Yeah, let's compare.Net to PHP..Net has a very extensive API. PHP also has a very extensive framework. The.Net framework was very well thought out and is very well organized. The PHP framework is cobbled together piece-meal, with everything in the same namespace (Yes, I'm aware that it still doesn't have namespaces, and won't until PHP6 is out, but that's yet another disadvantage of PHP), and separate functions for each database they support, where all are very similarly named, but not exactly the same.
Financial systems rely on the fact that the transactions aren't anonymous. Money always goes from one account to another. In the voting process, it's (supposed to be) completely anonymous. A bunch of people come in, and bunch of votes are cast, but nobody should be able to tell who voted for who. Imagine the same with a bank, where deposits have to be made to the correct accounts, but you can't verify which account they are coming from.
That's why the ballots can be counted, or viewed by multiple parties, who should all agree on the final counts. Anybody should be allowed to stand around and watch the counting. I'm not saying that no fraud would happen, because it's happened in the past, and it will happen in the future. I'm just saying that it should be obvious to the voting public when fraud is happening. The problem with machines, is that even if they are verified, it's impossible to know what code is running on it when you walk up to it on election day. Think of game consoles. They try to make it so you can only run licensed content. But people always find a way to run homebrew/pirated games. You can verify the machine all you want. There's no guaranteeing that the same machine will actually be used on election day. You could probably even put a completely different machine in front of people on election day, possibly in the same casing, although that's not even necessary, and people wouldn't even know they were using the wrong machine, because each polling district uses different machines.
Any voting system should be verifiable by any member of the voting populous. Having a PhD in computer science should not be prerequisite for understanding the voting system. You also shouldn't have to take somebody else's word for it either. Pen and paper hand counted ballots make sense, because anybody can see exactly what's going on, and fully understand the process. If voters don't understand the voting system, then they might as well not even be voting.
It's labeled "Undo Close Tab" in firefox. If it keeps the page in memory forever, then it definitely is a waste. At what point is it allowed to reclaim the memory? If it keeps it forever, you would probably run out of memory within couple hours of browsing if you were continually closing tabs.
You're right. Although firefox keeps the history of the close tab, it seems to reload the tab when reopening a closed tab, or when click the back button on a previously closed tab. How long does Opera keep this stuff in memory though? It seems like it should release the memory after a certain point, so as not to waste memory.
The point is, is that extra stuff should be handled via extensions, like firefox handles it, so as to not muck up everyone else's experience with features that they don't need.
If they need to type up notes about cases, without being at the office, then get them a laptop and secure that. Sure they could still hook that up to another home computer, or to a USB drive, and data could get in the open, but there will be a lot less reason for them to do so. Giving them a USB drive gives them the ability, and actually encourages them to put the data on insecure systems. For the extra cost of these fancy USB drives, you could probably provide them with a laptop (over the cost of a desktop), and just install truecrypt on it.
I would have said the same thing, based on Canadian news. I guess it depends which news program you are watching. You don't get much celeb news if you watch the CBC, but you do tend to get a lot of it on some other networks.
I personally watch a lot more drama and comedy than science myself. Does that mean I don't get enough science in my life? Well, not really, I get most of my science exposure from the internet. By the time they produce a show on it, it's already old news. I find that reading stuff online is a far better way to get my daily intake of science.
The point is, where are they taking these drives? If it's just for between computers within the organization, a network storage solution would work better. It would be more secure, and the files would never leave the premises (ideally). The only need for USB drives is to transfer data between computers not on the network. If the information they are transporting is really all that important and confidential, it's probably best that they never give access to it from unknown computers. Once you enter the passphrase, the computer it's hooked to can do just about anything with the data.
Do they even need to be taking information off premises? If the drives aren't encrypted they aren't secure. What computers are they hooking them up to? Are those computers secure? If you're only going to use the data on departmental machines, a network storage solution would work a lot better, and be a lot more secure.
Here's my favourite bug. The other day, I had a bunch of windows. Probably about 20, with about 10 tabs open in one of my IE 7 windows (Usually use firefox, but I was testing some webdev). Slowly it started running out of windows that would open. Every time I wanted to open a new window, browser tab, the start menu, or even get this, a drop down box, I would have to close another window. But it wasn't just that, It was slowly running out, so I couldn't just keep my initial 20 windows open, I had to close down extra stuff. I was in the middle of debugging something, and didn't feel like rebooting. So I slowly worked my way down to about 3 windows and then just decided to reboot, as working on the machine was getting completely unmanageable.
No, it's more like ordering your meal. Then the restaurant takes 5 years to prepare it, all the time exclaiming that it's going to be the best meal ever. Then, when you get it, you find out it's complete crap, and it takes them another year just to get around to fixing it. Even after they fix it, it still isn't as good as the tried and true hamburger, which you could have got without even waiting the intial 5 years.
The hard drive itself seems to generate quite a bit of heat. This requires extra fans for cooling. I'm convince my laptop could operate quite well without a fan, or at least with a much smaller more quiet one, if only the hard disk didn't get so hot. Changing to solid state would not only allow me to get rid of the sound of the actual hard disk, but the fans that are necessary because of it.
I don't know, but this isn't the Ubuntu help forms. It's slashdot, and this happens to be a story about Google sky now being available in the browser. Why is he asking about why his installation isn't working under completely the wrong area. If you ask questions in the wrong forum, you're going to get smart-ass answers in reply.
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Fat Bastard wine is my preference.
And when will it get an API organized using those namespaces.
Yeah, let's compare .Net to PHP. .Net has a very extensive API. PHP also has a very extensive framework. The .Net framework was very well thought out and is very well organized. The PHP framework is cobbled together piece-meal, with everything in the same namespace (Yes, I'm aware that it still doesn't have namespaces, and won't until PHP6 is out, but that's yet another disadvantage of PHP), and separate functions for each database they support, where all are very similarly named, but not exactly the same.
I always thought dmg stood for damage.
Well then the computer should simply print out a human readable paper which would then be hand counted.
Financial systems rely on the fact that the transactions aren't anonymous. Money always goes from one account to another. In the voting process, it's (supposed to be) completely anonymous. A bunch of people come in, and bunch of votes are cast, but nobody should be able to tell who voted for who. Imagine the same with a bank, where deposits have to be made to the correct accounts, but you can't verify which account they are coming from.
Or maybe they let somebody else vote for them.
That's why the ballots can be counted, or viewed by multiple parties, who should all agree on the final counts. Anybody should be allowed to stand around and watch the counting. I'm not saying that no fraud would happen, because it's happened in the past, and it will happen in the future. I'm just saying that it should be obvious to the voting public when fraud is happening. The problem with machines, is that even if they are verified, it's impossible to know what code is running on it when you walk up to it on election day. Think of game consoles. They try to make it so you can only run licensed content. But people always find a way to run homebrew/pirated games. You can verify the machine all you want. There's no guaranteeing that the same machine will actually be used on election day. You could probably even put a completely different machine in front of people on election day, possibly in the same casing, although that's not even necessary, and people wouldn't even know they were using the wrong machine, because each polling district uses different machines.
Any voting system should be verifiable by any member of the voting populous. Having a PhD in computer science should not be prerequisite for understanding the voting system. You also shouldn't have to take somebody else's word for it either. Pen and paper hand counted ballots make sense, because anybody can see exactly what's going on, and fully understand the process. If voters don't understand the voting system, then they might as well not even be voting.
Just right click on the tab bar (not on a tab), and click "Undo Close Tab".
Yes, so eventually the cache would fill up, and then the feature would no longer work. What if the user set their cache size to 0?
It's labeled "Undo Close Tab" in firefox. If it keeps the page in memory forever, then it definitely is a waste. At what point is it allowed to reclaim the memory? If it keeps it forever, you would probably run out of memory within couple hours of browsing if you were continually closing tabs.
You're right. Although firefox keeps the history of the close tab, it seems to reload the tab when reopening a closed tab, or when click the back button on a previously closed tab. How long does Opera keep this stuff in memory though? It seems like it should release the memory after a certain point, so as not to waste memory.
The point is, is that extra stuff should be handled via extensions, like firefox handles it, so as to not muck up everyone else's experience with features that they don't need.
Firefox 2 lets you reopen closed tabs, so I imagine that Firefox 3 would also have that functionality.
If they need to type up notes about cases, without being at the office, then get them a laptop and secure that. Sure they could still hook that up to another home computer, or to a USB drive, and data could get in the open, but there will be a lot less reason for them to do so. Giving them a USB drive gives them the ability, and actually encourages them to put the data on insecure systems. For the extra cost of these fancy USB drives, you could probably provide them with a laptop (over the cost of a desktop), and just install truecrypt on it.
I would have said the same thing, based on Canadian news. I guess it depends which news program you are watching. You don't get much celeb news if you watch the CBC, but you do tend to get a lot of it on some other networks.
I personally watch a lot more drama and comedy than science myself. Does that mean I don't get enough science in my life? Well, not really, I get most of my science exposure from the internet. By the time they produce a show on it, it's already old news. I find that reading stuff online is a far better way to get my daily intake of science.
The point is, where are they taking these drives? If it's just for between computers within the organization, a network storage solution would work better. It would be more secure, and the files would never leave the premises (ideally). The only need for USB drives is to transfer data between computers not on the network. If the information they are transporting is really all that important and confidential, it's probably best that they never give access to it from unknown computers. Once you enter the passphrase, the computer it's hooked to can do just about anything with the data.
Do they even need to be taking information off premises? If the drives aren't encrypted they aren't secure. What computers are they hooking them up to? Are those computers secure? If you're only going to use the data on departmental machines, a network storage solution would work a lot better, and be a lot more secure.
When I first saw that name, I thought you were talking about his other show. In which case, I would say, the don't really need his help.
Here's my favourite bug. The other day, I had a bunch of windows. Probably about 20, with about 10 tabs open in one of my IE 7 windows (Usually use firefox, but I was testing some webdev). Slowly it started running out of windows that would open. Every time I wanted to open a new window, browser tab, the start menu, or even get this, a drop down box, I would have to close another window. But it wasn't just that, It was slowly running out, so I couldn't just keep my initial 20 windows open, I had to close down extra stuff. I was in the middle of debugging something, and didn't feel like rebooting. So I slowly worked my way down to about 3 windows and then just decided to reboot, as working on the machine was getting completely unmanageable.
No, it's more like ordering your meal. Then the restaurant takes 5 years to prepare it, all the time exclaiming that it's going to be the best meal ever. Then, when you get it, you find out it's complete crap, and it takes them another year just to get around to fixing it. Even after they fix it, it still isn't as good as the tried and true hamburger, which you could have got without even waiting the intial 5 years.
The hard drive itself seems to generate quite a bit of heat. This requires extra fans for cooling. I'm convince my laptop could operate quite well without a fan, or at least with a much smaller more quiet one, if only the hard disk didn't get so hot. Changing to solid state would not only allow me to get rid of the sound of the actual hard disk, but the fans that are necessary because of it.
I don't know, but this isn't the Ubuntu help forms. It's slashdot, and this happens to be a story about Google sky now being available in the browser. Why is he asking about why his installation isn't working under completely the wrong area. If you ask questions in the wrong forum, you're going to get smart-ass answers in reply.