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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kazan on September 05, 2006, 11:54:39 am

Title: Priceless
Post by: Kazan on September 05, 2006, 11:54:39 am
Screw Driver, Allen Wrench and pliers? $10
Memory Card? $25
Being able to untraceably steal an election? Priceless
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Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Nuke on September 06, 2006, 12:09:37 am
i find it ironic, the voting machines are a libral invention. the conservatives were happy using punchcards :D
Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Turambar on September 06, 2006, 12:13:42 am
thats what they get for allowing either the lowest bidder or the friend of the guy who headed the committee make the machines
Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Descenterace on September 06, 2006, 03:28:20 am
Committee politics always leads to stuff like this.

Politics is politics is politics: it ****s up EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE.
Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Kazan on September 06, 2006, 06:48:17 am
politics isn't at fault for the problems in evoting machines - the manufacturers are
Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 06, 2006, 06:52:38 am
Oh no !!  A metal slide......... 
Heaven forbid "password access" on the memory card.  :rolleyes:

Some people are 'tards.
Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: WMCoolmon on September 06, 2006, 11:56:52 pm
politics isn't at fault for the problems in evoting machines - the manufacturers are

Yes and no. The manufacturers could have made them more secure, but the voting machines should also not have ever been in a situation to allow confidential access to the voting data (before or after the election).

It should be common sense by now that nothing is uncrackable, especially something as pervasive and popular and controversial as this. If nobody understood this and individuals were actually allowed to walk off with machines and the data, it really was a political issue - either in the lack of precautions put in place by whoever was in charge, or a lack of appointing someone with the proper experience in the first place.
Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Mefustae on September 07, 2006, 01:09:18 am
If nobody understood this and individuals were actually allowed to walk off with machines and the data, it really was a political issue - either in the lack of precautions put in place by whoever was in charge, or a lack of appointing someone with the proper experience in the first place.
...Or the right people were payed off.
Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 07, 2006, 01:54:50 am
That's an extension of the precautions problem, really.
Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Descenterace on September 07, 2006, 04:41:56 am
politics isn't at fault for the problems in evoting machines - the manufacturers are

No, the designers are.

Guess what? These things were probably designed-by-committee!

:p
Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: Kazan on September 07, 2006, 08:51:19 am
Guess what? These things were probably designed-by-committee!

they weren'
Title: Re: Priceless
Post by: aldo_14 on September 07, 2006, 09:00:25 am
Oh no!  He's been abducted before finishing!

I think quite frequently - especially with large companies - software is designed-by-committee.  Usually such that it ends up meeting absolutely no-ones needs.  Certainly it's that way in my experience.....