A boring bullet-only PowerPoint could/should be done in Word
Only if you're a droid. Why not do it in HTML/CSS and use a web browser as the presentation engine?
Neuros FM transmitter
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Smart Billboards
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· Score: 4, Interesting
So, what will the billboard think when it not only gets the news that I'm listening to a radio station that doesn't really exist (91.9MHz), but also gets blasted by the 91.9MHz FM signal my car's emitting? Will they use Tuneprint to figure out what song is playing? Will they simply categorize me as "geek" and display ads for computer stuff?
Nah, they'll probably be too stupid for that. They'll probably think "Wow, this guy's listening to bumfuck cornfield radio!" or whatever the 91.9MHz station is that sometimes leaks through and interferes with my music. I'll probably get ads for Bibles or manure.
Exception: I listen to a college radio station show on Thursday afternoons: Guerrilla Radio, on WRUW 91.1 FM, 1630-1730 Thursdays. Unless I forget.
Personally, I fail to see the importance of tying a sound server to the X server (even if it is merely association),
An example may help clarify. Suppose you're running X on a diskless workstation with sound capability. You could run xmms locally, having it read the Ogg and MP3 files from an NFS server, and that would work fine. But what if you wanted to run xmms on a remote system, and have it display and play music on your local desktop? You could set the $DISPLAY variable to get the video onto your screen, but the sound would still come out on the remote system, because $DISPLAY has nothing to do with audio.
I haven't looked at Xouvert except to read the main page and the FAQ just now, so I'm not sure exactly how MAS works or how it's integrated with X. But if they have made "ssh -X me@remotebox xmms" work, then they've really achieved something.
14:40 Topic for #debian: Compromised machine info: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200311/msg00012.html || Down: gluck (people, packages.d.o); || more info at http://www.wiggy.net/debian/ || Take your Knoppix questions to #knoppix. ||/msg the bots, NOT the people || flood in #flood, NOT here || FAQ: http://www.linuks.mine.nu/debian-faq/
The "official beta" firmware (1.40) plays only Oggs, and has horrendous skipping/performance problems (runs out of CPU because it's not sufficiently optimized) at high bitrates.
The "really beta" firmware (1.40A is the one I have) addresses both of these problems. It plays both MP3 and Ogg. It can play high-bitrate Ogg files without problems if you use the headphones. (I still get some chirps with -q 6 Oggs over the FM radio transmitter.)
There are still "issues" with the Neuros and the firmware -- for example, it can't play beta4 and older Oggs, which isn't that big a deal for most people, but it also happens to lock up the entire device if you try it, rather than just skipping over that song... which makes it a bit more painful than it has to be. (Solution: remove the beta4 Oggs from the Neuros, or replace them after you re-rip the CD [or re-download a different encoding of the song].) Also, it has no "gapless" playback -- there's a two-second gap between songs, and if you concatenate two Ogg files together, there's a "stutter" when it switches to the second Vorbis stream. (Of course, you could rip the whole CD as one giant Ogg Vorbis file.)
The biggest "issue" I have with the Neuros is the fact that there is not a single unused frequency on the FM spectrum where I live. Not one. I've found one that's only used by a weak signal, but I still get static/interference sometimes, particularly in the mornings. But that's not something the Neuros has any control over. (If they boosted the power on the FM transmitter, they'd be in violation of some FCC regulations.)
In short: it's not a perfect device, but it's good enough for me. It makes my one-hour-each-way commute much less painful.
Two days ago I had moderator points. I did not use them. Now I do not have them.
Here's my +1 for your post.
Re:I own a Record Store (Score:1, Insightful) by Aliencow (653119) You don't sell "Sick Marilyn Manson" ? What's so sick about him? The fact he knows how to market the fuck out of his stuff ? Cop killer rap... Rap lyrics ever killed anyone? I know 50 cent fucking annoys me but I haven't died *yet*. See guys, when you don't let kids play dodgeball cause it's bad for their self-esteem they turn into Christian music store owners.
Their version of Liz Phair's newest CD is labeled as "edited". I guess it would be interesting to see just what kind of editing that was done. I would suspect the F-word was taken out of her current playing single, but that is also editted out on local top 40 stations.
I'd be very interested in finding out what they did to the song "Hot White Cum" on that album. But not interested enough to pay them money to find out, of course.... (And before anyone jumps up on their soapbox: yes, I did buy a legitimate copy of the CD. It's one of the last non-used RIAA CDs I've ever purchased.)
What is going to work IMHO is to cultivate the loyalty of a small close circle of followers that will be convinced to help once in a while to donate (not pay, donate)
What about automatically wiping out and replacing your boot manager?
Yes, that is precisely what Windows does when you install it. It replaces the MBR with its own. Afterwards, you must boot Linux from some other source than the hard drive's MBR, and then rerun lilo (or grub) to replace the Windows-only MBR with one that can dual-boot both Windows and Linux.
Oh, and it doesn't bother to warn you, either. It just does it.
(Some of you kids reading this may be thinking, "But I installed Windows {XP,NT,2k} and it didn't do that!" I'm talking about Windows 98 and earlier. I don't know what the new versions of Windows do, but the old ones acted precisely as I'm describing here.)
Her modem doesn't work under Linux, so she's kind of stuck.
Then it's not a modem. Sound cards that rely on the host operating system to tell them how to make the right sounds for transmitting data across POTS lines are usually called Winmodems.
There is a special circle of hell reserved for vendors who abuse language to deceive their customers into thinking they're buying something other than what's actually being sold. The people who make sound cards and sell them as "modems"; the people who make "printers" that can't accept ASCII input because they're too damned stupid to render letters of the alphabet all by themselves; the people who decided that a "1 GB" hard drive could hold 10^9 bytes of data instead of 2^30 bytes; the people who sell "USB 2" controllers that are actually USB 1.1; these will be the ones burning in the pits of brimstone. Be sure to laugh at them on the way down.
I've been reading slashdot for about 4 years or more (check my uid if you don't believe me), and while I've certainly seen this sort of thing said often enough, I don't remember ever seeing any hard data, with sources, to back up the claims.
I bought every Tori Amos CD single I could get my hands on. Now, they aren't even selling them in the US any more. The last Tori CD single that came out, to my knowledge, was released only in Europe.
But that's probably the exception that proves the rule. There's no way in hell I'd pay money to listen to Justin Timberlake or 50 Cent or whoever sings that horrid "Right Thurrrrr" thing. I won't even listen to that dreck for free if I can possibly avoid it. (I can't always avoid it; I have children who listen to pop radio.) And since that's what CD singles mostly seem to be, why would I buy one?
Here's a recitation of facts:
1) Older people have more money than younger people. 2) Younger people have more technological sophistication than older people. 3) Younger people prefer simpler music than older people. 4) US mainstream commercial music marketing is pushing simplistic pop music above all else.
It shouldn't take a doctorate in the social sciences to draw conclusions from that.
No, most people aren't yet aware of the "massive restrictions" that DRM imposes. They only have one computer, they only use proprietary commercial software, etc.
I'm not the least bit surprised that iTunes is doing well right now. Remember, their customers are people who actually bought Microsoft Windows and like it (or Mac OS). And they don't have any serious competitors yet. We'll see where they are in a year.
As long as a sufficiently large number of people continue to be ignorant sheep, DRM will continue to dominate the commercial digital music landscape.
You also mentioned the privacy aspect. This part is more deeply interesting to me, but I think it's simply something that the general public doesn't consider a major issue at the moment.
I don't know about you, but I kind of respect artists enough not to fuck them over by taking their albums without paying them.
Buying a CD does not pay the artist. It only pays the companies who distribute the plastic. You want to pay the artist? Go to musiclink (formerly Fairtunes) and pay them. Directly.
(I used to be an extremely active Fairtunes community contributor, but when they dropped the bulletin-board style forums and started using Slashcode, in which you couldn't start new "threads" without getting them approved by moderators, it fell flat on its face and died. Then it got taken over by this "musiclink" group, etc. The new site doesn't seem to have any sort of community or forums at all; in fact, it looks like it isn't even done yet. Where's the list of contributions? Where's the "top X artists" lists, etc.? I hope they're still doing some good work.)
What is ommited is this period also coincides with an economic slump and lossed by companies accross the board. It also coincides with the price of DVDs, a digital copy of a movie which took say $100 million to produce, falling below $10, and that of compact discs, which take perhaps $50,000 to master rising above $20. It also coincides with behaviors from the RIAA that have caused a handful, such as myself, to cease buying CD's.
It also coincides with (or follows closely after) the deregulation of the US radio industry. Prior to about 1996, the number of stations in a given "market" (that's "city" to you and me) that a single company could own was restricted by federal regulation. Now, it's an open playing field, and the big companies (like Clear Channel) are gobbling up the little folks.
Have you heard anything worth buying on the US commercial radio stations lately? Maybe a song or two in a year, if you're lucky. The rest is watered-down regurgitated formulaic pap.
It's hard to imagine why they think people would want to buy crappy music. Sure, there's the pre-teen market (10-year-old girls buying Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears with their parents' money), and I'm sure that'll continue to earn money for a good long time. But what's the motiation for the rest of us to go spend money? Are they playing anything on the radio that adults would be interested in hearing?
Just another piece of the puzzle. (Or "another brick in the wall", for those of us over 30.)
5) If it turns out that your (OS, software, drive, firmware, media brand) n-tuple works with DVD-RW media but not with DVD+RW media, you're going to be glad you bought a combo drive instead of a DVD+RW-only drive. It's a hell of a lot easier to get a combo drive, get one of every piece of DVD writing software that you can find for your OS, and then try all possible combinations than it is to try to decide which web site's or mailing lists's detail-lacking anecdotes are most likely to be useful or true.
[[ ObDetail-LackingAnecdote: my Sony drive can write DVD-RW and CD-R just fine but can't write a DVD+RW, even after moving it from the HP-UX box to a Win95 box, upgrading the firmware, putting it back in the HP-UX box, and downloading cdrecord-ProDVD 2.01a11 which allegedly supports DVD+RW media. Of course, I only had one DVD+RW medium, supplied by the person who requested the data, so it could have been an isolated incident. And the data set was actually small enough to burn onto a CD-R, so I just burned a CD-R. ]]
When, oh when, oh when will we be able to stop animations by pressing ESC? Netscape 3.x and 4.x used to be able to do it. Debian's mozilla packages can do it(!). But upstream Mozilla can't, and Firebird can't -- not even Debian's firebird.
I don't want to turn off animations forever. I don't want to set "loop once" -- because I load pages in the background, then don't look at them until 5 minutes, or 3 hours, later. I just want to have animated images do their animations until I tell them to stop.
Why is this so much to ask?
(My apologies if this feature is finally in mozilla 1.5 and/or firebird 0.7. I can't get them yet, for obvious reasons.)
But the way our legal system works, they can go on claiming both for a while until it looks like they are for sure going to lose/win one claim or the other.
I don't want you doing the same thing with your bandwidth that I do with mine.
Either you are a troll, or this is one of the most arrogant, self-centered, egoistical statements I've ever seen in my life.
It's not rights. It's privilages.
You can't spell, either.
If you want to get in touch with me, you can reach me at my e-mail address, greg@wooledge.org, which is run with qmail on an OpenBSD box on a $60/month ADSL line in my house. ($40/month for the DSL, $20/month for the static IP address.)
Meanwhile, you can take your hypothetical T-1 and stick it in your hypothetical anus.
write down where your polling place is. (They'll need to know where you live.)
Yes, please do remember that homeless people are not allowed to vote. So much for "one man, one vote".
On election day, take your card and show up.
Where I live, I don't even have to bring anything with me at all. I just walk into the polling place, and there are people (usually older people) sitting behind tables with big printed lists of names. I tell them my name, and they find me on their list. They ask me what my address is, and it's supposed to match the one printed on their list. (Usually I can even see the printed version of it while they're asking me, so I wouldn't classify their security procedures as airtight.) Then I have to sign my name, next to a photocopy of my signature from back when I registered. (My signature has changed a lot over the years, and now it looks only a tiny bit like the original. But even that isn't enough to prevent me from voting.)
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A boring bullet-only PowerPoint could/should be done in Word
Only if you're a droid. Why not do it in HTML/CSS and use a web browser as the presentation engine?
So, what will the billboard think when it not only gets the news that I'm listening to a radio station that doesn't really exist (91.9MHz), but also gets blasted by the 91.9MHz FM signal my car's emitting? Will they use Tuneprint to figure out what song is playing? Will they simply categorize me as "geek" and display ads for computer stuff?
Nah, they'll probably be too stupid for that. They'll probably think "Wow, this guy's listening to bumfuck cornfield radio!" or whatever the 91.9MHz station is that sometimes leaks through and interferes with my music. I'll probably get ads for Bibles or manure.
Exception: I listen to a college radio station show on Thursday afternoons: Guerrilla Radio, on WRUW 91.1 FM, 1630-1730 Thursdays. Unless I forget.
Personally, I fail to see the importance of tying a sound server to the X server (even if it is merely association),
An example may help clarify. Suppose you're running X on a diskless workstation with sound capability. You could run xmms locally, having it read the Ogg and MP3 files from an NFS server, and that would work fine. But what if you wanted to run xmms on a remote system, and have it display and play music on your local desktop? You could set the $DISPLAY variable to get the video onto your screen, but the sound would still come out on the remote system, because $DISPLAY has nothing to do with audio.
I haven't looked at Xouvert except to read the main page and the FAQ just now, so I'm not sure exactly how MAS works or how it's integrated with X. But if they have made "ssh -X me@remotebox xmms" work, then they've really achieved something.
the link in the topic was broken
3 /debian-devel-announce-200311/msg00012.html || Down: gluck (people, packages.d.o); || more info at http://www.wiggy.net/debian/ || Take your Knoppix questions to #knoppix. || /msg the bots, NOT the people || flood in #flood, NOT here || FAQ: http://www.linuks.mine.nu/debian-faq/
Which one? Did you tell us?
Here's what the topic says RIGHT NOW:
14:40 Topic for #debian: Compromised machine info: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/200
Both the links work for me. Since slashdot will mangle them, here they are in usable form: Debian.org mailing list announcement and wiggy.net status page.
The "official beta" firmware (1.40) plays only Oggs, and has horrendous skipping/performance problems (runs out of CPU because it's not sufficiently optimized) at high bitrates.
The "really beta" firmware (1.40A is the one I have) addresses both of these problems. It plays both MP3 and Ogg. It can play high-bitrate Ogg files without problems if you use the headphones. (I still get some chirps with -q 6 Oggs over the FM radio transmitter.)
There are still "issues" with the Neuros and the firmware -- for example, it can't play beta4 and older Oggs, which isn't that big a deal for most people, but it also happens to lock up the entire device if you try it, rather than just skipping over that song... which makes it a bit more painful than it has to be. (Solution: remove the beta4 Oggs from the Neuros, or replace them after you re-rip the CD [or re-download a different encoding of the song].) Also, it has no "gapless" playback -- there's a two-second gap between songs, and if you concatenate two Ogg files together, there's a "stutter" when it switches to the second Vorbis stream. (Of course, you could rip the whole CD as one giant Ogg Vorbis file.)
The biggest "issue" I have with the Neuros is the fact that there is not a single unused frequency on the FM spectrum where I live. Not one. I've found one that's only used by a weak signal, but I still get static/interference sometimes, particularly in the mornings. But that's not something the Neuros has any control over. (If they boosted the power on the FM transmitter, they'd be in violation of some FCC regulations.)
In short: it's not a perfect device, but it's good enough for me. It makes my one-hour-each-way commute much less painful.
Two days ago I had moderator points. I did not use them. Now I do not have them.
Here's my +1 for your post.
Re:I own a Record Store (Score:1, Insightful)
by Aliencow (653119)
You don't sell "Sick Marilyn Manson" ?
What's so sick about him?
The fact he knows how to market the fuck out of his stuff ?
Cop killer rap... Rap lyrics ever killed anyone? I know 50 cent fucking annoys me but I haven't died *yet*.
See guys, when you don't let kids play dodgeball cause it's bad for their self-esteem they turn into Christian music store owners.
Their version of Liz Phair's newest CD is labeled as "edited". I guess it would be interesting to see just what kind of editing that was done. I would suspect the F-word was taken out of her current playing single, but that is also editted out on local top 40 stations.
I'd be very interested in finding out what they did to the song "Hot White Cum" on that album. But not interested enough to pay them money to find out, of course.... (And before anyone jumps up on their soapbox: yes, I did buy a legitimate copy of the CD. It's one of the last non-used RIAA CDs I've ever purchased.)
What is going to work IMHO is to cultivate the loyalty of a small close circle of followers that will be convinced to help once in a while to donate (not pay, donate)
Like Geek Culture is doing.
1) get a computer
...
1.5) install Microsoft Windows
2) connect to the Internet
Pepsi is a carbonated, sugared beverage; McDonald's sells rapidly produced meat-flavored grease
... and Coca-Cola.
for all intensive purposes
AARRGGGH!!
It's "for all intents and purposes".
Thank you.
What about automatically wiping out and replacing your boot manager?
Yes, that is precisely what Windows does when you install it. It replaces the MBR with its own. Afterwards, you must boot Linux from some other source than the hard drive's MBR, and then rerun lilo (or grub) to replace the Windows-only MBR with one that can dual-boot both Windows and Linux.
Oh, and it doesn't bother to warn you, either. It just does it.
(Some of you kids reading this may be thinking, "But I installed Windows {XP,NT,2k} and it didn't do that!" I'm talking about Windows 98 and earlier. I don't know what the new versions of Windows do, but the old ones acted precisely as I'm describing here.)
Her modem doesn't work under Linux, so she's kind of stuck.
Then it's not a modem. Sound cards that rely on the host operating system to tell them how to make the right sounds for transmitting data across POTS lines are usually called Winmodems.
There is a special circle of hell reserved for vendors who abuse language to deceive their customers into thinking they're buying something other than what's actually being sold. The people who make sound cards and sell them as "modems"; the people who make "printers" that can't accept ASCII input because they're too damned stupid to render letters of the alphabet all by themselves; the people who decided that a "1 GB" hard drive could hold 10^9 bytes of data instead of 2^30 bytes; the people who sell "USB 2" controllers that are actually USB 1.1; these will be the ones burning in the pits of brimstone. Be sure to laugh at them on the way down.
I've been reading slashdot for about 4 years or more (check my uid if you don't believe me), and while I've certainly seen this sort of thing said often enough, I don't remember ever seeing any hard data, with sources, to back up the claims.
The Problem With Music (Steve Albini)
Courtney Love Does the Math
No one else gives a damn.
Go away, troll. Your mommy is calling you.
I bought every Tori Amos CD single I could get my hands on. Now, they aren't even selling them in the US any more. The last Tori CD single that came out, to my knowledge, was released only in Europe.
But that's probably the exception that proves the rule. There's no way in hell I'd pay money to listen to Justin Timberlake or 50 Cent or whoever sings that horrid "Right Thurrrrr" thing. I won't even listen to that dreck for free if I can possibly avoid it. (I can't always avoid it; I have children who listen to pop radio.) And since that's what CD singles mostly seem to be, why would I buy one?
Here's a recitation of facts:
1) Older people have more money than younger people.
2) Younger people have more technological sophistication than older people.
3) Younger people prefer simpler music than older people.
4) US mainstream commercial music marketing is pushing simplistic pop music above all else.
It shouldn't take a doctorate in the social sciences to draw conclusions from that.
No, most people aren't yet aware of the "massive restrictions" that DRM imposes. They only have one computer, they only use proprietary commercial software, etc.
I'm not the least bit surprised that iTunes is doing well right now. Remember, their customers are people who actually bought Microsoft Windows and like it (or Mac OS). And they don't have any serious competitors yet. We'll see where they are in a year.
As long as a sufficiently large number of people continue to be ignorant sheep, DRM will continue to dominate the commercial digital music landscape.
You also mentioned the privacy aspect. This part is more deeply interesting to me, but I think it's simply something that the general public doesn't consider a major issue at the moment.
I don't know about you, but I kind of respect artists enough not to fuck them over by taking their albums without paying them.
Buying a CD does not pay the artist. It only pays the companies who distribute the plastic. You want to pay the artist? Go to musiclink (formerly Fairtunes) and pay them. Directly.
(I used to be an extremely active Fairtunes community contributor, but when they dropped the bulletin-board style forums and started using Slashcode, in which you couldn't start new "threads" without getting them approved by moderators, it fell flat on its face and died. Then it got taken over by this "musiclink" group, etc. The new site doesn't seem to have any sort of community or forums at all; in fact, it looks like it isn't even done yet. Where's the list of contributions? Where's the "top X artists" lists, etc.? I hope they're still doing some good work.)
What is ommited is this period also coincides with an economic slump and lossed by companies accross the board. It also coincides with the price of DVDs, a digital copy of a movie which took say $100 million to produce, falling below $10, and that of compact discs, which take perhaps $50,000 to master rising above $20. It also coincides with behaviors from the RIAA that have caused a handful, such as myself, to cease buying CD's.
It also coincides with (or follows closely after) the deregulation of the US radio industry. Prior to about 1996, the number of stations in a given "market" (that's "city" to you and me) that a single company could own was restricted by federal regulation. Now, it's an open playing field, and the big companies (like Clear Channel) are gobbling up the little folks.
Have you heard anything worth buying on the US commercial radio stations lately? Maybe a song or two in a year, if you're lucky. The rest is watered-down regurgitated formulaic pap.
It's hard to imagine why they think people would want to buy crappy music. Sure, there's the pre-teen market (10-year-old girls buying Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears with their parents' money), and I'm sure that'll continue to earn money for a good long time. But what's the motiation for the rest of us to go spend money? Are they playing anything on the radio that adults would be interested in hearing?
Just another piece of the puzzle. (Or "another brick in the wall", for those of us over 30.)
HP-UX 9000/785 means that you probably have a HP 9000 with OS build 785.
... and there are still no HP-UX builds of mozilla 1.5 or firebird 0.7. :(
Nope, sorry. 9000/785 is the hardware model number. Here's the whole "uname -a" output:
HP-UX imadev B.10.20 A 9000/785 2008897791 two-user license
And here's "uname -sr":
HP-UX B.10.20
5) If it turns out that your (OS, software, drive, firmware, media brand) n-tuple works with DVD-RW media but not with DVD+RW media, you're going to be glad you bought a combo drive instead of a DVD+RW-only drive. It's a hell of a lot easier to get a combo drive, get one of every piece of DVD writing software that you can find for your OS, and then try all possible combinations than it is to try to decide which web site's or mailing lists's detail-lacking anecdotes are most likely to be useful or true.
[[ ObDetail-LackingAnecdote: my Sony drive can write DVD-RW and CD-R just fine but can't write a DVD+RW, even after moving it from the HP-UX box to a Win95 box, upgrading the firmware, putting it back in the HP-UX box, and downloading cdrecord-ProDVD 2.01a11 which allegedly supports DVD+RW media. Of course, I only had one DVD+RW medium, supplied by the person who requested the data, so it could have been an isolated incident. And the data set was actually small enough to burn onto a CD-R, so I just burned a CD-R. ]]
When, oh when, oh when will we be able to stop animations by pressing ESC? Netscape 3.x and 4.x used to be able to do it. Debian's mozilla packages can do it(!). But upstream Mozilla can't, and Firebird can't -- not even Debian's firebird.
I don't want to turn off animations forever. I don't want to set "loop once" -- because I load pages in the background, then don't look at them until 5 minutes, or 3 hours, later. I just want to have animated images do their animations until I tell them to stop.
Why is this so much to ask?
(My apologies if this feature is finally in mozilla 1.5 and/or firebird 0.7. I can't get them yet, for obvious reasons.)
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/785; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030707
(Why doesn't that have the OS version in it? This is HP-UX 10.20, not 11.x. Yes, I know, it's past end of life....)
But the way our legal system works, they can go on claiming both for a while until it looks like they are for sure going to lose/win one claim or the other.
Ooh! It's like Schroedinger's cat! A legal qubit.
I don't want you doing the same thing with your bandwidth that I do with mine.
Either you are a troll, or this is one of the most arrogant, self-centered, egoistical statements I've ever seen in my life.
It's not rights. It's privilages.
You can't spell, either.
If you want to get in touch with me, you can reach me at my e-mail address, greg@wooledge.org, which is run with qmail on an OpenBSD box on a $60/month ADSL line in my house. ($40/month for the DSL, $20/month for the static IP address.)
Meanwhile, you can take your hypothetical T-1 and stick it in your hypothetical anus.
HAND.
write down where your polling place is. (They'll need to know where you live.)
Yes, please do remember that homeless people are not allowed to vote. So much for "one man, one vote".
On election day, take your card and show up.
Where I live, I don't even have to bring anything with me at all. I just walk into the polling place, and there are people (usually older people) sitting behind tables with big printed lists of names. I tell them my name, and they find me on their list. They ask me what my address is, and it's supposed to match the one printed on their list. (Usually I can even see the printed version of it while they're asking me, so I wouldn't classify their security procedures as airtight.) Then I have to sign my name, next to a photocopy of my signature from back when I registered. (My signature has changed a lot over the years, and now it looks only a tiny bit like the original. But even that isn't enough to prevent me from voting.)