Where was this done? I really like the system. My question is how can you make sure each person only scans one card? Is there an official that is alerted each time a vote is counted so a dozen votes in a few seconds would be noticed? Also, is there a way to change your ballot after it's marked? Maybe they could have white stickers to put over accidental marks. The Indiana voting machines were crappy, but you could push the lever back up if you changed your mind.
I voted in Georgia in 2002 and the machines were pretty cool but obviously very expensive. The interface looked a lot like it was written in Visual Basic. The system you describe sounds just as effective for a fraction of the cost.
An impropperly formatted response, like "2/30/2003", would probably get people's attention.
-B
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The popular belief that ARPAnet was designed to survive a nuclear war was created by a Time magazine writer who didn't know what he was talking about. ARPAnet was created so that people doing military research could share thier work and the DOD wouldn't have to pay for the same research twice. That's why the first nodes were universities and not military bases. My alma mater, Univ. of Illinois, was supposed to get one of the first nodes outside of CA, but hippie protestors delayed it for a while. Fucking hippies.
I bought Xtreme Jello this week. It's just like old Jello but in Xtreme new flavors like "Wild Berry". It tastes suspiciously like they mixed the left overs of thier other berry flavors together.
He knows that when most people see "DLL" their eyes glaze over and they do whatever they're told to. It's easy to get people to click OK and change their homepage, but getting people to put in their bank routing number and pin number takes big brass balls. That said, I think we should draw and quarter this guy. People would probably think twice about online scams if there was a real threat that they would get torn limb from limb.
I agree that the fact that no nuclear power plant has been built here in 25 years is a disgrace.
The only reason I wouldn't want to live next to a nuclear plant is because they keep all the spent uranium in a swimming pool right there. If there were a national waste depository it would be a huge step towards making the whole system work. I can't believe that the DOD and Homeland Security havn't put their foot down and said that we can't have tons of potential dirty bomb material spread all over the country protected by a chain link fence and a rent a cop. No more feasablility studies (which I think at last count have cost a few BILLION dollars), we're just going to build the thing and Greenpeace can sue us for the next 17 years.
Why waste the time and money sending Marines anywhere? Just cut the link between Sealand and the internet. They have a backup satellite link, but that's slooow. I always thought the company was a stupid idea.
Real Dolls must be like having sex with the hottest dead chick you've ever seen. I don't know about you guys, but the ability to generate heat and move are very important in my selection of sex partners.
Very true. It's not like Bill Gates is going to stand at a podium and say "Remember MS Bob, we sure fucked that up."
On the other hand, I have heard that George Lucas actually denies the existense of the Star Wars Christmas special with Bea Arthur. And I know that Tom Hanks will walk out of any interview that mentions Busom Buddies.
Are there any copies of that Christmas special still around?
Check out: http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Bima/do ppler. html
The doppler effect is sound waves bunching up or stretching out when the source is moving towards or away from an observer. The standard example is a fire truck siren passing your car. Red shift and blue shift are basically the same effect, but with EM waves instead of sound waves.
"Nikita Khrushchev later credited it with the survival of the otherwise starving Russian army"
Holy crap. If the Russian troops don't have Spam and starve, the Nazis take Moscow and Russia falls. If Russia falls then the Nazis focus on Britain and it falls. Without Spam, Hilter might have conquered the whole world. I have a new respect for it.
"Because it was unaffected by meat rationing..."
Maybe that should tell people something about its contents.
Tons of movies have the bad guy launch an ICBM, only for the good guy to issue the "recall" or "self-destruct" code or change the flight path out into space or whatever. The B in ICBM is ballistic. The point is that you launch it and no matter what, it's going to go to its predetermined target and destroy it. There's no equipment to even receive a signal. That way there's nothing for an enemy to spoof or jam. Also, it prevents an idiot president from launching an ICBM and destroying it half way just to threaten people.
IMO, the entire ICBM concept is outdated and needs to either be retired or scaled back significantly.
Tons of P2P porno clips have banners advertising (presumably) the site they originated from. That's because the biggest goal of porno advertising is just awareness and mindshare. The RIAA assumes that you know full well who Eminem is, now they want your money in exchange for his music. From VHS to streaming video, the "adult" industry has always been at the forefront of technology.
IIRC, the P3 was the end of the Pentium Pro core family. The P4 is the beginning of a new core. So, yes, the first P4s were not the best chips and the P3s of the same time were better buys. But do you remember the P-Pro? Give them a few years of refinement and then judge the core.
Have you been watching the news for the past 9 months? There's a fat rule book for them and a skinny rule book for us. If you bitch about it, we'll bomb your commie terrorist ass.
From what I've read, space tourism for non-boy band members and real privitization won't happen as long as we're using chemical rockets. The only viable non-rocket based system that I've seen is the space elevator.
Hopefully, if China puts people in space and maybe pulls off a stem cell breakthrough, people in the Western world will stop dismissing China as a third world backwater and get off thier butts to compete.
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Where was this done? I really like the system. My question is how can you make sure each person only scans one card? Is there an official that is alerted each time a vote is counted so a dozen votes in a few seconds would be noticed? Also, is there a way to change your ballot after it's marked? Maybe they could have white stickers to put over accidental marks. The Indiana voting machines were crappy, but you could push the lever back up if you changed your mind.
I voted in Georgia in 2002 and the machines were pretty cool but obviously very expensive. The interface looked a lot like it was written in Visual Basic. The system you describe sounds just as effective for a fraction of the cost.
-B
An impropperly formatted response, like "2/30/2003", would probably get people's attention.
-B
The popular belief that ARPAnet was designed to survive a nuclear war was created by a Time magazine writer who didn't know what he was talking about. ARPAnet was created so that people doing military research could share thier work and the DOD wouldn't have to pay for the same research twice. That's why the first nodes were universities and not military bases. My alma mater, Univ. of Illinois, was supposed to get one of the first nodes outside of CA, but hippie protestors delayed it for a while. Fucking hippies.
-B
I bought Xtreme Jello this week. It's just like old Jello but in Xtreme new flavors like "Wild Berry". It tastes suspiciously like they mixed the left overs of thier other berry flavors together.
But Magic Mystery Tours are still only available from the Beatles.
-B
Great name for the directory: ebayDLLupdate
He knows that when most people see "DLL" their eyes glaze over and they do whatever they're told to. It's easy to get people to click OK and change their homepage, but getting people to put in their bank routing number and pin number takes big brass balls. That said, I think we should draw and quarter this guy. People would probably think twice about online scams if there was a real threat that they would get torn limb from limb.
-B
I agree that the fact that no nuclear power plant has been built here in 25 years is a disgrace.
The only reason I wouldn't want to live next to a nuclear plant is because they keep all the spent uranium in a swimming pool right there. If there were a national waste depository it would be a huge step towards making the whole system work. I can't believe that the DOD and Homeland Security havn't put their foot down and said that we can't have tons of potential dirty bomb material spread all over the country protected by a chain link fence and a rent a cop. No more feasablility studies (which I think at last count have cost a few BILLION dollars), we're just going to build the thing and Greenpeace can sue us for the next 17 years.
-B
Date: 8/13/2003
Re: SCO termination of UNIX license
To be read aloud in high pitched whiney voice
Ooooohhhh. I'm so scared.
-B
The teachers watch the kids...the principals watch the teachers...the superintendant watches the prinicpals...and the eye in the sky watches them all.
-B
The royal family of Saudi Arabia are Wahabi, too. As I understand it, Wahabism is to Islam what Puritanism is to Christianity.
-B
Why waste the time and money sending Marines anywhere? Just cut the link between Sealand and the internet. They have a backup satellite link, but that's slooow. I always thought the company was a stupid idea.
-B
I was just going to post that link.
Real Dolls must be like having sex with the hottest dead chick you've ever seen. I don't know about you guys, but the ability to generate heat and move are very important in my selection of sex partners.
-B
"They are simply left behind, not hidden"
Very true. It's not like Bill Gates is going to stand at a podium and say "Remember MS Bob, we sure fucked that up."
On the other hand, I have heard that George Lucas actually denies the existense of the Star Wars Christmas special with Bea Arthur. And I know that Tom Hanks will walk out of any interview that mentions Busom Buddies.
Are there any copies of that Christmas special still around?
-B
"Place the bucket in the trunk and reduce speed on corners and when braking, to avoid spillage."
Putting a lid on the bucket would apparently ruin the sound quality.
Is there any logical reason why grounding into a bucket would be any different from grounding to a car frame or water pipe?
-B
Check out:o ppler. html
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Bima/d
The doppler effect is sound waves bunching up or stretching out when the source is moving towards or away from an observer. The standard example is a fire truck siren passing your car. Red shift and blue shift are basically the same effect, but with EM waves instead of sound waves.
-B
"Nikita Khrushchev later credited it with the survival of the otherwise starving Russian army"
Holy crap.
If the Russian troops don't have Spam and starve, the Nazis take Moscow and Russia falls. If Russia falls then the Nazis focus on Britain and it falls. Without Spam, Hilter might have conquered the whole world. I have a new respect for it.
"Because it was unaffected by meat rationing..."
Maybe that should tell people something about its contents.
-B
Tons of movies have the bad guy launch an ICBM, only for the good guy to issue the "recall" or "self-destruct" code or change the flight path out into space or whatever. The B in ICBM is ballistic. The point is that you launch it and no matter what, it's going to go to its predetermined target and destroy it. There's no equipment to even receive a signal. That way there's nothing for an enemy to spoof or jam. Also, it prevents an idiot president from launching an ICBM and destroying it half way just to threaten people.
IMO, the entire ICBM concept is outdated and needs to either be retired or scaled back significantly.
-B
Water. What's your point?
I also like:
One-Hour Delay Occurs During Startup with a USB Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse
I want to know who figured that out.
-B
Tons of P2P porno clips have banners advertising (presumably) the site they originated from. That's because the biggest goal of porno advertising is just awareness and mindshare. The RIAA assumes that you know full well who Eminem is, now they want your money in exchange for his music. From VHS to streaming video, the "adult" industry has always been at the forefront of technology.
-B
A lot of the spam I get in my Hotmail inbox has fake headers showing it coming from Yahoo.com. Most of those emails appear to be coming out of Russia.
-B
In a commonly framed picture featuring a person's top half, the "boob region" is also the middle.
-B
IIRC, the P3 was the end of the Pentium Pro core family. The P4 is the beginning of a new core. So, yes, the first P4s were not the best chips and the P3s of the same time were better buys. But do you remember the P-Pro? Give them a few years of refinement and then judge the core.
-B
Have you been watching the news for the past 9 months? There's a fat rule book for them and a skinny rule book for us. If you bitch about it, we'll bomb your commie terrorist ass.
-B
From what I've read, space tourism for non-boy band members and real privitization won't happen as long as we're using chemical rockets. The only viable non-rocket based system that I've seen is the space elevator.
Hopefully, if China puts people in space and maybe pulls off a stem cell breakthrough, people in the Western world will stop dismissing China as a third world backwater and get off thier butts to compete.
-B