[ale] Linux bay

Subba Rao subba9 at cablespeed.com
Thu Feb 20 09:26:49 EST 2003


On  0, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at sciatl.com> wrote:
> Subba Rao wrote:
> >
> >This is just an idea I am putting forward.  Since it cannot be
> >implemented or maintained by one person I thought of puting this idea in
> >the public domain.
> >
> >Thank you for looking into it.
> 
> While I'm not sure that this project will acheive its stated goal, I do 
> have one comment about the frequent use of a CPU ID for validation - why?  
> What additional validation does this provide?  What happens when I switch 
> machines?
> 

This is to avoid a person registering more than once.  If you have n+ machines
you can register n+ times and have n+ votes.  You should not register and have
n+ ids with one machine and cast your vote.

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Subba Rao
subba9 at cablespeed.com
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