You're filling DVD9? If that's so maybe you should concentrate on gameplay a bit more.
Btw, that was my gripe with Oblivion aswell. Beautiful graphics on one dvd, but the atmosphere and gameplay didn't much up to for example Morrowind. They could have used DVD9 and put more varied speech for example into the game and built bigger cities.
In your country you let *random people* wander in and help with the counting?
I think those random people are called citizens of a democracy, so yes, everyone who can vote and has a local address, can be there and if you want to count, you just simply need to apply and they can't deny your application if you're a voter and you're not a candidate or a public official, like members of the government.
I'm absolutely shocked by the thought that noone but select few people can take part in the vote counting where you live.
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
-- Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (maybe better known as Joseph Stalin)
First of all, there will be me. While I'm not a voter in your elections, I'm concerned about issues of liberty, democracy and humanity as a whole on this planet (wars, global warming, etc.). This means that I don't care about borders and countries so much, so being in a different country doesn't really stop me from having a problem with shady election practices.
Personally, I'd prefer the democrats winning that election, but I see them as the lesser evil and not as a real alternative in your political system. Transparency matters, because I don't WANT the "better party", if the majority decided against it, but electronic voting machines managed to "fix" that. Ends don't justify the means if your target is to have some core values and live by them. Maybe it's just me. I'm not sure I count as an uproar, but I'm also hoping I'm not alone with my "weird ideas" about the above mentioned things.
About your post, I have the feeling that you're trying to gain a high moral position. I have this to say: even if there is no uproar and slashdot users/democrats are up in arms defending Diebold after a democrat won election, that still doesn't mean we're wrong now or amoral for criticizing Diebold and electronic voting in general. That's all that matters. There is that saying about crossing the bridge when you come to it, that one perfectly applies here. IF the democrats win the elections and IF some people start defending the electronic voting they previously opposed, then you can certainly criticize them for compromising core principles for party politics. Until then, I don't see the morality of you taking the position of "you wouldn't act any better" that shines through from your post.
until a virtually fool-proof system can be designed and built
You've already given the reason why it won't happen.
The elections not only have to be fool-proof, but fool-accountable too, so that the common voter can clearly understand, and verify the process of voting. That alone means no electronic voting, because 99% of the voters don't understand it, and even if they do, they can't verify the process.
The paper ballot is the only way, since that is the only voting process every voter understands, and every voter can verify (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not from the USA, but isn't it so that anyone can be present while votes are being counted either helping or just observing? That is the way we do it in my country and I'd be horrified to learn if this weren't the case in the USA).
Of course not. But the order of the offense is even below viewing a porn site with borrowed passwords, on the level of viewing a link to a misconfigured site showing not-to-be-public-but-still-out-there material.
It is not a hack attack and most certainly not a -gate scandal.
Addendum: The Hungarian Socialist Party is used to be called the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (the state party before the fall of the iron curtain), before it got "unfashionable". They are socialist only in their name, in reality they lean towards serving the interests of corporations and the wealthy.
The Alliance of Young Democrats is just a name, the party started in 1988 in a college. They have been the main government party before and they are the main opposition party now. They cannot said to be belonging to right or left, they have left-like social policies in education, health, etc. and they also have a stronger sense of patriotism/nationalism than the other parties and a very good relationship with the traditional religions. The stereotype calls them right-wing, but it just doesn't fit given their economic/social policies. Right/left wing is a silly categorization imo.
Seems like a borrowed idea
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Sweden's Watergate
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Just before 2006's Hungarian Parliamentary Election, the Hungarian Socialist Party accused the Alliance of Young Democrats with accessing the private server of theirs. The "proof" was a screenshot from a Win2003 server log showing the host belonging to the party. The accused party countered by showing proof that their internal site was systematically accessed by the other party, also showing logs.
The internal server of the Socialist Party turned out to be a password protected http server containing some upcoming promotional campaign pictures, with some trivial password like hsp:redflower. The pass somehow leaked and thousands of other people viewed it, myself included, before it became a "scandal" and "proof of hacking" and "ServerGate".
I hope the swedish parties are more grown up than to play stupid games like that and I hope the swedish public is more educated than the hungarian, so that they can tell if nothing extraordinarily happened, just some PR hype..
No, this should not be suprising news to anyone who's been following LKML.
This is precisely what I thought. I remember Jörg being a jackass on LKML for years and then he went on to put together OpenSolaris and occasionally blast the linux developers for [random percieved reason].
Duke Nukem Forever Silent Edition comes to my mind. Of course since they started to work on it in 1925, they cannot be expected to finish anytime soon. Some of the devs got changed in the meantime and some of them got soultrapped.
The ACID test is a test validating behaviour that is supposed to happen when errors occur, according to the standard. In other words, the error handling parts of the CSS standard are validated..
1. Myspace is BIG, one of the most frequented sites on the internet.
2. Lots of teenagers/young people.
3. Store.
4. Profit.
I was waiting for them to come up with a store for ages now, that is the sensible business decision, the only part that has suprised me is the unsigned bands. Pretty much the way to make the RIAA hurt. All copyright infringement in the world didn't hurt RIAA this much as this simple move!
There is no such thing as "cooperating with the law" (unless you have delusions about what the police/secret service/RIAA is). You either obey the law or you don't. There is no such law MS would have to obey to provide justification for the action MS is taking. They are trying to please the recording industry instead of ME the USER or a would-be customer.
I would like you to pay close attention to this page. Special attention should be paid to what a long page it is, and the number of notes at the bottom confirming it all.
On a page titled "Features new to Windows Vista", there are lots of things like: "Windows Vista will also use IFilters that are used today by Windows Desktop Search. The IFilter interface can be implemented by software makers so that files created by their applications can be better integrated with search and indexing programs.".
Well, technically they would be "new" to Windows Vista, if Vista were new, but since they DID NOT start from scratch, then I sadly have to conclude that the length of that page is nowhere near indicative of the number of features found in Vista. The wiki article is basically fluffed up with explanations, comparisons, explanations of comparisons and old stuff (from WinXP and before). What's more, the article seems to concentrate on Vista from a visual POV, so it lists every little graphical detail of everything ("Other features include check boxes for selecting multiple files. When renaming a file, Explorer only highlights the filename without selecting the extension.", etc.).
All in all, if you take out the fluff, the amount of "new features" shrink drastically. That's for 6 years of work.
I know, they say there's an exception to "mainstream" media working within current obscenity laws, but how to you quantify something to see if it's "mainstream"?
Exactly my line of thinking. I don't believe they have a working solution for that. They can't just say "what we think violates the law violates the law" or "what comes out of hollywood is ok" after all...
but proposed legislation will outlaw possession of images such as "material featuring violence that is, or appears to be, life-threatening or is likely to result in serious and disabling injury".
Did you just outlaw all action movies? Most likely there is a sexuality requirement in the law, but if a movie has both soft sex and bodily harm, that could make the difference fuzzy.
Stupid legislation. We never outlawed action movies just because they portray immoral behaviour. There is no telling whether the guy who commited the crime would have acted differently if it were illegal to access these pictures. Most likely he would have accessed them anyway, and my bet is that if he couldn't, that would have made his real-life actions worse.
Unrestricted freedom includes not having freedom in itself, by definition it is a paradox. The GPL excludes this paradox, making it free. It is a restriction on freedom disallowing freedom to be restricted, which basically gives/promotes freedom, not restricts it.
Old Mythology is used as a plot device in Stargate, not the episodes itself are "modern mythology". I assume she wanted to compare the old mythology with the "new mythology" = "scifi".
My only source of television content is download from an FTP server.
That is perfectly legal under Hungarian law, as I'm not uploading anything, so _technically_ it is not me who copies things, so the one who commits copyright infringment. Moreso, I'm ethically perfectly comfortable with the situation, as generally my view about copyrights is the total abolishment or opt-in limited term of 3 years and on patents the total abolishment or 2 years in the worst case, to put most things into public domain in my lifetime.
Since the law here distinguishes between computer programs and videos/music, I'm legally not allowed to download and use any computer program of my choice. That is not a problem however, since I use free software exclusively.
The nice high quality dvdrips of House were a fun addition to my last two weeks.
Oh you say I don't support the creation of content I enjoy? That's true, but neither do you. You pay the fee for the distribution of the content - the copyright fee. There is a huge difference. I don't support the creation of the content I enjoy only because I _can't_, because the studios didn't set up a way to do that.
Since
a.) I'm perfectly legal in doing what I'm doing
b.) Ethically I consider the right thing to do is not to pay a dime for the right to share information ...then I'm perfectly content with it.
Inevitably someone will think, "you're so anal about it! Your ideas are just not workable!". I have this to say to them:
Guess what, corporations are anal about it too! They have non-workable (as-in collidying with natural laws) ideas, and they are trying to push their agenda to do that. They are taking advantage of every loophole and they are buying legislation. What my ideas constitute of, worked for hundreds of years before, and with the advent of the information sharing technologies (Internet, etc) I only advocate returning to what makes sense from an engineering/physical standpoint.
The favorite technique of radicals is to move the ideas damn far from the center, then use a proxy to bash the target for not willing to compromise, then graciously accept a "compromise", which is in reality the radical idea what they wanted to achieve in the first place. Then they repeat the process. Corporations use this technique skillfully, so the only defense is to stick what you believe in and don't listen to the silly people who want to reach a compromise, because only you lose. Anything more than very short term opt-in copyright is not good enough. I can't compromise without compromising my beliefs and stand on the issue. [badanalogyguy] It would be like the opponents of death penalty reaching a compromise if the state changes the type of execution method used [/badanalogyguy].
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You're filling DVD9? If that's so maybe you should concentrate on gameplay a bit more.
Btw, that was my gripe with Oblivion aswell. Beautiful graphics on one dvd, but the atmosphere and gameplay didn't much up to for example Morrowind. They could have used DVD9 and put more varied speech for example into the game and built bigger cities.
I'm absolutely shocked by the thought that noone but select few people can take part in the vote counting where you live.
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
-- Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (maybe better known as Joseph Stalin)
I can guarantee you there will be one.
First of all, there will be me. While I'm not a voter in your elections, I'm concerned about issues of liberty, democracy and humanity as a whole on this planet (wars, global warming, etc.). This means that I don't care about borders and countries so much, so being in a different country doesn't really stop me from having a problem with shady election practices.
Personally, I'd prefer the democrats winning that election, but I see them as the lesser evil and not as a real alternative in your political system. Transparency matters, because I don't WANT the "better party", if the majority decided against it, but electronic voting machines managed to "fix" that. Ends don't justify the means if your target is to have some core values and live by them. Maybe it's just me. I'm not sure I count as an uproar, but I'm also hoping I'm not alone with my "weird ideas" about the above mentioned things.
About your post, I have the feeling that you're trying to gain a high moral position. I have this to say: even if there is no uproar and slashdot users/democrats are up in arms defending Diebold after a democrat won election, that still doesn't mean we're wrong now or amoral for criticizing Diebold and electronic voting in general. That's all that matters. There is that saying about crossing the bridge when you come to it, that one perfectly applies here. IF the democrats win the elections and IF some people start defending the electronic voting they previously opposed, then you can certainly criticize them for compromising core principles for party politics. Until then, I don't see the morality of you taking the position of "you wouldn't act any better" that shines through from your post.
The elections not only have to be fool-proof, but fool-accountable too, so that the common voter can clearly understand, and verify the process of voting. That alone means no electronic voting, because 99% of the voters don't understand it, and even if they do, they can't verify the process.
The paper ballot is the only way, since that is the only voting process every voter understands, and every voter can verify (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not from the USA, but isn't it so that anyone can be present while votes are being counted either helping or just observing? That is the way we do it in my country and I'd be horrified to learn if this weren't the case in the USA).
Of course not. But the order of the offense is even below viewing a porn site with borrowed passwords, on the level of viewing a link to a misconfigured site showing not-to-be-public-but-still-out-there material.
It is not a hack attack and most certainly not a -gate scandal.
Addendum: The Hungarian Socialist Party is used to be called the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (the state party before the fall of the iron curtain), before it got "unfashionable". They are socialist only in their name, in reality they lean towards serving the interests of corporations and the wealthy.
The Alliance of Young Democrats is just a name, the party started in 1988 in a college. They have been the main government party before and they are the main opposition party now. They cannot said to be belonging to right or left, they have left-like social policies in education, health, etc. and they also have a stronger sense of patriotism/nationalism than the other parties and a very good relationship with the traditional religions. The stereotype calls them right-wing, but it just doesn't fit given their economic/social policies. Right/left wing is a silly categorization imo.
Just before 2006's Hungarian Parliamentary Election, the Hungarian Socialist Party accused the Alliance of Young Democrats with accessing the private server of theirs. The "proof" was a screenshot from a Win2003 server log showing the host belonging to the party. The accused party countered by showing proof that their internal site was systematically accessed by the other party, also showing logs.
The internal server of the Socialist Party turned out to be a password protected http server containing some upcoming promotional campaign pictures, with some trivial password like hsp:redflower. The pass somehow leaked and thousands of other people viewed it, myself included, before it became a "scandal" and "proof of hacking" and "ServerGate".
I hope the swedish parties are more grown up than to play stupid games like that and I hope the swedish public is more educated than the hungarian, so that they can tell if nothing extraordinarily happened, just some PR hype..
Duke Nukem Forever Silent Edition comes to my mind. Of course since they started to work on it in 1925, they cannot be expected to finish anytime soon. Some of the devs got changed in the meantime and some of them got soultrapped.
Actually that's not entirely correct.
The ACID test is a test validating behaviour that is supposed to happen when errors occur, according to the standard. In other words, the error handling parts of the CSS standard are validated..
1. Myspace is BIG, one of the most frequented sites on the internet.
2. Lots of teenagers/young people.
3. Store.
4. Profit.
I was waiting for them to come up with a store for ages now, that is the sensible business decision, the only part that has suprised me is the unsigned bands. Pretty much the way to make the RIAA hurt. All copyright infringement in the world didn't hurt RIAA this much as this simple move!
There is no such thing as "cooperating with the law" (unless you have delusions about what the police/secret service/RIAA is). You either obey the law or you don't. There is no such law MS would have to obey to provide justification for the action MS is taking. They are trying to please the recording industry instead of ME the USER or a would-be customer.
What you said is included on the list. Still nothing exciting...
Well, technically they would be "new" to Windows Vista, if Vista were new, but since they DID NOT start from scratch, then I sadly have to conclude that the length of that page is nowhere near indicative of the number of features found in Vista. The wiki article is basically fluffed up with explanations, comparisons, explanations of comparisons and old stuff (from WinXP and before). What's more, the article seems to concentrate on Vista from a visual POV, so it lists every little graphical detail of everything ("Other features include check boxes for selecting multiple files. When renaming a file, Explorer only highlights the filename without selecting the extension.", etc.).
All in all, if you take out the fluff, the amount of "new features" shrink drastically. That's for 6 years of work.
The presentation can be found here.
I kNOW DCL cAN I aPPLY?
VMS iS tHE fUTURE!
I've had a Maxtor hdd "go up in flames" before. Nothing spectacular, just some smoke and charred chips on the back. Didn't pose any danger.
Stupid legislation. We never outlawed action movies just because they portray immoral behaviour. There is no telling whether the guy who commited the crime would have acted differently if it were illegal to access these pictures. Most likely he would have accessed them anyway, and my bet is that if he couldn't, that would have made his real-life actions worse.
That is stupid.
:)
Unrestricted freedom includes not having freedom in itself, by definition it is a paradox. The GPL excludes this paradox, making it free. It is a restriction on freedom disallowing freedom to be restricted, which basically gives/promotes freedom, not restricts it.
Easy, isn't it?
Clearly, that is why the classical music cd/dvds you can find in a store are the cheapest in the music section.
Sorry for using the wrong word, the commonly used english term appears to be platinum.
The only trouble is that we don't have enough platina on earth to pull that off. But otherwise a nice idea.
Old Mythology is used as a plot device in Stargate, not the episodes itself are "modern mythology". I assume she wanted to compare the old mythology with the "new mythology" = "scifi".
My only source of television content is download from an FTP server.
...then I'm perfectly content with it.
That is perfectly legal under Hungarian law, as I'm not uploading anything, so _technically_ it is not me who copies things, so the one who commits copyright infringment. Moreso, I'm ethically perfectly comfortable with the situation, as generally my view about copyrights is the total abolishment or opt-in limited term of 3 years and on patents the total abolishment or 2 years in the worst case, to put most things into public domain in my lifetime.
Since the law here distinguishes between computer programs and videos/music, I'm legally not allowed to download and use any computer program of my choice. That is not a problem however, since I use free software exclusively.
The nice high quality dvdrips of House were a fun addition to my last two weeks.
Oh you say I don't support the creation of content I enjoy? That's true, but neither do you. You pay the fee for the distribution of the content - the copyright fee. There is a huge difference. I don't support the creation of the content I enjoy only because I _can't_, because the studios didn't set up a way to do that.
Since
a.) I'm perfectly legal in doing what I'm doing
b.) Ethically I consider the right thing to do is not to pay a dime for the right to share information
Inevitably someone will think, "you're so anal about it! Your ideas are just not workable!". I have this to say to them:
Guess what, corporations are anal about it too! They have non-workable (as-in collidying with natural laws) ideas, and they are trying to push their agenda to do that. They are taking advantage of every loophole and they are buying legislation. What my ideas constitute of, worked for hundreds of years before, and with the advent of the information sharing technologies (Internet, etc) I only advocate returning to what makes sense from an engineering/physical standpoint.
The favorite technique of radicals is to move the ideas damn far from the center, then use a proxy to bash the target for not willing to compromise, then graciously accept a "compromise", which is in reality the radical idea what they wanted to achieve in the first place. Then they repeat the process. Corporations use this technique skillfully, so the only defense is to stick what you believe in and don't listen to the silly people who want to reach a compromise, because only you lose. Anything more than very short term opt-in copyright is not good enough. I can't compromise without compromising my beliefs and stand on the issue. [badanalogyguy] It would be like the opponents of death penalty reaching a compromise if the state changes the type of execution method used [/badanalogyguy].