Paper ballots are very easy to count, if they are made to be machine-countable. Think electronically scored school test papers. Just feed them in. The plus is, the machine doing the counting can be so 'stupid' that it would be almost impossible to fake the vote (15 votes for selection 1, which is mapped to $Candiate[1], etc.). The nice thing is, this gives you two independant, electronic votes. If there is a discrepency, you already know something went wrong. You also know that the paper machine-counted ballot is liklier to be correct, given that there are very few vectors for corrupting it, it was verified by the voter, and it uses a very old, stable technology. If there are still uncertainties after all that, you can still do a manual recount, which is worlds better than the sneaking suspicion that the president was chosen by a (possibly rigged) roulette wheel...
The article I read said that astronomers detected a composition that more closely resembled a comet. Apparently, this was decided within the last 5 years. Given your link, I assume you spend more time with this than I do. Is the comet thing only a minority opinion of the Cassini project leader, or is it more prevalent?
First, Marxism and communism are two different things. Of course, the only communist governments we've seen have been of the Marxist variety. I think even the Chinese government is very close to Marxism.
Second, the GPL does put restrictions on what I can do with the information. I can't tack on my ideas, distribute the result, and keep the source to myself. Some may say that this is a good restriction, and beneficial, but it is still a restriction. If you want a truly unfettered license, look at the BSD-style licenses. You can use the source wherever you want, whether it be GPL, typical closed-source, or most any other license. And even that isn't freedom. Freedom is being able to choose whatever license makes you happy, and not being mandated to use one or the other. So go ahead and use GPL if you like. Or BSD, Apache, Xfree86's, standard copyright, public domain, or whatever. Exercise your freedom.
Well, the answer to that question determines whether Aamerica was better than Japan. It doesn't determine if Amarica was right to do what it did. So, what's the new slogan of apoligist americans, "We've always been better than Haiti has been for the last 20 years?" Or, "We're still better than the Nazis." Maybe you should set your sights a little higher, and accept the failings of your country. And yes, my country put Japanese in concentration camps in WWII, too, and I was glad when they got reparations from my government.
But within the Christian community a violent minority does exist.
I think you can take just about any cross-section of society (with the exception of pacifists, maybe) and find a violent minority. Looking all throught history, there have been pacifists and militants in virtually every group that wasn't extremist (I don't recall any pacifists in the Nazi leadership, or in the Bolshevik revolution for that matter). So pointing out that Christianity is the same as just about every other group out there is disingenuous.
All that you said is true, more or less. Keep in mind that it was fairly recently that corporations were granted personhood, and I believe there is a state (North Carolina?) that has revoked that right. Can corporations be given life imprisonment? How about liability to the three-strikes rules that are used in so many states? Death penalty? The answer to that is usually "well, you can't hold individuals responsible for the actions of an organization". And how many corporations have been broken up under the Sherman Act? Something tells me that it's less than Texas sentences to death in a good year... But how does this mean that said organization should have the rights given to individuals, without responsibility? But enough on that rant.
Corporations can spend a lot of time (or money), and have a lot of weight to throw behind a few goals. I can't give millions to a lobbyist to do it for me, I don't have the time (or money) to form and promote an organization to promote my interests, and I don't have the time to do the work myself (I have to feed a family). That's the big difference. Let's not pretend that money doesn't talk, or that campaign contributions aren't exchanged for favourable votes on specific issues. And there is no way to really prove that, since it's often couched as suggestions and concerns.
Yep, that's the nice part about working in a Windows shop. You always get notification of when automatic isn't good enough. Happened to me twice in the last month or so...:P
The one thing I learned from Conspiracy Theory was that if you want stuff destroyed in short order (say, in response to a knock on the door) is that if you don't see smoke, they can learn something from it. And the link has my.sig in context. That can't be a coincidence...now where's my tinfoil hat?
Here's the code. Take every letter that is missed, and add it to your message. If an extra letter is added to a word, take a letter off your message. Repeat. If you follow it long enough, you will get the following message: "You are a loser with too much time on your hands." Don't ask how I know this.
Well, one of the criteria for a patent is not being obvious. Is keeping track of bug locations (until fixed) innovative? No. Is keeping track of tasks, and linked to specific points in code innovative? No. Is refreshing a list automatically (think stock prices) innovative? No. Is combining these elements to keep track of two of the most common tasks in coding in one place obvious? Yes. So, no, IMO, this shouldn't get a patent. Unfortunately, this is a trend we've been seeing a lot of lately...
Actually, the grammar does follow correct general structure, though not the typical structure for modern speech. Compare his statement to some made by Winston Churchill, and it will have the same feel to it. That said, Canada still feels no loss.
Yes, but lobbies tend to get volume from the number of dollars they have. Tell me, how many of those associations have more money to throw at lobbies than a single corporation, Microsoft? And you certainly can't say that lobbying has worked great for the EFF vs. Big Media Corporations with respect to digital rights, can you? Once corporations were granted personhood, a lot of the benefits of lobbying were overwhelmed by their relatively deep pockets.
You're also working on incomplete information. What if his wife found his work interesting, and spent 8 hours a day in his lab? That would mean, taking nothing else into consideration, she was just as likely to die there as she was to die in bed, and as likely she would die there as anywhere else.
Sure, the guy could be guilty, but you or I could be as equally guilty for some other unsolved crime in our respective areas. Shall we start presuming guilt until proof of innocence?
The more that we try to "fight" bacteria the more our civilization becomes prone to simple infection.
The problem is, they aren't simple. What do you think is special about the 0.1% of the bacteria that survived? I don't know either, but we're only letting them breed with themselves, in an area with noompetition. Does that sound like a good idea?
That's the nice thing about bleach, heat, and things like that. They kill everything, and do it using basic biological rules, rules we don't really use at the cellular level to fight microbes. This is good because, no matter how much you use, it doesn't make them likelier to be able to defeat your immune system. If anything, they're more adept at resisting the effects of bleach, heat, etc. The bad news is they hurt us too if we overuse them.
Not to say I never use anti-bacterial soap, etc., but I use them for things like cleaning after handling raw meat, animals, or other things that I infrequently do that are microbe-laden. The rest, I let my body fight them. Exercise for the immune system.
Well, that's fine for MS. But iBackup, now that's funny, you don't get what you pay for. Yet another definition of what it takes to be worse than MS. "We're just as inept, but we charge you more!"
I'm not sure we're disagreeing. Win2k doesn't seem to be vulnerable to some of the latest viruses floating around, or retains it's security during bootup. WinXP pre-SP2 can't claim that - the firewall comes up after the network drivers. There are plans to change that in SP2 (is it out yet? I just autoupdate nowadays, at least MS isn't actively trying to destroy my system...), in which case this will no longer be an issue.
If I were to rate these in order of stability (given 'proper' maintenance of that OS, but not reinstalling), I would put them in this order:
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows 98 SE & Windows NT 4 (Service Pack 2 to 6)
Windows 95 (OSR 2.5)
Windows 98
Windows 95 (pre-OSR 2.5)
Windows 3.1 (Ack!)
Windows ME
Yes, WinME is less stable then Win3.1 IMO. I think Win3.1 was supported by MS longer than WinME was. And I found WinNT4 to be about as stable as Win98SE. Win95OSR2.5 was almost as good as Win98SE, and was better than Win98. And I would never have recommended the NT track to a home user (who wasn't serious about security) until Win2k, given the lack of support for games. But if all you're using is business apps, then certainly the NT track is better than the Win32 track.
If you're including security with stability, then Win2k is more secure than WinXP (pre-SP2). After all, it can be connected to the internet and not get exploited while booting...
I think you missed (and combined) a step. What you have listed as Net Income should include taxes (which most companies reduce drastically). If you remove the interest from your calculation for Net Income, you have EBIT (Earnings Before Interest & Taxes), which is important to companies. And yes, I work as a developer in a financial app, although not as an accountant. Unfortunately, I still have to learn some of the terms.:P
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And the absolutely funniest thing about your post? mumblestheclown (569987) welcoming Ars-Fartsica (166957). Well done!
Paper ballots are very easy to count, if they are made to be machine-countable. Think electronically scored school test papers. Just feed them in. The plus is, the machine doing the counting can be so 'stupid' that it would be almost impossible to fake the vote (15 votes for selection 1, which is mapped to $Candiate[1], etc.). The nice thing is, this gives you two independant, electronic votes. If there is a discrepency, you already know something went wrong. You also know that the paper machine-counted ballot is liklier to be correct, given that there are very few vectors for corrupting it, it was verified by the voter, and it uses a very old, stable technology. If there are still uncertainties after all that, you can still do a manual recount, which is worlds better than the sneaking suspicion that the president was chosen by a (possibly rigged) roulette wheel...
The article I read said that astronomers detected a composition that more closely resembled a comet. Apparently, this was decided within the last 5 years. Given your link, I assume you spend more time with this than I do. Is the comet thing only a minority opinion of the Cassini project leader, or is it more prevalent?
First, Marxism and communism are two different things. Of course, the only communist governments we've seen have been of the Marxist variety. I think even the Chinese government is very close to Marxism.
Second, the GPL does put restrictions on what I can do with the information. I can't tack on my ideas, distribute the result, and keep the source to myself. Some may say that this is a good restriction, and beneficial, but it is still a restriction. If you want a truly unfettered license, look at the BSD-style licenses. You can use the source wherever you want, whether it be GPL, typical closed-source, or most any other license. And even that isn't freedom. Freedom is being able to choose whatever license makes you happy, and not being mandated to use one or the other. So go ahead and use GPL if you like. Or BSD, Apache, Xfree86's, standard copyright, public domain, or whatever. Exercise your freedom.
Well, the answer to that question determines whether Aamerica was better than Japan. It doesn't determine if Amarica was right to do what it did. So, what's the new slogan of apoligist americans, "We've always been better than Haiti has been for the last 20 years?" Or, "We're still better than the Nazis." Maybe you should set your sights a little higher, and accept the failings of your country. And yes, my country put Japanese in concentration camps in WWII, too, and I was glad when they got reparations from my government.
But within the Christian community a violent minority does exist.
I think you can take just about any cross-section of society (with the exception of pacifists, maybe) and find a violent minority. Looking all throught history, there have been pacifists and militants in virtually every group that wasn't extremist (I don't recall any pacifists in the Nazi leadership, or in the Bolshevik revolution for that matter). So pointing out that Christianity is the same as just about every other group out there is disingenuous.
All that you said is true, more or less. Keep in mind that it was fairly recently that corporations were granted personhood, and I believe there is a state (North Carolina?) that has revoked that right. Can corporations be given life imprisonment? How about liability to the three-strikes rules that are used in so many states? Death penalty? The answer to that is usually "well, you can't hold individuals responsible for the actions of an organization". And how many corporations have been broken up under the Sherman Act? Something tells me that it's less than Texas sentences to death in a good year... But how does this mean that said organization should have the rights given to individuals, without responsibility? But enough on that rant.
Corporations can spend a lot of time (or money), and have a lot of weight to throw behind a few goals. I can't give millions to a lobbyist to do it for me, I don't have the time (or money) to form and promote an organization to promote my interests, and I don't have the time to do the work myself (I have to feed a family). That's the big difference. Let's not pretend that money doesn't talk, or that campaign contributions aren't exchanged for favourable votes on specific issues. And there is no way to really prove that, since it's often couched as suggestions and concerns.
In point of fact, what you're describing is not defined as procreation, so you (and most of us at /.) are safe on that count.
Yep, that's the nice part about working in a Windows shop. You always get notification of when automatic isn't good enough. Happened to me twice in the last month or so... :P
I didn't RTFA (yeah, I've been here a while), but what's so surprising about a French woman doing it again?
The one thing I learned from Conspiracy Theory was that if you want stuff destroyed in short order (say, in response to a knock on the door) is that if you don't see smoke, they can learn something from it. And the link has my .sig in context. That can't be a coincidence...now where's my tinfoil hat?
Here's the code. Take every letter that is missed, and add it to your message. If an extra letter is added to a word, take a letter off your message. Repeat. If you follow it long enough, you will get the following message: "You are a loser with too much time on your hands." Don't ask how I know this.
Well, one of the criteria for a patent is not being obvious. Is keeping track of bug locations (until fixed) innovative? No. Is keeping track of tasks, and linked to specific points in code innovative? No. Is refreshing a list automatically (think stock prices) innovative? No. Is combining these elements to keep track of two of the most common tasks in coding in one place obvious? Yes. So, no, IMO, this shouldn't get a patent. Unfortunately, this is a trend we've been seeing a lot of lately...
No, the term you're looking for is "semper durus phallus".
Yes, finding a common word that has the same consonant combination as "sempron" would be...impressive.
I'm not a bot, you insensitive clod!
And giving that CD to a kid under 6 is just as effective a method to destroy the data as putting it in the microwave...
Actually, the grammar does follow correct general structure, though not the typical structure for modern speech. Compare his statement to some made by Winston Churchill, and it will have the same feel to it. That said, Canada still feels no loss.
Yes, but lobbies tend to get volume from the number of dollars they have. Tell me, how many of those associations have more money to throw at lobbies than a single corporation, Microsoft? And you certainly can't say that lobbying has worked great for the EFF vs. Big Media Corporations with respect to digital rights, can you? Once corporations were granted personhood, a lot of the benefits of lobbying were overwhelmed by their relatively deep pockets.
You're also working on incomplete information. What if his wife found his work interesting, and spent 8 hours a day in his lab? That would mean, taking nothing else into consideration, she was just as likely to die there as she was to die in bed, and as likely she would die there as anywhere else.
Sure, the guy could be guilty, but you or I could be as equally guilty for some other unsolved crime in our respective areas. Shall we start presuming guilt until proof of innocence?
The more that we try to "fight" bacteria the more our civilization becomes prone to simple infection.
The problem is, they aren't simple. What do you think is special about the 0.1% of the bacteria that survived? I don't know either, but we're only letting them breed with themselves, in an area with noompetition. Does that sound like a good idea?
That's the nice thing about bleach, heat, and things like that. They kill everything, and do it using basic biological rules, rules we don't really use at the cellular level to fight microbes. This is good because, no matter how much you use, it doesn't make them likelier to be able to defeat your immune system. If anything, they're more adept at resisting the effects of bleach, heat, etc. The bad news is they hurt us too if we overuse them.
Not to say I never use anti-bacterial soap, etc., but I use them for things like cleaning after handling raw meat, animals, or other things that I infrequently do that are microbe-laden. The rest, I let my body fight them. Exercise for the immune system.
Well, that's fine for MS. But iBackup, now that's funny, you don't get what you pay for. Yet another definition of what it takes to be worse than MS. "We're just as inept, but we charge you more!"
I'm not sure we're disagreeing. Win2k doesn't seem to be vulnerable to some of the latest viruses floating around, or retains it's security during bootup. WinXP pre-SP2 can't claim that - the firewall comes up after the network drivers. There are plans to change that in SP2 (is it out yet? I just autoupdate nowadays, at least MS isn't actively trying to destroy my system...), in which case this will no longer be an issue.
If I were to rate these in order of stability (given 'proper' maintenance of that OS, but not reinstalling), I would put them in this order:
Yes, WinME is less stable then Win3.1 IMO. I think Win3.1 was supported by MS longer than WinME was. And I found WinNT4 to be about as stable as Win98SE. Win95OSR2.5 was almost as good as Win98SE, and was better than Win98. And I would never have recommended the NT track to a home user (who wasn't serious about security) until Win2k, given the lack of support for games. But if all you're using is business apps, then certainly the NT track is better than the Win32 track.
If you're including security with stability, then Win2k is more secure than WinXP (pre-SP2). After all, it can be connected to the internet and not get exploited while booting...
I think you missed (and combined) a step. What you have listed as Net Income should include taxes (which most companies reduce drastically). If you remove the interest from your calculation for Net Income, you have EBIT (Earnings Before Interest & Taxes), which is important to companies. And yes, I work as a developer in a financial app, although not as an accountant. Unfortunately, I still have to learn some of the terms. :P