Because they no longer bump into every wall they encounter? Because they run like hell when you show them a cat? I don't think you need to be great scientist to be able to tell wether a mouse is blind...
In Belgium, the source code for voting machines has been made available and independent experts have pointed numerous flaws. No one seems to care, but that's off topic.
My point is this : these experts explained that the only way to make the vote truly verifiable is to have a paper trail for each vote. I believe RMS said something similar about this problem.
"Before these mini-Web based applications can go mainstream, however, Google and the others will have to do away with the need to "cut and paste" code and make it possible to install such programs on Web sites in a few clicks"
Please! Cut and paste is too complicated to create a website? Hello?
This is in fact something I like about google : they try to be friendly to joe average user, but not to the point of thinking all their users are brain-dead.
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When I was young we used to write all our html from scratch, using vi, on a vt100. And we didn't complain!
It is 1 a.m. here, I just came home, slightly drunk, slightly high, and I just tried to understand this article. It has indeed blown my mind, so to speak.
... and really easy to put into practice : as far as I know it has never been possible for anyone, not even a hacker, to buy a computer or browse the web without a proper ID, so there should be no significant trouble enforcing this clever law.
Personally I would tend to agree with you because I still use Windows Me (old computer). However I'm pretty sure people said the same thing about XP (and indeed 98 and NT4 are still widely used), yet XP -with its many flaws and few improvements- is all over the place today, because it got adopted gradually as former versions of Windows became obsolete. You get new hardware, it requires XP, you get XP. I mean, you're a/.er, you know it has worked before, and will work again (although maybe with a little less success, as Linux is more usable than 5 years ago).
When people started using Google instead of Altavista or Yahoo, it was IMHO because Google was better than Yahoo and Altavista was selling out and turning into sheer crap. If Ask wants to grab some market share, it will not do to be as good as Google or to offer a couple of extra nice features, even if that's an impressive feat; they will have to be so much better that people will not want to use Google anymore. Good luck to them...
I'm Belgian, and here we've had mandatory id cards forever. We're supposed to carry it at all times, and show it to policemen if asked. This is just meant to allow the police to quickly and quite reliably check your name and adress. I honestly don't see how that's a problem, and I am certainly not under the impression of living in a fascist country.
but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?
Because, you miserable idiot, that's not the point. The point is the right to privacy, the point is the state minding its own business, not the citizen's.
Does this happen in the same country where people don't want an id card because of privacy concerns? Amazing.
I'm not saying this isn't good news, but it's not very big news, is it?
I mean, do we need a frontpage story just because MS releases a patch? Don't they do it more or less regularly?
And besides, why should we care since all of us here use either Linux or BSD?
This is massively cool and all, but how is it helpful to peer under vehicles? You don't need 3D for that, and 3D won't help if the cameras are too high above ground...
Anyway, they'll just use it to peer under skirts, like we would.
No offense intended, but disabled actually means you are incapable of doing certain things.
Agreed. I don't really see how say, Ninja Gaiden could include support for the disabled... There should definitely be games that are specifically created with this in mind, but come on, it's as if you were complaining that books can't be read by blind people.
One reason cited was actually protection of the children, by allowing them to know the actual age of people they're chatting with, to avoid pedophiles pretending to be kids in chatrooms.
Good intentions surely, but still a stupid idea if you ask me.
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We know this worked *how*?
Because they no longer bump into every wall they encounter? Because they run like hell when you show them a cat? I don't think you need to be great scientist to be able to tell wether a mouse is blind...
if you don't know what to do with your 20%, time to start google maps Mars.
Dude, you should try using some punctuation occasionally. You're like, the anti-William Shatner, man. ;)
In Belgium, the source code for voting machines has been made available and independent experts have pointed numerous flaws. No one seems to care, but that's off topic.
My point is this : these experts explained that the only way to make the vote truly verifiable is to have a paper trail for each vote. I believe RMS said something similar about this problem.
"Before these mini-Web based applications can go mainstream, however, Google and the others will have to do away with the need to "cut and paste" code and make it possible to install such programs on Web sites in a few clicks"
Please! Cut and paste is too complicated to create a website? Hello?
This is in fact something I like about google : they try to be friendly to joe average user, but not to the point of thinking all their users are brain-dead.
...
When I was young we used to write all our html from scratch, using vi, on a vt100. And we didn't complain!
Doesn't that sound a bit verbose? Really, anybody reading this sort of article knows what Tetris is already...
I know, I know, I'm offtopic.
Instead of just reporting it, I suggest that every story on slashdot be posted in pirate language on the day.
I works, except for the chat support...
it works just fine, it says something like "database error 04", and when you reload it's error 03, then 02... you get the idea. At 0 it works...
It is 1 a.m. here, I just came home, slightly drunk, slightly high, and I just tried to understand this article. It has indeed blown my mind, so to speak.
I am very pleased to see an editor apologise for a dupe. Kudos to him
... and really easy to put into practice : as far as I know it has never been possible for anyone, not even a hacker, to buy a computer or browse the web without a proper ID, so there should be no significant trouble enforcing this clever law.
Personally I would tend to agree with you because I still use Windows Me (old computer). However I'm pretty sure people said the same thing about XP (and indeed 98 and NT4 are still widely used), yet XP -with its many flaws and few improvements- is all over the place today, because it got adopted gradually as former versions of Windows became obsolete. You get new hardware, it requires XP, you get XP. I mean, you're a /.er, you know it has worked before, and will work again (although maybe with a little less success, as Linux is more usable than 5 years ago).
Someone please create a company, call it Flux, and start selling capacitors :)
When people started using Google instead of Altavista or Yahoo, it was IMHO because Google was better than Yahoo and Altavista was selling out and turning into sheer crap. If Ask wants to grab some market share, it will not do to be as good as Google or to offer a couple of extra nice features, even if that's an impressive feat; they will have to be so much better that people will not want to use Google anymore. Good luck to them...
I'm Belgian, and here we've had mandatory id cards forever. We're supposed to carry it at all times, and show it to policemen if asked. This is just meant to allow the police to quickly and quite reliably check your name and adress. I honestly don't see how that's a problem, and I am certainly not under the impression of living in a fascist country.
Blasphemy! The NES controller is the best ever. EVER.
but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?
Because, you miserable idiot, that's not the point. The point is the right to privacy, the point is the state minding its own business, not the citizen's.
Does this happen in the same country where people don't want an id card because of privacy concerns? Amazing.
I'm not saying this isn't good news, but it's not very big news, is it?
I mean, do we need a frontpage story just because MS releases a patch? Don't they do it more or less regularly?
And besides, why should we care since all of us here use either Linux or BSD?
What is it with software these days, anyway? Every piece of software tries to be everything to everyone. Ugh.
ever heard of emacs?
This is massively cool and all, but how is it helpful to peer under vehicles? You don't need 3D for that, and 3D won't help if the cameras are too high above ground... Anyway, they'll just use it to peer under skirts, like we would.
Duck Hunt, with the NES Zapper. Seriously, you can be deaf, colorblind and have only one arm, and still master it easily
No offense intended, but disabled actually means you are incapable of doing certain things.
Agreed. I don't really see how say, Ninja Gaiden could include support for the disabled... There should definitely be games that are specifically created with this in mind, but come on, it's as if you were complaining that books can't be read by blind people.
One reason cited was actually protection of the children, by allowing them to know the actual age of people they're chatting with, to avoid pedophiles pretending to be kids in chatrooms. Good intentions surely, but still a stupid idea if you ask me.