They have. Trouble is, there is no one else to vote for. That's why voter turnout is so low.
Oh...I seee, thats why none of you voted for Nader. I mean could you at least admit it. Your lives are controlled by the media. I mean Fox News is a collection of all those people you went to school with when you were younger that scratch their head while eating a banana and jumping up and down on a table...
And stop giving out to each other. Most/. users are not to blame it is the 80% of other Americans that strive to get jobs with Fox News...
I have _never_ seen a price increase or decrease for any goods or services due to the price of gasoline/diesel fuel which is pretty volatile compared to other commodities and inflation.
Welcome to the world of highly affluent virtuous and ethical petroleum companes. They are magnificent angels.
How much power do we need. If you're not gaming, use a low resourse consuming OS - Debian etc. on a low power consuming laptop - VIA. Its just not right that people who need laptops only for e-mail, chat etc. are going around with laptops capable of cracking MD5 hashes in a resonable time. What a waste of resources. And they could lose "prestige" in what? 2 years. On th scrap heap in 10! It's amazing how readily people are willing to f$@* everything up:|
Networked cells - isn't that a form of communism? Don't blame me, I'm just trying to get inside the American psyche. Getting into the American psyche, isn't that like,... communism??
When I say genetic makeup in the context of women I mean that they have inate qualities that make them suitable to raising children. For example they can provide a baby with milk. Also there are psychologists that believe women are inclined to be more loyal than men - especially during the early years of a childs life. (this is arguable) If true, this loyalty makes them more suitable to raise children than men.
Whwn I speak about ignorant men I am obviously not now talking about inate genetic makeup for raising children but rather intellectual makeup.
The mistake I made was saying 'ignorant men' because believe me there's a heck of a lot of ignorant women out there too. I've come across plenty - especially in recruitment agencies...
I believe allot of it is shaped by the fact that women have been marginalised out of accademia and politics for so long. Thats all changed now though. I think women are insisting now on having the same opportunities at less of the cost i.e. the women that are happy to keep old traditions like men paying for everything and yet cry foul when embracing these same old traditions involves giving up this new accademic, and political power etc.
However it does annoy me when I here an ignorant man brag about how men are (arguably) better technically then women. I find that these men are usually inherently weak technically. With this, as with all things, those who brag are usually the weakest of all.
Another point: Whats so wrong with the traditional ways. At some point a woman gives birth and the genetic makeup of women makes them better child carers than men. Thats just the way it is. Going against the grane by ignoring this reality is a formula for unhappiness in my view.
This gets me back to my original point. If women had more rights to begin with, then education would be tailored towards them and they might be better, who knows, but the reality is that men took it upon themselves to start up these institutions. In terms of who I think should have power / influence - noone / everyone. But if anyone is going to have it it shouldn't be decided on the basis of sex. I think a rigorous random test ( and one that cannot be prepared for) of ethics should decided the case for each individual. Why should ethics decide? Because then we can al know what script we are all reading from and start to make real changes knowing we have the confidence to start it off because everyone with influence is working with the same ethical script...
This then starts off the question of what is ethical. We should probably make a sudden announcement that the top X % of all PHD's in ethics around the world will be the carriers of influence and power. They would have to prove their credentials by accepting no money for themsleves or any aquiantances of them from anyone or anything for this "inaugeration". They would all come together and create an ethical charter by which people are given influence / power in companies, governtment, science etc. They would maintain the testing of candidates for any such positions. The tests would of course have to be random and highly unpredictable so that immoral people (fakes) could not just spoof the answers (this happens in real life with psychometric tests for example). Once we are all reading from the same hymn sheet, things might get better faster...and men and women would be picked for certain rolls without discrimination. Racism couls become a thing of the past too...
Who has the most to fear by such change? The ignorant, weak, ape-like people among us...
"As the amount of Open Source software grows, so does the problem of complexity." Ahhh, the days of theoretical computer science - big O notation bah blah blah...
and or Brit - no class. No flame intended.. But really - go to Italy with this and they will spit on you. The optimum heat for coffee before you start to burn off the aroma/flavour is 88 degrees celcius. So what you would be drinking is incinerated coffee with caffeine - why not just save yourself the bother - use self heating water only and caffeine - same thing. Or you could go for the intravenous injection!
Here's a picture of some guys from the same conference. Which might help you understand why she's a lesbian.
that she's a lesbian would once have bothered me but I have to say, it adds up and it makes sense. Sometimes I wish my little sister was a lesbian so that in the future I would know she would not associate with little rat boys. I am a not a typical geek either - Im a more prim kind of male...I am tough...yet soft..and NO Im not gay but sex doesn't mean allot to me.
..one of the few ways of having as close to true privacy as we can realistically get
And please dont call it "homeland security".
It's more "civil rights management" or "civil restrictions management" depending on your opinion. One thing for sure is that something which is such a popular catch phrase for counter-terrorism has no real association with the comfort of a "home" - the place you come from.
In fact I find that it is those people who are most cynical and paranoid (homeless like in other words) that are throwing that slogan around like a contraceptive. At least thats how I feel in my "home" land - Ireland.
Sorry if you think Im trying to flame you, I am not. Im trying to encourage you not to use that word - which has false interpretation, muck like the infamous DRM acronym...
Sounds like a good way to make a global whitelist! Allow incomming mail only from such valid e-mail accounts that are using the service. Could be useful for spam. Or will spam endure as it always has done...;/
Re:Is THIS the future of TV?
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yeah, yeah I know what you mean but Im speaking in terms of the literal meaning of channel (as in multi-channel sound for example). Of course there would be 1,000s+ of channels..and not in the conventional meaning (as in T.V stations..)
Gone will be the
"hey did you see that on telly last night"
to be replaced with:
"Crap, I forgot to update what programs and movies Im showing on my Video.OIP server.."
"Yeah, Ive got a license for the new Star wars movie 3 nights a week hehe.."
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slashdot could develop a plugin which when installed creates a form of torrent server where all machines used to view the story combine their resources to make a sort of virtual server hmm interesting!
So how would you know the checksum program is not rigged. You can't verify software with another piece of software. You need to have something that can be verified with human eyes. e.g. A PIECE OF PAPER.
Actually, you can't verify the piece of paper either by that reasoning. All I'm saying is an open source voting system has many advantages. The MD5 checksum, linux kernel (or whatever you use), GNU c compiler, voting software...could all be verified using an international team who inspect the machines with their own eyes to make sure the source is as it should be. then they take out their checksum software (they bring that with them) - MD5, SHA-1 and verify the binaries are true. There could be a public (and fun) unveiling where the international team walk into a apecial cafe and download the checksum from the internet. Then they display the checksum on a presentation (KPresent or something), doing in such away so as the conspiry theorists can see and verify the code against their own source copy. Then the international team goes off and verifies the binaries in the voting machine..
Of course the machine itself should be an off the shelf mass produced one (that could be set up publically and openly too : ) - or maybe an open source one - Xorp could help out there.
You could easily make all of this transparency happen - and warm the hearts of voters in so doing. The key would be to make sure the public see the source code for the good'ol MD5 or whichever algorithm they use - the source code is not that big for MD5 anyway!
Also, I believe there should definately be a paper trail as well. In my country, Ireland, we decided not to go ahead with e-voting until we have a paper trail - a wise choice in my opinion.
Slashdot Mirror
You work for Fox News too, a-boom-tish!
Oh...I seee, thats why none of you voted for Nader. I mean could you at least admit it. Your lives are controlled by the media. I mean Fox News is a collection of all those people you went to school with when you were younger that scratch their head while eating a banana and jumping up and down on a table...
And stop giving out to each other. Most /. users are not to blame it is the 80% of other Americans that strive to get jobs with Fox News...
Welcome to the world of highly affluent virtuous and ethical petroleum companes. They are magnificent angels.
How much power do we need. :|
If you're not gaming, use a low resourse consuming OS - Debian etc. on a low power consuming laptop - VIA. Its just not right that people who need laptops only for e-mail, chat etc. are going around with laptops capable of cracking MD5 hashes in a resonable time. What a waste of resources. And they could lose "prestige" in what? 2 years. On th scrap heap in 10! It's amazing how readily people are willing to f$@* everything up
yes, welcome to the the world of mobile computing...
My preference if money were no obstacle:
...
AMD Athlon64 s939
AMD Athlon64 s754
Intel Pentium M Sonoma
Intel Pentium M Centrino
AMD Opteron
MAC mini G4
iMAC G4
Intel Celeron D
Intel Pentium 4
In related News:
IE have proposed introducting simlar measures to IE6 using ActiveX and DHTML.
And: OSDL writes a version of the Linux kernel that doesn't infringe patents
So its the same as the official kernel then!!
several of my friends in college were [unfeminine - hehe^^] female math majors
In a recent Brown study, [unfeminine - hehe^^] women performed as much as 12 percent better on math problems when tested in a setting without men.
Networked cells - isn't that a form of communism?
Don't blame me, I'm just trying to get inside the American psyche. Getting into the American psyche, isn't that like,... communism??
Nothing to see here, move along
You are taking it out of context.
When I say genetic makeup in the context of women I mean that they have inate qualities that make them suitable to raising children. For example they can provide a baby with milk. Also there are psychologists that believe women are inclined to be more loyal than men - especially during the early years of a childs life. (this is arguable) If true, this loyalty makes them more suitable to raise children than men.
Whwn I speak about ignorant men I am obviously not now talking about inate genetic makeup for raising children but rather intellectual makeup.
The mistake I made was saying 'ignorant men' because believe me there's a heck of a lot of ignorant women out there too. I've come across plenty - especially in recruitment agencies...
Gimme a break!
I believe allot of it is shaped by the fact that women have been marginalised out of accademia and politics for so long. Thats all changed now though. I think women are insisting now on having the same opportunities at less of the cost i.e. the women that are happy to keep old traditions like men paying for everything and yet cry foul when embracing these same old traditions involves giving up this new accademic, and political power etc.
However it does annoy me when I here an ignorant man brag about how men are (arguably) better technically then women. I find that these men are usually inherently weak technically. With this, as with all things, those who brag are usually the weakest of all.
Another point: Whats so wrong with the traditional ways. At some point a woman gives birth and the genetic makeup of women makes them better child carers than men. Thats just the way it is. Going against the grane by ignoring this reality is a formula for unhappiness in my view.
This gets me back to my original point. If women had more rights to begin with, then education would be tailored towards them and they might be better, who knows, but the reality is that men took it upon themselves to start up these institutions. In terms of who I think should have power / influence - noone / everyone. But if anyone is going to have it it shouldn't be decided on the basis of sex. I think a rigorous random test ( and one that cannot be prepared for) of ethics should decided the case for each individual. Why should ethics decide? Because then we can al know what script we are all reading from and start to make real changes knowing we have the confidence to start it off because everyone with influence is working with the same ethical script...
This then starts off the question of what is ethical. We should probably make a sudden announcement that the top X % of all PHD's in ethics around the world will be the carriers of influence and power. They would have to prove their credentials by accepting no money for themsleves or any aquiantances of them from anyone or anything for this "inaugeration". They would all come together and create an ethical charter by which people are given influence / power in companies, governtment, science etc. They would maintain the testing of candidates for any such positions. The tests would of course have to be random and highly unpredictable so that immoral people (fakes) could not just spoof the answers (this happens in real life with psychometric tests for example). Once we are all reading from the same hymn sheet, things might get better faster...and men and women would be picked for certain rolls without discrimination.
Racism couls become a thing of the past too...
Who has the most to fear by such change? The ignorant, weak, ape-like people among us...
"As the amount of Open Source software grows, so does the problem of complexity." Ahhh, the days of theoretical computer science - big O notation bah blah blah...
and or Brit - no class. No flame intended..
But really - go to Italy with this and they will spit on you.
The optimum heat for coffee before you start to burn off the aroma/flavour is 88 degrees celcius.
So what you would be drinking is incinerated coffee with caffeine - why not just save yourself the bother - use self heating water only and caffeine - same thing. Or you could go for the intravenous injection!
that she's a lesbian would once have bothered me but I have to say, it adds up and it makes sense. Sometimes I wish my little sister was a lesbian so that in the future I would know she would not associate with little rat boys. I am a not a typical geek either - Im a more prim kind of male...I am tough...yet soft..and NO Im not gay but sex doesn't mean allot to me.
It's just that any geek doesn't really aspire for a stunning super model - a cute elvin chip designer is what we long for...
dont you mean Irish??
And please dont call it "homeland security". It's more "civil rights management" or "civil restrictions management" depending on your opinion. One thing for sure is that something which is such a popular catch phrase for counter-terrorism has no real association with the comfort of a "home" - the place you come from. In fact I find that it is those people who are most cynical and paranoid (homeless like in other words) that are throwing that slogan around like a contraceptive. At least thats how I feel in my "home" land - Ireland.
Sorry if you think Im trying to flame you, I am not. Im trying to encourage you not to use that word - which has false interpretation, muck like the infamous DRM acronym...
Sounds like a good way to make a global whitelist! ;/
Allow incomming mail only from such valid e-mail accounts that are using the service. Could be useful for spam. Or will spam endure as it always has done...
yeah, yeah I know what you mean but Im speaking in terms of the literal meaning of channel (as in multi-channel sound for example). Of course there would be 1,000s+ of channels..and not in the conventional meaning (as in T.V stations..)
Gone will be the
"hey did you see that on telly last night"
to be replaced with:
"Crap, I forgot to update what programs and movies Im showing on my Video.OIP server.."
"Yeah, Ive got a license for the new Star wars movie 3 nights a week hehe.."
select what channel you want to watch over TCP!!
slashdot could develop a plugin which when installed creates a form of torrent server where all machines used to view the story combine their resources to make a sort of virtual server hmm interesting!
and I could look at a grand total of zero of 666 .. /. effect- never seen so many numbers.
damn
Actually, you can't verify the piece of paper either by that reasoning. All I'm saying is an open source voting system has many advantages. The MD5 checksum, linux kernel (or whatever you use), GNU c compiler, voting software...could all be verified using an international team who inspect the machines with their own eyes to make sure the source is as it should be. then they take out their checksum software (they bring that with them) - MD5, SHA-1 and verify the binaries are true. There could be a public (and fun) unveiling where the international team walk into a apecial cafe and download the checksum from the internet. Then they display the checksum on a presentation (KPresent or something), doing in such away so as the conspiry theorists can see and verify the code against their own source copy. Then the international team goes off and verifies the binaries in the voting machine.. Of course the machine itself should be an off the shelf mass produced one (that could be set up publically and openly too : ) - or maybe an open source one - Xorp could help out there. You could easily make all of this transparency happen - and warm the hearts of voters in so doing. The key would be to make sure the public see the source code for the good'ol MD5 or whichever algorithm they use - the source code is not that big for MD5 anyway!
Also, I believe there should definately be a paper trail as well. In my country, Ireland, we decided not to go ahead with e-voting until we have a paper trail - a wise choice in my opinion.