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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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Saturday, July 12, 2008
iPhone ringtones flowchart - And now it’s all this
This continues to work for the iPhone 3G and iTunes 7.7
Yay!
This continues to work for the iPhone 3G and iTunes 7.7
Yay!
Sunday, July 06, 2008
I just watched the Hacking Democracy. I'm amazed at how fragile we have let our democracy become. I know that there are reforms underway to remove these insecurities, but I have two radical ideas for change:
I have never been asked to vote for anyone and I'm curious to see if this has happened at all in America in the last few decades. There is so much press and exposure that such cases would instantly be brought out into the open. I can see that in places like Zimbabwe people need secret ballots to avoid severe intimidation, but at the same time, they have such a big problem with poll fraud. Is it the reward of an industrialized nation to forgo secret ballots in favor of full disclosure? Here's my imagined public election:
Each voter is registered and votes at a polling place. This is to ensure one vote per voter like to does now. Then the vote is cast in a Internet connected machine. This can be done out in the open, or in private if there actually is the threat of intimidation at the polling place. That vote will then be counted four ways. The machine will record an encrypted vote. Two paper records will be given with unique numbers for each vote; one stays with the machine, the other with the voter. lastly, the vote is instantly published in the Internet with that person's name and vote number. That way the voter can go home and double check that his vote counted. There could even be machines set up by independent authorities outside a polling place to double check a vote.
I can also imagine a system where everyone has a GPG key that they use to encrypt their vote and only the election board can decrypt it. They could get a copy of their encrypted vote to check later. Only the voter or the election board could decrypt the vote, so the voter's indentity is sealed. This is still a secret ballot, but it would require everyone make a private GPG key. (PS. My public key is here.)
Well anyway, watch Hacking Democracy and get a little fired up.
- Perpetrate a massive hack involving botnets, memory cards, corrupt elections officials and anyone else to give the victory in a major election to a write-in candidate: Mr. Election Fraud.
- Or, marginally more positive, change the entire system so that all votes are inherently public and published for any to see. This would allow John Q. Public of Philadelphia to verify that his vote was recorded properly. It also allows any number of independent organization to count all the published votes themselves.
The key aim is to ensure the voter records a sincere choice by forestalling attempts to influence the voter by intimidation or bribery.
Secret ballot. (2008, July 5). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:48, July 6, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Secret_ballot&oldid=223651522
I have never been asked to vote for anyone and I'm curious to see if this has happened at all in America in the last few decades. There is so much press and exposure that such cases would instantly be brought out into the open. I can see that in places like Zimbabwe people need secret ballots to avoid severe intimidation, but at the same time, they have such a big problem with poll fraud. Is it the reward of an industrialized nation to forgo secret ballots in favor of full disclosure? Here's my imagined public election:
Each voter is registered and votes at a polling place. This is to ensure one vote per voter like to does now. Then the vote is cast in a Internet connected machine. This can be done out in the open, or in private if there actually is the threat of intimidation at the polling place. That vote will then be counted four ways. The machine will record an encrypted vote. Two paper records will be given with unique numbers for each vote; one stays with the machine, the other with the voter. lastly, the vote is instantly published in the Internet with that person's name and vote number. That way the voter can go home and double check that his vote counted. There could even be machines set up by independent authorities outside a polling place to double check a vote.
I can also imagine a system where everyone has a GPG key that they use to encrypt their vote and only the election board can decrypt it. They could get a copy of their encrypted vote to check later. Only the voter or the election board could decrypt the vote, so the voter's indentity is sealed. This is still a secret ballot, but it would require everyone make a private GPG key. (PS. My public key is here.)
Well anyway, watch Hacking Democracy and get a little fired up.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
I'm on the Megabus to NYC from Philly. Like Boltbus owned by Greyhound, this is CoachUSA's attempt to get in on the Chinatown bus' cheap ride deal. They don't quite get it right. After leaving 30th St. Station, we crawled through Center City for 30 minutes. Then we stopped at 5th and Market for 3 more passengers and a smoke break for our driver. I'm standing in a rest area in NJ a full one hour in to my trip. We were kicked off the bus so they could refuel it and have another smoke break. We have 2 hours of driving left, and I am an angry blogger. Thanks for the free wifi though. Yeah!
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Monday, June 02, 2008
I love that Semicolon.I just sought wikipedia for the proper usage; and now I know how it rolls.
You should learn too.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Squirrel in the house
That's the young squirrel that had fallen down the chimney space from the attic. I almost got him with Val's butterfly net, but he got out of reach.
A few weeks ago, Val and I heard some racket coming from in the wall.
Upon further investigation, we found this dude:That's the young squirrel that had fallen down the chimney space from the attic. I almost got him with Val's butterfly net, but he got out of reach.
A few weeks and a party later I com into the kitchen to see his scurry away under the counter. The next day I found my butter in this state:
That does not make me happy,
So I put together a little DIY humane trap:
If you can see, the trap is baited with tortilla chips and later peanut butter. When Little Squirrel steps on the board, it pulls out the lid support, and the block keeps it closed. Brilliant! But it didn't work.
Today, I noticed bait missing and nothing was tripped. I decided to get a little more aggressive. I went to his hideout by the window and took away the insulation. He ran out and led me on a good long chase though the basement. Eventually he went for his old getaway, the chimney, but I cut him off. He was stuck in a dead end against the wall. I got in there with the net and pinned him against it. It took a little persuasion to get him to fall into the net, but it was done.
He's a bit hard to see, but there's the squirrel seeing the light of day for the first time in weeks. And here he is running away
Goodbye Squirrel! It was fun, but don't come back!
Monday, May 26, 2008
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
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Friday, May 23, 2008
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Phrases that make me uncomfortable:
Amway Christian Fellowship
Multi-level marketing
downline
Ponzi scheme
Isagenix
"make money, quickly and easily"
What do you say to a family member thats asks you to be in a pyramid scheme?
Amway Christian Fellowship
Multi-level marketing
downline
Ponzi scheme
Isagenix
"make money, quickly and easily"
What do you say to a family member thats asks you to be in a pyramid scheme?
Saturday, May 10, 2008
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