I don't know the full story, but I know I'd try to cause trouble if I was kicked out of where I lived because the landlord wanted to sell the place.
The kickout came because the new owner didn't want to deal with a pain in the butt. Had he not been an obnoxious bastard, he'd have been welcome to stay. Contrary to popular belief, landlords don't go around looking for reasons to behave like sadists to their tenants. Removal always costs money and is to be avoided in the interest of maximizing profits.
But the fact that there was no paper trail is a consequence of the fact that they used electronic voting machines.
Califoria finally figured out (too late for this election) that this is a problem with their new machines. In future elections (starting 2006, I think), the machine will print out a receipt that the voter can check. The poll will keep it for later recounts. Why they couldn't have required something so obvious to begin with is beyond me.
Agreed. What really blew Florida up was lack of standards in doing the hand counts. In California, many counties used punch ballots without problems for many years. The trick is that the state has a standard (3 corners of the chad have to be detached) for how to hand-count a vote. Florida, not having that, was at the mercy of whatever standard the individual county officials decided to make up. Naturally, with an election teetering in the balance, the two parties pulled out every stop to influence this process, including pressuring the officials, sueing, screaming all over the press, marching into the buildings, etc.
We'd have saved ourselves a lot of agony if we'd just had the states create uniform standards for recounts instead of thinking magic voting machines would fix our problems.
Why can't the torch-bearer of democracy even remotely get this right?
We were getting it right before this. We had minor problems here and there, but nothing that drastic. Then, Florida. Because it was the deciding state, the vote was extremely close, and it had no uniform standards for what counted as a 'vote,' it became a battle to the death that had to be settled by the courts finally. And because of inherent "flaws" that hadn't caused any big problems up to then, the ACLU sued everyone who was using the punch bllot and forced them to go to new methods which produced (surprise) chaos the first time out. My city had clueless poll workers who couldn't even boot their machines for hours at the beginning, turning away hundreds or thousands (no one is sure even now) of voters. Even scarier, the poll workers were getting assisted by walk-in voters who had technical knowledge and were helping them to fix the problems. I heard one guy on the radio talking about how he'd poked around in the OS (WIndows CE, no less) on the Diebold machine, looking for the missing application. A number of poll workers took the manines home after they were trained and stored them in their garages until voting day. The 'seal' was a sticker that could be easily removed and reapplied without detection. Not exactly what you'd call secure. Tell me this is better than what we had, I dare you. Thanks, ACLU!
If you owned a place would you rent to a lawyer? I surely would not.
Nope. I had one dirtbag lawyer as a tenant who caused me a bunch of trouble, screwed me out of a month's rent, and wouldn't vacate (I had sold the building and that was one of the conditions of the sale, since the buyers could tell just from talking to him what a pain in the ass he would be) until I paid him off. Kept quoting me 'laws' that either didn't exist or whose provisions he misstated. Not that I believed his lies, but he was clearly prepared to take them to court and lose just to delay the sale. He was worse than the tenants I found out were dealing drugs from my building (and there's long story of heartache in that incident). No more lawyers.
yes, the battery ran down erasing the flash memory.
what the heck are you talking about?
The script. Which is in main memory. Not in flash memory. Main memory sustained by battery power. Absence of battery power erases main memory. Script disappears. Hence app doesn't get executed upon bootup.
I've been listening to talk radio, and poll troubleshooters are calling in. I didn't realize it up to now, but the machines, at least in my city, are using Windows CE for the OS. Apparently a lot of the systems were booting to the desktop instead of the application (the app is on a flash memory card in the machine). I infer from the symptoms people are describing that some machines were allowed to sit unpowered and unplugged for a long period prior to the election, and the batteries ran down, erasing the script that would have executed the application when the machine was turned on. The poll workers aren't trained on what to do in this unexpected circumstance, and have to call the troubleshooters who were trained in how to get the app running. Naturally, the troubleshooters are inundated.
Starting with assembly language (at the time, there was no other choice for programming embedded devices, which is what I was doing) really gave me an appreciation for the hardware and for what a compiler was actually generating. That's the way I'd begin if I were starting out again today.
If you were considering PC-based scopes just to get the cost down, perhaps you might consider an actual used oscilloscope. There are many used ones for sale on eBay, and there appear to be some that would more than fit your criteria. For example, this one.
Nice play of the "I've been debating politics on the Internet longer than you" card, though. Really classy...
Not intended in that fashion at all. I wanted to establish my bona fides as not being a neophyte who reacts before thinking. A good illustration of how difficult it is to convey exactly what one means in these discussions. Peace.
Do I have to put the *joke* markup around every freaking bit of sarcasm I post on this board? If there's any consistent issue I have with the Republicans or their defenders it's that they apparently have no sense of humor...
I've been engaged in political discussion on message boards since I first started messing with Usenet back in the late '70s, and I've seen postings of every conceivable stripe. If you're going for sarcasm, you're going to have to amp it up quite a bit to make it distinguishable from people who actually have those sentiments and write just the sort of message you posted. And since your comment implies that your intent is mistaken on a regular basis, I'd submit that the fault lies with the writer rather than the reader.
Jack your stereo into your computer, compress it into mp3. Throw the Mp3 on whatever you'd like.. etc. Would work a hell of a lot better, and wouldn't be ghetto. Plus you already have the tools to do it..
He said this was before the internet, so that would pre-date MP3. It might even pre-date sound cards in PCs. Hell, it might pre-date PCs themselves for all we know. I had a VCR before IBM PCs existed.
I don't recall the argument being that Republicans were rich. It was that they are the tools of the rich...
So they toil for their rich masters in return for nothing? And the mega-rich Democrats got that way by being on the side the "litle people" against the plutocrats? Riiiight.
If there are restrictions on this, why can you still relatively easily buy a F-15 on Ebay?
F-18. The reason is that the government sold it as scrap, but neglected to cut it up first. Some guy bought it for 25 cents a pound, and thinks it can be made flyable for $9 million. The FBI has 'persuaded' him not to sell it to non-Americans, and to keep it in the U.S. And there's still talk in goverment circles about taking it back anyway.
Aha. Microsoft gets one of its sock puppets to expose some obsolete source files of an old version of Windows, and has them do it on a Linux box in order to make it look like Linux is as shaky in the security department as Windows. My God those people are Machavellian. I'll bet some of the same people behind the fake Mars landers are behind this.
How's the plaintiff going to prove it didn't work? Did he have an independent party measure him before he started with the product? And afterward? Erect?
I'm in this exact case. I keep hearing, "you'll be rewarded down the road" and "if we're around in five or ten years, you'll have a great position because you'll have been here from the beginning." I'd rather be making a "competitive" salary now instead of hoping to get enough raises over the years to equal what I could find elsewhere.
Then I hope you're out looking for a better position. Anybody who relies on "promises" like this is likely headed for disappointment. Without a contract, they're under no obligation to make it up to you, and it would be nuts to count on your loyalty being rewarded.
I understand C much better than I would have had I not learned assembly language first. I think of C as a somewhat-more-abstract version of assembly. It has that "down to the bare metal" aspect in much of what you can do with it, particularly pointers.
Someone explain to me why Pixar signed a contract whose terms it's unhappy with. Inking a deal and the bitching about how rotten the revenue is strikes me as odd. Couldn't they have forseen the outcome when the contract was presented and either passed or worked to get better terms?
So is it supposed to be reassuring that the eff bee bleeping eye has a hard time recovering data from a Mac? Wouldn't this imply that you'd have the same difficulty yourself if the thing crashed? Somehow, the thought that I have to take my computer to Doug and Bob to recover my files isn't very appealing.
Only a moron would use his real name when he's on the lam. I can go to several locations in my city and come away with an authentic-looking drivers's license, social security card, whatever. Hell, I can even get a Mexican Matricula Consular card, even though you can read in the dark by my skin color. This woman deserves a reward for removing this guy's genes from the pool, even if temporarily.
Spelling wasn't standardized until long after this was written (I've forgotten - late 1700s maybe?), so don't hold that against the author. Look at the 1700s writings of even highly-educated people and you'll see some very, shall we say, 'innovative' spellings.
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The kickout came because the new owner didn't want to deal with a pain in the butt. Had he not been an obnoxious bastard, he'd have been welcome to stay. Contrary to popular belief, landlords don't go around looking for reasons to behave like sadists to their tenants. Removal always costs money and is to be avoided in the interest of maximizing profits.
Califoria finally figured out (too late for this election) that this is a problem with their new machines. In future elections (starting 2006, I think), the machine will print out a receipt that the voter can check. The poll will keep it for later recounts. Why they couldn't have required something so obvious to begin with is beyond me.
Agreed. What really blew Florida up was lack of standards in doing the hand counts. In California, many counties used punch ballots without problems for many years. The trick is that the state has a standard (3 corners of the chad have to be detached) for how to hand-count a vote. Florida, not having that, was at the mercy of whatever standard the individual county officials decided to make up. Naturally, with an election teetering in the balance, the two parties pulled out every stop to influence this process, including pressuring the officials, sueing, screaming all over the press, marching into the buildings, etc.
We'd have saved ourselves a lot of agony if we'd just had the states create uniform standards for recounts instead of thinking magic voting machines would fix our problems.
We were getting it right before this. We had minor problems here and there, but nothing that drastic. Then, Florida. Because it was the deciding state, the vote was extremely close, and it had no uniform standards for what counted as a 'vote,' it became a battle to the death that had to be settled by the courts finally. And because of inherent "flaws" that hadn't caused any big problems up to then, the ACLU sued everyone who was using the punch bllot and forced them to go to new methods which produced (surprise) chaos the first time out. My city had clueless poll workers who couldn't even boot their machines for hours at the beginning, turning away hundreds or thousands (no one is sure even now) of voters. Even scarier, the poll workers were getting assisted by walk-in voters who had technical knowledge and were helping them to fix the problems. I heard one guy on the radio talking about how he'd poked around in the OS (WIndows CE, no less) on the Diebold machine, looking for the missing application. A number of poll workers took the manines home after they were trained and stored them in their garages until voting day. The 'seal' was a sticker that could be easily removed and reapplied without detection. Not exactly what you'd call secure. Tell me this is better than what we had, I dare you. Thanks, ACLU!
If you owned a place would you rent to a lawyer? I surely would not.
Nope. I had one dirtbag lawyer as a tenant who caused me a bunch of trouble, screwed me out of a month's rent, and wouldn't vacate (I had sold the building and that was one of the conditions of the sale, since the buyers could tell just from talking to him what a pain in the ass he would be) until I paid him off. Kept quoting me 'laws' that either didn't exist or whose provisions he misstated. Not that I believed his lies, but he was clearly prepared to take them to court and lose just to delay the sale. He was worse than the tenants I found out were dealing drugs from my building (and there's long story of heartache in that incident). No more lawyers.
what the heck are you talking about?
The script. Which is in main memory. Not in flash memory. Main memory sustained by battery power. Absence of battery power erases main memory. Script disappears. Hence app doesn't get executed upon bootup.
I've been listening to talk radio, and poll troubleshooters are calling in. I didn't realize it up to now, but the machines, at least in my city, are using Windows CE for the OS. Apparently a lot of the systems were booting to the desktop instead of the application (the app is on a flash memory card in the machine). I infer from the symptoms people are describing that some machines were allowed to sit unpowered and unplugged for a long period prior to the election, and the batteries ran down, erasing the script that would have executed the application when the machine was turned on. The poll workers aren't trained on what to do in this unexpected circumstance, and have to call the troubleshooters who were trained in how to get the app running. Naturally, the troubleshooters are inundated.
Starting with assembly language (at the time, there was no other choice for programming embedded devices, which is what I was doing) really gave me an appreciation for the hardware and for what a compiler was actually generating. That's the way I'd begin if I were starting out again today.
If you were considering PC-based scopes just to get the cost down, perhaps you might consider an actual used oscilloscope. There are many used ones for sale on eBay, and there appear to be some that would more than fit your criteria. For example, this one.
Not intended in that fashion at all. I wanted to establish my bona fides as not being a neophyte who reacts before thinking. A good illustration of how difficult it is to convey exactly what one means in these discussions. Peace.
I've been engaged in political discussion on message boards since I first started messing with Usenet back in the late '70s, and I've seen postings of every conceivable stripe. If you're going for sarcasm, you're going to have to amp it up quite a bit to make it distinguishable from people who actually have those sentiments and write just the sort of message you posted. And since your comment implies that your intent is mistaken on a regular basis, I'd submit that the fault lies with the writer rather than the reader.
He said this was before the internet, so that would pre-date MP3. It might even pre-date sound cards in PCs. Hell, it might pre-date PCs themselves for all we know. I had a VCR before IBM PCs existed.
So they toil for their rich masters in return for nothing? And the mega-rich Democrats got that way by being on the side the "litle people" against the plutocrats? Riiiight.
F-18. The reason is that the government sold it as scrap, but neglected to cut it up first. Some guy bought it for 25 cents a pound, and thinks it can be made flyable for $9 million. The FBI has 'persuaded' him not to sell it to non-Americans, and to keep it in the U.S. And there's still talk in goverment circles about taking it back anyway.
At $21,000 - $27,000, it'd better do my laundry, housework, and taxes too.
Aha. Microsoft gets one of its sock puppets to expose some obsolete source files of an old version of Windows, and has them do it on a Linux box in order to make it look like Linux is as shaky in the security department as Windows. My God those people are Machavellian. I'll bet some of the same people behind the fake Mars landers are behind this.
How's the plaintiff going to prove it didn't work? Did he have an independent party measure him before he started with the product? And afterward? Erect?
Then I hope you're out looking for a better position. Anybody who relies on "promises" like this is likely headed for disappointment. Without a contract, they're under no obligation to make it up to you, and it would be nuts to count on your loyalty being rewarded.
I understand C much better than I would have had I not learned assembly language first. I think of C as a somewhat-more-abstract version of assembly. It has that "down to the bare metal" aspect in much of what you can do with it, particularly pointers.
Someone explain to me why Pixar signed a contract whose terms it's unhappy with. Inking a deal and the bitching about how rotten the revenue is strikes me as odd. Couldn't they have forseen the outcome when the contract was presented and either passed or worked to get better terms?
So is it supposed to be reassuring that the eff bee bleeping eye has a hard time recovering data from a Mac? Wouldn't this imply that you'd have the same difficulty yourself if the thing crashed? Somehow, the thought that I have to take my computer to Doug and Bob to recover my files isn't very appealing.
I'm aware of that. That's why I said *potential*. Read more carefully.
Only a moron would use his real name when he's on the lam. I can go to several locations in my city and come away with an authentic-looking drivers's license, social security card, whatever. Hell, I can even get a Mexican Matricula Consular card, even though you can read in the dark by my skin color. This woman deserves a reward for removing this guy's genes from the pool, even if temporarily.
Spelling wasn't standardized until long after this was written (I've forgotten - late 1700s maybe?), so don't hold that against the author. Look at the 1700s writings of even highly-educated people and you'll see some very, shall we say, 'innovative' spellings.
Develop the next generation flower that detonates itself, taking out the mine, instead of just turning a different color. You'd probably risk being gunned down by airport security for carrying flowers, but progress comes at a price ...