 hours...
The retail Windows XP Home Edition costs around R$600,00 (~US$280,00), and can be bought in 3 payments with no interest.
In the end, it is the same as going on a personal loan...
... and a bumper sticker saying "You honk, I toast you!!!"
Man, that is insane!! Quarter million bucks?? Get seriuos, please...
There will never be a match for how STUPID the mankind can be or, as I saw once in a poster: "Artificial Inteligence will never be a match for the natrual stupidity!"
This kind of waste of money, man labor and time makes me really sick!
Brasil did that too. They created an immigration line exclusively for the USA citizens, were they would have a long questioning and identification process.
I know I shouldn't say that to an USA citizen, but it was really amusing!!
Specially because in Brasil we didn't have that nice fingerprint scanners and they would finish the trip with black ink all over their fingers
On 2004 I travelled a lot to USA.
This don't seem to be much, but I was "selected" for manual scanning of my handbag in almost every USA airport.
Common sense and good diplomatics told me to accept that and never question authorities when you are a foreign citizen, but on the last scan, at MIA airport, though I created the guts to ask the nice TSA security agent why I was being scanned over and over. The answer shocked me: "It is all that electronics you carry. Makes very difficult to see what you have". I always carried my cellphone, myPDA, my digital camera and my CD player with me, on the same bag, and it really looked a mess.
The funny thing: I felt safer, because they were really looking at the x-ray. The only time I got stopped by airport security where I live, was because I told the guys my cellphone never made those portals beep... THAT DAY, it beeped!!!
Will they use Playstation Integrated Surround Sound either? You know, the PISS chip?
Wii did you choose such wiird name? Wii?