Read the article, these dirty tactics aren't about swiftboating, rather tactics such as threatening felony charges against someone voting in the wrong state, i.e. voter intimidation.
I know proving that your vote actually counted without compromising anonymity isn't trivial, but what if you (for example) are given a randomly generated key after voting? After the election, they can publish the keys assigned for every vote, and you can check that your key matches your vote.
Of course, fraud can occur if they assign the same key to multiple voters, but people can voluntarily compare keys after the election to look for clashes. Or maybe some form of cryptography would prevent this problem, I don't know (not really my field).
The problem with coerced votes is more of an obstacle, though.
Oh well, I'm sorry that you Americans will have to put up with your Diebold chosen masters in the next election... hope it doesn't turn out too bad for you.
From the wiki:
In 2004, Diebold-Procomp decided to migrate to Linux as a cost reduction measure.
From a technological point of view, they are just all around better, AND (Surprise) they even have a better energy density to weight ratio then LiON.
Why even bother with batteries with this kind of budget, when there are FAR superior storage solutions?
Huh? Your link doesn't give a value for the energy density of Lithium Ion, only for the "Best UC on the market", and their own supercap is at about 9 Wh/kg. Lithium ion? 160 Wh/kg.
How is something that can fully charge in a few seconds with at most a few kW going to provide a usable charge over several hours for a car?
Presumably MI6 would be able to track down the camera, and hence the buyer, from the photos (then again, they were inept enough to release the camera to begin with, but I digress).
Acting purely in self-interest, if this happened to me, I'd chuckle to myself quietly about the idiocy of government, delete the files and forget about the whole thing. In fact, if this is what any reasonable person would do while acting in their own interests, one has to wonder how under-reported the problem is.
As much as I hate to say it, Spore is still hitting record sales figures.
The DRM has obviously enraged a lot of us here, and I have no doubt that has cost them some sales. But I don't think "we" (meaning those who understand how much DRM can cripple a game) are the demographic that is going to make or break the game. This is a mass market game, and practically all the reviews I've seen (even here on slashdot!) ignore the DRM issue. Practically all the people I've talked to about the game have no idea what I'm talking about when I tell them about the DRM, and are in for a very nasty time the third time they need to reformat their system, or reinstall the game for whatever reason.
EA made a calculated decision here, knowing that they would lose some of our support, but if the casual gamer (let's face it, the target Spore demographic) gives up on trying to install his friend's game and buys his own copy, that's a win for EA. If a few years down the track he hits hit three install limit, what's he going to do? Buy another copy, probably. Even if he doesn't, EA has the original sale and has lost nothing. The fact that the pirates have a far superior product is amusing and ironic, but irrelevant to EA's bottom line.
Until the reviewers take their jobs seriously and start actually pointing out serious fundamental flaws in the game, companies like EA can be confident that they have made the right decision.
The interesting thing with web traffic in Australia is that there are elements that come close to truly violating net neutrality (and not in the facile "I paid for 100 TB, why can't I get it?" way), but in a way that mostly works better for us.
The thing is that bandwidth is so expensive here, that downloading service packs for windows on, maybe, two or three computers would put an enormous dent in your traffic for the month. Same with patches for games/etc... so what most of the ISPs end up doing is mirroring a lot of this content themselves on their own servers, and not charging customers to access it.
Most of this content is free, but where it gets questionable is when the ISPs charge for content -- such as our largest ISP, which lets you download music/movies/tv/etc... for a fee per download, but without metering the content. I don't know if said ISP still charges $150/Gb for excess usage, but they did until recently, and if they still do, it doesn't take a genius to see the potential for anti-competitive conduct here. If anyone wants to start up an alternative content provider, this ISP will charge its customers through the nose to access it, while providing their own content much more cheaply.
Pair production is where a high energy photon (i.e. higher than the rest energy of a positron and an electron) contributes its energy to the creation of an electron/positron pair. The electron doesn't exist to begin with either.
With the photoelectric effect, the energy of the photon contributes to the ejection of an existing electron from the surface of a material. This happens at a much lower energy.
Once again I am reminded of the boundlessness of human stupidity.
Selling a computer with sensitive information on it without destroying said information is understandable, if seriously negligent and worthy of termination (the employment kind, not the Schwarzenegger kind, although it's a close call).
But selling the backups of that sensitive information with the computer? Who the hell thought that would be a bright idea?
It may not even be intentional. If I want to check my account on someone else's computer and get auto-logged in to their account, I'll just log them out first and not bother wasting their time by telling them (after changing their status to something mildly embarrassing, of course).
We're nowhere near parity at the moment (about 88 cents - it's been in a nosedive for a few weeks now, just in time for my trip to the states), but I see your point. It does seems fairly ridiculous that as the aussie dollar doubled in value over the last few years, game prices have stayed the same.
Hopefully more people will realise that you can pay half price for a superior product overseas by shopping online, and the prices here will drop accordingly. Whether we'll ever be able to walk into a shop and get an uncensored copy, I don't know.
5) You say 'here' like anyone but you knows where that is! Some places do have these bags (for a price), but most people don't use them. I do (I got in the habit of it in Denmark).
I don't know, the "Care to explain it to a German" was a pretty strong hint for me.
Having been to Germany, the foreign concept here could be the bagging of groceries by the cashier - this is very uncommon in Germany. They usually just scan every item across and place them on a tray at the end of the counter for you to bag yourself (and you need to do this as quickly as they are scanned if you don't want to piss off everyone behind you).
Took me a bit by surprise the first time it happened, particularly since I didn't have a bag myself and spoke very poor German... I just ended up carrying everything awkwardly between my hands for a block or two.
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Read the article, these dirty tactics aren't about swiftboating, rather tactics such as threatening felony charges against someone voting in the wrong state, i.e. voter intimidation.
Isn't this just a technological problem, though?
I know proving that your vote actually counted without compromising anonymity isn't trivial, but what if you (for example) are given a randomly generated key after voting? After the election, they can publish the keys assigned for every vote, and you can check that your key matches your vote.
Of course, fraud can occur if they assign the same key to multiple voters, but people can voluntarily compare keys after the election to look for clashes. Or maybe some form of cryptography would prevent this problem, I don't know (not really my field).
The problem with coerced votes is more of an obstacle, though.
Is like this.
Oh well, I'm sorry that you Americans will have to put up with your Diebold chosen masters in the next election... hope it doesn't turn out too bad for you.
From the wiki:
In 2004, Diebold-Procomp decided to migrate to Linux as a cost reduction measure.
From a technological point of view, they are just all around better, AND (Surprise) they even have a better energy density to weight ratio then LiON.
Why even bother with batteries with this kind of budget, when there are FAR superior storage solutions?
Huh? Your link doesn't give a value for the energy density of Lithium Ion, only for the "Best UC on the market", and their own supercap is at about 9 Wh/kg. Lithium ion? 160 Wh/kg.
How is something that can fully charge in a few seconds with at most a few kW going to provide a usable charge over several hours for a car?
Presumably MI6 would be able to track down the camera, and hence the buyer, from the photos (then again, they were inept enough to release the camera to begin with, but I digress).
Acting purely in self-interest, if this happened to me, I'd chuckle to myself quietly about the idiocy of government, delete the files and forget about the whole thing. In fact, if this is what any reasonable person would do while acting in their own interests, one has to wonder how under-reported the problem is.
As much as I hate to say it, Spore is still hitting record sales figures.
The DRM has obviously enraged a lot of us here, and I have no doubt that has cost them some sales. But I don't think "we" (meaning those who understand how much DRM can cripple a game) are the demographic that is going to make or break the game. This is a mass market game, and practically all the reviews I've seen (even here on slashdot!) ignore the DRM issue. Practically all the people I've talked to about the game have no idea what I'm talking about when I tell them about the DRM, and are in for a very nasty time the third time they need to reformat their system, or reinstall the game for whatever reason.
EA made a calculated decision here, knowing that they would lose some of our support, but if the casual gamer (let's face it, the target Spore demographic) gives up on trying to install his friend's game and buys his own copy, that's a win for EA. If a few years down the track he hits hit three install limit, what's he going to do? Buy another copy, probably. Even if he doesn't, EA has the original sale and has lost nothing. The fact that the pirates have a far superior product is amusing and ironic, but irrelevant to EA's bottom line.
Until the reviewers take their jobs seriously and start actually pointing out serious fundamental flaws in the game, companies like EA can be confident that they have made the right decision.
The interesting thing with web traffic in Australia is that there are elements that come close to truly violating net neutrality (and not in the facile "I paid for 100 TB, why can't I get it?" way), but in a way that mostly works better for us.
The thing is that bandwidth is so expensive here, that downloading service packs for windows on, maybe, two or three computers would put an enormous dent in your traffic for the month. Same with patches for games/etc... so what most of the ISPs end up doing is mirroring a lot of this content themselves on their own servers, and not charging customers to access it.
Most of this content is free, but where it gets questionable is when the ISPs charge for content -- such as our largest ISP, which lets you download music/movies/tv/etc... for a fee per download, but without metering the content. I don't know if said ISP still charges $150/Gb for excess usage, but they did until recently, and if they still do, it doesn't take a genius to see the potential for anti-competitive conduct here. If anyone wants to start up an alternative content provider, this ISP will charge its customers through the nose to access it, while providing their own content much more cheaply.
If getting a job requires you to throw your personal life out the window, it isn't your personal life you should be reconsidering.
I work to live, I don't live to work.
Given the small penis, I guess so.
Well, except for the positron part, I guess.
And for the electron part as well.
Pair production is where a high energy photon (i.e. higher than the rest energy of a positron and an electron) contributes its energy to the creation of an electron/positron pair. The electron doesn't exist to begin with either.
With the photoelectric effect, the energy of the photon contributes to the ejection of an existing electron from the surface of a material. This happens at a much lower energy.
"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - Richard Feynman
I'm guessing it's the same logic at work here.
Once again I am reminded of the boundlessness of human stupidity.
Selling a computer with sensitive information on it without destroying said information is understandable, if seriously negligent and worthy of termination (the employment kind, not the Schwarzenegger kind, although it's a close call).
But selling the backups of that sensitive information with the computer? Who the hell thought that would be a bright idea?
Another physics nitpick: It doesn't translate the velocity either, it rotates it.
Translation is a completely different transformation.
No, America got the puritans, we got the criminals.
Come to think of it, I think we got the better deal.
It may not even be intentional. If I want to check my account on someone else's computer and get auto-logged in to their account, I'll just log them out first and not bother wasting their time by telling them (after changing their status to something mildly embarrassing, of course).
No, slowing down light does not turn it into an electron.
[resists the temptation to use a car analogy]
And the corollary - drug use doesn't have to be illicit to be self-destructive. How many people drink themselves to death each year?
It should read "self-destructive behavior such as substance abuse".
I always hit submit before
We're nowhere near parity at the moment (about 88 cents - it's been in a nosedive for a few weeks now, just in time for my trip to the states), but I see your point. It does seems fairly ridiculous that as the aussie dollar doubled in value over the last few years, game prices have stayed the same.
Hopefully more people will realise that you can pay half price for a superior product overseas by shopping online, and the prices here will drop accordingly. Whether we'll ever be able to walk into a shop and get an uncensored copy, I don't know.
Troll?
Ouch, looks like I hit a nerve...
hacking (uncountable)
...4b: to gain access to a computer illegally
1. (computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network.
Hack
You may prefer to use other definitions yourself, but the usage here is perfectly correct.
As soon as I opened this article my cat died of cyanide poisoning.
Is anyone else having this problem?
5) You say 'here' like anyone but you knows where that is! Some places do have these bags (for a price), but most people don't use them. I do (I got in the habit of it in Denmark).
I don't know, the "Care to explain it to a German" was a pretty strong hint for me. Having been to Germany, the foreign concept here could be the bagging of groceries by the cashier - this is very uncommon in Germany. They usually just scan every item across and place them on a tray at the end of the counter for you to bag yourself (and you need to do this as quickly as they are scanned if you don't want to piss off everyone behind you). Took me a bit by surprise the first time it happened, particularly since I didn't have a bag myself and spoke very poor German... I just ended up carrying everything awkwardly between my hands for a block or two.
Theft isn't as much of a problem any more, they've welded the Fucking signs to the posts.
Or Fucking, Austria.