I did a double take on "mandatory" but if you flash into dreams of turning things into hamburger after that something is wrong.
At what point does the continual erosion of our rights, the continual battery which smashes the individual into a robot of compliance, how low must we sink, before we can revolt?
It is mandatory to add the tools and techniques associated to SecViz to your arsenal, a
"it is mandatory." who the hell are they? We should mandatory these people up against a wall just for making the claim. Hey, visualize this security... 300 rounds per minute turning them into hamburger meat.
AS a Republican I have to say that Obama's acceptance speech blew me away. I almost had my lighter out in one hand, my seig heil in the other... save the planet, yes my fuhrer!
Seriously, that was one hell of a speech, and I honestly hope his administration succeeds.
Is that, some old assembly hackers ought to be able to whip up a fairly tiny basic interpreter. It should be fun in a way and still easier than in the old days of 6502. You have more registers, some basic string instructions, and outstanding support for floating point. I doubt it could be quite as small though, as, the big thing that would bloat it up would be that instructions themselves in 32 bit. For an easier and almost weekend job of it, you could do it in 64 bit assembly for Linux only. That spares you the need to do COM type of stuff and other weirdness that permeates the Windows API. In Linux, you are just doing normal C calls throughout to the OS and so you could bring up basic file services fairly quickly. A clever coder could probably make the BASIC actually be some sort of assembler with it... there's nothing genuinely fancy about it and the memory management of those guys was fairly primitive.
They have not provided any source. Are they withholding the source to the GPL code?
Read the second link in the blurb. The voting machines in question run Windows 2000. Guess what, GhostScript runs on Windows too.
Well, in that case then, Diebold is even extra stupid and probably should just get sued for that. There's absolute no reason you need ghostscript on a Windows box when GDI is perfectly capable of producing device independent output natively.
Let's forget that the outcome of this lawsuit means that Diebold will argue that the liberals made the paper trail go away.
Look, the GPL gives Diebold the explicit right to use that software, so long as they distribute it themselves. This sort of political nonsense only undermines open source. Sure, some left leaning authors might not like Diebold and want to "get them" in some way, but... all they've done is establish that the free software movement is really free subject to arbitrary whims and conditions. At least if they had used Microsoft Windows internally, they would have been free of any political considerations for license compliance.
Just give them money, and that's all they ask for. At some point, having to vote for democrats, worship mother earth and spin two times on your rear on tuesday doesn't look nearly as good as just giving some dope $20 per copy you sell.
and quite honestly, it would have been easier to write a voting front end using Windows. Windows is all about client apss and you could have a simple WinForms client application, printing under Windows is super easy, even in C++. It would be a very simple application and the source could be published, if they so chose.
You didn't fix anything. I was actually rather proud of my bad karma. You libs seems to think that we need social approval like you do.
"I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live." - John McCain, 2 March 2000
If he would have said that more in this election he would have carried the entire rustbelt. I mean, if he would have stood up in front of the UAW and said that, and followed it up with "that's why I've always bought American cars and encourage Americans to buy American cars.", he would have come out way ahead. But, he didn't.
The next group of Republicans will not make that mistake again.
Ok, as a Republican there are many things to be bitter about in an Obama administration but there are a few plus sides. So, rather than whining about the fact that a socialist is in charge, let's accept that we can't win an election when we follow up the most unpopular president in history with an erratic mummy.
So, while we regroup for 2012, there are some bright spots to look for in Republicans.
a) alternative energy picks. Obama's going hog wild with alternative energy so hopefully those of us who have taken a beating investing in alternative energy company will finally see some positive returns. Who cares about Obama's doubling of the capital gains tax when stocks like NBF wind up as 10 bangers.
b) democratic socialism favors the status quo. Pure socialism is of course the death of wealth but democratic socialism of the european style which Obama proposes has the effect of slowing down social change and thus preserving old money. So if you've got that big old trust, you'll pay a higher tax but that company grandma gave you will enjoy a better playing field.
c) an overall stock market boom. Yeah, the it sucks that the big media talked the economy down to get Obama elected, but, on the bright side, the big media is going to start pulling out all sorts of facts and figures about the signs of bottoming out, the recovery, etc, and while red state industries will go back taking their usual democratic beating (like farming, mining and oil)... at least there will be other industries to invest in.
d) stronger dollar and more foreign investment. As dumb as it is, the world likes stupid democratic socialism, and that America goes that way will paradoxically bolster American capitalism as it will create the perception of an America being a safer place to invest in - at least until those capital gains tax bills kick in.
e) Jay Rockefeller and Bill Ford go to jail. It's a bonus, but at some point, the IRS and DOJ are going to break through that UBS wall to Swiss banking and find out that so many liberals actually don't pay their taxes by hiding their money in Switzerland. And, if they don't go to jail, and the investigation mysteriously dies, then, we Republicans would know exactly where to park our money so that Obama's tax increases won't matter nearly as much as we worry about.
I mean, I've gone from Excellent to Bad Karma in three days of raging on slashdot, and were I not on the verge of getting kicked off, I could go on raging for three days more and go for the mystical Evil rating.
The Republican party you're referring to has quite a few similarities to our modern Democrats.
Except for that part about being biblical and fighting wars for an ideological cause. Abe Lincoln === religious nut. You need to understand that in Lincoln's time a black man had about the same level of humanity as a fetus is considered to have today. The whole reason slavery worked was because in the western mind, blacks weren't really people... they were animals, didn't have souls, were more like horses or something and any display of intelligence they did was chalked up to simple mimicry rather than any actual intelligence.
It's like everyone talks about the likes of Frederick Douglas, but, in those days, people went to go see Frederic Douglas weren't going to see an eloquent speaker, per se... it was like, going to see a horse that can count... "oh dear, instead of seeing the counting horse, let's go see the speechgiving negro". There was no black civilization on the planet even close to within 500 - 1000 years technologically of what European nations had and so arguing in favor of equality was genuinely an act of faith. Even Lincoln pretty much said that, he didn't really think that blacks were up to the same level as whites, but it was a religious thing to treat them right.
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I was actually serious in my post. Republicans -don't- believe that everyone should have the right to vote. I mean, imagine how much less entitlements there would be on the budget if you had to a certain net worth to vote?
I mean, the chick in the scarlet letter was smoking hot. If smoking hot chicks that put out had to wear a scarlet letter, what's really so bad about that, if you are a guy?
Republicans in the USA tend to believe that not everyone should be allowed to vote. Specifically, we would ultimately prefer that only people who own property should be allowed to vote in order to prevent the socialist idea of masses voting themselves wealth transfers from upper classes. Therefor, voter registration would be a separate process as it was a different set of people.
However, we lost this debate utterly to the Democrats, and so, more or less, have this idea that everyone should be allowed to vote, but with the vestiges of a separate process until such time that we Republicans can really get back into power and repeal that god-awful Constitutional amendment.
witch trials and letters would be better.
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You know, they really should bring back the scarlet letter and witch trials. I mean, if someone sitting next to you got a promotion that you didn't, you would be able to start the whispering campaign that your rival cut a deal with Satan.
Your little tirade was quite spectacular, but the fact of the matter is that you ducked the question at hand. Once again, Obama and co are going to shut off free speech for their political opponents.
You argument that Republicans are "far worse" than Democrats has no basis in fact. Your charges about death camps really show where you are. If there was a Republican death camp, for sure, two things are for sure, a) it would be all over the news because the media is liberal, and b) Bush would be a hell of a lot more popular among his own party than he is now.
You are so far out on the loony fascist fringe that you assume anybody with legitimate complaints about your Fuhrer must be an Obama supporter,
Most of your complaints aren't legitimate, that's the point. They are talking points of your opposition.
Yeah, and seriously, you think Bush is a bit of a excessive guy, so you go and support a Stalinist. I mean, Bush throws in one or two guys into Gitmo, which sucks, but, the left has already far exceeded that level of constitional violations already when they tossed the japs into internment camps.
You can call me crazy, but when this Obama buddy of yours goes and does the Fairness Doctrine, brags to private donors about all the coal miners he's thrown out of work, mandated bilingual content for everything, thrown 50,000 people into prison for copyright infringement so his masters will be appeased, raised capital gains taxes and killed investment in the USA, THEN, silences his political opposition, you tell me how great your buddy is.
Puhlease. One year from now, Democrats will be rationalizing everything they did, and it will all be ten times as much as what Bush did.... Democrats -don't care if the free market or private sector exists-, don't you get it?
So given the groups you identify with, you have the audacity to call wanting the government to be subject to the same laws as the people "treason"?
Oh fuck that argument, especially when the Weather Underground gave our President his career start.
What a dirty, cowardly little nazi piece of shit you are.
How can you call us Nazis when Bush accepted every contrary media as part of free speech, and your guys first move is to try and squelch the other side? Let's face it, Obama's "common purpose" is a lot more national socialistic than "ownership society".
How do you even live with yourself, and say the lies you say?
like how a self-professed Republican's response to (hopefully) losing a democratic election is to call it a coup and threaten setting off IEDs. I mean, that is really high-quality irony.
It is a coup. Democrats and their left wing allies did everything they could to derail the economy and the war. America was stabbed in the back by the left wing, as usual. And the thing is, once they get into power, you are going to see them do everything they can to extend their lead, undemocratically by:
a) squelching political dissent - you'll see Obama and company try and shut off right wing radio via the fairness doctrine, use the IRS to intimidate the web and the FCC and Net Neutrality legislation to try and go after the likes of Fox and some sort of pressure will be placed on the WSJ. In a Democratic America, you'll only be allowed to argue about the effectiveness of the administration Democrat plans but not question the ideas. It will be just like Soviet Times.
b) Disarmament of the country. Any individual right to keep and bear and arms will be eroded.
c) Disempower the country. Any means of accumulating private wealth, and thus power, will be eroded. You'll see increased capital gains.
d) And no, USA PATRIOT and the DEPT of Homeland Security will NOT be repealed. You can guarantee that Biden will Reichstag Fire any sort of right wing activitiy into an excuse to grant his socialist masters even more power.
McCain's a dope, for sure, but this election is the inauguration of an occupation, not another administration, and it should be treated as such.
Awesome, I can't wait for far-right Republicans to become domestic terrorists, get rounded up and shipped to Gitmo. It just seems appropriate somehow
As a practical matter, I wouldn't expect to see any right wing insurgent activity unless Card Check, Fairness Doctrine and some sort of anti-gun legislation simultaneously pass.
But, let's assume that we did.
You know what would happen, don't you? Your side would cave in like it does to every other insurgency on the planet. You caved to the likes of the Weather Underground and the Nation of Islam in the 1960s, you tried to cave into the Bader Meinhoff in the 1970s, you caved to the IRA and the PLO under Clinton, and begged to cave into Al Sadr and Al Qaeda in Iraq...
This is why the Bush administrations new warrantless wiretapping is so distressing. The system wasn't broken! It worked very well. This is simply yet another attempt by the administration to do an end run around due-process. Bush and Cheney have done more to erode the constitution than any other duo in this country's history.
Except for democrats shredding the commerce clause to enact their agenda... I mean, there's nothing in the constitution that gives the federal government the right to regulate the environment, for starters. And of course, I didn't see Bush tossing muslim americans in camps the way Roosevelt did both the Japanese. For that matter, when did Bush ever try and pack the Supreme Court with extra judges the way Roosevelt did...
Democrats deliberately derailed the war effort and the economy in order to get elected and you are looking for more spoils of your coup? If you want a civil war, why don't we just get on with it already. We Republicans will be happy to answer your trumped up charges with IEDs.
Death is a part of the natural renewal of things. It is a short life span and the continual and restarting of youth that allows humanity to not only change its education but its social attitudes.
Mourn the ones we lose, for sure, but ultimately, death is necessary. Without death, young people could never remake the world with each generation, and we'd be stuck forever with the weirdness of the old. Sometimes we old people, instead of clinging to life, just need accept that we're going to die.
I mean, I'm a Republican in a Democratic state and heading out in this election is like the charge of the Light Brigade except that our bumbling nominee might not even get 600 votes.
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I did a double take on "mandatory" but if you flash into dreams of turning things into hamburger after that something is wrong.
At what point does the continual erosion of our rights, the continual battery which smashes the individual into a robot of compliance, how low must we sink, before we can revolt?
It is mandatory to add the tools and techniques associated to SecViz to your arsenal, a
"it is mandatory." who the hell are they? We should mandatory these people up against a wall just for making the claim. Hey, visualize this security... 300 rounds per minute turning them into hamburger meat.
"mandatory"
AS a Republican I have to say that Obama's acceptance speech blew me away. I almost had my lighter out in one hand, my seig heil in the other... save the planet, yes my fuhrer!
Seriously, that was one hell of a speech, and I honestly hope his administration succeeds.
Is that, some old assembly hackers ought to be able to whip up a fairly tiny basic interpreter. It should be fun in a way and still easier than in the old days of 6502. You have more registers, some basic string instructions, and outstanding support for floating point. I doubt it could be quite as small though, as, the big thing that would bloat it up would be that instructions themselves in 32 bit. For an easier and almost weekend job of it, you could do it in 64 bit assembly for Linux only. That spares you the need to do COM type of stuff and other weirdness that permeates the Windows API. In Linux, you are just doing normal C calls throughout to the OS and so you could bring up basic file services fairly quickly. A clever coder could probably make the BASIC actually be some sort of assembler with it... there's nothing genuinely fancy about it and the memory management of those guys was fairly primitive.
They have not provided any source.
Are they withholding the source to the GPL code?
Read the second link in the blurb. The voting machines in question run Windows 2000. Guess what, GhostScript runs on Windows too.
Well, in that case then, Diebold is even extra stupid and probably should just get sued for that. There's absolute no reason you need ghostscript on a Windows box when GDI is perfectly capable of producing device independent output natively.
Let's forget that the outcome of this lawsuit means that Diebold will argue that the liberals made the paper trail go away.
Look, the GPL gives Diebold the explicit right to use that software, so long as they distribute it themselves. This sort of political nonsense only undermines open source. Sure, some left leaning authors might not like Diebold and want to "get them" in some way, but... all they've done is establish that the free software movement is really free subject to arbitrary whims and conditions. At least if they had used Microsoft Windows internally, they would have been free of any political considerations for license compliance.
Just give them money, and that's all they ask for. At some point, having to vote for democrats, worship mother earth and spin two times on your rear on tuesday doesn't look nearly as good as just giving some dope $20 per copy you sell.
and quite honestly, it would have been easier to write a voting front end using Windows. Windows is all about client apss and you could have a simple WinForms client application, printing under Windows is super easy, even in C++. It would be a very simple application and the source could be published, if they so chose.
The only way to save yourselves is to the industry where it hurts and not spend a dime on any sort of music or movie. Let them eat air!
There, fixed that for you
You didn't fix anything. I was actually rather proud of my bad karma. You libs seems to think that we need social approval like you do.
"I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live." - John McCain, 2 March 2000
If he would have said that more in this election he would have carried the entire rustbelt. I mean, if he would have stood up in front of the UAW and said that, and followed it up with "that's why I've always bought American cars and encourage Americans to buy American cars.", he would have come out way ahead. But, he didn't.
The next group of Republicans will not make that mistake again.
Ok, as a Republican there are many things to be bitter about in an Obama administration but there are a few plus sides. So, rather than whining about the fact that a socialist is in charge, let's accept that we can't win an election when we follow up the most unpopular president in history with an erratic mummy.
So, while we regroup for 2012, there are some bright spots to look for in Republicans.
a) alternative energy picks. Obama's going hog wild with alternative energy so hopefully those of us who have taken a beating investing in alternative energy company will finally see some positive returns. Who cares about Obama's doubling of the capital gains tax when stocks like NBF wind up as 10 bangers.
b) democratic socialism favors the status quo. Pure socialism is of course the death of wealth but democratic socialism of the european style which Obama proposes has the effect of slowing down social change and thus preserving old money. So if you've got that big old trust, you'll pay a higher tax but that company grandma gave you will enjoy a better playing field.
c) an overall stock market boom. Yeah, the it sucks that the big media talked the economy down to get Obama elected, but, on the bright side, the big media is going to start pulling out all sorts of facts and figures about the signs of bottoming out, the recovery, etc, and while red state industries will go back taking their usual democratic beating (like farming, mining and oil)... at least there will be other industries to invest in.
d) stronger dollar and more foreign investment. As dumb as it is, the world likes stupid democratic socialism, and that America goes that way will paradoxically bolster American capitalism as it will create the perception of an America being a safer place to invest in - at least until those capital gains tax bills kick in.
e) Jay Rockefeller and Bill Ford go to jail. It's a bonus, but at some point, the IRS and DOJ are going to break through that UBS wall to Swiss banking and find out that so many liberals actually don't pay their taxes by hiding their money in Switzerland. And, if they don't go to jail, and the investigation mysteriously dies, then, we Republicans would know exactly where to park our money so that Obama's tax increases won't matter nearly as much as we worry about.
I mean, I've gone from Excellent to Bad Karma in three days of raging on slashdot, and were I not on the verge of getting kicked off, I could go on raging for three days more and go for the mystical Evil rating.
The Republican party you're referring to has quite a few similarities to our modern Democrats.
Except for that part about being biblical and fighting wars for an ideological cause. Abe Lincoln === religious nut. You need to understand that in Lincoln's time a black man had about the same level of humanity as a fetus is considered to have today. The whole reason slavery worked was because in the western mind, blacks weren't really people... they were animals, didn't have souls, were more like horses or something and any display of intelligence they did was chalked up to simple mimicry rather than any actual intelligence.
It's like everyone talks about the likes of Frederick Douglas, but, in those days, people went to go see Frederic Douglas weren't going to see an eloquent speaker, per se... it was like, going to see a horse that can count... "oh dear, instead of seeing the counting horse, let's go see the speechgiving negro". There was no black civilization on the planet even close to within 500 - 1000 years technologically of what European nations had and so arguing in favor of equality was genuinely an act of faith. Even Lincoln pretty much said that, he didn't really think that blacks were up to the same level as whites, but it was a religious thing to treat them right.
I was actually serious in my post. Republicans -don't- believe that everyone should have the right to vote. I mean, imagine how much less entitlements there would be on the budget if you had to a certain net worth to vote?
I mean, the chick in the scarlet letter was smoking hot. If smoking hot chicks that put out had to wear a scarlet letter, what's really so bad about that, if you are a guy?
Republicans in the USA tend to believe that not everyone should be allowed to vote. Specifically, we would ultimately prefer that only people who own property should be allowed to vote in order to prevent the socialist idea of masses voting themselves wealth transfers from upper classes. Therefor, voter registration would be a separate process as it was a different set of people.
However, we lost this debate utterly to the Democrats, and so, more or less, have this idea that everyone should be allowed to vote, but with the vestiges of a separate process until such time that we Republicans can really get back into power and repeal that god-awful Constitutional amendment.
You know, they really should bring back the scarlet letter and witch trials. I mean, if someone sitting next to you got a promotion that you didn't, you would be able to start the whispering campaign that your rival cut a deal with Satan.
Your little tirade was quite spectacular, but the fact of the matter is that you ducked the question at hand. Once again, Obama and co are going to shut off free speech for their political opponents.
You argument that Republicans are "far worse" than Democrats has no basis in fact. Your charges about death camps really show where you are. If there was a Republican death camp, for sure, two things are for sure, a) it would be all over the news because the media is liberal, and b) Bush would be a hell of a lot more popular among his own party than he is now.
You are so far out on the loony fascist fringe that you assume anybody with legitimate complaints about your Fuhrer must be an Obama supporter,
Most of your complaints aren't legitimate, that's the point. They are talking points of your opposition.
Yeah, and seriously, you think Bush is a bit of a excessive guy, so you go and support a Stalinist. I mean, Bush throws in one or two guys into Gitmo, which sucks, but, the left has already far exceeded that level of constitional violations already when they tossed the japs into internment camps.
You can call me crazy, but when this Obama buddy of yours goes and does the Fairness Doctrine, brags to private donors about all the coal miners he's thrown out of work, mandated bilingual content for everything, thrown 50,000 people into prison for copyright infringement so his masters will be appeased, raised capital gains taxes and killed investment in the USA, THEN, silences his political opposition, you tell me how great your buddy is.
Puhlease. One year from now, Democrats will be rationalizing everything they did, and it will all be ten times as much as what Bush did.... Democrats -don't care if the free market or private sector exists-, don't you get it?
So given the groups you identify with, you have the audacity to call wanting the government to be subject to the same laws as the people "treason"?
Oh fuck that argument, especially when the Weather Underground gave our President his career start.
What a dirty, cowardly little nazi piece of shit you are.
How can you call us Nazis when Bush accepted every contrary media as part of free speech, and your guys first move is to try and squelch the other side? Let's face it, Obama's "common purpose" is a lot more national socialistic than "ownership society".
How do you even live with yourself, and say the lies you say?
In two days, their left wing buddies will be elected and they will be able to just ask for it.
like how a self-professed Republican's response to (hopefully) losing a democratic election is to call it a coup and threaten setting off IEDs. I mean, that is really high-quality irony.
It is a coup. Democrats and their left wing allies did everything they could to derail the economy and the war. America was stabbed in the back by the left wing, as usual. And the thing is, once they get into power, you are going to see them do everything they can to extend their lead, undemocratically by:
a) squelching political dissent - you'll see Obama and company try and shut off right wing radio via the fairness doctrine, use the IRS to intimidate the web and the FCC and Net Neutrality legislation to try and go after the likes of Fox and some sort of pressure will be placed on the WSJ. In a Democratic America, you'll only be allowed to argue about the effectiveness of the administration Democrat plans but not question the ideas. It will be just like Soviet Times.
b) Disarmament of the country. Any individual right to keep and bear and arms will be eroded.
c) Disempower the country. Any means of accumulating private wealth, and thus power, will be eroded. You'll see increased capital gains.
d) And no, USA PATRIOT and the DEPT of Homeland Security will NOT be repealed. You can guarantee that Biden will Reichstag Fire any sort of right wing activitiy into an excuse to grant his socialist masters even more power.
McCain's a dope, for sure, but this election is the inauguration of an occupation, not another administration, and it should be treated as such.
Awesome, I can't wait for far-right Republicans to become domestic terrorists, get rounded up and shipped to Gitmo. It just seems appropriate somehow
As a practical matter, I wouldn't expect to see any right wing insurgent activity unless Card Check, Fairness Doctrine and some sort of anti-gun legislation simultaneously pass.
But, let's assume that we did.
You know what would happen, don't you? Your side would cave in like it does to every other insurgency on the planet. You caved to the likes of the Weather Underground and the Nation of Islam in the 1960s, you tried to cave into the Bader Meinhoff in the 1970s, you caved to the IRA and the PLO under Clinton, and begged to cave into Al Sadr and Al Qaeda in Iraq...
This is why the Bush administrations new warrantless wiretapping is so distressing. The system wasn't broken! It worked very well. This is simply yet another attempt by the administration to do an end run around due-process. Bush and Cheney have done more to erode the constitution than any other duo in this country's history.
Except for democrats shredding the commerce clause to enact their agenda... I mean, there's nothing in the constitution that gives the federal government the right to regulate the environment, for starters. And of course, I didn't see Bush tossing muslim americans in camps the way Roosevelt did both the Japanese. For that matter, when did Bush ever try and pack the Supreme Court with extra judges the way Roosevelt did...
Democrats deliberately derailed the war effort and the economy in order to get elected and you are looking for more spoils of your coup? If you want a civil war, why don't we just get on with it already. We Republicans will be happy to answer your trumped up charges with IEDs.
Death is a part of the natural renewal of things. It is a short life span and the continual and restarting of youth that allows humanity to not only change its education but its social attitudes.
Mourn the ones we lose, for sure, but ultimately, death is necessary. Without death, young people could never remake the world with each generation, and we'd be stuck forever with the weirdness of the old. Sometimes we old people, instead of clinging to life, just need accept that we're going to die.
I mean, I'm a Republican in a Democratic state and heading out in this election is like the charge of the Light Brigade except that our bumbling nominee might not even get 600 votes.
I just saw this line in the article about a three year old Trojan and I thought, man wouldn't that thing get kinda full at some point?