Posted by Stephen Waits Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:08:49 GMT
A 5th grade teacher is suspended, ultimately fired (no contract renewal), because some wanker kid’s parent complained that they saw some nude art at the local museum. WTF.. this place is an ever rotting shithole.
Article here on NYTimes (reg req’d).
Posted by Stephen Waits Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:04:09 GMT
Posted by Stephen Waits Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:05:54 GMT
Ron Rivest (he’s the “R” in RSA) has published a paper on a new secure, private voting system.
It’s interesting - but he’s giving our public a bit too much credit. I do think much of the system could be automated, or dumbed down enough for regular idiots to deal with it; however, people simply won’t be able to understand why their receipt doesn’t match their vote. Furthermore, I don’t think most people will even be able to look up their vote online. Still, it’s new and very interesting.
I also like that it supports Approval Voting without too much effort. If we could get Approval voting (it’s simpler than Condorcet or IRV [which is broken anyway]) into action in this world, we’d all be much better off.
Get the paper here.