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This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/210,182 filed Feb. 20, 2001, and is a continuation-in-part of each of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/534,836, filed Mar. 24, 2000; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/535,927, filed Mar. 24, 2000 now abandoned; and U S. patent application Ser. No. 09/816,869 filed Mar. 24, 2001 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,950,948. Each of these four applications is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present invention is directed to the fields of election automation and cryptographic techniques therefor.
The problems of inaccuracy and inefficiency have long attended conventional, manually-conducted elections. While it has been widely suggested that computers could be used to make elections more accurate and efficient, computers bring with them their own pitfalls. Since electronic data is so easily altered, many electronic voting systems are prone to several types of failures that are far less likely to occur with conventional voting systems.
One class of such failures relates to the uncertain integrity of the voter's computer, or other computing device. In today's networked computing environment, it is extremely difficult to keep any machine safe from malicious software. Such software is often able to remain hidden on a computer for long periods of time before actually performing a malicious action. In the meantime, it may replicate itself to other computers on the network, or computers that have some minimal interaction with the network. It may even be transferred to computers that are not networked by way of permanent media carried by users.
In the context of electronic secret ballot elections, this kind of malicious software is especially dangerous, since even when its malicious action is triggered, it may go undetected, and hence left to disrupt more elections in the future. Controlled logic and accuracy tests ("L&A tests") monitor the processing of test ballots to determine whether a voting system is operating properly, and may be used in an attempt to detect malicious software present in a voter's computer. L&A tests are extremely difficult to conduct effectively, however, since it is possible that the malicious software may be able to differentiate between "real" and "test" ballots, and leave all "test" ballots unaffected. Since the requirement for ballot secrecy makes it impossible to inspect "real" ballots for compromise, even exhaustive L&A testing may prove futile. The problem of combating this threat is known as the "Client Trust Problem."
Most existing methods for solving the Client Trust Problem have focused on methods to secure the voting platform, and thus provide certainty that the voter's computer is "clean," or "uninfected." Unfortunately, the expertise and ongoing diligent labor that is required to achieve an acceptable level of such certainty typically forces electronic voting systems into the controlled environment of the poll site, where the client computer systems can be maintained and monitored by computer and network experts. These poll site systems can still offer some advantages by way of ease of configuration, ease of use, efficiency of tabulation, and cost. However, this approach fails to deliver on the great potential for distributed communication that has been exploited in the world of e-commerce.
Accordingly, a solution to the Client Trust Problem that does not require the voting platform to be secured against malicious software, which enables practically any computer system anywhere to be used as the voting platform, would have significant utility.
A software facility for detecting ballots compromised by malicious programs ("the facility") is provided. The approach employed by the facility is unique in that it does not make any attempt to eliminate, or prevent the existence of malicious software on the voting computer. Instead, it offers a cryptographically secure method for the voter to verify the contents of the voter's ballot as it is received at the vote collection center, without revealing information about the contents (ballot choices) to the collection center itself. That is, the vote collection center can confirm to the voter exactly what choices were received, without knowing what those choices are. Thus, the voter can detect any differences between the voter's intended choices, and the actual choices received at the vote collection center (as represented in the transmitted voted ballot digital data). Further, each election can choose from a flexible set of policy decisions allowing a voter to re-cast the voter's ballot in the case that the received choices differ from the intended choices.
A. The Simplest Secret Value Confirmation Setting
In order to understand the key cryptographic protocol that makes secret value confirmation possible, we first describe a simplified embodiment of the facility. In accordance with this embodiment, the ballot consists of a single yes or no question. The challenge then is to have the voter secretly communicate the voter's choice—yes or no—to the vote collection center, and then further confirm that what was actually received at the vote collection center was exactly what the voter intended. In other words, if a "yes" vote was somehow changed to a "no" vote, or a "no" vote was somehow changed to a "yes" vote, the facility informs the voter of this fact.
An electronic vote representation is used to represent the contents of the voter's ballot. Suitable electronic vote representations include those described in the patent applications identified in the related application section.
1. Ballot Construction: A set of cryptographic "election parameters" are agreed upon by election officials in advance of the election start, and made publicly known by wide publication or other such means. These parameters include encryption group, generator, ElGamal public key, and decision encoding scheme. Most commonly these consist of:
However, other groups and elements can be used. In particular, the facility may be implemented using Elliptic Curves rather than Zp groups.
2. Vote Submission: Each voter encrypts the voter's decision, "yes" or "no", as an ElGamal pair, (Xi,Yi)=(gα,hα m), where αεZq is chosen randomly by the voter, mεSy if the voter wishes to choose "yes" and mεSn if the voter wishes to choose "no". Any other message (i.e., mεSi) is considered invalid. This encrypted value is what is digitally signed by the voter, and then transmitted to the vote collection center. For now, we will consider a simple decision encoding scheme in which Sy={Gy}, Sn={Gn}, and Si=<g>−{Gy,Gn}. However, with obvious small modifications, the discussion that follows applies equally well to more general settings.
If the voter was computing these values himself—say with pencil and paper—this protocol would essentially suffice to implement a secret-ballot, universally verifiable election system. (Depending on the tabulation method to be used, some additional information, such as a voter proof of validity may be necessary.) However, since the voter only makes choices through a user interface, it is in many cases unrealistic to expect him/her to check the actual value of the bits sent and compare them to the voter's intent. In short, malicious software can ignore voter intent and submit a "no" vote when the voter specified "yes", or submit a "yes" vote when the voter specified "no".
B. Creating a Secret Value Confirmation
We differentiate two types of vote corruption, directed and undirected. Directed vote corruption is the act of changing a "yes" vote to a "no" vote, or a "no" vote to a "yes" vote. Undirected vote corruption is the act of changing from a "valid" vote ("yes" or "no") to an "invalid" vote. The following steps will detect directed vote corruption in the simple ballot setting of the previous section. They rely on the intractability of the Diffie-Hellman Problem described in A. M. Odlyzko, Discrete logarithms in finite fields and their cryptographic significance, Advances in Cryptology—EURO-CRYPT '84, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 1984.
1. The computer operated by voter Vi submits the encrypted decision as before, optionally signing the encrypted decision using a private key of this voter.
2. The vote collection center generates two values KiεZp and βiεZq randomly and independently. These values are generated on a per voter basis, and kept secret from all but the collection center. They may be generated in advance of the election.
3. The vote collection center computes the values
Wi=KiYi β
and returns them to the voter's computer. Wi and Ui are together known as the "encrypted vote confirmation."
4. The voter's computer, knowing the secret αi can compute Wi/Ui α
The vote collection center does not know what value is, or should be, displayed, since the vote data it received was strongly encrypted. However, it does know:
5. The voter can now check the validity of the vote received by contacting the vote collection center though some secure communication channel, such as telephone, fax, or surface mail. By sending a request containing
6. The voter verifies that the confirmation string the voter saw displayed by the voter's computer is consistent with both the voter's intended choice and this confirmation dictionary.
7. Any inconsistency indicates that some sort of unexpected behavior has occurred on the voter's computer, or in transmission, and corrective action should be taken. In many electronic voting schemes, an individual voter's ballot can be removed from the ballot box and resubmitted. The exact procedure for voter corrective action is a matter of policy, and may involve some form of voter protest, followed by a resubmission of the ballot in a controlled, secure environment. Alternatively, the voter may be allowed a few attempts from a remote computer before being forced to go to a controlled environment to resubmit.
The essential cryptographic foundation of this protocol is that the voter's computer, or malicious software running on it, cannot (for well chosen—i.e., randomly chosen—my and mn) compute the complementary confirmation string, i.e., compute Kimn β
C. An Attack on the Previous Protocol
As noted, malicious software cannot conduct directed vote corruption without the corruption being detected and later corrected. However, the basic version of the protocol outlined above in some cases may allow undirected vote corruption to go undetected as in the following scenario.
1. Instead of submitting (Xi,Yi) as the voter intends, the voter's computer can submit (Xi,Yihγ) for any chosen γεZq. This will have the effect of transforming a valid vote into an invalid one. When the computer receives the encrypted vote confirmation, it can follow the protocol to compute Kihγβ
2. Were it to display this value, the voter would notice a problem, since it would not match the confirmation dictionary. However, since the malicious software generated, and knows γi and also knows hβ
D. Counter Attack—Voter Validity Proof
The validity proof constructed by the voter proves to the vote collection center that, (Xi,Yi)i the encrypted decision (ballot) received from voter Vi, is either an encryption of my or an encryption of mn without revealing any information about which of these values it is. Methods for constructing validity proofs of this type can be found in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/535,927 now abandoned, as well as R. Cramer, I. Damgard, B. Schoenmakers, Proofs of partial knowledge and simplified design of witness hiding protocols, Advances in Cryptology, CRYPTO '94, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 174–187, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. Thus, the validity proof proves that the received encrypted ballot is valid, which is exactly what is needed to prevent the undetected, undirected vote corruption of the previous section. The malicious software may try an undirected vote corruption as before, but it will not be able to supply the required validity proof, and thus will be detected even before the encrypted vote confirmation is returned to the voter. As already noted, the secret value confirmation protocol itself detects directed vote corruption.
The validity proofs can be extended to more general sets of response options than simple "yes/no". As a result, the facility is able to prevent the attack of section C in the more general case as well. The resulting protocol for the general case is as follows.
1. Ballot Construction: The encryption group, generator, and ElGamal public key are all created as usual. However, the decision encoding scheme needs to be chosen carefully. For simplicity, let us assume that there is only one question on the ballot. (If there are multiple questions, the facility performs the steps that follow independently for each of the individual questions.) Let a1, . . . , an be the set of allowable answers. For example, these could be a1='George Bush', a2='Al Gore', a3='Ralph Nader', and a4='I abstain'. Note that in this example, n=4.
The jurisdiction, or other entity responsible for creating the ballot, must select n elements from Zq,μ1, . . . , μn, independently and at random. These are assigned, in sequence, as the corresponding response values to each allowable answer, resulting the specific decision encoding scheme. In the example, this means that the digital blank ballot publicly specifies that
2. Vote Submission:
In order to more completely describe the facility, an example illustrating the operation of some of its embodiments is described hereafter.
The following is a detailed example of a Secret Value Confirmation exchange. In order to maximize the clarity of the example, several of the basic parameters used—for example, the number of questions on the ballot, and the size of the cryptographic parameters—are much smaller than those that would be typically used in practice. Also, while aspects of the example exchange are discussed below in a particular order, those skilled in the art will recognize that they may be performed in a variety of other orders.
Some electronic election protocols include additional features, such as:
This example assumes an election protocol that encodes voter responses (answers) as a single ElGamal pair. However, from the description found here, it is a trivial matter to also construct a Secret Value Confirmation exchange for other election protocols using ElGamal encryption for the voted ballot. For example, some embodiments of the facility incorporate the homomorphic election protocol described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/535,927 now abandoned. In that protocol, a voter response is represented by multiple ElGamal pairs. The confirmation dictionary used in this example is easily modified to either display a concatenation of the respective confirmation strings, or to display a hash of the sequence of them.
The jurisdiction must first agree on the election initialization data. This at least includes: the basic cryptographic numerical parameters, a ballot (i.e. a set of questions and allowable answers, etc.), and a decision encoding scheme. (It may also include additional data relevant to the particular election protocol being used.)
Cryptographic Parameters
Response Value
9 (μ1)
21 (μ2)
36 (μ3)
I abstain
17 (μ4)
At some point, before issuing a confirmation and before distributing the voter confirmation dictionaries, the ballot collection center (or agency) generates random, independent βi and Ki for each voter, Vi. If the confirmation dictionary is to be sent after vote reception, these parameters can be generated, on a voter by voter basis, immediately after each voted ballot is accepted. Alternatively, they can be generated in advance of the election. In this example, the ballot collection agency has access to these parameters both immediately after accepting the voted ballot, and immediately before sending the respective voter's confirmation dictionary.
Sometime during the official polling time, each voter, Vi obtains, and authenticates, the election initialization data, described above. It can be obtained by submitting a "ballot request" to some ballot server. Alternatively, the jurisdiction may have some convenient means to "publish" the election initialization data—that is, make it conveniently available to all voters.
From the election initialization data, V is able to determine that the expected response is the standard encoding of a particular sequence of two distinct data elements. These are (in their precise order):
For the sake of this example, let us assume that V wishes to cast a vote for "Green".
Voter V (or more precisely, V's computer) must prove that one of the following conditions hold
There are a variety of standard methods that can be used to accomplish this. See, for example, R. Cramer, I. Damg{dot over (a)}rd, B. Schoenmakers, Proofs of partial knowledge and simplified design of witness hiding protocols, Advances in Cryptology—CRYPTO '94, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 174–187, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994. The Secret Value Confirmation technique used by the facility works equally well with any method that satisfies the abstract criteria of the previous paragraph. While details of one such validity proof method are provided below, embodiments of the facility may use validity proofs of types other than this one.
Validity Proof Construction:
(In what follows, each action or computation which V is required to perform is actually carried out by V's computer.)
Having computed the required choice encryption, (X, Y), and the corresponding proof of validity, V encodes these elements, in sequence, as defined by the standard encoding format. The resulting sequences form V's voted ballot. (In order to make the ballot unalterable, and indisputable, V may also digitally sign this voted ballot with his private signing key. The resulting combination of V's voted ballot, and his digital signature (more precisely, the standard encoding of these two elements) forms his signed voted ballot.) Finally, each voter transmits his (optionally signed) voted ballot back to the data center collecting the votes.
As described above, the voter specific random parameters for V (β and K) are available at the vote collection center. In this example, these are
β=18 K=37 (15)
When the voter's (optionally signed) voted ballot is received at the vote collection center, the following steps are executed
Each voter confirmation dictionary is computed by the vote collection center, since, as described above, it is the entity which has knowledge of the voter specific values of α and K. For the case of the voter, V, we have been considering, the dictionary is computed as
Confirmation String
C1 = Kμβ 1 = 37 � 918 = 16
C2 = Kμβ 2 = 37 � 2118 = 18
C3 = Kμβ 3 = 37 � 3618 = 36
"I abstain"
C4 = Kμβ 4 = 37 � 1718 = 8
In step 301, on the voter computer system, the facility encodes a ballot choice selected by the voter in order to form a ballot. In step 302, the facility encrypts this ballot. In some embodiments, the encrypted ballot is an ElGamal pair, generated using an election public key and a secret maintained on the voter computer system. In step 303, the facility optionally signs the ballot with a private key belonging to the voter. In step 304, the facility constructs a validity proof that demonstrates that the encrypted ballot is the encryption of a ballot in which a valid ballot choice is selected. In step 305, the facility transmits the encrypted, signed ballot and the validity proof 311 to a vote collection center computer system.
In step 321, the facility receives this transmission in the vote collection center computer system. In step 322, the facility verifies the received validity proof. In step 323, if the validity proof is successfully verified, then the facility continues with 324, else the facility does not continue in step 324. In step 324, the facility generates an encrypted confirmation of the encrypted ballot. The facility does so without decrypting the ballot, which is typically not possible in the vote collection center computer system, where the secret used to encrypt the ballot is not available. In step 325, the facility transmits the encrypted confirmation 331 to the voter computer system.
In step 341, the facility receives the encrypted vote confirmation in the voter computer system. In step 342, the facility uses the secret maintained on the voter computer system to decrypt the encrypted vote confirmation. In step 343, the facility displays the decrypted vote confirmation for viewing by the user. In step 344, if the displayed vote confirmation is translated to the ballot choice selected by the voter by a confirmation dictionary in the voter's possession, then the facility continues in step 345, else the facility continues in step 346. In step 345, the facility determines that the voter's ballot is not corrupted, whereas, in step 346, the facility determines that the voter's ballot is corrupted. In this event, embodiments of the facility assist the user in revoking and resubmitting the voter's ballot.
It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the above-described facility may be straightforwardly adapted or extended in various ways. While the foregoing description makes reference to preferred embodiments, the scope of the invention is defined solely by the claims that follow and the elements recited therein.
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Well, "Partners In Crime" was a smashing success! Some of my most read blogs, and all it did was outline a day of puppy-sitting for my sister's new dog. How cute is this "little" guy??
He's a playful fun-loving dude, we went on lots of runs together and played a lot. A champ of a mutt, Great Dane and Labrador only four months old! This dog is going to get huge.
There are a couple things I would like to warn you about. One: Be careful when using google images to look up "film noir". Some people who upload photos don't entirely know the difference between timeless Film Noir Classic freeze frames and stock photos, and S&M related black and white pornography. After looking up pictures on many, many occasions to complete this short series, there was one photo I began to fondly refer to as "Mister Floppy."
How did I get the idea to do a noir series? That's for me to know.
It was originally just a one-time piece, but then I started puppy-sitting that awesome little mutt for a couple of days and the series just wrote itself, so I went with it (mostly in the downtime when he was sleeping off the havoc he wreaked or one of our runs).
Well, it was a blast, probably one of the funnest things I've written in a long time. I hope it got some laughs.
Ah yes, and number two: Apparently, lampposts are very common in film noir. Probably one of the most used props, second to guns. It gave me a little bit of an actual fondness for them, lol.
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At North Birmingham Academy, we believe that educating our students extends beyond the curriculum and involves developing social, personal and communication skills. To support this we hold a 'Citizenship Day' for each year group. The aim of our Citizenship Days are to enable students to experience different types of activities that would not be accessible in normal lessons. Over the day, students will meet with eight different external agencies allowing a range of topics to be covered. Activities provided cover a range of aims such as:
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Following the success of the Academy last year NBA was delighted to take part in the national literacy scheme; BBC School report Programme, earlier this year. This event saw seven of our most talented and creative Year 9 students develop their reporting skills as they received specialist training and master classes , from two of the top professional BBC new reporters.
This innovative literacy scheme provides 11-16 year olds with the opportunity to create and star in their own News Day presentations followed by the chance to broadcast it to a live audience. In March, two BBC News Reporters visited the Academy, sharing their expert knowledge and guidance with our students. Using resources and materials from the BBC website, and with the support of the BBC staff, students were able to develop their journalistic skills in the aim of becoming fully established School Reporters.
Our Year 9 students have created a stunning array of video, audio and text-based school news reports, which have showcased the talent of the students involved.
BBC News presenter and former teacher, Huw Edwards, is working on School Report and stated: "Over the years I've run many journalism workshops in schools. So I've seen how much fun it can be and how much can be learnt when there are real deadlines, real audiences and real standards to meet. I want to give young people the chance to make the news themselves, and to share the principles of good journalism."


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(Reuters) - Pipeline operator TC Pipelines LP said it would buy North Baja Pipeline LLC, a subsidiary of natural gas transportation and storage company TransCanada Corp, for $395 million in cash and common units.
"The acquisition of North Baja from TransCanada provides the Partnership with a high quality asset offering supply diversity and long-term contracts, stable earnings and solid cash flow," Russ Girling, chief executive of TC PipeLines GP Inc, said.
The company said it would pay $200 million in cash and 6.4 million of its common units to TransCanada as part of the deal, which is expected to close by the end of the second quarter.
The North Baja Pipeline System is an 80-mile natural gas pipeline extending from Southwest Arizona to the California/Mexico border and connects with a natural gas pipeline system in Mexico, TC Pipelines said in a statement.
The pipeline has a capacity of 600 million cubic feet per day and has long-term contracts extending, on average, to 2026, the company added.
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When Mattias was about 20, 22 months old, I entered a state of euphoria at the prospect of being done with babyhoods. The good feelings went on for several months - until I realized I was pregnant with Trixie. Somedays, I feel like I'm still mourning the loss of having no babies. I KNOW. Ridiculous, because Trixie is almost a year old. But, you know, having a baby (less than 2 years old, by my definition) in the house can be traumatic.
I used the word traumatic once before on this blog, in relation to Mattias and Noah, when Mattias was less than 2. And I felt bad using it. This time, I won't be apologizing, because NOT talking about of how intense it is to care all the time for a baby is problematic. If somebody claims taking care of a baby between the ages of 0 and 2 years is easy, or not-so-hard, I immediately dismiss him or her as: 1) out of touch, 2) not doing much of the caregiving, 3) vastly inexperienced.
This past weekend was rough. We had to keep up with a schedule much more suited to the 4+ crowd. Naps are these wonderful, magical things when you have just one child. They're a little inconvenient when you have an older child. They're a royal pain in the butt when you've got three kids. Trixie is taking two naps a day. She isn't going to sleep well in her car seat or the stroller anymore; it seems we just need to STAY HOME if we are going to maintain sanity. So there we have the solution: no socializing, no errands, no nothing but: sanity. Ha! That's not going to happen. And honestly, even if we could stay home all the time, then the repetition of life with a baby wears me down: the whining, or picking up toys again, or sweeping the floor under the highchair again, or trying to solve the problem that caused the whining again, or doing everything one-handed, or doing laundry and dishes and diaper changes again, or moving somebaby away from whatever dangerous/messy/precarious situation he or she has managed to get into.
Her cast, which isn't slowing Trixie down, is becoming its own liability. I don't know how many times she fell down this weekend because she just wants to walk. She balances precariously on the tiny tip of her toes, which peek out the end of the cast. The resin is rubbing off her toe skin, and still, still, she attempts to walk. Every few hours I glom a new layer of adhesive-backed felt over the resin edge trying to keep it from rubbing off more skin. I – I – don't even know what to say – I mean, do I call the doctor and ask if we can take the cast off? Are we trading "a fix" for a new injury? Seems like a possibility. At the time of typing this post, it's one week and 14 hours until the cast comes off. Not that I'm counting.
Most of the people in our social circles finished having babies about 3 years ago. Several commented to me this weekend that they had forgotten how much work babies are. (I guess I not only felt like my hands were full, but looked like it, too.) We do forget. I forgot. I propose that taking care of a baby all the time is not unlike the natural childbirth experience: extremely intense, yet the intensity is forgotten with time.
One more thought: it's clear to me on the third babyhood that sitting here, typing out these complaints is a luxury. Even vocalizing my complaints is a luxury. It's been rougher for the last three or so months (since the onset of crawling); I predict it will be rough another 8 months. To be able to sit down and semi-coherently type out a post about it? Luxury. Somedays, I don't have the patience to re-live it. Somedays, I can't think straight to sit in front of a computer. Most days, I have no time to waste complaining. I am in a constant state of multitasking between 6am and 7pm. (I hate multitasking.) I don't know if I'll have another chance to pull it all together and type it out again before we're out of this phase and onto the next. And that's okay. But I would like to remember that babyhood is really hard. The third child might be "easier," (after all, you know how a baby works, it's the not New anymore,) but the workload of three is heavier and less conducive to babyhood.
Sigh. Instead of feeling nostalgic and sad that it's over in the future, or looking back through rose-colored glasses, I would like to feel accomplished, not lacking. Sort of: I've Been There and Done That, Gave it My All, Earned My Stars. Big Smile. Next up?
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John McCain Has Only Himself to Blame for Not Winning the Election You Blew It, Dude! (Repost)
(Repost due to Technical Problem) Based on all the Polls, at this point in time it's apparent that Barack Obama will win the Presidential Election and that John McCain will lose. For this John McCain has only himself to blame. He had the election in the bag until he decided to listen to some total moron(s) on his staff who sold him on the idea of Sarah Palin as his Vice President and didn't even spending enough time getting to know her before announced her as his running mate


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Guys like you and I would watch to see the best of the best go head to head. The average American Olympics viewer? Hmm, what else is on?I like the idea for fans like you and me. For the health of the sport worldwide, I'm not so sure. But it sure would make for a race I'd love to see.
"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."
not to burst your idealistic bubble but I think you know as well as anyone that's not how the current Olympics works. Qualifying times, political division of the field via nation-based participation limits, financial (sponsorship primarily) and publicity incentives for winning or placing high.... Joe Sixpack sees, at most, two marathons every four years. Is he even going to watch those if the entire top 20 in the race is made up of Kenyans and Ethiopians?


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Petrobas Strike Gas Offshore Brazil
Petrobras's preliminary drilling in the Jupiter Nordeste well, in the Santos Basin, confirms presence of gas & condensate.
The new well, which is still being drilled, has reached 5,438 meters. It is located in ultra-deep waters of block BM-S-24, at a water depth of 2,161 meters, and 275 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
So far, well 3-BRSA-967A-RJS has detected an oil column of 176 meters in rocks of excellent permeability and porosity.
The consortium that holds the concession of block BM-S-24 will proceed with the activities and investments necessary to assess the area, as set forth in the Assessment Plan approved by the ANP (National Petroleum Agency). Petrobras is the operator of the consortium (80%) in partnership with Petrogal Brasil (20%).
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Up to 100,000 Palestinians have been displaced [2] in the relentless Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, the UN said yesterday.
While political efforts were afoot to reach a ceasefire amid the Israeli barrage from the land, sea and air on the strip, which is categorised as among the most densely populated areas in the world, several UN agencies [3] have started sending aid to those in dire need, a UN statement added.
Israeli attacks on Tuesday would be the 15th day of Israel's offensive.
The UN said in a statement: "Under the direction of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai [4], a special airlift in support of displaced families in Gaza began on Sunday from Dubai, where a 747 cargo took off carrying 115 metric tonnes of aid, containing 45,000 mattresses, 10,000 blankets and 220 hygiene kits. The plane landed at Marka International Airport in Amman early on Monday, 21 July."
[1] http://www.syndigate.info
[2] http://www.albawaba.com/news/israel-gaza-591248
[3] http://www.albawaba.com/news/un-ceasefire-gaza-toll-500-591760
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Nokia 808 Review: Damian Dinning of Nokia Responds
|Damian Dinning is Lead Program Manager of 'Imaging Experience' at Nokia.
We were in touch with several Nokia representatives throughout the process of producing our recent review of the Nokia 808 PureView. Following its publication, Damian Dinning - Lead Program Manager of Imaging Experience at Nokia wrote to us responding to some of the issues that we raised and explaining why those decisions were made in the phone's development.
August 1st, 2012
Dear dpreview.com
Great to see the 808 PureView receiving your Gold Award – thank you. Our team are both delighted and extremely proud of their collective achievement.
I thought I'd just take some time out to share some insights/background behind some of the decisions/trade-offs we made given some of the excellent points you noted in the review.
Whilst we wanted to provide a rich set of controls which cover key elements such as focus, exposure, brightness/colour and composition especially for those who take a more involved role in the capture phase, we also wanted to keep as clean and as uncluttered viewfinder as possible. As you might imagine however, it's very hard to get this balance just right. Personally speaking I find most of not all digital camera viewfinder/info screens are either all or nothing. We continue to seek the best balance in this regard, but equally, recognise we can never get this right for everyone.
This principle led us to a number of decisions we felt all things considered where the right ones:
We believe not everyone uses it or knows how to use it and even fewer need/use it all the time. Our solution was therefore to provide one click access from the EV adjustment button. You can either just check it or check and adjust, it's up to you. But then you can easily hide it too. As aid we wanted to retain as much viewfinder real estate as possible.
Slide zoom:
We felt the conventional method of 'assisted' zoom is too slow and lacks sufficient control and precision. What I mean by assisted zoom is basically anything other than manual zoom as on most SLRs. Whilst manual zoom is fast and precise it's almost impossible to zoom smoothly, important for video of course. The slide zoom capability we're introducing for the first time with the 808 PureView provides a level of precision and speed pinch to zoom and motorised zooms are unable to provide.
Often with these methods you end up under/over shooting and/or moving the device during the operation. Furthermore, in the case of motorised controls, you're often having to wait for the zoom to travel from one point to another. With slide zoom it allows you to frame the shot similarly to cropping in photo editing applications and then when happy with the framing, simply releasing your ginger from the display it either quickly zooms to that setting in the case of stills or in video smoothly and more slowly to the pre-set framing.
We use an acceleration/deceleration curve at the start/stop phases of zoom too, impossible with other methods and then aim to handle all those pixels as smoothly as possible. Ideally I would have liked it to be even smoother. Zooming out is more conventional. We did prototype the same method of zooming for zoom out but in trials we found it to be counter intuitive. Again based on trials we found once people had used it for a while it becomes very intuitive, fast and easy. As I think you pointed to in your own conclusion. Our own user testing showed that after this period everyone preferred it to conventional zoom methods.
ISO setting:
We found the optimal number of touch controls along the side of the viewfinder in a screen of this size to be 5. This dictated the size of the touch targets. No doubt people will chime in and comment on this point but this was the recommendation from our usability experts to achieve good usability in the camera. This in turn dictated the area for text, which in some languages the characters used require more space than the often used English versions. However, as with all the icons we prioritised at least indicating that a function was set to a setting different to the default. Increasing the size of the buttons would have impacted more on the viewfinder which we were keen to avoid.
The 808 PureView uses a system which is more heavily influenced (unless faces are detected) by objects in the centre. Half press of the physical shutter release button (assuming touch to focus has not been set) locks both focus and exposure which for most situations should provide the desired results. However, this is an area I think with some small amount of innovation can improve the experience for the future.
Given there is no optical viewfinder of course we do prioritise the brightness of the viewfinder in very bright and very dark conditions to increase usability. In bright conditions we increase the brightness of the display accordingly to make it as visible as possible and in very low light conditions we increase the read time (reduce the viewfinder refresh rate) to increase the effective brightness of an otherwise dark scene. Unfortunately this results in a trade-off in such situations in the accuracy of the image as a preview which may explain some of the challenges you experienced with exposure compensation.
Thanks again, and best regards
Damian Dinning, Lead Program Manager, Imaging Experience. Nokia
The "exposure" response doesn't really explain why there's no manual exposure.
Copy and pasted from similar question above...
We agonised a lot over this area during development. The main limitation is the lack of variable aperture control (a size constraint). If you set a specific shutter speed you're either going to get over/under expsoure or the system needs to play with the gain (ISO) which may leave you with results you were not expecting. This time round we've provided user control over the ND filter so you can force faster or slower shutter speeds, dropped the longest shutter speed to 2.7 seconds (when using manual ISO) and a greater degree of exposure compensation and ISO settings. Whilst we recognise this is not ideal, this should provide sufficent control over every available variable (given the limitation of no variable aperture ) to force shutter speeds that would still result in correct expsoure.
For the future, we continue to seek ways of providing more direct control over settings applicable to such usage.
Thanks for your feedback.
Damian D:
Okay, thank you for the response, but I often shoot actual manual with my digital camera; that's both the aperture and shutter speed set by me. Not one set (or modified with an ND filter) then the other set by the camera's exposure computer. These settings would be aperture priority and/or shutter priority--not manual.
This camera is set to compete with things like the LX5 and S95, so manual needs to be an option. And as my screen name suggests, the raw data needs to be recorded and available for me to work with.
LX5 and S95? Isn't that too ambitious? I just don't think it is meant to replace any advanced compact camera.
Yes, I'll admit that I'm going sort of by claims made in these forums. I don't have access to internal Nokia marketing plans.
But remember: More than one poster has said this 808 is better than the Canon 5D MkIII (sad really they can't get good images out of those Canon dslrs is all I can conclude) . And many have gone on about better image quality than micro four thirds cameras and the Nikon 1 series.
Given that the LX5 shoots raw and manual and is useable through ISO 1000, oh and does good video, I don't think there's any real technical competition. Sales competition on the other hand...
Not so familiar with what the S95 can do well or not, but of course raw and real manual control are a big deal there too.
I am also impressed, by both the way the response was communicated and also by the throughful design details as explained when trade-offs have to be made. For example, the display brightness not reliable as a visual way to determine the photo's brightness in very dark or bright conditions. I think the design choice was a good one for a phone camera.
While I am happy to read such details in addendum, it appears that clarification such as these should be been sought before a review is published, to give the maker a chance to explain so that anomalies do not just look like faults, and, also to give the reviewer a chance to eliminate misunderstanding, factual errors or wrong implications in their review report and adjust them. It does not mean giving away any review independence and their right to report anything as they see fit, as the reviewer can still stand firm on any issues found and as reported, but it could make the review better, and more professional. Thanks.
With respect, manufacturers always have reasons why things that we think don't work very well, or don't turn out to be popular, are the way that they are.
The job of a reviewer is to determine the strengths and weaknesses of a product through use, with reference to competitive offerings, and communicate his or her opinion of the product accordingly.
Thanks, Barney for your reply. I agree that reviewees always have excuses and often unbelievable ones. :)
It is however up to the reviewer to consider any relevant and genuine points regarding adverse findings to provide balance, which you have done by providing Mr Danning's response here. However, IMHO, it is standard practice for reviewers to double-check with reviewees just in case there are valid points before publishing and it would be better if these issues are considered while opinions are formed and written and not afterwards, and of course, it is entirely up to the reviewer to make use of or to discard what information as appropriate and fair for the best reviews.
Gaiasill, usually responses from reviewees will be sought and a deadline given for response to ensure fairness. I think most reviewees will be quite responsive if there are valid points to be made.
There's a part on page 2 about highlight clipping, where I mention that I've been speaking to Nokia about the issue - I was in fact in contact with Damian.
OK, Barney. I assume he was aware of all the negative issues that will be reported and have been given the chance to respond beforehand, so that any relevant additonal information could be considered.
No problem. I do note your communication with him and that the phone has got a Gold. :)
For an even greater injection of awarness, I do suggest trying to post a review of a camera yourself. Not in spite, but for pure experience value alone. Sometimes its best to walk in another mans shoes, or throw the same ball he's throwing before we pass on opinions about the job they are doing.
It's just a suggestion, and one that can enlighten your perspective.
From a manufacturer point of view I think one of the great things about the web and forums such as these it that it allows a response from the manufacturer. I do agree with however Barney, that the reviewers are entitled to their views, where they are presented along with supporting rationale. That's helpful for you to understand the context of such points and whether they are valid in your own personal view. After all what I believe or Barney believes on behalf of dpreview may not represent your own preferences for example. That's after all why we have industries with multiple manufactures producing multiple products. The world would be a boring place without such choice.
Sometimes, as in this case, dpreview were in contact with us to clarify a few points before publication. I commend and thank dpreview for checking information before publication.
However, we are careful to keep our replies as factual as possible, the review still needs to be a reflection of dpreview's view rather than ours of course, as much as we'd like it to be ours ;)
Personally, I read a LOT of reviews and forums to gain additional insight in to what people like/dislike. However, EVERY product always has its trade-offs, you simply can't design one product to be perfect for everyone. We use such insight to where possible improve (if necessary) the current product or sometimes take that into account for the next...
Nokia encourages such direct discussion – personally I belive it's the best way to learn more about your customers and the web provides us the capability to have such direct conversations.
Thanks again for all your feedback - keep it coming!
Interesting suggestion from you, that I write a review myself. I have never written a formal review of a camera, but I have written in my professional career countless reviews and also led review project teams for decades assessing matters that greatly affected corporations, to know the importance of checking thoroughly with the those being reviewed so as to consider all relevant information before final opinions are published. Often we weree surprised at what fresh information there was when everything could frankly discussed, in spite of the most comprehensive checks. Such consultations are more important to the reviewers IMHO and they often may lead to significant discoveries and more awareness of the issues, requiring adjusts to verdicts/ratings. There may be matters such as strategic and design details are senstive due to competition and a public reply like Damians may not be desirable, another reason besides accuracy to discuss fully and honestly review reports.
I'm impressed by this thoughtful and intelligent response. I've never seen anything like this from the traditional camera makers.
Damian is always been very informative.. I've been asking him question on twitter since I got my N8 2 years ago, and he always responds personally. If you read more about him, you will see that he is all about making photography accessible/easy.. I respect his vision, and the 808 is a great example of it.
Yeah, agree, Nokia just beat every camera manufacturer out there with communication.
@happypoppeye - as you'd expect, really ;)
Maybe it is because Nokia is not a Japanese company while most camera makers are Japanese. They certainly have their own business traditions (e.g how to react to a customer complaint).
It can give better quality than 5d3, it won't negate the fact that it runs on stillborn OS.
Symbian and its predecessors have been used in huge numbers of devices since the late 1980s, so your characterisation is as inaccurate as it is potentially offensive.
It's an interesting technology showcase, irrespective of which operating system it uses.
I'm using the latest Symbian 'Belle' operating sytem on my Nokia E7-00 and after a day teaching it to myself I can get where I want quicker than iOS and Android but not quite as fast as Windows phone 7.5.
So Whilst I will probably look towards Windows Phone in future I would not trade for an iPhone or an Android.
The PureView camera as a second camera to my SLR gear will be a perfect pocketable compromise for when I am travelling overseas I reckon and will save me buying a SONY RX100 or similar camera because the photo quality for such an environment is terrific and will save me carrying one more device without too much picture quality compromise tradeoff.
Perhaps you've never used a 5D3 or any 5D. It's a good performing camera-phone but let's not get carried away. None of the 5Ds clip highlights so badly, nor do they top out at ISO 1600, which on the 808 is like a watercolor painting. Megapixels aren't everything and not all pixels are created equal.
As far as the OS, DPRs own review talks about Symbian being obsolete. Perhaps Suave didn't phrase his point in a polite or accurate way, but he is not alone in his criticism Symbian OS.
It's only the politeness and accuracy that I highlighted.
hmm nobody ever mentioned it has better quality than 5d3...where did u pick that out from....
Roger Knight the fact you have spent a day learning an operating system on a mobile phone should tell you how bad it is. With the iPhone you just pick it up for the first time and get on with it straight away. Symbian Belle has a dreadful reputation including crashing using some very basic apps.
Don't you know that high pixel counts are all that matter---not.
If the ISO is not set to automatic the letter 'M' appears, correct? Why doesn't the actual ISO value get displayed? That seems like an easy code correction to me.
id probably never by this Nokia because i use and iPhone but i have to say that im pretty stunned and impressed that the Nokia guy came back with calm purposeful clarifications as it pertains to the review. ive been reading dpreview for over a decade an i cant remember seeing something like this before. refreshing!
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