Re: [silk] A heartfelt compliment

2010-12-18 Thread Zainab Bawa
> And...I've never seen you losing your cool over even *heated *disagreement with your views. > I guess you must give it to the Bhut Jalokia for this. It probably consumes all the heat in Udhay :P -- Zainab Bawa Ph.D. Student and Independent Researcher http://writerruns.wordpress.com/ ... ambli

Re: [silk] The Joy of Growing Old

2010-12-18 Thread Dave Long
People, studies show, behave differently at different ages. Older people have fewer rows and come up with better solutions to conflict. They are better at controlling their emotions, better at accepting misfortune and less prone to anger. In one study, for instance, subjects were asked to l

Re: [silk] US prof behind EVM study deported on arrival

2010-12-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:53:37AM +0530, Pranesh Prakash wrote: > Most of the problems discussed are very design-dependent. The e-voting The most daming objections are meta-level, and not design-dependent. > machines used in India, for instance, aren't touch-screen based. Not relevant. > Fav

Re: [silk] US prof behind EVM study deported on arrival

2010-12-18 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On Saturday 18 December 2010 11:26 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > No, electronic voting is dead for fundamental reasons. It doesn't matter > how secure or insecure the architecture is. Read what Schneier has to > say about it. He's usually right on the money. I've almost never found myself disagreeing w

Re: [silk] US prof behind EVM study deported on arrival

2010-12-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:26:21PM +0530, Pranesh Prakash wrote: > 1. Not all EVMs are created equal, and each design must be evaluated on > its own merit. No, electronic voting is dead for fundamental reasons. It doesn't matter how secure or insecure the architecture is. Read what Schneier has t

Re: [silk] US prof behind EVM study deported on arrival

2010-12-18 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On Saturday 18 December 2010 05:24 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Everybody knows that voting machines are dead, and anyone > who pushes them should be regarded with extreme suspiction, > right? (Presuming you mean "electronic voting machines",) I completely disagree. Two points: 1. Not all EVMs are c

[silk] The Joy of Growing Old - 0r Why Life Begins at 46 - The Economist Cover Dec 18th

2010-12-18 Thread naresh v
http://www.economist.com/node/17722567?Story_ID=17722567 > > >Good news for a lot of us!!! > > > > >V 'Naresh' Narasimhan > >>> >>> The U-bend of life >>>Why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older >>>Age and happiness >>> >>>ASK people how they feel about getting older, and t

Re: [silk] US prof behind EVM study deported on arrival

2010-12-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 08:26:11AM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Nikhil Mehra > wrote: > > I must add though that most independent experts I've spoken to truly believe > > that these machines are completely tamper proof. > > Nothing is completely tamperproof. > >

Re: [silk] Diaspora

2010-12-18 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 18 December 2010 12:19, Biju Chacko wrote: > On Thursday, December 16, 2010, Ashwin Kumar wrote: > > > it's weird that you need to type out the entire handle with @joindiaspora > to search for a person. > > > > > Diaspora is supposed to be a distributed social networking service. If > you dow

Re: [silk] US prof behind EVM study deported on arrival

2010-12-18 Thread Nikhil Mehra
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Biju Chacko wrote: > > Nothing is completely tamperproof. > > A more pertinent question is "how easy is it to tamper with them under > normal field conditions?" Agreed. That's precisely why the EC's stand raises questions. Why can't they come clean? Why do they