You and Coeurderoy both have narrow views of voting. Yours is that voting would/should only be done once a year or once every two years. Imagine the hypothetical secure, open "perfect" voting system that has all the authentication/authorization requirements, yadda yadda. We could have referendums once a week! Gallup and the others would be out of a job, because people could officially state their opinion in a way that could sway public policy. The White House petitions that are such a joke could have millions of votes a week on hot-topics, putting more pressure on the administration to enact the will of the people (so long as that will doesn't disobey Constitution or law).
Coeurderoy, on the other hand, assumes that the perfect system would have to be used at home. Perhaps we would have permanent "reserve" voting areas specifically set up to provide access when residential areas have power/Internet issues. Or we could have multi-day voting, or postpone votes when too many peoples' ability is blocked. It's just like thunderstorms/flooding is nowadays... there are contingencies.
In summary, I agree that a secure online perfect voting system is a long way away, if it's ever going to exist. Where we disagree: I believe that if it DID exist, it would be immensely beneficial.
Of COURSE the problem is ownership! That's the first question every worker in my IT department asked when we got offered BYOD!
"So, if I can have company data on my phone (email), what are y'all doing to my phone? Oh, you're putting it in an encrypted sandbox? Oh, you're reserving the right to wipe that sandbox remotely (and possibly my entire phone)? Oh, you're not taking any liability for accidental wipes? Oh, you're not issuing a phone number that hides my personal cell (ala Google Voice/giving me a SIP address)?"
Ya, fuck that noise. Give me my crappy work-iPhone 5 that, rather than using native apps like the Blackberry I had, gets to use "GOOD for Enterprise" apps that don't integrate with the rest of the phone.
Hundreds of thousands of dead people per year are a small price to pay for your freedom to consume liquor and smoke cigarettes.
Oh, shhhh.... liberals like doing that.
Tens of thousands of convicted criminals sitting in prison away from their families is a small price to pay for keeping us from the non-life-threatening drug marijuana.
There are plenty more lives to be saved from the ban of consumption of recreational drugs that are NOT Constitutionally-protected than can be saved from the ban of useful and prevalent firearms.
Well, I disagree that it's fine, as I would prefer to keep English alive and well. At worst, we'll be a bilingual country in half a century. It seems you truly have no problem with it, as you use the derogatory "whine" to describe the apparent issue parent has with the notion.
some ideology of freedom to rape, pillage, and rob your neighbours without restriction so long as it's profitable.
Just in case you're implying as much, Anarchy isn't very popular in America. Libertarianism, as usually defined, wouldn't allow any of the actions you describe.
(Just in case you were taking a shot at those of us who would see the U.S. become a free country again).
Thanks, for telling me exactly how Cisco and Juniper aren't scaling to meet the needs of Google. By "scaling", and without further details, I assume they mean "selling cheaply enough".
Sometimes, I like not to finish a book or story, because it lets the story live in my mind longer. Once it's done, it's like it's dead, and I only have fond memories.
As one other poster mentioned, I call BS on this. Just another reason to make shorter games.
This is a bogus law. College profs often go out with students for drinks to talk about many things, academics included. Facebook is an extracurricular activity that is just the same as email or message board.
What a joke, and another piece of evidence about why government is bad.
You, parent poster, are evidence of why true freedom via small government will never be achieved in this country.
"Good, that's an improper social behavior by my standard, so let's legislate a solution!"
You're so full of shit. Libre is a superset of gratis when using those terms as FSF/OSI do to describe 'free' software. I'm a real Linux/Unix user, and I use Ubuntu for most of my needs. It's a good OS.
Canonical has every right to do what they're doing. If you don't like it, then go to another OS, fine. But don't compare them to Novell and CERTAINLY not Oracle! The OS is still libre-gratis-free, if it's in their main/universe repos. Don't FUD.
So yeah, pretty stupid overall. This is another sad attempt at a form of DRM.
This is another sad attempt at users having rights over their own content as they see fit.
DRM is not evil. Some of its uses are pretty shitty when looked at from the perspective of historical use (free access to recording -> Per-use viewing fees). But if I can set up a way to manage digital content along with expirations, permissions, etc., then that would be great.
The problem is that we geeks theorize quite accurately that DRM for media is pretty much useless. Once the content is unlocked, it can be copied, period.
I do not know where you are from, but San Antonio is getting data centers left and right because our energy bill is about $0.06 / KW-hr. Not too bad... and I don't know if it's regulated or not.
BTW, this argument of "Providers competing over the same wire" is exactly what many people argue for in terms of Internet connectivity. Do you think having many ISPs compete on the same pipes would be a bad thing?
I think it's a cycle, if your assertion even holds. I could theorize that, being more popular, more tools and features were put on top of MySQL to make it more friendly.
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You and Coeurderoy both have narrow views of voting. Yours is that voting would/should only be done once a year or once every two years. Imagine the hypothetical secure, open "perfect" voting system that has all the authentication/authorization requirements, yadda yadda. We could have referendums once a week! Gallup and the others would be out of a job, because people could officially state their opinion in a way that could sway public policy. The White House petitions that are such a joke could have millions of votes a week on hot-topics, putting more pressure on the administration to enact the will of the people (so long as that will doesn't disobey Constitution or law).
Coeurderoy, on the other hand, assumes that the perfect system would have to be used at home. Perhaps we would have permanent "reserve" voting areas specifically set up to provide access when residential areas have power/Internet issues. Or we could have multi-day voting, or postpone votes when too many peoples' ability is blocked. It's just like thunderstorms/flooding is nowadays... there are contingencies.
In summary, I agree that a secure online perfect voting system is a long way away, if it's ever going to exist. Where we disagree: I believe that if it DID exist, it would be immensely beneficial.
Of COURSE the problem is ownership! That's the first question every worker in my IT department asked when we got offered BYOD!
"So, if I can have company data on my phone (email), what are y'all doing to my phone? Oh, you're putting it in an encrypted sandbox? Oh, you're reserving the right to wipe that sandbox remotely (and possibly my entire phone)? Oh, you're not taking any liability for accidental wipes? Oh, you're not issuing a phone number that hides my personal cell (ala Google Voice/giving me a SIP address)?"
Ya, fuck that noise. Give me my crappy work-iPhone 5 that, rather than using native apps like the Blackberry I had, gets to use "GOOD for Enterprise" apps that don't integrate with the rest of the phone.
Hundreds of thousands of dead people per year are a small price to pay for your freedom to consume liquor and smoke cigarettes.
Oh, shhhh.... liberals like doing that.
Tens of thousands of convicted criminals sitting in prison away from their families is a small price to pay for keeping us from the non-life-threatening drug marijuana.
There are plenty more lives to be saved from the ban of consumption of recreational drugs that are NOT Constitutionally-protected than can be saved from the ban of useful and prevalent firearms.
Well, I disagree that it's fine, as I would prefer to keep English alive and well. At worst, we'll be a bilingual country in half a century. It seems you truly have no problem with it, as you use the derogatory "whine" to describe the apparent issue parent has with the notion.
some ideology of freedom to rape, pillage, and rob your neighbours without restriction so long as it's profitable.
Just in case you're implying as much, Anarchy isn't very popular in America. Libertarianism, as usually defined, wouldn't allow any of the actions you describe.
(Just in case you were taking a shot at those of us who would see the U.S. become a free country again).
...left disappointed.
Where are the discussions about OpenStack, MAAS, AWSOME, KVM 1.0 support, the Juju Charm store, etc.?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuServer
Thanks, for telling me exactly how Cisco and Juniper aren't scaling to meet the needs of Google. By "scaling", and without further details, I assume they mean "selling cheaply enough".
The Economist had a great read on California's democracy. It's not direct democracy in itself that's the issue... it's UNCHECKED direct democracy.
The voice of the people needs to be tempered by representatives. At least, in a world where Congressmen aren't bought and paid for, that's the idea.
This is Slashdot. What internet are you referring to?
Trolls replying to trolls. My first /. article to view in months, and I see nothing has changed.
Sometimes, I like not to finish a book or story, because it lets the story live in my mind longer. Once it's done, it's like it's dead, and I only have fond memories.
As one other poster mentioned, I call BS on this. Just another reason to make shorter games.
This is a bogus law. College profs often go out with students for drinks to talk about many things, academics included. Facebook is an extracurricular activity that is just the same as email or message board.
What a joke, and another piece of evidence about why government is bad.
You, parent poster, are evidence of why true freedom via small government will never be achieved in this country.
"Good, that's an improper social behavior by my standard, so let's legislate a solution!"
Man-made global warming is a false theory.
If I want to get a file off a computer with Internet access, it WILL happen.
It took me three websites to get to the guy's twitter, which is the focus of the story.
You're so full of shit. Libre is a superset of gratis when using those terms as FSF/OSI do to describe 'free' software. I'm a real Linux/Unix user, and I use Ubuntu for most of my needs. It's a good OS.
Canonical has every right to do what they're doing. If you don't like it, then go to another OS, fine. But don't compare them to Novell and CERTAINLY not Oracle! The OS is still libre-gratis-free, if it's in their main/universe repos. Don't FUD.
That's EXACTLY why they'd piss on him.
The lamestream media is angry that someone is uncovering the truth about our government.
So yeah, pretty stupid overall. This is another sad attempt at a form of DRM.
This is another sad attempt at users having rights over their own content as they see fit.
DRM is not evil. Some of its uses are pretty shitty when looked at from the perspective of historical use (free access to recording -> Per-use viewing fees). But if I can set up a way to manage digital content along with expirations, permissions, etc., then that would be great.
The problem is that we geeks theorize quite accurately that DRM for media is pretty much useless. Once the content is unlocked, it can be copied, period.
That's less than 2 million miles, or .05 AU from the sun.
Quite toasty.
I do not know where you are from, but San Antonio is getting data centers left and right because our energy bill is about $0.06 / KW-hr. Not too bad... and I don't know if it's regulated or not.
BTW, this argument of "Providers competing over the same wire" is exactly what many people argue for in terms of Internet connectivity. Do you think having many ISPs compete on the same pipes would be a bad thing?
[citation needed]
I think it's a cycle, if your assertion even holds. I could theorize that, being more popular, more tools and features were put on top of MySQL to make it more friendly.
When I read this, I could truly picture a politician saying it.
I'm going to lay down now.
The best way to put it.
Random fact, crazy-fascinating but purely-speculative question: Your last sentence shows you'd be good at writing Slashdot summary endings.