According to Goodmail's qualifications there's a non-refundable $399 fee to apply (which is slashed to $199 for the time being). Very gratious of them, on top of the per-message fee.
And how thick is a wafer, exactly? compared to say, a disk platter? If they attain the access time mentioned in TFA, it is rather impressive. High-capacity, fast, thin, and preferably shiny things are always impressive.
Regardless of the type of voting machine (optical readers, Diebold, or others), I'm still concerned about lost votes. I half-wanted to use the provisional ballot this morning, but when I asked the voting "official" about a paper ballot, she looked at me like I was crazy and said "we don't have any paper ballots here." Having untrained voting officials is going to bugger up this election as well.
I certainly hope so, just to make things easier. I know the telecom guys need to make a living, but the idea of plunking down $50-90K for a Sprint or Nortel solution is just painful. Our local telecom people (read: the office managers that take care of the extensions and phone lists) can swap extensions to different jacks around the office and setup new voicemail. Anything more complication and it's a several hundred dollar service call. I'd welcome the days where that could go away, replaced with user-manageable software. That and the cheaper wiring costs alone are enough for me.
Precisely... once it's as big as a tablet PC, it's not a remote. If there's the word "system" in the product name, it's too big. Many of these automation systems have controls so large and powerful that they need constant 120V power, which means they're mounted somewhere or they're corded. Either way, we're stepping away from the remote aspect of control. Cool systems, yes... remote control... not really.
First there's an article on a $700 Linux-based Remote Control, now this? Come on! The most expensive universal remotes seem to cost $250 - and I bet they work a lot better than this. Oh yeah, and you can replace the batteries in them too.
The government is very paranoid about foreign software, moreso from the closed variety. Entire suites of products have been dumped to their nation of origin, despite being a quality product. The govenment didn't want to take the risk that the product might write code that would re-program the RAID controllers to write secure data to an unused portion of diskspace for later (somehow) retrieval. And this is a country with whom the US has solid working relations. Sound crazy? Maybe. Maybe not, though. At least with OSS, developers can read every line if they want. Even then, software for use in secured environments still goes through the accreditation process.
I realize this was originally in response to a post that got modded down, but... jealous? Absolutely. If they could get me up onboard that thing for a few trips of weightlessness, I'd certainly pay for it. On the order of skydiving costs, anyways. I think it'd be an amazing experience, regardless of cost.
What about the rhythmic aural pleasures of the admins in the surrounding cubes beating their heads against their desks? I'd think that would rank right up there.
Part of requesting 501(C) status is presenting a copy of your organization's corporate resolutions. It should outline the answers to these questions, although I haven't been able to find it online.
Part of it is about the goals of the organization. It's easier to receive 501(C) status if you give back to the community, so to speak. Free publications, software groups, churches... these organizations provide something without expecting anything in return.
They are allowed to report income and expeditures. This includes salary to the management of the organization. But at the end of the year, the books (in theory) shouldn't be too far in the black.
Historically you're less likely to be sued as a 501(C) non-profit, since it's on the books that there isn't a lot of extra money floating around. There are tax benefits to incorporating as well.
Why end at 1990? Did 120 years sound more rounded then 130? Haven't there been several advances made in recording technologies since then? MiniDisc, MP3, widespread adoption of compact discs, SACD. Fourteen years is a long time...
This is all rather dependant on the accuracy of Netcraft. Although most of the FreeBSD systems I maintain are identified correctly by Netcraft, there are several that always come back as unknown. Netcraft OS detections seems to be reasonable, but not perfect. Their webserver detection is as accurate as it can be, but uptime checks seem to be even less perfect.
Set boot options to hard drive first, hence no floppy so long as the drive doesn't get corrupted. BIOS password. Master padlock on the case, to prevent fiddling. Cheaply/effectively kept us out of lots of lab computers over the years.
"The only way to clear the BIOS password is with a Master Reset Password provided by Dell for that Model No. and they will not give you the master unless you can give them the name. address and telephone of the registered owner. However the password is universal for all laps with the same model no., so if you know someone who is a registered owner, you can call Dell and get the master."
Reference here. That being said, the master for an Inspiron 5000 is BLVJCH. Booyah!
It's possible that that this goes on a whole lot more than we'd like to admit. Just yesterday I was talking to a friend who called Dell technical support about her BIOS password on an Inspiron 5000. She had forgotten it, and couldn't access her settings. Unlike the old days where you'd crack open the box and to the BIOS jumper switch, Dell provided her with a 6 character BIOS password that magically unlocked her system.
Honestly now, how many screeners have you downloaded and watched? Not very many, probably. Why not? Because the quality is dismal compared to leaked copies. Most of the movies I've seen are of VHS (if not DVD) quality, not screeners. IR goggles aren't going to help. These studios just don't want to accept that their primary source of leaks is an internal one, either from promotional copies or early edits.
Obvious troll for "who uses"... ftp.cdrom.com, anyone? Anyways, I've never have issues with device support, except in the VERY early releases of 5.x. I've loaded FreeBSD on hundreds of machines of various manufacture, without a hiccup. If anything, they support too much, to the point where I'd cut all of the excess from the kernel after installation. IDE access times? You're kidding, right? If you want extraordinarily fast access times and throughputs, why are you using IDE drives to begin with. Technical arguments aside, Beastie is so much cooler than Tux. And if you don't like that, I'll have him stab you with the trident.
I haven't had issues 5.x, really. The only nagging thing is that some of the ports don't always compile correctly. I do believe that's a known/disclosed issue. That's why I've stuck with the 4.x branch.
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According to Goodmail's qualifications there's a non-refundable $399 fee to apply (which is slashed to $199 for the time being). Very gratious of them, on top of the per-message fee.
And how thick is a wafer, exactly? compared to say, a disk platter? If they attain the access time mentioned in TFA, it is rather impressive. High-capacity, fast, thin, and preferably shiny things are always impressive.
Regardless of the type of voting machine (optical readers, Diebold, or others), I'm still concerned about lost votes. I half-wanted to use the provisional ballot this morning, but when I asked the voting "official" about a paper ballot, she looked at me like I was crazy and said "we don't have any paper ballots here." Having untrained voting officials is going to bugger up this election as well.
I certainly hope so, just to make things easier. I know the telecom guys need to make a living, but the idea of plunking down $50-90K for a Sprint or Nortel solution is just painful. Our local telecom people (read: the office managers that take care of the extensions and phone lists) can swap extensions to different jacks around the office and setup new voicemail. Anything more complication and it's a several hundred dollar service call. I'd welcome the days where that could go away, replaced with user-manageable software. That and the cheaper wiring costs alone are enough for me.
That error being noted, most users of AIM that I know will click on just about anything.
Precisely... once it's as big as a tablet PC, it's not a remote. If there's the word "system" in the product name, it's too big. Many of these automation systems have controls so large and powerful that they need constant 120V power, which means they're mounted somewhere or they're corded. Either way, we're stepping away from the remote aspect of control. Cool systems, yes... remote control... not really.
First there's an article on a $700 Linux-based Remote Control, now this? Come on! The most expensive universal remotes seem to cost $250 - and I bet they work a lot better than this. Oh yeah, and you can replace the batteries in them too.
The government is very paranoid about foreign software, moreso from the closed variety. Entire suites of products have been dumped to their nation of origin, despite being a quality product. The govenment didn't want to take the risk that the product might write code that would re-program the RAID controllers to write secure data to an unused portion of diskspace for later (somehow) retrieval. And this is a country with whom the US has solid working relations. Sound crazy? Maybe. Maybe not, though. At least with OSS, developers can read every line if they want. Even then, software for use in secured environments still goes through the accreditation process.
I realize this was originally in response to a post that got modded down, but ... jealous? Absolutely. If they could get me up onboard that thing for a few trips of weightlessness, I'd certainly pay for it. On the order of skydiving costs, anyways. I think it'd be an amazing experience, regardless of cost.
Quite a few of the scenes in Apollo 13 were filmed onboard the KC-135, which is why the weightless "effects" look so good -- they're real.
What about the rhythmic aural pleasures of the admins in the surrounding cubes beating their heads against their desks? I'd think that would rank right up there.
Part of requesting 501(C) status is presenting a copy of your organization's corporate resolutions. It should outline the answers to these questions, although I haven't been able to find it online.
Part of it is about the goals of the organization. It's easier to receive 501(C) status if you give back to the community, so to speak. Free publications, software groups, churches... these organizations provide something without expecting anything in return. They are allowed to report income and expeditures. This includes salary to the management of the organization. But at the end of the year, the books (in theory) shouldn't be too far in the black. Historically you're less likely to be sued as a 501(C) non-profit, since it's on the books that there isn't a lot of extra money floating around. There are tax benefits to incorporating as well.
Why end at 1990? Did 120 years sound more rounded then 130? Haven't there been several advances made in recording technologies since then? MiniDisc, MP3, widespread adoption of compact discs, SACD. Fourteen years is a long time...
Props on using satellite imagery for your overlay. I'm stick of Microsoft's gaudy maps, and I miss MapQuest's aerial views.
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This is all rather dependant on the accuracy of Netcraft. Although most of the FreeBSD systems I maintain are identified correctly by Netcraft, there are several that always come back as unknown. Netcraft OS detections seems to be reasonable, but not perfect. Their webserver detection is as accurate as it can be, but uptime checks seem to be even less perfect.
Set boot options to hard drive first, hence no floppy so long as the drive doesn't get corrupted. BIOS password. Master padlock on the case, to prevent fiddling. Cheaply/effectively kept us out of lots of lab computers over the years.
I viewed the answers without having to sign up. You just have to scroll down past all the ads to where the comments/accepted solutions are.
I stand corrected, here.
"The only way to clear the BIOS password is with a Master Reset Password provided by Dell for that Model No. and they will not give you the master unless you can give them the name. address and telephone of the registered owner. However the password is universal for all laps with the same model no., so if you know someone who is a registered owner, you can call Dell and get the master."
Reference here. That being said, the master for an Inspiron 5000 is BLVJCH. Booyah!
It's possible that that this goes on a whole lot more than we'd like to admit. Just yesterday I was talking to a friend who called Dell technical support about her BIOS password on an Inspiron 5000. She had forgotten it, and couldn't access her settings. Unlike the old days where you'd crack open the box and to the BIOS jumper switch, Dell provided her with a 6 character BIOS password that magically unlocked her system.
Honestly now, how many screeners have you downloaded and watched? Not very many, probably. Why not? Because the quality is dismal compared to leaked copies. Most of the movies I've seen are of VHS (if not DVD) quality, not screeners. IR goggles aren't going to help. These studios just don't want to accept that their primary source of leaks is an internal one, either from promotional copies or early edits.
I'd think that this might be the cost of training and deploying a replacement, not the cost of the being.
Obvious troll for "who uses" ... ftp.cdrom.com, anyone? Anyways, I've never have issues with device support, except in the VERY early releases of 5.x. I've loaded FreeBSD on hundreds of machines of various manufacture, without a hiccup. If anything, they support too much, to the point where I'd cut all of the excess from the kernel after installation. IDE access times? You're kidding, right? If you want extraordinarily fast access times and throughputs, why are you using IDE drives to begin with. Technical arguments aside, Beastie is so much cooler than Tux. And if you don't like that, I'll have him stab you with the trident.
I haven't had issues 5.x, really. The only nagging thing is that some of the ports don't always compile correctly. I do believe that's a known/disclosed issue. That's why I've stuck with the 4.x branch.