War
Technology today allows anyone to be mindblowingly lethal. We can't stop our foes from acquiring technology - so we have to stop *them* from becoming our foes. Diplomacy is the only solution to terrorism as it is proactive. Do not view diplomacy as giving in to terrorists, view it as an opportunity to acquire allies.
Abortion
As a man I feel my only method of preventing a death of this kind is to talk about the possibility and contingency plan beforehand with my partner - then decide if I will sleep with them. Sex is powerful candy and not thinking about it beforehand is something out of the stone age. I do not feel I have the right to force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term because it is not my body, but I do have the right not to get involved with someone I don't feel is responsible for their actions. My heart goes out to all women who have been in that predicament and rest assured I believe the failures in this area are all of our responsibility, we just haven't learned yet as a species how to consistently do sex right.
Health Care
Health Care is ALWAYS in high damand and so the price will ALWAYS rise in a Darwinian, profit driven environment. Insurance is a unecessary layer of cost that a sizeable minority cannot even afford. You should only pay for what you need and you should only get what you can pay for. This would be far more cost effective and help a greater number of people if we were leveraging all of our resources together. Life is a tragedy - enjoy it IF you can.
Education
Our own president suggested in His state of the union speech that our goal ought to be having third-graders read at a third-grade level. This is not a goal, this is treading water. We need to educate people if we don't want our social problems to get worse and reduce the populace to slavery. Our goal should be to have third-graders reading and writing at least two languages at a third-grade level. This same progressive approach should be taken towards history, science, math, et. al..
Trade
We are a sovereign nation made up of sovereign states. We think it is in our best interests to have standards of measurement and conduct within our borders to preserve our unity, and hence be strong against the will of other nations who make wish to take unfair advantage of us. Amazingly we do not export and import on these same terms. Ameirca should stop milking the technology curve and the growth economy because neither will last forever. We need to do business in other countries using the same standards we require at home. It should not be cheaper to import items which can be manufactured domestically, and yet it is in many cases.
Proprietorship/Labor
Why do both price and wages rise? Over the last thirty years the price of a new low-end car has gone from $3000 to $12000 (my approximation) - a 4:1 ratio. The minimum wage has gone from $3.00 to $5.15. Do the math. Other products have similar slopes. Has the quality of the of the product caused the price to increase more than innovation has caused the cost to market to become lower? Regardless, the manufacturing jobs are lost to innovation WHILE wages can't keep pace - so the candle is burning at both ends. We need to apply a certain amount of socialism to our economic model. Even the most strident capitalist will admit to the wisdom of diversifying a portfoilio due to risk, why not diversify our economy so that there is an upper limit on wages, so that there will be a lower limit as well. People will still buy things, but only if they can afford it.
Election Reform
Where to start? It's so badly rigged in favor of the wealthy . . .
Allow write-in spaces in all precincts nationwide.
Disallow all political advertising on public airwaves WHILE requiring those media to provide EQUAL debate time amongst all candidates polling at.5% and above.
The people have to do the work. Alot of that work is voting when it's just for Congress or local elections. The electors for each district are chosen by the local parties - and they sure as hell aren't going to pick any independents to become Electors. They've already got a hermetic seal on the system that John Q. Public can't break through. The apathy is so deep I don't think anything will wake them up. I know bin Laden did a little - but mark my words they'll forget as soon as March rolls around.
So what's the impetus behind eVoting? There is no valid need to do so. I think the public has completely lost sight of the fact that they don't know why they want to eVote in the first place. Maintaining the analog process of voting, IMHO, is CRUCIAL to keeping our elections fair.
Once upon a time many people thought they'd be voting from home - but we all realize that isn't safe whatsoever. Even if it was, what happens to my packets after they are received and who has access. I don't even know who has access to the ballot box or responsibility for transporting it now.
The next large scale delusion is that it will expedite the results. Sure, the Electoral College rarely votes differently than the popular vote predicts - but they do not do so until the third week of December in their respective state capitols. Do we really need to know the results any sooner than that? and haven't we been capable of it thus far?
Accuracy. While hanging chads are a real problem, this and other physical problems could easily detected before a person drops their ballot in the box. What's missing from the current system is a way to see how the ballot will be interpreted by the system before we cast our vote. I think that is where we ought to focus our mindshare. An optical card reader something like Mr. Spock would look into could verify the selections for the voter and when attached to a printer could create a souvenier hardcopy.
The 'problems' that keep cropping up with eVoting just seem to be obfuscating the real issue. This whole thing just looks like a way to create more demand and sell products that really can only introduce more problems into the process.
As a nation, "We" need to work on the logic of resolving ties, the granularity of the Electoral College, and uniformity of ballots accross precincts. We need to make Election Day a national holiday for heaven's sake, or we need to stretch voting out over a weekend. And in my not so humble opinion we need to mandate that the only way you're allowed to have Cable-TV is if you are registered to vote!
Yeah? Well that's one more country that doesn't want to be dependent on Virgin Galactic I guess. Think Brandon will be interested in launching science projects? Or is tourism that much more profitable?
"Will NASA slowly decline in relevance?"
As a taxpayer - God I hope so.
It's a great browser. We can get into the security, but alot of what makes a killer app killer is the GUI. I don't know the legal specs, but I'm blown away no one else got famous using "tabbed browsing". Til now it's been the webdevelopers who've brought that to the average consumer through frames(sic) - who owns the rights to the concept? I sure hope M$ doesn't. The recent cross-tab vulnerability notwithstanding.
Anyway, Firefox is more user-friendly than MSIE, without becoming a lecturing tedious drone(clippy). It's installation size (1.7.3) is roughly 9MB, compared to my MSIE at 14MB. It blocks most popups and allows me to configure/repeal this and other user-level-tweaks with intuitive ease.
The open source aspect DOES have a positive impact on it's development as well. As another poster accurately stated - the more eyes on the code, the more better. Microsoft can't compete in that way. I think they should continue extending the platform - do they do firewalls as and end-product? (ok, I'll go find out later)
We're discussing a free product that most of us feel is superior to the market leader. That itself is reason to celebrate. Way to go F^2!
For example, the "N"-word has its roots in the word "negro" - the Spanish word for "black".
I've always looked at it that way, but both "reneged" and "niggardly" have negative connotations of revocation and being miserly. That American slaves were forced to be frugal AND probably got caught not fulfilling their 'owners' every demand occasionally(sic), it is also reasonable to think that the origin of the "N-word" came from a bully's(cracker) pun on the phonetic and inferior similarities with "renege" and "niggardly". This bullying is what I loathe so much of - and think the world can do without. Though modern opinion says the words are not related, I find it hard to believe as "niggardly" predates the American South, and slave owners were greedy bastards. A psychological weapon to use on the slaves.
As I told the other respondant, I am probably wrong on my stance, my friends and I don't use the word - so we have effectively censored our environment for the most part, and Darwin will proably take care of it in time anyway.
The list posted above cannot possibly be correct. Maybe they should get Martha Stewart on this one. She's good with recipes and used to living in confined spaces.
I know, I know, and my friends and I don't use the word. The 'slippery slope' of defending my position means to say "where censorship stops" - which I can't readily legislate. I just loathe that word.
The dynamics of yelling FIRE in a theater are similar to saying the F word in front of children, though obviously no one will get killed from it - the damage is there. I dunno, I realize I'm wrong, and I should be happy that there are more of us than them, it just seems that while my friends and I in effect censor out the word - why can't a public forum also ddo so without getting flamed for violating free speech? It seems like their is not much reward in allowing that and other words to be spoken or typed.
I guess darwin will take care of it in time anyway.;)
Reneged - sure I believe that, or even "niggardly". Both seem to be unrelated to the American "N" word, but they're close enough that I DO despair over them.
This is one of those words that we could easily remove from the lexicon if we could get over the absolutist position that ALL free speech is a good thing.
8,000 is alot of energy. Can't you turn something off? Or better yet - turn something ON!;) Look at the power outage as a chance to experience life as our ancestors did. Light some candles, snuggle with the significant other - procreate! Sex burns calories - which in turn produces heat.
OR
When I was a kid we had a huge blizzard and the power was out almost everywhere. Many people had broken pipes. On about the third day a neighbor came over and asked to use the toilet, there's had frozen over again. Evidently they had been pouring antifreeze in the toilet to keep it from freezing and had just run out!
Well, it probably is cybersquatting in the spirit of the law, but is it actually? The TLD has an integer included, not just the candidates name. Additionally, perhaps there are more than one person with that name.
Of course, the content does disparage the candidate, which is a determining factor, but free speech is free speech. If the year was not included I'd say it was a 'slam dunk', but I guess this is just a free throw.
Perhaps a new TLD (i know, i know) like ".anti" or ".con" - for people to express counter-points and still rank in page aggregators, would help. How about ".rep" or ".dem" or ".gdi" or ".grn"?
Bottom line, it's a politician, I don't trust him already.
Don't feel slammed because they see an easy target. Your sentence is grammatically balanced; funding such a project WOULD be really important and contributive. It was your detractors who sought to insert injustice, and I think they are caffeinated, or worse, sleep deprived. You and I know Bill Gates isn't responsible for the lame-ass products his company delivers/promises. He just owns the company. It's the lame-ass M$ engineers who are to blame.
Bill Gates does plenty of worthy things with the PHAT $$$ his company has liberated from millions of (l)users and this would be a fabulous project for he and Iron Mountain.
It's the American way! Build capital and let the interest do the work for you. So it goes with voting . ..
A politician has already acquired the office - so they kick back and let the staff and PACs do all the hard work of figuring out issues. The average citizen never fought or died in a war for the freedoms such as voting - so they kick back and watch cable. Perhaps if one had to register and vote in order to buy cable-tv, or beer, or cigarettes - more citizens would vote.
Perhaps if PACs were outlawed, and the media empires put candidates on TV/Radio for free, and staffers and officials weren't busy sleeping with one another, some real work could get done.
I believe they do have to be physically present on the floor to vote. I'd rather they were there voting in person than voting electronically. Much as I feel citizens should only be voting in the analog mode. Stylus + Paper Ballot. Just add a card reader and receipt printer to the current process and all this obfuscation about tabulation errros goes away.
I think it would be better for them to do all their other business(campaigning) by electronic means rather than electronicizing their voting. Why should a Senator or Represenatative of one state ever travel to another state for any reason? Why not telecommute?
There is profit in internet transactions and they haven't figured out how to tax it yet - that should make everyone realize politicians have no idea what the technology boom has brought. They have no idea. They are ignorant. And that's the name of that tune. IM(NS)HO
This bill, and others like it, are just kneejerk reactions to a perceived threat. The real problem is to O/S vendor and the user. Microsoft has tied so many spaghetti-code platforms together that most users have no idea of what they are getting into simply by using the internet. There's a substantial learning curve to overcome for most people, and frankly, most people just click "I agree".
Many of us realize the importance of ghosting a new system once software is installed and preferences are set. Most of us realize the importance of virus software and backing up data. These are things we've learned over time, either the hard way, or from being prudent. Look at the average consumer and you'll see they don't have time to RTFM, so it's their own fault. It's their ignorance.
I could explain this to them, but they "just want the problem to go away".
If anything, these bills should force bundled-ware to have a separate license agreement for each product. If the user could see the product description of each 'module' in the offering, then they could better understand just how foolish their being by pursuing these 'free' software titles.
I guess they must have captured the head bastard in the Beslan school massacre. This guy is truly a pioneer - he'll be the first son-of-a-bitch to fly into orbit without life support.
" US are very too dumb, they will elect Bush and they stress, it's very funny!"
" US are very too dumb . .."
This part of your sentence does not translate well. The flaw in your grammar could, with a little allusion, be extended so that YOU (plural) are ignorant also.
" . ..they will elect Bush and they stress , ,,"
The 'each and several states' send delegates to the appropriate state capitols in the second week of December. These electors will cast their votes for President and Vice President. http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecworks.htm
Individual citizens will vote of course, but the popular vote in a presidential election is only a barometer for the electors to gauge the political atmosphere. Additionally, many/most of us will not vote for Bush.
Coincidentally, this Star Trek epsiode is about the mischievous son (Balok) of a powerful galactic entity, who uses a puppet to frighten the Enterprise crew. There's also mention of Tranya, a refreshing beverage similar to the kool-aid imbibed by the Jonestown cult in the late 1970's.
When they say it's the same old story, time immemorial, they really mean it's the same old story.
Go ahead and MOD me down, it's fun.
I've voted in every Presidential election for which I was eligible, and though my candidate often wins, frustration has always been the outcome. The powers that be are corrupt, not the system. The powers that be obfuscate the process, so that it appears to be futile.
What I have finally discovered (because it wasn't taught in Government Class) is that it is more important that citizens vote in their State and Local elections, than it is to vote for President, to be sure. That's the real opportunity to have your vote actually counted. It's a system of interworking modules and user input is at the State level. IMHO, this is where it should be.
I researched the process of becomin a delegate this year (Ohio). While the process is different in each state, my impression was that:
You have to be a super-citizen,
You have to know someone who ranks highly in a given parties system,
You have to pledge to vote for the one that brung ya,
Optionally, you can be a token stereotype, like people of African descent in the Republican party.
The following is from: http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecworks.htm
The political parties (or independent candidates) in each State submit to the State's chief election official a list of individuals pledged to their candidate for president and equal in number to the State's electoral vote. Usually, the major political parties select these individuals either in their State party conventions or through appointment by their State party leaders while third parties and independent candidates merely designate theirs.
Members of Congress and employees of the federal government are prohibited from serving as an Elector in order to maintain the balance between the legislative and executive branches of the federal government.
On the Tuesday following the first Monday of November in years divisible by four, the people in each State cast their ballots for the party slate of Electors representing their choice for president and vice president (although as a matter of practice, general election ballots normally say "Electors for" each set of candidates rather than list the individual Electors on each slate).
Whichever party slate wins the most popular votes in the State becomes that State's Electors-so that, in effect, whichever presidential ticket gets the most popular votes in a State wins all the Electors of that State. [The two exceptions to this are Maine and Nebraska where two Electors are chosen by statewide popular vote and the remainder by the popular vote within each Congressional district].
One of the numerous things that pisses me off about e-voting is the claim that it will speed up election returns, which by Federal Law it cannot do. To wit:
On the Monday following the second Wednesday of December (as established in federal law) each State's Electors meet in their respective State capitals and cast their electoral votes-one for president and one for vice president.
Another is the paper-trail receipt thingy. Do we really want to take on the cost of ensuring paper receipts are not forgeries?
The whole thing is easy enough. We should keep using the system we have. Perhaps a card-reader would be nice so I could see what the computer thinks I voted for before I place it in the box. An optional printout would be nice as a souvenir. Maybe with a cool logo done in Photoshop.
03. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
05. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
06. Of Mice and Men
13. The Catcher in the Rye
22. A Wrinkle in Time
41. To Kill a Mockingbird
69. Slaughterhouse-Five
70. Lord of the Flies
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
There is some dissent however, in the source code of the page the first 22 books are marked-up as <strong>, while the last 78 are just <b>.
Did you read the parent thread about using a CAPTCHA image in a web form and handing out a URL instead of an email address? Don't you think that would have an impact?
Saying that paying to register email addresses would have "no impact" isn't sitting with me too well. I would think that incurring a $10 fee per address would have a significant impact on legitimate spammers, they use so many. The ROI would be cut drastically. Of course the negative political impact would be astronomical.
Yet your right, Zombie machines would still be doing their thing until the villagers track them down one by one and burn those machines.
. . . digital signatures . . . The first step to solving this problem is accountability . ..
I stopped reading SSL and digital signature documentation because it was too complex for me to grasp and implement. I must admit my ignorance here. I tend to think that anything can be forged.
If possible however the resulting Clean Internet would be, well, clean. Any occasional abuse would be immediately arrested. You'd think that once developed they could apply the concept to publicly held companies that transmit accounting data and catch them when they aren't liquid - no more Enron, WorldCom, et. al.
If it cost 10$ a year . . . to register an email addy, there would be no incentive for the spammers to throw the dictionary at domains, and conversely, the spammers couldn't/wouldn't want to create thousands of email addys to spam from.
I had not heard that angle before. That rocks! You'd think it would be the sort of thing a politician could wield in court too.
It's strange to me that there are a whole slew of laws concerning other modes of communication, but the internet is slow to be regulated. I know regulation won't stop people from doing stuff, but if the laws are defined then you can punish people in court when they transgress. I think a bevy of young lawyers, reared on IT, are gonna change that someday soon.
Slashdot Mirror
1) Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Being born sucks! 2) Ummmm - yummi. More than I exists. Consume. 3) Hey! I could get more if I . . .
Technology today allows anyone to be mindblowingly lethal. We can't stop our foes from acquiring technology - so we have to stop *them* from becoming our foes. Diplomacy is the only solution to terrorism as it is proactive. Do not view diplomacy as giving in to terrorists, view it as an opportunity to acquire allies.
Abortion
As a man I feel my only method of preventing a death of this kind is to talk about the possibility and contingency plan beforehand with my partner - then decide if I will sleep with them. Sex is powerful candy and not thinking about it beforehand is something out of the stone age. I do not feel I have the right to force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term because it is not my body, but I do have the right not to get involved with someone I don't feel is responsible for their actions. My heart goes out to all women who have been in that predicament and rest assured I believe the failures in this area are all of our responsibility, we just haven't learned yet as a species how to consistently do sex right.
Health Care
Health Care is ALWAYS in high damand and so the price will ALWAYS rise in a Darwinian, profit driven environment. Insurance is a unecessary layer of cost that a sizeable minority cannot even afford. You should only pay for what you need and you should only get what you can pay for. This would be far more cost effective and help a greater number of people if we were leveraging all of our resources together. Life is a tragedy - enjoy it IF you can.
Education
Our own president suggested in His state of the union speech that our goal ought to be having third-graders read at a third-grade level. This is not a goal, this is treading water. We need to educate people if we don't want our social problems to get worse and reduce the populace to slavery. Our goal should be to have third-graders reading and writing at least two languages at a third-grade level. This same progressive approach should be taken towards history, science, math, et. al..
Trade
We are a sovereign nation made up of sovereign states. We think it is in our best interests to have standards of measurement and conduct within our borders to preserve our unity, and hence be strong against the will of other nations who make wish to take unfair advantage of us. Amazingly we do not export and import on these same terms. Ameirca should stop milking the technology curve and the growth economy because neither will last forever. We need to do business in other countries using the same standards we require at home. It should not be cheaper to import items which can be manufactured domestically, and yet it is in many cases.
Proprietorship/Labor
Why do both price and wages rise? Over the last thirty years the price of a new low-end car has gone from $3000 to $12000 (my approximation) - a 4:1 ratio. The minimum wage has gone from $3.00 to $5.15. Do the math. Other products have similar slopes. Has the quality of the of the product caused the price to increase more than innovation has caused the cost to market to become lower? Regardless, the manufacturing jobs are lost to innovation WHILE wages can't keep pace - so the candle is burning at both ends. We need to apply a certain amount of socialism to our economic model. Even the most strident capitalist will admit to the wisdom of diversifying a portfoilio due to risk, why not diversify our economy so that there is an upper limit on wages, so that there will be a lower limit as well. People will still buy things, but only if they can afford it.
Election Reform
Where to start? It's so badly rigged in favor of the wealthy . . .
Allow write-in spaces in all precincts nationwide.
Disallow all political advertising on public airwaves WHILE requiring those media to provide EQUAL debate time amongst all candidates polling at .5% and above.
Hold elections over a two-day weekend.
Require M
The people have to do the work. Alot of that work is voting when it's just for Congress or local elections. The electors for each district are chosen by the local parties - and they sure as hell aren't going to pick any independents to become Electors. They've already got a hermetic seal on the system that John Q. Public can't break through. The apathy is so deep I don't think anything will wake them up. I know bin Laden did a little - but mark my words they'll forget as soon as March rolls around.
So what's the impetus behind eVoting? There is no valid need to do so. I think the public has completely lost sight of the fact that they don't know why they want to eVote in the first place. Maintaining the analog process of voting, IMHO, is CRUCIAL to keeping our elections fair.
Once upon a time many people thought they'd be voting from home - but we all realize that isn't safe whatsoever. Even if it was, what happens to my packets after they are received and who has access. I don't even know who has access to the ballot box or responsibility for transporting it now.
The next large scale delusion is that it will expedite the results. Sure, the Electoral College rarely votes differently than the popular vote predicts - but they do not do so until the third week of December in their respective state capitols. Do we really need to know the results any sooner than that? and haven't we been capable of it thus far?
Accuracy. While hanging chads are a real problem, this and other physical problems could easily detected before a person drops their ballot in the box. What's missing from the current system is a way to see how the ballot will be interpreted by the system before we cast our vote. I think that is where we ought to focus our mindshare. An optical card reader something like Mr. Spock would look into could verify the selections for the voter and when attached to a printer could create a souvenier hardcopy.
The 'problems' that keep cropping up with eVoting just seem to be obfuscating the real issue. This whole thing just looks like a way to create more demand and sell products that really can only introduce more problems into the process.
As a nation, "We" need to work on the logic of resolving ties, the granularity of the Electoral College, and uniformity of ballots accross precincts. We need to make Election Day a national holiday for heaven's sake, or we need to stretch voting out over a weekend. And in my not so humble opinion we need to mandate that the only way you're allowed to have Cable-TV is if you are registered to vote!
Yeah? Well that's one more country that doesn't want to be dependent on Virgin Galactic I guess. Think Brandon will be interested in launching science projects? Or is tourism that much more profitable?
"Will NASA slowly decline in relevance?"
As a taxpayer - God I hope so.
It's a great browser. We can get into the security, but alot of what makes a killer app killer is the GUI. I don't know the legal specs, but I'm blown away no one else got famous using "tabbed browsing". Til now it's been the webdevelopers who've brought that to the average consumer through frames(sic) - who owns the rights to the concept? I sure hope M$ doesn't. The recent cross-tab vulnerability notwithstanding.
Anyway, Firefox is more user-friendly than MSIE, without becoming a lecturing tedious drone(clippy). It's installation size (1.7.3) is roughly 9MB, compared to my MSIE at 14MB. It blocks most popups and allows me to configure/repeal this and other user-level-tweaks with intuitive ease.
The open source aspect DOES have a positive impact on it's development as well. As another poster accurately stated - the more eyes on the code, the more better. Microsoft can't compete in that way. I think they should continue extending the platform - do they do firewalls as and end-product? (ok, I'll go find out later)
We're discussing a free product that most of us feel is superior to the market leader. That itself is reason to celebrate. Way to go F^2!
For example, the "N"-word has its roots in the word "negro" - the Spanish word for "black".
I've always looked at it that way, but both "reneged" and "niggardly" have negative connotations of revocation and being miserly. That American slaves were forced to be frugal AND probably got caught not fulfilling their 'owners' every demand occasionally(sic), it is also reasonable to think that the origin of the "N-word" came from a bully's(cracker) pun on the phonetic and inferior similarities with "renege" and "niggardly". This bullying is what I loathe so much of - and think the world can do without. Though modern opinion says the words are not related, I find it hard to believe as "niggardly" predates the American South, and slave owners were greedy bastards. A psychological weapon to use on the slaves.
As I told the other respondant, I am probably wrong on my stance, my friends and I don't use the word - so we have effectively censored our environment for the most part, and Darwin will proably take care of it in time anyway.
The list posted above cannot possibly be correct. Maybe they should get Martha Stewart on this one. She's good with recipes and used to living in confined spaces.
I know, I know, and my friends and I don't use the word. The 'slippery slope' of defending my position means to say "where censorship stops" - which I can't readily legislate. I just loathe that word.
;)
The dynamics of yelling FIRE in a theater are similar to saying the F word in front of children, though obviously no one will get killed from it - the damage is there. I dunno, I realize I'm wrong, and I should be happy that there are more of us than them, it just seems that while my friends and I in effect censor out the word - why can't a public forum also ddo so without getting flamed for violating free speech? It seems like their is not much reward in allowing that and other words to be spoken or typed.
I guess darwin will take care of it in time anyway.
Reneged - sure I believe that, or even "niggardly". Both seem to be unrelated to the American "N" word, but they're close enough that I DO despair over them.
This is one of those words that we could easily remove from the lexicon if we could get over the absolutist position that ALL free speech is a good thing.
It simply is NOT.
8,000 is alot of energy. Can't you turn something off? Or better yet - turn something ON! ;) Look at the power outage as a chance to experience life as our ancestors did. Light some candles, snuggle with the significant other - procreate! Sex burns calories - which in turn produces heat.
OR
When I was a kid we had a huge blizzard and the power was out almost everywhere. Many people had broken pipes. On about the third day a neighbor came over and asked to use the toilet, there's had frozen over again. Evidently they had been pouring antifreeze in the toilet to keep it from freezing and had just run out!
Well, it probably is cybersquatting in the spirit of the law, but is it actually? The TLD has an integer included, not just the candidates name. Additionally, perhaps there are more than one person with that name. Of course, the content does disparage the candidate, which is a determining factor, but free speech is free speech. If the year was not included I'd say it was a 'slam dunk', but I guess this is just a free throw. Perhaps a new TLD (i know, i know) like ".anti" or ".con" - for people to express counter-points and still rank in page aggregators, would help. How about ".rep" or ".dem" or ".gdi" or ".grn"? Bottom line, it's a politician, I don't trust him already.
Don't feel slammed because they see an easy target. Your sentence is grammatically balanced; funding such a project WOULD be really important and contributive. It was your detractors who sought to insert injustice, and I think they are caffeinated, or worse, sleep deprived. You and I know Bill Gates isn't responsible for the lame-ass products his company delivers/promises. He just owns the company. It's the lame-ass M$ engineers who are to blame.
Bill Gates does plenty of worthy things with the PHAT $$$ his company has liberated from millions of (l)users and this would be a fabulous project for he and Iron Mountain.
It's the American way! Build capital and let the interest do the work for you. So it goes with voting . . .
A politician has already acquired the office - so they kick back and let the staff and PACs do all the hard work of figuring out issues. The average citizen never fought or died in a war for the freedoms such as voting - so they kick back and watch cable. Perhaps if one had to register and vote in order to buy cable-tv, or beer, or cigarettes - more citizens would vote.
Perhaps if PACs were outlawed, and the media empires put candidates on TV/Radio for free, and staffers and officials weren't busy sleeping with one another, some real work could get done.
I believe they do have to be physically present on the floor to vote. I'd rather they were there voting in person than voting electronically. Much as I feel citizens should only be voting in the analog mode. Stylus + Paper Ballot. Just add a card reader and receipt printer to the current process and all this obfuscation about tabulation errros goes away.
I think it would be better for them to do all their other business(campaigning) by electronic means rather than electronicizing their voting. Why should a Senator or Represenatative of one state ever travel to another state for any reason? Why not telecommute?
There is profit in internet transactions and they haven't figured out how to tax it yet - that should make everyone realize politicians have no idea what the technology boom has brought. They have no idea. They are ignorant. And that's the name of that tune. IM(NS)HO
Totally. This is user error.
This bill, and others like it, are just kneejerk reactions to a perceived threat. The real problem is to O/S vendor and the user. Microsoft has tied so many spaghetti-code platforms together that most users have no idea of what they are getting into simply by using the internet. There's a substantial learning curve to overcome for most people, and frankly, most people just click "I agree".
Many of us realize the importance of ghosting a new system once software is installed and preferences are set. Most of us realize the importance of virus software and backing up data. These are things we've learned over time, either the hard way, or from being prudent. Look at the average consumer and you'll see they don't have time to RTFM, so it's their own fault. It's their ignorance.
I could explain this to them, but they "just want the problem to go away".
If anything, these bills should force bundled-ware to have a separate license agreement for each product. If the user could see the product description of each 'module' in the offering, then they could better understand just how foolish their being by pursuing these 'free' software titles.
I guess they must have captured the head bastard in the Beslan school massacre. This guy is truly a pioneer - he'll be the first son-of-a-bitch to fly into orbit without life support.
I hope they have the rocket targeted at the sun.
Thanks!
Caveat Emptor.
There's no such thing as a free lunch. If it looks to good to be true, then it probably is.
How about serverless peer-to-peer?
Ok, what do I know?
I know I'd follow CERN's advice.
" US are very too dumb, they will elect Bush and they stress, it's very funny!"
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.it's very funny!"
The word you're looking for is "ironic", perhaps "sardonic". George W. Bush being president has been anything but funny.
" US are very too dumb . .
This part of your sentence does not translate well. The flaw in your grammar could, with a little allusion, be extended so that YOU (plural) are ignorant also.
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The 'each and several states' send delegates to the appropriate state capitols in the second week of December. These electors will cast their votes for President and Vice President. http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecworks.htm
Individual citizens will vote of course, but the popular vote in a presidential election is only a barometer for the electors to gauge the political atmosphere. Additionally, many/most of us will not vote for Bush.
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Maybe you'd like us to vote for isolationist Pat Buchanan?
See: https://www.cato.org/dailys/12-22-99a.html
Are you forgetting "The Carbomite Maneuver"?
Coincidentally, this Star Trek epsiode is about the mischievous son (Balok) of a powerful galactic entity, who uses a puppet to frighten the Enterprise crew. There's also mention of Tranya, a refreshing beverage similar to the kool-aid imbibed by the Jonestown cult in the late 1970's.
When they say it's the same old story, time immemorial, they really mean it's the same old story. Go ahead and MOD me down, it's fun.
What I have finally discovered (because it wasn't taught in Government Class) is that it is more important that citizens vote in their State and Local elections, than it is to vote for President, to be sure. That's the real opportunity to have your vote actually counted. It's a system of interworking modules and user input is at the State level. IMHO, this is where it should be.
I researched the process of becomin a delegate this year (Ohio). While the process is different in each state, my impression was that:
You have to be a super-citizen,
You have to know someone who ranks highly in a given parties system,
You have to pledge to vote for the one that brung ya,
Optionally, you can be a token stereotype, like people of African descent in the Republican party.
One of the numerous things that pisses me off about e-voting is the claim that it will speed up election returns, which by Federal Law it cannot do. To wit:Another is the paper-trail receipt thingy. Do we really want to take on the cost of ensuring paper receipts are not forgeries?The following is from: http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecworks.htm
The whole thing is easy enough. We should keep using the system we have. Perhaps a card-reader would be nice so I could see what the computer thinks I voted for before I place it in the box. An optional printout would be nice as a souvenir. Maybe with a cool logo done in Photoshop.
These classics are almost REQUIRED reading:
03. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
05. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
06. Of Mice and Men
13. The Catcher in the Rye
22. A Wrinkle in Time
41. To Kill a Mockingbird
69. Slaughterhouse-Five
70. Lord of the Flies
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
There is some dissent however, in the source code of the page the first 22 books are marked-up as <strong>, while the last 78 are just <b>.
Maybe their proofreading department is flawed.
This is just what I've been waiting for! And gosh my heart is growing ever so much fonder.
Did you read the parent thread about using a CAPTCHA image in a web form and handing out a URL instead of an email address? Don't you think that would have an impact?
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Saying that paying to register email addresses would have "no impact" isn't sitting with me too well. I would think that incurring a $10 fee per address would have a significant impact on legitimate spammers, they use so many. The ROI would be cut drastically. Of course the negative political impact would be astronomical. Yet your right, Zombie machines would still be doing their thing until the villagers track them down one by one and burn those machines.
. . . digital signatures . . . The first step to solving this problem is accountability . .
I stopped reading SSL and digital signature documentation because it was too complex for me to grasp and implement. I must admit my ignorance here. I tend to think that anything can be forged. If possible however the resulting Clean Internet would be, well, clean. Any occasional abuse would be immediately arrested. You'd think that once developed they could apply the concept to publicly held companies that transmit accounting data and catch them when they aren't liquid - no more Enron, WorldCom, et. al.
Ok, ok, ok it's pie in the sky . . .
If it cost 10$ a year . . . to register an email addy, there would be no incentive for the spammers to throw the dictionary at domains, and conversely, the spammers couldn't/wouldn't want to create thousands of email addys to spam from.
I had not heard that angle before. That rocks! You'd think it would be the sort of thing a politician could wield in court too.
It's strange to me that there are a whole slew of laws concerning other modes of communication, but the internet is slow to be regulated. I know regulation won't stop people from doing stuff, but if the laws are defined then you can punish people in court when they transgress. I think a bevy of young lawyers, reared on IT, are gonna change that someday soon.