Nope. There was a lot of controversy a while ago when a monument was erected to commemorate those Estonians that fought against Soviet Union in German ranks. Foreign media, especially Russia, picked it up and started to scream about Nazis. Around 70000 Estonians fought against the invading Red Army. A lot of those who survived were later sent to Gulag. There are lots of statues and memorials commemorating Soviet soldiers, essentially our occupants, but no memorial for those Estonians fighting against Soviets.
"And where russian minority (20%) is considered as non-citizens and cannot vote?"
Erm.. non-citizens ARE considered non-citizens. Every person is free to apply for citizenship.
However, local non-citizens CAN vote on the local elections. Which they did.
1. Read the specs. The way to verify the result is better than with ordinary voting, where it's pretty hard to verify that your vote gets counted correctly. How do you that anyway? When was the last time you did that?
2. Considering.. Considering... Still considering. How would that work? What would it do?
3. There were indeed rumours. Some people tried that, they were caught. There are always possibilities for fraud. And the people can always go and vote on the election day, making the previous votes null and void.
2. Dude. For your information, USA does NOT have a state language. Never had from the beginning. "Linguistical imperialism" in Estonia, ROFL. We're lucky to HAVE our own language still, not for any failure on Russia's part for trying, during several Slavification waves during the last century.
3. Baltics considering themselves Scandinavian übermensch? What where when who? So many nations have driven over Estonia during the last 1000 years, the blood is mixed to a T. What are you smoking? You claim to be Hungarian, but you are spouting more nonsense than Zhirinovsky.
It's also funny how bullshit comments are usually left by anonymous cowards.
Erm.. one of the fastest growing economies in the region, one of the highest mobile penetrations in the world (95%), the introducer of proportional income tax in Europe, etc etc, where did the slowness come from?
Second, there is never any guarantee that a voter has not sold her vote. Regardless of the voting system used.
Requirement of physical presence for authenticating a person is slowly becoming outdated. And it was never a foolproof system to begin with. Nothing is. You mitigate the risks.
Check your facts again: the vote you cast on the election day takes supremacy over any vote you cast during pre-election, be it either e-vote, ordinary prevote or mail vote.
I really don't understand Slashdotters' paranoia about Skype due to it being closed source. Why Skype particularly? Are you sure that Internet Explorer is not replicating all the traffic you do over https to Microsoft? Or how about Opera, they're closed source and up until now they were audacious enough to actually CHARGE MONEY for their software!?! How do you know all your internet banking is not accumulating in logs in some Opera server? Or whatever editor you use like EditPlus, why don't you suspect it's relaying everything you type? Or have you, yourself, gone through Media Player Classic's source to ascertain that it's not relaying your IP and the names of the movies you play to MPAA?
isn't Talk a standalone application, and so it wouldn't really matter what browser you're using
If I try to access my inbox or account settings from the links and buttons in Talk, it brings Opera to the foreground, but nothing additional happens.
Gmail has a "plain HTML view," as well, meant for browsers which don't support the AJAX stuff it does, and that should work fine with Opera.
The plain HTML is quite severely handicapped. For example, there is no invites or labels panel, and settings cannot be accessed (tells to use a "fully supported browser"). And even the Gmail notifier link is missing.
Currently programming is more an art than a technology
Programming is NOT art, no matter how much you might like to consider yourself an artist, or whatever Paul Graham might think. It's a craft. Like carpentry. Or blacksmithing. True, a smith can and sometimes does create art. But mostly, smithing consists of making mundane things. Like plows. Door hinges. Chains.
Wow. Seems the corporate mindset has succeeded in infesting the brains of quite a few people.
Companies are places where people spend around a third of their time each workday. To expect that the only thing people do at work is work, is crazy, stupid and quite out of touch with normality.
What really scared me was the comment from some guy earlier who thought people shouldn't even be allowed to take smoking breaks. Yap. Sure thing. And people shouldn't also visit the bathroom. Hey, you're at work, so work. If you want to crap, hold it in and do it on YOUR time. And forget coffee, coz bringing it to your desk just wastes valuable company time you have the great honour and privilege of getting paid for.
Jeezuz. Maybe you should move. Like, to a country where people don't treat their employees like squires treated their bond slaves.
effectively it is - it is a single crystal - the word "molecule" makes no sense whatsoever in the context of crystaline materials
Damn, seems geniuses are really flocking to Slashdot these days. Modded Informative too..
The word "molecule" makes every kind of sense in the context of crystalline materials, if you consider the tiny irrelevant detail that the unit cell can just as easily be a molecule as an atom. Think of that next time you go skating on ice, for example.
This is not legally binding. Hell, a license could demand you to give your firstborn to Larry McVoy, that does not mean you have to do it. A license can contain any number of clauses, but only those matter that actually are binding.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sure if you try harder, you will devise an even more sinister movie plot.
Nope. There was a lot of controversy a while ago when a monument was erected to commemorate those Estonians that fought against Soviet Union in German ranks. Foreign media, especially Russia, picked it up and started to scream about Nazis. Around 70000 Estonians fought against the invading Red Army. A lot of those who survived were later sent to Gulag. There are lots of statues and memorials commemorating Soviet soldiers, essentially our occupants, but no memorial for those Estonians fighting against Soviets.
"And where russian minority (20%) is considered as non-citizens and cannot vote?"
Erm.. non-citizens ARE considered non-citizens. Every person is free to apply for citizenship.
However, local non-citizens CAN vote on the local elections. Which they did.
1. Read the specs. The way to verify the result is better than with ordinary voting, where it's pretty hard to verify that your vote gets counted correctly. How do you that anyway? When was the last time you did that?
2. Considering.. Considering... Still considering. How would that work? What would it do?
3. There were indeed rumours. Some people tried that, they were caught. There are always possibilities for fraud. And the people can always go and vote on the election day, making the previous votes null and void.
1. Wtf? What property? What ruling?
2. Dude. For your information, USA does NOT have a state language. Never had from the beginning. "Linguistical imperialism" in Estonia, ROFL. We're lucky to HAVE our own language still, not for any failure on Russia's part for trying, during several Slavification waves during the last century.
3. Baltics considering themselves Scandinavian übermensch? What where when who? So many nations have driven over Estonia during the last 1000 years, the blood is mixed to a T. What are you smoking? You claim to be Hungarian, but you are spouting more nonsense than Zhirinovsky.
It's also funny how bullshit comments are usually left by anonymous cowards.
Erm.. one of the fastest growing economies in the region, one of the highest mobile penetrations in the world (95%), the introducer of proportional income tax in Europe, etc etc, where did the slowness come from?
First, ever heard of absentee voting?
Second, there is never any guarantee that a voter has not sold her vote. Regardless of the voting system used.
Requirement of physical presence for authenticating a person is slowly becoming outdated. And it was never a foolproof system to begin with. Nothing is. You mitigate the risks.
Check your facts again: the vote you cast on the election day takes supremacy over any vote you cast during pre-election, be it either e-vote, ordinary prevote or mail vote.
I can't believe you were modded +5 Informative :D
I really don't understand Slashdotters' paranoia about Skype due to it being closed source. Why Skype particularly? Are you sure that Internet Explorer is not replicating all the traffic you do over https to Microsoft? Or how about Opera, they're closed source and up until now they were audacious enough to actually CHARGE MONEY for their software!?! How do you know all your internet banking is not accumulating in logs in some Opera server? Or whatever editor you use like EditPlus, why don't you suspect it's relaying everything you type? Or have you, yourself, gone through Media Player Classic's source to ascertain that it's not relaying your IP and the names of the movies you play to MPAA?
Actually if you poke around the Application Data directory under Documents and Settings, you will find that conversations are logged.
With host filters, user CSS and user JavaScript there is little you cannot do.
Well, the reason I paid them (4 days ago actually) was to express my thanks for a kick-ass browser I've been using for years.
Dammit. Looks like I should upgrade to Opera 8, that seems to be "fully supported"
:(
In a limited test period? For over a year???
And when will gmail bother to start working Opera? talk doesn't support Opera either.
Skype are a closed shop - another Microsoft in the making
So. Every software company that does not produce open source software is "Microsoft in the making". Yep. Right. You got it.
Currently programming is more an art than a technology
Programming is NOT art, no matter how much you might like to consider yourself an artist, or whatever Paul Graham might think. It's a craft. Like carpentry. Or blacksmithing. True, a smith can and sometimes does create art. But mostly, smithing consists of making mundane things. Like plows. Door hinges. Chains.
What about non-English? My native language has three vowels not found in the English language, and one that is not found in any other language.
Will I have to devise my own layout in such a case?
Wow. Seems the corporate mindset has succeeded in infesting the brains of quite a few people.
Companies are places where people spend around a third of their time each workday. To expect that the only thing people do at work is work, is crazy, stupid and quite out of touch with normality.
What really scared me was the comment from some guy earlier who thought people shouldn't even be allowed to take smoking breaks. Yap. Sure thing. And people shouldn't also visit the bathroom. Hey, you're at work, so work. If you want to crap, hold it in and do it on YOUR time. And forget coffee, coz bringing it to your desk just wastes valuable company time you have the great honour and privilege of getting paid for.
Jeezuz. Maybe you should move. Like, to a country where people don't treat their employees like squires treated their bond slaves.
The word "molecule" makes every kind of sense in the context of crystalline materials, if you consider the tiny irrelevant detail that the unit cell can just as easily be a molecule as an atom. Think of that next time you go skating on ice, for example.
A diamond is a crystal. A crystal formed of carbon atoms, usually arranged in a cubic structure.
*sigh*
Damn, my bad. I mixed up Perot with Nader.
:$
Sry
So, in your mind it is strange not to treat sex the same way guns are treated? Maybe it's just me, but it's not Google that is strange here.
This is not legally binding. Hell, a license could demand you to give your firstborn to Larry McVoy, that does not mean you have to do it. A license can contain any number of clauses, but only those matter that actually are binding.