Exactly right. This return isn't enough to even assume a minimal participation.
Its seems unreasonable for the powers that be to certify the results of any election with this kind of participation drop.
In this day and age anyone in the 18-75 age group has probably had enough experience with Either computers OR phones to be able to vote. The fact that virtually no one did so suggests massive mistrust or stunningly poor public preparation.
I'm betting they sent out the notices via spam, and dinner hour automated phone calls.
The city cut its expenses in half by using computers and phone technology by Everyone Counts.
"This is the future for presidential elections, general elections, primary elections, all the way," Everyone Counts consultant Bob Watada said. Watada is the former Campaign Spending Commission director.
Whoa! Conflict of interest much?
1) Con city into using Company A 2) Sign fat contract with Company A 3) Hold election (sweep massive FAIL under rug) 4) Profit
Why not develop a car normal people will actually buy and use? This is interesting but I don't think we have the luxury of trickle-down innovation at this point
I disagree. We don't have the luxury of dumping millions of ill-thought out poorly designed cars on the market without adequate testing to ensure they won't all be clogging out junk yards with huge disposal problems of toxic battery components due to premature failure.
We do NOT have an electrical grid that can support all the new electric cars you would love to see. Sorry, its just not there, and not likely to be there for several decades.
We must go slowly on grid-charged cars until we can double our electrical generation capacity, and beef up the distribrution system.
Race technology has always lead the way in the automotive industry. How else can you get worst case scenario testing in the real world.
We DO NOT have to rush into deployment of half baked technology on a mass scale. We DO have the time to do this right. The end of the earth is NOT upon us.
We MAY not be able to read those messages. Most people WILL not be able to read them pretty soon due to obscurity.
Obscurity is not a problem for any sufficiently advanced civilization.
Its not like the records on Voyager were meant for your teen-ager to play on your old dusted off turntable from the attic.
The point made by the GP is that it is easily readable by any society likely to recover Voyager (unless it crash lands on Planet of the Apes).
Yes, they might initially mistake it for a Religious symbol, or random etching by a long gone microbe, or dismiss it all together because its JUST a physical object and the physical was long abandoned in their society.
But in the fullness of time any civilization capable of and interested in investigating wandering engineered objects would be able to read it.
And if they got the speed exactly right wouldn't matter a bit.
And a Humvee can be made into a combat vehicle. Just weld on enough armor, side plates, bottom plates, add mill-grade ballistic glass all around rebuild the drive train, re-engine it to carry the load.
You still take casualties. You've spent a fortune. You are still not safe.
Even if we are talking about pay clerks and supply desk drones, why take this risk and this cost at this time when secure platforms are available for free?
Of course it we are talking strategic or combat systems then we have an severe dereliction of duty issue here, and someone needs a little time out in the brig.
(And, no, don't come around posting about how Windows can be hardened and made secure. That's the "Humvee as Combat Vehicle" argument all over again. Why does the Army need to lean every lesson twice!)
Social Class means ALL Classes, not just those you deem to be of significance in your little power centric view of the world.
Were the prostitutes and lap dancers all buried in specific manner? Were Entertainers and Witch Doctors entombed according to a formula? What about Soldiers, Thieves, and the petty district enforcers? How about the drug trading class?
Would you be so naive and parochial to suggest that having a body covered with prison tats is not an indicator of social class today?
It takes two to do this, the ersatz Dentist and the willing patient.
The Patient needed to endure a lot of pain, no Novocain in those days, and no one would go thru this, and no one would PRACTICE this Medicine or Magic (as the case may be) without some perceived social benefit.
How can one say 2500 years after the fact that these were not marks of a Social Class? It seem far more likely the anthropologist's understanding of the social class structure is seriously flawed.
They weren't worried about a Nuclear Exchange, they were worried about a conventional one, of massive Chinese infantry.
Of course no one here on Slash dot will ever concede the US never had any territorial ambitions in China, but that, in fact, is the case. After just completing world war 2 and a huge cost no one wanted the Korean war, not even the Military.
These things have a habit of A) never becoming law and B) being subverted if and when they do become law.
For example:
Article 2: No network provider may constrain or restrict access to the Internet in any way, shape, or form other than agreed-upon access speeds
Really: Cart Blanche to do any amount of illegal acts on the net without fear of having your use cut off? Really? Required car analogy: I can do anything in my car as long as I don't exceed the speed limit? Really? You've thought this thru, have you Paul?
Article 3. No individual shall be held liable for effects of malware or malicious code unknowingly run on a personal computer
This exonerates those who write malicious code. They release a virus to the internet, but have no knowledge of which computers it becomes installed on. Therefore, they are not liable.
Number 4: Why should anyone be obligated implement mandatory update checks in any software? What if I don't want my software calling home?
The more you read this screed the less well thought out it becomes.
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Exactly right. This return isn't enough to even assume a minimal participation.
Its seems unreasonable for the powers that be to certify the results of any election with this kind of participation drop.
In this day and age anyone in the 18-75 age group has probably had enough experience with Either computers OR phones to be able to vote. The fact that virtually no one did so suggests massive mistrust or stunningly poor public preparation.
I'm betting they sent out the notices via spam, and dinner hour automated phone calls.
But I thought they should have no "core constituencies". Isn't that the point?
The city cut its expenses in half by using computers and phone technology by Everyone Counts.
"This is the future for presidential elections, general elections, primary elections, all the way," Everyone Counts consultant Bob Watada said.
Watada is the former Campaign Spending Commission director.
Whoa! Conflict of interest much?
1) Con city into using Company A
2) Sign fat contract with Company A
3) Hold election (sweep massive FAIL under rug)
4) Profit
oops, I mean challengeable paper trail.
I suspect the feeling is that any election taking place over the net or the phone system is so easily hackable as to become laughable.
There is no changeable paper trail for this, contrary to the trend nationally to require same.
How long till botnets on the island (or elsewhere) start selling election stealing services?
Ok, now expect the defenders telling us this is all impossible and calling me a Luddite in 3, 2, 1...
Projected into empty air? (What is empty air?).
And where do you find "empty air" with no background image to mess things up? Are we all to stare at blank walls while viewing our displays?
> She only had 1.2% of her decisions overturned, which is a far lower figure.
Which by your own admission means she rules against poor the appellate most of the time......
60% of her decisions that were appealed to the Supreme court were overturned. Was this one of them?
Or, as we in the contracting business say...
Close Government, Enough Work!
In my experience, its the non-technical bureaucrats making the purchasing decisions who typically follow the purchasing rules, and count the beans.
It usually ends up being the IT tech nerds that try the end-run around the purchasing regs to satisfy their own pet preferences.
And the "no SERIOUS alternative" phrase does not sound like a purchasing droid to me.
Why not develop a car normal people will actually buy and use? This is interesting but I don't think we have the luxury of trickle-down innovation at this point
I disagree. We don't have the luxury of dumping millions of ill-thought out poorly designed cars on the market without adequate testing to ensure they won't all be clogging out junk yards with huge disposal problems of toxic battery components due to premature failure.
We do NOT have an electrical grid that can support all the new electric cars you would love to see. Sorry, its just not there, and not likely to be there for several decades.
We must go slowly on grid-charged cars until we can double our electrical generation capacity, and beef up the distribrution system.
Race technology has always lead the way in the automotive industry. How else can you get worst case scenario testing in the real world.
We DO NOT have to rush into deployment of half baked technology on a mass scale. We DO have the time to do this right. The end of the earth is NOT upon us.
Which none of those scoops would do.....
So again I ask....?
Why the big air scoops on this car? Do they have a heat problem? They almost look like they are placed for tire cooling more than anything else.
You would think that they would try to make this the sleekest wind-cheatingest car they could instead of grabbing huge chunks of air.
We MAY not be able to read those messages.
Most people WILL not be able to read them pretty soon due to obscurity.
Obscurity is not a problem for any sufficiently advanced civilization.
Its not like the records on Voyager were meant for your teen-ager to play on your old dusted off turntable from the attic.
The point made by the GP is that it is easily readable by any society likely to recover Voyager (unless it crash lands on Planet of the Apes).
Yes, they might initially mistake it for a Religious symbol, or random etching by a long gone microbe, or dismiss it all together because its JUST a physical object and the physical was long abandoned in their society.
But in the fullness of time any civilization capable of and interested in investigating wandering engineered objects would be able to read it.
And if they got the speed exactly right wouldn't matter a bit.
From my understanding, it was originally more than "Trace Amounts".
Coca-Cola did once contain an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass, but in 1903 it was removed. Coca-Cola still contains coca flavoring.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coka_cola
Windows can be hardened and made secure.
And a Humvee can be made into a combat vehicle. Just weld on enough armor, side plates, bottom plates, add mill-grade ballistic glass all around rebuild the drive train, re-engine it to carry the load.
You still take casualties. You've spent a fortune. You are still not safe.
Exactly my thoughts.
Why in in the name of all that should be secure would the military be using windows of ANY Flavor.
This situation just cries out for SELinux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selinux which at least has a chance of penetration resistance.
Even if we are talking about pay clerks and supply desk drones, why take this risk and this cost at this time when secure platforms are available for free?
Of course it we are talking strategic or combat systems then we have an severe dereliction of duty issue here, and someone needs a little time out in the brig.
(And, no, don't come around posting about how Windows can be hardened and made secure. That's the "Humvee as Combat Vehicle" argument all over again. Why does the Army need to lean every lesson twice!)
Cavities along with many other maladies are a product of the old world. Prior to european arrival there were no cavities in the western hemisphere.
Really? Says who?
Surely not these guys:
http://archaeozoo.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/know-your-pathology-dental-caries/
http://www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/Publications/AmericanAntiquity/Volume69Number3July2004/DentalCariesPrehistoricDietandthePithouse/tabid/557/Default.aspx
Social Class means ALL Classes, not just those you deem to be of significance in your little power centric view of the world.
Were the prostitutes and lap dancers all buried in specific manner? Were Entertainers and Witch Doctors entombed according to a formula? What about Soldiers, Thieves, and the petty district enforcers? How about the drug trading class?
Would you be so naive and parochial to suggest that having a body covered with prison tats is not an indicator of social class today?
And he knows this HOW?
It takes two to do this, the ersatz Dentist and the willing patient.
The Patient needed to endure a lot of pain, no Novocain in those days, and no one would go thru this, and no one would PRACTICE this Medicine or Magic (as the case may be) without some perceived social benefit.
How can one say 2500 years after the fact that these were not marks of a Social Class? It seem far more likely the anthropologist's understanding of the social class structure is seriously flawed.
They weren't worried about a Nuclear Exchange, they were worried about a conventional one, of massive Chinese infantry.
Of course no one here on Slash dot will ever concede the US never had any territorial ambitions in China, but that, in fact, is the case. After just completing world war 2 and a huge cost no one wanted the Korean war, not even the Military.
Hello Verizon? Can you hear me now?
Verizon (and others) have been crippling features in phone OS's and charging to turn them back on for years.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/02/1755207
All those would have made a FAR BETTER start than those suggested in TFA.
Can we have TFA author just shitcan his silly suggestions and adopt yours instead?
These things have a habit of A) never becoming law and B) being subverted if and when they do become law.
For example:
Article 2: No network provider may constrain or restrict access to the Internet in any way, shape, or form other than agreed-upon access speeds
Really: Cart Blanche to do any amount of illegal acts on the net without fear of having your use cut off? Really? Required car analogy: I can do anything in my car as long as I don't exceed the speed limit? Really? You've thought this thru, have you Paul?
Article 3. No individual shall be held liable for effects of malware or malicious code unknowingly run on a personal computer
This exonerates those who write malicious code. They release a virus to the internet, but have no knowledge of which computers it becomes installed on. Therefore, they are not liable.
Number 4: Why should anyone be obligated implement mandatory update checks in any software?
What if I don't want my software calling home?
The more you read this screed the less well thought out it becomes.
Fbomb is not prohibited on the Internet.