Posts by Paul Campbell
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People just call it "the city" ... even after I moved to Berkeley it was just "the city"
"The 415" is so LA ... and well we hate them ....
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Hard News: The non-binary council, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
here's a Sanfran ballot
As a past resident I have to point out that only tourists call it "sanfran" or "frisco" ... it grates
Remember that in that ballot they're not trying to elect 11 councilors for one ward
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Hard News: The non-binary council, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Also online voting could prevent a lot of the invalid votes or badly completed votes (skipping a number or doubling up in STV). I ranked 37 city council candidates a few weeks ago, starting at both ends and when I double-checked them after finishing found I'd double numbered once and missed a number which I had to fix. Ranking candidates could be done online by literally dragging their names into an order and make those sorts of mistakes impossible.
Yes! this would be great - I too had to rank the same 37 - Dunedin had one of the lowest turnouts this time around, largely I think because while STV voting is a better, fairer way of voting than FPP it's actually hard to do - reliably ranking 37 people in a physical voting booth is arguably impossible, and is going to require a lot more booths than say a national election.
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One of the weird things that happened here in Dunedin this year was that we had 4 candidates running in our large central ward who didn't actually live there - most of them lived in a smaller outlying ward where only one candidate was nominated and no election was held.
I asked one of them why he was running in the central ward rather than his own, he claimed that he was doing it because he wasn't going to be allowed to vote in his own ward (which was a bit silly because of course he couldn't have known there would be only one candidate in his ward prior to nominations closing) needless to say after that bit of duplicity he didn't get ranked in my vote.
I'm a little bit surprised one can run for a district one doesn't live in, that doesn't seem right to me, especially for local elections
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don't forget this was only 3 years after the '81 tour, lots of people had recently faced down the police in the streets (and vice versa)
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One thing that I think is important to understand about public key encryption is that it doesn't just encrypt your data, it also helps you prove your identity, because only you have the private key, only you can encrypt your message in a way that can be decrypted using your public key. In fact a lot of people use PKE to sign their email without actually encrypting the content.
If say the NSA gets hold of Lavabit's private key then they can encrypt messages pretending to be from them (or create keys signed by them).
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well it's only not one time of you can find the original key somewhere in Real Groovy - it's a really big key space given that you can do something like "take the album 19th from the top of billboard on the postmarked date, look at the DJIA amd NSX at 9am on that same day, multiply them together, start picking bytes from that offset on the cd , take the xor of the LSBS of every sample skipping the temperature at noon in Dar es Salaam samples each time"
In reality you just have to create a big enough haystack that the needle is essentially OTP - there's a lot of relatively random bits at Real Groovy (in more ways than one)
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OnPoint: The Big Guns: Truecrypt and Tails, in reply to DaveC,
You can’t hide secrets from the future with math.
well hand me that one time pad .... it's just a really big key .... BTW the music industry already runs a world wide OTP distribution system - let's both buy the same CD and use the LSBs of the waveforms
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Yes the Silk Road bust points to Tor not being as safe as one might think (or hope), and also how doing stupid stuff can compromise your security ...
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Hard News: On Telly, Telly Off, in reply to Howard Edwards,
Am trying to get to grips with the whole analog/digital/terrestrial/satellite/dish/UHF aerial/Freeview/SKY/built-in Freeview/Freeview box/MySKY/TIVO issue right now. Feeling hopelessly confused!
So one thing to realise - Sky and Freevoew satellite come off of the same satellite (in fact they are the same channels - TV1 and the other freeview channel is carried unencrypted on Sky and freeview tunes to it)
That means that your old Sky dish (assuming it's working) should work perfectly well for both - of it's not working something's broken or missing
As I mentioned above if you have a good terrestrial signal you should use that rather than Sky satellite - the terrestrial steams are higher quality than the satellite ones
If you're using an external settop box you should use an HDMI cable if at all possible, otherwise use a component cable (3 YPrPb plus 2 audio cables). If you find yourself using composite or s-video in this day and age you're doing it wrong (of have a really really old TV).