I happen to be living in upsate NY, where RoadRunner is the only cable service available. Here's how to connect:
Set up networking for a DHCP session.
For Win98, it really is that easy. I'm assuming it's that easy also for WinXP.
weylin
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What about MOSFETs? As I understand it, there is a channel which is either opened or closed (depending on how it is created). A third state would be neither. In this case, you can either fully shut the channel, fully open the channel, or leave it in a half-open state.
Now, I'm obviously not a EE major (I just happen to know a smidgen from my current job), so i may be WAY off base. But...?
weylin
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I'd like to comment on all of your points.
(1) this article is a marketing ploy (2) removing MS-DOS from XP breaks backward compatibility (3) command line necessary restore to working order (4) stable enough withouit CLI
But i'll handle them out of order.
(2) Removing MS-DOS from XP breaks backward compatibility If you're interested in backward compatibility of DOS-based progranms, then you shouldn't upgrade to XP in the fist place. Successive versions of Windows from 95 on have successively had less DOS-compatuibility then it's predecessor. By now, if I need DOS functionality, I wouldn't upgrade to XP even if it had a CLI. (Actually, if I needed MS-DOS compatibility, I FOR SURE would not have gone past 98, if even that far.)
(3) Command line necessary restore to working order Yeah, I'll agree. Or, you could alternately do what most people do: ctl-alt-del, then reset button if that doesn't work (and then for me, there was one time I had to pull the power cord because even the reset button was frozen). Admitedly, if it's important enough that I don't want to reboot, then a CLI is very necessary. But when I'm in Windows, and it crashes, then I normally won't be able to bring up a CLI anyway, nor would I even be able to fix it should that be possible.
(4) Stable enough withouit CLI From (3): "When I'm in Windows, and it crashes, then I won't be able to bring up a CLI anyway." At this point, the only thing I ever use a Windows CLI for is to use ping to see if my network problems are on my end or my ISP's. (it's usually my ISP's: RoadRunner SUCKS! but that's a different thread....) I LOVE my Linux CLI. It's more than a mere "Command Line Interface," but actually a small, on-the-fly, resizeable interpreter with a scrollable history. But the Windows CLI is so limited that it's not really all that useful for me.
(1) This article is merely a marketing ploy Maybe. The conference and celebrity collection probably was a marketing ploy, but it's hard to say whether the article was or not. Either way, this is interesting, and it's hard to deny that (a) MS-DOS is dead (has been "effectively dead" for a while), and (b) it was very important in its day.
how good is the software at analysing its environment to adjust its walking pattern
This robot design is actually several years old; there have been several slashdot stories on it already. When I was in college taking a class on robotics and computer vision (3 years ago), one of the videos we were shown was this robot in action (it was a demo video). Some of the aspects we were seeing:
- It was finding its way around objects as people moved them, without slowing down
- If it's goal was to get a certin object, and that object was in motion, it could track that object, and follow it around without hitting/tripping over anything
- It could walk up and down a flight of stairs as easily and natural-looking as a human
I think the specific video we were shown was the predecessor to this one. As I understand it, this one has a wireless ethernet connection; the one I saw had a wire attached. However, that only means this one's actually BETTER than the one I saw.
One of the neat things about it is how well they've gotten bipedal locomotion down (translation for the linguistically impaired: "walking on two legs"). The first thing we saw was this thing walking toward us. My first thought was "Why would they show us a video of a guy is a plastic box?" Then it turned sideways. It's thickness (I think it was maybe as think as my outstretched hand) made it impossible to be a human. My next thought was "Wow!!!" They've got the walking thing down good; it looks EXTREMELY natural.
how long will it be before we tune out car horns? I know I still haven't. If you have because city dwellers do, then what have you lost?
however, for anyone else, this can only be an improvement. Although it's hard to not figure out where a car horn is coming from, being directed through the smoke to a safe place away from a fire is a Good Thing(tm), at least in my book.
> And you can't tell me the dark ages were an improvement.
You're right; I'm not gonna say that. My opinion on why the Dark Ages were, well, dark, is a seperate discussion, unrelated to this one.
On the other hand, I don't think that the opinion of a Roman elderly citizen in the pre- Julius Caeser era (I may be wrong, but I think Julius Caeser was around about 80 b.c., which is about 500-600 years before the vandal sacking) had alot to do with the downfall of the Roman Empire.
ok, i see your point based on what I wrote. There were more issues involved than a tea tax (British-appointed governors, stamp and paper taxes, forced quartering of troops, imprisonment without charge or trial, etc.) I think I emphasized the wrong point. Here's that line re-written to more accurately say what I mean; The taxes may have been "unfair", but...
It's just that it makes me cringe whenever I hear people say that we broke off MERELY because of "unfair" taxation.
> It's part of the 'going to hell in a handbasket' problem we've got going in this society.
Bullshit.
For years, people have been saying that things have been going to the dogs. This is not new. You should read some of the Roman documents that we still have. They were complaining about it back then!
let me put it a different way. Think back to Britain, 1776 (please excuse the use of the term "Parlamentarian," I don't know the correct term)....
Parlamentarian #1: "These American colonies, they're driving us nuts! we have to pay to send over troops so that the French and Indians don't burn their homes!"
Parlamentarian #2: "But how are we going to pay for that? Troops are EXPENSIVE!!!!"
Parlamentarian #1: "I know! We'll tax their tea! I'm sure they won't have a problem with a tax on that one luxury item, as long as it means they get to live...."
colonist response: "What?! They're TAXING me?! The Britains are ugly pig-dogs! We fart in your general direction! Go away or I will taunt you some more! REVOLT!"
I think you see my point. Everybody, throughout time, has always looked out for #1, and gone about it in, shall we say, an "inciteful manner." It's a human trait, and not merely a societal one.
Somehow, I don't think that we have de-evolved into a race of mindless primitives since the Roman era. What I think really happened is that when you were younger, you just thought that things were normal, and when you grew up, you lost alot of your immaturity. When you now see this immaturity in kids, you don't reaize that you were the same way, and think that kids are becoming pissants. In reality the kids are still the same, it's YOU that's changed, and probably for the better.
For the record, I'm an American. I think that for us the American Revolt was a Good Thing(tm). It's just that it makes me cringe whenever I hear people say that we broke off because of "unfair" taxation.
i wonder how these things are kept aligned. i would assume that once they are aligned (so as not to create any lines/breaks in the image) that they are kept bolted to the floor. but it didn't look like that in the picture.
how are they making sure that those projectors stay in the right spot?
I've always wondered about this. I've been thinking for a while about a mail program that would handle encryption transparently, and also work with existing mail readers (although without encryption).
here's how my idea works. it uses public key cryptogrophy. after writing the e-mail and sending it:
if you have the public key of the receiving person, encrypt the message with that person's public key.
if you do not have that person's public key, do not encrypt it.
the mail header is seperated from the body by a blank line. add a line to the header that indicates that the header includes your public key. automatically add you public key to the header of EVERY mail (unless you know the other person already has it, or you specifically request not to send it).
when you receive an encrypted e-mail, decrypt it using your private key.
if a received e-mail contains a public key, archive it.
this would work with current e-mail readers, and encrypt e-mail for those that used compatible software.
if the other person is not using compatible software, on receipt of a message it will ignore the key, and be able to read the mesage just fine. any messages you get from him will not be encrypted, and you will be able to read it directly.
if the other person IS using compatible software, then either you have do not have his (her) public key and you sent it plain-text, or you do have his public key and you encrypted it. any messages you get from him (her) will either be encrypted because he has your key, or you will get it plain-text and be able to read it. any message you send to him will have your key, any message you get from him will have his key, and from then on any e-mails will be encrypted.
some disadvantages:
the other person has to have compatible software to make it work, other wise no encryption. but i have never heard of any workarounds for this kind of problem.
if the other person loses his private key (computer crash, etc.) he will never be able to decrypt messages you send him until you resync-keys.
key archives could become rather large. potential problem here....
i've never menbtioned this to my encryption-guru friend, so i don;t know what other holes there are. but the advantages should be obvious, and it should work seamlessly with existing software.
We may want to boycott the RIAA and MPAA, but we don't want to not get their goods.
Admittedly, I have a strong dislike for the practises of these two corporations. I would like for nothing better than the DMCA (and UCITA, for that matter) to get shot, ridden over by a car, and then buried in a ditch, along with whoever voted/lobbied for them. (Note: my argument is geared toward music, but is also applicable to video.)
However, music that I like I still want on CD. I am not willing to log on to napster and download an entire CD (I only get CDs when I like virtualy all the songs on them), then burn it so that I can hear it in my car. The time and effort is just not worth.
In short: for me, a boycott is not a viable alternative.
I want their products. As much as I may dislike the RIAA and MPAA and their business practises, listening to the (RIAA-controlled) radio is not an option.
It's just too much for me.
People that are willing to give up new CDs (or make their own) and are willing to do this have my respect. For me, I have too much other stuff that needs to get done.
Violent media and entertainment is harming our children in ways we can not even imagine. We must get rid of it all, at any cost!
That's right. Those cowboy-western movies? Have you ever seen so many people get shot and killed? It's irrelevant that we grew up to them with, so many fond memories. Gotta get rid of them.
Schoolyard games like Cops and Robbers? We must outlaw fun.
History is replete with violent civilizations and individuals. Take Rome and its gladiators, for example. Surely this has an effect on our children -- who can blame them for wanting to be a gladiator when we teach it to them in our schools? We must stop teaching history!
All those wars and those killings described in the Bible? David vs. Goliath anybody? Wow, even the Bible must go, it's too violent.
Come on, people. Violent media wasn't the problem. If it was, then we would have seen problems like this LONG ago.
this program uses an advanced compression scheme known as "data discharge." Basically, it takes the contents of your file and places them in a special device on your computer, "/dev/null", for later retrievel. since this device is storing the contents of your file, it is not necessary to hold them in your file, and you get a file size of 0.
to uncompress, it copies a suitable amount of data from another device on your computer which is determined to be a uitable amount for your original size. this device, "/dev/zero," will retrieve the contents of your file.
note that you could achieve the same compression results by hand. open the file in any word processor (emacs, for example, although vi and pico all no less acceptable). then, from the first line, press -k together, many times, until you hear a "". that beep is a signla from your computer that you have maximally compressed your file (actually, lzip traps for this event to know when it is done). when you want to uncompress, re-open the file and hold down your "0" key for a little bit, then release the "0" key when you think the file is big enough again.
since this compression scheme is "lossy", having a compression/decompression which isn't EXACTLY the same as the original is OK, as long as it's close enough for the user.
I also have comcast. the advantage that i might have over them is distribution (is that the word for it?)
Cable modems are a shared medium; your connection is shared between yourself and your next 9 neighbors (or something like that). I have no neighbors who have a cable modem, so i have it all to myself. if your dad and neighbor have a few neighbors who all use it, then speed should go down.
i'm paying for about 1 meg of speed, and if i had 9 neighbors, and we all used it at the same time, then we would still all be getting 1 meg of a 10 meg connection. but i'f i'm the only one on-line, then there is no technical reason why i shouldn't get the full bandwidth.
i hope that (1) this helps and (2) i'm not way off base:)
I'm currently living in the Charleston, SC area (although I'm moving in a month). I can attest that Cablemodem speeds, at least in this area, are by no means slow.
I have been watching my download rates for no other reason than to see how fast I'm paying for. what I've noticed is this:
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I have peaked at about 950 kBps (that's in bytes; in bits, it's ~7.6 Mbps).
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Now, I don't consider myself an expert, but nearly maxing out my 10 Mbps NIC does not seem slow. especially since I'm only paying for 1 Mbps....
Admitedly, the biggest weakness in this claim is the method used to test the speed. What I did was install gkrellm, and just watch to see what was the biggest number I could get. I turned out that while I was downloading the glibc source, it hit 958 kilobytes per second, and this is the largest number I have seen.
However, it is normal for me to see download rates in the range of 600-700 kilobyte per second.
hmm. let me get this straight. so the big deal is that you are being seen when you are in public.
so?
ok, i can understand that there is a Big Brother concern in some people minds that they are being watched by camera, and that this may be stored for long term use. what I don't understand is what people are REALLY getting so concerned about. how is this significantly different than having a still picture of you taken (i.e., with a shutter-action camera) when you are on the street (as has been done for years)? What is so bad about it?
do NOT invade my home.
do NOT invade any other parts of my private life.
But when I'm in public, I'm public. If I don't like it, well, tough shit, because I can't reasonably expect to not be seen when I'm at a football stadium.
I remember seeing the entire Cosmos series played straight throough on PBS about a month ago. They were doing it as part of their annual fund-raising event. here's the kicker: one of the things they were offering (for a pledge, of course) was:
the entire series, ALREADY ON DVD.
now, i'm in charleston attending naval nuclear training, so watching tv is a rarity for me:P but, i definately remember seeing these being offered.
they mised one distro -- LinuxFromScratch.
This is a distro sorta like slackware, except you install EVERYTHING from source -- right down to init. It's what I'm running now.
of course, it would be nice if they had an automated compilation, but as it is, i like my system better than redhat.
And, they are working on automating it, but that part isn't even alpha-level yet. Right now it's just an LDP book.
It used to be that the big music companies got all the radio time. Now they get to have direct sales from their radio times. A better example of corporations being able to contrl the opinions of the populace, I have not heard.
There seems to be alot of concern about, well, ALOT of things. From validation, to voting twice, to security. What if we went to touch screen systems?
You go into the booth, you don't need a ballot. You close the curtain behind you, touch the screen with the candidate you want. It shows you the picture of the candidate and REALLY BIG yes/no buttons. Also, maybe even a "back" button to go back and review your picks (or a top-level menu to let you go to any particular race?)
there would seem to be several advantages to this:
1. no significant immediate changes to the current voting system. you still have to go to the voting centers to use the machine.
2. the validation here is still as good or better than what we had before. You have to figure out a way to make sure the person doesn;t vote twice while in the booth, but's that's a relatively trivial issue and easily solved (someone mentioned the use of smartcards....)
3. The problems that were highlighted by the bad ballot in florida go away (with both the confirmation screen and the ability to go back and change any of your votes before you leave).
4. Transiting from this system to an internet-optional system would be relatively trivial compared to what it is now. You'd still have to keep the booths for non-internet users, but this would be a stepping stone towards being able to vote on the internet.
some issues:
How do you record the vote? oh wait, there have been several comments on this one, so I won;t go into it.
Any other problems I'm not thinking of? And please don't mention cost, I understand that's a BIG one, but it's an issue I'm not in any way experienced with and therefor not qalified to discuss (I had a full scholarship through college due to my academic standing in high school and performance in class, and I JUST graduated into grad school with the same thing:-)
just my 10b cents
t14m4t aka Weylin Piegorsch
weylin@no.yahoo.spam.com
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Set up networking for a DHCP session.
For Win98, it really is that easy. I'm assuming it's that easy also for WinXP.
weylin
Now, I'm obviously not a EE major (I just happen to know a smidgen from my current job), so i may be WAY off base. But...?
weylin
(1) this article is a marketing ploy
(2) removing MS-DOS from XP breaks backward compatibility
(3) command line necessary restore to working order
(4) stable enough withouit CLI
But i'll handle them out of order.
(2) Removing MS-DOS from XP breaks backward compatibility
If you're interested in backward compatibility of DOS-based progranms, then you shouldn't upgrade to XP in the fist place. Successive versions of Windows from 95 on have successively had less DOS-compatuibility then it's predecessor. By now, if I need DOS functionality, I wouldn't upgrade to XP even if it had a CLI. (Actually, if I needed MS-DOS compatibility, I FOR SURE would not have gone past 98, if even that far.)
(3) Command line necessary restore to working order
Yeah, I'll agree. Or, you could alternately do what most people do: ctl-alt-del, then reset button if that doesn't work (and then for me, there was one time I had to pull the power cord because even the reset button was frozen). Admitedly, if it's important enough that I don't want to reboot, then a CLI is very necessary. But when I'm in Windows, and it crashes, then I normally won't be able to bring up a CLI anyway, nor would I even be able to fix it should that be possible.
(4) Stable enough withouit CLI
From (3): "When I'm in Windows, and it crashes, then I won't be able to bring up a CLI anyway." At this point, the only thing I ever use a Windows CLI for is to use ping to see if my network problems are on my end or my ISP's. (it's usually my ISP's: RoadRunner SUCKS! but that's a different thread....) I LOVE my Linux CLI. It's more than a mere "Command Line Interface," but actually a small, on-the-fly, resizeable interpreter with a scrollable history. But the Windows CLI is so limited that it's not really all that useful for me.
(1) This article is merely a marketing ploy
Maybe. The conference and celebrity collection probably was a marketing ploy, but it's hard to say whether the article was or not. Either way, this is interesting, and it's hard to deny that (a) MS-DOS is dead (has been "effectively dead" for a while), and (b) it was very important in its day.
weylin
This robot design is actually several years old; there have been several slashdot stories on it already. When I was in college taking a class on robotics and computer vision (3 years ago), one of the videos we were shown was this robot in action (it was a demo video). Some of the aspects we were seeing:
- It was finding its way around objects as people moved them, without slowing down
- If it's goal was to get a certin object, and that object was in motion, it could track that object, and follow it around without hitting/tripping over anything
- It could walk up and down a flight of stairs as easily and natural-looking as a human
I think the specific video we were shown was the predecessor to this one. As I understand it, this one has a wireless ethernet connection; the one I saw had a wire attached. However, that only means this one's actually BETTER than the one I saw.
One of the neat things about it is how well they've gotten bipedal locomotion down (translation for the linguistically impaired: "walking on two legs"). The first thing we saw was this thing walking toward us. My first thought was "Why would they show us a video of a guy is a plastic box?" Then it turned sideways. It's thickness (I think it was maybe as think as my outstretched hand) made it impossible to be a human. My next thought was "Wow!!!" They've got the walking thing down good; it looks EXTREMELY natural.
weylin
I'm only 23 now, so i'm too young to remember back when a 3K disk was big.
but hell, even I remember when a 500 MB hard drive was a huge drive, and cost around $5000.
weylin
and dies from cancer....
sorry, had to say it....
weylin
however, for anyone else, this can only be an improvement. Although it's hard to not figure out where a car horn is coming from, being directed through the smoke to a safe place away from a fire is a Good Thing(tm), at least in my book.
weylin
You're right; I'm not gonna say that. My opinion on why the Dark Ages were, well, dark, is a seperate discussion, unrelated to this one.
On the other hand, I don't think that the opinion of a Roman elderly citizen in the pre- Julius Caeser era (I may be wrong, but I think Julius Caeser was around about 80 b.c., which is about 500-600 years before the vandal sacking) had alot to do with the downfall of the Roman Empire.
weylin
It's just that it makes me cringe whenever I hear people say that we broke off MERELY because of "unfair" taxation.
weylin
Bullshit.
For years, people have been saying that things have been going to the dogs. This is not new. You should read some of the Roman documents that we still have. They were complaining about it back then!
let me put it a different way. Think back to Britain, 1776 (please excuse the use of the term "Parlamentarian," I don't know the correct term)....
I think you see my point. Everybody, throughout time, has always looked out for #1, and gone about it in, shall we say, an "inciteful manner." It's a human trait, and not merely a societal one.
Somehow, I don't think that we have de-evolved into a race of mindless primitives since the Roman era. What I think really happened is that when you were younger, you just thought that things were normal, and when you grew up, you lost alot of your immaturity. When you now see this immaturity in kids, you don't reaize that you were the same way, and think that kids are becoming pissants. In reality the kids are still the same, it's YOU that's changed, and probably for the better.
For the record, I'm an American. I think that for us the American Revolt was a Good Thing(tm). It's just that it makes me cringe whenever I hear people say that we broke off because of "unfair" taxation.
weylin
how are they making sure that those projectors stay in the right spot?
weylin
closed source, open source, shared source.
here's how my idea works. it uses public key cryptogrophy. after writing the e-mail and sending it:
this would work with current e-mail readers, and encrypt e-mail for those that used compatible software.
if the other person is not using compatible software, on receipt of a message it will ignore the key, and be able to read the mesage just fine. any messages you get from him will not be encrypted, and you will be able to read it directly.
if the other person IS using compatible software, then either you have do not have his (her) public key and you sent it plain-text, or you do have his public key and you encrypted it. any messages you get from him (her) will either be encrypted because he has your key, or you will get it plain-text and be able to read it. any message you send to him will have your key, any message you get from him will have his key, and from then on any e-mails will be encrypted.
some disadvantages:
i've never menbtioned this to my encryption-guru friend, so i don;t know what other holes there are. but the advantages should be obvious, and it should work seamlessly with existing software.
any other ideas?
t14m4t
Admittedly, I have a strong dislike for the practises of these two corporations. I would like for nothing better than the DMCA (and UCITA, for that matter) to get shot, ridden over by a car, and then buried in a ditch, along with whoever voted/lobbied for them. (Note: my argument is geared toward music, but is also applicable to video.)
However, music that I like I still want on CD. I am not willing to log on to napster and download an entire CD (I only get CDs when I like virtualy all the songs on them), then burn it so that I can hear it in my car. The time and effort is just not worth.
In short: for me, a boycott is not a viable alternative.
I want their products. As much as I may dislike the RIAA and MPAA and their business practises, listening to the (RIAA-controlled) radio is not an option.
It's just too much for me.
People that are willing to give up new CDs (or make their own) and are willing to do this have my respect. For me, I have too much other stuff that needs to get done.
t14m4t
That's right. Those cowboy-western movies? Have you ever seen so many people get shot and killed? It's irrelevant that we grew up to them with, so many fond memories. Gotta get rid of them.
Schoolyard games like Cops and Robbers? We must outlaw fun.
History is replete with violent civilizations and individuals. Take Rome and its gladiators, for example. Surely this has an effect on our children -- who can blame them for wanting to be a gladiator when we teach it to them in our schools? We must stop teaching history!
All those wars and those killings described in the Bible? David vs. Goliath anybody? Wow, even the Bible must go, it's too violent.
Come on, people. Violent media wasn't the problem. If it was, then we would have seen problems like this LONG ago.
t14m4t
this program uses an advanced compression scheme known as "data discharge." Basically, it takes the contents of your file and places them in a special device on your computer, "/dev/null", for later retrievel. since this device is storing the contents of your file, it is not necessary to hold them in your file, and you get a file size of 0.
to uncompress, it copies a suitable amount of data from another device on your computer which is determined to be a uitable amount for your original size. this device, "/dev/zero," will retrieve the contents of your file.
note that you could achieve the same compression results by hand. open the file in any word processor (emacs, for example, although vi and pico all no less acceptable). then, from the first line, press -k together, many times, until you hear a "". that beep is a signla from your computer that you have maximally compressed your file (actually, lzip traps for this event to know when it is done). when you want to uncompress, re-open the file and hold down your "0" key for a little bit, then release the "0" key when you think the file is big enough again.
since this compression scheme is "lossy", having a compression/decompression which isn't EXACTLY the same as the original is OK, as long as it's close enough for the user.
t14m4t
Cable modems are a shared medium; your connection is shared between yourself and your next 9 neighbors (or something like that). I have no neighbors who have a cable modem, so i have it all to myself. if your dad and neighbor have a few neighbors who all use it, then speed should go down.
i'm paying for about 1 meg of speed, and if i had 9 neighbors, and we all used it at the same time, then we would still all be getting 1 meg of a 10 meg connection. but i'f i'm the only one on-line, then there is no technical reason why i shouldn't get the full bandwidth.
i hope that (1) this helps and (2) i'm not way off base :)
t14m4t
I have been watching my download rates for no other reason than to see how fast I'm paying for. what I've noticed is this:
.
I have peaked at about 950 kBps (that's in bytes; in bits, it's ~7.6 Mbps).
.
Now, I don't consider myself an expert, but nearly maxing out my 10 Mbps NIC does not seem slow. especially since I'm only paying for 1 Mbps....
Admitedly, the biggest weakness in this claim is the method used to test the speed. What I did was install gkrellm, and just watch to see what was the biggest number I could get. I turned out that while I was downloading the glibc source, it hit 958 kilobytes per second, and this is the largest number I have seen.
However, it is normal for me to see download rates in the range of 600-700 kilobyte per second.
t14m4t
so?
ok, i can understand that there is a Big Brother concern in some people minds that they are being watched by camera, and that this may be stored for long term use. what I don't understand is what people are REALLY getting so concerned about. how is this significantly different than having a still picture of you taken (i.e., with a shutter-action camera) when you are on the street (as has been done for years)? What is so bad about it?
do NOT invade my home.
do NOT invade any other parts of my private life.
But when I'm in public, I'm public. If I don't like it, well, tough shit, because I can't reasonably expect to not be seen when I'm at a football stadium.
Weylin Piegorsch
weylin@yahoo.com
the entire series, ALREADY ON DVD.
now, i'm in charleston attending naval nuclear training, so watching tv is a rarity for me :P but, i definately remember seeing these being offered.
anyway, just thought people would want to know.
t14m4t
(BT and The Prodigy are (relatively) mainstream techno for those who don't know.)
tiamat
of course, it would be nice if they had an automated compilation, but as it is, i like my system better than redhat.
And, they are working on automating it, but that part isn't even alpha-level yet. Right now it's just an LDP book.
tiamat
I play pick-3. My numbers are are 32, 24, 32.
tiamat
It used to be that the big music companies got all the radio time. Now they get to have direct sales from their radio times. A better example of corporations being able to contrl the opinions of the populace, I have not heard.
This means that the corporations get to pick what sheeple like, while those of use that are self-thinking MUST relly on shoutcast or other similar non-mainstream systems to be able to pick music on our own.
Let's just say this is one system I won't be using.
t14m4t
There seems to be alot of concern about, well, ALOT of things. From validation, to voting twice, to security. What if we went to touch screen systems?
You go into the booth, you don't need a ballot. You close the curtain behind you, touch the screen with the candidate you want. It shows you the picture of the candidate and REALLY BIG yes/no buttons. Also, maybe even a "back" button to go back and review your picks (or a top-level menu to let you go to any particular race?)
there would seem to be several advantages to this:
1. no significant immediate changes to the current voting system. you still have to go to the voting centers to use the machine.
2. the validation here is still as good or better than what we had before. You have to figure out a way to make sure the person doesn;t vote twice while in the booth, but's that's a relatively trivial issue and easily solved (someone mentioned the use of smartcards....)
3. The problems that were highlighted by the bad ballot in florida go away (with both the confirmation screen and the ability to go back and change any of your votes before you leave).
4. Transiting from this system to an internet-optional system would be relatively trivial compared to what it is now. You'd still have to keep the booths for non-internet users, but this would be a stepping stone towards being able to vote on the internet.
some issues:
How do you record the vote? oh wait, there have been several comments on this one, so I won;t go into it.
Any other problems I'm not thinking of? And please don't mention cost, I understand that's a BIG one, but it's an issue I'm not in any way experienced with and therefor not qalified to discuss (I had a full scholarship through college due to my academic standing in high school and performance in class, and I JUST graduated into grad school with the same thing :-)
just my 10b cents t14m4t aka Weylin Piegorsch
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