North Carolina law states that the voting machine code must be available to (at least) the state. North Carolina certified 3 companies for e-voting in the state. None of the 3 provided any source code.
And now I will post an off-topic reply to my own off-topic post to mention that my brain was stuck on the wrong console generation; Segata Sanshiro advertised the Saturn, not the Dreamcast. He's probably gonna kick my ass now...
My brain still twitches whenever I see a Sega game on a Nintendo console. That aside, the SEGA! thing had nothing on Segata Sanshiro. Segata never showed up on this side of the Pacific but in Japan he became a fairly major pop phenomenon. Segata Sanshiro would catch you and kick your ASS if he caught you NOT playing with your Dreamcast. Segata Sanshiro could throw a guy across a desolate wasteland and the guy would EXPLODE when he hit the ground, because Segata Sanshiro was just that much of a badass (okay, and it was a Bomberman commercial). He also had the coolest theme song ever. You can find the Segata videos on the internet fairly easily and if you are/were a Sega fan you should do so.
How long until your next deathmatch is spent camping the catering talking to chix? How long until your HUD has smart looking drapes? I tell you, the internet was made by the military to let us men blow shit up virtually
The best Quake2 sniper I ever knew was an old girlfriend of mine. I'll freely admit I wasn't the best Q2 player in the world, but I was far from the worst, too. In a one-on-one game she took me out 93 to 17. I was using every weapon at my disposal. She used nothing but the damn railgun. Eventually she joined some clan or other and competed in tournaments. She was lethal.
Einstein's faith lay in the idea that the universe, at its most fundamental level, made sense and could be understood by a human mind. Of course it remains to be seen whether or not he was right about that. Here's hoping...
The coffee tastes like machine oil? Like... maybe someone just put a drop in, say, for the flavor?
For the love of everything you hold dear, GET OUT OF THERE! Retreat to a same distance and open fire on the building until it is SLAG. Don't let ANYTHING get out. We'll have to pray they haven't turned the furnace into a Langstrom field generator already...
This might help. There is no GUI involved here, though it does still require some scripting. If I'm reading it correctly the script can be entered entirely on the command line rather than referencing a file.
Why would the EU citizens accept paying billions for this network, just to have to pay for a subscription to actually use its full capabilities?
The same reason you put a tollbooth on a new bridge. In 5 or 10 years, when it has paid for itself, open it up. That may not happen with the Galileo system but there is certainly a rational justification for providing a subscription service.
That said, the EU is not in the business of providing free gifts to the world. The Galileo project is global by definition; why SHOULD they provide it for free to everyone on the planet?
That may be your etrex. I've got one of those as well, and it does the same thing even when it's got 6+ locks and WAAS enabled. If you turn off the "lock-to-roads" feature it seems to work a bit better.
That's a lot of stuff. For a start, my father-in-law loves his digital camcorder. As a journalist I'm sure he'll be thrilled with this new "freedom of choice".
Geez.. all digital still and video cameras, my old Hauppage WinTV-PCI card... Let's see, all HDTV and LCD monitors...
Somehow I don't see this one going through without a fight from hardware manufacturers. And since they have more money than Hollywood, they'll probably win. I hope.
Well, you can film naked children and get away with it. At least, you used to be able to; they did it with Brooke Shields in "Pretty Baby". The nudity in Ender's Game isn't remotely in a sexual context (unlike the aforementioned) so if the law hasn't changed dramatically the nudity can be kept.
Whether or not the actors are nude for the fight scenes, however, is not going to be the biggest problem. As mentioned by other posters, conveying to an audience what is going on in Ender's head in conjunction with the fairly complex battle scenes is going to be the real challenge.
Following the premise, couldn't find out by waiting a few weeks, until Earth/Mars are in a different position relative to each other, and attempting a parallax triangulation?
You need to read the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons, and possibly his Olympos books, too. If you like the idea of nanotechnology and its uses in manipulating the human mind, you will LOVE those books.
They've got it coming and I don't really care about the P2P issues. A couple of years ago, it seemed like every other computer I worked on was in my shop solely due to the spyware installed by Kazaa. An otherwise clean computer that had Kazaa installed on it became unusuable within a matter of days due to the sheer volume of popups, RAM-hogging spyware/junkware and all the other crap that Kazaa installed as a matter of course. Uninstalling Kazaa left behind all the junkware. Uninstalling the junkware left behind reinstall tricklers and more often than not would break Winsock completely. Kazaa was the first software to install really damaging spyware automatically; they certainly opened the door for lots of other software to do the same once Sharman proved it was a viable business model. If for no other reason, these yoyos should go to jail for intentionally deceiving hundreds of thousands of users without the slightest regard for their time and money.
Don't be ridiculous. Just because you're a "man of science" doesn't mean you're forbidden to take your brain off the hook for a bit and enjoy something non-scientific. I read Dawkins back-to-back with Pratchett, yet I can still enjoy the fantasy as something -apart- from science. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a not-very-subtle Christ story written to appeal to children. Is it great literature? I'll let someone else debate that. But it is a fun read, and if you've genuinely lost the ability to take joy from the small, nonsense things as well as the grand scientific ones, well... I'm sorry to hear it. I, for one, enjoy both.
As far as I know, OpenDocument is XML-based; the file is a Zip archive containing schema information, several XML files, and all "embedded" data like images.
So, yah. As far as I can tell XML is still the mystical format that everything supports (no matter how much of a bitch text parsing is to program).
I actually question why we need a GPL V3 in the first place. The current GPL works perfectly well and I don't see any reason to bother using the new license at all.
Fortunately, a newer GPL can't automatically invalidate an old one. If you like the current one, by all means keep using it. I suspect you won't be alone in doing so.
Well, "If it's easy, it isn't worth doing, unless (in the interest of pedantic accuracy) it's an activity that is required for your continued survival" just does not have the same ring to it. Don't worry about it, I'm sure most people figure out the true meaning of that saying before they drop dead of asphyxiation.
I don't have an article for you, but I can give you my thoughts on it. I see a -lot- of infected computers. From the first time I tried the MS Antispyware utility I was blown away by it. It detects and -automatically- removed more malware than Spybot and Adaware put together. It actually follows the path the spyware takes to install itself, unregisters files, deletes them, checks to make sure they aren't reappearing... it's a very decent piece of software. As with all automated software there are a few programs it can't get rid of automatically but neither can AdAware or SpybotSD. Fortunately HijackThis and my good 'ole BartPE disk can take care of the rest.
Now mind you, I'm not talking about the total number of "instances" it lists; that number is pretty meaningless in -any- spyware app. But as far as actually finding and removing bad software goes... it pains me to say it, but the MS Antispyware is the best free program of its kind out there right now. If Microsoft had written it themselves, I'd be seriously concerned about fire and brimstone from the heavens.
Nope, different problem. I can have Firefox open, launch a URL from the Windows Run menu and have FF open the new tab and begin loading the page nearly instantly. Click a URL in Outlook 2003, and it freezes for 5-6 seconds before actually launching the URL. If Firefox isn't already running, Outlook usually launches two instances of it, one empty, one with the URL AND throws an error message.
I've seen the above on several systems with Outlook 2000-2003, regardless of what version of Windows you're running.
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Not true; the sun is not smashing together gold atoms. In nature, only supernovae can get away with that.
North Carolina law states that the voting machine code must be available to (at least) the state. North Carolina certified 3 companies for e-voting in the state. None of the 3 provided any source code.
I'm sure this will be the same.
And now I will post an off-topic reply to my own off-topic post to mention that my brain was stuck on the wrong console generation; Segata Sanshiro advertised the Saturn, not the Dreamcast. He's probably gonna kick my ass now...
My brain still twitches whenever I see a Sega game on a Nintendo console. That aside, the SEGA! thing had nothing on Segata Sanshiro. Segata never showed up on this side of the Pacific but in Japan he became a fairly major pop phenomenon. Segata Sanshiro would catch you and kick your ASS if he caught you NOT playing with your Dreamcast. Segata Sanshiro could throw a guy across a desolate wasteland and the guy would EXPLODE when he hit the ground, because Segata Sanshiro was just that much of a badass (okay, and it was a Bomberman commercial). He also had the coolest theme song ever. You can find the Segata videos on the internet fairly easily and if you are/were a Sega fan you should do so.
How long until your next deathmatch is spent camping the catering talking to chix? How long until your HUD has smart looking drapes? I tell you, the internet was made by the military to let us men blow shit up virtually
The best Quake2 sniper I ever knew was an old girlfriend of mine. I'll freely admit I wasn't the best Q2 player in the world, but I was far from the worst, too. In a one-on-one game she took me out 93 to 17. I was using every weapon at my disposal. She used nothing but the damn railgun. Eventually she joined some clan or other and competed in tournaments. She was lethal.
Einstein's faith lay in the idea that the universe, at its most fundamental level, made sense and could be understood by a human mind. Of course it remains to be seen whether or not he was right about that. Here's hoping...
The coffee tastes like machine oil? Like... maybe someone just put a drop in, say, for the flavor?
For the love of everything you hold dear, GET OUT OF THERE! Retreat to a same distance and open fire on the building until it is SLAG. Don't let ANYTHING get out. We'll have to pray they haven't turned the furnace into a Langstrom field generator already...
Unless you're running a distro aimed at home users. I'm pretty sure I saw an option in Ubuntu to have it automatically log me in at startup.
However I do agree with your second statement.
This might help. There is no GUI involved here, though it does still require some scripting. If I'm reading it correctly the script can be entered entirely on the command line rather than referencing a file.
Why would the EU citizens accept paying billions for this network, just to have to pay for a subscription to actually use its full capabilities?
The same reason you put a tollbooth on a new bridge. In 5 or 10 years, when it has paid for itself, open it up. That may not happen with the Galileo system but there is certainly a rational justification for providing a subscription service.
That said, the EU is not in the business of providing free gifts to the world. The Galileo project is global by definition; why SHOULD they provide it for free to everyone on the planet?
That may be your etrex. I've got one of those as well, and it does the same thing even when it's got 6+ locks and WAAS enabled. If you turn off the "lock-to-roads" feature it seems to work a bit better.
That's a lot of stuff. For a start, my father-in-law loves his digital camcorder. As a journalist I'm sure he'll be thrilled with this new "freedom of choice".
Geez.. all digital still and video cameras, my old Hauppage WinTV-PCI card... Let's see, all HDTV and LCD monitors...
Somehow I don't see this one going through without a fight from hardware manufacturers. And since they have more money than Hollywood, they'll probably win. I hope.
Well, you can film naked children and get away with it. At least, you used to be able to; they did it with Brooke Shields in "Pretty Baby". The nudity in Ender's Game isn't remotely in a sexual context (unlike the aforementioned) so if the law hasn't changed dramatically the nudity can be kept.
Whether or not the actors are nude for the fight scenes, however, is not going to be the biggest problem. As mentioned by other posters, conveying to an audience what is going on in Ender's head in conjunction with the fairly complex battle scenes is going to be the real challenge.
Clearly I'd like to avoid stretching this metaphor too far
Hate to break it to you, but...
On the other hand, the image you painted in my mind just about got me to blow bits of my breakfast muffin out my nose.
Following the premise, couldn't find out by waiting a few weeks, until Earth/Mars are in a different position relative to each other, and attempting a parallax triangulation?
You need to read the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons, and possibly his Olympos books, too. If you like the idea of nanotechnology and its uses in manipulating the human mind, you will LOVE those books.
They've got it coming and I don't really care about the P2P issues. A couple of years ago, it seemed like every other computer I worked on was in my shop solely due to the spyware installed by Kazaa. An otherwise clean computer that had Kazaa installed on it became unusuable within a matter of days due to the sheer volume of popups, RAM-hogging spyware/junkware and all the other crap that Kazaa installed as a matter of course. Uninstalling Kazaa left behind all the junkware. Uninstalling the junkware left behind reinstall tricklers and more often than not would break Winsock completely. Kazaa was the first software to install really damaging spyware automatically; they certainly opened the door for lots of other software to do the same once Sharman proved it was a viable business model. If for no other reason, these yoyos should go to jail for intentionally deceiving hundreds of thousands of users without the slightest regard for their time and money.
Don't be ridiculous. Just because you're a "man of science" doesn't mean you're forbidden to take your brain off the hook for a bit and enjoy something non-scientific. I read Dawkins back-to-back with Pratchett, yet I can still enjoy the fantasy as something -apart- from science. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a not-very-subtle Christ story written to appeal to children. Is it great literature? I'll let someone else debate that. But it is a fun read, and if you've genuinely lost the ability to take joy from the small, nonsense things as well as the grand scientific ones, well... I'm sorry to hear it. I, for one, enjoy both.
As far as I know, OpenDocument is XML-based; the file is a Zip archive containing schema information, several XML files, and all "embedded" data like images.
So, yah. As far as I can tell XML is still the mystical format that everything supports (no matter how much of a bitch text parsing is to program).
I blame myself.
I actually question why we need a GPL V3 in the first place. The current GPL works perfectly well and I don't see any reason to bother using the new license at all.
Fortunately, a newer GPL can't automatically invalidate an old one. If you like the current one, by all means keep using it. I suspect you won't be alone in doing so.
Well, "If it's easy, it isn't worth doing, unless (in the interest of pedantic accuracy) it's an activity that is required for your continued survival" just does not have the same ring to it. Don't worry about it, I'm sure most people figure out the true meaning of that saying before they drop dead of asphyxiation.
I don't have an article for you, but I can give you my thoughts on it. I see a -lot- of infected computers. From the first time I tried the MS Antispyware utility I was blown away by it. It detects and -automatically- removed more malware than Spybot and Adaware put together. It actually follows the path the spyware takes to install itself, unregisters files, deletes them, checks to make sure they aren't reappearing... it's a very decent piece of software. As with all automated software there are a few programs it can't get rid of automatically but neither can AdAware or SpybotSD. Fortunately HijackThis and my good 'ole BartPE disk can take care of the rest.
Now mind you, I'm not talking about the total number of "instances" it lists; that number is pretty meaningless in -any- spyware app. But as far as actually finding and removing bad software goes... it pains me to say it, but the MS Antispyware is the best free program of its kind out there right now. If Microsoft had written it themselves, I'd be seriously concerned about fire and brimstone from the heavens.
Nope, different problem. I can have Firefox open, launch a URL from the Windows Run menu and have FF open the new tab and begin loading the page nearly instantly. Click a URL in Outlook 2003, and it freezes for 5-6 seconds before actually launching the URL. If Firefox isn't already running, Outlook usually launches two instances of it, one empty, one with the URL AND throws an error message.
I've seen the above on several systems with Outlook 2000-2003, regardless of what version of Windows you're running.