Sounds like fun, but I think you forgot one part, especially important from now on:
I live in a country that is comprised of fifty-one separate, sovreign governments, each with its own constitutional system of law, each with its own method of nominating its proportional share of electors to select the chief executive, but united under one god.
I live in a country where 36.6 million people are registered as voters.
Every 5 years, we vote for our president and sometimes mayors / deputies as well.
It takes roughly 3 hours after the closing of the voting offices before we know the name of our president, without room for contestations over the regularity of the vote.
How come we can achieve that by using such a primitive method as ballot-paper-goes-into-ballot-enveloppe-goes-into- sealed-urn ?
I had the oppportunity to read more about the project page, looks like good work, although I don't really understand/agree with the choosen language : a VB clone.
I did a quick test run of Dasher instead of RTFA, and as far as I understand, it works by presenting the most statistically-probable letter in the middle of the input area.
So, by dragging a perfectly horizontal line with my mouse cursor, I was able to create the most statistically-probable sentence.
Here goes, for Science:
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Conspiracy theorists, area51 nuts and cypherpunks are going to be thrilled!
- Find a student in your entourage whom you can trust. - Create an ADC student account for this person. - Buy him/her an ADC Student select membership (99$). - Wait a few days till the ADC select membership is confirmed by Apple. - Note down the ADC membership ID - Call the AppleStore, order your iBook as part of the 'ADC Student Membership', and make sure you do mention that this is a switch machine for a student. - Enjoy your 20% rebate;)
Be warned though this is a once in a lifetime kind of offer, ie. you can only make one purchase with this ADC account.
This is how my girlfriend bought 'her' maxed-out PowerBook;)
AppleStore reps. are usually very nice people, at least in France, so don(t be affraid if there's areal human being on the other end of the line, they are very helpful:)
The law requires the jammers to allow cellphones to dial emergency numbers.
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So, instead of merely "shooting for low-earth orbit", let's "shoot for the stars". Let's "boldly go where no man has gone before..."
If you want to use antimatter as an interstellar engine fuel, I think you meant "let's boldly get turned into a primal soup of molecules where no man has been vaporized before".
How many Gs do you think an antimatter drive would generate?
So when he's 21 he won't complain when the barcode on his forearm will be used to 'strenghten e-vote security'.
Train them while they are still young, the older they get, the harder for you to teach them new tricks...
Oh, wait, this only works with pkcs#11-enabled chat applications? I guess IRC will have to be outlawed then. You don't want untagged pedophile commies subverting little Tommy on IRC now, do you?
I love my Kikuyu eyes, sez primo pornostar Rod McLeish, and with the infrared option, I can tell if my partner's really excited of if I'm just on a silicon ride... KIKUYU OPTICS I.G., A DIVISION OF MIKOYAN-GUREVICH
One mouse trackpad on my powerbook makes me want to kill someone.
Control clicking is so unnatural with the pad, I had to buy an external logitech mouse (metallic as well:]), but then, I hardly right click at all, as the option key is far easier to reach when both my hands are further away one from the other...
still, 2 buttons are double plus good for q3:)
because in my opinion J2ME is one of the most horrible APIs I have ever had the misfortune of using - some solid competition for J2ME is definitely needed in the mobile sector ... Sure, there's the.NET Compact Framework, but that basically only works on the most recent versions of WinCE.
And trust me the.Net Compact Framework is a solid competition to J2ME's ugliness. It doesn't behave in any sane way, feels like a kludged, inconsistent, half-assed.net winforms implementation.
Hell, even something as simple and standard as closing a window and sending a message to an application is fubared!
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Sounds like fun, but I think you forgot one part, especially important from now on:
I live in a country that is comprised of fifty-one separate, sovreign governments, each with its own constitutional system of law, each with its own method of nominating its proportional share of electors to select the chief executive , but united under one god.
:]
I live in a country where 36.6 million people are registered as voters.
- sealed-urn ?
Every 5 years, we vote for our president and sometimes mayors / deputies as well.
It takes roughly 3 hours after the closing of the voting offices before we know the name of our president, without room for contestations over the regularity of the vote.
How come we can achieve that by using such a primitive method as ballot-paper-goes-into-ballot-enveloppe-goes-into
I'll first have to ask Frank if he doesn't mind the company in there.
I had the oppportunity to read more about the project page, looks like good work, although I don't really understand /agree with the choosen language : a VB clone.
A great disturbance in the Force.
It was like a million voices crying out in unison, then suddenly silenced.
Thank god the project page is already slashdotted.
I did a quick test run of Dasher instead of RTFA, and as far as I understand, it works by presenting the most statistically-probable letter in the middle of the input area.
So, by dragging a perfectly horizontal line with my mouse cursor, I was able to create the most statistically-probable sentence.
Here goes, for Science:
Conspiracy theorists, area51 nuts and cypherpunks are going to be thrilled!
RTFA will fix the probe.
Here's a tip for you:
;)
;)
:)
- Find a student in your entourage whom you can trust.
- Create an ADC student account for this person.
- Buy him/her an ADC Student select membership (99$).
- Wait a few days till the ADC select membership is confirmed by Apple.
- Note down the ADC membership ID
- Call the AppleStore, order your iBook as part of the 'ADC Student Membership', and make sure you do mention that this is a switch machine for a student.
- Enjoy your 20% rebate
Be warned though this is a once in a lifetime kind of offer, ie. you can only make one purchase with this ADC account.
This is how my girlfriend bought 'her' maxed-out PowerBook
AppleStore reps. are usually very nice people, at least in France, so don(t be affraid if there's areal human being on the other end of the line, they are very helpful
I meant, your google googled me of the mp3gle googlemage for led Googlin's google.
The law requires the jammers to allow cellphones to dial emergency numbers.
If you want to use antimatter as an interstellar engine fuel, I think you meant "let's boldly get turned into a primal soup of molecules where no man has been vaporized before".
How many Gs do you think an antimatter drive would generate?
1:4:9 ... how shortsighted of humans to think it would stop there...
A personal x509.3 certificate and a crypto key.
So when he's 21 he won't complain when the barcode on his forearm will be used to 'strenghten e-vote security'.
Train them while they are still young, the older they get, the harder for you to teach them new tricks...
Oh, wait, this only works with pkcs#11-enabled chat applications? I guess IRC will have to be outlawed then. You don't want untagged pedophile commies subverting little Tommy on IRC now, do you?
Thanks a lot for the helpful links provided in the article, both firefox and hotjava seem really cool, but I couldn't install safari on my machine.
;)
Does Safari require XP as well or can I make it work under 2000 ?
Zealots... Sometimes I think they are pushing it a little too far
After scrutinizing thoroughly both candidates' proposition, my mind is set.
It was nor quick nor easy, but I'm really confident about my vote now.
GO NIXON!!!
Let me guess, you spell Viagra with a ! and a double 4, don't you?
Just rig the friggin' elections and stop complaining the other party did it 4 years ago.
:)
Beat them to their own game!
H4c| D4 w0r1d !!!
Mod you down when requesting wet sexy girls?
Up, up, up you go!!!
+5, insightful
I love my Kikuyu eyes, sez primo pornostar Rod McLeish, and with the infrared option, I can tell if my partner's really excited of if I'm just on a silicon ride ... KIKUYU OPTICS I.G., A DIVISION OF MIKOYAN-GUREVICH
One mouse trackpad on my powerbook makes me want to kill someone. Control clicking is so unnatural with the pad, I had to buy an external logitech mouse (metallic as well :]), but then, I hardly right click at all, as the option key is far easier to reach when both my hands are further away one from the other...
still, 2 buttons are double plus good for q3 :)
Or read french novelist Barjavel, which described it as hot ice.
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Sure, there's the
And trust me the .Net Compact Framework is a solid competition to J2ME's ugliness. It doesn't behave in any sane way, feels like a kludged, inconsistent, half-assed .net winforms implementation.
Hell, even something as simple and standard as closing a window and sending a message to an application is fubared!
That'll never work and for one very good reason.
The sharks under the lasers will never fit in the googles.
psshht... amateurs!
Most informative post on slashdot, ever. Thanks Civil, you opened my mind clogged with too much cheap space op
Open Source Missile, a la google.