"The seats Southwest has put on nearly its entire fleet are 31 inches apart, about an inch less than before"
" Boeing says. American's newest 777s are set up 10-across in coach"
I'm 6'6" (198cm) and on behalf of tall people everywhere can I express a warm and heartfelt welcome to this policy of even further reducing the amount of room available, if this trend continues soon the we tall people will only be able to fly coach by adopting the Dwi Pada Sirsasana pose which if nothing else should please yoga instructors.
The demise of Happy Penguin will for me at least be a sad day as I have discovered many fun distractions on the site over the years. It is probably the most complete database of Linux games around (that I know of).
That the files were "password protected", which is clearly code for "not encrypted properly" (probably a ZIP file..). The news on BBC Radio 4 have just confirmed that although the files were "password protected" they were not encrypted.
From the Article "We have 17.1 million users of bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as our server logs can make out, 5 per cent of those [use Macs] and around 400 to 600 are Linux users"
Now I imagine that relates to visitors to the rather useless BBC front page, using the same info as used to compile the blog post at http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/2.php> which claims that only 0.41& of BBC visitors use Linux.
I'm a regular visitor to various bits of the BBC web site and I regularly come across other Linux users and just about the one thing we have in common is that we very rarely visit the front page - like most experienced computer users we go straight to sub-site we want.
The Estonian e-voting system preserves the voters anonymity thus preserving secret voting.
"Public key cryptography is used. The E-voter (application) encrypts his/her choice (number of candidate) with the system's public key and signs the result digitally. The votes are collected, sorted, voter's eligibility is verified and invalid votes are removed (double votes, votes of ineligible voters). Next the outer envelopes (digital signatures) are separated from inner envelopes (encrypted votes). Voter lists are compiled from outer envelopes. Inner envelopes (which are not associated with the identity of the voter any more) are forwarded to the vote-counter who has the private key of the system. The vote-counter (application) outputs the summed results of e-voting."
Other governments around the world have been looking at this for some time now, I know here in the UK we drivers live in fear of Her Majesties Government trying to introduce such a scheme. Further details of the UK progress of this system can be found in the BBC news article linked to below...
Slashdot Mirror
"The seats Southwest has put on nearly its entire fleet are 31 inches apart, about an inch less than before"
" Boeing says. American's newest 777s are set up 10-across in coach"
I'm 6'6" (198cm) and on behalf of tall people everywhere can I express a warm and heartfelt welcome to this policy of even further reducing the amount of room available, if this trend continues soon the we tall people will only be able to fly coach by adopting the Dwi Pada Sirsasana pose which if nothing else should please yoga instructors.
"World Wide Web was an alternative to Gopher"
Hang on while I look up World Wide Web on Gopherpedia
Perhaps a poachers pocket would do the trick?
The demise of Happy Penguin will for me at least be a sad day as I have discovered many fun distractions on the site over the years. It is probably the most complete database of Linux games around (that I know of).
http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/ states that the figures are just for the front page
From the Article "We have 17.1 million users of bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as our server logs can make out, 5 per cent of those [use Macs] and around 400 to 600 are Linux users"
Now I imagine that relates to visitors to the rather useless BBC front page, using the same info as used to compile the blog post at http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/2.php> which claims that only 0.41& of BBC visitors use Linux.
I'm a regular visitor to various bits of the BBC web site and I regularly come across other Linux users and just about the one thing we have in common is that we very rarely visit the front page - like most experienced computer users we go straight to sub-site we want.
gopher is not an anachronism, it's just a misunderstood protocol going through its troubled teens.
(it even has a fairly active mailing list)
You could also try gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/11/users/rp/links for a list of gopher servers that are maintained on a regular basis.
The Estonian e-voting system preserves the voters anonymity thus preserving secret voting.
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"Public key cryptography is used. The E-voter (application) encrypts his/her choice (number of candidate) with the system's public key and signs the result digitally. The votes are collected, sorted, voter's eligibility is verified and invalid votes are removed (double votes, votes of ineligible voters). Next the outer envelopes (digital signatures) are separated from inner envelopes (encrypted votes). Voter lists are compiled from outer envelopes. Inner envelopes (which are not associated with the identity of the voter any more) are forwarded to the vote-counter who has the private key of the system. The vote-counter (application) outputs the summed results of e-voting."
Extract from "E-Voting System, Overview" @ http://www.vvk.ee/elektr/docs/Yldkirjeldus-eng.pd
See http://www.vvk.ee/elektr/docs/Yldkirjeldus-eng.pdf for an overview of the system - which includes an auditing facility.
An overview of the technical and organisational aspects of the Estonian e-voting system can be found at http://www.vvk.ee/elektr/docs/Yldkirjeldus-eng.pdf
Other governments around the world have been looking at this for some time now, I know here in the UK we drivers live in fear of Her Majesties Government trying to introduce such a scheme. Further details of the UK progress of this system can be found in the BBC news article linked to below...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/3903347.stm