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gozzilla:
It will be a fraud if they go out there to purchase that large number of laptop. This softwares are for specific things, so they can be put in say any handheld device. You don't need to get something "fancy" that will end in the officials homes after the election. Then we will be needing another  billions come next election.

I think a dedicated kiosk can be built just for the voting software and this way, available points of attack against the system (in case someone technically savvy wanted to rig it) can be limited. The voting software could even be the entire operating system embedded in it's own kiosk. By having an embedded system, the benefit in stealing it for something or other after the election would also be limited.

Beaf:
I saw an earlier post you made by viewing your profile. I believe your view of what such a system would entail does not take every aspect into consideration; for example, you mentioned the possibility of using an MS Access database as the central store, but MS Access only allows a concurrency of 20 users max. It is easy to see that system with a MS Access backing store would crash fairly immediately, whereas a real life system would have to be an extremely robust and crash proof network with a distributed database; I'm sure it's already possible to start hearing the heavy thud of Dollars.

There are a thousand other things to consider, such as bandwidth and the infrastructure to deliver it; to the best of my knowledge, the country does not yet have anything adequate in place.
There will also need to be some intelligence on the client machines to do all biometric processing, display instructions etc; because the servers and network would not soon crash if such things are done remotely. etc etc

If we really mean to get it right by harnessing technology, then its going to cost some real dosh.

I meant to use Microsoft Access as an off-hand example, but actually, after I'd finished posting it, doubts about network infrastructure crept in. You're completely right on that.

gozzilla:
@becomrich3 what exactly will be the point you are making. You said you have not seen the old software in question and yet you go ahead insulting without information. You gain nothing in pulling others down. I know you know that.
Make your point don't try to tell us how they need 120000 lappy. Laptop is not software.

The deployment of the voting registration system would entail both hardware and software. Still, the software costs in no way justify the expense. And being that hardware price decreases when bought wholesale from a retailer, actually, the only real expense would come from hiring and training the personnel.

agabaI23:
He looks like Sauron's younger brother

LoTR?! Never thought I'd see the day

mama-gee:
Hang him already.

mama-gee:
Playing on someone's greed doesn't justify the crime.

Someone who steals people's loot by giving out false information doesn't deserve to be counted among the human race.

He should be hung.

Murdering him doesn't justify the crime.

I don't know anything about that but why the hell are my posts missing?

seanet02:
Ojukwu pledges support of Igbos for IBB
From AKIN ALOFETEKUN, Minna

Monday, May 3, 2010

Former Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeku Odumegwu-Ojukwu has pledged support of Igbo people for the presidential aspiration of former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and gave him the name Okechukwu.

It would be a very narcissistic fallacy on Dim Ojukwu's part to think that because he has thrown his support behind Babangida, this somehow translates to all of Ndi Igbo becoming supporters of the man.

Even in Nigeria today there are instances of slavery in the mines. Man, go to North Africa. Read about their harratines.

Funny. The joke being that Ondo State has somehow become like Abia State, eh? My black-heart laughs.

bee444:
You're not making any sense dude. Your interpretation of the whole thing is preposterous.

Your superstitions are even more.

It's my opinion that your cousin should see a therapist. All this talk I'm reading about spiritual this and spiritual that is rubbish. The guy has gone through something that's left him feeling deep hatred towards himself and ashamed, and he doesn't know how to deal with it. It isn't something that he can ignore or somehow "pray away" because it's a battle between him and his sub-conscious. I would seriously recommend he see a professional psychologist/psychiatrist who can guide him through this.

The issue with his Mom is nothing more than both their sub-consciousness talking. They need therapy.

MaziUche0:
Sorry about Obegu. We should have kept marching through Ngwaland until we got to the British.

Hey now! What's all this, then?

lol no worries, I have much respect for Ndi Aro. That was me just making trouble

Becomrich0:
Amaka was is your phone number.

Ha na cho ilu gi

But Becomrich0 my brother, like I said: more people live in Igboland than live in all the country of Cameroon. Density, my friend, is the key.

EzeUchenna:
ChinenyeN,

No wonder I don't like you. The Ngwa, you all joined forces to defeat a fellow Igbo clan. Have your people no shame? 

Come now, Uchenna. It was the Aros who instigated war with the Ngwa by mistaking our ancestors for weak Northern Igbo tribes. I think yours must have become so swollen with pride, knocking down those weak Northern communities, they forgot that when the first Ngwa clans came down from Mbaise, they marched only with Ala (the land) and Ekwensu (war and bargains) as their gods.

We couldn't let our neighbors carry on with such a fatal mistake, now, could we?

If the point is to show that all of Ala Igbo is somehow uninhabited, I assure that more people live in Ala Igbo than live in all of Cameroon.

Does an argument become any less valid if you can accuse the other of having "sentiments?"

And are [i]you [/i]not interested in moving Nigeria forward?

I've really begun to admire the guy. Maybe he is an idealist but at least he intends to be a part of the solution also, whereas previous administrations have only been a part of the problem.

Nchara:
Which North are you talking about? The one that we all read about that has been thorougly demystified? Enough already with the fabulous one north nonsense.

Nwannem, demystified or not, the Northern people will stand behind a person they view as their own. They share the legacy of "One North." I may or may not disagree with you on Jonathan, but I know that the South is nowhere as united, nor as politically efficient.

It's as I said. The entire North votes as one united body, but the South? It's South West this, South East that, and ridiculously enough, South South. You've been divided. Your conquest is on-going.

oyinda.:
this topic is still going? lol

Tell 'em! There's nothing but trouble here o!

Kobojunkie:
But here is the kink in that  . . . many of those fin-gered in these have spent considerable amount of time living and socializing with people of other cultures in the west. .  they are mostly not the newcomers involved here.  Yes, there is the inability to adapt but I think it also points to problems with our culture in Nigeria that needs to be dealt with before globalization overtakes us and we find ourselves tackling this problem right there in Nigeria, in overwhelming numbers.

I'm glad you pointed this out!

@Ileke-IdI, @chiogo,
Lol I didn't mean that once electricity started working and water kept running, people started killing each other. What I was trying to say is that the way Nigerian families are run are generally the way their people adapted to the hardship of Nigerian society. Someone is always trying to keep someone else in line, and that someone else is always resenting being forced down. Western societies, on the other hand, work differently. Because there's almost always going to be an abundance of resources, the type of situation where one person (a government, a spouse, etc) tries to micromanage [i]everything [/i]doesn't always work. There's space to be more fluid when dealing with things, and to become more moderate too.

If we can go back to the original topic, I would say that maybe the problem is the inability of some Nigerians to adapt well to some aspects of American / Western societies. Compared to the scarcities of Nigeria, America is a place filled with uncommon excesses, and to a degree, most Americans have learned to moderate themselves in ways someone just coming from Nigeria has to learn to do.

Electricity is nearly constant, there is always running water (hot and cold), food is always just around the corner at the store, and the streets are kept clear of trash. It really is a culture shock for newly arrived Nigerians who must learn new ways to interact with each other.

Debate you? Your words are not even yours. You have nothing to debate about. You lifted quotes straight from a five year old report concerning one single community in Anambra State, and then generalized it to somehow represent Igbo communities everywhere. Any debate that may arise from this would be on your stupidity in using such an obviously flawed logical fallacy. If you were debating the comprehensively retarded, that may have worked. It won't work here.

babapupa:
Like I said, Ignore me if you don't feel like debating or arguing. It's not by force to quote Babapupa.

When idi0ts speak, you try. However, the medium of the forum does make it a bit difficult. We can't always ignore all the idi0ts, now can we? How funny it is that you accuse THE AMAKA of insecurities when she reacts to the post you wrote, filled with yours. What was that, projection? Maybe a little of internal angst displacement?

Obalende:
desgiedz
will an innocent civilian be carrying a gun, knife or other weapon in a crime scene? too coincidental for the person to be innocent.

If a man lived in an area with a very high crime rate, he may very well choose to arm himself. If the National Police, incompetent as they are, were to arrive at an area where a crime had been committed and see him, it is possible that they might mistake him for the culprit.

This is the lesson US forces had to learn in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not everyone with a weapon was an insurgent. Some families and local tribes had taken to arming themselves so that they could fight back against armed robbers and highwaymen.

@babapupa My foot in your face breeds and encourages violence.

Aigbofa also speaks the harsh truth.

Kobojunkie speaks the harsh truth.