I know for a fact that FoxNews had called Florida for Gore at 7:40-45ish... What time do the polls close in Florida?
In the far west, 8pm EST. I find it hard to believe that thousands of Republicans decided not to vote 10 minutes before the polls closed. Even so, there is no way the state can gag the media until the next day. I have a constitutional right to call up an Alaskan citizen and brag about how my vote has is in four hours before their polls even open.
Also worth noting is that Buchanan himself has stated that he doesn't think he deserves most of those votes, and he'd like us to find out who they were meant for. You have to admire that, considering that the man can't be a Gore fan...
Buchanan supports Gore for the same reason Nader supports Bush (strange bedfellows indeed...). If Bush wins this election, Buchanan as zero chance of being listened to in the next one.
Fact: Voting "irregularities" are not uncommon in Florida, especially south Florida.
Irregularities are not uncommon anywhere in the country. The matter is normally academic and nobody cares, except in the case of a very close race (hence the automatic recount law in Florida). In this case, however, the President of the United States is being decided by a 900 vote margin (at current count). And you're surprised people are taking a hard look at those 900 votes?
Fact: This ballot had been used in previous elections.
The butterfly ballot has been used before, but this is the first time in the history of the state anything has been printed on the right-hand side.
Fact: This ballot was (theoretically) designed to make it easier for older voters.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Fact: Supervisors for both Democrats and Republicans had to approve this ballot. If it is so obviously confusing, why did no one complain
before?
And Apple vetted the Quicktime player, no matter how much of a beast that interface is. In these things, there's no way of knowing before it's too late.
Those are exactly the people I said that blew it. They were not rushed by anyone besides themselves in the voting booth. I've never seen a stopwatch at the polls.
No Floridian may spend more than five minutes in the voting booth. I'd quote the law itself, but "Slashdotted" doesn't even begin to describe the state website right now...
I certainly was watching the debate live when Gore repeatedly claimed, in all seriousness, that a very specific child in a very specific district was going without a desk -- and doing his best to imply that it was due to Jeb Bush denying schools vital funds.
Please read the article next time. It spent a good deal of time on this issue, and you came back and spouted all the same misinformation it debunked.
Apparently he wasn't counting on a reporter actually doing the research
"Research" here being defined as making a single phone call to the school's principal, and not bothering to ask even the girl herself what happened.
and finding out that the reason the desk wasn't there -- for a day
There were students without desks for the first month.
-- was that there was a shortage of space while they were moving in $100,000 worth of new lab equipment.
Okay, I'll accept that one as why that particular girl was standing up in her science class, but what expensive lab equipment had history students standing?
You want a coherent argument? On Slashdot? Well, all right, I'm saying the Laffer Curve is irrelevant. It's a nice theory, but until someone can put accurate numbers on the axes we can't use it effectively. We can certainly use it ineffectively, but I'm back to anecdotal evidence.
It has been psychologically disproven, you cannot compartmentalize violence in this way. Embracing violent behavior in one location tends to create violent behavior everywhere else as well.
"Psychologically disproved"? Source? If this is the case, then surely the greatest threat is from trained soldiers and cops!
Why is adolescent violence going down then? Because most adolescent violence is caused by people who don't have a sense of "belonging".
Bull. Your average inner-city gang has great sense of fraternity, and a very high crime rate. Adolescent violence has the same sources as adult violence. The first thing to look at is money, and after that you look at sex, and way, way down the list is the mass-murdering nutjob. Yes, you can say that nutjobs don't get along well with other people, but it's really hard to prove that not getting along turns you into a nutjob.
Hard to call them anything else, really. The IOC is where overthrown third world tyrants go to die, and few have changed their colors. Bribery, drugs, nepotism, arbitrary rule enforcement, threatening of investigative journalists... It's difficult to find something they're not guilty of.
Is anybody else repulsed here? I find myself reminded of a premise in 'Fight Club', that car companies tally up the repercussions of a recall before bringing the faulty vehicles back to the manufacturing plants...if the cost of all the lawsuits is lower than the cost of the recall, it's never issued.
Fight Club? That's the Ford Pinto story in a nutshell, only Ford was off by a couple zeros in their lawsuit estimates...
We all know the disparity is because Linux developers report their bugs to Bugtraq, and Microsoft's developers do not, but one of the best discussions of this general phenomenon is about 3/4s of the way through Neal Stephenson's In the Beginning was the Command Line. A quote:
Commercial OSes have to adopt the same official stance towards errors as Communist countries had towards poverty. For doctrinal reasons it was not possible to admit that poverty was a serious problem in Communist countries, because the whole point of Communism was to eradicate poverty. Likewise, commercial OS companies like Apple and Microsoft can't go around admitting that their software has bugs and that it crashes all the time, any more than Disney can issue press releases stating that Mickey Mouse is an actor in a suit.
This is a truly excellent essay. I urge everybody to read it.
I'm sure one could give you a solution with teeth behind it. A restraining order, perhaps, or if you want blood (and cash), a slander and harassment lawsuit.
Microsoft has hundreds of full-time programmers on Windows, more than enough to swamp the efforts of 13000 part-time hackers and students. IIRC, Windows, measured in man-hours, is the single greatest engineering project in the history of humanity.
A lot of the people I know here at Cornell are doing this as much for the recognition of processing X number of blocks a day, as they are for the actual science of the project.
This won't be the first time an upgrade has caused an increase in time. If they stay true to form (and they may not), at some point they will just start discarding results from older clients.
Mot users do not care about source code. You guys are so geeked out, you think everyone wants source.
Therefore nobody wants the source and there's no incentive to disseminate? Why not distribute the source and make geeks more likely to buy? It's not like the added burden, having a CD-ROM burner and some storage space around for three years, costs anything.
You don't lose anything, and you might gain something, so toss the dice.
If you were running the project, it would be history because you would be releasing your hard work to the public, and would be broke in no time, as no one would then be required to pay.
Huh? Somewhere else in this thread someone posted a link to all of TiVo's GPL'd source. Please explain to me how this link will get me a free TiVo.
The problem with peer review is that you'd need a huge number of experts. You're not just looking at prior art, you're looking at practicality.
The Patent Office ia already supposed to be an expert on every field, that's the problem.
Rather than formal peer-review board, just insert a Request For Comments period, where the patent application is available for public review. If VNC or Citrix had heard about GraphOn's patent before it had been approved, they could have submitted enough "prior art" to make even the most thick-headed patent clerk take notice.
Why don't Debian people try to collect all links (or even archive) to these slink un-official packages? Only a few of them are needed to keep people happy using Debian.
Does Debian actually have a roadmap? Do they say "OK, let's get these changes, and whatever minor packages are stable by this date, into a new release?" Or is it just "hey, I woke up this morning and decided, let's do a release!"
The former, mostly. If you search the debian-devel list archives you'll find people talking about what should be go into the next release. I believe the big upgrades for slink-to-potato were perl, glibc, XFree, and, of course, the kernel.
Both the compiler and the standard define the birth of a language. Neither is really more important, so you can't complain they used the wrong one. There is no wrong one.
Okay, I'm just being anal now. I was just trying to point out to the AC that they did mention K&R C (the language, not the book), just not in so many words.
Slashdot Mirror
You want a coherent argument? On Slashdot? Well, all right, I'm saying the Laffer Curve is irrelevant. It's a nice theory, but until someone can put accurate numbers on the axes we can't use it effectively. We can certainly use it ineffectively, but I'm back to anecdotal evidence.
5. seems that the mirrors havent been updated, could i dont see RMS in any of the Debian servers.
apt-get install vrms
Fight Club? That's the Ford Pinto story in a nutshell, only Ford was off by a couple zeros in their lawsuit estimates...
The All-American Answer: Lawyers.
I'm sure one could give you a solution with teeth behind it. A restraining order, perhaps, or if you want blood (and cash), a slander and harassment lawsuit.
I remember the first time I put my new glasses on... Wow! Trees have leaves! Not just a blurry shade of green :)
For me the kicker was finally understanding the phrase "the man in the moon". That one had puzzled me for years...
Money.
Microsoft has hundreds of full-time programmers on Windows, more than enough to swamp the efforts of 13000 part-time hackers and students. IIRC, Windows, measured in man-hours, is the single greatest engineering project in the history of humanity.
A lot of the people I know here at Cornell are doing this as much for the recognition of processing X number of blocks a day, as they are for the actual science of the project.
This won't be the first time an upgrade has caused an increase in time. If they stay true to form (and they may not), at some point they will just start discarding results from older clients.
Mot users do not care about source code. You guys are so geeked out, you think everyone wants source.
Therefore nobody wants the source and there's no incentive to disseminate? Why not distribute the source and make geeks more likely to buy? It's not like the added burden, having a CD-ROM burner and some storage space around for three years, costs anything.
You don't lose anything, and you might gain something, so toss the dice.
If you were running the project, it would be history because you would be releasing your hard work to the public, and would be broke in no
time, as no one would then be required to pay.
Huh? Somewhere else in this thread someone posted a link to all of TiVo's GPL'd source. Please explain to me how this link will get me a free TiVo.
The problem with peer review is that you'd need a huge number of experts. You're not just looking at prior art, you're looking at practicality.
The Patent Office ia already supposed to be an expert on every field, that's the problem.
Rather than formal peer-review board, just insert a Request For Comments period, where the patent application is available for public review. If VNC or Citrix had heard about GraphOn's patent before it had been approved, they could have submitted enough "prior art" to make even the most thick-headed patent clerk take notice.
Why don't Debian people try to collect all links (or even archive) to these slink un-official packages? Only a few of them are needed to keep people happy using Debian.
Various UNOFFICIAL sources for APT
Does Debian actually have a roadmap? Do they say "OK, let's get these changes, and whatever minor packages are stable by this date, into a new release?" Or is it just "hey, I woke up this morning and decided, let's do a release!"
The former, mostly. If you search the debian-devel list archives you'll find people talking about what should be go into the next release. I believe the big upgrades for slink-to-potato were perl, glibc, XFree, and, of course, the kernel.
I use debian daily, so when you mention the security fixes, i wonder why they don't show up in apt-get update?
/etc/apt/sources.list and they will.
Not by default they don't, but add
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates
to your
Both the compiler and the standard define the birth of a language. Neither is really more important, so you can't complain they used the wrong one. There is no wrong one.
Okay, I'm just being anal now. I was just trying to point out to the AC that they did mention K&R C (the language, not the book), just not in so many words.
What good is a language standard if you can't actually write and compile a program?
Amazing how many of them mention free software and the FSF. I mean, GNU is not UNIX, right?