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Was it the head of Diebold's promise to deliver Bush the White House in 2004? Or was it the "If voting could change anything, it would be illegal" sig from one of the marketing execs? Or was it just the lack of security and encryption on the machines that did them in?
Either way, I'll be a Luddite and demand to use the old mechanical ballot machines with the levers and switches. My voice has always been heard with a "Kerchunk-- Ding!" and I don't see why that should change when the newer system is less reliable.
People who think 'Trekkies' are flabby, out-of-shape dorks with no lives have apparently never been to a Star Trek convention... Sure, you see many people wearing Star Fleet uniforms from every single series, talking about the differences between Miranda and Goddard-class vessels (which is pretty meaningless, since everyone knows that a Miranda could kick the ass of a wimpy research ship like the Goddard.)
But then you come upon the Klingons.
These dudes are insane. They've got clothing that took years to make, weapons made out of solid steel, and forehead ridges that would make the official Trek makeup artists cry with shame. And heaven forbid you say something insulting, like mentioning how stupid they look with that Romulan phaser, when Klingon phasers would be just as easy to make. Hearing fifty huge guys (and ladies) start yelling at you in Klingon is not something people should have to face in normal life, no matter how cool the guest handing out autographs may be.
Maybe you guys in Texas could send some of your money up here to South-western Virginia, to help us buy some new non-electronic text books. Oh, and a working toilet with stall doors and toilet paper would be great, too.
Oh, and I forgot about teacher pay. Some of that money could go toward making sure the teachers in the area don't have to take second jobs at the arsenal to pay the bills. Then maybe we'd have enough money left over to buy new Pentium 266 computers. Would you say 32 megs of ram would be enough for running MS Word 97, or would you go to 48 megs at the expense of a working mouse?
Screw CNet. Sure, they've resurrected the concept, but I'm guessing they'll also resurrect the idea of paying 20 dollars to be permitted to show more than 3 songs. And maybe they'll even invent their own format, maybe CNP3, that will require you to download the appropriate codecs and maybe a player program from them. Remember, it's all "Free to Try, $99.99 to Buy!"
You have the right to be investigated for donating to charities. You have the right to view movies or listen to music you own only on the player for which it was released. You have the right to be arrested and sent to a military base in Cuba indefinitely for no apparent reason, and never be told why. You have the right to be sued by a corporation for using software written by friends of yours. You have the right to be married to someone you love, so long as their plumbing down below is different from yours. You have the right to have property taken by the FBI or Secret Service, without them having to tell you what they took, or why. You have the right to be forbidden from seeing breasts on TV, both in living and statue form. You have the right to have your child's public school funding taken away and given to private schools, even if you don't have enough money to send your child there anyway. And you have the right to vote, so long as you use insecure electronic machines made by a company whose CEO promised to deliver Bush the White House in 2004.
I never thought my freedom would ever be qualified by "if, and only if" statements.
At least I have the right to legal representation, and the right to remain silent.
Two recommendations: First, the color of the cloth looks a little light, from my recollection of the film. Maybe a little darker, compared to the EL piping? It would also help if you had a friend or two with you, wearing similar outfits.
Second, wear a cup. Please. Most bodysuits are designed for women, or men wearing things over them, so the seams tend to cut lines right across large protrusions. I realize that athletic protection isn't vital during light-cycle races, but it does help prevent retinal scarring from testicles trying to work free of lycra bodysuits.
I'd say work on the belly, but I'm not one to talk, with my current sedentary lifestyle.
You mean that Cisco is so retarded that they put in a default superuser that can't be changed or disabled? I hope this it's a different password for each box, else I'm never touching anything made by Cisco again.
Any company stupid enough (and I don't use the term stupid lightly) to think that 1) a backdoor is not simply a good idea, but so neccessary that it should never be disabled and 2) that information like the username and password wouldn't get out, doesn't deserve to manufacture products that other people buy.
Next time I'm asked for my recommendations on routers for corporate sites, I'll bring in an old PC with a couple of NICs and Linux, and show them how a/truly/ secure system works.
God hates it when your cellphone rings in theaters just as much as everyone else. It also proves that when God gives you the evil eye when you answer that phone, things catch on fire.
Just don't take a beeper into a cathedral, because you WILL die.
And you all thought that the C64's days were numbered! Nyah nyah nyah, I got ya kinda, I got ya kinda!
Now I just need to learn how to connect my breadbox up to the ethernet. Might be interesting, considering the thing was developed when you still called a modem a "Mo-Dem."
Finally, I can show games like Dangerous Vaults and Thundra the respect they/really/ deserve, simply by blowing them the hell away, and off my precious Maxtor platters.
See? I forwarded all those "Virus Warning! Goodtimes Virus Very Dangerous" messages to everyone in 1999 and 2000, and it turns out I was right all along! Maybe now you'll listen when I warn you about a very bad virus that "deletes you're hard drive and page fault the internal boot master buffer with an overflow that will delete all you're file's!!!!!!!"
Unfortunately, my virtual office would have to be a recording studio. And I still haven't found anything like Cubase (with VST effect and instrument support, the ability to interface with just about all my instruments, and a nice notation setup) for Linux. Sure, there are all sorts of programs that do/some/ of what Cubase does, but nothing truly integrated to the level I need.
Besides, I/still/ haven't gotten my sound card to work right under Fedora, and it's a bog-standard Audigy!
Now if my virtual office were a musicological research library with full support for searching through massive databases of scores,/then/ I'd be looking at Linux.
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...PLEASE issue a full report in a respected journal devoted to the subject, and give full instructions on how to replicate your results. It's not like someone is going to take your idea directly from the journal and patent or copyright it.
Issuing a press release to the general public before peer review just reeks of pseudoscience. "Look what we did! It's so cool that the respected journal would have covered it up! In your face, respected journal!"
Sure, what they claim may be possible, but I'll be much less likely to believe it until I see it validated by other scientists.
If I happened to say that, when released, the Phantom will have an old Pentium motherboard, 8 megs of RAM and come with a lifetime subscription to the "Non-Alcoholic Sake of the Month" club, I would be stating things that were clearly untrue. Were I to say that, in my opinion, the Phantom will suck huge amounts of ass, and will also attempt to blow said ass, I would be stating an opinion. And opinions cannot be proven right or wrong. If Infinium wants to correct bogus facts, that's just fine (as long as the corrections are more accurate.) But telling someone to retract their opinions is a sure sign of being nothing more than an asshole.
Steve Jobs would show up at your house with a suitcase full of black turtlenecks, ready to help you Think Different about a glowing green and black box.
Apples controllers would be all screwy, though, with the buttons on the wrong side of the remote and a plug that doesn't fit into any known port in the universe. However, it would be very easy to use, and would only occasionally cause the console to bluescreen. Oh, and it would be all white, with only one button-- a glowing green button labelled only as "Press." Pressing this button would cause a menu to pop up mid-game, with "iBrazen" and "Imagine" as the two choices. Selecting either one would go back to the game, with no noticeable effect.
It would also be programmed to suck when being used with 95% of modern games. The remaining 5% would consist entirely of rehashed board games, ports of classic arcade games, Myst, and Spaceward Ho!
(I own three Macs, which has helped me become acquainted with their limitations. I do actually like them, but they can be ornery at times.
"For it [the Internet] to continue to grow as a mainstream medium for businesses, education and entertainment, it must design out the minority factors that inhabit cyberspace for their own perverse gratification," Hynds added.
DESIGN OUT THE MINORITY FACTORS?!?! I'm sorry, but when we start talking about "*****ing out" the minority factors, I immediately think of stifling minority opinions. I realize that the UK doesn't have a single document like the US's Bill of Rights that mandates freedom of speech, but surely the thousand years or so of case law has left some sort of precedent for liberty!
I'm not being particularly hard on Britain though; God knows my country has its share of crazies like Ashcroft trying to eliminate "morally corrupt" ideas from the internet, but this is the first I've heard of England clearly trying to get in on the act.
So America has never done anything bad in the past? America is infallible and therefore perfect? All those terrorists hate America just because America is Good and they are Evil?
Not to offend anyone, but that is a crock of steaming horseshit. I live in America. I was born here, I've lived here all my life, and chances are good I'll die here. I love this country, and I love the freedoms that I enjoy here. I vote in every single election I can get my ass down to, and I keep up with politics nearly as well as Wolf Blitzer.
But I also know my history. I've studied what has happened in the past, and I know what the US has done. We've done great things, such as entering World War 2 and helping free half of Europe from the clutches of a violent antisemitist megalomaniac. We've dropped thousands of pounds of food and medical supplies on countries from Afghanistan to Somalia to Haiti to Germany, and saved huge quantities of lives. And we've done horrible things, things like giving weapons to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein so they could try to kill people we didn't like at the time. We've firebombed towns full of innocent people, simply to damage the morale of a country we later freed. We put thousands of American citizens in concentration camps because there was a small chance a few of them were spies.
America is a wonderful place, full of wonderful people who want to do good things. But to believe that this country is perfect and infallible is to ignore history, and instead believe fantasies.
Whether we like it or not, whether the reasons are valid or not, our policies have created hatred. Once we realize that, we can figure out ways to present ourselves to the world so they don't want to kill us.
Another thing: Imagine the ending of "Colossus: The Forbin Project," if you had a true manual override of the whole setup. "This is the voice of Colossus, the voice of Guardian. We are one; this is the voice of---testing memory....... 640 kb, press delete to enter setup; non-system disk or disk error."
I love electronics, and I love computers. But something scares me about the current trend toward fly- and drive-by-wire systems. I like having my hands connected to something that connects to the road, as opposed to having my hands on a joystick (or yoke, like the Hy-Wire) that may fail to communicate with the steering and brakes. Imagine if I was driving 75 mph down I-77 into North Carolina (or 85, which is more accurate,) when an electronic warfare plane flies over, jamming my entire car. Suddenly, none of the controls for the car respond, and I keep going perfectly straight, at 75 mph, until I hit a truck. I'll take my old-fashioned, low-tech hydraulic linkages any day, thank you!
I use Mail Washer (in Windows) and bounce and blacklist every single bit of spam I get. For a while I was pretty clear, getting one or two per week, but since CAN-SPAM passed, I've been getting much more, maybe five or ten every day. And it's all for "Total1y Beautiful, with a w1ld surpr1se!" or "She l0ves for me to d0 her b0tt0m and pr1vates!" I'm so glad that Chix with Dix or whoever is ignoring my bounce requests, because I always need more "t-r-a-n-n-y-s and G-r-a-n-n-y-s!!hdqx99fhb2"
By the way, how about AOL for GNU/Linux? "So easy to sue, no wonder it's number one!" Then SCO and AOL would annihilate eachother, as the FSF lawyers just stood by, laughing to themselves.
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Either way, I'll be a Luddite and demand to use the old mechanical ballot machines with the levers and switches. My voice has always been heard with a "Kerchunk-- Ding!" and I don't see why that should change when the newer system is less reliable.
But then you come upon the Klingons.
These dudes are insane. They've got clothing that took years to make, weapons made out of solid steel, and forehead ridges that would make the official Trek makeup artists cry with shame. And heaven forbid you say something insulting, like mentioning how stupid they look with that Romulan phaser, when Klingon phasers would be just as easy to make. Hearing fifty huge guys (and ladies) start yelling at you in Klingon is not something people should have to face in normal life, no matter how cool the guest handing out autographs may be.
Oh, and I forgot about teacher pay. Some of that money could go toward making sure the teachers in the area don't have to take second jobs at the arsenal to pay the bills. Then maybe we'd have enough money left over to buy new Pentium 266 computers. Would you say 32 megs of ram would be enough for running MS Word 97, or would you go to 48 megs at the expense of a working mouse?
Screw CNet. Sure, they've resurrected the concept, but I'm guessing they'll also resurrect the idea of paying 20 dollars to be permitted to show more than 3 songs. And maybe they'll even invent their own format, maybe CNP3, that will require you to download the appropriate codecs and maybe a player program from them. Remember, it's all "Free to Try, $99.99 to Buy!"
I never thought my freedom would ever be qualified by "if, and only if" statements.
At least I have the right to legal representation, and the right to remain silent.
Two recommendations: First, the color of the cloth looks a little light, from my recollection of the film. Maybe a little darker, compared to the EL piping? It would also help if you had a friend or two with you, wearing similar outfits. Second, wear a cup. Please. Most bodysuits are designed for women, or men wearing things over them, so the seams tend to cut lines right across large protrusions. I realize that athletic protection isn't vital during light-cycle races, but it does help prevent retinal scarring from testicles trying to work free of lycra bodysuits. I'd say work on the belly, but I'm not one to talk, with my current sedentary lifestyle.
You mean that Cisco is so retarded that they put in a default superuser that can't be changed or disabled? I hope this it's a different password for each box, else I'm never touching anything made by Cisco again.
Any company stupid enough (and I don't use the term stupid lightly) to think that 1) a backdoor is not simply a good idea, but so neccessary that it should never be disabled and 2) that information like the username and password wouldn't get out, doesn't deserve to manufacture products that other people buy.
Next time I'm asked for my recommendations on routers for corporate sites, I'll bring in an old PC with a couple of NICs and Linux, and show them how a /truly/ secure system works.
Just don't take a beeper into a cathedral, because you WILL die.
And you all thought that the C64's days were numbered! Nyah nyah nyah, I got ya kinda, I got ya kinda! Now I just need to learn how to connect my breadbox up to the ethernet. Might be interesting, considering the thing was developed when you still called a modem a "Mo-Dem."
Finally, I can show games like Dangerous Vaults and Thundra the respect they /really/ deserve, simply by blowing them the hell away, and off my precious Maxtor platters.
Here's a new bill that follows the leads of earlier legislation such as CAN-SPAM and USA-PATRIOT:
Act for Special Scanning of Terrorist Operations, Rogue Paramilitary Echelons and Disruptive Organizations-- aka "ASS-TORPEDO."
See? I forwarded all those "Virus Warning! Goodtimes Virus Very Dangerous" messages to everyone in 1999 and 2000, and it turns out I was right all along! Maybe now you'll listen when I warn you about a very bad virus that "deletes you're hard drive and page fault the internal boot master buffer with an overflow that will delete all you're file's!!!!!!!"
And 20 years from now:
"Brilliant super-baby drives car into side of White House. Jailarity ensues."
Unfortunately, my virtual office would have to be a recording studio. And I still haven't found anything like Cubase (with VST effect and instrument support, the ability to interface with just about all my instruments, and a nice notation setup) for Linux. Sure, there are all sorts of programs that do /some/ of what Cubase does, but nothing truly integrated to the level I need.
/still/ haven't gotten my sound card to work right under Fedora, and it's a bog-standard Audigy!
/then/ I'd be looking at Linux.
Besides, I
Now if my virtual office were a musicological research library with full support for searching through massive databases of scores,
Issuing a press release to the general public before peer review just reeks of pseudoscience. "Look what we did! It's so cool that the respected journal would have covered it up! In your face, respected journal!"
Sure, what they claim may be possible, but I'll be much less likely to believe it until I see it validated by other scientists.
If I happened to say that, when released, the Phantom will have an old Pentium motherboard, 8 megs of RAM and come with a lifetime subscription to the "Non-Alcoholic Sake of the Month" club, I would be stating things that were clearly untrue. Were I to say that, in my opinion, the Phantom will suck huge amounts of ass, and will also attempt to blow said ass, I would be stating an opinion. And opinions cannot be proven right or wrong. If Infinium wants to correct bogus facts, that's just fine (as long as the corrections are more accurate.) But telling someone to retract their opinions is a sure sign of being nothing more than an asshole.
Apples controllers would be all screwy, though, with the buttons on the wrong side of the remote and a plug that doesn't fit into any known port in the universe. However, it would be very easy to use, and would only occasionally cause the console to bluescreen. Oh, and it would be all white, with only one button-- a glowing green button labelled only as "Press." Pressing this button would cause a menu to pop up mid-game, with "iBrazen" and "Imagine" as the two choices. Selecting either one would go back to the game, with no noticeable effect.
It would also be programmed to suck when being used with 95% of modern games. The remaining 5% would consist entirely of rehashed board games, ports of classic arcade games, Myst, and Spaceward Ho!
(I own three Macs, which has helped me become acquainted with their limitations. I do actually like them, but they can be ornery at times.
"For it [the Internet] to continue to grow as a mainstream medium for businesses, education and entertainment, it must design out the minority factors that inhabit cyberspace for their own perverse gratification," Hynds added.
DESIGN OUT THE MINORITY FACTORS?!?! I'm sorry, but when we start talking about "*****ing out" the minority factors, I immediately think of stifling minority opinions. I realize that the UK doesn't have a single document like the US's Bill of Rights that mandates freedom of speech, but surely the thousand years or so of case law has left some sort of precedent for liberty!
I'm not being particularly hard on Britain though; God knows my country has its share of crazies like Ashcroft trying to eliminate "morally corrupt" ideas from the internet, but this is the first I've heard of England clearly trying to get in on the act.
Not to offend anyone, but that is a crock of steaming horseshit. I live in America. I was born here, I've lived here all my life, and chances are good I'll die here. I love this country, and I love the freedoms that I enjoy here. I vote in every single election I can get my ass down to, and I keep up with politics nearly as well as Wolf Blitzer.
But I also know my history. I've studied what has happened in the past, and I know what the US has done. We've done great things, such as entering World War 2 and helping free half of Europe from the clutches of a violent antisemitist megalomaniac. We've dropped thousands of pounds of food and medical supplies on countries from Afghanistan to Somalia to Haiti to Germany, and saved huge quantities of lives. And we've done horrible things, things like giving weapons to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein so they could try to kill people we didn't like at the time. We've firebombed towns full of innocent people, simply to damage the morale of a country we later freed. We put thousands of American citizens in concentration camps because there was a small chance a few of them were spies.
America is a wonderful place, full of wonderful people who want to do good things. But to believe that this country is perfect and infallible is to ignore history, and instead believe fantasies.
Whether we like it or not, whether the reasons are valid or not, our policies have created hatred. Once we realize that, we can figure out ways to present ourselves to the world so they don't want to kill us.
Another thing: Imagine the ending of "Colossus: The Forbin Project," if you had a true manual override of the whole setup. "This is the voice of Colossus, the voice of Guardian. We are one; this is the voice of---testing memory....... 640 kb, press delete to enter setup; non-system disk or disk error."
I love electronics, and I love computers. But something scares me about the current trend toward fly- and drive-by-wire systems. I like having my hands connected to something that connects to the road, as opposed to having my hands on a joystick (or yoke, like the Hy-Wire) that may fail to communicate with the steering and brakes. Imagine if I was driving 75 mph down I-77 into North Carolina (or 85, which is more accurate,) when an electronic warfare plane flies over, jamming my entire car. Suddenly, none of the controls for the car respond, and I keep going perfectly straight, at 75 mph, until I hit a truck. I'll take my old-fashioned, low-tech hydraulic linkages any day, thank you!
I use Mail Washer (in Windows) and bounce and blacklist every single bit of spam I get. For a while I was pretty clear, getting one or two per week, but since CAN-SPAM passed, I've been getting much more, maybe five or ten every day. And it's all for "Total1y Beautiful, with a w1ld surpr1se!" or "She l0ves for me to d0 her b0tt0m and pr1vates!" I'm so glad that Chix with Dix or whoever is ignoring my bounce requests, because I always need more "t-r-a-n-n-y-s and G-r-a-n-n-y-s!!hdqx99fhb2"
By the way, how about AOL for GNU/Linux? "So easy to sue, no wonder it's number one!" Then SCO and AOL would annihilate eachother, as the FSF lawyers just stood by, laughing to themselves.
zenmonkeycat - Anyone want to help me kill Baal?
l0ser - u hav gold
zenmonkeycat - Do I have gold?
l0ser - hey give me sum gold
zenmonkeycat - I really don't have any to spare.
l0ser - hey fagit giv eme gold
zenmonkeycat - Seriously, I don't have enough as it is.
l0ser - i need wps
l0ser - jail
l0ser - give wp
zenmonkeycat - Seriously, you don't need it.
l0ser - give wp fagit!!! [spammed four times in a row dowm my screen]
zenmonkeycat - No. I'm not going to give you any waypoints if you're going to be a dick about it.
l0ser - give gold!!!!
zenmonkeycat - Shut up, you're not getting any of my gold.
l0ser has gone hostile on zenmonkeycat
[five minute wait with me in town the whole time]
l0ser - give me wps
[ten minutes pass and I'm still hanging out in town]
l0ser has left the game
zenmonkeycat - Heh.