Actually, the main reason for the whole "seat backs up, tray tables closed, put away your portable electronics" rule is that the takeoff and landing are the most dangerous parts of a flight, and if something goes wrong, people need to be able to respond, need to not be distracted, and need to not have extra impediments to moving within the cabin.
And yet they have no rules against a person sleeping during these times, or talking to the person beside them. They also do not try to stop people from reading non-electronic material.
The "distraction" excuse is a bunch of B.S. It's paranoia based on concepts that have been obsolete for at least 2 decades.
Most Android tablets are simply too small to usefully convey the same quantity of information on a single page and be just as legible. We're not talking about pocketbooks here... we're talking about reference material, which simply isn't as amenable to reformatting on a smaller pages or displays as text in a book that you might read for pleasure would be.
I'm not on a high horse. I'm presenting my opinion. Your apparent perception I might be implying that I think I am any better than anybody else because of that opinion is entirely erroneous.
In Canada, the folded ballot must be handed back to the election official who gave it to them. In fact, the official is not even permitted to accept the return of an unfolded ballot. The official then carefully detaches a rip-away stub (they call it a "counterfoil"), which has a serial number on it that is the same as the serial number printed on the ballet. This process is to take place in plain view of the voter. The official is not permitted to unfold the ballot or look at the voter's vote. Ever. If the voter insists on it, the voter could then place their own ballot in the box, but Elections Canada strongly encourages its workers to put the ballots in the box themselves, since its workers are much easier to identify after the election if fraud is detected, while which voters used which ballots are not. The numbered stubs are retained and counted after the election, and if necessary, a corresponding stub for every ballot could be found. Ballots that have found their way into a ballot box without a corresponding stub are not counted.
I have no problem with people having a sense of humor about things. Humor, however, inherently introduces a lighthearted attitude towards something... and may be cause for a person to not undertake a task as seriously as they might if there was a genuine risk they needed to prepare for.
Because if an improbable, but entirely realistic risk isn't going to motivate a person to make a serious effort to be prepared for an emergency, why on earth would a completely fictitious scenario that has no recognizable possibility of ever happening be?
How would you propose to slip in an extra ballot, exactly? In Canada, the ballot must be handed to an official, who places the ballot in the box for the voter, with the voter acting as witness. Officials are not permitted to allow voters to put their own ballot in the ballot box.
I suggested that the very notion of creating a humorous and utterly fictitious notion as the reason for stockpiling inherently creates a situation where one must either genuinely believe that to be the case, or else they must simply *PRETEND* that is the reason they are doing it... and pretending to do something isn't taking things very seriously.
By its very nature, however, this humorous element is something that is not practical to take remotely seriously by somebody who has any grounding in reality.
While yes, it's entirely technically true that adequately preparing for a hypothetical zombie apocalypse would, in fact, prepare you for just about any sort of disaster or emergency where you might need to survive without outside aid for some time, if such an apocalypse is actually your motivation behind such preparations, then either you may not be taking the issue of being prepared for a genuinely possible disaster as seriously as you might need to, or else you have a psychosis that prevents you from distinguishing between reality and fiction.
Preparing for disaster is fine. Joking about it afterward and saying you're prepared for the zombie apocalypse is fine. Actually using such an apocalypse as motivation to do such preparing is not, and by extension, neither is recommending such a motivation to others.
Not really... The counting itself is performed by a team. Counts that don't agree are done over again. As many times as it takes to get a consistent count. With generally no more than about a thousand names that could ever use any given ballot box, the number of ballots to count is small enough that there's unlikely to be any real confusion..Everyone on a given team, as well as each witness, would have to deliberately conspire to commit fraud on the election for something to go awry.
It may have eluded your keen powers of observation, but this article was talking about Canada, not the USA. Even only counting "major" parties (ones that might be considered "viable" by most of the voters), we have somewhat more than two.
Actually, you can be very reasonably sure that there won't be any errors. Unless you are going to presume that the polls are manned by people who are dishonest. At the end of the day, once voting is over, every individual ballot box is counted (and witnessed, usually by one other person) as many times as it takes to be quite thoroughly convinced of an accurate count.
Photons have an interesting property over electrons, however. A photon's motion does not produce an external field which will affect the trajectory taken by others that passes close to it. Electrons do.
If that extra $3,000 spelled the difference between a product that was unrewarding for its creator(s), and one that provided fair compensation for all of the time and work that went into making the product in the first place, then I'd completely agree with you. Is that the case?
Eink is fine for books that you are reading for enjoyment. For reference works where you might need to flip pages quickly, perhaps searching visually for a diagram that you know is on one of the pages near the middle, for example, but not recalling exactly which one, and where you could probably find the necessary page in about 5 seconds with a physical book, eink screen update times are simply *TOO SLOW* to replace either having a physical book in its stead, or else an electronic device that has video-capable refresh speeds.
If the fob was USB, then unless he was using a version of Linux that was very old, it would have likely recognized the mouse and keyboard just fine... seeing them as connected to the computer via the USB port. The fact that they are wireless is something that the software typically wouldn't have to concern itself with.
What surprised me most about your tale is that you describe as gung-ho on Linux, but he appears to have an irrational fear of experimenting, or trying something new.
- establish some binary compatability and stability, so that application developers can distribute binary applications and have them work OK for several years.
This. Times a thousand. Seriously... an app built against one version of many of the common shared libraries frequently won't link at runtime to another version. Recompiling the app from source on your own system fixes this issue, but frankly, the requirement to release source code is going to discourage a lot of commercial development.
This might theoretically be worked around by standardizing on installers for binary-only applications which do not contain the executable, but instead contain an object file that can then be linked against whatever shared libraries the user might have on their system, and produce the exe from that. A subset of gcc would be necessary for this to work (they would need gcc's linker, and its dependancies), but this could even theoretically be part of the installer package (and it would not make any attempt to install the linker itself... only the application and its resources).
I've seen similar things many times in my career, and I've come to call them "anti-comments", because they describe something that is *NOT* what the code it is supposed to be commenting is doing.
The problem could also be partially solved by simply instituting legal fines to corporations that falsely accuse somebody of infringing on copyright. There'd be no particular benefit to anyone who was wrongly accused, but if the fines are heavy enough, there could plenty of disincentive for companies to do that to people in the first place.
Actually, "fair use" is just a defense you can use when sued for copyright infringement.
In Canada, the equivalent concept is not a defense for infringement, the equivalent concept creates an exemption to infringement in the first place. So, if your usage was fair, as determined by law, then your defense if you should happen to get sued for infringement would simply be that you didn't infringe on copyright in the first place.
It connects to a computer via USB. It can be completely controlled via a USB interface already. The Apple dock connector is, essentially, just a custom USB port.
Oh, and modern USB *CAN* do all of serial, audio, and video.
The question was an open one, not rhetorical. The post to which I responded suggests that a photograph of a key could be taken from a distance. I asked how is that supposed to work when the key is not clearly visible,. because I certainly don't know how. The post linked to an article which claimed that reproduction of keys from photographs is possible, but that the photos must have sufficient definition of the key shape for the method to work, and doesn't seem applicable to any situation outside of one where somebody is deliberately photographing some keys.
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Please note that I did say *MOST*.
And yet they have no rules against a person sleeping during these times, or talking to the person beside them. They also do not try to stop people from reading non-electronic material.
The "distraction" excuse is a bunch of B.S. It's paranoia based on concepts that have been obsolete for at least 2 decades.
My guess would be form factor
Most Android tablets are simply too small to usefully convey the same quantity of information on a single page and be just as legible. We're not talking about pocketbooks here... we're talking about reference material, which simply isn't as amenable to reformatting on a smaller pages or displays as text in a book that you might read for pleasure would be.
I'm not on a high horse. I'm presenting my opinion. Your apparent perception I might be implying that I think I am any better than anybody else because of that opinion is entirely erroneous.
In Canada, the folded ballot must be handed back to the election official who gave it to them. In fact, the official is not even permitted to accept the return of an unfolded ballot. The official then carefully detaches a rip-away stub (they call it a "counterfoil"), which has a serial number on it that is the same as the serial number printed on the ballet. This process is to take place in plain view of the voter. The official is not permitted to unfold the ballot or look at the voter's vote. Ever. If the voter insists on it, the voter could then place their own ballot in the box, but Elections Canada strongly encourages its workers to put the ballots in the box themselves, since its workers are much easier to identify after the election if fraud is detected, while which voters used which ballots are not. The numbered stubs are retained and counted after the election, and if necessary, a corresponding stub for every ballot could be found. Ballots that have found their way into a ballot box without a corresponding stub are not counted.
I have no problem with people having a sense of humor about things. Humor, however, inherently introduces a lighthearted attitude towards something... and may be cause for a person to not undertake a task as seriously as they might if there was a genuine risk they needed to prepare for.
Because if an improbable, but entirely realistic risk isn't going to motivate a person to make a serious effort to be prepared for an emergency, why on earth would a completely fictitious scenario that has no recognizable possibility of ever happening be?
How would you propose to slip in an extra ballot, exactly? In Canada, the ballot must be handed to an official, who places the ballot in the box for the voter, with the voter acting as witness. Officials are not permitted to allow voters to put their own ballot in the ballot box.
I suggested that the very notion of creating a humorous and utterly fictitious notion as the reason for stockpiling inherently creates a situation where one must either genuinely believe that to be the case, or else they must simply *PRETEND* that is the reason they are doing it... and pretending to do something isn't taking things very seriously.
By its very nature, however, this humorous element is something that is not practical to take remotely seriously by somebody who has any grounding in reality.
While yes, it's entirely technically true that adequately preparing for a hypothetical zombie apocalypse would, in fact, prepare you for just about any sort of disaster or emergency where you might need to survive without outside aid for some time, if such an apocalypse is actually your motivation behind such preparations, then either you may not be taking the issue of being prepared for a genuinely possible disaster as seriously as you might need to, or else you have a psychosis that prevents you from distinguishing between reality and fiction.
Preparing for disaster is fine. Joking about it afterward and saying you're prepared for the zombie apocalypse is fine. Actually using such an apocalypse as motivation to do such preparing is not, and by extension, neither is recommending such a motivation to others.
... for life on Mars came from the microorganisms that went along with the assorted probes and landers that we've sent there.
Yup. And photons don't change their direction when they are exposed to one. Electrons do.
Not really... The counting itself is performed by a team. Counts that don't agree are done over again. As many times as it takes to get a consistent count. With generally no more than about a thousand names that could ever use any given ballot box, the number of ballots to count is small enough that there's unlikely to be any real confusion..Everyone on a given team, as well as each witness, would have to deliberately conspire to commit fraud on the election for something to go awry.
And the witnesses that they get *ARE* official.
It may have eluded your keen powers of observation, but this article was talking about Canada, not the USA. Even only counting "major" parties (ones that might be considered "viable" by most of the voters), we have somewhat more than two.
Actually, you can be very reasonably sure that there won't be any errors. Unless you are going to presume that the polls are manned by people who are dishonest. At the end of the day, once voting is over, every individual ballot box is counted (and witnessed, usually by one other person) as many times as it takes to be quite thoroughly convinced of an accurate count.
Photons have an interesting property over electrons, however. A photon's motion does not produce an external field which will affect the trajectory taken by others that passes close to it. Electrons do.
If that extra $3,000 spelled the difference between a product that was unrewarding for its creator(s), and one that provided fair compensation for all of the time and work that went into making the product in the first place, then I'd completely agree with you. Is that the case?
Eink is fine for books that you are reading for enjoyment. For reference works where you might need to flip pages quickly, perhaps searching visually for a diagram that you know is on one of the pages near the middle, for example, but not recalling exactly which one, and where you could probably find the necessary page in about 5 seconds with a physical book, eink screen update times are simply *TOO SLOW* to replace either having a physical book in its stead, or else an electronic device that has video-capable refresh speeds.
What surprised me most about your tale is that you describe as gung-ho on Linux, but he appears to have an irrational fear of experimenting, or trying something new.
This. Times a thousand. Seriously... an app built against one version of many of the common shared libraries frequently won't link at runtime to another version. Recompiling the app from source on your own system fixes this issue, but frankly, the requirement to release source code is going to discourage a lot of commercial development.
This might theoretically be worked around by standardizing on installers for binary-only applications which do not contain the executable, but instead contain an object file that can then be linked against whatever shared libraries the user might have on their system, and produce the exe from that. A subset of gcc would be necessary for this to work (they would need gcc's linker, and its dependancies), but this could even theoretically be part of the installer package (and it would not make any attempt to install the linker itself... only the application and its resources).
Doesn't that word mean to "remove one-tenth of"?
I've seen similar things many times in my career, and I've come to call them "anti-comments", because they describe something that is *NOT* what the code it is supposed to be commenting is doing.
The problem could also be partially solved by simply instituting legal fines to corporations that falsely accuse somebody of infringing on copyright. There'd be no particular benefit to anyone who was wrongly accused, but if the fines are heavy enough, there could plenty of disincentive for companies to do that to people in the first place.
In Canada, the equivalent concept is not a defense for infringement, the equivalent concept creates an exemption to infringement in the first place. So, if your usage was fair, as determined by law, then your defense if you should happen to get sued for infringement would simply be that you didn't infringe on copyright in the first place.
I think you've missed an obvious point....
It connects to a computer via USB. It can be completely controlled via a USB interface already. The Apple dock connector is, essentially, just a custom USB port.
Oh, and modern USB *CAN* do all of serial, audio, and video.
The question was an open one, not rhetorical. The post to which I responded suggests that a photograph of a key could be taken from a distance. I asked how is that supposed to work when the key is not clearly visible,. because I certainly don't know how. The post linked to an article which claimed that reproduction of keys from photographs is possible, but that the photos must have sufficient definition of the key shape for the method to work, and doesn't seem applicable to any situation outside of one where somebody is deliberately photographing some keys.