Simple: insane love of useless SUV's, voting for a complete moron as president, trying to policeforce the world.
Correction: Complete moron and Drinking Buddy/stooge of the Texas-Based Oil Cartel.
Gasoline goes from $1.20 to $3.50 in just 4 years? MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
But I don't see that this is any better than a well-designed Scantron (darken-the-box) paper ballot.
Just seems like a way to waste money. And I'm sure that visually-impaired types would rather handle paper than look at a screen and use a touch screen, or whatever.
Great. get a SuperMario voting machine, that faithfully spits out the choices you beep-clicked into the blinkie-box. SO WHAT? What actually happens during the aggregation of the voting has no relation to the printout, and cannot be traced. Unless the machine holds an identical, machine-readable printout that you can see, internally. Not bloody likely.
Too bad for the trees, how about staying away from McDonald's on election day... there's a lot more environmental damage in a meal there, than a single sheet of Scantron paper.
Voting machines provide no advantage, other than obfuscation of possible/probable tampering and errors. Code reviews are a waste of time. Bring back paper. Non-tangible bit-flipping to register votes will never be sufficiently accountable.
At VERY minimum, institute scantron (filled in boxes on paper) voting.
Still incorrect. I am using NO special hardware or software anywhere. Just run-of-the mill Asterisk, some behind NAT and sone not behind NAT. 2 years ago, it was very iffy about this stuff working. Now it always works.
If somebody (it will happen) could free up some of that famous wasted Class-A number space, IPv4 will live well beyond my time.
I totally agree on the 'cut the crap' comment you offer.
This is just plain FALSE. I have numerous SIP registrations coming from home, without using STUN. It works. One IP number. I have this going on about 5 servers, each with several SIP registrations (often to the same service) in place.
SIP is idiotically complex, that is why IAX was invented, which all happens on one port.
But the people writing clients, servers, and client/server combos (eg Asterisk) are actually more clueful than the vested interests that keep pushing IPv6 to a disinterested world. IPv6 reminds me of the Bell System's Picturephone, which I used decades ago. It worked fine. Many other video-phone solutions exist. The bottom line is, there's no screaming need for it.
NAT is here to stay, just as is substandard overpriced 'broadband' service, at least here in Freedomland.
No, just some assholes with explosives took some journeys on London Tubes and buses a couple of years ago on 7 July. Killed 60 and wounded hundreds. I was on an (unaffected) tube train at the time. It was a grand time for all.
It's the famous Apple Reality Distortion Field! Nothing escapes the wicked distortions of the RDF, even their own cheesy video product. I can only assume some intimate Friend of His Steveness came out with this turd, and he pushed it through the corporate cloaca.
I have one of these and I love it. It is still a bit temperamental(yes, I've done the firmware upgrades), but is much better when you learn exactly how to configure it. Using it just as you are, having it connect to my Asterisk boxes. For calls -to- the phone I ring both the SIP entity and the standard cell phone number, with a 10 delay on the latter, so that the call does not immediately drop into voicemail should I be in a bad-mobile-signal area (which in the US is all over the place).
Like most Asterisk/VoIP junkies I detest communications-roach-motels like Skype and Vonage. Between Asterisk, a good end-device like the E70, and the numerous SIP/IAX providers, you can cut the cord from the old POTS system, AND not get sodomized by the mobile guys, either. And the E70 does more than the Steve Jobs vaporphone that has the Fluffy Bunnies all goopy. 802.11 being switched on does not affect standby battery life, that I can detect. 802.11 calling chows on the battery a bit more than normal mobile calling. GPRS/UTMS data usage just DEVOURS the battery, as usual.
I must have seen two dozen movies with the same plot. The trick is to get the cars' petrol tanks to immediately explode. Lisping Tyrolean accents are optional, but highly expected.
All these bogus statistics items remind me of the story of the nerd who (for his own security) always would sneak a bomb on the plane, because of the obvious logic- "What's the probability of TWO independent bombs on the same plane?"
Bill and Steve have spoken. Open Source software is bad for America, it is tantamount to Communism. From there it is a short step to terrorism. And you can't question such rules, unless you want a very long free vacation.
This thing will be loved by the same people who use the Apple Mighty Mouse (R), which is about the biggest piece of white rodent shit that one can imagine. This is my litmus test for true Apple fanboi Fluffybunnies. If they use one of these things after the first week, they are totally lobotomized by His Steveness' Reality Distortion Bots.
That said, the iPhone is so damn cool, your tongue sticks to it!
And your E70 (and mine!) have all the useful features that the fluffybunnyphone has, plus actual tactile buttons, . It cost me $300 new and unlocked. And it has (for me) the killer app of a fully functional SIP-over-802.11 phone. What's the chance that Cingular would allow this? First two guesses don't count!
The main expense is not the $500 or $600, but being saddled with a high-end Cingular contract. Given my experience with their totally trashy data "service", lost/delayed SMSes, and -incredibly-, market-leading terrible customer service, the net cost will be in the $thousands. Oh yeah, your mileage may vary. BIG partnership mistake, Your Steveness.
True! Those endless wind machines on the ridgeline are great.... And it does not hurt that the people who run the power system there are not paid bonuses based on the profits.... There are stories on Seattle radio that overtime is severely restricted on PSE repair work. Bellevue is not exactly the boondocks.... (shut up, you Queen Anne snobs!)
Try Tully's coffee! (No affiliation at all, I just like them). They are aggressively going after the Starbucks behemoth, and have free 802.11 in all their shops! The one in Bellevue at Main St & 108th Av SE is a veritable geek refugee camp. And the staff is great, instead of chasing away the bandwidth addicts who are sitting here for hours, they walk around offering free coffee refills. I'm slurping an oversized Latte as I type this.....
You can also get free 802.11 in the King County Library System branches. The big fancy one in Bellevue is alive, and again is a geek refugee camp. But their bandwidth is overloaded, unlike here at the Tully's.
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Correction: Complete moron and Drinking Buddy/stooge of the Texas-Based Oil Cartel.
Gasoline goes from $1.20 to $3.50 in just 4 years? MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Thanks for the clarification.
Yeah, that's better.
But I don't see that this is any better than a well-designed Scantron (darken-the-box) paper ballot.
Just seems like a way to waste money. And I'm sure that visually-impaired types would rather
handle paper than look at a screen and use a touch screen, or whatever.
Great. get a SuperMario voting machine, that faithfully spits out the choices you beep-clicked into the blinkie-box. SO WHAT? What actually happens during the aggregation of the voting has no relation to the printout, and cannot be traced. Unless the machine holds an identical, machine-readable printout that you can see, internally. Not bloody likely.
Too bad for the trees, how about staying away from McDonald's on election day... there's a lot more environmental damage in a meal there, than a single sheet of Scantron paper.
Voting machines provide no advantage, other than obfuscation of possible/probable tampering and errors. Code reviews are a waste of time. Bring back paper. Non-tangible bit-flipping to register votes will never be sufficiently accountable.
At VERY minimum, institute scantron (filled in boxes on paper) voting.
Nothing that can't be fixed!
Still incorrect. I am using NO special hardware or software anywhere. Just run-of-the mill Asterisk, some behind NAT and sone not behind NAT. 2 years ago, it was very iffy about this stuff working. Now it always works.
If somebody (it will happen) could free up some of that famous wasted Class-A number space, IPv4 will live well beyond my time.
I totally agree on the 'cut the crap' comment you offer.
This is just plain FALSE. I have numerous SIP registrations coming from home, without using STUN. It works. One IP number.
I have this going on about 5 servers, each with several SIP registrations (often to the same service) in place.
SIP is idiotically complex, that is why IAX was invented, which all happens on one port.
But the people writing clients, servers, and client/server combos (eg Asterisk) are actually more clueful than
the vested interests that keep pushing IPv6 to a disinterested world. IPv6 reminds me of the Bell System's Picturephone, which
I used decades ago. It worked fine. Many other video-phone solutions exist. The bottom line is, there's no screaming need for it.
NAT is here to stay, just as is substandard overpriced 'broadband' service, at least here in Freedomland.
No, just some assholes with explosives took some journeys on London Tubes and buses a couple of years ago on 7 July. Killed 60 and wounded hundreds. I was on an (unaffected) tube train at the time. It was a grand time for all.
You just have to hate people who are smart enough to preempt free speech. They want it to be like America?
It's the famous Apple Reality Distortion Field! Nothing escapes the wicked distortions of the RDF, even their own cheesy video product. I can only assume some intimate Friend of His Steveness came out with this turd, and he pushed it through the corporate cloaca.
It's a trap!!!
I have one of these and I love it. It is still a bit temperamental(yes, I've done the firmware upgrades), but is much better when you learn exactly how to configure it. Using it just as you are, having it connect to my Asterisk boxes. For calls -to- the phone I ring both the SIP entity and the standard cell phone number, with a 10 delay on the latter, so that the call does not immediately drop into voicemail should I be in a bad-mobile-signal area (which in the US is all over the place).
Like most Asterisk/VoIP junkies I detest communications-roach-motels like Skype and Vonage. Between Asterisk, a good end-device like the E70, and the numerous SIP/IAX providers, you can cut the cord from the old POTS system, AND not get sodomized by the mobile guys, either. And the E70 does more than the Steve Jobs vaporphone that has the Fluffy Bunnies all goopy. 802.11 being switched on does not affect standby battery life, that I can detect. 802.11 calling chows on the battery a bit more than normal mobile calling. GPRS/UTMS data usage just DEVOURS the battery, as usual.
"Democrats... In league with worldwide terrorism"?
"Global warming... just a theory?"
"George Bush.... Best President, Ever?"
Da more dey are stuck using the Minesweeper/Solitaire platform, da virse it gets.
I must have seen two dozen movies with the same plot. The trick is to get the cars' petrol tanks to immediately explode.
Lisping Tyrolean accents are optional, but highly expected.
All these bogus statistics items remind me of the story of the nerd who (for his own security) always would sneak a bomb on the plane, because of the obvious logic- "What's the probability of TWO independent bombs on the same plane?"
Bill and Steve have spoken. Open Source software is bad for America, it is tantamount to Communism. From there it is a short step to terrorism. And you can't question such rules, unless you want a very long free vacation.
He's brought out all the Fluffy Bunnies with that big fancy ipod-phone thingie! Koreans can have -them- too!
This thing will be loved by the same people who use the Apple Mighty Mouse (R), which is about the biggest piece of white rodent shit that one can imagine. This is my litmus test for true Apple fanboi Fluffybunnies. If they use one of these things after the first week, they are totally lobotomized by His Steveness' Reality Distortion Bots.
That said, the iPhone is so damn cool, your tongue sticks to it!
And your E70 (and mine!) have all the useful features that the fluffybunnyphone has, plus actual tactile buttons, . It cost me $300 new and unlocked. And it has (for me) the killer app of a fully functional SIP-over-802.11 phone. What's the chance that Cingular would allow this? First two guesses don't count!
The main expense is not the $500 or $600, but being saddled with a high-end Cingular contract. Given my experience with their totally trashy data "service", lost/delayed SMSes, and -incredibly-, market-leading terrible customer service, the net cost will be in the $thousands. Oh yeah, your mileage may vary. BIG partnership mistake, Your Steveness.
ICM somehow got the .xxx franchise, based on WHAT? I'd like to see the truth there.
Anyway, it's a dead asset, unless they can cash in on the monopoly money!
ICANN will do the right thing as they always have.
Creating a new TLD will do nothing except enrich the franchisee, and make a bunch of flat-earthers in Flyover Country yowl a lot.
One 'stream', many clients.... This one worked right out of the box!
Multicast over modulated RF.
Too bad about IP multicast, which was the next up-and-coming thing in 1993!
True! Those endless wind machines on the ridgeline are great.... And it does not hurt that the people who run the power system there are not paid bonuses based on the profits.... There are stories on Seattle radio that overtime is severely restricted on PSE repair work. Bellevue is not exactly the boondocks.... (shut up, you Queen Anne snobs!)
Try Tully's coffee! (No affiliation at all, I just like them). They are aggressively going after the Starbucks behemoth, and have free 802.11 in all their shops! The one in Bellevue at Main St & 108th Av SE is a veritable geek refugee camp. And the staff is great, instead of chasing away the bandwidth addicts who are sitting here for hours, they walk around offering free coffee refills. I'm slurping an oversized Latte as I type this.....
You can also get free 802.11 in the King County Library System branches. The big fancy one in Bellevue is alive, and again is a geek refugee camp. But their bandwidth is overloaded, unlike here at the Tully's.