"Actually it is a federal offense since it would be considered counterfeiting"
I'd expect it to be a forgery offense, against the State of New York (if you're talking about NYC Metrocards), but I hardly think the Federal Government has a case here, unless maybe you traffic in counterfeit metrocards across state lines or something. See, the NYC transportation department isn't a federal agency, and the card isn't a federal reserve note.
Still a bad idea of course, New York's justice system being just as scary as federal...
"They would swipe it to show the dope there was a value and get cash for it."
You didn't mention whether or not it would get you on the train.
If one state had a legislative vote that sent its electors directly, rather than having a popular vote at all!
Some states do not have any strong law that there be any election, others have it in their constitutions.
I think it would be just funny as hell if it turned out that a legislature can send the electors directly, and if they did, it was 100% legal, etc.
People might pay more attention to the local politicians they elect, if the national government was directly elected among the legislators of the several states!
" Is why elections officials are so adamantly opposed to a paper trail? "
It is a short hike down the paper trail, into the dark woods where a voter can be identified by his vote. Now, there are countless reasons why this would be a problem, but the idea seems to be lost on most people.
Imagine an election for a county magistrate. The incumbent magistrate presides over the election. The vote is tallied in the following way: Each voter, in turn, steps up on a podium, and announces his vote for the candidate of his choice.
Some people still don't see the problem, of course, but this exact situation was one of the many forms of tyranny that the founders of the revolutionary government was on about.
It's very difficult to protect someone from consequences brought about by his political views. At least with anonymous voting in a democratic process, some of the protection never needs to be considered.
>For my fellow environmentalists who are still >carping about "how there's still a gas engine in >those things"
It's worse than that. I had one who decided he had shut down the discussion by reminding me that even my bicycle requires petroleum lubricating oil. As if that is precisely equivalent to the millions of tons of fuel we use daily in our cars.
I routinely carry 20 cubic feet of equipment cases, about the same in speakers, several cases with my musical instruments (4 keyboards and one guitar), a couple of square plastic bucket containers with cables and so on, stands, and sometimes more stuff.
I like for this stuff to be IN the car, locked up, climate controlled, etc., as opposed to a truck bed. I don't really want a "van", although some vans are pretty nice. A big station wagon fills the bill pretty well, better than most minivans would actually.
That's what SUV's are. High roofed station wagons.
"If I have a 1955 Chevy that still gets me to work everyday without breaking down on the side of the road, what point would there be in buying a new car?"
$3.00/gal gas in a car that gets 6 MPG.
I felt strongly enough about my '59 Impala that I set the costs aside for a few years, though.
I find as a VMWare user, that I am stuck with using the last versions of Windows and MS Apps before "Activation" started. Every VMWare configuration is a different machine, and so, once you activate under one config, you are shut out of later ones.
Just as buying the linux version of Mathematica was a mistake (you may not upgrade your kernel!), expecting to install MS stuff on VMWare is also a mistake, unless you are lucky enough to have activation-disabled versions of say, Windows and Office.
Perhaps there are mods out there to disable activation, but I have not come across any since before XP SP1, and none for Office XP or 2003.
"but what's stopping a developer from writing his own query rather than using the optimized one you've already provided for him?"
You can do things in a SP that the app connection lacks credentials to do. So what's stopping the developer? How about hard, drop-dead, grant-level security?
"Use Hibernate (or an equivilant) and never worry about either again."
Hibernate is a wonderful middle tier solution, but there are any number of age-old problems that it won't solve. At the end of the day, it's still JDBC, Prepared Statemets, Collections of objects on a round trip, and authentication issues, as ever.
There are always areas where such things as stored procs and views are useful, and there are always areas where they are a liability.
"Hibernate is the way to go to avoid the impedance between OO and RDBMS."
I have production systems deployed using both Castor and Hibernate, and these have been quite successful.
There are issues, of course, it's not magic bullet, and it only really applies if you're doing (Enterprise) Java.
But I love Hibernate. With careful design and planning, it's a great way to abstract out ALL the database stuff from a java application. Once you learn to work within the idiom of Hib, you can make your code so that managing Connections is hidden, and so that all you have to worry about is a persistent object with respect to a Session. Most of the database semantics are cleared off your plate, including relational stuff.
"If it encourages people to stop buying big Stupid Urban Vehicles that make as much smog in two commutes as a VW running all day, we will still be better off."
Funny you should mention that. My father once had a sawmill that ran off a type 1 VW motor; it ran the saw and also generated electricity to light the place. It was just a stock VW, pretty much running at idle, with a thumbscrew for a throttle, and a retracting cord on the flywheel to start it.
"Yet another example of why the Electoral College should be replaced with popular vote, as well as how most people are utterly clueless about how the Electoral College actually works."
I would support a popular vote if the states were to be made truly sovreign and completely independent from one another. Whether that means there would be a federal government at all, is debatable.
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"They were basically put under restraining order by a judge not to divulge specifics of how they defeated the system."
Then they broke the first rule of petty crime:
Don't Get Caught.
"Actually it is a federal offense since it would be considered counterfeiting"
I'd expect it to be a forgery offense, against the State of New York (if you're talking about NYC Metrocards), but I hardly think the Federal Government has a case here, unless maybe you traffic in counterfeit metrocards across state lines or something. See, the NYC transportation department isn't a federal agency, and the card isn't a federal reserve note.
Still a bad idea of course, New York's justice system being just as scary as federal...
"They would swipe it to show the dope there was a value and get cash for it."
You didn't mention whether or not it would get you on the train.
"Hence, my comment, requires an existing fileshack.org account."
filelist.org
91,000 huh? What a weird arbitary limit. Not even a power of two.
Oh well, 103 hours to go, maybe it will come up on Windows Update sooner. Or maybe I can reactivate my MSDN account quicker.
You know what would be funny as hell?
If one state had a legislative vote that sent its electors directly, rather than having a popular vote at all!
Some states do not have any strong law that there be any election, others have it in their constitutions.
I think it would be just funny as hell if it turned out that a legislature can send the electors directly, and if they did, it was 100% legal, etc.
People might pay more attention to the local politicians they elect, if the national government was directly elected among the legislators of the several states!
" Is why elections officials are so adamantly opposed to a paper trail? "
It is a short hike down the paper trail, into the dark woods where a voter can be identified by his vote. Now, there are countless reasons why this would be a problem, but the idea seems to be lost on most people.
Imagine an election for a county magistrate. The incumbent magistrate presides over the election. The vote is tallied in the following way: Each voter, in turn, steps up on a podium, and announces his vote for the candidate of his choice.
Some people still don't see the problem, of course, but this exact situation was one of the many forms of tyranny that the founders of the revolutionary government was on about.
It's very difficult to protect someone from consequences brought about by his political views. At least with anonymous voting in a democratic process, some of the protection never needs to be considered.
"Here in Brazil we have eletronic vote for a decade now"
How many people vote in Brazilian elections?
Is Brazil's government distributed across as many different separate governments, each with control over its elections, like the United States?
You are aware that the US has no single, "national election", correct? That each State is independent and in control of its election?
>60 seeders, 300 downloaders (Requires fileshack.org
>account)
Requires what?
"Hybrids are very efficient in heavy stop and go traffic, but not much better than a regular car on long freeway trips."
If someone could figure out a way to make the process of starting a car engine less of a production, we might not have to sit and idle so much!
>some blood-spattered libertarian
I know you mean well, but you destroy your credibility when you make statements like that.
>For my fellow environmentalists who are still >carping about "how there's still a gas engine in
>those things"
It's worse than that. I had one who decided he
had shut down the discussion by reminding me that
even my bicycle requires petroleum lubricating oil.
As if that is precisely equivalent to the millions of tons of fuel we use daily in our cars.
>Do we really really need SUVs?
I routinely carry 20 cubic feet of equipment cases,
about the same in speakers, several cases with my
musical instruments (4 keyboards and one guitar), a couple of square plastic bucket containers with cables and so on, stands, and sometimes more stuff.
I like for this stuff to be IN the car, locked up, climate controlled, etc., as opposed to a truck bed. I don't really want a "van", although some vans are pretty nice. A big station wagon fills the bill pretty well, better than most minivans would actually.
That's what SUV's are. High roofed station wagons.
"This is probably being written far too late for someone to notice, but I'm going to waste my time anyway"
Many read slashdot in reverse chrono order, highest scores first.
Your post is near the top of the list. Don't let the idea that your post will be lost in the noise, stop you from contributing.
Will this linux laptop play DVDs legally?
How?
"If I have a 1955 Chevy that still gets me to work everyday without breaking down on the side of the road, what point would there be in buying a new car?"
$3.00/gal gas in a car that gets 6 MPG.
I felt strongly enough about my '59 Impala that I set the costs aside for a few years, though.
>max. 362 days.
Do they have to import experienced officers?
My Toshiba 450CDT, a 1997 model Pentium-I 75mhz, running linux in console mode, has a 10 hour battery life.
The only thing I've ever seen do any better, except maybe a PDA, was a Tandy Model 100.
Okay, nail it to the tree and put a round from the 1911 through it.
>Yes, but... with VMWare, your hardware is virtual.
The same machine running Windows XP and/or Office requires at least two separate activations:
One to run it "natively", and another one to run it under the VM. Reactivation is required if you make any changes to the VMWare config, not just RAM.
I find as a VMWare user, that I am stuck with using the last versions of Windows and MS Apps before "Activation" started. Every VMWare configuration is a different machine, and so, once you activate under one config, you are shut out of later ones.
Just as buying the linux version of Mathematica was a mistake (you may not upgrade your kernel!), expecting to install MS stuff on VMWare is also a mistake, unless you are lucky enough to have activation-disabled versions of say, Windows and Office.
Perhaps there are mods out there to disable activation, but I have not come across any since before XP SP1, and none for Office XP or 2003.
"but what's stopping a developer from writing his own query rather than using the optimized one you've already provided for him?"
You can do things in a SP that the app connection lacks credentials to do. So what's stopping the developer? How about hard, drop-dead, grant-level security?
"Use Hibernate (or an equivilant) and never worry about either again."
Hibernate is a wonderful middle tier solution, but there are any number of age-old problems that it won't solve. At the end of the day, it's still JDBC, Prepared Statemets, Collections of objects on a round trip, and authentication issues, as ever.
There are always areas where such things as stored procs and views are useful, and there are always areas where they are a liability.
"Hibernate is the way to go to avoid the impedance between OO and RDBMS."
I have production systems deployed using both Castor and Hibernate, and these have been quite successful.
There are issues, of course, it's not magic bullet, and it only really applies if you're doing (Enterprise) Java.
But I love Hibernate. With careful design and planning, it's a great way to abstract out ALL the database stuff from a java application. Once you learn to work within the idiom of Hib, you can make your code so that managing Connections is hidden, and so that all you have to worry about is a persistent object with respect to a Session. Most of the database semantics are cleared off your plate, including relational stuff.
www.hibernate.org
"If it encourages people to stop buying big Stupid Urban Vehicles that make as much smog in two commutes as a VW running all day, we will still be better off."
Funny you should mention that. My father once had a sawmill that ran off a type 1 VW motor; it ran the saw and also generated electricity to light the place. It was just a stock VW, pretty much running at idle, with a thumbscrew for a throttle, and a retracting cord on the flywheel to start it.
"Yet another example of why the Electoral College should be replaced with popular vote, as well as how most people are utterly clueless about how the Electoral College actually works."
I would support a popular vote if the states were to be made truly sovreign and completely independent from one another. Whether that means there would be a federal government at all, is debatable.
If a militia is so poor that they have to choose between bullets or uniforms, they aren't going to have a bake sale to buy uniforms.