Just remember if your local voting station is having technical problems (which is true for about 100% of them) dont offer your help - If you even touch the machine other than to vote you are probably commiting atleast 16 offences. Trying to diagnose the problem could be considered a federal offence, a terrorist act, and a violation of the DMCA all in one! not to mention of a violation of your local states 'visible errection in a public place' law.
Why did the American voter cross the road? To get some democracy
Knock Knock -Whos there? Vote -Vote who? Vote who-ever you like, it just gets piped to the republicans!
Hey bob, did you hear about the new election system? No? how does it work? It electionically transfers 'votes' from a politicial party's bank account to Diebolds!
Folks just remember, the electronic machines are here so that you dont have a repete of the whole 2000 fiasco. See, when the electronic machines go wrong theres no way to tell, so the election won't be slowed down with pesky recounts. Even if there was question about the election, it would never get in the media because while "hanging chad" can be explained to the masses, "buffer overflow" cannot. Anyway im sure Diebold is a responsible company who wouldnt let their republican affiliation get in the way of a undetectable vote tampering.
"If your happy with the current-administration, click on yes! ... (clicked on no) If your confident in Diebolds ability-to-provide-secure-voting-solutions, click on yes! ... (clicked on no) If your happy and you know it and you really want to show it, if your happy and you know it, click on yes ... (page protection fault)"
Lets try another!
"Bar bar black sheep have you cast your vote? No sir, no sir, i was struck of the electoral role by a republican outsourced data-processing company called Diebold"
Well done! now lets try some rhymes!
"Humpty dumpty sat on the wall, humpty dumpty found a software flaw. But all the election officials' horses and all the election officials' men, couldnt save humpty from a Diebold law-suit under the DMCA"
"And moving on, this is George Aldrich, hes sniffing the astronaughts underwear, but dont worry kids, he doesnt have a fetish: this where we do our smell testing."
--Insert replies about geeks stinking and Natalie Portmans panties.
Well i was hoping to we could send half the senators and mp's from the us & uk to camp x-ray in the next few years and thats allot of people - don't want the damn thing full of s'kiddies.
Im guessing its to stop piracy: its harder to get free PS2 games because you need a chip and a dvd-burner, where as to get PC games you just need a decent connection. Multiplayer games are different because the serial codes are checked by the servers so theoretically they should be pretty hard to crack. GTA being mostly a single-player game (i know, its brilliantly suited to multiplayer) should go on a console where its more likely to be bought. Plus sony are probably sucked rockstar off like a desperate teen groupie to get it on their console only, they know its their killer app.
Really? i thought that fixing stupid holes in the OS and not leaving net-bios and other ports open by default would stop most things spreading. Also most windows virus's leave a tell tail sign - they crash!
Its quite ironic that over the years ive downloaded a hell of a lotta dodgy programs from dodgy sites and P2P and never used an anti-virus tool and the only trouble ive had (never used outlook) is when i've connected an unpatched windows machine to the net and been infected in 3 minutes.
Why does everyone think this is such a big deal? America imposes some of the most rediculous demands around to ensure its economy is good - AID treatment is second class to drug company profit, oil must be traded in dollars or else, DVDs must adhere to the DVD DRM standards so that hollywood can create the best market for itself etc..
I think in other parts of the world its known as an instant message because it arrives at the other phone instantly, where-as here in the uk, o2 delivers it afew hours later because a 160 byte message is oh so traffic intensive.
Fired by crappest, most rip-off messaging system known to man with a 160 character limit, phone companies that think its fine to charge you extortionate fees to route something the size of the meta data thats sent when you initiate a call (for free) and then dont bother to deliver it for 3 hours on occaision and the most annoying input method ever invented.
So let me get this straight, there is a collection of buttons around New York city that are not connected to anything, and are waiting for some enterprising geek to hack into something useful... What are we waiting for??
Well i guess you gotta hand it to Balmer in a way, hes a man of peace: when Saddam started trading oil in euros, Microsofts friend George W. Bush blew his palace up and killed several thousend of his people, but when Munich decides it doesnt want to give MS a license to print money, not a shot is fired, just some harmless press conferences, they should be lucky Bill didnt even nuke them!
Thats brilliant! worth a slashdot story on its own! Damn if i had come up with this, advertising on slashdot alone would have made me my first few millions! Some people just need to be extorted
One chap even wanted a replica of a canine. "He offered me $50,000 to do it," Matt confided, "but y'know . . . I just couldn't."
The internet is full of dodgy stuff, you cant make it a safe haven for kids, period. So if your worrid about kids seeing something objectionable dont let them on the internet its simple. The 'digital learning revolution' is a myth, you dont need google to learn the alphabet or basic maths and if you want to show them something, download it first.
You cant go sending people to prision for this sort of thing its just stupid, next they'll be exicuting spammers and sending VB-script virus script-kiddies to camp X-ray. This guy was just trying to make a fast buck and if thats a crime then lets start thinking big *COUGH* ENRON *COUGH* there are hundereds of bigger basterds out there who have done far far worse and instead of rotting away behind bars end up being senators or presidents.
Imagine if you were perminently logged into slashdot on your machine and you went browsing hardcore-dog-porn.com, then afterwards you returned to slashdot only to find that your referrer had been linked to your account and displayed on the front page for all to see. You think they wouldnt do that? how sure are you? huh?
This might keep the marketing dogs at bay but politicians must be having wet dreams at what this could acheave - imaging linking all this data, you basically have a distributed array of people sensors and an extensive log of where any one person has been on tap 24/7. How about installing RFID readers _everywhere_ - put them in airport check-ins, public transport, traffic lights, libraries, schools, the pavement, and you have amazing coverage. You could see what people were buying, reading, eating, wearing, even what underwear they had on and the best thing is it would happen automatically - the computer would build up profiles of people based on what tags were moving around, it would be able to fill in blanks from other databases - eg get on a plane and that set of RFID takes belongs to the name on your passport. Shops would be only too happy to give their database to the government in return for a few favours.
Actually your HTTP Referrer is sent by your browser by its own choice, you can turn it off, and in some browsers even have it smartly decide when to send the referrer and when to keep quiet, it can also send a 'fake' address based on the current one to allow leeching etc.
An RFID tag on the other hand is more like a trojan condom/malware/spyware etc.
outlook, internet explorer, office, IIS, exchange, etc. Technically, these are not windows problems. It's like saying that wu-ftpd has an exploit that gives a user root access (which is almost always true), and then blaiming that on the kernel dev team.
Erm, Microsoft wrote all of those so yes we are blaiming their problems on the Microsoft 'team'
I like the way you can select the colour sampling in jpeg compression (4:2:2 4:4:4 etc) nice touch. It really really really really really really needs adjustment layers like photoshop at the very least, without adjustment layers you might aswell be painting on a real canvas in terms of later adjustability. I can live with out plug-in/filter previews although you could technically add that ability automatically without even needing to modify the current plug-ins - just make the plug-in work with a second version of the image while clicking ok would apply the plugin and imeadiately re-launch the window for tweeking.
If you then added a way of remembering the settings of that particular plug-in on a layer you could add the ability to go back at any time and adjust a plug-in/layer and have that adjustment filter through to the current image - that alone would out-do photoshop!!
Adjustability is what its all about, anyone else with me?
Nah it is sick and twisted. Everything about pricing in this country is sick and twisted, wow im already in 1000's of debt and im a student who has it good!
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Just remember if your local voting station is having technical problems (which is true for about 100% of them) dont offer your help - If you even touch the machine other than to vote you are probably commiting atleast 16 offences. Trying to diagnose the problem could be considered a federal offence, a terrorist act, and a violation of the DMCA all in one! not to mention of a violation of your local states 'visible errection in a public place' law.
Oh man im sorry i just cant help it:
Why did the American voter cross the road? To get some democracy
Knock Knock
-Whos there?
Vote
-Vote who?
Vote who-ever you like, it just gets piped to the republicans!
Hey bob, did you hear about the new election system?
No? how does it work?
It electionically transfers 'votes' from a politicial party's bank account to Diebolds!
Folks just remember, the electronic machines are here so that you dont have a repete of the whole 2000 fiasco. See, when the electronic machines go wrong theres no way to tell, so the election won't be slowed down with pesky recounts. Even if there was question about the election, it would never get in the media because while "hanging chad" can be explained to the masses, "buffer overflow" cannot. Anyway im sure Diebold is a responsible company who wouldnt let their republican affiliation get in the way of a undetectable vote tampering.
Hello kids, lets sing a song.
... (clicked on no)
... (clicked on no)
... (page protection fault)"
"If your happy with the current-administration, click on yes!
If your confident in Diebolds ability-to-provide-secure-voting-solutions, click on yes!
If your happy and you know it and you really want to show it, if your happy and you know it, click on yes
Lets try another!
"Bar bar black sheep have you cast your vote?
No sir, no sir, i was struck of the electoral role by a republican outsourced data-processing company called Diebold"
Well done! now lets try some rhymes!
"Humpty dumpty sat on the wall,
humpty dumpty found a software flaw.
But all the election officials' horses and all the election officials' men,
couldnt save humpty from a Diebold law-suit under the DMCA"
"And moving on, this is George Aldrich, hes sniffing the astronaughts underwear, but dont worry kids, he doesnt have a fetish: this where we do our smell testing."
--Insert replies about geeks stinking and Natalie Portmans panties.
end.
You just try explaining that to the woman!
Well i was hoping to we could send half the senators and mp's from the us & uk to camp x-ray in the next few years and thats allot of people - don't want the damn thing full of s'kiddies.
Im guessing its to stop piracy: its harder to get free PS2 games because you need a chip and a dvd-burner, where as to get PC games you just need a decent connection. Multiplayer games are different because the serial codes are checked by the servers so theoretically they should be pretty hard to crack. GTA being mostly a single-player game (i know, its brilliantly suited to multiplayer) should go on a console where its more likely to be bought. Plus sony are probably sucked rockstar off like a desperate teen groupie to get it on their console only, they know its their killer app.
Really? i thought that fixing stupid holes in the OS and not leaving net-bios and other ports open by default would stop most things spreading. Also most windows virus's leave a tell tail sign - they crash!
Its quite ironic that over the years ive downloaded a hell of a lotta dodgy programs from dodgy sites and P2P and never used an anti-virus tool and the only trouble ive had (never used outlook) is when i've connected an unpatched windows machine to the net and been infected in 3 minutes.
Why does everyone think this is such a big deal? America imposes some of the most rediculous demands around to ensure its economy is good - AID treatment is second class to drug company profit, oil must be traded in dollars or else, DVDs must adhere to the DVD DRM standards so that hollywood can create the best market for itself etc..
I think in other parts of the world its known as an instant message because it arrives at the other phone instantly, where-as here in the uk, o2 delivers it afew hours later because a 160 byte message is oh so traffic intensive.
Fired by crappest, most rip-off messaging system known to man with a 160 character limit, phone companies that think its fine to charge you extortionate fees to route something the size of the meta data thats sent when you initiate a call (for free) and then dont bother to deliver it for 3 hours on occaision and the most annoying input method ever invented.
Erm well then we wouldnt?
btw they might make decent software but if their formats are closed and proprietry then it dont mean shit.
So let me get this straight, there is a collection of buttons around New York city that are not connected to anything, and are waiting for some enterprising geek to hack into something useful... What are we waiting for??
Well i guess you gotta hand it to Balmer in a way, hes a man of peace: when Saddam started trading oil in euros, Microsofts friend George W. Bush blew his palace up and killed several thousend of his people, but when Munich decides it doesnt want to give MS a license to print money, not a shot is fired, just some harmless press conferences, they should be lucky Bill didnt even nuke them!
Thats brilliant! worth a slashdot story on its own! Damn if i had come up with this, advertising on slashdot alone would have made me my first few millions! Some people just need to be extorted
One chap even wanted a replica of a canine. "He offered me $50,000 to do it," Matt confided, "but y'know . . . I just couldn't."
The internet is full of dodgy stuff, you cant make it a safe haven for kids, period. So if your worrid about kids seeing something objectionable dont let them on the internet its simple. The 'digital learning revolution' is a myth, you dont need google to learn the alphabet or basic maths and if you want to show them something, download it first.
You cant go sending people to prision for this sort of thing its just stupid, next they'll be exicuting spammers and sending VB-script virus script-kiddies to camp X-ray. This guy was just trying to make a fast buck and if thats a crime then lets start thinking big *COUGH* ENRON *COUGH* there are hundereds of bigger basterds out there who have done far far worse and instead of rotting away behind bars end up being senators or presidents.
Imagine if you were perminently logged into slashdot on your machine and you went browsing hardcore-dog-porn.com, then afterwards you returned to slashdot only to find that your referrer had been linked to your account and displayed on the front page for all to see. You think they wouldnt do that? how sure are you? huh?
This might keep the marketing dogs at bay but politicians must be having wet dreams at what this could acheave - imaging linking all this data, you basically have a distributed array of people sensors and an extensive log of where any one person has been on tap 24/7. How about installing RFID readers _everywhere_ - put them in airport check-ins, public transport, traffic lights, libraries, schools, the pavement, and you have amazing coverage. You could see what people were buying, reading, eating, wearing, even what underwear they had on and the best thing is it would happen automatically - the computer would build up profiles of people based on what tags were moving around, it would be able to fill in blanks from other databases - eg get on a plane and that set of RFID takes belongs to the name on your passport. Shops would be only too happy to give their database to the government in return for a few favours.
Actually your HTTP Referrer is sent by your browser by its own choice, you can turn it off, and in some browsers even have it smartly decide when to send the referrer and when to keep quiet, it can also send a 'fake' address based on the current one to allow leeching etc.
An RFID tag on the other hand is more like a trojan condom/malware/spyware etc.
outlook, internet explorer, office, IIS, exchange, etc. Technically, these are not windows problems. It's like saying that wu-ftpd has an exploit that gives a user root access (which is almost always true), and then blaiming that on the kernel dev team.
Erm, Microsoft wrote all of those so yes we are blaiming their problems on the Microsoft 'team'
Have you tried inkscape? from what i can tell its sodipodi with abit more and they seem to have more frequent releases.
I like the way you can select the colour sampling in jpeg compression (4:2:2 4:4:4 etc) nice touch. It really really really really really really needs adjustment layers like photoshop at the very least, without adjustment layers you might aswell be painting on a real canvas in terms of later adjustability. I can live with out plug-in/filter previews although you could technically add that ability automatically without even needing to modify the current plug-ins - just make the plug-in work with a second version of the image while clicking ok would apply the plugin and imeadiately re-launch the window for tweeking.
If you then added a way of remembering the settings of that particular plug-in on a layer you could add the ability to go back at any time and adjust a plug-in/layer and have that adjustment filter through to the current image - that alone would out-do photoshop!!
Adjustability is what its all about, anyone else with me?
Nah it is sick and twisted. Everything about pricing in this country is sick and twisted, wow im already in 1000's of debt and im a student who has it good!