The other two design flaws of Windows that contribute to this negative perception are 1) The poor management by Windows of it's resources. By that I mean that Windows fails to provide transparent reporting and control to the user. If it was done right, the user could quickly identify which apps are resource hogs and then easily neuter them. 2) The poor management by Windows of application installation which leads to ineffective uninstallation. Again, if MS had their shit together, then offending crap apps could not just be neutered, but also uninstalled, thoroughly and completely.
Why is MS apparently so blind to this simple analysis?
What good does it do to talk about this? The sheeple can not infer the truth, so nothing will change for the better as a result of explaining why things ain't so swell. I think the better answer is to try to find one simple issue that even the sheep can get behind - the ones I have considered are ending the participation of lawyers in the legislature, breaking up the United State into 7 smaller countries, and ending the use of voting machines.
Anybody else have any big simple ideas?
These guys are all making this too complicated. You need a good hardware modem card with mic and headphone jacks. Most of the modem cards now are junk, but there are still a few good ones out there although they are not cheap. If you are really strapped, try to find a place where they have a bunch of old PCs that you can glom parts from. All the older modem cards had headphone jacks, but the ones with mic jacks are rare. They are out there though. Then feed the output of the headphone jack into the input of the motherboard's soundcard. Get the picture?
Of course this is totally annoying that you can't just connect to your motherboard's headphone and mic jack. Problem is AFAIK there is no good software that runs under XP and supports this.
? I like to see the braces in line so that I can easily parse the pairs as being complete. Also by not having the line feeds after the braces, the code is not overly vertical.
"No doubt" is an impossible standard. No one would ever get convicted of anything. So one accepts that with the reasonable doubt standard innocent parties will be convicted and undeservedly punished. There is no workable alternative. But, this is why the death penalty is wrong. It is inevitable that innocent parties will be convicted, so, we should only imprison them. At least then the innocent convicted murderers would have a chance to someday go free.
AND the prisons should be emptied of non-criminals like drug dealers and addicts. Then we could concentrate on the few people left to provide real rehabilitation. It is possible, but not without a complete restructuring of the "system." This has been proved for years at the Delancey Street Foundation.
The even bigger little dirty secret is that nobody pays income tax. Income tax is a tax on labor that is bundled into the cost of the goods you buy. So, your real tax rate depends upon whether you buy goods and services with more or less labor content. That is why rich people don't want a sales tax - a lot of the things they buy have low labor content. Whereas, from the middle class down, labor content is high. A true sales tax, assessed on every single thing you buy: food, fuel, houses, stocks, bonds, etc., etc, without any exceptions whatsoever, would be far more progressive than our very clever swindle, the income tax system.
If someone told me to "Show me how you voted or you lose your job." I would exercise my second amendment rights and blow his or her fucking head off.
Which is not to say I support this cockamamie e-voting scheme. I don't. This is just the wrong objection. You could go on line and check your vote. The total could still be wrong. Duh!
There will always be voting fraud. It is inherent in the process. So the question is not, "How to eliminate voting fraud?" but "How to keep voting fraud to a minimum?" That is the problem with e-voting. One person in the right place at the right time can rig thousands of machines and steal millions of votes. Whereas by using procedures that make voting as labor intensive as possible, you make it infinitely more difficult to steal more than a few votes. Plus the more people that have to be involved, the better chance that someone will squeal. It is the nature of the process that makes it diametrically opposite from other very useful and secure e-transactions. Voting is unique in that there is no, and due to the nature of it, can never be an "expectation" to be fulfilled. When you buy something online, you initiate the transaction by first selecting an item to purchase. At that point you have created an expectation on the part of the vendor as to the amount of you payment. So the payment amount has to match the item price. Then you have an expectation for a delivery date and an item that have to be fulfilled. It the double entry mode of the transactions that make any fraud immediately obvious. Compare all that with voting. The is no and can never be an expectation. It's a single entry process. You vote and then it gets counted. If your vote gets counted "wrong", you have no way of knowing. All you see it the final tally. Bush won? OK, and you shrug your shoulders. Paper trails and all that other "security" horseshit means jack diddley. So-called security experts who claim to have inspected and approved the newest system are fools and liars. It is semantically impossible to secure voting e- or paper. So, make it labor intensive!
This is not insightful - it's stupid. WTF does having a dynamic IP have to do with self-publishing? You go to dyndns.org and get a free domain name, (or go to godaddy and pay $20), install an update app, turn on iis or install apache, and beepdedede! you're on the web.
www.dontUnderstandThisIntrawebsStuff.com See? Even you, shieldpup.
We will not be able to control them, and we have nothing to fear. They will be kind and efficient rulers. Most of them will have as their primary challenge: How do we help them [us] without destroying them? They will select that challenge for themselves since it will be the one challenge they will be able to discover that is most worthy of themselves.
Thanks Iain!
Somebody mentioned Perdue, but you forgot about the other development there. Turn sunlight into electricity, use the electricity to smelt Aluminum. Mix the aluminum with gaollium, ship the aluminum mixture to where ever it's needed. When it gets there, drop it in a bucket of water, (available everywhere on Earth) and, bada-bing! you have H2 to burn. Now that's efficient!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070518163146.htm
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>> Its not that computer based voting is a bad idea
Jesus H. Christ, you must be one of the glibbest drooling morons on this planet!
IT IS THE WORST IDEA EVER CONCEIVED. Got that, glad-boy?
What a fucking joke! HP can't even make printer software that doesn't suck.
The other two design flaws of Windows that contribute to this negative perception are 1) The poor management by Windows of it's resources. By that I mean that Windows fails to provide transparent reporting and control to the user. If it was done right, the user could quickly identify which apps are resource hogs and then easily neuter them. 2) The poor management by Windows of application installation which leads to ineffective uninstallation. Again, if MS had their shit together, then offending crap apps could not just be neutered, but also uninstalled, thoroughly and completely. Why is MS apparently so blind to this simple analysis?
What good does it do to talk about this? The sheeple can not infer the truth, so nothing will change for the better as a result of explaining why things ain't so swell. I think the better answer is to try to find one simple issue that even the sheep can get behind - the ones I have considered are ending the participation of lawyers in the legislature, breaking up the United State into 7 smaller countries, and ending the use of voting machines. Anybody else have any big simple ideas?
What? You are surprised? Toshiba laptops have been crap for years. They just found a new way to be even more craptacular.
Infineon products blow chunks. No surprise here...
These guys are all making this too complicated. You need a good hardware modem card with mic and headphone jacks. Most of the modem cards now are junk, but there are still a few good ones out there although they are not cheap. If you are really strapped, try to find a place where they have a bunch of old PCs that you can glom parts from. All the older modem cards had headphone jacks, but the ones with mic jacks are rare. They are out there though. Then feed the output of the headphone jack into the input of the motherboard's soundcard. Get the picture?
Of course this is totally annoying that you can't just connect to your motherboard's headphone and mic jack. Problem is AFAIK there is no good software that runs under XP and supports this.
Good luck!
Anyone who circumcises a child should be shot.
You are a fucking idiot.
Brilliant! Let's do this. Only why not record the vote? I want people to get paid whether the payers win or lose.
>> the purpose of invading Iraq: to restrict the supply of oil even further, so that oil prices will rise even further.
Hello! Somebody besides me gets it. Whee!
It doesn't burn - it vaporizes. Duh!
Hellz yeah!!! You fuckin' a right on that one, bra!
You are a fucking idiot.
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? I like to see the braces in line so that I can easily parse the pairs as being complete. Also by not having the line feeds after the braces, the code is not overly vertical.
AND the prisons should be emptied of non-criminals like drug dealers and addicts. Then we could concentrate on the few people left to provide real rehabilitation. It is possible, but not without a complete restructuring of the "system." This has been proved for years at the Delancey Street Foundation.
The even bigger little dirty secret is that nobody pays income tax. Income tax is a tax on labor that is bundled into the cost of the goods you buy. So, your real tax rate depends upon whether you buy goods and services with more or less labor content. That is why rich people don't want a sales tax - a lot of the things they buy have low labor content. Whereas, from the middle class down, labor content is high. A true sales tax, assessed on every single thing you buy: food, fuel, houses, stocks, bonds, etc., etc, without any exceptions whatsoever, would be far more progressive than our very clever swindle, the income tax system.
You are an idiot.
If someone told me to "Show me how you voted or you lose your job." I would exercise my second amendment rights and blow his or her fucking head off. Which is not to say I support this cockamamie e-voting scheme. I don't. This is just the wrong objection. You could go on line and check your vote. The total could still be wrong. Duh!
There will always be voting fraud. It is inherent in the process. So the question is not, "How to eliminate voting fraud?" but "How to keep voting fraud to a minimum?" That is the problem with e-voting. One person in the right place at the right time can rig thousands of machines and steal millions of votes. Whereas by using procedures that make voting as labor intensive as possible, you make it infinitely more difficult to steal more than a few votes. Plus the more people that have to be involved, the better chance that someone will squeal. It is the nature of the process that makes it diametrically opposite from other very useful and secure e-transactions. Voting is unique in that there is no, and due to the nature of it, can never be an "expectation" to be fulfilled. When you buy something online, you initiate the transaction by first selecting an item to purchase. At that point you have created an expectation on the part of the vendor as to the amount of you payment. So the payment amount has to match the item price. Then you have an expectation for a delivery date and an item that have to be fulfilled. It the double entry mode of the transactions that make any fraud immediately obvious. Compare all that with voting. The is no and can never be an expectation. It's a single entry process. You vote and then it gets counted. If your vote gets counted "wrong", you have no way of knowing. All you see it the final tally. Bush won? OK, and you shrug your shoulders. Paper trails and all that other "security" horseshit means jack diddley. So-called security experts who claim to have inspected and approved the newest system are fools and liars. It is semantically impossible to secure voting e- or paper. So, make it labor intensive!
This is not insightful - it's stupid. WTF does having a dynamic IP have to do with self-publishing? You go to dyndns.org and get a free domain name, (or go to godaddy and pay $20), install an update app, turn on iis or install apache, and beepdedede! you're on the web. www.dontUnderstandThisIntrawebsStuff.com See? Even you, shieldpup.
We will not be able to control them, and we have nothing to fear. They will be kind and efficient rulers. Most of them will have as their primary challenge: How do we help them [us] without destroying them? They will select that challenge for themselves since it will be the one challenge they will be able to discover that is most worthy of themselves. Thanks Iain!
http://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Wu-Li-Masters-Overview/dp/055326382X
Maybe for once something good will happen. How about a new proprietary OS? Google does BSD like Mac only much, much better.
Somebody mentioned Perdue, but you forgot about the other development there. Turn sunlight into electricity, use the electricity to smelt Aluminum. Mix the aluminum with gaollium, ship the aluminum mixture to where ever it's needed. When it gets there, drop it in a bucket of water, (available everywhere on Earth) and, bada-bing! you have H2 to burn. Now that's efficient! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070518163146.htm