According to TFA the judge was reluctant to suppress the report. The lawyers for Sequoia Voting Systems, which was not a party to the lawsuit, basically told the Court some BS about the report, and the judge, wanting to be fair to Sequoia, reluctantly agreed to suppress it for now. My guess is that a redacted version, which strikes out Sequoia's trade secret information, will eventually be released.
Conspiracy theorists need to put away their tinfoil hats on this one. It's pretty obvious what's going on here.
I personally have no problem with black box voting machines, provided that they print out a human readable ballot, and the printed ballot is the only official ballot for the purpose of vote counting.
But that's not how they are using them, especially that last part. Because if you have a black box voting machine, there's no guarantee that what's printed on the human readable ballot is what the machine registered. None.
Sorry, while I agree with you that using voting machines as a platform for OSS is bad idea, the only voting machines that can be trusted to count votes accurately and without bias are open source voting machines.
Open source doesn't guarantee security.
If the machines are audited by independent auditors multiple times with different sets of auditors, then yes, yes it does.
If they can make this mistake on a machine giving out their own money, then beleive me, it's not that much of a stretch of imagination to beleive they would do something equally stupid in the design of a voting machine
Just, exactly, WTF is 'they'? Diebold^H^H^H^H^H^H^HPremier Elections Systems designs 'voting machines'. Arcade games are designed by video game companies like Electronic Arts or Midway or whatever. Which, BTW--the companies that make the arcade games or the money changing machines found at arcades are certainly not giving out their own money. The company that makes money changing machines isn't hurt at all by arcades getting ripped off -- except maybe by reputation.
Well, I call it the terrorist number. Because only terrorists would want elections that couldn't be fixe....errr...'adjudicated'!
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There was no 'uses bios'. 'uses crt;' would, by default, make the video go through the video card directly, but you could override this behavior with a 'directvideo:= false;' statement. I often did for my BBS utilities, which were pretty much guaranteed to go on systems whose users were using ANSI.SYS or FANSI Console. (FANSI Console is what was faster. ANSI.SYS never improved anything, IIRC)
I see a lot of comments on the LWN article of people talking about starting services after the user sees the desktop as cheating.
Funny, but that's exactly how XP and Vista achieve their 'fast' boot times. XP doesn't actually boot much faster than 2000, once you realize that the services are all still loading in the background.
But, yes, it does matter, laptop or not. Most desktop users don't leave their machines on 24x7. Just because you and I do doesn't, at all, mean that is typical usage.
Which points to the probability of the crash being pilot error. OTOH, it is perhaps somewhat troubling that Fossett had in excess of $1,000 in cash in the plane, which makes one wonder if, indeed, any sort of foul play was involved.
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Yeah. All you had to do get your application to go directly the video card instead of stdout was to put a:
uses crt;
at the beginning of your source file. You needed to do that if you wanted to do anything fancy, like change colors, unless you could be sure that your programs' users were using ANSI.SYS or 'fansi console' or something similar.
SCOTUS, especially in a case like this where their are likely federal issues, since it involves a lil' ol' network that spans the entire globe:
Federal courts may only overrule a state court when there is a federal question, which is to say, a specific issue (such as consistency with the Federal Constitution) that gives rise to federal jurisdiction. Rulings of state supreme courts on such matters may be appealed directly to the Supreme Court of the United States.
CMYK support is not necessarily needed in GIMP, however. If your target for the images is Scribus, for example, you can take advantage of Scribus' CMYK sep support. In fact, in thise case you're better off using Scribus' CMYK support rather than any support in GIMP. You only need CMYK in GIMP if you're outputting to offset or service bureau directly from GIMP.
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(First off, Java was ALWAYS open source, just not OSI-compliant)
But the difference is that Microsoft has committed developer resources to work with the Mono team at Novell. Sun never committed any resources to work on GCJ.
MOD PARENT UP!! This command will cause the Linux kernel to drop all incoming SYN packets, which will prevent you from being attacked. This will work on a all Linux-based firewalls.
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That and MS's development tools got better.
There fixed it for you.
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It seemed like 90% of the time when I came across a badly behaved application that ignored command line redirects because it went straight to the BIOS just to write its copyright banner, and wouldn't run on anything but a perfect clone, or wouldn't run under DoubleDOS, or (later) required the most stringent DOS emulation under Windows, it was in Turbo Pascal.
Hey! I wrote some of those applications, you insensitive clod!
(Whaddya want? I was a 15-year old kid with a copy of Turbo Pascal. A very dangerous thing back then.;)
Sorry, but your entire argument is shot down by TFA. For those of you too lazy to read it, this gem "Robert and Jack are smart dudes. I've known them for years," clearly shows that your argument is moot.
Seriously....just saying "Yeah, these two dudes I know can break the whole Internet. Trust me. I've known them a long time." is just completely lame and useless.
The article is nothing more than fear mongering and fudfudfud (please tag appropriately). Unless there's something to the interview beyond "I know how to break the Interwebs!!!", I'm from Missouri on this one.
Casino gambling in general is a sucker bet (even under strict conditions the odds always favor the house)
Except one. Blackjack. Blackjack is the only game that favors the player. 49 to 51 in favor of the player. Unless the player is stupid. Most players are.
You had pad of paper? You're lucky. We couldn't afford a whole pad, so we had to make do with like 2 sheets. You either wrote really small, or your erased your old code and rewrote it. Unfortunately, we used the same pencil to punch our paper tape...
Actually, TFA says DARPA is awarding research grants. For all intents and purposes, that is getting paid. Additionally, some of those questions, per the summary, carry a $1 million prize.
How about you give me an example of something in biology that doesn't follow from physics.
Because you can't prove a negative.
I suspect that the biology of one or more processes has been discovered already and the math to bridge the gap from existing theories needs to be invented.
Math is not invented. It is discovered. That's like saying that Columbus invented America.
But pay no attention to me, I don't know what I'm talking about!
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According to TFA the judge was reluctant to suppress the report. The lawyers for Sequoia Voting Systems, which was not a party to the lawsuit, basically told the Court some BS about the report, and the judge, wanting to be fair to Sequoia, reluctantly agreed to suppress it for now. My guess is that a redacted version, which strikes out Sequoia's trade secret information, will eventually be released.
Conspiracy theorists need to put away their tinfoil hats on this one. It's pretty obvious what's going on here.
I personally have no problem with black box voting machines, provided that they print out a human readable ballot, and the printed ballot is the only official ballot for the purpose of vote counting.
But that's not how they are using them, especially that last part. Because if you have a black box voting machine, there's no guarantee that what's printed on the human readable ballot is what the machine registered. None.
Sorry, while I agree with you that using voting machines as a platform for OSS is bad idea, the only voting machines that can be trusted to count votes accurately and without bias are open source voting machines.
Open source doesn't guarantee security.
If the machines are audited by independent auditors multiple times with different sets of auditors, then yes, yes it does.
If they can make this mistake on a machine giving out their own money, then beleive me, it's not that much of a stretch of imagination to beleive they would do something equally stupid in the design of a voting machine
Just, exactly, WTF is 'they'? Diebold^H^H^H^H^H^H^HPremier Elections Systems designs 'voting machines'. Arcade games are designed by video game companies like Electronic Arts or Midway or whatever. Which, BTW--the companies that make the arcade games or the money changing machines found at arcades are certainly not giving out their own money. The company that makes money changing machines isn't hurt at all by arcades getting ripped off -- except maybe by reputation.
Well, I call it the terrorist number. Because only terrorists would want elections that couldn't be fixe....errr...'adjudicated'!
There was no 'uses bios'. 'uses crt;' would, by default, make the video go through the video card directly, but you could override this behavior with a 'directvideo := false;' statement. I often did for my BBS utilities, which were pretty much guaranteed to go on systems whose users were using ANSI.SYS or FANSI Console. (FANSI Console is what was faster. ANSI.SYS never improved anything, IIRC)
I see a lot of comments on the LWN article of people talking about starting services after the user sees the desktop as cheating.
Funny, but that's exactly how XP and Vista achieve their 'fast' boot times. XP doesn't actually boot much faster than 2000, once you realize that the services are all still loading in the background.
But, yes, it does matter, laptop or not. Most desktop users don't leave their machines on 24x7. Just because you and I do doesn't, at all, mean that is typical usage.
Which points to the probability of the crash being pilot error. OTOH, it is perhaps somewhat troubling that Fossett had in excess of $1,000 in cash in the plane, which makes one wonder if, indeed, any sort of foul play was involved.
Yeah. All you had to do get your application to go directly the video card instead of stdout was to put a:
uses crt;
at the beginning of your source file. You needed to do that if you wanted to do anything fancy, like change colors, unless you could be sure that your programs' users were using ANSI.SYS or 'fansi console' or something similar.
SCOTUS, especially in a case like this where their are likely federal issues, since it involves a lil' ol' network that spans the entire globe:
Federal courts may only overrule a state court when there is a federal question, which is to say, a specific issue (such as consistency with the Federal Constitution) that gives rise to federal jurisdiction. Rulings of state supreme courts on such matters may be appealed directly to the Supreme Court of the United States.
CMYK support is not necessarily needed in GIMP, however. If your target for the images is Scribus, for example, you can take advantage of Scribus' CMYK sep support. In fact, in thise case you're better off using Scribus' CMYK support rather than any support in GIMP. You only need CMYK in GIMP if you're outputting to offset or service bureau directly from GIMP.
That's the point of the article I linked.
CMYK support for the GIMP - Why you might not need CMYK support in the GIMP.
Separate+ CMYK separations plugin for GIMP -- And if you really need it, get this. Very nice. Supports ICC color profiles.
(First off, Java was ALWAYS open source, just not OSI-compliant)
But the difference is that Microsoft has committed developer resources to work with the Mono team at Novell. Sun never committed any resources to work on GCJ.
MOD PARENT UP!! This command will cause the Linux kernel to drop all incoming SYN packets, which will prevent you from being attacked. This will work on a all Linux-based firewalls.
That and MS's development tools got better.
There fixed it for you.
It seemed like 90% of the time when I came across a badly behaved application that ignored command line redirects because it went straight to the BIOS just to write its copyright banner, and wouldn't run on anything but a perfect clone, or wouldn't run under DoubleDOS, or (later) required the most stringent DOS emulation under Windows, it was in Turbo Pascal.
Hey! I wrote some of those applications, you insensitive clod!
(Whaddya want? I was a 15-year old kid with a copy of Turbo Pascal. A very dangerous thing back then. ;)
Good thing there isn't a MM#. That would just be wayyyy tooo expensive.
How exactly is C# not open sourced?
Aw, when did they stop doing that? The 3:2 payout is one of the attractions!
Sorry, but your entire argument is shot down by TFA. For those of you too lazy to read it, this gem "Robert and Jack are smart dudes. I've known them for years," clearly shows that your argument is moot.
Seriously....just saying "Yeah, these two dudes I know can break the whole Internet. Trust me. I've known them a long time." is just completely lame and useless.
The article is nothing more than fear mongering and fudfudfud (please tag appropriately). Unless there's something to the interview beyond "I know how to break the Interwebs!!!", I'm from Missouri on this one.
Casino gambling in general is a sucker bet (even under strict conditions the odds always favor the house)
Except one. Blackjack. Blackjack is the only game that favors the player. 49 to 51 in favor of the player. Unless the player is stupid. Most players are.
You had pad of paper? You're lucky. We couldn't afford a whole pad, so we had to make do with like 2 sheets. You either wrote really small, or your erased your old code and rewrote it. Unfortunately, we used the same pencil to punch our paper tape...
Or to communicate ideas or concepts that can only be shown in 3D. Think of the potential for building or assembly instructions, for instance.
just hope they do better than Shockwave 3D.
That's not very difficult. That's almost like saying you'd hope they'd do better than Microsoft Bob. Almost.
Actually, TFA says DARPA is awarding research grants. For all intents and purposes, that is getting paid. Additionally, some of those questions, per the summary, carry a $1 million prize.
So do the homework, get rich.
Sounds good, right?
How about you give me an example of something in biology that doesn't follow from physics.
Because you can't prove a negative.
I suspect that the biology of one or more processes has been discovered already and the math to bridge the gap from existing theories needs to be invented.
Math is not invented. It is discovered. That's like saying that Columbus invented America.
But pay no attention to me, I don't know what I'm talking about!
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