On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
Paper is self-documenting. It creates its own documentation trail.
Paper is offline, so it can't be scrambled. Paper is distributed
over multiple independant physically securable compartments.
People understand sealed urns,
http://bit.ly/gx7cDA
An empty Washington Monument would serve as a constant reminder to
those on Capitol Hill that they are afraid of the terrorists and what
they could do. They're afraid that by speaking honestly about the
impossibility of attaining absolute security or the inevitability of
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:54:09AM +0300, underscore wrote:
All the above could be true ... but the problem in most developing
countries is the word people -- who have greater involvement in a
paper based process ... there are enough documented rigged elections
Technology doesn't help with
This is a good idea but doesn't really go far enough. They need to recover
the outside of the monument in some reflective material so they can project
ads on the side. After a generation people will think of this as large HD TV
and will lose its iconic status. It can then be safely moved to
On Monday 20 December 2010 07:58 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
People who design such systems can attack them. And do it so cleverly,
you won't realize until the entire vote is stolen. And you won't even
be able to prove it's been stolen.
Eugen, can you imagine a system that is vulnerable to
On Monday 20 December 2010 10:48 AM, J. Alfred Prufrock wrote:
I've run one election with EVMs and been an observer in 3 more.
It would be good to have views from JAP, Eugen, and others on each of
the attacks demonstrated in Hari K. Prasad, et al., 'Security Analysis
of India’s Electronic
An interesting speculation from Charlie Stross (who needs to be on silk)
- I've seen versions of this idea before, but this is probably the best
articulated.
excerpted from
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/its-made-out-of-meat.html
Spam is everywhere.
About 92-95% of all
For newer members: the most important rule on silklist is assume
goodwill. Here's one reason why that makes sense.
Udhay
http://ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=8063
Oct. 27, 2010
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:27:52PM +0530, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
Eugen, can you imagine a system that is vulnerable to (undetectable)
attack, but because of (external, non-software) processes in place, is
Why having an electronic system in place, then, if you're already
using non-software
What I've understood of the discussion so far -
1 - EVMs are not perfect
2 - therefore electoral systems using EVMs are not perfect
3 - systems NOT using EVMs are not perfect either; it is a matter of testing
/ perception / context as to which system is closer to perfection
I know this is
This is a fascinating discussion, and Yet Another Reason I Am Grateful
that Udhay Invited Me to Join Silklist.
On 12/20/10 6:28 AM December 20, 2010, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:54:09AM +0300, underscore wrote:
If you have a well audit sealed electronic voting box
Udhay Shankar N [20/12/10 22:59 +0530]:
An interesting speculation from Charlie Stross (who needs to be on silk)
- I've seen versions of this idea before, but this is probably the best
articulated.
I would love it, if AI was the only way spam was filtered :)
Interesting idea though, thank you.
From a journo friend of mine. Any suggestions?
hope all is well. so far so good here.
would you know anyone in bangalore who read books only on kindle,
i-pad, etc? it's for an article.
Udhay
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
From a journo friend of mine. Any suggestions?
hope all is well. so far so good here.
would you know anyone in bangalore who read books only on kindle,
i-pad, etc? it's for an article.
The 'only on' clause is
Udhay Shankar N [21/12/10 08:57 +0530]:
From a journo friend of mine. Any suggestions?
hope all is well. so far so good here.
would you know anyone in bangalore who read books only on kindle,
i-pad, etc? it's for an article.
I dont shun regular books and got a closet full of them.
But yes
On 21-Dec-10 3:31 AM, Heather Madrone wrote:
This is a fascinating discussion, and Yet Another Reason I Am Grateful
that Udhay Invited Me to Join Silklist.
I am finding it fascinating too - not least because of the geographical
distribution of the participants in this thread. I can see
I've been 80-20 in favour of the Kindle for the better part of this year.
That's a problem for me because I do have a rather large stash of unread
deadtrees on my shelf (which is almost completely out of space). Also, I do
most of my reading on my commute to work, and the Kindle is way better in
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.comwrote:
I can see myself giving up printed books for good, once the inventory and
pricing of e-books catch up with my expectations.
That last part of the sentence, after the comma
anyone at all who is *exclusively* an
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
From a journo friend of mine. Any suggestions?
hope all is well. so far so good here.
would you know anyone in bangalore who read books only on kindle,
i-pad, etc? it's for an article.
I read on the Kindle, but I'm
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:45 PM, gabin kattukaran gkattuka...@gmail.comwrote:
I have a similar experience. Have been reading on electronic devices for
several years but don't see it completely replacing the dead tree
collection. I'm sure I still prefer paper for the books that I want to hold
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