Please don't perpetuate this myth. You can't just strip off the BSD license and replace it with the GPL - the BSD license *is* the license to the code, and the BSD license doesn't give you the right to modify the license. In fact, it specifically says that the license must remain intact.
Your method allows vote buying, punchscan doesn't. You go to great pains to come up with some random "key," but the data behind that key is, in your method, essentially the full text of the ballot you cast. That's not good, since it allows for voter coercion and vote buying. The punchscan method allows you to see position of the entries on the ballot you cast and verify it against your receipt, but the candidates in those positions are, in essence, a shared secret between you and the ballot.
Certainly, because you can implement IRV using a grid where each row has all of the candidates. The order of the candidates can be randomized just as with first-past-the-post. So, if Tom, Dick and Harry are running, it would just be like:
Rank 1: Tom Dick Harry Rank 2: Tom Dick Harry Rank 3: Tom Dick Harry
As long as the columns are randomized, it still has the same properties.
This issue is related to why conversations appear all split up. You can't change the subject and have gmail pretend it's the same thread. I wish it would actually use the "References" field in the email to construct the thread so that you *could* change the subject and have it grouped, but gmail basically seems to just use the Subject.
I don't find the case on the front page particularly attractive. The USB/headphone slot looks ugly to me, the drives on the left contrast too much, the metal and glass on top wouldn't complement any monitor that I've seen. Furthermore, why is the front page shot taken on a freaking sidewalk with grass behind it? Why not take a picture in context? I think the answer is that with any real peripherals attached, this thing looks ugly.
Unless, of course, you can find a mouse with a wood grain wire, a monitor with appropriate chrome/glass, etc. WTF?
And yet, airlines, arguably the second most regulated industry behind utilities, overbook all the time. Overbooking is economically efficient. And the same argument holds - if a higher percentage of people actually showed up to full flights, the prices would have to go up. This seems somewhat ironic, but it makes sense in the supply and demand sense.
Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with the internet providers charging me small amounts for my bandwidth usage. All the other "pipe like" utilities use a pay what you use billing scheme, the phone being the only non-"pipe like" common utility. The problem is that the prices are ridiculous for the cases where this is currently implemented, like EVDO usage. If they're currently making a profit, they can generate some price per byte scheme that will still net them the same amount of money, and yet scales.
What planet are you on? Sure ain't this one. World hunger is only cheap to solve if there are men with guns to make sure people have access to food. The food itself is not an issue. Distribution is the issue.
If you're talking about classic Dr. Who, they're very, very expensive to buy, because they're only released in a few episode packs. I wouldn't call this "putting it on DVD" - I think it averaged around $5/episode or so the last time I looked at it.
Also, part of the original was lost to a fire. A little more excusable than the tapes of the Apollo moon landing getting lost, but still a loss.
Agreed. I really like cscope, and it works well with emacs (just dig up cscope-mode.el). The time to create the database is large, but the search capabilities it gives are wonderful.
T(roll)'s are only really a problem if (a) you've wandered out of your depth, or (b) you're in a vault or similar enviornment where the habit of the Troll to regenerate can sometimes be a little annoying. They're just physical damage dealers with regeneration. A lot of the skill in NetHack comes from the ability to divide and conquer.. just aggravate your enemies, lure them away and beat on them. Trolls fall easily then. It's the annoying things like summon monster traps that can sometimes make T's a nasty surprise.
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The Monk is a relatively new addition to NetHack. Give it some time. If anything, it was nice of them to introduce a new class that was a fairly balanced, easier class with some interesting restrictions.
Amen. I tend to rate flights these days by the number of screaming babies on the plane. 2 or 3 and it's a bad flight. One really close baby and I'll be grinding my teeth for most of it.
Babies don't belong in planes. Babies don't belong at nice restaurants. Babies definitely don't belong in theaters, movie or traditional, or most other live performances. Please stop bringing your damn babies everywhere.
Yes, having a baby means you will have no life, or you will hire a babysitter. Deal with it.
There are a couple of different types of aggressive driver. There's aggressive/stupid and aggressive/smart. I'm usually both a tactical and strategic driver, so I will plan routes out that make sense, but I will also be fairly tactical on the road.
Aggressive/stupid does as you desribe. They tend to evaluate lanes greedily, tailgate massively. I think their general assumption is that if they tailgate enough, the person will move. They constantly thrash lanes. They never "drop back and punt" when it's clear that reducing speed, losing 2-3 car lengths, and passing through another lane to get to an empty lane is the right course course of action. (The latter I've seen so many times, and it amuses me.. people are so unwilling to lose ground, even when it's absolutely clear that it would lead them to a completely empty lane).
Aggressive/smart people tend to change lanes, but they also tend to watch the overall flow of traffic. I generally don't bother changing lanes once the traffic gets thick enough, but I do keep a watch out for which lanes seem to be better in particular stretches of road. But that sort of lane complacance is something I only do when it's stop and go. When the traffic is thick but moving at highway speeds, I will be much more aggressive. I don't tail, but I do find the clumps of cars moving faster, or I find empty pockets that will get me around slower clumps, etc. I will beat a complacent driver almost every day of the week. Believe me, I've left work for a lunch location the same time as coworkers many times and been several minutes earlier.
Some of the difference here might be what person A and person B consider heavy traffic, though. If the traffic is moving at highway speeds, I don't consider it heavy. There's a "thick and chunky" mode on highways where things are moving, and aggressive drivers can actually make progress there. Stop and go and it's a slightly different matter. (Unless, of course, you're one of those asshats who uses the shoulder as a lane in stop and go traffic. I have no respect for those people. I break speeding laws all the time, but using the shoulder is against "the rules".) You can make gains in stop and go traffic by careful lane choice, but yeah, it's usually marginal, or they're strategic gains by knowing the right overall lanes.
Um, my pharmacist has frequently reminded me about things that may not be dangerous, per se, but are certainly helpful to know. The last batch of antibiotics I took, he reminded me to take it with food, that exposure to sun may cause sunburn quicker than normal while using the antibiotic, and that taking this antibiotic within 2 hours of a mineral supplement would lessen (significantly) the absorption of the antibiotic.
I do mail order my common 'scripts, and those I know how to deal with pretty well, but I like pharmacies when I'm actually ill. And, when I'm ill, I'm usually visiting in the middle of the day, so they're not that busy..
I'm not sure you actually read the article, but allow me to retort. Passfaces is entirely different. It's a simple challenge-response system with a 1/9 chance of guessing correctly for each challenge. The solution presented by this article, however, is quite different. It relies on the fact that you will describe the inkblot in exactly the same manner, or at least that you can recall how you described it the first time. For each inkblot, you record 2 characters. The chances of *guessing* the password, per inkblot, drop to 1/626 (though probably much less considering the entropy of the english language isn't high enough).
The ideas aren't even really in the same domain. The MS solution here is really more of a "security question".. they present you with something you have a known association with. The passfaces method is just standard challenge/response. You don't have a particular association with the face, it's just a face, and you pick it out of the crowd.
No. You make a gross generalization of CMU students and I, for one, am slightly annoyed at it. I *like* Pittsburgh. There are things that are not Geek happy: Things close at ungodly early hours (movie theaters traditionally have last showings around 10pm, and some close on weekdays). But there are plenty of things that make it decent, geek wise: I can get faster DSL service for cheaper than my parents are getting in Dallas. The lack of good computer stores sucks (Dallas wins there, hands down). But Pittsburgh is a fine city, the rent is just right (I'm paying $300/month, which is expensive for the area, for a large bedroom in a house (plus use of the rest of the house, communally)), and it has CMU, which is a lot. Actually, in all this talk, I wonder where Dallas was left. It's one of my favorite cities (I grew up here), but it has one of the best sets of: computer stores (yes, local stores where you can find things like mounting rails and power supplies and refurb equipment, tons of it, for cheap), high speed access (more expensive than BA), it has a huge complex of telecom companies, and it's a boom town (it's growing like mad). And it's close to one of the cooler places in the universe, Austin.:) (which doesn't have as high a geek capacity, but is still a great place).
But are automailers of 20 emails a day really the best approach to getting what you want? That seems like an asshole tactic to me. I would try the phone first, where you will frequently have to say "if you can't do this, tell me or transfer me to someone who can".. and if they don't, get their supervisor, etc. It's probaby a faster method than just pricking someone 20 times a day. -ZML-
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I think you mean National Bellas Hess v. Department of Revenue, which was used as precedent for Quill Corp above.
Please don't perpetuate this myth. You can't just strip off the BSD license and replace it with the GPL - the BSD license *is* the license to the code, and the BSD license doesn't give you the right to modify the license. In fact, it specifically says that the license must remain intact.
Your method allows vote buying, punchscan doesn't. You go to great pains to come up with some random "key," but the data behind that key is, in your method, essentially the full text of the ballot you cast. That's not good, since it allows for voter coercion and vote buying. The punchscan method allows you to see position of the entries on the ballot you cast and verify it against your receipt, but the candidates in those positions are, in essence, a shared secret between you and the ballot.
Certainly, because you can implement IRV using a grid where each row has all of the candidates. The order of the candidates can be randomized just as with first-past-the-post. So, if Tom, Dick and Harry are running, it would just be like:
Rank 1: Tom Dick Harry
Rank 2: Tom Dick Harry
Rank 3: Tom Dick Harry
As long as the columns are randomized, it still has the same properties.
This issue is related to why conversations appear all split up. You can't change the subject and have gmail pretend it's the same thread. I wish it would actually use the "References" field in the email to construct the thread so that you *could* change the subject and have it grouped, but gmail basically seems to just use the Subject.
I don't find the case on the front page particularly attractive. The USB/headphone slot looks ugly to me, the drives on the left contrast too much, the metal and glass on top wouldn't complement any monitor that I've seen. Furthermore, why is the front page shot taken on a freaking sidewalk with grass behind it? Why not take a picture in context? I think the answer is that with any real peripherals attached, this thing looks ugly.
Unless, of course, you can find a mouse with a wood grain wire, a monitor with appropriate chrome/glass, etc. WTF?
And yet, airlines, arguably the second most regulated industry behind utilities, overbook all the time. Overbooking is economically efficient. And the same argument holds - if a higher percentage of people actually showed up to full flights, the prices would have to go up. This seems somewhat ironic, but it makes sense in the supply and demand sense.
Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with the internet providers charging me small amounts for my bandwidth usage. All the other "pipe like" utilities use a pay what you use billing scheme, the phone being the only non-"pipe like" common utility. The problem is that the prices are ridiculous for the cases where this is currently implemented, like EVDO usage. If they're currently making a profit, they can generate some price per byte scheme that will still net them the same amount of money, and yet scales.
What planet are you on? Sure ain't this one. World hunger is only cheap to solve if there are men with guns to make sure people have access to food. The food itself is not an issue. Distribution is the issue.
If you're talking about classic Dr. Who, they're very, very expensive to buy, because they're only released in a few episode packs. I wouldn't call this "putting it on DVD" - I think it averaged around $5/episode or so the last time I looked at it.
Also, part of the original was lost to a fire. A little more excusable than the tapes of the Apollo moon landing getting lost, but still a loss.
Agreed. I really like cscope, and it works well with emacs (just dig up cscope-mode.el). The time to create the database is large, but the search capabilities it gives are wonderful.
T(roll)'s are only really a problem if (a) you've wandered out of your depth, or (b) you're in a vault or similar enviornment where the habit of the Troll to regenerate can sometimes be a little annoying. They're just physical damage dealers with regeneration. A lot of the skill in NetHack comes from the ability to divide and conquer .. just aggravate your enemies, lure them away and beat on them. Trolls fall easily then. It's the annoying things like summon monster traps that can sometimes make T's a nasty surprise.
The Monk is a relatively new addition to NetHack. Give it some time. If anything, it was nice of them to introduce a new class that was a fairly balanced, easier class with some interesting restrictions.
Amen. I tend to rate flights these days by the number of screaming babies on the plane. 2 or 3 and it's a bad flight. One really close baby and I'll be grinding my teeth for most of it.
Babies don't belong in planes. Babies don't belong at nice restaurants. Babies definitely don't belong in theaters, movie or traditional, or most other live performances. Please stop bringing your damn babies everywhere.
Yes, having a baby means you will have no life, or you will hire a babysitter. Deal with it.
There are a couple of different types of aggressive driver. There's aggressive/stupid and aggressive/smart. I'm usually both a tactical and strategic driver, so I will plan routes out that make sense, but I will also be fairly tactical on the road.
.. people are so unwilling to lose ground, even when it's absolutely clear that it would lead them to a completely empty lane).
Aggressive/stupid does as you desribe. They tend to evaluate lanes greedily, tailgate massively. I think their general assumption is that if they tailgate enough, the person will move. They constantly thrash lanes. They never "drop back and punt" when it's clear that reducing speed, losing 2-3 car lengths, and passing through another lane to get to an empty lane is the right course course of action. (The latter I've seen so many times, and it amuses me
Aggressive/smart people tend to change lanes, but they also tend to watch the overall flow of traffic. I generally don't bother changing lanes once the traffic gets thick enough, but I do keep a watch out for which lanes seem to be better in particular stretches of road. But that sort of lane complacance is something I only do when it's stop and go. When the traffic is thick but moving at highway speeds, I will be much more aggressive. I don't tail, but I do find the clumps of cars moving faster, or I find empty pockets that will get me around slower clumps, etc. I will beat a complacent driver almost every day of the week. Believe me, I've left work for a lunch location the same time as coworkers many times and been several minutes earlier.
Some of the difference here might be what person A and person B consider heavy traffic, though. If the traffic is moving at highway speeds, I don't consider it heavy. There's a "thick and chunky" mode on highways where things are moving, and aggressive drivers can actually make progress there. Stop and go and it's a slightly different matter. (Unless, of course, you're one of those asshats who uses the shoulder as a lane in stop and go traffic. I have no respect for those people. I break speeding laws all the time, but using the shoulder is against "the rules".) You can make gains in stop and go traffic by careful lane choice, but yeah, it's usually marginal, or they're strategic gains by knowing the right overall lanes.
Um, my pharmacist has frequently reminded me about things that may not be dangerous, per se, but are certainly helpful to know. The last batch of antibiotics I took, he reminded me to take it with food, that exposure to sun may cause sunburn quicker than normal while using the antibiotic, and that taking this antibiotic within 2 hours of a mineral supplement would lessen (significantly) the absorption of the antibiotic.
I do mail order my common 'scripts, and those I know how to deal with pretty well, but I like pharmacies when I'm actually ill. And, when I'm ill, I'm usually visiting in the middle of the day, so they're not that busy..
I'm not sure you actually read the article, but allow me to retort. Passfaces is entirely different. It's a simple challenge-response system with a 1/9 chance of guessing correctly for each challenge. The solution presented by this article, however, is quite different. It relies on the fact that you will describe the inkblot in exactly the same manner, or at least that you can recall how you described it the first time. For each inkblot, you record 2 characters. The chances of *guessing* the password, per inkblot, drop to 1/626 (though probably much less considering the entropy of the english language isn't high enough).
The ideas aren't even really in the same domain. The MS solution here is really more of a "security question".. they present you with something you have a known association with. The passfaces method is just standard challenge/response. You don't have a particular association with the face, it's just a face, and you pick it out of the crowd.
No. You make a gross generalization of CMU students and I, for one, am slightly annoyed at it. I *like* Pittsburgh. There are things that are not Geek happy: Things close at ungodly early hours (movie theaters traditionally have last showings around 10pm, and some close on weekdays). But there are plenty of things that make it decent, geek wise: I can get faster DSL service for cheaper than my parents are getting in Dallas. The lack of good computer stores sucks (Dallas wins there, hands down). But Pittsburgh is a fine city, the rent is just right (I'm paying $300/month, which is expensive for the area, for a large bedroom in a house (plus use of the rest of the house, communally)), and it has CMU, which is a lot. Actually, in all this talk, I wonder where Dallas was left. It's one of my favorite cities (I grew up here), but it has one of the best sets of: computer stores (yes, local stores where you can find things like mounting rails and power supplies and refurb equipment, tons of it, for cheap), high speed access (more expensive than BA), it has a huge complex of telecom companies, and it's a boom town (it's growing like mad). And it's close to one of the cooler places in the universe, Austin. :) (which doesn't have as high a geek capacity, but is still a great place).
But are automailers of 20 emails a day really the best approach to getting what you want? That seems like an asshole tactic to me. I would try the phone first, where you will frequently have to say "if you can't do this, tell me or transfer me to someone who can".. and if they don't, get their supervisor, etc. It's probaby a faster method than just pricking someone 20 times a day. -ZML-
Are they actually seeking damages and going for a full suit? The original looked like just a request for a restraining order. What's the next step?