Let's open Pandora's Box!!!
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The broken user interface on our existing punch-cards system is probably going to give us the wrong President of the United States. How much worse could a digital system really be? I don't claim to have all the answers, but I know what century it is, and the time for Little House on the Prairie nonsense is over. Let's make this happen for 2004.
Oh please, wrong President. I don't think so. But since you are going that direction. Let's open Pandora's Box.
Do you have any idea how many votes are thrown out? Are you sure that those votes would make a difference (Absolutely Sure)? If Florida gets a new election, I want it country wide! I'm sure we would see who is the "right" president then. Give me a break. There are rules. You break the rules, can't follow the rules. You need to be responsible for your actions. Stop crying about the "wrong" president. There are problems nation wide and not with just this type of ballot. They are all different. If the people of Palm Beach didn't ask for a new ballot when they messed up (double punched), it's there own fault. We can talk about 3000 votes for wrong candidate. It may well be a moot point after the over-seas votes come in.
This way they can come up with all the schemes they want. If it runs under linux. All you have to do is hack the sound driver to redirect the music to a file? Why bother at all. If it ain't available under linux, I ain't using it. And if it is, I'll translate all my files to mp3's. So, big deal. They can talk all they want about secure music. I get it in the format I want reguardless of what they try. If it's streamed from the internet, I hack the network drivers under linux to redirect to a file. So when the stuff is available under linux, I don't have to hack it. Keep the boycott up!!!
I like the fact that I can reuse what I want to reuse. I don't think policy should be involved. You can take any of the GNU code available a use/reuse it. We can reuse it now in many more ways then what he is describing. I don't want someone to say you "MUST" use this component set or that component set. I like the freedom to choose. We remove that freedom, I should just go back to using Microsoft products.
Well if they are going to restrict code craking and make it illegal, let's hack the raw output. If we capture that with hardware modifications and/or process the stream (assuming streaming to a video/audio device under linux), and just capture the raw output. Not craking done. It has to become unencrypted at some point otherwise it would be useless.
Yes but M$ has 15 people working on security for 30 million lines of code. I'm sure they can find "all" the problems. I can read 2 million lines of code in a week, so what's the problem? Yet another release before it's ready. Let's see -- 30 million lines of code with a programmer able to debug and check 10 lines per day (to maintain a program) with 15 people is 150 lines per day... Oh, I forgot, what about Y3K?
I looked at some of the installation programs. I tried Caldera's and was unimpressed. It was a M$ Windows installation style. This one was nice because it shows all the steps in a column on the left and you can jump between them if you forget something (which I have done many times) in a previous screen. The round buttons change colors depending if the step is completed or not. The installation I tried worked without a hitch. I didn't test it much but what I saw worked like I thought it should.
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The broken user interface on our existing punch-cards system is probably going to give us the wrong President of the United States. How much worse could a digital system really be? I don't claim to have all the answers, but I know what century it is, and the time for Little House on the Prairie nonsense is over. Let's make this happen for 2004.
Oh please, wrong President. I don't think so. But since you are going that direction. Let's open Pandora's Box.
Do you have any idea how many votes are thrown out? Are you sure that those votes would make a difference (Absolutely Sure)? If Florida gets a new election, I want it country wide! I'm sure we would see who is the "right" president then. Give me a break. There are rules. You break the rules, can't follow the rules. You need to be responsible for your actions. Stop crying about the "wrong" president. There are problems nation wide and not with just this type of ballot. They are all different. If the people of Palm Beach didn't ask for a new ballot when they messed up (double punched), it's there own fault. We can talk about 3000 votes for wrong candidate. It may well be a moot point after the over-seas votes come in.
This way they can come up with all the schemes they want. If it runs under linux. All you have to do is hack the sound driver to redirect the music to a file? Why bother at all. If it ain't available under linux, I ain't using it. And if it is, I'll translate all my files to mp3's. So, big deal. They can talk all they want about secure music. I get it in the format I want reguardless of what they try. If it's streamed from the internet, I hack the network drivers under linux to redirect to a file. So when the stuff is available under linux, I don't have to hack it. Keep the boycott up!!!
I like the fact that I can reuse what I want to reuse. I don't think policy should be involved. You can take any of the GNU code available a use/reuse it. We can reuse it now in many more ways then what he is describing. I don't want someone to say you "MUST" use this component set or that component set. I like the freedom to choose. We remove that freedom, I should just go back to using Microsoft products.
Well if they are going to restrict code craking and make it illegal, let's hack the raw output. If we capture that with hardware modifications and/or process the stream (assuming streaming to a video/audio device under linux), and just capture the raw output. Not craking done. It has to become unencrypted at some point otherwise it would be useless.
Yes but M$ has 15 people working on security for 30 million lines of code. I'm sure they can find "all" the problems. I can read 2 million lines of code in a week, so what's the problem? Yet another release before it's ready. Let's see -- 30 million lines of code with a programmer able to debug and check 10 lines per day (to maintain a program) with 15 people is 150 lines per day... Oh, I forgot, what about Y3K?
What more can I say?
I looked at some of the installation programs. I tried Caldera's and was unimpressed. It was a M$ Windows installation style. This one was nice because it shows all the steps in a column on the left and you can jump between them if you forget something (which I have done many times) in a previous screen. The round buttons change colors depending if the step is completed or not. The installation I tried worked without a hitch. I didn't test it much but what I saw worked like I thought it should.