perhaps is is the American people (and the people of Iraq) who should be seeking punitive damages from Diebold.
I'm hoping that this issue does not become partisan. Many people are unhappy about the outcome of some recent elections, but I think anyone, no matter what their political leanings, should be patently against black box electronic voting. These machines can be abused by either party.
say ice skateing and make it so that x gives y points.
I like this, we can go with it. From there, give them sticks and lets say that x is putting an object into some sort of goal with said stick. We can give them y=1 point for that. And then we can make the object something that makes sense, like a puck--to slide--a ball might roll, ruining any dynamics the ice might contribute to the movement of the object. A puck would also limit bounces, which would make the game chaotic--but I'm open to suggestions. Then, to make it interesting, allow them to hit each other. I think both boys and girls could do this--I would enjoy watching either. We could make sure all parts of their body are covered for protection and also to make sure the "hot" ones are not given any favoritism. (I would even require their wearing masks--but they may not like it--we might have to hammer that one out with the "players".) This plan would take a lot of subjectivity out of ice skating.
And what happens when your amateur COBOL hackers bork a live, production system upon which tens of thousands of people rely on for their paychecks?
Here is a little process us whipper-snappers have come up with since you retired: 1. Make a copy 2. Work on that 3. Test it thoroughly 4. Put it into production.
You got modded troll because you are not topical. You might be right about some things needing security, but to call someone paranoid because they don't want some incompetent company being irresponsible with personal information is absolutely trollish and you deserve to be -5. I tell you what, why don't you post all of your private info right here on/.? You have nothing to hide, right? If you do it right under your troll post and say why, I'll lead the charge to help you get modded to +5 insightful above--but something tells me that won't happen, because you DO have something to hide--and if you don't do it, I'll guarantee you that I won't call you paranoid.
You can always ask for something and be given it. Warrants are only needed to forcibly remove an article.
Yes, and they are most definitely not needed by people posing as agents and walking off with some choice computers. I know, I know, "they new an awful lot". But "they knew an awful lot" to a clueless librarian might mean that they could look at the case and know it had Rambus memory or a 3.1 GhZ pentium. I'm putting even chances on the possibility that this library got hoodwinked out of a couple of imacs. And even if the library didn't get hoodwinked, its always best to ask for documentation when men in black suits ask to walk off with your property, lest it end up in a pawn shop somewhere.
If it was dogma the priests of chemistry would be denying the evidence and punishing its discoverers.
Evidence you are not a scientist. The word "dogma" just has a different meaning from what you are used to when talking about science. To wit: "The Central Dogma". You should call up Francis Crick and tell him he was using that word wrong. Maybe they will posthumously take back his Nobel Prize.
Heck, maybe he didn't do it all. Maybe the thought of going through a protracted trial was too much for him.
True. I'm hoping that through the use of the word "suggestion", I am conveying that other possibilities could be considered--but of course other possibilities include both conspiracies and single actor scenarios.
And you still have yours.
One person acting alone can NEVER, by definition, be a conspiracy, even if his motive is political in nature (which would, by definition, make him a terrorist). I wish someone famous would tattoo some of these definitions on their forehead so people wouldn't get confused. Maybe Tom Cruise? He's famous enough.
I've got it! A mnemonic in the form of an anagram: COPT
If you look hard enough for conspiracies, you'll find them.
You definitely found a conspiracy, didn't you? My suggestion is that he might have been a republican and didn't like democrats, not that the republican party or anyone else had anything to do with it.
You're looking only at quality and usability without any consideration for time and budget.
So you are saying the recipe for mediocrity is an over extension of your resources and a bloated plan? I guess if that's how your company operates, then we know what we can expect from it. So what company was that again, Mr. Anonymous Coward?
Also, for all your developers, do you have a designer? UI development = graphic design + industrial/interaction design.
There is also the little concept of actually using the software. Here is my plan that I wish every corporation would adopt for near perfect design:
Write application.
Give to CEO of company to use for day-to-day tasks (make him use it every day or get a new CEO)
Fix everything he hates and add what he wants
Repeat until he goes about one month without any suggestions or complaints
Of course this is from a user's perspective and from someone who writes software for myself. Profit may get in the way of a usable product, so I don't expect my plan to get adopted everywhere.
I'll get it started then hand it off to my co-op student. It'll be done before noon.
Who needs a co-op student? I'm drinking my coffee with my left hand, typing with my right, and tying the tether with my feet--and I haven't event had lunch yet!
The key is that when we run low on heat from the Earth's core in the distant future
When the earth's core (the molten metal part that causes the magnetic field that deflects the solar ion radiation) finally goes solid from our geothermal harvesting, we will have mutated to a form we probably couldn't recognize as being evolved from ourselves--and we certainly wouldn't give a damn about the little alien looking marmots either.
Diebold fixes the election, and all you Americans do is point at them and whine a bit, then Comcast takes away your pron and all of a sudden you're willing to fight to the death
Look, if Diebold fixed the election, they only had to skew it one or two percent. It didn't take much the past two elections--and it won't take much this time either. So, if the hypothetical 40,000 or so disenfranchised voters took a stand on this one, they'd get crushed by the 45% that actually voted for the incumbent. You can't have a coup in a country as nominally democratic as America without a close race--and the current 1.2371455 party system ensures that.
if we did tap geothermal resources nationwide to get up to supplying 25% of our electrical needs within a few decades
I'm of the opinion that the human race will eventually get close to 90% of its energy needs from geothermal sources. Wind and solar probably can't deliver the wattage. What people don't realize and what they don't want to believe, is that the world is not filled up with oil in the middle. Instead, its filled with molten rock, and beyond that, molten metals. And there is a lot of it in there. All you need to do is invest in shunting sea water a few miles into the earth and harvesting the energy as it boils out. Other than the initial investment, it wouldn't take coal or oil--both of which WILL run out.
Dude, you plagarized my translation, even down to the back-slashes in the wrong direction (got you there, dumbass). Check the posting times. Me=Monday July 28, @01:49AM, your sorry ass=Monday July 28, @01:54AM How can you live with yourself?
[translation]Fuck you Chinese government! I really would like to say more than just these few words but the high charges aren't affordable. If only I could be able to write that I disapprove entirely of these high charges I wouldn't have to be abbreviated and could say if I have been abused or tortured or not. If I could afford to tell if I have been tortured, trust me, I would just say it. Anyway, I will have to sign off now because I am late for a protest march in Tiananmen Square. I should be back soon, sorry I had to make this so short. Next time I will see if I can get a discount or not. I will see you later, bye bye \...By the way, what did you think of the Batman movie? It was awsome! You really should see it if you get the chance. Heath Ledger was good, I think Oscar for sure, not [saying that] just out of sympathy. Now I will see you later, bye bye, \.[/translation]
What exactly are you comparing? My car running over your cat on your property while I'm on mine?
Wait. You actually mean to use the example of accidentally dropping a gun and the bullet accidentally killing a mule as your argument against guns? That's my argument against using bombs to deflect asteroids. Good point!
he's such a mental midget that he only managed to be elected to the office twice!
And he managed to choose a president for a dad and a Governor for a brother and a family oil business started by his predecessors. If only we all could possess such prescience.
I don't want to talk about guns - why did you bring that up? That's not a question of approval: if my neighbour spills his drink, my leg might get wet. If he drops his gun, he might pop a cap in my beast of burden.
And if you run over my cat with your car? You're working yourself into a logical conundrum. Cars cause about four times more fatalities than guns (correct me if I'm wrong), but no sane person would make cars illegal. Your next argument is probably that cars have greater utility than guns and so we must bare the cost in the interest of economy. My counter argument would be that their net utility (or value) is marginal as best and cars would be better replaced with buses and commuter rail.
And for the emotional closing? You betcha: I'd rather get shot in a country where you are free to own a gun than ran over in a country where you aren't.
So you have some preconception about the good guys to whom you give the benefit of the doubt for a crime you think isn't that bad (trespassing), but you automatically assume the bad guys have broken the law for a crime you consider heinous (growing) and you feel the need to admonish them even though you don't really know who they are. I'm wondering why you have a need for villains--what purpose do they serve for you?
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perhaps is is the American people (and the people of Iraq) who should be seeking punitive damages from Diebold.
I'm hoping that this issue does not become partisan. Many people are unhappy about the outcome of some recent elections, but I think anyone, no matter what their political leanings, should be patently against black box electronic voting. These machines can be abused by either party.
say ice skateing and make it so that x gives y points.
I like this, we can go with it. From there, give them sticks and lets say that x is putting an object into some sort of goal with said stick. We can give them y=1 point for that. And then we can make the object something that makes sense, like a puck--to slide--a ball might roll, ruining any dynamics the ice might contribute to the movement of the object. A puck would also limit bounces, which would make the game chaotic--but I'm open to suggestions. Then, to make it interesting, allow them to hit each other. I think both boys and girls could do this--I would enjoy watching either. We could make sure all parts of their body are covered for protection and also to make sure the "hot" ones are not given any favoritism. (I would even require their wearing masks--but they may not like it--we might have to hammer that one out with the "players".) This plan would take a lot of subjectivity out of ice skating.
And what happens when your amateur COBOL hackers bork a live, production system upon which tens of thousands of people rely on for their paychecks?
Here is a little process us whipper-snappers have come up with since you retired: 1. Make a copy 2. Work on that 3. Test it thoroughly 4. Put it into production.
You got modded troll because you are not topical. You might be right about some things needing security, but to call someone paranoid because they don't want some incompetent company being irresponsible with personal information is absolutely trollish and you deserve to be -5. I tell you what, why don't you post all of your private info right here on /.? You have nothing to hide, right? If you do it right under your troll post and say why, I'll lead the charge to help you get modded to +5 insightful above--but something tells me that won't happen, because you DO have something to hide--and if you don't do it, I'll guarantee you that I won't call you paranoid.
You can always ask for something and be given it. Warrants are only needed to forcibly remove an article.
Yes, and they are most definitely not needed by people posing as agents and walking off with some choice computers. I know, I know, "they new an awful lot". But "they knew an awful lot" to a clueless librarian might mean that they could look at the case and know it had Rambus memory or a 3.1 GhZ pentium. I'm putting even chances on the possibility that this library got hoodwinked out of a couple of imacs. And even if the library didn't get hoodwinked, its always best to ask for documentation when men in black suits ask to walk off with your property, lest it end up in a pawn shop somewhere.
If it was dogma the priests of chemistry would be denying the evidence and punishing its discoverers.
Evidence you are not a scientist. The word "dogma" just has a different meaning from what you are used to when talking about science. To wit: "The Central Dogma". You should call up Francis Crick and tell him he was using that word wrong. Maybe they will posthumously take back his Nobel Prize.
Heck, maybe he didn't do it all. Maybe the thought of going through a protracted trial was too much for him.
True. I'm hoping that through the use of the word "suggestion", I am conveying that other possibilities could be considered--but of course other possibilities include both conspiracies and single actor scenarios.
And you still have yours.
One person acting alone can NEVER, by definition, be a conspiracy, even if his motive is political in nature (which would, by definition, make him a terrorist). I wish someone famous would tattoo some of these definitions on their forehead so people wouldn't get confused. Maybe Tom Cruise? He's famous enough.
I've got it! A mnemonic in the form of an anagram: COPT
Conspiracy - Others
Political - Terrorist
If you look hard enough for conspiracies, you'll find them.
You definitely found a conspiracy, didn't you? My suggestion is that he might have been a republican and didn't like democrats, not that the republican party or anyone else had anything to do with it.
Huh, funny. But he was a terrorist, right?
Maybe a relevant question is to ask his political affiliations. The contaminated mail was sent to Democrat Senators. You decide.
Mr. Self-confessed Redneck
Read carefully. I think that's Mrs. Self-confessed Redneck to you, bro.
You must be compensating for something, after all.
You should try compensating for your inability to spot humor.
chicks dig cyclist legs
almost as much as showing up in a $80,000 ride.
You're looking only at quality and usability without any consideration for time and budget.
So you are saying the recipe for mediocrity is an over extension of your resources and a bloated plan? I guess if that's how your company operates, then we know what we can expect from it. So what company was that again, Mr. Anonymous Coward?
Also, for all your developers, do you have a designer? UI development = graphic design + industrial/interaction design.
There is also the little concept of actually using the software. Here is my plan that I wish every corporation would adopt for near perfect design:
Of course this is from a user's perspective and from someone who writes software for myself. Profit may get in the way of a usable product, so I don't expect my plan to get adopted everywhere.
I'll get it started then hand it off to my co-op student. It'll be done before noon.
Who needs a co-op student? I'm drinking my coffee with my left hand, typing with my right, and tying the tether with my feet--and I haven't event had lunch yet!
The key is that when we run low on heat from the Earth's core in the distant future
When the earth's core (the molten metal part that causes the magnetic field that deflects the solar ion radiation) finally goes solid from our geothermal harvesting, we will have mutated to a form we probably couldn't recognize as being evolved from ourselves--and we certainly wouldn't give a damn about the little alien looking marmots either.
Diebold fixes the election, and all you Americans do is point at them and whine a bit, then Comcast takes away your pron and all of a sudden you're willing to fight to the death
Look, if Diebold fixed the election, they only had to skew it one or two percent. It didn't take much the past two elections--and it won't take much this time either. So, if the hypothetical 40,000 or so disenfranchised voters took a stand on this one, they'd get crushed by the 45% that actually voted for the incumbent. You can't have a coup in a country as nominally democratic as America without a close race--and the current 1.2371455 party system ensures that.
if we did tap geothermal resources nationwide to get up to supplying 25% of our electrical needs within a few decades
I'm of the opinion that the human race will eventually get close to 90% of its energy needs from geothermal sources. Wind and solar probably can't deliver the wattage. What people don't realize and what they don't want to believe, is that the world is not filled up with oil in the middle. Instead, its filled with molten rock, and beyond that, molten metals. And there is a lot of it in there. All you need to do is invest in shunting sea water a few miles into the earth and harvesting the energy as it boils out. Other than the initial investment, it wouldn't take coal or oil--both of which WILL run out.
Dude, you plagarized my translation, even down to the back-slashes in the wrong direction (got you there, dumbass). Check the posting times. Me=Monday July 28, @01:49AM, your sorry ass=Monday July 28, @01:54AM How can you live with yourself?
[translation]Fuck you Chinese government! I really would like to say more than just these few words but the high charges aren't affordable. If only I could be able to write that I disapprove entirely of these high charges I wouldn't have to be abbreviated and could say if I have been abused or tortured or not. If I could afford to tell if I have been tortured, trust me, I would just say it. Anyway, I will have to sign off now because I am late for a protest march in Tiananmen Square. I should be back soon, sorry I had to make this so short. Next time I will see if I can get a discount or not. I will see you later, bye bye \. ..By the way, what did you think of the Batman movie? It was awsome! You really should see it if you get the chance. Heath Ledger was good, I think Oscar for sure, not [saying that] just out of sympathy. Now I will see you later, bye bye, \.[/translation]
What exactly are you comparing? My car running over your cat on your property while I'm on mine?
Wait. You actually mean to use the example of accidentally dropping a gun and the bullet accidentally killing a mule as your argument against guns? That's my argument against using bombs to deflect asteroids. Good point!
he's such a mental midget that he only managed to be elected to the office twice!
And he managed to choose a president for a dad and a Governor for a brother and a family oil business started by his predecessors. If only we all could possess such prescience.
I don't want to talk about guns - why did you bring that up? That's not a question of approval: if my neighbour spills his drink, my leg might get wet. If he drops his gun, he might pop a cap in my beast of burden.
And if you run over my cat with your car? You're working yourself into a logical conundrum. Cars cause about four times more fatalities than guns (correct me if I'm wrong), but no sane person would make cars illegal. Your next argument is probably that cars have greater utility than guns and so we must bare the cost in the interest of economy. My counter argument would be that their net utility (or value) is marginal as best and cars would be better replaced with buses and commuter rail.
And for the emotional closing? You betcha: I'd rather get shot in a country where you are free to own a gun than ran over in a country where you aren't.
RAEP!
Maybe the only alternative for someone with as few options as you.
I don't know for certain that they trespassed.
So you have some preconception about the good guys to whom you give the benefit of the doubt for a crime you think isn't that bad (trespassing), but you automatically assume the bad guys have broken the law for a crime you consider heinous (growing) and you feel the need to admonish them even though you don't really know who they are. I'm wondering why you have a need for villains--what purpose do they serve for you?