Yes, because if each user paid for each connection from his computer to another computer, it would be far more expensive than pooling resources and wiring everyone up and routing traffic. It's the same reason I don't have a road only I own and use to go to work, another to go to the store, etc. Roads are pooled and funded differently than a private ISP but the concept is similar.
Which is a very different thing than government-issued IDs being illegal. Without free, government-issued IDs, voter-ID laws are unfair and the reason I posted my original statement: "The one big problem is that we are not given free government-issued IDs that I am aware of." I did not say why we don't have free, government-issued IDs (I was aware of the reason). I only meant to say that because we don't, voter ID laws are all terribly unfair.
Good God, do these people attended school ? It's depressing to hear such stupid statements.
No kidding!
Yeah no shit man. I was typing too fast and an error is always excusable.
It would be far more excusable if Slashdot did not give you a preview of your comment before you commit it. Type as fast as you want, but read what you wrote slower. You'll find your error rate reduced.
There is no country that engages in so much propaganda and spying on monumental levels as the U.S; if it comes out of the mouth of the U.S government, be skeptical.
You should travel the world more.
Depends on what you mean by large. Amazon does offer a wide variety of EC2 machines running Windows but I am unsure how large of a pie Windows EC2 instances take away from the non-Windows EC2 instances.
... The one big problem is that we are not given free government-issued IDs that I am aware of.
Government issued IDs are illegal, in the USA. For good reason...
So, my US passport is illegal?!
Fair enough, but you are but one user of the service and we should probably look at why they have their policy from their perspective rather than one user's.
Yeah, I understand the paper system...I read about that. What I had no information about was electronic voting machines you used in places. Sounds like the system fails transparency then.
There's more than just text and you forgot to include transmission, replication, off-site backups and updates. I'm not saying it's undoable, but it does take resources and those resources are donated to the public good so limitations are present.
Yeah, I tried Wikipedia. Uploaded things like rare book covers. 100% public domain stuff. Had them deleted. Computer storage is infinite and free, but the powers that be at Wikipedia delete anything and everything that anyone contributes.
Computer storage is not free and infinite. If they delete anything and everything that anyone contributed, it would be an empty site, and it's not.
>"...your foundational value is that 'every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge'"...
Hah. If I could only count the number of factually correct pages that have disappeared over the years for failure to be "relevant" or "sufficiently important" or whatever metric they use, I'd be counting pretty damn high. Care about a regionally famous indie band from the mid 90's to the point that you'll carefully assemble what little information is out there about them? Too bad, gone in a blink, as if archive.org were complete and searchable for that stuff.
I've just never understood why something true should be excluded there.
While it would be nice to have information about everything, those that are paying the bills for storage, replication and transmission have decided that there has to be a line somewhere or the data set gets too large. While I wish there were no line I do understand why one might exist.
Ah, so your boss could demand your receipt, and fire you if you don't provide it. Then he'll know how you voted. Or will it only tell you whether it was counted, not how? So the government can track your vote, but nobody else. And you can't tell whether your vote was counted the way you intended.
The receipt will tell you if your vote was accepted. If there was a problem they contact you. All it proves is that you tore it off the ballot. One could use it to verify if you voted or not if they had it. It does not tell you how you voted.
It's difficult to track if one individual vote was counted correctly, but the counting room is open to the public and anyone can observe the counters taking ballots and adding to the tallies.
How is their electronic voting system transparent? I don't know much about it.
Which election system does not fail at least one of those?
And how do you know that your vote was received and accurately counted?
To verify your vote was received: That would depend on where you live. In my county you go to https://info.kingcounty.gov/el... and check if they received your ballot and whether your signature passed verification.
To verify your vote was accurately counted: You stand in the room where they are looking at each ballot and adding to the tally for each race. If you do not wish to spend two weeks standing in said room while they count the ballots you may send a representative on your behalf. In fact, in my county, there are always many interested citizens watching the process as the elections here are observable by the public.
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