Voter fraud with paper ballots traditionally occurs as a ballot box is being transported from where the votes were cast to where they will be counted, by simply substituting a different box along the way. On a small scale (say a county election), this sort of tampering is easier than electronic vote fraud because it's low tech: all you need is a few dishonest people in the right places.
As an aside, this was used as a plot point in this season's Battlestar Galactica finale, aired just a couple of weeks ago.
Great, the article itself is redirecting its Coral Cache URL. Those of us behind draconian firewalls that block odd ports would be out of luck if not for Mirrordot's cache.
Suggestion: Build it laying down. A ramp instead of a tower. A 242 km ramp, curving up towards some mountains and a "final bit" that's like your proposed tower clearing the main atmosphere.
The curving bit sounds a little troublesome. Converting horizontal velocity to vertical velocity requires a force. If that's provided by the curving tube, then the tube, capsule, and their interface would have to be able to support much more force than just launching vertically to start with. Any additional reinforcement on the capsule takes away from payload.
All this mess reminds me of when I installed a brand-spanking new copy of McAfee VirusScan 2002 on a machine that had Outlook Express. After a few days of using the two together, some pattern in the mailbox files must have triggered VirusScan, and it deleted all the mailbox files. To test this, I left it in this configuration a while longer and it happened again. That was the point I left McAfee for Norton.
It sounds like their testing is still questionable.
This is basically an argument against companies going public, isn't it?
How is "Companies are now beholden ONLY to their owners" fundamentally different between a public and private company? As long as there's nothing illegal being committed, can't a company do things based on what its owners want?
Granted, "the customer is always right" is generally sound advice if you want to keep your customers, but it's not a requirement.
And if another intelligent race n lightyears away is wondering what in the hell you did doing exactly n years ago, why that's a real screwup. Bonus points for getting noticed in another galaxy.
Some people feel that "forward" evolution has stopped. It's messy to define "forward", and messier to figure out if it has stopped.
It's still survival of the fittest, it's just that we're selecting for different types of fitness than hunting/gathering/evading.
Besides, considering the speeds evolution would make changes and the current pace of technological innovation, changes to our species would now seem entirely dominated by the latter anyway.
I'd spend 10 minutes trying to explain to the person on the end of the phone that I'd had problems, I'd figured out what they were and how to solve them, and that this information could be useful to them.
This is usually where I usually try to post to a newsgroup, forum, or blog related to this topic. At least if the information is made available, someone might be able to Google it. If I can't resolve something myself, that's usually the first place I look.
I suspect most slashdotters are in the same boat, where if you've reached the stage of needing someone else's help, you're already beyond the first or second stages of triage that consumer-facing vendor support lines provide.
I just got rid of two Cingular nee AT&T Wireless GSM phones that did the same. Nearly any kind of loudspeaker would go nuts when they were in the room and interacting with the network, particularly our baby monitor. It was an obvious digital signal with almost a galloping sound.
Thankfully, I haven't noticed anything with the Verizon CDMA phones we switched to recently. It's probably something about the 800-900 MHz frequencies that Nextel and American GSM operate on, though I'm not an electrical engineer.
See the problem is, you can develop 20 different types of medicine to combat different types of bacteria / germs / viruses but they will simply continue to evolve.
I would hate being killed by one of these. However, that would remove an individual with hypothetically inferior genes from the population, increasing the chances that Homo sapiens as a species would evolve to resist those germs.
As individuals, though, we don't think about the species, just about us and those we care about. Bring on the new, stronger antibiotics!
In Hexen, I just stayed behind a pillar and fired at the boss between shots, like a wild west movie. Wasn't really fun but I nailed him in the end. Very n00b I know, but I got the job done.
I don't grasp why using real-world combat tactics which work very well at keeping you alive are considered "n00b" in FPS combat games.
Hmmm, but my machine is a linux machine! [...] Hmmmm, but my machine is a linux machine! [...] Fortunately I had a dual-boot, so I was able to comply.
Yeah, weird that they might want a machine running Windows XP to be updated. You might have Linux on the machine, but you also had Windows XP, and it sounds like it was missing security patches.
And, for the record, my assigned work had no specific XP requirement, and my responsibilities were heavily around Unix.
And you apparently had a machine with Windows XP missing some (possibly significant) security patches sitting on their network.
I fail to see how this was stupid of the network admins. Draconian maybe, but it got you to apply the security patches.
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Voter fraud with paper ballots traditionally occurs as a ballot box is being transported from where the votes were cast to where they will be counted, by simply substituting a different box along the way. On a small scale (say a county election), this sort of tampering is easier than electronic vote fraud because it's low tech: all you need is a few dishonest people in the right places.
As an aside, this was used as a plot point in this season's Battlestar Galactica finale, aired just a couple of weeks ago.
What you're asking is not stupid, but where you're asking it might be.
Professor Farnsworth: That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Step one: Shave Shrodinger's cat with Occam's razor...
Feline waveforms should not be collapsed beyond necessity.
This can be rephrased into a one-liner:
"The FBI doesn't need their own email access, they have yours!"
Because you can't make beer out of a dead woodchuck.
If you could, would anyone drink it?
Except that with Open Source Software, everyone can pick up the ball and run with it, not just a single bottom-feeder.
can you tell I've just been watching Red Vs Blue?
Hmm, Blue Hat...does that mean Microsoft is Caboose?
Macs can't run Flash games?
Great, the article itself is redirecting its Coral Cache URL. Those of us behind draconian firewalls that block odd ports would be out of luck if not for Mirrordot's cache.
Suggestion: Build it laying down. A ramp instead of a tower. A 242 km ramp, curving up towards some mountains and a "final bit" that's like your proposed tower clearing the main atmosphere.
The curving bit sounds a little troublesome. Converting horizontal velocity to vertical velocity requires a force. If that's provided by the curving tube, then the tube, capsule, and their interface would have to be able to support much more force than just launching vertically to start with. Any additional reinforcement on the capsule takes away from payload.
All this mess reminds me of when I installed a brand-spanking new copy of McAfee VirusScan 2002 on a machine that had Outlook Express. After a few days of using the two together, some pattern in the mailbox files must have triggered VirusScan, and it deleted all the mailbox files. To test this, I left it in this configuration a while longer and it happened again. That was the point I left McAfee for Norton.
It sounds like their testing is still questionable.
This is basically an argument against companies going public, isn't it?
How is "Companies are now beholden ONLY to their owners" fundamentally different between a public and private company? As long as there's nothing illegal being committed, can't a company do things based on what its owners want?
Granted, "the customer is always right" is generally sound advice if you want to keep your customers, but it's not a requirement.
And if another intelligent race n lightyears away is wondering what in the hell you did doing exactly n years ago, why that's a real screwup. Bonus points for getting noticed in another galaxy.
This is what I figure the Oh-My-God Particle must have been.
Some people feel that "forward" evolution has stopped. It's messy to define "forward", and messier to figure out if it has stopped.
It's still survival of the fittest, it's just that we're selecting for different types of fitness than hunting/gathering/evading.
Besides, considering the speeds evolution would make changes and the current pace of technological innovation, changes to our species would now seem entirely dominated by the latter anyway.
That scroll bar is horrible. Nice UI design Microsoft.
IIRC, Google uses the same type of component in Picasa.
I'd spend 10 minutes trying to explain to the person on the end of the phone that I'd had problems, I'd figured out what they were and how to solve them, and that this information could be useful to them.
This is usually where I usually try to post to a newsgroup, forum, or blog related to this topic. At least if the information is made available, someone might be able to Google it. If I can't resolve something myself, that's usually the first place I look.
I suspect most slashdotters are in the same boat, where if you've reached the stage of needing someone else's help, you're already beyond the first or second stages of triage that consumer-facing vendor support lines provide.
I just got rid of two Cingular nee AT&T Wireless GSM phones that did the same. Nearly any kind of loudspeaker would go nuts when they were in the room and interacting with the network, particularly our baby monitor. It was an obvious digital signal with almost a galloping sound.
Thankfully, I haven't noticed anything with the Verizon CDMA phones we switched to recently. It's probably something about the 800-900 MHz frequencies that Nextel and American GSM operate on, though I'm not an electrical engineer.
The actors in Miners4k look remarkably like Lemmings.
See the problem is, you can develop 20 different types of medicine to combat different types of bacteria / germs / viruses but they will simply continue to evolve.
I would hate being killed by one of these. However, that would remove an individual with hypothetically inferior genes from the population, increasing the chances that Homo sapiens as a species would evolve to resist those germs.
As individuals, though, we don't think about the species, just about us and those we care about. Bring on the new, stronger antibiotics!
My memory of it coincides with yours.
Great. That's what Slashdot needs, Latin Grammar Nazis.
CENTURION: What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?
BRIAN: It-- it says, 'Romans, go home'.
CENTURION: No, it doesn't.
If anyone was wondering why Jack Thompson has reason to do what he does, read the parent again.
I'm pretty sure the grandparent poster would be a raving, profane loon even without video games.
In Hexen, I just stayed behind a pillar and fired at the boss between shots, like a wild west movie. Wasn't really fun but I nailed him in the end. Very n00b I know, but I got the job done.
I don't grasp why using real-world combat tactics which work very well at keeping you alive are considered "n00b" in FPS combat games.
Hmmm, but my machine is a linux machine! [...] Hmmmm, but my machine is a linux machine! [...] Fortunately I had a dual-boot, so I was able to comply.
Yeah, weird that they might want a machine running Windows XP to be updated. You might have Linux on the machine, but you also had Windows XP, and it sounds like it was missing security patches.
And, for the record, my assigned work had no specific XP requirement, and my responsibilities were heavily around Unix.
And you apparently had a machine with Windows XP missing some (possibly significant) security patches sitting on their network.
I fail to see how this was stupid of the network admins. Draconian maybe, but it got you to apply the security patches.
And more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_radiation