I used to edit an online magazine that had a brief run as a print magazine. Even though we sold most of the copies, it didn't even come *close* to paying our printing costs; it was the advertisers that did that. When we stopped publishing it was because we didn't have enough advertisers.
Yes, but I tend to save a lot of my email, so I have to either delete it from my inbox locally or delete it from the server, or my server account fills up:-)
OK, after reading the article, I see that they are also planning to offer imap, but still, pop makes no sense to me for a webmail.
Why not?
I use Mozilla for my email, but when I download it I leave it on the server until it's deleted. That way I have it on my home computer, but I can still get to it through the web interface if I'm not at home.
Of course, I tend to have to go and clear out old emails every so often..
I was talking to someone about Google the other day and she commented on them not doing a special logo for Easter. Are they becoming more like a "normal" company in advance of a possible IPO?
I remember once when I was in middle school, we were assigned a book to read and I didn't know it was supposed to take a month, so I read it during the next period. The teacher gave me another one.
While you didn't state exactly to what degree you meant this, do you really think it's a good idea?
Yes! I tutor at a local high school (9th-12th grade) and there are tons of kids there who are so reliant on thier calculators, they can't do simple math without one. Seriously, I see 11th grade students who get stuck when you take the calculator away and make them do long division.
My policy is that for almost all (pre-trig) problems, no calculators are allowed. It forces them to start using their brains, after which they can actually figure out HOW they're supposed to be solving the problem instead of concentrating on punching buttons on the calculator.
But seriously, the challenges draw attention to the encryption algorithm being used. The company gets to point at it and say "See, it took ALL THAT power to break our encryption! We're really, really, secure!"
Which probably means a lot more to many managers than "we calculate that breaking the encryption would be THIS hard."
Hopefully, we're going to vote Bush out of office before that.
Although as I said in another post, I'm not really sure what the big deal about fingerprinting is. It's not that intrusive and it takes all of five minutes, including washing your hands afterwards.
The first thing you can do is to quit pretending that solution to big government is to elect more politicians who favor big government. If you're planning on voting Democrat or Green, you're part of the problem, because those two parties favor larger and more intrusive government.
Ok, before I respond to this, let me ask you one question...do you think Republicans don't?!?
When the government starts printing people who have committed no crime and may later be citizens, it's clear that we're on the very edge of having full prints taken for something like a marriage license, then for a driver's license, and then at birth.
Well, in some cases, citizens already need to be fingerprinted even when not suspected of any crime. (Generally when starting a government job)
I was fingerprinted when I started my job four years ago; it's not really a big deal. I'm not one to be overly trusting of the government, but I'm not all that sure why I need to worry about them having my fingerprints on file either.
anyone who wants it can get a copy of CIA manuals on everything from beating polygraphs to improvised lockpicks, disguises, torture techniques... the list goes on
Well, if you want to be technical, we're not compromising OUR rights. I haven't read the article, but from the description it doesn't look like US citizens have to go through that. Yet.
My point was that if I believe that the election has been tampered with, what does being able to re-count the possibly tampered with ballots get me?
This is why I think it's so important that the ballots be human-readable, so that the ballot-generation side of things can be assured.
IOC...I was assuming that there was a human-readable part, so as part of recounting the ballots you were checking to make sure the human- and machine-readable parts matched.
(don't allow "JOE" to be a possibility if Joe wasn't a canidate)
Which does bring up the question of what to do about write-in candidates..
In the OVC system, there's no physical connection between the ballot generation stations and the ballot validation stations, and both systems are open source, so anyone who doesn't trust the system can (1) read the source code, and (2) set up their own system to test.
That doesn't buy you a lot. There's no way for me to check the MD5 sum of the code running on either machine. Without a way for me to know that the code running on a machine came from the open source code that I can inspect, it's still very easy to tamper with. I also don't see what setting up my own non-tampered-with system gets me if I believe a different machine was tampered with.
Lets you count the votes and see if you get the same results? If what's written on the ballots matches what your machine says they're voting for, you can make your own reliable count that should match the official tally..
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And that's if you're lucky.
I used to edit an online magazine that had a brief run as a print magazine. Even though we sold most of the copies, it didn't even come *close* to paying our printing costs; it was the advertisers that did that. When we stopped publishing it was because we didn't have enough advertisers.
What do you mean, no better than harassment? Spam IS harrasment!
Yes, but I tend to save a lot of my email, so I have to either delete it from my inbox locally or delete it from the server, or my server account fills up :-)
OK, after reading the article, I see that they are also planning to offer imap, but still, pop makes no sense to me for a webmail.
Why not?
I use Mozilla for my email, but when I download it I leave it on the server until it's deleted. That way I have it on my home computer, but I can still get to it through the web interface if I'm not at home.
Of course, I tend to have to go and clear out old emails every so often..
What are the requirements for winning the X-prize, again?
I remember you have to send a manned shuttle up twice within two weeks, but is it limited to those teams that are registered?
I know, I should RTFA...
I was talking to someone about Google the other day and she commented on them not doing a special logo for Easter. Are they becoming more like a "normal" company in advance of a possible IPO?
Okay- when was the last time you had to solve a quadratic equation as part of your daily life?
:-)
:-)
Friday
6x^2 - 4x = 8
6x^2 - 4x - 8 = 0
a=6 b=-4 c=-8
x = (4 +- sqrt(16 - 4(6)*-8))) / 2(6)
= (4 +- sqrt(16+192)) / 12
= (4 +- sqrt(208)) / 12
And I can't do the square root of 208 in my head, so I'll stop there
Dumb people. Good story though.
I remember once when I was in middle school, we were assigned a book to read and I didn't know it was supposed to take a month, so I read it during the next period. The teacher gave me another one.
While you didn't state exactly to what degree you meant this, do you really think it's a good idea?
Yes! I tutor at a local high school (9th-12th grade) and there are tons of kids there who are so reliant on thier calculators, they can't do simple math without one. Seriously, I see 11th grade students who get stuck when you take the calculator away and make them do long division.
My policy is that for almost all (pre-trig) problems, no calculators are allowed. It forces them to start using their brains, after which they can actually figure out HOW they're supposed to be solving the problem instead of concentrating on punching buttons on the calculator.
It's just you. :-)
But seriously, the challenges draw attention to the encryption algorithm being used. The company gets to point at it and say "See, it took ALL THAT power to break our encryption! We're really, really, secure!"
Which probably means a lot more to many managers than "we calculate that breaking the encryption would be THIS hard."
You say that like it's a bad thing...
Finding people who want to sift through 1000 MB of spam every week?
er, owN computer, sorry
And if you trust that the computer didn't break...though I suppose you can always get the software and run it on your old computer.
:-p
I had a calculator once that started giving wrong answers in the middle of a math test; very inconvenient
Hopefully, we're going to vote Bush out of office before that.
Although as I said in another post, I'm not really sure what the big deal about fingerprinting is. It's not that intrusive and it takes all of five minutes, including washing your hands afterwards.
Come to Australia..
:-)
I would, but I can't understand the darn accents
Will changing your travel plans be less of an inconvenience than being fingerprinted?
The first thing you can do is to quit pretending that solution to big government is to elect more politicians who favor big government. If you're planning on voting Democrat or Green, you're part of the problem, because those two parties favor larger and more intrusive government.
Ok, before I respond to this, let me ask you one question...do you think Republicans don't?!?
When the government starts printing people who have committed no crime and may later be citizens, it's clear that we're on the very edge of having full prints taken for something like a marriage license, then for a driver's license, and then at birth.
Well, in some cases, citizens already need to be fingerprinted even when not suspected of any crime. (Generally when starting a government job)
I was fingerprinted when I started my job four years ago; it's not really a big deal. I'm not one to be overly trusting of the government, but I'm not all that sure why I need to worry about them having my fingerprints on file either.
anyone who wants it can get a copy of CIA manuals on everything from beating polygraphs to improvised lockpicks, disguises, torture techniques... the list goes on
;-)
What, no link?
Yeah, but we trust Canada! :-)
will you remember this in November?
Well, if you want to be technical, we're not compromising OUR rights. I haven't read the article, but from the description it doesn't look like US citizens have to go through that. Yet.
My point was that if I believe that the election has been tampered with, what does being able to re-count the possibly tampered with ballots get me? This is why I think it's so important that the ballots be human-readable, so that the ballot-generation side of things can be assured.
IOC...I was assuming that there was a human-readable part, so as part of recounting the ballots you were checking to make sure the human- and machine-readable parts matched.
(don't allow "JOE" to be a possibility if Joe wasn't a canidate)
Which does bring up the question of what to do about write-in candidates..
In the OVC system, there's no physical connection between the ballot generation stations and the ballot validation stations, and both systems are open source, so anyone who doesn't trust the system can (1) read the source code, and (2) set up their own system to test.
That doesn't buy you a lot. There's no way for me to check the MD5 sum of the code running on either machine. Without a way for me to know that the code running on a machine came from the open source code that I can inspect, it's still very easy to tamper with. I also don't see what setting up my own non-tampered-with system gets me if I believe a different machine was tampered with.
Lets you count the votes and see if you get the same results? If what's written on the ballots matches what your machine says they're voting for, you can make your own reliable count that should match the official tally..