A big improvement would be if you clicked the popup blocker icon that appears whenever a popup was blocked, instead of getting a dialog asking you if you wanted to allow popups on the whole site, it showed you a dialog to "release" individual popups.
We're already seeing sites like CNN telling us to turn off our popup blocker to use it. Rather than flooding us with popups because we have to turn it off for all of cnn, users would be able to just release the popups that were needed to proceed.
2. You are using innuendo to suggest something, without saying it exactly. Say it... In addition to forming this conspiracy the CEO of Diebold informed some 2 million people of his intentions in order to better solicit donations to the Bush/RNC.
Say what? All I'm saying is what the CEO of Diebold said. That he'll do everything he can to deliver Ohio. I can't say any more than what the CEO of Diebold told 2 million people his intentions were. If it didn't mean anything sinister then, it doesn't mean anything now, now does it?
I guess that knife must cut through the part of your brain that smells fish on the way to slice out the part that can sort out conflicts of interest.
So tell me, what can the company making the voting machines do to do "everything it can" to "deliver Ohio". Wink wink, nudge nudge, you know what I mean. Remember, this is the company that was caught altering code after certification, deploying uncertified equipment in previous elections, and has a long and notorious history of being insecure and knowing about it, so don't pretend they're some angelic corporation sent to protect the masses from their inability to properly poke holes in paper.
Proof? In the real world, investigating crimes works like this: someone smells something fishy and goes to a judge, the judge smells something fishy and issues a warrant. Then you get the murder weapon and fingerprints and your proof. Why don't we get someone to issue a warrant based on their use of uncertified equipment in the 2002 election and see what we get? I'm certainly in no position to read their internal memos and to compare the deployed machines to their certified machines.
but the point that you refuse to admit is that these actions have led people to believe there is a serious conflict of interest here. Why are you so against pursuing this?
Didn't you know? The Republicans all go through a process where the part of their brain that recognizes conflicts of interest get cut out of their heads. This is how Voting Machine companies offer states to the highest bidder (I challenge ANY Republican to come up with a better explanation for offering Ohio in a fundrasing letter. Assuming you can put more words together to make a response than "it was just a fundraising letter" or "you lost, get over it"). This is how the Vice President's company gets chosen for a major no-bid contract. This is how said company got to sit in on the contract terms talks (this looks to me like they were chosen for the job before the contract existed to be awarded!) This is how DeLay hands out companies' donations to campaigners against every election fundraising law in the book. This is how Heflin pulled strings in courts in Texas to steal the guardianship of his live-in illegal immigrant maid's child. This is how nearly every reported election error is on Bush's side (with a neck-and-neck race like this, you'd think that the Republican observers would be discrediting as many Democratic votes as they could. Are they just lazy, or are they like the guy who chooses not to challenge his grade on the exam because the teacher marked more incorrect answers as correct than they marked correct answers as wrong?).
Not a single Republican bats an eye when these things happen, and they're shocked (SHOCKED I say!) when someone points out the glaring conflicts of interest. And then 30 seconds of stuttering and mumbling "witch-hunt" or "persecution" later, their minds, incapable of dealing with the concept without that crucial center of human thought, become a blank slate again having forgotten all traces of these incidents.
Right, and in a few years the UN Weapons inspectors will be able to fly up there in SpaceShipOne and actually check to see if they're conventional or not.
Why not just use paper ballots and make them easy to use and read by both machines and humans and spend the money reforming the process to make it fast, taking humans into account.
Because electronic voting machines are a dream for democracy. They allow the blind to have the ballot read to them, they allow the foreigners to have the ballot displayed in the language of their choice.
Too bad that the makers of every last one of these try to do things that electronic voting machines shouldn't do.
I am of the belief that if there is any internet governance, it should restrict itself to functions that affect the actual interoperation of the networks involved. Enforcing individual geopolitical issues should be left to that country to do so as it sees fit.
The job of such a governing agency, if one existed, would be limited to policing and correcting traffic flow issues and mandating the use of egress filters at an ISP level in order to block spoofed packets from the ISP's lusers.
Not much funding would be needed for such a minimalistic organization, making the "who the heck would pay for this" issue much smaller.
What does it give us? Theoretically in the future when we have consumed all of this planet's resources we'll be able to move to Mars and get cracking on ruining that planet too. Bet your homeless couldn't get us there.
But in all seriousness, there are better ways of caring for the needy here. Take, for instance, farmers' subsidies. Instead of paying farmers to not plant crops, or buying it then destroying it, why not buy the crops at fair market prices then giving the food to the hungry? How about instead of zoning to attract subdivision developers that build half-million-dollar homes, and homeowners' associations to artifically keep home values high, push to develop affordable and safe housing without skyrocketing property taxes?
Either of these would go much farther in saving the world than stripping NASA of its relative pittance of a budget.
But is google designed for distributing this pdf to everyone? When 40,000 people hit your site for your latest programming book, do you really want to tell them "sorry, I'm over bandwidth, just download the crappy html-ized cache copy sans images from google"
The only way they could get the IP of downloaders would be to set up their own Torrent/filesharer
The torrent announcer is basically just a web CGI. A properly made wget command will give you the list of all the IPs, without having to mess with actually connecting to the swarm.
Given that everyone running is a nutcase, I think this election is scraping the bottom of the greater evil barrel. You've got the fringe parties who couldn't even get on most of the ballots, then you've got nader who has nothing but "Vote for me, I'm the one true independent". Badnarik, who has yet to demonstrate that he's capable of any form of compromise, or if he's just going to let congress walk all over him. And then theres Kerry and Bush.
So given that thats my view of the candidates, I voted for Kerry because given a field of incompetent evil losers, I'd like to give someone else a shot at leading this country because you never know, they might surprise us in a good way.
The affiliation is actually only necessary for the primaries. In states where they care, you can only vote in the Republican primary if you're a registered Republican. The stated goal is to prevent Democrats from voting for the worst Republican candidate in the primary and vice-versa. The states that do this though typically also prevent people who have registered either way from counting when it comes to getting third parties on the ballot. IE, if you want to support any third party you have to have registered as independent.
I'm glad to hear they're making a second album. I bought the first album, and have to say that most of the music doesn't get old. Of course, it takes a Final Fantasy addict to say that...
Because they don't trust you with your own money to do the same.
Vote Badnarik.
Its hilarious that Libertarians come up in this thread, as if putting one of them in power will automatically compel everyone to open up their wallets voluntarially.
Before you claim that taxes are whats keeping everyone from doing this now, what about the tax deduction for donations?
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I think this is probably halfway to the end of the connection between the Religious Right and the Fiscal Right. I saw the signs beginning way back when Howard Stern came to Houston, and someone wrote to the paper about how companies put the money ahead of the morals. I bet that person will vote for Bush, because thats what Christians do, they vote for the Republicans because they make a very good show of being Christian.
You do realize that with the biggest deficit ever, Bush is going to have to pull a daddy (read my lips) and raise taxes somewhere? Or do you expect money to just materialize in the US Bank Account if the government continues to cut its income?
- Terrorism
So, what exactly is wrong with Kerry's plan to get troops from other countries to help? Personally, I think neither major contender has a workable antiterrorism plan.
- UN
Would you worry about what they think if they weren't abusing the oil program? What about the other couple of hundred countries who aren't exactly with us on the Iraq issue and weren't taking money?
- Abortion
I do have moral issues with abortion, but what are the alternatives Bush will propose? What would Bush do to save people from going back to the bad old days of alleyways and coathangers? Is he going to pass and enforce a law to stop the rich from sending their daughters out of the country to protect their "good name" (precedent exists for laws controlling citizens outside of the US)? How would Bush address the issues that drive people to do this? Will Bush offer subsidized spaying for people who don't want children? Fix the foster care and adoption system that's been notorious for poor care, lost children, and low funding since before the days of little orphan Annie?
- Healthcare
The private healthcare system has corporatized to the point where saving dollars is more important than saving lives. What will Bush do to break the profit-machine that now determines who lives and who dies? Or is he going to come forward and publically admit that he believes that money should determine who lives or dies. Or is he going to just claim nothing is wrong and do nothing as more and more people fall off the insured list?
Do those that truely have no idea or opinion really need to get out and vote?
Maybe you don't know the difference between blue and red. Maybe you have no clue who your US Representative is. But you probably do know if you want to have a cap on your property tax, and if there should be a.25 cent/gallon local gas tax to pay for road upkeep.
Go vote, even if you don't care what the president does. Even if you think your vote for president doesn't count, you've got state and local issues on the ballot where you will have your voice heard.
Actually, that effect is from running XFree86 in any color-mapped mode (generally, 8 bpp on most hardware) with any application that attempts to use more colors than there are slots available. Typically all the colors should be allocated to the active window when this happens, causing anything in the background to be "hosed" until that window is closed or otherwise gives up the colormap. I'm not sure why PearPC doesn't have the color map in this screenshot (perhaps the xterm behind it has the color map for some reason?)
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I guess its not so resilient after all...
People, if you're not using persistent cursors, do NOT use persistent connections! (typically *_pconnect() in PHP)
What makes it advantageous for taxes is that the US cannot collect income tax from people who don't live and work in the US. Duh! That's not a loophole, it's just the law.
You're right, thats not a loophole. The loophole is in an entirely different part of the law which allows the companies to deduct the taxes they pay in other countries. Thus, the companies not only get to not pay US payroll tax, they get to deduct India's payroll tax from their reduced taxes they're paying in the US.
However, once that nation is mature, those companies and the jobs they brought will leave just as quickly as they came. This is why nationalism does not work in a world where it is easy to move resources around
Rather interesting of you to say that, seeing as how India is keeping Indians employed with these policies, and without these nationalist policies US is failing to keep Americans employed in the jobs they were doing.
which is why I am training for it now and not later.
So out of curiosity, what exactly are you training for? Courtroom law (an Indian with a law book and degree could answer any question an American lawyer could for any situation where they didn't need to appear in court)? Accounting (Indians can use calculators just as well as you)? Labor?
It basically boils down to "I support the right for artists to license their output in any way they see fit. I expect you to do the same for those who see fit to sell it in overpriced crappy albums" though perhaps not in so many words.
Frankly, a lot of the people on the "closed" side of the IP line fail to understand that if they deny the rights of the "open" side, they're denying some of the base concepts of IP. Next time you hear people talk about how GPL is the devil or whatever, think about what their product would be like if there was no legal grounds for licensing IP in any way you saw fit.
Looking through the code, we have a function called untraceable() which runs as a separate process and kills the program if someone attempts to trace or debug it, but as distributed, this is not enabled.
Theres also an expiration option, which is currently disabled. It also apparently attempts to keep track of its operation by setting an environment variable starting with "x" then running itself again.
The rest of it seems to be encrypted in the large constant strings at the top of the page (these are expressed in octal)
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It means B in most cases (IE, salaried people). Sometimes its A (hourly wage, required to clock out then keep working) but thats highly illegal.
A big improvement would be if you clicked the popup blocker icon that appears whenever a popup was blocked, instead of getting a dialog asking you if you wanted to allow popups on the whole site, it showed you a dialog to "release" individual popups.
We're already seeing sites like CNN telling us to turn off our popup blocker to use it. Rather than flooding us with popups because we have to turn it off for all of cnn, users would be able to just release the popups that were needed to proceed.
2. You are using innuendo to suggest something, without saying it exactly. Say it ... In addition to forming this conspiracy the CEO of Diebold informed some 2 million people of his intentions in order to better solicit donations to the Bush/RNC.
Say what? All I'm saying is what the CEO of Diebold said. That he'll do everything he can to deliver Ohio. I can't say any more than what the CEO of Diebold told 2 million people his intentions were. If it didn't mean anything sinister then, it doesn't mean anything now, now does it?
The problem is that the first group appears to vastly outnumber the second group, yet the second group seems to wield all of the power.
I guess that knife must cut through the part of your brain that smells fish on the way to slice out the part that can sort out conflicts of interest.
So tell me, what can the company making the voting machines do to do "everything it can" to "deliver Ohio". Wink wink, nudge nudge, you know what I mean. Remember, this is the company that was caught altering code after certification, deploying uncertified equipment in previous elections, and has a long and notorious history of being insecure and knowing about it, so don't pretend they're some angelic corporation sent to protect the masses from their inability to properly poke holes in paper.
Proof? In the real world, investigating crimes works like this: someone smells something fishy and goes to a judge, the judge smells something fishy and issues a warrant. Then you get the murder weapon and fingerprints and your proof. Why don't we get someone to issue a warrant based on their use of uncertified equipment in the 2002 election and see what we get? I'm certainly in no position to read their internal memos and to compare the deployed machines to their certified machines.
but the point that you refuse to admit is that these actions have led people to believe there is a serious conflict of interest here. Why are you so against pursuing this?
Didn't you know? The Republicans all go through a process where the part of their brain that recognizes conflicts of interest get cut out of their heads. This is how Voting Machine companies offer states to the highest bidder (I challenge ANY Republican to come up with a better explanation for offering Ohio in a fundrasing letter. Assuming you can put more words together to make a response than "it was just a fundraising letter" or "you lost, get over it"). This is how the Vice President's company gets chosen for a major no-bid contract. This is how said company got to sit in on the contract terms talks (this looks to me like they were chosen for the job before the contract existed to be awarded!) This is how DeLay hands out companies' donations to campaigners against every election fundraising law in the book. This is how Heflin pulled strings in courts in Texas to steal the guardianship of his live-in illegal immigrant maid's child. This is how nearly every reported election error is on Bush's side (with a neck-and-neck race like this, you'd think that the Republican observers would be discrediting as many Democratic votes as they could. Are they just lazy, or are they like the guy who chooses not to challenge his grade on the exam because the teacher marked more incorrect answers as correct than they marked correct answers as wrong?).
Not a single Republican bats an eye when these things happen, and they're shocked (SHOCKED I say!) when someone points out the glaring conflicts of interest. And then 30 seconds of stuttering and mumbling "witch-hunt" or "persecution" later, their minds, incapable of dealing with the concept without that crucial center of human thought, become a blank slate again having forgotten all traces of these incidents.
Right, and in a few years the UN Weapons inspectors will be able to fly up there in SpaceShipOne and actually check to see if they're conventional or not.
Why not just use paper ballots and make them easy to use and read by both machines and humans and spend the money reforming the process to make it fast, taking humans into account.
Because electronic voting machines are a dream for democracy. They allow the blind to have the ballot read to them, they allow the foreigners to have the ballot displayed in the language of their choice.
Too bad that the makers of every last one of these try to do things that electronic voting machines shouldn't do.
I am of the belief that if there is any internet governance, it should restrict itself to functions that affect the actual interoperation of the networks involved. Enforcing individual geopolitical issues should be left to that country to do so as it sees fit.
The job of such a governing agency, if one existed, would be limited to policing and correcting traffic flow issues and mandating the use of egress filters at an ISP level in order to block spoofed packets from the ISP's lusers.
Not much funding would be needed for such a minimalistic organization, making the "who the heck would pay for this" issue much smaller.
What does it give us? Theoretically in the future when we have consumed all of this planet's resources we'll be able to move to Mars and get cracking on ruining that planet too. Bet your homeless couldn't get us there.
But in all seriousness, there are better ways of caring for the needy here. Take, for instance, farmers' subsidies. Instead of paying farmers to not plant crops, or buying it then destroying it, why not buy the crops at fair market prices then giving the food to the hungry? How about instead of zoning to attract subdivision developers that build half-million-dollar homes, and homeowners' associations to artifically keep home values high, push to develop affordable and safe housing without skyrocketing property taxes?
Either of these would go much farther in saving the world than stripping NASA of its relative pittance of a budget.
NASA announced that the rover's next destination will be the powerup that will give it rocket launchers.
But is google designed for distributing this pdf to everyone? When 40,000 people hit your site for your latest programming book, do you really want to tell them "sorry, I'm over bandwidth, just download the crappy html-ized cache copy sans images from google"
The only way they could get the IP of downloaders would be to set up their own Torrent/filesharer
The torrent announcer is basically just a web CGI. A properly made wget command will give you the list of all the IPs, without having to mess with actually connecting to the swarm.
Given that everyone running is a nutcase, I think this election is scraping the bottom of the greater evil barrel. You've got the fringe parties who couldn't even get on most of the ballots, then you've got nader who has nothing but "Vote for me, I'm the one true independent". Badnarik, who has yet to demonstrate that he's capable of any form of compromise, or if he's just going to let congress walk all over him. And then theres Kerry and Bush.
So given that thats my view of the candidates, I voted for Kerry because given a field of incompetent evil losers, I'd like to give someone else a shot at leading this country because you never know, they might surprise us in a good way.
The affiliation is actually only necessary for the primaries. In states where they care, you can only vote in the Republican primary if you're a registered Republican. The stated goal is to prevent Democrats from voting for the worst Republican candidate in the primary and vice-versa. The states that do this though typically also prevent people who have registered either way from counting when it comes to getting third parties on the ballot. IE, if you want to support any third party you have to have registered as independent.
I'm glad to hear they're making a second album. I bought the first album, and have to say that most of the music doesn't get old. Of course, it takes a Final Fantasy addict to say that...
Because they don't trust you with your own money to do the same.
Vote Badnarik.
Its hilarious that Libertarians come up in this thread, as if putting one of them in power will automatically compel everyone to open up their wallets voluntarially.
Before you claim that taxes are whats keeping everyone from doing this now, what about the tax deduction for donations?
I think this is probably halfway to the end of the connection between the Religious Right and the Fiscal Right. I saw the signs beginning way back when Howard Stern came to Houston, and someone wrote to the paper about how companies put the money ahead of the morals. I bet that person will vote for Bush, because thats what Christians do, they vote for the Republicans because they make a very good show of being Christian.
- Taxes
You do realize that with the biggest deficit ever, Bush is going to have to pull a daddy (read my lips) and raise taxes somewhere? Or do you expect money to just materialize in the US Bank Account if the government continues to cut its income?
- Terrorism
So, what exactly is wrong with Kerry's plan to get troops from other countries to help? Personally, I think neither major contender has a workable antiterrorism plan.
- UN
Would you worry about what they think if they weren't abusing the oil program? What about the other couple of hundred countries who aren't exactly with us on the Iraq issue and weren't taking money?
- Abortion
I do have moral issues with abortion, but what are the alternatives Bush will propose? What would Bush do to save people from going back to the bad old days of alleyways and coathangers? Is he going to pass and enforce a law to stop the rich from sending their daughters out of the country to protect their "good name" (precedent exists for laws controlling citizens outside of the US)? How would Bush address the issues that drive people to do this? Will Bush offer subsidized spaying for people who don't want children? Fix the foster care and adoption system that's been notorious for poor care, lost children, and low funding since before the days of little orphan Annie?
- Healthcare
The private healthcare system has corporatized to the point where saving dollars is more important than saving lives. What will Bush do to break the profit-machine that now determines who lives and who dies? Or is he going to come forward and publically admit that he believes that money should determine who lives or dies. Or is he going to just claim nothing is wrong and do nothing as more and more people fall off the insured list?
Do those that truely have no idea or opinion really need to get out and vote?
.25 cent/gallon local gas tax to pay for road upkeep.
Maybe you don't know the difference between blue and red. Maybe you have no clue who your US Representative is. But you probably do know if you want to have a cap on your property tax, and if there should be a
Go vote, even if you don't care what the president does. Even if you think your vote for president doesn't count, you've got state and local issues on the ballot where you will have your voice heard.
Actually, that effect is from running XFree86 in any color-mapped mode (generally, 8 bpp on most hardware) with any application that attempts to use more colors than there are slots available. Typically all the colors should be allocated to the active window when this happens, causing anything in the background to be "hosed" until that window is closed or otherwise gives up the colormap. I'm not sure why PearPC doesn't have the color map in this screenshot (perhaps the xterm behind it has the color map for some reason?)
I guess its not so resilient after all...
People, if you're not using persistent cursors, do NOT use persistent connections! (typically *_pconnect() in PHP)
What makes it advantageous for taxes is that the US cannot collect income tax from people who don't live and work in the US. Duh! That's not a loophole, it's just the law.
You're right, thats not a loophole. The loophole is in an entirely different part of the law which allows the companies to deduct the taxes they pay in other countries. Thus, the companies not only get to not pay US payroll tax, they get to deduct India's payroll tax from their reduced taxes they're paying in the US.
However, once that nation is mature, those companies and the jobs they brought will leave just as quickly as they came. This is why nationalism does not work in a world where it is easy to move resources around
Rather interesting of you to say that, seeing as how India is keeping Indians employed with these policies, and without these nationalist policies US is failing to keep Americans employed in the jobs they were doing.
which is why I am training for it now and not later.
So out of curiosity, what exactly are you training for? Courtroom law (an Indian with a law book and degree could answer any question an American lawyer could for any situation where they didn't need to appear in court)? Accounting (Indians can use calculators just as well as you)? Labor?
This isn't some trippy mind warp concept here.
It basically boils down to "I support the right for artists to license their output in any way they see fit. I expect you to do the same for those who see fit to sell it in overpriced crappy albums" though perhaps not in so many words.
Frankly, a lot of the people on the "closed" side of the IP line fail to understand that if they deny the rights of the "open" side, they're denying some of the base concepts of IP. Next time you hear people talk about how GPL is the devil or whatever, think about what their product would be like if there was no legal grounds for licensing IP in any way you saw fit.
According to "file" its an rpm renamed to .bin
Looking through the code, we have a function called untraceable() which runs as a separate process and kills the program if someone attempts to trace or debug it, but as distributed, this is not enabled.
Theres also an expiration option, which is currently disabled. It also apparently attempts to keep track of its operation by setting an environment variable starting with "x" then running itself again.
The rest of it seems to be encrypted in the large constant strings at the top of the page (these are expressed in octal)