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Maybe the gas companies around my place know this. I just drove out and the price of gas has jumped from 89.5/L (canadian) to 93.4/L (canadian.) I know it's a long weekend for us coming up (Victoria Day weekend), but the gas stations usually wait until Thursday night to jack the price of gas up.
For my American friends, that's $3.38/gallon to $3.55/gallon (in canadian dollars), or using the current conversion of $0.7182US/Canadian dollar: $2.43/gallon to $2.54/gallon.
Thanks, but I think most people are missing the qualifier that was placed before "good looking". Namely the word "fairly". This word has many definitions as seen at Merriam-Webster Online.) The definition I had in mind was number 6:
6 : RATHER 5, MODERATELY <a fairly easy job>
I believe most people would agree that she is moderately good looking. Perhaps not "hot" (whatever that means) by your standards, but nice enough anyway.
But like you said, everyone's standards (and preferences) are different.
At the moment? Dark grey. It's a cloudy day. Normally it's a bright "sky" blue though. Why? What's the colour of the sky on your planet? Does everyone have the exact same opinions on attractiveness on your planet? I hope not, that would lead to a dull environment.
I know you intended to be funny, but if you had loaded the article, you would have noticed that "he" is actually a "she" (and a fairly good looking she at that.:)
But this is slashdot, and reading the article should not get in the way of a good joke!
I suspect part of the reason for electronic voting is Because We Can(tm). I suspect another part is because news media are always in a big hurry to get election results, and in theory if the voting machines were all working and reporting properly you could probably end an election at 8 PM and have results well before midnight.
This part I'm always confused by. The results of the Canadian elections are always in by midnight. Sure, there's always the triple-check verification that takes days, but we know who's elected all across the country before midnight.
Is the shear number of people in the States slowing down the counting process too much to allow this to happen there as well?
Fraud is only a concern if you can dispute the intent of the vote on the ballot (like in Florida with hanging chads.) With the ballots in Canada, at least, there's very little to dispute. There is either an X in the box or not. If there are more than one X the ballot is invalid. Have people from all the major parties verify the results (and additionally, limit the number of ballots in each "box" to make counting easier and faster.) I don't remember ever hearing about disputed ballots in Canadian elections (but please correct me if you have additional information.)
Interesting. If the system works in Maryland, why isn't it used in all the States? I understand that each state runs the election as they see fit, but one would think that they would want to use the best methods available.
Has there been reports of election problems in Maryland that would deter other states from using the same procedure?
That could be the key difference. In Canada our elections are held at different times. (For example, I'm in Ontario: we did the provincial election a few weeks ago, but the municipal election is next week. There's talk of the federal election being held in April of next year.)
However, even if all the elections were held on the same day, couldn't the paper and pencil style of balloting still work? At each polling location would be three or four "booths". Each booth would be for a different level of government. It might take a bit longer to vote, but it would still work (although I have no idea how long it takes in the States now.)
It's interesting how different countries handle these problems.
This leads to a question I have: why isn't pencil and paper good enough in the United States?
I'm only familiar with elections here in Canada. Here we have a ballot with X number of names on it with a circle beside each name. You're handed your ballot and a pencil and then go into a booth to mark an "X" beside the name you want. The the ballot is folded and placed in the ballot box. No problems with hanging chads or ballots that are confusing to read. Why isn't a low tech system like this used in the States? Is it a population problem? (Too many people to allow this to scale well?)
I wouldn't think that it would take that much work. Depending on how the URLs were designed (and mod_rewrite is your friend) each document would have the date/revision in it's URL. Each page would contain a link back to the "root" of that file, which would always point to the most current version.
For example:
/article/iraq/info/2003/10/27/1
/article/iraq/info/2003/10/27/2
would be two versions of the Iraq Info document for today (2003-10-27.) Each of those documents would contain a link to:/article/iraq/info/ that would automatically grab the most current version (in this case/article/iraq/info/2003/10/27/2.) When the third revision came along, no URLs would need to change.
One thing I like to keep in mind is that people in India (for example) are paid low wages now, but that situation cannot continue indefinitely. As their standard of living increases, the cost of living will increase and that will lead, as it has in the West, to higher salaries.
If you have workers educated enough to do the jobs Westerns are currently doing, they will not work for peanuts forever. IMO, the current trend of moving jobs offshore has at most 50 years left to it. By then, workers in the developing nations will be demanding wages and services comparable to Western standards. Then East and West will be on a level playing field (from a business point of view.)
I have (what I think is) an interesting question: if you block connections from certain IP addresses, how would they be able to send mail to postmaster@domain.com? I ask this since I want to be RFC compliant as well.
I'm using qmail and rblsmtpd to do the blocking, but I see no way of determining if the message is for postmaster@domain.com or the empty envelope sender until after I've already blocked the connection using rblsmtpd.
Any suggestions? What do you do to prevent this problem?
I really doubt if this bill will actually become law for one simple reason: telecommunication giants like BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises) and Rogers Cable will lobby to have the bill killed, since a bill like this would make them legally and finacially liable for the actions of their subscribers. Both companies have enough problems keeping their networks stable---they don't also need the problems of trying to filter their users.
Granted I haven't read the article yet, but do they actually have the motors _in_ the wheels? I would image the motors would be mounted similarly to brakes on a normal car. The motor would be behind the disc so you could change your tires without changing the motor as well.
With this idea, if there is that much damage that the disc itself is destroyed, well, it wouldn't matter what kind of car (or power source) you were using---your tire would not be aligned properly anymore.
This is a great point. Whenever you compare movies from the past to today by gross box-office sales, you need to adjust for inflation. Everytime you do that you find out that "Gone With the Wind" was the highest grossing film of all time. I believe it's adjusted for inflation gross box-office is around $1.4 billion in North America.
Today's movies have nothing on that!
Not to argue with any of your points, but I am using autoconf 2.52 on my Debian system. It was released on July 18, 2001. I imagine there might be a more up to date version, but I'm using the testing branch of the Debian distribution.
autoconf/automake is not a silver bullet, but it does provide a uniform way for users to compile and install your package. Virtually every Unix user knows to do./configure; make; make install to have the package installed.
My sister's cat has been trained to bring back a rubber ball when we throw it. It didn't even take very much effort to teach the cat this as we were not even _trying_ to teach the cat. She just sort of picked it up. Now she'll bring us the ball out of the blue whenever she want's to play fetch.
She also drags a stupid string around all the time, but that's another thing all together...
In one of my servers I decided to replace all the fans in the system: CPU and power supply. I went out an bought fans designed for an industrial manufacturing plant where they have to work through dust and oil. The one fan is rated for 9 years of use without failure. Granted, the system is kind of loud now, but the motherboard monitor is reporting that the CPU temperature is 38.8C and the motherboard is 26.6C. I've never seen the CPU temperature go over 42C even when it was hot in the room and the server was getting worked pretty hard.
Those industrial fans are designed to go through hell and back so you might as well put them into a server.:)
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Maybe the gas companies around my place know this. I just drove out and the price of gas has jumped from 89.5/L (canadian) to 93.4/L (canadian.) I know it's a long weekend for us coming up (Victoria Day weekend), but the gas stations usually wait until Thursday night to jack the price of gas up.
For my American friends, that's $3.38/gallon to $3.55/gallon (in canadian dollars), or using the current conversion of $0.7182US/Canadian dollar: $2.43/gallon to $2.54/gallon.
Thanks, but I think most people are missing the qualifier that was placed before "good looking". Namely the word "fairly". This word has many definitions as seen at Merriam-Webster Online.) The definition I had in mind was number 6:
6 : RATHER 5, MODERATELY <a fairly easy job>
I believe most people would agree that she is moderately good looking. Perhaps not "hot" (whatever that means) by your standards, but nice enough anyway.
But like you said, everyone's standards (and preferences) are different.
At the moment? Dark grey. It's a cloudy day. Normally it's a bright "sky" blue though. Why? What's the colour of the sky on your planet? Does everyone have the exact same opinions on attractiveness on your planet? I hope not, that would lead to a dull environment.
I know you intended to be funny, but if you had loaded the article, you would have noticed that "he" is actually a "she" (and a fairly good looking she at that. :)
But this is slashdot, and reading the article should not get in the way of a good joke!
I suspect part of the reason for electronic voting is Because We Can(tm). I suspect another part is because news media are always in a big hurry to get election results, and in theory if the voting machines were all working and reporting properly you could probably end an election at 8 PM and have results well before midnight.
This part I'm always confused by. The results of the Canadian elections are always in by midnight. Sure, there's always the triple-check verification that takes days, but we know who's elected all across the country before midnight.
Is the shear number of people in the States slowing down the counting process too much to allow this to happen there as well?
Fraud is only a concern if you can dispute the intent of the vote on the ballot (like in Florida with hanging chads.) With the ballots in Canada, at least, there's very little to dispute. There is either an X in the box or not. If there are more than one X the ballot is invalid. Have people from all the major parties verify the results (and additionally, limit the number of ballots in each "box" to make counting easier and faster.) I don't remember ever hearing about disputed ballots in Canadian elections (but please correct me if you have additional information.)
Interesting. If the system works in Maryland, why isn't it used in all the States? I understand that each state runs the election as they see fit, but one would think that they would want to use the best methods available.
Has there been reports of election problems in Maryland that would deter other states from using the same procedure?
That could be the key difference. In Canada our elections are held at different times. (For example, I'm in Ontario: we did the provincial election a few weeks ago, but the municipal election is next week. There's talk of the federal election being held in April of next year.)
However, even if all the elections were held on the same day, couldn't the paper and pencil style of balloting still work? At each polling location would be three or four "booths". Each booth would be for a different level of government. It might take a bit longer to vote, but it would still work (although I have no idea how long it takes in the States now.)
It's interesting how different countries handle these problems.
This leads to a question I have: why isn't pencil and paper good enough in the United States?
I'm only familiar with elections here in Canada. Here we have a ballot with X number of names on it with a circle beside each name. You're handed your ballot and a pencil and then go into a booth to mark an "X" beside the name you want. The the ballot is folded and placed in the ballot box. No problems with hanging chads or ballots that are confusing to read. Why isn't a low tech system like this used in the States? Is it a population problem? (Too many people to allow this to scale well?)
I wouldn't think that it would take that much work. Depending on how the URLs were designed (and mod_rewrite is your friend) each document would have the date/revision in it's URL. Each page would contain a link back to the "root" of that file, which would always point to the most current version.
For example:
- /article/iraq/info/2003/10/27/1
- /article/iraq/info/2003/10/27/2
would be two versions of the Iraq Info document for today (2003-10-27.) Each of those documents would contain a link to:One thing I like to keep in mind is that people in India (for example) are paid low wages now, but that situation cannot continue indefinitely. As their standard of living increases, the cost of living will increase and that will lead, as it has in the West, to higher salaries.
If you have workers educated enough to do the jobs Westerns are currently doing, they will not work for peanuts forever. IMO, the current trend of moving jobs offshore has at most 50 years left to it. By then, workers in the developing nations will be demanding wages and services comparable to Western standards. Then East and West will be on a level playing field (from a business point of view.)
I have (what I think is) an interesting question: if you block connections from certain IP addresses, how would they be able to send mail to postmaster@domain.com? I ask this since I want to be RFC compliant as well.
I'm using qmail and rblsmtpd to do the blocking, but I see no way of determining if the message is for postmaster@domain.com or the empty envelope sender until after I've already blocked the connection using rblsmtpd.
Any suggestions? What do you do to prevent this problem?
I really doubt if this bill will actually become law for one simple reason: telecommunication giants like BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises) and Rogers Cable will lobby to have the bill killed, since a bill like this would make them legally and finacially liable for the actions of their subscribers. Both companies have enough problems keeping their networks stable---they don't also need the problems of trying to filter their users.
Granted I haven't read the article yet, but do they actually have the motors _in_ the wheels? I would image the motors would be mounted similarly to brakes on a normal car. The motor would be behind the disc so you could change your tires without changing the motor as well. With this idea, if there is that much damage that the disc itself is destroyed, well, it wouldn't matter what kind of car (or power source) you were using---your tire would not be aligned properly anymore.
This is a great point. Whenever you compare movies from the past to today by gross box-office sales, you need to adjust for inflation. Everytime you do that you find out that "Gone With the Wind" was the highest grossing film of all time. I believe it's adjusted for inflation gross box-office is around $1.4 billion in North America. Today's movies have nothing on that!
That signature is from a User Friendly strip. The characters were actually Stef and Greg. See the original comic strip.
Not to argue with any of your points, but I am using autoconf 2.52 on my Debian system. It was released on July 18, 2001. I imagine there might be a more up to date version, but I'm using the testing branch of the Debian distribution.
./configure; make; make install to have the package installed.
autoconf/automake is not a silver bullet, but it does provide a uniform way for users to compile and install your package. Virtually every Unix user knows to do
My sister's cat has been trained to bring back a rubber ball when we throw it. It didn't even take very much effort to teach the cat this as we were not even _trying_ to teach the cat. She just sort of picked it up. Now she'll bring us the ball out of the blue whenever she want's to play fetch.
She also drags a stupid string around all the time, but that's another thing all together...
In one of my servers I decided to replace all the fans in the system: CPU and power supply. I went out an bought fans designed for an industrial manufacturing plant where they have to work through dust and oil. The one fan is rated for 9 years of use without failure. Granted, the system is kind of loud now, but the motherboard monitor is reporting that the CPU temperature is 38.8C and the motherboard is 26.6C. I've never seen the CPU temperature go over 42C even when it was hot in the room and the server was getting worked pretty hard.
:)
Those industrial fans are designed to go through hell and back so you might as well put them into a server.