If you read the "Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion" link and go down to about the middle of the page, you'll see submission guidelines for submitting articles to World Scientific. However, the templates for article submission are for M$ Word as it seems that they only accept docs in ms-word format. How can anyone take these guys seriously when they don't accept Tex/LaTeX?
The potential for fraud is only part of the problem with electronic voting. The biggest problem is the lack of a hard paper trial to use in the event of a recount or if the machine crashes. Suppose you have a group of booths in a busy voting district that suddenly decide to blue-screen. Potentially, thousands of votes could be lost. The lack of a paper trial has been brought up many times, but proponents of the system have so far dismissed it as unneccessary. This is just asking for trouble.
Even worse is cases like those in Florida where the state purchased new electronic voting machines with the provision that their warranty would be immediately canceled if the state ran tests to verify their performance. Egads! This has fraud and disaster written all over it.
Our system of democracy is very important our liberties. As voters, we should insist that our voting system be beyond question. That means it should be secure, verifiable, and robust. The best way to accomplish this is through open-source peer review of the code and hard-copy backup of voting results for auditing purposes.
Even though 99 pct of the time no one thinks about ham radio, in a crisis situation, it's usually the one form of communication that is likely to be still working when it hits the fan. In remote areas, it may be the only communication available even in good times.
The reason is that our modern communications are very complex and dependent on things like having reliable electrical power. Most ham sets can run on car batteries and provide nationwide or even global coverage if necessary. Voice, video, and data are all possible with ham radio. Just what you need in a crisis.
This smells of a backdoor method of introducing govt monitoring of the general population. Essentially, they're creating an artificial problem, then offering an Orwellian solution to solve it. What better method of introducing Big Brother than through using it on a segment of the population that's probably is unaware of what's happening to them. Once they get the foot in the door with this, it simply becomes a matter of quietly increasing the monitoring's scope incrementally until it covers the bulk of the general population.
Orwell wrote his books as a warning to the possible abuses of big government. It's a shame that the current administration is using Orwell as a how-to guide.
Is it just me, or does the idea of sending your credit card and ss number to M$ sound like a really bad idea. If you actually win something, then that's a different matter since you need a 1099 form for tax purposes. But otherwise, fuhggehdaboutit. MSN sux anyway.
After all, it's supposed to be an open and transparent government despite Dumbya's efforts otherwise. But I wonder if it will survive. Some years ago, video rental outfits leaked a list of porno movies that members of congress and high-ranking justices were watching. Congress instantly passed legislation making it illegal to do that. It seemed that they didn't like people probing their personal viewing and reading habits. However, these same bunch of baffoons have no problem doing the same to Joe Public ala the Patriot Act and TIA.
It has been my experience that unless there is some large monetary losses involved, then you're going to have a hard time getting law enforcement to do much of anything. Generally, for simple break-ins, they expect you to handle it yourself (typically contacting the ISP of the hacker).
This is a tough call. On the one hand it's not uncommon to hype a non-existant product in order to gauge market acceptance. But on the other hand it's a bit fraudulant, especially from an investors point of view, particulary if the investor was coaxed into investing into a company based on the belief that there really was a new super widget about to be released. I guess it depends on intent. (Hard to prove.) Are they doing a legitimate market survey or are they pumping their stock? Looks like more money for lawyers.
I think this is a big publicity stunt on the part of Epic. (Well duh.) What I mean is that UT2003 hasn't drawn the fan base that Half-life enjoys, despite HL being 4 years old now. (Ancient by game standards.) Now Epic is faced with the upcoming release of HL2 which is expected to blow all the other FPS clear out of the water. Plus, Valve has announced that the SDK for HL2 will be released ahead of the game to give mod authors a change to get ready for the big release in September. Furthermore, Valve has been known to take the better mods under their wing and make commercial games out of them, with the mod authors getting payed for their effort. I think Epic is about to get left in the dust, and I think they know it.
Another contrived (and probably inaccurate) comparison between Linux anbd M$. When will the FUD masters at borg central ever learn.
We use linux on our servers and some of them have up times approaching two years. They replaced the M$ servers which required constant attention and occasional reloading. Bah. Who needs that? Linux rocks.
M$ new licensing is certainly reason to stay with Linux. Don't need that BS either.
My home system is W98se only because I need an el Cheapo game platform. I intend to run it until the game companies stop supporting it. Hopefully by then, Linux will be accepted as a viable gaming platform. (Still a ways off now.) The point is that I refuse to get sucked into the endless upgrade game as dictated by M$. Screw 'em.
Not knowing much latin myself, can someone fill me in as to what 'Deus Ex' means? I went to their webpage, but it demanded that I install Flash 5 before I could enter. Yeah right. Like that's going to happen. (Bad page design guys.)
I'm not sure why Lupin has so much popularity. The artwork and animation is terrible by anime standards plus the characters are shallow and boring. Even those problems would be forgivable if the writing was worth a damn. Essentially, Lupin is one big tired cliche laced with stale innuendo. I guess hollywood really is out of ideas if they are going to make a movie out of this.
From what I've heard (hearsay), they do sell the email addresses of the people you email. This allows them to harvest email addresses from outgoing mail for sale to spammers while complying with the privacy statement that they won't sell your email adr to spammers. I strongly suspect they're not alone in this practice.
It looks like just a lot of window dressing. Some new 'features' suggested by the screenshot is tighter integration of IE into the OS (less modularization). Also notice the screen shot of the music folder with the integrated DRM on the righthand side.
I stopped playing the annual upgrade game at W98, which gets used mostly just to play games. Considering the newer Linux distros can match M$ desktop in terms of useful functionality, I don't see any reason to consider longhorn or it's derivitives. Given M$ ugly licensing practices, there is plenty of reason to avoid it.
Well isn't this special. Sony adopts yet another anti-consumer technology which I'm sure is going to do wonders for their sales (Not!). Just wait, after a year or so when the sales report come out, you'll see headlines which read:
"Sony Music reports 40% drop in sales. Blames file swapping."
I guess they can't see this one coming.
Verizon arguement about selling people's personal info as free speech is bullshit. Consider the case of yelling "fire" in a crowded movie house. The courts have ruled that free speech is not protected under these circumstances because there is a direct threat to public safety. In this case, the public's right to a safe environment to precedence over the individual's right to free speech. This is no surprise considering that the speech in question was aimed at causing a riot.
Now consider Verizon's idea of selling your personal information. Does selling a 3rd parties' private information without consent constitute free speech or does it violate the person's right to privacy? Well, first we need to decide if call records are really speech or is it just data. Is raw data eligable for free speech? Secondly, if it is speech, then we're faced with a case of two rights in conflict with other -- the right of free speech vs. the right to privacy.
Let's look at the first question: Is data free speech? I would say no. Free speech has almost always been equated with the right of human expression, whether it be expressing an opinion or viewpoint thru actual speech, writings, music, art, dance, clothing, whatever. Call data doesn't fit this description at all. So to say this data constitutes speech is inconsistant with the ideals of human expression both in spirit and function.
The second question is less clear: who's rights take precedence? I would argue that this point is moot given that I don't believe call data is free speech. But let's say that it is in some sort of perverse way. Since it's been established that rights can have limits when they risk injury, I would conclude that the right to speech must yield to a person's right to privacy in this case. This has already come up in the courts regarding candid cameras. While it's perfectly legal to use a candid camera, it's not ok to use it to single out individuals by name for public ridicule. Selling personal phone information opens the door to such ridicule. Consider if you made a call to a medical clinic for reasons that you'd rather not be made public. Would you really want that info sold and made publicly available to every sleezy telemarketer?
I really hope that Verizon loses on this. Corporations are out of control in this country. They seem to have lost all respect for the public in general and it's getting worse.
BTW: You can thank that moron Duhbya for the FCC rule change that's allowing this to happen.
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The flying pen is not the Bournelli effect per se, rather the pen is a working example of the Magnus Effect. (The two are related. The distinction is that the Magnus Effect is produced from spinning objects rather than venturies or airfoils.)
This kind of thing is not new. The studio who made Titanic pulled the same shit on the screenwriter for that movie as well, even though the movie earned over a billion dollars. The studio cooked the books to make it look like the movie made no money. Smoke and mirrors accounting.
Let's see, Mars (God of war) is due to make its closest approach within a year and Bush is determined to start a war in the middle east also within a year. Coincidence? Maybe we should rethink this astrology thing.
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If you read the "Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion" link and go down to about the middle of the page, you'll see submission guidelines for submitting articles to World Scientific. However, the templates for article submission are for M$ Word as it seems that they only accept docs in ms-word format. How can anyone take these guys seriously when they don't accept Tex/LaTeX?
The potential for fraud is only part of the problem with electronic voting. The biggest problem is the lack of a hard paper trial to use in the event of a recount or if the machine crashes. Suppose you have a group of booths in a busy voting district that suddenly decide to blue-screen. Potentially, thousands of votes could be lost. The lack of a paper trial has been brought up many times, but proponents of the system have so far dismissed it as unneccessary. This is just asking for trouble.
Even worse is cases like those in Florida where the state purchased new electronic voting machines with the provision that their warranty would be immediately canceled if the state ran tests to verify their performance. Egads! This has fraud and disaster written all over it.
Our system of democracy is very important our liberties. As voters, we should insist that our voting system be beyond question. That means it should be secure, verifiable, and robust. The best way to accomplish this is through open-source peer review of the code and hard-copy backup of voting results for auditing purposes.
Even though 99 pct of the time no one thinks about ham radio, in a crisis situation, it's usually the one form of communication that is likely to be still working when it hits the fan. In remote areas, it may be the only communication available even in good times.
The reason is that our modern communications are very complex and dependent on things like having reliable electrical power. Most ham sets can run on car batteries and provide nationwide or even global coverage if necessary. Voice, video, and data are all possible with ham radio. Just what you need in a crisis.
This smells of a backdoor method of introducing govt monitoring of the general population. Essentially, they're creating an artificial problem, then offering an Orwellian solution to solve it. What better method of introducing Big Brother than through using it on a segment of the population that's probably is unaware of what's happening to them. Once they get the foot in the door with this, it simply becomes a matter of quietly increasing the monitoring's scope incrementally until it covers the bulk of the general population.
Orwell wrote his books as a warning to the possible abuses of big government. It's a shame that the current administration is using Orwell as a how-to guide.
Is it just me, or does the idea of sending your credit card and ss number to M$ sound like a really bad idea. If you actually win something, then that's a different matter since you need a 1099 form for tax purposes. But otherwise, fuhggehdaboutit. MSN sux anyway.
After all, it's supposed to be an open and transparent government despite Dumbya's efforts otherwise. But I wonder if it will survive. Some years ago, video rental outfits leaked a list of porno movies that members of congress and high-ranking justices were watching. Congress instantly passed legislation making it illegal to do that. It seemed that they didn't like people probing their personal viewing and reading habits. However, these same bunch of baffoons have no problem doing the same to Joe Public ala the Patriot Act and TIA.
Keep this in mind in 2004 and vote.
It has been my experience that unless there is some large monetary losses involved, then you're going to have a hard time getting law enforcement to do much of anything. Generally, for simple break-ins, they expect you to handle it yourself (typically contacting the ISP of the hacker).
This is a tough call. On the one hand it's not uncommon to hype a non-existant product in order to gauge market acceptance. But on the other hand it's a bit fraudulant, especially from an investors point of view, particulary if the investor was coaxed into investing into a company based on the belief that there really was a new super widget about to be released. I guess it depends on intent. (Hard to prove.) Are they doing a legitimate market survey or are they pumping their stock? Looks like more money for lawyers.
I think this is a big publicity stunt on the part of Epic. (Well duh.) What I mean is that UT2003 hasn't drawn the fan base that Half-life enjoys, despite HL being 4 years old now. (Ancient by game standards.) Now Epic is faced with the upcoming release of HL2 which is expected to blow all the other FPS clear out of the water. Plus, Valve has announced that the SDK for HL2 will be released ahead of the game to give mod authors a change to get ready for the big release in September. Furthermore, Valve has been known to take the better mods under their wing and make commercial games out of them, with the mod authors getting payed for their effort. I think Epic is about to get left in the dust, and I think they know it.
Seems that the Beast can't meet payroll without printing new stock to cover it. link here.
Microwaving the money was the first thing I thought of doing. It probably wouldn't take much to EMP the chip embedded in the note.
There's a big difference between doing a scheduled shutdown versus a BSOD.
We use linux on our servers and some of them have up times approaching two years. They replaced the M$ servers which required constant attention and occasional reloading. Bah. Who needs that? Linux rocks.
M$ new licensing is certainly reason to stay with Linux. Don't need that BS either.
My home system is W98se only because I need an el Cheapo game platform. I intend to run it until the game companies stop supporting it. Hopefully by then, Linux will be accepted as a viable gaming platform. (Still a ways off now.) The point is that I refuse to get sucked into the endless upgrade game as dictated by M$. Screw 'em.
Not knowing much latin myself, can someone fill me in as to what 'Deus Ex' means? I went to their webpage, but it demanded that I install Flash 5 before I could enter. Yeah right. Like that's going to happen. (Bad page design guys.)
I'm not sure why Lupin has so much popularity. The artwork and animation is terrible by anime standards plus the characters are shallow and boring. Even those problems would be forgivable if the writing was worth a damn. Essentially, Lupin is one big tired cliche laced with stale innuendo. I guess hollywood really is out of ideas if they are going to make a movie out of this.
Many people had hotmail accounts prior to the M$ takeover of the company and simply don't want to loose their longtime email address.
This homeland defense nonsense is getting way out of control. The sooner that idiot bush and his minions are out of office, the better.
From what I've heard (hearsay), they do sell the email addresses of the people you email. This allows them to harvest email addresses from outgoing mail for sale to spammers while complying with the privacy statement that they won't sell your email adr to spammers. I strongly suspect they're not alone in this practice.
I stopped playing the annual upgrade game at W98, which gets used mostly just to play games. Considering the newer Linux distros can match M$ desktop in terms of useful functionality, I don't see any reason to consider longhorn or it's derivitives. Given M$ ugly licensing practices, there is plenty of reason to avoid it.
Well isn't this special. Sony adopts yet another anti-consumer technology which I'm sure is going to do wonders for their sales (Not!). Just wait, after a year or so when the sales report come out, you'll see headlines which read: "Sony Music reports 40% drop in sales. Blames file swapping." I guess they can't see this one coming.
Let's look at the first question: Is data free speech? I would say no. Free speech has almost always been equated with the right of human expression, whether it be expressing an opinion or viewpoint thru actual speech, writings, music, art, dance, clothing, whatever. Call data doesn't fit this description at all. So to say this data constitutes speech is inconsistant with the ideals of human expression both in spirit and function.
The second question is less clear: who's rights take precedence? I would argue that this point is moot given that I don't believe call data is free speech. But let's say that it is in some sort of perverse way. Since it's been established that rights can have limits when they risk injury, I would conclude that the right to speech must yield to a person's right to privacy in this case. This has already come up in the courts regarding candid cameras. While it's perfectly legal to use a candid camera, it's not ok to use it to single out individuals by name for public ridicule. Selling personal phone information opens the door to such ridicule. Consider if you made a call to a medical clinic for reasons that you'd rather not be made public. Would you really want that info sold and made publicly available to every sleezy telemarketer?
I really hope that Verizon loses on this. Corporations are out of control in this country. They seem to have lost all respect for the public in general and it's getting worse.
BTW: You can thank that moron Duhbya for the FCC rule change that's allowing this to happen.
The flying pen is not the Bournelli effect per se, rather the pen is a working example of the Magnus Effect. (The two are related. The distinction is that the Magnus Effect is produced from spinning objects rather than venturies or airfoils.)
This kind of thing is not new. The studio who made Titanic pulled the same shit on the screenwriter for that movie as well, even though the movie earned over a billion dollars. The studio cooked the books to make it look like the movie made no money. Smoke and mirrors accounting.
Let's see, Mars (God of war) is due to make its closest approach within a year and Bush is determined to start a war in the middle east also within a year. Coincidence? Maybe we should rethink this astrology thing.
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