The Sequoia Eagle system used in many cities, including San Francisco, automatically rejects overvoted and spoiled ballots. The ballots themselves are very simple to fill out - you complete a black arrow pointing at the candidate's name using a Sharpie or other pen.
The same ballots are used for in-person and mail-in ballots.
It certainly wouldn't "effectively control access to a protected work," if that's what you mean. Heck, even CDs have a "no copy" bit, which is universally ignored.
The flip side is the experience with DAT. DAT has a no-copy bit that is honored by most "consumer" DAT devices. And nobody uses it.
Frankly, I'm happy to have this result with DTV too. Fuck 'em.
It's certainly NOT illegal to burn-rip AAC to MP3 (or unprotected AAC). To burn is ok by iTunes rules, and to rip is of course ok. Of course you will lose sound quality if converting to MP3. You're drinking too much RIAA kool-aid.
You are assuming one floppy per Jetta in this case. (look closely at your math.) As a Jetta owner I can assure you the cargo capacity is better than that.
Dividing 95,797,591m^3 of floppies by 0.368119m^3 per Jetta, the requirement is 260,235,389 Jettas to transport them all there. Or one Jetta, preferably one more reliable than my old thing, 260,235,389 times.
(Is the cargo capacity really that little? I would think it's over a cubic meter. Maybe they reduced the capacity in newer models.)
Dude. Even evil Diebold professional election riggers can have a sense of humor if they want to.
Seriously, can anything *good* actually come out of that little injection of snarky personality into some permanently archived business memo?
The reader will think you're a human being? It's a hell of a lot better than those stupid, useless disclaimers that people include because they're too dumb to realize they're useless.
Also, TRUE God loving Americans would absoltely love to see that filthy, degrading website taken down because of the damage it causes to children who go there on accident.
I feel the same way about whitehouse.gov. Couldn't have said it better myself.
This feature was in Windows 3.1. Then it was supplied to Mac users by Microsoft as part of Microsoft Office Manager (remember that? Damn useful utility, worked great for OS 7-8 and then didn't work well for at least my last versions of OS 9).
To suggest that these guys came up with something unique makes no sense at all. (Unless you're so anti-Microsoft that you never used Office for Mac, which not too many Mac fans were in the OS 7-8-9 days.)
It's more than a $64,000 question. It's more like a $64M question. Many thousands or even millions of users depend on these tools, and they don't have reliable backups?! No wonder people refuse to say GNU before everything and think RMS is a nutjob.
If I were a Microsoft or Sun PR guy, I would be using this for anti-free software FUD immediately. "Sure you can get the source.. if it's not compromised on the server. Can your ENTERPRISE stake its MISSION CRITICAL BUSINESS on such a weak base?"
If you win, there will be a recall every year from now on, as the Demos won't take this lying down. Are you prepared to spend all your time fighting recalls instead of running the state?
These are the guys who lied about their dropout rates, and whose former superintendent is now the U.S. Secretary of Education. So you can see why they are now using any method they can find to cover their asses.
Of course they didn't promise it, but it sure would be nice if they made it happen. I'm not planning to upgrade in any case, but I'd gladly pay $10 for this functionality. Any hackers want to try it?
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The same ballots are used for in-person and mail-in ballots.
Many SF voters mail in their ballots, which makes it easier with optical scan as they can all be processed immediately after the polls close.
I have heard rumors that SF wants to switch to touch screen, but if they propose this I'll lobby against it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
keep the Tivo, or switch to a free version.
use GNU Radio. (Ha, as if that will be user friendly in any way. still, I like the concept.)
DIVX died. DAT died. DTV will be next.
The flip side is the experience with DAT. DAT has a no-copy bit that is honored by most "consumer" DAT devices. And nobody uses it.
Frankly, I'm happy to have this result with DTV too. Fuck 'em.
Did you see the smileys instead of Friend/Fan? weird.
Which is why I haven't used iTMS, and probably won't.
Good idea on CD-RW, btw, from the other poster.
Maybe being a pornographer gets you laid? Just a thought.
Is that why Unix geeks don't shave?
Dividing 95,797,591m^3 of floppies by 0.368119m^3 per Jetta, the requirement is 260,235,389 Jettas to transport them all there. Or one Jetta, preferably one more reliable than my old thing, 260,235,389 times.
(Is the cargo capacity really that little? I would think it's over a cubic meter. Maybe they reduced the capacity in newer models.)
It's established history. If you don't know this, you're not paying attention.
Seriously, can anything *good* actually come out of that little injection of snarky personality into some permanently archived business memo?
The reader will think you're a human being? It's a hell of a lot better than those stupid, useless disclaimers that people include because they're too dumb to realize they're useless.
But if these data were recorded on floppies, and stacked up to the moon n times, how many VWs would it take to carry those floppies to the stack site?
I feel the same way about whitehouse.gov. Couldn't have said it better myself.
whitehouse.com doesn't have that problem.
To suggest that these guys came up with something unique makes no sense at all. (Unless you're so anti-Microsoft that you never used Office for Mac, which not too many Mac fans were in the OS 7-8-9 days.)
Nobody gives a shit what the Scientologists actually think (well, almost nobody), but it's fun to stifle their attempts to keep the secret.
If I were a Microsoft or Sun PR guy, I would be using this for anti-free software FUD immediately. "Sure you can get the source .. if it's not compromised on the server. Can your ENTERPRISE stake its MISSION CRITICAL BUSINESS on such a weak base?"
If you win, there will be a recall every year from now on, as the Demos won't take this lying down. Are you prepared to spend all your time fighting recalls instead of running the state?
Bad news = pageviews.
Good news = big snooze.
Part of the "blogosphere," whatever the fuck that is. Sounds to me like something you use Liquid-Plumr to dissolve.
Yes. You know there's a problem when the slashdot story has as many icons as the company has customers.
These are the guys who lied about their dropout rates, and whose former superintendent is now the U.S. Secretary of Education. So you can see why they are now using any method they can find to cover their asses.
Of course they didn't promise it, but it sure would be nice if they made it happen. I'm not planning to upgrade in any case, but I'd gladly pay $10 for this functionality. Any hackers want to try it?