Us in Canada just did a national election last night, useing our tried-and-true paper system. I hope it never gets changed.
Frankly I don't see why some people / countries feel the need for an electornic system. COnsider, on the eve of election night, less than an hour after the polls closed all the major networks already called the election within 5% margin of error, and the vast majority of the individual seats were called as well. Paper works fast because it si DISTRIBUTED. Each poll only has a couple thousand votes to go through, and has 3-4 people on staff, so they can count that very quickly. As they get their results they report them to district offices, who report them to the media, who feed them into their big election computers. The whole thing runs very smooth and very fast.
Yes, I know Canada has "only" ~20 million some voters. HOwever, this changes nothing because the problem scales linearly. More voters / more polls / more volunteers. It should not make the overall process any slower or introduce any more chances for error.
Not to be smart, but if this is the case you simply are not excersizing them much.
Like I said, try something as simple as playing a 720p or 1080p video full screen. CPU use goes through the roof. Then, when the video stops, your entire X display gets corrupted.
This has been the case with every ATI driver release in the past 8 months. I finally gave up and bought an NVidia card, rock solid drivers from day 1.
The documentation has been out for 2 years, and we still have yet to see something as simple as accelerated 2D playback capable of displaying HD video ( 1080p ) without corruption. As such I don't have very high hopes for the near term with tis track record.
The fact that ATI is not funding the Xorg team working on the drivers doesn't help matters much either.
They're just playing the classic "dump some specs/code on them to shut them up" approach to open source. Without funded expert developers FROM ATI working on the drivers, progress will continue at a snails pace. NVidia might be closed source but at least they are funding the developers.
Please inform us as to what part of competition law Google is breaching?
People who post ads on Google are free to post ads with other engines. People who host Google ads are totally free to host ads form other engines as well. Google does not and never has enforced any kind of non-compete clauses to participate in Adwords in any way.
Changing GET to POST does not, in any way shape or form, protect you from a CSRF attack.
If you think it does and have been doing this on your own site or projects, you have some more research and work to do.
All changing GET to POST does is make it a tiny bit harder for Joe n00b hacker. But anyone with half a clue knows how to use JS to do CSRF using POST requests.
FYI Google Android already has a built in browser based on Webkit and has for a long time. I have it running on my phone right now. It's far superior and faster than Opera Mobile.
If people shouldn't vote for the president, but states do, then why should some states get mroe of a vote than others?
Don't give me the line that it is because they have more people because that would totally contradict the point of your first statement.
The idea of the electoral college is outdated, plan and simple. It was drafted when the idea of everyone in the country voting for someone in Washington would be a complete logistical nightmare. That has changed, the roles and powers of states have changed, the constitution should be changed.
Whenever you link to a Wikipedia page as a referenced source you should link to the specific revision number, not the genral page. This protects you from any and all rogue edits.
My 10GB mail box in outlook, when mirrored to my local hard drive in MBOX format, automagically becomes 2 GB - and that's before compression and attachment pruning.
I have no idea what the hell Outlook is doing on the server, if it is just storing things in multiple formats at once or if it is just mis-calculating all the space, but that is one hell of a difference.
The point of the privacy option is it makes it much easier to keep useful things like cookes and history for your day to day browsing while also allowing you to surf anonymously for your "private sites".
What you are talking about is a passive RFID device, like most offense keycards from the 80's and early 90s. RFID nowadays is more complex, with the devices having a small computer chip in it that is actually powered up by the RFID. Having this chip allows secure encryption between the device and the terminal such that sniffing in on the conversation should get you no further than sniffing on a properly negotiated SSH session will.
The hole in the scheme of course is, if the crook gets his hands on the keyfob for a short period of time, it is the same as having your SSH private key, and he can clone the chip in the keyfob and return the original without you even knowing.
This company is saying they have a new chip that incorporates physical properties of the chip itself int the encryption somehow such that cloneing it would be recognizable.
Most of those products are limited to the surface. Google Earth is one of the only ones that also has a space view and a Z axis. So, this particular KML would be of limited usefulness to most of them. For example even Google maps, I have no idea what it would do with this KML.
Speaking as a web developer, nowadays it is actually the other way around. You usually have to code hacks for IE6 and IE7 and let all other standards-based browsers figure themselves out.
There are, however, specific things that Webkit does different, and testing for "KHTML" in the UA string is pretty much the only way to fix them.
Don't complan to the web developers, complain to the W3C and the browser makers, who won't finalize standards to implement things like "opacity" in a standard format (in Mozilla it is "-moz-opacity", in KHTML/webkit it is "-khtml-opacity", in W3C CSS3 it is "opacity", in IE you have to do a DX transformation - see http://css-tricks.com/css-transparency-settings-for-all-broswers/ for an example of the retardedness).
In CSS you can just apply all the classes but if you have to dynamically manipulate the stuff in Javascript you have to know it's correct name to modify it properly.
If Google started offering the publishing of peer-reviewed journals for free, including print copies and mailing, with the only caveat being that the journal remains indexed and accessible via journals.google.com, I am sure within a very short period of time the current profiteering academic journals would go the way of the dodo bird. Then again, this kind of seems like what they are going for with knol.google.com, except maybe a bit more formalized and peer-reviewed.
If you have ever worked with the two engines you would not ask this question. Gecko is a huge mess of "OO in C" object model spaghetti. It is very hard for a new developer to get up to speed on or for development on individual areas to be compartmentalized.
Webkit, due to it's Qt/KDE origins, is very well designed from the ground up to be as API-clean OO as possible. It is therefore much lower barrier of entry for new developers to start up on, which is exactly what you are looking for when you are a company looking to roll out a browser.
You don't have to pay sales tax in your state on goods purchased in another state. The whole problem with internet companies is deciding what "state" they are in.
The argument Amazon et. al make is that under the US constitution the federal government has sole jurisdiction to regulate interstate commerce - and New York imposing a sales tax on goods purchased in another state would run contrary to that.
The arguments in court certainly are going to surround in what "state" Amazon.com is operating in.
So what happens next year when a 1 GB flash stick is now $0.50 or something ? How low does the price go before it is disposable?
Don't think it can happen? An SD reader, which is infinitely more complex to produce than a flash chip since it involves multiple circuits and a big hunk of metal fo rthe USB port, is only $1.50 nowadays..
This is way over the top. Even assuming this was the refidgeration assembly in your refridgerator and HVAC both, and it was made 100% of PVC, it would still have way less PVC than in other parts of your house. All the wiring in your house is PVC. It makes up the screen of your television. It makes up the casing of your laptop, your CD / DVD player, and pretty much every other piece of electronics in your house. All that vinyl siding on your house, PVC.
Sounds like you are living in a death trap! Get out while you can!
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Us in Canada just did a national election last night, useing our tried-and-true paper system. I hope it never gets changed.
Frankly I don't see why some people / countries feel the need for an electornic system. COnsider, on the eve of election night, less than an hour after the polls closed all the major networks already called the election within 5% margin of error, and the vast majority of the individual seats were called as well. Paper works fast because it si DISTRIBUTED. Each poll only has a couple thousand votes to go through, and has 3-4 people on staff, so they can count that very quickly. As they get their results they report them to district offices, who report them to the media, who feed them into their big election computers. The whole thing runs very smooth and very fast.
Yes, I know Canada has "only" ~20 million some voters. HOwever, this changes nothing because the problem scales linearly. More voters / more polls / more volunteers. It should not make the overall process any slower or introduce any more chances for error.
Not to be smart, but if this is the case you simply are not excersizing them much.
Like I said, try something as simple as playing a 720p or 1080p video full screen. CPU use goes through the roof. Then, when the video stops, your entire X display gets corrupted.
This has been the case with every ATI driver release in the past 8 months. I finally gave up and bought an NVidia card, rock solid drivers from day 1.
The documentation has been out for 2 years, and we still have yet to see something as simple as accelerated 2D playback capable of displaying HD video ( 1080p ) without corruption. As such I don't have very high hopes for the near term with tis track record.
The fact that ATI is not funding the Xorg team working on the drivers doesn't help matters much either.
They're just playing the classic "dump some specs/code on them to shut them up" approach to open source. Without funded expert developers FROM ATI working on the drivers, progress will continue at a snails pace. NVidia might be closed source but at least they are funding the developers.
Like I said, try to use these to do something as simple as play HD video. You will get nowhere.
Can someone please write a WinMo app that uses GPS to do this?
Please inform us as to what part of competition law Google is breaching?
People who post ads on Google are free to post ads with other engines. People who host Google ads are totally free to host ads form other engines as well. Google does not and never has enforced any kind of non-compete clauses to participate in Adwords in any way.
It's hardly affected it at all.
ATI Linux drivers are still total crap compared to NVidia's.
I would rather have a funded, supported binary blob that works over a bunch of unsupported unfunded drivers and open specifications any day.
Try to use any modern ATI card in an Linux-based HTPC that has to support HD video, and see how far you get.
The licensee is you, or the player of the game, not Glider.
They are just making software. If you USE it then YOU are violating the license, not them.
It is not like they signed a development license with Blizzard.
Changing GET to POST does not, in any way shape or form, protect you from a CSRF attack.
If you think it does and have been doing this on your own site or projects, you have some more research and work to do.
All changing GET to POST does is make it a tiny bit harder for Joe n00b hacker. But anyone with half a clue knows how to use JS to do CSRF using POST requests.
FYI Google Android already has a built in browser based on Webkit and has for a long time. I have it running on my phone right now. It's far superior and faster than Opera Mobile.
If people shouldn't vote for the president, but states do, then why should some states get mroe of a vote than others?
Don't give me the line that it is because they have more people because that would totally contradict the point of your first statement.
The idea of the electoral college is outdated, plan and simple. It was drafted when the idea of everyone in the country voting for someone in Washington would be a complete logistical nightmare. That has changed, the roles and powers of states have changed, the constitution should be changed.
Whenever you link to a Wikipedia page as a referenced source you should link to the specific revision number, not the genral page. This protects you from any and all rogue edits.
I don't see any problem here.
My 10GB mail box in outlook, when mirrored to my local hard drive in MBOX format, automagically becomes 2 GB - and that's before compression and attachment pruning.
I have no idea what the hell Outlook is doing on the server, if it is just storing things in multiple formats at once or if it is just mis-calculating all the space, but that is one hell of a difference.
The point of the privacy option is it makes it much easier to keep useful things like cookes and history for your day to day browsing while also allowing you to surf anonymously for your "private sites".
What you are talking about is a passive RFID device, like most offense keycards from the 80's and early 90s. RFID nowadays is more complex, with the devices having a small computer chip in it that is actually powered up by the RFID. Having this chip allows secure encryption between the device and the terminal such that sniffing in on the conversation should get you no further than sniffing on a properly negotiated SSH session will.
The hole in the scheme of course is, if the crook gets his hands on the keyfob for a short period of time, it is the same as having your SSH private key, and he can clone the chip in the keyfob and return the original without you even knowing.
This company is saying they have a new chip that incorporates physical properties of the chip itself int the encryption somehow such that cloneing it would be recognizable.
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Most of those products are limited to the surface. Google Earth is one of the only ones that also has a space view and a Z axis. So, this particular KML would be of limited usefulness to most of them. For example even Google maps, I have no idea what it would do with this KML.
I am all for "taking their time", but CSS3 has been a draft spec for over 10 years now. It is beyond ridiculous that it has not been finalized.
Things like this are very easy to say for people who have grown up on these basic services.
Having a "right to life and property" doesn't do you much good when you have no money or facilities to defend that life and property.
Speaking as a web developer, nowadays it is actually the other way around. You usually have to code hacks for IE6 and IE7 and let all other standards-based browsers figure themselves out.
There are, however, specific things that Webkit does different, and testing for "KHTML" in the UA string is pretty much the only way to fix them.
Don't complan to the web developers, complain to the W3C and the browser makers, who won't finalize standards to implement things like "opacity" in a standard format (in Mozilla it is "-moz-opacity", in KHTML/webkit it is "-khtml-opacity", in W3C CSS3 it is "opacity", in IE you have to do a DX transformation - see http://css-tricks.com/css-transparency-settings-for-all-broswers/ for an example of the retardedness).
In CSS you can just apply all the classes but if you have to dynamically manipulate the stuff in Javascript you have to know it's correct name to modify it properly.
This is just one example of many.
If Google started offering the publishing of peer-reviewed journals for free, including print copies and mailing, with the only caveat being that the journal remains indexed and accessible via journals.google.com, I am sure within a very short period of time the current profiteering academic journals would go the way of the dodo bird. Then again, this kind of seems like what they are going for with knol.google.com, except maybe a bit more formalized and peer-reviewed.
If you have ever worked with the two engines you would not ask this question. Gecko is a huge mess of "OO in C" object model spaghetti. It is very hard for a new developer to get up to speed on or for development on individual areas to be compartmentalized.
Webkit, due to it's Qt/KDE origins, is very well designed from the ground up to be as API-clean OO as possible. It is therefore much lower barrier of entry for new developers to start up on, which is exactly what you are looking for when you are a company looking to roll out a browser.
You don't have to pay sales tax in your state on goods purchased in another state. The whole problem with internet companies is deciding what "state" they are in.
The argument Amazon et. al make is that under the US constitution the federal government has sole jurisdiction to regulate interstate commerce - and New York imposing a sales tax on goods purchased in another state would run contrary to that.
The arguments in court certainly are going to surround in what "state" Amazon.com is operating in.
So what happens next year when a 1 GB flash stick is now $0.50 or something ? How low does the price go before it is disposable?
Don't think it can happen? An SD reader, which is infinitely more complex to produce than a flash chip since it involves multiple circuits and a big hunk of metal fo rthe USB port, is only $1.50 nowadays..
This is way over the top. Even assuming this was the refidgeration assembly in your refridgerator and HVAC both, and it was made 100% of PVC, it would still have way less PVC than in other parts of your house. All the wiring in your house is PVC. It makes up the screen of your television. It makes up the casing of your laptop, your CD / DVD player, and pretty much every other piece of electronics in your house. All that vinyl siding on your house, PVC.
Sounds like you are living in a death trap! Get out while you can!