Except they get +2 for their Senators which have nothing to do with population, so South and North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa, Mississippi, New Mexico get +16 electors between them, in fact:
Alaska D.C. Delaware Montana South Dakota North Dakota Vermont and Wyoming
all get +16 electors base almost entirely on their Senate representation and not their population. 16 electors is like the smaller states getting Indiana and Oregon for free. D.C. however, can't have any more electors than the least populated state, so if you're specifically talking about D.C. you'd be right, but you weren't.
I know they've done more to drive the adoption of open source software in my workpalce than anything I could have done with catch as catch can advocacy.
Thanks for the audit BSA! I could never have moved our 80% of our servers and 15% of our desktops to Linux without you.
-dameron
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DailyHaiku.com, saying more in 17 syllables than Big Media says all day.
He's right, *.senate.gov sites are a mess.
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I've recently publish a political parody site composed of haiku coupled with public domain information gathered from the various.gov and.mil sites on the net.
I have to agree with the article that the senate sites are some of the homeliest hodgepodges of html I've seen since I typed "+Goth site:geocities.com" into google. Culling information for my site (which I'll plug here: www.dailyhaiku.com has been difficult and exacerbated by a lack of consistent presentation cross government site (*.senate.gov sites are particulary awful).
In a completely selfish way I'd love it if all images on government sites were tagged in valid xml with copyright information, date and time, subjects, location, etc. As it is I have to guess whether the pictures I appropriate are under copyright or public domain, and I'm just waiting for Zell Miller to send me a letter complaining about that picture of him and that scimitar.
It looks like this kind of project could make sites like mine more viable and enhance the public's access to government work (which is mostly in the public domain if created by federal employees as part or their work duties).
-dameron
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DailyHaiku.com saying more in 17 syllables than Big Media says all day.
The U.S. school system was created when most jobs were in agriculture. That origin still survives in the tradition of the summer holidays, even in college, when students were needed for planting and harvesting.
Yes, when they were in agriculture and moving to industrialization, thus the need for training, and we're talking about the U.S. public school system, not some strange Little House on the Prairie fantasy.
If the worst the school system did was to get employees to show up on time, it would be more of an achievement. In fact, there is a high drop out rate and the 3 month summer hiatus runs counter to the minimal vacations offered in businesses.
It's not the worst that the school system does. The worst it does is destroy individuality and force monolithic conformity while terrorizing the students. That, and failing to provide an reasonable approximation of an education.
>> The schools are great at producing people with stunted reasoning skills...
The school system is also great at producing scientists and engineers that rank with the best in the world.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day and every now and then a blind pig finds an acorn. The enormous mass of students being spat out of this system need remediation, even in our crappy state college standards.
They're called icons and they're found on every computer screen. It has something to do with ergonomics, not education standards.
Yeah, McDonald's cares about their poor tired fingers...
Last I heard, no one working at WalMart was content was the wages and many were in revolt over its management practices.
Yet they're the biggest employer in the U.S. Weird huh?
More is now spent on public education than ever and a college education is accessible to more students than ever before.
Lots more students now too...
You would expect a school system founded on industrial employment principles to have an 8 hour day, two weeks vacation, no music, phys ed, foreign languages or math beyond algegra. Students would be expelled for arriving late and get grades based on seniority rather than test scores.
You haven't been around public schools in a long, long time have you? All these "optional" programs are favorite budget cutting targets and social promotion means exactly that, you get passed based on seniority. Strange but true.
I suspect the biggest shock of a student's young life is when he gets his first job and sees how little it resembles high school or college.
I suspect the biggest shock of a student's young life is when he gets his first job, but that's 'cause he doesn't qualify for many, and there aren't many to be had.
-dameron
That's exactly what I'd expect. Our public school system grew out of the industrial revolution's need for people to have a minimum skill set and be regimented from an early age to follow a bell system. Ring. Lunch. Ring. Work. Ring. Leave.
Now that we're moving into a post industrial world (or that the industrial world is moving overseas) the regimenting is a bit less important and the skills taught have eroded to the point that McDonald's now has pictures of the food on the cash register instead of text.
The schools are great at producing people with stunted reasoning skills who can be content working at Wal Mart and make great consumers, and who vote (when they vote, if the system were perfect they wouldn't vote at all) based on emotion and often against their own interests.
There are some political parties who just can't afford to have an informed or educated electorate (hint: they tend to cut education spending and demonize teachers), and who's children never touch public school anyway.
Or not. Where were the federal agents when the Nurember Files web site produced wanted posters of abortion doctors? When a doctor had been killed they'd reissue the poster with an X over the killed doctor's face. It took a 1 vote margin in the 9th circuit to say that kind of intimidation was a threat and not legally protected.
But for providing public information on people who are, 'though small time, public figures gets a federal warrant...?
Actually "struck a dissonant chord" is a cliche but happens to be used in a fitting context here. It's a gimme and it would likely make me cringe if I'd written it, but for legalese it's top notch work.
The signs are there for a reason. Apparently at some point the elected official in part of the L.A. area decided to prohibit vehicles over 6000 lbs. from using residential streets.
Just because lawbreaking becomes popular doesn't mean that it should be ignored. Lots of people driving SUVs and their proliferation doesn't make the reasons for these bans go away. >>For vehicles over 6K, classify them as trucks, pure and simple. Let their drivers use more gas, roll over more often if they want, and take tax breaks. And ban them from residential streets. Make them stick to the truck routes, including truck lanes on highways. (Heck, maybe even require a truck driver's license to pilot one.)
>This comment is totally elitist, totalitarianistic, and harsh. How about rather than regulating everything you don't like out of existence, just leave me alone? If I want to drive a vehicle that has a higher risk of rolling over, then LET ME. Why do you care if I kill myself? I know what is best for me better than you know what is best for me.
Someone at some point decided driving a 3+ ton truck required a special set of credentials. If it rolls like a truck and crushes cars like a truck it's a truck. Why do I care if you kill yourself? Well, if you're in an Expedition and you go enough damage to that monster of a machine to kill yourself, the chances of you doing no damage to anyone else or their property are pretty damn small. I could care if you drove your SUV off a cliff right into a recycling compactor, but you're much more likely to plough into my compact and much more likely to kill someone in an accident that I am.
-dameron
Re:For the 49,204th time, a Slashdot reader says:
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Just because congress likes to
think
it can routinely overule the SCOTUS, it can't. If it wants to amend the Constitution for Hollywood and the recording industry it could, but I don't think it's likely.
I think XP has a newer version, and 2k can't use it, but could be wrong..
You are correct, and if you put an NT disk in an XP machine (say to do data recovery) the XP machine will -automatically and without asking- convert your NT disk to it's version of NTFS, rendering it unbootable.
Of course you're right, brain fart on my end, but only if they're trying to send direct smtp to another host, but I imagine most of these zombies send smtp through the host's default smtp config and so it's comcast's own servers that bear the brunt.
All this depends on the severity and type of schizophrenia she has, and this advice only comes second hand, but:
It may take a long time for your sister's doctors to find the right combination of drugs and dosages to best manage her symptoms, but there is hope that eventually she can live a reasonably normal life.
However, it is very dangerous and sadly common that once her therapy starts working she'll feel so much better she may stop taking her meds, relapse, get remedicated, feel better, stop taking the meds, relapse and so on.
But the Apple faithful think nothing of Apple disingenuously manipulating its EULA to support its monopoly.
What monopoly?
-dameron
Re:Holy fuck.... this is stupid all around
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This is like owning a gun that you keep on your front porch. When someone grabs it, shoots someone, then puts it back, guess who the police are going to bring in first?
It's nothing like owning a gun and leaving it out for public use. Guns are dangerous even in trained hands and are illegal for many people to own or possess. You can be criminally liable for acts someone else commits with your unsecured gun and negligent parents are often prosecuted for this. There are laws covering this.
This much more like Freenet, hell, it's almost exactly like Freenet.
Here's a possible solution I was discussing not twenty minutes ago.
1) add private network ip address (10.0.1.1) to existing public server
2) do no NAT or other routing on this ip
3) have squid running on 10.0.1.1 to accept connections from a handful fo addresses in 10.0.1.x or do proxy authentication
4) when installing/updating/troubleshooting windows boxes assign them a 10.0.1.x address and set windowsupdate to use the proxy
Windows update runs, the machine is on its own tiny network isolated from all legit traffic and can't compromise your network plus it it can't be infected from outside as it's safe behind the proxy. When you feel it's safe (you've got all patches, firewall, etc configured) restart with DHCP and get an address on your "real" network.
Or you could roll your own installation cd with the correct service packs and security updated included, but why fix a software problem with software...?
'Some of them actually signed in with their true names, so that helped us identify people.'"
No shit, they should get on this stat.
I mean, just the other day BillClinton69 was all giving me terrorist threating messages in CS, and I swear I saw GW_BUSH_BIATCH snorting a line of blow back at the rear base in Battlefield Vietnam.
I mean, when people fucking tell you who they are, you should fucking arrest them...
The good 'ole Walton family stands to make a pretty petty...
Beautiful typo...
-dameron
The real problem with TigerDirect: rebates
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I've purchased several item from TD with no problem and my rebates went through without a hitch. -However- they have a terrible reputation for denying rebates, hiding rebate information, and otherwise abusing rebates.
If you find something at TigerDirect and you can get it out the door at a bargain price by all means go for it, but it it requires a rebate be warned, you may have trouble.
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Except they get +2 for their Senators which have nothing to do with population, so South and North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa, Mississippi, New Mexico get +16 electors between them, in fact:
Alaska
D.C.
Delaware
Montana
South Dakota
North Dakota
Vermont
and Wyoming
all get +16 electors base almost entirely on their Senate representation and not their population. 16 electors is like the smaller states getting Indiana and Oregon for free. D.C. however, can't have any more electors than the least populated state, so if you're specifically talking about D.C. you'd be right, but you weren't.
Thanks for playing, it has been fun.
-dameron
I know they've done more to drive the adoption of open source software in my workpalce than anything I could have done with catch as catch can advocacy.
Thanks for the audit BSA! I could never have moved our 80% of our servers and 15% of our desktops to Linux without you.
-dameron
---- DailyHaiku.com, saying more in 17 syllables than Big Media says all day.
I've recently publish a political parody site composed of haiku coupled with public domain information gathered from the various .gov and .mil sites on the net.
I have to agree with the article that the senate sites are some of the homeliest hodgepodges of html I've seen since I typed "+Goth site:geocities.com" into google. Culling information for my site (which I'll plug here: www.dailyhaiku.com has been difficult and exacerbated by a lack of consistent presentation cross government site (*.senate.gov sites are particulary awful).
In a completely selfish way I'd love it if all images on government sites were tagged in valid xml with copyright information, date and time, subjects, location, etc. As it is I have to guess whether the pictures I appropriate are under copyright or public domain, and I'm just waiting for Zell Miller to send me a letter complaining about that picture of him and that scimitar.
It looks like this kind of project could make sites like mine more viable and enhance the public's access to government work (which is mostly in the public domain if created by federal employees as part or their work duties).
-dameron
--- DailyHaiku.com saying more in 17 syllables than Big Media says all day.
The U.S. school system was created when most jobs were in agriculture. That origin still survives in the tradition of the summer holidays, even in college, when students were needed for planting and harvesting.
Yes, when they were in agriculture and moving to industrialization, thus the need for training, and we're talking about the U.S. public school system, not some strange Little House on the Prairie fantasy.
If the worst the school system did was to get employees to show up on time, it would be more of an achievement. In fact, there is a high drop out rate and the 3 month summer hiatus runs counter to the minimal vacations offered in businesses.
It's not the worst that the school system does. The worst it does is destroy individuality and force monolithic conformity while terrorizing the students. That, and failing to provide an reasonable approximation of an education.
>> The schools are great at producing people with stunted reasoning skills...
The school system is also great at producing scientists and engineers that rank with the best in the world.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day and every now and then a blind pig finds an acorn. The enormous mass of students being spat out of this system need remediation, even in our crappy state college standards.
They're called icons and they're found on every computer screen. It has something to do with ergonomics, not education standards.
Yeah, McDonald's cares about their poor tired fingers...
Last I heard, no one working at WalMart was content was the wages and many were in revolt over its management practices.
Yet they're the biggest employer in the U.S. Weird huh?
More is now spent on public education than ever and a college education is accessible to more students than ever before.
Lots more students now too...
You would expect a school system founded on industrial employment principles to have an 8 hour day, two weeks vacation, no music, phys ed, foreign languages or math beyond algegra. Students would be expelled for arriving late and get grades based on seniority rather than test scores.
You haven't been around public schools in a long, long time have you? All these "optional" programs are favorite budget cutting targets and social promotion means exactly that, you get passed based on seniority. Strange but true.
I suspect the biggest shock of a student's young life is when he gets his first job and sees how little it resembles high school or college.
I suspect the biggest shock of a student's young life is when he gets his first job, but that's 'cause he doesn't qualify for many, and there aren't many to be had. -dameron
That's exactly what I'd expect. Our public school system grew out of the industrial revolution's need for people to have a minimum skill set and be regimented from an early age to follow a bell system. Ring. Lunch. Ring. Work. Ring. Leave.
Now that we're moving into a post industrial world (or that the industrial world is moving overseas) the regimenting is a bit less important and the skills taught have eroded to the point that McDonald's now has pictures of the food on the cash register instead of text.
The schools are great at producing people with stunted reasoning skills who can be content working at Wal Mart and make great consumers, and who vote (when they vote, if the system were perfect they wouldn't vote at all) based on emotion and often against their own interests.
There are some political parties who just can't afford to have an informed or educated electorate (hint: they tend to cut education spending and demonize teachers), and who's children never touch public school anyway.
-dameron
Or not. Where were the federal agents when the Nurember Files web site produced wanted posters of abortion doctors? When a doctor had been killed they'd reissue the poster with an X over the killed doctor's face. It took a 1 vote margin in the 9th circuit to say that kind of intimidation was a threat and not legally protected.
But for providing public information on people who are, 'though small time, public figures gets a federal warrant...?
-dameron
"Usually I download DeCSS from one of the available offshore repositories. Yeah, I know it's illegal, but who reads MSNBC anyway?"
-dameron
Actually that'd be a +4...
-dameron
Actually "struck a dissonant chord" is a cliche but happens to be used in a fitting context here. It's a gimme and it would likely make me cringe if I'd written it, but for legalese it's top notch work.
-dameron
That's ok, didn't you hear? It's dying...
-dameron
Just because lawbreaking becomes popular doesn't mean that it should be ignored. Lots of people driving SUVs and their proliferation doesn't make the reasons for these bans go away.
>>For vehicles over 6K, classify them as trucks, pure and simple. Let their drivers use more gas, roll over more often if they want, and take tax breaks. And ban them from residential streets. Make them stick to the truck routes, including truck lanes on highways. (Heck, maybe even require a truck driver's license to pilot one.)
>This comment is totally elitist, totalitarianistic, and harsh. How about rather than regulating everything you don't like out of existence, just leave me alone? If I want to drive a vehicle that has a higher risk of rolling over, then LET ME. Why do you care if I kill myself? I know what is best for me better than you know what is best for me.
Someone at some point decided driving a 3+ ton truck required a special set of credentials. If it rolls like a truck and crushes cars like a truck it's a truck. Why do I care if you kill yourself? Well, if you're in an Expedition and you go enough damage to that monster of a machine to kill yourself, the chances of you doing no damage to anyone else or their property are pretty damn small. I could care if you drove your SUV off a cliff right into a recycling compactor, but you're much more likely to plough into my compact and much more likely to kill someone in an accident that I am.
-dameron
You seem to enjoy your anonymity here, fucker.
-dameron
Oh, yeah, and that's MythPC's fault...
-dameron
-dameron
You are correct, and if you put an NT disk in an XP machine (say to do data recovery) the XP machine will -automatically and without asking- convert your NT disk to it's version of NTFS, rendering it unbootable.
-dameron
Of course you're right, brain fart on my end, but only if they're trying to send direct smtp to another host, but I imagine most of these zombies send smtp through the host's default smtp config and so it's comcast's own servers that bear the brunt.
Let's hope.
-dameron
Right, 'cause spammers all make sure their built in smtp bots use port 25 to communicate.
Or is Comcast supposed to analyze traffic to determine if any given connection is transfering email?
-dameron
All this depends on the severity and type of schizophrenia she has, and this advice only comes second hand, but:
It may take a long time for your sister's doctors to find the right combination of drugs and dosages to best manage her symptoms, but there is hope that eventually she can live a reasonably normal life.
However, it is very dangerous and sadly common that once her therapy starts working she'll feel so much better she may stop taking her meds, relapse, get remedicated, feel better, stop taking the meds, relapse and so on.
Good luck to both of you,
-dameron
But the Apple faithful think nothing of Apple disingenuously manipulating its EULA to support its monopoly.
What monopoly?
-dameron
It's nothing like owning a gun and leaving it out for public use. Guns are dangerous even in trained hands and are illegal for many people to own or possess. You can be criminally liable for acts someone else commits with your unsecured gun and negligent parents are often prosecuted for this. There are laws covering this.
This much more like Freenet, hell, it's almost exactly like Freenet.
-dameorn
It seems to work fine with raw squid, 'though Dansguardian and other filters can screw it up.
-dameron
Here's a possible solution I was discussing not twenty minutes ago.
1) add private network ip address (10.0.1.1) to existing public server
2) do no NAT or other routing on this ip
3) have squid running on 10.0.1.1 to accept connections from a handful fo addresses in 10.0.1.x or do proxy authentication
4) when installing/updating/troubleshooting windows boxes assign them a 10.0.1.x address and set windowsupdate to use the proxy
Windows update runs, the machine is on its own tiny network isolated from all legit traffic and can't compromise your network plus it it can't be infected from outside as it's safe behind the proxy. When you feel it's safe (you've got all patches, firewall, etc configured) restart with DHCP and get an address on your "real" network.
Or you could roll your own installation cd with the correct service packs and security updated included, but why fix a software problem with software...?
-dameron
No shit, they should get on this stat.
I mean, just the other day BillClinton69 was all giving me terrorist threating messages in CS, and I swear I saw GW_BUSH_BIATCH snorting a line of blow back at the rear base in Battlefield Vietnam.
I mean, when people fucking tell you who they are, you should fucking arrest them...
duh..
-dameron
The good 'ole Walton family stands to make a pretty petty ...
Beautiful typo...
-dameron
I've purchased several item from TD with no problem and my rebates went through without a hitch. -However- they have a terrible reputation for denying rebates, hiding rebate information, and otherwise abusing rebates.
If you find something at TigerDirect and you can get it out the door at a bargain price by all means go for it, but it it requires a rebate be warned, you may have trouble.
-dameron