The paper ballot has never been the problem. Whether you mark the ballot with ink or holes doesn't really change anything. They're easy to count and handle in massive quantities, and we have a long experience dealing with them.
The problem is and has always been how to, with complete unambiguity, record the voter's intent on that paper. And here is where electronic voting machines can be of some assistance. Touch screens are a great interface for voting. It's simple for the user, can be easily localized for any potential language a voter might want to use, and it is trivial to eliminate potential overvotes and warn about undervotes.
Diebold can still get a big contract to make expensive touchscreen voting machines, so far as I care. All they have to do is sell a printer with each machine that simply prints out onto an official ballot form the voter's intent, in human readable form.
If a recount is required, OCRing (remember, we're not talking about OCRing free-form text. The OCR here will simply need to pick between a fixed set of choices) those ballots will be trivial and unambiguous. The voter himself can look at the printed ballot and verify that its contents are exactly what he wanted before turning it in.
If you look at the "1984" Apple Commercial: Big Brother just won.
Won what, exactly?
Sun was Unix in the 80s and early 90s. But Linux and the BSDs moved the cheese on 'em, and so far as I can tell, they never really did much in the way of responding.
In fact, given how the iPhone is locked down they probably could enable or disable the feature in software and thereby tie it to your price plan. Lame.
Those who don't need tethering will continue to pay less for their unmetered data service as those who do. That's not so lame, actually, unless there is data that demonstrates that iPhone users use data bandwidth at the same rate as laptop users (I rather doubt that).
If every penny of the fines went into a fund to reimburse uninsured motorist liability defaults, then I would agree with you. History shows again and again, however, that that's not what happens (in similar, but obviously not identical situations).
As far as my network is concerned I'm just using my 3G / GPRS connection, they can't tell if it's me using an application on my phone or if I'm using my phone as a modem. My phone is opaque to them.
But here the network knows what kind of phone you have. iPhones have their own rate plan. It's unmetered, but half the cost of a laptop device equivalent plan. It's that way because they know you can't tether an iPhone.
Remember when government's purpose was to serve the public rather than screw it?
Wouldn't the governments time and energy be better served, for example, by looking into ways to better synchronize and schedule the stop lights rather than turn them into revenue generation tools?
Oh, by the way, lots of cities cheat when they put red light cameras in. Just in case you still actually think that safety has anything to do with it.
It's perfectly simple. Oh, excuse me, you're in the UK. It's bloody simple, really. The iPhone doesn't support tethering. When it does, I imagine that turning it on will cost you $50/mo. Since the $60 data plan AT&T offers for their laptop dongles is unmetered (up to 5GB/mo, which is an awful lot), offering a similar plan for iPhone tethering doesn't require them to tell the difference between tethered bits and iPhone bits.
I'm on a UK T-Mobile PAYG plan and I use my N95 as a modem all the time.
I'm happy for you. I'm in California, and AT&T runs things differently. So far as I know, any AT&T phone that can be tethered either has a metered data plan that would make it prohibitively expensive to actually use it for tethering, or with a plan that costs about $50-$60/mo, making it equivalent to buying one of their laptop dongles.
You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your Account. You should not reveal your Account information to anyone else or use anyone else's Account.
The plain language meaning of that phrase implies that shared accounts are not allowed.
Tethering I'm sure is #1 on most folks' list, but you can count on AT&T to charge extra for the privilege. I'd be surprised if the cost of tethering wasn't made to be almost the same as the cost of buying a 3G modem for your computer and putting it on the same account - probably $50-$60/mo for unlimited data.
It has a third purpose that you forgot: As an order to subordinates to initiate weaponry discharge. Typically it's preceded by the orders "Ready" and "Aim."
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If the people in the picture are younger than the age at which they can legally consent to having that picture taken, then that picture is illegal.
Say what? All those school photos they took of me in grade school were illegal? Son of a bitch! Call my lawyers immediately.
The following quotation comes immediately to mind. It was uttered by Cary Grant's character in the movie Operation Petticoat:
The paper ballot has never been the problem. Whether you mark the ballot with ink or holes doesn't really change anything. They're easy to count and handle in massive quantities, and we have a long experience dealing with them.
The problem is and has always been how to, with complete unambiguity, record the voter's intent on that paper. And here is where electronic voting machines can be of some assistance. Touch screens are a great interface for voting. It's simple for the user, can be easily localized for any potential language a voter might want to use, and it is trivial to eliminate potential overvotes and warn about undervotes.
Diebold can still get a big contract to make expensive touchscreen voting machines, so far as I care. All they have to do is sell a printer with each machine that simply prints out onto an official ballot form the voter's intent, in human readable form.
If a recount is required, OCRing (remember, we're not talking about OCRing free-form text. The OCR here will simply need to pick between a fixed set of choices) those ballots will be trivial and unambiguous. The voter himself can look at the printed ballot and verify that its contents are exactly what he wanted before turning it in.
If you look at the "1984" Apple Commercial: Big Brother just won.
Won what, exactly?
Sun was Unix in the 80s and early 90s. But Linux and the BSDs moved the cheese on 'em, and so far as I can tell, they never really did much in the way of responding.
Q. What do you get when you combine Sun with IBM?
A. IBM.
So this was actually made up about Apple, not the last time there was talk about them being acquired by IBM, but actually the time before that.
In fact, given how the iPhone is locked down they probably could enable or disable the feature in software and thereby tie it to your price plan. Lame.
Those who don't need tethering will continue to pay less for their unmetered data service as those who do. That's not so lame, actually, unless there is data that demonstrates that iPhone users use data bandwidth at the same rate as laptop users (I rather doubt that).
Well, then tethering is still missing "pending carrier agreement." :)
A2DP
Oops. Not so missing. My bad. :)
Hey, /., how about easing up on the 2nd-post-wait timer for subscribers, huh?
I'll chime in with my list of missing features, just because why the hell not? :)
1. Tethering
2. A2DP
and sort of distant, dead last...
3. either Printing or e-mailing PDFs of web pages - including API support for developers.
If every penny of the fines went into a fund to reimburse uninsured motorist liability defaults, then I would agree with you. History shows again and again, however, that that's not what happens (in similar, but obviously not identical situations).
As far as my network is concerned I'm just using my 3G / GPRS connection, they can't tell if it's me using an application on my phone or if I'm using my phone as a modem. My phone is opaque to them.
But here the network knows what kind of phone you have. iPhones have their own rate plan. It's unmetered, but half the cost of a laptop device equivalent plan. It's that way because they know you can't tether an iPhone.
Remember when government's purpose was to serve the public rather than screw it?
Wouldn't the governments time and energy be better served, for example, by looking into ways to better synchronize and schedule the stop lights rather than turn them into revenue generation tools?
Oh, by the way, lots of cities cheat when they put red light cameras in. Just in case you still actually think that safety has anything to do with it.
How on earth would they know?
It's perfectly simple. Oh, excuse me, you're in the UK. It's bloody simple, really. The iPhone doesn't support tethering. When it does, I imagine that turning it on will cost you $50/mo. Since the $60 data plan AT&T offers for their laptop dongles is unmetered (up to 5GB/mo, which is an awful lot), offering a similar plan for iPhone tethering doesn't require them to tell the difference between tethered bits and iPhone bits.
I'm on a UK T-Mobile PAYG plan and I use my N95 as a modem all the time.
I'm happy for you. I'm in California, and AT&T runs things differently. So far as I know, any AT&T phone that can be tethered either has a metered data plan that would make it prohibitively expensive to actually use it for tethering, or with a plan that costs about $50-$60/mo, making it equivalent to buying one of their laptop dongles.
From the TOS:
The plain language meaning of that phrase implies that shared accounts are not allowed.
The app store was not designed for "shared" accounts for families. In fact, the TOS for the store says one account per person.
QED.
Well, that is a workaround, but the fact that it is necessary to work around the DRM makes the GP's point.
There's an app for that.
Done
Tethering I'm sure is #1 on most folks' list, but you can count on AT&T to charge extra for the privilege. I'd be surprised if the cost of tethering wasn't made to be almost the same as the cost of buying a 3G modem for your computer and putting it on the same account - probably $50-$60/mo for unlimited data.
Um, that happened almost a year ago, dude. linky.
... My wife's iPhone, perhaps, without purchasing a 2nd copy?
Shouting fire has two common purposes:
It has a third purpose that you forgot: As an order to subordinates to initiate weaponry discharge. Typically it's preceded by the orders "Ready" and "Aim."
No, ze building zis is already in a blurry pile of ruins. Ve must move on.
Germans? Really? We taught them a lesson in 1918, and they've hardly bothered us since then (apologies to Tom Lehrer).
Aye-aye!
*ca-click* *WHOOSH*
Torpedo away!
If I take off my glasses, all the bugs in my code go away.