Как работают девелоперы

Marinavo_0507

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/diebold_vote_da.htm...
Речь идёт про машины для голосования фирмы Diebold, которые используются повсюду в США и, вроде бы, и в других странах.
Vote totals in two separate databases that should have been identical had different totals. Although Diebold explained that this was part of the system design for separate vote tables to get updated at different times during the tabulation process, the team questioned the wisdom of a design that creates non-identical vote totals.
Tables in the database contained elements that were missing date and time stamps that would indicate when information was entered.
Entries that did have date/time stamps showed a January 1, 1970 date.
The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what occurs on an election night when results are uploaded and various servers are interacting with the database simultaneously. This is why Microsoft advises against using the Jet engine in a complex environment:
The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server crashing and freezing on election night.
The audit team, composed of representatives from the two major parties as well as three election advocacy groups, found other problems with the Diebold system as well:
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The current generation optical scan hardware (and firmware) design . . . does not include features that are essential to determining whether all optical scan ballots have been counted and included in the tabulated results.
The report notes that with punch card machines election officials used to be able to determine definitively if all ballots had been counted in the results. With the adoption of this new generation of voting equipment, however, the report says "we have reduced rather than increased the accuracy and reliability of our elections results."
The audit found that the Diebold system also doesn't produce report results at the machine level, only at the precinct level, which makes it difficult to trace faulty results back to a specific machine.
Также в отчёте говорится о процедурных нарушениях.
Эта же контора делает и банкоматы

Chupa

На макроуровне уже пох на "девелоперов" и то, как они работают. Пусть там хоть обезьяны пишут на java/c# за еду.
PS Бизнес, сука, апасен.

Papazyan

Не только у нас бюджетное бабло пилят. Но квалификация у американцев все-таки повыше, система чаще работает, чем нет.

Marinavo_0507

Но квалификация у американцев все-таки повыше, система чаще работает, чем нет.

Ну да, если под "работает" понимать "у выборов есть хоть какой-то результат". Американцы фишку секут, но и у нас есть девелоперы не хуже, которые и в этом разделе продвигают такой же подход.

smit1

>Diebold
Debloid

Marinavo_0507

Кстати, говорят, что банкоматы у них отличные. Так что +1 американцам: понимают, что на самом деле важно.

Marinavo_0507

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/sponsoronly_se...
Технологии защиты, которые будут использованы в Лондонской Олимпиаде 2012, должны происходить от одного из генеральных спонсоров. Видимо, их разработают Coca Cola и Adidas.

Marinavo_0507

c.f. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html
(по просьбам общественности)