Actually, no, our votes don't count. The electoral votes count. Now, as much as I love Kerry, I do think Bush will still win... Probably....
An elector in Colorado already has stated that even if Bush does win, he is going to vote for Kerry. He has the right to do so. This may yet turn out to be interesting.
With the way Bush runs this country, I am predicting a civil war/revolution in the next 30-50 years. I'm just curious, who else is predicting this? And who will join the resistance/insergency when/if this does happen? I know I will be one of the first to take up arms. The government is out of control.
...Yes, we do assume that voter fraud will not occur, but look at the 2000 Florida mess. An electronic voting system will just encourage people because the fraud will be harder to detect. Personally, I'm not one to really trust the government. At least not this administration.
I don't know if this has been brought up before or not, but either way I will bring it up.
How can electronic voting ever be trusted? (Surprisingly, my mom of all people, who knows nothing about computers brought up this point with me.) Even if we use open source voting software, we still have a major problem. How do we know the open source we saw is actually running on the machine? It would be more than easy to get the GUI to SAY that it was running "so-and-so version X.X". How do we actually KNOW it's running that though?
The only viable solution I see would be to actually have every voter load the software onto the machine, and the machine interface somehow, but then again, this has some major downfalls. How does the community feel about this? What solutions do you propose, in this election, and in future elections?
Sorry, this is the U.S. Here we are dumbasses and think it's OK to drink and drive. Thus being tired isn't as huge of a cause as being dead drunk. (No pun intended) We first need to solve the basic problems. Sadly, MAD magazine had this idea 50~ years ago. Attach a breath detector to the ignition system. I think they are just starting to do this for some people with too many DUI's.
Dude, were you not listening? 240$ average MONTHLY income. (I can make 200$ in a day, easy!) Now, I wasn't sure on the numbers so I broke out my calculator and did the math. Lets assume 30 days a month. That breaks down to 8$ A DAY! Spending 1/8th of my income for the day just to be happy for 5 minutes isn't exactly "kicking".
I would argue. I can't wait to have an all in one PDA/Digital Camera/Cell Phone/IPod. Why all this combination of gadgets? Simple, I don't want to carry around 42million things. I already hate having to carry around my keys, cell phone, and sunglasses (I live in California:-) ) I'm just waiting for the day when everything (heck, even my keys) are in one nice small case, the size of an IPod. Or even better, incorporate them into my sunglasses so I can have a HUD and take pictures of what I'm looking at!
I know I always put my cell phone on silent mode when I'm, well, anywhere. Movie, church, fancy restuarant, etc.... As to your point that "Is it really necassary to be reachable...and if so you shouldn't be there.", well, I work as a freelancer. That means that I am just sitting around all day until someone from one of the companies I work for calls me up and says "We have a job for you." (Well, ok, it isn't quite that simple) It is a good thing for me to be always availible so that I can get jobs. I'm not about to answer the phone in the place I am mind you, but if I know they called then I can excuse myself from whatever I'm doing, go outside, then call them back right away instead of waiting a few hours and finding a message on my voice mail. I also see this applying to people like doctors and nurses who are on call.
I think a possible solution to this problem is to get a standard for cell phones that allows microcells to force the cell phones into silent mode. Then, when you walk into a movie theater or whatever, your cell phone automatically switches to silent mode.
I tried it. I added it to/etc/fstab (not automounting). I never use it. Why? Simple. It takes to flipping long. When I was all excited and playing around with it, I stuck a text file that said "Hello World" on it. I did an "ls". 30 seconds later I got the response from "ls". I then catted the file. Again, at least 30 seconds before it came back with anything. It is incredibly horribly slow - and this was with a recent version. (1-2 weeks ago)
I don't see how this is "news" at all - this has been around pretty much since Gmail went beta.
It's been done. (Or at least it was being planned, and right now it's passed the planned date) 2 people were racing to do this - they both planned on taking hot air balloons up and jumping out when they hit technical space and parachuting down. The article about it all was in a popular mechanics a while back, but I can't remember what issue it was.
Here it is: You take a hydrogen (fuel cell, not combustion) powered car. Since it emits water vapor, you take this vapor and put it in a small condensing tank. While it is condendsing, you use the heat to power a sterling engine. You then take the power from the sterling engine, as well as a bit more from the motor, and use it to create more hydrogen from the water vapor.
In a perfect world, you would have a perpetual motion machine. However, this world is far from perfect (Bush, Windows, etc...) so it wouldn't be perpetual, but it would last quite a bit longer. (I think - IANAE (I Am Not An Engineer))
Why don't they research something useful instead, like warp engines. Then we can make a test flight in time for the vulcans to detect it and come and be friendly with us. Then we can work on cool weapons, like photon torpedos and phasers.
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It's not the length of the reboot time that has me (and I think lots of people) up in arms. It's the fact that you have to reboot period. Except for updating VERY central things (such as the kernel), you should never have to reboot. Period, end of story. Programmers like those at Microsoft have made people content with constantly rebooting thier machine because it either crashed, or they installed a new program.
I was a big fan of the HP/Compaq merger. I still think it was a good idea. HP's management pre-Carly/Compaq was getting a little too entrenched in old habits. (Basically, just playing it too safe - not taking nessasary risks) When Carly came in, she shook this up a bit - as was needed - however, she shook it up too much. I also find it funny how, when HP's (internal) merger fight was going on, Hewlett (?) was fighting against it because he wanted HP to go in the printing and imaging direction (consumer electronics). Carly however saw past this. Now though, Carly is headed mostly in the CE direction (HPod, etc...)
I think its time we went back to Hewlett and told him that, while the Compaq merger was a good thing, we still need him and some of the older HP ways. (Well, ideally, just "The HP Way")
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Wa-hoops. That's prolly it - West Virginia. I *thought* it was Colorado, but apparently not. Sorry bout that.
(See! I can apologize for my mistakes! Unlike someone else we all know. *cough*Bush*cough*)
Actually, no, our votes don't count. The electoral votes count. Now, as much as I love Kerry, I do think Bush will still win... Probably....
An elector in Colorado already has stated that even if Bush does win, he is going to vote for Kerry. He has the right to do so. This may yet turn out to be interesting.
With the way Bush runs this country, I am predicting a civil war/revolution in the next 30-50 years. I'm just curious, who else is predicting this? And who will join the resistance/insergency when/if this does happen? I know I will be one of the first to take up arms. The government is out of control.
...Yes, we do assume that voter fraud will not occur, but look at the 2000 Florida mess. An electronic voting system will just encourage people because the fraud will be harder to detect. Personally, I'm not one to really trust the government. At least not this administration.
I don't know if this has been brought up before or not, but either way I will bring it up.
How can electronic voting ever be trusted? (Surprisingly, my mom of all people, who knows nothing about computers brought up this point with me.) Even if we use open source voting software, we still have a major problem. How do we know the open source we saw is actually running on the machine? It would be more than easy to get the GUI to SAY that it was running "so-and-so version X.X". How do we actually KNOW it's running that though?
The only viable solution I see would be to actually have every voter load the software onto the machine, and the machine interface somehow, but then again, this has some major downfalls. How does the community feel about this? What solutions do you propose, in this election, and in future elections?
I sent an email to myself @gmail welcoming any hackers who may be interested in my account!
Sorry, this is the U.S. Here we are dumbasses and think it's OK to drink and drive. Thus being tired isn't as huge of a cause as being dead drunk. (No pun intended) We first need to solve the basic problems. Sadly, MAD magazine had this idea 50~ years ago. Attach a breath detector to the ignition system. I think they are just starting to do this for some people with too many DUI's.
Dude, were you not listening? 240$ average MONTHLY income. (I can make 200$ in a day, easy!) Now, I wasn't sure on the numbers so I broke out my calculator and did the math. Lets assume 30 days a month. That breaks down to 8$ A DAY! Spending 1/8th of my income for the day just to be happy for 5 minutes isn't exactly "kicking".
WooHoo! Just in time for Halo2/Half Life 2!!!
How long until someone hacks it to run Linux?
I wonder if they will be manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation?
Bush wins... UNLESS everyone votes for Kerry, in which case it's a tie.
Yes yes... ofcourse, interoperability within Microsoft products
...sometimes...on a good day...maybe...
I would argue. I can't wait to have an all in one PDA/Digital Camera/Cell Phone/IPod. Why all this combination of gadgets? Simple, I don't want to carry around 42million things. I already hate having to carry around my keys, cell phone, and sunglasses (I live in California :-) ) I'm just waiting for the day when everything (heck, even my keys) are in one nice small case, the size of an IPod. Or even better, incorporate them into my sunglasses so I can have a HUD and take pictures of what I'm looking at!
Why do people build in hurricane zones? Tornado zones? Blizzard zones? Every place has a natural disaster to match. Choose your poisen wisely.
That's why phones have silent mode.
I know I always put my cell phone on silent mode when I'm, well, anywhere. Movie, church, fancy restuarant, etc.... As to your point that "Is it really necassary to be reachable...and if so you shouldn't be there.", well, I work as a freelancer. That means that I am just sitting around all day until someone from one of the companies I work for calls me up and says "We have a job for you." (Well, ok, it isn't quite that simple) It is a good thing for me to be always availible so that I can get jobs. I'm not about to answer the phone in the place I am mind you, but if I know they called then I can excuse myself from whatever I'm doing, go outside, then call them back right away instead of waiting a few hours and finding a message on my voice mail. I also see this applying to people like doctors and nurses who are on call.
I think a possible solution to this problem is to get a standard for cell phones that allows microcells to force the cell phones into silent mode. Then, when you walk into a movie theater or whatever, your cell phone automatically switches to silent mode.
I tried it. I added it to /etc/fstab (not automounting). I never use it. Why? Simple. It takes to flipping long. When I was all excited and playing around with it, I stuck a text file that said "Hello World" on it. I did an "ls". 30 seconds later I got the response from "ls". I then catted the file. Again, at least 30 seconds before it came back with anything. It is incredibly horribly slow - and this was with a recent version. (1-2 weeks ago)
I don't see how this is "news" at all - this has been around pretty much since Gmail went beta.
It's been done. (Or at least it was being planned, and right now it's passed the planned date) 2 people were racing to do this - they both planned on taking hot air balloons up and jumping out when they hit technical space and parachuting down. The article about it all was in a popular mechanics a while back, but I can't remember what issue it was.
Why hasn't anyone tried my idea yet?
Here it is:
You take a hydrogen (fuel cell, not combustion) powered car. Since it emits water vapor, you take this vapor and put it in a small condensing tank. While it is condendsing, you use the heat to power a sterling engine. You then take the power from the sterling engine, as well as a bit more from the motor, and use it to create more hydrogen from the water vapor.
In a perfect world, you would have a perpetual motion machine. However, this world is far from perfect (Bush, Windows, etc...) so it wouldn't be perpetual, but it would last quite a bit longer. (I think - IANAE (I Am Not An Engineer))
i, not being a programmer myself, cannot fathom the complexity of writing such an OS...
It's easy, as Microsoft has proven again and again! Just throw 100 monkeys at 100 terminals for 100 hours, and TA-DA!
O wait, you wanted one that actually WORKS!? AND IS FUNCTIONAL!!?? I don't think modern programming languages can handle that!
Solution: Ebay!
Item: Old airlock, decent condition
Starting bid: $100
S&H: $1,000,000
Why don't they research something useful instead, like warp engines. Then we can make a test flight in time for the vulcans to detect it and come and be friendly with us. Then we can work on cool weapons, like photon torpedos and phasers.
It's not the length of the reboot time that has me (and I think lots of people) up in arms. It's the fact that you have to reboot period. Except for updating VERY central things (such as the kernel), you should never have to reboot. Period, end of story. Programmers like those at Microsoft have made people content with constantly rebooting thier machine because it either crashed, or they installed a new program.
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As a true slashdotter, I shall not let this story slip by without relating it to how Microsoft sucks.
It's pissed off that the supreme court let the Microsoftcase slip by. Note also that they are both in the same state.
I was a big fan of the HP/Compaq merger. I still think it was a good idea. HP's management pre-Carly/Compaq was getting a little too entrenched in old habits. (Basically, just playing it too safe - not taking nessasary risks) When Carly came in, she shook this up a bit - as was needed - however, she shook it up too much. I also find it funny how, when HP's (internal) merger fight was going on, Hewlett (?) was fighting against it because he wanted HP to go in the printing and imaging direction (consumer electronics). Carly however saw past this. Now though, Carly is headed mostly in the CE direction (HPod, etc...)
I think its time we went back to Hewlett and told him that, while the Compaq merger was a good thing, we still need him and some of the older HP ways. (Well, ideally, just "The HP Way")