Yes, this is important, but why not make the computer print a physical receipt that is kept for the hand-counting in the case of a very tight election?
I imagine a voting hall where the voters are let in maybe 10-20 at a time in the booth-area. When in the booths they are confronted with a very simple and direct touch-screen where they mark their choices and complete the whole thing with a big **COMFIRM** button.
Then the system enters a locked status which only the local controlling authorities can unlock when the next 10-20 people enters the area. When shifting people, receipts are printed and stored in bins for the "hand count".
On their way in, they indentify themselves in order to get in line for voting. On their way out they sign a physical paper that they have voted.
In order to "hack" the system a proverbial black hat should have to physically alter numerous receipt-printing hardware units, but this is unfeasible. Nevertheless, to maintain maximum security, different states should use different hardware from different manufacturers with different software.
Of course, this is a very expensive solution right now, but considering the OUTRAGEOUS amount of money WASTED on the presidential campaigns of the republicrats this is a drop in their monetary ocean. But I'm afraid both dems and GOPs gains from a faulty election-system, lest 90% of America's populace should vote and that is -- for a non-dem, non-GOPian =).
How about the eastern (hindu/buddhist) teachings that have far greater numbers in their doctrine? For example, they say that the time since the formation of the solar system was complete is 1,995,884,800 years; since the appearce of Man (as we now know him) 18,618,841 years and since the commencement of our current (very materialistic) era (Kali Yuga) 5102 years.
Of course thse numbers are sneered at as the bragging of a insignificant religion that is only based on ancient nature-mystics and maybe the teachings of Gautama Buddha (600 B.C). What I think is astonishing is that these numbers are at least in the same order of magnitude as the modern sciences. IF we were to take that seriously, then why not the ancient teachings of those who might have procured such as the result of a more advanced civilisation? (Materialistic != Advanced)
(Note: The numbers are taken from The Secret Doctrine by Helena P. Blavatsky. I have not read the original religious documents myself)
I kinda like this your system, and if I had the points, I'd moderate it up
The problem is (as you said) that only four people will read your comment because it is so far down the page (if you're reading oldest first as the majority does), which in turn is maybe the biggest problem. The whole concept of fIRST pOZt would disappear if chronological order of the "root" commecnts wasn't the default plus that the good _late_ posts would have a bigger chance to get moderated fairly.
Personally, I read "oldest-first, nested" because I'm on a really good pipe and hate to follow unnecessary links. OTOH I always skim all the comments all the way down, which I don't think many do.
This is my only comment and (as you said) relatively few will read it. This is because of the oldest-first default which (if changed to newest-first) would change/. a bit I think.
Sorry for the incohorent rant, english is not my first language.
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The MP3 format is designed for pop music; its only ID fields are "artist", "album", and "song". Classical music does not have "albums", and "songs", and has at least two artists per recording. It also needs more specialized fields such as "conductor", "soloists", "orchestra", "opus number", and the like.
Actually, that's a limitation of the current id3tag version 1. I assume that ID3v2 has a better way of doing this.
Drifting slightly off-topic... I said that (as a matter of fact) you have to pay rapid development with incompabilities, various problems relatied to shoddy design etc. A capitalistic world encourages rapid development. In a alleged non-capitalistic world, development often stagnate, but the systems developed (not talking computer systems here) are (maybe) a bit more stable.
I really wasn't lamenting, but rather stating as a matter of fact that you can't both have the cookie and eat it. In this world I personally think that we eat a bit to much cookies.
I'd like to see a generic AI-engine that parses a formal natural language syntax from a text interface.
This could be combined with speech recognition (speech-to-text) or any type of *-to-text. The important thing is to make this an open Standard with (of-course) at least one Free implementation.
The back-end of this should IMHO be a shell-type interface. Why re-invent/bin/sh ? So we have: *-to-text-to-shell-to-system_calls. (Or, in a MS/AOL-world *-to-text-to-spell_checking-to-shell-to-system_cal ls) I'm afraid that if MS (or any company) does this f1rZt, then we'll end up in incompability-hell once again. The prize, of course, of a (working) capitalistic world.
Moreover, in the case of not-english languages, I think that it would be easier to convert languages to english than make new lang-backends for each language.
As a musician (drummer) having worked in a studio several times, this sounds really weird.
What about interplay? If there's no interplay between the performers, what is the benefit of playing together at the same time? You could as well lay down a bass/drum track and the let the others make overdubs! If the bass-player and drummer has, what, 0.1 seconds delay, it's almost impossible to play together. And if you're not able to have eye-contact, you're doomed =).
The only way to pull through what you're suggesting is to have a stingent click-track, and beginning the "latency-chain" with the drummer. Now, it _REALLY_ sucks to play to a click track. Believe me. You could as well have a drum machine. Plus, it's hard to play drums to a song if the drummer is all alone.
I once did a studio job (in my teens) where the bass player and I were separated by a glass wall (insulated). We had eye-contact, and I heard every note. Even _THEN_ it was hard(er) to keep in sync. Don't ask me why, it's the drum/bass magic I guess. They have to be in the same room at the same time if you ask me.
I dare you to find a.se domain that have nothing to do with Sweden. The majority of the national domains (.de.us.fi.at etc.) are quite well kept, with the exception of some small countries with interesting edings like.to and.nu.
In Sweden you have to have a _nationally_ active company/organisation to aqcuire a.se domain. If you're a small shop in only one city you have to hide under a subdomain that is x.se where x is [a-z], ab ac bd. If you're a single person you can have a domain under pp.se.
IMHO a _good_ system (albeit to expensive, why pay the same for.pp.se and.com ?), but it only works on a national level. I really don't see the need for a international name-soup like the.com.org.net mess we have right now.
Of course an international system like this requires an international bureaucracy that doesn't (?) exist today, and it's questionalbe whether it ever will be. Because of this and the anarchic aura of the net I think that the vision of an ordered Internet where information is intuitively sorted in TLD/subdomains is, and will continue to be, just a vision.
Heh.. but that's an important question none the less.
I would like to ask/. the following:
What research or theory suggests that intelligence is encoded in DNA?
Ok ok ok totally out of context (maybe) but as far as I understand this is assumed, just because there just isn't anything else to account for.
It seems like scientists are trying to decode *everything* from DNA, without thinking of the consequences:
Let's say that you and me are 99.999% genetically indentical (it's maybe even more than that). Could *really* that least digit make us so totally different ??
Does not the fact that humans are so totally influenced by their environment point to that DNA really is not that much acountable for the more "deep" things like thoughts, consciousness and the like.
Well, ideally, the people getting unemployed should not have to work anymore. The fact that they have to just proves how strange a capitalistic world behaves. Of course, if this was Soviet Russia, they would also be assigned new jobs. Maybe unemployed people not having to work produces too much offspring =). Anyway, not _having_ to work I think is a goal for many people in this world. Let's say the workers buy (or get) shares in their factory and buy nanotech to make things go around. Suddenly you have maybe 1000 newborn capitalists that just screw all day long. Yay for the new economy =)! Hmm, I think I just got trolled. Darn.
What do you mean by Gnome choosing E "as it's [sic] window manager" ? You can choose whatever WM you want with Gnome, but I guess you already knew that =)
If you want a lean WM to go with your Gnomes, try Sawmill, a Lisp-extensible WM. It has a gtk+ configuration utility and is arguably the most Gnome-aware WM there is.
If say a song was 50 cents for a "license" to play it (infinite times). Then the incentive for me to pirate it (both as a pirate or a "piratee") would be lower than if the song would have cost me a ride to a record shop and fifteen bucks.
OTOH there's a special feeling of owning a hard-to-get (physical) recording and this feeling will be greater as more and more records is made. My guess is that for MTV-flavor-of-the-week songs this development will be bad (maybe pay-per-play would be different) but "fringe" music will benefit to a great extent.
I think that the age of (restrictive) copyright to _recordings_ should be lowered to, say, five or ten years; after that period only donations _to the artist_ should be the money involved. This is only to make sure companies can make some revenue for some amount of time.
After all, good music wants to be heard and bad music wants to be sold; it's really that simple.
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I like the "2-dimensional man" analogy that is used in education.
In our world, 3 (OK ok 4) dimensional scientists try to explain 4 dimensional phenomena with models of varying validity. The very concept of science (exempt mathematics) is based on 4- dimensional approximations (we're talking "physical" dimensions here, not mathematical) of which the fourth is only observable in one direction ("arrow of time"-concept). The concept of multiple dimensions is prevalent in maths (and some physics models) but is by definition incomprehensible to us.
Who can claim that the next step in evolution is not to expand our very conciousness? It seems reasonable to me that in future generations (maybe on other planets) the human race may become "5-dimensional" or something like that. Of course, it's meaningless to us right now and that's why questions and arguments like this is utterly pointless.
A good number of religions support these thoughts (even christianity, but the message has IMHO been lost and misunderstood) so these are entirely my own thoughts.
Anyway, there's a lack of nomenclature and serious research on these areas, so I guess people like me are going to be the laughing stock for many generations. =)
Uhm. I guess everyone has thought about that at some time, even non-philostophers =). My thoughts so far is: If you could build a brain out of "computers" why can't you build a computer out of "brains" ? Like, a beowulf of people?
I postulate that that is physically impossible. Therefore, brains are not made of computers. This works for my brain anyway. =)
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This is really strange
I imagine a voting hall where the voters are let in maybe 10-20 at a time in the booth-area. When in the booths they are confronted with a very simple and direct touch-screen where they mark their choices and complete the whole thing with a big **COMFIRM** button.
Then the system enters a locked status which only the local controlling authorities can unlock when the next 10-20 people enters the area. When shifting people, receipts are printed and stored in bins for the "hand count".
On their way in, they indentify themselves in order to get in line for voting. On their way out they sign a physical paper that they have voted.
In order to "hack" the system a proverbial black hat should have to physically alter numerous receipt-printing hardware units, but this is unfeasible. Nevertheless, to maintain maximum security, different states should use different hardware from different manufacturers with different software.
Of course, this is a very expensive solution right now, but considering the OUTRAGEOUS amount of money WASTED on the presidential campaigns of the republicrats this is a drop in their monetary ocean. But I'm afraid both dems and GOPs gains from a faulty election-system, lest 90% of America's populace should vote and that is -- for a non-dem, non-GOPian =).
Of course not .. they'd all been eATEn by ThE 27 FeET MuTANT PenGUINS of FinLAND!
Of course thse numbers are sneered at as the bragging of a insignificant religion that is only based on ancient nature-mystics and maybe the teachings of Gautama Buddha (600 B.C). What I think is astonishing is that these numbers are at least in the same order of magnitude as the modern sciences. IF we were to take that seriously, then why not the ancient teachings of those who might have procured such as the result of a more advanced civilisation? (Materialistic != Advanced)
(Note: The numbers are taken from The Secret Doctrine by Helena P. Blavatsky. I have not read the original religious documents myself)
The problem is (as you said) that only four people will read your comment because it is so far down the page (if you're reading oldest first as the majority does), which in turn is maybe the biggest problem. The whole concept of fIRST pOZt would disappear if chronological order of the "root" commecnts wasn't the default plus that the good _late_ posts would have a bigger chance to get moderated fairly.
Personally, I read "oldest-first, nested" because I'm on a really good pipe and hate to follow unnecessary links. OTOH I always skim all the comments all the way down, which I don't think many do.
This is my only comment and (as you said) relatively few will read it. This is because of the oldest-first default which (if changed to newest-first) would change /. a bit I think.
Sorry for the incohorent rant, english is not my first language.
Besides, if I don't (or can't) know the law, how can I know what's illegal? It's not like the laws made these days are intuitive.
The whole legal/political system has this millennium become a very strange beast indeed. To know how it shold work has become a profession in itself.
I am for "direct" democracy, at least on a local level.
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I really wasn't lamenting, but rather stating as a matter of fact that you can't both have the cookie and eat it. In this world I personally think that we eat a bit to much cookies.
Thanks for the reply
This could be combined with speech recognition (speech-to-text) or any type of *-to-text. The important thing is to make this an open Standard with (of-course) at least one Free implementation.
The back-end of this should IMHO be a shell-type interface. Why re-invent /bin/sh ? So we have: *-to-text-to-shell-to-system_calls. (Or, in a MS/AOL-world *-to-text-to-spell_checking-to-shell-to-system_cal ls) I'm afraid that if MS (or any company) does this f1rZt, then we'll end up in incompability-hell once again. The prize, of course, of a (working) capitalistic world.
Moreover, in the case of not-english languages, I think that it would be easier to convert languages to english than make new lang-backends for each language.
How was this moderated +3 ?
As a musician (drummer) having worked in a studio several times, this sounds really weird.
What about interplay? If there's no interplay between the performers, what is the benefit of playing together at the same time? You could as well lay down a bass/drum track and the let the others make overdubs! If the bass-player and drummer has, what, 0.1 seconds delay, it's almost impossible to play together. And if you're not able to have eye-contact, you're doomed =).
The only way to pull through what you're suggesting is to have a stingent click-track, and beginning the "latency-chain" with the drummer. Now, it _REALLY_ sucks to play to a click track. Believe me. You could as well have a drum machine. Plus, it's hard to play drums to a song if the drummer is all alone.
I once did a studio job (in my teens) where the bass player and I were separated by a glass wall (insulated). We had eye-contact, and I heard every note. Even _THEN_ it was hard(er) to keep in sync. Don't ask me why, it's the drum/bass magic I guess. They have to be in the same room at the same time if you ask me.
In Sweden you have to have a _nationally_ active company/organisation to aqcuire a .se domain. If you're a small shop in only one city you have to hide under a subdomain that is x.se where x is [a-z], ab ac bd. If you're a single person you can have a domain under pp.se.
IMHO a _good_ system (albeit to expensive, why pay the same for .pp.se and .com ?), but it only works on a national level. I really don't see the need for a international name-soup like the .com .org .net mess we have right now.
Of course an international system like this requires an international bureaucracy that doesn't (?) exist today, and it's questionalbe whether it ever will be. Because of this and the anarchic aura of the net I think that the vision of an ordered Internet where information is intuitively sorted in TLD/subdomains is, and will continue to be, just a vision.
fsv is though
I would like to ask /. the following:
What research or theory suggests that intelligence is encoded in DNA?
Ok ok ok totally out of context (maybe) but as far as I understand this is assumed, just because there just isn't anything else to account for.
It seems like scientists are trying to decode *everything* from DNA, without thinking of the consequences:
Let's say that you and me are 99.999% genetically indentical (it's maybe even more than that). Could *really* that least digit make us so totally different ??
Does not the fact that humans are so totally influenced by their environment point to that DNA really is not that much acountable for the more "deep" things like thoughts, consciousness and the like.
Well, ideally, the people getting unemployed should not have to work anymore. The fact that they have to just proves how strange a capitalistic world behaves. Of course, if this was Soviet Russia, they would also be assigned new jobs. Maybe unemployed people not having to work produces too much offspring =). Anyway, not _having_ to work I think is a goal for many people in this world. Let's say the workers buy (or get) shares in their factory and buy nanotech to make things go around. Suddenly you have maybe 1000 newborn capitalists that just screw all day long. Yay for the new economy =)! Hmm, I think I just got trolled. Darn.
AFAIK there is a ISO standard that says it should be YYYY-MM-DD. Try GNU date with the -I switch. Only country that uses it is Sweden though =).
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Mod this up please. Very valid point
If you want a lean WM to go with your Gnomes, try Sawmill, a Lisp-extensible WM. It has a gtk+ configuration utility and is arguably the most Gnome-aware WM there is.
OTOH there's a special feeling of owning a hard-to-get (physical) recording and this feeling will be greater as more and more records is made. My guess is that for MTV-flavor-of-the-week songs this development will be bad (maybe pay-per-play would be different) but "fringe" music will benefit to a great extent.
I think that the age of (restrictive) copyright to _recordings_ should be lowered to, say, five or ten years; after that period only donations _to the artist_ should be the money involved. This is only to make sure companies can make some revenue for some amount of time.
After all, good music wants to be heard and bad music wants to be sold; it's really that simple.
In our world, 3 (OK ok 4) dimensional scientists try to explain 4 dimensional phenomena with models of varying validity. The very concept of science (exempt mathematics) is based on 4- dimensional approximations (we're talking "physical" dimensions here, not mathematical) of which the fourth is only observable in one direction ("arrow of time"-concept). The concept of multiple dimensions is prevalent in maths (and some physics models) but is by definition incomprehensible to us.
Who can claim that the next step in evolution is not to expand our very conciousness? It seems reasonable to me that in future generations (maybe on other planets) the human race may become "5-dimensional" or something like that. Of course, it's meaningless to us right now and that's why questions and arguments like this is utterly pointless.
A good number of religions support these thoughts (even christianity, but the message has IMHO been lost and misunderstood) so these are entirely my own thoughts.
Anyway, there's a lack of nomenclature and serious research on these areas, so I guess people like me are going to be the laughing stock for many generations. =)
I postulate that that is physically impossible. Therefore, brains are not made of computers. This works for my brain anyway. =)
Yeah ... Isn't it great ? =)