I was actually referring to getting that email address off the spammers' lists. It's kind of late for that 1, but it's not too late to start protecting new 1s.
Well, I don't use it much & didn't know that you could. Why would they even require an email address if you could put in a bogus address? I'm asking out of seriousness, not to be argumentative.
...people could find a way to hide email addresses in news groups. If they did that, then there'd be a major reduction in spam. Then maybe I'd be able to reuse 1 of my email addresses.
Then they needed to make that clearer. I looked @ a web site that showed a ballot, & it looked fine, even @ the "difficult to read" angle. I haven't followed the issues the way that others have, but never have I ever heard of the ballot being @ fault, literally. I've always heard it described as "too difficult" to use.
You claim to be sick of people's misconceptions. Well, fine & dandy. However, I find it suspicious that you are the 1st person after all this time to actually bring up your view. I even heard people speak about it on tv, & never did they complain about that. If it really was as you said, then they should have said what you said, because it is much more undisputable. Don't forget to factor in the fact that the voters had a chance to examine the voting technology before it actually was accepted.
That being said, if it all is exactly as you said, then I'm sorry to hear that they had to use that technology. However, if they had a chance to accept it before adopting it, then they have nobody to blame but themselves.
Most people don't even bother to click the link to read the article; you think they'd actually get up, leave the house, drive to the voting center, and push some buttons to vote? That's way too much effort involved.
Let's not forget that if they have difficulty punching chads, then they'll have difficulty using electronic items.
"This is an outrage! What do they expect?!? Do they honestly expect that we become Linux longbeards & hackers just to have a chance @ voting?" "What are you yammering about? This doesn't use Linux." "Well that just proves that I'm too dumb to use this technology...I mean that it's too hard to use because I honestly didn't know that."
It's not anyones problem if people are too stupid to register their vote, don't do it carefully, don't follow instructions or otherwise spoil their ballot but their own problem. They have plenty of time to do it correctly register their vote so it counts.
I agree. After all, how can they honestly claim that they know what is best for the country when they can't even punch a chad that's right in front of them? If they have a tool that helps them find the right chad, then that'll be very dandy, because they are making an attempt to compensate for an apparent difficulty. In other words, they are taking the responsibility instead of blaming others.
Was there a constitutional right to profit that I missed?
That's pretty much what I thought, when I read the story submission. I don't understand how they can even consider sueing as if we owe it to them to let them call us. They're lucky that they're not being banned.
There's a little more to it than that. The HIV virus has several (many?) different strains; cross-infecting an individual with different strains would be A Very Bad Thing.
Fair enough. I don't know enough about the virus to say anything for sure, but in general isn't it safe to say that someone could share organs with the person of the exact same virus? I am asking for real, & not just as something to think about.
Also, how bad is it? I mean if another strain would mean death in 4 years @ the earliest, but the infected organ would guarantee @ least another 3 years, then I don't understand the problem.
Also, are there incurable diseases that are worth having? I figure that some people would do anything to live, & since they have any infection of their own, then they shouldn't be worrying too much if the donated organ has a "small" disease. I would rather just die.
I think that this is funny, because I appreciate the way that you find creative ways of saying old things. The fact that some words make us think, in order to understand the message, only helps.
Side note: I disagree with the main point, but I still appreciate your word choices.
Exactly. You have to find someone to replace you as the owner of the project. Someone emailed me to take over my project because the name was exactly the 1 that he wanted. I was fortunate enough to have someone like that come my way.
On an unrelated note, I almost deleted his email requesting the new ownership, because I thought that it was spam.
That is brilliant. I honestly would have never thought of that. When people throw out their food containers, then food residues would actually help to break down the container.
...to keep in library for your own personal enjoyment. If you can't do that, then there is no way that you are going to be able to do what you want for free.
Talk to people in the industry. Talk to a lawyers.
Re:Full text of article (kinda), in case of /.ing
on
Information Obesity
·
· Score: 1
It's funny that you asked that. I scrolled right past it, until I saw "Funny" as part of a moderation. In fact, I scrolled past it again in the opposite direction, & had to rescroll. I was already ready to click to reply before I even read the subject line. I was very surprised to see the thread that I was commenting in. Up till then, I never even read a single thing of that parent post.
It's not just the emissions that we are concerned about. In fact, I'm not conerned about the emissions all that much anymore. For me, when I say, "environmentally friendly", I'm referring to other things in general.
Hmm...that's a really cool idea. From my small understanding, it seems that maybe there could be a kernel driver that would display all info to the console, or perhaps there could be a command that'll do the trick. As I type I seem to remember reading about redirection with bash scripting, where you could send all output to a text file or another console. I don't know how that would work with compiled binaries, though. I'll try to get back to you on that.
Exactly. Exactly. I totally agree with everything that you said.
Just to clarify a bit on what I said & agree with you even more: the thing that impressed me about what you did was that you met his need & worked from there instead of trying to talk about licensing [free speech, yadda, yadda]. I liked the way that you started with a higher price & worked down from there.
On a slightly unrelated note, I think that Linux's strength is the command line, & that it would be good if we [the community in general] could try to find a way to teach people to use text based programs. I say that because I think that text based programs tend to work with each other much better, compared to graphical based 1s, & the text based 1s tend to require less hardware upgrades.
If we were to try & teach people how to use Linux, then I think that tutorials & other documentation need to teach them how to use software properly [ie: what are the correct options to pass to the binary?] & how to make it fail [ie: fill in the form in such & such a way, & then you should get this error, & you got that error because yadda yadda yadda]. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to help to know what doesn't work, just as much as it helps to know what does work.
Slashdot Mirror
But isn't it kind of late to protect the email address on the messages that I've posted already?
I agree. Thanks for the suggestion.
I was actually referring to getting that email address off the spammers' lists. It's kind of late for that 1, but it's not too late to start protecting new 1s.
Well, I don't use it much & didn't know that you could. Why would they even require an email address if you could put in a bogus address? I'm asking out of seriousness, not to be argumentative.
...people could find a way to hide email addresses in news groups. If they did that, then there'd be a major reduction in spam. Then maybe I'd be able to reuse 1 of my email addresses.
Then they needed to make that clearer. I looked @ a web site that showed a ballot, & it looked fine, even @ the "difficult to read" angle. I haven't followed the issues the way that others have, but never have I ever heard of the ballot being @ fault, literally. I've always heard it described as "too difficult" to use.
You claim to be sick of people's misconceptions. Well, fine & dandy. However, I find it suspicious that you are the 1st person after all this time to actually bring up your view. I even heard people speak about it on tv, & never did they complain about that. If it really was as you said, then they should have said what you said, because it is much more undisputable. Don't forget to factor in the fact that the voters had a chance to examine the voting technology before it actually was accepted.
That being said, if it all is exactly as you said, then I'm sorry to hear that they had to use that technology. However, if they had a chance to accept it before adopting it, then they have nobody to blame but themselves.
"This is an outrage! What do they expect?!? Do they honestly expect that we become Linux longbeards & hackers just to have a chance @ voting?"
"What are you yammering about? This doesn't use Linux."
"Well that just proves that I'm too dumb to use this technology...I mean that it's too hard to use because I honestly didn't know that."
I noticed today that I am on your freaks list. When did that happen? What brought about the decision? Or maybe I should ask, what did I say?
Also, how bad is it? I mean if another strain would mean death in 4 years @ the earliest, but the infected organ would guarantee @ least another 3 years, then I don't understand the problem.
Also, are there incurable diseases that are worth having? I figure that some people would do anything to live, & since they have any infection of their own, then they shouldn't be worrying too much if the donated organ has a "small" disease. I would rather just die.
I think that this is funny, because I appreciate the way that you find creative ways of saying old things. The fact that some words make us think, in order to understand the message, only helps.
Side note: I disagree with the main point, but I still appreciate your word choices.
Sure they can. AIDS patients can donate to other AIDS patients.
You're lucky. I just drew blanks. Now I don't have a password.
Exactly. You have to find someone to replace you as the owner of the project. Someone emailed me to take over my project because the name was exactly the 1 that he wanted. I was fortunate enough to have someone like that come my way.
On an unrelated note, I almost deleted his email requesting the new ownership, because I thought that it was spam.
That is brilliant. I honestly would have never thought of that. When people throw out their food containers, then food residues would actually help to break down the container.
...to keep in library for your own personal enjoyment. If you can't do that, then there is no way that you are going to be able to do what you want for free.
Talk to people in the industry. Talk to a lawyers.
m
m
It's funny that you asked that. I scrolled right past it, until I saw "Funny" as part of a moderation. In fact, I scrolled past it again in the opposite direction, & had to rescroll. I was already ready to click to reply before I even read the subject line. I was very surprised to see the thread that I was commenting in. Up till then, I never even read a single thing of that parent post.
It's not just the emissions that we are concerned about. In fact, I'm not conerned about the emissions all that much anymore. For me, when I say, "environmentally friendly", I'm referring to other things in general.
Hmm...that's a really cool idea. From my small understanding, it seems that maybe there could be a kernel driver that would display all info to the console, or perhaps there could be a command that'll do the trick. As I type I seem to remember reading about redirection with bash scripting, where you could send all output to a text file or another console. I don't know how that would work with compiled binaries, though. I'll try to get back to you on that.
Exactly. Exactly. I totally agree with everything that you said.
Just to clarify a bit on what I said & agree with you even more: the thing that impressed me about what you did was that you met his need & worked from there instead of trying to talk about licensing [free speech, yadda, yadda]. I liked the way that you started with a higher price & worked down from there.
On a slightly unrelated note, I think that Linux's strength is the command line, & that it would be good if we [the community in general] could try to find a way to teach people to use text based programs. I say that because I think that text based programs tend to work with each other much better, compared to graphical based 1s, & the text based 1s tend to require less hardware upgrades.
If we were to try & teach people how to use Linux, then I think that tutorials & other documentation need to teach them how to use software properly [ie: what are the correct options to pass to the binary?] & how to make it fail [ie: fill in the form in such & such a way, & then you should get this error, & you got that error because yadda yadda yadda]. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to help to know what doesn't work, just as much as it helps to know what does work.
m
m