What if the difference in Ohio had been 3000 votes in favor of Bush? Then the missing 4000 Kerry would have changed the result.
This issue really is that the voting machines need to be fixed before the next election. You can't always expect one party to win clearly, you may need every single vote.
Start by constructing a better public transportation infrastructure. Get bikes (it would do a lot of people good). Turn of stuff when you don't use it. Get small cars.
Would you please stop this. They are not trying to get the companies to open source their firmware, they can't. The firmware determines the frequency of the wireless chipset, open sourcing it means you can change the frequency, which is illegal in most parts of the world. The OpenBSD developers know this and is therefor NOT trying to get the source code for the firmware, Im sure they wouldn't mind having it, but they know that it is impossible.
What they are trying to do is to have the firmware release under a license, which will enable them to distribute it along with the operating system. They're aren't asking for anything but permission to ship the binary firmware. I am amazed by the number of people not getting this.
If the lawyers in the US have a problem with Australians distributing content which is public domain in Autralia, but not in the US, I suggest they find a way to block those internet sites in their end... Sort of a "Great Firewall of the US". Honestly I can't see why an Australian would even care and the American part of the Gutenberg project hasn't done anything illegal. If I remember correctly it actually says in the top of each fil you download from the Gutenberg Project, that you should check your local copyright law, I would say that they done all they need to do.
Maybe I should start sueing American companies for violating Danish enviromental laws?
Omnipresent video security? In shops? Or have you been to England? Agreed, the UK have taken video security to the extreme. There are however still nations where the individuals still has rights. Im not always to happy about being Danish, but at least we (still) have some privacy. Tapping phones, forget it, the police really have to have a good case to be allowed to tap you phone. Video cameras? There must be a clear sign saying that you're being taped. Cameras may not be pointed at public spaces.
When talking about protecting the individuals privacy, the US has a long way to go, and you're moving in the wrong direction, but so Europe. Sure I have a CPR number (Central Person Register) which identify me, but who cares, it doesn't mean that the government can track my every move.
I personally think that there is a greater chance of the US government and not the Danish government i spying on me.
I mean that the government know that you're a citizen already, they send out a small piece of paper that you need to show along with ID when you go to vote (This ensures that you don't vote twice). You just send everyone over 18 such a paper.
Im sure it doesn't change anything, but the voting system and democracy in the US is in my eyes seriously broken. I hope that the people in the US have a different view on this.
How about voting blank to show that you can't support any of the candidates? If you don't vote one body can see that actually care and aren't just at lazy slacker.
An yes, I know, they discard blank votes in the US.... The US really need to fix its view on democracy.
Oh, and what is the idea with registering to vote, you turn 18, you get to vote, no additional registration... why would you need it?
I know places where a week is generally seen as pretty good respons time on an email. That is of cause when they need send replies to you, the other way around answers are expected within the next few minuts.
Also if you're calling from Germany, you most likely speak German and wish to be serviced in German. If I call my ISP I expect to take to someone who speak Danish... try outsourceing that to India. I think this mostly a problem for people in the US and other countries where English is the first language.
On the other hand, we hear about so many problems with people getting poor support from people who they barely understand, I don't think the future of tech support is in India. I suspect that a lot of companies will start moving tech support back to the countries their customers call from. Of cause Im not an expect on the subject, so I may very well be wrong.
Try the same issue in reverse. Assuming that you are an American, would you want France or Germany to control the only GPS system in the world? Sure, they are your friends, but still.
What I don't understand is why the European Union even cares what the US thinks. We're the ones paying for the bloody thing, don't tell us how to spend our money. The US don't seem to care much about the opinions of the EU, why should we care what you think? Just build Galileo as originaly planned, it's not like we don't know how.
You can't use IE running under Wine, or you can, but you're not allowed to. The IE EULA states that you may not run IE on a platform for which it is not designed for.
I don't use Windows at home, but I do administrate a few Windows XP installations. What really bugs is that very often I fix something, but I had no idea why it was broken and more often than not the fix didn't really make sense either.
I dislike Windows for several reasons, but the main thing is the bad user interface. I can't work fast enough in Windows and I have to use the mouse much of the time. After having used Evilwm for over a year now I find it to be annoying when I can move windows to the screen corners very fast and without using the mouse. It sound stupid, but it's a feature I really love.
People may learn to use the Windows interface very fast, but that hardly makes it userfriendly. Userfriendliness is comprised by learnability and operability. Windows only provides learnability, in my opinion.
Also Windows run very slowly on my 1GHz Via C3, it shouldn't but it does.
These days however i'm beginning to doubt that there exists any good operating systems, they all have major flaws. I haven't tried MacOSX, I want to, but no way am I paying that much for hardware.
I don't know about FreeBSD, but NetBSD choose to go with XFree86 4.4, OpenBSD would not accept the license. Currently OpenBSD uses are pre-release of 4.4 from just before the new license was introduced. I don't think the OpenBSD teams has decided what to do yet.
In respect to coding, using people with a ph.d for coding is just stupid. Anyone could learn how to code, not equaly well sure, fare for anyone can think up the stuff that you would expect from a person with a ph.d.
When it come to work output, how would you messure that? Linies of code doesn't make sense, because the ph.d person have more important things to do. You would use ph.ds to develop new technologies and while the coding monkeys start implementing it the ph.ds move on to the next big thing.
I wonder why so many slashdotters are so negative towards people with a ph.d. Is it because you couldn't get a degree yourself? Honestly these people are generally very smart and they work hard. Okay, so they don't produce a product in the same way programmers does, but the people with the degrees are the ones who design and invent the stuff needed for the programmers to even have a job. Many seems to think that a university degree, master or ph.d is just some fancy education in programming, it's not.
Gmail wouldn't solve problems like this, they only offer one 1GB. I work with secretaries who would use up 1GB of storage a year if they didn't delete any emails. The organisation I do systems administration for isn't even that big, so I could easily imagine that other people running into problems earlier.
It wouldn't work, you said it your self, counterfeiters just use a different product. Really some hasn't been thinking, this is a half-ass solution to a real problem. Adding this kind of protection doesn't solve the problem of Euros being to easy to counterfeit. What they are saying is that they can't get the money right, so they try this stunt which only serves to annoy open and free software developers.
Text messages are less intrusive, people can answer them when they have the time. I don't like having people call regarding things which basicly isn't that important, seen me a text message and I can answer you when I have the time.
I don't call people if I can avoid it, I think it's very rude to assume that they will have the time to talk to me. Emails and text messages a is something they can deal with later. For important things or situations where you need the answer right now, sure a phone call it better.
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Firing people isn't always the solution.
What if the difference in Ohio had been 3000 votes in favor of Bush? Then the missing 4000 Kerry would have changed the result.
This issue really is that the voting machines need to be fixed before the next election. You can't always expect one party to win clearly, you may need every single vote.
Bingo
Start by constructing a better public transportation infrastructure. Get bikes (it would do a lot of people good). Turn of stuff when you don't use it. Get small cars.
You get the point.
Would you please stop this. They are not trying to get the companies to open source their firmware, they can't. The firmware determines the frequency of the wireless chipset, open sourcing it means you can change the frequency, which is illegal in most parts of the world. The OpenBSD developers know this and is therefor NOT trying to get the source code for the firmware, Im sure they wouldn't mind having it, but they know that it is impossible.
What they are trying to do is to have the firmware release under a license, which will enable them to distribute it along with the operating system. They're aren't asking for anything but permission to ship the binary firmware. I am amazed by the number of people not getting this.
Virgin Radio have been streaming Ogg Voribs for at long time and in much higher quality than their mp3 stream. www.virginradio.co.uk
If the lawyers in the US have a problem with Australians distributing content which is public domain in Autralia, but not in the US, I suggest they find a way to block those internet sites in their end... Sort of a "Great Firewall of the US". Honestly I can't see why an Australian would even care and the American part of the Gutenberg project hasn't done anything illegal. If I remember correctly it actually says in the top of each fil you download from the Gutenberg Project, that you should check your local copyright law, I would say that they done all they need to do.
Maybe I should start sueing American companies for violating Danish enviromental laws?
Omnipresent video security? In shops? Or have you been to England? Agreed, the UK have taken video security to the extreme. There are however still nations where the individuals still has rights. Im not always to happy about being Danish, but at least we (still) have some privacy. Tapping phones, forget it, the police really have to have a good case to be allowed to tap you phone. Video cameras? There must be a clear sign saying that you're being taped. Cameras may not be pointed at public spaces.
When talking about protecting the individuals privacy, the US has a long way to go, and you're moving in the wrong direction, but so Europe. Sure I have a CPR number (Central Person Register) which identify me, but who cares, it doesn't mean that the government can track my every move.
I personally think that there is a greater chance of the US government and not the Danish government i spying on me.
I mean that the government know that you're a citizen already, they send out a small piece of paper that you need to show along with ID when you go to vote (This ensures that you don't vote twice). You just send everyone over 18 such a paper.
Im sure it doesn't change anything, but the voting system and democracy in the US is in my eyes seriously broken. I hope that the people in the US have a different view on this.
How about voting blank to show that you can't support any of the candidates? If you don't vote one body can see that actually care and aren't just at lazy slacker.
An yes, I know, they discard blank votes in the US.... The US really need to fix its view on democracy.
Oh, and what is the idea with registering to vote, you turn 18, you get to vote, no additional registration... why would you need it?
Not true, large parts of the world does use 1,000 with the exception of countries like Denmark, where we use 1.000, just to be different.
I know places where a week is generally seen as pretty good respons time on an email. That is of cause when they need send replies to you, the other way around answers are expected within the next few minuts.
Also if you're calling from Germany, you most likely speak German and wish to be serviced in German. If I call my ISP I expect to take to someone who speak Danish... try outsourceing that to India. I think this mostly a problem for people in the US and other countries where English is the first language.
On the other hand, we hear about so many problems with people getting poor support from people who they barely understand, I don't think the future of tech support is in India. I suspect that a lot of companies will start moving tech support back to the countries their customers call from. Of cause Im not an expect on the subject, so I may very well be wrong.
You just make a menu in the installer that says:
"Don't use Administrator account as default. Press next to accept" and no other options.
Actually I thought that XP used a normal user account by default, but what do I know, I don't use it.
On one measures out anything in mL when they bake. deciliters is preferred. Basicly you drop cups and start using dl, the spoon messaures remain.
Try the same issue in reverse. Assuming that you are an American, would you want France or Germany to control the only GPS system in the world? Sure, they are your friends, but still.
What I don't understand is why the European Union even cares what the US thinks. We're the ones paying for the bloody thing, don't tell us how to spend our money. The US don't seem to care much about the opinions of the EU, why should we care what you think? Just build Galileo as originaly planned, it's not like we don't know how.
You can't use IE running under Wine, or you can, but you're not allowed to. The IE EULA states that you may not run IE on a platform for which it is not designed for.
While I believe that Mozilla it the better browser I simply don't find comments like this funny anymore.
I don't use Windows at home, but I do administrate a few Windows XP installations. What really bugs is that very often I fix something, but I had no idea why it was broken and more often than not the fix didn't really make sense either.
I like that comment, short and honest.
I dislike Windows for several reasons, but the main thing is the bad user interface. I can't work fast enough in Windows and I have to use the mouse much of the time. After having used Evilwm for over a year now I find it to be annoying when I can move windows to the screen corners very fast and without using the mouse. It sound stupid, but it's a feature I really love.
People may learn to use the Windows interface very fast, but that hardly makes it userfriendly. Userfriendliness is comprised by learnability and operability. Windows only provides learnability, in my opinion.
Also Windows run very slowly on my 1GHz Via C3, it shouldn't but it does.
These days however i'm beginning to doubt that there exists any good operating systems, they all have major flaws. I haven't tried MacOSX, I want to, but no way am I paying that much for hardware.
I don't know about FreeBSD, but NetBSD choose to go with XFree86 4.4, OpenBSD would not accept the license. Currently OpenBSD uses are pre-release of 4.4 from just before the new license was introduced. I don't think the OpenBSD teams has decided what to do yet.
In respect to coding, using people with a ph.d for coding is just stupid. Anyone could learn how to code, not equaly well sure, fare for anyone can think up the stuff that you would expect from a person with a ph.d.
When it come to work output, how would you messure that? Linies of code doesn't make sense, because the ph.d person have more important things to do. You would use ph.ds to develop new technologies and while the coding monkeys start implementing it the ph.ds move on to the next big thing.
I wonder why so many slashdotters are so negative towards people with a ph.d. Is it because you couldn't get a degree yourself? Honestly these people are generally very smart and they work hard. Okay, so they don't produce a product in the same way programmers does, but the people with the degrees are the ones who design and invent the stuff needed for the programmers to even have a job. Many seems to think that a university degree, master or ph.d is just some fancy education in programming, it's not.
Gmail wouldn't solve problems like this, they only offer one 1GB. I work with secretaries who would use up 1GB of storage a year if they didn't delete any emails. The organisation I do systems administration for isn't even that big, so I could easily imagine that other people running into problems earlier.
It wouldn't work, you said it your self, counterfeiters just use a different product. Really some hasn't been thinking, this is a half-ass solution to a real problem. Adding this kind of protection doesn't solve the problem of Euros being to easy to counterfeit. What they are saying is that they can't get the money right, so they try this stunt which only serves to annoy open and free software developers.
Text messages are less intrusive, people can answer them when they have the time. I don't like having people call regarding things which basicly isn't that important, seen me a text message and I can answer you when I have the time.
I don't call people if I can avoid it, I think it's very rude to assume that they will have the time to talk to me. Emails and text messages a is something they can deal with later. For important things or situations where you need the answer right now, sure a phone call it better.