I recently re-wrote the UI for a web application to make it cross-browser compatible. Getting the HTML to work right in all three was simple enough (with IE's conditional comments). I liked how Opera supported lots of IE's non-standardness, which made it much easier to get IE and Opera to look the same. Moz was much more stubborn, wanting everybody to play the way it wanted or it would take its ball and go home. But once the HTML was done, I started working on the javascript. That's when Opera took a big ol' shit on me. I wasn't able to do any kind of javascript debugging in Opera. And without the support for decorating objects like Moz allows, getting all three platforms to work together without branching logic depending on browser was a royal pain in the ass. The lack of a good javascript debugger in Opera is definitely its biggest shortcoming and put me off it.
I'm currently running sql server 2000, msde, 2005 and 2005 DTE on my 3 year old XP dev box. Not the most responsive system right now, but it does work.
Okay, not speaking on whether or not a national ID program is good or bad... Since when do FUCKING IMMIGRANTS have ANYTHING to say about US national policy? Until you're a US citizen, you are here as a guest of the United States, and like a guest in your home, have shit to say about how that house is run. Imagine your brother-in-law coming to visit, only to start complaining about the food you keep in the fridge. If you don't like the rules you stay by, get the fuck out. It isn't much harder to understand than that.
But let's get down to the point of the whole immigrants-not-wanting-national-ids thing... Illegals and radical muslims. Oops! I'm a bad person! Spoke the truth, goddamnit. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to point out that those who wish to stay in this country illegally (and those who profit from it) don't want to be easily found or identified. And I certainly didn't mean to point out that radical muslims want to keep us vulnerable to jihadis. Remember the flying imams? Do exactly what terrorists would do, then sue when you get kicked off the plane.
I think we should do what Mexico does--its illegal to protest the government if you're not a citizen. I know, suppression of free speech and all. Well, you can speak your mind, but it doesn't mean you can live your ass in my guest bedroom.
Lol... Been so long since I saw the video I forgot that you could do that. But you couldn't really use it like a joystick, as at the point where you couldn't stretch the fabric any more the motion would stop.
Not to mention that, but this is about three months old. Its only when it gets reported on the FOSS news-o-sphere (or whatever the fuck you'd call it) that it gets on/.
Its the other way around. The innards spin around inside the sock like a bar of soap spins around in your hand. It would be damn near impossible to do it the other way around.
Too bad actually flipping over a ball mouse and trying to roll the wheel doesn't work, since the scroll contacts require gravity to hold the mouse against them and the ball doesn't float smoothly when resting on the inside of the mouse well. Nice attempt at a smartass comment, but you FAIL.
Well, we managed to hit the moon right about when Vietnam was starting, and went back a number of times during the whole thing. Guess we can do more than one thing at a time, no? Maybe, if you're lucky, you won't be forced to pray to Mecca before a ship is ready to smuggle you away from the global caliphate to the only free community of humans left--on mars.
The question was whether it worked or not, and whether you are for it or not. Not whether or not you would like to be the subject of it, by accident or by action.
Torture doesn't work? You do not support it? Your child is kidnapped by two individuals. One is captured. He will not talk. You are placed in a soundproof room with the kidnapper and one #2 pencil. Sharpened.
"Climate change skeptics are expected to seize on the revised figures as evidence that action to combat global warming is less urgent"
Well, that's because it is. But don't let this stop you from whipping up hysteria as per usual. In 100 years, oil prices will be down below 10$ per barrel (in 2006 dollars) due to the rise of alternate fuel technologies and the linked decrease in the reliance of oil in the creation of energy. Unless we replace the CO2 reduction with an increase in other greenhouse gasses (i.e., escaped hydrogen gas), looks like it isn't the end of the world as we know it.
I cannot believe that this PhD's only concerns over paper trails and voting is the cost factor. THE biggest issue with paper trails is that they are reciepts of a voter's record. If voters are allowed to leave the polling place with an official record of how they voted in their posession, they are vulnerable to both bribery and extortion. The opportunity for groups to apply pressure to voters to make certain ballot choices and then present the proof afterwards for either a cash reward or a guarantee of safety from physical harm is not only possible but almost guaranteed if this were to happen.
A paper trail is important, and can be done under one and only one situation. Voters make their choices and sumbit their ballots. A paper record is produced. The record details their votes and has a code which links it directly with the vote cast. The voter examines their ballot, agrees that it is a correct representation of their choices, then places this ballot in a sealed and locked ballot box. Without that paper ballot's existance, the voter's vote is invalidated.
Issues still remain with this system. Something similar to the old style ballot submission method must be done. The paper ballot must be placed into a container which allows the ballot to be identified as true, and to be scanned to be verified as matching with an existing cast ballot. The container must hide the ballot record from the eyes of handlers. This way the voter can present the ballot to a volunteer. The volunteer can identify the ballot is real, and scan it. Once scanned, the ballot must be transferred to the ballot box to be kept in case a manual recount is ordered.
Unless these steps are taken, paper reciepts of voters choices are a liability rather than a safeguard to the system. That this supposed expert didn't say anything about this is extremely disheartening to me.
The evidence for WMD was seen by everybody, including everybody in Congress who voted to oust Saddam. Considering the Post just was screaming about Bush putting up documents that outlined Iraq's secret nuclear program (less than a year from making a bomb), I'm truly surprised that people are still whining about WMDs.
Fact is that learning new languages is the key to happiness in IT. Times change, and if you don't change with them, you're stuck in a box. A smelly box with a dead cat.
From your logic and reasoning, all the smart kids would still be programming Cobol.
I've been in C# (1.1, 2 and now 3) for the past three years. I haven't had to re-do anything in that time that I didn't want to (no DLL hell in.NET, so 1.0, 1.1, 2 and 3 all live happily along side each other on the same machine), in contrast to your claim that you'd have to do this every 3 to 18 months.
Take the big job and play HL2 with the cool company.
Besides, coding C# is like taking candy from babies... And almost as fun. I'm primarily a C# programmer, and just started a side project in C++. Oh. My. God. I've completely forgotten how awful other programming languages are. Barely any type safety, primitive (in comparison) IDE support, awful documentation, MACROS??? Its like being adopted by Madonna for a year, then getting returned to the orphanage.
Isn't Slashdot the land of do-it-yourselfers? For all the bitching and whining and FUD about Diebold etal, the OSS community has done pretty much SHIT about it (disclaimer: much of the bitching is legit, imho). There is no reason why a coalition could not be formed, funded by the bigwigs in OSS, to develop an open, secure electronic system. If you can put out a fast, slick, secure alternative that people have a good feeling using, you accomplish three things: One, you help secure our elections against shenanigans. Two, you increase the people's faith in our form of government. Three: you have millions of people who just used an OSS product and enjoyed it. Shit, just stick Tux wearing Uncle Sam's tophat on the goddamn box and the investers will probably make their money back in merchandise alone (well, maybe not).
Really, is there any movement in the community to fucking DO SOMETHING other than whine??? Something we can all get behind? Anyone? Hello?
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Wow, after my brain tumor has been removed, I don't wanna plook kiddies! Now let me outta jail, kthx.
Glad to hear you think that way. BTW, I'm coming over to your house to take your fucking computer. And your girlfriend (if you have one).
I recently re-wrote the UI for a web application to make it cross-browser compatible. Getting the HTML to work right in all three was simple enough (with IE's conditional comments). I liked how Opera supported lots of IE's non-standardness, which made it much easier to get IE and Opera to look the same. Moz was much more stubborn, wanting everybody to play the way it wanted or it would take its ball and go home.
But once the HTML was done, I started working on the javascript. That's when Opera took a big ol' shit on me. I wasn't able to do any kind of javascript debugging in Opera. And without the support for decorating objects like Moz allows, getting all three platforms to work together without branching logic depending on browser was a royal pain in the ass. The lack of a good javascript debugger in Opera is definitely its biggest shortcoming and put me off it.
I'm currently running sql server 2000, msde, 2005 and 2005 DTE on my 3 year old XP dev box. Not the most responsive system right now, but it does work.
FUDdy duddies... GET OFF MY LAWN, VISTA!!! Nothing to see here, move along.
$uck dollar $igns, a$$hole. ($orry to di$$ you $o clo$e to xma$. Hope you get ur p$3. Not.)
The science of "international peace and security"? I smell bullshit.
Okay, not speaking on whether or not a national ID program is good or bad... Since when do FUCKING IMMIGRANTS have ANYTHING to say about US national policy? Until you're a US citizen, you are here as a guest of the United States, and like a guest in your home, have shit to say about how that house is run. Imagine your brother-in-law coming to visit, only to start complaining about the food you keep in the fridge. If you don't like the rules you stay by, get the fuck out. It isn't much harder to understand than that. But let's get down to the point of the whole immigrants-not-wanting-national-ids thing... Illegals and radical muslims. Oops! I'm a bad person! Spoke the truth, goddamnit. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to point out that those who wish to stay in this country illegally (and those who profit from it) don't want to be easily found or identified. And I certainly didn't mean to point out that radical muslims want to keep us vulnerable to jihadis. Remember the flying imams? Do exactly what terrorists would do, then sue when you get kicked off the plane. I think we should do what Mexico does--its illegal to protest the government if you're not a citizen. I know, suppression of free speech and all. Well, you can speak your mind, but it doesn't mean you can live your ass in my guest bedroom.
Lol... Been so long since I saw the video I forgot that you could do that. But you couldn't really use it like a joystick, as at the point where you couldn't stretch the fabric any more the motion would stop.
Not to mention that, but this is about three months old. Its only when it gets reported on the FOSS news-o-sphere (or whatever the fuck you'd call it) that it gets on /.
Its the other way around. The innards spin around inside the sock like a bar of soap spins around in your hand. It would be damn near impossible to do it the other way around.
Or, maybe, just un-velcro the covering, pull the two halves of the shell apart, and then replace the batteries.
Too bad actually flipping over a ball mouse and trying to roll the wheel doesn't work, since the scroll contacts require gravity to hold the mouse against them and the ball doesn't float smoothly when resting on the inside of the mouse well. Nice attempt at a smartass comment, but you FAIL.
Well, we managed to hit the moon right about when Vietnam was starting, and went back a number of times during the whole thing. Guess we can do more than one thing at a time, no? Maybe, if you're lucky, you won't be forced to pray to Mecca before a ship is ready to smuggle you away from the global caliphate to the only free community of humans left--on mars.
And you are lying to yourself. Speaking of lying to oneself, I admit I'm threadjacking and will stop.
The question was whether it worked or not, and whether you are for it or not. Not whether or not you would like to be the subject of it, by accident or by action.
Torture doesn't work? You do not support it?
Your child is kidnapped by two individuals. One is captured. He will not talk. You are placed in a soundproof room with the kidnapper and one #2 pencil. Sharpened.
Well, that's because it is. But don't let this stop you from whipping up hysteria as per usual.
In 100 years, oil prices will be down below 10$ per barrel (in 2006 dollars) due to the rise of alternate fuel technologies and the linked decrease in the reliance of oil in the creation of energy. Unless we replace the CO2 reduction with an increase in other greenhouse gasses (i.e., escaped hydrogen gas), looks like it isn't the end of the world as we know it.
I cannot believe that this PhD's only concerns over paper trails and voting is the cost factor. THE biggest issue with paper trails is that they are reciepts of a voter's record. If voters are allowed to leave the polling place with an official record of how they voted in their posession, they are vulnerable to both bribery and extortion. The opportunity for groups to apply pressure to voters to make certain ballot choices and then present the proof afterwards for either a cash reward or a guarantee of safety from physical harm is not only possible but almost guaranteed if this were to happen. A paper trail is important, and can be done under one and only one situation. Voters make their choices and sumbit their ballots. A paper record is produced. The record details their votes and has a code which links it directly with the vote cast. The voter examines their ballot, agrees that it is a correct representation of their choices, then places this ballot in a sealed and locked ballot box. Without that paper ballot's existance, the voter's vote is invalidated. Issues still remain with this system. Something similar to the old style ballot submission method must be done. The paper ballot must be placed into a container which allows the ballot to be identified as true, and to be scanned to be verified as matching with an existing cast ballot. The container must hide the ballot record from the eyes of handlers. This way the voter can present the ballot to a volunteer. The volunteer can identify the ballot is real, and scan it. Once scanned, the ballot must be transferred to the ballot box to be kept in case a manual recount is ordered. Unless these steps are taken, paper reciepts of voters choices are a liability rather than a safeguard to the system. That this supposed expert didn't say anything about this is extremely disheartening to me.
The evidence for WMD was seen by everybody, including everybody in Congress who voted to oust Saddam. Considering the Post just was screaming about Bush putting up documents that outlined Iraq's secret nuclear program (less than a year from making a bomb), I'm truly surprised that people are still whining about WMDs.
Fact is that learning new languages is the key to happiness in IT. Times change, and if you don't change with them, you're stuck in a box. A smelly box with a dead cat. From your logic and reasoning, all the smart kids would still be programming Cobol. I've been in C# (1.1, 2 and now 3) for the past three years. I haven't had to re-do anything in that time that I didn't want to (no DLL hell in .NET, so 1.0, 1.1, 2 and 3 all live happily along side each other on the same machine), in contrast to your claim that you'd have to do this every 3 to 18 months.
Take the big job and play HL2 with the cool company. Besides, coding C# is like taking candy from babies... And almost as fun. I'm primarily a C# programmer, and just started a side project in C++. Oh. My. God. I've completely forgotten how awful other programming languages are. Barely any type safety, primitive (in comparison) IDE support, awful documentation, MACROS??? Its like being adopted by Madonna for a year, then getting returned to the orphanage.
And a sorrier bunch of assholes I've never seen.
Isn't Slashdot the land of do-it-yourselfers? For all the bitching and whining and FUD about Diebold etal, the OSS community has done pretty much SHIT about it (disclaimer: much of the bitching is legit, imho). There is no reason why a coalition could not be formed, funded by the bigwigs in OSS, to develop an open, secure electronic system. If you can put out a fast, slick, secure alternative that people have a good feeling using, you accomplish three things: One, you help secure our elections against shenanigans. Two, you increase the people's faith in our form of government. Three: you have millions of people who just used an OSS product and enjoyed it. Shit, just stick Tux wearing Uncle Sam's tophat on the goddamn box and the investers will probably make their money back in merchandise alone (well, maybe not). Really, is there any movement in the community to fucking DO SOMETHING other than whine??? Something we can all get behind? Anyone? Hello?