Comments on: You're Doing It Wrong http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/youre-doing-it-wrong/ Startup and Technology News Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:03:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Phreakonomist http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-3398 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:42:16 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=319#comment-3398 Clearly the paper trail route is superior due to people’s inherent aptitude for counting votes re: Florida.

]]> By: Phreakonomist http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-16720 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:42:16 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=319#comment-16720 Clearly the paper trail route is superior due to people’s inherent aptitude for counting votes re: Florida.

]]> By: Victor http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-3397 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:51:32 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=319#comment-3397 We need a paper trail on these things, dammit!

]]> By: Victor http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-16719 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:51:32 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=319#comment-16719 We need a paper trail on these things, dammit!

]]> By: Basil http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-3396 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:36:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=319#comment-3396 I believe that the issue is that a voting machine should not be worries about the ambient viruses you see on the net, but instead the security holes that would allow a partisan hacker to walk into the booth, do something fiddley with a memory key, and then singlehandedly choose the result of the election.

]]> By: Basil http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-16718 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:36:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=319#comment-16718 I believe that the issue is that a voting machine should not be worries about the ambient viruses you see on the net, but instead the security holes that would allow a partisan hacker to walk into the booth, do something fiddley with a memory key, and then singlehandedly choose the result of the election.

]]> By: Nathan http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-3395 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:28:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=319#comment-3395 there’s absolutely nothing wrong with using windows for the base of a voting machine. it makes the app development incredibly simple.

what i don’t understand is the need for anti-virus. are these machines hooked into the internet? why is it possible for anybody to install application on these things? i windows box on a lan with lowered permissions really doesn’t need av.

]]> By: Nathan http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-16717 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:28:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=319#comment-16717 there’s absolutely nothing wrong with using windows for the base of a voting machine. it makes the app development incredibly simple.

what i don’t understand is the need for anti-virus. are these machines hooked into the internet? why is it possible for anybody to install application on these things? i windows box on a lan with lowered permissions really doesn’t need av.

]]> By: Victor Agreda Jr http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-3394 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:14:01 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=319#comment-3394 Well, yes. I think what you’re saying is that you don’t need to build a planet when you only need a seed.

The problem is that in the marketplace there’s this rush to make cheap stuff quickly. That is simply begging for stupid mistakes to creep in at every turn. “Build our own OS? Poppycock! My computer runs Windows, Bill Gates is rich, ergo, Windows must be the best solution.”

In fact, it’d probably take a couple of smart, dedicated guys about a month to make a simple, secure, portable machine capable of doing the simplest thing imaginable: tallying entries in a very flat database. That is, if they did it *right.*

]]> By: Victor Agreda Jr http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-16716 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:14:01 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=319#comment-16716 Well, yes. I think what you’re saying is that you don’t need to build a planet when you only need a seed.

The problem is that in the marketplace there’s this rush to make cheap stuff quickly. That is simply begging for stupid mistakes to creep in at every turn. “Build our own OS? Poppycock! My computer runs Windows, Bill Gates is rich, ergo, Windows must be the best solution.”

In fact, it’d probably take a couple of smart, dedicated guys about a month to make a simple, secure, portable machine capable of doing the simplest thing imaginable: tallying entries in a very flat database. That is, if they did it *right.*

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