The problem with that approach is that you're not penalising the fucking retard who just doesn't give a crap about anyone else.
It's like the opt-out schemes people keep on proposing for spam, telemarketing and the rest of that crap. Somehow it's perfectly fine for someone to impose themselves and their ideas on everyone, and everyone has to scramble to take some kind of preventive measures to avoid the unwanted attention.
What you should really do is use something like an iPod mini to make a dead spot outside your house. Hook it up to an audio pickup and broadcast a silent track whenever excessive bass is detected.
Yeah, there's problems with that, like detecting the station the bassidiot is playing, and maybe he's playing a CD instead of a the radio... Or get yourself a paintball gun and lay a few rounds on the back of his truck - that's probably slightly less risky than following him and making loud noises outside his house.
What I need is something like an EMP gun that can take out the ignition on the annoyingly loud 4-wheeler the idiot kid next door rides around on... Or maybe I'll get a paintball gun...
I think the plan is to drag the whole ball o' wax along in one lump - rovers, base, return rocket, etc. At least, that's how I read "make the entire base mobile". I suppose there might not be a return rocket...
Who knows maybe someone will develop a Weather@Home model which runs on the same principle as SETI@Home.
You mean,like these guys?
http://www.climateprediction.net/index.php
What is climateprediction.net?
Climateprediction.net is the largest experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century. To do this, we need people around the world to give us time on their computers - time when they have their computers switched on, but are not using them to their full capacity.
The Dakota cameras from Ritz/Wolf Cameras are still pretty cheap, and it wouldn't take a lot to hook up the shutter release to a servo. It's just a couple of brass contacts with a sprung plastic button... A sliding metal plate on a servo arm ought to do it.
Yep, sure will, especially now that there's been a successful flight. If the US were to start legislating against private space flight for safety reasons, it wouldn't take long to find another country with a more relaxed attitude. Imagine how embarrassing it would be for the US if the next country to have manned space flight was Andorra, or Liechenstein, or Monaco!
repeat after me: it is not a CD if it is not Redbook
Of all the people who bought this Velvet Revolver album, how many do you suppose would actually notice if the CD logo was missing? Or, where present, would realize that it represents a spec that the CD might be violating?
How about all the old songs that are owned by the record labels instead of by the artists that wrote and performed them? They're not exactly censored, but the labels hold the copyrights and can effectively make an artist disappear by simply not publishing albums. Janis Ian has this to say on her website:
And for those of us with major label contracts who want some of our music available for free downloading... well, the record companies own our masters, our outtakes, even our demos, and they won't allow it. Furthermore, they own our voices for the duration of the contract, so we can't even post a live track for downloading!
She says that specifically in regard to downloading, but the same applies to out-of-print tracks.
you will see that this is exactly the look he was going for. I agree that if you have problems though its going to be a bitch to fix it.
Haven't had a chance to RTFA yet but, if the crowded look is deliberate, maybe a bunch of the tubes and/or cables are simply held in place by the casing, so that when you open it, you can lift them out in seconds? Shoot, they could even be attached to the casing and not actually joined to anything inside, so they'd come away with the side panels...
no reason why the sensors would have to be placed outside. Imagine a world where PHBs can turn their office wall into a window onto any cube.
I'd prefer to imagine a world where I can make my cube walls look like I'm working in a hut on a beach in Hawaii. Or use my cube walls as displays, like in "Minority Report"...
Now, if you are at a COMPANY and your system goes unpatched it's because the IT department there either doesn't believe the possible threat or does NOT care.
There's a third option - the IT department KNOWS that some applications WILL be fucked over by the patches, and they're going slow because they don't know WHICH apps will be affected this time, and don't want to risk losing an important client system.
Case in point - our Windows support group recently patched a bunch of our monitoring systems, and suddenly CA Unicenter quit working. The fix? A forced upgrade to Unicenter. Monitoring was severely impacted for several days.
Diebold doesn't care if they fuck up an election so long as they make a buck
They also have to deliver results to their shareholders, so it does matter if they fuck up the election. They have to make sure they fuck it up in exactly the way their politician owners/shareholders want them to...
Even if it was, we still wouldn't have the source code to some of the underlying components, such as Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Access.
Even if the evote software is the OS, there's no guarantee that the code you see is actually what's running the machine. For example, the real, sneaky code could be in a second eprom or flash memory, and you'd need to open to box and check chip numbers to find that out.
Maybe the Dutch government just plain doesn't want to rule the world, and therefore doesn't try to fuck with the voting machines?? The software for counting the votes becomes a lot more difficult when you have to build in backdoors that allow some random election hacker to swing X percent of the vote from one or more candidates to another.
Don't at least some of the electronic voting machines use something like a "smart card" to record votes, and these are then hand-carried to a tabulating machine? Those would be a lot easier to switch and/or lose than a whole big ballot box...
I remember reading about a recent election where there was something weird going on with the machines, and an evoting machine company rep had sole, unsupervised access to a machine for several minutes, during which he was observed (from a distance) to pull a memory card out of his pocket, plug it into the machine, then remove it and pocket it again. As I recall, there was no convincing explanation for those actions.
The only place I have seriously seen this issue covered is on the internet, the only place that isn't owned by some big multinational that owns every news outlet
How about foreign media? I haven't been looking, but if enough foreign media publically ridiculed the US electronic voting machines, maybe something would filter back over here? Imagine reporters from The Times (London, not New York) and the BBC askng pointed questions during Whitehouse press conferences...
One badly designed ballot and suddenly we need to implement a whole electronic voting initiative?
I wonder if it occurs to anyone else that that might be exactly why the ballot was badly designed? One way to make something bad more palatable is to make the alternatives look worse. Still haven't heard a good argument against pencil-and-paper ballots, though...
The most important thing is not to restrict air flow from your fans, and the whole reason your laptop gets hot in your lap is that your legs are restricting that air flow.
Like I said, I use a hardback book because the laptop feet provide the same spacing as if it were on a desk. Given that the thing runs warm anyway, a thick book keeps my legs cool and the book doesn't reflect heat back to the laptop any more (or less) than my desk does.
I just pull a hardback book off the shelf and use that. A half-inch thick book can absorb a fair amount of heat before it starts to get through and being a hardback, the laptop feet provide as much spacing as if it was flat on a desk.
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No, that's K as in "thousand" - i.e. 4,000 pancakes. What Texans call a "small stack"...
It's like the opt-out schemes people keep on proposing for spam, telemarketing and the rest of that crap. Somehow it's perfectly fine for someone to impose themselves and their ideas on everyone, and everyone has to scramble to take some kind of preventive measures to avoid the unwanted attention.
And if the bassidiot is listening to a CD???
Yeah, there's problems with that, like detecting the station the bassidiot is playing, and maybe he's playing a CD instead of a the radio... Or get yourself a paintball gun and lay a few rounds on the back of his truck - that's probably slightly less risky than following him and making loud noises outside his house.
What I need is something like an EMP gun that can take out the ignition on the annoyingly loud 4-wheeler the idiot kid next door rides around on... Or maybe I'll get a paintball gun...
I think the plan is to drag the whole ball o' wax along in one lump - rovers, base, return rocket, etc. At least, that's how I read "make the entire base mobile". I suppose there might not be a return rocket...
You mean,like these guys?
The Dakota cameras from Ritz/Wolf Cameras are still pretty cheap, and it wouldn't take a lot to hook up the shutter release to a servo. It's just a couple of brass contacts with a sprung plastic button... A sliding metal plate on a servo arm ought to do it.
IIRC stickyback-plastic==Cellotape. They called it stickbacked-plastic because using its brand name would be advertising, and that wasn't allowed.
So what?
Yep, sure will, especially now that there's been a successful flight. If the US were to start legislating against private space flight for safety reasons, it wouldn't take long to find another country with a more relaxed attitude. Imagine how embarrassing it would be for the US if the next country to have manned space flight was Andorra, or Liechenstein, or Monaco!
Of all the people who bought this Velvet Revolver album, how many do you suppose would actually notice if the CD logo was missing? Or, where present, would realize that it represents a spec that the CD might be violating?
She says that specifically in regard to downloading, but the same applies to out-of-print tracks.
Haven't had a chance to RTFA yet but, if the crowded look is deliberate, maybe a bunch of the tubes and/or cables are simply held in place by the casing, so that when you open it, you can lift them out in seconds? Shoot, they could even be attached to the casing and not actually joined to anything inside, so they'd come away with the side panels...
I'd prefer to imagine a world where I can make my cube walls look like I'm working in a hut on a beach in Hawaii. Or use my cube walls as displays, like in "Minority Report"...
There's a third option - the IT department KNOWS that some applications WILL be fucked over by the patches, and they're going slow because they don't know WHICH apps will be affected this time, and don't want to risk losing an important client system.
Case in point - our Windows support group recently patched a bunch of our monitoring systems, and suddenly CA Unicenter quit working. The fix? A forced upgrade to Unicenter. Monitoring was severely impacted for several days.
Not only is the government releasing GPL software, they're doing it for Linux, not for Windows. That's gonna chap BillG's ass when he finds out... :)
Think that might get some attention??
They also have to deliver results to their shareholders, so it does matter if they fuck up the election. They have to make sure they fuck it up in exactly the way their politician owners/shareholders want them to...
Even if the evote software is the OS, there's no guarantee that the code you see is actually what's running the machine. For example, the real, sneaky code could be in a second eprom or flash memory, and you'd need to open to box and check chip numbers to find that out.
Maybe the Dutch government just plain doesn't want to rule the world, and therefore doesn't try to fuck with the voting machines?? The software for counting the votes becomes a lot more difficult when you have to build in backdoors that allow some random election hacker to swing X percent of the vote from one or more candidates to another.
I remember reading about a recent election where there was something weird going on with the machines, and an evoting machine company rep had sole, unsupervised access to a machine for several minutes, during which he was observed (from a distance) to pull a memory card out of his pocket, plug it into the machine, then remove it and pocket it again. As I recall, there was no convincing explanation for those actions.
How about foreign media? I haven't been looking, but if enough foreign media publically ridiculed the US electronic voting machines, maybe something would filter back over here? Imagine reporters from The Times (London, not New York) and the BBC askng pointed questions during Whitehouse press conferences...
I wonder if it occurs to anyone else that that might be exactly why the ballot was badly designed? One way to make something bad more palatable is to make the alternatives look worse. Still haven't heard a good argument against pencil-and-paper ballots, though...
Like I said, I use a hardback book because the laptop feet provide the same spacing as if it were on a desk. Given that the thing runs warm anyway, a thick book keeps my legs cool and the book doesn't reflect heat back to the laptop any more (or less) than my desk does.
Or load the paper into some bomb casings and fund an Air Force flight over SCO HQ to deliver them from 30,000 feet...
I just pull a hardback book off the shelf and use that. A half-inch thick book can absorb a fair amount of heat before it starts to get through and being a hardback, the laptop feet provide as much spacing as if it was flat on a desk.