being a rather strange person, I hangout on slashdot... err, I mean I think of totally weird stuff and wonder "what if"? I wonder "what if" there is a way to take a fax full of code and parse it into something useable and automagically? That might be -if it exists or if it can be done- a way between slow snail mail CDs or Floppies and "normal" but potentially insecure and coming too late internet-based traditional update methods....
...it's because humans have this weird deal with society. We wind up with the greediest, lamest most megalomaniacal people for governmental/corporate "leaders". 999 out of a thousand are this way, it just happens, we notice it.
These people are quite *insane*. they may be brilliant, but still bonkers. They have the most power and money of everyone on the planet. They hire the smartest people they can find, and reseaqrch advanced weaponry. All governments spend a huge amount of time and money and resopurces on this. they hire the smartest scientists and engineers they can find for this task. then the hire the people who psychologically and intellectually are the most prone to use these devices that the scientists and engineewrs create. these people are given more power than "ordinary" citizens, they are tasked with killing people and breaking peoples things, using these advanced machines. This weaponry, consisting of mechanical machines augmented with electrical and chemical advances, are *exactly* designed to "harm humans" and they DO harm humans with this machinery. Happens every day around the globe, by the thousands. Literally thousands of humans a day are killed, and many more horribly mutilated and injured. And the way the system has evolved, it is rigged to always have the megalomaniacs wind up "in charge" and all populations have a certain percentageof "ask no questions" order followers.
So, stuff happens,evil wicked nasty horrible screaming stuff. This leads to this "fear" which isn't in the least bit an irrational fear for anyone sane to have. It's because it's reality.
Lately, we can read that they want to automate and robotosize this even further, and to take these machines as far as they can push it with near unlimited budgets and millions of man hours of advanced research. It is not a "tin foil hat" phenomenon for folks to notice that. We also have a veifiable past track record to show that yes indeed, these megalomaniacs tame scientists and engineers and order followers screw up, we get what is called "unintended consequences" and "collateral damage", as if the intended consequences and planned-for damages aren't bad enough. So we as ordinary humans all around the globe who really do not have a beef with joe over there all get to have these "benefits", and we notice that we don't want those sorts of benefits, but there's not a thing we can do about it, because this advancing technology system is rigged in favor of those who like and enjoy and profit-from doing harm.
You see, we DO have a lot of at least technically "competent people programming the machines", the problem is, they ARE designed to harm. And it's set up to be self perpetuating/advancing and is based from the git-go on forced wealth transference, ie, "theft" and it goes down hill from there into every worse things..
....deploy this for internal use, or are you going to set up a public WISP?
I like this tech in theory, it would allow folks to do their own rural broadband. 802.11 whatever has too many limitations to be practical everywhere, it's under powered and needs line of sight, just ain't happening most places without a ton of access points and relays and repeaters and foolfarall. Around here two companies have tried it and they keep running into that, they just can't cover enoutgh people, every hill you need another access point. I'm going to be following this wimax deal because I just found out about a pretty decent local price drop with T-1s, my local community buys in bulk then re sells it to businesses for 300$ to encourage "progress". Not bad for entry level for the connect to the net part, just the wireless part has to be affordable, for both the ISP and for the customers.
Good idea. Graphics cards in particular. Lot of good thoughts on the kerneltrap page as well. Upgradeable card and good integral drivers, yes.
Dumb non developer question.
As CPU clusters have proven that for some applications they can be a very good and cost effective solution, as opposed to jut whopper iron, is it possible or has it been done with the video cards? Is it possible to have a cluster of cards that work together effectively? Or would it be too slow, they couldn't talk to each other fast enough?
well, certainly looks like it's not vaporware. Thanks for the link, looks like it will be available pretty soon now with all those companies trying it out. Looks like it might make wifi be sort of passe, doesn't it?
..I find this interesting as well, small copy/paste:
" No one in the world has yet built an operational WiMax network that is available for public use."
Hmmm
wonder how much the gear costs, and is it really standarized yet? The potential in theory sounds really slick, but is this ready for deployment yet? As joe rural broadband user wannabe, I welcome our new wimax overlords, but only if they really show up. Is this stuff really there, or vaporware? The book is 30 clams for a paperback, sorta steep if it's really just vapor.
I agree with you completely. In fact I call them the "bush crime family". Coke, murder, treason, shady real estate deals, shady banking deals, you name it they got their mitts into it. I am incredulous they got elected, both of them, heck, all of them. WHY they aren't doing time in club FED is just proof that the fix is in and criminals run the nation behind the scenes. The last past half a dozen presidents have all been crooked, except I think carter was just lame near as I know, and he seems to be trying to make up for it since then.. The rest of them, crooks.
And yale and harvard I consider to be the elitist globalist training ground for our american royal wannabes. Baby technofeudalists. In other words, no respect from me. I got more respect with someone who has an engineering degree from GAtech than I do an MBA from haaahvud. Ivy league = "poison ivy" league.
I hate to be a reverse snob about it, but history shows it's more true than not about chronic bogusness coming from those corners. I know there's exceptions, but really..... We'd be a lot better off without the "eastern establishment" always running things. I fail to see why it's always this top upper crust 1% who turn out to be most of the "bosses" we have, either business or in politics, other than generational cronyism and nepotism. I fully admit it, not even going to try and hide it, I struggle intellectually to keep a fair perspective on it and not turn into a complete class warfare guy. And it's because of what they DO all the time.
EXXON = "gasoline costs too much because CARS are too expensive!1"
RIAA/MPAA = "our releases cost too much because the CD and DVD players cost too much11!! It's all their fault!"
"JoeConsumer" and most PHB = "Uhh (picks nose), OK,now we get it! What a deal!"
And here's the really weird part. All the big box vendors will read this, every boss action out there will see this and realise that Ballmer just dissed them righteously, I mean about as insulting as you can get, and they will still keep shoveling money to redmond.
Hey big vendors,ya,YOU, is that comfy up there with no K-Y?
I notice on their site they have a link (in news) to pre installed linux laptops. Several models, the cheap one is 1099$, your choice fedora or lindows, if you want xandros it is 99 clams more. You could get one without xandros, save the 99$, add more RAM with that loot, and sign up for the beta test and get the xandros free that way. 40 questions, cross over office and star office comes with it, about two bucks a question to you to answer it, if you want to look at it that way. I'm not in the market but thought I'd point it out if someone else might be.
just a FWIW, pre installed is a *good* idea, I wish more places did it. I don't know if those are good laptop prices though, but knowing the hardware works is nice.
Careful what you wish for, maybe some day some other large faction will decide that the US needs "intervention".
I know it's more comforting to think that your leaders and by automagical transference your nation down to anyone "you" are always the good guys, but history has shown there are no "good" guys, just various regimes throughout history take turns back and forth being the more-wrong bad guys du juor.
..but what MIGHT do it is mandated schemes like "trusted computing" and internet 2 and a few whopper corporations and "public service and infoscammation" orgs and such like working hand in hand with government turning the net into a big opt in pay per view deal, like cable TV. I'm serious too, that's what it looks like right now, the trends if you extrapolate it enough.
I can see that happening easily. Won't take much, a few more high profile terrorist incidents, the next few big worms that take out a lot of peoples boxes and maybe some routers, etc, whatever. A couple of laws passed, universal ID to "stop terrorism" and to "protect the children" and to stop "evile criminal file sharing and get rid of spammers", etc. Pick the top dozen YRO topics, THAT'S what is going to bork the net, not any one of them, all of them in conjunction together.
Stuff can change FAST, and I don't think it's wise to completely dismiss the notion that these corporate governmental alliances can do stuff that you might not like, but that 99% of the people out there WOULD like and that almost everyone would put up with.
People have proven over and over again they will gladly give up freedoms for "more security". It's daily in the news, no reason to think the net would be much different. Eventually.
Whether or not that would count as taking the net down is a matter of opinion, but I would say compared to the way it is now (almost total anarchy), that *yes* it would count.
Governments and big corporations ain't digging on that wild wild west anarchy action,costs them money and power/control and is embarrassing to them because of that, so I would be way surprised if they let it continue for much longer. All they need is a few big excuses for public relations propoganda purposes, and they are close enough to having them now.
Are these on all platforms, or just MS stuff, or what? I guess I am not seeing it, my apologies if it's there. For Moz 1.7xx whatever, they (secunia link in article) say this for a fix
"Solution: Don't visit trusted web sites while visiting untrusted web sites OR disable JavaScript." CAPS are mine
DUH, I never have scripting turned on. Thanks for the advice Secunia, turned it off a long time ago. It's the first thing I do with any new browser I download and install, I look at the preferences and make sure that scripting is not default on. Evil mojo it is. Seems like every other exploit has to do with having scripting turned on, or the traditional and infamous and legendary now e-vile "buffer overflows" thingee. It's like a bad Japanese sci fi "Radioactive mutant buffer overflows swamp tokyo!!11!". I got no control over "buffer overflows", that is the developers lookout (seems to never end, too, why is that???), but scripting any user got complete control over, and it pays to learn from history you would think. I really don't care how useful javascript is, it's way too insecure, been proven over and over, it's a bad idea to run it, IMO. Just like active X stuff for MS, just bad news from the git-go. One of the main reasons I don't get any web mail accounts anymore, most of them I have looked at seem to require it.
--I see a "press release" like this, it makes me wonder. I'm an old timey government corruption rabble rouser, been a hobby of mine for decades. I will fully admit I am a cynic and a skeptic by default on this sort of thing. Call it busted too much FUD in the past to take these things at face value. The expression is "smell a rat" and over and over and over and over again it always seems to be pointing to the same rat herd... onward, see if I am correct....
So I run a whois on itaa.org, right off the bat I get a personal DINGDINGDING BS BS CHECK FOR FUD AND LINKAGES TO THE SUSPICIOUS RATHERD alert because it's arlington virgina. Now that is just a city in the US, "so what?" sez anyone, well, it's "so what?" to me because so many times in the past I see this area come up, over and over again with various shenaningans with the ratherd, it's because it's retired and now consulting or still active or sheepdipped spook central, that's why "so what?" to me. Them boys got nothing better to do then to get their fingers in every smelly rotten and extremely lucrative pie out there where they can make a black market buck, it's their primary reason for existence now and has been for quite a loooong time. any sort of national security they play act at to keep the sheeps buffaloed. Oh ya, they got a long running congressional and judge blackmail operation going, that's another story for another time.... continue looking... this is fun for me, BTW....
That is my OPINION, and it's not relevant other than it got me to get looking at this....and itaa. I've obviously seen references to them in the past, but now I want to see if there's anything else. Freekin acronym overdose lately...grumble...
So now I go to google...simple query, really a broad cast look-see here,just for grins and giggles, I used itaa, cia as the search string
hmm, these guys sure busy, like back in 2000 when they had a meeting
first paragraph there:
"Former CIA Chief Gates to Headline Global Information Security Summit
September 20, 2000
For More Information Contact: Tinabeth Burton (703) 284-5305 tburton@itaa.org
Washington, D.C. - Dr. Robert Gates, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1991-1993, and intelligence analyst serving six U.S. Presidents, will address the inaugural Global InfoSec Summit on October 16 in Washington, DC. Gates' keynote speech will address the growing challenge of information security in the global arena. Produced by the Information Technology Association of America and the World Information Technology and Services Alliance, the two-day Summit brings together government and business leaders to forge the type of cross-industry cooperation necessary to build and secure a strong global economy. "
Well, cool, just a buncha good ole boys getting together deciding how they gonna run things and stuff. Funny though, government and corporate cooperation has a name as in a political system of ill repute, but we know not to say it out loud on a forum so as not to invoke goodwin's law.....
anyway, I am juiced now, these folks are interesting... lemme look some more...yes, I know, I should have previously known more about them, mea culpa and so what... I am learning more now..
Fatcat corporate industry group hires lobbying firm,err, "Independent IT association" whatevers... fatcat group with the cashola contains voting machine companies and defense contractors and "auditors" for electronic voting. They have this meeting,in which were outlined efforts to smooth over voter 'fears" and whatnot. It is allegedly not going to be called lobbying. "Prestigious" IT industry org gets paid nice sum of cash
I was listening to Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org on the radio last night. Disclaimer, this is anecdotal, going on memory here, but it's the gist of it. She was saying that they ran an inquiry to the county level of all the counties in florida and ohio,because they are important swing states, to ask them a simple question. The precincts send their results to a central place someplace in the county where one machine tabulates all the precinct reports, then it moves upstream. They asked these officials if they had a record of who had keys for the room that THAT machine was in, over 90% said they didn't have it, and weren't sure who had keys. These machines are the "central tabulators" using GEMS and I believe slashdot covered the story on how easy it was to hack them babies with a two digit password access.
So not only are those machines easy to change the results in, but it's apparently easy for unknown parties to get access to the machines themselves!
I just looked, so here's a paste from her site about the problem in general with following the vote tabulation trail:
"Another subtle change:
It used to be that access to voting systems was granted only to certified and sworn elections officials, whose names we knew and who were accountable directly to us. Nowadays, such access is typically also granted to unsworn and undisclosed county computer techs, employees of vendors, and even temporary workers hired off the Internet by subcontractors of the vendor. These individuals are not only not sworn election officials, but often aren't even from the state where the election is held. They do their thing and then fade away, sometimes carrying data or disks from the election with them."
I wonder how this will effect heat dissipation. If they are stacked on top of each other, seems the bottom one would get dreadfully hot, as the upper would act as an insulation to it.
...if they really wanted to sell those things, they could just get up to speed with a pricing contract for a set wholesale amount from a fabber/jobber, then advertise them and take pre-orders, and once the magic number was hit start production and then on to delivery. They could even make it almost painless for existing customers who show an interest, just have them tack on a dollar a month to the subscription perhaps as part of a pre-order.
..had no idea. Never read that particlar Heinlein. My idea for the transition was the first year we pay off the IOUs and also cut a one time check for all tax payers back to them, based on exactly what they allegedly "owed" and paid in previously for just one year. A one-off large last bit of new money,basically to prime things and get them going, then back to work.
I think I still like my idea better of getting the new money into circulation, because it's produced wealth based with boring old statistics and tables, not future "maybe we'll make it, maybe we won't" based like it is now.. the idea of just sliding everyone a check every month gives me the buckwheats. Earn it or deserve it because society understands you are truly needy, get a check. For nothing? I don't think so.
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My philosophy is do it once and do it well
spelling akkk mea culpa, I really try but the words look different all the time, sucketh
--they already inflate the market with new bucks whenever they feel like it. Happens all the time. We are dealing with it now. We deal with more money into circulation because we have produced more goods and services is the way i want to do it, not the way they do it now which is to benefit a few selected big traders and banks.
Currently, we live in an over inflated dollar market, this is the make it or break it point for the global petro dollar because we consistently are running import/export imbalances, DESPITE their high level claims this would never happen when they started this globalist boondoggle after bretton woods. Man, we WARNED them!!
This past week or so they tried to strongarm china (HA HA!) to float the yuan, first they said "maybe" while the g7 and imf conferences were running, then a week later China said "you gotta be kidding, right?" Funny as heck,like they are going to give up an extra 120 bil a year just because we asked nice with sugar on it! HAHAHA! Too dang funny! I even predicted it would happen.
Anyway, more detailed, back to your question. Government workers already get paid with 100% inflated tax money. All the money out there has been re taxed several times except for any brand new money just created, and THAT comes pretaxed because of how they use it, buying debts back and re issuing more debt over it. It's a brokerage skim going on, it's that simple. It's like if your mom and pop brokerage guy told you to buy and sell your whole portfolio every friday night, after a few weeks you'd go "WTF is up with this?" and fire them. I believe most guys who have studied it guess around by the 6th time a buck has been spent it's already back to being totally a government dollar. I think it's lower than that really, because of high level black market and grey market shenanigans, but that's another story...
The fed introduces cash two ways officially (some more unofficially), first, "raw money", then via loans through the banks, primarily mortgages and the fractional reserve system. Raw money they print up to buy government paper back from foreigners mostly, or large paper brokerages. That's just poof created instant inflation money used to turn around debt notes again. It's nuts! It's supposed to de bubblefy things in what they say out loud, in reality that's all it does is create bubbles, artifical hi8ghs and lows, so high level traders be it banks or houses on the international level can keep raking it in from the suckers. Been going on since *day one* with the Fed, it's the whole reason they were created, congame from the git go. They get a groovy +1 bonus by being able to keep the sheeps in line in the herds by waving the automagical carrot and the stick of "tax breaks" for this or that demographic, or "tax miseries" from the IRS goons to anyone if you don't play ball. That's the command and control action they dig on.
Fractional reserve loans at best are low double digits backed with any previously produced cash, the rest is automagically generated when the loan is cut. SCHWEET DEAL for them boys, don't you wish YOU could do that?
akk, I am wandering now, you got to undestand my proposal is part of a package of righting wrongs and making things better over all. If implemented, ya, a semi and temporary painful transition, but not too bad considering you get to KEEP ALL YOUR LOOT when JoeBoss cuts you a check. Initial inflation because of the IOU buyout would be mitigated greatly because of the international street cred we would get with an outstanding currency that ANYONE could see the stats on and see it was sound and that there were few surprises coming.
Anyway, my idea would result in a one time end the inflation buyout of all the paper, then rip them up and can that idea. Bonds are a rip off to the next generation, they suck the big one. They also fake people out that they can get something for nothing, it's like using one credit card to pay the interest charges on another creidt card "look honey, we're all caught up on the bills!!
R party has changed a lot over the years. I also think you have to look at California as a special case there.
At the top levels in the R party they aren't that conservative. GW is for gun control as well, he stated many times he would have signed in an extension to the assault weapons bill for example.
I think they use low level grassroots conservatives as "useful idiots" to use the old phrase, more than for anything else. and at that level the grassroots picks Rs because to them there'sonly 2 parties, and Ds are even farther away.
If you look at what really goes down, R party is very similar. No action on closing the borders and stopping the illegal invasion, although the vast majority of grassroots Rs are in favor of that. Rhetoric with abortion, but they made little attemtp to change anything. Very interventionist, although traditionally they were isolationist. They are very pro globalism, although traditionally they were protectionist. Pro UN when it suits them. Anti UN in campaign speeches. Pro free trade with china, but I can remember when they wanted to touch off the big ones over Taiwan at the drop of a hat, and openly compared the mainland government to any other dictatorship of large size (hitler, stalin, etc).
So it's hard to categorize the R party now,with a slightly longer viewpoint like I have, I think of them as a global pan-corporate-socialist party for want of a better term as long as they can be "more equal than the others", ie, get to be the boss. Hmm, sort of like the PRI was in mexico in a few ways. I know that's not exactly accurate, but look at spending and proposals and enlarging the federal government and stripping even more states rights, and being similar EO slap happy as the Dems and etc. They ain't the same as when I first started out paying attention to politics. There's maybe a dozen in there at the top who are close. The rest...ehhh...different, they kept the name, that's it. I don't see them as being any sort of conservative, although they still use those words at election time, but in between they aren't even close. So....Arny could still fit in there, he obviously got quite a bit of high level national support in his run from them.
Give you an example, close to hoime. I live in north georgia, this is soldi bush country, yet I have only seen ONE (1) bush cheney sign in someones yard. Compare that to 2000 or earlier, it's radically different. I think the grassroots Rs are voting anti dems a lot more than pro bush. Arnie hits more in the middle and if anything he comes across smarter and with more charisma than shrub, and nowadays "electability" seems to be as important as the issues. He can also speak better and is better with the banter and ad libs.
I wouldn't vote for him obviously, but I think he'd do good if the laws were changed, especially if he got to run against hillary.
I'm still gonna be voting some third parties and write ins, same as I have for many moons now. I vote more for staying on the jury pool list and for the local elections than I do for federal level stuff. At that level I think it's almost 100% controlled canned pre programmed elections, especially now with diebold brand voting.
9-11 is way too big a subject for a casual post. Just run in google, 9-11, government prior knowledge. You will find plenty to keep you busy for a long time.
As to the crime, maybe because before him it couldn't have gotten much worse? A lot of crime has been dropping around the country from demographics, crime age young males are falling in number, and those with the tendencies have been gradually kept off the streets with two and three strikes and it's life laws. But, I do remember reading he ordered the cops to "crack down" on street crime. Apparently they did.
I honestly don't know, but he's not what I think of as a constitutionalist. He's anti gun,(NYC is the height of anti gun ness and he and his various cop orgs never changed that) ignored illegal immigration, pro war on some drugs, and so on. I think he cleaned up lower level street crime while high level crimes go unchecked, a party/system boy, and a statist deluxe.
I guess it just depends on your priorities. I'd rather have less security and more freedom. I don't weant a cop on every corner, I want all people to have the ability to be armed on their person, so crime can have a littler instant karma attached to it. Sort that stuff out in a year or so.... His methodology -impression only- is closer to --hmm-like they run singapore in a way, at least that's the impression I get.
The other part still stands though, as a local guy for the folks there he is OK I guess, but to run the whole country and be so totally urban, and niche urban like NYC, is not a wise choice for the nation. I reject party superiority when it comes to the nation as a whole, and I don't think he's knowledgable enough even theoretically to really understand what it's like to be a NON-NYCorker, so he couldn't make good decisions *generally speaking*. For a totally random example, I don't see him understanding at all something like what the ESA has done to the rural areas some places. A garbage strike and dealing with some unuion bosses, yes, having to deal with guys from John deere country or smalltown USA, nope, I don't think he would "get it", no frame of reference.
Thinking back,he reminds me of some of the gents in the coterie around Nixon actually,more than anything else.
--this is one of the funnier slashdot cross posts I have seen. I am assuming this is from the satellite crashing thread.
Hmm, I didn't comment there on that, but did anyone notice how intact that satellite was? Kinda funny considering the level of damage the building apparently took.
As to oriental folks driving funny, well... hmm.. not many around here so I can't comment. In fact, I cannot honestly remember the last time I saw an oriental person. We have bubbas, bruthahs and beaners (there, all equally non politically correct), it seems more a function of budweiser and crank than anything else with peoples driving abilities...
I am a medicore road driver and a pretty good rough off road driver. Cars I have never gotten good at but work equipment and machinery I can get very good at once I have the controls sorted out and get a little practice-they are all different. Why that is I am not sure, but it's always been that way. Probably a function of speed. As long as I can go slower I have exquisite fine tuning control, at faster speeds I tend to get sloppy and lose my smoothness. I can put a 10 ton piece of equipment between two trees with 1/4 inch on both sides and not scrape a piece of anything, and do it in reverse on an odd slope over rocks or whatnot, but at highway speeds on a perfectly sound well maintained flat road in a car I get road wander and drift inside the lane. go figger. Hence, never sped much.
My ideal fun race (if there was a sponsor handling the tab) would be to pilot some humongous tricked luxury RV with 10 foot high wheels in the Baja 500,and do it with a full crew on board and a few stewardesses....with olden days stewardess outfits.... yesssssssssssssss
Hmm, what other odd crap can I stick in this that no one will probably read....??hmmm
We got a new calf last week, tiny, caramel brown, Daddy is a Charloais and momma is an Angus/Hereford cross. Really cute, haven't been able to get close enough yet to see if it's a bull or a cow yet though.
Fired up the woodstove for the first time the other night, dropped to the low 40's. Gotta love the fact the "energy company" is out back at the end of the tractor and chainsaw.
Cabbages looking good, all the other green leafy action salad stuff crops coming on strong, and still getting a lot of peppers, tomatoes aand green beans. The cold weather will bork the materz though, need to cover them with the hoop houses soon.
--anyway, thus concludes zogger's miniblogger for this date!
That's what I did and I love it. Loads faster,(definete + on dialup) pages draw faster ( + on an older machine),a more uncluttered look reminiscent of googles page (a + anyway you slice it). Every once in awhile I take a peek a full version slashdot and it's too "busy". I'm glad we have this option here. Still get all the content.
I wonder how much bandwith they would save just offering the uncluttered look only?
Shuffleboard County voters registered shock and dismayed awe when they found out today that their new and improved resurrected pencil and paper and locked wooden box voting systems kept failing, to the point that voting officials had to suspend voting for the day.
"I don't get it" complained one voter, Ima Schnook, "we had those old trusty reliable computerised voting systems, always worked fine" she said.
Voting officials complained of delays brought on by the advanced technology, just normal glitches to be expected. "Yes" said Bob N. Apple, local registrar, "the new techniques have had some problems. First we had to bring out of retirement some "carpenters" who then had to recreate concepts like "hinges" for the box, and "screws" to hold it together", "not to mention" he said "paper disappeared back in '04, we had to go to a natural history museum to see how they used to make it, it was *harrrd work*, had to come in on saturday, real *harrrd work*".
Officials promise that the new "voting machine boxes and paper ballots" would have the wrinkles ironed out of them by wednesdays special elections, even if it was "hard work and we need to find better experts to implement the new design changes".
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being a rather strange person, I hangout on slashdot... err, I mean I think of totally weird stuff and wonder "what if"? I wonder "what if" there is a way to take a fax full of code and parse it into something useable and automagically? That might be -if it exists or if it can be done- a way between slow snail mail CDs or Floppies and "normal" but potentially insecure and coming too late internet-based traditional update methods....
...it's because humans have this weird deal with society. We wind up with the greediest, lamest most megalomaniacal people for governmental/corporate "leaders". 999 out of a thousand are this way, it just happens, we notice it.
These people are quite *insane*. they may be brilliant, but still bonkers. They have the most power and money of everyone on the planet. They hire the smartest people they can find, and reseaqrch advanced weaponry. All governments spend a huge amount of time and money and resopurces on this. they hire the smartest scientists and engineers they can find for this task. then the hire the people who psychologically and intellectually are the most prone to use these devices that the scientists and engineewrs create. these people are given more power than "ordinary" citizens, they are tasked with killing people and breaking peoples things, using these advanced machines. This weaponry, consisting of mechanical machines augmented with electrical and chemical advances, are *exactly* designed to "harm humans" and they DO harm humans with this machinery. Happens every day around the globe, by the thousands. Literally thousands of humans a day are killed, and many more horribly mutilated and injured. And the way the system has evolved, it is rigged to always have the megalomaniacs wind up "in charge" and all populations have a certain percentageof "ask no questions" order followers.
So, stuff happens,evil wicked nasty horrible screaming stuff. This leads to this "fear" which isn't in the least bit an irrational fear for anyone sane to have. It's because it's reality.
Lately, we can read that they want to automate and robotosize this even further, and to take these machines as far as they can push it with near unlimited budgets and millions of man hours of advanced research. It is not a "tin foil hat" phenomenon for folks to notice that. We also have a veifiable past track record to show that yes indeed, these megalomaniacs tame scientists and engineers and order followers screw up, we get what is called "unintended consequences" and "collateral damage", as if the intended consequences and planned-for damages aren't bad enough. So we as ordinary humans all around the globe who really do not have a beef with joe over there all get to have these "benefits", and we notice that we don't want those sorts of benefits, but there's not a thing we can do about it, because this advancing technology system is rigged in favor of those who like and enjoy and profit-from doing harm.
You see, we DO have a lot of at least technically "competent people programming the machines", the problem is, they ARE designed to harm. And it's set up to be self perpetuating/advancing and is based from the git-go on forced wealth transference, ie, "theft" and it goes down hill from there into every worse things..
....deploy this for internal use, or are you going to set up a public WISP?
I like this tech in theory, it would allow folks to do their own rural broadband. 802.11 whatever has too many limitations to be practical everywhere, it's under powered and needs line of sight, just ain't happening most places without a ton of access points and relays and repeaters and foolfarall. Around here two companies have tried it and they keep running into that, they just can't cover enoutgh people, every hill you need another access point. I'm going to be following this wimax deal because I just found out about a pretty decent local price drop with T-1s, my local community buys in bulk then re sells it to businesses for 300$ to encourage "progress". Not bad for entry level for the connect to the net part, just the wireless part has to be affordable, for both the ISP and for the customers.
BTW, that is a pretty funny comment
Good idea. Graphics cards in particular. Lot of good thoughts on the kerneltrap page as well. Upgradeable card and good integral drivers, yes.
Dumb non developer question.
As CPU clusters have proven that for some applications they can be a very good and cost effective solution, as opposed to jut whopper iron, is it possible or has it been done with the video cards? Is it possible to have a cluster of cards that work together effectively? Or would it be too slow, they couldn't talk to each other fast enough?
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party down dudes!
where's the live WEBCAM?
well, certainly looks like it's not vaporware. Thanks for the link, looks like it will be available pretty soon now with all those companies trying it out. Looks like it might make wifi be sort of passe, doesn't it?
..I find this interesting as well, small copy/paste:
" No one in the world has yet built an operational WiMax network that is available for public use."
Hmmm
wonder how much the gear costs, and is it really standarized yet? The potential in theory sounds really slick, but is this ready for deployment yet? As joe rural broadband user wannabe, I welcome our new wimax overlords, but only if they really show up. Is this stuff really there, or vaporware? The book is 30 clams for a paperback, sorta steep if it's really just vapor.
I agree with you completely. In fact I call them the "bush crime family". Coke, murder, treason, shady real estate deals, shady banking deals, you name it they got their mitts into it. I am incredulous they got elected, both of them, heck, all of them. WHY they aren't doing time in club FED is just proof that the fix is in and criminals run the nation behind the scenes. The last past half a dozen presidents have all been crooked, except I think carter was just lame near as I know, and he seems to be trying to make up for it since then.. The rest of them, crooks.
And yale and harvard I consider to be the elitist globalist training ground for our american royal wannabes. Baby technofeudalists. In other words, no respect from me. I got more respect with someone who has an engineering degree from GAtech than I do an MBA from haaahvud. Ivy league = "poison ivy" league.
I hate to be a reverse snob about it, but history shows it's more true than not about chronic bogusness coming from those corners. I know there's exceptions, but really..... We'd be a lot better off without the "eastern establishment" always running things. I fail to see why it's always this top upper crust 1% who turn out to be most of the "bosses" we have, either business or in politics, other than generational cronyism and nepotism. I fully admit it, not even going to try and hide it, I struggle intellectually to keep a fair perspective on it and not turn into a complete class warfare guy. And it's because of what they DO all the time.
+5 Funny! That is hysterical!
EXXON = "gasoline costs too much because CARS are too expensive!1"
RIAA/MPAA = "our releases cost too much because the CD and DVD players cost too much11!! It's all their fault!"
"JoeConsumer" and most PHB = "Uhh (picks nose), OK,now we get it! What a deal!"
And here's the really weird part. All the big box vendors will read this, every boss action out there will see this and realise that Ballmer just dissed them righteously, I mean about as insulting as you can get, and they will still keep shoveling money to redmond.
Hey big vendors,ya,YOU, is that comfy up there with no K-Y?
I notice on their site they have a link (in news) to pre installed linux laptops. Several models, the cheap one is 1099$, your choice fedora or lindows, if you want xandros it is 99 clams more. You could get one without xandros, save the 99$, add more RAM with that loot, and sign up for the beta test and get the xandros free that way. 40 questions, cross over office and star office comes with it, about two bucks a question to you to answer it, if you want to look at it that way. I'm not in the market but thought I'd point it out if someone else might be.
just a FWIW, pre installed is a *good* idea, I wish more places did it. I don't know if those are good laptop prices though, but knowing the hardware works is nice.
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Little Boy
Agent Orange
"Depleted" Uranium
pot, meet kettle
kettle, meet pot
Careful what you wish for, maybe some day some other large faction will decide that the US needs "intervention".
I know it's more comforting to think that your leaders and by automagical transference your nation down to anyone "you" are always the good guys, but history has shown there are no "good" guys, just various regimes throughout history take turns back and forth being the more-wrong bad guys du juor.
..but what MIGHT do it is mandated schemes like "trusted computing" and internet 2 and a few whopper corporations and "public service and infoscammation" orgs and such like working hand in hand with government turning the net into a big opt in pay per view deal, like cable TV. I'm serious too, that's what it looks like right now, the trends if you extrapolate it enough.
I can see that happening easily. Won't take much, a few more high profile terrorist incidents, the next few big worms that take out a lot of peoples boxes and maybe some routers, etc, whatever. A couple of laws passed, universal ID to "stop terrorism" and to "protect the children" and to stop "evile criminal file sharing and get rid of spammers", etc. Pick the top dozen YRO topics, THAT'S what is going to bork the net, not any one of them, all of them in conjunction together.
Stuff can change FAST, and I don't think it's wise to completely dismiss the notion that these corporate governmental alliances can do stuff that you might not like, but that 99% of the people out there WOULD like and that almost everyone would put up with.
People have proven over and over again they will gladly give up freedoms for "more security". It's daily in the news, no reason to think the net would be much different. Eventually.
Whether or not that would count as taking the net down is a matter of opinion, but I would say compared to the way it is now (almost total anarchy), that *yes* it would count.
Governments and big corporations ain't digging on that wild wild west anarchy action,costs them money and power/control and is embarrassing to them because of that, so I would be way surprised if they let it continue for much longer. All they need is a few big excuses for public relations propoganda purposes, and they are close enough to having them now.
Are these on all platforms, or just MS stuff, or what? I guess I am not seeing it, my apologies if it's there. For Moz 1.7xx whatever, they (secunia link in article) say this for a fix
"Solution:
Don't visit trusted web sites while visiting untrusted web sites OR disable JavaScript." CAPS are mine
DUH, I never have scripting turned on. Thanks for the advice Secunia, turned it off a long time ago. It's the first thing I do with any new browser I download and install, I look at the preferences and make sure that scripting is not default on. Evil mojo it is. Seems like every other exploit has to do with having scripting turned on, or the traditional and infamous and legendary now e-vile "buffer overflows" thingee. It's like a bad Japanese sci fi "Radioactive mutant buffer overflows swamp tokyo!!11!". I got no control over "buffer overflows", that is the developers lookout (seems to never end, too, why is that???), but scripting any user got complete control over, and it pays to learn from history you would think. I really don't care how useful javascript is, it's way too insecure, been proven over and over, it's a bad idea to run it, IMO. Just like active X stuff for MS, just bad news from the git-go. One of the main reasons I don't get any web mail accounts anymore, most of them I have looked at seem to require it.
no... not gonna do it... wouldn't be prudent....
--I see a "press release" like this, it makes me wonder. I'm an old timey government corruption rabble rouser, been a hobby of mine for decades. I will fully admit I am a cynic and a skeptic by default on this sort of thing. Call it busted too much FUD in the past to take these things at face value. The expression is "smell a rat" and over and over and over and over again it always seems to be pointing to the same rat herd... onward, see if I am correct....
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So I run a whois on itaa.org, right off the bat I get a personal DINGDINGDING BS BS CHECK FOR FUD AND LINKAGES TO THE SUSPICIOUS RATHERD alert because it's arlington virgina. Now that is just a city in the US, "so what?" sez anyone, well, it's "so what?" to me because so many times in the past I see this area come up, over and over again with various shenaningans with the ratherd, it's because it's retired and now consulting or still active or sheepdipped spook central, that's why "so what?" to me. Them boys got nothing better to do then to get their fingers in every smelly rotten and extremely lucrative pie out there where they can make a black market buck, it's their primary reason for existence now and has been for quite a loooong time. any sort of national security they play act at to keep the sheeps buffaloed. Oh ya, they got a long running congressional and judge blackmail operation going, that's another story for another time.... continue looking... this is fun for me, BTW....
That is my OPINION, and it's not relevant other than it got me to get looking at this....and itaa. I've obviously seen references to them in the past, but now I want to see if there's anything else. Freekin acronym overdose lately...grumble...
So now I go to google...simple query, really a broad cast look-see here,just for grins and giggles, I used itaa, cia as the search string
hmm, these guys sure busy, like back in 2000 when they had a meeting
first paragraph there
"Former CIA Chief Gates to Headline Global Information Security Summit
September 20, 2000
For More Information Contact:
Tinabeth Burton (703) 284-5305 tburton@itaa.org
Washington, D.C. - Dr. Robert Gates, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1991-1993, and intelligence analyst serving six U.S. Presidents, will address the inaugural Global InfoSec Summit on October 16 in Washington, DC. Gates' keynote speech will address the growing challenge of information security in the global arena. Produced by the Information Technology Association of America and the World Information Technology and Services Alliance, the two-day Summit brings together government and business leaders to forge the type of cross-industry cooperation necessary to build and secure a strong global economy. "
Well, cool, just a buncha good ole boys getting together deciding how they gonna run things and stuff. Funny though, government and corporate cooperation has a name as in a political system of ill repute, but we know not to say it out loud on a forum so as not to invoke goodwin's law.....
anyway, I am juiced now, these folks are interesting... lemme look some more...yes, I know, I should have previously known more about them, mea culpa and so what... I am learning more now..
--ok, s'more, didn't take long, now HERE is an interesting story Also a link there to interesting pdf with more links...
synopsis
Fatcat corporate industry group hires lobbying firm,err, "Independent IT association" whatevers... fatcat group with the cashola contains voting machine companies and defense contractors and "auditors" for electronic voting. They have this meeting,in which were outlined efforts to smooth over voter 'fears" and whatnot. It is allegedly not going to be called lobbying. "Prestigious" IT industry org gets paid nice sum of cash
I was listening to Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org on the radio last night. Disclaimer, this is anecdotal, going on memory here, but it's the gist of it. She was saying that they ran an inquiry to the county level of all the counties in florida and ohio,because they are important swing states, to ask them a simple question. The precincts send their results to a central place someplace in the county where one machine tabulates all the precinct reports, then it moves upstream. They asked these officials if they had a record of who had keys for the room that THAT machine was in, over 90% said they didn't have it, and weren't sure who had keys. These machines are the "central tabulators" using GEMS and I believe slashdot covered the story on how easy it was to hack them babies with a two digit password access.
So not only are those machines easy to change the results in, but it's apparently easy for unknown parties to get access to the machines themselves!
I just looked, so here's a paste from her site about the problem in general with following the vote tabulation trail:
"Another subtle change:
It used to be that access to voting systems was granted only to certified and sworn elections officials, whose names we knew and who were accountable directly to us. Nowadays, such access is typically also granted to unsworn and undisclosed county computer techs, employees of vendors, and even temporary workers hired off the Internet by subcontractors of the vendor. These individuals are not only not sworn election officials, but often aren't even from the state where the election is held. They do their thing and then fade away, sometimes carrying data or disks from the election with them."
FWIW
I wonder how this will effect heat dissipation. If they are stacked on top of each other, seems the bottom one would get dreadfully hot, as the upper would act as an insulation to it.
...if they really wanted to sell those things, they could just get up to speed with a pricing contract for a set wholesale amount from a fabber/jobber, then advertise them and take pre-orders, and once the magic number was hit start production and then on to delivery. They could even make it almost painless for existing customers who show an interest, just have them tack on a dollar a month to the subscription perhaps as part of a pre-order.
But maybe these gizmos would run on ethanol, which you could make yourself. Every boy needs his own still!
..had no idea. Never read that particlar Heinlein. My idea for the transition was the first year we pay off the IOUs and also cut a one time check for all tax payers back to them, based on exactly what they allegedly "owed" and paid in previously for just one year. A one-off large last bit of new money,basically to prime things and get them going, then back to work.
I think I still like my idea better of getting the new money into circulation, because it's produced wealth based with boring old statistics and tables, not future "maybe we'll make it, maybe we won't" based like it is now.. the idea of just sliding everyone a check every month gives me the buckwheats. Earn it or deserve it because society understands you are truly needy, get a check. For nothing? I don't think so.
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My philosophy is do it once and do it well
spelling akkk mea culpa, I really try but the words look different all the time, sucketh
--they already inflate the market with new bucks whenever they feel like it. Happens all the time. We are dealing with it now. We deal with more money into circulation because we have produced more goods and services is the way i want to do it, not the way they do it now which is to benefit a few selected big traders and banks.
Currently, we live in an over inflated dollar market, this is the make it or break it point for the global petro dollar because we consistently are running import/export imbalances, DESPITE their high level claims this would never happen when they started this globalist boondoggle after bretton woods. Man, we WARNED them!!
This past week or so they tried to strongarm china (HA HA!) to float the yuan, first they said "maybe" while the g7 and imf conferences were running, then a week later China said "you gotta be kidding, right?" Funny as heck,like they are going to give up an extra 120 bil a year just because we asked nice with sugar on it! HAHAHA! Too dang funny! I even predicted it would happen.
Anyway, more detailed, back to your question. Government workers already get paid with 100% inflated tax money. All the money out there has been re taxed several times except for any brand new money just created, and THAT comes pretaxed because of how they use it, buying debts back and re issuing more debt over it. It's a brokerage skim going on, it's that simple. It's like if your mom and pop brokerage guy told you to buy and sell your whole portfolio every friday night, after a few weeks you'd go "WTF is up with this?" and fire them. I believe most guys who have studied it guess around by the 6th time a buck has been spent it's already back to being totally a government dollar. I think it's lower than that really, because of high level black market and grey market shenanigans, but that's another story...
The fed introduces cash two ways officially (some more unofficially), first, "raw money", then via loans through the banks, primarily mortgages and the fractional reserve system. Raw money they print up to buy government paper back from foreigners mostly, or large paper brokerages. That's just poof created instant inflation money used to turn around debt notes again. It's nuts! It's supposed to de bubblefy things in what they say out loud, in reality that's all it does is create bubbles, artifical hi8ghs and lows, so high level traders be it banks or houses on the international level can keep raking it in from the suckers. Been going on since *day one* with the Fed, it's the whole reason they were created, congame from the git go. They get a groovy +1 bonus by being able to keep the sheeps in line in the herds by waving the automagical carrot and the stick of "tax breaks" for this or that demographic, or "tax miseries" from the IRS goons to anyone if you don't play ball. That's the command and control action they dig on.
Fractional reserve loans at best are low double digits backed with any previously produced cash, the rest is automagically generated when the loan is cut. SCHWEET DEAL for them boys, don't you wish YOU could do that?
akk, I am wandering now, you got to undestand my proposal is part of a package of righting wrongs and making things better over all. If implemented, ya, a semi and temporary painful transition, but not too bad considering you get to KEEP ALL YOUR LOOT when JoeBoss cuts you a check. Initial inflation because of the IOU buyout would be mitigated greatly because of the international street cred we would get with an outstanding currency that ANYONE could see the stats on and see it was sound and that there were few surprises coming.
Anyway, my idea would result in a one time end the inflation buyout of all the paper, then rip them up and can that idea. Bonds are a rip off to the next generation, they suck the big one. They also fake people out that they can get something for nothing, it's like using one credit card to pay the interest charges on another creidt card "look honey, we're all caught up on the bills!!
R party has changed a lot over the years. I also think you have to look at California as a special case there.
At the top levels in the R party they aren't that conservative. GW is for gun control as well, he stated many times he would have signed in an extension to the assault weapons bill for example.
I think they use low level grassroots conservatives as "useful idiots" to use the old phrase, more than for anything else. and at that level the grassroots picks Rs because to them there'sonly 2 parties, and Ds are even farther away.
If you look at what really goes down, R party is very similar. No action on closing the borders and stopping the illegal invasion, although the vast majority of grassroots Rs are in favor of that. Rhetoric with abortion, but they made little attemtp to change anything. Very interventionist, although traditionally they were isolationist. They are very pro globalism, although traditionally they were protectionist. Pro UN when it suits them. Anti UN in campaign speeches. Pro free trade with china, but I can remember when they wanted to touch off the big ones over Taiwan at the drop of a hat, and openly compared the mainland government to any other dictatorship of large size (hitler, stalin, etc).
So it's hard to categorize the R party now,with a slightly longer viewpoint like I have, I think of them as a global pan-corporate-socialist party for want of a better term as long as they can be "more equal than the others", ie, get to be the boss. Hmm, sort of like the PRI was in mexico in a few ways. I know that's not exactly accurate, but look at spending and proposals and enlarging the federal government and stripping even more states rights, and being similar EO slap happy as the Dems and etc. They ain't the same as when I first started out paying attention to politics. There's maybe a dozen in there at the top who are close. The rest...ehhh...different, they kept the name, that's it. I don't see them as being any sort of conservative, although they still use those words at election time, but in between they aren't even close. So....Arny could still fit in there, he obviously got quite a bit of high level national support in his run from them.
Give you an example, close to hoime. I live in north georgia, this is soldi bush country, yet I have only seen ONE (1) bush cheney sign in someones yard. Compare that to 2000 or earlier, it's radically different. I think the grassroots Rs are voting anti dems a lot more than pro bush. Arnie hits more in the middle and if anything he comes across smarter and with more charisma than shrub, and nowadays "electability" seems to be as important as the issues. He can also speak better and is better with the banter and ad libs.
I wouldn't vote for him obviously, but I think he'd do good if the laws were changed, especially if he got to run against hillary.
I'm still gonna be voting some third parties and write ins, same as I have for many moons now. I vote more for staying on the jury pool list and for the local elections than I do for federal level stuff. At that level I think it's almost 100% controlled canned pre programmed elections, especially now with diebold brand voting.
9-11 is way too big a subject for a casual post. Just run in google, 9-11, government prior knowledge. You will find plenty to keep you busy for a long time.
As to the crime, maybe because before him it couldn't have gotten much worse? A lot of crime has been dropping around the country from demographics, crime age young males are falling in number, and those with the tendencies have been gradually kept off the streets with two and three strikes and it's life laws. But, I do remember reading he ordered the cops to "crack down" on street crime. Apparently they did.
I honestly don't know, but he's not what I think of as a constitutionalist. He's anti gun,(NYC is the height of anti gun ness and he and his various cop orgs never changed that) ignored illegal immigration, pro war on some drugs, and so on. I think he cleaned up lower level street crime while high level crimes go unchecked, a party/system boy, and a statist deluxe.
I guess it just depends on your priorities. I'd rather have less security and more freedom. I don't weant a cop on every corner, I want all people to have the ability to be armed on their person, so crime can have a littler instant karma attached to it. Sort that stuff out in a year or so.... His methodology -impression only- is closer to --hmm-like they run singapore in a way, at least that's the impression I get.
The other part still stands though, as a local guy for the folks there he is OK I guess, but to run the whole country and be so totally urban, and niche urban like NYC, is not a wise choice for the nation. I reject party superiority when it comes to the nation as a whole, and I don't think he's knowledgable enough even theoretically to really understand what it's like to be a NON-NYCorker, so he couldn't make good decisions *generally speaking*. For a totally random example, I don't see him understanding at all something like what the ESA has done to the rural areas some places. A garbage strike and dealing with some unuion bosses, yes, having to deal with guys from John deere country or smalltown USA, nope, I don't think he would "get it", no frame of reference.
Thinking back,he reminds me of some of the gents in the coterie around Nixon actually,more than anything else.
--this is one of the funnier slashdot cross posts I have seen. I am assuming this is from the satellite crashing thread.
Hmm, I didn't comment there on that, but did anyone notice how intact that satellite was? Kinda funny considering the level of damage the building apparently took.
As to oriental folks driving funny, well... hmm.. not many around here so I can't comment. In fact, I cannot honestly remember the last time I saw an oriental person. We have bubbas, bruthahs and beaners (there, all equally non politically correct), it seems more a function of budweiser and crank than anything else with peoples driving abilities...
I am a medicore road driver and a pretty good rough off road driver. Cars I have never gotten good at but work equipment and machinery I can get very good at once I have the controls sorted out and get a little practice-they are all different. Why that is I am not sure, but it's always been that way. Probably a function of speed. As long as I can go slower I have exquisite fine tuning control, at faster speeds I tend to get sloppy and lose my smoothness. I can put a 10 ton piece of equipment between two trees with 1/4 inch on both sides and not scrape a piece of anything, and do it in reverse on an odd slope over rocks or whatnot, but at highway speeds on a perfectly sound well maintained flat road in a car I get road wander and drift inside the lane. go figger. Hence, never sped much.
My ideal fun race (if there was a sponsor handling the tab) would be to pilot some humongous tricked luxury RV with 10 foot high wheels in the Baja 500,and do it with a full crew on board and a few stewardesses....with olden days stewardess outfits.... yesssssssssssssss
Hmm, what other odd crap can I stick in this that no one will probably read....??hmmm
We got a new calf last week, tiny, caramel brown, Daddy is a Charloais and momma is an Angus/Hereford cross. Really cute, haven't been able to get close enough yet to see if it's a bull or a cow yet though.
Fired up the woodstove for the first time the other night, dropped to the low 40's. Gotta love the fact the "energy company" is out back at the end of the tractor and chainsaw.
Cabbages looking good, all the other green leafy action salad stuff crops coming on strong, and still getting a lot of peppers, tomatoes aand green beans. The cold weather will bork the materz though, need to cover them with the hoop houses soon.
--anyway, thus concludes zogger's miniblogger for this date!
That's what I did and I love it. Loads faster,(definete + on dialup) pages draw faster ( + on an older machine),a more uncluttered look reminiscent of googles page (a + anyway you slice it). Every once in awhile I take a peek a full version slashdot and it's too "busy". I'm glad we have this option here. Still get all the content.
I wonder how much bandwith they would save just offering the uncluttered look only?
AP--
Shuffleboard County voters registered shock and dismayed awe when they found out today that their new and improved resurrected pencil and paper and locked wooden box voting systems kept failing, to the point that voting officials had to suspend voting for the day.
"I don't get it" complained one voter, Ima Schnook, "we had those old trusty reliable computerised voting systems, always worked fine" she said.
Voting officials complained of delays brought on by the advanced technology, just normal glitches to be expected. "Yes" said Bob N. Apple, local registrar, "the new techniques have had some problems. First we had to bring out of retirement some "carpenters" who then had to recreate concepts like "hinges" for the box, and "screws" to hold it together", "not to mention" he said "paper disappeared back in '04, we had to go to a natural history museum to see how they used to make it, it was *harrrd work*, had to come in on saturday, real *harrrd work*".
Officials promise that the new "voting machine boxes and paper ballots" would have the wrinkles ironed out of them by wednesdays special elections, even if it was "hard work and we need to find better experts to implement the new design changes".