Most people are missing the point. An election must not only be fair but it must be seen to be fair.
I have no idea why the US has such problems with their voting. In the UK everyone votes on paper..... with a fucking pen. (No dimpled chads crap!) It is counted by hand and is never out by more than 10 votes in 30,000. We also have the result by the early hours of the morning.
The point is if you want to go and count all the votes yourself you can. The whole idea of an election is that it is open. For this there must be a paper trail. Why complicate the matter? The other point is that it is secret. Who I vote for is none of anyones bussiness. I would always be nervous with electronic voting for two reasons. I want to know that my vote has really bean counted and I want to know that I am anonymous.
As regards election fraud it is easier to imagine someone messing with an electonic count than someone turning up with a few suitcases of paper and trying to stuff them into a ballot box in fron t of the election officals.
Are we not even getting to the stage where physics kicks in.
What I mean is that we cant just keep spinning the discs faster and faster as they will start to break appart. What I remember from x52 CD drives is that then the discs will break up with the centrifugal force. I guess we are going to have to start with more than one laser at the same time.
There was an discussion a while back: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/22/03112 48.shtm l?tid=126
Anyway good on them. Faster . Bigger. Better . More.
Many thanks guys. I was just doing an update on my Mandrake 9.2 when you guys hit the servers. No update for me today.
Just ot let you know that I have been using it for 2 weeks and think it is really good. Only had one problem with acpi on my laptop but that got sorted.
Even have my parents using it and to my suprise they like it. The joy of being able to remotely administer their machine from my house are great.
So what. P2P is not illegal in itself. YOu can say that you use P2P for non copyright files.
WiFi is a wonderful defense because more than 200 computers could have been connected and not you.
Seeing that everyone is using the car analogy so shall I. I have a car and more that 200 identical lisence plates in a pile outside my house. They report that a car with my lisence plates was seen commiting the crime. My reply is "So what! The criminal obviously took one from the pile."
Remember a criminal case requires reasonable doubt. This is not the case for civil suits. In the case of civil suits just melt your harddisks into fetching paperweights and act like a noob!!
Yes..........But the whole point of a heretic is that you burn them. If not they might turn out to be right and then there will be trouble!
Ximinez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
I love Nvidia beacuse of their drivers. They work very well on linux and M$. I only need to download one driver file and it will work with all Nvidia cards. Even in my laptop under linux they work. The number of my freinds who have ATI cards in their computers who are always having driver issues and having to find unofficial drivers are very high. I dont need the hassle.
The other thing is that with Nvidia drivers you can notice the speed increase with the driver updates.
In one PC I have a RIVA TNT2 card that is getting benefit from the driver updates.
On a seperate point there is no reason why Nvidia should GLP their drivers. They belong to them and it is their work and that is that. They have every right to protect their work. (I do not say it wouldnt be nice to have them open, but hey WTF!) To demand these things is impolite.
So before they attack they will make the invading forces install these devices, too!!
Problem is I cant see that being very popular. This wont work. If you have the will to be a terrorist/freedom fighter and are going to blow things up you might first just disable the system.
Seems a waste of money to me.
If somebody has the will to do something they will do it. If you are willing to give your life then not much can stop you.
There is a system whereby the votes are double counted. One person assignes them to separate piles each of lets say 100 per candidate and another verifies the pile. Each person who counts the votes is responsible for the accuracy of the votes they count.
"what is to prevent certain people who are counting from pushing their own agendas?" ---- prison
In Britain we ahve all our votes on paper and they are all hand counted and stored. We get our election results by the morining. Even for small Scotish islands. It is not such a big job to count a few votes. Each person can count several thousand per hour. This means that you need only need 500 counters per million votes and it is done in a night.
When the result is close there is a recount and I have never seen the second result to be out by more than 5-10 per 60,000 votes.
There is an important principle that every person has the right to have their vote counted. Errors above 1 per 1000 are not acceptable. The system must not only be fair but be seen to be fair. Furthermore there must be a permanent record of the votes cast. How else can we be sure that all was fair.
Not sure they will. MIT is not some kid swapping songs. They have both political and legal might and Im sure do not like to be pushed around.
The second point is that if they go after this then they will threaten radio stations who Im sure would love to get a chance to hit back. Remember that MIT does have a license to analog broadcast. This has been very well defended for decades. Providing the transmission is analog then they are untouchable.
I bit off topic but with mandrake use the packages from the Penguin Liberation Front at http://plf.zarb.org/
They are by far the best thing for mandrake. TO quote their site "....(PLF)..is a repository of RPMs that cannot be included into the Mandrake distro for legal reasons (copyright/license/patent)."
THe list of things they have is just huge. From stuff like kmplayer (KDE mplayer plugin) to unrar for decompression.
Warning though most packages are illegal in the USA, and you dont want to be naughty!!!
I know quite a few people who have had big problems with LG drives. I think that they are very unreliable anyway. Lots of people I know also have LG burners that mess up cds when burning. Stay away. Anybody else know people with faulty drives?
>"AOL is looking out for their customers. Give em a break"
WTF? Anyway regardless of what an EULA says it can not allow someone to break the law. What if someone is actualy using the service?(maybe even more than one person!)
I dont think there is one correct answer. If it is for a browser vunrebility then fine total disclosure . If however you find a vunrebility in the net at your firebrigade call center then maybe not.
It all depends on if the software is for public consumption. At the end of the day we need quick patches but not so quick that they are poorly designed.
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Most people are missing the point. An election must not only be fair but it must be seen to be fair.
I have no idea why the US has such problems with their voting. In the UK everyone votes on paper..... with a fucking pen. (No dimpled chads crap!) It is counted by hand and is never out by more than 10 votes in 30,000. We also have the result by the early hours of the morning.
The point is if you want to go and count all the votes yourself you can. The whole idea of an election is that it is open. For this there must be a paper trail. Why complicate the matter? The other point is that it is secret. Who I vote for is none of anyones bussiness. I would always be nervous with electronic voting for two reasons. I want to know that my vote has really bean counted and I want to know that I am anonymous.
As regards election fraud it is easier to imagine someone messing with an electonic count than someone turning up with a few suitcases of paper and trying to stuff them into a ballot box in fron t of the election officals.
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Are we not even getting to the stage where physics kicks in.
2 48.shtm l?tid=126
What I mean is that we cant just keep spinning the discs faster and faster as they will start to break appart. What I remember from x52 CD drives is that then the discs will break up with the centrifugal force. I guess we are going to have to start with more than one laser at the same time.
There was an discussion a while back:
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/22/0311
Anyway good on them. Faster . Bigger. Better . More.
Why IIS .... what else?
Many thanks guys. I was just doing an update on my Mandrake 9.2 when you guys hit the servers. No update for me today.
Just ot let you know that I have been using it for 2 weeks and think it is really good. Only had one problem with acpi on my laptop but that got sorted.
Even have my parents using it and to my suprise they like it. The joy of being able to remotely administer their machine from my house are great.
So what. P2P is not illegal in itself. YOu can say that you use P2P for non copyright files.
WiFi is a wonderful defense because more than 200 computers could have been connected and not you.
Seeing that everyone is using the car analogy so shall I. I have a car and more that 200 identical lisence plates in a pile outside my house. They report that a car with my lisence plates was seen commiting the crime. My reply is "So what! The criminal obviously took one from the pile."
Remember a criminal case requires reasonable doubt. This is not the case for civil suits. In the case of civil suits just melt your harddisks into fetching paperweights and act like a noob!!
Yes..........But the whole point of a heretic is that you burn them. If not they might turn out to be right and then there will be trouble!
Ximinez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
Follow me and the one true faith. Burn the heretics.
As I understand the law (but IANAL) copyright infringment is not a crime it is a civil infraction.At least when not done for profit.
Can one go to jail for a civil infraction?
I ask because I want to know. How does it work in Oz?
In italy, for example, a judge recently ruled that it is OK to copy software provided it is not done for profit or sold to a 3rd party.
For me the top 2 were the Tier One (plane trying for the X-prize) and WASTE.
/.ers like?
Tier One for really going for it, good luck to the team.
WASTE for being something that is actualy giving us some privacy online. Good work there.
Whqat did other
DRM
From the review I think their benchmarks are great. For a first card to be scoring so highly against Nvidia and ATI is pretty amazing.
This should realy hot things up in the GPU market.... cheaper faster cards!
I agree completely.
I love Nvidia beacuse of their drivers. They work very well on linux and M$. I only need to download one driver file and it will work with all Nvidia cards. Even in my laptop under linux they work. The number of my freinds who have ATI cards in their computers who are always having driver issues and having to find unofficial drivers are very high. I dont need the hassle.
The other thing is that with Nvidia drivers you can notice the speed increase with the driver updates.
In one PC I have a RIVA TNT2 card that is getting benefit from the driver updates.
On a seperate point there is no reason why Nvidia should GLP their drivers. They belong to them and it is their work and that is that. They have every right to protect their work. (I do not say it wouldnt be nice to have them open, but hey WTF!) To demand these things is impolite.
So before they attack they will make the invading forces install these devices, too!!
Problem is I cant see that being very popular. This wont work. If you have the will to be a terrorist/freedom fighter and are going to blow things up you might first just disable the system.
Seems a waste of money to me.
If somebody has the will to do something they will do it. If you are willing to give your life then not much can stop you.
There is a system whereby the votes are double counted. One person assignes them to separate piles each of lets say 100 per candidate and another verifies the pile. Each person who counts the votes is responsible for the accuracy of the votes they count.
"what is to prevent certain people who are counting from pushing their own agendas?" ---- prison
In Britain we ahve all our votes on paper and they are all hand counted and stored. We get our election results by the morining. Even for small Scotish islands. It is not such a big job to count a few votes. Each person can count several thousand per hour. This means that you need only need 500 counters per million votes and it is done in a night.
When the result is close there is a recount and I have never seen the second result to be out by more than 5-10 per 60,000 votes.
There is an important principle that every person has the right to have their vote counted. Errors above 1 per 1000 are not acceptable. The system must not only be fair but be seen to be fair. Furthermore there must be a permanent record of the votes cast. How else can we be sure that all was fair.
These are singles. I dont know many people who buy singles!
And it looks like he left with his eternal soul intact.
They got funding for this?
Then again if I had a mach 5 wind tunnel there would be no end of things that I would try inside.
Not sure they will. MIT is not some kid swapping songs. They have both political and legal might and Im sure do not like to be pushed around.
The second point is that if they go after this then they will threaten radio stations who Im sure would love to get a chance to hit back. Remember that MIT does have a license to analog broadcast. This has been very well defended for decades. Providing the transmission is analog then they are untouchable.
Always nice to stick it to the *IAA.
Does it not defeat the point to tell everyone it is there? If we know it is going to be used we can work around it.
Strangelove:
Yes, but the... whole point of the doomsday machine... is lost... if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?
I bit off topic but with mandrake use the packages from the Penguin Liberation Front at http://plf.zarb.org/
They are by far the best thing for mandrake. TO quote their site "....(PLF)..is a repository of RPMs that cannot be included into the Mandrake distro for legal reasons (copyright/license/patent)."
THe list of things they have is just huge. From stuff like kmplayer (KDE mplayer plugin) to unrar for decompression.
Warning though most packages are illegal in the USA, and you dont want to be naughty!!!
Enjoy
coudl be a problem with the power supply! The extra drain kills the PC
I know quite a few people who have had big problems with LG drives. I think that they are very unreliable anyway. Lots of people I know also have LG burners that mess up cds when burning. Stay away. Anybody else know people with faulty drives?
>"AOL is looking out for their customers. Give em a break"
WTF? Anyway regardless of what an EULA says it can not allow someone to break the law. What if someone is actualy using the service?(maybe even more than one person!)
I dont think there is one correct answer. If it is for a browser vunrebility then fine total disclosure . If however you find a vunrebility in the net at your firebrigade call center then maybe not. It all depends on if the software is for public consumption. At the end of the day we need quick patches but not so quick that they are poorly designed.