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  1. Re:At least paper can't lie. on ACLU of Ohio Sues To Block Paper Ballots · · Score: 1

    It is simplistic to think that PAPER = SECURE, just because it's paper. You would think, as a site for geeks, there would be more people on slashdot that understand that. The comments and moderation show otherwise. The implication that any digital system is inherently less secure than any paper system is inherently Luddite, all the way down.
  2. Re:At least paper can't lie. on ACLU of Ohio Sues To Block Paper Ballots · · Score: 1

    You're right where they want you.

    I mean, you still think votes count! That's amazing enough, but even more astounding is that you think there are good faith actors in power who would be willing to risk their own necks to refranchise the masses.

    I'm tired of it all. Electronic, paper, centralized counting or decentralized counting, it can all be secure and auditable, or insecure and fraud-riddled. Guess which type benefits the people in power more? If you think secure and auditable, you're scoring pretty high on the naivometer.

  3. Re:Hilarious movie. on Brawndo, It's Got Electrolytes. It's What Plants Crave · · Score: 1

    We have all known people who were given every opportunity, every advantage in life, and still ended up stupid as a post. Hell, we breed dogs for various traits--personality and intelligence being two of them--why should we assume that we're immune to the same thing? Because we're arrogant fo... wait. Didn't I see a movie about thi.....
  4. Re:Because they are useful on Why Do Games Still Have Levels? · · Score: 1

    ...your parser is wrong. I believe it's referring to "all the time", as in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. I could buy 24/7, or 24/365. But 24/7/365? At least make it 24/7/52... otherwise, you're spouting *non*sense.
  5. Re:Because they are useful on Why Do Games Still Have Levels? · · Score: 1

    but it's not 24/7/365 from the start to the end of any war. You mean 24/7/365 like WWII Online? You should just say 7 years, 1 week. It's more memorable that 24/7/365, which takes a while to parse.
  6. Re:OpenFiler on Best Home Network NAS · · Score: 1

    Seconding the unRAID suggestion. It's a pretty versatile, easy to use (if somewhat lacking in certain features) solution.

  7. Re:It's not the end of the debate though. on Stem-Cell-Like Cells Produced From Skin · · Score: 1

    Totally sweet. I like your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  8. Re:wait on Evidence Found for Earliest Modern Humans · · Score: 1

    I very interested in where you draw the line of allegory - This is something that I have been thinking about a lot. If the first two chapters of Genesis are not literal, are Adam and Eve literal? At what point does an evolving ape evolve/get made into a human, with a soul? Are the genealogies from Adam to Noah literal, are the people mentioned in them literal, and is the flood story literal? Well, I could go on, but I've very curious to where you draw the line and why.

    Thanks in advance!

  9. Re:One possible answer: on Evidence Found for Earliest Modern Humans · · Score: 1

    Is it surprising that a book that makes fantastic claims about a supernatural realm, its inhabitants, and our relationships and responsibilities to them would claim that you would be foolish not to believe it? Really, using the Bible to prove itself is a prime example of circular logic....

    I know, I know - don't feed the trolls. But they look so hungry!

  10. Re:I partly blame the "validators" on Has Wikipedia Peaked? · · Score: 1

    Learn to use wikipedia's citation system before creating your first article. This is the advice I give to everyone who gets their pet topic article on wikipedia deleted. Try it. It works. Or rather, try it, watch it get deleted anyway, and become even more turned off of the whole old-boys-club hidden behind a "anyone-can-help-collaboration" facade.

    Seriously, they are out to literally erase certain topics from Wikipedia, because of personal biases and agendas, and if you're not part of the in-group, there's no recourse. You just have sit back, watch what you helped build be torn down, so that an elitist can slake their thirst for what they think intellectiocratic destruction, but is really pure vandalism.

    Let me restate that for clarity - Deleting articles for "lack of notability" is the most common, destructive vandalism on Wikipedia, and it is perpetrated entirely by the "caretakers".
  11. Can you hear the piezo output too? on Self-Tuning Electric Guitar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sounds good to me, as long as it does standard and drop-d. The one question I have is do the system allow you to output the piezo pickups as well, or are the solely reserved for tuning?

  12. Re:All these Microsoft apologists... on Bungie Explains Halo 3's Resolution · · Score: 1

    You can't do it all, and if you can then it means you weren't ambitious enough.

    Or maybe you can do it all, because you have what I like to call "realistic expectations"...
  13. Re:Those weren't talent trees... on More Details on Dungeons and Dragons Fourth Edition · · Score: 1

    they're pissed talent dryads. Drunk dryads has a better alliterative ring to it...

    I'm sure bards would like to pick up an *alliterative ring*. I wonder what kind of charisma bonus it has?
  14. Re:Not trying to be a grammar nazi (I promise) on Behind the USPTO's Working With Peer-To-Patent · · Score: 1

    From the summary:

    The project seems to be doing pretty well with over 1,000 active participants, and plans to replicate it in other patent offices starting with the UK next year.

    I'm having some trouble deciphering this. Should there be a "there are" between the words 'and' and 'plans'? No other words are needed. Read it more like this:

    The project seems to be doing pretty well with over 1,000 active participants. and

    The project seems to be doing pretty well with plans to replicate it in other patent offices starting with the UK next year. Hope that helps.
  15. Re:I've been saying for years on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: 1

    The real question to my mind is what, if anything, can be done about it?

    Hey, I'm just pointing it out. I didn't say I could fix it.
    Foundational problems require revolutionary change. Fear is the sole enemy of radical action. Apathy and fear are... ...fear and apathy.... The two enemies of change are fear and apathy...and ignorance.... The three enemies are fear, and apathy, and ignorance...and an almost fanatical devotion to tradition.... The four...no...
  16. Re:Not surprising on School's Out Forever at SV High Tech High · · Score: 1

    People designed planes, nuclear bombs and all sorts of engineering/science marvels without computers. Computers are useful but not essential. Two concrete examples, and then an etcetera type statement - picking planes and nuclear bombs seems to imply that you think dropping a nuke on Hiroshima was the apogee of human engineering? Odd choice there.
  17. Re:Parent is a troll on Disney Video Used to Explain Copyright · · Score: 1

    If that's not fair use, then snalshdot isn't a website. http://snalshdot.org/
    http://snalshdot.net/
    http://snalshdot.com/

    Server not found
    Firefox can't find the server at www.snalshdot.org.
    • Check the address for typing errors such as
      ww.example.com instead of
      www.example.com
    • If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
    • If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
    Who knows, maybe the sites were snalshdotted.
  18. Re:Chuck the Lot on California to Start Review of Voting Machines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Paper ballots can be manipulated easily as well. It's just a different set of problems.

    I don't want to waste my time writing down possibilities that are going to be ignored, so anybody who's curious can just use their imagination on how to defraud a paper ballot based system.

    Electronic voting can be secured as much as modern paper ballots - it's not inherently impossible.

  19. Re:But you can surprise them on Student Financial Aid Database Being Misused · · Score: 1

    an automated plugin or script that would respond with phrases such as, "that sounds interesting, can you tell me more?", "I don't know, I'm just not sure", "yeah", "uh-huh", I'm pretty sure you don't want to respond with a "yeah" or "uh-huh" to anything a telemarketer says...
  20. Re:The beginning of the end on Researchers Building Computers That Run on Light · · Score: 1

    Artificial sources are always acceptable. It's that terrible natural stuff we're trying to block out.

  21. Re:Phishing on International URLs Pass First Test · · Score: 1

    A shorter digest of the info evought provided is here.

  22. Re:how to hang IE7 on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 1

    I found another way. Workarounds are easily doable, but the browser crashing is strange...

  23. Re:Not Valid XML! on Google and Yahoo! Working Together On Better Web Indexing · · Score: 1

    Really? It looks like it's all there (and in all the other examples they have posted):

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 ">
          <url>
                <loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
                <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
                <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
                <priority>0.8</priority>
    </urlset>

  24. Re:Selling for Apple? on "DVD Jon" Reverse Engineers FairPlay · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, you missed something. The implication is that Apple will sell a lot more hardware because Johansen will increase the amount of Fairplay protected content available.

  25. Broadband In Gas? on Broadband Over Gas Lines — a Pipe Dream? · · Score: 1

    BIG? What a waste of an acronym. They could have Broadband Over Gas, Broadband Under Gas, or Broadband Around Gas. Any of those would be better.

    Of course, a company run by real geeks would have released Broadband Following Gas.

    My guess? The technology works, but they just don't have the spark they need to get out of the ground.