I think that design was intend. Well first, the e-voting machines will take care of the Bush-Cheney count, so no need for an arrow there it will just add 65535 votes (unsigned of course) to their ticket on each machine. Second, "congressional" is probably a vote for all the candidates if there's no challengers, simple, I like. Third, it says "vote for not more than one". What if I want to vote for Kerry and Edwards? Definitely it's to confuse the savvy and well informed voter from messing up the election.
Looking back at the Florida butterfly ballot, you can't vote for a write-in candidate (no punch hole). Gary Coleman would be disappointed.
Also, I wonder if we'll be shipping those 'obsolete' Diebold machines over there for the election. Then they'll have some hi-tech... Hold wait, their election is important...
Geologically, this is fascinating. For the last few weeks, high concentration of hurricanes (on both coasts), a few earthquakes (on both coasts), now dual volcano events. I wonder if the collection and fusion of all this data is gonna identify that some global event happened within the environment?
The past may have had extreme natural events similarly, but were they so "focused" like in the last 3 months?
Maybe the earth had to reboot itself due to some Y2K issue?
"There are hundreds of cultural and political differences between Europe and the US"
Yep, just look at Washington DC. Taxation without representation. That is a reason why voter turnout is so low in the US--crazy things like that. Case proven.
Security is a very hard job indeed. Cause the best security is when you don't notice it. It's abstract like objects, interfaces, freedom, and trust (Hmmm, could be why s/w development is hard;) ).
Considering it's in agreement that "take away electricity & technology, we're back in the stone ages" is very true and easy to understand for those wish harm on the US as well as the connected world. Computers are tools and can be used as weapons or utility, make your choice. And with computers more interconnected to that environment (business, society, etc...), protection of privacy, from malicious code, intrusion or exploitation should be top priorities.
I'd take the job, anyone here should offer. It's important for anyone in technology. Success or fail, we'll learn something. I'm surprised Yoran doesn't offer any notable "lessons learned".
Then again, from experience, I feel his pain trying to get things working at DHS.
Oh well, the clock is ticking--at least those who oppose us donot have much technology...yet. I hear Iraqis have better cellphones (EDGE) than we do here...
But that would say music does not dictate/influence what people (especially kids) do. One would appear to "trigger" the same behavior (rock, rap & hip-hop for example) and the other triggering an opposite behavior (suicide, instead of "more" marital discord, alcohol abuse, and alienation from work, and infidelity...). Devils in the details I guess...
Then again, since most old-school songs are about "cheatin-hearts", I'm suprised the homicides rate wasn't the same as metal/rap;)
Hmmm... Looks like flip-flopping's becoming a positive trend;)
Anyway, restricting art (i.e. music) is a oxymoron. Good they made the right decision based on the users. Companies makes mistakes too... (they just don't get pentalized).
The actual thief may have a hard time, but his partners or future generations can sell it in a 80 or so years. Just look at Archimedes text (Method) and the Palimpsest.
Ironically, for the palimpset, the thieves actually helped us in locating it, since most wars end up burning priceless works.
All I want is a simple fat/thin client interface that allows me to search all the record labels to find the song I want to purchase. Then I can goto that distributor via link/shopping cart and downland my choice of format (or available formats). I hate it that iTunes only has a few labels. This would be a perfect opportunity for an OSS effort (maybe already?) where the labels/middlemen can contribute funds...
Almost sounds like Amazon.com... Oops, I said simple client interface...
"the application programmers, incorrectly using a clearly defined API"
Yep you are right about that. The app programmers should have identified this in a test scenario/test case and provided some feedback in his/her code. I would. But of course app programmers aren't as savvy as we may think since the DWORD handling is due to the choices the OS programmers made due to the hardware (i.e.outside the application programmer domain?). Hence it maybe a draw & one of those fuzzy lines on who "owns" the state (and should write the behavior).
In the end, someone (app developer or OS) should have reported something.
Kill 2 birds with 1 stone! I guess I can now get that brain tumor removed and be notified that my bill is passed due.
Seriously, what is the net energy produced? The 'bang for the buck', i.e. true cost? Haven't researched it yet, but nickel-63, tritium, or polonium-210 sounds like they would require complex and inefficient processes to create the 'raw fuel' need to make these devices to work. So the net gained energy maybe moot. It's a neat experiment & I'm sure they learned a lot, but the feasiblity (from a scientific, economic, environmental, social, technical perspective) is still a question. That's why I think bio-related processes wins hands down, they are more efficient, yet powerful enough. Heck, bio-energy processes have survived the last few million years, but of course more complex to understand and research. It would be a good fit to apply this article's concept to bio-based raw materials.
Considering science and religion can not figure out what Love is (explicitly) and its origins, I don't think the government should decide. There are pros/cons to every situation: just wait until a same sex couple gets divorced, it will be brutal just like any other, i.e. what goes around comes around.
Ok, lean & mean for the consumer. Big-n-new for the business. I mean businesses will upgrade computers just to get pass the tax shelter spending limits in addition of needing the extra power--so there is a market for both strategies to exist.
As a previous poster mentioned, you can say its like the car market.... Well the reverse of the car market: cheap rental cars for business use and luxury cars for personal use. Since business need more power, give it them. And for the Doom3 users, heck people do buy used cars for personal use?
Regardless, I think in Windows 2000 (even NT), they should have thrown a system message (warning, info or error) in the event viewer i.e. saying that the tick count was rolling over due to a hardware+OS limitation (32 bits). Then at least the users would 'instantly' know that the OS is doing something abstract, upon rebooting. I'm pretty sure the problem was finding it and validating everything would be ok than trying to get the computer rebooted. I can see the IT staff somewhat clueless since no info was generated in the logs.
It was the users' error that they forgot procedure and didn't know what the problem was immediately, but it was the OS's error that it didn't report anything in a log for a problem that is OS+hardware oriented and you get no exception/error on the GetTickCount() call (i.e. proprietary & uneditable call). This applies to all OSes. The OS should report these backdoor-like fixes to limitations, it make debugging much easier--we did something similar (special status message) for satellite nav systems.
120 games w/online play: sounds like a lot of $8.95++ monthly bills if they're actually good. Here comes a tsaumi like cellphone overcharging...
I'm suprised a distributor hasn't come out with a simple 'group plan' or something if all these games come out around the same time/year. That would be cool.
Actually we are seeing a interesting playout by the media. With the CBS "thing". They are definitely holding their ground like FoxNews, I mean come on, Fox has take a lot out of context (and made it entertaining though!) as well as printed questionable things. The funny thing is mainstream media is investigating CBS like having a prostate examine--where's the mainstream media investigating Fox? Others? Zero... Why? it's all about corporations, competition, and viewership.
CBS has a much, much larger audience than Fox granted, but in competitive spirit, why go after the smaller Fox (no pund intended) when you can go after a big one like CBS. And so the commericalization of media is played out, where the competitors don't see a need to
1. define & investigate the story (i.e. someone did get preferential treatment) to get to the real truth regardless of lies and correct by saying what really happened.
And 2. Identify by name the wrongful sources (i.e. someone flat out try to manipulate) that tried to create a conspiracy (dems AND repbs included) to discredit.
Instead we get a fight for corporate-news market share (ratings) as all the other channels fight to gain new viewers and the politicans are taking us for a major spin ride by abusing the system since there are no checks and balances of something like an mainstream, independent journalist or unbiased paper. On both sides I see no follow thorough!
In the end, are we really informed?
Otherwise, I put my vote in for Wonkette too. It does reflect attitude and reality of the politics in DC.
This is exactly the situation between Pixar and Disney! Regardless or how much Disney throws ideas, resources, dedication, and cash, if Pixar had/has true self-determination, it's decisions will upset Disney no matter what. (Well, that's until Jobs takes over as CEO...)
Give the Iraqis true self-determination, and the US will definitely be disappointed on the outcome. It's a "can't please everyone" scenario.
Really, from a simplistic point of view, couldn't outsourcing be the result from just market forecasts back in the mid 90's? I mean companies didn't come up with this outsourcing strategy overnight--it took at least a year or two to plan it, reengineer processes and orgs, etc... BIG companies committed to go with outsourcing back in the late 90's, employees just didn't realize it (since strategies like that are business as usual). Makes sense, as during tech bubble, BIG companies knew they couldn't keep up with the small dot-coms plain and simple. For instance, having IBM compete with a small company like Convera (200 people then) for the huge content media management contracts absolutely freaked them out. So outsourcing was a strategy, a no-brainer, low risk one, that would allow them to compete with the smaller, more innovative shops. Forget about the small startups outsourcing, with the communication problems and issues and intellectual property problems, I think more startups are keeping it at home nowadays--been there done that.
Unfortunately the dotcom became the dotbomb and all the smaller shops disappeared, which usually had the more qualified, experienced engineers (e.g. with a C.S. degree or similar!). Therefore, there was no competition to face for the big companies. And with tech spending being managable, customers needing complete moderization efforts, dotcom vaporware being replaced with better products (or more vaporware;) ), the BIG companies had a HUGE advantage with outsourcing, especially with the tax breaks they got into congress during the recession to promote even more outsourcing. And rehiring former employees for 100K versus 30K just make sense to a big multi-national.
Could this be the start of a paradigm shift in how we view networks and distributed computing? (So far, nah).
Separate the state from the behavior with respective hardware, sounds interesting. Definitely they will need to break all the encapsulation layers built in todays modern OS and identify the patterns that represent common behavior and common state.
In the article, it makes me wonder, is it better to centralize state or behavior? For instance, centralizing state would be more efficient, but if state was local, you truly own your data (just unplug the network connection). Also, doing the reverse, well, that's pretty much near a basic terminal.
To me, it sounds like java webstart or rio without the fat OS lying underneat it (which is good).
I think Java VM's embedded on core devices like phones maybe a good thing for Java in serving the 'write once, run many' creedo since the problem with servers/desktops was due to poor performance a la file i/o and memory management. It was just too slow for nice big/rich UI apps--phones will be similar in performance for awhile since power requirements, heat, size+form factors, and screen sizes hinder Moore's law somewhat IMO.
"He's also modded his Roomba with a built-in Webcam. "
Anyone know what the details of this creation?
Cause I have to ask, "where's the innovation?" There are so many [2.4Ghz] wireless cameras out there that all you need is some bucks, 8 AA batteries, and velcro tape. Some cameras even offer wide angle views, pan and zoom. Of course you need a receiver and PC.
Now, if he had hack the camera to pan/zoom [away from a wall] via say an R/C servo as the roomba detected an approaching wall (looking at a wall 2 ft away from it is not so exciting!) would be innovative. I do like the wok antenna though--very sic.
"With so many cameras, I doubt there is the manpower or the interest for someone to look at them all"
When you have so many video analysis tools (i.e. Virage, etc..), and now cameras systems that can take video based on motion or scene-change detection and generate metadata, plus rule-base systems to forward tagged events to real people for final analysis--there is manpower to review all that stuff. The technology is there.
Worst case is a someone (hacker, gov't, prankster, some disgruntled employee, sister) will get into the archive--and get that picture of you picking your ear and then your nose or something in times square and then post it on the internet;)... In the end, 'justice' is not blind anymore, just absolutely subjective.
Luckily, most of these decisions-making, people tracking systems for law enforcement are likely to fail due to 'garbage in-garbage out' or typical operator failure. Unfortunately, we have to live though these headaches to develop a truly acceptable solution.
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Looking back at the Florida butterfly ballot, you can't vote for a write-in candidate (no punch hole). Gary Coleman would be disappointed.
Also, I wonder if we'll be shipping those 'obsolete' Diebold machines over there for the election. Then they'll have some hi-tech... Hold wait, their election is important...
The past may have had extreme natural events similarly, but were they so "focused" like in the last 3 months?
Maybe the earth had to reboot itself due to some Y2K issue?
"There are hundreds of cultural and political differences between Europe and the US" Yep, just look at Washington DC. Taxation without representation. That is a reason why voter turnout is so low in the US--crazy things like that. Case proven.
You're the right track, but I think it's the average Joe is just curious.
Curosity promotes learning--it's a good thing. Only a few people (like those here on slashdot) want to learn.
karma UP!
Considering it's in agreement that "take away electricity & technology, we're back in the stone ages" is very true and easy to understand for those wish harm on the US as well as the connected world. Computers are tools and can be used as weapons or utility, make your choice. And with computers more interconnected to that environment (business, society, etc...), protection of privacy, from malicious code, intrusion or exploitation should be top priorities.
I'd take the job, anyone here should offer. It's important for anyone in technology. Success or fail, we'll learn something. I'm surprised Yoran doesn't offer any notable "lessons learned".
Then again, from experience, I feel his pain trying to get things working at DHS. Oh well, the clock is ticking--at least those who oppose us donot have much technology...yet. I hear Iraqis have better cellphones (EDGE) than we do here...
Then again, since most old-school songs are about "cheatin-hearts", I'm suprised the homicides rate wasn't the same as metal/rap ;)
Anyway, restricting art (i.e. music) is a oxymoron. Good they made the right decision based on the users. Companies makes mistakes too... (they just don't get pentalized).
Ironically, for the palimpset, the thieves actually helped us in locating it, since most wars end up burning priceless works.
Almost sounds like Amazon.com... Oops, I said simple client interface...
Yep you are right about that. The app programmers should have identified this in a test scenario/test case and provided some feedback in his/her code. I would. But of course app programmers aren't as savvy as we may think since the DWORD handling is due to the choices the OS programmers made due to the hardware (i.e.outside the application programmer domain?). Hence it maybe a draw & one of those fuzzy lines on who "owns" the state (and should write the behavior).
In the end, someone (app developer or OS) should have reported something.
Seriously, what is the net energy produced? The 'bang for the buck', i.e. true cost? Haven't researched it yet, but nickel-63, tritium, or polonium-210 sounds like they would require complex and inefficient processes to create the 'raw fuel' need to make these devices to work. So the net gained energy maybe moot. It's a neat experiment & I'm sure they learned a lot, but the feasiblity (from a scientific, economic, environmental, social, technical perspective) is still a question. That's why I think bio-related processes wins hands down, they are more efficient, yet powerful enough. Heck, bio-energy processes have survived the last few million years, but of course more complex to understand and research. It would be a good fit to apply this article's concept to bio-based raw materials.
Let'em.
As a previous poster mentioned, you can say its like the car market.... Well the reverse of the car market: cheap rental cars for business use and luxury cars for personal use. Since business need more power, give it them. And for the Doom3 users, heck people do buy used cars for personal use?
And if it crashes I can blame RIAA due to some band from the 80's.
It was the users' error that they forgot procedure and didn't know what the problem was immediately, but it was the OS's error that it didn't report anything in a log for a problem that is OS+hardware oriented and you get no exception/error on the GetTickCount() call (i.e. proprietary & uneditable call). This applies to all OSes. The OS should report these backdoor-like fixes to limitations, it make debugging much easier--we did something similar (special status message) for satellite nav systems.
I'm suprised a distributor hasn't come out with a simple 'group plan' or something if all these games come out around the same time/year. That would be cool.
CBS has a much, much larger audience than Fox granted, but in competitive spirit, why go after the smaller Fox (no pund intended) when you can go after a big one like CBS. And so the commericalization of media is played out, where the competitors don't see a need to
- 1. define & investigate the story (i.e. someone did get preferential treatment) to get to the real truth regardless of lies and correct by saying what really happened.
- And 2. Identify by name the wrongful sources (i.e. someone flat out try to manipulate) that tried to create a conspiracy (dems AND repbs included) to discredit.
Instead we get a fight for corporate-news market share (ratings) as all the other channels fight to gain new viewers and the politicans are taking us for a major spin ride by abusing the system since there are no checks and balances of something like an mainstream, independent journalist or unbiased paper. On both sides I see no follow thorough!In the end, are we really informed?
Otherwise, I put my vote in for Wonkette too. It does reflect attitude and reality of the politics in DC.
Give the Iraqis true self-determination, and the US will definitely be disappointed on the outcome. It's a "can't please everyone" scenario.
Yeah, but the MS butterfly would definitely not make it. What's needed is the FreeBSD guy to heat things up down there.
Unfortunately the dotcom became the dotbomb and all the smaller shops disappeared, which usually had the more qualified, experienced engineers (e.g. with a C.S. degree or similar!). Therefore, there was no competition to face for the big companies. And with tech spending being managable, customers needing complete moderization efforts, dotcom vaporware being replaced with better products (or more vaporware ;) ), the BIG companies had a HUGE advantage with outsourcing, especially with the tax breaks they got into congress during the recession to promote even more outsourcing. And rehiring former employees for 100K versus 30K just make sense to a big multi-national.
Makes you want to outsource oil.
Separate the state from the behavior with respective hardware, sounds interesting. Definitely they will need to break all the encapsulation layers built in todays modern OS and identify the patterns that represent common behavior and common state.
In the article, it makes me wonder, is it better to centralize state or behavior? For instance, centralizing state would be more efficient, but if state was local, you truly own your data (just unplug the network connection). Also, doing the reverse, well, that's pretty much near a basic terminal.
To me, it sounds like java webstart or rio without the fat OS lying underneat it (which is good).
Anyone know what the details of this creation? Cause I have to ask, "where's the innovation?" There are so many [2.4Ghz] wireless cameras out there that all you need is some bucks, 8 AA batteries, and velcro tape. Some cameras even offer wide angle views, pan and zoom. Of course you need a receiver and PC.
Now, if he had hack the camera to pan/zoom [away from a wall] via say an R/C servo as the roomba detected an approaching wall (looking at a wall 2 ft away from it is not so exciting!) would be innovative. I do like the wok antenna though--very sic.
When you have so many video analysis tools (i.e. Virage, etc..), and now cameras systems that can take video based on motion or scene-change detection and generate metadata, plus rule-base systems to forward tagged events to real people for final analysis--there is manpower to review all that stuff. The technology is there.
Worst case is a someone (hacker, gov't, prankster, some disgruntled employee, sister) will get into the archive--and get that picture of you picking your ear and then your nose or something in times square and then post it on the internet ;) ... In the end, 'justice' is not blind anymore, just absolutely subjective.
Luckily, most of these decisions-making, people tracking systems for law enforcement are likely to fail due to 'garbage in-garbage out' or typical operator failure. Unfortunately, we have to live though these headaches to develop a truly acceptable solution.