I'm just hoping this doesn't interfere with other ideas for sending data over power lines.
Trust me, it will. The model will be developed first as a way to read meters, and second (maybe) as a way to provide internet access. EVERYONE needs electricity, only some people can't live without high speed internet. The power company will implement it's meter reading first, and maybe, if you're lucky, implement a web access service, but you can bet that if it interferes at all with power or meter reading, it'll be cut as fast as they can cut it.
And as soon as you did that, the feds would come knocking. You left out something. Absentee ballots can be used for ANYONE who is residing outside of their registered county. Mostly, college students qualify. Yes, military personell do also, but the whole point is that we already have a system where people vote with no supervision adn are open to coersion, so why all the whining about internet voting?
Otherwise, you'd get a +1. Everyone has been pointing to that, but noone has acknowledged the fact that absentee ballots are not monitored at all, and any number of coercive tactics could take place with them. Maybe internet voting and campaign reform laws will have to come about at the same time. If candidate X doesn't have the money available from large corporate sponsors, then they can't afford to send their chronies out to force people to vote for them.
Following my train of thought I came up with another idea. Let's say 20 years from now the election process is changed radically. Candidates are not allowed to advertise on TV, only by registering with the www.vote.gov webpage and having their personal info site, with links to all sorts of information about them. Online town hall meetings and debates will be their only time to speak to people live. Each citizen will be mailed a one time use USB dongle and if they plug it into their computer, then browse to their candidate's page and click on "vote for me" then BAM, that's it, they've voted. Seems easy enough to me. It would open the door to some interesting candidates.
OK, let's not categorize this as "elections on the internet." A more accurate subject would be "voting via web pages." What most people want, and I have asked, as well as observed, is an electronic voting booth. These devices will hopefully reduce human error, they will produce a physical paper ballot for each voter, and they will send the totals instantly over a VPN over the internet to a central collection point. That is technically voting over the internet, even though individual citizens still have to go out and hit the voting booths. Our elections will greatly benefit from such devices using the internet, and it is in the works. I posted a story not too long ago about Rhode Island's plans to work on such a system (rejected of course.) Slashdot admins, please watch what you say. I thought JonKatz was the only one who went off the handle with wild claims and broad misconceptions...
BJ quotes verbatim: 'C# provides the ability to write unsafe code. In unsafe code it is possible to declare and operate on pointers, to perform conversions between pointers and integral types, to take the address of variables, and so forth.'
First of all (go ahead and call me a troll, like I give a fuck): it's not nice to call someone BJ, even if their initials are in fact B. J.
"Unsafe code" has no meaning to Microsoft. I'll put it this way, code monkeys are spewing out of Devry and ITT tech (and 4 year institutions under the mask of "computer information systems" majors) daily, with no real understanding of what makes good software development, and they want a language that will be as easy as possible and will fulfill all the buzzwords like "object oriented" and "self-specification." C# will provide this, and Microsoft will support it.
He's the Slashdot version of Harry Carey
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Hey Norm... if you were a hot dog... would you eat yourself? Would you?
The center of the sun is over 5 MILLION degrees F... that's pretty darn hot Norm...
Seriously, if they want to change the world, give each kid a portable computer he can use with a touchscreen and take home for homework. Instead of lugging around books, paper, three ring binders, they have a digital note tab. It would be expensive, but it would be good for education.
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JonKatz, you are an idiot. Please stop posting your endless drivel about your opinion of the day. This "heart of the net" crap is as pointless as any of your ramblings. The internet was designed from day one to have NO HEART, only endless interconnections, yet you bring up such a childish topic as this. Please come up with something insightful to write, or just let the users post more articles.
OK, so maybe RH for the home user isn't on the way out like the articly implies, but personally I'm not sad to see it go. Mandrake is a much more home user oriented system, and if you install it in expert mode it's just as configurable as any distro. It also comes with recent versions of most of the packages, and if you tell it not to install something IT JUST DOESN'T (can you tell I've had problems with the Red Hat install?) The best thing: Mandrake's LILO. Try it out, it kicks ass. For those of us who are still bound to M$ unwillingly, Mandrake's LILO makes having a dual boot system extremely easy. Anyway, I think it's great that RH is pushing Linux to one day be dominant "on the internet," but I still think that home users will like the idea of totally free and customizable software, and it's my opinion that Mandrake is leading the way in that market.
OK, so the general feeling here is that this technology is going to make actors lose a lot of money, and the TV industry go down the drain. Well, that's cool with me. It's about time they got a real job. Maybe now acting will be a hobby adn these people will have to earn a living the good ol fashioned way. Hey, I get a few chuckles out of "Friends" every now and then, but does that deserve $5 million per episode? I think not. Everyone in the "industry" seems to be so afraid, and they have good reason, if this takes shape, they'll have to actually work for their money.
First of all, there's no weighting in the charts. So in other words, an attacker can break into a Win2000 box and control everything about it, or he can telnet into a Linux box but has no access to change anything or even browse the root directory, yet both attacks are chalked up as a "1."
Also, read this from their "about us" section: The company has approximately 50 employees and is privately held, backed by venture funding from SOFTBANK and E*Trade Ventures.
Funny, I seem to remember a story not too long ago about E*Trade joining.NET, and there's that one about 6 months ago when the E*Trade mutual funds started to tank and they moved towards more MS stock... draw your own conclusions.
If you have a history of lying, drinking, and cheating... then you'll probably come up with a way to fool NASA into believing you're a wholesome person!
Don't worry! This isn't going to affect your file swapping in mpeg4 format. This applies mainly to digital cable providers, and also to online providers. Basically, if you're getting paid for the video, you have to pay MPEG LA. If you're just the average joe swapping files, it's free. This is just like the cable company paying HBO so they can broadcast it. Same deal.
In the interview, Austin acknowledged that he vandalized the Web sites and that he knew it was illegal to do so. But he defended the act by saying it was necessary to get his message out.
OK, OK, let's get this straight before a huge anarchist/hacker/terrorist flamewar gets started. The kid has the right to say what he wants, no matter what it is. He has the right to even say bad things about America, that's the beauty of our government, and no, the terrorist attacks haven't changed that. What he doesn't have the right to do is actively organize counter-US operations, at whatever scale. This idiot not only hacked government websites, but then promptly admitted doing so. He's going to be tossing salads for the next few years and it's strictly because the little shit deserves it, not because of some anti-freedom government movement.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is poised to announce an unprecedented law enforcement sweep against deceptive junk e-mail, also known as "spam."
Unfortunately, that happens to be the first line of the article.
Spam is not only definted as deceptive junk-email. Spam is email sent to someone in a broadcasting manner when that person has not signed up for that broadcast. In other words, if you send a message, deceptive or not, commercial or not, to a list of recipients that you don't know, that's spam.
IBM broke the law... and guess what? We're talking about IBM
OK, let's think about the target audience with this campaign. In my opinion IBM comes away with two victories here: not only did they paint cool little adverts all over the city, they also got in trouble with the law in an insignificant (to IBM $110k is nothing) way which in turn will up their status with the people who are likely to buy linux servers.
Of course that could be just the way I see things, but my liking of IBM has gone up 2 points because of that. I like the ads, I think they're funny, and they're not hurting anything. I also like the fact that they got in trouble for doing it, it makes the company as a whole seem like the same kind of carefree jokesters that my freinds and I tend to be. Anyway, that's my $0.02
What is the difference between a Debian based Linux distro and say Red Hat or Mandrake? Is the Debian based easier to administer (more powerful)? I've noticed RH and Man. doing some funny setup of directory structure and applications, do the Debian based distros go with some predefined standard?
We want to see hot hosts. Junkyard wars had some obnoxious hosts, and neither were hot, one was even male. Battlebots is fun to watch at times, and then greatly annoying while the male announcers are jawing off. My reccomendation: have two Carmen-Electraesque hosts dressed in thong bikinis and let them ask simple questions like "how's it going" to the builders. That way, we'll hear from people we want to hear from, and we'll see what we want to see.
I can see all of the great positives of this new idea, but I'm scared about something: Airports, especially international ones, have their own particular federal laws that aren't always "user friendly." So let's say someone passes through the facial recognition system and their likeness is matched up to that of a suspected terrorist. The whole airport shuts down and all of the sudden federal agents are snagging everyone's laptop that's been on the wireless network to see if they tried to communicate to/about this person. Maybe I'm being too negative or too conspiracy theorist-like, but I just don't think I'd get into the network until I saw how it was treated for a while.
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I'm just hoping this doesn't interfere with other ideas for sending data over power lines.
Trust me, it will. The model will be developed first as a way to read meters, and second (maybe) as a way to provide internet access. EVERYONE needs electricity, only some people can't live without high speed internet. The power company will implement it's meter reading first, and maybe, if you're lucky, implement a web access service, but you can bet that if it interferes at all with power or meter reading, it'll be cut as fast as they can cut it.
And as soon as you did that, the feds would come knocking. You left out something. Absentee ballots can be used for ANYONE who is residing outside of their registered county. Mostly, college students qualify. Yes, military personell do also, but the whole point is that we already have a system where people vote with no supervision adn are open to coersion, so why all the whining about internet voting?
Otherwise, you'd get a +1. Everyone has been pointing to that, but noone has acknowledged the fact that absentee ballots are not monitored at all, and any number of coercive tactics could take place with them. Maybe internet voting and campaign reform laws will have to come about at the same time. If candidate X doesn't have the money available from large corporate sponsors, then they can't afford to send their chronies out to force people to vote for them.
Following my train of thought I came up with another idea. Let's say 20 years from now the election process is changed radically. Candidates are not allowed to advertise on TV, only by registering with the www.vote.gov webpage and having their personal info site, with links to all sorts of information about them. Online town hall meetings and debates will be their only time to speak to people live. Each citizen will be mailed a one time use USB dongle and if they plug it into their computer, then browse to their candidate's page and click on "vote for me" then BAM, that's it, they've voted. Seems easy enough to me. It would open the door to some interesting candidates.
OK, let's not categorize this as "elections on the internet." A more accurate subject would be "voting via web pages." What most people want, and I have asked, as well as observed, is an electronic voting booth. These devices will hopefully reduce human error, they will produce a physical paper ballot for each voter, and they will send the totals instantly over a VPN over the internet to a central collection point. That is technically voting over the internet, even though individual citizens still have to go out and hit the voting booths. Our elections will greatly benefit from such devices using the internet, and it is in the works. I posted a story not too long ago about Rhode Island's plans to work on such a system (rejected of course.) Slashdot admins, please watch what you say. I thought JonKatz was the only one who went off the handle with wild claims and broad misconceptions...
Or I just sort by most recent.
BJ quotes verbatim: 'C# provides the ability to write unsafe code. In unsafe code it is possible to declare and operate on pointers, to perform conversions between pointers and integral types, to take the address of variables, and so forth.'
First of all (go ahead and call me a troll, like I give a fuck): it's not nice to call someone BJ, even if their initials are in fact B. J.
"Unsafe code" has no meaning to Microsoft. I'll put it this way, code monkeys are spewing out of Devry and ITT tech (and 4 year institutions under the mask of "computer information systems" majors) daily, with no real understanding of what makes good software development, and they want a language that will be as easy as possible and will fulfill all the buzzwords like "object oriented" and "self-specification." C# will provide this, and Microsoft will support it.
Hey Norm... if you were a hot dog... would you eat yourself? Would you?
The center of the sun is over 5 MILLION degrees F... that's pretty darn hot Norm...
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Just give them these.
Seriously, if they want to change the world, give each kid a portable computer he can use with a touchscreen and take home for homework. Instead of lugging around books, paper, three ring binders, they have a digital note tab. It would be expensive, but it would be good for education.
JonKatz, you are an idiot. Please stop posting your endless drivel about your opinion of the day. This "heart of the net" crap is as pointless as any of your ramblings. The internet was designed from day one to have NO HEART, only endless interconnections, yet you bring up such a childish topic as this. Please come up with something insightful to write, or just let the users post more articles.
OK, so maybe RH for the home user isn't on the way out like the articly implies, but personally I'm not sad to see it go. Mandrake is a much more home user oriented system, and if you install it in expert mode it's just as configurable as any distro. It also comes with recent versions of most of the packages, and if you tell it not to install something IT JUST DOESN'T (can you tell I've had problems with the Red Hat install?) The best thing: Mandrake's LILO. Try it out, it kicks ass. For those of us who are still bound to M$ unwillingly, Mandrake's LILO makes having a dual boot system extremely easy. Anyway, I think it's great that RH is pushing Linux to one day be dominant "on the internet," but I still think that home users will like the idea of totally free and customizable software, and it's my opinion that Mandrake is leading the way in that market.
OK, so the general feeling here is that this technology is going to make actors lose a lot of money, and the TV industry go down the drain. Well, that's cool with me. It's about time they got a real job. Maybe now acting will be a hobby adn these people will have to earn a living the good ol fashioned way. Hey, I get a few chuckles out of "Friends" every now and then, but does that deserve $5 million per episode? I think not. Everyone in the "industry" seems to be so afraid, and they have good reason, if this takes shape, they'll have to actually work for their money.
First of all, there's no weighting in the charts. So in other words, an attacker can break into a Win2000 box and control everything about it, or he can telnet into a Linux box but has no access to change anything or even browse the root directory, yet both attacks are chalked up as a "1."
.NET, and there's that one about 6 months ago when the E*Trade mutual funds started to tank and they moved towards more MS stock... draw your own conclusions.
Also, read this from their "about us" section:
The company has approximately 50 employees and is privately held, backed by venture funding from SOFTBANK and E*Trade Ventures.
Funny, I seem to remember a story not too long ago about E*Trade joining
If you have a history of lying, drinking, and cheating... then you'll probably come up with a way to fool NASA into believing you're a wholesome person!
Don't worry! This isn't going to affect your file swapping in mpeg4 format. This applies mainly to digital cable providers, and also to online providers. Basically, if you're getting paid for the video, you have to pay MPEG LA. If you're just the average joe swapping files, it's free. This is just like the cable company paying HBO so they can broadcast it. Same deal.
In the interview, Austin acknowledged that he vandalized the Web sites and that he knew it was illegal to do so. But he defended the act by saying it was necessary to get his message out.
OK, OK, let's get this straight before a huge anarchist/hacker/terrorist flamewar gets started. The kid has the right to say what he wants, no matter what it is. He has the right to even say bad things about America, that's the beauty of our government, and no, the terrorist attacks haven't changed that. What he doesn't have the right to do is actively organize counter-US operations, at whatever scale. This idiot not only hacked government websites, but then promptly admitted doing so. He's going to be tossing salads for the next few years and it's strictly because the little shit deserves it, not because of some anti-freedom government movement.
Huked on Fonix wurkid 4 mee.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is poised to announce an unprecedented law enforcement sweep against deceptive junk e-mail, also known as "spam."
Unfortunately, that happens to be the first line of the article.
Spam is not only definted as deceptive junk-email. Spam is email sent to someone in a broadcasting manner when that person has not signed up for that broadcast. In other words, if you send a message, deceptive or not, commercial or not, to a list of recipients that you don't know, that's spam.
It looks like my "Can you imagine a Beowolf cluster of these" post in regards to the G4 story a while back actually was on topic.
Cooperated with the Nazis? Please, tell us more!
Microsoft steals babies, IBM paints sidewalks... two different ballgames buddy.
IBM broke the law ... and guess what? We're talking about IBM
OK, let's think about the target audience with this campaign. In my opinion IBM comes away with two victories here: not only did they paint cool little adverts all over the city, they also got in trouble with the law in an insignificant (to IBM $110k is nothing) way which in turn will up their status with the people who are likely to buy linux servers.
Of course that could be just the way I see things, but my liking of IBM has gone up 2 points because of that. I like the ads, I think they're funny, and they're not hurting anything. I also like the fact that they got in trouble for doing it, it makes the company as a whole seem like the same kind of carefree jokesters that my freinds and I tend to be. Anyway, that's my $0.02
...or does anyone else think that all the people in the pictures look stoned out of their minds?
Some of the girls are cuties though, I sure wish the artist's redition were true, that'd make my obsession with video games worthwhile.
Ahhhhhvacado!
What is the difference between a Debian based Linux distro and say Red Hat or Mandrake? Is the Debian based easier to administer (more powerful)? I've noticed RH and Man. doing some funny setup of directory structure and applications, do the Debian based distros go with some predefined standard?
We want to see hot hosts. Junkyard wars had some obnoxious hosts, and neither were hot, one was even male. Battlebots is fun to watch at times, and then greatly annoying while the male announcers are jawing off. My reccomendation: have two Carmen-Electraesque hosts dressed in thong bikinis and let them ask simple questions like "how's it going" to the builders. That way, we'll hear from people we want to hear from, and we'll see what we want to see.
I can see all of the great positives of this new idea, but I'm scared about something: Airports, especially international ones, have their own particular federal laws that aren't always "user friendly." So let's say someone passes through the facial recognition system and their likeness is matched up to that of a suspected terrorist. The whole airport shuts down and all of the sudden federal agents are snagging everyone's laptop that's been on the wireless network to see if they tried to communicate to/about this person. Maybe I'm being too negative or too conspiracy theorist-like, but I just don't think I'd get into the network until I saw how it was treated for a while.