Changing topic slightly but a misunderstanding I've come across a few times is that many member countries of The Commonweath these days are republics and therefore their citizens are not subjects of the Queen.
I've used Forte Agent for my email and usenet at home for almost ten years now. Its still a great application which is being actively developed again although its not open source and doesn't really handle multiple mail accounts (that's coming soon).
I tried Thunderbird a while back with a thought to switching to get the multiple accounts. One thing stopped me from switching. In Agent, I'm used to getting new articles in a newsgroup, reading those that interest me and then deleting all or some of the articles. As far as I could figure, you can't delete usenet articles in Thunderbird. I don't remember the exact details now but somehow marking articles as read didn't make them disappear.
Maybe I'm missing the point of how a news reader should work because I think Outlook Express works similar to Thunderbird in this way.
It just seems so easy and logical in Agent to simply get articles, read some and then toss them out so as to start with a clean slate next time. I think if I tried to delete articles in Thunderbird it thought I was trying to send a cancel message out to the world.
As a non-american I haven't been able to get an indication of how 'normal' it is to register through these sort of channels. In other words, I don't know how valid is the response which says "If you register through some stranger rather than the official way, then you deserve what you get".
Build PHP as a CGI, and print #!/path/to/php at the top of every php file. (Like you do with Perl)
Now wrap it with suExec and you're all set.
Observe the *slight* performance hit.
Is the performance hit really all that *slight* if you run PHP as a CGI rather than an Apache module? I had the impression that it was quite significant but I could be wrong.
Anyway, the security of PHP (and I guess potentially other scripting engines) running as an Apache module on cheap PHP shared hosting is a very real problem. My solution to it has been to move to Virtual Private Servers. The prices are comparable to good quality shared hosting and its infinitely more flexible.
I'm a happy customer at Linode but others I've used or looked at are:
In New Zealand we have a law which, although I don't know the wording, it basically says 'no politics on election day'. All billboards must be removed by midnight before the day. If nothing else, it avoids them becoming trash blowing around for weeks as I've noticed happening in the US. Exit polling is not allowed and the news media can't say anything political until the polls close except to comment on turnout etc. Volunteers working for parties helping old people etc get to a polling place can have coloured ribbons on their cars but that's all, no party or candidate names. No votes are counted until all polls are closed. Admittedly that's easier with only one timezone.
I think its all good. The last minute begging for votes from american candidates moving west seems somewhat uncivilised. Surely election day is finally a time for the candidates to shutup and let the people have their say.
And...
It doesn't matter what crime you've committed in the past, you never lose the right to vote. I heard a report on NPR recently about ex-felons not being allowed to vote in the US. Its a controversal subject but quite significant in some geographic and demographic groups.
Proportional representation means that third parties really do count and spoilers don't.
It is not his fault if the US electoral system is completely and utterly broken.
Very true. Unfortunately the chance of it ever changing seems extremely slim. Its my observation that electoral reform is something most americans have never thought about and are really not interested. There is plenty of stuff on the net like FairVote.org, ElectionMethods.org but they don't seem to be having much success in bringing it into public debate.
As a foreigner in the US, my few attempts at discussing this with people who I know are intelligent and politically aware has been a dismal failure. The suggestion that they don't have the best system in the world is just not something they are willing to consider.
For crying out loud, the amount of time, effort, emotional energy and money that goes into this spoiler nonsense is just pathetic for a country that calls itself a modern democracy. Either Instant Runoff or Approval Voting would solve this.
My attempts at discussing this with american friends has generally received blank looks or extreme skepticism. Why does this country have such a stubbon resistance to change? Anyone would think I'm asking that them to use the metric system!
I remember an article long ago about the possibility of somehow reading and reconstructing the last images from the eyes of a recently dead person. I think it was a serious project. It has some obvious applications for murder investigations.
There are limits to zoneedit's free-ness. Basically it's free for fewer than 5 domains and less than 200MB of traffic (200MB is highly unlikely for DNS) but read their policy for details.
Actually its more restrictive than that. Its five domains that you have added at any time. I added four long ago that I only used for a few months and then deleted from zoneedit. They still count in my five forever more which means that I only get one free now. Not meant to be a criticism, just pointing it out.
Why is that the BBC can get away with accurately reporting what the Vice President said on the Senate floor while american news sources had to keep us guessing with abbreviations?
I always remember a talk I heard at a ham radio club. The speaker was talking about his experience with the British tests on Christmas Island.
I don't recall exactly what his job was but for one test he was one of the closest people to the blast. He was with a team of people in the back of a truck with lots of electronic equipment. The truck was sealed up so as to be as light tight as possible. Despite the brilliant sun outside, to the people's eyes, it was absolutely black inside.
When the bomb went off, the inside of the truck lit up as brightly as the sun outside.
I'm surprised we haven't heard something similar about CC numbers. Debit and credit cards, prepaid etc AFAIK all share the same numbering world wide. Does anyone know?
Slashdot Mirror
Looks pretty good.
Changing topic slightly but a misunderstanding I've come across a few times is that many member countries of The Commonweath these days are republics and therefore their citizens are not subjects of the Queen.
See thecommonwealth.org
I'd be curious to see a list of countries who she is head of state for.
Perhaps someone in Australia made a poor choice of TLDs long ago.
.com.au and .edu.au
.co.au and .ac.au
Rather than
it may have been better to go for
much like nz, uk and others.
In New Zealand the emergency number is 111 and the number for an outside line is usually 1.
That's very convenient because if, in a panic, you forget to dial 1 for the outside line, you can insert it anywhere in the number.
I've used Forte Agent for my email and usenet at home for almost ten years now. Its still a great application which is being actively developed again although its not open source and doesn't really handle multiple mail accounts (that's coming soon).
I tried Thunderbird a while back with a thought to switching to get the multiple accounts. One thing stopped me from switching. In Agent, I'm used to getting new articles in a newsgroup, reading those that interest me and then deleting all or some of the articles. As far as I could figure, you can't delete usenet articles in Thunderbird. I don't remember the exact details now but somehow marking articles as read didn't make them disappear.
Maybe I'm missing the point of how a news reader should work because I think Outlook Express works similar to Thunderbird in this way. It just seems so easy and logical in Agent to simply get articles, read some and then toss them out so as to start with a clean slate next time. I think if I tried to delete articles in Thunderbird it thought I was trying to send a cancel message out to the world.
That sort of thinking will get us into real trouble.
Where would it end? Next you'll be suggesting that driving licenses be used to prove that you are qualified to drive and nothing else.
You have to be a US-born citizen to run for president.
To be pedantic about it, you probably don't have to be born in the USA but you do need to be an american at birth, ie a "natural born citizen".
Here's a discussion about it:
I've heard vague talk of John McCain running in 2008. The topic would certainly be debated then because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone.
As a non-american I haven't been able to get an indication of how 'normal' it is to register through these sort of channels. In other words, I don't know how valid is the response which says "If you register through some stranger rather than the official way, then you deserve what you get".
Are sympathizers the same as "supporters"?
I don't recall hearing of Republican or Democratic sympathizers.
Build PHP as a CGI, and print #!/path/to/php at the top of every php file. (Like you do with Perl) Now wrap it with suExec and you're all set. Observe the *slight* performance hit.
Is the performance hit really all that *slight* if you run PHP as a CGI rather than an Apache module? I had the impression that it was quite significant but I could be wrong.
Anyway, the security of PHP (and I guess potentially other scripting engines) running as an Apache module on cheap PHP shared hosting is a very real problem. My solution to it has been to move to Virtual Private Servers. The prices are comparable to good quality shared hosting and its infinitely more flexible. I'm a happy customer at Linode but others I've used or looked at are:
Rimu Hosting
Rose Hosting
Digital Daze
I think the biggest problem with Condorcet is explaining it to Joe and Jane six-pack.
Approval Voting is beautifully simple, is easy to count by hand and I'm told that it requires little or no change to existing voting machines.
This makes a lot of sense.
A bit off the original topic but ...
...
In New Zealand we have a law which, although I don't know the wording, it basically says 'no politics on election day'. All billboards must be removed by midnight before the day. If nothing else, it avoids them becoming trash blowing around for weeks as I've noticed happening in the US. Exit polling is not allowed and the news media can't say anything political until the polls close except to comment on turnout etc. Volunteers working for parties helping old people etc get to a polling place can have coloured ribbons on their cars but that's all, no party or candidate names. No votes are counted until all polls are closed. Admittedly that's easier with only one timezone.
I think its all good. The last minute begging for votes from american candidates moving west seems somewhat uncivilised. Surely election day is finally a time for the candidates to shutup and let the people have their say.
And
It doesn't matter what crime you've committed in the past, you never lose the right to vote. I heard a report on NPR recently about ex-felons not being allowed to vote in the US. Its a controversal subject but quite significant in some geographic and demographic groups.
Proportional representation means that third parties really do count and spoilers don't.
Permanent resident non-citizens can vote.
FWIW, New Zealand allows permanent resident non-citizens to vote.
It is not his fault if the US electoral system is completely and utterly broken.
Very true. Unfortunately the chance of it ever changing seems extremely slim. Its my observation that electoral reform is something most americans have never thought about and are really not interested. There is plenty of stuff on the net like FairVote.org, ElectionMethods.org but they don't seem to be having much success in bringing it into public debate.
As a foreigner in the US, my few attempts at discussing this with people who I know are intelligent and politically aware has been a dismal failure. The suggestion that they don't have the best system in the world is just not something they are willing to consider.
For crying out loud, the amount of time, effort, emotional energy and money that goes into this spoiler nonsense is just pathetic for a country that calls itself a modern democracy. Either Instant Runoff or Approval Voting would solve this.
My attempts at discussing this with american friends has generally received blank looks or extreme skepticism. Why does this country have such a stubbon resistance to change? Anyone would think I'm asking that them to use the metric system!
For DotNetNuke.
IMHO, the best open source content management system.
How will it compare to other free databases such as Microsoft SQL Express
I remember an article long ago about the possibility of somehow reading and reconstructing the last images from the eyes of a recently dead person. I think it was a serious project. It has some obvious applications for murder investigations.
Now that is really getting spooky.
Believe it or not, some of us are honest.
Lots of registrars these days bundle DNS service 'free' with domain registration.
:-(
I just checked the three registrars / DNS providers I'm using and none let you add a TXT record.
They are MyDomain.com, GoDaddy.com and NameCheap.com
There are limits to zoneedit's free-ness. Basically it's free for fewer than 5 domains and less than 200MB of traffic (200MB is highly unlikely for DNS) but read their policy for details.
Actually its more restrictive than that. Its five domains that you have added at any time. I added four long ago that I only used for a few months and then deleted from zoneedit. They still count in my five forever more which means that I only get one free now. Not meant to be a criticism, just pointing it out.
Why is that the BBC can get away with accurately reporting what the Vice President said on the Senate floor while american news sources had to keep us guessing with abbreviations?
I always remember a talk I heard at a ham radio club. The speaker was talking about his experience with the British tests on Christmas Island.
I don't recall exactly what his job was but for one test he was one of the closest people to the blast. He was with a team of people in the back of a truck with lots of electronic equipment. The truck was sealed up so as to be as light tight as possible. Despite the brilliant sun outside, to the people's eyes, it was absolutely black inside.
When the bomb went off, the inside of the truck lit up as brightly as the sun outside.
They don't seem to specify that.
Perhaps recording to WOM (write only memory) would satisfy the requirement.
I'm surprised we haven't heard something similar about CC numbers. Debit and credit cards, prepaid etc AFAIK all share the same numbering world wide. Does anyone know?