> His name is Leroy, just drop the vote into the bit bucket~.
That's how Florida turned away most of the disenfranchised voters. They had names similar to convicted felons. Same last name as a felon, and same initial four letters in the first name, disqualified the voter. No matter that the birthdate, middle name, or race were different. Some disqualified "felons" were convicted prior to their birthdates.
Boxes of redundant disks are safe from disk failure, but what if something takes out the whole box? Fire, flood, tornado, hurricane, structural collapse in a quake, a geeky thief, a software error.
To be absolutely sure, you need redundant universes, and even then, some third universe could come along and clobber you.
"The computer science community has pretty much rallied against electronic voting," said Stephen Ansolabahere, a voting expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "A disproportionate number of computer scientists who have weighed in on this issue are opposed to it."
I'm puzzled by the use of the word "Disproportionate." Does this expert think that only disenfranchised minority voters care about the accuracy of elections?
There will be a space accident threat index, that never, ever goes down to green, and will go up to orange during space shuttle landings.
"Orange" means "we didn't know what bad thing might happen, but we did know a bad thing would happen." If the bad thing doesn't happen, credit the "Orange" condition for preventing it.
This is like the cards they used to sell that "certify" the bearer tested negative for HIV.
Never mind what has happened since the card was issued, especially if the card was used to do things you wouldn't do with someone who wouldn't pass the test.
> So, tell me, if I'm a counterfitter, why wouldn't I just copy the older bills
Show some creativity. 1. Create your own currency, 2. Spoof the gov's "tutorial on the new currency" website 3. Pass off your currency as the "new, improved, harder-to-counterfit" currency, 4. Profit!
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The marketeers are being shown the door by the PR people, the latter having been educated by engineering, and the former being uneducable.
13) uninquisitive journalists
12) executive head hunters,
11) compensation experts,
> His name is Leroy, just drop the vote into the bit bucket~.
That's how Florida turned away most of the disenfranchised voters. They had names similar to convicted felons. Same last name as a felon, and same initial four letters in the first name, disqualified the voter. No matter that the birthdate, middle name, or race were different. Some disqualified "felons" were convicted prior to their birthdates.
> they would learn to appreciate and to digest cellulose
What do you think bullshit is made from?
> 100 year old solid state system.
Excuse me, the transistor was invented in the 1940's.
The vacuum tube triode is 97 years old, but it isn't "solid state."
> inherent differential cross-coupled field tensors present in a non-homogeneous layout of bipolar, dipolar, and unipolar electrical field vectors.
I think this sentence was organically evolved by a jargon generator.
Boxes of redundant disks are safe from disk failure, but what if something takes out the whole box? Fire, flood, tornado, hurricane, structural collapse in a quake, a geeky thief, a software error.
To be absolutely sure, you need redundant universes, and even then, some third universe could come along and clobber you.
> Actually, the SCO case can be dismissed and not affect the IBM countersuit.
But if the SCO case is dismissed, and SCO evaporates, IBM will have no one to sue in the GPL test case.
Don't the courts require a lawsuit to have a reasonable expectation of an actual remedy?
> I hope Darl and co ... end up ... begging for booze money in Salt Lake City.
Now _that's_ a curse if I've ever heard one!
> Mom and Pop stores could have messages sent to your device as you walk past
As well as the prostitutes standing in front of their stores.
IPv6 also provides security infrastructure.
Imagine a world where you can trust the "from" IP address in a packet.
> Voting machines are just another example of an industry prime for careful regulation.
;-)
And in 20 years there will be a hue and cry to deregulate the voting industry
Overflow their puny 32-bit integers. That should cow them!
> FNC thinks their viewers are in fact incredibly stupid.
I'd say, they're counting on it.
IANAL, but isn't that the sort of thing that kicks in a class action suit?
> Also, why isn't the federal government coming out with a standard software framework for voting? ... get the DOD on it.
Yeah, have the military run the elections. Great idea...NOT.
> In your upside down pen, gravity will pull the ink away from the ball.
Ergo, gravity matters, which was the poster's point.
Anti-piracy propaganda in the schools will work about as well as telling students not to use drugs or not to have sex.
Besides, it runs counter to the latest Coca Cola propaganda, "Do what feels good."
What's ironically funnay about this, with all due respect to Mr. Burns, is that he didn't win his battle with nature. Hard cheese, indeed!
Parent makes a good point, which I would summarize as:
"One day, Oil will be too important to burn."
There will be a space accident threat index, that never, ever goes down to green, and will go up to orange during space shuttle landings.
"Orange" means "we didn't know what bad thing might happen, but we did know a bad thing would happen." If the bad thing doesn't happen, credit the "Orange" condition for preventing it.
This is like the cards they used to sell that "certify" the bearer tested negative for HIV.
Never mind what has happened since the card was issued, especially if the card was used to do things you wouldn't do with someone who wouldn't pass the test.
Anyone who's been to Boston understands the concept of "you can't get there from here."
> So, tell me, if I'm a counterfitter, why wouldn't I just copy the older bills
Show some creativity.
1. Create your own currency,
2. Spoof the gov's "tutorial on the new currency" website
3. Pass off your currency as the "new, improved, harder-to-counterfit" currency,
4. Profit!