Around here we went a step beyond that and built our facilities so that the public can watch from all sides the process and verify that the count is being done correctly. Of course they do use an optical system which is probably similar or the same as the one that you're using.
Ultimately, we had to go that direction of pretty much complete transparency as the GOP isn't going to accept the results that reflect the will of the people without being forced to. They're still yammering on about voter fraud when the only evidence that was ever uncovered specifically was that their gubernatorial candidate had received fraudulent votes which then had to be deducted from his total. That was in pretty much the most conservative friendly court in the state.
Theoretically electronic voting machines should be a lot more efficient than pen and paper is. That being said, it's not generally properly implemented and typically you don't end up having any reason to trust the machines.
Diebold for instance patched machines in Georgia during the 2002 gubernatorial race in Democratic leaning precincts. I don't believe that it's ever been properly answered as to why those patches were being made and why they were only patching machines in those precincts, but it does lead to more grave questions about the whole situation. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Documents_reveal_Georgia_was_warned_of_0730.html
With a paper ticket system you can still have the benefits of electronic voting, with verification and the voter should be able to leave the booth with a receipt that can be used to validate results later on if need be.
Theoretically they could to it with subatomic particles, in practice who knows when if ever that will become viable. If they manage it though, it would be pretty mindblowing. I'm guessing that it's going to be extremely difficult to accomplish and take decades to arrive, if it ever does.
That's one, but around here it's increasingly common for cars to be stolen and then returned hours later after having completed a drug run in the stolen vehicle.
Beyond that bait cars and lojacks as well as other countermeasures make it a lot more likely that car thieves will be caught before they can profit from their crime.
Except that Google provides developers with tools for managing that and I'm sure that there's a list of safe features to use as well. The typical people making a big deal out of fragmentation are Apple Fanbois that can't imagine how an OS could exist where all devices aren't identical.
I haven't personally found that I wanted to use an App that wasn't available for my particular handset but was for other Android handsets. I doubt very much that I'm alone, at least when it comes to folks that waited until the market got really going good.
There is no fragmentation problem with Android. It's always been something that Apple fanbois have used to attack Android for being less homogenous. The fact though is that Google provides the tools for developers to handle the variations in screen size and such and in practice developers don't seem to be having too much trouble with the fragmentation issue.
True early on some features wouldn't be supported on older versions of Android, but the same is true with iOS, Apple adds new features and doesn't necessarily port them to old iPhones.
That's by choice. Saying that we couldn't is really disingenuous when we could have maintained the shuttles for a few more years or have had a replacement by now. There's a lack of motivation. Additionally, we could always buy space with the Russians or the Europeans, which wasn't the case when we created our shuttle program. Plus, I doubt very much that we couldn't build another rocket like the sorts we used to use. We too would have the ability to go into orbit conveniently if we had never progressed beyond rockets.
Russia OTOH hasn't so much opted to be a second world country as it has no ability to get to first world status with the rampant corruption and mafia control of much of the country.
I like how some moderator opted to mod me down rather than make a counter argument. We've spent literally trillions of dollars trying to prevent 9/11 and we've ultimately made more enemies and created more terrorists than there were before while making little to no progress. And yet, I'm the bad guy for implying that GOP spending cuts rarely if ever touch the DoD or intelligence budgets.
Yes, it happens more frequently than you would think. MS is no longer under DoJ supervision and in many of those cases the companies are getting their royalty money back from MS. MS also has the ability to turn the screws on the Windows licenses that those companies have.
B&N is in the unusual position of not having or needing a license for Windows and wouldn't be getting any kickbacks for paying the extortion money.
As for flimsy patents, the courts are completely unpredictable, Blizzard was able to convince a court that Glider infringed upon its WoW copyright by making an in memory copy of the game even though that's expressly not infringement under the law.
Copyrights are even worse as evidenced by Apple's ridiculous rounded rectangle patent trolling. And don't forget about the TX court of no turn downs where anybody can get money for somebody elses fictitious patent infringement.
The point is that you end up with treble damages if you're caught looking at the patent registry and are ultimately successfully sued for patent infringement, even if one wouldn't think that it was infringing.
The NDA prevents other parties from knowing if they're going to be receiving one of those extortion letters or from helping out an ally as they're no longer able to bring any patents that they might have that cover those patents to bear.
Not true. Barnes and Noble saw the patents decided not to pay and as a result the patents are now known to be completely ridiculous.
You can't sign an NDA in a situation like this and expect for it to hold up in court if the party decides they want to fight it. For one thing those patents become a part of the law suit and for another no court is ever going to go for the notion that one doesn't have the right to see the patents before opting to settled, consequently there is no legal basis for MS' NDA.
It's completely illegal and really ought to be the focus of an antitrust probe. You can't send a letter demanding payment for allegedly infringing upon a patent and be required to sign an NDA to see the patent. That's not a legitimate move and quite frankly, the MS execs that thought of that ought to be dragged out into the street and beaten severely with chairs.
Patents are public information for a reason, one should be able to look them up to figure out if one is or isn't violating one.
You make it sound like there wasn't good science coming out of the space program. The real problem is that this shutdown is coming at the time when a significant number of astronauts are retiring and it means that we're dependent upon the Russians to provide us with access to space.
To some extent the same goes for NASA in general I'd wager, you've got this point where all the folks who were hired on in the 60s and 70s are either retired or in the process of retiring and you have nothing for the new hires to work with comparatively speaking.
If we had discovered aliens on the moon we would not only still be able to go into space, but we'd have already dropped at least 3 nukes on the moon by now.
There's something inherently fucked up with people that are unwilling to spend on things like health care, education, science, but will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on military gear without any consideration for budgeting at all.
It's a fair analogy. You failed to secure your premises and you left something attractive to the would be criminal and ultimately you got burned. It's illegal in both cases and in both cases it would be your own damned fault for not securing your property.
Security isn't privacy, but it is in effect one of the things that you're going to find makes things a lot easier to maintain privacy with. If you don't close your drapes ever you'll find that your next door neighbors can see everything that you're doing. Around here it's even legal for them to watch as long as they do it with their naked eyes from their own property or a legal right of way.
Yes, as long as you're expecting an incredibly shallow and incredibly narrow knowledge of the subject. In 24 hours you could probably learn enough German to go to a bakery and order some hard rolls, but you wouldn't be able to learn enough to conduct business beyond what you'd been taught to say and you certainly wouldn't have a deep knowledge of any of it.
That's not really a complicated matter, just make it a three strikes and you're outed thing and the ISP would be the party that would know about it. The ISPs already have a fair idea as to who is and isn't infected on their network, letting them shame people that repeated refuse to secure their machines would benefit everybody.
I value privacy which is why I keep my machines free of malware, tracking cookies and things of that nature. Anybody that genuinely values their privacy has already gone to lengths to ensure that their machines aren't infected with malware.
This is very much like leaving your car unlocked with an envelop marked incredibly important industrial secret and being surprised when somebody steals it. Sure they shouldn't have done it, but it's hardly reasonable to assume that nobody's going to steal something that's clearly valuable.
If you've failed to secure your computer then you've waived your right to privacy. Seriously, what exactly do you think malware does? Sure some of it just sends spam, but an awful lot of it is focused on taking your personal information to steal your identity.
Plus, if people aren't willing to step up now, I don't think that naming and shaming is really the worst thing in the world.
Not really, that would be considered stalking in most of the developed world. One has a reasonable expectation typically that somebody isn't going to be camped out on the sidewalk across the street filming all that come and go.
Technically the GP should have said stalking which is more clearly illegal. Loitering itself is going to depend upon where one is located and the specifics.
The problem with it is that it has little to do with the actual programmers and everything to do with the dumbasses that are running the project. The changes seems to be having adverse effects and rather than recognizing it and doing something about it, they're continue to chase version numbers without understanding why they're getting blowback.
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Around here we went a step beyond that and built our facilities so that the public can watch from all sides the process and verify that the count is being done correctly. Of course they do use an optical system which is probably similar or the same as the one that you're using.
Ultimately, we had to go that direction of pretty much complete transparency as the GOP isn't going to accept the results that reflect the will of the people without being forced to. They're still yammering on about voter fraud when the only evidence that was ever uncovered specifically was that their gubernatorial candidate had received fraudulent votes which then had to be deducted from his total. That was in pretty much the most conservative friendly court in the state.
Theoretically electronic voting machines should be a lot more efficient than pen and paper is. That being said, it's not generally properly implemented and typically you don't end up having any reason to trust the machines.
Diebold for instance patched machines in Georgia during the 2002 gubernatorial race in Democratic leaning precincts. I don't believe that it's ever been properly answered as to why those patches were being made and why they were only patching machines in those precincts, but it does lead to more grave questions about the whole situation. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Documents_reveal_Georgia_was_warned_of_0730.html
With a paper ticket system you can still have the benefits of electronic voting, with verification and the voter should be able to leave the booth with a receipt that can be used to validate results later on if need be.
Theoretically they could to it with subatomic particles, in practice who knows when if ever that will become viable. If they manage it though, it would be pretty mindblowing. I'm guessing that it's going to be extremely difficult to accomplish and take decades to arrive, if it ever does.
Which is why police love lojacks, often times they not only get the car back, but they catch the thief red handed.
That's one, but around here it's increasingly common for cars to be stolen and then returned hours later after having completed a drug run in the stolen vehicle.
Beyond that bait cars and lojacks as well as other countermeasures make it a lot more likely that car thieves will be caught before they can profit from their crime.
Except that Google provides developers with tools for managing that and I'm sure that there's a list of safe features to use as well. The typical people making a big deal out of fragmentation are Apple Fanbois that can't imagine how an OS could exist where all devices aren't identical.
I haven't personally found that I wanted to use an App that wasn't available for my particular handset but was for other Android handsets. I doubt very much that I'm alone, at least when it comes to folks that waited until the market got really going good.
There is no fragmentation problem with Android. It's always been something that Apple fanbois have used to attack Android for being less homogenous. The fact though is that Google provides the tools for developers to handle the variations in screen size and such and in practice developers don't seem to be having too much trouble with the fragmentation issue.
True early on some features wouldn't be supported on older versions of Android, but the same is true with iOS, Apple adds new features and doesn't necessarily port them to old iPhones.
That's by choice. Saying that we couldn't is really disingenuous when we could have maintained the shuttles for a few more years or have had a replacement by now. There's a lack of motivation. Additionally, we could always buy space with the Russians or the Europeans, which wasn't the case when we created our shuttle program. Plus, I doubt very much that we couldn't build another rocket like the sorts we used to use. We too would have the ability to go into orbit conveniently if we had never progressed beyond rockets.
Russia OTOH hasn't so much opted to be a second world country as it has no ability to get to first world status with the rampant corruption and mafia control of much of the country.
I like how some moderator opted to mod me down rather than make a counter argument. We've spent literally trillions of dollars trying to prevent 9/11 and we've ultimately made more enemies and created more terrorists than there were before while making little to no progress. And yet, I'm the bad guy for implying that GOP spending cuts rarely if ever touch the DoD or intelligence budgets.
Yes, it happens more frequently than you would think. MS is no longer under DoJ supervision and in many of those cases the companies are getting their royalty money back from MS. MS also has the ability to turn the screws on the Windows licenses that those companies have.
B&N is in the unusual position of not having or needing a license for Windows and wouldn't be getting any kickbacks for paying the extortion money.
As for flimsy patents, the courts are completely unpredictable, Blizzard was able to convince a court that Glider infringed upon its WoW copyright by making an in memory copy of the game even though that's expressly not infringement under the law.
Copyrights are even worse as evidenced by Apple's ridiculous rounded rectangle patent trolling. And don't forget about the TX court of no turn downs where anybody can get money for somebody elses fictitious patent infringement.
The point is that you end up with treble damages if you're caught looking at the patent registry and are ultimately successfully sued for patent infringement, even if one wouldn't think that it was infringing.
The NDA prevents other parties from knowing if they're going to be receiving one of those extortion letters or from helping out an ally as they're no longer able to bring any patents that they might have that cover those patents to bear.
Not true. Barnes and Noble saw the patents decided not to pay and as a result the patents are now known to be completely ridiculous.
You can't sign an NDA in a situation like this and expect for it to hold up in court if the party decides they want to fight it. For one thing those patents become a part of the law suit and for another no court is ever going to go for the notion that one doesn't have the right to see the patents before opting to settled, consequently there is no legal basis for MS' NDA.
It's completely illegal and really ought to be the focus of an antitrust probe. You can't send a letter demanding payment for allegedly infringing upon a patent and be required to sign an NDA to see the patent. That's not a legitimate move and quite frankly, the MS execs that thought of that ought to be dragged out into the street and beaten severely with chairs.
Patents are public information for a reason, one should be able to look them up to figure out if one is or isn't violating one.
You make it sound like there wasn't good science coming out of the space program. The real problem is that this shutdown is coming at the time when a significant number of astronauts are retiring and it means that we're dependent upon the Russians to provide us with access to space.
To some extent the same goes for NASA in general I'd wager, you've got this point where all the folks who were hired on in the 60s and 70s are either retired or in the process of retiring and you have nothing for the new hires to work with comparatively speaking.
If we had discovered aliens on the moon we would not only still be able to go into space, but we'd have already dropped at least 3 nukes on the moon by now.
There's something inherently fucked up with people that are unwilling to spend on things like health care, education, science, but will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on military gear without any consideration for budgeting at all.
This is one of the reasons why Russia is still best considered a second world nation. And will be for some time.
It's a fair analogy. You failed to secure your premises and you left something attractive to the would be criminal and ultimately you got burned. It's illegal in both cases and in both cases it would be your own damned fault for not securing your property.
Security isn't privacy, but it is in effect one of the things that you're going to find makes things a lot easier to maintain privacy with. If you don't close your drapes ever you'll find that your next door neighbors can see everything that you're doing. Around here it's even legal for them to watch as long as they do it with their naked eyes from their own property or a legal right of way.
Yes, as long as you're expecting an incredibly shallow and incredibly narrow knowledge of the subject. In 24 hours you could probably learn enough German to go to a bakery and order some hard rolls, but you wouldn't be able to learn enough to conduct business beyond what you'd been taught to say and you certainly wouldn't have a deep knowledge of any of it.
That's not really a complicated matter, just make it a three strikes and you're outed thing and the ISP would be the party that would know about it. The ISPs already have a fair idea as to who is and isn't infected on their network, letting them shame people that repeated refuse to secure their machines would benefit everybody.
I value privacy which is why I keep my machines free of malware, tracking cookies and things of that nature. Anybody that genuinely values their privacy has already gone to lengths to ensure that their machines aren't infected with malware.
This is very much like leaving your car unlocked with an envelop marked incredibly important industrial secret and being surprised when somebody steals it. Sure they shouldn't have done it, but it's hardly reasonable to assume that nobody's going to steal something that's clearly valuable.
If you've failed to secure your computer then you've waived your right to privacy. Seriously, what exactly do you think malware does? Sure some of it just sends spam, but an awful lot of it is focused on taking your personal information to steal your identity.
Plus, if people aren't willing to step up now, I don't think that naming and shaming is really the worst thing in the world.
If we do this PETA wins.
Not really, that would be considered stalking in most of the developed world. One has a reasonable expectation typically that somebody isn't going to be camped out on the sidewalk across the street filming all that come and go.
Technically the GP should have said stalking which is more clearly illegal. Loitering itself is going to depend upon where one is located and the specifics.
The problem with it is that it has little to do with the actual programmers and everything to do with the dumbasses that are running the project. The changes seems to be having adverse effects and rather than recognizing it and doing something about it, they're continue to chase version numbers without understanding why they're getting blowback.