No. In the beginning were the fingers. And somebody counted on them, and when the ran out of fingers they invented clay tablets and beurocracy. Each process was a person. When the king wanted to kill a process, he would use a sword.
Klinefelter's Syndrome is where a male is XXY instead of XY. Most such men are infertile, but according to NIH some can father children.
So, if a female tetrachromat passes the gene to a Klinefelter child, and that man fathers a son, could the son be a "normal" tetrachromat male?
Of course we are talking about multiplying several very small percentages together, so the odds are very low, but it's still interesting.
I think it's far more likely that someone will hack the genes to create a male tetrachromat. Imagine what it would be like if DaVinci, Van Gogh, or some other great artist had the capability. Then again, imagine what it would be like if they screwed up and caused his testes to produce the Ebola virus instead of sperm.
OK then, don't hack Mozilla, hack Wsock32.dll. That's supposedly not too hard to do, although I've never had a reason to try it myself. I'm pretty sure there are some instructions on how to hack this DLL on the 'net.
Thanks for all the "bind" stuff, but it's totally useless on Windows.
OK, I just visited some sites that explained the basic ideas. If I want to view the other TLDs, I have to change my network settings. If I do that, I lose my ISP's fairly reliable dynamicly assigned DNS servers.
With IE, there is no way to work around this. With Mozilla, you could patch it to use regular DNS lookups for ICANN TLDs, and hit alternative DNS servers for other TLDs.
So, how about it? Why doesn't Open Source put it's coding where its mouth is? If they did this, it might actually give me a reason to use Mozilla.
Right now, the only reason I have a Netscape browser at all is to make sure my web pages look OK in Netscape!
Wow! Vectrex. Aeons before Erol's became an ISP, they sold TVs, VCRs, and eventually video games out of what's now their corporate office. This other guy and I would go up there and play their Vectrex demo model until they kicked us out. Nobody I know ever bought one.
We already had sentient computers. They were called slaves.
So yes, I agree we should not build a sentient computer; not unless we are prepared to treat them as sons and daughters. Personally, I prefer making children the old fashioned way.
Any voter could view and change their result on election day. After the poles close, only those votes cited as disputed by the election board could be changed. A dispute would have to be a bad checksum on the tape, or a bad punch, or some other flaw in the medium used to record the vote.
Voters could not change their results after election day unless a pattern of complaints emerged suggestive of a system failure. For example, one precinct having complaints a full standard deviation above the mean.
I find it ironic that so many people on Slashdot make fun of Windows for crashing as often as it does, yet expect the electoral system to crash. How would you feel if your server was down 0.5% of the time?
At one time, consumer OS's were expected to crash, then you wrote a high quality free *NIX. Well, in the future we may look back at a time when voting systems were expected to crash.
His reasoning about reuse of Linux source turning Windows into a catchup OS is flawed. Any large program is likely to contain a large number of "components". Many of these will be useful but mundane things such as link list classes, tree sorters, task schedulers, etc.
Innovation doesn't arise from the quality of the individual components, but from the way in which those components are assembled.
Therefore, it is quite possible for MS to steal Linux code and use it to produce products that are ahead of Linux. In fact, we should expect that the result of such theft would be a product better than Windows without the theft, otherwise why bother?
As for whether or not MS is doing this, I suspect they are not. It would be foolish to do it with Linux when high-quality, legal BSD code is available for the same purpose.
There's not supposed to be *any* margin of error in the actual vote. That "margin of error" phrase has been drummed into our heads by pollsters.
Regardless of who wins in the end, one of the first acts should be to pass legislation for a new, modern vote system verifyable by some kind of encryption key to preserve anonymity.
I've been thinking that each ballot should have a public key attached, and that each voter should get a card with a private key when they vote. If there was any disputed ballot, the public keys would be posted by precinct both on line and in major newspapers (think full page, fine print, and hopefully a low percentage of disputes).
It would be each voter's responsability to check and make sure that their key was not on the disputed list. In order for them to verify their votes, they would have to use their private key. The vote could be ammended anonymously online via SSL or in a private booth at the local courthouse. If the disputed ballot is not ammended within a certain time frame, it should be thrown out, case closed.
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Have you gutted it yet? Maybe the sounds will be on something easy like a PROM. Too bad they didn't just make it so it would accept microcassettes from answering machines. Then again, if there is space in there, maybe you could bypass the stock sound by splicing the speaker wires to the guts of an answering machine, with a switch triggered whenever he moves.
Why not create something like Yahoo!, except have very strict rules about what sites are indexed?
Of course, you'd be stuck with the problem of policing it. OTOH, you could pipe all the sites through a Perl script that stripped the offensive tags, or you could just run Lynx...
Yeah, just run Lynx.:)
I agree though. When several alternatives are available, I always choose the one with the minimal ammount of fluff. It seems the web has revealed a new truth: a word is worth a thousand pictures.
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My initial reading of the license was that it was copyleft. Now, based on what people are saying here, it sounds a lot like the SCSL, which was DOA for obvious reasons.
Then it sounds like smart buyers in Poland will have to buy "naked" PCs, and then install the software themselves.
An even better way to dodge the VAT would be to set up a service that sold bundles of unassembled OEM components known to work well together. Hmmm... could the VAT actually be a good thing, in that it would encourage DIY and tinkering in this way?
They don't say how the tax is evaluated. If it were a sales tax, then they would just tax shrink-wrapped CDs and be done with it. It sounds to me like it is probably a "property tax". This is where you have to evaluate the value of all your property and pay a percentage on it. These are the most unfair types of taxes, because when you fall into poverty, not only do you lose your source of income, you have to continue paying taxes on all the stuff you own.
Assuming that they have extensive property taxes, their problem has nothing to do with attitudes towards free software. They need a fairer tax system accross the board--either a sales tax or an income tax; something non regressive.
Since it would be difficult for taxpayers to reform the system right away, they are forced to argue that the software has no value (obviously not true) or that it has less value than NT/office (may or may not be true, difficult to evaluate). The officer probably looked at the systems, reasoned that they do essentially the same thing, and evaluated them the same. It's actually kind of a backhanded compliment to the packages in question. For now, the taxpayer might want to ask for separate evaluations on the hardware and software, so that they can dispute one but not the other. What's tax court like on Poland?
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Like anybody would care if you talked through that dog of a flick.
Thanks; I was wondering. EiC wouldn't take it without int in front of main either, so the whole palindrome thing was shot right there.
Maybe, but I'll never know because the colors on that page gave me an instant headache.
No way! XENIX rules. Young man, fill this automobile up with petroleum distillates, poste haste!
No. In the beginning were the fingers. And somebody counted on them, and when the ran out of fingers they invented clay tablets and beurocracy. Each process was a person. When the king wanted to kill a process, he would use a sword.
Klinefelter's Syndrome is where a male is XXY instead of XY. Most such men are infertile, but according to NIH some can father children.
So, if a female tetrachromat passes the gene to a Klinefelter child, and that man fathers a son, could the son be a "normal" tetrachromat male?
Of course we are talking about multiplying several very small percentages together, so the odds are very low, but it's still interesting.
I think it's far more likely that someone will hack the genes to create a male tetrachromat. Imagine what it would be like if DaVinci, Van Gogh, or some other great artist had the capability. Then again, imagine what it would be like if they screwed up and caused his testes to produce the Ebola virus instead of sperm.
OK then, don't hack Mozilla, hack Wsock32.dll. That's supposedly not too hard to do, although I've never had a reason to try it myself. I'm pretty sure there are some instructions on how to hack this DLL on the 'net.
Thanks for all the "bind" stuff, but it's totally useless on Windows.
OK, I just visited some sites that explained the basic ideas. If I want to view the other TLDs, I have to change my network settings. If I do that, I lose my ISP's fairly reliable dynamicly assigned DNS servers.
With IE, there is no way to work around this. With Mozilla, you could patch it to use regular DNS lookups for ICANN TLDs, and hit alternative DNS servers for other TLDs.
So, how about it? Why doesn't Open Source put it's coding where its mouth is? If they did this, it might actually give me a reason to use Mozilla.
Right now, the only reason I have a Netscape browser at all is to make sure my web pages look OK in Netscape!
Wow! Vectrex. Aeons before Erol's became an ISP, they sold TVs, VCRs, and eventually video games out of what's now their corporate office. This other guy and I would go up there and play their Vectrex demo model until they kicked us out. Nobody I know ever bought one.
Perhaps the posting should have read: "The fiva is especially sharp. Extremely small: could be very difficult to type on."
We already had sentient computers. They were called slaves.
So yes, I agree we should not build a sentient computer; not unless we are prepared to treat them as sons and daughters. Personally, I prefer making children the old fashioned way.
Any voter could view and change their result on election day. After the poles close, only those votes cited as disputed by the election board could be changed. A dispute would have to be a bad checksum on the tape, or a bad punch, or some other flaw in the medium used to record the vote.
Voters could not change their results after election day unless a pattern of complaints emerged suggestive of a system failure. For example, one precinct having complaints a full standard deviation above the mean.
I find it ironic that so many people on Slashdot make fun of Windows for crashing as often as it does, yet expect the electoral system to crash. How would you feel if your server was down 0.5% of the time?
At one time, consumer OS's were expected to crash, then you wrote a high quality free *NIX. Well, in the future we may look back at a time when voting systems were expected to crash.
His reasoning about reuse of Linux source turning Windows into a catchup OS is flawed. Any large program is likely to contain a large number of "components". Many of these will be useful but mundane things such as link list classes, tree sorters, task schedulers, etc.
Innovation doesn't arise from the quality of the individual components, but from the way in which those components are assembled.
Therefore, it is quite possible for MS to steal Linux code and use it to produce products that are ahead of Linux. In fact, we should expect that the result of such theft would be a product better than Windows without the theft, otherwise why bother?
As for whether or not MS is doing this, I suspect they are not. It would be foolish to do it with Linux when high-quality, legal BSD code is available for the same purpose.
Yeah, but Al Gore's website runs Linux so none of that matters.
FLORIDA: The orange sunshine state.
Far out, man! The vote is changing right in front of my eyes.
There's not supposed to be *any* margin of error in the actual vote. That "margin of error" phrase has been drummed into our heads by pollsters.
Regardless of who wins in the end, one of the first acts should be to pass legislation for a new, modern vote system verifyable by some kind of encryption key to preserve anonymity.
I've been thinking that each ballot should have a public key attached, and that each voter should get a card with a private key when they vote. If there was any disputed ballot, the public keys would be posted by precinct both on line and in major newspapers (think full page, fine print, and hopefully a low percentage of disputes).
It would be each voter's responsability to check and make sure that their key was not on the disputed list. In order for them to verify their votes, they would have to use their private key. The vote could be ammended anonymously online via SSL or in a private booth at the local courthouse. If the disputed ballot is not ammended within a certain time frame, it should be thrown out, case closed.
Have you gutted it yet? Maybe the sounds will be on something easy like a PROM. Too bad they didn't just make it so it would accept microcassettes from answering machines. Then again, if there is space in there, maybe you could bypass the stock sound by splicing the speaker wires to the guts of an answering machine, with a switch triggered whenever he moves.
I wonder if there is a public-toilet Web ring?
There used to be, but since they installed Tidy Bowl software on most of the routers, it's much less of a problem.
If this restriction hadn't been in the terms of service, Half-Price would be a god target for legal action.
Do you think He would use lightning bolts or locusts?
FreeBSD, for those of you who are too lazy to click. Of course, this might just be his firewall.
Why not create something like Yahoo!, except have very strict rules about what sites are indexed?
Of course, you'd be stuck with the problem of policing it. OTOH, you could pipe all the sites through a Perl script that stripped the offensive tags, or you could just run Lynx...
Yeah, just run Lynx. :)
I agree though. When several alternatives are available, I always choose the one with the minimal ammount of fluff. It seems the web has revealed a new truth: a word is worth a thousand pictures.
My initial reading of the license was that it was copyleft. Now, based on what people are saying here, it sounds a lot like the SCSL, which was DOA for obvious reasons.
By copylefting the back end, they alienated the BSD community. By closing the front end, they alientated the GPL community.
Then it sounds like smart buyers in Poland will have to buy "naked" PCs, and then install the software themselves.
An even better way to dodge the VAT would be to set up a service that sold bundles of unassembled OEM components known to work well together. Hmmm... could the VAT actually be a good thing, in that it would encourage DIY and tinkering in this way?
They don't say how the tax is evaluated. If it were a sales tax, then they would just tax shrink-wrapped CDs and be done with it. It sounds to me like it is probably a "property tax". This is where you have to evaluate the value of all your property and pay a percentage on it. These are the most unfair types of taxes, because when you fall into poverty, not only do you lose your source of income, you have to continue paying taxes on all the stuff you own.
Assuming that they have extensive property taxes, their problem has nothing to do with attitudes towards free software. They need a fairer tax system accross the board--either a sales tax or an income tax; something non regressive.
Since it would be difficult for taxpayers to reform the system right away, they are forced to argue that the software has no value (obviously not true) or that it has less value than NT/office (may or may not be true, difficult to evaluate). The officer probably looked at the systems, reasoned that they do essentially the same thing, and evaluated them the same. It's actually kind of a backhanded compliment to the packages in question. For now, the taxpayer might want to ask for separate evaluations on the hardware and software, so that they can dispute one but not the other. What's tax court like on Poland?