this guy actually has a good point. anyone who has futzed about trying to get poorly supported wireless cards or a soft-modem to work under Linux can attest to this.
i personally call BS on the inability of blind voters to vote using paper ballots. my grandma (who is 94 and has 20/400 vision, legally blind is 20/200) is able to vote just fine with our paper ballots here in Canada.
and if a person is completely blind, how in the name of whatever Deity you believe in is a touch screen that they can't see going to help?
and just how disabled are you if you can't put an X in a 1.25" circle? even if you have tourette's or something and you screw up your ballot, you can get another one as many times as you need to until you get it right.
faster? results before you go to bed (well, results when you wake up if you live in the east) isn't fast enough for you?
i'll certainly agree with you on that computerized voting machines are a solution in search of a problem.
resist the ring perhaps, but at the counsel in rivendell, it is said that "after all else falls, bombadil will fall" or something to that effect. don't have my book handy, but it still in the book points to the all-encompassing power of the one ring.
IMO, tom bombadil was a prime example of something that could be safely chopped for a movie version. it is in no way vital to the storyline, though i really wish they would have included the retaking of the shire, as that is an important thing in tying up loose ends.
according to current US copyright law, it still is copyrighted til 2030 (barring another extention), but that copyright's legitimacy hasn't really been tested TMK, so it's anyone's guess really.
What I find more bizarre about the whole state of gov't in Australia currently is that although we have right-wing upper/lower house in Federal parliament, why the hell is there left-wing state governments?! I think people in this country have failed to learn how Government works.
simmilar puzzling thing up here too. in Saskatchewan, we have an majority NDP provincial government, but the federal NDP doesn't have a single seat here.
unless I'm remembering completely wrong, i believe that uses magnetic induction, rather than a broadcast sort of power that they're talking about in the article. i have a waterproof electric shaver that charges using the same principle. it's very good for extremely short ranges, but it won't cut it as a power cord replacement.
hmm. one thing i always question in such studies is the honesty factor, as in how many of the people surveyed are lying.
and also, that is quite a leap in taking that 73% disagreeing with "all men look at pornography" means that only 27% of men look at pornography. actually, i'm suprised that 27% were making that kind of generalization. the statement would have been better made as "Most men look at pornography" or "a majority of men look at pornography", which would likely have given a more accurate picture, as anyone with reasonable critical thinking would not be able to come to the conclusion that ALL men look at pornography, but i would put some money that the number would be higher than 27% given a random grouping of men, assuming all tell the truth. (polygraph them during the questions or something. i dunno)
just to clarify, that's universal plug-and-play, which doesn't really have anything to do with "normal" plug-and-play. it would be more appropriately called "network plug-and-play" or something.
AFAIK, there has never been any kind of security problem with the normal, local, plug-and-play.
that site is not useful for me as it has no clue where i live. the only method i could find a match via was using the village name, which points to some town in the UK, which is not where i live. i live in Saskatchewan, Canada. not Nottinghamshire, UK.
not really that they have a "duty" to, but i've really been going "WTF?" since they extended said lines to a similar town (population of 100 vs. population of 175) 15 miles down said highway. i mean, they extend the lines 15 miles to another town, but can't extend them less than 1 to mine.
As for all the people saying they still use dialup, why?
because internet service in my area is practically a monopoly. the phone company refuses to run DSL-capable line the 3000 ft from the highway into the village and install the nessesary hardware. they're making buckets of cash off of raping us for our dial up ($60 a month for 180 hours/month of net time, plus the "unlimited long distance" required to be able to get that 180/month plan), not to mention the overage charges they pull if you go over the 180/month, wheras you can get the cheapie 1.5mbps DSL for $15/month in town.
the only other options in the area are wireless high speed (similar to Wi-max), but for that you need to buy the antenna and gear upfront ($250) and satalite internet, with is not an option as a. our satalite provider doesn't do internet and b. it would be useless in any case due to the lag from satalite (stupid laws of physics).
hmm. around here we use a classic sharpie to do the X drawing.
if you can't figure out how to vote with this system, you likely should be in a care home of some kind.
even my grandma can vote with these ballots and her vision is 20/400 (twice as bad as legally blind). try that with your stupid, fancy, expensive computerized voting machines or your excessively complex hole-punchers.
You mean like these ridiculous fire-drills we've all been doing since a child? Fire alarms don't even phase me now. I'll never believe there's a fire until I see the flames.
i'm pretty sure that's the entire point, so that they basically train you to think whenever the fire alarm goes of "oh great. another fire drill..." in the event that there actually is a fire you'll just act like it was any other boring fire drill and calmly wander out.
A minor fine, IIRC, though according to a couple friends of mine, it's pretty easy to get out of with pretty much any excuse you can think of. or if don't want to vote for whatever reason, simply turn in a blank or otherwise fouled ballots and you still count as having voted.
they enforce it simply by checking your name off the list of registered voters when you turn in your ballot.
no further helpful diagnostic information to troubleshoot the problem
uhh, what do you call those funny hex values at the bottom of a BSOD?
most (NOT ALL) of them are fairly specific and a simple google search can set you on the path to fixing the problem. granted, you can do the exact same thing for most linux problems.
for linux to really break out into the world, there are a few things it needs to do:
1. easy program management. some distros do this wonderfully. OSX is also a very good example of how to do this right. no need to tinker with aptget or installpkg. completely on the GUI. centralized into one place where the applications go, drag-and-drop installation process.
2. hardware management (printer, wireless card, etc.) simple enough that a dyslexic monkey with a concussion could use it (automatic everything that works), but will still allow the tweaker to get under the hood, but will just work for the guy who just wants to use the damn thing. again, OSX does a pretty good job of this.
3. FULL compatibility with ALL windows programs. like it or not, almost all commercial software is written for windows. while you may be able to find a open source program that will do 99.9% of what the commercial one does, that 0.1% can make a huge difference. this would have to work all automatically again, and would need to tie into the application management in part 1. WINE makes good progress on this, apple kinda-sorta fixes this by allowing dual booting, but that's not what we're after here. we want all linux, all the time for this hypothetical scenario.
4. a beautiful, easy-to-use, but customizable GUI. ideally, just a simple generic default look, but can be customized out the wazoo, either by packing on the sparkle, or striping it down to just above a command line. also, a number of preconfigured "steps" in the GUI would be a good idea, but still allow those who want to to get in a tweak things to exactly how they want it.
5. easy updating. windows does this well in a kinda-sorta manner. this would have to relay back to point 1. the application manager would have to check for updates for everything installed and tell the user when new updates are available to anything, and would preferable get info on what changes have been made, if the user wants it and would also offer a recommendation on whether the user should upgrade (does this create an issue with any other installed applications? maybe check various places (forums, the site for the software, etc.) during the process for any reports of problems and/or solutions). ideally, this could be set into a fire-and-forget mode (actually, it should probably be in that mode by default) and it would install updates based on the said analysis of possible problems vs. benefits.
e.g. hmm. there is a major update to program X, but this will break compatibility with program Y, though there is a partial fix listed here. but this user never uses program Y, so that shouldn't be an issue *installs update* and if the user tries to run program Y at some point, the manager would prompt the user that program Y won't work due to the update to program X and will tell the user how to fix it (or preferably, fix it automagicly)
any virus that exists in the wild would have to exist in theory first. any virus that is in the wild exists in theory, but not any virus in theory exists in the wild.
all the CDs which end up as coasters because I dared to touch the mouse while it was recording, etc.
how old is that burner that you don't have buffer-underrun protection? i haven't had a coater in 5 years due to a buffer underrun (liteon 482448s burner), though i have had a couple due to other factors such as the power browning/blacking out at bad times (i need to get a UPS) or the burning software crashing or whatever.
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this guy actually has a good point. anyone who has futzed about trying to get poorly supported wireless cards or a soft-modem to work under Linux can attest to this.
i personally call BS on the inability of blind voters to vote using paper ballots. my grandma (who is 94 and has 20/400 vision, legally blind is 20/200) is able to vote just fine with our paper ballots here in Canada.
and if a person is completely blind, how in the name of whatever Deity you believe in is a touch screen that they can't see going to help?
and just how disabled are you if you can't put an X in a 1.25" circle? even if you have tourette's or something and you screw up your ballot, you can get another one as many times as you need to until you get it right.
faster? results before you go to bed (well, results when you wake up if you live in the east) isn't fast enough for you?
i'll certainly agree with you on that computerized voting machines are a solution in search of a problem.
resist the ring perhaps, but at the counsel in rivendell, it is said that "after all else falls, bombadil will fall" or something to that effect. don't have my book handy, but it still in the book points to the all-encompassing power of the one ring.
IMO, tom bombadil was a prime example of something that could be safely chopped for a movie version. it is in no way vital to the storyline, though i really wish they would have included the retaking of the shire, as that is an important thing in tying up loose ends.
according to current US copyright law, it still is copyrighted til 2030 (barring another extention), but that copyright's legitimacy hasn't really been tested TMK, so it's anyone's guess really.
What I find more bizarre about the whole state of gov't in Australia currently is that although we have right-wing upper/lower house in Federal parliament, why the hell is there left-wing state governments?! I think people in this country have failed to learn how Government works.
simmilar puzzling thing up here too. in Saskatchewan, we have an majority NDP provincial government, but the federal NDP doesn't have a single seat here.
the hobbit isn't a prequel. the lord of the rings is a sequel to the hobbit. the hobbit was written first!
short of putting the user in a complete padded cell, any enviroment is gonna give the user enough rope to hang themselves.
unless I'm remembering completely wrong, i believe that uses magnetic induction, rather than a broadcast sort of power that they're talking about in the article. i have a waterproof electric shaver that charges using the same principle. it's very good for extremely short ranges, but it won't cut it as a power cord replacement.
hmm. one thing i always question in such studies is the honesty factor, as in how many of the people surveyed are lying.
and also, that is quite a leap in taking that 73% disagreeing with "all men look at pornography" means that only 27% of men look at pornography. actually, i'm suprised that 27% were making that kind of generalization. the statement would have been better made as "Most men look at pornography" or "a majority of men look at pornography", which would likely have given a more accurate picture, as anyone with reasonable critical thinking would not be able to come to the conclusion that ALL men look at pornography, but i would put some money that the number would be higher than 27% given a random grouping of men, assuming all tell the truth. (polygraph them during the questions or something. i dunno)
Because Dvorak keyboard aren't faster. All studies into their advantage were fabricated.
Could you explain to me why all of the 10 fastest typists in the world use Dvorak keyboards then?
yes, and Deuterium is used for the impulse engines, which are fusion powered.
Check the law next time, before you talk about whether it's out of date.
just because the law was written 7 years ago doesn't mean it can't be out of date.
by out of date, i mean that it doesn't match with the will of the people and/or common sense.
i see A LOT more white people talking in that manner than i see black people talking in that manner.
i personally don't quite get it either.
a slightly better idea would be to describe it as a bunch of tanks (data repositories/servers) and taps (individual connections) connected via tubes.
still, for a non-technical politician, the "tubes" analogy is not that far off plane.
just to clarify, that's universal plug-and-play, which doesn't really have anything to do with "normal" plug-and-play. it would be more appropriately called "network plug-and-play" or something.
AFAIK, there has never been any kind of security problem with the normal, local, plug-and-play.
that site is not useful for me as it has no clue where i live. the only method i could find a match via was using the village name, which points to some town in the UK, which is not where i live. i live in Saskatchewan, Canada. not Nottinghamshire, UK.
not really that they have a "duty" to, but i've really been going "WTF?" since they extended said lines to a similar town (population of 100 vs. population of 175) 15 miles down said highway. i mean, they extend the lines 15 miles to another town, but can't extend them less than 1 to mine.
As for all the people saying they still use dialup, why?
because internet service in my area is practically a monopoly. the phone company refuses to run DSL-capable line the 3000 ft from the highway into the village and install the nessesary hardware. they're making buckets of cash off of raping us for our dial up ($60 a month for 180 hours/month of net time, plus the "unlimited long distance" required to be able to get that 180/month plan), not to mention the overage charges they pull if you go over the 180/month, wheras you can get the cheapie 1.5mbps DSL for $15/month in town.
the only other options in the area are wireless high speed (similar to Wi-max), but for that you need to buy the antenna and gear upfront ($250) and satalite internet, with is not an option as a. our satalite provider doesn't do internet and b. it would be useless in any case due to the lag from satalite (stupid laws of physics).
hmm. around here we use a classic sharpie to do the X drawing.
if you can't figure out how to vote with this system, you likely should be in a care home of some kind.
even my grandma can vote with these ballots and her vision is 20/400 (twice as bad as legally blind). try that with your stupid, fancy, expensive computerized voting machines or your excessively complex hole-punchers.
You mean like these ridiculous fire-drills we've all been doing since a child? Fire alarms don't even phase me now. I'll never believe there's a fire until I see the flames.
i'm pretty sure that's the entire point, so that they basically train you to think whenever the fire alarm goes of "oh great. another fire drill..." in the event that there actually is a fire you'll just act like it was any other boring fire drill and calmly wander out.
A minor fine, IIRC, though according to a couple friends of mine, it's pretty easy to get out of with pretty much any excuse you can think of. or if don't want to vote for whatever reason, simply turn in a blank or otherwise fouled ballots and you still count as having voted.
they enforce it simply by checking your name off the list of registered voters when you turn in your ballot.
no further helpful diagnostic information to troubleshoot the problem
uhh, what do you call those funny hex values at the bottom of a BSOD?
most (NOT ALL) of them are fairly specific and a simple google search can set you on the path to fixing the problem. granted, you can do the exact same thing for most linux problems.
for linux to really break out into the world, there are a few things it needs to do:
1. easy program management. some distros do this wonderfully. OSX is also a very good example of how to do this right. no need to tinker with aptget or installpkg. completely on the GUI. centralized into one place where the applications go, drag-and-drop installation process.
2. hardware management (printer, wireless card, etc.) simple enough that a dyslexic monkey with a concussion could use it (automatic everything that works), but will still allow the tweaker to get under the hood, but will just work for the guy who just wants to use the damn thing. again, OSX does a pretty good job of this.
3. FULL compatibility with ALL windows programs. like it or not, almost all commercial software is written for windows. while you may be able to find a open source program that will do 99.9% of what the commercial one does, that 0.1% can make a huge difference. this would have to work all automatically again, and would need to tie into the application management in part 1. WINE makes good progress on this, apple kinda-sorta fixes this by allowing dual booting, but that's not what we're after here. we want all linux, all the time for this hypothetical scenario.
4. a beautiful, easy-to-use, but customizable GUI. ideally, just a simple generic default look, but can be customized out the wazoo, either by packing on the sparkle, or striping it down to just above a command line. also, a number of preconfigured "steps" in the GUI would be a good idea, but still allow those who want to to get in a tweak things to exactly how they want it.
5. easy updating. windows does this well in a kinda-sorta manner. this would have to relay back to point 1. the application manager would have to check for updates for everything installed and tell the user when new updates are available to anything, and would preferable get info on what changes have been made, if the user wants it and would also offer a recommendation on whether the user should upgrade (does this create an issue with any other installed applications? maybe check various places (forums, the site for the software, etc.) during the process for any reports of problems and/or solutions). ideally, this could be set into a fire-and-forget mode (actually, it should probably be in that mode by default) and it would install updates based on the said analysis of possible problems vs. benefits.
e.g. hmm. there is a major update to program X, but this will break compatibility with program Y, though there is a partial fix listed here. but this user never uses program Y, so that shouldn't be an issue *installs update* and if the user tries to run program Y at some point, the manager would prompt the user that program Y won't work due to the update to program X and will tell the user how to fix it (or preferably, fix it automagicly)
any virus that exists in the wild would have to exist in theory first. any virus that is in the wild exists in theory, but not any virus in theory exists in the wild.
all As are Bs, but not all Bs are As.
all the CDs which end up as coasters because I dared to touch the mouse while it was recording, etc.
how old is that burner that you don't have buffer-underrun protection? i haven't had a coater in 5 years due to a buffer underrun (liteon 482448s burner), though i have had a couple due to other factors such as the power browning/blacking out at bad times (i need to get a UPS) or the burning software crashing or whatever.
i think i made that post before i has my morning caffine.
anyway, could anyone explain any rational thinking behind such a legal restriction?