The problem with ZoneAlarm (these days) is TrueVector. It effectively puts a limit on the number of simultaneous connections you can have by SUCKIN UP ALL THE CPU. I'm still not 100% sure how to run, say, BearShare, AND browse the Web at the same time. Reducing [any connection-heavy app's] max connections thus far has not helped.
What? What?! NOW it's the ISP's responsibility?? Consistenty, Slashdot. Please. ISPs provide a connection to the Internet. It's the USER's responsibility to decide what they do with that connection. And it's the GOVERNMENT's (read: society's) responsibility to find and prosecute the sons of bitches who willfully and with malice inject our machines full of their garbage--be it bots, spyware, or spam. Casting [any] blame on the ISPs is akin to blaming P2P companies for copyright infringement or blaming Smith and Wesson for drive-by shootings. I could go on for hours, but I feel like I've made my point.
(Re-post. Sorry, I guess I screwed something up. THIS is where this comment's s'posed to be.)
What? What?! NOW it's the ISP's responsibility?? Consistenty, Slashdot. Please. ISPs provide a connection to the Internet. It's the USER's responsibility to decide what they do with that connection. And it's the GOVERNMENT's (read: society's) responsibility to find and prosecute the sons of bitches who willfully and with malice inject our machines full of their garbage--be it bots, spyware, or spam. Casting [any] blame on the ISPs is akin to blaming P2P companies for copyright infringement or blaming Smith and Wesson for drive-by shootings. I could go on for hours, but I feel like I've made my point.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, WAIT A MINUTE!! Am I the only one who realises that GTA is a parody of the criminal lifestyle?? It doesn't glamorise it! In fact, GTA makes it abundantly clear that crime is not a viable solution.
It's a double-edged sword. Morons (ignorant, often violent, self-serving types) see GTA as a point for their team. Intellectual types--like myself--see GTA for what it is: a SATIRE. I love Vice City and will continue to play it long after I've beaten it (if I ever get AROUND to beating it:-).
I also witnessed an elderly woman who was standing in front of me at the BMV line fail her eye test 14 times (I counted) before she finally passed.
That's too funny. I watched the same thing happen with an elderly manstanding in front of me at the BMV. Not only did he fail his test several times, but he could barely understand what he was supposed to be doing in the first place.
Here's my idea: after you vote, you get a random ID and password associated with your vote. Later, you can log onto a website and verify that your vote is as you cast it, without divulging your identity.
i've been doing a lot of thinking about our voting problem and that is exactly the solution i've come up with.
OK, here's the deal: you've got a database with four tables. one table contains a list of national issues that are up for vote. another table contains a list of registered voters. a third table records which voters have voted for which issues, but does NOT record any actual votes. that's done in the fourth and final table. that table records the issue that was voted on, a yes or no vote, and a random string. the random string is returned to the voter at the time of their vote so that they can manually verify that their vote was tallied. this database would be publicly accessable, so that the universities, for example, could download it and run tests, similar to what Berkeley has done. oh, and voting would be done through a website (say, vote.us) using a satisfactory authentication scheme.
Fuck the law. Seriously. If we obey every law that our government throws at us, we'll never win this war. There are some laws that simply should not be.
I have a moddest collection of DVDs on the bookshelf behind me, yet I have been known to download movies. I recently downloaded Dawn of the Dead and--hey, guess what?--now it's on my wishlist.
I haven't watched TV in 6 years and I don't miss it. In fact, since I quit watching TV, I've become accutely aware of how bad it is. I wish I could convince my friends and family to cancel their cable service. Correct me if I'm wrong (seriously, do) but wasn't one of the original incentives for paying for television--rather than picking it up for free over the airwaves--that there were no commercials?
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The problem with ZoneAlarm (these days) is TrueVector. It effectively puts a limit on the number of simultaneous connections you can have by SUCKIN UP ALL THE CPU. I'm still not 100% sure how to run, say, BearShare, AND browse the Web at the same time. Reducing [any connection-heavy app's] max connections thus far has not helped.
What? What?! NOW it's the ISP's responsibility?? Consistenty, Slashdot. Please. ISPs provide a connection to the Internet. It's the USER's responsibility to decide what they do with that connection. And it's the GOVERNMENT's (read: society's) responsibility to find and prosecute the sons of bitches who willfully and with malice inject our machines full of their garbage--be it bots, spyware, or spam. Casting [any] blame on the ISPs is akin to blaming P2P companies for copyright infringement or blaming Smith and Wesson for drive-by shootings. I could go on for hours, but I feel like I've made my point. (Re-post. Sorry, I guess I screwed something up. THIS is where this comment's s'posed to be.)
What? What?! NOW it's the ISP's responsibility?? Consistenty, Slashdot. Please. ISPs provide a connection to the Internet. It's the USER's responsibility to decide what they do with that connection. And it's the GOVERNMENT's (read: society's) responsibility to find and prosecute the sons of bitches who willfully and with malice inject our machines full of their garbage--be it bots, spyware, or spam. Casting [any] blame on the ISPs is akin to blaming P2P companies for copyright infringement or blaming Smith and Wesson for drive-by shootings. I could go on for hours, but I feel like I've made my point.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, WAIT A MINUTE!! Am I the only one who realises that GTA is a parody of the criminal lifestyle?? It doesn't glamorise it! In fact, GTA makes it abundantly clear that crime is not a viable solution.
It's a double-edged sword. Morons (ignorant, often violent, self-serving types) see GTA as a point for their team. Intellectual types--like myself--see GTA for what it is: a SATIRE. I love Vice City and will continue to play it long after I've beaten it (if I ever get AROUND to beating it :-).
That's too funny. I watched the same thing happen with an elderly manstanding in front of me at the BMV. Not only did he fail his test several times, but he could barely understand what he was supposed to be doing in the first place.
If our universe is a symphony (a tired metaphor, I know) mathematics is the sheet music and God is the composer. That's what I believe.
Oh, except for the Game Boy Advance. :-/
i've been doing a lot of thinking about our voting problem and that is exactly the solution i've come up with.
OK, here's the deal: you've got a database with four tables. one table contains a list of national issues that are up for vote. another table contains a list of registered voters. a third table records which voters have voted for which issues, but does NOT record any actual votes. that's done in the fourth and final table. that table records the issue that was voted on, a yes or no vote, and a random string. the random string is returned to the voter at the time of their vote so that they can manually verify that their vote was tallied. this database would be publicly accessable, so that the universities, for example, could download it and run tests, similar to what Berkeley has done. oh, and voting would be done through a website (say, vote.us) using a satisfactory authentication scheme.
I'll be honest with you - the issue of race never even crossed my mind when I read that.
Fuck the law. Seriously. If we obey every law that our government throws at us, we'll never win this war. There are some laws that simply should not be.
I have a moddest collection of DVDs on the bookshelf behind me, yet I have been known to download movies. I recently downloaded Dawn of the Dead and--hey, guess what?--now it's on my wishlist.
I haven't watched TV in 6 years and I don't miss it. In fact, since I quit watching TV, I've become accutely aware of how bad it is. I wish I could convince my friends and family to cancel their cable service. Correct me if I'm wrong (seriously, do) but wasn't one of the original incentives for paying for television--rather than picking it up for free over the airwaves--that there were no commercials?
You just made my day. :-)