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  1. oops on Statistics, Elections, Frustration · · Score: 1

    I was confusing my irregularaties. There were problems in both Dade and Palm Beach I was lumping them together

  2. Re-vote in Dade county on Statistics, Elections, Frustration · · Score: 1

    What happens if there is a revote in Dade county? It is a highly Democratic area with several voting irregularaties, not just the ballot. Some people were turned away because 'their race didn't match the voting registration' and others were told there were no ballots when there were. 19,000 votes were thrown out, with a high probablity that most were for Gore, which would have made him a clear winner in florida, no recount.

    So if the challenge goes through, and Dade gets a new election, one county in the US decides the president

  3. Re:Thank you! on And The Winner Is... Nobody! · · Score: 5

    This election makes it look like your vote counts less, winning the popular vote but loosing the electoral vote.

    But seriously whoever wins will not have a mandate of the people, no one got the majority. I think this along with the closley split house and senate will lead to a weakened president. Which may not be a bad thing

  4. I'm offended on Candidates' Websites Blocked by CyberPatrol, N2H2 · · Score: 1

    Aren't you people out there offended by many of the cantidates views, policies, and actions. If there is one thing that is universally as offfensive as politics I don't know what it is. Perhapse this is the only thing the filters got right :)

    End politics for ever C'thulu for president

  5. The biggest effect of election day on the net on Election-Day's Effect on the Net · · Score: 1

    The biggest effect of election day on the net is the lack of interesting news because everybody is covering the election

  6. I know how to save us. on Space Object May Be Killer - In 2030 · · Score: 1

    We can order a bunch of pillows off ht internet

  7. Re:Hhhm.. so much effort for a zero? on Pi: It Just Keeps On Going · · Score: 1

    1/2 of people, it was a binary digit.

  8. Re:What if our galaxy crashed into another? on Hubble Captures Colliding Galaxies · · Score: 1

    According to my calculations, just a few nanoseconds. Oh wait, my mistake put the decimal in the wrong place, a few billion years.

  9. Re:So which Galaxy made the illegal left turn? on Hubble Captures Colliding Galaxies · · Score: 1

    Heck I think it would be cheaper to insure galaxies. They have a much lower accident rate, and cause less damage when they colide, as they mostly just pass through eachother

  10. Re:I for one don't think so... on Will 'Web Services' Take Off? · · Score: 1

    You are right, I haven't burowed into .NET yet. But because this tech is being used in .NET doesn't mean it is bad. It is extrememly useful in B2B and large enterprise applications.

  11. Re:Thank God for Web Services on Will 'Web Services' Take Off? · · Score: 1
    XML and Web Services are the Enterprise Application Integrators God send

    Amen! Haven't used SOAP, but the data integration game is much easier with Web Services.

  12. Re:I for one don't think so... on Will 'Web Services' Take Off? · · Score: 1

    No,no,no web services aren't about end users using thin software over the net, they are more for business to business communications behind the scenes of web transactions. That is when you go to check the value of your 401K online, it uses web services to check the values of the mutual funds managed by other companies before generating your report

  13. They are flying on Will 'Web Services' Take Off? · · Score: 4

    Web services are flying. In an odd way the Web is a web service. It is a published service with an agreed upon set of tags (HTML). As for will people use other web services, I don't see them as everpresent as the web, but they will grab nitches.

    I used to work for a company that processed claimes for different insurance companies. We had to load files from them every month to keep up with their user bases. This is the kind of marked where this would take hold. They would expose a member lookup service that would take place of ssl of course, and return an XML packet on the user.

    So yes they will take off/have taken off. Joe web user will never know he is using them though.

  14. Re:It is possible... on Using Minesweeper to Solve NP · · Score: 1

    I don't beleive so, though I can't think of the example off the top of my head. I think there are situations where the clues are insufficient, and you have to take a guess.

  15. Re:Good on Last Day of Terrestrial Humans · · Score: 1
    We really need to keep people off planet, especially if we plan on ever creating any form of long range travel, or permanent bases/stations on other stellar bodies.

    I can think of a few people I would like to keep off the planet :)

  16. Re:"Seizure" of Data Is Unnecessary on When The FBI Knocks, A First-Person Account · · Score: 1

    You can't copy some of the information. There is physical evidence of past files that cannot be retreived by imaging the entire hard drive but can be gained through some sophisiticated methods that require that particular hard drive.

  17. Re:You get what you pay for on Cheap Launch Ends In The Drink · · Score: 1

    What like Linux, low budget. But not lots of bugs, at least not when compared to windoze. I think the lots of bugs has to do with the early stage of the project. No project (code or rocket) is perfect at the onset. We are in the early days of private space flight, there are bound to be failures.

  18. Disapointment but not failure. on Cheap Launch Ends In The Drink · · Score: 1

    I think the lack of a winner in the CATS contest is disapointing, but the contest itself wasn't a failure. It promped a genuine interest in private space flight, and several teams made reasonable attempts. Those teams have now learned something. (assuming people learn from their mistakes). Now maybe we will see more corporate interest (translates to cash) in private space flight.

    Maybe we need a round 2 of CATS

  19. Martians on 6 New Mars Missions · · Score: 4

    What makes them think the Martian Defense Force won't shoot them down again like they did the polar lander

  20. Re:Encryption Overload on Interview With AES Author · · Score: 1

    Is this depth of knowlege really required for a layman to take advantage of reasonable encryption security?

    No, it isn't required by the layman, but yes it is required by someone in order to make sure the layman's encryption is secure. If there weren't people learning more about encryption and coming up with new algorithms and attacks the field would be stagnant.

  21. Re:My friends are already vote swapping on Politics: Harry, The Disastrous & The Unpalatable · · Score: 1

    In almost all states electors are locked into going in mass with the states popular vote. The electors don't have a choice.

    Last projected electoral count I saw (NBC last night) had neither cantidate with enough electors to win, the undecided states had too high of a count

  22. Cthuluh for president on Politics: Harry, The Disastrous & The Unpalatable · · Score: 3


    Why vote for the lesser of evils, when you can vote for the greatest evil Cthuluh.

    No more years! No more years!

  23. Physical building security. on Steps To Protect Oneself From Corporate Espionage? · · Score: 1

    Don't have any sensetive work being done on publicly accessable parts of your building, and have cards for different areas of the building.

    Have laptops locked into hard cabled docking stations while at work or with the person who is responsible for them

  24. Re:Bad Ram on Patch To Allow Linux To Use Defective DIMMs · · Score: 1

    It could actually lower the price of good ram by reducing the ammount of padding needed to make up for the faulty ram

  25. Re:Doesn't matter if it's open source... on Sun Moves Toward "Open Sourcing Java" · · Score: 1

    I think they may eventually go this way, especially with pressure from Micro$ofts "more open system than java" C#

    Does anyone think this wasn't prompted by C# ?