See, THIS is why democracy is a bad idea: because even idiots like you can vote.
hypothetical group of voting "enforcers" rampaging around the countryside,
You're right, people don't worry about that in America. In other countries where people vote, this *does* happen. People *should* worry about that, because the secret ballot is one of the foundation stones of democracy. Take it out and your democracy will fall. Maybe not immediately, but it will fall.
Yes, there is currently some election fraud, but it's kept to a dull roar. It's probably not possible to eliminate all election fraud and miscounting. If you try, you may break the system in ways we cannot currently anticipate.
Sigh. You are so clueless it's a wonder that I let you vote. The whole point behind having a secret ballot is so that nobody can force you to vote one way or another. As soon as there's a way for you to tell how you voted outside of the polling place, somebody can coerce that information out of you. No. The only useful purpose an electronic voting machine can serve is to make the choices painfully obvious and then commit them to paper so the person can read their vote and then drop it into the ballot box. And then it doesn't really matter if it's open source except for all the *usual* open source reasons.
Subsequent tampering is prevented by the partisan poll watchers who keep the other side from cheating. -russ
I don't think Bruce (Perens) claimed to be the security expert. Somebody else put that hat on him and set him up a nice pose with just the right lighting. -russ
No Western country has such an uneven distribution of wealth and capital, and is so rich at the same time.
I couldn't say it better myself. Homology has hit directly at the heart of capitalism: that while everyone gets more richer under capitalism than under any other system yet discovered, some get much richer than others. While I would prefer a system in which everyone is wealthy and there is an even distribution of wealth, I prefer a system in which there *is* wealth and uneven distribution to one in which everyone is equal and poor. In other words, I value absolute wealth over relative wealth. -russ
Your analysis is spot-on. Look at http://www.seetron.com./ They look like hobbyist boards, and they're priced at hobbyist prices. BUT they make a lot more money on the OEM market where presumably they get a discount, but it's not a big discount because the one-off price has a very low margin.
Okay, so they're shipping this eval board in a basically usable condition, but without a case. The lack of a case means that they won't be competing with any of their customers. So they really *could* charge a reasonable price even if it's only a break-even price, and count on the early adopters to drive the product into the hands of OEM makers who will put it into a case, get the volumes up and the cost down.
Basically, yeah, somebody needs to give the eink.com folks a swift kick in the butt. Anybody know somebody at TOPPAN Printing Co (a Japanese company?). They're eink's largest investor. -russ
Did you mean RMS? Eric Raymond's stance is more properly stated as "proprietary software tends to be lower in quality then open source software." -russ
Nobody will ever hijack an airplane again. The 9/11 hijackers ensured this by convincing EVERYONE EVERYWHERE that their life depends on mashing the hijackers into a pulp. 90 pound grannies will stab them with their knitting needles. Blind men will slash them with their canes. Children will bite their ankles. There will be so many people rending their flesh from their bones that most people won't have a chance to help.
The only current on-board threat to airplanes is explosives. Any effort to prevent hijacking is a Maginot line. -russ
why do you want a CF slot? How about the MyMusix? It's only 50% bigger than a CF card and as thick as four. Uses one AAA battery. Has backlit LCD screen and comes with a 1GB SDcard. Has USB and presents the card as a USB thumbdrive. -russ
If you can't use it commercially, then it's not Open Source. A more accurate description is "Source Available" software. You can get the source, but you have limited use of it. -russ
The SONY Librie has an amazingly nice screen. It's the only shipping E-Ink product. At 170dpi and a screen about the same size as an American paperback, it's GOT the screen. As the parent posting to yours said, you need something more compelling than immediate access, searchability, and multiple books. You certainly DON'T need DRM, which is what prevented the Librie from initially being successful. -russ
Not whether OS dependant configurations masked the bug or not?
I guess it depends on whether you think the application or the operating system should be in charge of resource limits. It seems to me that, since an operating system needs resource limits to protect itself from rogue programs, a cooperating program may just as reasonably rely on the existance of resource limits. djb's programs do. -russ
Slashdot Mirror
Before the inevitable US bashing starts,
You spelled "UN" wrong.
-russ
In what way does India not control .in ?
-russ
See, THIS is why democracy is a bad idea: because even idiots like you can vote.
hypothetical group of voting "enforcers" rampaging around the countryside,
You're right, people don't worry about that in America. In other countries where people vote, this *does* happen. People *should* worry about that, because the secret ballot is one of the foundation stones of democracy. Take it out and your democracy will fall. Maybe not immediately, but it will fall.
Yes, there is currently some election fraud, but it's kept to a dull roar. It's probably not possible to eliminate all election fraud and miscounting. If you try, you may break the system in ways we cannot currently anticipate.
netbsd is dying, didn't you know that? Sheesh, get with the party line, man!
"Mindless forum posters" is a mirror. Look in it. Recognize yourself?
Think lutefisk and then tell me that midwesterners won't eat sushi.
-russ
Sigh. You are so clueless it's a wonder that I let you vote. The whole point behind having a secret ballot is so that nobody can force you to vote one way or another. As soon as there's a way for you to tell how you voted outside of the polling place, somebody can coerce that information out of you. No. The only useful purpose an electronic voting machine can serve is to make the choices painfully obvious and then commit them to paper so the person can read their vote and then drop it into the ballot box. And then it doesn't really matter if it's open source except for all the *usual* open source reasons.
Subsequent tampering is prevented by the partisan poll watchers who keep the other side from cheating.
-russ
I don't think Bruce (Perens) claimed to be the security expert. Somebody else put that hat on him and set him up a nice pose with just the right lighting.
-russ
No Western country has such an uneven distribution of wealth and capital, and is so rich at the same time.
I couldn't say it better myself. Homology has hit directly at the heart of capitalism: that while everyone gets more richer under capitalism than under any other system yet discovered, some get much richer than others. While I would prefer a system in which everyone is wealthy and there is an even distribution of wealth, I prefer a system in which there *is* wealth and uneven distribution to one in which everyone is equal and poor. In other words, I value absolute wealth over relative wealth.
-russ
Your analysis is spot-on. Look at http://www.seetron.com./ They look like hobbyist boards, and they're priced at hobbyist prices. BUT they make a lot more money on the OEM market where presumably they get a discount, but it's not a big discount because the one-off price has a very low margin.
Okay, so they're shipping this eval board in a basically usable condition, but without a case. The lack of a case means that they won't be competing with any of their customers. So they really *could* charge a reasonable price even if it's only a break-even price, and count on the early adopters to drive the product into the hands of OEM makers who will put it into a case, get the volumes up and the cost down.
Basically, yeah, somebody needs to give the eink.com folks a swift kick in the butt. Anybody know somebody at TOPPAN Printing Co (a Japanese company?). They're eink's largest investor.
-russ
a Sony Librie just went for $370 on EBay. It accepts files in a documented format. What are you waiting for?
-russ
Did you mean RMS? Eric Raymond's stance is more properly stated as "proprietary software tends to be lower in quality then open source software."
-russ
Nobody will ever hijack an airplane again. The 9/11 hijackers ensured this by convincing EVERYONE EVERYWHERE that their life depends on mashing the hijackers into a pulp. 90 pound grannies will stab them with their knitting needles. Blind men will slash them with their canes. Children will bite their ankles. There will be so many people rending their flesh from their bones that most people won't have a chance to help.
The only current on-board threat to airplanes is explosives. Any effort to prevent hijacking is a Maginot line.
-russ
Somebody should post this story to Slashdot. I think the readers there will find it very interesting.
-russ
why do you want a CF slot? How about the MyMusix? It's only 50% bigger than a CF card and as thick as four. Uses one AAA battery. Has backlit LCD screen and comes with a 1GB SDcard. Has USB and presents the card as a USB thumbdrive.
-russ
If you can't use it commercially, then it's not Open Source. A more accurate description is "Source Available" software. You can get the source, but you have limited use of it.
-russ
sony librie has 170dpi resolution with nearly the contrast of paper.
-russ
E-books are more expensive than paper books.
-russ
affordable large transflective display
The SONY Librie has an amazingly nice screen. It's the only shipping E-Ink product. At 170dpi and a screen about the same size as an American paperback, it's GOT the screen. As the parent posting to yours said, you need something more compelling than immediate access, searchability, and multiple books. You certainly DON'T need DRM, which is what prevented the Librie from initially being successful.
-russ
Yep. A fan without shit is like cookies without milk.
Not whether OS dependant configurations masked the bug or not?
I guess it depends on whether you think the application or the operating system should be in charge of resource limits. It seems to me that, since an operating system needs resource limits to protect itself from rogue programs, a cooperating program may just as reasonably rely on the existance of resource limits. djb's programs do.
-russ
Turning IDN off in Firefox is mighty a stupid solution.
Not really. IDN is a botch and an abortion and deserves to die a hasty and violent death. DNS is 8-bit clean. Just send UTF-8.
-russ
gpsd? Or does code not qualify as code?
-russ
Well, that's what Courier is intended to be: a GPLed qmail.
So what patches do you feel are necessary?
-russ