By requiring that the entire platform be open source, the well-intentioned legislators just killed the bill. Do you think Microsoft and Sun are going to sit by and watch a market opportunity vanish?
Yes, if there is enough pressure from the people to have fair elections, we can prevent Microsoft and Sun from choosing our government for us.
This is a case of sacrificing the good by demanding the perfect. If the bill had instead required that only the voting software installed on the voting machines be open source, then the bill would not have alienated so many parties with enough money to kill it.
This is the sort of law that we need. I urge all Americans who read/. and care about our democracy to write their representatives and tell them to vote for this bill. Voting machine companies like Diebold and Sequoia will surely be lobbying against the bill, so we really need to show them that we care about this issue. This bill is also a great way to find out what your representative is all about. It is often surprising to find which congressmen and women support open source elections. This is certainly an issue that will NOT break down to party affiliation.
Maybe I'm missing something... I'm no "Linux expert" and I was able to install Ubuntu just like windows and everything just worked, no problems. I think the complaints about device drivers are typical of older Linux and not the current builds.
>Speaking as a UI designer, there's an easy way to counter minor calibration drift: Give people large buttons.
I am a UI designer of touch panel systems (AMX and Crestron). I have found that when touch screens get worn out they do funny things like register button pushes in areas that you have not touched. Most touch screens use a membrane system to create a set of coordinates where you touched the screen. If this membrane is worn out or if it was poorly manufactured it will act weird, and recalibrating it in software will not help at all.
Large buttons solve many problems, but not this one in my experience.
You are correct sir, as far as I know all of these systems to date involve training your brain to emit a given EM field using a biofeedback process.
FTA:
They then asked the boy to do various motor and speech tasks, moving his hands various ways, talking, and imagining. The team could see from the data which parts of the brain and what brain signals correlate to these movements.
They then asked the boy to play a simple, two-dimensional Space Invaders game by actually moving his tongue and hand. He was then asked to imagine the same movements, but not to actually perform them with his hands or tongue. When he saw the cursor in the video game, he then controlled it with his brain.
One thing you could do is have jousting robots, where you try to line up your laser beam with the other robots sensor, like laser tag. When a robot gets hit it could dramaticly topple over.
I'm sure there are far better uses for it though...
I could understand using workstations and a server in the solution, but why not use linux or bsd for all the computers in the system? They are cheaper, more stable...
The racks are very pretty. Nice neat wiring...but not one service loop.
Anyone who has done av for a while can tell you that when a piece of rack mounted gear fails it is nice to be able to replace it by removing the rack screws, pulling the piece of gear out from the rack, and disconnecting the wires.
This is easy to do if the installer left a loop of wire at the back of each device, just enough to pull the gear far enough out to get to the connections.
The real problem here is the questions they are asking. At first it seams reasonable to measure certain biometrics to sort the terrorists from the rest of us, when they review tapes of terrorists about to blow themselves up it is typical to see the guy sweating and nervous, but how does that justify asking questions about immigration and drug smuggling? These questions have nothing to do with terrorism or homeland security, no matter what bullshit the gov't spews. It becomes a civil rights violation that will be in place long after the threat is gone.
No planes were hijacked or blown up in this most recent "bomb plot." They always make a big bust before an election.
of those monster cable products(not a plug.) You take a piece of standard hardware, an RCA cable or a 10/100/1000 nic, put gold contacts on it, and a certain percentage of people will go for it. I don't think that you get much better sound out of a gold plated cable, and I don't think your gaming experience will be any better with this nic, but if it outperforms the other guy's hardware, even just on a bench test...I still won't buy it.
Maybe you missed my point. Unions have gotten a really bad rep in this country after being villified by monied interests. Unions are good for working conditions. Happy workers make better products. Heartless capitalists will always try to bust unions with this sort of article. Look how happy the workers are, look how hard they choose to work. Bullshit! How about posting this crap under an account, A.C.?
>I think ECS' employees take great pride in their hard work, even though they are getting paid very little in comparison to bloated unionized factories in North America.
If you don't like our bloated unions then go live in China where they don't have any. I'm sure you would prefer living in poverty like most Chinese people.
from the folks who brought you napalm and unmanned predator drones, here is another way to maim brown people in other countries without having to see them.
From the article; "Texas is seeking civil penalties of $100,000 per violation of the state's Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act, which was enacted earlier this year."
I think this means that each purchase of a cd with this software on it is a violation.
Sony might owe a lot of money on this one.
I was looking at my actual usage of bit torrent. It seems like I use it mostly to download television shows that I missed when they ran on a (ahem) particular basic cable science fiction station. Now I pay for that station every month as part of my cable service, so I have some sort of right to view the program...I just missed it. So I use bittorrent. It works great because I am downloading while the file is popular, the file is complete when I wake up. I agree that downloading movies that have been released and are easily available is a waste of time, and probably very slow because of the lack of seeders, but bittorrent works great if you use it the way it meant to be used, for downloading files popular enough to cause server slowdown.
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This is the sort of law that we need. I urge all Americans who read /. and care about our democracy to write their representatives and tell them to vote for this bill. Voting machine companies like Diebold and Sequoia will surely be lobbying against the bill, so we really need to show them that we care about this issue. This bill is also a great way to find out what your representative is all about. It is often surprising to find which congressmen and women support open source elections. This is certainly an issue that will NOT break down to party affiliation.
http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/s2644-109.pdf
http://cachepe.zzounds.com/media/quality,85/brand, zzounds/CMM503R-d17aa143880be691baf92ef56c06532f.j pg/
Recording software: Audacity
Maybe I'm missing something... I'm no "Linux expert" and I was able to install Ubuntu just like windows and everything just worked, no problems. I think the complaints about device drivers are typical of older Linux and not the current builds.
>Speaking as a UI designer, there's an easy way to counter minor calibration drift: Give people large buttons.
I am a UI designer of touch panel systems (AMX and Crestron). I have found that when touch screens get worn out they do funny things like register button pushes in areas that you have not touched. Most touch screens use a membrane system to create a set of coordinates where you touched the screen. If this membrane is worn out or if it was poorly manufactured it will act weird, and recalibrating it in software will not help at all.
Large buttons solve many problems, but not this one in my experience.
I don't think this will ever happen, the rich love to fuck the poor.
"Howard Stern's 4+ hour program will be made available live online for free..."
I think this exists already, its called bit torrent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diSFa1bNPk0
of him stomping and screaming about how much he loves Microsoft. I'm pretty sure its on you tube.
Maybe he just wants residuals...
You are correct sir, as far as I know all of these systems to date involve training your brain to emit a given EM field using a biofeedback process.
FTA:
They then asked the boy to do various motor and speech tasks, moving his hands various ways, talking, and imagining. The team could see from the data which parts of the brain and what brain signals correlate to these movements. They then asked the boy to play a simple, two-dimensional Space Invaders game by actually moving his tongue and hand. He was then asked to imagine the same movements, but not to actually perform them with his hands or tongue. When he saw the cursor in the video game, he then controlled it with his brain.
One thing you could do is have jousting robots, where you try to line up your laser beam with the other robots sensor, like laser tag. When a robot gets hit it could dramaticly topple over.
I'm sure there are far better uses for it though...
I could understand using workstations and a server in the solution, but why not use linux or bsd for all the computers in the system? They are cheaper, more stable...
The racks are very pretty. Nice neat wiring...but not one service loop.
Anyone who has done av for a while can tell you that when a piece of rack mounted gear fails it is nice to be able to replace it by removing the rack screws, pulling the piece of gear out from the rack, and disconnecting the wires.
This is easy to do if the installer left a loop of wire at the back of each device, just enough to pull the gear far enough out to get to the connections.
Maybe it is Abrahamen Biderman... http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp zcodec.com
The real problem here is the questions they are asking. At first it seams reasonable to measure certain biometrics to sort the terrorists from the rest of us, when they review tapes of terrorists about to blow themselves up it is typical to see the guy sweating and nervous, but how does that justify asking questions about immigration and drug smuggling? These questions have nothing to do with terrorism or homeland security, no matter what bullshit the gov't spews. It becomes a civil rights violation that will be in place long after the threat is gone.
No planes were hijacked or blown up in this most recent "bomb plot." They always make a big bust before an election.
of those monster cable products(not a plug.) You take a piece of standard hardware, an RCA cable or a 10/100/1000 nic, put gold contacts on it, and a certain percentage of people will go for it. I don't think that you get much better sound out of a gold plated cable, and I don't think your gaming experience will be any better with this nic, but if it outperforms the other guy's hardware, even just on a bench test...I still won't buy it.
Maybe you missed my point. Unions have gotten a really bad rep in this country after being villified by monied interests. Unions are good for working conditions. Happy workers make better products. Heartless capitalists will always try to bust unions with this sort of article. Look how happy the workers are, look how hard they choose to work. Bullshit! How about posting this crap under an account, A.C.?
>I think ECS' employees take great pride in their hard work, even though they are getting paid very little in comparison to bloated unionized factories in North America.
If you don't like our bloated unions then go live in China where they don't have any. I'm sure you would prefer living in poverty like most Chinese people.
from the folks who brought you napalm and unmanned predator drones, here is another way to maim brown people in other countries without having to see them.
Um hams have been doing this for a while...
You mean a Wikipedia article may not *sarcastic gasp* be accurate?
Link Has anyone seen this movie?
From the article; "Texas is seeking civil penalties of $100,000 per violation of the state's Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act, which was enacted earlier this year." I think this means that each purchase of a cd with this software on it is a violation. Sony might owe a lot of money on this one.
I was looking at my actual usage of bit torrent. It seems like I use it mostly to download television shows that I missed when they ran on a (ahem) particular basic cable science fiction station. Now I pay for that station every month as part of my cable service, so I have some sort of right to view the program...I just missed it. So I use bittorrent. It works great because I am downloading while the file is popular, the file is complete when I wake up.
I agree that downloading movies that have been released and are easily available is a waste of time, and probably very slow because of the lack of seeders, but bittorrent works great if you use it the way it meant to be used, for downloading files popular enough to cause server slowdown.