I really don't get it. Why are people so hard for getting the frickin' election results the night of the election? What is the rush? Why not do it the old fashioned way... paper ballots, counted by hand, by a team of old ladies. So we get the results a week after the fact. So what? Again, what is the big rush? I say, chill out, and do it by hand, with paper and pencil.
One more thing. Where are these people from, who authorized computerized voting. Have these people never used a computer before? Have they never lost their work due to a system problem? I can only assume that they don't give a damn about election integrity, and that is telling.
While it may be humorous to some of the immature individuals on this site, a worm to DDoS SCO is a terrible blunder. It just strengthens SCO's arguments that the open source community is made up of troublemakers that need to be stopped.
Oh, for chrissakes, no it doesn't. You must have an unbearably low idea about the intelligence of the decision makers in the business community. Do you SERIOUSLY think they are going to blame the ENTIRE OSS comunity for the actions of a few?
I love arguments like this. It's always, like: "Well _WE_ know better, but the unwashed, idiotic masses in the boardroom, well, they're to fucking stupid to know the difference."
News flash: They don't get the rights to sign off on deals whose value sometimes has a couple of commas in the figures by being that dumb. Give them some credit, and stop thinking you've got the inside track on wisdom.
What incentive do printer manufacturers have to treat their customers like criminals?
Well, let me think. If I were the government, and I wanted printer manufacturers to cripple their wares... what would I do?
I've got it! I'd start a, *ahem* 'rumor' that companies that don't issue crippleware will be audited. Yeah, that's the ticket! Audit the non-patriotic!
If you read the article, it points out on page 3 that shopping malls, while private property, can still be forced to obverse freedom of speech
Yeah yeah yeah. Courts come out with a lot of asenine decisions, don't they? Does not make it right. Those decisions fly right in the face of hundreds of years of jurisprudence and are from the so-called 'activist' courts which are results oriented rather than letter of the law and precedent oriented.
Likewise, a corporation poses many of the same threats now that a government did when the 1A was drafted, leading me to believe that perhaps the government ought to recognize the freedom of speech in a broader fashion- that is, one which recognizes private relationships as well.
Well, the American government DOES recognize private relationships as far as freedom of speech goes. It lays solidly behind the one who owns the press, so to speak. The one who owns the presses has ALL the rights. He can print whatever he wants in his forum, or choose to NOT print whatever he wants. Likewise with the Sims. It's their presses (their servers... same thing). If they don't want to print something (read: if they don't want you to use their forum to spout off in any way they don't like)... well, it's their hardware... their presses, and it is THEIR right... THEIR freedom of speech... that is protected.
First of all, "Freedom of Speech" in America is a loaded phrase.
"Freedom of Speech" is a government thing. It deals with the relationship between people and their government. Likewise "Censorship". Properly used, the political term "censorship" refers to a relationship between a person or persons, and the government.
None of these have to do with the case at hand. This is not a "Freedom of Speech" issue or a "censorship" issue, but something else. This is the relationship between a services provider and a client, and the political concepts of censorship or free speech have nothing to do with it.
Actually, it's "because we can" pass a law, forcing citizens to pay for something with their hard-earned money...money that they might have good use for in this brutal societd (say, medical insurance, or perhaps elder care). Go ahead, do it 'because you can' but don't force me to pay for those neato things.
Taxation is all well and good, only when it prevents a greater evil than the forced transfer of wealth. Taxing people so we can fire people up to Mars does not pass that test.
Well, that's all well and good, and I'm glad you admit it. At least you don't sugar coat it. You don't stand for anything, philosophically, except what is best for you. Nothing new there, and nothing to be ashamed about... most people don't have any real views on anything except what is best for them.
Those Arabs who hate Jews, hate them simply because they are what the Arabs can never be (legitimate sons of Abraham).
/me does a spit take, and passes large quantities of Mountain Dew through my nose, as I LOL.
So THAT'S why they have been willing to blow themselves up, and kill other people, and sustain large numbers of casualties! Because they're not descended from Abraham! Of course! How could I have been so silly! It all makes sense now! Hmmm... I'm not descended from Abraham, too. That's strange... I don't FEEL like atomizing via high explosives in front of a grocery store. How bizarre.
Amazing how their expertise in the one area seemingly doesn't translate.
Expertise? Not in my experience. I had one of their machines cancel a transaction on me, spit out my card but no money, but my account was still debited. My bank found and manually fixed the error a couple of days later.
I don't understand how ANYONE who knows ANYTHING about computers can go for these computer based voting machines. Even the knuckleheads in government who recommended moving over to these machines have GOT to have used a computer at some time in their parasitic existance... and probably Windows at that. Have they never had to re-boot, and lost their work? Have they not experienced for themselves the unreliablity of most computer systems?
Another thing... why are people so hard for getting the results of an election the very same frickin' night? What's the damn rush? Just use paper ballots, hire some old ladies to count 'em up over the span of a week, and relax, knowing that there's a paper trail.
The "spiral of death" could rapidly lead to a further deterioration not just in viewing and advertising support but also in the quality of programming. If broadcasters are taking in fewer revenues because they deliver fewer viewers, they will have less money to invest in programming. Broadcasters' outside promotional costs could rise because they are "fighting for every viewer," he said.
Bullshit. The quality is all on cable. Look at HBO, which is TOTALLY paid for by subscribers, with NO ad income. Free TV is pure junk, and I welcome its death.
I'm looking forward to TV financed by people who are willing to pay for it, rather than paid for by the eyeballs people too dumb to have a DVR or to simple minded do something else while the commercials are on. THEN we'll see quality TV... when they've got to make it so good they need people to actuall open their wallet, rather than stare, slack jawed and drooling, at their commercials.
Of course, you can always try charging a reasonable price and trusting people to be honest.
Oh, how simply adorable! That is just about the sweetest thing I have ever read in my life, I can't stand it! Cuter tan a pile of kittens! I feel like I'm melting in a puddle from the sheer cuteness of that! Thank you, you made my day!
I'm not going to address my post, your post, or anyone's post, just going to say where I'm coming from. I think the Indian's and the Chinese have amazing cultures... I have studied them, learned from them, and am a better man for them.
Their leaders obviously suck... I just found the description of their civilizations as 'developing' highly ridiculous and humorous when I read article, and perhaps my humour needed to have a road-sign attached to it so as to be more clear to those who don't share my sensibilities.
Whaaa? How long is it going to take these nations to develop, anyway? I mean, they've only been civilizations for, um, how many millenium was it last time I checked.
My brothers, it's time to get off your backsides and get cracking! You snooze, you lose!
The idea of the punishment as a deterrent to crime does not work. Why? Because nobody commits a crime thinking that he/she'll get caught.
It deters me, I've got to be honest. Whenever I think of a get rich scheme, the thought of my lilly-white, pasty faced ass in a Federal "pound me in the ass" prison serves as a mighty powerful wake-up call.
Yeah, of course, you're right. The NSA would never be able to crack GM's military grade OnStar security with something as technically advanced as radio waves.
Second, this seems overly paranoid on the safety issue, given that if the FBI is listening in, I'm sure they would be able to hear the person they're tapping scream "Holy FUCK!" before he hits the semi truck. (emphasis mine).
Say WHAT? OMFG. You're SURE the FBI would hear it? What if the FBI guy was out taking a leak. What if the tap was not being listened to live, but was being taped to be listened to at a later date.
As soon as they can figure out a way to do it and still leave you with the service you payed for, they can do it.
It seems we all are so confident that they CAN'T activate and tap into OnStar today. This whole story smells like disinformation to me, distributed to make the bad guys confident enough to speak frankly in their Caddies. "Yo, Joey, dey can't listen in on our business... it says so in USA Today. They couldn't print it if it wasn't so."
The obvious followup is that the days of a human world champion are numbered.
The world chess champion will ALWAYS be a human, not a machine. A fork lift can lift much more than a human, but do we say that forklifts hold the world lifting record? A car can go much faster than a human, but is a car listed in Guinness under the fastest mile? Likewise with chess.
Just because computers are new doesn't make them any more or less a machine than a car or a fork lift, and calling a machine the "world champion" of anything is ludicrous.
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How long will it take LUNIX kids to stop using infantile terms like M$
Never, as long as it continues to piss dweebs like you off.
I really don't get it. Why are people so hard for getting the frickin' election results the night of the election? What is the rush? Why not do it the old fashioned way... paper ballots, counted by hand, by a team of old ladies. So we get the results a week after the fact. So what? Again, what is the big rush? I say, chill out, and do it by hand, with paper and pencil.
One more thing. Where are these people from, who authorized computerized voting. Have these people never used a computer before? Have they never lost their work due to a system problem? I can only assume that they don't give a damn about election integrity, and that is telling.
While it may be humorous to some of the immature individuals on this site, a worm to DDoS SCO is a terrible blunder. It just strengthens SCO's arguments that the open source community is made up of troublemakers that need to be stopped.
Oh, for chrissakes, no it doesn't. You must have an unbearably low idea about the intelligence of the decision makers in the business community. Do you SERIOUSLY think they are going to blame the ENTIRE OSS comunity for the actions of a few?
I love arguments like this. It's always, like: "Well _WE_ know better, but the unwashed, idiotic masses in the boardroom, well, they're to fucking stupid to know the difference."
News flash: They don't get the rights to sign off on deals whose value sometimes has a couple of commas in the figures by being that dumb. Give them some credit, and stop thinking you've got the inside track on wisdom.
What incentive do printer manufacturers have to treat their customers like criminals?
Well, let me think. If I were the government, and I wanted printer manufacturers to cripple their wares... what would I do?
I've got it! I'd start a, *ahem* 'rumor' that companies that don't issue crippleware will be audited. Yeah, that's the ticket! Audit the non-patriotic!
If you read the article, it points out on page 3 that shopping malls, while private property, can still be forced to obverse freedom of speech
Yeah yeah yeah. Courts come out with a lot of asenine decisions, don't they? Does not make it right. Those decisions fly right in the face of hundreds of years of jurisprudence and are from the so-called 'activist' courts which are results oriented rather than letter of the law and precedent oriented.
Likewise, a corporation poses many of the same threats now that a government did when the 1A was drafted, leading me to believe that perhaps the government ought to recognize the freedom of speech in a broader fashion- that is, one which recognizes private relationships as well.
Well, the American government DOES recognize private relationships as far as freedom of speech goes. It lays solidly behind the one who owns the press, so to speak. The one who owns the presses has ALL the rights. He can print whatever he wants in his forum, or choose to NOT print whatever he wants. Likewise with the Sims. It's their presses (their servers... same thing). If they don't want to print something (read: if they don't want you to use their forum to spout off in any way they don't like)... well, it's their hardware... their presses, and it is THEIR right... THEIR freedom of speech... that is protected.
First of all, "Freedom of Speech" in America is a loaded phrase.
"Freedom of Speech" is a government thing. It deals with the relationship between people and their government. Likewise "Censorship". Properly used, the political term "censorship" refers to a relationship between a person or persons, and the government.
None of these have to do with the case at hand. This is not a "Freedom of Speech" issue or a "censorship" issue, but something else. This is the relationship between a services provider and a client, and the political concepts of censorship or free speech have nothing to do with it.
Because we can?
Actually, it's "because we can" pass a law, forcing citizens to pay for something with their hard-earned money...money that they might have good use for in this brutal societd (say, medical insurance, or perhaps elder care). Go ahead, do it 'because you can' but don't force me to pay for those neato things.
Taxation is all well and good, only when it prevents a greater evil than the forced transfer of wealth. Taxing people so we can fire people up to Mars does not pass that test.
It's LOSE, you moron. When did everyone suddenly stop being able to spell that word? It's EASY. Fucking morons.
Silly rabbit... this is Slashdot! In order to be 'leet, u got to spell like a 'dotter. Just follow this easy to use guide:
Use/Instead of
peaks = piques
jive = jibe
allmost = almost
truely = truly
it's = its
loose = lose
useability = usability
rediculous = ridiculous
attemps = attempts
to = too
sence = sense
aggree = agree
habbit = habit
counterfit = counterfeit
Well, that's all well and good, and I'm glad you admit it. At least you don't sugar coat it. You don't stand for anything, philosophically, except what is best for you. Nothing new there, and nothing to be ashamed about... most people don't have any real views on anything except what is best for them.
Those Arabs who hate Jews, hate them simply because they are what the Arabs can never be (legitimate sons of Abraham).
/me does a spit take, and passes large quantities of Mountain Dew through my nose, as I LOL.
So THAT'S why they have been willing to blow themselves up, and kill other people, and sustain large numbers of casualties! Because they're not descended from Abraham! Of course! How could I have been so silly! It all makes sense now! Hmmm... I'm not descended from Abraham, too. That's strange... I don't FEEL like atomizing via high explosives in front of a grocery store. How bizarre.
You mean, like this: (written by someone else)
.$on .$glass;
.$next .$weekend;
#!/usr/local/src/perl4.003/perl
a happy greeting");
time, to, join (@the, flock(with, $relaxed), values %and_have_fun);
connect(with_old, $friends);
rename($myself, $name = "ilyn");
$attend, local($parties);
pack(food, and, games);
wait; for (it) {;};
goto party;
open Door;
send(greetings, to, hosts, guests);
party:
tell stories;
listen(to_stories, at . length);
read(comics, $philosophy, $games);
seek(partners, $for, $fun);
select(with), caution;
each %seeks, %joy;
$consume, pop @and_food;
print $name
$lasers, $shine; while ($batteries) { last;};
time; $to, sleep
sin, perhaps;
$rest,
$till
"Perl looks like an explosion at an ASCII factory" - I forget who said that.
:help the damned.
Here's a fun one. (Forgive me, I've had one too many Jack and Cokes). In VIM, enter
It'll come back with "There is no help for the damned"
Har har har. THat kills me. Time for another drink.
Amazing how their expertise in the one area seemingly doesn't translate.
Expertise? Not in my experience. I had one of their machines cancel a transaction on me, spit out my card but no money, but my account was still debited. My bank found and manually fixed the error a couple of days later.
I don't understand how ANYONE who knows ANYTHING about computers can go for these computer based voting machines. Even the knuckleheads in government who recommended moving over to these machines have GOT to have used a computer at some time in their parasitic existance... and probably Windows at that. Have they never had to re-boot, and lost their work? Have they not experienced for themselves the unreliablity of most computer systems?
Another thing... why are people so hard for getting the results of an election the very same frickin' night? What's the damn rush? Just use paper ballots, hire some old ladies to count 'em up over the span of a week, and relax, knowing that there's a paper trail.
The "spiral of death" could rapidly lead to a further deterioration not just in viewing and advertising support but also in the quality of programming. If broadcasters are taking in fewer revenues because they deliver fewer viewers, they will have less money to invest in programming. Broadcasters' outside promotional costs could rise because they are "fighting for every viewer," he said.
Bullshit. The quality is all on cable. Look at HBO, which is TOTALLY paid for by subscribers, with NO ad income. Free TV is pure junk, and I welcome its death.
I'm looking forward to TV financed by people who are willing to pay for it, rather than paid for by the eyeballs people too dumb to have a DVR or to simple minded do something else while the commercials are on. THEN we'll see quality TV... when they've got to make it so good they need people to actuall open their wallet, rather than stare, slack jawed and drooling, at their commercials.
Of course, you can always try charging a reasonable price and trusting people to be honest.
Oh, how simply adorable! That is just about the sweetest thing I have ever read in my life, I can't stand it! Cuter tan a pile of kittens! I feel like I'm melting in a puddle from the sheer cuteness of that! Thank you, you made my day!
Fair enough, and well put.
I'm not going to address my post, your post, or anyone's post, just going to say where I'm coming from. I think the Indian's and the Chinese have amazing cultures... I have studied them, learned from them, and am a better man for them.
Their leaders obviously suck... I just found the description of their civilizations as 'developing' highly ridiculous and humorous when I read article, and perhaps my humour needed to have a road-sign attached to it so as to be more clear to those who don't share my sensibilities.
I agree with you 100% and appreciate your input.
It was a joke, DUDE! Ay carrumba!
Whereas developing nations, China, India,...
Whaaa? How long is it going to take these nations to develop, anyway? I mean, they've only been civilizations for, um, how many millenium was it last time I checked.
My brothers, it's time to get off your backsides and get cracking! You snooze, you lose!
The idea of the punishment as a deterrent to crime does not work. Why? Because nobody commits a crime thinking that he/she'll get caught.
It deters me, I've got to be honest. Whenever I think of a get rich scheme, the thought of my lilly-white, pasty faced ass in a Federal "pound me in the ass" prison serves as a mighty powerful wake-up call.
Yeah, of course, you're right. The NSA would never be able to crack GM's military grade OnStar security with something as technically advanced as radio waves.
Second, this seems overly paranoid on the safety issue, given that if the FBI is listening in, I'm sure they would be able to hear the person they're tapping scream "Holy FUCK!" before he hits the semi truck. (emphasis mine).
Say WHAT? OMFG. You're SURE the FBI would hear it? What if the FBI guy was out taking a leak. What if the tap was not being listened to live, but was being taped to be listened to at a later date.
As soon as they can figure out a way to do it and still leave you with the service you payed for, they can do it.
It seems we all are so confident that they CAN'T activate and tap into OnStar today. This whole story smells like disinformation to me, distributed to make the bad guys confident enough to speak frankly in their Caddies. "Yo, Joey, dey can't listen in on our business... it says so in USA Today. They couldn't print it if it wasn't so."
People are so gullible it turns my stomach.
The obvious followup is that the days of a human world champion are numbered.
The world chess champion will ALWAYS be a human, not a machine. A fork lift can lift much more than a human, but do we say that forklifts hold the world lifting record? A car can go much faster than a human, but is a car listed in Guinness under the fastest mile? Likewise with chess.
Just because computers are new doesn't make them any more or less a machine than a car or a fork lift, and calling a machine the "world champion" of anything is ludicrous.