I don't know how many people are still fighting spam the old-fashioned way, analysing headers, tracerouting, forwarding results to proper abuse departments. But if a piece of spam comes that you can't copy, print or forward, that avenue is pretty much dead and gone.
Nah. If one draws any conclusions from the story, it's not primarily that Diebold is evil, but that e-voting needs a paper-trail independent audit. If any regulations were to be made (or enforced), they'd apply to all voting machine manufacturers equally. If someone were theowing Diebold to the lions, they'd be throwing them all.
I'd rather say that Diebold is getting the heat because Bev Harris and a few other people have the goods on Diebold - the leaked memos, the FTP site, the story from Rob Behler who worked on patching the machines in Georgia - and they may have not acquired equally convincing material on the other companies.
All in all, this is absolutely horrifying stuff. Bev Harris released her book under Creative Commons license, so go read it. It's not exactly well-written - it's hasty, it may not explain the 'puter stuff sufficiently for the masses, and features too many quotes from/. - but it's damn well researched and it's factual. Go read it.
And a corrupt Democrat in that situation would have done exactly the same thing. Neither side is better or worse than the other.
It is evidently up to us to keep those fools straight.
Damn right on both counts. The problem is, voters on both sides need to care about fair and verifiable election results just as much. Judging from the slant of Rep-side responses in this thread, this is not going to be the case.
Wait... pencil? As in not pen? As in pencil eraser?
Other than that, this is the only voting method I would ever trust. An X - in ink, please! - in a box, on printed paper. And no matter what, each voter only gets ONE voting sheet to mark, so they know they're not supposed to screw up. Works well, even if you have to wait two or three days for the full results to come.
I'm not sure why you're lumping games with movies and music here. Games need not cost *huge* amounts. Granted, you need to pay good money to developers, maybe even better money to graphics designers, and invest some in promotions. But that, plus hardware and dev tools, pretty much sums up the cost. You don't pay millions to the lead star (at least, one would hope they don't), you don't hire hundreds of extras, doubles, assistants, grips and and go-fors, you don't attempt to rent Sydney for a day (Matrix, anyone?), you don't crash cars, trains, choppers or airplanes to produce a game. The cost of amking a game vs the cost of making a movie should be different by orders of magnitude.
And DRM is already being shoved down our throats, while it turns out that bootleg copies of pre-release movies are being distributed by insiders, not by teenage traders.
Amazon has a page where you can rate the stuff you've bought. On the same page, you can selectively exclude each item from rating, so that amazon won't use it to generate suggestions.
I'd say this depends muchly on how true what you said to people was. Now, as a manager, you could probably be held responsible for any major problems at the restaurant, so it would just be silly for you to go around and smear *yourself*. But if you were a cook or a waiter there, perhaps the manager ought to be fired and you should be made the manager and get things improved, no?
Even though I agreed with just about every point in the report, I could see that if the report does not reflect the (public) views of the company, then they would have a legitimate reason to fire him.
There's the problem, precisely. It sounds rather reasonable, but it silently assumes that what a company says in public is a load of BS and that that's okay.
Why is it that so many things are wrong - sometimes illegal - when politicians do it, or journalists for that matter - but just fine when done by companies? The law is one thing, but why does the majority of people seem to find this perfectly acceptable?
Pity the player is such a sorry mess. You could hope that after being extensively featured in UI Hall of Shame the developers would put at least a little effort into improving it.
You can opt out of the phonebook and still have a telephone. You can't opt out of whois database and have your domain. (Unless you provide fake info up front, but that may backfire when renewing registration, resolving any disputes etc.)
As one who lives in Central Europe (funny how we used to be called Eastern Europe, then were somehow moved westward!), I wish this would stop. It's not tipping, it's plain corruption. Physicians at all levels expect bribes, they actually come up to you and demand money explicitly - try not to pay when the guy is taking care of your wife who's about to give birth. (Didn't happen to me; did happen to someone in the family.)
But it sure as hell isn't a tradition or custom to be respected, it's a corrupt practice and people should rot in jail for it. DON'T bribe doctors if you can get away with it, it only encourages this. Or pay the bribe if the bastard demands one, then IMMEDIATELY report him to the cops. Here in Poland at least, there's a new law that says if you do this, they bust his ass and you're clean.
It was the liberal Democrats who argued that absentee ballots from oversea military personnel shouldn't be counted.
Wrong. Some of those ballots were postmarked AFTER the final election date, and that was the only point of dispute. The Bush team wanted those late ballots in, and guess who was not following the law?
Parent needs to be modded UP. I suppose the original intent was benevolent, as it would be a useful service if only the message could be bounced to the actual infectee, not an innocent third party.
I guess one can argue that these misdirected bounce messages qualify as spam, except they are not mass-mailed (as the AV software makers would claim), they're supposedly "targeted". However, they are incontrovertible evidence of bugs in the AV software that generates them, and as such could be forwarded to the software vendor, wrapped in short and informative bug reports.
What you did was probably not enough to trigger the behavior the article describes. The article doesn't go into fine points of Word file format, and it's not only the undo function that presents a problem. Word's files are "compound documents" in MS-speak, actually a nifty idea, where a single file has a structure that resembles nested directories and files on disk (except the 'directories' inside a compound document are called storages and 'files' are called streams). The way Word optimizes writes to these files is that it doesn't constantly rewrite the whole file when you made a small or even a substantial change. If you replace a small chunk of text with a larger chunk, the old small chunk may well remain in the file and only be marked as deleted, or unused (much as files on disk when you delete them), while the new chunk is appended to the end of the file (or wherever it fits). There's a process built in to 'compress' such files by removing those unused spaces, but exactly when and how often Word does so I've no idea. So after *many* edits you may find that some old text remains in the physical file, although it's not accessible to you or Word.
You may also notice that Word files don't grow by single bytes, but by bigger chunks. I suppose that Word simply grabs some unused disk space when the file needs to grow, but it does not clear that space, so a Word file could potentially contain any random data that happens to remain unerased on the disk space marked as free.
Moderators, please mod parent WAY up. Often in a thousand-post thread on sd there's not one person who understands what it means to have rights.
What spammers do is akin to theft and tresspass, and should be prosecuted as such in courts of law. It's also a pain in the ass, but it doesn't mean I'm allowed to beat the shit out of a spammer should I meet one in person - or do anything that amounts to mob justice.
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Isn't Diebold's reaction sufficient to verify the memos? Diebold is not saying the memos are false. They're saying "this is our property".
I don't know how many people are still fighting spam the old-fashioned way, analysing headers, tracerouting, forwarding results to proper abuse departments. But if a piece of spam comes that you can't copy, print or forward, that avenue is pretty much dead and gone.
I'd rather say that Diebold is getting the heat because Bev Harris and a few other people have the goods on Diebold - the leaked memos, the FTP site, the story from Rob Behler who worked on patching the machines in Georgia - and they may have not acquired equally convincing material on the other companies.
All in all, this is absolutely horrifying stuff. Bev Harris released her book under Creative Commons license, so go read it. It's not exactly well-written - it's hasty, it may not explain the 'puter stuff sufficiently for the masses, and features too many quotes from
It is evidently up to us to keep those fools straight.
Damn right on both counts. The problem is, voters on both sides need to care about fair and verifiable election results just as much. Judging from the slant of Rep-side responses in this thread, this is not going to be the case.
Wait... pencil? As in not pen? As in pencil eraser?
Other than that, this is the only voting method I would ever trust. An X - in ink, please! - in a box, on printed paper. And no matter what, each voter only gets ONE voting sheet to mark, so they know they're not supposed to screw up. Works well, even if you have to wait two or three days for the full results to come.
You didn't invade Cuba? Oh.
A brief but promising interpretation of SunComm's stock vagaries has just been posted to Dave Farber's "Interesting people" list and is archived here
I'm not sure why you're lumping games with movies and music here. Games need not cost *huge* amounts. Granted, you need to pay good money to developers, maybe even better money to graphics designers, and invest some in promotions. But that, plus hardware and dev tools, pretty much sums up the cost. You don't pay millions to the lead star (at least, one would hope they don't), you don't hire hundreds of extras, doubles, assistants, grips and and go-fors, you don't attempt to rent Sydney for a day (Matrix, anyone?), you don't crash cars, trains, choppers or airplanes to produce a game. The cost of amking a game vs the cost of making a movie should be different by orders of magnitude.
And DRM is already being shoved down our throats, while it turns out that bootleg copies of pre-release movies are being distributed by insiders, not by teenage traders.
Amazon has a page where you can rate the stuff you've bought. On the same page, you can selectively exclude each item from rating, so that amazon won't use it to generate suggestions.
An NLP problem *is* an AI problem. At least, as someone who makes a living by processing NLP with wetware, I sure as hell hope so!
I'd say this depends muchly on how true what you said to people was. Now, as a manager, you could probably be held responsible for any major problems at the restaurant, so it would just be silly for you to go around and smear *yourself*. But if you were a cook or a waiter there, perhaps the manager ought to be fired and you should be made the manager and get things improved, no?
There's the problem, precisely. It sounds rather reasonable, but it silently assumes that what a company says in public is a load of BS and that that's okay.
Why is it that so many things are wrong - sometimes illegal - when politicians do it, or journalists for that matter - but just fine when done by companies? The law is one thing, but why does the majority of people seem to find this perfectly acceptable?
This is fair enough, but in the end it depends on the expectations you had. Matrix Reloaded and *that movie* - two letdowns but only one surprise.
Pity the player is such a sorry mess. You could hope that after being extensively featured in UI Hall of Shame the developers would put at least a little effort into improving it.
How about we start with the things we already know about? Occam's razor and all.
You can opt out of the phonebook and still have a telephone. You can't opt out of whois database and have your domain. (Unless you provide fake info up front, but that may backfire when renewing registration, resolving any disputes etc.)
>>Depleted uranium is not radioactive, but it is toxic.
/. story you're posting in?
>In what way? Haven't heard anything about that.
You realize of course what
And oh, what about those "chemicals the Iraq used"? Seems to me they didn't have or use any.
France has troops in the Congo. (Article's from May, at which time they were planning to deploy; by now thay already have.)
As one who lives in Central Europe (funny how we used to be called Eastern Europe, then were somehow moved westward!), I wish this would stop. It's not tipping, it's plain corruption. Physicians at all levels expect bribes, they actually come up to you and demand money explicitly - try not to pay when the guy is taking care of your wife who's about to give birth. (Didn't happen to me; did happen to someone in the family.)
But it sure as hell isn't a tradition or custom to be respected, it's a corrupt practice and people should rot in jail for it. DON'T bribe doctors if you can get away with it, it only encourages this. Or pay the bribe if the bastard demands one, then IMMEDIATELY report him to the cops. Here in Poland at least, there's a new law that says if you do this, they bust his ass and you're clean.
You do not own the Slashdot home page. Diebold have 'owner' privilege on their machines.
It was the liberal Democrats who argued that absentee ballots from oversea military personnel shouldn't be counted.
Wrong. Some of those ballots were postmarked AFTER the final election date, and that was the only point of dispute. The Bush team wanted those late ballots in, and guess who was not following the law?
Parent needs to be modded UP. I suppose the original intent was benevolent, as it would be a useful service if only the message could be bounced to the actual infectee, not an innocent third party.
I guess one can argue that these misdirected bounce messages qualify as spam, except they are not mass-mailed (as the AV software makers would claim), they're supposedly "targeted". However, they are incontrovertible evidence of bugs in the AV software that generates them, and as such could be forwarded to the software vendor, wrapped in short and informative bug reports.
What you did was probably not enough to trigger the behavior the article describes. The article doesn't go into fine points of Word file format, and it's not only the undo function that presents a problem. Word's files are "compound documents" in MS-speak, actually a nifty idea, where a single file has a structure that resembles nested directories and files on disk (except the 'directories' inside a compound document are called storages and 'files' are called streams). The way Word optimizes writes to these files is that it doesn't constantly rewrite the whole file when you made a small or even a substantial change. If you replace a small chunk of text with a larger chunk, the old small chunk may well remain in the file and only be marked as deleted, or unused (much as files on disk when you delete them), while the new chunk is appended to the end of the file (or wherever it fits). There's a process built in to 'compress' such files by removing those unused spaces, but exactly when and how often Word does so I've no idea. So after *many* edits you may find that some old text remains in the physical file, although it's not accessible to you or Word.
You may also notice that Word files don't grow by single bytes, but by bigger chunks. I suppose that Word simply grabs some unused disk space when the file needs to grow, but it does not clear that space, so a Word file could potentially contain any random data that happens to remain unerased on the disk space marked as free.
Moderators, please mod parent WAY up. Often in a thousand-post thread on sd there's not one person who understands what it means to have rights.
What spammers do is akin to theft and tresspass, and should be prosecuted as such in courts of law. It's also a pain in the ass, but it doesn't mean I'm allowed to beat the shit out of a spammer should I meet one in person - or do anything that amounts to mob justice.