That machine has no network interface. No ethernet, no bluetooth, no wifi nothing. The data is collected by shutting down the machine and unplugging the memory module. There are 64 buttons to push on the voting machine, and one button in the controller.
It would easier to switch the memory module when it is transported or when it is tabulated. It is as simple as it can be for a machine without paper trail.
What? What difference does it make to get the agreements in writing? They will quibble, file law suits, they will demand to reopen and renegotiate. Anything singed by a city elected official holding a two year term is carved in stone, and they will go to hell and back to wrench every ounce of that written contract. Contracts written and signed by private parties with the government will be litigated, reneged, and reopened all the time. And when all else fails, they transfer all the assets to another corporation and declare bankruptcy.
As far as I remember the Indian EVM (Electronic Voting Machine) is a very simple thing, 64 registers, all simple ripple counters. Button push to vote. Two interlocks, Vote button disabled till the controller unlocks it. Controller is locked till vote button is pressed once. Thus multiple press of vote button is not possible. Controller is at the table of the election official with representatives from contestants present and watching. Voting machine has a small privacy screen. I think one controller and one voting machine per booth. It had no bluetooth or wifi or IR or ethernet or any form of communication.
Voting data is extracted by taking a memory module out of the machine and plugging it into a tabulator or something. The memory chip is physically transported to the tabulator under seal. Police, election officials and agents accompany the chip. This was what the documentary showed way back when it was introduced.
This machine was designed by an engineer for BEL (Bharat Electronics Limited) who is very famous for his writings. He goes by the pen name Sujatha and has written wonderful science fiction, mystery novels, humorous articles and some formal literature and formal poetry.
Someone travelling from a poor neighborhood to a fast food joint when the work shift starts will be asked to pay more than someone going from movie theater to starbucks, because the former might not have any other transportation and can be squeezed dry.
It probably violates tons and tons of laws. Reverse engineering, decompiling, any attempt to even understand how the process works is illegal or is believed to be illegal by law enforcement. And adding terms like man in the middle etc does not help.
Yeah, it could be true, elephants don't forget anything. But they don't have to remember much, so thats probably why they remember.
You can count the neurons and talk about the absolute size of the olfactory bulb versus relative fraction of the brain volume/weight. But proof is in the pudding. We don't have famed Scotland yard detectives sniffing their way from the murder scene. But the bloodhounds do. Till I see a human who can smell the difference between his own pee and his rival's... we need to give the prize to the dogs.
What surprised me was that they brazenly used the term "embrace" in the bought and paid for shill piece. Given the history of negativity associated with Microsoft's embrace, they should have sprung for a thesaurus and used a synonym. But... since when Microsoft has been clueful?
After he agreed to pay $319,000, the man claimed he accidentally made some mistake and paid back twice. He demands the former employer check his computer systems and if they find $638,000 credit from First Magical Bank of Lalaland, dated 2017 Feb 30, confirmation number 123412341234 they must return the "excess" payment.
Zillow blindly scrapes the sales info from county web sites and deed book. I was seriously looking to buy a condo in Florida. Curiously two condo units had double the value of all other identical units. Did some digging and found someone, likely an investment company, bought two condos in one deed. Zillow has happily assigned the total price to each condo!
The switching cost from Bell telephones was nearly infinity. No one can switch to a competing no matter what they do.
Switching away from google requires just setting a different default search engine in your browser that would cost you a grand sum of zero dollars and zero cents.
Dont forget the vitameatavegemin commercials. I watched the blooper reel of the filming of that commercial. Truly a work of art. Especially that curly haired red haired model who was pitching it... But I don't think that commercial ever ran.
They could never ever figure out a way to bring down a plane with a laptop bag, if you check the bag in, instead of carrying it into the cabin. Man! Our security agencies are truly ingenious to find a chink in their armor and to exploit it fully! We need to thank our lucky stars we are under the vigilant and effective aegis of our alphabet soup agencies!
Another advantage of draft horses over tractors is that they reproduce. So by the time one wears out, the next generation is ready to go.
This defect will be fixed very soon. Once the farmers accept you cant repair you own tractors, they can be easily persuaded that the next generation of horses do not belong to them, but to the franchisee breeder who licensed the animal to them. Getting horses pregnant could be a violation of the EULA.
Microsoft has such a long lead in getting its product and long experience it is going to just crush the competition.
Just look at this beauty!. Developers are being recalled from retirement, as we speak. The floppy disks with source code has been found. And amazingly there is still a drive that can copy the files. MsDev Windows 10 has an emulator to run WinXP, and if you run WinXP MsDev in that emulator you would get the emulator for the 16 bit subsystem. Add an emulator for monochrome Hecules Graphics card and the Lotus RAMDrive support, you got something going baby!
What a lead, how many years of experience Microsoft has in getting its software into the living rooms from offices! wow! It is going to be fun, watching crush match!
strcmp() has its own vulnerability. By sending a string without the terminating '\0' you make the strcmp() function read past the buffer. So the right thing to do is switch the arguments around, so that the length is computed from a known valid string, not from the untrustworthy response string.
strncmp(response , computed_hash, strlen(computed_hash))
would be good. Or, hardwired a lower limit to avoid comparing strings less than 32 bytes.
Back in the day, when computing meant desktop, when most people used wintel boxes at work and so bought wintel machines for their homes, when being kicked out of the windows desktop etc meant certain death to the application, such moves surely helped Microsoft. Might have hurt them in the long run, but that is debatable.
In this day and age, not being able to change browser default might actually hurt Windows. It is not 1996 anymore. On the other hand, browser might not even matter anymore nor the search engines. People pick a few applications and do not seem to be "searching" or "browsing" for anything anymore.
Capital is very expensive there. Most people do not drive very long distances in cars like they do in USA or Europe. For long distance travel the trains are very inexpensive and good. A little grimy but good value for money. So the typical 150km per charge technology is good enough for most Indians.
The main issue is cost. As long as battery car costs more than gas car, it will be difficult to persuade them to buy electric. Second major issue access to charging outlets. Most people park on the street or in apartment car parking spaces. So unless price comes down a lot electric cars will not gain traction there. But, if the imminent inevitable battery technology break through comes through, then they will switch to electric in a hurry. They will find ways to have metered outlets in car parking spaces and even the streets. Third issue is the frequent power cuts and brown outs.
In fact Tesla's wall battery for residential uses will be more attractive to them. Almost all the homes have a couple of truck lead-acid batteries fully charged to run the fridge, a couple of lights, and the TV during the powercuts. Now a days I see ads for "inverter air conditioners". Air conditioners designed to run on AC power generated by the inverter from a 12 v battery. The wave form is a crudely chopped square wave, and it is brutal on the motors. But these aircon motors are designed to handle it.
It has already happened. Industrialization and automation and capital intensive industries decimated jobs, and rendered prosperous, civilized nations extremely poor. Societal norms broke down. If you want to see what happens when a very large section of the people is left without any means of livlihood, just look at India and China between 1700 and 1950.
India and China were prosperous and thriving nations accounting for 25% of the world GDP. Industrial revolution in Europe just destroyed their way of life and were left begging.
That raises an interesting question. Do Slashdot readers remember the computers that were used in their own high schools -- and did that instill any lifelong brand loyalty?
I remember the first digital computing aid I had in my elementary school. I still have it and I carry it everywhere.
I have grown quite attached to it, over the years. It was more than a computing aid. It had lot more uses and in fact
serving as a computing aid was just an after thought. It was a truly digital system, 5 on the left palm and 5 on the right.
And, yes, I do have great loyalty to it.
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It would easier to switch the memory module when it is transported or when it is tabulated. It is as simple as it can be for a machine without paper trail.
What? What difference does it make to get the agreements in writing? They will quibble, file law suits, they will demand to reopen and renegotiate. Anything singed by a city elected official holding a two year term is carved in stone, and they will go to hell and back to wrench every ounce of that written contract. Contracts written and signed by private parties with the government will be litigated, reneged, and reopened all the time. And when all else fails, they transfer all the assets to another corporation and declare bankruptcy.
Yes the machine has 64 buttons, one per candidate.
Voting data is extracted by taking a memory module out of the machine and plugging it into a tabulator or something. The memory chip is physically transported to the tabulator under seal. Police, election officials and agents accompany the chip. This was what the documentary showed way back when it was introduced.
This machine was designed by an engineer for BEL (Bharat Electronics Limited) who is very famous for his writings. He goes by the pen name Sujatha and has written wonderful science fiction, mystery novels, humorous articles and some formal literature and formal poetry.
Someone travelling from a poor neighborhood to a fast food joint when the work shift starts will be asked to pay more than someone going from movie theater to starbucks, because the former might not have any other transportation and can be squeezed dry.
It probably violates tons and tons of laws. Reverse engineering, decompiling, any attempt to even understand how the process works is illegal or is believed to be illegal by law enforcement. And adding terms like man in the middle etc does not help.
You can count the neurons and talk about the absolute size of the olfactory bulb versus relative fraction of the brain volume/weight. But proof is in the pudding. We don't have famed Scotland yard detectives sniffing their way from the murder scene. But the bloodhounds do. Till I see a human who can smell the difference between his own pee and his rival's... we need to give the prize to the dogs.
What surprised me was that they brazenly used the term "embrace" in the bought and paid for shill piece. Given the history of negativity associated with Microsoft's embrace, they should have sprung for a thesaurus and used a synonym. But... since when Microsoft has been clueful?
After he agreed to pay $319,000, the man claimed he accidentally made some mistake and paid back twice. He demands the former employer check his computer systems and if they find $638,000 credit from First Magical Bank of Lalaland, dated 2017 Feb 30, confirmation number 123412341234 they must return the "excess" payment.
Zillow blindly scrapes the sales info from county web sites and deed book. I was seriously looking to buy a condo in Florida. Curiously two condo units had double the value of all other identical units. Did some digging and found someone, likely an investment company, bought two condos in one deed. Zillow has happily assigned the total price to each condo!
Switching away from google requires just setting a different default search engine in your browser that would cost you a grand sum of zero dollars and zero cents.
Dont forget the vitameatavegemin commercials. I watched the blooper reel of the filming of that commercial. Truly a work of art. Especially that curly haired red haired model who was pitching it... But I don't think that commercial ever ran.
They could never ever figure out a way to bring down a plane with a laptop bag, if you check the bag in, instead of carrying it into the cabin. Man! Our security agencies are truly ingenious to find a chink in their armor and to exploit it fully! We need to thank our lucky stars we are under the vigilant and effective aegis of our alphabet soup agencies!
Another advantage of draft horses over tractors is that they reproduce. So by the time one wears out, the next generation is ready to go.
This defect will be fixed very soon. Once the farmers accept you cant repair you own tractors, they can be easily persuaded that the next generation of horses do not belong to them, but to the franchisee breeder who licensed the animal to them. Getting horses pregnant could be a violation of the EULA.
Just look at this beauty!. Developers are being recalled from retirement, as we speak. The floppy disks with source code has been found. And amazingly there is still a drive that can copy the files. MsDev Windows 10 has an emulator to run WinXP, and if you run WinXP MsDev in that emulator you would get the emulator for the 16 bit subsystem. Add an emulator for monochrome Hecules Graphics card and the Lotus RAMDrive support, you got something going baby!
What a lead, how many years of experience Microsoft has in getting its software into the living rooms from offices! wow! It is going to be fun, watching crush match!
strncmp(response , computed_hash, strlen(computed_hash)) would be good. Or, hardwired a lower limit to avoid comparing strings less than 32 bytes.
They are guaranteed an A no matter what they do.
In this day and age, not being able to change browser default might actually hurt Windows. It is not 1996 anymore. On the other hand, browser might not even matter anymore nor the search engines. People pick a few applications and do not seem to be "searching" or "browsing" for anything anymore.
Dont know why it was modded down. It is quite informative about how the inverter aircons work.
The main issue is cost. As long as battery car costs more than gas car, it will be difficult to persuade them to buy electric. Second major issue access to charging outlets. Most people park on the street or in apartment car parking spaces. So unless price comes down a lot electric cars will not gain traction there. But, if the imminent inevitable battery technology break through comes through, then they will switch to electric in a hurry. They will find ways to have metered outlets in car parking spaces and even the streets. Third issue is the frequent power cuts and brown outs.
In fact Tesla's wall battery for residential uses will be more attractive to them. Almost all the homes have a couple of truck lead-acid batteries fully charged to run the fridge, a couple of lights, and the TV during the powercuts. Now a days I see ads for "inverter air conditioners". Air conditioners designed to run on AC power generated by the inverter from a 12 v battery. The wave form is a crudely chopped square wave, and it is brutal on the motors. But these aircon motors are designed to handle it.
I remember reading about why COBOL so much superior to FORTRAN. And sounds exactly like the summary!
Over the next decade, more than 50% of the wealth of the venture capitalists will be eaten by people peddling AI technologies.
India and China were prosperous and thriving nations accounting for 25% of the world GDP. Industrial revolution in Europe just destroyed their way of life and were left begging.
I thought "I have grown quite attached to it, over the years" was particularly good. Well, ..
That raises an interesting question. Do Slashdot readers remember the computers that were used in their own high schools -- and did that instill any lifelong brand loyalty?
I remember the first digital computing aid I had in my elementary school. I still have it and I carry it everywhere. I have grown quite attached to it, over the years. It was more than a computing aid. It had lot more uses and in fact serving as a computing aid was just an after thought. It was a truly digital system, 5 on the left palm and 5 on the right. And, yes, I do have great loyalty to it.