"The review ordered by Ehrlich will not cost the state additional money, Fawell said."
And before someone chimes in with this little quote from the bottom of the article, I saw it, and my initial rant was an 'in general' rant on the whole voting machine issue, not just about this study.
Yay, lets pour more money down a black hole of voting software that's really not needed at the moment, and leave Maryland's state universities wallowing in underfundedness so they have to continue to raise tuition 2-3 times a year, reducing services to non-existance, and laying off dozens of staff memebers.
Sorry for being slightly offtopic, but it feels good to rant about this. Mid-semester tuition raises because the governor would rather have a fancy voting machine than fund the education of the future.
Although I am surprised that Diebold let SAIC see their software. And I won't be surprised if they discover its utter crap. We use Diebold at the university too, and its very problematic on such simple things as magnetic card swipes. The machines frequently have problems and fail to charge (or mis/double charge). Its a lousy system, but unfortunately I'm not knowledgeable enough in this area to recommend better.
Completely destroyed Eternal Darkness at the beginning of June. All 3 alignments. Was interesting, but not too challenging. My point for SSBM is that its the only Gamecube game with the lasting value that makes it work me owning one personally, rather than playing a friends (as I did with Metroid Prime in a single weekend).
As for zelda, its ok to disagree. My friends disagree too. I just like the older, darker zelda as a personal preference. Cell shading irks me:)
SSBM was *the* reason I got my own Gamecube. New Zelda was lame, and I beat Metroid Prime on a friends. Only SSBM (and maybe Timesplitters 2) made my decision to get one. Hopefully HAL will make another good one.
Thanks for the link. I do have to wonder though, why this isnt a factor in his sentencing. Seems like they'd want to throw that in there with the rest of the evidence.
LOL, true, in one sense. I was using the colon to indicate that the three words started there, however;)
Maybe I shoulda used some quotes to better delineate what I meant. But I'm bored, so at least it created a chance for me to post and waste 2 minutes of time...
Makes sense to me. PC versions of console games always seem to be...lousy. I would certainly try a dloaded copy out for playability before spending $50 for the PC version. However, I have more faith in console versions being easily playable. Not to mention they're easier to sell off if I don't like it.
Go just a little further south with Verizon and you encounter problems. I just got back from a week in North Carolina, once we crossed from VA into NC my Verizon Wireless connection went to perma-roam. Roaming charges everywhere in the eastern part of the state. Made me severely unhappy, despite good service elsewhere. Lucky I don't visit down there too often, would be expensive.
Yeah, I took my little cousin to see Pirates of the Carribean last Friday and saw one of these new ads...first I groaned, then I just started laughing at the screen. They were really pathetic.
Considering I barely have the money to keep myself and my family afloat, I don't think I need to be wasting money and fees to get one share of stock in SCO. I'd rather invest in something worthwhile, or just maintain my current lack of investments. I don't see a class action suit paying me anything anyways, esp with one share. Plus that just strikes me as petty greed, almost.
Throwing myself in the way of this mess on the chance to take part in a class action lawsuit just seems immoral. Because I'm not misled about it. I know exactly what is going on.
I was asking this to find out, since I don't have any finiancial stake in SCO (or anything else for that matter), was it valid for me to complain to the SEC.
Also, there are people out there who don't use linux and don't work with linux. I guess this question could apply to educating them as well. I use linux casually for my scripting and webserver, but the rest of my family could care less. And for work...well...I work in a gov't lab as a contractor. I don't care what happens in that scene, I'll get paid hourly either way.
Personally, I can't wait to see SCO get taken to the cleaners. I just hope whomever does it does a nice, thorough job of it. But, I cannot to myself justify complaining to the SEC for this matter. Only if I was directly threatened by SCO, not just under their blanket accusations to the linux world. And even then I'm not sure the SEC would be the proper route for my complaints...
But don't take me as apathetic in this matter, I'm just not convinced the SEC is the right path for taking SCO out. I wish IBM would just step on them, or (pipedream) the linux community would buy them and destroy the management, as has been fantacized here on/. so many times.
LOL I never said I was one offended by the word 'fuck.' I went to a ghetto school back in the day, and have been around sailors half my life. I was merely pointing out the fact in earlier posts that others are offended by it, and you do not improve your arguement by using it. In some cases your argument is not improved at all, and in the others it is detrimental to whatever point you make. So why use it?
And you're just lucky you got a tolerant cop. This little thing called politeness can help reduce the severity of fines, points on license, etc. Swearing at them tends to encourage the maximum penalities, and does not improve your situation.
Now go troll someone else please, I'm frankly tired of listening to your trash.
Wow, the ultimate sign of a moron losing a debate--bringing spelling complaints into slashdot. Go jerk off or something, call you mom a fucker or whatnot. Seems you get off on it. Maybe you can hold an intelligent conversation, I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you've proved otherwise. Continue trolling as you please.
Hardly puritanical. I think you dont know the true meaning of that if you think one word being offensive is puritanical. Although I can't wait for you to use that argument with a cop after saying fuck him for pulling you over. My guess is you're simple a jackass with an inflated ego who must continually be crude to maintain your self image. Have fun with it, I think I'll just ignore you from now on.
"First of all, do you honestly think that the RIAA is going to go door-to-door, and start demanding that people provide licenses for every piece of music they own? Are you really *that* stupid?"
No, but I'm not so sure about the RIAA...
"Second of all, if a clothing store wanted to, it could go to your house, and say "show us the receipt for the shirt you're wearing or we'll take you to court," and if you didn't show them the receipt, they could file a lawsuit."
Or I could tell them to leave my property. The could then contact my lawyer to produce evidence as to why they are invading my privacy. If the RIAA has evidence of someone dloading a file, then they can demand a license. But your store argument makes no sense. Stores cant hunt me down to investigate my possessions out of the blue.
"How are they gaining any rights? Anyone can take anyone to court for anything!"
And if they did so, most of them would be countersued for barratry before long, or at the very least for reimbursement of court and lawyer fees.
"Your lack of the word "fucking" doesn't make your argument any more valid, so please, inject some logic into your sentences or go back to playing Freecell."
How is cursing impotently injecting logic into a sentence? Or making an argument more valid? Seems to me that its more of an emotional injection, which tends to be an antithesis of logic. In addition to adding a level of immaturity to your post. Chill man. Some people just don't care for such words, and they really are not needed.
...'hack proof' statement, it completely invalidates any further statements from that source. No system is hackproof. Perfection is not attainable by humans, for goodness sake. For a system to be used, it must have connections to some outside device, and thus is always subject to hacks in the end. They might be hard, they might take a while, but they can be accomplished. And will be, if someone is motivated enough.
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"The review ordered by Ehrlich will not cost the state additional money, Fawell said."
And before someone chimes in with this little quote from the bottom of the article, I saw it, and my initial rant was an 'in general' rant on the whole voting machine issue, not just about this study.
Yay, lets pour more money down a black hole of voting software that's really not needed at the moment, and leave Maryland's state universities wallowing in underfundedness so they have to continue to raise tuition 2-3 times a year, reducing services to non-existance, and laying off dozens of staff memebers.
Sorry for being slightly offtopic, but it feels good to rant about this. Mid-semester tuition raises because the governor would rather have a fancy voting machine than fund the education of the future.
Although I am surprised that Diebold let SAIC see their software. And I won't be surprised if they discover its utter crap. We use Diebold at the university too, and its very problematic on such simple things as magnetic card swipes. The machines frequently have problems and fail to charge (or mis/double charge). Its a lousy system, but unfortunately I'm not knowledgeable enough in this area to recommend better.
Completely destroyed Eternal Darkness at the beginning of June. All 3 alignments. Was interesting, but not too challenging. My point for SSBM is that its the only Gamecube game with the lasting value that makes it work me owning one personally, rather than playing a friends (as I did with Metroid Prime in a single weekend).
:)
As for zelda, its ok to disagree. My friends disagree too. I just like the older, darker zelda as a personal preference. Cell shading irks me
SSBM was *the* reason I got my own Gamecube. New Zelda was lame, and I beat Metroid Prime on a friends. Only SSBM (and maybe Timesplitters 2) made my decision to get one. Hopefully HAL will make another good one.
wc expands contractions? Interesting...
Thanks for the link. I do have to wonder though, why this isnt a factor in his sentencing. Seems like they'd want to throw that in there with the rest of the evidence.
Ermm...which article would you be referring to? I don't see any such quote in the CNN link...nor on his webpage.
LOL, true, in one sense. I was using the colon to indicate that the three words started there, however ;)
Maybe I shoulda used some quotes to better delineate what I meant. But I'm bored, so at least it created a chance for me to post and waste 2 minutes of time...
3 words: Don't get sick...
Oh please. Offtopic? This whole thread from the parent I replied to on down is offtopic. Get a clue mods. Moderate everything or nothing.
I hear it'll show up if you eat a lot of beans...
Makes sense to me. PC versions of console games always seem to be...lousy. I would certainly try a dloaded copy out for playability before spending $50 for the PC version. However, I have more faith in console versions being easily playable. Not to mention they're easier to sell off if I don't like it.
Go just a little further south with Verizon and you encounter problems. I just got back from a week in North Carolina, once we crossed from VA into NC my Verizon Wireless connection went to perma-roam. Roaming charges everywhere in the eastern part of the state. Made me severely unhappy, despite good service elsewhere. Lucky I don't visit down there too often, would be expensive.
Where do you live?? I want to move there...
Our local Muvico 24 Theatre is really comfy and all, but they just bumped their price up to like $9 a person, and I lose my student discount soon...
I've never actually seen a working drive-in...really wish we had one.
Yeah, I took my little cousin to see Pirates of the Carribean last Friday and saw one of these new ads...first I groaned, then I just started laughing at the screen. They were really pathetic.
Considering I barely have the money to keep myself and my family afloat, I don't think I need to be wasting money and fees to get one share of stock in SCO. I'd rather invest in something worthwhile, or just maintain my current lack of investments. I don't see a class action suit paying me anything anyways, esp with one share. Plus that just strikes me as petty greed, almost.
Throwing myself in the way of this mess on the chance to take part in a class action lawsuit just seems immoral. Because I'm not misled about it. I know exactly what is going on.
I was asking this to find out, since I don't have any finiancial stake in SCO (or anything else for that matter), was it valid for me to complain to the SEC.
/. so many times.
Also, there are people out there who don't use linux and don't work with linux. I guess this question could apply to educating them as well. I use linux casually for my scripting and webserver, but the rest of my family could care less. And for work...well...I work in a gov't lab as a contractor. I don't care what happens in that scene, I'll get paid hourly either way.
Personally, I can't wait to see SCO get taken to the cleaners. I just hope whomever does it does a nice, thorough job of it. But, I cannot to myself justify complaining to the SEC for this matter. Only if I was directly threatened by SCO, not just under their blanket accusations to the linux world. And even then I'm not sure the SEC would be the proper route for my complaints...
But don't take me as apathetic in this matter, I'm just not convinced the SEC is the right path for taking SCO out. I wish IBM would just step on them, or (pipedream) the linux community would buy them and destroy the management, as has been fantacized here on
How valid is it to complain (via the online form mentioned) when one is not an affected or threatened party in this matter?
I'm lucky I've only got my 2x burner then! Whew, I knew it was a good idea versus a shiny new one.
AMEN to that. Hate flash. Hates it, precious...
My roommate didnt understand my obsession with refusing to install it...stupid animations are most irritating.
LOL I never said I was one offended by the word 'fuck.' I went to a ghetto school back in the day, and have been around sailors half my life. I was merely pointing out the fact in earlier posts that others are offended by it, and you do not improve your arguement by using it. In some cases your argument is not improved at all, and in the others it is detrimental to whatever point you make. So why use it?
And you're just lucky you got a tolerant cop. This little thing called politeness can help reduce the severity of fines, points on license, etc. Swearing at them tends to encourage the maximum penalities, and does not improve your situation.
Now go troll someone else please, I'm frankly tired of listening to your trash.
Wow, the ultimate sign of a moron losing a debate--bringing spelling complaints into slashdot. Go jerk off or something, call you mom a fucker or whatnot. Seems you get off on it. Maybe you can hold an intelligent conversation, I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you've proved otherwise. Continue trolling as you please.
Hardly puritanical. I think you dont know the true meaning of that if you think one word being offensive is puritanical. Although I can't wait for you to use that argument with a cop after saying fuck him for pulling you over. My guess is you're simple a jackass with an inflated ego who must continually be crude to maintain your self image. Have fun with it, I think I'll just ignore you from now on.
"First of all, do you honestly think that the RIAA is going to go door-to-door, and start demanding that people provide licenses for every piece of music they own? Are you really *that* stupid?"
No, but I'm not so sure about the RIAA...
"Second of all, if a clothing store wanted to, it could go to your house, and say "show us the receipt for the shirt you're wearing or we'll take you to court," and if you didn't show them the receipt, they could file a lawsuit."
Or I could tell them to leave my property. The could then contact my lawyer to produce evidence as to why they are invading my privacy. If the RIAA has evidence of someone dloading a file, then they can demand a license. But your store argument makes no sense. Stores cant hunt me down to investigate my possessions out of the blue.
"How are they gaining any rights? Anyone can take anyone to court for anything!"
And if they did so, most of them would be countersued for barratry before long, or at the very least for reimbursement of court and lawyer fees.
"Your lack of the word "fucking" doesn't make your argument any more valid, so please, inject some logic into your sentences or go back to playing Freecell."
How is cursing impotently injecting logic into a sentence? Or making an argument more valid? Seems to me that its more of an emotional injection, which tends to be an antithesis of logic. In addition to adding a level of immaturity to your post. Chill man. Some people just don't care for such words, and they really are not needed.
...'hack proof' statement, it completely invalidates any further statements from that source. No system is hackproof. Perfection is not attainable by humans, for goodness sake. For a system to be used, it must have connections to some outside device, and thus is always subject to hacks in the end. They might be hard, they might take a while, but they can be accomplished. And will be, if someone is motivated enough.