Maybe it just checked if the sum of the two numbers was zero, and only wiped it if it wasn't. Also, they kept saying the machine counted backwards for the -16k. Seems like someone messed up if they though 16k people would vote for one person, and noone did (noone voted for the guy:P). Could just be a bad card like he report said.
Yes, it could "just" be a bad card. A few people would probably see this as a big problem with digital elections, as that "just one" bad card managed to wipe out everybody that voted for one of the candidates. In the case of a close race, 16000+ could be rather important.
I also find it rather fun that diebold now says that their voting machines are more accurate than they have ever been before. Does this mean that the earlier machines didn't know how to count, or does it mean that the new machines are a little bit better at this complex counting thingy.
The paper trail you end up with seems to be pretty much useless, as it only reports the final result, not the transactions and the initial state.
much in the same way as my computer that has a dedicated videocard that does not run linux.. I still say that my computer is running linux though. (I might even say the same about my window box, but then I'll get modded down)
heh.. according to ebay and the price links in theese comments, it seems like my eve-online assets are valued at somewhere between 5k and 10k usd, that is a lot of beer:)
yup, dihydrogen monoxide kills more people every year than landmines and handguns combined. It is especially dangerous when it is stored in large basins (referred to as pools).
When it heats up, the vapour might also be extremely dangerous and lead to serious harm. The bruns created by this vapour might lead to serious infections or in the worst scenario even death.
So far mankind have managed to find no way of making this molecular structure any safer, even though our best scientists have tried for the best part of the last two centuries.
And the worst thing is that it is an uncontrolled substance
"You have 20,000,000 credits, which is enough to purchase 3 songs, but only from this list of one hit wonder bands, from their albums that did not contain said hit."
More like "you've now got 20,000,000 credits, which is enough to buy five songs from the most selling artists"
Yay! I cant wait, soon I'll have Britney mp3s, oh joy
Anyway, take a look at the vampire thingy at their site. Should be totally legal to download their images. Maybe they change you know, and it is always good to have a cached copy of the images of your bank site;)
"Sunday, November 28th at 20:40:00, EVE Online broke the 12,000 simultaneous user barrier when 12.258 players were on at the same time. This record comes at the heels of EVE's latest expansion - EXODUS."
It even seems like E-O has got about 10-12k users on average when I've logged on lately.
have no problem believing (with a healthy degree of skepticism) the results of experimental science. But the absolute faith in a theory that can't be experimentally tested (and I don't think experiments on a few hundred generations of drosophilia demonstrate a great deal) and which therefore will forever remain unprovable, to me appears ludicrous.
Well, too bad for you. Feel free to play with imaginary friend, then.
God never was and never will be.
If you want to pray to something, pray to the sun, as that prolly is what has given life to the earth. Or you could send all your money to me, and your prayers would be just as likely to come true.
about wikipedia:
I just read an analysis of wikipedia, britannica and several other encyclopedias in a norwegian newspaper, and wikipedia came out surpricingly good. However most of it's strengths were in the most geeky areas where other encyclopædias are lacking.
Would prolly not trust wikipedia with my life, though. But the quality seems to be getting a lot better over time.
on the other hand: I should not mock Reich as after a bit more reading I found out that he was imprisoned, and the us court ordered his works destroyed.
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The court ordered his books and research burned and his equipment destroyed. Reich was given a prison sentence, and he died in prison in 1957.
To bad. Freedom of thought should be upheld, and even the most far out ideas should not be respected to some extent.
But a problem existed with its continued use, in that the deadly orgone energy that it absorbed could in fact hurt the operator if it was not correctly "drained off". This "draining off" of deadly orgone energy was accomplished by 1. Connecting the Cloudbuster to a body of running water (difficult) or 2. Connecting the Cloudbuster output to an orgone accumulator. However, the orgone accumulator would soon become saturated with the deadly orgone energy which in turn caused more problems for the operator
nah.. I don't dare to mock around with the all powerfull orgone energy
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He claimed discovery of what he called orgone energy, which nearly all scientists call pseudoscience (as of 2004).
Thanks for the links, though. Made my day at work considerably more fun:)
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I also find it rather fun that diebold now says that their voting machines are more accurate than they have ever been before. Does this mean that the earlier machines didn't know how to count, or does it mean that the new machines are a little bit better at this complex counting thingy.
The paper trail you end up with seems to be pretty much useless, as it only reports the final result, not the transactions and the initial state.
much in the same way as my computer that has a dedicated videocard that does not run linux.. I still say that my computer is running linux though. (I might even say the same about my window box, but then I'll get modded down)
heh.. according to ebay and the price links in theese comments, it seems like my eve-online assets are valued at somewhere between 5k and 10k usd, that is a lot of beer :)
purely theoretically; no
Counterweigth in space could be perfectly placed, and there would be no need to even anchor it to the ground.
then you add in wind,gravity fluctuations, and probably a bunch of wacky science and...
probably: yes
but then again, the tether would probably break rather high above the ground in a freak accident, and we'd all end up covered in carbon nanotube dust
blockquote> I'd be sceptical if it will take off - 'Wildbergers' just isn't as catchy as 'degrees' or 'radians'....
deg, grad, rad and WILD guess what i'd like to use on my calculator
yup, dihydrogen monoxide kills more people every year than landmines and handguns combined. It is especially dangerous when it is stored in large basins (referred to as pools).
When it heats up, the vapour might also be extremely dangerous and lead to serious harm. The bruns created by this vapour might lead to serious infections or in the worst scenario even death.
So far mankind have managed to find no way of making this molecular structure any safer, even though our best scientists have tried for the best part of the last two centuries.
And the worst thing is that it is an uncontrolled substance
another nice image is this:e s/RAMComp2.jpg
http://atomchip.com/db4/00366/atomchip.com/_uimag
Looks like they're using a memory controller from 1999 to control 1 tb of ram.. wonder how the access time will be.
> Oxygen may be a problem in this scenario, though.
use solarcells, break down ice into hydrogen and oxygen..
Boom, and you'll have both stored energy and air to inhale.
a lot easier and cheaper than trying to put trees on the damn planet
More like "you've now got 20,000,000 credits, which is enough to buy five songs from the most selling artists"
Yay! I cant wait, soon I'll have Britney mp3s, oh joy
wouldn't that be more or less what a robot does?
moving muscles are controlled with your mind (most of them anyways), your heart is controlled by the brain stem
you're dumb, which would not be strange if troll-bacterias used very short time to evolve into full fledged human trolls.
The rest of us used a few billion years until we figured out how to combine two cells into a multicelluar organism
that would be a lot more than 5 kilo of O2, even moonkilos ;)
do you care?
Anyway, take a look at the vampire thingy at their site. Should be totally legal to download their images. Maybe they change you know, and it is always good to have a cached copy of the images of your bank site
It is not like firefox believes that a site that looks like paypal is paypal, only the user does.
If anybody manages to do what the parent poster just wrote they must be mighty stupid.
nah, it will only show you the deleted scenes
"Sunday, November 28th at 20:40:00, EVE Online broke the 12,000 simultaneous user barrier when 12.258 players were on at the same time. This record comes at the heels of EVE's latest expansion - EXODUS."
It even seems like E-O has got about 10-12k users on average when I've logged on lately.
Very nice game
Well, too bad for you. Feel free to play with imaginary friend, then.
God never was and never will be.
If you want to pray to something, pray to the sun, as that prolly is what has given life to the earth. Or you could send all your money to me, and your prayers would be just as likely to come true.
heh... whenever I read something like this I start wondering if the poster ended up with a lot of pictures of a black sky.. :P
I just read an analysis of wikipedia, britannica and several other encyclopedias in a norwegian newspaper, and wikipedia came out surpricingly good. However most of it's strengths were in the most geeky areas where other encyclopædias are lacking.
Would prolly not trust wikipedia with my life, though. But the quality seems to be getting a lot better over time.
who voted for him? atheists? Did this jesus dude say anything to support death penalty?
fuck.. I am replying to a troll
Not that I think it is likely that an asteroid will crush us. We can take care of that ourselves.
damn third reply to my own post :(
I was trying to say:
and even the most far out ideas should be respected
where is the edit function when I need it?
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To bad. Freedom of thought should be upheld, and even the most far out ideas should not be respected to some extent.
nah.. I don't dare to mock around with the all powerfull orgone energy
oth.. (wiki)
He claimed discovery of what he called orgone energy, which nearly all scientists call pseudoscience (as of 2004).
Thanks for the links, though. Made my day at work considerably more fun