how can it be a franchise really with only 1 game.... ok ok they made a cartoon but seriously.
Actually, Sam & Max started as a series of comics. I saw Sam & Max comics in the LucasArts newsletter/magazine/whatever-it-was many years after the game was released.
I didn't mean that the whole system is trivial; it's not. But the backend - the part that actually keeps track of the votes - should be very small, very simple, and rock solid. And that's the part that's not difficult at all to make, with a little thought.
Methinks this is a buffer overflow issue (32,768 votes as opposed to the 32,000 quoted in the article). How thick can you be to design a polling system storing votes in an int...
It seems unbelievable that something like that is a mistake. A freshman CS major (or any one of thousands of/.ers) could come up with a better system. It's really not that hard to write a decent backend for a voting machine. The word "trivial" comes to mind, and yet there's been screwup after screwup...malice, or shockingly incompetent government contractors? I don't know.
Which they freely admit is nearly meaningless because all the "barely Kerry" and "barely Bush" states are actually statistical ties. Comparing two data points within the margin of error is utterly meaningless, which is one of the reasons why the decision to accept Bush's ~1000 vote margin in Florida last election was a terrible mistake.
In these "tied" states, it's all about getting people to the polls on Tuesday.
Clinton was easily re-elected and enjoyed high approval ratings until the end (the last was 65%). Though there was (and still is) a small group of people with an inexplicable hatred of both Clintons, there's no comparison between Bush and Clinton.
I mean, check out the latest Gallup report.
Nader is a political outcast now, the Green party won't even have him anymore.
Not true. Nader ditched the Green Party, not the other way around. He was almost endorsed by them this year, but eventually they decided to run Cobb instead.
Personally (as a registered Green in New York who's voting for Cobb), I think Nader is an ass for getting on the ballot in swing states.
Since it was an essentially private hub, did they infiltrate it to establish that file sharing was going on? (That would mean sharing >1GB of stuff themselves!)
It's hardly difficult to get a few gigabytes of free software. Just start a Gentoo distfiles mirror:)
Let's see... they went in to someone's home and took their stuff.
And made no arrests.
I don't recall the gov't being able to do that before 9/11
Obviously you haven't been watching what happens to the supporters of medical marijuana. This happened all the time to people who grew pot and gave it only to sick people in California, well before 9/11.
Your idea brings me to my #1 axe to grind with Linux - no support for Binary drivers.
Really? NVIDIA seems to disagree, and they've done quite a respectable job with their binary Linux drivers. Just because you need a thin interface from the kernel to the real binary doesn't mean there's no support; Linux is under heavy development, constantly changing and evolving, so requiring this wrapper makes a lot of sense.
Agreed. I've been forced to use Sun terminals from time to time, which have the keyboards with the Ctrl key where Caps Lock usually is. It confused the hell out of my fingers, and made Ctrl+Alt combinations a pain. But I'm sure if I had time to get used to it, it would be a little more comfortable. Still, it's going against 10+ years of previous experience:)
Not to mention meta data plugins that can index your media files and store that data in the filesystem (again with SQL access)
Bad idea, I think. What happens when you want to backup your files or send them to someone else? Nah, that kind of metadata is best handled outside the fs itself. Switch to file formats that allow for more flexible tags (*cough* OGG *cough*).
If we're going to let them fly the planes, do we really need to make sure they don't have scissors or nail clippers in their pockets?
Hyperbole aside, yes. One pilot with no weapons could not take over an entire plane. Even if the co-pilot is in on it, the passengers could still break into the cabin. A pilot with an Uzi, on the other hand, would have little trouble.
what stops Al Queda or others from recruiting non muslim people to do their deeds?
In fact, they don't even need to get a single person to die for their cause. Just get someone to smuggle what they need through security, hand it off, and get on another flight.
This is why racial profiling is an incredibly stupid idea. Because terrorists aren't stupid.
Shouldn't the pilots not have to put up with this? As much as he flies one way, it really annoys my dad...We need a separate system to deal with pilots and flight attendants.
And the moment you start doing that, guess what? A couple terrorists *really* learn how to fly, get licensed, and execute their attack. It takes a few years of preparation, but so did 9/11. Or just become a flight attendant.
Terrorists aren't stupid. The moment we start focusing on one group or excluding another is the moment they start exploiting that.
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Actually, Sam & Max started as a series of comics. I saw Sam & Max comics in the LucasArts newsletter/magazine/whatever-it-was many years after the game was released.
I didn't mean that the whole system is trivial; it's not. But the backend - the part that actually keeps track of the votes - should be very small, very simple, and rock solid. And that's the part that's not difficult at all to make, with a little thought.
It seems unbelievable that something like that is a mistake. A freshman CS major (or any one of thousands of /.ers) could come up with a better system. It's really not that hard to write a decent backend for a voting machine. The word "trivial" comes to mind, and yet there's been screwup after screwup...malice, or shockingly incompetent government contractors? I don't know.
Ah no, that's completely wrong. Please review basic statistics that you'd learn in any university science course.
Which they freely admit is nearly meaningless because all the "barely Kerry" and "barely Bush" states are actually statistical ties. Comparing two data points within the margin of error is utterly meaningless, which is one of the reasons why the decision to accept Bush's ~1000 vote margin in Florida last election was a terrible mistake.
In these "tied" states, it's all about getting people to the polls on Tuesday.
Well, yes. They don't write their own speeches either. It's no big secret.
Clinton was easily re-elected and enjoyed high approval ratings until the end (the last was 65%). Though there was (and still is) a small group of people with an inexplicable hatred of both Clintons, there's no comparison between Bush and Clinton.
I mean, check out the latest Gallup report.
Ah, you do know that it isn't terribly expensive to get locks changed, right?
Or you could have looked at the page source:
the survey link
Not true. Nader ditched the Green Party, not the other way around. He was almost endorsed by them this year, but eventually they decided to run Cobb instead.
Personally (as a registered Green in New York who's voting for Cobb), I think Nader is an ass for getting on the ballot in swing states.
What's your point? That's not exercise. It just gives you carpal tunnel syndrome.
It's hardly difficult to get a few gigabytes of free software. Just start a Gentoo distfiles mirror :)
Obviously you haven't been watching what happens to the supporters of medical marijuana. This happened all the time to people who grew pot and gave it only to sick people in California, well before 9/11.
Works great for me too. I use Gentoo with the latest NVIDIA binary driver and a 2.6 kernel. RTCW runs beautifully at 1280x1024.
Really? NVIDIA seems to disagree, and they've done quite a respectable job with their binary Linux drivers. Just because you need a thin interface from the kernel to the real binary doesn't mean there's no support; Linux is under heavy development, constantly changing and evolving, so requiring this wrapper makes a lot of sense.
Agreed. I've been forced to use Sun terminals from time to time, which have the keyboards with the Ctrl key where Caps Lock usually is. It confused the hell out of my fingers, and made Ctrl+Alt combinations a pain. But I'm sure if I had time to get used to it, it would be a little more comfortable. Still, it's going against 10+ years of previous experience :)
Bad idea, I think. What happens when you want to backup your files or send them to someone else? Nah, that kind of metadata is best handled outside the fs itself. Switch to file formats that allow for more flexible tags (*cough* OGG *cough*).
Not quite all. The default (template) /etc/fstab uses xfs for the root filesystem.
I would agree, but the godawful Anakin/Amidala dialogue ruined the whole movie for me.
Actually, we have five data points.
ANH: great
ESB: excellent
ROTJ: good
TPM: bad
AOTC: awful
Hyperbole aside, yes. One pilot with no weapons could not take over an entire plane. Even if the co-pilot is in on it, the passengers could still break into the cabin. A pilot with an Uzi, on the other hand, would have little trouble.
In fact, they don't even need to get a single person to die for their cause. Just get someone to smuggle what they need through security, hand it off, and get on another flight.
This is why racial profiling is an incredibly stupid idea. Because terrorists aren't stupid.
It baffles me why when remote-control cars started getting a little more complicated, we're suddenly calling them robots. They're not.
And the moment you start doing that, guess what? A couple terrorists *really* learn how to fly, get licensed, and execute their attack. It takes a few years of preparation, but so did 9/11. Or just become a flight attendant.
Terrorists aren't stupid. The moment we start focusing on one group or excluding another is the moment they start exploiting that.
I'm sorry, but these are not robots. They're remote-control toys. That's all.