The Minister agrees, too:(:-))
The former head of the OPP at the time of the G8 in Toronto is Julian Fantino. He is now Minister of Veterans Affairs in the government that so objects to personal privacy, so I'm not surprised at the OPP position.
The presumption is that the results are always right, and if they don't match the pre-election polling, its the polling that must be wrong, as opposed to the election results.
Brad Friedman proceeds to document the well known voter suppression techniques of photo voter ID requirements and threatening robo calls. He also documents cases where new voter registrations were never entered into the system, shortages of paper ballots in places that use paper ballots, and of course, the well known problems with touch screen voting machines.
Our ballot was an 8 1/2 by 11" sheet, mostly covered with cantidates for mayor. The number of candidates and seats are limited only by the paper and font size (;-)) It's not perfect, but it does scale.
Personally I'd like to draw lots for who gets stuck with dog catcher.
p=reject is a extremely strict check: if it doesn't pass, the email service drops it. It is only for transactional business mail, and should never be applied to mailing-list mail. Ask the IETF authors.
Yahoo, AOL and friends were under severe pressure to "do something, anything". They did do something, it's just that
A week or so later the spam had proper signatures.
These mechanisms are only valid for "transactional" business email, where business correspondents need the email credibly labelled by the sending company. It's OK for stuff where you establish who to talk to by mail, telephone or wild-ass-guess, and make deals based on that lebel of security.
It's utterly inappropriate for mailing lists, remailers, discussion groups or material gatewayted between email and usenet or web services. The workaround are lies, told to convince the anti-spam functions of DKIM et all to let it through.
About a week after DKIM broke all the IETF and ISOC lists, the spammers were signing their spam so as to be deliverable once more. I was on the ISOC list at the time, and some unkind words got said about Yahoos.
We saw this happening in Canada some years back (Thanks, Drew!) with the government of the day proposing ISPs being turned into attractive targets for anyone wanting to impersonate people ("identity theft").
Worse, the kind of processing required to extract the metadata requires a machine the cost of one's main router, so people proposed ISPs should "just spool everything to disk" for a few days.
The next thought was to call for a longer retention period...
--dave
[It didn't pass, somewhat miraculously]
You know that you don't have to just add useless and uninteresting words to something that already had substance, right? At least borrow some quotes from Socrates' Dialogues to spice things up: There is admirable truth in that. That is not to be denied. That appears to be true. All this seems to flow necessarily out of our previous admissions. I think that what you say is entirely true. That, replied Cebes, is quite my notion. To that we are quite agreed. By all means. I entirely agree and go along with you in that. I quite understand you. I shall still say that you are the Daedalus who sets arguments in motion; not I, certainly, but you make them move or go round, for they would never have stirred, as far as I am concerned. If you're going to say _nothing_, at least be interesting about it, post anonymously, or risk looking more clueless / foolish. This is why the moderation system is in place, and mods typically don't listen to inanities like "Well said" when deciding on what to spend their points.
1. I'm too busy to sit around thinking up additional words to throw in so I can score "mod" points
2. The people I like on Slashdot are too busy to read a bunch of additional words I only threw in so I can score "mod" points
3. It's not in my nature to waste words, or to waste time
If other posts here on Slashdot are any indication, "Mr. Councilman" is just as likely to lose political points by supporting the poor.
Actually this particular councilman represents an extremely high-rent district--Manhattan's upper east side. I doubt there are many wealthier neighborhoods in the world. He's not doing this to 'score points', he's doing it to do the right thing.
It is my opinion that poverty is partially systemic. Our economic system depends on there being a pool of available workers (unemployed and underemployed). So as long as there is capitalism and a functioning free market, there will always be poor people. That being the case, we have a responsibility to make sure the basic needs of everyone are met. Increasingly in order to succeed in school and in life, Internet access isn't really a luxury.
Well said
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
