Firesheep is an exploit against ALL browsers, if the *site* being browsed is vulnerable. Firesheep is coded for Firefox for the *exploiter* to use, not the exploitee.
I hate being treated as stupid because I actually agree with major party candidates more than any 3rd party candidate I've ever seen (with one exception, a gubernatorial race in 2006). I find the Libertarians and Greens extreme, not just by a (meaningless) Dem-Repub scale, but by my own personal ideals. Is it possible my view is more predominant than yours?
It is true that sometimes (often!) there aren't ANY good candidates. Then I vote for myself.
Left 4 Dead is a great casual online multiplayer title. It's co-op for starters, which neutralizes a lot of the experience factor. It's also great if you know the people you're playing with (for those of us with jobs, it's easier to pop online for an hour or two after work), but it's not necessary, and even random strangers make a MUCH better experience than playing offline with bots.
For local splitscreen gaming on the Xbox, the Gears of War series is pretty good. Also Madden, if you're into that sort of thing.
Sometimes you don't feel educated enough to make a vote for Clerk of the County Court, etc. I would find it *more* problematic for voters to just vote party line than cast no vote at all.
That doesn't refute his point. Aluminum recycling has been going on for a long time, and centers will even pay for bulk waste aluminum. That doesn't mean that the vast majority of recycling isn't still wasteful.
They're entitled to it because they passed a law. It's all semantics. The (state and federal) government is trying to reach a certain amount of revenue while still having a functioning economy. It could do that entirely through one tax or another, at a very high rate. Instead they opt to spread it out and tax certain activities.
Buffet's salary and benefits in 2008 totaled to $175,000, which is a little on the low side but still commensurate with a senior executive position. The fact that he makes capital gains on Berkshire Hathaway is not a tax avoidance scheme but rather a reflection of how much of the company he has a direct financial stake in.
Maybe 3-5 distros work in-house on Desktop user-experience... and all of them release open source! If someone has a good idea, it will spread around. If you still have a problem with Linux on the Desktop, it's despite the size of the community, not because of it.
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There was inotify, dnotify, fsnotify, fam, gamin, incrond... and since fam/gamin always ended up using 100% CPU or causing other problems
Of those, only inotify and dnotify were userspace-facing solutions in the stock kernel. Fsnotify was a backend, intentionally preparing the way for fanotify, and it was never intended to be used directly. Fam and gamin are third-party, and unless you know you specifically need them, you should avoid. Incrond is a great userspace program to use inotify... but not an alternative to anything in that list.
Dnotify was something of an embarrassment, but inotify's been with us a while and it's worked well. Fanotify is an evolution of that, to fix architectural problems that have led to race conditions and scalability concerns. Inotify (and dnotify) is being reimplemented on top of it, so if the inotify interface doesn't cause any problems for you, plan to continue using it (and incrond if you like)!
Ideally there should be a library function, as in this case that does the intelligent processing. At the very least you can run it as a first pass, and if it doesn't understand that, use custom code for whatever the common use cases at the business are.
Intelligent date/time parsing is hard, and not available everywhere perfectly yet. I would kill to have a function in python that parsed as well as Google Calendar.
That's an excellent question. I'd also like to add that even if the open source software exists, we still need vendors that sell the complete machines running that software, otherwise it's still easier to contract the whole job out to Diebold.
Why is open source particularly important in this case? Most people don't need to reuse that code to make their own voting machines, and most people don't need access to fix voting code on the hardware they're running (indeed they SHOULDN'T since that would invalidate the certification).
If the purported benefit is "know what code is running on the machines" that doesn't really help because there's still any number of hardware or social vulnerabilities (how do you know what code is actually running?) that can make that moot.
In the case of voting machines, all that matters is that the outcomes are correct and that you can DEMONSTRATE that the outcomes are correct. Paper trails with random audits do this, and they do it fairly simply. Open source software should be a distant second place concern to this.
Election judges. Physical vote security is a known quantity and a solved problem. Anyone can understand it, anyone knows that if you're an EJ responsible for keeping things on the up and up, you don't let the votes get into a position where they can be manipulated.
Electronically, who knows? Yes, there might be provably secure cryptographic solutions (NONE of which we're using now), but even then you have to trust the person who not just designed but IMPLEMENTED the system. That comes down to security far beyond simple monitoring on election day.
Bottom line, securing physical votes is just plain easier to do right.
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Whoosh.
http://www.google.com/images?q=unix+keyboard
get this: the 3D image CHANGES over time such that the illusion of...
Is that you, Christopher Nolan?
Firesheep is an exploit against ALL browsers, if the *site* being browsed is vulnerable. Firesheep is coded for Firefox for the *exploiter* to use, not the exploitee.
Try Eclipse.
That's the SHIFT key, not shit. Oh, wait, I bet you have one of those new-fangled "Caps-lock" keys.
You can jailbreak the phone without violating the DMCA now, but you're still violating Apple's EULA.
I hate being treated as stupid because I actually agree with major party candidates more than any 3rd party candidate I've ever seen (with one exception, a gubernatorial race in 2006). I find the Libertarians and Greens extreme, not just by a (meaningless) Dem-Repub scale, but by my own personal ideals. Is it possible my view is more predominant than yours?
It is true that sometimes (often!) there aren't ANY good candidates. Then I vote for myself.
I still enjoy the boss battles from Metal Gear Solid (particularly on the Gamecube version). But usually I agree, it breaks the flow of the games.
Left 4 Dead is a great casual online multiplayer title. It's co-op for starters, which neutralizes a lot of the experience factor. It's also great if you know the people you're playing with (for those of us with jobs, it's easier to pop online for an hour or two after work), but it's not necessary, and even random strangers make a MUCH better experience than playing offline with bots.
For local splitscreen gaming on the Xbox, the Gears of War series is pretty good. Also Madden, if you're into that sort of thing.
I stand corrected: Aluminum, plastic, glass, and paper are all less energy intensive to recycle than produce from scratch. Here's a cite:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/recycling/4291566?page=1
Sometimes you don't feel educated enough to make a vote for Clerk of the County Court, etc. I would find it *more* problematic for voters to just vote party line than cast no vote at all.
That doesn't refute his point. Aluminum recycling has been going on for a long time, and centers will even pay for bulk waste aluminum. That doesn't mean that the vast majority of recycling isn't still wasteful.
An office suite in XUL might actually be interesting. At least, interesting as office suites go.
CASH BONE!
They're entitled to it because they passed a law. It's all semantics. The (state and federal) government is trying to reach a certain amount of revenue while still having a functioning economy. It could do that entirely through one tax or another, at a very high rate. Instead they opt to spread it out and tax certain activities.
It all comes out in the wash.
Buffet's salary and benefits in 2008 totaled to $175,000, which is a little on the low side but still commensurate with a senior executive position. The fact that he makes capital gains on Berkshire Hathaway is not a tax avoidance scheme but rather a reflection of how much of the company he has a direct financial stake in.
The dominant application is file indexing for Desktop search.
Maybe 3-5 distros work in-house on Desktop user-experience... and all of them release open source! If someone has a good idea, it will spread around. If you still have a problem with Linux on the Desktop, it's despite the size of the community, not because of it.
There was inotify, dnotify, fsnotify, fam, gamin, incrond... and since fam/gamin always ended up using 100% CPU or causing other problems
Of those, only inotify and dnotify were userspace-facing solutions in the stock kernel. Fsnotify was a backend, intentionally preparing the way for fanotify, and it was never intended to be used directly. Fam and gamin are third-party, and unless you know you specifically need them, you should avoid. Incrond is a great userspace program to use inotify... but not an alternative to anything in that list.
Dnotify was something of an embarrassment, but inotify's been with us a while and it's worked well. Fanotify is an evolution of that, to fix architectural problems that have led to race conditions and scalability concerns. Inotify (and dnotify) is being reimplemented on top of it, so if the inotify interface doesn't cause any problems for you, plan to continue using it (and incrond if you like)!
Ideally there should be a library function, as in this case that does the intelligent processing. At the very least you can run it as a first pass, and if it doesn't understand that, use custom code for whatever the common use cases at the business are.
Intelligent date/time parsing is hard, and not available everywhere perfectly yet. I would kill to have a function in python that parsed as well as Google Calendar.
That's an excellent question. I'd also like to add that even if the open source software exists, we still need vendors that sell the complete machines running that software, otherwise it's still easier to contract the whole job out to Diebold.
On Linux, Chrome uses the native (GTK, I believe) Print dialog, which includes a Print Preview button.
Why is open source particularly important in this case? Most people don't need to reuse that code to make their own voting machines, and most people don't need access to fix voting code on the hardware they're running (indeed they SHOULDN'T since that would invalidate the certification).
If the purported benefit is "know what code is running on the machines" that doesn't really help because there's still any number of hardware or social vulnerabilities (how do you know what code is actually running?) that can make that moot.
In the case of voting machines, all that matters is that the outcomes are correct and that you can DEMONSTRATE that the outcomes are correct. Paper trails with random audits do this, and they do it fairly simply. Open source software should be a distant second place concern to this.
Election judges. Physical vote security is a known quantity and a solved problem. Anyone can understand it, anyone knows that if you're an EJ responsible for keeping things on the up and up, you don't let the votes get into a position where they can be manipulated.
Electronically, who knows? Yes, there might be provably secure cryptographic solutions (NONE of which we're using now), but even then you have to trust the person who not just designed but IMPLEMENTED the system. That comes down to security far beyond simple monitoring on election day.
Bottom line, securing physical votes is just plain easier to do right.
And correct about property rights.
Not after 1964 he wasn't.