b) randomly have the machine reassign input to choose my candidate, giving them a chance to verify and correct their vote?
It might only VISUALLY be giving them a chance to verify and correct their vote.
However, that approach could be defeated by giving each ballot a unique ID-number, and doing some individual checking later, by phone, email or some other method.
There are several centuries-old banks which have gone under due to the irresponsible trades by a single trader who managed to aquire star status on the inside, usually by getting away with a couple of extremely risky trades in the first place.
So, if some random large bank wanted another to go under, it could let a (morally flexible) employee/trader get hired by that bank, assist in making his "extremely risky trades" turn out well, wait for him to get star-status, then letting him sink the ship when nobody's watching him? [Insert evil-genius-laughter here]
trying to parse all 97 pieces of malicious code tacked on to the file while it sat on their server.
.. but were those pieces of malicious code tacked on to it by 'evil hackers', or by RIAA trying to make a point; "See, this format is totally insecure. You should use our [DRM-infested] format instead."
Anyway, this technology has been available since 1980 and before - why do you think these hybrids aren't being produced and sold at your local car dealer by now (since oil is at $70-80/barrel)?
Big Oil, perhaps?
Furthermore; if you can grow your own rapeseed and press the oil from them and filter it, you have pretty much gone self-sufficient with fuel..
"Tensor-Vector-Scalar gravity (TeVeS) is a proposed relativistic theory of Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), which purports to explain galactic rotation curves without invoking dark matter". "it can explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, a cosmic optical illusion in which matter bends light"
I'd say the jury is still out regarding dark matter/energy..
A little too quick math there. The Earth orbits 1 AU from the Sun, so the diameter of its orbit is 2 AU, the circumference is 2*PI = 6.283.. AU, which is the distance it should travel in one year. 30 years - about 188.5 AU traveled.
If Voyager I initially was accelerated/rocket-propelled off in the opposite direction (or so) of what the Earth was traveling, it's going slower than the Earth..
The real issue here is Copyright - what imbecilic government gave away every citizens right to copy text (or anything else) in the first place?
Have a look at the formulation of what Copyright really is - you might have to read it a couple of times to actually understand it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright - I think the example with "Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse" is a good one..
Maybe people don't understand it but just think that it shouldn't ever feel wrong to download, transfer or otherwise 'copy' a string of bits (ones and zeroes).
Consider this: If I make a T-shirt filled with ones and zeroes of a copyrighted text, am I infringing copyright? What if it's the ROT-13 version of the same text? Or the same text, just mirror-reversed? (which you can practice to read as fast as normal text, or just use a mirror..)
My point is; abstraction defeats copyright, therefore it shouldn't have been written into law in the first place. People downloading/copying copyrighted text or otherwise, is basically civil disobedience.
Are there any countries out there experiencing a golden age?
Yes, Norway. The country is not part of EU/EC, they are practically drowning in money from off-shore oil platforms, and they need workers badly (all over the country, not just for the oil platforms). You could easily find a job there that pays at least 20$/hour. The income tax is only 17 %. Btw, electricity is cheap, and they make 3-seat electric cars: http://kewet.com/ They are putting a lot of the money into an oil fund, to ensure the welfare of future generations. At last check, the oil fund had the equivalent of 200 billion US$, and there are only 4.5 million norwegians. http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publis h/article_10006117.shtml If you ask me, they are the good guys. This summer, the temperature there almost hit 90F, so it's not even really that cold in Norway. Maybe global warming kicking in?
I suggest that the human race will survive the next 25 years or so by muddling along in its time honored traditions barring, of course, some unforseen global catastrophe.
..It should have been "Slapping a motherboard together and kicking it out the door, with little or no QA". I have seen a good deal of dead or faulty mobo's from ECS (while fixing computers for students) - I'm glad I never bought one.
When is the last time you saw a pure electric car at a normal mainstream dealer *for sale*?
If you hadn't written 'at a normal mainstream dealer', I'd have said; "take a plane to Norway and buy a Kewet". http://www.kewet.com/ They cost from $11000 (used) up to about $24000 for a brand new one. Range(per charge) is limited to 25-30 miles - longer in the summer, shorter in the winter. Total driving cost is in the 15-20 cents per mile range, including new lead-acid batteries every second or third year. You can use other batteries, but they'll be more expensive. You might get the batteries to last longer with something like this: http://www.shaka.com/~kalepa/desulf.htm
Not exactly. Win95 OSR (OS Revision) 2.5 had IE4.0 integrated - and what a load of crap that was.. On the PC I installed it on, it kept crashing every time I tried to use the right mouse button on one of the desktop-icons. I had it installed for maybe a couple of hours in total. Before that, there was OSR 2.0 (adding USB-support) and OSR 2.1 (better networking/stability). Anyway, that must have been a year or so before I switched to Linux (Debian) in March 1999. Never looked back. I have maybe one crash a year, or less - it's been so long, I've forgotten when the last time was.
You mean, like 4.7 GB DVDs? Or 400 GB harddrives? Or (now obsolete) '1.44 MB' floppies? (which was actually 1.44x1000x1024 bytes).
Sorry, but the (SI) metric system's prefixes for binary numbers isn't going to be changed, just because you think kilo should mean 1024. Use kibibyte(1024 bytes), mebibyte(1048576 bytes), gibibyte(1073741824 bytes) and so forth. Otherwise, you wouldn't know whether a kilohertz is 1000 or 1024 hertz, or if a kilobit is 1000 or 1024 bits - which one is your linespeed measured in?
The misconception has also been magnified enormously, because Windows shows this incorrectly. If there are 5,000,000,000 bytes of free space on a partition (called 'drive' in Windows), it shows '4.65 GB' of free space, which is wrong.
Even Microsoft isn't consistent in using one or the other way - I've read many articles in their support-database, where they use both (although rarely in the same article).
1. That's not true. Linux has had a number of viruses, personal experience not-withstanding.
I dare you - come up with a list of viruses, that can infect a standard (or updated) installation of Debian Gnu/Linux. Even if there is one, it probably relates to specific and older versions of a specific program - once that program is updated, that virus is history.
2. Most people don't even know they have viruses. Why would they want to get rid of them?
Do you ever wonder where all the spam in your Inbox is coming from, or how+why DDoS attacks are possible? Do you(or anybody else) ever wonder why your PC is slow, although it has a state-of-the-art many-GHz CPU, plenty of RAM, and harddrives in RAID-configuration?
3. The public has been told that his majesty Sir William Gates III will use his amazing programming powers to personally make those bad people go away in the next version of Windows.
I really can't take that statement seriously, sorry.
Not really. I haven't made any effort at all to avoid viruses.
I've been using Windows for the past 9 years, and I have yet to see a single virus/trojan/worm or similar take over my PC.
Have you been using any antivirus- or firewall-software? I haven't.
if and when the masses switch to Linux, the malcontents will follow.
If Linux and the base system Gnu was developed/maintained the way Windows is, you might have been right, but as it is, with security as high-priority, I don't believe you are.
Just as people run as administrator now, so they'll either run as root or get used to typing in the root password when prompted.
I see you haven't had much (or any) experience with Linux so far - many programs don't even allow for themselves to run as root..
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Actually, there's over 6.5 billion people now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
Has gone up by a full billion or so since I last checked..
In case you haven't heard, dead zones (without oxygen) in the oceans are increasing rapidly.
a nColor/dead_zones.shtmld _Zone.html9 -03.asps px?linkid=59371_ pla.html?category=earth&guid=20061020143030
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4624359/
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/53803.html
http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/oceancolor/scifocus/oce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1501AP_Dea
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2006/2006-10-1
http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.a
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/10/20/deadzone
It might only VISUALLY be giving them a chance to verify and correct their vote.
However, that approach could be defeated by giving each ballot a unique ID-number, and doing some individual checking later, by phone, email or some other method.
Einstein didn't like the notion of black holes either.
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I favor the theory that they are in fact MECOs, not black holes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetospheric_etern
Favorite quote: "[Quasar] Q0957+561 has a magnetic field, which a black hole cannot have."
If we find that 'black holes' have magnetic fields, then they are MECOs instead - at least until a better theory comes along.
So, if some random large bank wanted another to go under, it could let a (morally flexible) employee/trader get hired by that bank, assist in making his "extremely risky trades" turn out well, wait for him to get star-status, then letting him sink the ship when nobody's watching him?
[Insert evil-genius-laughter here]
Is it on the same (19.5) latitude as the one on Jupiter?
e o=on
.. particularly the last half of Vol. 1.
If it is, maybe you should watch the videos by Richard C. Hoagland:
http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=Hoagland&vid
So they are actually losing 3*i*y dollars for every pirated movie out there?
New economics indeed..
(Hmm, am I being paranoid or realistic here?)
Mileage. Plus, if you can build one yourself, you can also maintain it yourself:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/library/1980_Septe
Anyway, this technology has been available since 1980 and before - why do you think these hybrids aren't being produced and sold at your local car dealer by now (since oil is at $70-80/barrel)?
Big Oil, perhaps?
Furthermore; if you can grow your own rapeseed and press the oil from them and filter it, you have pretty much gone self-sufficient with fuel..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor-vector-scalar_ gravity
"Tensor-Vector-Scalar gravity (TeVeS) is a proposed relativistic theory of Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), which purports to explain galactic rotation curves without invoking dark matter".
"it can explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, a cosmic optical illusion in which matter bends light"
I'd say the jury is still out regarding dark matter/energy..
A little too quick math there.
The Earth orbits 1 AU from the Sun, so the diameter of its orbit is 2 AU, the circumference is 2*PI = 6.283.. AU, which is the distance it should travel in one year.
30 years - about 188.5 AU traveled.
If Voyager I initially was accelerated/rocket-propelled off in the opposite direction (or so) of what the Earth was traveling, it's going slower than the Earth..
The real issue here is Copyright - what imbecilic government gave away every citizens right to copy text (or anything else) in the first place?
Have a look at the formulation of what Copyright really is - you might have to read it a couple of times to actually understand it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright - I think the example with "Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse" is a good one..
Maybe people don't understand it but just think that it shouldn't ever feel wrong to download, transfer or otherwise 'copy' a string of bits (ones and zeroes).
Consider this: If I make a T-shirt filled with ones and zeroes of a copyrighted text, am I infringing copyright? What if it's the ROT-13 version of the same text? Or the same text, just mirror-reversed? (which you can practice to read as fast as normal text, or just use a mirror..)
My point is; abstraction defeats copyright, therefore it shouldn't have been written into law in the first place. People downloading/copying copyrighted text or otherwise, is basically civil disobedience.
Another way of defeating copyright is;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
Next up; Software Patents: http://wiki.ffii.org/IstTamaiEn
Yes, Norway. The country is not part of EU/EC, they are practically drowning in money from off-shore oil platforms, and they need workers badly (all over the country, not just for the oil platforms).
You could easily find a job there that pays at least 20$/hour. The income tax is only 17 %.
Btw, electricity is cheap, and they make 3-seat electric cars: http://kewet.com/
They are putting a lot of the money into an oil fund, to ensure the welfare of future generations.
At last check, the oil fund had the equivalent of 200 billion US$, and there are only 4.5 million norwegians.
http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publi
If you ask me, they are the good guys.
This summer, the temperature there almost hit 90F, so it's not even really that cold in Norway. Maybe global warming kicking in?
I'm thinking of moving there, maybe next year.
Like this one?
http://exodus2006.com/supervol.html
It is being monitored very closely...
http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/yvostatus.php
Even if he did find the data, maybe he had a thought about it; "Do I really want to piss off 26 million veterans?"..
..It should have been "Slapping a motherboard together and kicking it out the door, with little or no QA".
I have seen a good deal of dead or faulty mobo's from ECS (while fixing computers for students) - I'm glad I never bought one.
If you hadn't written 'at a normal mainstream dealer', I'd have said; "take a plane to Norway and buy a Kewet".
http://www.kewet.com/
They cost from $11000 (used) up to about $24000 for a brand new one.
Range(per charge) is limited to 25-30 miles - longer in the summer, shorter in the winter.
Total driving cost is in the 15-20 cents per mile range, including new lead-acid batteries every second or third year. You can use other batteries, but they'll be more expensive.
You might get the batteries to last longer with something like this:
http://www.shaka.com/~kalepa/desulf.htm
Not exactly.
Win95 OSR (OS Revision) 2.5 had IE4.0 integrated - and what a load of crap that was..
On the PC I installed it on, it kept crashing every time I tried to use the right mouse button on one of the desktop-icons. I had it installed for maybe a couple of hours in total.
Before that, there was OSR 2.0 (adding USB-support) and OSR 2.1 (better networking/stability).
Anyway, that must have been a year or so before I switched to Linux (Debian) in March 1999.
Never looked back. I have maybe one crash a year, or less - it's been so long, I've forgotten when the last time was.
Did you two look at the same version of the code?
Maybe you don't remember the end of part I, where Doc Brown had attached a "Mr. Fusion" device on the DeLorean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Fusion
You mean, like 4.7 GB DVDs?
Or 400 GB harddrives?
Or (now obsolete) '1.44 MB' floppies? (which was actually 1.44x1000x1024 bytes).
Sorry, but the (SI) metric system's prefixes for binary numbers isn't going to be changed, just because you think kilo should mean 1024.
Use kibibyte(1024 bytes), mebibyte(1048576 bytes), gibibyte(1073741824 bytes) and so forth. Otherwise, you wouldn't know whether a kilohertz is 1000 or 1024 hertz, or if a kilobit is 1000 or 1024 bits - which one is your linespeed measured in?
The misconception has also been magnified enormously, because Windows shows this incorrectly.
If there are 5,000,000,000 bytes of free space on a partition (called 'drive' in Windows), it shows '4.65 GB' of free space, which is wrong.
Even Microsoft isn't consistent in using one or the other way - I've read many articles in their support-database, where they use both (although rarely in the same article).
I dare you - come up with a list of viruses, that can infect a standard (or updated) installation of Debian Gnu/Linux.
Even if there is one, it probably relates to specific and older versions of a specific program - once that program is updated, that virus is history.
Do you ever wonder where all the spam in your Inbox is coming from, or how+why DDoS attacks are possible?
Do you(or anybody else) ever wonder why your PC is slow, although it has a state-of-the-art many-GHz CPU, plenty of RAM, and harddrives in RAID-configuration?
I really can't take that statement seriously, sorry.
Not really. I haven't made any effort at all to avoid viruses.
Have you been using any antivirus- or firewall-software? I haven't.
If Linux and the base system Gnu was developed/maintained the way Windows is, you might have been right, but as it is, with security as high-priority, I don't believe you are.
I see you haven't had much (or any) experience with Linux so far - many programs don't even allow for themselves to run as root..
How about NO VIRUSES? - I've been using Debian for the past 7 years, and I have yet to see a single virus/trojan/worm or similar take over my PC..
I can't. I have tinnitus in my right ear.
Stereo is just fine for me..