Well, the problem isn't whether they are hand-written, digital with tape, mechanical, or carved in stone, etc - The problem most people have with digital voting is that it needs to have a secure paper trail or some sort of auditable record. Just to make sure people aren't being fishy.
That doesn't seem to be the issue here as people voted outside of their precinct. Hand-written ballots could conceivably suffer the same problem.
The real question is: Why were these people allowed to vote in areas they aren't permitted to? I usually have to show some ID and they check a record book when I vote. If people are getting around that, then it really doesn't matter what type of ballot it is. People can just go vote in each different polling location. *sigh*
Well, my guess what ATT will do is wait until everyone is out of contract and then eliminate their legacy service. Once your contract expires and they terminate the legacy service, you either get a new phone or change providers (which probably means a new phone anyway).
I don't know what contract you signed but good luck getting a refund heh.
Well, I'm sure they were authorized. When I did tech support at the university a year ago the security office would regularly include nmap port lists on requests to have us clean up dorm users computers.
Ah the days of the dorm and portsentry having a heart attack whenever nmap crashed the firewall...
The reason they want their tools to work under Wine is simple. People will use them instead of code a replacement. Ming exists but isn't anywhere as easy to use as Flash. They're probably worried someone will make a Flash clone that will output swf and svg files and be OpenSource. That would kill their market for Flash.
The Flash plugin is a pretty good example. Its a version behind. It enough that most people aren't going to bother coding their own viewer but not exactly Macromedia's top priority.
Totally Screwed? Are you daft? Or just read too much SCO propoganda?
First of, depending on how much money they have invested in Linux - at that point they would just aquire SCO (this is what SCO is hoping for I gather). If not they pay some fine for a copywrite violation and the kernel tree purges JFS, numa and rcu (to my knowledge I don't use any of that so I don't care). Either way, Linux carries on.
Umm, modern coal plants don't produce alot of smog due to scrubbers, baghouses, and various other goodies that have been adopted over the years. Its also worth noting that through gassification you can basically convert coal into a petro type thing (SA did this during the apartide years).
And the whole, "fear of the work nuclear" doesn't really cut it as they can conviently call them "fusion plants":). And, you know, Mr Fusion - the Delorian, etc. Also - anyone who's played SimCity 2000 knows that Fusion plants are "de shiznitz".
Since you've gone and played with the wayback machine I thought I would to. Its interesting that google has gone the other way and their page today is simplier than it was back then. Good to know the linux search was still there "back in the day".
Latency can be related to bandwidth but usually isn't. Online games today don't use alot of bandwidth, they just want it sent and recieved rather quickly. There's also the distance issue. Cincinatti gamers playing against me on a server in Texas are still going to suffer some sort of lag.
I recently axed my gentoo box. Its now a slackware box along with my laptop. I came to gentoo from debian and am now quite happy with slack. After I install slack and dropline I can pretty much build anything I want, they way I want. There aren't endless updates - just security fixes and the occasional dropline updates.
My "play" machine currently has debian sarge setup on it (I'd honestly prefer gentoo on it but its really too slow to make that worth it). Debian install is pretty rough but as that was the first distro I started out with I can blast through it in about 10 minutes and have apt installing sarge. But then again, I can also do that with OpenBSD. Anyway, my advice is use what you like and eventually the differences won't matter.
Oh and just nice -n 10 emerge 'blah' and let it run in the background and compile times aren't that bad:)
No, from what I'm told, the main reason to fork is the attitude taken by some members of the XFree Core Team. As you said, its their code and they can do what they want but the forking has already happened:
Personally I don't see myself ever using XFree 4.4 and am looking forward to a complete release of fd.o. When that happens, I'll likely be moving everything I can off XFree but that's just me.
Yeah, right. I recently moved my gentoo machine to slackware and its considerably faster than the gentoo machine ever was. And thats a change from march=athlon-xp to march=i486.
IBM would be better off working on an existing open source VM and slowly moving Java-the-language to another VM that is not controlled by a rival. Hell, maybe even parrot.
Nah, I've got another option. In a month I'm moving 750 miles away from where I am now so tech support shouldn't be a problem. Unless of course there are some very cute women out there that need support. Then forget the PE, I'm rebuilding the registry by hand. Could take weeks.:)
You're preaching to the choir. I don't have any Windows machines anymore (my "gaming" system is a slackware 9.1 box). But back to the point, try getting the computer illiterate to install patches or not install spyware. My 2k installation ran for almost 2 years before I wiped it out.
Its an issue of time. I probably could try and put these family members / friends computers back together but they just want their machines working as soon as possible. In that case, reloading is generally faster. Since I can't get them to do an ounce of prevention, I'm stuck doing a pound of cure every so often. We'll see what forced automatic updates bring.
I take it you're not a member of the development team then? I never understand where people get off criticizing OSS solutions because it doesn't do some random thing you want. The code is all there - if you want a native Cocoa version, get coding.
Sure there are things, I'd _LIKE_ done to some of my favorite OSS projects (plug for GNUCash 2.0 to get finished:)), but I can't code my way out of a wet paper bag and am just greatfull for having the tools I have.
Oh and gimp 2.0pre2 works fine on my G4 at work now that I've installed yellow dog. YMMV.
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Easy, its one of the M's in M&M's. Mars and Murrie. I'm certainly not giving up my (black & white M&M's) for some election year stunt!!
Well, the problem isn't whether they are hand-written, digital with tape, mechanical, or carved in stone, etc - The problem most people have with digital voting is that it needs to have a secure paper trail or some sort of auditable record. Just to make sure people aren't being fishy.
That doesn't seem to be the issue here as people voted outside of their precinct. Hand-written ballots could conceivably suffer the same problem.
The real question is: Why were these people allowed to vote in areas they aren't permitted to? I usually have to show some ID and they check a record book when I vote. If people are getting around that, then it really doesn't matter what type of ballot it is. People can just go vote in each different polling location. *sigh*
Well, my guess what ATT will do is wait until everyone is out of contract and then eliminate their legacy service. Once your contract expires and they terminate the legacy service, you either get a new phone or change providers (which probably means a new phone anyway).
I don't know what contract you signed but good luck getting a refund heh.
I'm fairly sure this was patched in 2.6.3. Running the test code included in the advisory on my 2.6.3 (vanilla) system shows:
[+] kernel 2.6.3 vulnerable: NO exploitable NO
There's also a patch to mremap listed in the 2.6.3 ChangeLog. So I don't know how "new" this bug is.
Well, I'm sure they were authorized. When I did tech support at the university a year ago the security office would regularly include nmap port lists on requests to have us clean up dorm users computers.
...
Ah the days of the dorm and portsentry having a heart attack whenever nmap crashed the firewall
How about a flash 7 plugin guys?
The reason they want their tools to work under Wine is simple. People will use them instead of code a replacement. Ming exists but isn't anywhere as easy to use as Flash. They're probably worried someone will make a Flash clone that will output swf and svg files and be OpenSource. That would kill their market for Flash.
The Flash plugin is a pretty good example. Its a version behind. It enough that most people aren't going to bother coding their own viewer but not exactly Macromedia's top priority.
I suppose I'll put it in my safe, with the same combination as my luggage.
Let me guess? 1-2-3-4-5?
:%s/they/IBM/g
:(
*cough*
Totally Screwed? Are you daft? Or just read too much SCO propoganda?
First of, depending on how much money they have invested in Linux - at that point they would just aquire SCO (this is what SCO is hoping for I gather). If not they pay some fine for a copywrite violation and the kernel tree purges JFS, numa and rcu (to my knowledge I don't use any of that so I don't care). Either way, Linux carries on.
Umm, modern coal plants don't produce alot of smog due to scrubbers, baghouses, and various other goodies that have been adopted over the years. Its also worth noting that through gassification you can basically convert coal into a petro type thing (SA did this during the apartide years).
:). And, you know, Mr Fusion - the Delorian, etc. Also - anyone who's played SimCity 2000 knows that Fusion plants are "de shiznitz".
And the whole, "fear of the work nuclear" doesn't really cut it as they can conviently call them "fusion plants"
*Ahem*. Carry on.
"HARCOURT FENTON MUDD!!, WHAT DID I tell you ..."
....."
"Stella nooooooooo
Hopefully these processes aren't threaded.
Since you've gone and played with the wayback machine I thought I would to. Its interesting that google has gone the other way and their page today is simplier than it was back then.
...
Good to know the linux search was still there "back in the day".
God, I feel old now
Latency can be related to bandwidth but usually isn't. Online games today don't use alot of bandwidth, they just want it sent and recieved rather quickly. There's also the distance issue. Cincinatti gamers playing against me on a server in Texas are still going to suffer some sort of lag.
I recently axed my gentoo box. Its now a slackware box along with my laptop. I came to gentoo from debian and am now quite happy with slack. After I install slack and dropline I can pretty much build anything I want, they way I want. There aren't endless updates - just security fixes and the occasional dropline updates.
:)
My "play" machine currently has debian sarge setup on it (I'd honestly prefer gentoo on it but its really too slow to make that worth it). Debian install is pretty rough but as that was the first distro I started out with I can blast through it in about 10 minutes and have apt installing sarge. But then again, I can also do that with OpenBSD. Anyway, my advice is use what you like and eventually the differences won't matter.
Oh and just nice -n 10 emerge 'blah' and let it run in the background and compile times aren't that bad
No, from what I'm told, the main reason to fork is the attitude taken by some members of the XFree Core Team. As you said, its their code and they can do what they want but the forking has already happened:
Xouvert
Freedesktop
Cygwin X
Personally I don't see myself ever using XFree 4.4 and am looking forward to a complete release of fd.o. When that happens, I'll likely be moving everything I can off XFree but that's just me.
*Warn*, *Warn*, *Warn*, *Block*!!
Yeah, right. I recently moved my gentoo machine to slackware and its considerably faster than the gentoo machine ever was. And thats a change from march=athlon-xp to march=i486.
There's more to a distro than CFLAGS.
IBM would be better off working on an existing open source VM and slowly moving Java-the-language to another VM that is not controlled by a rival. Hell, maybe even parrot.
:)
Or you know, IBM could work on their own virtual machine.
Nah, I've got another option. In a month I'm moving 750 miles away from where I am now so tech support shouldn't be a problem. Unless of course there are some very cute women out there that need support. Then forget the PE, I'm rebuilding the registry by hand. Could take weeks. :)
You're preaching to the choir. I don't have any Windows machines anymore (my "gaming" system is a slackware 9.1 box). But back to the point, try getting the computer illiterate to install patches or not install spyware. My 2k installation ran for almost 2 years before I wiped it out.
Its an issue of time. I probably could try and put these family members / friends computers back together but they just want their machines working as soon as possible. In that case, reloading is generally faster. Since I can't get them to do an ounce of prevention, I'm stuck doing a pound of cure every so often. We'll see what forced automatic updates bring.
I don't suppose ICANN can just allow them to go ahead with sitefinder and simulaniously terminate their contract to host the registrys?
.org is beyond their slimy reach for the moment.
That's wishfull thinking but it would still be nice. I'm glad my
Do they know how many times I've "reloaded" XP for friends and family members? Seriously.
Not much difference from what they did with 98SE or 95B (or 95C).
from the forgery-and-lebel-were-already-criminal dept.
I believe it's "libel"
I take it you're not a member of the development team then? I never understand where people get off criticizing OSS solutions because it doesn't do some random thing you want. The code is all there - if you want a native Cocoa version, get coding.
:)), but I can't code my way out of a wet paper bag and am just greatfull for having the tools I have.
Sure there are things, I'd _LIKE_ done to some of my favorite OSS projects (plug for GNUCash 2.0 to get finished
Oh and gimp 2.0pre2 works fine on my G4 at work now that I've installed yellow dog. YMMV.
Are any of these features NOT copied from PhotoShop?
:).
I believe they were unable to copy the pricetag.
I've been using 2.0pre for awhile and I really like it. Has some firework-esq features and it was really easy to make up graphics for my website