... on all the Ohio and Florida machines? Nah. This was a Utah county. But it does beg the question if the printer fonts on Diebold Machines are all the same (yeah, has gotta be the same), or if they differ by district, counties or states. Its easy for the Kathleen Harris-esque Voting Commissioner to check - copy all the printer fonts to their secure keycards and submit to BBvoting (or Consumer Reports Labs). Maybe even Apple Computer would offer to look at them, now that they are Intel and can run Windows.
Nah. I'm just being paranoid. Forget what I just said.
So do my eyes deceive me? If SCOx has admitted their original claims were wrong, why doesn't the Judge now rule in favor of Novell (because of the admission by Darling McBride) and have Novell bill SCOx for legal time & effort at full rate?
If SCOx wants to sue because of other circumstances, then that should be a separate suit and brought before the court. But put the D*st*rds out of business by paying court costs and legal fees because their original supposition(ing(s)) were wrong.
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Watch Boston Legal. Billy Shatner finally found his calling as a lawyer with Mad-Cow disease! Truly worthy of SCOx!
Here's the problem - Darwin spent 5 years of his life intensively studying the stuff around him, and 20 years describing what he saw. He's dead now, and all we have of Darwin is his writings. It violates science TO ITS FUNDAMENTAL CORE to strip hard study, the real hard stuff not a simple walk to the marketplace, with a simple belief. Don't be offended at the term "simple belief"; I believe in GOD unquestioningly too. But my belief does not in any way attempt to place GOD in a can.
Go toe-to-toe with your theories and espouse them in scientific circles. You will see everyone willing to give a fair shake, but make these arguments rational and well thought out. Let us question, see your reason, and maybe you will better understand a more perfect truth than what you discovered on your own.
Finally, owning something does not prove mastery of it's intricacies. It only shows a good distribution chain.
Confront Darwin with our best wishes, but don't usurp Science for your own satisfaction.
Work getting you down? Bloodsuckers and backstabbers at your doorstep? Got that sudden urge to suck on some grey matter?
Try Tromactyn !
Listen to some unsolicited comments we've pai^H^H^Hreceived.
[Swamp Thing] I had a real problem with my family life, what with the pollution, the local yokels always shooting up the place.
[Sgt. Kabukiman] Thats tough Swampy, but with me its the Rads that really drain you. After 16 hours walking the halls of THS, dealing with mutant freaks, this miracle drug really straightens you out.
Why attempt an ICMP echo reply in the FASTEST TIME possible? I have no interest in running the quickest server possible; I want to make my internet experience the most pleasant FOR ME.
Anyone have any method of delaying the ICMP echo reply by up to the maximum limit, plus 1K ms?
It seems two years ago that Steve gave IBM an ultimatum: innovate or die. Apple can play the PR game only for so long before the Market (not you or I) determines that the $1 bill is in US currency, not Canadian. Virginia Tech just assembled the Terascale (was fifth ranked) using Xservers; Xservers will probably remain IBM PPCs and be an inducement for IBM to innovate.
Take a second look at Steve's announcement; he explicitly said by 2007 there will be INTEL Macintoshes (any sterling developer can rent one today for $999) but never said the IBM PPC was dead.
Then again, boneheaded me, just what does TRANSITION mean?
I wanted MS split into arms-length companies if only to get the interaction between MS:The OS and MS:The Apps better documented and more visible. Now with MS:The Nets getting more prominence, documented interaction is KEY for allowing differing systems to access into Microsoft products. This isn't an Open-source issue; this makes App/System protocols apparent for software developers.
Its still not too late to unilaterally decide a corporate split-up. Any chance of seeing Uncle Bill on three boards of directors?
I've searched the various seismic databases and noticed the beachball plot of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake was inverted from large magnitude earthquakes.
Can anyone identify a seismograph plot of an actual asteroid impact? Both Torsional and Compressional plots would be quite useful (T-wave and P-Waves).
Okay, I don't live in Massachusetts, but here's a simple fact. I know OF my representative and senators, but I know NOT what they do. What bills have these fine specimen of Political Beef sponsored on my behalf?
Its not unusual to have little notice of what these people do, only because political communications is SO VERY BAD here in the U.S. How many rallies have our congressmen had where we can question and receive an honest response?
Truth be known, I've heard nothing but strawman arguments from the Republican party that I frankly wonder what planet I'm on. At present, the Kerry Flip-flop arguments are being used ON LOCAL POLITICIANS only because its working so very well.
Beam me up Scotty. There's no Intelligent life here!
I wish I could really believe that this was not a nuclear test. Remember when the gas terminal exploded off New Jersey? That didnt leave a major crater nor a 1 mile radius mushroom cloud. Exploding weapon caches in Iraq havent left any footprint similar to North Korea's "Smog". Finally, USA has seen forest fires the SIZE of North Korea (okay, minor exaggeration) but we have never discovered how to instantly extinguish such a HUGE fire.
Let's place a gentleman's bet that come Sept 30th North Korea will announce at the 6 nations meeting they tested a nuclear device.
I had to share an office with someone who habitually taulked to himself with a normal-level voice. Every so often I would mistakenly think he was starting up a conversation, and there's nothing worse than an antisocial engineer. I still have nightmares.
There is a trail; My recommendation is the following in this time of uncertainty:
1) Record your check-in time in the registrar's rolls as you sign your name. Check your watch and confirm the time you wrote matches your watch.
2) Take your sample ballot and a pen with you as you enter the "booth"
3) RECORD THE MACHINE ID AND THE TIME on your sample ballot. Hopefully, the current date/time is displayed prominently on your terminal - enter TERMINAL AND WATCH TIMES. If Machine ID is not visible, step out of line and see the supervisor.
4) Vote.
5) Record the time you finished voting (terminal AND watch times).
6) Inform your Supervisor of Elections you have recorded vital information and will be prepared to furnish this information if the election is in dispute.
Right now I would suggest everyone insist the Terminal ID and Date/Time be viewable by the voter, and the sample ballots include write-in boxes for Machine ID and Date/Time.
I've looked at the exchange rate for the Chinese Yuan over the last 6 years and found it to be FLAT (not a single dollar/dime difference) with exception of a handfull of spikes, only to return to the Flatline exchange rate again. There are several sides to this one question:
1) If the exchange rate is FLAT, would you consider offshoring?
2) If the exchange rate was volatile such that your contract price were unreliable by 10%, would you still offshore? - or was this even discussed?
3) Does political instability have an affect on the exchange rate, and does this factor in your decision?
I tried to download the PDF file from the electrochemical society, but it obviously suffered from the Slashdot Effect. My question is how long can a charged cell maintain a decent charge when unused and disconnected from any circuit? I've seen my smart NiCd batteries work decently after being shelved 2 months.
Just too much wrong with this article that its obviously someone pranking us all. Microsoft/Janus and getting MP3 hardware to sync up is just TOO coincidental.
In defense of Dan Geer's analysis: Biological Systems have been in the making for 500 million years, and predicated upon 4.5 billion years of mechanical evolution. Computers are qute a recent phenom and it is sheer hubris to disregard the complexity of the biological - mechanical - digital interfaces.
My interpretation of Dan Geer's article was the 95% reliance on the Microsoft monoculture had created a fragile ecosystem. Every aspect of R&D, Support, Distribution and Product EDUCATION is now controlled by a single entity. As an analogy, if you were stranded on a deserted island and relied solely upon Coconuts for sustenance, you better have a process for managing an bountiful supply.
That is not to say that Microsoft's dominance of the industry has the same impact as swallowing bountiful coconuts.
Your biases are evident; it will take a LOT of investigation to prove gravity on Mars has been a relative constant over the millenias, meanwhile you've stated the mass of Mars has diminished. Did something catastrophic happen to Mars which planted extraterrestrial materials on Earth? These two exciting questions will soon be answered now that President Bush has planned an invasion of Mars and the subjugation of all Martians.
George W Bush's business card should read: President of United States of America and Emperor of Mars!
Seeing Diebold in action just gives me that warm fuzzy feeling just south of the bellybutton. It appears Diebold, having sole control of the voting appliance, either planned to have an extended development cycle, or never considered the vote to be such an attention grabber.
If establishing a paper-trail causes difficulty, then perhaps the voting appliance should be freed to allow third-party "plug-ins" to allow openess in vote validation. Each candidate could choose the software and reporting method delivered once the polls have closed.
IBM was pretty savvy when releasing software to Linux; they got an army of programmers to perform a detailed source code review for very little $$$s. Bug fixes and enhancements only had to be vetted against their codeset and someone to evaluate problem reports. Figure each engineer costs $100K/yr just to maintain and extend AIX, and that's a bill that even Micro$oft couldn't pay.
My question is - if SCO manages to get into court - how can they justify their integration of uncompensated works submitted to Linux under the GPL? Would it be considered plagarism - or corporate hijacking of source code submitted by this army of unpaid programmers?
That isn't 50 million people - its roughly 50 million households! Figure 2.5 kids, mom & pop and thats less than 250 million PEOPLE of unspecified race. Include Cats and Goldfish (excluding dog lovers - they deserve it;) this is an incredible mass of flesh that had their freely spoken desires flushed into countless telemarketers' databases.
Maybe each individual state can sign onto the FTC's database as the untimate source of DNC registration. After all, the Justice Department maintains a similar database of felons and deadbeat dads.
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... on all the Ohio and Florida machines? Nah. This was a Utah county. But it does beg the question if the printer fonts on Diebold Machines are all the same (yeah, has gotta be the same), or if they differ by district, counties or states. Its easy for the Kathleen Harris-esque Voting Commissioner to check - copy all the printer fonts to their secure keycards and submit to BBvoting (or Consumer Reports Labs). Maybe even Apple Computer would offer to look at them, now that they are Intel and can run Windows.
Nah. I'm just being paranoid. Forget what I just said.
I cant use IE7 either... I have a 400MHz Macintosh G4. Just dawdling until the new intel Macs come out and doing my part to avoid the speed bumps.
So do my eyes deceive me? If SCOx has admitted their original claims were wrong, why doesn't the Judge now rule in favor of Novell (because of the admission by Darling McBride) and have Novell bill SCOx for legal time & effort at full rate?
If SCOx wants to sue because of other circumstances, then that should be a separate suit and brought before the court. But put the D*st*rds out of business by paying court costs and legal fees because their original supposition(ing(s)) were wrong.
------------------
Watch Boston Legal. Billy Shatner finally found his calling as a lawyer with Mad-Cow disease! Truly worthy of SCOx!
Wow. Fix this IMMEDIATELY
Here's the problem - Darwin spent 5 years of his life intensively studying the stuff around him, and 20 years describing what he saw. He's dead now, and all we have of Darwin is his writings. It violates science TO ITS FUNDAMENTAL CORE to strip hard study, the real hard stuff not a simple walk to the marketplace, with a simple belief. Don't be offended at the term "simple belief"; I believe in GOD unquestioningly too. But my belief does not in any way attempt to place GOD in a can.
Go toe-to-toe with your theories and espouse them in scientific circles. You will see everyone willing to give a fair shake, but make these arguments rational and well thought out. Let us question, see your reason, and maybe you will better understand a more perfect truth than what you discovered on your own.
Finally, owning something does not prove mastery of it's intricacies. It only shows a good distribution chain.
Confront Darwin with our best wishes, but don't usurp Science for your own satisfaction.
Work getting you down? Bloodsuckers and backstabbers at your doorstep? Got that sudden urge to suck on some grey matter?
Try Tromactyn !
Listen to some unsolicited comments we've pai^H^H^Hreceived.
[Swamp Thing] I had a real problem with my family life, what with the pollution, the local yokels always shooting up the place.
[Sgt. Kabukiman] Thats tough Swampy, but with me its the Rads that really drain you. After 16 hours walking the halls of THS, dealing with mutant freaks, this miracle drug really straightens you out.
[Both smiles at cameraman]
[Cameraman runs for cover]
Gotta do a deep think on this topic.
Why attempt an ICMP echo reply in the FASTEST TIME possible? I have no interest in running the quickest server possible; I want to make my internet experience the most pleasant FOR ME.
Anyone have any method of delaying the ICMP echo reply by up to the maximum limit, plus 1K ms?
It seems two years ago that Steve gave IBM an ultimatum: innovate or die. Apple can play the PR game only for so long before the Market (not you or I) determines that the $1 bill is in US currency, not Canadian. Virginia Tech just assembled the Terascale (was fifth ranked) using Xservers; Xservers will probably remain IBM PPCs and be an inducement for IBM to innovate.
Take a second look at Steve's announcement; he explicitly said by 2007 there will be INTEL Macintoshes (any sterling developer can rent one today for $999) but never said the IBM PPC was dead.
Then again, boneheaded me, just what does TRANSITION mean?
Eight ball into L-5 Orbit. Level of difficulty: .75 degree of arc in 27.322 days. Miss, and scratch one Earth.
Kinda puts Global Warming into perspective, huh?
I wanted MS split into arms-length companies if only to get the interaction between MS:The OS and MS:The Apps better documented and more visible. Now with MS:The Nets getting more prominence, documented interaction is KEY for allowing differing systems to access into Microsoft products. This isn't an Open-source issue; this makes App/System protocols apparent for software developers.
Its still not too late to unilaterally decide a corporate split-up. Any chance of seeing Uncle Bill on three boards of directors?
I've searched the various seismic databases and noticed the beachball plot of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake was inverted from large magnitude earthquakes.
Can anyone identify a seismograph plot of an actual asteroid impact? Both Torsional and Compressional plots would be quite useful (T-wave and P-Waves).
Okay, I don't live in Massachusetts, but here's a simple fact.
I know OF my representative and senators, but I know NOT what they do. What bills have these fine specimen of Political Beef sponsored on my behalf?
Its not unusual to have little notice of what these people do, only because political communications is SO VERY BAD here in the U.S. How many rallies have our congressmen had where we can question and receive an honest response?
Truth be known, I've heard nothing but strawman arguments from the Republican party that I frankly wonder what planet I'm on. At present, the Kerry Flip-flop arguments are being used ON LOCAL POLITICIANS only because its working so very well.
Beam me up Scotty. There's no Intelligent life here!
I wish I could really believe that this was not a nuclear test. Remember when the gas terminal exploded off New Jersey? That didnt leave a major crater nor a 1 mile radius mushroom cloud. Exploding weapon caches in Iraq havent left any footprint similar to North Korea's "Smog". Finally, USA has seen forest fires the SIZE of North Korea (okay, minor exaggeration) but we have never discovered how to instantly extinguish such a HUGE fire.
Let's place a gentleman's bet that come Sept 30th North Korea will announce at the 6 nations meeting they tested a nuclear device.
I had to share an office with someone who habitually taulked to himself with a normal-level voice. Every so often I would mistakenly think he was starting up a conversation, and there's nothing worse than an antisocial engineer.
I still have nightmares.
There is a trail; My recommendation is the following in this time of uncertainty:
1) Record your check-in time in the registrar's rolls as you sign your name. Check your watch and confirm the time you wrote matches your watch.
2) Take your sample ballot and a pen with you as you enter the "booth"
3) RECORD THE MACHINE ID AND THE TIME on your sample ballot. Hopefully, the current date/time is displayed prominently on your terminal - enter TERMINAL AND WATCH TIMES. If Machine ID is not visible, step out of line and see the supervisor.
4) Vote.
5) Record the time you finished voting (terminal AND watch times).
6) Inform your Supervisor of Elections you have recorded vital information and will be prepared to furnish this information if the election is in dispute.
Right now I would suggest everyone insist the Terminal ID and Date/Time be viewable by the voter, and the sample ballots include write-in boxes for Machine ID and Date/Time.
I've looked at the exchange rate for the Chinese Yuan over the last 6 years and found it to be FLAT (not a single dollar/dime difference) with exception of a handfull of spikes, only to return to the Flatline exchange rate again. There are several sides to this one question:
1) If the exchange rate is FLAT, would you consider offshoring?
2) If the exchange rate was volatile such that your contract price were unreliable by 10%, would you still offshore? - or was this even discussed?
3) Does political instability have an affect on the exchange rate, and does this factor in your decision?
I tried to download the PDF file from the electrochemical society, but it obviously suffered from the Slashdot Effect. My question is how long can a charged cell maintain a decent charge when unused and disconnected from any circuit? I've seen my smart NiCd batteries work decently after being shelved 2 months.
Any such battery stat as a Shelf Half Life?
Just too much wrong with this article that its obviously someone pranking us all. Microsoft/Janus and getting MP3 hardware to sync up is just TOO coincidental.
In defense of Dan Geer's analysis: Biological Systems have been in the making for 500 million years, and predicated upon 4.5 billion years of mechanical evolution. Computers are qute a recent phenom and it is sheer hubris to disregard the complexity of the biological - mechanical - digital interfaces.
My interpretation of Dan Geer's article was the 95% reliance on the Microsoft monoculture had created a fragile ecosystem. Every aspect of R&D, Support, Distribution and Product EDUCATION is now controlled by a single entity. As an analogy, if you were stranded on a deserted island and relied solely upon Coconuts for sustenance, you better have a process for managing an bountiful supply.
That is not to say that Microsoft's dominance of the industry has the same impact as swallowing bountiful coconuts.
Your biases are evident; it will take a LOT of investigation to prove gravity on Mars has been a relative constant over the millenias, meanwhile you've stated the mass of Mars has diminished. Did something catastrophic happen to Mars which planted extraterrestrial materials on Earth? These two exciting questions will soon be answered now that President Bush has planned an invasion of Mars and the subjugation of all Martians.
George W Bush's business card should read: President of United States of America and Emperor of Mars!
Seeing Diebold in action just gives me that warm fuzzy feeling just south of the bellybutton. It appears Diebold, having sole control of the voting appliance, either planned to have an extended development cycle, or never considered the vote to be such an attention grabber.
If establishing a paper-trail causes difficulty, then perhaps the voting appliance should be freed to allow third-party "plug-ins" to allow openess in vote validation. Each candidate could choose the software and reporting method delivered once the polls have closed.
With the newfangle Differential Computing nowadays, people are just programming with +/-1's.
I was going to mod this one down, but couldn't reach the mouse from the floor!
IBM was pretty savvy when releasing software to Linux; they got an army of programmers to perform a detailed source code review for very little $$$s. Bug fixes and enhancements only had to be vetted against their codeset and someone to evaluate problem reports. Figure each engineer costs $100K/yr just to maintain and extend AIX, and that's a bill that even Micro$oft couldn't pay.
My question is - if SCO manages to get into court - how can they justify their integration of uncompensated works submitted to Linux under the GPL? Would it be considered plagarism - or corporate hijacking of source code submitted by this army of unpaid programmers?
That isn't 50 million people - its roughly 50 million households! Figure 2.5 kids, mom & pop and thats less than 250 million PEOPLE of unspecified race. Include Cats and Goldfish (excluding dog lovers - they deserve it ;) this is an incredible mass of flesh that had their freely spoken desires flushed into countless telemarketers' databases.
Maybe each individual state can sign onto the FTC's database as the untimate source of DNC registration. After all, the Justice Department maintains a similar database of felons and deadbeat dads.