Shelby’s got batteries again. My sis gave him to me a while ago, he’s a little robotic shell who looks like he’d be at home on the bottom of the ocean, and I wrote a really horrible essay about him, but I find that given some time, I rather love him.
So thanks, sis.
Clockin’ in.. it’s 8:49a by my computer clock, or 10:32 by the atomic..
I have this problem with setting clocks.. sooner or later, I get frustrated by the clock, because I feel like it’s turning into my enemy, and then I just start aggressively not caring about time. This, I realize, must frustrate incredibly some of my adult friends, but it’s part of how I stay sane.
Set up the old analog scope here in the office.. which is still a disaster on the level that makes me want to sob.. Man, I feel like some ice cream or somethin’.. well, let’s load some tunes up on the changer anyway..
web page to create:
My own personal feelings about earth, the best parts..
It’s day 5. Things look better. Yesterday I hung out with Rich, danced, watched him work, parked and unparked the fiero with him, danced, listened to music, and rode the ferry.. love that boat.
Love ya all.
Music: U.S.E. – Night Shift
It’s day 5. Things look better. Yesterday I hung out with Rich, danced, watched him work, parked and unparked the fiero with him, danced, listened to music, and rode the ferry.. love that boat.
Love ya all.
Music: U.S.E. – Night Shift
This is.. I wish I knew which day # it was. I’m going to have to start logging my pills using something a little more serious than ‘Sheer’s memory’. Livejournal might not be a bad idea.. man, sometimes it scares me trusting my journal to someone else, but, really, it’s not unreasonable to do a little teamwork in creation of good tools. Many hands make light work.
My search queue contains:
Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time. That one makes me cry a whole lot. Then I go for the eyedrops.
All the others are mysteeriously (um, yah) .. they’re out there.
Because I’m determined to do 365 days clean & sober, ‘for real this time’.. (I made a promise with *. That’s probably one I don’t want to try breaking. * can, well, maybe help take away my fear that I’ll lose my home.).. I’m going to count down the days on my livejournal. Each day I will contact one of my RL friends, if possible meeting them in person. This will help me reestablish my time sense and other neural connections, and help me heal in ways that are nontechnical. Maybe not even describable. Who knows. I hurt myself badly this time.
I am officially on drugs. Or perhaps that should be on official drugs.
After a visit to a shrink, I’ve been prescribed a circadian rhythm regulator (which may explain why I’m awake at 9:30a) and a mood stabalizer. We’ll see if either or both improve things over the long run.
So ignore my excessively dramatic and annoying journal entries of recent.
S.
The problem we have in building a honest and reliable voting network is that we’ve got a couple of opposing goals.
First of all, we’d really like to be able to test that every single vote arrived in it’s appropriate bucket, and no single user voted more than once. These things would seem, on the surface, to require some form of good authentication and user-tagging.
But on the other hand, we really want users to feel free to vote their concience, without worrying that other people might find out what they’ve voted. This would seem to require a completely anonymous system.
Then there’s the matter of tallying the votes. Ideally, we would like each vote to be sent several places for tallying, rather than tallied at one place, and the results of the tallies compared.
I really think that, especially given that this is new technology that will by its very nature be buggy, and in some sense at least the fate of the world rests on the results of this system (one could argue that that’s true of any system because everything is so interconnected, but I think in this case it’s more true than in most) we need the ability to verify our votes after they have been posted. This will require us to have some way to authenticate ourselves to the network – I’m thinking something like a ATM card, issued to every voter, with their name and SSN encoded on it. It could probably even just be a magstripe on a conventional ID like a drivers license.
Anyway, some completely anonymous (as far as any outside snoop could see) token should be either assigned to or generated out of the name and SSN, and attached to the ‘envalope’ of the ballot. That way the user could go home and with their web browser, hit up www.whatdidIvote.gov and verify that their vote was in fact sitting there, and had been counted.
Also, because this is completely new technology, I think it’s important that it be open-source. The open-source community would probably rally around a project to build a voting machine network that was honest using nothing but PCs, and because it was open-source it would be possible to verify that it had not been coded to favor any particular canidate in any way.
[At the moment, the situation we have is that the vice president of the u.s. has stock in the government-favored electronic voting machine company Diebold.. if anyone knows of something that smells more of conflict-of-interest than that, please don’t tell me about it because I’m really afraid to know]
Bleh. Must go shower. More later.