http://lmgtfy.com/?q=underground+house

As a question for the geeks and engineers of the community - how truly difficult is it to make one of these voting machines safe for use? Is there something I'm missing that would make it difficult to have a kiosk with an imaged system that's been certified, locked down, and can print out results, without it being easy to tamper with or easy to fudge the numbers of? It seems like this is something that engineers could have designed to be foolproof by now, and at a fraction of the budget. How truly complex is the problem they're trying to solve?

It's fucking trivial.

Server locked in a cage in the corner of the room. Boots off a DVD. An image of the DVD is released weeks before, and people are encouraged to DL it and check out the code. Day of, anyone interested shows up with a burned copy of the DVD. A random burned copy is selected, and compared (hash-wise) to the 'official' copy. Then the server is booted off the burned copy. Thus, no cheating with the code. (The code is bone-dead simple, anyway. Just add 1 to the person the voter votes for.)

Clients are a simple podium- touchscreen at the top with a locked steel box near the bottom with a nano-sized MB in it. They boot over the network from the server. Privacy curtains only come down to the voters waist, so any attempt to bend over and access the MB would be obvious.

The printer used a huge roll of dual-layer receipt paper (like cash registers used to use years ago). Both layers are printed on at the same time by the same mechanical process, so there's no way they can differ. Once the voter confirms their choice onscreen, a door in the printer opens to reveal the receipt (under glass). The voter then has a chance to read it and confirm it matches what they voted for. Once they confirm, the 'top' copy spits out as a receipt, and the 'bottom' copy remain in the printer as a 'journal' copy. If a recall happens (which can be upon request, or randomly), they can take the journal spools and run them past a barcode reader (it prints the votes in English and in a barcode format), which tallies them up.

The receipt the voter gets has only the vote(s), the time to the nearest minute or so, and the voting machine number. Nothing else. Nothing that can link the receipt to the voter, or vice versa, so there can be no selling of votes- who would buy something that cannot be proven? After all, you could have picked that receipt off the floor, or out of the trash. No one would pay for that.

THERE. The outlines of a simple, foolproof electronic voting system.

Dammit. That was supposed to be:

Aren't we talking about public airports here? My understanding is there is no expectation of privacy in public places

There's just a little difference between 'being overheard while in public', and 'having all your conversations recorded and archived for future use by the State'. If you can't see it....

Aren't we talking about public airports here? My understanding is there is no expectation of privacy in public places

There's just a little difference between 'being overheard while in public', and 'having all your conversations recorded and archived for future use by the State'. If you can't see it....

I'll ask you this question, as I've never been able to get a satisfactory answer from anyone else who claims bad cops are a 'small percentile':

If bad cops are a tiny percentage (let's say 1% for the purpose of this argument) of all cops, then why don't the 'good' cops, who vastly outnumber the 'bad' cops simply have a little chat with the 'bad' cops?

"Hey, Joe? I and my 98 pals have noticed you are breaking the law and departmental policies. And we don't like it. You're giving all of us a bad name. Straighten up, or we'll start documenting the shit you do, and get your ass fired and/or in jail."

  And yet, they don't stand up to them. Almost like they were afraid of the 'bad' cops. But that can't be, if the bad cops are actually a tiny, tiny percentage. On the other hand, if 'bad' cops were the majority, then the few 'good' cops would be afraid of them, and not do anything. But, you claim 'bad' cops are a small percentile. Hmm.

Well, can I pay "up to" the price they want to charge? It's only fair- I get "up to" a certain speed, they get "up to" a certain amount of money.

There are these things called back-up lights....

Hey turns out that video was edited too. The unedited video shows blood on the back of his head

[citation needed]

I've only seen a 'higher resolution' copy of that video, and that was 'sharpened' and the contrast screwed with. hell, if you 'adjust' it enough, you can 'discover' whatever 'evidence' you want to.

AT&T isn't really advertising falsely, the data is unlimited. The speeds are limited.

So, "unlimited" data at 1 bit per month sound good to you? or would you consider that... limiting?

United Declaration on Human Rights is silent on the issue of travel.

Um...

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Article 13.

        (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
        (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Using "correct horse battery staple" is stronger in the real world because people can pick random common words, have a decently high level of entropy, but still remember the passphrase.

But people WON'T pick 'random' words. They'll look at their desk and use "stapler paper pen paperclip" or look around their office and use "filecabinet desk chair window". Maybe geeks will use "slashdot lotr SteveJobs wifi" or gamers will use "WOW Halo Gears COD". And so on.

So it's only 48 seasons then?

Star Trek TOS: 3 seasons
Star Trek TNG: 7 seasons
Star Trek DS9: 7 seasons
Star Trek VOY: 7 seasons
Star Trek ENT: 4 seasons
Babylon 5: 5 seasons

That's 33 seasons right there. And what self respecting geek wouldn't have those?

The number of data points shown is absurdly low, and includes no buoys.

::ahem::

"I took a look at all the observations over Virgina, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York. Not one National Weather Service or FAA observation location, not one buoy observations, none reach the requisite wind speed. Most were not even close."

"Or buoy 36, south of Cape Hatteras over the water...only got to 49 kt there."

If we just forced the companies to collect tax for the state that the product is shipped to, the tax that is already in place will be enforced.

Or a lot of mail drops will open in places with no/low taxes. they sign for your package, slap a new label on it and send it to you. You pay the shipping cost, but no tax. Might work for high-value items.