Did anyone else think of "X-10" when they saw this article's title?... or even better... "We must destroy X-10... we must destroy all internet ad".. ??
That's kind of an unfortunate take on that company. I certainly have a love / hate relationship with them. I hate their shady spam strategy, but love their simple home automation products. I don't know why they got into selling remote cameras, but I guess if you're paranoid about your shit, you need someone's eye to watch over it.
Precisely... this nation isn't so red after all. Remember - land doesn't vote, people do. Notice that the blue areas are generally centered around the bigger cities? Not the farm-land, where people learn about politics in the churches, instead of from the news...
Could 66,000 voters have changed the outcome? Yes. Does that mean he only won by 132,000 votes? No. You're mangling the process by leaning on the much-maligned electoral college to make your choice seem closer to winning.
I disagree. The last time around, my choice got more popular votes, but he didn't win. The popular vote is just that - who's more popular, not who wins. This is why the electoral college needs some serious reform.
I also agree that a McCain / Powell ticket would be an appealing alternative to what we're seeing these days. However, I don't think it would be healty for America if the Republicans were to win the white house 6 out of 8 elections (80-08). This nation really needs the contribution of other voices to make a difference for our entire population.
We can't accept the fact that Kerry lost... by 3.5 million votes.
You're right, it's been really hard to get over the fact that the worst president ever was backed by that many people. I've been incredulous all week.
However, Bush didn't win by 3.5 million votes. He lost by about 130,000 votes. If 131,000 more people voted for Kerry in Ohio - he would be our new president-elect. It is for this reason that we should be examining the voting mechanics errors, the number of which are approaching that winning margin. We learned this rather clearly 4 years ago, I'm surprised that you haven't... let me guess, you probably also believe that WMDs were found in Iraq and Saddam was behind 9/11?
Taco isn't saying that crackers were messing with the system. The story that I read from his headline was that the system is messed up enough as it is, and we aren't getting fair or accurate vote counts. We can't have a truly functioning democracy when so many people's votes aren't counted properly. I mean, how are we supposed to tell Afganistan and Iraq that we know how to run a country better than they do?
"It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes." -- Joseph Stalin
It made it look to a lot of people like the Bill was more of a ploy to snag 4 electoral votes away from George Bush than being any sort of meaningful electoral reform.
...and that's precisely why I'm skeptical that proportional voting will go anywhere. The shameful thing is that residents of the smaller states (such as Wyoming) have 4 times the electoral voting power of residents that live in bigger states, such as California.
Unless you live in Maine or Nebraska... (or possibly Colorado, if things go that way). These states have proportional electoral-vote assignments, which can only make things easier for a 3rd party candidate to break out onto the stage.
Of course, NH and ME do it by congressional district, and so there isn't much chance there, but Colorado's proposed plan would divvy up their 9 votes proportionally... That means if you get 11% of the votes in that state, you'd get 1 electoral point.
Big Deal, eh? Well, think about Ross Perot - he got 18% of the vote in 1992, and that was in our current system, which strongly rewards the top two parties. As long as we keep the "winner-take-all" approach, we'll continue to be stuck with the polarized two-party system.
Also, for a third party to be successful, you need to shoot for the middle - adopt some policies that conservatives and liberals like, and steal the votes from both of the established parties. Don't go further to the extremes - like Nader and Buchanan, they're never going to win substantial numbers of electoral votes.
I'm a conservative, and I'm agreeing with the New York Times. The end of the world MUST be near.
I don't care if you are a conservative, you're an American (well, I'm guessing you are). We may view things differently, but we do share values such as freedom and democracy. This editorial is simply an argument of fairness and transparency, both of which are essential for a democracy to function properly.
So following that assumption, the code that the courts had determined as SCO's proprietary property would have to be removed and replaced.
I think that's a rather simplistic vision of an unlikely, yet possible aftermath. What about the code that was written on top of the copyrighted code? Does that need to be removed, or once the offending material has been removed, do the enhancements made on top of that have any value? Were these contributions made recently, or a long time ago, and constitute a base on top of which most of the rest of the code has been written? Would the entirety of the system belong to SCO, thereby putting all users in copyright infringement?
Who will conduct these audits? How will admins certify that they're running "clean" code? How far would this set back the open source movement, and would it ever recover?
The effects of an outright SCO win would be devastating to the (at least the US) economy. These are the questions to be asking, and potentially planning for.
Well, as that's one of the signs of the Apocalypse, I think we'll all have bigger things to worry about.
No - it's not entirely off-base. What if they win? What happens then? Do we come up with some other type of strategy? I mean, on the Diane Rehm show this morning, they were talking about what would happen if the US were struck by an incredibly catastrophic attack... namely, the Continuity of Government.
Diane and her guests look at the options for keeping the U.S. government -- executive, judicial, and legislative branches -- up and running in times of catastrophic crisis.
Everyone should have contingency plans.
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Interestingly enough, that's similar to how Ben & Jerry's got their start. One of them was mixing ice cream, and asked the other to taste it. The taster had a cold, and therefore his stuffed nose dulled his sense of taste, so he kept asking for more chunks to be added.
"Tony's idea was to take an MP3 player, build a Napster music sale service to complement it, and build a company around it," Knauss said. "Tony had the business idea."
Hmm, sounds familiar - someone comes up with an idea, and before it's fully implemented, it lands int the hands of Steve Jobs, who does a fantastic job of launching it and selling it to the masses and Apple ends up smelling like roses, forever changing the industry.
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why not? You'd be one of the first to notice that the seat's too hard and hurts your rear, or that it's not shaped properly and is uncomfortable... something that skinnier types would only discover after pedaling 20 miles away from home.
Umm, let's talk about 26 letters (A-Z) - I'm assuming these systems are case insensitive... plus 10 numbers (0-9), I'd say that would make it 36.
Perhaps they could dramatically increase their potential name-space by making the VINs case-sensitive. That would allow 62 possible characters per place.
* ATTENTION!! register_globals defaults to 'off' now !!!
Considering that php 4 was released in May 2000, that's half of it's current lifetime. That's when I stopped using register_global variables, and started writing code properly, instead of giving a bad name to php. It's not a terribly difficult thing to clean up either... it's just that most php authors these days are too lazy to deal with it.
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The super-global variables were first available in php4.0 beta 4 (released 2/2000), and were upgraded in 4.1 (12/2001), for further information, see PHP's ChangeLog.
The biggest change this created was discouraging people from using register_globals - probably the biggest security hazard until that time with writing php. This has been turned off by default since then, but unfortunately I'm still seeing developers rely upon this awful feature.
This doesn't make php bad, it makes those who write with that feature bad programmmers. Just because you can plow over a pedestrian with your car, it doesn't mean that everyone should have their car taken away... it just means that they're crappy drivers.
When I see someone like you post something like your post, I already know that I have more of a life than that person. There are more, and better, things than sex.
Like what....? Yeah, try it sometime - it might give you rejuvenated inspiration to pursue even more wacky hobbies and adventures.
There's a reason we were created to enjoy food, crave warmth, and seek sex. It keeps our species alive and vital.
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Did anyone else think of "X-10" when they saw this article's title? ... or even better... "We must destroy X-10... we must destroy all internet ad".. ??
That's kind of an unfortunate take on that company. I certainly have a love / hate relationship with them. I hate their shady spam strategy, but love their simple home automation products. I don't know why they got into selling remote cameras, but I guess if you're paranoid about your shit, you need someone's eye to watch over it.
mental pollution.
Precisely... this nation isn't so red after all. Remember - land doesn't vote, people do. Notice that the blue areas are generally centered around the bigger cities? Not the farm-land, where people learn about politics in the churches, instead of from the news...
Firefox will, from this point forth, be renamed, "Internet".
Is this Tech support? Yeah, I downloaded the whole internet to my computer a while back, and now I've deleted it... is that bad?
Could 66,000 voters have changed the outcome? Yes. Does that mean he only won by 132,000 votes? No. You're mangling the process by leaning on the much-maligned electoral college to make your choice seem closer to winning.
I disagree. The last time around, my choice got more popular votes, but he didn't win. The popular vote is just that - who's more popular, not who wins. This is why the electoral college needs some serious reform.
I also agree that a McCain / Powell ticket would be an appealing alternative to what we're seeing these days. However, I don't think it would be healty for America if the Republicans were to win the white house 6 out of 8 elections (80-08). This nation really needs the contribution of other voices to make a difference for our entire population.
Sorry - you're right, too many previews and edits causes typos. Obviously you got my point.
We can't accept the fact that Kerry lost... by 3.5 million votes.
You're right, it's been really hard to get over the fact that the worst president ever was backed by that many people. I've been incredulous all week.
However, Bush didn't win by 3.5 million votes. He lost by about 130,000 votes. If 131,000 more people voted for Kerry in Ohio - he would be our new president-elect. It is for this reason that we should be examining the voting mechanics errors, the number of which are approaching that winning margin. We learned this rather clearly 4 years ago, I'm surprised that you haven't... let me guess, you probably also believe that WMDs were found in Iraq and Saddam was behind 9/11?
Taco isn't saying that crackers were messing with the system. The story that I read from his headline was that the system is messed up enough as it is, and we aren't getting fair or accurate vote counts. We can't have a truly functioning democracy when so many people's votes aren't counted properly. I mean, how are we supposed to tell Afganistan and Iraq that we know how to run a country better than they do?
"It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes." -- Joseph Stalin
It made it look to a lot of people like the Bill was more of a ploy to snag 4 electoral votes away from George Bush than being any sort of meaningful electoral reform.
...and that's precisely why I'm skeptical that proportional voting will go anywhere. The shameful thing is that residents of the smaller states (such as Wyoming) have 4 times the electoral voting power of residents that live in bigger states, such as California.
We could really use some electoral reform.
Unless you live in Maine or Nebraska... (or possibly Colorado, if things go that way). These states have proportional electoral-vote assignments, which can only make things easier for a 3rd party candidate to break out onto the stage.
Of course, NH and ME do it by congressional district, and so there isn't much chance there, but Colorado's proposed plan would divvy up their 9 votes proportionally... That means if you get 11% of the votes in that state, you'd get 1 electoral point.
Big Deal, eh? Well, think about Ross Perot - he got 18% of the vote in 1992, and that was in our current system, which strongly rewards the top two parties. As long as we keep the "winner-take-all" approach, we'll continue to be stuck with the polarized two-party system.
Also, for a third party to be successful, you need to shoot for the middle - adopt some policies that conservatives and liberals like, and steal the votes from both of the established parties. Don't go further to the extremes - like Nader and Buchanan, they're never going to win substantial numbers of electoral votes.
OK, so you're dressed up as a.... huge nerd?
I'm a conservative, and I'm agreeing with the New York Times. The end of the world MUST be near.
I don't care if you are a conservative, you're an American (well, I'm guessing you are). We may view things differently, but we do share values such as freedom and democracy. This editorial is simply an argument of fairness and transparency, both of which are essential for a democracy to function properly.
Hmm, but isn't the size of the LOC a moving target? I would guess that things are being added on a daily basis.
...in other words, steganography.
Sun will solidify their position as Grand Moff Tarkin to Microsoft's Vader
Offtopic and pedantic here, yeah - I know, but Tarkin was in charge of the Death Star, Vader happened to be a highly esteemed guest:
From IMDB:
Princess Leia : Governor Tarkin, I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.
Governor Tarkin : And you're sure the homing beacon is secure onboard their ship? I'm taking an awful risk, Vader. This had better work.
So following that assumption, the code that the courts had determined as SCO's proprietary property would have to be removed and replaced.
I think that's a rather simplistic vision of an unlikely, yet possible aftermath. What about the code that was written on top of the copyrighted code? Does that need to be removed, or once the offending material has been removed, do the enhancements made on top of that have any value? Were these contributions made recently, or a long time ago, and constitute a base on top of which most of the rest of the code has been written? Would the entirety of the system belong to SCO, thereby putting all users in copyright infringement?
Who will conduct these audits? How will admins certify that they're running "clean" code? How far would this set back the open source movement, and would it ever recover?
The effects of an outright SCO win would be devastating to the (at least the US) economy. These are the questions to be asking, and potentially planning for.
What if SCO is right?
Well, as that's one of the signs of the Apocalypse, I think we'll all have bigger things to worry about.
No - it's not entirely off-base. What if they win? What happens then? Do we come up with some other type of strategy? I mean, on the Diane Rehm show this morning, they were talking about what would happen if the US were struck by an incredibly catastrophic attack... namely, the Continuity of Government.
Diane and her guests look at the options for keeping the U.S. government -- executive, judicial, and legislative branches -- up and running in times of catastrophic crisis.
Everyone should have contingency plans.
Interestingly enough, that's similar to how Ben & Jerry's got their start. One of them was mixing ice cream, and asked the other to taste it. The taster had a cold, and therefore his stuffed nose dulled his sense of taste, so he kept asking for more chunks to be added.
"Tony's idea was to take an MP3 player, build a Napster music sale service to complement it, and build a company around it," Knauss said. "Tony had the business idea."
Hmm, sounds familiar - someone comes up with an idea, and before it's fully implemented, it lands int the hands of Steve Jobs, who does a fantastic job of launching it and selling it to the masses and Apple ends up smelling like roses, forever changing the industry.
why not? You'd be one of the first to notice that the seat's too hard and hurts your rear, or that it's not shaped properly and is uncomfortable... something that skinnier types would only discover after pedaling 20 miles away from home.
Hmm. General trend, downwards.
a) 2004 hasn't ended yet.
b) do software licenses count toward $$ contributions? just checking...
26?!
Umm, let's talk about 26 letters (A-Z) - I'm assuming these systems are case insensitive... plus 10 numbers (0-9), I'd say that would make it 36.
Perhaps they could dramatically increase their potential name-space by making the VINs case-sensitive. That would allow 62 possible characters per place.
There are lots of PHP scripts that require register_globals on, as until relatively recently that was the default setting.
Well, it was strongly mentioned as a security issue on 10-Dec-2001 when version 4.1.0 was announced:
And it was turned off as a default with the 4.2.0 release on 22-Apr-2002 - two years ago.
Version 4.2.0
* ATTENTION!! register_globals defaults to 'off' now !!!
Considering that php 4 was released in May 2000, that's half of it's current lifetime. That's when I stopped using register_global variables, and started writing code properly, instead of giving a bad name to php. It's not a terribly difficult thing to clean up either... it's just that most php authors these days are too lazy to deal with it.
The super-global variables were first available in php4.0 beta 4 (released 2/2000), and were upgraded in 4.1 (12/2001), for further information, see PHP's ChangeLog.
The biggest change this created was discouraging people from using register_globals - probably the biggest security hazard until that time with writing php. This has been turned off by default since then, but unfortunately I'm still seeing developers rely upon this awful feature.
This doesn't make php bad, it makes those who write with that feature bad programmmers. Just because you can plow over a pedestrian with your car, it doesn't mean that everyone should have their car taken away... it just means that they're crappy drivers.
On the other hand, the government could do this another 9 million times, and we'd have no more federal debt... but he would. :)
When I see someone like you post something like your post, I already know that I have more of a life than that person. There are more, and better, things than sex.
Like what....? Yeah, try it sometime - it might give you rejuvenated inspiration to pursue even more wacky hobbies and adventures.
There's a reason we were created to enjoy food, crave warmth, and seek sex. It keeps our species alive and vital.