Re:Exit Polls are Inaccurate
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Who won?
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You clearly have not voted on a voting machine or voted on one that has a paper trail. I have. The voting machine allows for MUCH more accurate voting. When has a paper ballot said "Here is your list of choices, please review before pressing the VOTE button"? It doesn't. The UI in these things is EASIER to use than a paper ballot and it works hard to be easy to read. With the paper trail, after the "review" screen, it presents an option to print your vote - which it does on receipt paper behind glass. It is less a review than what is presented on screen. The UI is very clear. It's the back end I don't trust.
Re:Exit Polls are Inaccurate
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Probably because people clam up and act like morons when presented with a new electronic device for the first time.
But somehow, those that used electronic voting machines with a paper trail were less moronic than those without a paper trail. Methinks your logic is flawed. Read the book.
I would like to say that a number of these people are actually very nice and endowed with a decent sense of humour. And you know what - they get the job done just as well.
Last month, I flew to Denver and my wife packed up some oranges for me. At the screening, I hear "bag check" as my bag with the oranges goes through. It's very a.m. and a tired looking screener politely asks if it's my bag, looks through it, and pulls out the oranges. He says, "yeah, you can't take these. You could squeeze them and you'd have juice, and you're not allowed to take juice on the plane." I gasp, "You're kidding!" "Yeah, actually, I am, here ya go. Have a good flight."
I pick up my bags, and hear him turn to the guy at the x-ray and say, "They're just oranges! Oranges!"
Something apropos to this that I learned today: drives are rated for density altitude. They need a certain amount of air molecules under their heads to function. If the air pressure goes up (lower altitude) there's more air. If the temperature drops, the air becomes more dense and it has the same effect.
My guess is if the head has some small damage and sticking it in the freezer let's it float a bit higher than it otherwise would, avoiding the damage (until it heats back up again).
Re:My High School psychology class Experiment...
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Virtual Worlds and ESP
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I don't believe there is any subtle cue a person gives off when they look at a wavy line as apposed to a square.
I disagree. There is a strong connection between your mind and body, and I've sat through several experiments where a person can mimic the very subtle body language of a subject and can start to have the same thoughts as the subject. It's uncanny, and you can do this yourself. Sit down with a friend and concentrate about any one thing (easier if you are emotional about it) and have your friend mimic you exactly - including breathing, then have them describe their thoughts. Most of the time they'll tell you what you're thinking, sometimes even including images.
Do that from across the room, and you've got one explanation for ESP.
wasn't Asimov's first law broken decades ago, perhaps even by the V1 which was strictly speaking a remote operated vehicle?
I was thinking more about the CIWS system (being an ex-Navy type). It has it's own computer system to detect a target, track, decide to engage, fire, kill assessment - it even looks like a ship-mounted robot, I usually describe it to people as looking like R2D2 with a gatling gun. Its targets are not limited to inbound missles, it will also take down aircraft.
Or, how about an AEGIS ship itself? AEGIS ships can do about the same thing autonomously - automatically firing missles at targets that it is programmed to consider threatening.
Mind you, these systems are (well, were) almost never put into fully automatic mode - that's usually reserved for times when the fecis is hittin the fan and the operator may not have time to react.
...or were we limiting the discussion to wheeled robots?
Your post implies that the folks that make movies have an interest in seeing the home theater market succeed. If no one sells any new TVs, and you need a new TV to see the latest movie, where are you then going to go to see the latest movie? Hmmm? $20 + popcorn per _viewing_?
A good friend of mine has been working on this game for some time. 25 to life (for the Google challenged) clearly isn't designed to appeal to parents and police officers, but more to the people who would like to rebel against them. Therefore, I think this bodes well for the success of this game.
No, I won't let my kids play it - at 3 and 5 yo, they're still working through the "Clifford the Big Red Dog" games. When they're closer to 18, I'm sure we'll discuss the VR headsets to augment the latest round of violent video games, but for now, nope.
I used to play Lazer Tag with my friends at night around our high school. It was fun and sometimes a huge adrenaline rush. It made it very clear to me that I never want to be in a firefight - I lost way too often, which in RL is defined as "more than once".
So all of you who don't own a DVD-player which can play PAL DVDs...
...AND either a display that can show PAL or a transcoder that can turn it into NTSC...
PAL has more data fed at a different refresh rate than NTSC. It's not just a matter of the player - which will spit out a PAL signal - the display also has to be able to handle it.
AMX (makers of high-end touch panel control systems) makes and distributes their own software. To download it, you've got to click through their EULA. Well, a few years back, after a site update they left the EULA text field editable. So, I guess that meant that they DID want me to make a counter-offer! I replaced the entire text with "AMX will pay me one million dollars every time I use their software", took a screenshot, and clicked "I agree" and what do you know, I was able to download the software! I sent their support department the screenshot and they "fixed" it the next day - but I haven't billed them yet.
I've recently dealt with another company whose EULA states that I will remove thier software if I fail to renew my annual license. Well, it was a free download, so I suppose that next year I'll have to re-download it.
No mention of range. I wonder if this could be used against a sub - if so, I'm sure I'm not the first to think of it. The wave would probably not have as much force in air, so it would likely affect any submerged system with little to no air gap. I wonder if it's powerful enough to knock out a sub's (sensative) receive transducer? That would certainly remove a sub's effectiveness - blinding it.
Though, as mentioned already on this page, torpedos and subs aren't our #1 threat - it's the single suicidal person, perhaps a diver with a bomb. Sonar can be deadly to a diver, I assume the Navy would love to augment this effect. Also I'd bet that if this were fired at a mini-sub, life would not be comfy for the occupants.
This is a perspective that I share. Therefore, I find it interesting that in effect, Congress is legislating special protection for these words. If anyone could utter these words in any medium, they would lose their power and people would stop using them.
I was amazed this morning when my wife was able to reach her father via landline (he lives down the end of Church Street, and stocked up on ammo instead of evacuating - sigh). Power was out, so none of his wireless phones worked, so he plugged in an old rotery phone, and it worked!
He lost his roof and chimney, but has no flooding.
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You clearly have not voted on a voting machine or voted on one that has a paper trail. I have. The voting machine allows for MUCH more accurate voting. When has a paper ballot said "Here is your list of choices, please review before pressing the VOTE button"? It doesn't. The UI in these things is EASIER to use than a paper ballot and it works hard to be easy to read. With the paper trail, after the "review" screen, it presents an option to print your vote - which it does on receipt paper behind glass. It is less a review than what is presented on screen. The UI is very clear. It's the back end I don't trust.
Last month, I flew to Denver and my wife packed up some oranges for me. At the screening, I hear "bag check" as my bag with the oranges goes through. It's very a.m. and a tired looking screener politely asks if it's my bag, looks through it, and pulls out the oranges. He says, "yeah, you can't take these. You could squeeze them and you'd have juice, and you're not allowed to take juice on the plane." I gasp, "You're kidding!" "Yeah, actually, I am, here ya go. Have a good flight."
I pick up my bags, and hear him turn to the guy at the x-ray and say, "They're just oranges! Oranges!"
Something apropos to this that I learned today: drives are rated for density altitude. They need a certain amount of air molecules under their heads to function. If the air pressure goes up (lower altitude) there's more air. If the temperature drops, the air becomes more dense and it has the same effect.
My guess is if the head has some small damage and sticking it in the freezer let's it float a bit higher than it otherwise would, avoiding the damage (until it heats back up again).
I disagree. There is a strong connection between your mind and body, and I've sat through several experiments where a person can mimic the very subtle body language of a subject and can start to have the same thoughts as the subject. It's uncanny, and you can do this yourself. Sit down with a friend and concentrate about any one thing (easier if you are emotional about it) and have your friend mimic you exactly - including breathing, then have them describe their thoughts. Most of the time they'll tell you what you're thinking, sometimes even including images.
Do that from across the room, and you've got one explanation for ESP.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/08/rfi
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Oh wait, were you talking about Myspace...? Sorry.
Or, how about an AEGIS ship itself? AEGIS ships can do about the same thing autonomously - automatically firing missles at targets that it is programmed to consider threatening.
Mind you, these systems are (well, were) almost never put into fully automatic mode - that's usually reserved for times when the fecis is hittin the fan and the operator may not have time to react.
Your post implies that the folks that make movies have an interest in seeing the home theater market succeed. If no one sells any new TVs, and you need a new TV to see the latest movie, where are you then going to go to see the latest movie? Hmmm? $20 + popcorn per _viewing_?
25 to Life for, I guess, the link challenged.
No, I won't let my kids play it - at 3 and 5 yo, they're still working through the "Clifford the Big Red Dog" games. When they're closer to 18, I'm sure we'll discuss the VR headsets to augment the latest round of violent video games, but for now, nope.
I used to play Lazer Tag with my friends at night around our high school. It was fun and sometimes a huge adrenaline rush. It made it very clear to me that I never want to be in a firefight - I lost way too often, which in RL is defined as "more than once".
"The children are our future! The time is now! We will blow up the moon!"
PAL has more data fed at a different refresh rate than NTSC. It's not just a matter of the player - which will spit out a PAL signal - the display also has to be able to handle it.
Well, according to your sig, it's just coincidental:
AMX (makers of high-end touch panel control systems) makes and distributes their own software. To download it, you've got to click through their EULA. Well, a few years back, after a site update they left the EULA text field editable. So, I guess that meant that they DID want me to make a counter-offer! I replaced the entire text with "AMX will pay me one million dollars every time I use their software", took a screenshot, and clicked "I agree" and what do you know, I was able to download the software! I sent their support department the screenshot and they "fixed" it the next day - but I haven't billed them yet.
I've recently dealt with another company whose EULA states that I will remove thier software if I fail to renew my annual license. Well, it was a free download, so I suppose that next year I'll have to re-download it.
No mention of range. I wonder if this could be used against a sub - if so, I'm sure I'm not the first to think of it. The wave would probably not have as much force in air, so it would likely affect any submerged system with little to no air gap. I wonder if it's powerful enough to knock out a sub's (sensative) receive transducer? That would certainly remove a sub's effectiveness - blinding it.
Though, as mentioned already on this page, torpedos and subs aren't our #1 threat - it's the single suicidal person, perhaps a diver with a bomb. Sonar can be deadly to a diver, I assume the Navy would love to augment this effect. Also I'd bet that if this were fired at a mini-sub, life would not be comfy for the occupants.
> we'll be able to point to this year as the year things changed
Yeah, I said the same thing the year both Clerks and Waterworld came out.
sigh...
This is a perspective that I share. Therefore, I find it interesting that in effect, Congress is legislating special protection for these words. If anyone could utter these words in any medium, they would lose their power and people would stop using them.
I was amazed this morning when my wife was able to reach her father via landline (he lives down the end of Church Street, and stocked up on ammo instead of evacuating - sigh). Power was out, so none of his wireless phones worked, so he plugged in an old rotery phone, and it worked!
He lost his roof and chimney, but has no flooding.
Yeah, well I didn't think I'd see "Cyberspace" in my lifetime.
Just let reporters redefine the term and we can have anything!
It's refreshing when someone correctly uses the term "ironic."
Thank you.
yeah, only 15%.
I've got a gut feeling that it's actually much higher.
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