Wait and see. Odds are, Epic will indemnify its users from patent lawsuits, whilst slamming id Software and arguing that anyone who runs Doom 3 is a sitting duck for litigation.
Does anyone know of any state law (NJ or otherwise) which guarantees independent observers the right to verify the "ballot box" is empty before voting begins, to observe the box at all times during vote casting, verify that the box is sealed after election is closed, and observe the counting of the votes post-election?
This happens in Australia. The observers aren't really independant - but each candidate on the ballot in question gets to send one.
Sounds like far too sane an idea for voting in the United States though.
Aliens must look down at the US electoral process, and regard it in a similar way as the US has regarded other countries electoral systems - IE; Broken and unsatisafactory.
I suspect you mean aliens in the "extraterrestrial" sense, but it's also true for aliens in the "foreign nationals" sense. Plenty of us live in democracies where there may be bitching about the result afterwards, but the actual election process itself isn't doubted.
Any layman can look over the shoulder of anybody doing anything with the current system, and know at a glance whether the work is being performed correctly.
I have a degree in computer science, and I can't look at an electronic voting system and see that it is working in the correct manner.
This is why I don't think electronic voting systems can ever replace a manual system.
It isn't their fault IMO. The vendors should be making more secure solutions for them to at least protect against all predictable threats.
IMO, businesses should be exercising due diligence and purchasing products from vendors with good security records. Yes, this may mean paying twice as much to have a local IT consultancy deliver the box and maintain it, rather than mail-ordering from Dell. And it may mean having to put in place and enforce policies such as "no casual web browsing on the computer."
I can imagine many businesses play the "we're not an IT company, why should we care about computers?" line, to which I'd say, "fine, then don't use a computer."
I'm terrified by the prospect of religious extremists gaining a balance of power in the Australian senate. These guys are never going to rule the country, but they could end up being in a position where the Government has to deal with them in order to get their legislation through the upper house.
The current censorship/ratings/whatever mess that exists in Australia now was introduced to appease Brian Harradine, a senator who held such a balance of power in the senate a few years ago. The Government did it so he'd pass their telecommunications privatisation legislation.
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Let me repeat the operative words here: commercial software, binary only, Intel.
This has nothing to do with Free and/or Open software, except in that it's an attempt to get Free and Open Software developers to be more helpful to commercial software houses that want to use their work for free (as in beer, not speech.)
You say that as though it's a bad thing.
I write binary only commercial software, and we do have users requesting Linux and FreeBSD versions. Harp on about our efforts to rape and pillage as much as you like, but what we're really interested in is allowing our Linux users to use our software on their platform of choice.
This standard doesn't magically make us able to lift, or even link to, GPL code against it's license. Providing closed-source software on Linux does not inherently use other software on the system in ways not permitted by the authors of that software.
And I imagine Trolltech, who provide Qt under the GPL, are quite happy that we've purchased a commercial Qt license.
On the stove there is a dial that you can use to ramp the flame up or down. What points along this scale are considered "gentle heat" or "medium heat"? I've no fucking clue.
Interesting idea, would require a javascript interpreter somewhere though.
Not hard, apparantly. A developer I know recently slotted the Mozilla Javascript library into his app, to interpret one of those proxy.pac files. It only took him a day./p>
pressure the US exerts on Austrialia to get de facto legal jurisdiction
Eh?
This fellow:
Committed crimes in America (it appears he used computers in the United States remotely to commit crimes)
Those crimes are illegal under both Australian and US law
If that doesn't make someone eligible for extradition, then what does? And as for pressure, this wasn't determined by powerbrokers sitting in smoke filled rooms. You know how in the US, criminal proceedings take place in an open court, ruled over by a judge, accessible to the public? Well, we do that here too.
If you really want to worry about the the US government nabbing Australian citizens and the Australian government not sticking up for them, then worry about David Hicks.
I guess you're the anti-Theo then. Regarding the removal of ipf from OpenBSD:
But software
which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they
people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including
modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching
machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.
Microsoft has been seeing increased resistance from developers over stuff like Avalon.
"No, I _don't_ want to throw away my WinForms stuff to develop for Avalon, which may be easier and more powerful to use, but will restrict my target market to those running Longhorn," is the general vibe.
By making Avalon available for Windows XP (presumably as some sort of runtime), Microsoft makes developing against Avalon a more realistic proposition.
As for all the users in here asking "why the hell would I want Avalon?" - some application developer will choose to use Avalon, and if you want that application, you'll want Avalon.
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I see nothing like this in the EULA.
XPrint
Hmm. I think we need quantum monkeys.
Wait and see. Odds are, Epic will indemnify its users from patent lawsuits, whilst slamming id Software and arguing that anyone who runs Doom 3 is a sitting duck for litigation.
This happens in Australia. The observers aren't really independant - but each candidate on the ballot in question gets to send one.
Sounds like far too sane an idea for voting in the United States though.
I'd like a discount on my Windows licenses please!
And doesn't this go beyond their mandate?
I suspect you mean aliens in the "extraterrestrial" sense, but it's also true for aliens in the "foreign nationals" sense. Plenty of us live in democracies where there may be bitching about the result afterwards, but the actual election process itself isn't doubted.
So, what does that translate to in absolute terms?
Any layman can look over the shoulder of anybody doing anything with the current system, and know at a glance whether the work is being performed correctly.
I have a degree in computer science, and I can't look at an electronic voting system and see that it is working in the correct manner.
This is why I don't think electronic voting systems can ever replace a manual system.
Probably. Google News is still labeled "beta".
IMO, businesses should be exercising due diligence and purchasing products from vendors with good security records. Yes, this may mean paying twice as much to have a local IT consultancy deliver the box and maintain it, rather than mail-ordering from Dell. And it may mean having to put in place and enforce policies such as "no casual web browsing on the computer."
I can imagine many businesses play the "we're not an IT company, why should we care about computers?" line, to which I'd say, "fine, then don't use a computer."
*looks around at his room*
I'm terrified by the prospect of religious extremists gaining a balance of power in the Australian senate. These guys are never going to rule the country, but they could end up being in a position where the Government has to deal with them in order to get their legislation through the upper house.
The current censorship/ratings/whatever mess that exists in Australia now was introduced to appease Brian Harradine, a senator who held such a balance of power in the senate a few years ago. The Government did it so he'd pass their telecommunications privatisation legislation.
These guys would be worse.
My little brother can't afford it. My parents might buy it for him for Christmas, though.
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Okay, "rape and pillage" may have been a bit much. Sorry.
You say that as though it's a bad thing.
I write binary only commercial software, and we do have users requesting Linux and FreeBSD versions. Harp on about our efforts to rape and pillage as much as you like, but what we're really interested in is allowing our Linux users to use our software on their platform of choice.
This standard doesn't magically make us able to lift, or even link to, GPL code against it's license. Providing closed-source software on Linux does not inherently use other software on the system in ways not permitted by the authors of that software.
And I imagine Trolltech, who provide Qt under the GPL, are quite happy that we've purchased a commercial Qt license.
Well, I'm not a chemist. But
gives me problems. Why?
On the stove there is a dial that you can use to ramp the flame up or down. What points along this scale are considered "gentle heat" or "medium heat"? I've no fucking clue.
Not hard, apparantly. A developer I know recently slotted the Mozilla Javascript library into his app, to interpret one of those proxy.pac files. It only took him a day./p>
Eh?
This fellow:
If that doesn't make someone eligible for extradition, then what does? And as for pressure, this wasn't determined by powerbrokers sitting in smoke filled rooms. You know how in the US, criminal proceedings take place in an open court, ruled over by a judge, accessible to the public? Well, we do that here too.
If you really want to worry about the the US government nabbing Australian citizens and the Australian government not sticking up for them, then worry about David Hicks.
All of these let you move your mouse off the side of a screen on the machine running the program, over to another machine.
osx2x - control another machine via X11 or VNC, from a Mac.
x2x (check your OS' package collection) - control another machine via X11, from an X11 host.
x2vnc (again, check for packages) - control another machien via VNC, from an X11 host.
win2vnc - control another machine via VNC, from a Windows host.
Microsoft has been seeing increased resistance from developers over stuff like Avalon.
"No, I _don't_ want to throw away my WinForms stuff to develop for Avalon, which may be easier and more powerful to use, but will restrict my target market to those running Longhorn," is the general vibe.
By making Avalon available for Windows XP (presumably as some sort of runtime), Microsoft makes developing against Avalon a more realistic proposition.
As for all the users in here asking "why the hell would I want Avalon?" - some application developer will choose to use Avalon, and if you want that application, you'll want Avalon.
I can't wait for Adbusters: The Game .