Actually, I stand corrected on the point of voting location. Voting at a different polling place was allowed for the recent special election (kicking Davis out), as the ballot was the same everywhere in the state. I knew people who did it, and made the leap to it being allowed anytime, without checking. My mistake. I just did a quick check about it after you brought it up to verify my understanding and am wrong. Sorry for any confusion.
Sorry that's not on, pencil and paper scales very well. If you have more people to vote, you also have more people available to count the votes. What's the problem? It works fine in the UK with a population of 65 million.
Keep reading, I was getting to that: This entire argument is bullshit, of course, with only 20% of voters actually voting the number of votes to count is not that large. Also, its not that hard to hire enough people to count votes by hand.
-it is very easy to go to several polling locations
Well, in the UK, you are registered with a particular voting station, and that is the only one you can vote at. They tick your name off after you vote so no fraud of that type is possible.
Which is actually a very great idea, but it just wouldn't fly in places like Chicago, how else are the dead supposed to vote?
Though again, keep reading before hitting the reply button: The hope is that, with an electronic system they will be able to catch this sort of fraud. Which again is a load, but it sells well.
By "a load", I mean a load of bullshit.
The US could use a pen and paper voting method, and it would work, but, I guess, politicians just don't like the idea of simple and functional. Afterall, you wouldn't want fair and open elections in the US would you? If you let the people have a say in it, the government might not be run by the aristocrats^H^H^H^H...er, carrer politicians.
Would you feel the same way if he started charging for his content because the ads were not bringing in any revenue?
I don't think the sentiment would change any. If a site is worth paying for, I'll pay for it. If the site is simply another re-hash of a copy of an unoriginal piece of information, then I will find it elsewhere.
I realize that it costs money to host a website, but if you are going to put something up, and expect to get paid for it, you'll probably need a better system than banner ads, as there is no garantee that you will get anything. You are welcome to try any business model you want (within the law), but I don't have to buy into it. If my browser happens to be anethema to your business model, too bad for you.
P.S. To the grand-parent poster. Install Mozilla. I've been banner and pop-up free for nearly a year. I do allow banners from some sites (those that I choose to support, e.g. Slashdot), its as easy as a right-click to get rid of them.
There will be a vote taken to determine if people are opposed to voting without an aduit trail. Please report to you local Diebold voting center to cast your vote today.
But that's an old way of doing things. Its not flashy and shiny and new!
Seriously, the main argument against it here in the US is scale. The belief is that, we have 250 million people plus or minus a few. Now, if all of them vote, counting that by hand will take longer than an hour, and our news media would be screaming about that, afterall Americans want their results NOW! Unless, of course, it provides for good TV drama (see 2000 election). This entire argument is bullshit, of course, with only 20% of voters actually voting the number of votes to count is not that large. Also, its not that hard to hire enough people to count votes by hand.
The only other problem with such a system, is in voter fraud. Its very easy to go to several polling locations and cast several ballots (At least here in California, I can go to any polling place as long as I can confirm my identity). The hope is that, with an electronic system they will be able to catch this sort of fraud. Which again is a load, but it sells well. Unless all of the polling places are linked, and once I vote in one, it keeps me from voting in another, and maintains the amnominity of my ballot, then we can talk.
Wow, that's something I didn't know about, thank you.
You wouldn't happen to have any links to info about those exploits, I like to read about such things to keep myself informed.
Wow, you seriously need to consider moving some stuff to a different circuit. Seriously, any one circuit in your house is only rated for so much current draw, get above that and you'll pop the breaker. Even when you just start getting close, you can cause problems, voltage spikes/dips etc. This is probably what your UPS is picking up on.
If you've never had the fun of dealing with power which is 'dirty', count yourself lucky, it can cause screwy problems with a computer.
You don't mean This game do you? It is still possible to get some of these great old titles, if you know where to look. And, considering that you had paid for a copy of it once, I wouldn't think that downloading it now should be that bad.
1. Tool - Options - Security - Zone
2. Change this to "Restricted Sites"
3. Zone Settings - OK
4. Disable everything
Outlook is now sanitized for your protection!
Now why this isn't the default, well that's something we can blame on MS, but its not unavoidable. Oh and, just because I haven't done it before (and if I don't someone will):
Alright, what slashdotter went and beat the Georga Governer with the clue stick?
Seriously through, I am glad to see some politician, hell any politician, questioning the stupidity in the relentless pursit of "terrorism". I realize that there are a lot of people in this world who hate the US, and would love to kill its citizens; but, get real, this is no excuse to be intruding into the private lives of the very citizens the govenment is supposed to be protecting. Some days I really wonder what it would take to get a law passed (even if just in my state) that bars the government from collecting and keeping, or even borrowing, data on citizens that have not broken the law. Basically, if I haven't done anything wrong, why the hell are you tracking me? Personally, I fear an orwellian future far more than I fear terrorists.
The problem I have found with Mozilla, is that most people just don't care enough. Personally I use, and love Mozilla. Like you I haven't seen a pop-up in a long time, that I didn't specifically allow. I am also a tyrant when it comes to cookies. I hate them, I see little need for a web site to be able to track me, unless its for user-login or purchasing purposes (and even then, I usually delete the cookie after I am done with the site). So, I have Mozilla ask me whether or not to store a cookie, when a web site attempts to. Most of the time, I will simply check the "Always do this" box and hit Deny.
The problem comes in when my girlfriend sits down at my computer. First off, I had to get her to belive that Mozilla was a web browser, and that IE was not necessary. That out of the way, she hated it. Having to deal with cookies annoyed her, she didn't care and just wanted it to work. She never even tried the tabbed browsing really. About the only thing about it that didn't annoy her was the lack of pop-ups, and even then some of the sites she went to were the kind that used pop-ups in the design of the page, so she didn't even appreciate that feature that much.
Basically, all of this is to say that most people aren't going to switch, no matter how the program is branded. They are used to IE, with all of its security holes. They want a program that just goes when they click on the purple monkey. They are willing to install another program which blocks pop-ups based on the title text, and to train that program. In all, they are afraid of change. And that is what Mozilla needs to overcome, it needs people getting their friends/girlfriends/family to use it and see the advantages. As long as it looks reasonably clean, and functions close to IE, that is enough. And damn well don't go changing the interface between versions, once you have something that works, don't fix it, you'll just scare and alienate people.
Probably, but I think that any of those formats would confuse the hell out of the people we are sending files to. For example, we use WinImage, and have occasionally sent boot disks to customers in this format. And, I think, you would be amazed at how hard it is for some of the recipients to download WinImage (I usually email them a link to CNet's download.com page for it), install and run it to make a boot disk. Trying to convince them that there are other compressed file formats would be a nightmare all its own. And our programmers? I would have never thought it possible before I started working here, but I don't think most of them would be able to get their email if our IT department hadn't configured Outlook for them. Heck, one of the jokes in my department is that the scariest thing to see is an engineer with a screwdriver. This belief tends to get re-enforced when I am explaining to one of them how to use the program they wrote.
Is this to say that we couldn't get around it if necessary, no, we could. I have just become tired of fighting, we have a system now that (sort of) works, so I'm not going to bother trying to do it another way. Sure, its a defeatist attitude, but then considering the value of this company's stock, and the management just spewing the same rosy future crap they have always spewed, I'm not exactly motivated to go to great lenths to accomplish things. Basically, I am becomming the Wally of our office. I would work, but its eaiser to wait for the project to either be cancled or get so far out of hand that we finally get enough answers to get it done right.
Its really just a matter of aim, we have a huge trash compactor sitting pretty close to us, we all know it as "The Sun", you simply push your barge towards it, and let it suck it the rest of the way in. Once it gets there it'll be liquified, taken into the bottom of a big gravity well, where it may re-solidify due to pressue, and not come out for a few billion years (not withstanding a rogue star impacing our own, but then, if that happens, we have a touch more to worry about than nuclear waste).
The only problem with this idea is, what if the launch vehicle fails catastrophically? We end up with chucks of radioactive (not really a big deal) and toxic (bigger deal) stuff falling back to Earth. Now this could be mitigated by doing 2 things:
1. Launch in small quantities, use small reusable rockets to put the payload in space. Something like an SRB for the shuttle with a detachable and disposable top for the payload.
2. Over-engineer the crap out of the payload housing, design it to survive having the rocket blow up under it. Also, designing the rocket to explode such that the explosion is likely to go mostly another way. Basically, we want the rocket to succeed, but if it fails it becomes the world's largest shape charge.
Or the best solution for most of this stuff, re-use it. The spent fuel rods can be used in other types of reactors, which are less efficent, but reduce the spent fuel rods to nothing quite so dangerous.
Really, video games are not to blame. If it's anything, it would have to be the parents. If you don't want your kids to go out on a shooting spree, teach them that shooting people in the head is bad. instill in them a sense of right and wrong.
Yes, shoot for the neck, knees,and groin they squirm longer that way...
Ok, bad joke, but seriously this type of thing happens over and over again. Some children are just screwed up in the head, usully the reason can be found sobbing over the bullet riddled body of the kid who did it: the parents. But here in the good old US of A no one is required to take responsibity for their actions anymore. Its always someone/thing elses fault. Its the Rock and Roll, or D&D, or Heavy Metal, now its the video games. Truth is, the fault lies squarly with the parents, but because people in the US are unwilling to take responsibity, they blame everything else, lest they be blamed for their own short-commings some day.
Were it up to me, the parents of these kids should be taken out an shot. If they had been doing their job, actually teaching these kids right from wrong, and properly supervising what these kids did, this probably wouldn't have happened. But instead we get countless hours of the news media displaying the parents as some sort of victim, talking about how little Jonny was such a great kid, who wouldn't hurt a fly. If the parents had been paying attention they would have realised that little Johnny was actually not only hurting flies, but doing everything he could to torture them, along with small animals.
I hope that the Judge/Jury who see this case have a clue inside their skulls. Its not the game's fault, its the fault of parents who have kids, but never take on the responsibility of rasing them.
I'm not quite sure its the wall that was broken in that game...
The N64 incarnation of Castlvania sucked really bad, I was so glad I had rented it first. The perspective just sucked for what you were doing in that game, worse yet, since the monsters seemed to be forever re-spawning, you usually ended up getting hit from behind constantly. Personally, I think that there is just too much emphasis on 3d graphics in gaming at this point. The developers are taking a perfectly good title and cranking out a really bad 3d version of it, and just killing the title. Add to this the insistance of game companies to have combos in a game, and it just kills the feel of a good Action/RPG for me. I just want to mash the attack button, maybe have a block button, and work on dodging. I don't want to have to memorize 30 different button combos just so that I can play a game, I don't care enough about any game to do that. Give me simple gameplay with a good story, and some good puzzles, and you'll get my money every time.
Actually ZIP files are blocked as well. The one fix we have found is to rename the file to a differnt extension,.XEX is my favorite, and this seems to work most of the time. But everyonce in a while, it seems like they turn on a filter that reads file headers and determines its type from there, and then the renamed files get striped as well. I just made mention of the EXE files, as they are our biggest problem. Though, in defence of our IT department, I do sort of understand why they did it; usually, I would read about the latest Outlook worm on/. or somesuch site, and then open my inbox and see the results. Its seems that the people at our main office don't realize that, in truth, nobody loves them (I know everybody at our office hates them).
Amen to that.
We have a similar problem at my office. Corporate, in their infinate stupidity decided that e-mailint EXE files, in any direction through our servers should not be allowed. Ok, so it stops a lot of the Outlook viruses, but it also stops us sending new builds of software between people in house, it also stops us from sending new builds of software out to customers (which I am sad to say happens far to frequently). Basically it creates a huge problem. Our solution, put it on an FTP site...oops, sorry, we're not allowed write access to the FTP site. For internal stuff we still have sneaker-net and network shares, but our customers are somewhat screwed.
God be thanked we finally had a large enough customer breating down our necks (this is how we usually get changes around here) that we were able to get write access to one folder on the FTP site, still e-mail would be a hell of a lot eaiser.
And as for outgoing ports, ya most of them are locked down, makes doing anything other than basic Web/FTP a pain in the ass.
What is it with IT departments and being unhelpful? It seems that everytime we find an easy and convient way to get work done around here, they find a way to screw it up.
Maybe I am just being nieve here, but aren't movies still posting record setting profits? Both you, and the movie companies (maybe you're just a shill) seem bound and determined to convice the world that piracy is eating into the livelyhoods of the average worker on a move set. I call BULLSHIT! Movies are making more and more money every year, movie companies are allowing larger and larger budgets every year, and I somehow doubt that the workers on the sets are making any less now than they have been. A carpenter is still going to be paid the going wage (or the inflated union wage, depending), a painter will still be paid the same, and more as time goes on. The only people who believe that piracy is truly affecting the average worker on the set are those people who are too stupid to see through the rhetoric the studios are putting out.
Hell, even on a movie that flops tremendously the low level workers are still paid the same. They were paid an hourly wage for the work they did on the set, long before we all realized that Tomb Raider sucked horribly.
Now, does any of this justify copyright violations? No, of course not, but I just really hate all of this bullshit being spread around by the movie companies. If you want to argue about something, don't do it based on lies, it'll just make me respect your position less. If it can't be argued on facts, it probably isn't worth supporting. (End Rant)
Yes, it can, its just a matter of getting it used widely. For example, I have set up my server to run the.fuq TLD. If you add my server to your DNS server list (66.159.209.73), and then try to browse to sylver_dragon.fuq you should end up at my woefully out of date web site.
Or, try search.fuq, you will end up at everyone's favorite search site.
Its quite do-able, the problem exists in getting someone who is willing to setup and maintain it (sure, I'd do it, but its gonna suck pretty bad), and in getting people to either manually configure their systems to use the appropriate DNS server, or in getting the major DNS servers to set up forwarding to the DNS server for the.fuq domain.
That is a good point. I think the only way to prevent that is to always do both counts, and compare. If there are any major descrepancies, the vote should rely on the paper ballot, as those are the ones the people have actually checked. And, as I mentioned before, since the paper ballots would be produced by the machine, there would be less of a problem with cards not being punch properly, so the paper ballots should be more reliable than they are now.
Why have the voter keep it? Just have the machine produce a paper ballot, the voter can then verify it visually, and the ballot is dropped in a lock box at the polling location. The lock box is then treated exactly as they are today. Thus a manual recount is easy and possible. With a machine punching and verifying the holes we should less problems with pergnant chads.
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Actually, I stand corrected on the point of voting location. Voting at a different polling place was allowed for the recent special election (kicking Davis out), as the ballot was the same everywhere in the state. I knew people who did it, and made the leap to it being allowed anytime, without checking. My mistake. I just did a quick check about it after you brought it up to verify my understanding and am wrong. Sorry for any confusion.
-the main argument against it here is scale
Sorry that's not on, pencil and paper scales very well. If you have more people to vote, you also have more people available to count the votes. What's the problem? It works fine in the UK with a population of 65 million.
Keep reading, I was getting to that:
This entire argument is bullshit, of course, with only 20% of voters actually voting the number of votes to count is not that large. Also, its not that hard to hire enough people to count votes by hand.
-it is very easy to go to several polling locations
Well, in the UK, you are registered with a particular voting station, and that is the only one you can vote at. They tick your name off after you vote so no fraud of that type is possible.
Which is actually a very great idea, but it just wouldn't fly in places like Chicago, how else are the dead supposed to vote?
Though again, keep reading before hitting the reply button:
The hope is that, with an electronic system they will be able to catch this sort of fraud. Which again is a load, but it sells well.
By "a load", I mean a load of bullshit.
The US could use a pen and paper voting method, and it would work, but, I guess, politicians just don't like the idea of simple and functional. Afterall, you wouldn't want fair and open elections in the US would you? If you let the people have a say in it, the government might not be run by the aristocrats^H^H^H^H...er, carrer politicians.
Thank you, didn't know about that...Installing now.
Its not my problem to fund your site
Would you feel the same way if he started charging for his content because the ads were not bringing in any revenue?
I don't think the sentiment would change any. If a site is worth paying for, I'll pay for it. If the site is simply another re-hash of a copy of an unoriginal piece of information, then I will find it elsewhere.
I realize that it costs money to host a website, but if you are going to put something up, and expect to get paid for it, you'll probably need a better system than banner ads, as there is no garantee that you will get anything. You are welcome to try any business model you want (within the law), but I don't have to buy into it. If my browser happens to be anethema to your business model, too bad for you.
P.S. To the grand-parent poster. Install Mozilla. I've been banner and pop-up free for nearly a year. I do allow banners from some sites (those that I choose to support, e.g. Slashdot), its as easy as a right-click to get rid of them.
There will be a vote taken to determine if people are opposed to voting without an aduit trail. Please report to you local Diebold voting center to cast your vote today.
But that's an old way of doing things. Its not flashy and shiny and new!
Seriously, the main argument against it here in the US is scale. The belief is that, we have 250 million people plus or minus a few. Now, if all of them vote, counting that by hand will take longer than an hour, and our news media would be screaming about that, afterall Americans want their results NOW! Unless, of course, it provides for good TV drama (see 2000 election). This entire argument is bullshit, of course, with only 20% of voters actually voting the number of votes to count is not that large. Also, its not that hard to hire enough people to count votes by hand.
The only other problem with such a system, is in voter fraud. Its very easy to go to several polling locations and cast several ballots (At least here in California, I can go to any polling place as long as I can confirm my identity). The hope is that, with an electronic system they will be able to catch this sort of fraud. Which again is a load, but it sells well. Unless all of the polling places are linked, and once I vote in one, it keeps me from voting in another, and maintains the amnominity of my ballot, then we can talk.
Wow, that's something I didn't know about, thank you.
You wouldn't happen to have any links to info about those exploits, I like to read about such things to keep myself informed.
Wow, you seriously need to consider moving some stuff to a different circuit. Seriously, any one circuit in your house is only rated for so much current draw, get above that and you'll pop the breaker. Even when you just start getting close, you can cause problems, voltage spikes/dips etc. This is probably what your UPS is picking up on.
If you've never had the fun of dealing with power which is 'dirty', count yourself lucky, it can cause screwy problems with a computer.
You don't mean This game do you? It is still possible to get some of these great old titles, if you know where to look. And, considering that you had paid for a copy of it once, I wouldn't think that downloading it now should be that bad.
1. Tool - Options - Security - Zone
2. Change this to "Restricted Sites"
3. Zone Settings - OK
4. Disable everything
Outlook is now sanitized for your protection!
Now why this isn't the default, well that's something we can blame on MS, but its not unavoidable. Oh and, just because I haven't done it before (and if I don't someone will):
5. ?
6. Profit!
Alright, what slashdotter went and beat the Georga Governer with the clue stick?
Seriously through, I am glad to see some politician, hell any politician, questioning the stupidity in the relentless pursit of "terrorism". I realize that there are a lot of people in this world who hate the US, and would love to kill its citizens; but, get real, this is no excuse to be intruding into the private lives of the very citizens the govenment is supposed to be protecting. Some days I really wonder what it would take to get a law passed (even if just in my state) that bars the government from collecting and keeping, or even borrowing, data on citizens that have not broken the law. Basically, if I haven't done anything wrong, why the hell are you tracking me? Personally, I fear an orwellian future far more than I fear terrorists.
The problem I have found with Mozilla, is that most people just don't care enough. Personally I use, and love Mozilla. Like you I haven't seen a pop-up in a long time, that I didn't specifically allow. I am also a tyrant when it comes to cookies. I hate them, I see little need for a web site to be able to track me, unless its for user-login or purchasing purposes (and even then, I usually delete the cookie after I am done with the site). So, I have Mozilla ask me whether or not to store a cookie, when a web site attempts to. Most of the time, I will simply check the "Always do this" box and hit Deny.
The problem comes in when my girlfriend sits down at my computer. First off, I had to get her to belive that Mozilla was a web browser, and that IE was not necessary. That out of the way, she hated it. Having to deal with cookies annoyed her, she didn't care and just wanted it to work. She never even tried the tabbed browsing really. About the only thing about it that didn't annoy her was the lack of pop-ups, and even then some of the sites she went to were the kind that used pop-ups in the design of the page, so she didn't even appreciate that feature that much.
Basically, all of this is to say that most people aren't going to switch, no matter how the program is branded. They are used to IE, with all of its security holes. They want a program that just goes when they click on the purple monkey. They are willing to install another program which blocks pop-ups based on the title text, and to train that program. In all, they are afraid of change. And that is what Mozilla needs to overcome, it needs people getting their friends/girlfriends/family to use it and see the advantages. As long as it looks reasonably clean, and functions close to IE, that is enough. And damn well don't go changing the interface between versions, once you have something that works, don't fix it, you'll just scare and alienate people.
Probably, but I think that any of those formats would confuse the hell out of the people we are sending files to. For example, we use WinImage, and have occasionally sent boot disks to customers in this format. And, I think, you would be amazed at how hard it is for some of the recipients to download WinImage (I usually email them a link to CNet's download.com page for it), install and run it to make a boot disk. Trying to convince them that there are other compressed file formats would be a nightmare all its own. And our programmers? I would have never thought it possible before I started working here, but I don't think most of them would be able to get their email if our IT department hadn't configured Outlook for them. Heck, one of the jokes in my department is that the scariest thing to see is an engineer with a screwdriver. This belief tends to get re-enforced when I am explaining to one of them how to use the program they wrote.
Is this to say that we couldn't get around it if necessary, no, we could. I have just become tired of fighting, we have a system now that (sort of) works, so I'm not going to bother trying to do it another way. Sure, its a defeatist attitude, but then considering the value of this company's stock, and the management just spewing the same rosy future crap they have always spewed, I'm not exactly motivated to go to great lenths to accomplish things. Basically, I am becomming the Wally of our office. I would work, but its eaiser to wait for the project to either be cancled or get so far out of hand that we finally get enough answers to get it done right.
Its really just a matter of aim, we have a huge trash compactor sitting pretty close to us, we all know it as "The Sun", you simply push your barge towards it, and let it suck it the rest of the way in. Once it gets there it'll be liquified, taken into the bottom of a big gravity well, where it may re-solidify due to pressue, and not come out for a few billion years (not withstanding a rogue star impacing our own, but then, if that happens, we have a touch more to worry about than nuclear waste).
The only problem with this idea is, what if the launch vehicle fails catastrophically? We end up with chucks of radioactive (not really a big deal) and toxic (bigger deal) stuff falling back to Earth. Now this could be mitigated by doing 2 things:
1. Launch in small quantities, use small reusable rockets to put the payload in space. Something like an SRB for the shuttle with a detachable and disposable top for the payload.
2. Over-engineer the crap out of the payload housing, design it to survive having the rocket blow up under it. Also, designing the rocket to explode such that the explosion is likely to go mostly another way. Basically, we want the rocket to succeed, but if it fails it becomes the world's largest shape charge.
Or the best solution for most of this stuff, re-use it. The spent fuel rods can be used in other types of reactors, which are less efficent, but reduce the spent fuel rods to nothing quite so dangerous.
Really, video games are not to blame. If it's anything, it would have to be the parents. If you don't want your kids to go out on a shooting spree, teach them that shooting people in the head is bad. instill in them a sense of right and wrong.
,and groin they squirm longer that way...
Yes, shoot for the neck, knees
Ok, bad joke, but seriously this type of thing happens over and over again. Some children are just screwed up in the head, usully the reason can be found sobbing over the bullet riddled body of the kid who did it: the parents. But here in the good old US of A no one is required to take responsibity for their actions anymore. Its always someone/thing elses fault. Its the Rock and Roll, or D&D, or Heavy Metal, now its the video games. Truth is, the fault lies squarly with the parents, but because people in the US are unwilling to take responsibity, they blame everything else, lest they be blamed for their own short-commings some day.
Were it up to me, the parents of these kids should be taken out an shot. If they had been doing their job, actually teaching these kids right from wrong, and properly supervising what these kids did, this probably wouldn't have happened. But instead we get countless hours of the news media displaying the parents as some sort of victim, talking about how little Jonny was such a great kid, who wouldn't hurt a fly. If the parents had been paying attention they would have realised that little Johnny was actually not only hurting flies, but doing everything he could to torture them, along with small animals.
I hope that the Judge/Jury who see this case have a clue inside their skulls. Its not the game's fault, its the fault of parents who have kids, but never take on the responsibility of rasing them.
I'm not quite sure its the wall that was broken in that game...
The N64 incarnation of Castlvania sucked really bad, I was so glad I had rented it first. The perspective just sucked for what you were doing in that game, worse yet, since the monsters seemed to be forever re-spawning, you usually ended up getting hit from behind constantly. Personally, I think that there is just too much emphasis on 3d graphics in gaming at this point. The developers are taking a perfectly good title and cranking out a really bad 3d version of it, and just killing the title. Add to this the insistance of game companies to have combos in a game, and it just kills the feel of a good Action/RPG for me. I just want to mash the attack button, maybe have a block button, and work on dodging. I don't want to have to memorize 30 different button combos just so that I can play a game, I don't care enough about any game to do that. Give me simple gameplay with a good story, and some good puzzles, and you'll get my money every time.
Nope it doesn't, ZIP files are stripped as well, gotta love that help(less) desk.
Actually ZIP files are blocked as well. The one fix we have found is to rename the file to a differnt extension, .XEX is my favorite, and this seems to work most of the time. But everyonce in a while, it seems like they turn on a filter that reads file headers and determines its type from there, and then the renamed files get striped as well. I just made mention of the EXE files, as they are our biggest problem. Though, in defence of our IT department, I do sort of understand why they did it; usually, I would read about the latest Outlook worm on /. or somesuch site, and then open my inbox and see the results. Its seems that the people at our main office don't realize that, in truth, nobody loves them (I know everybody at our office hates them).
Amen to that.
We have a similar problem at my office. Corporate, in their infinate stupidity decided that e-mailint EXE files, in any direction through our servers should not be allowed. Ok, so it stops a lot of the Outlook viruses, but it also stops us sending new builds of software between people in house, it also stops us from sending new builds of software out to customers (which I am sad to say happens far to frequently). Basically it creates a huge problem. Our solution, put it on an FTP site...oops, sorry, we're not allowed write access to the FTP site. For internal stuff we still have sneaker-net and network shares, but our customers are somewhat screwed.
God be thanked we finally had a large enough customer breating down our necks (this is how we usually get changes around here) that we were able to get write access to one folder on the FTP site, still e-mail would be a hell of a lot eaiser.
And as for outgoing ports, ya most of them are locked down, makes doing anything other than basic Web/FTP a pain in the ass.
What is it with IT departments and being unhelpful? It seems that everytime we find an easy and convient way to get work done around here, they find a way to screw it up.
Maybe I am just being nieve here, but aren't movies still posting record setting profits? Both you, and the movie companies (maybe you're just a shill) seem bound and determined to convice the world that piracy is eating into the livelyhoods of the average worker on a move set. I call BULLSHIT! Movies are making more and more money every year, movie companies are allowing larger and larger budgets every year, and I somehow doubt that the workers on the sets are making any less now than they have been. A carpenter is still going to be paid the going wage (or the inflated union wage, depending), a painter will still be paid the same, and more as time goes on. The only people who believe that piracy is truly affecting the average worker on the set are those people who are too stupid to see through the rhetoric the studios are putting out.
Hell, even on a movie that flops tremendously the low level workers are still paid the same. They were paid an hourly wage for the work they did on the set, long before we all realized that Tomb Raider sucked horribly.
Now, does any of this justify copyright violations? No, of course not, but I just really hate all of this bullshit being spread around by the movie companies. If you want to argue about something, don't do it based on lies, it'll just make me respect your position less. If it can't be argued on facts, it probably isn't worth supporting. (End Rant)
$223,000!!! Thta's not a lobby, that's a bribe!
There's a difference?
Yes, it can, its just a matter of getting it used widely. For example, I have set up my server to run the .fuq TLD. If you add my server to your DNS server list (66.159.209.73), and then try to browse to sylver_dragon.fuq you should end up at my woefully out of date web site. .fuq domain.
Or, try search.fuq, you will end up at everyone's favorite search site.
Its quite do-able, the problem exists in getting someone who is willing to setup and maintain it (sure, I'd do it, but its gonna suck pretty bad), and in getting people to either manually configure their systems to use the appropriate DNS server, or in getting the major DNS servers to set up forwarding to the DNS server for the
That is a good point. I think the only way to prevent that is to always do both counts, and compare. If there are any major descrepancies, the vote should rely on the paper ballot, as those are the ones the people have actually checked. And, as I mentioned before, since the paper ballots would be produced by the machine, there would be less of a problem with cards not being punch properly, so the paper ballots should be more reliable than they are now.
Why have the voter keep it? Just have the machine produce a paper ballot, the voter can then verify it visually, and the ballot is dropped in a lock box at the polling location. The lock box is then treated exactly as they are today. Thus a manual recount is easy and possible. With a machine punching and verifying the holes we should less problems with pergnant chads.
Yes, of course, citizen. Now, Papers, Please!