On an IV antibiotic drip. My wife had complications after an appendectomy. The resulting infection took 2 weeks in the hospital with an antibiotic IV, plus 2 drain tubes into her belly. The doctors were quite clear that the only way to fix an internal infection is with drains and IV antibiotics. I hope he'll get in and get fixed.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor and this is not medical advise.
That's the least all of us can do that believe in such things. He's done great work. Without his Slackware books and releases, I'd probably not be involved with Linux.
I've dropped about $400/month at Fry's for my business for the last 4-5 years. I know the 2 smart people in the store and I don't hesitate to give them the commission on everything in my cart if it's a slow day. They, in turn, remember me and know how to use the Fry's discount/sale system to give me an occasional good deal.
In general, no complaints with Frys.
Oh, and it's been about 3 years since I've shown my receipt at the door.
You're missing the point. It doesn't matter how dedicated, hard working, or impartial the elections people are if the machines themselves are fundamentally flawed. Particularly if the dedicated, hard working, impartial people don't really know enough to detect the fraud when it occurs. It's not like they're 1337 system admins. In general, they're office workers or volunteers.
Where I've personally worked elections, the 2 or 3 lead people generally had 20-30 years experience doing elections.
Can you guarantee that the Diebold election machines are secure against tampering at the polls (by voters or machine admins)? When Las Vegas considered buying from Diebold, the Las Vegas/Nevada Gaming Commission reviewed the Diebold election machines and rejected them as insecure. Those also are dedicated, hard working, and impartial people. Further, they are people whose only job is to look for fraudulent manipulation of similar machines. They were unsatisfied with the *machines* (not the poll workers).
Having gaming commission people audit elections equipment is like having firewall coders review database software. It might be interesting, but it's not a real-world test.
Can you guarantee that a pollworker won't wait until 7:30 and vote for 10 people that were in the pollbook but didn't show up to vote? No automated security system will prevent a determined attack. I have no personal experience with the Diebold machines and frankly, I am a bit concerned with their track record and attitude, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about a massive and unjustified presumption of guilt on the part of elections people and machines.
If BlackBoxVoting.org ultimately finds absolutely nothing wrong, that in and of itself justifies the time and effort. It would help renew faith in a system that was rocked in 2000.
Wrong. It will accomplish a massive waste of time in order to stroke the ego of a few crusaders.
It would be far more of a waste of effort if they found a problem, as there is really no way to correct a problem (for example, say I examined the vote results from my precinct and looked for my unique set of votes; what if I can't find it? At best, I might get the votes from my precinct thrown out; the problem is that my precinct went for Kerry over all; throwing out its votes would *hurt* Kerry).
Read my post again and do what I said if you lack confidence in your elections people. The system is in place, use it instead of trying to knock down a strawman.
Look at Florida in 2000. Clearly, many people who intended to vote for Gore had their votes counted for Buchanan instead. We know that. We have strong indications (look at the double marked ballots; far more people had the Buchanan/Gore pair than any other, tens of thousands more) that enough people did this that Gore would have won the race if their votes had been counted for him. This was never fixed. If there was tampering in this election, it probably won't be fixed either. Our greatest hope is that we might prevent *future* tampering.
How many of you have a clue as to how an election is run? How many of you have a clue as to the repeatability of recount results? How many of you have taken the time to call the elections office before an election and sign up as a pollworker? How many of you have gone to the courthouse and witnessed the *public* logic and accuracy tests of the ballot counters before and after the elections. Never heard of such a thing? Doesn't surprise me.
I worked in the elections business for 3 years, and not for Diebold. I was project leader designing a high speed central count machine. I designed the read heads and the digital logic. I've been to probably 10-12 elections across the country and Canada. What I've seen consistantly is dedicated, hardworking and impartial people running the elections. These people bust their butt to do a fast and accurate job election night, and they continue the effort until the election results are certified, usually a couple weeks later. The results are accurate and repeatable. Most states have laws requiring manditory recounts in elections that are close. The ballot counting process is considerably more accurate than the recount threshold.
What blackboxvoting.org is doing will undoubtably (based on my observations) just result in a gigantic waste of time and effort. I can only imagine that it's a grandstanding effort to raise their visibility. It will ulimately result in questions as to their credibility.
If you have questions about the election process, by all means call your elections office and talk to the people there, go to the public equipment tests and ask questions. You will find out for yourself that you are dealing with people that do a good job and produce accurate results.
Is worth almost nothing. Before you go into flame mode, I've spent the last 10 years building my own business from the garage up without VC money so I kinda know what I'm talking about. I have good ideas all the time. Getting the good ideas is the fun part. Turning them into products, regardless of how 'simple', is the hard work.
Here's a tip, go over to comp.arch.embedded newsgroup and post your request over there. There's a bunch of talented people there and someone might be interested.
Believe it or not, you would have had a better chance a couple of years ago. Back then, there were lots of hardware engineers out of work and looking to partner with others. Now most everyone is back to work.
How did they decide?
on
Press freedom
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
"Reporters Without Borders compiled the index by asking its partner organisations (14 freedom of expression organisations in five continents), its 130 correspondents around the world, as well as journalists, researchers, jurists and human rights activists, to answer 52 questions to indicate the state of press freedom in 167 countries"
So this leaves lots unsaid. Basically, if correspondents say they don't have press freedom, they don't. Doesn't seem like a very scientific study to me.
I take a 5 minute, barely warm shower each day, rarely use hot water to wash my hands, and use cold water detergent in the washer.
Now if I'd get off my butt and install a demand water heater so the whole tank doesn't have to be heated all the time, I'd say I was doing pretty well without solar.
Factor in a couple of females and your milage will vary
Hawaii and California where the cost differential between electricity derived from solar and fossil fuels is not as great.
Yeah but... Those are the two states that have the smallest delta between outside temperature and a desirable indoor temperature. Which any idiot should know results in the least amount of energy used and the longest payback (in that respect) for solar.
More Olde News...
on
Solar Shingles
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
A duplex just down the block had these installed 4 years ago. Every time I go by, I'm tempted to ask them if they still work.
Should large retailers like Best Buy and others be afraid of this model?
It's about market presence and Sony ego. They no longer dominate by superior engineering so they will try to dominate by glitter and youth/yuppie appeal.
At least that's this old geek's opinion. And I've been watching Sony for 30 years.
Re:Nader is Nader, not a Democrat...
on
The Nader Factor
·
· Score: 1
Thanks. I guess the Dems aren't the only ones who think they are entitled to half the ballot.
Nader is Nader, not a Democrat...
on
The Nader Factor
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
I don't understand what the big fuss is. He jumped throught the hoops and played by the rules and he's a candidate. He doesn't claim to be a different kind of democrat.
BTW, the argument could just as easily be made that the libertarians "steal" conservative votes. I've just never heard it.
Spearheading the airship project is Lieutenant General James A. Abrahamson, USAF-Retired, chairman and CEO of StratCom International LLC, who directed both the Space Shuttle program and "Star Wars" Strategic Defense Initiative
I trust credit card companies to a degree, as does everyone that pays their credit card bill. My point was to be suspicious of the communications channel, not the end destination.
I was not aware that strangers give strangers credit card applications then take them back to return them to the credit card company. That is, indeed, just as foolish as trusting a stranger to file your voter registeration.
That Slashdot is, in a way doing us a disservice by publicizing this. In the US, an infringer is only liable for damages after he is informed of the infringement. After he finds out, if he continues to infringe, he is liable for treble damages
So most of us are better off just keeping our eyes and ears closed.
The usual "I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice" disclaimer.
Of course there is. Just haul your lazy ass down to the county courthouse, ask for the elections department and register there.
So would you fill out a credit card application that someone on the street shoved in your face? I'm thinking that it's just silliness that people trusted someone to do the right thing here...
Slashdot Mirror
On an IV antibiotic drip. My wife had complications after an appendectomy. The resulting infection took 2 weeks in the hospital with an antibiotic IV, plus 2 drain tubes into her belly. The doctors were quite clear that the only way to fix an internal infection is with drains and IV antibiotics. I hope he'll get in and get fixed.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor and this is not medical advise.
That's the least all of us can do that believe in such things. He's done great work. Without his Slackware books and releases, I'd probably not be involved with Linux.
It's a pity that he had to be the Secretary of State under Bush -- think of what he could have accomplished under Clinton instead of Ms. Albright.
Yeah, point man for recovering semen-spotted dresses from interns.
He's smart enough to not want the Democratic Party to look like a bunch of sore losers two elections in a row.
I've dropped about $400/month at Fry's for my business for the last 4-5 years. I know the 2 smart people in the store and I don't hesitate to give them the commission on everything in my cart if it's a slow day. They, in turn, remember me and know how to use the Fry's discount/sale system to give me an occasional good deal.
In general, no complaints with Frys.
Oh, and it's been about 3 years since I've shown my receipt at the door.
You're missing the point. It doesn't matter how dedicated, hard working, or impartial the elections people are if the machines themselves are fundamentally flawed. Particularly if the dedicated, hard working, impartial people don't really know enough to detect the fraud when it occurs. It's not like they're 1337 system admins. In general, they're office workers or volunteers.
Where I've personally worked elections, the 2 or 3 lead people generally had 20-30 years experience doing elections.
Can you guarantee that the Diebold election machines are secure against tampering at the polls (by voters or machine admins)? When Las Vegas considered buying from Diebold, the Las Vegas/Nevada Gaming Commission reviewed the Diebold election machines and rejected them as insecure. Those also are dedicated, hard working, and impartial people. Further, they are people whose only job is to look for fraudulent manipulation of similar machines. They were unsatisfied with the *machines* (not the poll workers).
Having gaming commission people audit elections equipment is like having firewall coders review database software. It might be interesting, but it's not a real-world test.
Can you guarantee that a pollworker won't wait until 7:30 and vote for 10 people that were in the pollbook but didn't show up to vote? No automated security system will prevent a determined attack. I have no personal experience with the Diebold machines and frankly, I am a bit concerned with their track record and attitude, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about a massive and unjustified presumption of guilt on the part of elections people and machines.
If BlackBoxVoting.org ultimately finds absolutely nothing wrong, that in and of itself justifies the time and effort. It would help renew faith in a system that was rocked in 2000.
Wrong. It will accomplish a massive waste of time in order to stroke the ego of a few crusaders.
It would be far more of a waste of effort if they found a problem, as there is really no way to correct a problem (for example, say I examined the vote results from my precinct and looked for my unique set of votes; what if I can't find it? At best, I might get the votes from my precinct thrown out; the problem is that my precinct went for Kerry over all; throwing out its votes would *hurt* Kerry).
Read my post again and do what I said if you lack confidence in your elections people. The system is in place, use it instead of trying to knock down a strawman.
Look at Florida in 2000. Clearly, many people who intended to vote for Gore had their votes counted for Buchanan instead. We know that. We have strong indications (look at the double marked ballots; far more people had the Buchanan/Gore pair than any other, tens of thousands more) that enough people did this that Gore would have won the race if their votes had been counted for him. This was never fixed. If there was tampering in this election, it probably won't be fixed either. Our greatest hope is that we might prevent *future* tampering.
Got a cite?
So before you flame or mod me, read my post.
How many of you have a clue as to how an election is run? How many of you have a clue as to the repeatability of recount results? How many of you have taken the time to call the elections office before an election and sign up as a pollworker? How many of you have gone to the courthouse and witnessed the *public* logic and accuracy tests of the ballot counters before and after the elections. Never heard of such a thing? Doesn't surprise me.
I worked in the elections business for 3 years, and not for Diebold. I was project leader designing a high speed central count machine. I designed the read heads and the digital logic. I've been to probably 10-12 elections across the country and Canada. What I've seen consistantly is dedicated, hardworking and impartial people running the elections. These people bust their butt to do a fast and accurate job election night, and they continue the effort until the election results are certified, usually a couple weeks later. The results are accurate and repeatable. Most states have laws requiring manditory recounts in elections that are close. The ballot counting process is considerably more accurate than the recount threshold.
What blackboxvoting.org is doing will undoubtably (based on my observations) just result in a gigantic waste of time and effort. I can only imagine that it's a grandstanding effort to raise their visibility. It will ulimately result in questions as to their credibility.
If you have questions about the election process, by all means call your elections office and talk to the people there, go to the public equipment tests and ask questions. You will find out for yourself that you are dealing with people that do a good job and produce accurate results.
Is worth almost nothing. Before you go into flame mode, I've spent the last 10 years building my own business from the garage up without VC money so I kinda know what I'm talking about. I have good ideas all the time. Getting the good ideas is the fun part. Turning them into products, regardless of how 'simple', is the hard work.
Here's a tip, go over to comp.arch.embedded newsgroup and post your request over there. There's a bunch of talented people there and someone might be interested.
Believe it or not, you would have had a better chance a couple of years ago. Back then, there were lots of hardware engineers out of work and looking to partner with others. Now most everyone is back to work.
"Reporters Without Borders compiled the index by asking its partner organisations (14 freedom of expression organisations in five continents), its 130 correspondents around the world, as well as journalists, researchers, jurists and human rights activists, to answer 52 questions to indicate the state of press freedom in 167 countries"
So this leaves lots unsaid. Basically, if correspondents say they don't have press freedom, they don't. Doesn't seem like a very scientific study to me.
This isn't good for anybody
Old Seinfeld line..
I'm not sure how huge it is.
I take a 5 minute, barely warm shower each day, rarely use hot water to wash my hands, and use cold water detergent in the washer.
Now if I'd get off my butt and install a demand water heater so the whole tank doesn't have to be heated all the time, I'd say I was doing pretty well without solar.
Factor in a couple of females and your milage will vary
Hawaii and California where the cost differential between electricity derived from solar and fossil fuels is not as great.
Yeah but... Those are the two states that have the smallest delta between outside temperature and a desirable indoor temperature. Which any idiot should know results in the least amount of energy used and the longest payback (in that respect) for solar.
A duplex just down the block had these installed 4 years ago. Every time I go by, I'm tempted to ask them if they still work.
Should large retailers like Best Buy and others be afraid of this model?
It's about market presence and Sony ego. They no longer dominate by superior engineering so they will try to dominate by glitter and youth/yuppie appeal.
At least that's this old geek's opinion. And I've been watching Sony for 30 years.
Seriously.
Thanks. I guess the Dems aren't the only ones who think they are entitled to half the ballot.
I don't understand what the big fuss is. He jumped throught the hoops and played by the rules and he's a candidate. He doesn't claim to be a different kind of democrat.
BTW, the argument could just as easily be made that the libertarians "steal" conservative votes. I've just never heard it.
And well taken...
If you want the answer, just read your own sig...
Spearheading the airship project is Lieutenant General James A. Abrahamson, USAF-Retired, chairman and CEO of StratCom International LLC, who directed both the Space Shuttle program and "Star Wars" Strategic Defense Initiative
I trust credit card companies to a degree, as does everyone that pays their credit card bill. My point was to be suspicious of the communications channel, not the end destination.
I was not aware that strangers give strangers credit card applications then take them back to return them to the credit card company. That is, indeed, just as foolish as trusting a stranger to file your voter registeration.
Your point is valid. I'm just old and disenfrancised about the whole thing.
That Slashdot is, in a way doing us a disservice by publicizing this. In the US, an infringer is only liable for damages after he is informed of the infringement. After he finds out, if he continues to infringe, he is liable for treble damages
So most of us are better off just keeping our eyes and ears closed.
The usual "I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice" disclaimer.
Of course there is. Just haul your lazy ass down to the county courthouse, ask for the elections department and register there.
So would you fill out a credit card application that someone on the street shoved in your face? I'm thinking that it's just silliness that people trusted someone to do the right thing here...
Ouch.. Someone at Micro$oft has moderator status.