The receipt should never come in to the voter's hands.
Uh... why? Seriously. You make this statement, yet you give no reasons to support it. It's apparently not obvious, as I can't figure out why this is important.
Yeah, I know I'm dreaming, but I so hope that this mistake sends Belkin over the edge into oblivion, or at least damn close to it. So many companies keep pushing on the line. "Oh, let's stick an ad in our software." "Oh, let's put in activation to keep out the nasty pirates." "Oh, let's have our software phone home to make sure everything is OK." If a company bites the dust due to their stupidity, maybe the message will finally sink in that this is unacceptable. Leave the damn stuff alone. If we want to enable your "feature," we will. We don't need a big waving flag to point it out.
No kidding, voting with only an electronic record is so foolish, what is to be done in the event of a recount?
Well, think about that for just a second. Let's ignore the corruption/accountability angle for a moment and assume that we can trust the numbers the machine gives us are accurate. In that case, why would there ever be a "recount?"
Assuming there aren't any bugs, one thing computers do very well is count, and they do it consistently. You can have humans count a set of ballots and get different numbers each time; a computer will be consistent.
I am not talking about FreeBSD derived MacOS X (which already had a more than a 50 exploits and potential exploits in BugTraq database) I am talking about current Mac OS 9.x and earlier which are highly sophisticated abstract-OS models.
Umm...
> telnet www.army.mil 80
Trying 140.183.234.10...
Connected to www.army.mil.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.army.mil
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 17:10:30 GMT
Server: 4D_WebSTAR_S/5.3.0 (MacOS X)
Connection: Close
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:12:26 GMT
Content-Length: 38252
Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
Re:110 comments and no .torrent file?!?!?!?!?!
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I think most FreeBSD folks (whether official project members or just us users) don't bother with torrents since the most popular way to upgrade a system is via cvsup (at least that's the perception). It took a long time before ISOs were even offered since it was believed most people wouldn't be using them. It would probably take an analysis of the FTP logs after a release, showing a lot of traffic on the ISOs, before torrents would show up often.
Because of that release, Disney hasn't gotten around to putting Totoro out on DVD with a proper set of subtitles.
Actually, IIRC, Fox still has the distribution rights to Totoro for a couple more years... after that the rights revert to Disney. Many people are anticipating they will release a sub version sometime after that on par with the other Ghibli releases they've done.
It was a private company and the CEO had the legal right to take the money
Serious question: How does a CEO have the legal right to take company money for whatever he chooses instead of paying the employees? Doesn't he have a legal (and perhaps even overriding) responsibility to pay them?
This story showed up at a very appropriate time, as I was let go only a couple weeks ago.
I showed up to work slightly later than usual. Everything seemed normal until I tried to log in to one of my accounts, which wasn't working. This was immediately suspicious as everyone else's accounts were fine. Still, I went ahead and worked on my e-mail for a bit to see if things cleared up. About 10 minutes later my manager pops by my cube saying he needed to meet with me in his office. I asked him to let me just finish this one e-mail and I'd stop by. He looked obviously concerned. I finished the mail and noticed that my mail checks had started failing as well, meaning another account had been turned off. There was little doubt what was waiting on me in his office...
I got in there and he along with a person who just screamed "HR" by looking at her were waiting. As I sat down he pulled out a piece of paper and read a prepared statement. "Due to a restructuring of resources... blah, blah... you no longer have a position..." He then left the office as fast as he could to leave the HR person to explain my severance.
Once that was over they assigned me a shadow while I cleared out my desk and left. Apparently they also scheduled a meeting to distract the folks on my team while I was packing. (I suppose that's for the best... I doubt I would have liked to have one of them walk up and ask why I was packing.)
One thing I found humerous when I got home was a message on my machine... as I said before, I got in to work a bit late. Just before I got there my manager had called my house. "David, I have an urgent matter to discuss with you. Please call..." I'm almost surprised he didn't just say it on there, since the tone of his voice gave everything away...
It's amazing how quickly stuff like this can happen... you go in to work business as usual and suddenly you are out the door.
I don't think the issue is so much a "right" to privacy, or even an expectation of it. I think this boils down to the government being able to do something they could not before, and no perceived benefit from it. Most people's nature (at least here on Slashdot it seems) is they don't like being watched and tracked all the time, period. This holds true whether it "makes sense" or they have an "expectation of privacy" or whatever, or not. People simply don't want it, so why is this continually being pushed by the government anyway?
If you have to uncomment out that line to enable PAM authentication, then *not* uncommenting it is equivalent to setting it to "no" (like the advisory says to do) yes?
No.:(
Typically OpenSSH shows the default setting commented out in the config files. So that's (probably) saying that UsePAM is yes by default, so you need to uncomment that and change it to no. It's a good idea to do it anyway, as that way you are certain the setting is what you think it is; you wouldn't want to get caught by an assumption.
If I want to replace existing text with the text I'm pasting, can I highlight it and paste over it? No.
I'll easily grant the first two points you mentioned, but this last one isn't fair. The first ones deal with missing features, while this one is a methodolgy issue. Highligting text to place it in the cut buffer is Just the Way X Works. X shouldn't have to change it's behavior just because that's how the clipboard works in Windows. I know many people who greatly prefer the X behavior, even though they can't do what you stated above.
(That being said, it would be nice to have as an option you can toggle, but that doesn't seem to be what you were advocating here.)
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At work (and at public school), you have NO EXPECTATION of privacy... [snip] I don't like it as much as the next guy, but that's not the point here.
Why not? Shouldn't that be the whole point? Just because there's no governmental decree saying "schools/workplaces shall not have cameras" doesn't mean it's a good thing. Just because there's nothing stopping them from doing it doesn't mean they should.
Why should we sit back say "Well, there's no law against it, so I guess it's OK?" If you don't like something, it is your right to say "I don't like that!" And if enough people say it, maybe someone who can do something about it will listen.
Some others have basically said this, but I think you are wrong. Let's say you develop a program under Visual C++, a commercial product that is not distributed with the OS, and you use non-ANSI-compliant C, so it will only compile under VC++. Your statement seems to imply that any program written in this manner could not be released under the GPL, since there's no way to GPL VC++ (unless you are Microsoft, which you aren't, at least as far as I can tell:), and no other compiler would do the job. Now that doesn't sound right to me... does it to you?
Even on private streaches of road it is illigal for you to post signes that closely mimic the ugly white on green government signage.
Are you sure about this? There's a privately owned road near here (the Dulles Greenway). One thing I noted they have are signs that name the housing developments off of each exit, which stood out to me since you normally don't find those on a road like that. And, with the exception of having the Greenway's logo on them, they look just like those ugly white and green government ones.
I too had heard it was illegal to copy that sign style, so either we're both wrong or the Greenway got some sort of exception...
Just because this may be a step above any existing monitoring, and just because no law prevents it, why can't we be bothered by this? When it comes to issues like this the line is fairly arbitrary, as it is a personal feeling. Just because you are comfortable with this doesn't mean everyone has to be.
why does everyone "ask slashdot" about how they should do things?
Becausing asking Slashdot results in discussion, which in turn shows different angles and approaches to the problem? The best solutions to a problem are not often found alone.
The USA doesn't really have digital mobile phones yet. Most of the phones only work in a really small area without incurring a roaming charge...
Sorry, but that's just plain wrong. This past weekend I travelled from one end of my state (Virginia) to the other... about 6 hours worth of driving. I only hit an analog signal in one town, and the phone didn't roam once during the entire trip. Our cell phone network may not be the best in the world, but it's far better than you make it out to be.
Most drivers don't understand that if they leave everything on in their viechle, the starter motor has to really crank itself to death to push out those amps for the AC & GPS & Stereo system & every other luxury in their viechle.
You know, I've always wondered why auto makers don't design around this? It always seemed to me a good idea to put something in there that detects if the engine is running or not, and doesn't power the radio, A/C, etc. until it is, or at least puts a delay on them starting.
Of course I've also wondered the opposite; why is it most cars won't let you roll up/down the windows when the key is off?:)
Where do folks keep getting the idea that programmers and others in computer related fields have contracts? At least in the US, virtually EVERYTHING in this field is at will employment. There are no contracts!
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Actually there's something close for Firebird now: PrefButtons.
Then I must be truly evil... the ones in my workstation spin at 10,000 RPMs.
Uh... why? Seriously. You make this statement, yet you give no reasons to support it. It's apparently not obvious, as I can't figure out why this is important.
With the possible exception of a DBMS, what "interesting task" were you planning on doing on a server?
Yeah, I know I'm dreaming, but I so hope that this mistake sends Belkin over the edge into oblivion, or at least damn close to it. So many companies keep pushing on the line. "Oh, let's stick an ad in our software." "Oh, let's put in activation to keep out the nasty pirates." "Oh, let's have our software phone home to make sure everything is OK." If a company bites the dust due to their stupidity, maybe the message will finally sink in that this is unacceptable. Leave the damn stuff alone. If we want to enable your "feature," we will. We don't need a big waving flag to point it out.
Well, think about that for just a second. Let's ignore the corruption/accountability angle for a moment and assume that we can trust the numbers the machine gives us are accurate. In that case, why would there ever be a "recount?"
Assuming there aren't any bugs, one thing computers do very well is count, and they do it consistently. You can have humans count a set of ballots and get different numbers each time; a computer will be consistent.
Umm...
> telnet www.army.mil 80Trying 140.183.234.10...
Connected to www.army.mil.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.army.mil
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 17:10:30 GMT
Server: 4D_WebSTAR_S/5.3.0 (MacOS X)
Connection: Close
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:12:26 GMT
Content-Length: 38252
Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
I think most FreeBSD folks (whether official project members or just us users) don't bother with torrents since the most popular way to upgrade a system is via cvsup (at least that's the perception). It took a long time before ISOs were even offered since it was believed most people wouldn't be using them. It would probably take an analysis of the FTP logs after a release, showing a lot of traffic on the ISOs, before torrents would show up often.
Actually, IIRC, Fox still has the distribution rights to Totoro for a couple more years... after that the rights revert to Disney. Many people are anticipating they will release a sub version sometime after that on par with the other Ghibli releases they've done.
Serious question: How does a CEO have the legal right to take company money for whatever he chooses instead of paying the employees? Doesn't he have a legal (and perhaps even overriding) responsibility to pay them?
This story showed up at a very appropriate time, as I was let go only a couple weeks ago.
I showed up to work slightly later than usual. Everything seemed normal until I tried to log in to one of my accounts, which wasn't working. This was immediately suspicious as everyone else's accounts were fine. Still, I went ahead and worked on my e-mail for a bit to see if things cleared up. About 10 minutes later my manager pops by my cube saying he needed to meet with me in his office. I asked him to let me just finish this one e-mail and I'd stop by. He looked obviously concerned. I finished the mail and noticed that my mail checks had started failing as well, meaning another account had been turned off. There was little doubt what was waiting on me in his office...
I got in there and he along with a person who just screamed "HR" by looking at her were waiting. As I sat down he pulled out a piece of paper and read a prepared statement. "Due to a restructuring of resources... blah, blah... you no longer have a position..." He then left the office as fast as he could to leave the HR person to explain my severance.
Once that was over they assigned me a shadow while I cleared out my desk and left. Apparently they also scheduled a meeting to distract the folks on my team while I was packing. (I suppose that's for the best... I doubt I would have liked to have one of them walk up and ask why I was packing.)
One thing I found humerous when I got home was a message on my machine... as I said before, I got in to work a bit late. Just before I got there my manager had called my house. "David, I have an urgent matter to discuss with you. Please call..." I'm almost surprised he didn't just say it on there, since the tone of his voice gave everything away...
It's amazing how quickly stuff like this can happen... you go in to work business as usual and suddenly you are out the door.
I don't think the issue is so much a "right" to privacy, or even an expectation of it. I think this boils down to the government being able to do something they could not before, and no perceived benefit from it. Most people's nature (at least here on Slashdot it seems) is they don't like being watched and tracked all the time, period. This holds true whether it "makes sense" or they have an "expectation of privacy" or whatever, or not. People simply don't want it, so why is this continually being pushed by the government anyway?
Yeah, I know it's not 75% of 1 TB, but it still comes pretty close. :)
(Gee... wouldn't it be nice if slashcode supported <pre> tags...)
No. :(
Typically OpenSSH shows the default setting commented out in the config files. So that's (probably) saying that UsePAM is yes by default, so you need to uncomment that and change it to no. It's a good idea to do it anyway, as that way you are certain the setting is what you think it is; you wouldn't want to get caught by an assumption.
I'll easily grant the first two points you mentioned, but this last one isn't fair. The first ones deal with missing features, while this one is a methodolgy issue. Highligting text to place it in the cut buffer is Just the Way X Works. X shouldn't have to change it's behavior just because that's how the clipboard works in Windows. I know many people who greatly prefer the X behavior, even though they can't do what you stated above.
(That being said, it would be nice to have as an option you can toggle, but that doesn't seem to be what you were advocating here.)
Does it support themes? :)
Why not? Shouldn't that be the whole point? Just because there's no governmental decree saying "schools/workplaces shall not have cameras" doesn't mean it's a good thing. Just because there's nothing stopping them from doing it doesn't mean they should.
Why should we sit back say "Well, there's no law against it, so I guess it's OK?" If you don't like something, it is your right to say "I don't like that!" And if enough people say it, maybe someone who can do something about it will listen.
Some others have basically said this, but I think you are wrong. Let's say you develop a program under Visual C++, a commercial product that is not distributed with the OS, and you use non-ANSI-compliant C, so it will only compile under VC++. Your statement seems to imply that any program written in this manner could not be released under the GPL, since there's no way to GPL VC++ (unless you are Microsoft, which you aren't, at least as far as I can tell :), and no other compiler would do the job. Now that doesn't sound right to me... does it to you?
You know, that's much less funny when your UID is higher than that of the poster you reply to. ;)
Are you sure about this? There's a privately owned road near here (the Dulles Greenway). One thing I noted they have are signs that name the housing developments off of each exit, which stood out to me since you normally don't find those on a road like that. And, with the exception of having the Greenway's logo on them, they look just like those ugly white and green government ones.
I too had heard it was illegal to copy that sign style, so either we're both wrong or the Greenway got some sort of exception...
Just because this may be a step above any existing monitoring, and just because no law prevents it, why can't we be bothered by this? When it comes to issues like this the line is fairly arbitrary, as it is a personal feeling. Just because you are comfortable with this doesn't mean everyone has to be.
Becausing asking Slashdot results in discussion, which in turn shows different angles and approaches to the problem? The best solutions to a problem are not often found alone.
Sorry, but that's just plain wrong. This past weekend I travelled from one end of my state (Virginia) to the other... about 6 hours worth of driving. I only hit an analog signal in one town, and the phone didn't roam once during the entire trip. Our cell phone network may not be the best in the world, but it's far better than you make it out to be.
You know, I've always wondered why auto makers don't design around this? It always seemed to me a good idea to put something in there that detects if the engine is running or not, and doesn't power the radio, A/C, etc. until it is, or at least puts a delay on them starting.
Of course I've also wondered the opposite; why is it most cars won't let you roll up/down the windows when the key is off? :)
Where do folks keep getting the idea that programmers and others in computer related fields have contracts? At least in the US, virtually EVERYTHING in this field is at will employment. There are no contracts!