Two Dune mini-series: they conflated *Dune, Messiah!* with *Children of Dune*. But other than that and the mistaken Farscape date already corrected by a sibling post, you're right. But for a while there (before their most recent buy-out), SciFi WASN'T trying - there was a while there when they had a "no more space shows" order - on a SCIENCE FICTION network, no less. And let's remember that the only credit they deserve for Stargate is snapping it up when Showtime killed it and creating a marginally entertaining spinoff.
Expensive measures are being called into place to archive the mail for future subpoena purposes. Think Enron on one hand. Think Monicagate on the other.
The Lewinsky thing centered on a soild dress; that was the smoking gun, so to speak. The presidential scandal in which archived email played an important part was Iran-Contra (think of Ollie North shredding all those files, only to have his email correspondence with Poindexter used against him).
In other words, you're assuming that because most Democrats feel they were robbed of an election, they'd assume that electronic voting would be a MORE secure way of voting, rather than a LESS secure one. The problem with that is that most Democrats who have heard anything about electronic voting associate it with 1. the Diebold president's promise to deliver Ohio to the Republicans, which proves he's a Republican and in context suggests (falsely, of course) a rather sinister potential mechanism for doing so, and 2. the fact that the number one proponent of electronic voting seems to be Jeb Bush, who promised to do everything he could to deliver Florida in the last election (again, false sinister connotations; I doubt that the Republican activitists repsonsible for the irregularities with the voting rolls and with closed roads, etc. on Election Day 2000 in north Florida were acting under direction from Jeb Bush) and seems to have succeeded. So I provided you with some print evidence from a non-partisan news source (well, partisan with regards to voting machines, true, but to my knowledge neither Republican nor Democratic) that in fact Democrats tend to have mixed feelings about electronic voting - on the one hand Kerry naively seems to think that some kind of encryption can resolve the issues, on the other hand, many Democrats as I have just pointed out are suspicious because they see much of the motive force behind electronic voting coming from Republicans, whom they don't trust with their elections. On balance, it looks as though most Democrats are against it.
So my point is that your assumptions are wrong, the reports in the press suggest that the main perception is that as classes Democrats are anti-electronic-voting and Republicans are pro-electronic-voting. Such perceptions tend to be self-fulfilling, of course: if a Democrat hears that a Republican is for something, often he will take a position against it without thought, and vice-versa. With regard to the actual party leadership, though, the perception is wrong, or at least over-simplified: as an example, in Texas, at least, despite the (Republican?) Secretary of State's myopia, BOTH party platforms hold the sensible position that electronic voting machines must provide paper trails.
The Slashdot rule : if you post an unsupported opinion (the Republicans sux0r!!! Democrats are ph@gs!!), you're modded insightful. If you post actual news reportage that shows that in fact the evidence so far suggests that the liberal Democrats (Dean, etc.) have been pretty aware of this issue, but the Republicans haven't been, you're modded Flamebait.
For Republicans who can't bear to read anything critical about their party, here's something about some Republicans who have their heads on straight, from the St. Pete Times:
While Gov. Jeb Bush reassures Floridians that touch screen voting machines are reliable, the Republican Party is sending the opposite message to some voters.
The GOP urged some Miami voters to use absentee ballots because touch screens lack a paper trail and cannot "verify your vote."
That's the same argument Democrats have made but which Bush, his elections director and Republican legislators have repeatedly rejected.
"The liberal Democrats have already begun their attacks [sic] and the new electronic voting machines do not have a paper ballot to verify your vote in case of a recount," says a glossy mailer, paid for by the Republican Party of Florida and prominently featuring two pictures of President Bush. "Make sure your vote counts. Order your absentee ballot today."
The GOP tactic is the reverse of what Bush and state elections experts have said as they have repeatedly opposed Democratic moves, in the Legislature and courts, to require a paper trail on the machines.
I would think that most of the general public who support e-voting would be democrats.
Based upon what evidence, pray tell?
The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday asked a Florida court to overturn a rule imposed by Gov. Jeb Bush that bans manual recounts of direct recording equipment (DRE) touch-screen systems. The move comes amid revelations that nearly all of the electronic records from the touch-screen voting systems used in the 2002 gubernatorial primary in Miami-Dade County were lost last November after a computer crash.
Although she isn't scheduled to speak at the convention, Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson will call on prominent Democrats to help raise voter awareness about the challenges facing the security, reliability and integrity of electronic voting systems, a spokesman for her office said.
[...]
However, speaking on condition of anonymity, an IT industry source who met last week with members of Sen. John Kerry's staff said the Kerry campaign is considering a move to pull back from the position taken by the Democratic National Committee and Howard Dean's Democracy for America organization. Dean and the DNC have endorsed the voter-verifiable paper ballot requirement for e-voting systems -- something that only the state of Nevada has planned for November. According to the official, the Kerry campaign is considering support for verification of the final vote tally through some form of encryption.
For many Democrats, however, the issue boils down to a Republican-controlled Congress that has refused to force voting-system vendors to open their software to inspection and verification.
"The Republicans have an interest in not doing anything about electronic voting security," said Townsend.
[....]
But the e-voting security debate may have already damaged the trust of some Americans who will vote electronically this November. One reason for that is the appearance of a possible conflict of interest stemming in part from a comment made publicly last August by Diebold Election Systems CEO Walden O'Dell that he was "committed" to delivering Ohio's electoral votes to President George W. Bush.
But they're basing that on the fact that so far, we've only seen gas giants. Thing is, our detection methods would only show us gas giants. This whole thing is a non-starter.
That's just a vestigial seasonal famine response. Summer is the best time to migrate and food is easy to find, so we get limber and thin and our muscles build up and we eat a lot of small meals. Winter is a bad time to migrate or to find food, so we build up weight and sit around all the time.
Sort of. See e.g. this link. I think the idea is that it slows aging, but not enough to extend someone's life enough for say interstellar travel. For that we'll need a combination of hibernation and anti-aging mechanisms and anti-disease mechanisms, or some kind of hard stasis (for instance, imagine if you had some kind of nanobot that could separate each individual cell, place each in indefinite stasis, and then reconstruct the whole after a very extended period of time).
The release is not of Enlightenment the Window Manager. It is a release of EFL, the libraries that they wrote to underpin Enlightenment. Here are some screenshots of E components that will depend upon the EFL: Evidence, Entrance. and Emotion.
Some other details:
Edje provides a revolutionary method of absstacting every aspect of your interface from the application itself. By passing signals between the interface and the application all communication is done in an interface neutral way. No longer are "themes" simple changes of pixmaps over a fixed area. Using Embryo we can provide scripting ability to the interface componant itself to harness even more power and flexability. [sic]
So, no, this is not just a brushed metal window manager theme (of course, E 0.16 was always more than that, too). I've been watching E, and making the same jokes on April 1st, but I must say that I'm looking forward to trying what they're coming up with once they've got a semi-stable release; and since the EFL seems to be close to a freeze, I think we can hope to see E 0.17 soon.
You've been beaten to this. It's called the "preemption scenario" (not the preemption doctrine). The idea is that it would take somewhere on the order of tens of millions of years for one space-faring species to colonize the galaxy - which is a small enough fraction of the age of the galaxy's stars to suggest that it should already have happened. But there's a lot of other variables: for instance, it's possible that the sun's population cohort is the first in a heavy-element rich enough environment to evolve life, etc.
The Drake equation takes account of this problem, which is the "window" problem - at some point, an intelligent species is likely to stop transmitting, leaving a short window of time in which to communicate with them. The thing is, most SETI programs are not looking for incidental transmissions (things not intended for interstellar communication), but intentional beacons (basically shout-outs) from other civilizations who want to communicate with us. One reason might be that they'd evolve beyond a point where communication is possible (i.e., in Vingean terms, they'd Transcend beyond the Singularity). For a fictional account of this aspect of the problem, see Lem's Fiasco. Other reasons: they'd give up, governments would come into power who would think it a waste of money, they'd have an economic, ecological, or social collapse and lack the resources to continue transmitting, etc. The idea is that given galactic scales, the odds are pretty good not only that someone's out there, but that enough are out there that there's someone minority nutcase species like us that is interested in radio, and capable of using it, but is also interested in sending beacons out to other interested parties.
I'm pretty sure that's what will happen anyway, though. Once we do find someone, it's likely they'll be so far away that meaningful asynchronous communication would be too burdensome.
We come from a blue planet light-years away Where everything multiplies at an amazing rate We're out here in the universe buying real estate Hope we haven't gotten here too late
We're humans from earth We're humans from earth You have nothing at all to fear I think we're gonna like it here
We're looking for a planet with atmosphere Where the air is fresh and the water clear With lots of sun like you have here Three or four hundred days a year
[chorus]
Bought Manhatten for a string of beads Brought along some gadgets for you to see Heres a crazy little thing we call TV Do you have electricity?
[chorus]
I know we may seem pretty strange to you But we got know-how and a golden rule We're here to see manifest destiny through Ain't nothing we can't get used to
Most likely it's already been vetted by other physicists. If someone finds a flaw now, it won't be an idiotic one, so SH can say "nice job, there" and start from scratch. That's the way it works.
When I went to school, almost every machine outside the CS dept was a VT220 terminal hooked into the mainframe. And no, the mainframe did not run UNIX (but most of the CS computers did). There were a few Macs in depts that needed some kind of PC, and one or two DOS machines, but that was it. Hell, in some computer rooms, you had to use the teletypes. Count yourself lucky.
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Precisely. Move him forward to just before the opening of Generations, and everything is explained.
I thought MS said they weren't going to release stand-alone versions of IE anymore?
The sad thing is that anyone who watched that last 30 seconds of the miniseries already knows who it is.
Two Dune mini-series: they conflated *Dune, Messiah!* with *Children of Dune*. But other than that and the mistaken Farscape date already corrected by a sibling post, you're right. But for a while there (before their most recent buy-out), SciFi WASN'T trying - there was a while there when they had a "no more space shows" order - on a SCIENCE FICTION network, no less. And let's remember that the only credit they deserve for Stargate is snapping it up when Showtime killed it and creating a marginally entertaining spinoff.
Expensive measures are being called into place to archive the mail for future subpoena purposes. Think Enron on one hand. Think Monicagate on the other.
The Lewinsky thing centered on a soild dress; that was the smoking gun, so to speak. The presidential scandal in which archived email played an important part was Iran-Contra (think of Ollie North shredding all those files, only to have his email correspondence with Poindexter used against him).
In other words, you're assuming that because most Democrats feel they were robbed of an election, they'd assume that electronic voting would be a MORE secure way of voting, rather than a LESS secure one. The problem with that is that most Democrats who have heard anything about electronic voting associate it with 1. the Diebold president's promise to deliver Ohio to the Republicans, which proves he's a Republican and in context suggests (falsely, of course) a rather sinister potential mechanism for doing so, and 2. the fact that the number one proponent of electronic voting seems to be Jeb Bush, who promised to do everything he could to deliver Florida in the last election (again, false sinister connotations; I doubt that the Republican activitists repsonsible for the irregularities with the voting rolls and with closed roads, etc. on Election Day 2000 in north Florida were acting under direction from Jeb Bush) and seems to have succeeded. So I provided you with some print evidence from a non-partisan news source (well, partisan with regards to voting machines, true, but to my knowledge neither Republican nor Democratic) that in fact Democrats tend to have mixed feelings about electronic voting - on the one hand Kerry naively seems to think that some kind of encryption can resolve the issues, on the other hand, many Democrats as I have just pointed out are suspicious because they see much of the motive force behind electronic voting coming from Republicans, whom they don't trust with their elections. On balance, it looks as though most Democrats are against it.
So my point is that your assumptions are wrong, the reports in the press suggest that the main perception is that as classes Democrats are anti-electronic-voting and Republicans are pro-electronic-voting. Such perceptions tend to be self-fulfilling, of course: if a Democrat hears that a Republican is for something, often he will take a position against it without thought, and vice-versa. With regard to the actual party leadership, though, the perception is wrong, or at least over-simplified: as an example, in Texas, at least, despite the (Republican?) Secretary of State's myopia, BOTH party platforms hold the sensible position that electronic voting machines must provide paper trails.
Thanks for your comment.
The Slashdot rule : if you post an unsupported opinion (the Republicans sux0r!!! Democrats are ph@gs!!), you're modded insightful. If you post actual news reportage that shows that in fact the evidence so far suggests that the liberal Democrats (Dean, etc.) have been pretty aware of this issue, but the Republicans haven't been, you're modded Flamebait.
For Republicans who can't bear to read anything critical about their party, here's something about some Republicans who have their heads on straight, from the St. Pete Times:
While Gov. Jeb Bush reassures Floridians that touch screen voting machines are reliable, the Republican Party is sending the opposite message to some voters.
The GOP urged some Miami voters to use absentee ballots because touch screens lack a paper trail and cannot "verify your vote."
That's the same argument Democrats have made but which Bush, his elections director and Republican legislators have repeatedly rejected.
"The liberal Democrats have already begun their attacks [sic] and the new electronic voting machines do not have a paper ballot to verify your vote in case of a recount," says a glossy mailer, paid for by the Republican Party of Florida and prominently featuring two pictures of President Bush. "Make sure your vote counts. Order your absentee ballot today."
The GOP tactic is the reverse of what Bush and state elections experts have said as they have repeatedly opposed Democratic moves, in the Legislature and courts, to require a paper trail on the machines.
GOP flier questions new voting equipment
Of particular interest in the article is this quote, though, on the official Florida GOP position with regard to e-voting:
"The governor certainly does not support that message," said [Jeb] Bush spokeswoman Jill Bratina. "People need to have confidence in these machines."
I would think that most of the general public who support e-voting would be democrats.
Based upon what evidence, pray tell?
The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday asked a Florida court to overturn a rule imposed by Gov. Jeb Bush that bans manual recounts of direct recording equipment (DRE) touch-screen systems. The move comes amid revelations that nearly all of the electronic records from the touch-screen voting systems used in the 2002 gubernatorial primary in Miami-Dade County were lost last November after a computer crash.
One computerworld article
Although she isn't scheduled to speak at the convention, Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson will call on prominent Democrats to help raise voter awareness about the challenges facing the security, reliability and integrity of electronic voting systems, a spokesman for her office said.
[...]
However, speaking on condition of anonymity, an IT industry source who met last week with members of Sen. John Kerry's staff said the Kerry campaign is considering a move to pull back from the position taken by the Democratic National Committee and Howard Dean's Democracy for America organization. Dean and the DNC have endorsed the voter-verifiable paper ballot requirement for e-voting systems -- something that only the state of Nevada has planned for November. According to the official, the Kerry campaign is considering support for verification of the final vote tally through some form of encryption.
For many Democrats, however, the issue boils down to a Republican-controlled Congress that has refused to force voting-system vendors to open their software to inspection and verification.
"The Republicans have an interest in not doing anything about electronic voting security," said Townsend.
[....]
But the e-voting security debate may have already damaged the trust of some Americans who will vote electronically this November. One reason for that is the appearance of a possible conflict of interest stemming in part from a comment made publicly last August by Diebold Election Systems CEO Walden O'Dell that he was "committed" to delivering Ohio's electoral votes to President George W. Bush.
another Computerworld article
But they're basing that on the fact that so far, we've only seen gas giants. Thing is, our detection methods would only show us gas giants. This whole thing is a non-starter.
That's just a vestigial seasonal famine response. Summer is the best time to migrate and food is easy to find, so we get limber and thin and our muscles build up and we eat a lot of small meals. Winter is a bad time to migrate or to find food, so we build up weight and sit around all the time.
Sort of. See e.g. this link. I think the idea is that it slows aging, but not enough to extend someone's life enough for say interstellar travel. For that we'll need a combination of hibernation and anti-aging mechanisms and anti-disease mechanisms, or some kind of hard stasis (for instance, imagine if you had some kind of nanobot that could separate each individual cell, place each in indefinite stasis, and then reconstruct the whole after a very extended period of time).
That constant exposure to a Reality Distortion Field was carcinogenous.
The folks at Apple still seem to like the brushed metal theme. Meanwhile, the 5 year old E 0.16 has moved on, too, to the Winter theme.
The release is not of Enlightenment the Window Manager. It is a release of EFL, the libraries that they wrote to underpin Enlightenment. Here are some screenshots of E components that will depend upon the EFL: Evidence, Entrance. and Emotion.
Some other details:
Edje provides a revolutionary method of absstacting every aspect of your interface from the application itself. By passing signals between the interface and the application all communication is done in an interface neutral way. No longer are "themes" simple changes of pixmaps over a fixed area. Using Embryo we can provide scripting ability to the interface componant itself to harness even more power and flexability. [sic]
So, no, this is not just a brushed metal window manager theme (of course, E 0.16 was always more than that, too). I've been watching E, and making the same jokes on April 1st, but I must say that I'm looking forward to trying what they're coming up with once they've got a semi-stable release; and since the EFL seems to be close to a freeze, I think we can hope to see E 0.17 soon.
Now there's an idea: a Google-branded browser, based on Firefox.
Would have to dredge it up. A collection on "Interstellar Colonization," I think, though it could be one I have on the Fermi Paradox.
You've been beaten to this. It's called the "preemption scenario" (not the preemption doctrine). The idea is that it would take somewhere on the order of tens of millions of years for one space-faring species to colonize the galaxy - which is a small enough fraction of the age of the galaxy's stars to suggest that it should already have happened. But there's a lot of other variables: for instance, it's possible that the sun's population cohort is the first in a heavy-element rich enough environment to evolve life, etc.
The Drake equation takes account of this problem, which is the "window" problem - at some point, an intelligent species is likely to stop transmitting, leaving a short window of time in which to communicate with them. The thing is, most SETI programs are not looking for incidental transmissions (things not intended for interstellar communication), but intentional beacons (basically shout-outs) from other civilizations who want to communicate with us. One reason might be that they'd evolve beyond a point where communication is possible (i.e., in Vingean terms, they'd Transcend beyond the Singularity). For a fictional account of this aspect of the problem, see Lem's Fiasco. Other reasons: they'd give up, governments would come into power who would think it a waste of money, they'd have an economic, ecological, or social collapse and lack the resources to continue transmitting, etc. The idea is that given galactic scales, the odds are pretty good not only that someone's out there, but that enough are out there that there's someone minority nutcase species like us that is interested in radio, and capable of using it, but is also interested in sending beacons out to other interested parties.
I'm pretty sure that's what will happen anyway, though. Once we do find someone, it's likely they'll be so far away that meaningful asynchronous communication would be too burdensome.
As T-Bone Burnett put it:
We come from a blue planet light-years away
Where everything multiplies at an amazing rate
We're out here in the universe buying real estate
Hope we haven't gotten here too late
We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth
You have nothing at all to fear
I think we're gonna like it here
We're looking for a planet with atmosphere
Where the air is fresh and the water clear
With lots of sun like you have here
Three or four hundred days a year
[chorus]
Bought Manhatten for a string of beads
Brought along some gadgets for you to see
Heres a crazy little thing we call TV
Do you have electricity?
[chorus]
I know we may seem pretty strange to you
But we got know-how and a golden rule
We're here to see manifest destiny through
Ain't nothing we can't get used to
We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth
Most likely it's already been vetted by other physicists. If someone finds a flaw now, it won't be an idiotic one, so SH can say "nice job, there" and start from scratch. That's the way it works.
When I went to school, almost every machine outside the CS dept was a VT220 terminal hooked into the mainframe. And no, the mainframe did not run UNIX (but most of the CS computers did). There were a few Macs in depts that needed some kind of PC, and one or two DOS machines, but that was it. Hell, in some computer rooms, you had to use the teletypes. Count yourself lucky.
Nitpick: I wasn't referring to SCO. I was referring to the copyright holder (should it die). I'm pretty sure that isn't SCO.
Vegans are gonna be forced to use slower, less compatible soy-protein alternatives.
Maybe, but Apple will give them a sexy green polymer shell and call them soyBooks.
And when was the last time we grew out of a deficit? Late in the Clinton administration.