Unfortunately, look at the percentage of the country that is a paycheck away from missing bills.
Saying "lol suckers" is easy when $1500 won't make a difference.
Yep, and it's like cell phones in that after a point it doesn't even matter if your car isn't vulnerable, if the car driving toward you in the other lane is.
Even without active steering, you can absolutely steer by selective braking. Not well, but enough to steer you into oncoming traffic.
Ditto, "cruise control" is really only a software feature now in most cars. The underlying software throttle control is there regardless.
The main key now is "is it airgapped". Which less and less are nowadays for cost/regulatory reasons. (Unintended consequences... regulate fuel efficiency and suddenly you need complex controllers and to save weight. And removing an airgap saves weight, generally speaking...)
private voting with signed ballots.
Sorry, I think I'm missing something.
multiple copies, one turned in, and one kept (like a receipt) by each voter
Either a) the copies aren't checked against each other, and this isn't helpful, or b) they are checked against each other, and people know who you voted for. No?
I mean, stickies.
But yes.
The key is "what is the minimum number of voters that have to conspire to turn an election".
Paper is much better for that than almost everything else.
A network-connected desktop computer stack running commercial off-the-shelf software? Ha.
Actually, ballots should be signed and have multiple copies, one turned in, and one kept (like a receipt) by each voter. It works for financial transactions...
Unfortunately, that lacks deniability, which is rather critical to prevent coercion.
Unfortunately, such systems lack deniability, which is rather critical to prevent coercion.
Please elaborate. Do you mean as in "pay $X to make a fraud claim"? Or "if you make a fraud claim and it's not found legitimate you pay $X"?
why don't you buy a new Car? Then you will feel better.
Consumerism in a nutshell.
Even aside from the coercion issue, how do you prevent a DOS attack?
Namely, what happens when people decide "we will scream fraud unless we're winning"?
Exactly this.
Note that deniable authentication, perhaps surprisingly, is possible... but is nowhere near as simple.
Wow that's a lot of things to go wrong.
And making it harder and harder to create new accounts is a classic way to make shadowbanning/brigading/etc more effective.
Syntactically valid Python, and mostly pep8 compliant (aside from line-length, looks like... which many people disable).
Why is everyone saying the site is down? If you can go to YT, the site is up. You can't watch video's but the site itself is up. When this site goes down, can you connect to it? NOOOOOO
You're saying that an airport is operational even though their runways are all closed.
"You can go to the airport, the airport is operational. You can't take off or land but you can visit the terminal. When the airport closes, can you visit the terminal? NOOOOOO"
We'll never truly know either way.
They'll all be designed "accidentally" with a single point of failure, and that will coincidentally go down.
It'll be a "glitch" like everything else.
Yep, YT is down.
redirector.googlevideo.com is returning a 502.
Assuming they were rigged, they'd be idiots to not put in a time limitation.
"if date > Nov 9th: delete_exploit()".
(Sure, you can set the clock back... which does absolutely nothing if it has already wiped itself.)
Really though, I wouldn't be looking at coding too hard. You'd have to be a bit of an idiot to put the rigging there. (Admittedly, there are some very stupid criminals out there.)
AFAICT they are using mostly off-the-shelf hardware and software. What OS version are they running on their frontend? Android in kiosk mode? Any known exploits or zero-days? USB descriptor parsing and network discovery are two classics...
What protocol are they using for communication? TCP over ethernet or somesuch? Is it encrypted on the link? Authenticated at least?
Etc.
It's far less obvious to leave a vendor exploit unpatched than to have your application code have a blatent issue.
Nah, Ralph ain't self-aware.
The timing was certainly "interesting" on that one.
Also, # / ## / ### / etc at the start of a line to do headings / subheadings / etc.
Heading
Subheading
etc.
\ before a character to stop it from being interpreted as a special character, if you don't want that from happening. So e.g.
#NotAHeading
##NotASubheading
Which I typed as
\#NotAHeading
\#\#NotASubheading
(...which I typed as \\\#NotAHeading. And so on and so forth.)
Two spaces at the end of a line also works as a paragraph break.
You're assuming that the issue is in the code, and not e.g. some zero-day that someone "conveniently" forgot to disclose.
...Huh.
Using the max and distance statistics given here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benford%27s_law&oldid=984768486#Statistical_tests [note: if you dig through you'll occasionally see an alternative formulation that multiplies by sqrt(N) - it's the same thing, just moving the N inside/outside the sqrt.]
By distance: Biden in MI and Biden in GA both hit the p<0.10 confidence level, nothing else does. [1.30 and 1.29, respectively]. That being said, p<0.10 is not saying much.
By max: Biden in MI, Biden in GA, and Trump in PA all hit the p<0.05 confidence level [1.10, 1.03, 1.08, respectively.]
(Note: don't treat these as two independent statistical tests. They measure very similar things...)
That all being said, we're comparing, what, 14 data points? So imagine we rolled 14d20 and got (at least) three ones... which is about a 3% chance if I've got my math correct, even if the dice are all fair.
So... suggestive, but not more than that on its own. (..have I mentioned how refreshing it is to be somewhere where I can say something not exactly aligned with the narrative and not be shunned for life?)
Key point: on its own. Combined with other things, that's a different matter.
Yep. It's weird how many people simultaneously talk about exciting new discoveries in their field and completely decry that there could be discoveries in other fields.