The difference I see between optical scanners and touchscreens is that the optical scanner is not needed at each polling place. One optical scanner could tally the votes from several polling places. Also, the optical scanner would only be used by election officials who are presumably trained in its use, where touchscreens are put in front of the general public and as such need to be built to withstand that level of use/abuse.
I once had to cast a provisional ballot due to moving before the election. Simple - 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper with "president: choice A [] choice B [] choice C []..." They gave you this and a permanent marker. What could be easier? Why can't we use this for all ballots? Maybe with a perforation to separate the marked portion from the instructions.
By that logic, it should be OK for me to buy a copy of the top selling paperback and give out photocopies to whoever wants them. Comedy central and others pulling these videos was them exercising their control over their property. People should be able to create and decide for themselves how their creation should be used. Those who create content as an investment should no more have their content forced into the public domain than those who create and give their content freely should be forced to charge a fee.
I could see that as you heat something up, it will give off lots of blackbody radiation. At a certain point, there may be a practical limit to putting more energy in than is being lost due to the radiation, but I don't see this as a theoretical limit.
In school, we used the Hatcher scale (Teri Hatcher in Lois and Clark around 1994). In practice, we usually measured in terms of milli-hatchers or in those few unfortunate cases, micro-hatchers.
I mean, the developers sent me on all those trips, organized dinners for me and sent me and my family cars, tickets to the opera, etc. I was sure that meant the software would be robust.
Is that with all this money and effort wasted on overreacting to the 2000 elections, then building, opposing, defending and purchasing electronic voting equipment, we could have come up with a great non-electronic voting system.
the airline provided no details as to what proper wrapping entails
"Here is some duct tape. Please affix your laptop to the underside of the plane. If your laptop falls off in the course of the flight, we will refund you the cost of the tape."
Why would you spend the extra delta-v to go to Mars via the moon? If they meant to go to the moon in order to practice, then maybe it would work.
The only way it seems to make sense is if you could build a huge ship out of lunar materials and then just send the people and some lightweight materials from the earth. As far as I know, the lunar materials are not the right stuff (pardon the pun) to build and fuel a spacecraft.
I was thinking along simmilar lines that they should add a porn bit to the TCP headers. That would catch most porn as it is transmitted between computers. I gave up on this because ironically, it makes it very difficult for routers to comply. If a packet has to be broken up in order to transmit it, the router would have to look at each sub packet and decide if it contains porn, or was some non-porn element of a larger porn packet.
I would like to see gangsters consulted on this. They are good at making things disappear and seem to have a knack at avoiding governmental red tape. Of course, pirates are a close second.
The man why knows HOW will always ahve a job. The man who knows WHY will always be his boss.
Computer jobs come in all flavors, but I think the broader your experience in school the more choice you have once you get out. Besides, even in an academic/theory seting, there should be some programming projects.
I had a similar experience where my boss in Japan used software to translate things into English for me. He told me about a business trip I was to go on and the printout said "This trip is not a trip". A friend was asked by her boss "Is it ready?". "it" being her, they meant "are you ready?"
A similar trick was used in Blade Runner, but the rest of the movie more than makes up for it. Now where's that picture I took of the Women's locker room door...
ding ding ding. All the previous posts were a huge kneejerk reaction to the phrase "un-American". Perhaps Dreyfuss would have perferred censorship under Al and Tipper Gore.
Slashdot Mirror
The difference I see between optical scanners and touchscreens is that the optical scanner is not needed at each polling place. One optical scanner could tally the votes from several polling places. Also, the optical scanner would only be used by election officials who are presumably trained in its use, where touchscreens are put in front of the general public and as such need to be built to withstand that level of use/abuse.
I once had to cast a provisional ballot due to moving before the election. Simple - 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper with "president: choice A [] choice B [] choice C []..." They gave you this and a permanent marker. What could be easier? Why can't we use this for all ballots? Maybe with a perforation to separate the marked portion from the instructions.
By that logic, it should be OK for me to buy a copy of the top selling paperback and give out photocopies to whoever wants them. Comedy central and others pulling these videos was them exercising their control over their property. People should be able to create and decide for themselves how their creation should be used. Those who create content as an investment should no more have their content forced into the public domain than those who create and give their content freely should be forced to charge a fee.
I could see that as you heat something up, it will give off lots of blackbody radiation. At a certain point, there may be a practical limit to putting more energy in than is being lost due to the radiation, but I don't see this as a theoretical limit.
In school, we used the Hatcher scale (Teri Hatcher in Lois and Clark around 1994). In practice, we usually measured in terms of milli-hatchers or in those few unfortunate cases, micro-hatchers.
I mean, the developers sent me on all those trips, organized dinners for me and sent me and my family cars, tickets to the opera, etc. I was sure that meant the software would be robust.
Is that with all this money and effort wasted on overreacting to the 2000 elections, then building, opposing, defending and purchasing electronic voting equipment, we could have come up with a great non-electronic voting system.
Let me guess, you can dial and send text messages using your tongue.
the airline provided no details as to what proper wrapping entails
"Here is some duct tape. Please affix your laptop to the underside of the plane. If your laptop falls off in the course of the flight, we will refund you the cost of the tape."
room temperature fourth state of matter?!?!? I'm sure my first thought would be "how can I stick this in my mouth?" too.
Altamont Pass (California) is the most lethal wind farm in N. America for raptors:
/ bdes/altamont/altamont.html
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/Programs
delta v for various trips (km/s) borrowed from http://www.pma.caltech.edu/~chirata/deltav.html:
earth-moon 15.2
moon-mars 2.9
earth-mars 13.5
therefore, earth-mars via moon 18.1
Why would you spend the extra delta-v to go to Mars via the moon? If they meant to go to the moon in order to practice, then maybe it would work.
The only way it seems to make sense is if you could build a huge ship out of lunar materials and then just send the people and some lightweight materials from the earth. As far as I know, the lunar materials are not the right stuff (pardon the pun) to build and fuel a spacecraft.
Jamie designs a PVC and transcan airframe
Adam investigates the nutritional qualities of frozen chicken
Kari knits up some spacesuits
Grant checks to see how long he can hold his breath (Sorry, Grant)
Tory scours the neighborhood for 2L bottles
Yeah, I could see that
I forgot to put in the crystals.
I was thinking along simmilar lines that they should add a porn bit to the TCP headers. That would catch most porn as it is transmitted between computers. I gave up on this because ironically, it makes it very difficult for routers to comply. If a packet has to be broken up in order to transmit it, the router would have to look at each sub packet and decide if it contains porn, or was some non-porn element of a larger porn packet.
BTW, I'm joking too
I would like to see gangsters consulted on this. They are good at making things disappear and seem to have a knack at avoiding governmental red tape. Of course, pirates are a close second.
Microsoft Employees Critical Of Their Emperor.
should have said "have a job".
The man why knows HOW will always ahve a job.
The man who knows WHY will always be his boss.
Computer jobs come in all flavors, but I think the broader your experience in school the more choice you have once you get out. Besides, even in an academic/theory seting, there should be some programming projects.
I had a similar experience where my boss in Japan used software to translate things into English for me. He told me about a business trip I was to go on and the printout said "This trip is not a trip". A friend was asked by her boss "Is it ready?". "it" being her, they meant "are you ready?"
all your Hans island are belong to us
88,800
someone set us up the Hans island
190,000
A similar trick was used in Blade Runner, but the rest of the movie more than makes up for it. Now where's that picture I took of the Women's locker room door...
And as foreigners are not required to pay the tax, there would be a lot more of them coming over to buy things in the U.S. (or just importing them).
ding ding ding. All the previous posts were a huge kneejerk reaction to the phrase "un-American". Perhaps Dreyfuss would have perferred censorship under Al and Tipper Gore.
We need more laws like that!
1) Find a dictionary
2) look up 'treason'
If this aplies to any ordinary citizen, then it should damn well apply to the press.