In Florida they had a big fiasco. They tried to fix it by recounting the PAPER ballots repeatedly. This did not make anyone too happy either. George W. won all of the recounts, including ones done by the independent press, but lots of people still argue a fix was on, Bush stole the election, etc. -- Note:, I'm not arguing that Bush did or did not steal the election, or if he would be the first that had if he did -- I'm focusing on the controversy surrounding it to the day.
How in the world would the U.S. react if you could reasonably argue that the system could have been hacked, etc. -- Strikes me that this would be a very chaotic result.
The Internet based system does not and probably cannot have a useful audit trail that is equivalent to the paper ballots. Foreign nationals are certainly limited in their voting flexibility and I think the Pentagon was trying to incorporate them betting in the voting process. Is there not a reasonable compromise that would meets the needs of voters and voting integrity?
People time to stop the ignorance. Everybody knows that the oil deposits laid formed from compressed plant and enimal material were laid down as a consequence of world-wide flooding at the time of Noah.
Since the flood only took 1 year (to subside enough to let the people off the ark), and it also reset the population to 8 people, all that is needed it to have another world-wide flood when we run out of oil, and everthing should be ok for another 4000 years or so.
How about the fact that measured UV radiation at ground level in the bands blocked by Ozone have not changed appreciablly in temperate climate zones.
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What you want is a smart linker. You still build libraries, modules, etc. But when the program builds the executable it notices that some functions are never referenced, so the code for these is dropped when building the executable.
Some versions even recognize classes have functions that are never referenced, and these class functions are eliminated.
You get used to using a smart linker (I've been using Delphi a lot and it has one), it changes your programming style as you build larger modules/libraries since the bloat penalty is not there.
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Granted. But MS had the patch available 6 month's before slammer. Seems like that would have been enough time to either "incorporate the patch" or taken other countermeasures.
I don't know, seems to me melting some MS product within a nuclear containment vessel might be a safe way to dispose of the product. Since it would be highly radioactive no-one would be tempted to use it.
Well, if you want to be a porn star, you might try something more appropriate than dice.com. It took me about 10 seconds to google this site which seems to be a more appropriate job search board for your desired occupation. Glad to be of service.
As a consultant for many years, I can assure you I've seen bias in many forms in many companies
Male vs. Female White vs. Black In-house vs consultant. Cronies vs. Others. Bootlickers vs. others. Microsoft vs. Linux C++ vs. VB.
Why should scripters vs. coders be excluded?
Now, if corporations are stupid enough to be biased (as opposed to simply making logical decisions based on the facts), they are hurting themselves, and hurting others. If you are so affected you should: A) complain, B) find new employment, C) put up with it but let it not bother you. Personally I prefer B, but A and C are also reasonable choices in some cases.
Well it appears the markets believe it can't be that simple given that Covad's share price is down 40% since the FCC announcement today.
Of course, institutional investors are scared of any news, but a 40% drop makes one think that Covad may be in for a rough spell as such market swings can be self-fulfilling.
I dispute that the earth is round. It is a lumpy oblate ellipsoid (slightly pear shaped). It is also flat (as measured near the surface, on a small scale, within reasonable definitions of flat).
Much of science (and other realms of study) is similar in that we often discuss rules that are no more than useful generalizations that are true within limits (for the often unstated conditions to which they apply), but do not cover the special cases or represent highest accuracy. It would be accurate to note that not everybody believes that the earth is round, that man has walked on the moon, or that the universe is expanding.
Certainly, this is an interesting adjustment to the standard model, but Nasa is not the first to line up behind the dark energy interpretation. Nor is the the first Slashdot article to refer to it either.
The bloat for a Word document is no doubt completely justified by its ability to host a virus capable of bring the Internet to its knees. The 4K Atari cartridge ROM is only capable of enabling you to play a silly game on your television.
What about a internet based file conversion service. You feed in Word 95 and request Word XP, PDF, RTF, etc. wait your turn and converted file shows up. Of course, you would also want the reverse conversions. Charge big wads of money (as long as you are much cheaper than MS upgrades)
Would think that you could even find software companies that produce alternative proprietary formats would be willing to help you set up this service (to help reduce the objection to their proprietary formats.)
3 points for concise and correct answer, -1 for missing important details left out.. Not quite so short answer follows:
No, because dark matter is thought to be the explanation for galaxies moving apart faster than conventional explanations, so dark matter is assumed to exist and cause a negative gravitional attraction (negative mass, not anti-matter), to explain observed behavior.
Even if you assume postive vs. negative matter is not the issue, the ring around the galaxy is much to small in mass to make much of a difference anyway (much smaller that assumed dark-matter).
Beta died a lingering painful death due to inferiorty in that it used a 1-hour playback time when VHS was two hours. You could not record 1 whole movie on a Beta tape, whereas most movies could be recorded on the 2-hour VHS formet.
Pricing was probably an issue (Beta was usually a little more expensive), as well as luck and yes, even marketing. The lawsuit you mention was too little, too late to have killed Beta,
Technical quality of the playback was better on the Beta -- big deal, read your own link -- the average consumer could not even tell the difference even if their TV was capable of the difference.
With respect to Apple Mac vs. IBM PC & clones. Price & Applications were why business continued to by PC's. Mac was so hard to program (new and ugly paradigm you know), that it was a year before any real apps came out, and the cost of developing in-house apps was innordinately high.
A Lamborghini Countach is quite superior in many respects to the Toyota Avalon sitting in my driveway, but it is not a better car for me. Price, Insurance, convenience, capacity, etc. make the Toyota are far better product for me.
PC outsells Mac Toyota outsells Lamborghini VHS outsells Beta
All inferior in some respects, All better for the consumer in ways that mattered to them. I've got a PC, a Toyota, and a VHS recorder. I am not a stupid consumer buying stuff because of fancy commercial brainwash me into buying second-rate junk. I bought stuff them makes sense for me, for my needs. I assume most buyers of Macs, Lamborghinis or Betamax can make the same statement.
Actaully, I would argue that you have a false concept of the basis for biblical morality, which is based upon the concepts of right & wrong. Reward & punishment are consequences of right & wrong, not the basis thereof. Other non-biblical religions tend to have similar basis as well.
Your real disagreement is that your concept of right & wrong is not a superior being dictating the basis for such, rather you believe it should be self determined (either collectively or individually).
Now, for the AI, do you create the Asimovian 3 laws (external moral authority, aka. robot bible), or do you allow AI to self-determine its moralilty. Most humans seem to be uncomfortable with the 2nd case (for robots). As free moral agents, humans are allowed (in free societies) to choose moral basis to a certain extent, but even then we impose limits to self determination. If I decide its ok for me to kill or rape or steal, society overrules my decision.
Will the hypothetical AI have the same respect for intelligence and respect for others as you do? I step on a roach without a feeling of guilt. What if the AI reaches an IQ of 10,000, are you not then a bug to be stepped on if it is convenient for the AI? Maybe external rules aren't such a bad idea for AI.
Asimov was an atheist, but he wrote the 3 rules of robotics -- seems like he wanted robots to respect a superior being (though not necessarily more intelligent), although I don't recall him ever expressing it is such terms.
I like your propoganda fine, its accurate. Mine was accurate too. Note, I did not says pollution due to fuel cells exidation reaction. The pollution issues with fuel cells are pretty much related to the production and disposal of the hardware that makes the fuel cell system.
The reference article did not even make the mistake that burning hydrogen (or methanol) was pollution free. I was simply ranting about the common journalistic faux pas. Reaction kinetics was one of the more interesting studies in my school days. Which explains which NOx is around -- their is insufficient time to reach a low-pollution exhaust mix, and at high (combustion)temps, the equilabrium shifts to favor NOx more strongly.
You don't get the economies of scale that you do with a 500 MWatt plant, but you get some pretty serious advantages too. I imagine you do get a fairly significant CO2 emission when you use methanol in a fuel cell, but I am much less certain that CO2 is any kind of pollutant.
Global warming concerns seem to lack a certain careful science. A little anthropogenic global warming may not be all that bad even if it occurs, Earth will dump a lot more heat into space due to increase black body radiation for even a slight temperature increase. I'm sure we don't know the real answer yet, although there could be a rather significant risk for being wrong. I just remember in the 70's when the big scare was global cooling.
I want fuel cells as much as the next guy -- ok, I'd prefer a Mr. Fusion. But I still want my flying car too.
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In Florida they had a big fiasco. They tried to fix it by recounting the PAPER ballots repeatedly. This did not make anyone too happy either. George W. won all of the recounts, including ones done by the independent press, but lots of people still argue a fix was on, Bush stole the election, etc. -- Note:, I'm not arguing that Bush did or did not steal the election, or if he would be the first that had if he did -- I'm focusing on the controversy surrounding it to the day.
How in the world would the U.S. react if you could reasonably argue that the system could have been hacked, etc. -- Strikes me that this would be a very chaotic result.
The Internet based system does not and probably cannot have a useful audit trail that is equivalent to the paper ballots.
Foreign nationals are certainly limited in their voting flexibility and I think the Pentagon was trying to incorporate them betting in the voting process. Is there not a reasonable compromise that would meets the needs of voters and voting integrity?
The vast majority of Slashdot readers made up their minds about Microsoft years ago.
SCO is trying to displace Duke Nukem Forever as the king of VaporWare, so they have to keeping filing their daily lawsuits.
After all, they only got a dishonorable mention, so they really have to step up the heat to take the title.
Well, there is the problem that I could send out unsolicited spam targeting the company I want to get fined.
A company that comissioned spam could claim that they were framed by unsolicited spam.
I seem to recall that you figure 600 BTU's per person for cooling load.
20,000 BTU is way high.
People time to stop the ignorance. Everybody knows that the oil deposits laid formed from compressed plant and enimal material were laid down as a consequence of world-wide flooding at the time of Noah.
Since the flood only took 1 year (to subside enough to let the people off the ark), and it also reset the population to 8 people, all that is needed it to have another world-wide flood when we run out of oil, and everthing should be ok for another 4000 years or so.
How about the fact that measured UV radiation at ground level in the bands blocked by Ozone have not changed appreciablly in temperate climate zones.
What you want is a smart linker. You still build libraries, modules, etc. But when the program builds the executable it notices that some functions are never referenced, so the code for these is dropped when building the executable.
Some versions even recognize classes have functions that are never referenced, and these class functions are eliminated.
You get used to using a smart linker (I've been using Delphi a lot and it has one), it changes your programming style as you build larger modules/libraries since the bloat penalty is not there.
Shouldn't that be .NYET
Granted. But MS had the patch available 6 month's before slammer. Seems like that would have been enough time to either "incorporate the patch" or taken other countermeasures.
I don't know, seems to me melting some MS product within a nuclear containment vessel might be a safe way to dispose of the product. Since it would be highly radioactive no-one would be tempted to use it.
I plan on selling them the tracking system -- you socialists just don't recognize a market opportunity.
Sorry, but you read that wrong. These games were being given kudos for supporting a color-blind palette version of their games.
A red-green colorblind friend of mine was very appreciate of the alternate palette for Alpha-Centauri
Sure, you can fit 6 billion people in a 77 km square, but the line at the "Porta John" will be killer.
Well, if you want to be a porn star, you might try something more appropriate than dice.com. It took me about 10 seconds to google this site which seems to be a more appropriate job search board for your desired occupation. Glad to be of service.
As a consultant for many years, I can assure you I've seen bias in many forms in many companies
Male vs. Female
White vs. Black
In-house vs consultant.
Cronies vs. Others.
Bootlickers vs. others.
Microsoft vs. Linux
C++ vs. VB.
Why should scripters vs. coders be excluded?
Now, if corporations are stupid enough to be biased (as opposed to simply making logical decisions based on the facts), they are hurting themselves, and hurting others. If you are so affected you should: A) complain, B) find new employment, C) put up with it but let it not bother you. Personally I prefer B, but A and C are also reasonable choices in some cases.
Well it appears the markets believe it can't be that simple given that Covad's share price is down 40% since the FCC announcement today.
Of course, institutional investors are scared of any news, but a 40% drop makes one think that Covad may be in for a rough spell as such market swings can be self-fulfilling.
I dispute that the earth is round. It is a lumpy oblate ellipsoid (slightly pear shaped). It is also flat (as measured near the surface, on a small scale, within reasonable definitions of flat).
Much of science (and other realms of study) is similar in that we often discuss rules that are no more than useful generalizations that are true within limits (for the often unstated conditions to which they apply), but do not cover the special cases or represent highest accuracy. It would be accurate to note that not everybody believes that the earth is round, that man has walked on the moon, or that the universe is expanding.
Certainly, this is an interesting adjustment to the standard model, but Nasa is not the first to line up behind the dark energy interpretation. Nor is the the first Slashdot article to refer to it either.
The bloat for a Word document is no doubt completely justified by its ability to host a virus capable of bring the Internet to its knees.
The 4K Atari cartridge ROM is only capable of enabling you to play a silly game on your television.
OK, so here is a simple question.
What about a internet based file conversion service. You feed in Word 95 and request Word XP, PDF, RTF, etc. wait your turn and converted file shows up. Of course, you would also want the reverse conversions. Charge big wads of money (as long as you are much cheaper than MS upgrades)
Would think that you could even find software companies that produce alternative proprietary formats would be willing to help you set up this service (to help reduce the objection to their proprietary formats.)
It's not a problem, its an opportunity.
3 points for concise and correct answer, -1 for missing important details left out.. Not quite so short answer follows:
No, because dark matter is thought to be the explanation for galaxies moving apart faster than conventional explanations, so dark matter is assumed to exist and cause a negative gravitional attraction (negative mass, not anti-matter), to explain observed behavior.
Even if you assume postive vs. negative matter is not the issue, the ring around the galaxy is much to small in mass to make much of a difference anyway (much smaller that assumed dark-matter).
Well the articles does mention the Klez email virus, which is definitely a Windows vermin.
Didn't you even read your own link.
Beta died a lingering painful death due to inferiorty in that it used a 1-hour playback time when VHS was two hours. You could not record 1 whole movie on a Beta tape, whereas most movies could be recorded on the 2-hour VHS formet.
Pricing was probably an issue (Beta was usually a little more expensive), as well as luck and yes, even marketing. The lawsuit you mention was too little, too late to have killed Beta,
Technical quality of the playback was better on the Beta -- big deal, read your own link -- the average consumer could not even tell the difference even if their TV was capable of the difference.
With respect to Apple Mac vs. IBM PC & clones. Price & Applications were why business continued to by PC's. Mac was so hard to program (new and ugly paradigm you know), that it was a year before any real apps came out, and the cost of developing in-house apps was innordinately high.
A Lamborghini Countach is quite superior in many respects to the Toyota Avalon sitting in my driveway, but it is not a better car for me. Price, Insurance, convenience, capacity, etc. make the Toyota are far better product for me.
PC outsells Mac
Toyota outsells Lamborghini
VHS outsells Beta
All inferior in some respects, All better for the consumer in ways that mattered to them. I've got a PC, a Toyota, and a VHS recorder. I am not a stupid consumer buying stuff because of fancy commercial brainwash me into buying second-rate junk. I bought stuff them makes sense for me, for my needs. I assume most buyers of Macs, Lamborghinis or Betamax can make the same statement.
Actaully, I would argue that you have a false concept of the basis for biblical morality, which is based upon the concepts of right & wrong. Reward & punishment are consequences of right & wrong, not the basis thereof. Other non-biblical religions tend to have similar basis as well.
Your real disagreement is that your concept of right & wrong is not a superior being dictating the basis for such, rather you believe it should be self determined (either collectively or individually).
Now, for the AI, do you create the Asimovian 3 laws (external moral authority, aka. robot bible), or do you allow AI to self-determine its moralilty. Most humans seem to be uncomfortable with the 2nd case (for robots). As free moral agents, humans are allowed (in free societies) to choose moral basis to a certain extent, but even then we impose limits to self determination. If I decide its ok for me to kill or rape or steal, society overrules my decision.
Will the hypothetical AI have the same respect for intelligence and respect for others as you do?
I step on a roach without a feeling of guilt. What if the AI reaches an IQ of 10,000, are you not then a bug to be stepped on if it is convenient for the AI? Maybe external rules aren't such a bad idea for AI.
Asimov was an atheist, but he wrote the 3 rules of robotics -- seems like he wanted robots to respect a superior being (though not necessarily more intelligent), although I don't recall him ever expressing it is such terms.
I like your propoganda fine, its accurate. Mine was accurate too. Note, I did not says pollution due to fuel cells exidation reaction. The pollution issues with fuel cells are pretty much related to the production and disposal of the hardware that makes the fuel cell system.
The reference article did not even make the mistake that burning hydrogen (or methanol) was pollution free. I was simply ranting about the common journalistic faux pas. Reaction kinetics was one of the more interesting studies in my school days. Which explains which NOx is around -- their is insufficient time to reach a low-pollution exhaust mix, and at high (combustion)temps, the equilabrium shifts to favor NOx more strongly.
You don't get the economies of scale that you do with a 500 MWatt plant, but you get some pretty serious advantages too. I imagine you do get a fairly significant CO2 emission when you use methanol in a fuel cell, but I am much less certain that CO2 is any kind of pollutant.
Global warming concerns seem to lack a certain careful science. A little anthropogenic global warming may not be all that bad even if it occurs, Earth will dump a lot more heat into space due to increase black body radiation for even a slight temperature increase. I'm sure we don't know the real answer yet, although there could be a rather significant risk for being wrong. I just remember in the 70's when the big scare was global cooling.
I want fuel cells as much as the next guy -- ok, I'd prefer a Mr. Fusion. But I still want my flying car too.