the fact that you actually took the time to bitch about something so trivial as someone bitching about someone bitching about the quality of jokes for one day on/. speaks volumes more about how much of a no-life looser you are than it does about slashdots comedic abilities...
Some counties already have computerized voting booths... they are networked to a certain extent also, and the only thing keeping them from being fully networked are the security issues.
I have a feeling he was talking more about being able to vote from anywhere, since many people think that the convenience of voting from home will improve turnout dramatically. In terms of difficulty of voting when it comes down to it, having to punch a card or pressing a computer button is not what affects people's decision to vote, its where they have to go and when they have to do it.
Frankly I think the other poster's comment about the lose of privacy is more than enough of a reason not to allow internet voting.
they don't... what they do is they decide on how the internet can be used within the United States...
The vast majority of the readers of slashdot are in the US, so its quite relevant to ask questions of a man who has direct influence on what we can and can't do in the united states.
Besides, whether you like it or not, if one country starts making laws about how to regulate the internet, other countries may very well take the success or failure of those initiatives into account when they make their own laws... so this should be relevant to you too.
The thing is that sound and video on most stand up arcade games just isn't all that much better than a decent computer or a console connected to a big TV, especially not on the older ones. Buying the custom hardware for a good home theater is WAY WAY WAY more expensive than buying a TV and a console.
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What's the difference between.zlogout and.bash_logout in bash or.logout in tcsh (and csh, and everything else as far as I know)?
I'll also add columbia to that list... although they are currently just in the process of installing a campus wide one. I guess we're a little behind...
For about two years we had our own network of two or three wave points for a few of the CS lab's to use (mobile robotics, graphics, and one other systems lab that I can't remember). We're in the process of merging ours into the campus wide now.
Well technically you are right... but if they have such a long and undistinguished history of pushing many of these kinds of cases, they probably track down companies that are potential targets and then contact the people who actually can sue and try to convince them to file.
An excellant idea... although one problem is that the toilet seat is not metallic, so it would have been a lot harder to get the thing to stick... yes I've heard of glue, but I found using the speaker as a magnet hard to pass up.
-Paul
The problem arises when you type bra instead of bar and you have variables named both bra and bar. Its like mixing up i's and j's in nested for loops, the compiler won't catch it, and the results will just be wrong for no apparent reason.
Actually, if there's anysort of metal causing sparks, I think it is a risk to your microwave... I remember a few years back some moron put some sort of metal food container (I don't remember if it was a tin or one of those cardboard chinese food containers with the metal handle still on it... it doesn't matter, result probably would have been the same) in one of the graduate student lounges. It burned out the microwave's coils completely.
The punch line of course is that this was the physics deptartment stundent lounge... so you'ld think that they would have known better.
So I don't have a cool use for AOL cd's (aside from the standard frisbee/weapon uses), but we did find a cool use for one of their mailings.
I was going through the mail one day and as I was flipping through things, I started hearing the familiar "You've got mail" voice... it was really strange... eventually I found a laregish card board box from AOL from which it was coming.
So brought it back from the lab and was fiddling around with it for a while to figure out what was triggering it (yeah I'm slow sometimes) and eventually one of my lab mates pointed out that it was light sensative, so whenever it was exposed to light (then dark again to reset it) it would go off.
So we cut the the speaker and the bit of electronics out (it had a battery attached to the board). Speakers are magnetic, so at first we thought, gee... cool fridge magnet, but then we had a better idea... we stuck the speaker to the inside of the fridge. So now whenever anyone in the lab opens the fridge... "You've got mail!". Its pretty funny, especially when new people rotate in.
Surprisingly enough the battery has held up pretty well for over 3 months....
There is a lesson to be learned in this for Americans, although I don't think its the same one that the writer of this (who was probably not who he claims to be, but anyway) intended. What American's should take from this, is that we should not be so quick to judge OTHER countries elections as we often do, since we don't necessarily have a good understanding of what their laws and political climates are. Every single statement in the above post is either purposefully misleading or simply uninformed, meaning that the author is either trying to be inflamitory (which is most likely) or simply does not have enough information to judge. Maybe we should not be so quick to judge in the future either...
No this does not mean that Bush is the winner... not by a long shot. Gore can continue contesting in florida (and he will), in fact however the court case in florida goes, it will get appealed, and will end up in front of florida supreme court again... and possibly the supreme court again.
I wish this meant it was over (as I'm sure many people do), but no, its just gonna keep going.
It isn't just florida thats statistically insignificant, its the entire country... the margin was something like 250,000 out of 95 million... thats maybe a bit over a quarter of 1 percent difference, I'd be shocked if thats greater than the margin of error nationally.
I set this up once for a friend of mine to get around his firewall at work so he could read the onion. I'm not completely sure how effective this would be for all filter's since I know some of them filter out URL's that contain the name of a banned website... for example if you went to see the onion, the url would appear somewhere in the arguments to the proxy script, and that might be enough to trip some filters. I'm sure if you combined this with IP addresses for the sites you want to visit would be sufficient.
I don't know... I think dropping something from orbit is a pretty cool way to break something...
hell there have been plenty of computers I would love to have dropped from that height.
Now what would really be cool would be if they could get a camara in the vecinity that it was going to go down in and tape the fall. That I'd like to see.
Thats pretty much what I figured... so in reality we (in the US) aren't really paying more in total, the cost just gets shifted from one person to another... now, assuming that you call as many cellphones as you get calls on your cellphone (which may not hold in a lot of cases) you end up paying about the same.
Does the originator of the call (in Australia, the rest of the world, you get the idea) pay extra because they are calling a cell phone, or are they just paying the normal charge for making any old phone call?
It does make a bit of a difference, since in the US calling a cellphone is pretty much the same as calling any phone in a given area code, the airtime charges (which I assume is what the teleco's use to pay for their network) is payed by the cellphone user, the actual charge for the phone call is payed by whoever originated it.
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You MUST register domains of the form organization...us Why on earth would anyone who wants to get trafic to their web site agree to such a long domain name. Plus, you can't even register domain names from a central location... you have to go to the people who registered the locality level (ie your city or town).
If we had a sane system like the rest of the world for our own tld system maybe you'ld see more of them.
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the fact that you actually took the time to bitch about something so trivial as someone bitching about someone bitching about the quality of jokes for one day on /. speaks volumes more about how much of a no-life looser you are than it does about slashdots comedic abilities...
but at least you knew that already.
(sorry)
Of course the geeks are happily married. They find the one person who will actually sleep with them, and thats the end of it.
Some counties already have computerized voting booths... they are networked to a certain extent also, and the only thing keeping them from being fully networked are the security issues.
I have a feeling he was talking more about being able to vote from anywhere, since many people think that the convenience of voting from home will improve turnout dramatically. In terms of difficulty of voting when it comes down to it, having to punch a card or pressing a computer button is not what affects people's decision to vote, its where they have to go and when they have to do it.
Frankly I think the other poster's comment about the lose of privacy is more than enough of a reason not to allow internet voting.
they don't... what they do is they decide on how the internet can be used within the United States...
The vast majority of the readers of slashdot are in the US, so its quite relevant to ask questions of a man who has direct influence on what we can and can't do in the united states.
Besides, whether you like it or not, if one country starts making laws about how to regulate the internet, other countries may very well take the success or failure of those initiatives into account when they make their own laws... so this should be relevant to you too.
You put half the people in america in a car with a clutch and they'll just sit there staring dumbly.
The thing is that sound and video on most stand up arcade games just isn't all that much better than a decent computer or a console connected to a big TV, especially not on the older ones. Buying the custom hardware for a good home theater is WAY WAY WAY more expensive than buying a TV and a console.
What's the difference between .zlogout and .bash_logout in bash or .logout in tcsh (and csh, and everything else as far as I know)?
I'll also add columbia to that list... although they are currently just in the process of installing a campus wide one. I guess we're a little behind...
For about two years we had our own network of two or three wave points for a few of the CS lab's to use (mobile robotics, graphics, and one other systems lab that I can't remember). We're in the process of merging ours into the campus wide now.
Well technically you are right... but if they have such a long and undistinguished history of pushing many of these kinds of cases, they probably track down companies that are potential targets and then contact the people who actually can sue and try to convince them to file.
An excellant idea... although one problem is that the toilet seat is not metallic, so it would have been a lot harder to get the thing to stick... yes I've heard of glue, but I found using the speaker as a magnet hard to pass up. -Paul
The problem arises when you type bra instead of bar and you have variables named both bra and bar. Its like mixing up i's and j's in nested for loops, the compiler won't catch it, and the results will just be wrong for no apparent reason.
err... isn't deja news a usenet to web interface... I don't quite get the connection.
Actually, if there's anysort of metal causing sparks, I think it is a risk to your microwave... I remember a few years back some moron put some sort of metal food container (I don't remember if it was a tin or one of those cardboard chinese food containers with the metal handle still on it... it doesn't matter, result probably would have been the same) in one of the graduate student lounges. It burned out the microwave's coils completely.
The punch line of course is that this was the physics deptartment stundent lounge... so you'ld think that they would have known better.
Sorry this might be a tad off topic but...
So I don't have a cool use for AOL cd's (aside from the standard frisbee/weapon uses), but we did find a cool use for one of their mailings.
I was going through the mail one day and as I was flipping through things, I started hearing the familiar "You've got mail" voice... it was really strange... eventually I found a laregish card board box from AOL from which it was coming.
So brought it back from the lab and was fiddling around with it for a while to figure out what was triggering it (yeah I'm slow sometimes) and eventually one of my lab mates pointed out that it was light sensative, so whenever it was exposed to light (then dark again to reset it) it would go off.
So we cut the the speaker and the bit of electronics out (it had a battery attached to the board). Speakers are magnetic, so at first we thought, gee... cool fridge magnet, but then we had a better idea... we stuck the speaker to the inside of the fridge. So now whenever anyone in the lab opens the fridge... "You've got mail!". Its pretty funny, especially when new people rotate in.
Surprisingly enough the battery has held up pretty well for over 3 months....
There is a lesson to be learned in this for Americans, although I don't think its the same one that the writer of this (who was probably not who he claims to be, but anyway) intended. What American's should take from this, is that we should not be so quick to judge OTHER countries elections as we often do, since we don't necessarily have a good understanding of what their laws and political climates are. Every single statement in the above post is either purposefully misleading or simply uninformed, meaning that the author is either trying to be inflamitory (which is most likely) or simply does not have enough information to judge. Maybe we should not be so quick to judge in the future either...
No this does not mean that Bush is the winner... not by a long shot. Gore can continue contesting in florida (and he will), in fact however the court case in florida goes, it will get appealed, and will end up in front of florida supreme court again... and possibly the supreme court again.
I wish this meant it was over (as I'm sure many people do), but no, its just gonna keep going.
unlike like some lettuce heads editorializing these days...
It isn't just florida thats statistically insignificant, its the entire country... the margin was something like 250,000 out of 95 million... thats maybe a bit over a quarter of 1 percent difference, I'd be shocked if thats greater than the margin of error nationally.
You can try cgiproxy... I'm sure there are many many more like them... I actually originally found this one on Freshmeat:
http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy /
I set this up once for a friend of mine to get around his firewall at work so he could read the onion. I'm not completely sure how effective this would be for all filter's since I know some of them filter out URL's that contain the name of a banned website... for example if you went to see the onion, the url would appear somewhere in the arguments to the proxy script, and that might be enough to trip some filters. I'm sure if you combined this with IP addresses for the sites you want to visit would be sufficient.
I'm already sorry...
I don't know... I think dropping something from orbit is a pretty cool way to break something... hell there have been plenty of computers I would love to have dropped from that height.
Now what would really be cool would be if they could get a camara in the vecinity that it was going to go down in and tape the fall. That I'd like to see.
Actually it was Wyoming not Montana... he grew up and went to college there, and as I understand it, there was still family property there.
Thats pretty much what I figured... so in reality we (in the US) aren't really paying more in total, the cost just gets shifted from one person to another... now, assuming that you call as many cellphones as you get calls on your cellphone (which may not hold in a lot of cases) you end up paying about the same.
Does the originator of the call (in Australia, the rest of the world, you get the idea) pay extra because they are calling a cell phone, or are they just paying the normal charge for making any old phone call?
It does make a bit of a difference, since in the US calling a cellphone is pretty much the same as calling any phone in a given area code, the airtime charges (which I assume is what the teleco's use to pay for their network) is payed by the cellphone user, the actual charge for the phone call is payed by whoever originated it.
You MUST register domains of the form organization...us Why on earth would anyone who wants to get trafic to their web site agree to such a long domain name. Plus, you can't even register domain names from a central location... you have to go to the people who registered the locality level (ie your city or town).
If we had a sane system like the rest of the world for our own tld system maybe you'ld see more of them.