That's very similar to my idea to turn out more voters: Make it a game of chance, like one of those video slot machines.
Punch in your candidate selections and press the VOTE AND SPIN button. Head shots of politicians scroll by in three or four columns, and if they all line up the same, you win a cash prize!
The odds don't even have to be very good. If you give them even the tiniest chance to win something, voters will turn out in droves.
And in many parts of the country, the pols working at the county and parish levels are notoriously corrupt. Just look at this week's story about the Waco Police's handling of the Twin Peaks shootout. The town is run by a good ole boy network. And I've lived in just about every Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast state South of Virginia and this is the norm for rural communities, and many non-rural.
Now I live in So Cal, and it's being revealed that more and more urban communities suffer the same corruption.
To these people, vulnerabilities and back doors are features, not bugs.
hey I was near a half mile or a mile away. Or even two miles away. The airline pilots are saying - get the hell out of my way.
First, how the hell can something two miles distant be in your way? Christ, you can't even see a drone from two miles.
Second, RTFA. The FAA is classifying pilot reports of model rockets and buzzards as civilian drone near misses, as well as military drones and unidentified objects at altitudes impossible for hobby and commercial UAVs to reach.
so legislators have accurate information from which to design regulations
Pfft! Since when have legislators ever cared about the accuracy of information when drafting bills? If Congress decides it wants to demonize hobbyist drones, it's going to do so regardless of what the FAA reports.
Since 9-11, concresscritters on both sides of the aisle have habitually either knowingly and willingly consumed disinformation, or ignored accurate information when it didn't support their predetermined goals.
Yea, even metamods punish upmodding of liberal posts. I get less mod points less often if I promote ideas that are conservative bogeymen.
Worse, even if a post gets to a +5, if it's got ideas or statements that conservative trolls want to suppress, then they'll send in their moderator accounts the following day, after the story falls off the front page, to mod the post down to 0 or -1 so that when the thread gets archived, that score is locked in.
Amazing how they're able to do that. They must have an army of sockpuppets.
I had dozens of sites I had to go change passwords on. Good thing I keep a list of what username/password combinations I use where, and the one I had used for Gawker was the one I use for "throwaway" comment board registrations.
Unfortunately, it was also very close to passwords I use for slightly more security, like work and email, so I had to change those, too.
What's happening is that all the concepts that Jobs squashed are getting raised again, by people who have now moved up a little in the company, and top management is too stupid to squash them again.
When Jobs fell ill, the software started to suck. Now that he's gone forever, the hardware's starting to suck, too.
I refuse to upgrade past OSX 10.8. And the 17" macbook pro I bought the day after they announced its discontinuation 3 years ago may be my last Mac.
Unfortunately, Microsoft's decline into the depths of suckage is going even faster.
You're not going to push anywhere near 50N with your finger so not all those levels will be relevant.
nobody is going to come close to their 11lb maximum pressure level in real-world use
You're forgetting about drumsticks. 50N may not even be a sufficient limit for a satisfying drum pad experience...
And I would imagine people with smaller fingertips and strong hands could easily hit 50 newtons typing if they tried... although that'd really be banging on the keys.
Yes I remember, and the buttons required an incredible amount of force to register, you got very little, if any, tactile feedback that you had closed the switch, and the layout of the thing was completely unergonomic.
Astrosmash! I played that game until my hands hurt. And kept playing. I got to the point where the levels didn't get any harder, so it just became an endurance challenge. The intellivision lost. One day the screen froze on level eleventy, and the system never booted again.
Augustine's Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.
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users may exceed their data cap without knowing it
That never happens without knowing it on Verizon. I get texts and emails when I reach 75%, 90%, 100% and then at each GB over the limit.
I have a teenage son. I get a lot of these notices.
Apple's cash on hand figures are mind boggling. Over 200 Billion.
Yes. 0.2 Terabucks. More than most governments.
So they could probably fill a gigantic pit with money if they wanted to.
The companies selling the voting machines.
I love it. We'd wind up with Flying Spaghetti Monster for governor and Rick Astley as President.
(And frankly, I'd trust Astley in the White House more than just about any other candidate who's announced.)
That's very similar to my idea to turn out more voters: Make it a game of chance, like one of those video slot machines.
Punch in your candidate selections and press the VOTE AND SPIN button. Head shots of politicians scroll by in three or four columns, and if they all line up the same, you win a cash prize!
The odds don't even have to be very good. If you give them even the tiniest chance to win something, voters will turn out in droves.
And in many parts of the country, the pols working at the county and parish levels are notoriously corrupt. Just look at this week's story about the Waco Police's handling of the Twin Peaks shootout. The town is run by a good ole boy network. And I've lived in just about every Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast state South of Virginia and this is the norm for rural communities, and many non-rural.
Now I live in So Cal, and it's being revealed that more and more urban communities suffer the same corruption.
To these people, vulnerabilities and back doors are features, not bugs.
At least one other person here understands the motives of election officials.
Most slashdotters appear to be under the misconception that politicians want accurate and secure voting machines.
Your error is in believing that the bureaucrats who select and operate these machines are concerned about accuracy and security.
No, the people they work for don't want accuracy and security. They want ways to ensure that elections have the desired outcomes.
hey I was near a half mile or a mile away. Or even two miles away. The airline pilots are saying - get the hell out of my way.
First, how the hell can something two miles distant be in your way? Christ, you can't even see a drone from two miles.
Second, RTFA. The FAA is classifying pilot reports of model rockets and buzzards as civilian drone near misses, as well as military drones and unidentified objects at altitudes impossible for hobby and commercial UAVs to reach.
so legislators have accurate information from which to design regulations
Pfft! Since when have legislators ever cared about the accuracy of information when drafting bills? If Congress decides it wants to demonize hobbyist drones, it's going to do so regardless of what the FAA reports.
Since 9-11, concresscritters on both sides of the aisle have habitually either knowingly and willingly consumed disinformation, or ignored accurate information when it didn't support their predetermined goals.
he's going to build his own BE-4 based rocket, with blackjack and hookers.
That sounds like an awesome rocket. Where do I sign up?
And do I need to bring my own single malt and cocaine?
Yea, even metamods punish upmodding of liberal posts. I get less mod points less often if I promote ideas that are conservative bogeymen.
Worse, even if a post gets to a +5, if it's got ideas or statements that conservative trolls want to suppress, then they'll send in their moderator accounts the following day, after the story falls off the front page, to mod the post down to 0 or -1 so that when the thread gets archived, that score is locked in.
Amazing how they're able to do that. They must have an army of sockpuppets.
Not to mention the Gawker hack victims.
I had dozens of sites I had to go change passwords on. Good thing I keep a list of what username/password combinations I use where, and the one I had used for Gawker was the one I use for "throwaway" comment board registrations.
Unfortunately, it was also very close to passwords I use for slightly more security, like work and email, so I had to change those, too.
What's happening is that all the concepts that Jobs squashed are getting raised again, by people who have now moved up a little in the company, and top management is too stupid to squash them again.
When Jobs fell ill, the software started to suck. Now that he's gone forever, the hardware's starting to suck, too.
I refuse to upgrade past OSX 10.8. And the 17" macbook pro I bought the day after they announced its discontinuation 3 years ago may be my last Mac.
Unfortunately, Microsoft's decline into the depths of suckage is going even faster.
I've been talking to my computer for decades.
Of course it's been things like "Come on, Hurry Up!" or "Goddamnit not again!" or the classic "You Piece of SHIT!"
It doesn't seem to have any effect, but I keep doing it.
I have really strong fingers.
Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your fingers?
Actually, compared to the marketing glitz and hype of Apple releases, I found this to be refreshingly concise and free of glamorization.
But on slashdot, no mention of Apple is ever made without anti-Mac zealots complaining about zealotry, even when there is none.
You're not going to push anywhere near 50N with your finger so not all those levels will be relevant.
nobody is going to come close to their 11lb maximum pressure level in real-world use
You're forgetting about drumsticks. 50N may not even be a sufficient limit for a satisfying drum pad experience...
And I would imagine people with smaller fingertips and strong hands could easily hit 50 newtons typing if they tried... although that'd really be banging on the keys.
Yes I remember, and the buttons required an incredible amount of force to register, you got very little, if any, tactile feedback that you had closed the switch, and the layout of the thing was completely unergonomic.
Astrosmash! I played that game until my hands hurt. And kept playing. I got to the point where the levels didn't get any harder, so it just became an endurance challenge. The intellivision lost. One day the screen froze on level eleventy, and the system never booted again.
I'm with you on this.
Whoever can make a force-adaptive touch-pad that's also a display will sell lots of product.
And whoever can do that, combined with array of built-in reconfigurable tactile feedback sensors will change the market for all kinds of devices.
His copypasta got entangled in the cookpot.
I think in this thread, MOOF! is more appropriate.
You're illustrating his point rather well.
You're right. Somebody is going to try this. And a lot of people will loudly object.
But depending on how it turns out, everybody else will also.
And the result will be a caste society, with the fearless, superintelligent transhumans ruling the masses of those with random genotypes.
Our only hope is that, if performed on humans, it produces some crippling side effect, like the inability to use language.
This was already predicted in the 80's by Norm Augustine.