If they flipped the coin 3+ times in order to get the desired result, I think all those people in the caucus location would take notice, and someone would ask what in the fuckity fuck they're doing.
Especially considering the semi-rigging that is the 'super-delegates' that the DNC nomination process features. Between having a close ally as the party chairman to rig the debates in your favor (severe limitation on number, scheduling for times when people will be watching other things or not watching TV at all), and then swing extra votes from the establishment behind you at the nominating convention, it's still a lock even with Bernie Sanders wildly outperforming.
It is. The DNC has their way of conducting their nominating process, which is different from what the RNC does. For example, the RNC has no "super delegates" to try to steer the nomination towards the establishment's chosen favorite, like the DNC does.
(Hillary already had over 300 of these so-called super-delegates lined up before the first vote was cast, which is more than 15x what she won in Iowa.)
Thank you for showing off the Slashdot Way. Bash Apple when they don't include a marginally useful feature, and then when they include it, bash them for being late to the party with a marginally useful feature.
Well, the Interstate Highway System started in the 1950s. But more to the point, Calfornia has highways built to Interstate standards, but are not part of the Interstate Highway System. For example, California Highway 91 is a grade-separated limited access highway complete with interchanges, but is signed with the green signs that denote a California highway and does not have a designation within the Interstate Highway System, nor the blue-and-red shield that denotes an Interstate Highway.
Because of the confusing nature of these intertwined systems in Calfornia, the people have just used the highway route number, and added the word "freeway" to create an understandable term. For example, you have the 405 freeway (Interstate system), the 101 freeway (US Highway 101), and the 60 freeway (California 60). In California, many of these highways also have been named - for example, US Highway 101 is the Hollywood Freeway, California 91 is the Riverside Freeway, and Interstate 5 is the Golden State Freeway.
No thanks. My car has a driveline disconnect while coasting and regenerative braking in order to increase fuel efficiency. It's called "smart engineering."
My motherboard has a dual-ROM setup, so that if the active one gets hosed from either a bad update, or some stupidity like this, there is a procedure to recover without RMA or extreme measures.
I have no idea why this isn't a standard thing on every motherboard now that EEPROM is so cheap.
One would hope that at least the Hillary thing is solved by the time the DNC convention rolls around, and if none of the candidates have the requisite delegate votes for the nomination, the delegates switch allegiance on the second ballot and nominate someone that isn't a felon.
As for the RNC, we can only hope that starting with the Iowa Caucus tonight, sanity prevails, and Trump starts losing elections. Not that Ted Cruz is much better, but at least he won't turn the Oval Office into the set of a reality TV show.
1. False equivalence. Just because Hilliary is unelectable doesn't mean that Trump is not also unelectable. 2. Ignorance of the law is not a defense against breaking the law. And, she wasn't ignorant of the law anyway. Between her time as a Senator, and her time as a CABINET SECRETARY, I'm sure there was a session or two of training on how to properly handle classified secrets. 3. Just because there is no evidence of a leak, doesn't mean that there wasn't a violation of the law when it comes to handling classified information. 18 USC 793 (f):
Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
Hillary's private mail server doesn't meet the definition of "proper place of custody".
Because her last name is Clinton, and the Clintons have been pulling the wool over the Democratic Party's eyes for 24 years through illegal savings and loan dealings, sexual misconduct, shady financial dealings, carpetbagging, lying to the people which still continue to vote for them, and now leaking secret information.
You've asked the wrong question. You should be asking why people continue to believe anything that comes out of either of these people's mouths.
I remember when it was called SoundJam, and could transfer music to non-Apple MP3 players (when they still existed) with a simple iSync plug-in being written by the player manufacturer.
With the great undefining of the term 'beta' that has happened over the last decade, breaking out bis as a suffix would actually be sufficiently nerdy to work with. Well done.
Don't worry, you'll see it soon enough. Take a look at the next article that has anything to do with network security, routing, etc. Someone will say something about maintaining a secure network, and you'll get APK posting as anonymous coward extolling the virtues of maintaining HOSTS files on every computer between here and Prague as a somehow acceptable security solution. There's a few posters that he will reply to with this inane crap, whether on-topic or not, because they called him out on this nonsense.
He's been doing it for months, and everyone knows he's an idiot, but he continues on. I guess you have to admire the tenacity; I just wish he would apply that energy to something of use.
I ran multiple sites on SlashCode back in the day, and it's still some of the best software available for having a running log of stories or links with separate forum threads for each. An updated version would be fantastic, as the last available release is now 7 years old.
I guess the best question I've got, is if you guys are going to treat this amazing community as something to monetize, or treat it like a community. The growth of this site "back in the day" was completely organic because it was a place where geeks and nerds could come together and discuss things geeky and nerdy without the interruption of some douchebro who was more concerned with things that just don't matter. And, if said douchebro showed up and tried to interrupt, he would get modded to oblivion quite rapidly.
I would think that the regulars here spend far more time on this site than the average "redditor" spends on Reddit. I know I do, because there's just better information to be had here, and far better discussion.
Foisting decreased signal-to-noise ratio onto us through increased advertisement, paid-for submissions, and the disastrous "beta" redesign is exactly what caused a new crop of Slashdot-esque sites to pop up in the last year or so through protest. The previous owners were so tone-deaf to what this community wants that they were moving in the opposite direction even when all the hints and clues were there. It was very reminiscent of Microsoft and Windows 8.
Please don't repeat those mistakes. We know that this purchase was a business decision, and that you're going to need to find a way to keep the lights on. We're comfortable with that - this place is chock full of IT guys that know how expensive a large-traffic site like this is, so we'll accept a few ads and such because that's the cost of keeping the door open. But this community is not one that will accept being monetized in every way possible, and you will have just spent an undisclosed amount of money to buy something that will shrivel into nothing if handled wrong.
I'm hopeful that things will improve for the better, because it's very clear what direction Dice was heading with this site, and it wasn't headed to a good place.
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Clearly this doesn't count because of the presence of mustache wax.
Your third sentence said exactly the same thing you're disagreeing with.
P (probability) = 0.5 (50/50 chance) ^ 6 (number of tosses).
Have a day.
So I guess that money really did decide this election! /rimshot
If they flipped the coin 3+ times in order to get the desired result, I think all those people in the caucus location would take notice, and someone would ask what in the fuckity fuck they're doing.
Especially considering the semi-rigging that is the 'super-delegates' that the DNC nomination process features. Between having a close ally as the party chairman to rig the debates in your favor (severe limitation on number, scheduling for times when people will be watching other things or not watching TV at all), and then swing extra votes from the establishment behind you at the nominating convention, it's still a lock even with Bernie Sanders wildly outperforming.
Yeah, because the popular vote is exactly how the President of the United States is selected.
Nope, never been that way in over 225 years. Get over it already.
It is. The DNC has their way of conducting their nominating process, which is different from what the RNC does. For example, the RNC has no "super delegates" to try to steer the nomination towards the establishment's chosen favorite, like the DNC does.
(Hillary already had over 300 of these so-called super-delegates lined up before the first vote was cast, which is more than 15x what she won in Iowa.)
And I'm sure that Apple's solution will be running a 600KV line through your bedroom.
Wait, scale matters?
Thank you for showing off the Slashdot Way. Bash Apple when they don't include a marginally useful feature, and then when they include it, bash them for being late to the party with a marginally useful feature.
Well, the Interstate Highway System started in the 1950s. But more to the point, Calfornia has highways built to Interstate standards, but are not part of the Interstate Highway System. For example, California Highway 91 is a grade-separated limited access highway complete with interchanges, but is signed with the green signs that denote a California highway and does not have a designation within the Interstate Highway System, nor the blue-and-red shield that denotes an Interstate Highway.
Because of the confusing nature of these intertwined systems in Calfornia, the people have just used the highway route number, and added the word "freeway" to create an understandable term. For example, you have the 405 freeway (Interstate system), the 101 freeway (US Highway 101), and the 60 freeway (California 60). In California, many of these highways also have been named - for example, US Highway 101 is the Hollywood Freeway, California 91 is the Riverside Freeway, and Interstate 5 is the Golden State Freeway.
No thanks. My car has a driveline disconnect while coasting and regenerative braking in order to increase fuel efficiency. It's called "smart engineering."
My motherboard has a dual-ROM setup, so that if the active one gets hosed from either a bad update, or some stupidity like this, there is a procedure to recover without RMA or extreme measures.
I have no idea why this isn't a standard thing on every motherboard now that EEPROM is so cheap.
One would hope that at least the Hillary thing is solved by the time the DNC convention rolls around, and if none of the candidates have the requisite delegate votes for the nomination, the delegates switch allegiance on the second ballot and nominate someone that isn't a felon.
As for the RNC, we can only hope that starting with the Iowa Caucus tonight, sanity prevails, and Trump starts losing elections. Not that Ted Cruz is much better, but at least he won't turn the Oval Office into the set of a reality TV show.
Going to 112 countries on the taxpayer dime isn't an accomplishment, unless we are now considering stepping off of an Air Force jet an accomplishment.
1. False equivalence. Just because Hilliary is unelectable doesn't mean that Trump is not also unelectable.
2. Ignorance of the law is not a defense against breaking the law. And, she wasn't ignorant of the law anyway. Between her time as a Senator, and her time as a CABINET SECRETARY, I'm sure there was a session or two of training on how to properly handle classified secrets.
3. Just because there is no evidence of a leak, doesn't mean that there wasn't a violation of the law when it comes to handling classified information. 18 USC 793 (f):
Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
Hillary's private mail server doesn't meet the definition of "proper place of custody".
Because her last name is Clinton, and the Clintons have been pulling the wool over the Democratic Party's eyes for 24 years through illegal savings and loan dealings, sexual misconduct, shady financial dealings, carpetbagging, lying to the people which still continue to vote for them, and now leaking secret information.
You've asked the wrong question. You should be asking why people continue to believe anything that comes out of either of these people's mouths.
I remember when it was called SoundJam, and could transfer music to non-Apple MP3 players (when they still existed) with a simple iSync plug-in being written by the player manufacturer.
Those were the days...
Some people don't use screen names. Their "slashdot ID" is their actual name, and they've been here for 17+ years.
the Slashdot of 1998 would still be preferred to the 'beta' of 2015.
With the great undefining of the term 'beta' that has happened over the last decade, breaking out bis as a suffix would actually be sufficiently nerdy to work with. Well done.
Don't worry, you'll see it soon enough. Take a look at the next article that has anything to do with network security, routing, etc. Someone will say something about maintaining a secure network, and you'll get APK posting as anonymous coward extolling the virtues of maintaining HOSTS files on every computer between here and Prague as a somehow acceptable security solution. There's a few posters that he will reply to with this inane crap, whether on-topic or not, because they called him out on this nonsense.
He's been doing it for months, and everyone knows he's an idiot, but he continues on. I guess you have to admire the tenacity; I just wish he would apply that energy to something of use.
Oh, I know that. I've been lurking around here for 15 years now.
But this is a time for change, and let's change that particular tradition into the dustbin of history.
I ran multiple sites on SlashCode back in the day, and it's still some of the best software available for having a running log of stories or links with separate forum threads for each. An updated version would be fantastic, as the last available release is now 7 years old.
I guess the best question I've got, is if you guys are going to treat this amazing community as something to monetize, or treat it like a community. The growth of this site "back in the day" was completely organic because it was a place where geeks and nerds could come together and discuss things geeky and nerdy without the interruption of some douchebro who was more concerned with things that just don't matter. And, if said douchebro showed up and tried to interrupt, he would get modded to oblivion quite rapidly.
I would think that the regulars here spend far more time on this site than the average "redditor" spends on Reddit. I know I do, because there's just better information to be had here, and far better discussion.
Foisting decreased signal-to-noise ratio onto us through increased advertisement, paid-for submissions, and the disastrous "beta" redesign is exactly what caused a new crop of Slashdot-esque sites to pop up in the last year or so through protest. The previous owners were so tone-deaf to what this community wants that they were moving in the opposite direction even when all the hints and clues were there. It was very reminiscent of Microsoft and Windows 8.
Please don't repeat those mistakes. We know that this purchase was a business decision, and that you're going to need to find a way to keep the lights on. We're comfortable with that - this place is chock full of IT guys that know how expensive a large-traffic site like this is, so we'll accept a few ads and such because that's the cost of keeping the door open. But this community is not one that will accept being monetized in every way possible, and you will have just spent an undisclosed amount of money to buy something that will shrivel into nothing if handled wrong.
I'm hopeful that things will improve for the better, because it's very clear what direction Dice was heading with this site, and it wasn't headed to a good place.
It's a good thing they were owned by Dice then!