* Information about civil or criminal investigations, including police investigations Sorry, we can't tell you if the person counting the votes is under an investigation for bribery.
* Information that would endanger the safety or the physical or mental health of another Even if he was, we can't give you any information about him - he might get hurt in prison!
* Trade secrets and information that might affect the commercial interests of an organisation or another person We can't tell you who he's chummy with and might be getting bribes from, either!
* Information about the formulation of government policy, how a minister's private office works, ministerial communications and any advice received by a minister. This applies to the Welsh Assembly and central government Sorry, we also can't tell you how the person counting the votes would do it if he wasn't being bribed.
* Information that may prejudice the work of the organisation in auditing the accounts and efficiency of another public body Sorry, we can't even give you the phone number of the Commissioner to complain to about voting fraud.
* Information intended for future publication We can't even tell you about how such investigations work - what if he wants to write a book?
And of course, even if that's not sufficient:
* Qualified exemption: The public interest in withholding the information is greater than the public interest in releasing it
Well, since the public outcry of workers protesting vote fraud would hurt the economy and business of Big Corportation X, and thereby damage the public interest, I'm afraid I can't give you any such information. In fact, I'll have to lock you up indefinitely...
Ok, and for an encore, let's see what I can do once I put on my tin foil hat...
Yeah, but if you take the insurance companies out of the picture, they can't cover any malpractice, and if a doctor screws you over, you can't do a darn thing about it.
Yeah, if someone repeatedly makes mistakes, yank his license, but we need the malpractice insurance.
This really is "typical Microsoft" - they buy an anti-spyware company, integrate it into the operating system, and release it for free. No one bother with real spyware companies, because their computers already have one, and anything that MS "misses" or (heaven forbid) allows through will still be on their machines...
Then sit back, and hope the issue goes away "because I've already got anti-spyware, why should I have to download something else? And of course the computer is protected from spyware, see, I've got this program..."
Step 6, Profit! - no, wait, that's the wrong post.
In the end, more people will be using a MS product and the monopoly expands.
I will grant: Pencil and Paper are great if you're working on learning math skills. Even then, however, there are times you're going to want something to do the arithmetic and/or graphing and/or solve the integral for you. If I've know how to add already, I don't want paper and pencil, I want an open source calculator so I don't have to. If I know how to do Integration by Parts already, I don't need to do it every time...of course, studying math won't mean you have to do Integration by Parts all the time (unless you're in DiffEQ or something), which brings me to my "But":
But: Paper and Pencil aren't gonna cut it as far as taking an engineering course is concerned. Nor as far as a physics course is concerned. If I'm trying to "learn the concepts" of a non-calculus class, then having to do all these pesky integrals isn't going to help any! It's just taking up my time. Even better, there are going to be cases where you can't do the work without some hefty numerical computations that would take you faaar too long to do by hand. Sure, you should do the first one on paper, but do you want to do every calculation of magnetic field by hand? Want to do this line integral for the 7th time? Not yet bored of 2 page solutions? Really want to follow Newton's method by hand?
Furthermore: The age when everything could be done on paper and pencil is now part of the "good old days(TM)", and such technology is no longer the only mainstay.
Finally: I was in a graduate program for mathematics, and yes, even doing "pure" mathematics, we used software. The programs that pop immediately to mind were Maple (cheaper than mathematica) and McCauley (it's algebra. I don't know much else). I also wrote a C program to handle card shuffling, so we could look at various results - sure, you could do it by hand, but it'd take a *lot* longer. In one course, I even wrote Public Key Encryptioni/Decryption software in Maple - an easy way to get a hands-on feel for the concepts, and you don't even have to handle arbitary-length modular multiplication by hand...
Don't get me wrong, Paper and Pencils are great, but so are math packages!
I would want a trackball, though - a mouse doesn't seem appropriate.
And I would want to run this as my WM on linux - Windoze has problems when I open > 40-50 "windows" at a time ("Couldn't open Blank Document"), and if I could just roll part of my desktop out of sight on a sphere, I'd be even more of a window packrat.
Yes, but that overhead would then be handled by the p2p clients, not by the central server. It's become Somebody Else's Problem. Not necessarily good for the internet as a whole, but a solution for the server:)
Ok, the directions didn't make too much sense to me, but anyway...
1. Open citibank webpage. 2. Click their "magic" link. 3. Go back to the citibank webpage. NOW click the "Consumer Alert" page. Viola! Secunia page appears.
What does it mean? Don't view p9rn while doing your banking!
You fool! It's not supposed to be a religious tablet!
Seriously, it's supposed to be like all advertising - getting the name out so that people are aware of it. People like the neighbors of a friend of mine, whose computer is soooooo slow because of adware, but didn't know there was an alternative to IE. If they see an ad like this, then a year from now, they might mention it to a friend "Oh, yeah, there's an alternative to IE....fire...something..." and the friend might find it. But the name is out there, and it will spread. Slowly, but it will spread. (Until it reaches critical mass, after which it will really take off!)
This would qualify better as "Olds"; it certainly isn't new!
The US has lagged behind the rest of the world in Mathematics for soooooo long it isn't even funny! Why should this change now?
Has Bush spent lots more money on education? No.
Has studying suddenly become popular? No.
While parents are concerned about getting their kids into good schools, do they do it by pressing them to do well on tests? No - they get their kids into special prep programs, spend money on tutors, and pull family connections. Actually learn math? Please!
Accoona has the mathematical symbol for infinity instead of "oo" - that already makes it bigger than Google, which is only 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0, considerably less than an infinite amount!
It seems to me that the light wasn't working in the "before" picture, either. So the fact that the light doesn't work now isn't really as interesting as it could be.
I know plenty of places that are slow about replacing burnt out street lights!
The newsgroup over at news.mozilla.org (netscape.public.mozilla.webtools) has lots of postings about Bugzilla under Windoze - check it out and pour through the old posts. If you've got a problem, it's prolly already been asnwered. If you don't see it, go ahead and ask - ppl there are fairly nice.
You're all discussing the mis-spelling (yeah, yeah, comment away - I'm sure this is wrong too) of a funny line, and missing the point of this!
Spider silk is so cool! It's got a tensile strength even higher than Kevlar and is seen as a natural replacement for that material, espeically once we can mass produce it. It's lightweight, extremely strong, and if you coat it with Starlite, you've got battle armor that could withstand a nuclear hit! How much cooler can you get?
I didn't know that sheep were dumb enough to jump off cliffs without robots to keep them from harm. You know, maybe natural selection is a *good* thing, and maybe we'd be better off with less dumb sheep!
Cockroaches, on the other hand, are too smart already. I want a robot armed with a little laser to hunt them down and kill them, not lead them away.
I resolved this problem by writing a program that generates provably secure, memorable passwords for users.
I, myself, developed a secret technology that would generate passwords that are mathematically proven to be very difficult to "crack" yet are exceptionally easy for the user to remember.
I based the approach on the proven techniques of phrenology, which allows me to map out certain neural pathways for each user. Based on this, I use an obsure corrolary to the Prime Number Theory to generate a secure password. I then run several tests to make sure the password isn't *too* secure to ensure it's not break-able by someone picking the hardest password.
Sure, it's a little time consuming, but the payoffs are incredible! By the time I'm done, not only can I generate a secure password that is easy for the user to remember, but I also know which resources to allow them access to!
I would, of course, share my technique, but then it wouldn't be as secure for me... I suppose, however, if I were to share it, I wouldn't be laughed at for making rediculous claims that are totally unsupported.
Slashdot Mirror
will be rooting for our new robotic overlords!
--LWM
With the help of the list of what is exempt (on the BBC's iCan page):
* Information about civil or criminal investigations, including police investigations
Sorry, we can't tell you if the person counting the votes is under an investigation for bribery.
* Information that would endanger the safety or the physical or mental health of another
Even if he was, we can't give you any information about him - he might get hurt in prison!
* Trade secrets and information that might affect the commercial interests of an organisation or another person
We can't tell you who he's chummy with and might be getting bribes from, either!
* Information about the formulation of government policy, how a minister's private office works, ministerial communications and any advice received by a minister. This applies to the Welsh Assembly and central government
Sorry, we also can't tell you how the person counting the votes would do it if he wasn't being bribed.
* Information that may prejudice the work of the organisation in auditing the accounts and efficiency of another public body
Sorry, we can't even give you the phone number of the Commissioner to complain to about voting fraud.
* Information intended for future publication
We can't even tell you about how such investigations work - what if he wants to write a book?
And of course, even if that's not sufficient:
* Qualified exemption: The public interest in withholding the information is greater than the public interest in releasing it
Well, since the public outcry of workers protesting vote fraud would hurt the economy and business of Big Corportation X, and thereby damage the public interest, I'm afraid I can't give you any such information. In fact, I'll have to lock you up indefinitely...
Ok, and for an encore, let's see what I can do once I put on my tin foil hat...
--LWM
Yeah, but what's someone who went to JHU and worked on a (different) UV telescope project supposed to say? It happens, it's sad. :(
I must say, having a satellite control system in the basement of the physics building is still cool, even without a satellite!
--LWM
Since when did sitting in front of a TV count as social time?
--LWM
Yeah, but if you take the insurance companies out of the picture, they can't cover any malpractice, and if a doctor screws you over, you can't do a darn thing about it.
Yeah, if someone repeatedly makes mistakes, yank his license, but we need the malpractice insurance.
--LWM
Actually, there will be sick kids around well after the holiday season is over. When it's cold and loney in February, why not donate too?
--LWM
I work at Rockefeller Center in NYC - the music is starting to drive me mad!! The *last* thing I need is people finding ways to optimize the torture!
--LWM
Are you guys missing this?
This really is "typical Microsoft" - they buy an anti-spyware company, integrate it into the operating system, and release it for free. No one bother with real spyware companies, because their computers already have one, and anything that MS "misses" or (heaven forbid) allows through will still be on their machines...
Then sit back, and hope the issue goes away "because I've already got anti-spyware, why should I have to download something else? And of course the computer is protected from spyware, see, I've got this program..."
Step 6, Profit! - no, wait, that's the wrong post.
In the end, more people will be using a MS product and the monopoly expands.
--LWM
Excuse me, but I think the e() has a pretty glaring security hole: What happens if the expected file is called ~/.muttrc? I could lose all my mail!
Or if it's "molester"? Aha...arbitrary code execution the next time he starts his client!
--LWM
I will grant: Pencil and Paper are great if you're working on learning math skills. Even then, however, there are times you're going to want something to do the arithmetic and/or graphing and/or solve the integral for you. If I've know how to add already, I don't want paper and pencil, I want an open source calculator so I don't have to. If I know how to do Integration by Parts already, I don't need to do it every time...of course, studying math won't mean you have to do Integration by Parts all the time (unless you're in DiffEQ or something), which brings me to my "But":
But: Paper and Pencil aren't gonna cut it as far as taking an engineering course is concerned. Nor as far as a physics course is concerned. If I'm trying to "learn the concepts" of a non-calculus class, then having to do all these pesky integrals isn't going to help any! It's just taking up my time. Even better, there are going to be cases where you can't do the work without some hefty numerical computations that would take you faaar too long to do by hand. Sure, you should do the first one on paper, but do you want to do every calculation of magnetic field by hand? Want to do this line integral for the 7th time? Not yet bored of 2 page solutions? Really want to follow Newton's method by hand?
Furthermore: The age when everything could be done on paper and pencil is now part of the "good old days(TM)", and such technology is no longer the only mainstay.
Finally: I was in a graduate program for mathematics, and yes, even doing "pure" mathematics, we used software. The programs that pop immediately to mind were Maple (cheaper than mathematica) and McCauley (it's algebra. I don't know much else). I also wrote a C program to handle card shuffling, so we could look at various results - sure, you could do it by hand, but it'd take a *lot* longer. In one course, I even wrote Public Key Encryptioni/Decryption software in Maple - an easy way to get a hands-on feel for the concepts, and you don't even have to handle arbitary-length modular multiplication by hand...
Don't get me wrong, Paper and Pencils are great, but so are math packages!
--LWM
I would want a trackball, though - a mouse doesn't seem appropriate.
And I would want to run this as my WM on linux - Windoze has problems when I open > 40-50 "windows" at a time ("Couldn't open Blank Document"), and if I could just roll part of my desktop out of sight on a sphere, I'd be even more of a window packrat.
--LWM
Yes, but that overhead would then be handled by the p2p clients, not by the central server. It's become Somebody Else's Problem. Not necessarily good for the internet as a whole, but a solution for the server
--LWM
Ok, the directions didn't make too much sense to me, but anyway...
1. Open citibank webpage.
2. Click their "magic" link.
3. Go back to the citibank webpage. NOW click the "Consumer Alert" page. Viola! Secunia page appears.
What does it mean?
Don't view p9rn while doing your banking!
--LWM
You fool! It's not supposed to be a religious tablet!
Seriously, it's supposed to be like all advertising - getting the name out so that people are aware of it. People like the neighbors of a friend of mine, whose computer is soooooo slow because of adware, but didn't know there was an alternative to IE. If they see an ad like this, then a year from now, they might mention it to a friend "Oh, yeah, there's an alternative to IE....fire...something..." and the friend might find it. But the name is out there, and it will spread. Slowly, but it will spread. (Until it reaches critical mass, after which it will really take off!)
--LWM
So, he's a profit, then. God is getting pissed, and she's gonna punish us unless we clean up our act.
--LWM
This would qualify better as "Olds"; it certainly isn't new!
The US has lagged behind the rest of the world in Mathematics for soooooo long it isn't even funny! Why should this change now?
Has Bush spent lots more money on education? No.
Has studying suddenly become popular? No.
While parents are concerned about getting their kids into good schools, do they do it by pressing them to do well on tests? No - they get their kids into special prep programs, spend money on tutors, and pull family connections. Actually learn math? Please!
Will this change in the near future? Not likely!
--LWM
Accoona has the mathematical symbol for infinity instead of "oo" - that already makes it bigger than Google, which is only 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0, considerably less than an infinite amount!
--LWM
It seems to me that the light wasn't working in the "before" picture, either. So the fact that the light doesn't work now isn't really as interesting as it could be.
I know plenty of places that are slow about replacing burnt out street lights!
--LWM
Where are the moderators? These stories should be (Score: 5, Scary)!
--LWM
The newsgroup over at news.mozilla.org (netscape.public.mozilla.webtools) has lots of postings about Bugzilla under Windoze - check it out and pour through the old posts. If you've got a problem, it's prolly already been asnwered. If you don't see it, go ahead and ask - ppl there are fairly nice.
--LWM
Just unplug your cable/phone cord, and you've got everything you want!
--LWM
You're all discussing the mis-spelling (yeah, yeah, comment away - I'm sure this is wrong too) of a funny line, and missing the point of this!
Spider silk is so cool! It's got a tensile strength even higher than Kevlar and is seen as a natural replacement for that material, espeically once we can mass produce it. It's lightweight, extremely strong, and if you coat it with Starlite, you've got battle armor that could withstand a nuclear hit! How much cooler can you get?
--LWM
Yeah, even
honk if you->love(perl);
Or,
if you->love(perl) { honk() };
Or,
too_many_ways_to_do(it)?cry():honk() or die "No car, you insensitive clod!\n";
I didn't know that sheep were dumb enough to jump off cliffs without robots to keep them from harm. You know, maybe natural selection is a *good* thing, and maybe we'd be better off with less dumb sheep!
Cockroaches, on the other hand, are too smart already. I want a robot armed with a little laser to hunt them down and kill them, not lead them away.
--LWM
I, myself, developed a secret technology that would generate passwords that are mathematically proven to be very difficult to "crack" yet are exceptionally easy for the user to remember.
I based the approach on the proven techniques of phrenology, which allows me to map out certain neural pathways for each user. Based on this, I use an obsure corrolary to the Prime Number Theory to generate a secure password. I then run several tests to make sure the password isn't *too* secure to ensure it's not break-able by someone picking the hardest password.
Sure, it's a little time consuming, but the payoffs are incredible! By the time I'm done, not only can I generate a secure password that is easy for the user to remember, but I also know which resources to allow them access to!
I would, of course, share my technique, but then it wouldn't be as secure for me... I suppose, however, if I were to share it, I wouldn't be laughed at for making rediculous claims that are totally unsupported.
--LWM