but it could be used when world war 3 comes around.. just shrink it a bit and it'd make a good, basic calcuator.. that or just find a solar calculator, or maybe one with batteries. its a very interesting project, but it would really have few real world applications...
speaking of old calculators, my grandma gave me an old mechanical calculator, you slid some dials around using a stylus and it figured stuff out. it could even do multiplication and devision, if you had a lot of practice and patience.
is that possible? This claim is insane, as anyone who knows anything about viruses does know that headers are usually forged. it may be hard to prove though, unless you get the source code to the virus, as "a lotta people know that headers are forged" isn't really physical evidence. you should get a lawyer as soon as you can, and hopefully you can recover legal fees from the company. good luck in your legal adventure...
that's true, but i would like to see this using open source software so people can find out if the software makers are "modifying" the results a bit. one vote here, one vote there, it adds up, and no one would know the difference. even skewing the votes by adding a random vote for every 40 voters, not everyone votes, so it would just seem that turnout is high. Offsetting the vote by one to the right of the choice would have disasterous (sp?) (and funny) results.
ive seen windows crash on its own many times, it's not impossible. but yes, more testing is always good. especially with something as sensitive as votes. Even with extensive testing, no system will be perfect. there's always the chance of hardware failing during voting, and yes, software too. Just look at some of the big name apps and games that STILL have bugs. Internet explorer has new bugs all the time, and millions of people use it.
so now our election system is run by microsoft, yay! now because it's closed source, couldn't microsoft run a service in the backround that changes the vote tallies? or even some of the techs working on it. techs need access to the basic parts of the system, and im sure one could change the number of votes, it has to be stored somewhere outside of the ram. if its stored in ram and the power goes out, the election's screwed. there are so many places where this can go wrong it's sad.
a tad bit paranoid about other companies using your computer to do god-knows-what to it?
and no, i dont know of any quicktime viewers for linux. you can always watch it on someone else's computer. it's cool, but you're not missing much. that picture from "asteroids" pretty much sums it up.
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but it could be used when world war 3 comes around.. just shrink it a bit and it'd make a good, basic calcuator.. that or just find a solar calculator, or maybe one with batteries. its a very interesting project, but it would really have few real world applications... speaking of old calculators, my grandma gave me an old mechanical calculator, you slid some dials around using a stylus and it figured stuff out. it could even do multiplication and devision, if you had a lot of practice and patience.
is that possible? This claim is insane, as anyone who knows anything about viruses does know that headers are usually forged. it may be hard to prove though, unless you get the source code to the virus, as "a lotta people know that headers are forged" isn't really physical evidence. you should get a lawyer as soon as you can, and hopefully you can recover legal fees from the company. good luck in your legal adventure...
imagine the uproar that would occur if the mona lisa was copied, altered, and then passed off for the original. this is just wrong.
hi. and no, im not. but then again, i'm not getting much training...
that's true, but i would like to see this using open source software so people can find out if the software makers are "modifying" the results a bit. one vote here, one vote there, it adds up, and no one would know the difference. even skewing the votes by adding a random vote for every 40 voters, not everyone votes, so it would just seem that turnout is high. Offsetting the vote by one to the right of the choice would have disasterous (sp?) (and funny) results.
ive seen windows crash on its own many times, it's not impossible. but yes, more testing is always good. especially with something as sensitive as votes. Even with extensive testing, no system will be perfect. there's always the chance of hardware failing during voting, and yes, software too. Just look at some of the big name apps and games that STILL have bugs. Internet explorer has new bugs all the time, and millions of people use it.
so now our election system is run by microsoft, yay! now because it's closed source, couldn't microsoft run a service in the backround that changes the vote tallies? or even some of the techs working on it. techs need access to the basic parts of the system, and im sure one could change the number of votes, it has to be stored somewhere outside of the ram. if its stored in ram and the power goes out, the election's screwed. there are so many places where this can go wrong it's sad.
it was never intended to be funny, it's a legitimate question, i'm asking if anyone knows, because i would like to. so bug off...
a tad bit paranoid about other companies using your computer to do god-knows-what to it? and no, i dont know of any quicktime viewers for linux. you can always watch it on someone else's computer. it's cool, but you're not missing much. that picture from "asteroids" pretty much sums it up.
i wonder how many sattelites get smashed by these metoer showers each year...