I liked my introduction to the scientific method in middle school. My teacher spent the first week teaching us the biological concepts behind spontaneous generation. He had us write down notes about how worms were generated in the earth when rain fell, how maggots were generated from meat and heat/light, etc. We kept saying "What, that can't be true?" but he kept insisting and none of us was strong willed enough to stand up and truly question his authority.
At the beginning of the next week when we came in he essentially said, "Tear out all of last weeks notes, and throw them away. If you all want to learn science you can never blindly accept what anyone tells you. Think it through and don't be stupid about it. Test for yourself if you don't believe someone!"
This is an obvious opportunity to upgrade the caliber of the recently commented on floppy disk launcher, DataStorm v1.0. You may not get as many shots in, but man do they pack a punch!
Damn you for making me remember Master of Orion 3! I had almost forgotten it! I remember starting the game up, playing a few rounds, then I ended up just hitting "next turn" about 50 times because I was completely confused. After hitting it to see what would happen, the game told me I won. I sat staring at it for a few minutes, then quietly put it away and never brought it out again... As I said, damn you!
I bought 4 when a local KB Toys was going out of business and had them for $4 each.:) At least I think they are the same one, the games list looks the same anyway. I haven't had a chance to open any of them up, but figure for $4, may as well stock up.
Forcing him to be the scapegoat? Strange to call someone who committed a crime a scapegoat. Scapegoat (n) "One that is made to bear the blame of others", seems to me he is bearing his own blame, not the blame of others at all. If anything, I would say HE is trying to make a scapegoat of video games.
You seemed to indicate in your comment that you were inclined to believe the killer more than the step-mother's email. You are free to make your own conclusions of course, but I would generally put more trust in those who have not committed serious crimes than those who have. Thus, I tend to agree with the step-mother's assertion that he is more than likely just bringing up this game-related argument to try to gain sympathy and attention. Also she knows him much better than either of us.
And, if you think about it logically, if she was less concerned with the truth, she could very easily AGREE vocally that video games helped cause her step son's condition. Then she could go after game manufacturers for potential profit.
It all comes down to this: I think she is being honest.
Or he wanted to say that to get media attention and lay the blame on something other than himself. I have heard that you can't always trust killers 100%, but that could just be an urban-myth.
The voter doesn't get to SEE any paper receipt in maryland. The paper receipt I am talking about is printed when the machine is first turned on (to verify the memory card has no votes on it at the start), and at the end of the day (to show the total number of votes cast). So, yes, it is done differently in maryland.
I worked as an election judge in MD, and in the district I worked in someone who came in complained to me that the roll-call judges were just asking for name, then telling the voter their address and just asking "is that correct?". This voter said that she had been trained as a challenger and that was one of the first things they were told to verify. So I brought it up with the roll-call judges (I was working as a unit judge) and they said they hadn't received any real directions that they were supposed to be asking for BOTH items (name and address), so they just asked one and then verified the other. The two chief judges didn't seem to worry about it much, but I think they did change to asking voters for both items for the rest of the day. I never heard any real clarification on what the real rules are though.
Note that MD does require you to present ID the first time you vote in the state from the rules I read. Note sure how the roll-call judges know that or not though when looking at the voter registration machine.
Having worked as an election judge in Maryland, which is now using Diebold machines, I just don't trust them. I have seen the printed tape shown at the beginning and end of each election, so I know the machine told me that it took X number of votes, and that that total matched my hand tabulated total from who went to each machine, but how do I know that when the button for candidate X was pressed, the machine actually recored it for X. I don't know. No one knows. And furthermore, there is no possible WAY to know after the voter leaves the machine.
It is a stupid system, and I am proud that someone with more authority than me is saying so. I believe all the politicians who decided that touch screen voting was a "great idea" should be voted out of office ASAP.
From my experience, my children have all loved creepy crawlie things. My one year old loves trying to catch bugs (earwigs, spiders, worms, etc.). My three year old also used to love doing that around the age of 2. Now he gives more of the "Ugg, a bug!" reaction. My oldest son, 5, hates creppy crawlie things now, didn't before. So, from my limited experience, I think the reaction is more learned than inate.
They do monitor mail. Not all mail, I am sure, but packages I have sent have been opened, including letters. I cannot tell you at what level of government this occurred (customs, mail carrier, censor?) but I know items have been at least examined.
I agree completely. It really pulled me into the story when she was attacked by an evil demon creature that could turn invisible at her place of work. After the attack, within an hour or so, she was calmly back at work. Now THAT is some work dedication!
I don't think the article is really concerned with WHO the extra votes were for, it is just indicating that there are problems with a electronic voting system that does not include paper trails to provide a more reliable count. The article is trying to indicate that we should not just blindly trust electronic machines, and I agree with them. Whether the extra votes were for Bush or Kerry is beside the point really.
The obvious solution is for analog and digital to meet in the middle, have black bars around all sides of both TVs! And then we also have room for the next big advance after digital.:)
I was concerned about the ability to selectively remove a disk. Say I have 3 disks and ZFS has spread my data all over those three disks. How do I say, "I need to remove disk 2, please move all that data to other disks now."? Just a minor concern really, but something to think about.
The online registration form was not working. I had to email the contact Allen Eustis with my information to get registered. He emailed me back saying I would be set to attend. I am only planning to attend the first two days (if my work and wife will let me!) since they seem to deal more with the specific aspects of electronic voting I am concerned with.
Also, Mr. Eustis did indicate that though the draft agenda said they would have an hour for public comment each day, he was going to try to allocate more time as necessary to try to allow all those who wanted to comment to do so. He also said that after comments you should expect to receive some questions from the panel members (he indicated it would be in a format similar to congressional hearings), and you would also be able to submit more responses or comments following the meeting for consideration.
Not sure if I will comment or not (or event be able to attend at this point), but I wanted to be there especially after hearing that a Maryland judge ruled that it was too close to the election to require all voting machines to have paper trails.
I am just waiting to see the final results of voting in Maryland. I predict that the Maryland vote will be divided exactly 50/50 between Kang and Kodos.:)
Kodos: "It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us." Man1: "He's right, this is a two-party system!" Man2: "Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate!" Kang: "Go ahead, throw your vote away! HAHAHA"
The father of my freshman year roommate was a professor at the University I went to. He was a mathmatician and he had written a C program to do mathmatical modeling. My roommate told me he was looking for someome to make some modifications to the program. I worked on modifying the program to run under both UNIX and windows. I got some good experience from it, and I was able to help the professor. I also got paid some for the work, so it worked out pretty well for everyone.
If I hadn't ended up traveling the China to study abroad, the professor was also planning to give me a system admin job for the department he managed.
The main thing is to keep your eyes open and talk to people. Talk to some professors you know and like, ask them if they could hire you to do some work (paid work looks better than volunteer on a resume I think, because it shows that the work you were doing was really valuable to someone.) Or if they don't have the money or need, ask them if any of their coworkers do. Don't just ask the comp. sci. department either, talk to all of your professors.
If no one you know needs help, go talk to your schools job search assistance center. They can help you look for something on campus that will help you fill out your resume before you graduate.
And of course, look for something that you will like, that is really important. If you are interested in the work, you will do better work, and then when your first post-graduation employer calls for a reference you will be remembered as a happy active employee.
Oh, and another good game was Racing Destruction Set. Of course, whenever we would race on a moon with low gravity someone would invariably blow up and with the low gravity it would take about a minute fro the car to land each time the car bounced from the explosions. If I remember correctly you had to wait for the car to stop bouncing before you could race again.
Monster Construction Set? I can only assume you mean Mail Order Monsters, my all time favorite C-64 game. My brother and I played that so much... Can't wait for my son to be old enough to play games with me!:)
I just got cable modem access a month ago, and one of the things I was considering was whether to get an emusic subscription again (had it when I used to have DSL). It was a really great deal at 9.99 a month, especially for someone like me with very eclectic musical taste (love punk, electronic, fusion, almost every world music style, 80s pop, polka, etc). I still have probably 60 albums I downloaded from my first subscription (I subscribed for a year). If they had stayed at 9.99 a month I would have joined in a couple months. As it is, forget it. An awful deal.
Good, so to get legislation passed to make sure that the voting machines aren't rigged I will vote for Mr. Good Politician at my newly installed electronic voting machine, and... err... wait a second.
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I liked my introduction to the scientific method in middle school. My teacher spent the first week teaching us the biological concepts behind spontaneous generation. He had us write down notes about how worms were generated in the earth when rain fell, how maggots were generated from meat and heat/light, etc. We kept saying "What, that can't be true?" but he kept insisting and none of us was strong willed enough to stand up and truly question his authority.
At the beginning of the next week when we came in he essentially said, "Tear out all of last weeks notes, and throw them away. If you all want to learn science you can never blindly accept what anyone tells you. Think it through and don't be stupid about it. Test for yourself if you don't believe someone!"
This is an obvious opportunity to upgrade the caliber of the recently commented on floppy disk launcher, DataStorm v1.0. You may not get as many shots in, but man do they pack a punch!
I went to go sign up, and I got an error:
:)
"There was some problem subscribing. Please try again later."
So thanks for telling me about it... and damn you for telling everyone else!
Damn you for making me remember Master of Orion 3! I had almost forgotten it! I remember starting the game up, playing a few rounds, then I ended up just hitting "next turn" about 50 times because I was completely confused. After hitting it to see what would happen, the game told me I won. I sat staring at it for a few minutes, then quietly put it away and never brought it out again... As I said, damn you!
I bought 4 when a local KB Toys was going out of business and had them for $4 each. :) At least I think they are the same one, the games list looks the same anyway. I haven't had a chance to open any of them up, but figure for $4, may as well stock up.
Forcing him to be the scapegoat? Strange to call someone who committed a crime a scapegoat. Scapegoat (n) "One that is made to bear the blame of others", seems to me he is bearing his own blame, not the blame of others at all. If anything, I would say HE is trying to make a scapegoat of video games.
You seemed to indicate in your comment that you were inclined to believe the killer more than the step-mother's email. You are free to make your own conclusions of course, but I would generally put more trust in those who have not committed serious crimes than those who have. Thus, I tend to agree with the step-mother's assertion that he is more than likely just bringing up this game-related argument to try to gain sympathy and attention. Also she knows him much better than either of us.
And, if you think about it logically, if she was less concerned with the truth, she could very easily AGREE vocally that video games helped cause her step son's condition. Then she could go after game manufacturers for potential profit.
It all comes down to this: I think she is being honest.
Or he wanted to say that to get media attention and lay the blame on something other than himself. I have heard that you can't always trust killers 100%, but that could just be an urban-myth.
The voter doesn't get to SEE any paper receipt in maryland. The paper receipt I am talking about is printed when the machine is first turned on (to verify the memory card has no votes on it at the start), and at the end of the day (to show the total number of votes cast). So, yes, it is done differently in maryland.
I worked as an election judge in MD, and in the district I worked in someone who came in complained to me that the roll-call judges were just asking for name, then telling the voter their address and just asking "is that correct?". This voter said that she had been trained as a challenger and that was one of the first things they were told to verify. So I brought it up with the roll-call judges (I was working as a unit judge) and they said they hadn't received any real directions that they were supposed to be asking for BOTH items (name and address), so they just asked one and then verified the other. The two chief judges didn't seem to worry about it much, but I think they did change to asking voters for both items for the rest of the day. I never heard any real clarification on what the real rules are though.
Note that MD does require you to present ID the first time you vote in the state from the rules I read. Note sure how the roll-call judges know that or not though when looking at the voter registration machine.
Having worked as an election judge in Maryland, which is now using Diebold machines, I just don't trust them. I have seen the printed tape shown at the beginning and end of each election, so I know the machine told me that it took X number of votes, and that that total matched my hand tabulated total from who went to each machine, but how do I know that when the button for candidate X was pressed, the machine actually recored it for X. I don't know. No one knows. And furthermore, there is no possible WAY to know after the voter leaves the machine.
It is a stupid system, and I am proud that someone with more authority than me is saying so. I believe all the politicians who decided that touch screen voting was a "great idea" should be voted out of office ASAP.
I voted for Kodos.
From my experience, my children have all loved creepy crawlie things. My one year old loves trying to catch bugs (earwigs, spiders, worms, etc.). My three year old also used to love doing that around the age of 2. Now he gives more of the "Ugg, a bug!" reaction. My oldest son, 5, hates creppy crawlie things now, didn't before. So, from my limited experience, I think the reaction is more learned than inate.
They do monitor mail. Not all mail, I am sure, but packages I have sent have been opened, including letters. I cannot tell you at what level of government this occurred (customs, mail carrier, censor?) but I know items have been at least examined.
I agree completely. It really pulled me into the story when she was attacked by an evil demon creature that could turn invisible at her place of work. After the attack, within an hour or so, she was calmly back at work. Now THAT is some work dedication!
Doesn't matter if the government can break patents if the service provider is a private company who cannot break a patent, right?
Slashdotters, do your duty and eat those nose pickings!
You don't have to tell me twice!
I don't think the article is really concerned with WHO the extra votes were for, it is just indicating that there are problems with a electronic voting system that does not include paper trails to provide a more reliable count. The article is trying to indicate that we should not just blindly trust electronic machines, and I agree with them. Whether the extra votes were for Bush or Kerry is beside the point really.
The obvious solution is for analog and digital to meet in the middle, have black bars around all sides of both TVs! And then we also have room for the next big advance after digital. :)
I was concerned about the ability to selectively remove a disk. Say I have 3 disks and ZFS has spread my data all over those three disks. How do I say, "I need to remove disk 2, please move all that data to other disks now."? Just a minor concern really, but something to think about.
The online registration form was not working. I had to email the contact Allen Eustis with my information to get registered. He emailed me back saying I would be set to attend. I am only planning to attend the first two days (if my work and wife will let me!) since they seem to deal more with the specific aspects of electronic voting I am concerned with.
:)
Also, Mr. Eustis did indicate that though the draft agenda said they would have an hour for public comment each day, he was going to try to allocate more time as necessary to try to allow all those who wanted to comment to do so. He also said that after comments you should expect to receive some questions from the panel members (he indicated it would be in a format similar to congressional hearings), and you would also be able to submit more responses or comments following the meeting for consideration.
Not sure if I will comment or not (or event be able to attend at this point), but I wanted to be there especially after hearing that a Maryland judge ruled that it was too close to the election to require all voting machines to have paper trails.
I am just waiting to see the final results of voting in Maryland. I predict that the Maryland vote will be divided exactly 50/50 between Kang and Kodos.
Kodos: "It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us."
Man1: "He's right, this is a two-party system!"
Man2: "Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate!"
Kang: "Go ahead, throw your vote away! HAHAHA"
The father of my freshman year roommate was a professor at the University I went to. He was a mathmatician and he had written a C program to do mathmatical modeling. My roommate told me he was looking for someome to make some modifications to the program. I worked on modifying the program to run under both UNIX and windows. I got some good experience from it, and I was able to help the professor. I also got paid some for the work, so it worked out pretty well for everyone.
If I hadn't ended up traveling the China to study abroad, the professor was also planning to give me a system admin job for the department he managed.
The main thing is to keep your eyes open and talk to people. Talk to some professors you know and like, ask them if they could hire you to do some work (paid work looks better than volunteer on a resume I think, because it shows that the work you were doing was really valuable to someone.) Or if they don't have the money or need, ask them if any of their coworkers do. Don't just ask the comp. sci. department either, talk to all of your professors.
If no one you know needs help, go talk to your schools job search assistance center. They can help you look for something on campus that will help you fill out your resume before you graduate.
And of course, look for something that you will like, that is really important. If you are interested in the work, you will do better work, and then when your first post-graduation employer calls for a reference you will be remembered as a happy active employee.
Oh, and another good game was Racing Destruction Set. Of course, whenever we would race on a moon with low gravity someone would invariably blow up and with the low gravity it would take about a minute fro the car to land each time the car bounced from the explosions. If I remember correctly you had to wait for the car to stop bouncing before you could race again.
Monster Construction Set? I can only assume you mean Mail Order Monsters, my all time favorite C-64 game. My brother and I played that so much... Can't wait for my son to be old enough to play games with me! :)
I just got cable modem access a month ago, and one of the things I was considering was whether to get an emusic subscription again (had it when I used to have DSL). It was a really great deal at 9.99 a month, especially for someone like me with very eclectic musical taste (love punk, electronic, fusion, almost every world music style, 80s pop, polka, etc). I still have probably 60 albums I downloaded from my first subscription (I subscribed for a year). If they had stayed at 9.99 a month I would have joined in a couple months. As it is, forget it. An awful deal.
Good, so to get legislation passed to make sure that the voting machines aren't rigged I will vote for Mr. Good Politician at my newly installed electronic voting machine, and... err... wait a second.