No, I'm not saying that at all. Consider this hypothetical situation.
What if the government were to pay for special employees whose job it was to go to the homes of rich retired men (but not women) and ask them for their votes. This sounds very undemocratic while making it easier for a certain segment to vote. Unless there was some kind of female backlash to counteract this policy (backlashes and protests being a whole different kind of evil), these rich old men would end up with a larger share of the vote.
It is undemocratic to make a special effort for certain segments of the population while not making a similar effort for others. Other issues notwithstanding, perhaps Internet voting would make sense if there were simultaneous outreach programs to those who aren't connected.
You just said what's hard about voting - "You go to your local polling station." Some days, I don't even want to get out of bed.:) With Internet voting, you can vote in your pajamas.
I heard an excellent argument against Internet voting on NPR yesterday. Because Internet voting makes it easier to vote, more people will probably vote. Because Internet users are generally wealthier, this means an even more disproportionate number of wealthy people will have a larger share of the vote. So it's kind of undemocratic to make voting easier for some people than others.
Mandrake's put a beta version of their Lnx4Win in the 6.1 distribution. This also lets you install Linux without repartitioning, but it doesn't use UMSDOS. Instead, it makes a Linux image file (of a restrictable size) and runs an ext2 filesystem off of it. You boot up with loadlin. Apparently, there's a little bit of a performance hit, but it sounds pretty good.
Yeah. I did it in Windows with EasyCD. You can just double-click on the.iso, and it knows what to do. The CD will only boot, though, if you enable CD-booting in the BIOS.
This was the most heart-rending headline I've read on Slashdot since Microsoft bought a big stake in Inprise. I can't believe dear old Kermit is a proponent of a form of censorship. Jim Henson struck me as someone interested in breaking down cultural barriers and endorsing new ways of looking at things.
I'd hate to see the Muppet Movie blocked for little children just because Rowlf says he "has a couple of beers, takes himself for a walk, and goes to bed," or that Doc Hopper wants to eat Kermit's legs.
Maybe that only shows up if you're root. Then it really is your computer. If you're going to be changing system settings and adding users and stuff, I don't see too much of a problem with "My Computer."
The one drawback is that this familiarity may lead everyone to log in as root.:)
I just received this in my inbox (bcc). Subject: interview for Wired News
Hi--I'm a reporter from Wired News working on an article about RedHat's offer to sell shares at the IPO price to members of the open source community. Judging by the thread and poll on slashdot, and some e-mails I've gotten, there's some concern about getting access to the offer.
If you have a minute, I'd like to talk to you about this. I can be reached at 415-276-8472, or e-mail me with a number to reach you at.
Because the people who are "making money for you" are also trying to make money for themselves. They have a vested interest in getting you to invest in funds their companies manage as well as stocks that their companies hold.
One problem I see with this is that it's not very defensible. It's (relatively) easy to keep enemy nations from entering local airspace. It seems pretty easy, however, for a rogue nation to shoot a missle at our panels in the sky to cut off our power if we were ever to rely on this in a great way. Interception of something like that seems pretty tough.
I use this card in Win98 and Linux, and the Windows driver support is terrible! I'm using their beta OpenGL driver, and it's barely functional, rendering this 3D card pretty useless for a lot of games. I wrote to #9 about it, and they said that there were no plans to update this driver.
I don't recommend this card if you ever plan to use it with Windows. (Linux works well, though.)
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It would also be very nice to have a category for moderation adjustment. Sometimes, a moderator might feel it appropriate to moderate a 5 down to a 4 or a 2 up to a 3. An article that gets 5 status may look less and less like a 5 as time goes on. The reason for moderation downward shouldn't be "flamebait" or "offtopic," but rather something like "moderation tweak."
He thought everyone should get Pentium III's because they'll make your Internet faster. I worry about people trying Linux and complaining about the tough install when they've never installed a Microsoft OS.
(I would say Linux is harder when just installing a desktop client kind of setup, but comparison should precede criticism.)
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Moderate this up! TMBG's been supporting MP3 models for years!
This is still far better than today's flash memory, which can only remain usable through hundreds of thousands to millions of writes.
If this stuff has more writes than flash and is faster than flash, then it has great potential as a successor to flash.
No, I'm not saying that at all. Consider this hypothetical situation.
What if the government were to pay for special employees whose job it was to go to the homes of rich retired men (but not women) and ask them for their votes. This sounds very undemocratic while making it easier for a certain segment to vote. Unless there was some kind of female backlash to counteract this policy (backlashes and protests being a whole different kind of evil), these rich old men would end up with a larger share of the vote.
It is undemocratic to make a special effort for certain segments of the population while not making a similar effort for others. Other issues notwithstanding, perhaps Internet voting would make sense if there were simultaneous outreach programs to those who aren't connected.
You just said what's hard about voting - "You go to your local polling station." Some days, I don't even want to get out of bed. :) With Internet voting, you can vote in your pajamas.
I heard an excellent argument against Internet voting on NPR yesterday. Because Internet voting makes it easier to vote, more people will probably vote. Because Internet users are generally wealthier, this means an even more disproportionate number of wealthy people will have a larger share of the vote. So it's kind of undemocratic to make voting easier for some people than others.
The most clever set I've seen were in a workstation cluster at Carnegie-Mellon. Here's (approximately) how they went:
Hurricane
Tornado
Earthquake
Tsunami
Avalanche
Plague
Landslide
Mankind
Mandrake's put a beta version of their Lnx4Win in the 6.1 distribution. This also lets you install Linux without repartitioning, but it doesn't use UMSDOS. Instead, it makes a Linux image file (of a restrictable size) and runs an ext2 filesystem off of it. You boot up with loadlin. Apparently, there's a little bit of a performance hit, but it sounds pretty good.
Yeah. I did it in Windows with EasyCD. You can just double-click on the .iso, and it knows what to do. The CD will only boot, though, if you enable CD-booting in the BIOS.
This was the most heart-rending headline I've read on Slashdot since Microsoft bought a big stake in Inprise. I can't believe dear old Kermit is a proponent of a form of censorship. Jim Henson struck me as someone interested in breaking down cultural barriers and endorsing new ways of looking at things.
I'd hate to see the Muppet Movie blocked for little children just because Rowlf says he "has a couple of beers, takes himself for a walk, and goes to bed," or that Doc Hopper wants to eat Kermit's legs.
i use caps lock when programming in assembler.
Maybe that only shows up if you're root. Then it really is your computer. If you're going to be changing system settings and adding users and stuff, I don't see too much of a problem with "My Computer."
:)
The one drawback is that this familiarity may lead everyone to log in as root.
I noticed on Corel's web site that they're looking for WINE developers. I wonder if this will speed up that effort a significant amount.
That was a joke.
I just received this in my inbox (bcc).
Subject: interview for Wired News
Hi--I'm a reporter from Wired News working on an article about RedHat's
offer to sell shares at the IPO price to members of the open source
community. Judging by the thread and poll on slashdot, and some e-mails
I've gotten, there's some concern about getting access to the offer.
If you have a minute, I'd like to talk to you about this. I can be reached
at 415-276-8472, or e-mail me with a number to reach you at.
Thanks,
Polly Sprenger
Wired News
Because the people who are "making money for you" are also trying to make money for themselves. They have a vested interest in getting you to invest in funds their companies manage as well as stocks that their companies hold.
Or just type Meta-x spook at the bottom of everything you write in Emacs.
Because AIM and ICQ let you see when friends are logged on. I suppose you could run talk and a finger daemon, but finger is evil.
This makes me worry that our first consumer-friendly robots are going to be like Marvin, the Paranoid Android.
One problem I see with this is that it's not very defensible. It's (relatively) easy to keep enemy nations from entering local airspace. It seems pretty easy, however, for a rogue nation to shoot a missle at our panels in the sky to cut off our power if we were ever to rely on this in a great way. Interception of something like that seems pretty tough.
I'm in central Jersey, and my cable modem's had one brief outage over the past three months.
If you use the frame buffer console, then the console's fine when you leave X. Just don't Alt-Function Key switch while an X display is running.
I use this card in Win98 and Linux, and the Windows driver support is terrible! I'm using their beta OpenGL driver, and it's barely functional, rendering this 3D card pretty useless for a lot of games. I wrote to #9 about it, and they said that there were no plans to update this driver.
I don't recommend this card if you ever plan to use it with Windows. (Linux works well, though.)
It would also be very nice to have a category for moderation adjustment. Sometimes, a moderator might feel it appropriate to moderate a 5 down to a 4 or a 2 up to a 3. An article that gets 5 status may look less and less like a 5 as time goes on. The reason for moderation downward shouldn't be "flamebait" or "offtopic," but rather something like "moderation tweak."
He thought everyone should get Pentium III's because they'll make your Internet faster. I worry about people trying Linux and complaining about the tough install when they've never installed a Microsoft OS.
(I would say Linux is harder when just installing a desktop client kind of setup, but comparison should precede criticism.)
Shouldn't Neal Stephenson have his own Slashdot icon by now? :)