Getting to a polling station doesn't mean the same thing for everyone. Blind trust is absolutely not what I validated in my original post. If I could go online and to an official polling site, have my personal information encrypted along with my unique vote number -- like a credit card number generated for everyone voter. the government knows it's a legitimate number but not who it came from. but it's possible for the bank to validate that a credit transaction was made with that number which is somehow linked to your encrypted personal information. maybe it's can't be done this way but if I can make my banking transactions safely online, it's possible to set up a system toat safely collects, counts, and provides a way to prove votes were really made.
you high and mighty who can put everyone else down for not getting to a polling station to vote. what other services do you expect people to have time to do in person these days? We won't people voting more, not less. if you have three jobs, or worse if you have three kids, it's going to be harder to go wait in line at your particular polling station.
Why not pass it over to the banks? You have to pay for postage on an absentee ballot. I would happily pay that amount of money for a transaction from a bank with a receipt, perhaps an encrypted receipt I could forward to the DNC, RNC, or anyone else counting. I know some people have problems with online banking, but at least where I bank--the boeing employee's credit union--I would safe using this system to ensure my vote gets collected, counted, and a receipt returned to me or anyone else to which I would like to have it forwarded.
I strongly disagree with anyone who says that e-voting is a threat to democracy. the closer we can get the voter to the decision-making process--assuming you believe the voter should have a part in the decision making process--the better.
how do you know they don't? A professor for a class I just dropped said that one of the qualities that differentiates us from animals is that animals do not have imagination. Have you ever seen a dog run in it's sleep? You think that's involuntary? The dog is dreaming. Just because you can't observe something doesn't mean you can assume proof of it's absence.
there is no most here. does anyone understand that? Evolution doesn't have a purpose, it just is. To say "we are the most advanced" is exactly the same as saying "in our opinion we are the most advanced" and since presumably no other animal can respond to us in our language, the ayes have it. It's still total hogwash though. to say "most advanced" can't be applied unless there are qualifiers. For instance "humans are the most advanced animals because we birth the heartiest young" or how about "humans are the most advanced because we have the most sophisticated perceptual awareness" or "humans are the most advanced because we are the most peaceful."
the way this article is put seems to sensationalize it, implicitly comparing evolution to progress or something like it. Evolution cannot be stopped in living population under any circumstances except what the astute poster above me stated. But even in that case I would argue that evolution isn't static... even if traits are passed on with the same likeliness, they will still be combined in different ways.
When this conflict first came up I emailed blizzard to tell them I would never buy one of their products again and I've kept my word. I suggest if you care about this issue that you do the same. Oh, and tell your friends.
the ability to take and view inexpensive 3d pictures has existed since 1838, although I have never seen that tech used for as small and close up a subject as an individual face. you would think someone would have done this earlier. It's certainly trivial to separate two digital cameras by a three or so inches and take simultaneous pics. I guess the 3d mapping part is the tricky bit.
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My brother got me a subscription for my birthday after hearing about it on NPR. There are so many bizarre uses of technology and clearly organized instructions for DIY goodness to boot. Everything from disposable camera aerial kite photography (using silly putty as the timer element!) to a DIY railgun with nothing but a few ball bearings, magnets, and a ruler as construction materials. The reaction produced with this bad boy happens so fast it can't be seen by the naked eye, and you can make it as long as you want, speeding up the reaction to the point that the ball bearings start shattering the magnets used to propel them! Sweet Sassy Molassey this magazine blows my mind!
Here's proof of how bad this search engine is. I searched for 'porn' and didn't find any! I'm on the 5th page of search results and still nothing. what kind of search engine can't find porn on the internet?
There seems to be a popular opinion that humans are the most evolved of all species... that statement is totally bogus for a number of reasons, but if you define most evolved as best adapted to surviving whatever its environment throws at it (the galactic environment you could say), you just can't beat single celled organisms. The more adapted you are, the more you depend upon the situations and circumstances that make those adaptations beneficial. If we have a true Armageddon, I'm voting for the bacteria that live in deep sea volcanoes... it doesn't even need the Sun's light to survive.
The idea of transferring data over power lines has been suggested before...
but at least in the case reported in wired of Nov. 2001, it didn't work--despite what everone wanted to believe.
Just thought I'd point out something funny... my favorite Band is the White Stripes, and I thought I would find that they were RIAA free, since I remember reading that they struck up a special deal that allowed them more control over their music as well as better than usual royalty rates. But it turns out that of all their albums, the only one that has definitely not been released under the RIAA is their single, entitled "Sympathy for the Recording Industry." Here's the link
I think if I ever had a car like this, I would only purchase from businesses that would come out front and drop whatever it was I was buying into the passenger side window. Having a car like this would be like having an almost free delivery service for any place in town....
I don't exactly understand why slashdot of all places--with a database of stories with URLs that one would think could be easily scanned for repitition before posting--continuously repeats itself. but having said that..
I've seen just about enough posts about/.'s repetition as well. So could we all, as posters, just stop doing this? And could we all, as moderators, stop encouraging it? Because the people who know it's a repeat ALREADY KNOW. And the people who don't know, DON'T CARE. So it really doesn't benefit anyone. Taking shots at the slashdot editors is so passe. It's pretty obvious they don't care about the occasional repeat, so why should I?
You forgot his most significant book of all time, _The Elements of Style_. It is one of the most straightforward and well written books I've ever come across designed to improve one's writing. Wouldn't you say that this is a particularly pertinent suggestion for the many readers of and 'writers' on slashdot?
After hearing about this new Britney Spears video game, I have become consumed with the idea of Video Game Satires. If one were to make a video game where, say, the objective is to traverse through America as Britney Spears, selling addictive pink bubble gum to urban teens, could I use her likeness without her permission?
After hearing about this new Britney Spears video game, I have become consumed with the idea of Video Game Satires. If one were to make a video game where, say, the objective is to traverse through America as Britney Spears, selling addictive pink bubble gum to urban teens, could I use her likeness without her permission?
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THe figure resides in the block of marble before he began sculpting. he just chipped away what wasn't the sculpture.
these air-powered flying machines? it's something to do with the curve of the wing creating lift.
Getting to a polling station doesn't mean the same thing for everyone. Blind trust is absolutely not what I validated in my original post. If I could go online and to an official polling site, have my personal information encrypted along with my unique vote number -- like a credit card number generated for everyone voter. the government knows it's a legitimate number but not who it came from. but it's possible for the bank to validate that a credit transaction was made with that number which is somehow linked to your encrypted personal information. maybe it's can't be done this way but if I can make my banking transactions safely online, it's possible to set up a system toat safely collects, counts, and provides a way to prove votes were really made.
you high and mighty who can put everyone else down for not getting to a polling station to vote. what other services do you expect people to have time to do in person these days? We won't people voting more, not less. if you have three jobs, or worse if you have three kids, it's going to be harder to go wait in line at your particular polling station.
Why not pass it over to the banks? You have to pay for postage on an absentee ballot. I would happily pay that amount of money for a transaction from a bank with a receipt, perhaps an encrypted receipt I could forward to the DNC, RNC, or anyone else counting. I know some people have problems with online banking, but at least where I bank--the boeing employee's credit union--I would safe using this system to ensure my vote gets collected, counted, and a receipt returned to me or anyone else to which I would like to have it forwarded.
I strongly disagree with anyone who says that e-voting is a threat to democracy. the closer we can get the voter to the decision-making process--assuming you believe the voter should have a part in the decision making process--the better.
how do you know they don't? A professor for a class I just dropped said that one of the qualities that differentiates us from animals is that animals do not have imagination. Have you ever seen a dog run in it's sleep? You think that's involuntary? The dog is dreaming. Just because you can't observe something doesn't mean you can assume proof of it's absence.
there is no most here. does anyone understand that? Evolution doesn't have a purpose, it just is. To say "we are the most advanced" is exactly the same as saying "in our opinion we are the most advanced" and since presumably no other animal can respond to us in our language, the ayes have it. It's still total hogwash though. to say "most advanced" can't be applied unless there are qualifiers. For instance "humans are the most advanced animals because we birth the heartiest young" or how about "humans are the most advanced because we have the most sophisticated perceptual awareness" or "humans are the most advanced because we are the most peaceful."
the way this article is put seems to sensationalize it, implicitly comparing evolution to progress or something like it. Evolution cannot be stopped in living population under any circumstances except what the astute poster above me stated. But even in that case I would argue that evolution isn't static... even if traits are passed on with the same likeliness, they will still be combined in different ways.
When this conflict first came up I emailed blizzard to tell them I would never buy one of their products again and I've kept my word. I suggest if you care about this issue that you do the same. Oh, and tell your friends.
the ability to take and view inexpensive 3d pictures has existed since 1838, although I have never seen that tech used for as small and close up a subject as an individual face. you would think someone would have done this earlier. It's certainly trivial to separate two digital cameras by a three or so inches and take simultaneous pics. I guess the 3d mapping part is the tricky bit.
My brother got me a subscription for my birthday after hearing about it on NPR. There are so many bizarre uses of technology and clearly organized instructions for DIY goodness to boot. Everything from disposable camera aerial kite photography (using silly putty as the timer element!) to a DIY railgun with nothing but a few ball bearings, magnets, and a ruler as construction materials. The reaction produced with this bad boy happens so fast it can't be seen by the naked eye, and you can make it as long as you want, speeding up the reaction to the point that the ball bearings start shattering the magnets used to propel them! Sweet Sassy Molassey this magazine blows my mind!
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Here's proof of how bad this search engine is. I searched for 'porn' and didn't find any! I'm on the 5th page of search results and still nothing. what kind of search engine can't find porn on the internet?
There seems to be a popular opinion that humans are the most evolved of all species... that statement is totally bogus for a number of reasons, but if you define most evolved as best adapted to surviving whatever its environment throws at it (the galactic environment you could say), you just can't beat single celled organisms. The more adapted you are, the more you depend upon the situations and circumstances that make those adaptations beneficial. If we have a true Armageddon, I'm voting for the bacteria that live in deep sea volcanoes... it doesn't even need the Sun's light to survive.
The idea of transferring data over power lines has been suggested before... but at least in the case reported in wired of Nov. 2001, it didn't work--despite what everone wanted to believe.
the article.
Just thought I'd point out something funny... my favorite Band is the White Stripes, and I thought I would find that they were RIAA free, since I remember reading that they struck up a special deal that allowed them more control over their music as well as better than usual royalty rates. But it turns out that of all their albums, the only one that has definitely not been released under the RIAA is their single, entitled "Sympathy for the Recording Industry." Here's the link
Who would really want to watch someone sitting around coughing in bed all day watching tv? This sounds like the least sexy reality tv ever.
This OS runs faster than my installation of windows and it runs entirely off 1 CD. So cool.
This could give new meaning to those words.
I think if I ever had a car like this, I would only purchase from businesses that would come out front and drop whatever it was I was buying into the passenger side window. Having a car like this would be like having an almost free delivery service for any place in town....
He's right! Read the whole thread.
I don't exactly understand why slashdot of all places--with a database of stories with URLs that one would think could be easily scanned for repitition before posting--continuously repeats itself. but having said that..
/.'s repetition as well. So could we all, as posters, just stop doing this? And could we all, as moderators, stop encouraging it? Because the people who know it's a repeat ALREADY KNOW. And the people who don't know, DON'T CARE. So it really doesn't benefit anyone. Taking shots at the slashdot editors is so passe. It's pretty obvious they don't care about the occasional repeat, so why should I?
I've seen just about enough posts about
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Wait wait wait!
You forgot his most significant book of all time, _The Elements of Style_. It is one of the most straightforward and well written books I've ever come across designed to improve one's writing. Wouldn't you say that this is a particularly pertinent suggestion for the many readers of and 'writers' on slashdot?
After hearing about this new Britney Spears video game, I have become consumed with the idea of Video Game Satires. If one were to make a video game where, say, the objective is to traverse through America as Britney Spears, selling addictive pink bubble gum to urban teens, could I use her likeness without her permission?
-- PK
After hearing about this new Britney Spears video game, I have become consumed with the idea of Video Game Satires. If one were to make a video game where, say, the objective is to traverse through America as Britney Spears, selling addictive pink bubble gum to urban teens, could I use her likeness without her permission?
-- PK
I think that Olympic sports no longer exists. I can't be sure but I seem to remember returning and finding another store in its place.