Actually, the LOGS of who voted - not what they voted for - ARE public record. I can tell which elections you voted in; it's public record that you voted - just not who you voted FOR.
A vote is a decision. A petition signature is a public, open attempt to submit an issue to the voters.
Petition signatures need to be public. The number one electoral fraud in this country is falsification of petiition signatures. Hotly contested races will hire outside firms to verify petition signatures on a routine basis, and this is necessary in any adversarial system.
Usually only a small number - 1-5% of registered voters - is required to put a measure or candidate on the ballot, which then leads to a secret vote.
Democracy has risks. If there's any issue that can't muster between one and five percent of people willing to take a public stand on an issue than we're already doomed.
Also, signing a petition is NOT necessarily an endorsement of an issue or candidate. It is merely a declaration that a person feels an issue is worthy of a vote. It usually - but not always - indicates a signer supports an issue. I have signed petitions for candidates who I did not support simply because the candidate I DID support was already on the ballot but I thought the opposing candidate had a right to be heard.
Yes. Hitler at least professed to be a leftist, rising to office on a socialist platform. And, like may tyrants who originally pose as either leftists OR rightists, he instead revealed himself as not being loyal to any actual politcal belief system, but rather to power as its own end. Still, considering he entered politics as a socialist, he gets placed on the left. Ultimately, it doesn't really matter - his actual "governing" process was neither socialist nor capitalist, but rather a homicidal pursuit of power, but my initial post was meant simply to take issue with the concept of Hitler as being either "conservative" or "benevolent" as the OP had suggested. Say what you will about Hitler, he wasn't conservative. Wasn't liberal, either, although he masqueraded as one to get elected.
The VW was mandated by Hitler. And, not to cast aspirations on the left wing of any current political party, but Hitler was a leftist.
He was the head of the National SOCIALIST German Workers Party, which was very left-wing, anti-corporate, by the standards of the day. Of course, that didn't stop Hitler and his band of criminals from charming corporations when it suited their interests. But please, use proper english. "Conservative" and "benevolent" are two words that should never be applied to Adolph Hitler.
Lord, I wish I had mod points to mod that +10 Funny.
But you should never let anyone outside the family know what you're thinking.
Everyone has used OS/2. They just don't know it.
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Up until rather recently, a large majority of bank ATM's ran OS/2.
Many call centers ran software that used OS/2.
OS/2's attempt to reach the consumer market were laughable - they sponsored the OS/2 Fiesta Bowl in the 1990's, without explaining to the public what OS/2 even was - but the software was everywhere in the corporate world it seemed. (for those slashdotters who don't know what the Fiesta Bowl is, it's one of the biggest college football ball games.)
Ford car dealerships ran a satelite uplink system that required OS/2.
I used it to ran a multiline BBS. It was good stuff. Even today, many of the guts (and filenames) of Windows stem from MS's long ago partnership with IBM....the more stable portions of Windows.
Not sure what the relevance of it today would be, but it was more widespread than you might think.
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Like how the original article described the Commodore 64 as a "black and white only machine, no color" when comparing it to the Apple II. Uh, sprites? Color graphics? Maybe they were thinking of the Commodore PET, which actually had green text.
A shame. I know people who bought nice new Macbooks running 10.4 in 2008, and they won't want to upgrade their OS after just over a year. I have a 700 mhz ibook that is great to travel with and does everything I want it to, but is slowly becoming insecure because it's gradually becoming unsupported. Yet it runs fine, and I'd cheerfully stick with it if I could.
Buy, buy, buy...what a pain. How hard is it to just keep up on security patches for old browsers?
Never, ever, not once have I ever heard of Woz making a blanket, absolute statement phrased as fact about any type of electronic or mechanical system that was later found to be inaccurate. Woz is, first and foremost, a methodical engineer and he never makes sweeping statements without something to back them up. He may occasionally say things like, "Well, I think that..." but his strong phraseology indicates:
a. He's damn sure there's something wrong and b. Someone has really pissed him off.
Ultimately, I think Toyota is screwed on this one. A lot of people don't know who Woz is. Those who do know he's the guy who single-handedly solved electronic engineering problems that large teams never made progress on. And, if he says something is really, really wrong, and Toyota is denying it, it just indicates that when it all finally comes out Toyota will almost certainly be proven wrong - and they may actually be sincere! I could believe that Woz could find and identify a problem that Toyota's own engineers may not be able to come to a consensus on.
There's a story in a book - I think it's called "The Million Dollar Lawyers" - about a company that was fighting IBM in court. One lawyer looked out the window and saw a huge funeral procession - lots of limos, a continuous parade of black limousines - going down the street, and remarked to his fellow lawyer, "Wow, that's some funeral, I wonder who it was."
The other lawyer just snorted and said, "Funeral, hell, that's just the IBM legal department returning from lunch."
Have no fear that you don't belong on Slashdot because you're a plumber. You just posted two paragraphs rhapsodizing about the joys of being a plumber and the "incredibly cool tech" in commercial systems and yet somehow totally neglected to mention the legions of attractive, lonely neglected housewives who need someone to look at their pipes. You're definitely part of the slashdot nation.
a. Verizon didn't decide not to help the police due to some great respect for civil liberties. They wanted money. Period. They made it clear, apparently, that as soon as the cops coughed up the $$$, they would get the info. Why are you applauding Verizon?
b. Police have broad powers when a life is threatened. Very broad. They need a search warrant to go into my house. However, if they hear a scream and a gunshot, they don't need anything other than the soles of their feet as they cheerfully kick in my door and swarm in. They are safeguards against abuse of this power. Although it happens, judges frown when officers are caught abusing it and tend to toss any illegally gathered evidence out the window. Several companies have a policy of following emergency requests with paperwork stating what was done and why. It's highly likely that if the cops were making stuff up in an excuse to scam information out of Verizon it would have come back to bite them.
No, sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one. Verizon just sucks.
You need something totally physically and virtually disconnected. The synced backup is nice, but only a part. At the very least, the synced backup should be to a different O/S, different structure - because, as we've seen in the story, if one server is vulnerable, so is the other. Using a different O/S and different security techniques on the backup server reduces the risk that both can be exploited at the same time.
That being said, there's no substitute for rotating backups physically offsite. Harder to test, but more secure.
...because the very fact that you have to ask this question indicates you never received an education. At the very least, get the refund back from your "American Government" class.
Comparing Star Trek TOS with Battlestar Galactica when it comes to moral issues?
Hey, here's a science fiction story for you:
Crazed person sends a DVD player, television set, and all seasons of new BSG back in time about 40 years to a group of standard TV censors...the "Standards and Practices" weenies of the 1960's.
Question: How long is it before their heads explode?
I predict a 50% casualty rate for the censors right about the time Baltar has sex with Caprica Six and her spine starts glowing red.
Was Star Trek: TOS the pinnacle of fine television? Nope. But, when it came to "raising moral issues", they did the best the could in the very restrictive environment of 1960's corporate, censored television. The first interracial kiss alone was a very big deal.
Everyone keeps harping about Baltar's "role" in the initial attack.
Big deal. He was duped by spies. So was the rest of the entire Colonial government and military.
No, Baltar's TRUE sin was giving a fucking NUCLEAR WARHEAD to the deranged Six, Gina, so that he could get laid. The same NUCLEAR WARHEAD that she then used to kill about 3000 Colonials in orbit around New Caprica, and several ships, including Cloud Nine.
He gave a NUCLEAR WARHEAD to an enemy agent. THAT was evil. And yet you hardly hear about it.
It's actually an interesting problem, when you think about it. Bush had grown daughters; Obama has wee ones...who are going to school outside the White House (I think they're going to a charter school). I don't think the security agencies are worried that he's going to send the nuclear codes over the blackberry - but they may be worried about a daughter texting "can I go to the mall after school" and having that intercepted by those who would kidnap or attack the kids.
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Facebook isn't slow. It serves up error messages rather quickly.
Funny. I hear all the time that LINUX is much more powerful than Windows but it's a real bitch to learn.
Actually, the LOGS of who voted - not what they voted for - ARE public record. I can tell which elections you voted in; it's public record that you voted - just not who you voted FOR.
A vote is a decision. A petition signature is a public, open attempt to submit an issue to the voters.
Petition signatures need to be public. The number one electoral fraud in this country is falsification of petiition signatures. Hotly contested races will hire outside firms to verify petition signatures on a routine basis, and this is necessary in any adversarial system.
Usually only a small number - 1-5% of registered voters - is required to put a measure or candidate on the ballot, which then leads to a secret vote.
Democracy has risks. If there's any issue that can't muster between one and five percent of people willing to take a public stand on an issue than we're already doomed.
Also, signing a petition is NOT necessarily an endorsement of an issue or candidate. It is merely a declaration that a person feels an issue is worthy of a vote. It usually - but not always - indicates a signer supports an issue. I have signed petitions for candidates who I did not support simply because the candidate I DID support was already on the ballot but I thought the opposing candidate had a right to be heard.
Yes. Hitler at least professed to be a leftist, rising to office on a socialist platform. And, like may tyrants who originally pose as either leftists OR rightists, he instead revealed himself as not being loyal to any actual politcal belief system, but rather to power as its own end. Still, considering he entered politics as a socialist, he gets placed on the left. Ultimately, it doesn't really matter - his actual "governing" process was neither socialist nor capitalist, but rather a homicidal pursuit of power, but my initial post was meant simply to take issue with the concept of Hitler as being either "conservative" or "benevolent" as the OP had suggested. Say what you will about Hitler, he wasn't conservative. Wasn't liberal, either, although he masqueraded as one to get elected.
The VW was mandated by Hitler. And, not to cast aspirations on the left wing of any current political party, but Hitler was a leftist.
He was the head of the National SOCIALIST German Workers Party, which was very left-wing, anti-corporate, by the standards of the day. Of course, that didn't stop Hitler and his band of criminals from charming corporations when it suited their interests. But please, use proper english. "Conservative" and "benevolent" are two words that should never be applied to Adolph Hitler.
Agreed,Kimba Wood was not only clearly female (unlike Reno) she was - and quite possibly still is - rather hot.
Not so sure about her legal skilz, tho.
Isn't she the former Playboy Bunny who Bill Clinton nominated for United States Attorney General before her past came out?
Ah yes. And she didn't pay her nanny, either.
Lord, I wish I had mod points to mod that +10 Funny.
But you should never let anyone outside the family know what you're thinking.
Up until rather recently, a large majority of bank ATM's ran OS/2.
Many call centers ran software that used OS/2.
OS/2's attempt to reach the consumer market were laughable - they sponsored the OS/2 Fiesta Bowl in the 1990's, without explaining to the public what OS/2 even was - but the software was everywhere in the corporate world it seemed. (for those slashdotters who don't know what the Fiesta Bowl is, it's one of the biggest college football ball games.)
Ford car dealerships ran a satelite uplink system that required OS/2.
I used it to ran a multiline BBS. It was good stuff. Even today, many of the guts (and filenames) of Windows stem from MS's long ago partnership with IBM....the more stable portions of Windows.
Not sure what the relevance of it today would be, but it was more widespread than you might think.
Yeah, what happened to men like John Adams?
"Let justice be done, though the heavens fall."
Like how the original article described the Commodore 64 as a "black and white only machine, no color" when comparing it to the Apple II. Uh, sprites? Color graphics? Maybe they were thinking of the Commodore PET, which actually had green text.
It is posted:
www.dell.com -> current promotions.
Just kidding. I actually use Dell. It's just their products are...not memorable. Dell's a copier, not an innovator.
A shame. I know people who bought nice new Macbooks running 10.4 in 2008, and they won't want to upgrade their OS after just over a year. I have a 700 mhz ibook that is great to travel with and does everything I want it to, but is slowly becoming insecure because it's gradually becoming unsupported. Yet it runs fine, and I'd cheerfully stick with it if I could.
Buy, buy, buy...what a pain. How hard is it to just keep up on security patches for old browsers?
Never, ever, not once have I ever heard of Woz making a blanket, absolute statement phrased as fact about any type of electronic or mechanical system that was later found to be inaccurate. Woz is, first and foremost, a methodical engineer and he never makes sweeping statements without something to back them up. He may occasionally say things like, "Well, I think that..." but his strong phraseology indicates:
a. He's damn sure there's something wrong
and
b. Someone has really pissed him off.
Ultimately, I think Toyota is screwed on this one. A lot of people don't know who Woz is. Those who do know he's the guy who single-handedly solved electronic engineering problems that large teams never made progress on. And, if he says something is really, really wrong, and Toyota is denying it, it just indicates that when it all finally comes out Toyota will almost certainly be proven wrong - and they may actually be sincere! I could believe that Woz could find and identify a problem that Toyota's own engineers may not be able to come to a consensus on.
-Steve
13 years on Slashdot...and this very well could be the dumbest comment I have ever read.
The funny thing is, the most passionate home-school parents I know is a pagan family.
-Steve
There's a story in a book - I think it's called "The Million Dollar Lawyers" - about a company that was fighting IBM in court. One lawyer looked out the window and saw a huge funeral procession - lots of limos, a continuous parade of black limousines - going down the street, and remarked to his fellow lawyer, "Wow, that's some funeral, I wonder who it was."
The other lawyer just snorted and said, "Funeral, hell, that's just the IBM legal department returning from lunch."
Have no fear that you don't belong on Slashdot because you're a plumber. You just posted two paragraphs rhapsodizing about the joys of being a plumber and the "incredibly cool tech" in commercial systems and yet somehow totally neglected to mention the legions of attractive, lonely neglected housewives who need someone to look at their pipes. You're definitely part of the slashdot nation.
You're kidding, right?
a. Verizon didn't decide not to help the police due to some great respect for civil liberties.
They wanted money. Period. They made it clear, apparently, that as soon as the cops coughed up the $$$, they would get the info. Why are you applauding Verizon?
b. Police have broad powers when a life is threatened. Very broad. They need a search warrant to go into my house. However, if they hear a scream and a gunshot, they don't need anything other than the soles of their feet as they cheerfully kick in my door and swarm in. They are safeguards against abuse of this power. Although it happens, judges frown when officers are caught abusing it and tend to toss any illegally gathered evidence out the window. Several companies have a policy of following emergency requests with paperwork stating what was done and why. It's highly likely that if the cops were making stuff up in an excuse to scam information out of Verizon it would have come back to bite them.
No, sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one. Verizon just sucks.
You need something totally physically and virtually disconnected. The synced backup is nice, but only a part. At the very least, the synced backup should be to a different O/S, different structure - because, as we've seen in the story, if one server is vulnerable, so is the other. Using a different O/S and different security techniques on the backup server reduces the risk that both can be exploited at the same time.
That being said, there's no substitute for rotating backups physically offsite. Harder to test, but more secure.
I, for one, welcome our STONED half-fish super-fast-swimming overlords.
There, fixed that for you.
...because the very fact that you have to ask this question indicates you never received an education. At the very least, get the refund back from your "American Government" class.
Comparing Star Trek TOS with Battlestar Galactica when it comes to moral issues?
Hey, here's a science fiction story for you:
Crazed person sends a DVD player, television set, and all seasons of new BSG back in time about 40 years to a group of standard TV censors...the "Standards and Practices" weenies of the 1960's.
Question: How long is it before their heads explode?
I predict a 50% casualty rate for the censors right about the time Baltar has sex with Caprica Six and her spine starts glowing red.
Was Star Trek: TOS the pinnacle of fine television? Nope. But, when it came to "raising moral issues", they did the best the could in the very restrictive environment of 1960's corporate, censored television. The first interracial kiss alone was a very big deal.
Everyone keeps harping about Baltar's "role" in the initial attack.
Big deal. He was duped by spies. So was the rest of the entire Colonial government and military.
No, Baltar's TRUE sin was giving a fucking NUCLEAR WARHEAD to the deranged Six, Gina, so that he could get laid. The same NUCLEAR WARHEAD that she then used to kill about 3000 Colonials in orbit around New Caprica, and several ships, including Cloud Nine.
He gave a NUCLEAR WARHEAD to an enemy agent. THAT was evil. And yet you hardly hear about it.
-Steve
It's actually an interesting problem, when you think about it. Bush had grown daughters; Obama has wee ones...who are going to school outside the White House (I think they're going to a charter school). I don't think the security agencies are worried that he's going to send the nuclear codes over the blackberry - but they may be worried about a daughter texting "can I go to the mall after school" and having that intercepted by those who would kidnap or attack the kids.
After all, he is a jerk with an impeccable sense of timing.