The third party discoverad the memory discrepancy. I am reading this as Diebold tests and aditional fonts added by Diebold are cited as the cause of the discrepancy. Also, why would dDiebold have to do an audit? There should be a way for the election commission to do an audit.
Black Box Voting demonstrated in Florida that whoever has access to the flash memory card, used to keep track of the votes can determine the results of the voting on that machine: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/1559 5.html?1141791589. No tinkering with the machine is necessary.
I would say even the submitter's point of view is not biased enough - Diebold should get a corporation death penalty for even agreeing to provide voting machines without paper trail. This is such no-brainer, that no amount of outrage is sufficient.
what is the issue in whose format is the standard, as long as it is standard? Several issues: 1. The Microsoft format is patent encumbered 2. The Microsoft format does not integrate well with other existing standards (e.g. SVG can seamlessly be used within ODF markup, the current version of MS OpenXML cannot do that, as it breaks their markup). 3. The Microsoft format does not exist yet, while ODF has already been implemented in OpenOffice.org, KOffice, Abiword, and support is coming to Gnumeric as well. There is more information about ODF support at Wikipedia.
Why don't you have access to 911 services? All VoIP phone providers are required to provide E911 service, which will connect to the exactly same call center a POTS would. All you have to do is enter your full and correct address in the VoIP provider's system.
Packet8 has most international calls for less than $0.10/minute, most of Europe for less than $0.05. I don't know where you are getting the $0.50/minute - even the old phone companies don't charge that much anymore...
Because the use of XForms that I have in mind requires that no additional plugins or other software installs are required for the user. I can require the browser, but it has to be a vanilla install. Think non-technical users with pretty much non-existant IT support.
I don't think that the humans causation of global warming is an open and shut case to the extent that we should trash our economy on uncertain science.
And what is the evidence that reducing greenhouse gases will trash the economy? Keeping the satus quo means that the US economy will expand based on extensive factors (more energy consumption, more polution, more waste) instead of based on intensive factors (higher productivity, closed cycle manufacturing, less energy consumption, higher efficiency). There was once a superpower that developed on extensive factors, its initials were U.S.S.R....
Not improving technological processes into more efficient and environmentally safer ones is a path alredy walked...
We know that there are less than 200 human cases of the avian flu over the last three years, any avian cases are being closely monitored, and there are no human-to-human transmission cases.
Compare that to the flu of 1918, where the virus had probably years to mutate, there was no surveilance, and on top of that there were 4 years of war and starvation, so an enormous number of people with weekened immune systems were exposed to it.
If you rationally compare the known evidence and history of epidemics and pandemics, it is not hard to see that at this point what is needed is good epidemiological sureveilance, and quick response if something more serious develops. And that is what the scientists are saying, not "Lock youreselves in!" as the originial article tries to imply.
It is too bad so many people fall victims of fear mongering, instead of trying to think rationally about world events...
How can an illness with less than 200 total cases worldwide and no easy vector of infection be called an epidemic? You are comparing that to HIV/AIDS, where a human interaction could lead to infection - and even then, it took years of disragard and neglect to make it an epidemic...
While it is true that a pandemic may eventual strike, it is a waste of resources to panic. Any bisuness needs to have an emergency IT plan if, for example, fire destroys the IT staff's offices. There is no need to go beyond normal emergency preparedness at this point. Panic has never solved anything...
Given that there are no known cases of the avian flu virus to be transmitted from human to human, what exactly are you preparing for? I think that the increased disease surveilance efforts are a good thing, but like others already have said, the likelyhood of anything serious coming out of this is not a cause for panic...
You either have diminished comprehension abilities, or you are trolling.
Google cannot legally not publish quarterly statements - they are doing it, period. What they are not doing is predicting in advance what these statements will be, which has always been a guess. All the information you are talking about is available in the SEC filings every quarter.
Major credit card issuers like Citi offer one-time numbers for safe online shopping. Also, major credit card issuers will not hold you repsonsible for fraudulent charges (unless you made them).
Did you read the original post? It used these attacks as an excuse for the need of the PATRIOT Act. And as far as the British are concerned, they got their version in November of 2004. Unfortunately it didn't help them...
The US government failed to do that on 9/11. BS. The US government showed incompetence, from the top on down. How easy everyone forgets the information that was available to the government before 9/11: There were clear signs that Osama Bin Laden was planning an attack in the US, including a presidential briefing. The above briefing discusses the failed "millenium plot" which was successfully prevented, which was linked to Bin Laden, and which showed the terrorist's interest in airplanes. The FBI office in Phoenix, AZ received a memo regarding Bin Laden supporterstaking flying lessons. A month later, the FBI actually arrested Moussaoui in Minnesota, but didn't find it necessary to search his computer.
All of this was accomplished without the PATRIOT Act, and nothing in the PATRIOT Act would have made a difference if the same mistakes were made.
Also, the attacks in Madrid and London happened while the Patriot Act was in full force (and the illegal wiretapping was already going on). How come they were not prevented?
This is not a crime-enforcing bill, it is a counter-terrorism bill. Keep lying to yourself, hopefully one day you will wake up...
I recently received a letter from the Republican National Committee, which in no uncertain terms implied that I have donated to them before, and were hoping that I will do so again. Now, I have never made a donation to any political party (partly because I am not a US citizen, and it could be illegal).
My first thought was that the RNC was lying, which is somewhat expected from Republicans. Then, however, I saw that in one of the latest political scandals involving lobyists, one of the issues was that donations had been made in others' names, which is illegal.
So do you know if your name is on a GOP donations list? The scheme in the article can easily be used for that purpose.
How does adding that one statement, after perhaps hours, or days, or weeks of studying evolution, make it more important?
Because it invalidates the scientific method.
Let me try again. Evolution is a scientific theory, developed, discussed, and taught within the framework of the scientific method. Same for gravity, electro-magnetism, etc. Inteligent Design is not a scientific theory, and it cannot be (it doesn't satisfy the requirements of the scientific method). That is why ID should not be discussed in science class, in particular, it cannot be presented as an alternative to evolution. Even with one sentence.
If you cannot understand this, I feel truly sorry for you. I apologize if this sounds condescending, but I don't have another way to explain it.
BTW, here is something amusing regarding the "warning stickers" that some schools in Georgia, USA, had to put on their biology text books.
In my opinion, I believe evolution ought to be taught with the one liner added: some people believe that a supreme being guided evolution, that it was not strictly natural selection. I really can't see the problem with that.
Did you even read what the parent post was saying? You seem to be unable to grasp that there is such a thing as a scientific method, and that scientific theories are thought within the framework of the scientific method.
What purpose would it serve to introduce a one-liner about belief, when it has nothing to do with the scientific method? Only one that I can see: promoting that individual belief is more important than scientific evidence.
If you can't see the problem with that, you ARE part of the problem.
And just to be sure it is completely clear: I am talking about introducing ID in science class. There are classes in theology, philosophy, comparative religion, etc, where ID can be discussed ad nauseum. Just don't destroy science education - it is already quite fragile...
As others are pointing out, George Orwell made it very clear in "1984" how the power of language can be misused to exercise control over the minds of the population. It is important to call things with their real names, so that there is no doubt about the purpose of DRM and TP.
What is so innovative about email over a wireless connection? Let's take a look at what the technology was in the mid-90's:
1. E-mail protocols: widely available, run on top of general switched-packet networks
2. Switched-packet transport protocols: widely available
3. Wireless switched-packet protocols: available
What RIM did was:
1. Design a usable device
2. Create the infrastructure so that the devices can send and receive e-mail almost everywhere.
3. Profit
What NTP wants is to jump directly to 3. Innovation, my a$$.
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The third party discoverad the memory discrepancy. I am reading this as Diebold tests and aditional fonts added by Diebold are cited as the cause of the discrepancy. Also, why would dDiebold have to do an audit? There should be a way for the election commission to do an audit.
Black Box Voting demonstrated in Florida that whoever has access to the flash memory card, used to keep track of the votes can determine the results of the voting on that machine: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/1559 5.html?1141791589. No tinkering with the machine is necessary.
I would say even the submitter's point of view is not biased enough - Diebold should get a corporation death penalty for even agreeing to provide voting machines without paper trail. This is such no-brainer, that no amount of outrage is sufficient.
what is the issue in whose format is the standard, as long as it is standard?
Several issues:
1. The Microsoft format is patent encumbered
2. The Microsoft format does not integrate well with other existing standards (e.g. SVG can seamlessly be used within ODF markup, the current version of MS OpenXML cannot do that, as it breaks their markup).
3. The Microsoft format does not exist yet, while ODF has already been implemented in OpenOffice.org, KOffice, Abiword, and support is coming to Gnumeric as well. There is more information about ODF support at Wikipedia.
They joined the ISO committee which is working on making the ODF an ISO standard.
Why don't you have access to 911 services? All VoIP phone providers are required to provide E911 service, which will connect to the exactly same call center a POTS would. All you have to do is enter your full and correct address in the VoIP provider's system.
I am using Packet8, and I have full 911 service.
Packet8 has most international calls for less than $0.10/minute, most of Europe for less than $0.05. I don't know where you are getting the $0.50/minute - even the old phone companies don't charge that much anymore...
Why don't you use the plugin http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xforms/
Because the use of XForms that I have in mind requires that no additional plugins or other software installs are required for the user. I can require the browser, but it has to be a vanilla install. Think non-technical users with pretty much non-existant IT support.
Is there a plan to add XForms support to Firefox, or will they be waiting for XHTML 2.0?
I don't think that the humans causation of global warming is an open and shut case to the extent that we should trash our economy on uncertain science.
And what is the evidence that reducing greenhouse gases will trash the economy? Keeping the satus quo means that the US economy will expand based on extensive factors (more energy consumption, more polution, more waste) instead of based on intensive factors (higher productivity, closed cycle manufacturing, less energy consumption, higher efficiency). There was once a superpower that developed on extensive factors, its initials were U.S.S.R....
Not improving technological processes into more efficient and environmentally safer ones is a path alredy walked...
We know that there are less than 200 human cases of the avian flu over the last three years, any avian cases are being closely monitored, and there are no human-to-human transmission cases.
Compare that to the flu of 1918, where the virus had probably years to mutate, there was no surveilance, and on top of that there were 4 years of war and starvation, so an enormous number of people with weekened immune systems were exposed to it.
If you rationally compare the known evidence and history of epidemics and pandemics, it is not hard to see that at this point what is needed is good epidemiological sureveilance, and quick response if something more serious develops. And that is what the scientists are saying, not "Lock youreselves in!" as the originial article tries to imply.
It is too bad so many people fall victims of fear mongering, instead of trying to think rationally about world events...
How can an illness with less than 200 total cases worldwide and no easy vector of infection be called an epidemic? You are comparing that to HIV/AIDS, where a human interaction could lead to infection - and even then, it took years of disragard and neglect to make it an epidemic...
While it is true that a pandemic may eventual strike, it is a waste of resources to panic. Any bisuness needs to have an emergency IT plan if, for example, fire destroys the IT staff's offices. There is no need to go beyond normal emergency preparedness at this point. Panic has never solved anything...
Given that there are no known cases of the avian flu virus to be transmitted from human to human, what exactly are you preparing for? I think that the increased disease surveilance efforts are a good thing, but like others already have said, the likelyhood of anything serious coming out of this is not a cause for panic...
You either have diminished comprehension abilities, or you are trolling.
Google cannot legally not publish quarterly statements - they are doing it, period. What they are not doing is predicting in advance what these statements will be, which has always been a guess. All the information you are talking about is available in the SEC filings every quarter.
I wonder if the same analyst sold them the idea to bankroll SCO in their litigation with IBM over Linux...
Major credit card issuers like Citi offer one-time numbers for safe online shopping. Also, major credit card issuers will not hold you repsonsible for fraudulent charges (unless you made them).
Did you read the original post? It used these attacks as an excuse for the need of the PATRIOT Act. And as far as the British are concerned, they got their version in November of 2004. Unfortunately it didn't help them...
BS. The US government showed incompetence, from the top on down. How easy everyone forgets the information that was available to the government before 9/11:
There were clear signs that Osama Bin Laden was planning an attack in the US, including a presidential briefing.
The above briefing discusses the failed "millenium plot" which was successfully prevented, which was linked to Bin Laden, and which showed the terrorist's interest in airplanes.
The FBI office in Phoenix, AZ received a memo regarding Bin Laden supporters taking flying lessons.
A month later, the FBI actually arrested Moussaoui in Minnesota, but didn't find it necessary to search his computer.
All of this was accomplished without the PATRIOT Act, and nothing in the PATRIOT Act would have made a difference if the same mistakes were made.
Also, the attacks in Madrid and London happened while the Patriot Act was in full force (and the illegal wiretapping was already going on). How come they were not prevented?
This is not a crime-enforcing bill, it is a counter-terrorism bill.
Keep lying to yourself, hopefully one day you will wake up...
The state being Indiana...
I recently received a letter from the Republican National Committee, which in no uncertain terms implied that I have donated to them before, and were hoping that I will do so again. Now, I have never made a donation to any political party (partly because I am not a US citizen, and it could be illegal).
My first thought was that the RNC was lying, which is somewhat expected from Republicans. Then, however, I saw that in one of the latest political scandals involving lobyists, one of the issues was that donations had been made in others' names, which is illegal.
So do you know if your name is on a GOP donations list? The scheme in the article can easily be used for that purpose.
How does adding that one statement, after perhaps hours, or days, or weeks of studying evolution, make it more important?
Because it invalidates the scientific method.
Let me try again. Evolution is a scientific theory, developed, discussed, and taught within the framework of the scientific method. Same for gravity, electro-magnetism, etc. Inteligent Design is not a scientific theory, and it cannot be (it doesn't satisfy the requirements of the scientific method). That is why ID should not be discussed in science class, in particular, it cannot be presented as an alternative to evolution. Even with one sentence.
If you cannot understand this, I feel truly sorry for you. I apologize if this sounds condescending, but I don't have another way to explain it.
BTW, here is something amusing regarding the "warning stickers" that some schools in Georgia, USA, had to put on their biology text books.
In my opinion, I believe evolution ought to be taught with the one liner added: some people believe that a supreme being guided evolution, that it was not strictly natural selection. I really can't see the problem with that.
Did you even read what the parent post was saying? You seem to be unable to grasp that there is such a thing as a scientific method, and that scientific theories are thought within the framework of the scientific method.
What purpose would it serve to introduce a one-liner about belief, when it has nothing to do with the scientific method? Only one that I can see: promoting that individual belief is more important than scientific evidence.
If you can't see the problem with that, you ARE part of the problem.
And just to be sure it is completely clear: I am talking about introducing ID in science class. There are classes in theology, philosophy, comparative religion, etc, where ID can be discussed ad nauseum. Just don't destroy science education - it is already quite fragile...
As others are pointing out, George Orwell made it very clear in "1984" how the power of language can be misused to exercise control over the minds of the population. It is important to call things with their real names, so that there is no doubt about the purpose of DRM and TP.
1. E-mail protocols: widely available, run on top of general switched-packet networks
2. Switched-packet transport protocols: widely available
3. Wireless switched-packet protocols: available
What RIM did was:
1. Design a usable device
2. Create the infrastructure so that the devices can send and receive e-mail almost everywhere.
3. Profit
What NTP wants is to jump directly to 3. Innovation, my a$$.
AFS (Andrew File System) provides similar functionality to NFS, with Kerberos authentication. Learn more at Wikipedia.