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Comment: Re:Who, honestly, thinks e-voting is a good idea? (Score 1) 378

by Duhavid (#39959031) Attached to: Overheated Voting Machine Cast Its Own Votes

Sheesh yourself, thoughtless one.

Who gets the receipt?

The voter? Vote coercion/buying is enabled. You know "vote for X, or we beat you silly". Or "vote for X, we will give you $1000.00".
The election officials? "I don't like how he voted, oops, I lost it". Not to mention they have no business knowing.
The machine? You have no idea if the paper tape or whatever really marked as you requested, unless they show you. And even if they do that, how do you know they don't mark another on the tape after each "wrong" vote?

There is no need for a fast vote tally. There is a need for a correct vote tally. Correct being how the voters really voted.

Comment: Re:Nice idea... Won't happen. (Score 1) 205

by Duhavid (#39935587) Attached to: The Patent Mafia and What You Can Do To Break It Up

..."countersuit by B for the same Billion should be considered reasonable and what a court should default to unless some pretty unusual circumstances are involved..."

They would then just spin up a small business, sell the patent to them, fund them with just enough to make it thru the trial. Lose? Nothing lost, small company defaults. Win? Small business merges/is squired by original company.

Facebook

Child Porn Photos Traded On Facebook In Plain Sight

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An anonymous reader writes "Facebook has reportedly become a hub for pedophiles to trade graphic photographs. Child pornography is heavily being shared by predators on the social network. Facebook is the world’s largest photo-sharing website: the service saw 300 million photos uploaded daily in the three months ended December 31, 2011. This is because it’s the world’s most popular social network, with 901 million monthly active users as of March 31, 2012. Facebook thus has to work hard to stop questionable content, everything from sick baby scams to pornography and violence."
Google

Oracle v Google: verdict reached->

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walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes "Google won everything but the one issue that the judge has to decide anyway, the API SSO issue. The jury found, as they had been instructed to assume for the purposes of deliberation, that APIs can be copyrighted, the structure, sequence and arrangement of APIs, but that is by no means established. The same question, in a b) section, asked if fair use excused any infringement if found, and the jury couldn't resolve that issue. But the judge has to decide whether or not that is true, that APIs can be protected by copyright. That comes later this month. Meanwhile, Oracle prevailed only on 9 lines of code that Google admitted prior to trial to have included by mistake and then removed from current Android. Oracle's own expert, the judge pointed out in court, valued those 9 lines of code at zero. This is 9 lines out of millions. So that means, if we are looking at damages, that so far Oracle has won nothing. There is no liability. You can't have infringement without considering fair use, Google asserts, and there will be briefing on that. Somebody has to decide that fair use issue. And then the judge has to decide about the API copyrightability issue. If he rules that APIs can't be copyrighted, as the EU Court of Justice just ruled, then fair use is moot. And Oracle takes nothing at all from the copyright phase of this litigation, and this was heralded far and wide by Oracle people as the big ticket item, if you recall."
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Oracle

Heavyweights debate Oracle vs. SQL Server->

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cramco
cramco writes "Two IT heavyweights will square off in a webinar that tackles one of the biggest SQL questions of our time: How do Oracle heap tables and SQL Server clustered indexes measure up? The webinar will be held on Thursday, June 7, at 5 p.m. CEST (4 p.m. BST, 11 a.m. EDT, 10 a.m. CDT, 9 a.m. MDT and 8 a.m. PDT).

In the heap table corner is Jonathan Lewis (OakTable Network, Oracle ACE Director), while in the cluster index corner is Grant Fritchey (Microsoft SQL Server MVP). Can one of them deliver a knockout punch? Will one of them throw in the towel? Or will it be decided by points and need a rematch?"
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NASA

Air Force offers 111 airmen for NASA astronaut duty->

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coondoggie writes "In a classic case of many being called but few actually chosen, the Air Force today said nominated 111 airmen to become NASA astronauts. Candidates selected for the 2012 NASA Astronaut Candidate Program will be assigned to the to the Johnson Space Center astronaut office for a one-year candidacy program. They will enter the basic astronaut training program, contributing to the development of new NASA launch vehicles and spacecraft..."
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