The best way to avoid electronic election fraud is to not use electronic voting machines to begin with. If you have to use electronic machines, however, the second best way is to be sure you're not using Diebold machines. Also, keep people like Karl Rove, Wally Odell (http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html), and other Republican operatives away from the electronic voting machines. However, all these won't really prevent the machines from registering votes for George W. Bush, since they came from the factory with a pre-programmed narrow margin of victory for the Republican party. Since you're a republican, the fix is in and you have nothing to worry about.
DST give me that extra hour in the evenings during the warm months to exercise outdoors. Sadly, the whiny bunch whines about it every spring, but they NEVER whine in November when they get that extra hour of sleep back.
I have had time warner at my house for years, and RELATIVELY speaking, I'm lucky. I don't have AT&T, Comcast, or any of those other crooks that other people are forced to deal with. Time Warner, at least in -my- area of town, is reliable enough to only go down perhaps once or twice a year, which I can live with. Their speed is still good enough, and they don't pull that of that censorship business.... yet.
Advice for EVERYONE: Don't sign these things, ever. Never, ever sign a non-compete. Just don't do it. I did and luckily it wasn't a super-long term. Also, if a company forces you to use a non-compete, find out BEFORE accepting the job offer. If a company that you've been working for comes along and asks you to sign it, call your lawyer immediately.
Why settle in 2007??? I've been buying hard disks advertised with "salesman's meg" since 1987! All the hard disks have been advertised with K=1000, M=1000000, G=1000000000. Why start now that we're all used to it?
That's probably because Bush thought he was spozedta be the "Surgin' General" to take all them troops into Iraq. When he instead heard a bunch of science mumbo jumbo he HAD to do SOMETHING!!
Back in the early 90s my mentor taught me how to wash wyse keyboards in the sink. These were real keyboards with real switches, not membranes.
HOT HOT water. Non-ionizing soap. Let it soak a few minutes. Manipulate all the keys under water. Let soak some more. Then rinse with plenty of distilled water. Rinse more. Rinse more.
Now.... set the oven on warm, NOT HOT. Warm enough to evaporate the water. Put the keyboard in the oven for a while. When it comes out, test it. We made many keyboards that were destined for the garbage as good as new this way.
For MEMBRANE keyboards, take 'em apart and do the cotton/alcohol trick on the sheets and wash the plastic stuff however you feel.
...if they want to make a dent in Linux's success, they would have to:
* GPL 2 it. (not likely) * Make it faster. (not likely) * Make it so that all gnu projects will compile easily on it. (impossible) * Invent the killer app everyone just has to have that forces you to run Sun operating systems. (won't happen) * Come up with some other realistic incentive besides being Sun.
Right now, I have a Linux-based infrastructure for my business, and there's NO incentive to use Sun software or hardware, none, nada, zip.
merit badges for NOT killing someone and NOT doing drugs and NOT illegally taking campaign contributions and NOT speeding and NOT masturbating and NOT coveting (ad nauseum)
Scout 1: Praise Jeezus! I got my merit badge for NOT yet killing anyone! Scout 2: Praise God! Me too! Scout 3: Let's go masturbate in that tent over there! Scout 4: I can't join you guys, I got my "Don't masturbate" badge last week.
While CA is right that automakers haven't stepped up to the plate and have done everything possible to lobby congress for lower fuel mileage standards AND lower pollution standards, this suit unfortunately has about as much chance flying on its own as an anvil.
1: Well, because the M$ tax you paid partially went to those licensors, there you go. That's what happens when you use free software. Blame that on RH's lawyers.
2: Oh, but ever heard of a "service pack?" You're replacing damn near half the operating system when upgrading XP SP1 to XP SP2. Of course, Windows doesn't have the same sort of kernel that linux does. Linux's kernel is "separate" from all the other pieces parts... Windows is this mish-mash of "things."
3: Call nVidia and bitch. or rebuild the driver. it takes five minutes. Quit whining.
4: I haven't had to tell Xwindows my refresh rates for years. Dunno what's wrong with YOUR monitor.
I would start with C. Seriously. Then, choose a project. Then, just start! Hammer your way through it. It'll suck at first and progress will be slow. Then each little thing you learn will take you closer and closer.
Why C? Most things are written in it and there are plenty of "sample" programs to choose from to view code.
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The best way to avoid electronic election fraud is to not use electronic voting machines to begin with. If you have to use electronic machines, however, the second best way is to be sure you're not using Diebold machines. Also, keep people like Karl Rove, Wally Odell (http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html), and other Republican operatives away from the electronic voting machines. However, all these won't really prevent the machines from registering votes for George W. Bush, since they came from the factory with a pre-programmed narrow margin of victory for the Republican party. Since you're a republican, the fix is in and you have nothing to worry about.
The best I've found so far for my Treo 650 is pssh, which works quite acceptably in a pinch. I prefer my good old laptop though.
Harumph! Harumph! (wasn't Mel Brooks great?)
DST give me that extra hour in the evenings during the warm months to exercise outdoors. Sadly, the whiny bunch whines about it every spring, but they NEVER whine in November when they get that extra hour of sleep back.
I have had time warner at my house for years, and RELATIVELY speaking, I'm lucky. I don't have AT&T, Comcast, or any of those other crooks that other people are forced to deal with. Time Warner, at least in -my- area of town, is reliable enough to only go down perhaps once or twice a year, which I can live with. Their speed is still good enough, and they don't pull that of that censorship business.... yet.
Huh?
Advice for EVERYONE: Don't sign these things, ever. Never, ever sign a non-compete. Just don't do it. I did and luckily it wasn't a super-long term. Also, if a company forces you to use a non-compete, find out BEFORE accepting the job offer. If a company that you've been working for comes along and asks you to sign it, call your lawyer immediately.
Damn straight!!! Those motherfuckers should be impounded!
...because I have so many files I need to trade with the aliens.
Why settle in 2007??? I've been buying hard disks advertised with "salesman's meg" since 1987! All the hard disks have been advertised with K=1000, M=1000000, G=1000000000. Why start now that we're all used to it?
They'll still be about the same RELATIVE TO desktops, servers, and other machines... handheld devices.
Hell, my palm pilot way outpowers my CoCo II. Are any of you OLD ENOUGH to remember the CoCo??
... I don't purchase much media these days.
If you're going to treat me like a crook, then I won't buy from you.
As soon as all TV is no longer "free" then I'll also stop with that media too.
That's probably because Bush thought he was spozedta be the "Surgin' General" to take all them troops into Iraq. When he instead heard a bunch of science mumbo jumbo he HAD to do SOMETHING!!
Back in the early 90s my mentor taught me how to wash wyse keyboards in the sink. These were real keyboards with real switches, not membranes.
HOT HOT water. Non-ionizing soap. Let it soak a few minutes. Manipulate all the keys under water. Let soak some more. Then rinse with plenty of distilled water. Rinse more. Rinse more.
Now.... set the oven on warm, NOT HOT. Warm enough to evaporate the water. Put the keyboard in the oven for a while. When it comes out, test it. We made many keyboards that were destined for the garbage as good as new this way.
For MEMBRANE keyboards, take 'em apart and do the cotton/alcohol trick on the sheets and wash the plastic stuff however you feel.
It really works!
...if they want to make a dent in Linux's success, they would have to:
* GPL 2 it. (not likely)
* Make it faster. (not likely)
* Make it so that all gnu projects will compile easily on it. (impossible)
* Invent the killer app everyone just has to have that forces you to run Sun operating systems. (won't happen)
* Come up with some other realistic incentive besides being Sun.
Right now, I have a Linux-based infrastructure for my business, and there's NO incentive to use Sun software or hardware, none, nada, zip.
Puleeze.. SG1 was NOT that good. Atlantis is worse.
... Well, for Novell, anyway. Novell has a big history of buying, then dumping, things. I used to be a Novell fanboy but an now recuperating.
The entire story is a biased troll!!!
merit badges for NOT killing someone and NOT doing drugs and NOT illegally taking campaign contributions and NOT speeding and NOT masturbating and NOT coveting (ad nauseum)
Scout 1: Praise Jeezus! I got my merit badge for NOT yet killing anyone!
Scout 2: Praise God! Me too!
Scout 3: Let's go masturbate in that tent over there!
Scout 4: I can't join you guys, I got my "Don't masturbate" badge last week.
While CA is right that automakers haven't stepped up to the plate and have done everything possible to lobby congress for lower fuel mileage standards AND lower pollution standards, this suit unfortunately has about as much chance flying on its own as an anvil.
1: Well, because the M$ tax you paid partially went to those licensors, there you go. That's what happens when you use free software. Blame that on RH's lawyers.
2: Oh, but ever heard of a "service pack?" You're replacing damn near half the operating system when upgrading XP SP1 to XP SP2. Of course, Windows doesn't have the same sort of kernel that linux does. Linux's kernel is "separate" from all the other pieces parts... Windows is this mish-mash of "things."
3: Call nVidia and bitch. or rebuild the driver. it takes five minutes. Quit whining.
4: I haven't had to tell Xwindows my refresh rates for years. Dunno what's wrong with YOUR monitor.
5: File browser: cd, ls, mkdir, etc. Be a man!
Any DECENT firewall can still log where people are going.
Their environmental record is poor too. See http://news.com.com/Jobs+defends+Apples+record+on+ environment/2100-1041_3-5680152.html
The best way?
Hmm.
I would start with C. Seriously. Then, choose a project. Then, just start! Hammer your way through it. It'll suck at first and progress will be slow. Then each little thing you learn will take you closer and closer.
Why C? Most things are written in it and there are plenty of "sample" programs to choose from to view code.
I see very few votes for Dr. Emmet "Doc" Brown.
What's up with that???
He was funny.
You're FORCED to watch TV?