Introduce him to Donald Knuth and Danny Hillis. Ask him to look at obvious objects and think of ways to employ them differently.
Ask him about what kinds of problems exist and how we solve them short term. How should we approach them for long term solutions?
In this way, you're exposing him to great thinkers that have contributed to our technological landscape, while asking him to think and potentially become one of these people.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Speech recognition requires fast access to the memory and to the processer. Any speed bump in that chain decreases performance of the recognition at hand.
Remove the weakest link in the chain, and all memory speed-reliant applications will improve, until the applications are re-written to heavily tax the new capabilities of the memory.
That's what you weren't seeing. That, and IBM is infatuated with speech recognition (via voice for linux? it's available from alphaworks if you run a JDK.)
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Geez, from the questions here, such as "How will this affect my floppies/other media/hardware?" and "how will this be affected by my monitor/speakers?"
I must only presume that none of you has ever heard of shielding.
*GOOD* quality speakers and monitors (not the $20 speakers from compusa) have shielding that minimize the magnetic energy escaping the equipment. place your cheapo speakers against your monitor. if it affects the monitor image, then you know you bought crap.
If things are properly shielded, you won't have interference or suffer any negative effects.
Geez, you don't overclock without proper cooling, why would you think of using a magnetic storage media without shielding?
(course, now all the tin foil hat freaks will come out and claim they were right all along....)
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Shameless plug:
If you had looked at IBM's WebSphere Transcoding Publisher (AIX, Sun, NT/2000, SuSE/RedHat/TurboLinux/Caldera) you'd have saved yourself the trouble of moving to xhtml... the product runs at your server, or wireless access point, and translates code, (transcodes) html to wireless device acceptable code on the fly.
It also resizes images, converts images to text links, changes image format from gif to jpeg to bmp and back, color to monochrome, and can convert tables to lists, or perform text replacement for any element of the page.
kind of a swiss army knife that would have saved you the effort, because it can recode for any type of wireless device you have, and future ones as well.
good on you for being forward thinking, tho...
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Yup, you're right. My words of advice there were meant so that the person I was replying to didn't think they'd get out cheap by buying the apple card and using it in a pc laptop or desktop w/adapter.
My thinkpad uses the buffalo/melco 802.11 card and my g4 has 10/100/1000 onboard, with the antenna for the 802.11 card... I figure there's not too many occasions where I need a big desktop tower to be wireless. (course that might have something to do with my spool of cat5 that my future wife wants me to get rid of...):}
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
FCC regs cover things like power, and range of antenna. IANAH (I am not a HAM) so look into it further yourself. But there are plent of people who buy the better antennas, post them on their roof tops and point them where they'll be.
I had an apt. in Tel-Aviv and pointed my antenna out my apt. window at my office in Ramat-Gan, or at Hayarkon Park, and could get decent signal, enough to browse/. of course, the office had ISDN, so wireless in the office was more to show off than serve a real point...
My point here is, it does work, and if done right, falls right under the point where the FCC gets edgy.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
800 dollars? what are you talking about?
I have the techworks.com airstation and card (802.11b) and spent 140 on the card and 270 on the base station. if you're just interested in trying to cruise other's networks, just get the card.
100 dollars if you buy the lucent silver orinoco in it's apple form. (apple form is without the antenna...choose wisely)
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
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The well is running dry. Don't expect IBM to stay in the game much longer.
Oh, really!
IBM is operating on the ABM plan: Anything But Microsoft. Almost all IBM apps support the obligatory NT/2000, as well as Sun, Linux (4 distributions and gaining), and AIX.
Today at IBM I attended a lecture on Linux and Globalization. Don't kid yourself, IBM isn't dropping Linux anytime soon.
(Especially when it took them ten years to step away from os/2 and they still make fixpacks for that!)
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
This summary heading wasn't *Why Linux Lovers Hate Java*, it was *Why CmdrTaco Hates Java*
Yes, the JDK is buggier than the volkswagen beetle I drive, in either Sun or IBM form.
Ok, so it's Taco's site, he can editorialize. but I wish his opinions weren't billed as News.
Besides, Java does pretty darn okay for portability.
If you don't like it that much, go code in COBOL. (in modern COBOL, you can do almost everything you want, and that which you can't, you call in libraries.)
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
First off, IBM supports linux. They support RedHat and Caldera OpenLinux, officially.
This is because they have business deals with them.
Secondly, software for Linux by IBM passes a Linux compatibility testing session. All IBM Linux software works on RH, Suse, Turbolinux, and Caldera.
Third, no one ever said it would worth with FreeBSD. Fine if it does, but IBM never made any guarantees to support it. (yes, it runs on my Thinkpad 385xd without a problem. Is IBM responsible if it didn't? No.)
Why is this newsworthy, and why is it hard to understand? IBM supports opensource outside of when it serves their best ineterests only.
Anyone who says otherwise hasn't looked at what IBM has done and is doing for linux in any depth.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
A lot of/.ers are saying "don't get this unit, because it doesn't support DTS"
and "don't get this unit because it doesn't support progressive scan"
and (most importantly) "don't get this unit, because it supports the MPAA"
Practically speaking, if you aren't a company slave, advertising under a thin disguise, you've done your research and know what you want.
You want primarily to play DVD, VCD, MP3, and have the ability to set region and disable macrovision.
Buy whatever lousy cheap player you want that meets those needs.
When you're ready to get a DTS capable amplifier, and a progressive scan monitor, go forth and drop loads and loads of cash on the fanciest box you can, but geez! We're talking about genesis games and such! WHY?!
Get what meets your needs now. If you're going to upgrade to something that can handle DTS or prog scan, get a player that can take advantage of those.
The safe presumption (a mistaken phrase if I ever spoke one) is that, you probably have more than one telly, and won't replace all of them with prog scan units at the same time. get a cheap dvd now, and get another when you get your prog scan screen and dts decoder.
and most importantly, research like all hell, and don't fall victim to buyer's remorse.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Have you tried this??
My Uncle paid the seller in an auction using PayPal, and the goods never came. Many email excuses came, from various email addresses but no goods.
My Uncle called the credit card company, who said that using PayPal means agreeing to pay whoever you paypal-send the money to. Because my Uncle agreed to use PayPal, the credit card company refused to consider denying payment or investigating fraud.
Next time you criticize some one for Bad Info, make sure your own is correct.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Actually, you're wrong.
Linux, the whole operating system, installs and runs on s/390.
If Daisy runs under Linux, then you could conceivably have an S/390 (and can we be friends if you do?), run linux, run daisy, run windows, run daisy, run macOSx, etc....
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Here's my real issue-
We love to hack these boxen, be they net-pliance's, TiVOs, etc., and the companies either tolerate it (TiVO) or revolt (Net-Pliance/Digtal::Convergence).
We can't reliably predict which Indrema or ZapStation will do.
Just because they use our beloved Linux, it doesn't mean that they share our ideals and support our curiousity in making the box do new tricks.
In fact, in the article, ZapStation plans to secure their box so that it will be very difficult to hack. Indrema plans to use every measure of digital management systems to protect the DVD content, and content of the games, even though no such management system exists at this time.
We also know that many users will want to disable macrovision/digital management/other methods of copy-prevention, and make divx/mpeg4/(insert codec here) copies for *possible* legitimate playback on linux desktop systems. (I say possible because honestly, there is some chance that people will do it to make backups of content they already own, some for the satisfaction of their curiosity, and some will do it to violate copyright law.)
But when these boxen do become widely available and the first thing we do is hack them to pieces, we run them out of business.
Many of/. whiners say, "We wouldn't hack 'em if they just built it the way we wanted them to in the first place" But they couldn't start a business if they built the boxes the way some of you would want them. (and I'm guilty of this too, to an extent. Dangnit, I want ethernet in my TivO from the factory!)
I only wish that we resist the urge to break open the seals that ZapStation and Indrema choose to place in their boxen right away, that we support them by using them as they intend us to, and support them for using Linux.
Let's not hack them out of business like we did to Net-Pliance.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
From a business standpoint, it's wonderful to have flashy content (and I don't mean only Macromedia's stuff)
But it's also a bad thing to leave a large portion of users behind.
Internet Appliances along with mobile phones and other devices now getting on the internet are lumped under the heading of *PERVASIVE DEVICES*, or pervasive computing.
There are currently two options available to address these devices.
Option one is to follow the model of Phone.Com. Sell the browser to the device companies and collect a license fee for each device sold. Then sell the access point for those devices a proxy software that converts html to code for their browser.
Option two is to use IBM technology. WebSphere Transcoding Publisher (ok, I'm biased, I know people on this team) runs on an LDAP, proxy, or reverse-proxy model, and checks to see what device-type is accessing a page. If it has a device type profile for the device making the http request, it translates the code (transcodes) the html into code suitable for the device, along with altering the images to meet the device's needs.
If a transcoder device type profile were written for the various internet appliances and other non-Wintel/Mac browsers then non-html content requiring plug-ins would no longer be an issue.
Of course, this is kind of a dodge- No phone that I know of attempts to be a desktop computer browser (yet), and while we might expect that an internet appliance that hopes to be the desktop browser should play flash and shockwave content, it's not a desktop computer, and we shouldn't expect it to be one.
Yes, I like my alternative opsys' browsers to be supported, but no one writes flash plugins for NetPositive, and my Netscape Communicator on OS/2 relies on flash plug-ins for win3.1.
I don't think the fault for this situation lies with the makers of plug-ins, it lies with the page designers for not providing a stripped down version that doesn't require plug-ins, and with the internet appliance marketeers for inspiring false expectations.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Why does this idea have the same ring in my ear that the USPS internet tax does?
On a lighter note, it would be hard to re-enact the Boston Tea Party substituting free software as the cause. What do we do, chuck our RH5.2 and 6.0 cd's into the bay?
"A group of bearded men dressed insensitively as native americans further polluted the bay by dropping large amounts of unwanted compact discs into the water. The zealots attempted to sneak away, but were apprehended. "
%kill -9 taxation
process taxation cannot be killed
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
My greatest fear in the move to a more modern method is that the possibility of a recount will be lost.
The old system in the old days took a month or more to count the votes with many hands.
I almost prefer this because it makes the election harder to rig, and harder to coverup evidence of a rig.
If we move to electronic methods then we must ensure beyond 5 nines of reliability that one person (living) gets only one vote, and that said vote is inviolable, unchangeable, and that no more votes may be added or altered. That's the security issue.
How do you perform a recount when there's no paper trail to start fresh from?
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
I already have Cable modem. I don't want the TiVo to hog my phone line. It doesn't always dial in carbon-based lifeform downtime, sometimes it prefers to dial during daytime tv hours. annoying.
I have witnessed several modem failures in Tivo that weren't due to lightning strikes. The Tivo forums were full of these reports at the time I purchased my Tivo. I would rather have reliable ethernet than unreliable modem.
Best situation: both modem and ethernet availability in the box.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
The troop of *Boy Scouts of America* is going to ride into my office on *British Small Arms* motorcycles equipped with *British Small fireArms* to validate my software on my *Beige Small Application* server?
Hm. how many more ways can I use BSA other than their original intention?
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
However, the questions it raises are still valid questions, even if the source is a little questionable in terms of literary or academic value. (For instance, I would have liked to have seen a bibliographic entry for the Library of Congress material they claim is evidence.)
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
After reading about votescam from yesterday's/., I carefully recorded what sort of machine is used as the ballot box here in Raleigh NC.
Down here, we use a paper ballot in conjunction with a black felt tip marker to cast our votes. The ballot is then fed into a sheet fed scanner called an Optech III-P scanner made by a company called Eagle.
Printed at the bottom of each ballot is the signature of Constance Mitchell, of the Board of Elections.
To cast the ballot, the paper ballot is fed into the Optech III-P and a LED readout counts how many ballots have been cast. It also has a cash register printer incorporated into it, so that it may print out when the vote began being counted, and when it reaches so many votes. The printout paper was remarkably blank.
I intend to find out as much as I can about this ballot box scanner, and if I can, to contact Ms. Mitchell and ask her how the vote is tabulated fairly and securely, so that we have the result at the end of the night. I want to see where the possibilities for votescam lie.
I cast my vote for Harry Browne, and where possible, all other Liberatarians. In the cases of district judges, I had no choice but the two parties, or abstention, so I salt-and-peppered my vote between the two parties for those elections.
I hope other people noted how their vote was recorded and are as concerned as I am that it is all too easy for the election to be determined by something other than our votes.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
I stopped to read the whole contents of the votescam website, which is more than most posters here, who either read only the slashdot summary or the first page that was linked.
They raise some important questions, and encourage us, as voters, to go and find the answers. Who learned in civics (or ELP: Economy, Legal, Politics as it was called in Raleigh NC in 1991) precisely how the votes are counted?
We only know that the votes are tallied, and the results magically announced on the news before bedtime.
IF it isn't a conspiracy, then let's see the votes from beginning to end, from the time they are cast, to the time they are tallied, and verify the tally.
Let's see the source code behind the systems that do the tallying, or have interviews with the people that won't let us see the code. (time for a slashdot interview!)
It may not be a conspiracy but when people start hiding parts of my democracy, I want answers why.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Simple proactive measures can help tip the scales in your favor, that your information won't be picked up by the casual neighbor.
For instance, do your wireless over a technology that uses 128bit encryption (like the mad science labs' upgrade to airport) and then ssh over that already encrypted connection.
No line or connection is one hundred percent secure from attack, even if it's only vulnerable to social real-world hacking.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
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Introduce him to Donald Knuth and Danny Hillis. Ask him to look at obvious objects and think of ways to employ them differently.
Ask him about what kinds of problems exist and how we solve them short term. How should we approach them for long term solutions?
In this way, you're exposing him to great thinkers that have contributed to our technological landscape, while asking him to think and potentially become one of these people.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Speech recognition requires fast access to the memory and to the processer. Any speed bump in that chain decreases performance of the recognition at hand.
Remove the weakest link in the chain, and all memory speed-reliant applications will improve, until the applications are re-written to heavily tax the new capabilities of the memory.
That's what you weren't seeing. That, and IBM is infatuated with speech recognition (via voice for linux? it's available from alphaworks if you run a JDK.)
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Geez, from the questions here, such as "How will this affect my floppies/other media/hardware?" and "how will this be affected by my monitor/speakers?"
I must only presume that none of you has ever heard of shielding.
*GOOD* quality speakers and monitors (not the $20 speakers from compusa) have shielding that minimize the magnetic energy escaping the equipment. place your cheapo speakers against your monitor. if it affects the monitor image, then you know you bought crap.
If things are properly shielded, you won't have interference or suffer any negative effects.
Geez, you don't overclock without proper cooling, why would you think of using a magnetic storage media without shielding?
(course, now all the tin foil hat freaks will come out and claim they were right all along....)
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Shameless plug:
If you had looked at IBM's WebSphere Transcoding Publisher (AIX, Sun, NT/2000, SuSE/RedHat/TurboLinux/Caldera) you'd have saved yourself the trouble of moving to xhtml... the product runs at your server, or wireless access point, and translates code, (transcodes) html to wireless device acceptable code on the fly.
It also resizes images, converts images to text links, changes image format from gif to jpeg to bmp and back, color to monochrome, and can convert tables to lists, or perform text replacement for any element of the page.
kind of a swiss army knife that would have saved you the effort, because it can recode for any type of wireless device you have, and future ones as well.
good on you for being forward thinking, tho...
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Yup, you're right. My words of advice there were meant so that the person I was replying to didn't think they'd get out cheap by buying the apple card and using it in a pc laptop or desktop w/adapter. My thinkpad uses the buffalo/melco 802.11 card and my g4 has 10/100/1000 onboard, with the antenna for the 802.11 card... I figure there's not too many occasions where I need a big desktop tower to be wireless. (course that might have something to do with my spool of cat5 that my future wife wants me to get rid of...) :}
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
FCC regs cover things like power, and range of antenna. IANAH (I am not a HAM) so look into it further yourself. But there are plent of people who buy the better antennas, post them on their roof tops and point them where they'll be.
/. of course, the office had ISDN, so wireless in the office was more to show off than serve a real point...
I had an apt. in Tel-Aviv and pointed my antenna out my apt. window at my office in Ramat-Gan, or at Hayarkon Park, and could get decent signal, enough to browse
My point here is, it does work, and if done right, falls right under the point where the FCC gets edgy.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
800 dollars? what are you talking about?
I have the techworks.com airstation and card (802.11b) and spent 140 on the card and 270 on the base station. if you're just interested in trying to cruise other's networks, just get the card.
100 dollars if you buy the lucent silver orinoco in it's apple form. (apple form is without the antenna...choose wisely)
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Oh, really!
IBM is operating on the ABM plan: Anything But Microsoft. Almost all IBM apps support the obligatory NT/2000, as well as Sun, Linux (4 distributions and gaining), and AIX. Today at IBM I attended a lecture on Linux and Globalization. Don't kid yourself, IBM isn't dropping Linux anytime soon.
(Especially when it took them ten years to step away from os/2 and they still make fixpacks for that!)
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
This summary heading wasn't *Why Linux Lovers Hate Java*, it was *Why CmdrTaco Hates Java*
Yes, the JDK is buggier than the volkswagen beetle I drive, in either Sun or IBM form.
Ok, so it's Taco's site, he can editorialize. but I wish his opinions weren't billed as News.
Besides, Java does pretty darn okay for portability.
If you don't like it that much, go code in COBOL. (in modern COBOL, you can do almost everything you want, and that which you can't, you call in libraries.)
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
This is SO easy to understand.
First off, IBM supports linux. They support RedHat and Caldera OpenLinux, officially.
This is because they have business deals with them.
Secondly, software for Linux by IBM passes a Linux compatibility testing session. All IBM Linux software works on RH, Suse, Turbolinux, and Caldera.
Third, no one ever said it would worth with FreeBSD. Fine if it does, but IBM never made any guarantees to support it. (yes, it runs on my Thinkpad 385xd without a problem. Is IBM responsible if it didn't? No.)
Why is this newsworthy, and why is it hard to understand? IBM supports opensource outside of when it serves their best ineterests only.
Anyone who says otherwise hasn't looked at what IBM has done and is doing for linux in any depth.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
A lot of /.ers are saying "don't get this unit, because it doesn't support DTS"
and "don't get this unit because it doesn't support progressive scan"
and (most importantly) "don't get this unit, because it supports the MPAA"
Practically speaking, if you aren't a company slave, advertising under a thin disguise, you've done your research and know what you want.
You want primarily to play DVD, VCD, MP3, and have the ability to set region and disable macrovision.
Buy whatever lousy cheap player you want that meets those needs.
When you're ready to get a DTS capable amplifier, and a progressive scan monitor, go forth and drop loads and loads of cash on the fanciest box you can, but geez! We're talking about genesis games and such! WHY?!
Get what meets your needs now. If you're going to upgrade to something that can handle DTS or prog scan, get a player that can take advantage of those.
The safe presumption (a mistaken phrase if I ever spoke one) is that, you probably have more than one telly, and won't replace all of them with prog scan units at the same time. get a cheap dvd now, and get another when you get your prog scan screen and dts decoder.
and most importantly, research like all hell, and don't fall victim to buyer's remorse.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Have you tried this??
My Uncle paid the seller in an auction using PayPal, and the goods never came. Many email excuses came, from various email addresses but no goods.
My Uncle called the credit card company, who said that using PayPal means agreeing to pay whoever you paypal-send the money to. Because my Uncle agreed to use PayPal, the credit card company refused to consider denying payment or investigating fraud.
Next time you criticize some one for Bad Info, make sure your own is correct.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Actually, you're wrong.
Linux, the whole operating system, installs and runs on s/390.
If Daisy runs under Linux, then you could conceivably have an S/390 (and can we be friends if you do?), run linux, run daisy, run windows, run daisy, run macOSx, etc....
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Here's my real issue-
/. whiners say, "We wouldn't hack 'em if they just built it the way we wanted them to in the first place" But they couldn't start a business if they built the boxes the way some of you would want them. (and I'm guilty of this too, to an extent. Dangnit, I want ethernet in my TivO from the factory!)
We love to hack these boxen, be they net-pliance's, TiVOs, etc., and the companies either tolerate it (TiVO) or revolt (Net-Pliance/Digtal::Convergence).
We can't reliably predict which Indrema or ZapStation will do.
Just because they use our beloved Linux, it doesn't mean that they share our ideals and support our curiousity in making the box do new tricks.
In fact, in the article, ZapStation plans to secure their box so that it will be very difficult to hack. Indrema plans to use every measure of digital management systems to protect the DVD content, and content of the games, even though no such management system exists at this time.
We also know that many users will want to disable macrovision/digital management/other methods of copy-prevention, and make divx/mpeg4/(insert codec here) copies for *possible* legitimate playback on linux desktop systems. (I say possible because honestly, there is some chance that people will do it to make backups of content they already own, some for the satisfaction of their curiosity, and some will do it to violate copyright law.)
But when these boxen do become widely available and the first thing we do is hack them to pieces, we run them out of business.
Many of
I only wish that we resist the urge to break open the seals that ZapStation and Indrema choose to place in their boxen right away, that we support them by using them as they intend us to, and support them for using Linux.
Let's not hack them out of business like we did to Net-Pliance.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
From a business standpoint, it's wonderful to have flashy content (and I don't mean only Macromedia's stuff)
But it's also a bad thing to leave a large portion of users behind.
Internet Appliances along with mobile phones and other devices now getting on the internet are lumped under the heading of *PERVASIVE DEVICES*, or pervasive computing.
There are currently two options available to address these devices.
Option one is to follow the model of Phone.Com. Sell the browser to the device companies and collect a license fee for each device sold. Then sell the access point for those devices a proxy software that converts html to code for their browser.
Option two is to use IBM technology. WebSphere Transcoding Publisher (ok, I'm biased, I know people on this team) runs on an LDAP, proxy, or reverse-proxy model, and checks to see what device-type is accessing a page. If it has a device type profile for the device making the http request, it translates the code (transcodes) the html into code suitable for the device, along with altering the images to meet the device's needs.
If a transcoder device type profile were written for the various internet appliances and other non-Wintel/Mac browsers then non-html content requiring plug-ins would no longer be an issue.
Of course, this is kind of a dodge- No phone that I know of attempts to be a desktop computer browser (yet), and while we might expect that an internet appliance that hopes to be the desktop browser should play flash and shockwave content, it's not a desktop computer, and we shouldn't expect it to be one.
Yes, I like my alternative opsys' browsers to be supported, but no one writes flash plugins for NetPositive, and my Netscape Communicator on OS/2 relies on flash plug-ins for win3.1.
I don't think the fault for this situation lies with the makers of plug-ins, it lies with the page designers for not providing a stripped down version that doesn't require plug-ins, and with the internet appliance marketeers for inspiring false expectations.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
At the risk of responding to a troll,
.pl
.pl
Programs written in the Perl language have their filenames end with the suffix
The Top Level Domain for Poland is
For afficianos of the Perl language, the TLD for Poland is pretty darn cool.
Go, and feel like a Tard no more.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
What other FREE things are there that are taxed?
Why does this idea have the same ring in my ear that the USPS internet tax does?
On a lighter note, it would be hard to re-enact the Boston Tea Party substituting free software as the cause. What do we do, chuck our RH5.2 and 6.0 cd's into the bay?
"A group of bearded men dressed insensitively as native americans further polluted the bay by dropping large amounts of unwanted compact discs into the water. The zealots attempted to sneak away, but were apprehended. "
%kill -9 taxation
process taxation cannot be killed
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
My greatest fear in the move to a more modern method is that the possibility of a recount will be lost.
The old system in the old days took a month or more to count the votes with many hands.
I almost prefer this because it makes the election harder to rig, and harder to coverup evidence of a rig.
If we move to electronic methods then we must ensure beyond 5 nines of reliability that one person (living) gets only one vote, and that said vote is inviolable, unchangeable, and that no more votes may be added or altered. That's the security issue.
How do you perform a recount when there's no paper trail to start fresh from?
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Here's why I want my TiVO to have ethernet:
I already have Cable modem. I don't want the TiVo to hog my phone line. It doesn't always dial in carbon-based lifeform downtime, sometimes it prefers to dial during daytime tv hours. annoying.
I have witnessed several modem failures in Tivo that weren't due to lightning strikes. The Tivo forums were full of these reports at the time I purchased my Tivo. I would rather have reliable ethernet than unreliable modem.
Best situation: both modem and ethernet availability in the box.
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So let me get this right:
The troop of *Boy Scouts of America* is going to ride into my office on *British Small Arms* motorcycles equipped with *British Small fireArms* to validate my software on my *Beige Small Application* server?
Hm. how many more ways can I use BSA other than their original intention?
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yes, it did read like a bad novel.
However, the questions it raises are still valid questions, even if the source is a little questionable in terms of literary or academic value. (For instance, I would have liked to have seen a bibliographic entry for the Library of Congress material they claim is evidence.)
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After reading about votescam from yesterday's /., I carefully recorded what sort of machine is used as the ballot box here in Raleigh NC.
Down here, we use a paper ballot in conjunction with a black felt tip marker to cast our votes. The ballot is then fed into a sheet fed scanner called an Optech III-P scanner made by a company called Eagle.
Printed at the bottom of each ballot is the signature of Constance Mitchell, of the Board of Elections.
To cast the ballot, the paper ballot is fed into the Optech III-P and a LED readout counts how many ballots have been cast. It also has a cash register printer incorporated into it, so that it may print out when the vote began being counted, and when it reaches so many votes. The printout paper was remarkably blank.
I intend to find out as much as I can about this ballot box scanner, and if I can, to contact Ms. Mitchell and ask her how the vote is tabulated fairly and securely, so that we have the result at the end of the night. I want to see where the possibilities for votescam lie.
I cast my vote for Harry Browne, and where possible, all other Liberatarians. In the cases of district judges, I had no choice but the two parties, or abstention, so I salt-and-peppered my vote between the two parties for those elections.
I hope other people noted how their vote was recorded and are as concerned as I am that it is all too easy for the election to be determined by something other than our votes.
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I stopped to read the whole contents of the votescam website, which is more than most posters here, who either read only the slashdot summary or the first page that was linked.
They raise some important questions, and encourage us, as voters, to go and find the answers. Who learned in civics (or ELP: Economy, Legal, Politics as it was called in Raleigh NC in 1991) precisely how the votes are counted?
We only know that the votes are tallied, and the results magically announced on the news before bedtime.
IF it isn't a conspiracy, then let's see the votes from beginning to end, from the time they are cast, to the time they are tallied, and verify the tally.
Let's see the source code behind the systems that do the tallying, or have interviews with the people that won't let us see the code. (time for a slashdot interview!)
It may not be a conspiracy but when people start hiding parts of my democracy, I want answers why.
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Are you sure you meant mach 2.5???
all the marketing guff I've found proudly proclaims the use of Mach 3.0 and Bsd 4.4...
I was pretty sure that the last openstep (4.2) relied upon mach 2.5.
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Simple proactive measures can help tip the scales in your favor, that your information won't be picked up by the casual neighbor.
For instance, do your wireless over a technology that uses 128bit encryption (like the mad science labs' upgrade to airport) and then ssh over that already encrypted connection.
No line or connection is one hundred percent secure from attack, even if it's only vulnerable to social real-world hacking.
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