truly, this monkey is the first real webmonkey... now we just need (infinity - 1) more wired monkeys and we'll have the works of shakespeare in no time. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
in secrets & lies (i think that's the title of his new book) does he refute that statement or have anything to add to it? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Talk to your friend in Sweden. Ask him, "Is Sweden a Democracy or a Republic?" We're not a Democracy, we're a Republic. There's a big difference. We're specifically designed so the popular vote isn't always the one that goes. And as far as I'm concerned, it works. A wacky event like this was bound to happen eventually, good that it happens now, right?
You can talk about voter anonymity and voter privacy, but your vote is always connected to your name. If it wasn't, then there'd be no accountability.
And just curious, what are the first three laws of democracy? Truth, justice, and the American way? Linux, Linus, Zerg? Hm... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"The country that helped invent the most technologically advanced information network in world history can't eliminate bureaucratic lines, create simple ballots, or tally up the votes that will determine the future of its own government."
Could this have anything to do with the fact that the country has nothing to do with it, it's up to the individual states? Don't tread on me... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
omelete is one way to spell the egg thingee, but omlette has nothing to do with eggs... it's a long and epic tale which would be horribly offtopic --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
double standard: we have to preview a story before we can submit it as a news item to slashdot. why do the editors not have to do the same thing? peer review: do it, and the end product will be better. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
barricaded by a bear? oh no, maybe we big strong humans should use our big strong guns and shoot a bear from quite a distance. yes, it's our humanity that makes us humans.
if your voting record is available to anyone (and that was true even before it was available on the web) then anonymity isn't a factor, is it?
a vote is botched, it should be thrown out. but if the voter saw that they fucked it up and ask for a new ballot, they should be given a new ballot! how hard is that?
one of my professors, arnold urkin (seems to get quoted regularly these days), said that whenever he was watching computers used to simplify voting, the systems were always horribly insecure and unreliable. i dunno if that'll improve but seriously, all the advances in open source software haven't made software overall more reliable, can we entrust our nation to software when we have a tried and true system? this has nothing to do with the candidates or the system, it was random chance. trust the system, it worked for our forefathers, it'll work for us. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I know Al Gore invented the internet in terms of convincing Congress to heavily fund the net... and some other congressman opened up the net to commercial use... but wasn't the web invented in Europe (CERN)? and aren't domain names a big part of the web? does that mean that if we try to keep asian hordes away from the net, the europeans will try to keep the crass american lummocks from using the web? ^^;; -confused --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
will english users who don't like to put in korean and/or japanese language inputs on their box3n be completely cut off from a good deal of the net? Japanese input screws up windows keyboards (98se, m$ natural keyboard) and Korean messes up the fonts royally. Maybe it's a good thing, so that lego guy can get his own domain name, put his heart and soul into his work, then he won't have to be criticized by a bunch of assholes saying he's just another obsessive compulsive Japanese.:( --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
the guy says that.net hasn't been released so it's still too early to do a direct comparison.
let's all keep coding the way we've been until.net finally arrives. then it'll be time to analyze things and make a decision. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
1. I realize it was was 9am and people have to work, but where the fuck was everyone? Hudson County, NJ is supposedly the most densely populated place in America.
2. No verification. I came in, told them I never received my voter registration card (but I did register, and both of my sisters got theirs) and they just asked me for my name and checked me off. No ID required. Uh huh. And where were the police to keep poll people out? I was accosted by several people before going in and after going out, and it was very, very unpleasant.
3. This is my first time voting. The guy who was obviously in charge looked at my address and said, "one of you guys... you know, no one comes out of that building except for the presidential elections." And knowing the type of people who live where I live, that kind of disgusted me. I'm definitely gonna be out for every other election following this. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
but has anyone done a comparison of the new Amiga (Tao?) VM vs Java VM or vs MSIL? (hell, vs both would be cool... triple threat match)
Java's been around for a while, anyone know if Sun's planning an upgrade? The Federal Govt and an Act of God combined can't stop MSIL from coming... What's to stop the Amiga VM from running on Windows? (or on any of the other VMs?!)
Whywhywhy! enlighten me, plz --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
but if you let someone else handle your kids, do you want to take responsibility? would you rather come up with ways to entertain your kids or would you rather let them watch tv?
if they're old enough, give them lego, if they're not, give them duplo. but keep them with you... hell telecommute if you have to, but don't leave your kids unattended until they're 'old enough' to handle themselves. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Seriously, I don't think there's anything wrong with Windows itself, it's the drivers! A unified driver model might help. Hell, it will help.
The tile-able thingees in the start menu? I think they came from BeOS 5... (were they in BeOSes before that? I dunno...) It's innovation! Yay!
Is this really a consumer class OS? The article makes it sound like a ridiculous number of things are customizable Win98 style. Don't like the UI? Revert it. Kinda like the original Win95 where you could make everything look like Program Manager. ^^;; that went away eventually, will this?
Well, they have a Win98 compatibility mode huh? Tweakable? And.NET is interpreted. Is MS moving to fully interpreted OSes? Ai yi yi, that's wacky stuff. Maybe they'll just focus on getting their underlying stuff to run quicker and stabler. Hm. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
1. Have you tried calling them and getting someone on the phone (don't forget to take their name and their manager's name!) and asking them the same questions?
2. Why do you need a distributed file system for WAN use? A windows network isn't good enough? FTPing to some linux file server isn't good enough? Using thin clients doesn't work for you? PC Anywhere? Starcraft? (ok, that last one was silly, but really, I'm curious...) --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
if someone posted a quadrillion digits of pi to slashdot (must be a friggin karma whore) would slashdot collapse miserably? the guy'd have to be on a pretty fat pipe to post something that big, eh? christ, he'd have to be inside va linux on a terminal to connected to the machine and...
never mind ^^;; --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Slashdot Mirror
truly, this monkey is the first real webmonkey... now we just need (infinity - 1) more wired monkeys and we'll have the works of shakespeare in no time.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
in secrets & lies (i think that's the title of his new book) does he refute that statement or have anything to add to it?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Talk to your friend in Sweden. Ask him, "Is Sweden a Democracy or a Republic?" We're not a Democracy, we're a Republic. There's a big difference. We're specifically designed so the popular vote isn't always the one that goes. And as far as I'm concerned, it works. A wacky event like this was bound to happen eventually, good that it happens now, right?
You can talk about voter anonymity and voter privacy, but your vote is always connected to your name. If it wasn't, then there'd be no accountability.
And just curious, what are the first three laws of democracy? Truth, justice, and the American way? Linux, Linus, Zerg? Hm...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
You call up some VCs and set up an IPO. Then you sell your site and retire. How hard could this possibly be?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"The country that helped invent the most technologically advanced information network in world history can't eliminate bureaucratic lines, create simple ballots, or tally up the votes that will determine the future of its own government."
Could this have anything to do with the fact that the country has nothing to do with it, it's up to the individual states? Don't tread on me...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
http://webrunner.keenspace.com/
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
omelete is one way to spell the egg thingee, but omlette has nothing to do with eggs... it's a long and epic tale which would be horribly offtopic
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
double standard: we have to preview a story before we can submit it as a news item to slashdot. why do the editors not have to do the same thing? peer review: do it, and the end product will be better.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
barricaded by a bear? oh no, maybe we big strong humans should use our big strong guns and shoot a bear from quite a distance. yes, it's our humanity that makes us humans.
if your voting record is available to anyone (and that was true even before it was available on the web) then anonymity isn't a factor, is it?
a vote is botched, it should be thrown out. but if the voter saw that they fucked it up and ask for a new ballot, they should be given a new ballot! how hard is that?
one of my professors, arnold urkin (seems to get quoted regularly these days), said that whenever he was watching computers used to simplify voting, the systems were always horribly insecure and unreliable. i dunno if that'll improve but seriously, all the advances in open source software haven't made software overall more reliable, can we entrust our nation to software when we have a tried and true system? this has nothing to do with the candidates or the system, it was random chance. trust the system, it worked for our forefathers, it'll work for us.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
is it anything like freebsd? is there a netbds? is it posix compliant? can it run linxu executables?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I know Al Gore invented the internet in terms of convincing Congress to heavily fund the net... and some other congressman opened up the net to commercial use... but wasn't the web invented in Europe (CERN)? and aren't domain names a big part of the web? does that mean that if we try to keep asian hordes away from the net, the europeans will try to keep the crass american lummocks from using the web? ^^;; -confused
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
will english users who don't like to put in korean and/or japanese language inputs on their box3n be completely cut off from a good deal of the net? Japanese input screws up windows keyboards (98se, m$ natural keyboard) and Korean messes up the fonts royally. Maybe it's a good thing, so that lego guy can get his own domain name, put his heart and soul into his work, then he won't have to be criticized by a bunch of assholes saying he's just another obsessive compulsive Japanese. :(
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
the guy says that .net hasn't been released so it's still too early to do a direct comparison.
.net finally arrives. then it'll be time to analyze things and make a decision.
let's all keep coding the way we've been until
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
here.
n i.cgi?11 if it doesn't show up properly...
http://www.bunnispace.net/cgi-bin/arcbunni/arcbun
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Victowee! haha!
enough people complained and timothy removed his double post. all hail lord hemos!
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
1. I realize it was was 9am and people have to work, but where the fuck was everyone? Hudson County, NJ is supposedly the most densely populated place in America.
2. No verification. I came in, told them I never received my voter registration card (but I did register, and both of my sisters got theirs) and they just asked me for my name and checked me off. No ID required. Uh huh. And where were the police to keep poll people out? I was accosted by several people before going in and after going out, and it was very, very unpleasant.
3. This is my first time voting. The guy who was obviously in charge looked at my address and said, "one of you guys... you know, no one comes out of that building except for the presidential elections." And knowing the type of people who live where I live, that kind of disgusted me. I'm definitely gonna be out for every other election following this.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
but has anyone done a comparison of the new Amiga (Tao?) VM vs Java VM or vs MSIL? (hell, vs both would be cool... triple threat match)
Java's been around for a while, anyone know if Sun's planning an upgrade? The Federal Govt and an Act of God combined can't stop MSIL from coming... What's to stop the Amiga VM from running on Windows? (or on any of the other VMs?!)
Whywhywhy! enlighten me, plz
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
but if you let someone else handle your kids, do you want to take responsibility? would you rather come up with ways to entertain your kids or would you rather let them watch tv?
if they're old enough, give them lego, if they're not, give them duplo. but keep them with you... hell telecommute if you have to, but don't leave your kids unattended until they're 'old enough' to handle themselves.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Seriously, I don't think there's anything wrong with Windows itself, it's the drivers! A unified driver model might help. Hell, it will help.
.NET is interpreted. Is MS moving to fully interpreted OSes? Ai yi yi, that's wacky stuff. Maybe they'll just focus on getting their underlying stuff to run quicker and stabler. Hm.
The tile-able thingees in the start menu? I think they came from BeOS 5... (were they in BeOSes before that? I dunno...) It's innovation! Yay!
Is this really a consumer class OS? The article makes it sound like a ridiculous number of things are customizable Win98 style. Don't like the UI? Revert it. Kinda like the original Win95 where you could make everything look like Program Manager. ^^;; that went away eventually, will this?
Well, they have a Win98 compatibility mode huh? Tweakable? And
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
1. Have you tried calling them and getting someone on the phone (don't forget to take their name and their manager's name!) and asking them the same questions?
2. Why do you need a distributed file system for WAN use? A windows network isn't good enough? FTPing to some linux file server isn't good enough? Using thin clients doesn't work for you? PC Anywhere? Starcraft? (ok, that last one was silly, but really, I'm curious...)
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
if someone posted a quadrillion digits of pi to slashdot (must be a friggin karma whore) would slashdot collapse miserably? the guy'd have to be on a pretty fat pipe to post something that big, eh? christ, he'd have to be inside va linux on a terminal to connected to the machine and...
never mind ^^;;
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
the king is dead, long live the king!
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
a real poll? on slashdot? here's to this being a regular occurance...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
ibm lets it fly that they don't think the crusoe is worthy
transmeta ipos
stock tanks
lots of cheap transmeta stock available, ibm buys alot
ibm releases a brand new thinkpad that's cheap, runs linux, win2k, beos, & qnx.
ibm 0wnz j00
it could happen, right? ^^;;
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
vote for nader, get destroyed by giant asteroids. oh hell's yeah.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057