We have an election offical at each polling location (I forget the title) who has among other things the responsibility to help anyone who needs help voting. They swear an oath to respect the privacy of those votes and not to try to influence those votes in any way.
sorry, i shouldn't have said 'the rest of the country'. It's just BC that gives a $1000 provinical sales tax rebate and an article i read somewhere sometime (how's that for a reference?) seemed to imply that other provinces had a $1000 rebate aswell. my bad.
no. you can't say the same thing for windows. IIS is a major source of security holes. There have been many major worms that exploited vulnerabilities directly in the IIS server software. Windows itself has a pretty bad track record too. one of the latest worms uses a windows RPC security hole to spread.
linux+apache is waaay more secure than windows+IIS
elevator designers should be ashamed of themselves. Seriously, how hard can it be to design a system so that you can lower the elevator to the nearest floor and pop the doors open? why would you even need power for that?
CPUs still aren't fast enough for me. maybe I'm not representative of 'most users'
at work I do video processing and at home i play games and encode DVDs to mpeg4. Even 2.4ghz cpus take hours to encode entire movies... I can get a little better than realtime encoding to mpeg4, but when you add two-pass, and the fact that the videos are so damn long... I wish i could get a terahertz CPU...
you try running a 2 pass encode on a 6 hour 720x480 DV video file and then tell me your CPU is fast enough.
it always makes me chuckle when people say that 'this or that' part of the PC is as fast as it needs to be. There all sorts of things we can't do because our systems aren't nearly fast enough.
1. the voting machine should create 3 copies of every vote. Paper, which the voter then drops in a traditional box. 2 electronic copies, one goes to the database controlled by the election organisation, the other goes to the database controlled by the independant organisation (like the bbc, or some NGO perhaps)
step one: Establish a bureaucracy to preside over the language. step two: Wait while the rest of the world adds words to their languages at double or triple your rate. step three: Learn english or mandarin or something.
on second thougt.... I would have said the same thing about a system that stores votes on a single machine.... no. damn it. i was right the first time. j'accuse! the designers of that voting system must have intended for it to be tampered with.
bah. no honest person would make a decision to use IE and win98 for voting.
I'm sorry, but noone is that stupid. If somebody actually does make that decision there can be no doubt that they are trying to facilitate election fraud. There can be no doubt.
Debian -> testing for all my workstations and my video encoder machines.
Debian -> unstable for MY workstation and home machine because i'm adventurous.
My few encounters with redhat have all been quite unpleasant. I can't believe people actually use redhat for servers... that just seems wrong to me. The very first thing I do when we order a new colocated server is to log in via ssh, install debian and a custom kernel then reboot. Call me crazy but i don't think a server should have X and all the related gui apps installed at all.
They are listening to signals picked up outside the US. US spy agencies have no restrictions on passive (as in just listening) activies outside the US. A Saudi national living in a cave on the Pakistan/Afghanistan borders has no rights in the US. That changes when he enters the country
That's the way it was supposed to work. Perhaps it actually did work that way at some time. The fact is though that today you have to be a US citizen to get any rights, simply being on US land doesn't get you any rights.
Non-citizens can and do disappear in the USA. At least they eventually show up again unlike some other in nations...
Not long ago our Pot law got struck down by the courts because it unlawfully restricted medical pot users from procuring their meds.
Thus there is currently no law in canada that makes posessing/smoking pot illegal! yipee!
In fact there have now been several pot possesion cases thrown out of court because of this!!!
So, until this new law comes into effect pot is actually legal here.
If you don't believe me here's a link to one our our most reputable newspapers:
Judge strikes down pot law
culture schmulture. People aren't attacking the USA because they hate the GAP. For christ/allah's sake, that's ridiculous. Don't you think it's more likely to be about the US soldiers who've been deployed in these arab countries for years to protect US oil supplies???... i mean heck, that IS what those saudi arabian terrorists said they were upset about... You the ones... they flew those planes into the world trade centre..
Quite right, won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!
They should legislate that all children under 12 must be on a leash at all times, and they should wear burkas so they can't be seen by child molesters, they must also wear muzzles so they don't accidentally reveal any information to strangers and of course their hands should be tied behind their backs so they can't accidentally touch anything dangerous.
Of course just in case any of those measures fail we really should track and censor all access to Audio/Video/Text information on the Internet and in the libraries.
Any information about sex, 'weird' religions (like budhism, islam, etc..), or anything unpatriotic should be expunged from our libraries and information networks. Violators should be stripped of their citizenship and exiled.
Ugh, that licensing sucks.. If I could find a good source of public domain audio books I'd host them for free.
btw, how much bandwidth do you need for your booksonmp3.com paid stuff? 10's of gigs, 100's of gigs? different methods of paying for service have different sweet spots.. and of course there's more to it than just gigs/month. The company I work for does some audio hosting so I know a little about it. email me
I still remember all the programs all over the internet you could use to grab NetWare passwords, so its not like MS was the only one with holes.
netware, ha! Netware doesn't count, it was intentionally built to be hackable so the CIA could spy on the europeans et al.... sound like a conspiracy theory doesn't it?... the real world is a scary place.
uh... buy open source programmers $10,000 hammers and $50,000 toilet seats?
don't you mean buy OSS programmers $800 celeron workstations and then list them on the books as costing $10000 so you can spend the rest on black-ops and more carnivore machines...
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I patch all my companies and clients systems minutes to hours after I recieve the notification of a patch.
Of course I run Debian GNU/Linux everywhere so I don't have to worry about silly things like rebooting to apply a security patch to an email server.
We have an election offical at each polling location (I forget the title) who has among other things the responsibility to help anyone who needs help voting. They swear an oath to respect the privacy of those votes and not to try to influence those votes in any way.
sorry, i shouldn't have said 'the rest of the country'.
It's just BC that gives a $1000 provinical sales tax rebate and an article i read somewhere sometime (how's that for a reference?) seemed to imply that other provinces had a $1000 rebate aswell.
my bad.
Canadian prices:
Honda Insight = $26,000
Honda Civic hybrid = $28,500 (approx)
Plus if you're in ontario there's a $2000 sales tax rebate for hybrids.
The rest of the country get's a $1000 rebate.
no. you can't say the same thing for windows.
IIS is a major source of security holes. There have been many major worms that exploited vulnerabilities directly in the IIS server software.
Windows itself has a pretty bad track record too. one of the latest worms uses a windows RPC security hole to spread.
linux+apache is waaay more secure than windows+IIS
apt distributes source as well as binary!
replace
apt-get install whatever
with
apt-get source whatever
if you really want to compile it yourself.
elevator designers should be ashamed of themselves.
Seriously, how hard can it be to design a system so that you can lower the elevator to the nearest floor and pop the doors open?
why would you even need power for that?
CPUs still aren't fast enough for me.
maybe I'm not representative of 'most users'
at work I do video processing and at home i play games and encode DVDs to mpeg4.
Even 2.4ghz cpus take hours to encode entire movies... I can get a little better than realtime encoding to mpeg4, but when you add two-pass, and the fact that the videos are so damn long... I wish i could get a terahertz CPU...
you try running a 2 pass encode on a 6 hour 720x480 DV video file and then tell me your CPU is fast enough.
it always makes me chuckle when people say that 'this or that' part of the PC is as fast as it needs to be.
There all sorts of things we can't do because our systems aren't nearly fast enough.
more suggestions:
1. the voting machine should create 3 copies of every vote.
Paper, which the voter then drops in a traditional box.
2 electronic copies, one goes to the database controlled by the election organisation, the other goes to the database controlled by the independant organisation (like the bbc, or some NGO perhaps)
step one: Establish a bureaucracy to preside over the language.
step two: Wait while the rest of the world adds words to their languages at double or triple your rate.
step three: Learn english or mandarin or something.
that would make sence if the tables were in different places. But if they're in the same Access database that explanation doesn't work.
on second thougt.... ...
I would have said the same thing about a system that stores votes on a single machine.
no. damn it. i was right the first time. j'accuse! the designers of that voting system must have intended for it to be tampered with.
bah. no honest person would make a decision to use IE and win98 for voting.
I'm sorry, but noone is that stupid. If somebody actually does make that decision there can be no doubt that they are trying to facilitate election fraud. There can be no doubt.
you're clearly not too familiar with the wonders of apt.
;)
All you'de have to do is apt-get install light-switch-client and it would get any libs it needed.
Debian -> Stable for all my servers.
Debian -> testing for all my workstations and my video encoder machines.
Debian -> unstable for MY workstation and home machine because i'm adventurous.
My few encounters with redhat have all been quite unpleasant.
I can't believe people actually use redhat for servers... that just seems wrong to me. The very first thing I do when we order a new colocated server is to log in via ssh, install debian and a custom kernel then reboot.
Call me crazy but i don't think a server should have X and all the related gui apps installed at all.
i sumbitted a comment on your page about mirroring for you.
your images are here:
http://207.44.248.45/mirror/
this is yet another example of why credit card companies blow goats. Do they have no concept of security?
fucking pathetic. security by insurance is not security at all.
They are listening to signals picked up outside the US. US spy agencies have no restrictions on passive (as in just listening) activies outside the US. A Saudi national living in a cave on the Pakistan/Afghanistan borders has no rights in the US. That changes when he enters the country
That's the way it was supposed to work. Perhaps it actually did work that way at some time.
The fact is though that today you have to be a US citizen to get any rights, simply being on US land doesn't get you any rights.
Non-citizens can and do disappear in the USA. At least they eventually show up again unlike some other in nations...
Thus there is currently no law in canada that makes posessing/smoking pot illegal! yipee! In fact there have now been several pot possesion cases thrown out of court because of this!!!
So, until this new law comes into effect pot is actually legal here. If you don't believe me here's a link to one our our most reputable newspapers: Judge strikes down pot law
culture schmulture. ... i mean heck, that IS what those saudi arabian terrorists said they were upset about...
People aren't attacking the USA because they hate the GAP. For christ/allah's sake, that's ridiculous.
Don't you think it's more likely to be about the US soldiers who've been deployed in these arab countries for years to protect US oil supplies???
You the ones... they flew those planes into the world trade centre..
ya, good idea...
too bad that jealusy argument is just the propoganda not reality.
Quite right, won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!
They should legislate that all children under 12 must be on a leash at all times, and they should wear burkas so they can't be seen by child molesters, they must also wear muzzles so they don't accidentally reveal any information to strangers and of course their hands should be tied behind their backs so they can't accidentally touch anything dangerous.
Of course just in case any of those measures fail we really should track and censor all access to Audio/Video/Text information on the Internet and in the libraries.
Any information about sex, 'weird' religions (like budhism, islam, etc..), or anything unpatriotic should be expunged from our libraries and information networks. Violators should be stripped of their citizenship and exiled.
Ugh, that licensing sucks.. If I could find a good source of public domain audio books I'd host them for free.
btw, how much bandwidth do you need for your booksonmp3.com paid stuff? 10's of gigs, 100's of gigs? different methods of paying for service have different sweet spots.. and of course there's more to it than just gigs/month.
The company I work for does some audio hosting so I know a little about it. email me
netware, ha!
Netware doesn't count, it was intentionally built to be hackable so the CIA could spy on the europeans et al.
don't you mean buy OSS programmers $800 celeron workstations and then list them on the books as costing $10000 so you can spend the rest on black-ops and more carnivore machines...