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Slashback: Electioneering, Blimps, Shuffling
Let's get the politics out of the way.
The Washington state Republican Party has been working to prove that the election of November 2, between Democrat Christine Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi, was too fraudulent to be trusted, given the small margin of victory by Gregoire (129 votes), and they want a new election. Hundreds of alleged fraudulent votes (mostly felons, but also out-of-state, duplicate, and deceased voters), uncounted ballots, unaccounted-for absentee ballots, and illegally counted provisional ballots comprise the bulk of the GOP's case. The trial begins May 23, and the judge expects it to last two weeks. The hearing to decide the burden of proof standard will be May 2.
Unctuous politicians relive their student-council glory days:
Jackson West writes "As it stands, two versions of the Electronic Engineering bill (discussed earlier on Slashdot) presented to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors have passed their 'first reading.' This means both the first, unamended piece of legislation, and an amended version that will "specifically exclude web logs, forums, opt-in email lists and postings on general web pages." The Rules Committee will consider the amended bill on Monday, with a final vote on both bills on Tuesday."
How to get attention, part IIVVIVIVM.SanLouBlues writes "On March 30th, Slashdot reported on the FBI request for the logs of several radical-leaning sites. The Washington Post has an article about the man who was responsible for the posts which resulted in the FBI request. He claimed to have killed a cop in several forum posts."
Now on to the fun stuff!Matt Omori writes to say that GimpShop, the recently mentioned version of The GIMP hacked to feel more familiar to users of Photoshop, isn't just for Linux and Mac OS X. "Yes, it's finally been coded for Windows XP. After lots of hard work, some people devoted to a website, plasticbugs.com, have coded GimpShop for Windows."
To use it, you'll need Windows XP, GTK+, and a reboot. However, I'd also like to point out a BigSven's comment about the themeability of The GIMP; it would be great to see GIMPersonalities of all sorts -- and it sounds like this can be accomplished with some XML editing.
Still looks actionable to me.MrToast writes "The iPodLounge is reporting that LuxPro's Super Shuffle is back, but this time with slight alterations. The Super Tangent, as it is being called, has a slightly different button area and also has new headphones. Otherwise it appears to be identical to the iPod shuffle."
(The SuperShuffle disappeared from the Web site, and was reported as a hoax, shortly after it was mentioned in mid-March.)
Let's close on some uplifting news. Vaeske writes with more on my favorite futuristic means of broadband delivery, region-covering airships. "GlobeTel Communications Corp announced that they will be showing their prototype of the Sanswire One on April 12th. This "Stratalite" as they call it, will float in the stratosphere at 65,000 feet and provide line of sight communications to approximately 300,000 square miles, providing two-way high-sped communication. This project has attracted many high-profile NASA engineers to leave their posts for a position with GlobeTel. The military has also shown interest and was present at the GlobeTel Summit."
Recounts: not just for Democrats anymore!
...but is it art?
On a completely un-related note; last night I had some kids convinced that the Statue of Liberty had those spikes on her head to protect NYC from Nazi airships during WWII!
Get your Unix fortune now!
So we're reading gnome-vomit? Or did it return via the other end?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Get your Unix fortune now!
the return of our slashback overlords.
Anyone find it funny how the r's are trying this now? After all the hay they mad from the d's attempt?
Damn the man!
SLASHBACK:
That section of Slashdot.org that directly links Windows executables without warning.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
"BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
Slashback is back after a long absence being devoured by gnomes.
Lucky you don't use KDE.. Otherwise it'd be Dragons... 0.o
"Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far
Seriously, though, it's pretty weird that some editor didn't notice that paragraph. Imagine those black eyes at night, looking at a computer screen.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
...because 'Gimp is not Photoshop'.
Shouldn't that be 'GIMP Is Mot Photoshop'?
I thought slashback was absorbed into the whole dupe system...
Slashback is back after a long absence being devoured by gnomes.
So will there be a Kslashback to fill in?
I love open source sometimes.
"We made a version GIMP that is finally almost tolerable to use! Come check it out and see how easy it is!
Just make sure you first download an unspecified version of GTK+ for Windows, available from some dude's personal home page if you Google for it, since we're still a bit foggy about the responsibilities of an 'installer'.
While you're at it, make sure you find the correct versions of iconv and pango, and don't have any old DLLs anywhere in your path.
Anyway, I'm sure you can figure it out."
I hear coverage of the next presidential election will be moved to the Style section as well.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
most people voting don't vote based on issues. Those who do don't check their sources and are very poorly misinformed
Interesting how your mistake here drew attention to the sentence. I would like to point out that they are, in fact, very skillfully misinformed.