This is a perfect example of a urgently needed technology that an Open Source solution would be great for.
<wild-accusations>Electronic voting will *NEVER* work right as long as it is being done by companies like Diebold that are on one party or another's secret payroll.</wild-accusations>
An open source solution would accomplish a few things:
1) Provide a verifiably secure solution to electronic voting that would be resistant to tampering. I don't think I am exaggerating when I say the possibility of tampering with elections could degrade freedom in this country.
2) Give Open Source's strengths the kind of publicity that reaches far beyond the current Microsoft/Linux squabbles. The majority of the public and news media has no idea what Open Source is about; But if Bill O'Reilly, John Stewart, GW Bush, and John Kerry are talking about it you can bet that tremendous numbers of people will be introduced to the ideas.
3) Give some impressive visibility to the developers on the project. Visibility usually leads to marketability, jobs, projects, etc.
Of course, visibility won't be great when the Diebold hitmen show up...
Australia has some well made electronic voting running on Linux which can serve as a proof-of-concept for us Americans.
> The focus behind this work is 'victimless' leather
This is great news. Hopefully someday soon we can grow all of our leather clothing. Once we attain that proud accomplishment we can then dump the remains of cows slaughtered for meat in a landfill instead of using their hides for clothing.
>> attempting to use my computer in a responsible manner when all of a sudden it decided to download porn > To avoid that, never use Outlook, Outlook Express, or Internet Explorer.
Actually, several programs went crazy all at once: BitTorrent, Kazaa, eDonkey, GNUtella, even FTP! It was very scary that all of those applications could take over my computer for hours and hours the way they did. Even scarier was the way I was forced to sit and watch them the entire time.
Something similar happened to me but with my computer instead of with my car. I was attempting to use my computer in a responsible manner when all of a sudden it decided to download porn incessantly. In my panic I didn't think of pulling the power cord, and I had to download porn for many hours.
> I walk to work each morning and have a 3 minute commute.
Me too. I walk to work each morning and have a 30 second commute, 45 seconds if I pause to put on my Frank-the-dead-bunny slippers. (I have a home office). But when I did commute to work it was 1 1/2 hours each way.
> Services aren't that far away either. I live within 30 minutes of two movie theaters and two hospitals (more miles, but short drives).
I live within 30 minutes of at least 20 movie theaters and 10 hospitals... But I only ever go to one movie theater and one hospital so I don't know what I gain by being here...
> knowing about it and not reporting it makes you an accessory
Somehow if the world is slinging nukes around the last thing I am worried about is getting prosecuted for knowing about a potential crime and not reporting it. And until that time it is just "idle talk" (ie: bullshit).
> that won't work > Best bet is a bicycle... or a boat
Funny you should say that. The actual conversation was, they told me they had a boat ready to take them across to Connecticut. I replied that then they would be stuck on the Connecticut shore, still near New York City, without a car. "That's what the gun is for" they told me.
You said it. I live in New York, and in the wake of 9-11 I am amazed to hear how many lawyers and accountants (respectible cornerstones of civilization, right?) have "stealing people's cars at gunpoint" as part of their escape plans in case of a large disaster that requires evacuating.
(and if the particular people I am referring to are reading this, sorry I really like working for you, but people like you are the real danger we all face in an emergency.)
Damn! I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'm sitting here clicking *reload* *reload**reload**reload**reload* hoping for a good article, while a little voice in the back of my head screams "WHAT THE FSCK ARE YOU DOING? YOUR BEHIND ON YOUR DEADLINE!".
It's gotten so bad I even read all the legal details on SCOs latest shenanigans...
> what has magic, dragons, castles etc. to do with science?
I don't disagree with your point about classifying science-fiction, but here's an interesting thought:
Keep in mind that throughout history (especially recent history) we continually strive to INVENT those ideas that strike us as particularly interesting. For example, the Submarine (Jules Verne), Satellites, etc. I have no doubt that in the future we will continue to work to make our future resemble our fiction. Imagine now a distant future where nearly anything is possible through genetic engineering and molecular manipulation. Can you imagine that world WITHOUT fantasy-fanboys creating magic, dragons, and castles?
> A processor to make saving files effeicent, > A processor to sort out and verify that Network activity is correct. > A processor to adjust Audio properly > A processor for Graphics
I think you meant:
One processor for the audio kings playing their song One for the graphics-lords under their rainbows One for network men, pushing bits along One for the dark lord through his dark windows
One processor to rule them all, One processor to discover them One processor to bring them all and on the bus bind them...
Hey, now THAT'S an idea! We can put remote activators in all these, install them all over the world, and if anyone messes with our interests, like for example stops making our favorite $1 sneakers in sweatshops, we blow a few remote-nukes to get them back in line.
Maybe the gov't is ALREADY doing that, and we just don't know it. My tin foil hat is starting to hurt.
> DVD player that I bought from Costco for $49. It plays WMA audio
Many newer DVD players can play MP3s on a CD-R/CD-RW but can they play MP3s on a data DVD? I want to put gigs of songs on a DVD and play it on my TV/Stereo. The SPECS *never* state this. They only say "it plays DVDs" and "it plays MP3s" and "it can read a CD-R/CD-RW". They never explicitly state if it can play MP3s on a DVD-R.
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This is a perfect example of a urgently needed technology that an Open Source solution would be great for.
<wild-accusations>Electronic voting will *NEVER* work right as long as it is being done by companies like Diebold that are on one party or another's secret payroll.</wild-accusations>
An open source solution would accomplish a few things:
1) Provide a verifiably secure solution to electronic voting that would be resistant to tampering. I don't think I am exaggerating when I say the possibility of tampering with elections could degrade freedom in this country.
2) Give Open Source's strengths the kind of publicity that reaches far beyond the current Microsoft/Linux squabbles. The majority of the public and news media has no idea what Open Source is about; But if Bill O'Reilly, John Stewart, GW Bush, and John Kerry are talking about it you can bet that tremendous numbers of people will be introduced to the ideas.
3) Give some impressive visibility to the developers on the project. Visibility usually leads to marketability, jobs, projects, etc.
Of course, visibility won't be great when the Diebold hitmen show up...
Australia has some well made electronic voting running on Linux which can serve as a proof-of-concept for us Americans.
So who's game?!
> The focus behind this work is 'victimless' leather
This is great news. Hopefully someday soon we can grow all of our leather clothing. Once we attain that proud accomplishment we can then dump the remains of cows slaughtered for meat in a landfill instead of using their hides for clothing.
> heres an easy fix.
..
> 6) select option 3 and delete any partitions that are on the system. do this untill it says no partitions defined
Ok, I followed your directions...
OH NO! WHERE IS ALL MY PORN?!
um.. I mean...
Yes, very good. My problem is solved.
>> attempting to use my computer in a responsible manner when all of a sudden it decided to download porn
> To avoid that, never use Outlook, Outlook Express, or Internet Explorer.
Actually, several programs went crazy all at once: BitTorrent, Kazaa, eDonkey, GNUtella, even FTP! It was very scary that all of those applications could take over my computer for hours and hours the way they did. Even scarier was the way I was forced to sit and watch them the entire time.
Something similar happened to me but with my computer instead of with my car. I was attempting to use my computer in a responsible manner when all of a sudden it decided to download porn incessantly. In my panic I didn't think of pulling the power cord, and I had to download porn for many hours.
> Oh great, a car going on rampage
I for one, welcome our new rampaging Renault overlords.
I hear they are working on a pelvic-mounted game controller for porn games.
Just saying is all...
> using multiple lasers at different frequencies, or perhaps by frequency cycling.
Wasn't this a line from an episode of Star Trek?
I am KSick of this KStupid KNaming Konvention.
It McReminds me another McStupid McNaming McConvention.
> I walk to work each morning and have a 3 minute commute.
Me too. I walk to work each morning and have a 30 second commute, 45 seconds if I pause to put on my Frank-the-dead-bunny slippers. (I have a home office).
But when I did commute to work it was 1 1/2 hours each way.
> Services aren't that far away either. I live within 30 minutes of two movie theaters and two hospitals (more miles, but short drives).
I live within 30 minutes of at least 20 movie theaters and 10 hospitals... But I only ever go to one movie theater and one hospital so I don't know what I gain by being here...
> My mortgage payment is $350
Where do you live?
I'm in New York. My mortgage payment is over $3000/month, and that's not for a mansion either.
> told him ... I'd pop him
> tell all the neighbors
> No idea what happened to him
Perhaps one of the neighbors was proactive.
> knowing about it and not reporting it makes you an accessory
Somehow if the world is slinging nukes around the last thing I am worried about is getting prosecuted for knowing about a potential crime and not reporting it.
And until that time it is just "idle talk" (ie: bullshit).
!!!
Thanks Chade01!!!
DVD-MP3 is what I was looking for.
> that won't work ... or a boat
> Best bet is a bicycle
Funny you should say that. The actual conversation was, they told me they had a boat ready to take them across to Connecticut. I replied that then they would be stuck on the Connecticut shore, still near New York City, without a car. "That's what the gun is for" they told me.
> how thin the veneer of civilisation is
You said it.
I live in New York, and in the wake of 9-11 I am amazed to hear how many lawyers and accountants (respectible cornerstones of civilization, right?) have "stealing people's cars at gunpoint" as part of their escape plans in case of a large disaster that requires evacuating.
(and if the particular people I am referring to are reading this, sorry I really like working for you, but people like you are the real danger we all face in an emergency.)
> check slashdot compulsively
Damn! I'm glad I'm not the only one.
I'm sitting here clicking *reload* *reload**reload**reload**reload* hoping for a good article, while a little voice in the back of my head screams "WHAT THE FSCK ARE YOU DOING? YOUR BEHIND ON YOUR DEADLINE!".
It's gotten so bad I even read all the legal details on SCOs latest shenanigans...
This is functionally equivelant to using a whitelist-only filter on your email, only worse in every way.
> ... The next ice age ... ... global warming ...
>
Could you be a little less self-contradictory in your disaster scenarios?
> what has magic, dragons, castles etc. to do with science?
I don't disagree with your point about classifying science-fiction, but here's an interesting thought:
Keep in mind that throughout history (especially recent history) we continually strive to INVENT those ideas that strike us as particularly interesting. For example, the Submarine (Jules Verne), Satellites, etc. I have no doubt that in the future we will continue to work to make our future resemble our fiction. Imagine now a distant future where nearly anything is possible through genetic engineering and molecular manipulation. Can you imagine that world WITHOUT fantasy-fanboys creating magic, dragons, and castles?
> most of the players can't do it
Well, then my question is does anyone know of a DVD player that will play MP3 music from a DVD-R?
> A processor to make saving files effeicent,
> A processor to sort out and verify that Network activity is correct.
> A processor to adjust Audio properly
> A processor for Graphics
I think you meant:
One processor for the audio kings playing their song
One for the graphics-lords under their rainbows
One for network men, pushing bits along
One for the dark lord through his dark windows
One processor to rule them all, One processor to discover them
One processor to bring them all and on the bus bind them...
It sounds like we should buy a computer with a GPU on the motherboard and plug in an expansion card with a CPU on it.
> just make it blow if they start to mess with it
Hey, now THAT'S an idea! We can put remote activators in all these, install them all over the world, and if anyone messes with our interests, like for example stops making our favorite $1 sneakers in sweatshops, we blow a few remote-nukes to get them back in line.
Maybe the gov't is ALREADY doing that, and we just don't know it. My tin foil hat is starting to hurt.
> DVD player that I bought from Costco for $49. It plays WMA audio
Many newer DVD players can play MP3s on a CD-R/CD-RW but can they play MP3s on a data DVD?
I want to put gigs of songs on a DVD and play it on my TV/Stereo.
The SPECS *never* state this. They only say "it plays DVDs" and "it plays MP3s" and "it can read a CD-R/CD-RW". They never explicitly state if it can play MP3s on a DVD-R.