I hate replying to myself, but the more I think about this, the more I simply don't get it.
Read a history book to find out why this is a good thing
I read a history book once where people thought burning witches at the stake was a good thing.
idiot neighbors who'll vandalize your property, random idiots who send death threats to you and your family, and idiot bosses who fire you for voting for the wrong guy are only a minor point.
So something like being a Muslim post 9/11 ?
I never said that those records should be publicly accessible, and in the culture today, I don't think anyone gives a flying bleep who you vote for, or if you vote at all. I'm just making the point that when there is a suspicion of fraud in voting, and people are saying "we didn't vote in that direction", you have absolutely NO WAY of verifying if their statement is true or false. So you just recount and recount (and hope and pray that none have gone missing, because no one knows how many there were in the first place), until everyone gets heartily sick of it and says to "hell with it, he won".
Neither McCain or Obama are going to fix the financial crisis (which boils down to everyone trying to live beyond their means, and seeing 2 cars and 86" flat screen TVs as "necessities"). Neither is it going to help with the world image of America in general, which is that of a promise breaking war mongerer.
You carry on clinging to 300 year old dogma about Nth amendments and rights and freedoms, which have no relevance, and bear no resemblance to the original intents of those who created them.
Every man has the right to bear arms IS NOT THE SAME as every man has the right to shoot anyone he feels like. Expand that onto the world stage, and you wonder why everyone groans when you pick your next invasion target.
If Microsoft is so crap, and UNIX is so good, why is it that I can run the AMP part (Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl), all as native exes on my Windows box, but if I want to run say IIS, MSQL and ASP on a UNIX box, I have to do it on top of a virtual machine ?
Pr0n... the only thing that infests every new tech breakthough on the net, and let's be honest, the only reason ANYONE spends more than 30 minutes online anyway.
Bulletin Boards = Pr0n Boards Forums = Pr0n Forums Social Networks = Pr0n Networks Web 2.0 = Pr0n without the page refresh VR = 3D Pr0n Second Life = 3D Pron that you can sell for an imaginary currency you bought with real currency.
I just read all 8 pages, (obviously quite day at the office), and the prevailing issue seems to be that because voting is anaonymous, it therefore cannot be secure.
Forgive my ignorance, I've only been here 40 years, but those people complaining that their votes were "switched" obviously don't give a damn about THEIR anonymity, so why is this such a big requirement.
WHY must a vote be anonymous... if it was properly traceable WHO cast what vote, then there would be no issues about incorrect votes, incorrect counts, fraud, dead people voting, etc, because every man and woman would be identifiable and the traceability of the system would be complete.
And please, no Nth amendment bullshit... just a common sense reason WHY it is so important for a vote to be anonymous, in a culture where suspicion reigns supreme, and every winning candidate "only won because of discrepancies".
Well it can be a damn sight more secure than some anonymous body counting marks on paper, tallying the totals in his head, and adding them onto a totalizer board at the front of the town hall.
How is it that in Italy recently, someone won 100 million euros on the Lotto, which as we all know are computer printed receipts, and NO ONE crys fraud... yet in the US, 10 days BEFORE the actual election starts, we already have issues with the voting machines...
I mean FFS how difficult can it be ? Person reaches front of queue, presents his/her Social Security card or whatever ID, says "Obama" or "McCain", and the girl behind the counter taps it into the computer and issues the person with his or her receipt, which contains a serial number, the serial from the ID used, and in big bloody letters the word "OBAMA" or "MCCAIN".
No discrepancies, no mistakes, no teaching 70 year old grannys what a mouse is for, no computer illiterate grunts claiming "the electy box switched ma vote" (ala Cletus of the Simpsons), etc etc.
Jesus, I thought we were in the 21st century, not the 19th:-(
Not sure if these figures are 100%, but I understand that geo-stat orbit satellites are at a distance of 38,500km above the earths surface... and speed of light is 299,792 km/s... that surely gives them about 128 milliseconds to detect an incoming laser beam from initiation on earth to the target light hitting the satellite's detector.
And as it would take at least ANOTHER 128 milliseconds to transmit that fact back to earth anyway, it means we'd only know about it 128 milliseconds after the thing had been bloody vaporized anyway.
I can think of better ways to spend 29 million to be honest, mostly involving hookers and beer.
Before advocating human rights, please be sure you understand the concept fully.
I'm sure the Afghan people (no matter how crazy in our eyes), feel morally and religiously justified in demanding the death of this person. They would *already* consider that their "right" as an upstanding Muslim citizen to demand this punishment for the breaking of one of their laws.
The laws in any country might not correspond with our view of sensible, just or whatever, but they are laws nethertheless, and for any system to work, laws should be upheld, not just paid lip service to (I'm looking at you USA).
The problem with the West, and America especially, is the concept of democracy, morality, human rights, PROVIDED they are American Democracy, American Morality, and American Human Rights.
Offtopic I know, but what kind of a dick embeds a pdf in a fixed width frame on a web page ?
Even at 1280 resolution, it's illegible at the 65% magnification used to fit the iframe, and when you adjust the magnification to 100%, then of course you have to scroll vertically because it's in the iframe.
Can't one of these genetic researchers detect the "sucks at HTML gene", so we can remove these idiots from the gen pool once and for all ?
Okay... simple example... let's take C++ as a reasonable example of a cross platform language.
Something written in C++ can be compiled for x86, RISC, 68000, any flavour of processor opcode you like.
BUT, and this is the big but, someone has to write the compilers to translate C++ into the appropriate machine code operands.
Now all a specific console developer has to worry about is that his code works on his console using his processor... there's no financial benefit for him to implement a common cross-platform high-level language just so independent developers can write once, deploy many (and potentially rob him of income in "X-BOX Approved Games" etc.
It's just another form of lock-in, same as MS and Apple have been doing for years.
Okay, to take an extreme example, coding something that will work on both an X-BOX and a DS-Lite.
Those physics such as gravity, movement speed, collision detection, maybe even event triggers are to an extent limited by the screen resolution you have to work with.
Things need to be tweaked, rearranged, perhaps even omitted altogether depending on the visual display and controllers you have to work with.
I'm not saying that the model-view-controller model isn't a good idea, but please don't fall into the trap of following it as a religion... otherwise you'll end up with a game that works great on one platform, and sucks on all the others because you follow the ethos of "everything must be portable".
What astronauts experience in space isn't really zero-gravity... it's called microgravity, and is about 0.001 x the gravity found on earth.
So yes, "zero gravity" isn't really, and thus they do experience "falling" ever so slightly.
And in any case, no matter how look you check the GP, you will not find ANY reference of the words "space" OR "astronaut"... they were only added in a wiping-egg-off-face exercise to my reply, which is still valid.
And how many of those dis-joint platforms share the same number of screen resolutions, the same number of sprites, the same screen refresh rates, the same the same the same number of whatevers ???
Sometimes, you just don't NEED to be compatible with everything and the toaster, see what I am saying ?
Ah okay, so it's just another scam service offered by the telecoms to actually "connect" the call and charge the caller (and sometimes the callee) for the priviledge, without actually getting to speak to the person you called in the first place.
Instead of focussing on the likelihood and relative risk of DYING in a car or plane, does anyone have statistics on the relative chance of SURVIVING a crash in either of those modes of transports.
I'd take a car over a plane anyday... in a car crash you do have some element of control over your fate... in a plane plummeting from 37,000 feet down to 0 feet, you are fucked 99.9999% of the time.
The whole point is that the reboot is because some HP asshole decide that as well as the 39kb printer/scanner driver, you needed 17MB of worthless monitoring crap running as services (i.e. reboot before use), merely to do a splash screen everytime you want to scan something or print something.
I can plug a myriad of USB stuff into my Win XP 2nd Edition, and it quite happily installs itself and works WITHOUT A REBOOT.
At least if you are going to troll, pull your head out of your ass and get your facts straight.
I mean FFS, "Mythbusters busted that little myth wide open" carries more gravitas with you than the accumulated knowledge of the FAA which has been established and making such tests since 1958 ?
You don't see any problem with that ?
And I bet you are one of those asshole who can't wait to open up their cellphone before the plane even hits the tarmac to tell your significant other "we're nearly on the ground"... argh, just go away, you moron.
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I hate replying to myself, but the more I think about this, the more I simply don't get it.
Read a history book to find out why this is a good thing
I read a history book once where people thought burning witches at the stake was a good thing.
idiot neighbors who'll vandalize your property, random idiots who send death threats to you and your family, and idiot bosses who fire you for voting for the wrong guy are only a minor point.
So something like being a Muslim post 9/11 ?
I never said that those records should be publicly accessible, and in the culture today, I don't think anyone gives a flying bleep who you vote for, or if you vote at all. I'm just making the point that when there is a suspicion of fraud in voting, and people are saying "we didn't vote in that direction", you have absolutely NO WAY of verifying if their statement is true or false. So you just recount and recount (and hope and pray that none have gone missing, because no one knows how many there were in the first place), until everyone gets heartily sick of it and says to "hell with it, he won".
Neither McCain or Obama are going to fix the financial crisis (which boils down to everyone trying to live beyond their means, and seeing 2 cars and 86" flat screen TVs as "necessities"). Neither is it going to help with the world image of America in general, which is that of a promise breaking war mongerer.
You carry on clinging to 300 year old dogma about Nth amendments and rights and freedoms, which have no relevance, and bear no resemblance to the original intents of those who created them.
Every man has the right to bear arms IS NOT THE SAME as every man has the right to shoot anyone he feels like. Expand that onto the world stage, and you wonder why everyone groans when you pick your next invasion target.
Traceability != Public Domain
Little bunny foo-foo, hopping through the forest, picking up the field mice, and bopping them on the head.
I don't play world of warcraft, I play hello kitty island adventure.
If Microsoft is so crap, and UNIX is so good, why is it that I can run the AMP part (Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl), all as native exes on my Windows box, but if I want to run say IIS, MSQL and ASP on a UNIX box, I have to do it on top of a virtual machine ?
Now go back to sleep, Twitter :-(
And will you be requiring the French, Spanish and Dutch help like you did in 1778, or are you going to try it alone this time ?
Like "man it sucks", or "man it blows" is any better OR worse than "its pants". But trust an American to get on his high horse over nothing.
Pr0n ... the only thing that infests every new tech breakthough on the net, and let's be honest, the only reason ANYONE spends more than 30 minutes online anyway.
Bulletin Boards = Pr0n Boards
Forums = Pr0n Forums
Social Networks = Pr0n Networks
Web 2.0 = Pr0n without the page refresh
VR = 3D Pr0n
Second Life = 3D Pron that you can sell for an imaginary currency you bought with real currency.
And the list goes on ...
I just read all 8 pages, (obviously quite day at the office), and the prevailing issue seems to be that because voting is anaonymous, it therefore cannot be secure.
Forgive my ignorance, I've only been here 40 years, but those people complaining that their votes were "switched" obviously don't give a damn about THEIR anonymity, so why is this such a big requirement.
WHY must a vote be anonymous ... if it was properly traceable WHO cast what vote, then there would be no issues about incorrect votes, incorrect counts, fraud, dead people voting, etc, because every man and woman would be identifiable and the traceability of the system would be complete.
And please, no Nth amendment bullshit ... just a common sense reason WHY it is so important for a vote to be anonymous, in a culture where suspicion reigns supreme, and every winning candidate "only won because of discrepancies".
Well it can be a damn sight more secure than some anonymous body counting marks on paper, tallying the totals in his head, and adding them onto a totalizer board at the front of the town hall.
How is it that in Italy recently, someone won 100 million euros on the Lotto, which as we all know are computer printed receipts, and NO ONE crys fraud ... yet in the US, 10 days BEFORE the actual election starts, we already have issues with the voting machines ...
I mean FFS how difficult can it be ? Person reaches front of queue, presents his/her Social Security card or whatever ID, says "Obama" or "McCain", and the girl behind the counter taps it into the computer and issues the person with his or her receipt, which contains a serial number, the serial from the ID used, and in big bloody letters the word "OBAMA" or "MCCAIN".
No discrepancies, no mistakes, no teaching 70 year old grannys what a mouse is for, no computer illiterate grunts claiming "the electy box switched ma vote" (ala Cletus of the Simpsons), etc etc.
Jesus, I thought we were in the 21st century, not the 19th :-(
Canada has a huge surpluss of oil and we're not invading them.
YET !!!
Not sure if these figures are 100%, but I understand that geo-stat orbit satellites are at a distance of 38,500km above the earths surface ... and speed of light is 299,792 km/s ... that surely gives them about 128 milliseconds to detect an incoming laser beam from initiation on earth to the target light hitting the satellite's detector.
And as it would take at least ANOTHER 128 milliseconds to transmit that fact back to earth anyway, it means we'd only know about it 128 milliseconds after the thing had been bloody vaporized anyway.
I can think of better ways to spend 29 million to be honest, mostly involving hookers and beer.
Because the US Dollar has gone down the toilet ?
Before advocating human rights, please be sure you understand the concept fully.
I'm sure the Afghan people (no matter how crazy in our eyes), feel morally and religiously justified in demanding the death of this person. They would *already* consider that their "right" as an upstanding Muslim citizen to demand this punishment for the breaking of one of their laws.
The laws in any country might not correspond with our view of sensible, just or whatever, but they are laws nethertheless, and for any system to work, laws should be upheld, not just paid lip service to (I'm looking at you USA).
The problem with the West, and America especially, is the concept of democracy, morality, human rights, PROVIDED they are American Democracy, American Morality, and American Human Rights.
You know, we *can* understand Kelvin ... or can we expect the next comparison as "1000 times colder than a polar bear's left testicle".
Offtopic I know, but what kind of a dick embeds a pdf in a fixed width frame on a web page ?
Even at 1280 resolution, it's illegible at the 65% magnification used to fit the iframe, and when you adjust the magnification to 100%, then of course you have to scroll vertically because it's in the iframe.
Can't one of these genetic researchers detect the "sucks at HTML gene", so we can remove these idiots from the gen pool once and for all ?
Okay ... simple example ... let's take C++ as a reasonable example of a cross platform language.
Something written in C++ can be compiled for x86, RISC, 68000, any flavour of processor opcode you like.
BUT, and this is the big but, someone has to write the compilers to translate C++ into the appropriate machine code operands.
Now all a specific console developer has to worry about is that his code works on his console using his processor ... there's no financial benefit for him to implement a common cross-platform high-level language just so independent developers can write once, deploy many (and potentially rob him of income in "X-BOX Approved Games" etc.
It's just another form of lock-in, same as MS and Apple have been doing for years.
Okay, to take an extreme example, coding something that will work on both an X-BOX and a DS-Lite.
Those physics such as gravity, movement speed, collision detection, maybe even event triggers are to an extent limited by the screen resolution you have to work with.
Things need to be tweaked, rearranged, perhaps even omitted altogether depending on the visual display and controllers you have to work with.
I'm not saying that the model-view-controller model isn't a good idea, but please don't fall into the trap of following it as a religion ... otherwise you'll end up with a game that works great on one platform, and sucks on all the others because you follow the ethos of "everything must be portable".
99.8% of hardcore gamers didn't notice the DRM ... whilst the other 0.2% ate the questionnaire believing it to be a hot pocket.
I don't get it ... I thought everyone was sharing 127.0.0.1 ?
What astronauts experience in space isn't really zero-gravity ... it's called microgravity, and is about 0.001 x the gravity found on earth.
So yes, "zero gravity" isn't really, and thus they do experience "falling" ever so slightly.
And in any case, no matter how look you check the GP, you will not find ANY reference of the words "space" OR "astronaut" ... they were only added in a wiping-egg-off-face exercise to my reply, which is still valid.
And how many of those dis-joint platforms share the same number of screen resolutions, the same number of sprites, the same screen refresh rates, the same the same the same number of whatevers ???
Sometimes, you just don't NEED to be compatible with everything and the toaster, see what I am saying ?
Ah okay, so it's just another scam service offered by the telecoms to actually "connect" the call and charge the caller (and sometimes the callee) for the priviledge, without actually getting to speak to the person you called in the first place.
Ka-ching
Lies, bloody lies and statistics, again ...
Instead of focussing on the likelihood and relative risk of DYING in a car or plane, does anyone have statistics on the relative chance of SURVIVING a crash in either of those modes of transports.
I'd take a car over a plane anyday ... in a car crash you do have some element of control over your fate ... in a plane plummeting from 37,000 feet down to 0 feet, you are fucked 99.9999% of the time.
The fact that you are falling means NOT zero G you lemon.
G = Gravity ?
Sorry that the facts got in the way of your (almost) funny post.
Ever heard of plug and play mate ?
The whole point is that the reboot is because some HP asshole decide that as well as the 39kb printer/scanner driver, you needed 17MB of worthless monitoring crap running as services (i.e. reboot before use), merely to do a splash screen everytime you want to scan something or print something.
I can plug a myriad of USB stuff into my Win XP 2nd Edition, and it quite happily installs itself and works WITHOUT A REBOOT.
At least if you are going to troll, pull your head out of your ass and get your facts straight.
Maybe the FAA didn't watch that episode ?
I mean FFS, "Mythbusters busted that little myth wide open" carries more gravitas with you than the accumulated knowledge of the FAA which has been established and making such tests since 1958 ?
You don't see any problem with that ?
And I bet you are one of those asshole who can't wait to open up their cellphone before the plane even hits the tarmac to tell your significant other "we're nearly on the ground" ... argh, just go away, you moron.