The problem with giving the voter a paper receipt is that it allows massive corruption through vote-buying. In a receipt-less system, no one can buy my vote, because no one can verify that I actually did just cast the vote they wanted to pay me for.
In a system where the voter gets a receipt, voters can now cash in their votes for money. Say hello to an election where "courting" the homeless and insane is more important than putting ads on TV.
It would, perhaps, increase voter turnout.
This can be solved if voters are not allowed to carry their receipts out of the booth, but have to deposit a paper stub of some sort in a traditional box.
When serious charges are brought to the attention of a Mormon's eclesiastical leadership, they are obliged to hear the charges and decide whether a disciplinary council should be held (which could result in probation, disfellowship, or excommunication). During the council, those who bring the charges (whether Mormon or not) may be invited to attend and testify against the individual.
Often, such councils are postponed if a civil or criminal trial is already underway, and the council will then take into consideration the outcomes of such legal trials. Since there are no civil or criminal trials in process against Darl, maybe a good Mormon in Darl's home town can point us to the name of his Bishop or Stake President so that we can start the process ourselves?
Anyone know if there is a way to use subversion for automatic canonization of code style? For example, is there a way to force the server to apply some astyle invocation via subversions hooks on any commit, and for the subversion client to apply some symmetric astyle invocation (to get the code back to the user's preferred format) upon update/checkout? Of course, code would also have to pass through the filter to check for modification, etc....
And yes, I know that some of you think this is a terrible, horrible idea and that my keyboard should be confiscated for even suggesting it. But this ability is on my "holy grail" list for version control systems, and I won't rest till I find it!
What you need in this type of demo is contrast; you need to show how your link is better than some other link, e.g., shove some videos over the pipe and show how in one case, there are dropouts/etc, and in the other everything looks great.
If you don't have "another link" to contrast with, use something like dummynet to simulate a lower bandwidth/higher delay channel over your existing link, and use that as contrast.
"SCO may pursue all legal remeidies available to it including, but not limited to, license termination rights."
Here is the text of my certified response letter:
"Dear SCO, I hereby terminate my own Unixware license. The 3 machines we still had running Unixware have been pining for years to join their linux brethren or BSD friends. Today, they do so. Thanks for the gentle push!"
Really, I would. It would be a great excuse to take a trip back to Utah, just to see the the jello wrestle fight between Darl McBride and Bruce Parens.
Come on, you can't tell me that wouldn't beat anything you can see in Boston or NY.
Keystroke timings have been shown to be a reliable, cheap biometric, and was first proposed as early as 1980. The only problem is that NetNany owns the "patent portfolio" on these methods, and agressively threatens not only competitors, but academics who do research in this area.
In my most humble of humble opinions, the problem is not that people don't vote, its that they vote for who they are told to vote for. And who tells them who to vote for? Commercials on TV tell them who to vote for. And who pays for those commercials? Big money.
It doesn't matter which candidate or which party you choose, it's all funded from the same source, beholden to the same interests, ready and willing to scratch the same backs. THAT is the problem, and in an incredible demonstration of the chicken-and-egg problem, it is also the reason for much of voter apathy.
I've gotten used to using mplayer to listen to Windows Media streams. Is there any chance the WM files with DRM (offered by services such as Napster) are going to work with mplayer on Linux?
There is a very interesting post (dated Dec. 2002) by David P. Reed on the origin of 'talk' at: postel.org
In short, this goes back to at least 1967. I'm sure there is no way our esteemed patent office could possibly have found prior art back that far, let alone what happened last week. Someone should alert them to the existence of google.
I think you are still "not getting it." Bulletproof's COUNTERsuit seeks to DISMISS Navitaire's claims of infringement of copyright claims. Bulletproof AGREES with you that this is silly, and they believe that a court of law will agree with them -- a court of law in UTAH.
In other words, Navitaire is playing the part of SCO but sueing in a court in London, and Bulletproof is playing the part of IBM but countersuing in the state of Utah.
The BAD guys filed suit in London. The GOOD guys filed counter-suit in Utah. At least that is the only way to interpret these actions if you believe that the IP Regime is insane, and that Navitaire's claims of code parallels are in the same category as SCO's.
The BAD guys filed suit in London. The GOOD guys filed counter-suit in Utah. At least that is the only way to interpret these actions if you believe that the IP Regime is insane.
Bulletproof is counter-suing Navitaire in the district of Utah.
Get it? Bulletproof didn't initiate the crazy lawsuit, Navitaire did. EasyJet is the VICTIM of this insane IP Regime lawsuit because they used the Bulletproof's VB reservation system, which Navitaire claims infringes their copyright.
As a note, the reason Microsoft continually goes to ECMA for standardization is that ECMA doesn't require that "standardized" specifications be immune from patent protection. From my understanding, it doesn't matter what is and isn't in the spec -- Microsoft can claim patent rights on any novel* pieces of.NET that they want.
*and of course, the the USPTO, "novel" means "anything a 18-month old baby couldn't have authored."
If I were Bill, this is *exactly* what I would do to get around the issue. But I'd go ahead and license flash, acrobat, java, and any others that were willing to be compiled in monolithically. Those that aren't willing I'd just say goodbye to. And then I'd fill in the gaps with in-house Microsoft stuff. In fact, I'd soon find myself deprecating java for.net, quicktime for wmp, flash for whatever Microsoft has that competes with flash, etc.
Macromedia has no reason to think that Microsoft wouldn't love to be rid of them.
So I agree. Microsoft will probably leverage this to drop third party products in favor of their own. And when users complain, they can just point the finger at Eolas.
Anyone else here not understand the reference to UH? What does the University of Houston have to do with this story, and why should I be sending email to djmsd@svec.uh.edu? Who is djmsd? No reference to any of this in any of the linked articles...
I took Brook's "Embodied Intelligence" at MIT. Want to know the funny thing? One of his sources of inspiration were the 1950s work of Grey Walter, called "tortoises." What were tortoises? Little more than a servo hooked up to a differential which would spin and move forward in a random fashion.
But even 1950s tech was ahead of the Robosweep. It did have a single light sensor, and through some clever work by Davis, could be constructed so that when their batteries started to run low, would make their way back to a recharging hut, given that the hut had a bright light in it.
If the robosweep could accomplish as much without any central processor (lack of central processing is, after all, one of the tenets of Brooks subsumption architecture, and thus part of the design of the Roomba), I'm sure Rodney would applaud the feat.
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So it is with some reluctance that I have to be a wet blanket... I know a sweet little girl who suffers from the same pigmentation disease as Jackson. It is called vitiligo, and although not health-threatening, it can be somewhat difficult for children who get labeled as "different" because of the light splotches that appear on the skin, and then spread. When it grows to cover more than 50% of the body, many opt to bleach the remaining <50% so that they are at least all one tone. I believe such is the case with Jackson.
Of course, it doesn't help that Jackson is a freak in many other ways, but there are thousands and thousands of people in this country, many of them children, who suffer from this condition without being freaks in any other way.
They are lucky when compared to the diseases that afflict many other people, but the disease is relatively unknown, so I thought I'd add a few words here in their defense (but not in Jackson's -- he's on his own:)
Yep. But you should also note that Utah is not Mormonism's only stronghold. For example, 40% of Tongans are Mormon, as are about 33% of Somoans. Of course, those are small, relatively obscure places as well. But what you may not know is that Mormonism is the largest religion in Idaho and Nevada as well, and is the second largest religion in pretty much every other western state (Washington, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana). It is the second largest christian religion in California as well, with the population of Mormons in California approaching the total number in Utah. Taken together geographically, Mormonism is a MAJOR influence for a large portion of the continental United States. Mormonism has also recently become the 4th or 5th (depending on which survey you ask) largest denomination in the United States, and was the fastest growing religion within the United States over the past decade.*
* facts from the Glenngary survey, a religious census by a Catholic group.
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In a system where the voter gets a receipt, voters can now cash in their votes for money. Say hello to an election where "courting" the homeless and insane is more important than putting ads on TV.
It would, perhaps, increase voter turnout.
This can be solved if voters are not allowed to carry their receipts out of the booth, but have to deposit a paper stub of some sort in a traditional box.
Hey Scott, please take a stroll northword toward Lindon, find the SCO campus, and do your magic.
Often, such councils are postponed if a civil or criminal trial is already underway, and the council will then take into consideration the outcomes of such legal trials. Since there are no civil or criminal trials in process against Darl, maybe a good Mormon in Darl's home town can point us to the name of his Bishop or Stake President so that we can start the process ourselves?
And yes, I know that some of you think this is a terrible, horrible idea and that my keyboard should be confiscated for even suggesting it. But this ability is on my "holy grail" list for version control systems, and I won't rest till I find it!
If you don't have "another link" to contrast with, use something like dummynet to simulate a lower bandwidth/higher delay channel over your existing link, and use that as contrast.
Gerald Holmes, yes that Gerald Holmes, has provided yet another lucid and in depth analysis of the SCO situation at this excellent site.
I highly recommend it.
Me too. I laughed and I cried.
"SCO may pursue all legal remeidies available to it including, but not limited to, license termination rights."
Here is the text of my certified response letter:
"Dear SCO, I hereby terminate my own Unixware license. The 3 machines we still had running Unixware have been pining for years to join their linux brethren or BSD friends. Today, they do so. Thanks for the gentle push!"
Come on, you can't tell me that wouldn't beat anything you can see in Boston or NY.
And I live in Boston, BTW.
Keystroke timings have been shown to be a reliable, cheap biometric, and was first proposed as early as 1980. The only problem is that NetNany owns the "patent portfolio" on these methods, and agressively threatens not only competitors, but academics who do research in this area.
It doesn't matter which candidate or which party you choose, it's all funded from the same source, beholden to the same interests, ready and willing to scratch the same backs. THAT is the problem, and in an incredible demonstration of the chicken-and-egg problem, it is also the reason for much of voter apathy.
But, better late than never...
I've gotten used to using mplayer to listen to Windows Media streams. Is there any chance the WM files with DRM (offered by services such as Napster) are going to work with mplayer on Linux?
It didn't appear in BSD until 4.2, but it appeared as early as 1962 on Dartmouth BASIC (GE 635).
In short, this goes back to at least 1967. I'm sure there is no way our esteemed patent office could possibly have found prior art back that far, let alone what happened last week. Someone should alert them to the existence of google.
Navitairo = SCO Bulletproof = IBM
Navitairo files suit in London. Bulletproof files counter-suit in Utah.
Now how'd that happen? Utah courts are suddenly making sense?
In other words, Navitaire is playing the part of SCO but sueing in a court in London, and Bulletproof is playing the part of IBM but countersuing in the state of Utah.
Get it?
The BAD guys filed suit in London. The GOOD guys filed counter-suit in Utah. At least that is the only way to interpret these actions if you believe that the IP Regime is insane, and that Navitaire's claims of code parallels are in the same category as SCO's.
Bulletproof is counter -suing Navitaire in the district of Utah.
Get it? Bulletproof didn't initiate the crazy lawsuit, Navitaire did. EasyJet is the VICTIM of this insane IP Regime lawsuit because they used the Bulletproof's VB reservation system, which Navitaire claims infringes their copyright.
*and of course, the the USPTO, "novel" means "anything a 18-month old baby couldn't have authored."
Macromedia has no reason to think that Microsoft wouldn't love to be rid of them.
So I agree. Microsoft will probably leverage this to drop third party products in favor of their own. And when users complain, they can just point the finger at Eolas.
Anyone else here not understand the reference to UH? What does the University of Houston have to do with this story, and why should I be sending email to djmsd@svec.uh.edu? Who is djmsd? No reference to any of this in any of the linked articles...
Yeah, Otzi was a fighter. So was SCO. Let's just hope that SCO also winds up stabbed, dead, and frozen in the cold alpine mountains.
But even 1950s tech was ahead of the Robosweep. It did have a single light sensor, and through some clever work by Davis, could be constructed so that when their batteries started to run low, would make their way back to a recharging hut, given that the hut had a bright light in it.
If the robosweep could accomplish as much without any central processor (lack of central processing is, after all, one of the tenets of Brooks subsumption architecture, and thus part of the design of the Roomba), I'm sure Rodney would applaud the feat.
So it is with some reluctance that I have to be a wet blanket... I know a sweet little girl who suffers from the same pigmentation disease as Jackson. It is called vitiligo, and although not health-threatening, it can be somewhat difficult for children who get labeled as "different" because of the light splotches that appear on the skin, and then spread. When it grows to cover more than 50% of the body, many opt to bleach the remaining <50% so that they are at least all one tone. I believe such is the case with Jackson.
Of course, it doesn't help that Jackson is a freak in many other ways, but there are thousands and thousands of people in this country, many of them children, who suffer from this condition without being freaks in any other way.
They are lucky when compared to the diseases that afflict many other people, but the disease is relatively unknown, so I thought I'd add a few words here in their defense (but not in Jackson's -- he's on his own :)
* facts from the Glenngary survey, a religious census by a Catholic group.