[IP] more on It's not a glitch, darn it.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 8, 2004 10:21:09 AM EST
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@xxxxxxx>
Cc: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on It's not a glitch, darn it.
(For IP, if you wish.)
Rich Kulawiec writes:
Honest/impartial/competent people -- and their hardware and software
agents, and their processes, still make mistakes.
So I ask again: how do you KNOW?
You don't. You can choose to trust that the result is correct, and you
can choose to trust that the counting system works better overall than
the system previously used, but you can't know. You can choose to trust
that the third-party auditing of the machine was satisfactory, but you
can't know. (AFAICT the auditing was, ah, a bit on the brief side.)
You have to weigh circumstances and make your decisions. Demanding all
or nothing may just get you nothing.
Arnt
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