...what about Canada? It's a great place to live, seems to keep scoring reasonably well in UN assessments or whatever (for quality of life and all that)... still nice and close to the States...
And it *is* a nice source of amusement to be able to read about various new American legislation every few weeks, react in horror/disgust, and then realize it doesn't apply to us.:*)
As usual, this whole thing is patently absurd.
Quit bitching about NSI; start up some competing DNS and coordinate a campaign to get users/ISPs/etc on board.
I know, it's been stated before, and is happening, and this post is likely a duplicate among many. But I'm saying it again, because I think this whole thing is hilarious.
The idea of whining about dollars traded for a string of names in an arbitrary system is just absurd. The solution (from the technology end) is not only obvious but simple.
As soon as people decide to stop catering to NSI and giving them media attention, their function will become redundant.
-b
What's with the perceived urgency of tallying votes and having an official national result, anyway? As time goes on and computers press further into our lives, people seem more and more anxious about shaving seconds off the latency between polls closing and final results appearing on teevee. Why?
One of the benefits of a computerized election seems to be the instantaneous delivery of results (no bears barricading in volunteers). I fail to understand the urgency.
After all, you guys won't know definitively and with official pronouncement whom your new president is anyway until what, January 20 or something? That's two and a half months. Big deal if a bear wasted a couple of hours.
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You can buy just the case and mobo, without the rest of the computer? Since when? From where?
...what about Canada? It's a great place to live, seems to keep scoring reasonably well in UN assessments or whatever (for quality of life and all that)... still nice and close to the States...
:*)
And it *is* a nice source of amusement to be able to read about various new American legislation every few weeks, react in horror/disgust, and then realize it doesn't apply to us.
At least not yet.
As usual, this whole thing is patently absurd. Quit bitching about NSI; start up some competing DNS and coordinate a campaign to get users/ISPs/etc on board. I know, it's been stated before, and is happening, and this post is likely a duplicate among many. But I'm saying it again, because I think this whole thing is hilarious. The idea of whining about dollars traded for a string of names in an arbitrary system is just absurd. The solution (from the technology end) is not only obvious but simple. As soon as people decide to stop catering to NSI and giving them media attention, their function will become redundant. -b
What's with the perceived urgency of tallying votes and having an official national result, anyway? As time goes on and computers press further into our lives, people seem more and more anxious about shaving seconds off the latency between polls closing and final results appearing on teevee. Why?
One of the benefits of a computerized election seems to be the instantaneous delivery of results (no bears barricading in volunteers). I fail to understand the urgency.
After all, you guys won't know definitively and with official pronouncement whom your new president is anyway until what, January 20 or something? That's two and a half months. Big deal if a bear wasted a couple of hours.
-ph