Just like the phrase, "If you're too stupid to get out of Jury Duty, do I want you as one of 12 jurists in a murder trial?" - I would like to be sure I have someone, smart enough, running this country that can figure out how to "outsmart" a stupid machine!!!
What's the problem here?
#1.) You make a machine...
#2.) You have someone (anyone) try to "break" the machine...
#3.) You fix the first "breakage" and...
#4.) You have someone else try to "break" the machine, again...
#5.) You fix the next "breakage" and...
#6.) Repeat Steps #4 & #5 until...
#7.) You can't find someone to break it...
#8.)
T H E N . .
#9.) Unlike Bill Gates/Microsoft, you
then market it...
"Bill & MS ALWAYS put this step between #1 & #2 ... you end up doing #3 - #7 yourself!"
Do you guys want Bill Gates handling our elections? GEEZ! We'd never know who, or what, got elected...we'd be "re-booting" crashed boxes 'til the next election cycle and the lost data? And you think DIEBOLD has issues?
Life's too short to be worried about some test that was, probably, shot a year and half ago and the "fixes" have already been done...BTW, has anyone checked as to the date of video, when and where it was performed and, more importantly, have the issues been corrected?
The machine that was tested...(the Princeton team's independent study machine, that was obtained from a private party) - did ANYONE check the date of the study, source of the machine, whether it was a prototype or on-line production sample unit, a "beta" machine, or even the report itself, in that it was an "in-house, for our eyes-only" type of report, to be used in the above mentioned style of testing-breaking-fixing scenario that I outlined above?
If you don't know the basics of what the reports is about, the foundation of any arguement is baseless...just as, if the foundation of house is unknown, how do you know whether the house is a "house of cards" or a real castle?
Let's see if someone, out there, can find the real story - ala the "Valerie Pflame" thread we just got done grinding through here for ... how many pages/weeks?
ENJOY THE WEEKEND AND REMEMBER...DRIVE CAREFULLY OUT THERE...'CAUSE YOU KNOW NO ONE ELSE DOES!