Slashbots spouting off about FUD has got to be one of the most ironic things on the internet... after all nobody expels more FUD than this site... be it any of their favority targets ("M$", "SCO", Bush).
The only comparable irony would be how they spout off about free speech and do anything in their power to mod down (ie censor) and viewpoint not in agreement with the slashbots.
Slashdot lefties are by far the dumbest Americans of them all, the runner-up being the general Slashdot hive-mind. Half the crap the Slashbots prattle on about in here are half-truths, disproven myths and outright lies... especially the histrionic headlines posted by "michael".
Hey Slashbot, you forgot to insult Microsoft in your post.
I think right there you have just summed up the collective aspiration for the millions of Eurotrash who bash the US all day long on Slashdot (American, by the way).
As other have said on here, we have that ability too. We can rent most shows on DVD and watch them uniterrupted. And if you have a TiVO you can edit out the commercials easily enough.
The US pays for 90% of it's roads with user fees you twit. Just like BBC, the Guardian, et. al you limey fucks spout off urban legends, assumptions, and other BS and try to pass it off as fact. This must be why you have the worst journalistic standards in the free world.
Besides as so many people in the US drive, drivers can hardly be said to be subsidized. More like the other way around.
We got that in America... kinda... try not paying the federal government's share of the NPR/PBS "allotment" in your federal taxes. You'll end up in prison.
Yes, the elite effetes need to be subsidized so they can listen to that bane of comedy Garrison Keillor, driving their Volvo's, sporting their Birkenstocks and sipping their lattes.
I'm subscribing to American exceptionalism?!?!?! Look who's talking... I'm not saying America is an exception at all, our voting process is flawed but no more than any other system.
I don't know why I'm bothering to talk to slashdotters (generally the worst informed population on the internet) about the voting process but heregos:
Uhhh, the current president was elected with a larger percentage of the popular vote than most PM's of parliamentary systems. Third party candidates are a bunch of kooks and are extremely narrowly focused... having a two party system allows for less adherance to rigid dogma.
Our system ain't perfect by any means, but parliamentary systems are worse.
The developers have set up Doom3 and the The Sims 2 to run as "root" (Windows) for a very good reason, and it's not because of programming incompetence. The reason they have done this is because both games are considered "adult" and not to be played by kids. This is why you need admin priveledges, it's an attempt to "password protect" those games that are adult in nature. ICQ has explicitly stated, as a matter of fact, that this is why you need admin priveldges to run it.
runas will always work, period. The only problem I've run into is that you cannot run "runas" in a "Documents and Settings" folder that has been chosen as "private". The installer cannot be "runas" because it doesn't have permission to look into that folder tree.
The solution is to "runas" in the "Shared" folder. Works every time. When you're done installing, delete or drag back to your limited user documents folder.
Indeed it doesn't. Plus it's a pain. On the other hand, I run Windows XP as a limited user at home and do just fine. I play a variety of games that would normally require administrative priveledges but do not because I have installed them in the shared folder.
I had a few legacy apps that would not run as a limited user, but those problems were mostly cleared up when I dragged them to the "shared folder" (occasionally I had to reinstall them in the shared folder). There are a few apps that still will not let you run them as a limited user like ICQ (part of their philosophy is that kids shouldn't be on ICQ and therefor the app shouldn't run as a limited user).
I never said I thought that closed-source, black-box voting, conflict of interest electronic voting was the way to go, which is what the current situation is in a lot of counties. I'm just surprised it's dismissed outright and so many people are talking about manually counting the votes, as if that's less prone to fraud.
Yes, I understand that computers can lie. I understand that as much as anyone on here.
My point was why are you assuming that humans are any worse at lying than computers, or lie less?
This makes me think of the geeks in the Simpsons, who get their wallets stolen by the "criminal" character who announces he is a "wallet inspector". Maybe geeks really are that gullible and think that machines are fallible and humans always tell the truth?
Yes, more reduncy and more security make cheating less possible. So why is isn't this true for electronic voting? Why is it dismissed outright on slashdot (comprised of folks who apparently trust people more than they trust machines).
Yeah but, how do you know anything's been tampered with after the fact? I mean, if you count the vote via paper... I'm sure it's not hard for a few vote counters to be "planted" and... surprise... candidate X won by a landslide. How hard is it to change a '1' into a '9' let's say? You name the vote method, it's possible to hack.
I'm surprised people believe that people are better than machines... they obviously do not understand human nature.
Where did I say that Microsoft shouldn't worry about working conditions? Working conditions does not mean private lives. There's a difference there, don't you think?
I never said that we could even run a country without taxes, I just think that the least amount of taxation is the better.
If the private sector wastes money it's the private sector's money and not my tax dollars. A certain amount of money to go into research is fine, as is allowed per the US constitution. But taxation kept at the lowest levels possible raises living standards, productivity, and encourages more business. Low taxation levels will keep our country as competitive as possible.
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Slashbots spouting off about FUD has got to be one of the most ironic things on the internet... after all nobody expels more FUD than this site... be it any of their favority targets ("M$", "SCO", Bush).
The only comparable irony would be how they spout off about free speech and do anything in their power to mod down (ie censor) and viewpoint not in agreement with the slashbots.
Slashdot lefties are by far the dumbest Americans of them all, the runner-up being the general Slashdot hive-mind. Half the crap the Slashbots prattle on about in here are half-truths, disproven myths and outright lies... especially the histrionic headlines posted by "michael".
Hey Slashbot, you forgot to insult Microsoft in your post.
And Ted Kennedy... who wouldn't allow that wind farm off his Cape Cod estate. Lefties are the biggest hypocrits in the world.
Boy you lefties are really wetting the bed now that you got your ass kicked! Bwahahahaha!
People on this site are intellectually lazy.
It is a massive inferiority complex with borders.
You can certainly get DVD's for free if you're ethically lax. Otherwise renting them is fairly trivial.
As other have said on here, we have that ability too. We can rent most shows on DVD and watch them uniterrupted. And if you have a TiVO you can edit out the commercials easily enough.
The US pays for 90% of it's roads with user fees you twit. Just like BBC, the Guardian, et. al you limey fucks spout off urban legends, assumptions, and other BS and try to pass it off as fact. This must be why you have the worst journalistic standards in the free world.
Besides as so many people in the US drive, drivers can hardly be said to be subsidized. More like the other way around.
We got that in America... kinda... try not paying the federal government's share of the NPR/PBS "allotment" in your federal taxes. You'll end up in prison.
Yes, the elite effetes need to be subsidized so they can listen to that bane of comedy Garrison Keillor, driving their Volvo's, sporting their Birkenstocks and sipping their lattes.
That is hardly exceptionalism. Please study and learn the term before debating further.
/. poster, based on the anecdotal examples I have available to me.
And like I said, I would gather that I get out a lot more than the median
I'm subscribing to American exceptionalism?!?!?! Look who's talking... I'm not saying America is an exception at all, our voting process is flawed but no more than any other system.
How is that exceptionalism?
I dunno what "much" means but I definately get out more than the average Slashdot poster.
I don't know why I'm bothering to talk to slashdotters (generally the worst informed population on the internet) about the voting process but heregos:
Uhhh, the current president was elected with a larger percentage of the popular vote than most PM's of parliamentary systems. Third party candidates are a bunch of kooks and are extremely narrowly focused... having a two party system allows for less adherance to rigid dogma.
Our system ain't perfect by any means, but parliamentary systems are worse.
Bush did not reject Kyoto. Kyoto was rejected before Bush was even in power.
Pinheads. This is by far the dumbest site on the internet.
The developers have set up Doom3 and the The Sims 2 to run as "root" (Windows) for a very good reason, and it's not because of programming incompetence. The reason they have done this is because both games are considered "adult" and not to be played by kids. This is why you need admin priveledges, it's an attempt to "password protect" those games that are adult in nature. ICQ has explicitly stated, as a matter of fact, that this is why you need admin priveldges to run it.
runas will always work, period. The only problem I've run into is that you cannot run "runas" in a "Documents and Settings" folder that has been chosen as "private". The installer cannot be "runas" because it doesn't have permission to look into that folder tree.
The solution is to "runas" in the "Shared" folder. Works every time. When you're done installing, delete or drag back to your limited user documents folder.
Indeed it doesn't. Plus it's a pain. On the other hand, I run Windows XP as a limited user at home and do just fine. I play a variety of games that would normally require administrative priveledges but do not because I have installed them in the shared folder.
I had a few legacy apps that would not run as a limited user, but those problems were mostly cleared up when I dragged them to the "shared folder" (occasionally I had to reinstall them in the shared folder). There are a few apps that still will not let you run them as a limited user like ICQ (part of their philosophy is that kids shouldn't be on ICQ and therefor the app shouldn't run as a limited user).
I never said I thought that closed-source, black-box voting, conflict of interest electronic voting was the way to go, which is what the current situation is in a lot of counties. I'm just surprised it's dismissed outright and so many people are talking about manually counting the votes, as if that's less prone to fraud.
Yes, I understand that computers can lie. I understand that as much as anyone on here.
My point was why are you assuming that humans are any worse at lying than computers, or lie less?
This makes me think of the geeks in the Simpsons, who get their wallets stolen by the "criminal" character who announces he is a "wallet inspector". Maybe geeks really are that gullible and think that machines are fallible and humans always tell the truth?
Yes, more reduncy and more security make cheating less possible. So why is isn't this true for electronic voting? Why is it dismissed outright on slashdot (comprised of folks who apparently trust people more than they trust machines).
Yeah but, how do you know anything's been tampered with after the fact? I mean, if you count the vote via paper... I'm sure it's not hard for a few vote counters to be "planted" and ... surprise... candidate X won by a landslide. How hard is it to change a '1' into a '9' let's say? You name the vote method, it's possible to hack.
I'm surprised people believe that people are better than machines... they obviously do not understand human nature.
Where did I say that Microsoft shouldn't worry about working conditions? Working conditions does not mean private lives. There's a difference there, don't you think?
I never said that we could even run a country without taxes, I just think that the least amount of taxation is the better.
If the private sector wastes money it's the private sector's money and not my tax dollars. A certain amount of money to go into research is fine, as is allowed per the US constitution. But taxation kept at the lowest levels possible raises living standards, productivity, and encourages more business. Low taxation levels will keep our country as competitive as possible.