And who has implied that they will require client side software?
And how do you propose to implement a system that requires absolutely no client-side software? The best you could do is make it widely accessible from the web, and even that would require a browser, especially for security.
Of course, the unwashed masses shouldn't be allowed to vote, because they might elect someone just as stupid and uneducated as they are. Of course, it's obviously much better to limit voting power to the rich (as is effectually done in America), because they are well-qualified to elect someone just as greedy and self-serving (not to mention stupid and uneducated -- but quite versed in dogma and able to regurgitate college) as they are.
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Did I remember to mention in there that the idea of a republic is that a democracy need only to elect representatives to rule them, instead of ruling themselves directly? But if the republic is to ruule fairly over the people, it must be elected democratically by them. All of them. Even the idiots.
Belize too, unless it was changed during one of the American wars of aggression carried out under the guise of battling the Evil Empire.
(For the cartographically-impaired, you can find Belize on the border of Mexico. If you can't find Mexico on your map, you probably shouldn't be posting on/..)
Any such system in the US would have to be extremely secure. That includes strong crypto of some sort. That's a munition. So, the government would be arming its citizens with the intent of them replacing the government.
Let's have elections on Mondays, and declare it a national holiday.
(Or rather than declaring it a holiday, allow people to be payed for time they spend voting. And make it a helluva lot more convenient that it is now.)
As a side note, we're not talking about the shuttle, we're talking about much smaller capsules.
A shuttle doesn't reach "our part" of the atmosphere until it's going much slower than mach 25. And when it is going mach 25, the waves don't reach the ground with significant energy.
Radio communication was ongoing for several seconds after the explosion and NASA has refused to release the tapes. The screams of terror they hold are said to be horrifying. And NASA has refused to show photographs of the remains that were recovered because they are too horrific.
Do you really want to hear their screams of terror? Or see their remains, that hit the water at some incredible force? Why do you want to see this stuff? Do you think there's some big conspiracy, that they really revealed government secrets right after the explosion? Have some respect for these people and their families. This is not entertainment.
It wasn't until mid-fifties that they could detect nuclear blasts. Sonic booms, if you've ever been around them, aren't that big a deal. The doors and windows around you shake as if they were in a minor, 1-second earthquake, and then you hear the noise of the aircraft some time later. Except at exceptional machs, sonic booms aren't a big deal. And yes, a launch could have gone undetected. If they launched from the middle of Nevada (or better yet, from some Pacific island), who would have known it from the military rocket tests they were already doing.
One of their three-manners got stranded up in orbit and they didn't tell anyone. It's a bit morbid, but I wonder if they're still up there, and if it wouldn't be worth it eventually to retrieve them for a proper burial? (Not that anyone can afford that now... certainly not Russia.)
Jon Katz's writings do appear in a number of other places; he's a professional writer. That's why he has a Time-magazine writing style, and why he makes parallels to popular media.
Personally, I don't mind the writing style, because his articles aren't technical. (Actually, this particular one had a bit of a flamish/rantish technical edge to it, and he ditched the MS ActiveISO.)
But if he's using slashdot as an editorial mechanism, why should we be upset? He's asking us for a harsh review of his ideas before they go to mainstream readers who aren't as aware of these issues. Isn't that a Good Thing?
Even a site that serves only dynamic pages still serves static files. Even if nothing else, the images are all static. So if you've got a busy site, it's important to have a server that's fast at serving static files. Thus, you might run an image server on a different server than your pages and dynamic content.
Iliad is the cartoonist who draws User Friendly, a wonderful little strip. Artur is a Terminator-like character who has appeared in recent strips to (physically) attack Microsoft.
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And how do you propose to implement a system that requires absolutely no client-side software? The best you could do is make it widely accessible from the web, and even that would require a browser, especially for security.
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Of course, the unwashed masses shouldn't be allowed to vote, because they might elect someone just as stupid and uneducated as they are. Of course, it's obviously much better to limit voting power to the rich (as is effectually done in America), because they are well-qualified to elect someone just as greedy and self-serving (not to mention stupid and uneducated -- but quite versed in dogma and able to regurgitate college) as they are.
/rant
Did I remember to mention in there that the idea of a republic is that a democracy need only to elect representatives to rule them, instead of ruling themselves directly? But if the republic is to ruule fairly over the people, it must be elected democratically by them. All of them. Even the idiots.
-Imperator
(For the cartographically-impaired, you can find Belize on the border of Mexico. If you can't find Mexico on your map, you probably shouldn't be posting on /..)
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Any such system in the US would have to be extremely secure. That includes strong crypto of some sort. That's a munition. So, the government would be arming its citizens with the intent of them replacing the government.
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"The War Inevitable"
A speech by Patrick Henry
March 1775
http://wiretap.area.com/Gop her/Gov/US-Speech/liberty.ph
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(Or rather than declaring it a holiday, allow people to be payed for time they spend voting. And make it a helluva lot more convenient that it is now.)
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A shuttle doesn't reach "our part" of the atmosphere until it's going much slower than mach 25. And when it is going mach 25, the waves don't reach the ground with significant energy.
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Do you really want to hear their screams of terror? Or see their remains, that hit the water at some incredible force? Why do you want to see this stuff? Do you think there's some big conspiracy, that they really revealed government secrets right after the explosion? Have some respect for these people and their families. This is not entertainment.
-Imperator
It wasn't until mid-fifties that they could detect nuclear blasts. Sonic booms, if you've ever been around them, aren't that big a deal. The doors and windows around you shake as if they were in a minor, 1-second earthquake, and then you hear the noise of the aircraft some time later. Except at exceptional machs, sonic booms aren't a big deal. And yes, a launch could have gone undetected. If they launched from the middle of Nevada (or better yet, from some Pacific island), who would have known it from the military rocket tests they were already doing.
-Imperator
One of their three-manners got stranded up in orbit and they didn't tell anyone. It's a bit morbid, but I wonder if they're still up there, and if it wouldn't be worth it eventually to retrieve them for a proper burial? (Not that anyone can afford that now... certainly not Russia.)
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This is kinda OT, but that thing about a job is in his sig, so I'm guessing it's serious.
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Personally, I don't mind the writing style, because his articles aren't technical. (Actually, this particular one had a bit of a flamish/rantish technical edge to it, and he ditched the MS ActiveISO.)
But if he's using slashdot as an editorial mechanism, why should we be upset? He's asking us for a harsh review of his ideas before they go to mainstream readers who aren't as aware of these issues. Isn't that a Good Thing?
-Imperator
Even a site that serves only dynamic pages still serves static files. Even if nothing else, the images are all static. So if you've got a busy site, it's important to have a server that's fast at serving static files. Thus, you might run an image server on a different server than your pages and dynamic content.
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Iliad is the cartoonist who draws User Friendly, a wonderful little strip. Artur is a Terminator-like character who has appeared in recent strips to (physically) attack Microsoft.
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Out of the 80K windows viruses out there, how many are open source? I refuse to run any virus unless I can compile it myself.