I would much rather spend 2-3 minutes a day deleting those spams that weren't caught by my automated spam filter, then miss even one legitimate business email message.
Our government has recently enacted a Clean Air Act AND a Healthy Forests Initiative, so we can expect this whole global warming issue to resolve itself in a few months.
Only in countries where the populace still has some balls.
Not exactly. We didn't oust Hussein because he is a bad person, but because he was seeking weapons that would give him the ability to strike us and our allies. Note: we didn't wait for him to actually use these weapons.
Now a US politician seeks a tool for conducting fraudulent elections. Should we trust in his honorable intentions?
If the politician in question wanted a prototype built to show how easily it could be done - to show how insecure electronic voting machines are - doesn't that make him one of the good guys?
IIRC when that kid smuggled boxcutters onto planes last year to "show how ineffective new security measures are," 50% of us called him a criminal, and the other 50% called him a fool. Few if any called him a "good guy".
# Privacy. Because an i-name or i-number is not itself a communications address like an email address or phone number, it is unspammable. You simply can't send it email, call it, or send it a fax directly unless the owner has given you permission. If you don't have permission, you can use an i-name to make a contact request of the owner. These requests can be automatically filtered by your i-broker to eliminate all but legitimate requests for contact.
i-broker (tm) Because You Can't Trust Anyone: Trust Us
It is the high volume of USPS "direct mail" that allows you to write Grandma for thirty-four cents. In many other countries, that would cost you $1 or more.
To convert any Windows video format to any other, use a video capture program like Snag-It. Capture the video window to an (uncompressed) AVI file, with your audio out patched to mic in. The AVI file can then be converted to MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 with the free TMPGENC utility.
* This requires lots of free disk space and a reasonably fast (1GHz+) PC.
And Valve has a right to 'lock out' customers stealing the game, but they enter a grey area of legality when they lock out legitimate purchasers who simply want to avoid the annoying CD checks on their legal copy of the game.
Ethical gray area? Maybe. Legal gray area? Absolutely not. Their obligations to the customer are clearly delineated in the license agreement, and support of modded games is not one of those obligations.
CSS standards compliance? So what? Every major site already includes workarounds to render properly in IE. Many also rely on IE-specific JS and ActiveX.
Security? With my IE security settings set to High, and regular Windows Update patches, I have never caught a virus/trojan. Not one.
Micro$oft sux? Should I "punish" them by using something other than IE? That's just silly.
However, I agree that in other areas, e-voting is a clever solution to a nonexistant problem. The one and only advantage of these machines is that they remove ambiguity from voter intent.
These kiosks ought to be printing Scantron forms that the user verifies and drops in a ballot box. There is no reason for the machines to keep the tally.
At some point, the product has to become useful to the reader, as well as enjoyable for the contributors. Thus, your point that "Wikipedia thinking requires more depth" counts against Wikipedia, not for it.
Why does all research like this seem to revolve around "toy" problems? They study non-programmers or, when they include real programmers, focus only on small tasks that can be completed in an hour or so.
IME, it is better to start a large project at the beginning, then to try and start in the middle.
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This technology is quite similar to Microsoft SmartTags -- except that Microsoft is Evil and Google is Good, right?
I would much rather spend 2-3 minutes a day deleting those spams that weren't caught by my automated spam filter, then miss even one legitimate business email message.
Yet this same crowd doesn't think twice before sponsoring an NYT ad telling other people what web browser they *ought* to be using.
I can find only one explanation: Slashdot readers are far more likely to contract an Internet virus then to conceive children.
Our government has recently enacted a Clean Air Act AND a Healthy Forests Initiative, so we can expect this whole global warming issue to resolve itself in a few months.
Now a US politician seeks a tool for conducting fraudulent elections. Should we trust in his honorable intentions?
second post!
Because You Can't Trust Anyone: Trust Us
Given the low entropy of our modern Snuggling Ifbots, how can we possibly prevent senility among the octocentagenarian population?
I'm rolling my eyes as hard as I possibly can.
It is the high volume of USPS "direct mail" that allows you to write Grandma for thirty-four cents. In many other countries, that would cost you $1 or more.
Wired Magazine recently used one for a bundled music CD.
* This requires lots of free disk space and a reasonably fast (1GHz+) PC.
They have an agreement with the EU spy agencies to monitor each other's citizens. Seriously.
And when *.microsoft.com is blocked for hosting the IE installer, where will you download your OS patches?
CSS standards compliance? So what? Every major site already includes workarounds to render properly in IE. Many also rely on IE-specific JS and ActiveX.
Security? With my IE security settings set to High, and regular Windows Update patches, I have never caught a virus/trojan. Not one.
Micro$oft sux? Should I "punish" them by using something other than IE? That's just silly.
However, I agree that in other areas, e-voting is a clever solution to a nonexistant problem. The one and only advantage of these machines is that they remove ambiguity from voter intent.
These kiosks ought to be printing Scantron forms that the user verifies and drops in a ballot box. There is no reason for the machines to keep the tally.