Thing is, Apple got rich selling a premium product at premium prices. Google -- Apple's biggest competitor -- got rich giving away a service for free, and plastering targeted advertising in front of their tracked users. Of course Jobs would speak out against the practice.
His stance is hardly surprising or visionary. It was business.
So now Facebook takes it step further, with actual propaganda targeted to the most gullible people.
I don't know what to say. It was predictable. And while I think it is wrong, I don't know how much I can blame Facebook. It comes down to people. As George Carlin said, "Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that."
My university takes the unique usernames approach ( abc123@mail.domain.tld ), but also creates aliases for everyone ( generally in the form first.last@domain.tld , but the user actually can choose whatever they want, if there's a collision). Seems to work well enough.
Not sure this is any help. But a while back I thought my young nephews should learn about Star Trek. They had watched very little of any sort of TV, so they were up for anything, but I wasn't sure where to start. I thought classic Trek would be too old or dated for them, but they could appreciate it later, so I decided they should start with TNG because it may be more accessible for them.
But where should they start in TNG? Yes, we could start with Encounter at Farpoint, the first episode... But that is a pretty cheesy, crappy, strange episode(s). Right? Though it does introduce Q, who is a recurring 'integral' 'villain'. As a completist, you really would have to start here. (Or with TOS.)
Or I could just jump right in and show basically the best episode (or at least best cliffhanger) of Star Trek ever, The Best of Both Worlds I & II. But would it be as good an episode if they don't know any of the characters at all, and never previously encountered the Borg. In fact, so much would be lost by showing that episode first, I decided we couldn't.
So, stay with me here-- I decided to start them with Coming of Age. Now, yes, this is a Wesley episode. And it's near the end of the first season. But Wesley is not at all insufferable in this episode-- he's actually interacting in a more or less reasonable way with his fellow candidates, and my nephews are of the age (12ish) where they could actually maybe see themselves in his place, going through those tests. And while I skipped over a lot of (bad) first season episodes to get to that one, I thought I shouldn't skip the entire first season. That wouldn't be right! So this is a compromise. But most of all, the episode actually does a fairly good job of introducing the characters, through Remmick's interviews/interrogations, and we see Picard have to make a big choice; to become Commandant of Star Fleet Academy, or remain Captain of the Enterprise. (His decision??!? I won't spoil it for you!)
Its weakness (apart from being a first season episode) is that there are no big space battles or major alien encounters. But some smaller scale alien and ship things happen. And this episode is actually a great setup for one of the darkest (though sometimes still cheesy) suspenseful/ominous (though never paying off later) episodes of TNG, Conspiracy.
But before you go there, you can jump back to Datalore (to lead into future Lore episodes), if you like. Also Heart of Glory (for Klingon/Worf episodes), and Neutral Zone (actually, some say, a lead in to the Borg, but also, more obviously, The Romulans). Perhaps even Naked Now, Skin of Evil, and Encounter at Farpoint, if you're brave. But then follow this on in Season 2 with, at the very least, Q Who, The Measure of a Man, and a Matter of Honor. (And these all will effectively have formed mini-arcs.) Then you can watch (almost) everything from seasons 3, 4, and 5 without too much worry. And they will mean more when you watch them.
Anyway, long story short--my plan is somewhat higher risk, but higher return: if your girlfriend is anything like my 12-year-old nephews (huh??) get her to agree to give the show a proper chance by watching several episodes, then set her up with some of the more solid, early episodes, which you may both laugh at a bit but then she will be properly and emotionally invested when OMG Picard is Locutus! in BoBW, or LOOK Tasha is back??? in YE, or, oh no--IS SPOT GONNA BE OKAY???
Instructions: Purchase at least a half dozen children's full body Halloween costumes (ie spiderman, darth vader, princess, tigger, ladybug, robot, etc). Set a small table on your front step, porch, or main sidewalk. On table, place bowl of candy, and large visible sign reading "CANDY" Take costumes above, stuff them realistically with pillows/towels/other clothing, lay them strategically on ground around table, and douse area with lots of (fake?) blood. Hide around corner with large (fake?) axe.
Atlas companies have used copyright traps before.. Just add a couple fake towns on your map, and if you find another company selling a map with those towns, you know you can sue them for copying your map.
Could a company add a fake time zone to a list of time zones, name it something funny (creative), and claim copyright infringement when it appears in a database? Since really, it's not a fact at all, the made up entry was... art?
Personally, I keep my primary backup in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'
This works quite well.
However, in the event of the destruction of the Earth, this solution seems somewhat.. inadequate. So I believe you would be well served to set up an auxiliary backup system on an interplanetary satellite, or on the moon, and probably also on another not-too-conspicuous planet within our solar system, and just to be safe, one more in another solar system in this (or another) galaxy. (I recommend Ursa Minor Beta.) You don't want a localized catastrophe to eliminate all your files and backups in one fell swoop.
And every few days just swing by the backup sites to be sure there hasn't been any data degradation.
Unprecedented? Isn't this pretty well the way we discover all extra-solar planets? Through star wobble? Unless we're lucky enough to line up for a full on occlusion?
I mean, I guess in this case it's "planet wobble". But FTFA: "Interestingly, planets in our solar system have been detected through a similar method."
I once programmed for and was an admin on a mud that actually had some functions / mini-games which used 'aggregation over an interval' and 'sending the status periodically' (ansiblemoo.org)
The code was written this way partly to save bandwidth, but also to just keep that part of the game orderly and fair for all players, regardless of connection speed. It meant not spamming the players every second with soon out-dated information, and the delay also meant that players couldn't simply hammer their keyboard into victory.
I think this effectively covers the patent... The code in question was first completed in 1995... or something like that - before my time (and the patent's) - and other similar code was written from 1996 through 2002/2003.
Is it just a coincidence that 675,000 == 22,500 * 30 == 750 * 30 * 30? or was it a mistake, or was it intentional?
If we assume that the judge told them that the minimum penalty per song was $750, and there were 30 songs infringed, bringing us to minimum damages of $22,500... what happened next:
a) they coincidentally decided to punish him by awarding 30x the minimum judgment -- a nice round number (bigger than 10 but less than 50)
b) or they misunderstood the judge's instructions -- they thought that $22,500 was the minimum per song, and so actually awarded the minimum they thought possible -- 30 * 22,500 = $675,000
c) or lastly, they intentionally chose that since he pirated n=30 songs, they would punish him at n^2 * 750... In other words, they chose to punish him exponentially in relation to his crime(s).
As far as I see it, if it's a) that seems a rather arbitrary number, and arbitrarily wide range of punishment for a simple act which harms no one. If it was b) then this sounds like some kind of mistrial or jury reboot.. and if it was c) well... exponential damages sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me. How does $675,000 fit the crime?
The flashbacks were what made everything else in the finale resonate. Sure, we've watched these characters for four years, but you can forget a large part of who they are in that long a time. The flashbacks remind you of their personalities and history and relationships and how they've changed (or not changed) since then, as they go their separate ways.
While I was rather disappointed in two of the last 4 episodes (both involving the return of Ellen, first on the basestar with Cavil, and then her return to Galactica) I can see now why that setup was necessary for the finale--I just wish they had plotted it out better.
Ellen, who we thought was a different, decent person, after resurrection, turns out to be her same old drunken jealous trouble causing self when in sight of Saul. Pure soap opera stuff. And then the subplot with Adama suddenly giving Baltar a bunch of guns just cause he asked for them? Who wrote that? And how every 8 minutes we got to see Adama walking around in the bowels of his broken down ship with the same unhappy grimace-- poor repetitive direction/editing. And I'm sorry, John Hodgman is great-- but cast in that role, in what ought to have been a pretty serious scene-it was hard to watch.
So, those things, real bad. They all could have been re-written or removed very easily. That's what I would have done differently.
But the finale? -- Damn near perfect. Action was great-- special effects were amazing, emotionally touching and tear-enducing, -- and yes, thankfully, it WAS about the characters.
Yes, I know, not everything was answered/ tied down perfectly. But who wants that?
I loved how, after essentially being bottled up on their ships for 4 or 5 years (with the exception of that chilly gray New Caprica settlement) they finally get to 'an Earth' and find their future wide open. In a way it's paradise, but not-- Roslin still dies, Chief's gonna go off and be a hermit apparently, Anders has become one with the universe, and.. surprisingly Helo DIDN'T DIE. Nothing is set. They're just free. After all that prophecy and pre-destination, things are now much less complicated. Everyone got their own destiny to forge.
Loose ends don't need tying if everyone is happy to just walk away from them.
As for Kara - yes, she disappeared and someone complained that it was never explained. Well, sure, it wasn't 'explained', but is there any other explanation? There isn't. She truly was an angel. Someone or some "God" (he doesn't like that name), sent her back to deliver mankind to a new home. That IS what happened.
I have no problem with that. I'm not a religious person in the slightest, but its weird how sci-fi can be full of aliens and "The Force" but some how the idea of God gets people up in arms. --- See, I -would- have had a problem if they explicitly put ol God up on the screen (oh look, Starbuck's dad was the piano player! and the piano player was God! and/or also Daniel! and/or Bob Dylan!!!??) and explained why each and every step along the way happened as it did. That would be idiotic, almost as idiotic as giving someone a midichlorian scan. (Jar-Jar was bad, but that one line, "His readings are off the chart!" was the moment in the prequels that brought down the original trilogy. Frak.)
Seriously, life is full of loose ends. You try to tie it all up and explain everything, that would be awful. Instead I got to watch the best couple hours of TV.. ever.
It was useful 30 years ago when a screen was a single display of 80 by 25 characters and the mouse didn't exist.
The fact that we're talking about 'stupid vim tricks' that nobody else knows about, in order to complete what should be a simple task, means that the program is ridiculously outdated and a poor solution. Using insane strings of characters to.. do a find/replace.. is.. insane and doesn't save time. Use notepad++ or kate or.. anything instead. everything and your grandmother support regexp. vim isn't useful!
I think you made a mistake on the conservative ratio there. Closer to a ratio of 1.23 in 2008.
But I agree with you totally. The Cons got 27 more seats than they ought to. The NDP should have 19 more seats (56). And the Greens should have 20 seats instead of 0.
Canada (and the U.S.) need proportional representation.
In fact, with prorep giving 80 for the liberals, that would cover the balance of power, just barely. In 2008, with proportional representation, it could have been technically a Liberal/NDP/Green coalition majority. Instead we get stuffed with a conservative minority.
Dang.
in january 1999, i received a gift certificate from 3drealms for $35 dollars because i won one of their camera captioning contests... and, foolishly, I decided that I would wait a lil while until DNF (Duke Nukem Forever, not Did Not Finish) was released and use it on that!
gee did you see the bit where the logs reveal that the voting machines didn't handle dates properly? --the way that the year 2004 comes up as 104? and the possibility that some months were recorded as decrement 1 (10 instead of 11)?
I don't know whether this only indicates a problem in how the log is recorded, or if it has ugly implications for the actual voting process or vote tabulation..
But it's certainly not good from a accountability perspective if you can't trust that kind of basic information in vote logs... - it makes it that much more difficult to determine if machines, or logs, were altered before/after the fact.
And besides all that, it is a rather bad sign if your programmers aren't aware of that kind of date error. Elections are kinda important things after all.
i mean seriously -- given the choice between the internet in general, and wikipedia... which information is better organized, more likely to be peer reviewed, less likely to be biased, more up-to-date, and basically more trustworthy?
i think my vote would have to go with wikipedia-
that being said...... given the choice between Wikipedia in general, and the Bush administration's press releases and the CIA, which is more trustworthy?
flamebait? maybe.. but at least with Wikipedia you can say that when bad information gets out there, it's not because the people at the top have an agenda and did it on purpose. Everybody understands the deficiencies of Wikipedia -- that troublemakers or ignorant people are able to screw it up...
Yet in the end, that register article is pretty pointless. With the two pages of his trolling removed, Andrew Orlowski's complaint sums up as "the 'pedia' suffix some how implies to my mind that Wikipedia must be infallible -- and it isn't".
but pedia simply means "education". encyclopedia means "general education" wikipedia is said to mean "quick - education"
this does suggest to me that the 'education' you're getting shouldn't be your last stop when researching a paper or article...... all i can say is that Wikipedia might do well to more prominently display a note that "wikipedia is written, often quickly, by the same old people you find all over the internet -- but generally written by The Smart Ones. we apologize in advance for the lamerz."
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...because, he's not wrong, really.
Thing is, Apple got rich selling a premium product at premium prices. Google -- Apple's biggest competitor -- got rich giving away a service for free, and plastering targeted advertising in front of their tracked users. Of course Jobs would speak out against the practice.
His stance is hardly surprising or visionary. It was business.
So now Facebook takes it step further, with actual propaganda targeted to the most gullible people.
I don't know what to say. It was predictable. And while I think it is wrong, I don't know how much I can blame Facebook. It comes down to people. As George Carlin said, "Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that."
40 cm per person? No... 40 m per person? Yes.
My university takes the unique usernames approach ( abc123@mail.domain.tld ), but also creates aliases for everyone ( generally in the form first.last@domain.tld , but the user actually can choose whatever they want, if there's a collision). Seems to work well enough.
Just remember, if they aren't into it, let it go.
You mean to say, if they aren't into it, let them go.
Fixed that for you.
If they don't like Kirk and Picard, Spock or Data... well... there's other, better, fish in the sea for you.
Not sure this is any help. But a while back I thought my young nephews should learn about Star Trek. They had watched very little of any sort of TV, so they were up for anything, but I wasn't sure where to start. I thought classic Trek would be too old or dated for them, but they could appreciate it later, so I decided they should start with TNG because it may be more accessible for them.
But where should they start in TNG? Yes, we could start with Encounter at Farpoint, the first episode... But that is a pretty cheesy, crappy, strange episode(s). Right? Though it does introduce Q, who is a recurring 'integral' 'villain'. As a completist, you really would have to start here. (Or with TOS.)
Or I could just jump right in and show basically the best episode (or at least best cliffhanger) of Star Trek ever, The Best of Both Worlds I & II. But would it be as good an episode if they don't know any of the characters at all, and never previously encountered the Borg. In fact, so much would be lost by showing that episode first, I decided we couldn't.
So, stay with me here-- I decided to start them with Coming of Age. Now, yes, this is a Wesley episode. And it's near the end of the first season. But Wesley is not at all insufferable in this episode-- he's actually interacting in a more or less reasonable way with his fellow candidates, and my nephews are of the age (12ish) where they could actually maybe see themselves in his place, going through those tests. And while I skipped over a lot of (bad) first season episodes to get to that one, I thought I shouldn't skip the entire first season. That wouldn't be right! So this is a compromise. But most of all, the episode actually does a fairly good job of introducing the characters, through Remmick's interviews/interrogations, and we see Picard have to make a big choice; to become Commandant of Star Fleet Academy, or remain Captain of the Enterprise. (His decision??!? I won't spoil it for you!)
Its weakness (apart from being a first season episode) is that there are no big space battles or major alien encounters. But some smaller scale alien and ship things happen. And this episode is actually a great setup for one of the darkest (though sometimes still cheesy) suspenseful/ominous (though never paying off later) episodes of TNG, Conspiracy.
But before you go there, you can jump back to Datalore (to lead into future Lore episodes), if you like. Also Heart of Glory (for Klingon/Worf episodes), and Neutral Zone (actually, some say, a lead in to the Borg, but also, more obviously, The Romulans). Perhaps even Naked Now, Skin of Evil, and Encounter at Farpoint, if you're brave. But then follow this on in Season 2 with, at the very least, Q Who, The Measure of a Man, and a Matter of Honor. (And these all will effectively have formed mini-arcs.) Then you can watch (almost) everything from seasons 3, 4, and 5 without too much worry. And they will mean more when you watch them.
Anyway, long story short--my plan is somewhat higher risk, but higher return: if your girlfriend is anything like my 12-year-old nephews (huh??) get her to agree to give the show a proper chance by watching several episodes, then set her up with some of the more solid, early episodes, which you may both laugh at a bit but then she will be properly and emotionally invested when OMG Picard is Locutus! in BoBW, or LOOK Tasha is back??? in YE, or, oh no--IS SPOT GONNA BE OKAY???
Instructions:
Purchase at least a half dozen children's full body Halloween costumes (ie spiderman, darth vader, princess, tigger, ladybug, robot, etc).
Set a small table on your front step, porch, or main sidewalk.
On table, place bowl of candy, and large visible sign reading "CANDY"
Take costumes above, stuff them realistically with pillows/towels/other clothing, lay them strategically on ground around table, and douse area with lots of (fake?) blood.
Hide around corner with large (fake?) axe.
You can figure out the rest.
Atlas companies have used copyright traps before.. Just add a couple fake towns on your map, and if you find another company selling a map with those towns, you know you can sue them for copying your map.
Could a company add a fake time zone to a list of time zones, name it something funny (creative), and claim copyright infringement when it appears in a database? Since really, it's not a fact at all, the made up entry was... art?
Personally, I keep my primary backup in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'
This works quite well.
However, in the event of the destruction of the Earth, this solution seems somewhat.. inadequate. So I believe you would be well served to set up an auxiliary backup system on an interplanetary satellite, or on the moon, and probably also on another not-too-conspicuous planet within our solar system, and just to be safe, one more in another solar system in this (or another) galaxy. (I recommend Ursa Minor Beta.) You don't want a localized catastrophe to eliminate all your files and backups in one fell swoop.
And every few days just swing by the backup sites to be sure there hasn't been any data degradation.
that AEONITY.COM link is NSFW dammit
Unprecedented? Isn't this pretty well the way we discover all extra-solar planets? Through star wobble? Unless we're lucky enough to line up for a full on occlusion?
I mean, I guess in this case it's "planet wobble". But FTFA: "Interestingly, planets in our solar system have been detected through a similar method."
So uh... unprecedented?
So the spleen is the seat of emotions after all?
http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/anxietydepression/a/EmotionsTCM.htm
Then forget the Zoloft, gimme my strawberry-banana yogursicle.
Rather than bringing up a small screenshot of each site, Google, just give me some personalized filtering options, please.
And it doesn't need to be complicated, it just need a single checkbox/radio button set like this:
[_] Do not filter my results
[X] Delete all results from domain experts-exchange.com
I once programmed for and was an admin on a mud that actually had some functions / mini-games which used 'aggregation over an interval' and 'sending the status periodically' (ansiblemoo.org) The code was written this way partly to save bandwidth, but also to just keep that part of the game orderly and fair for all players, regardless of connection speed. It meant not spamming the players every second with soon out-dated information, and the delay also meant that players couldn't simply hammer their keyboard into victory. I think this effectively covers the patent... The code in question was first completed in 1995... or something like that - before my time (and the patent's) - and other similar code was written from 1996 through 2002/2003.
Is it just a coincidence that 675,000 == 22,500 * 30 == 750 * 30 * 30? or was it a mistake, or was it intentional?
If we assume that the judge told them that the minimum penalty per song was $750, and there were 30 songs infringed, bringing us to minimum damages of $22,500... what happened next:
a) they coincidentally decided to punish him by awarding 30x the minimum judgment -- a nice round number (bigger than 10 but less than 50)
b) or they misunderstood the judge's instructions -- they thought that $22,500 was the minimum per song, and so actually awarded the minimum they thought possible -- 30 * 22,500 = $675,000
c) or lastly, they intentionally chose that since he pirated n=30 songs, they would punish him at n^2 * 750... In other words, they chose to punish him exponentially in relation to his crime(s).
As far as I see it, if it's a) that seems a rather arbitrary number, and arbitrarily wide range of punishment for a simple act which harms no one. If it was b) then this sounds like some kind of mistrial or jury reboot.. and if it was c) well... exponential damages sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me. How does $675,000 fit the crime?
uhm.
that was really weird.
atheists are all bad people, eh? and people who have university educations are full of anger and hate? what?
.. huh?
The flashbacks were what made everything else in the finale resonate. Sure, we've watched these characters for four years, but you can forget a large part of who they are in that long a time. The flashbacks remind you of their personalities and history and relationships and how they've changed (or not changed) since then, as they go their separate ways.
So very important.
So.. 'pugilism' is a problem, but space battles are a-okay.
What?
(well it's true, Star Trek was all about the space battles, -- all the plot regarding culture, religion, politics, and back story -- what a waste)
It probably goes without saying -- Spoilers.
While I was rather disappointed in two of the last 4 episodes (both involving the return of Ellen, first on the basestar with Cavil, and then her return to Galactica) I can see now why that setup was necessary for the finale--I just wish they had plotted it out better.
Ellen, who we thought was a different, decent person, after resurrection, turns out to be her same old drunken jealous trouble causing self when in sight of Saul. Pure soap opera stuff. And then the subplot with Adama suddenly giving Baltar a bunch of guns just cause he asked for them? Who wrote that? And how every 8 minutes we got to see Adama walking around in the bowels of his broken down ship with the same unhappy grimace-- poor repetitive direction/editing. And I'm sorry, John Hodgman is great-- but cast in that role, in what ought to have been a pretty serious scene-it was hard to watch.
So, those things, real bad. They all could have been re-written or removed very easily. That's what I would have done differently.
But the finale? -- Damn near perfect. Action was great-- special effects were amazing, emotionally touching and tear-enducing, -- and yes, thankfully, it WAS about the characters.
Yes, I know, not everything was answered/ tied down perfectly. But who wants that?
I loved how, after essentially being bottled up on their ships for 4 or 5 years (with the exception of that chilly gray New Caprica settlement) they finally get to 'an Earth' and find their future wide open. In a way it's paradise, but not-- Roslin still dies, Chief's gonna go off and be a hermit apparently, Anders has become one with the universe, and.. surprisingly Helo DIDN'T DIE. Nothing is set. They're just free. After all that prophecy and pre-destination, things are now much less complicated. Everyone got their own destiny to forge.
Loose ends don't need tying if everyone is happy to just walk away from them.
As for Kara - yes, she disappeared and someone complained that it was never explained. Well, sure, it wasn't 'explained', but is there any other explanation? There isn't. She truly was an angel. Someone or some "God" (he doesn't like that name), sent her back to deliver mankind to a new home. That IS what happened.
I have no problem with that. I'm not a religious person in the slightest, but its weird how sci-fi can be full of aliens and "The Force" but some how the idea of God gets people up in arms. --- See, I -would- have had a problem if they explicitly put ol God up on the screen (oh look, Starbuck's dad was the piano player! and the piano player was God! and/or also Daniel! and/or Bob Dylan!!!??) and explained why each and every step along the way happened as it did. That would be idiotic, almost as idiotic as giving someone a midichlorian scan. (Jar-Jar was bad, but that one line, "His readings are off the chart!" was the moment in the prequels that brought down the original trilogy. Frak.)
Seriously, life is full of loose ends. You try to tie it all up and explain everything, that would be awful. Instead I got to watch the best couple hours of TV.. ever.
can someone, anyone, please mod this moron down? obvious troll is obvious...
vim ISN'T USEFUL.
It was useful 30 years ago when a screen was a single display of 80 by 25 characters and the mouse didn't exist.
The fact that we're talking about 'stupid vim tricks' that nobody else knows about, in order to complete what should be a simple task, means that the program is ridiculously outdated and a poor solution. Using insane strings of characters to.. do a find/replace.. is.. insane and doesn't save time. Use notepad++ or kate or.. anything instead. everything and your grandmother support regexp. vim isn't useful!
/okay, maybe it's useful.
/when hax0ring files over the intertubes
/but it's still dumb.
/not troll-really!!!
I think you made a mistake on the conservative ratio there. Closer to a ratio of 1.23 in 2008. But I agree with you totally. The Cons got 27 more seats than they ought to. The NDP should have 19 more seats (56). And the Greens should have 20 seats instead of 0. Canada (and the U.S.) need proportional representation. In fact, with prorep giving 80 for the liberals, that would cover the balance of power, just barely. In 2008, with proportional representation, it could have been technically a Liberal/NDP/Green coalition majority. Instead we get stuffed with a conservative minority. Dang.
this isn't even funny!
in january 1999, i received a gift certificate from 3drealms for $35 dollars because i won one of their camera captioning contests... and, foolishly, I decided that I would wait a lil while until DNF (Duke Nukem Forever, not Did Not Finish) was released and use it on that!
And so.. yeah, fast forward to 6 years later..
my heart skips a beat!
anybody want a $35 dollar gift certificate?
gee
did you see the bit where the logs reveal that the voting machines didn't handle dates properly? --the way that the year 2004 comes up as 104? and the possibility that some months were recorded as decrement 1 (10 instead of 11)?
I don't know whether this only indicates a problem in how the log is recorded, or if it has ugly implications for the actual voting process or vote tabulation..
But it's certainly not good from a accountability perspective if you can't trust that kind of basic information in vote logs... - it makes it that much more difficult to determine if machines, or logs, were altered before/after the fact.
And besides all that, it is a rather bad sign if your programmers aren't aware of that kind of date error.
Elections are kinda important things after all.
i mean seriously -- given the choice between the internet in general, and wikipedia... which information is better organized, more likely to be peer reviewed, less likely to be biased, more up-to-date, and basically more trustworthy?
... given the choice between Wikipedia in general, and the Bush administration's press releases and the CIA, which is more trustworthy?
.. all i can say is that Wikipedia might do well to more prominently display a note that "wikipedia is written, often quickly, by the same old people you find all over the internet -- but generally written by The Smart Ones. we apologize in advance for the lamerz."
i think my vote would have to go with wikipedia-
that being said...
flamebait? maybe.. but
at least with Wikipedia you can say that when bad information gets out there, it's not because the people at the top have an agenda and did it on purpose. Everybody understands the deficiencies of Wikipedia -- that troublemakers or ignorant people are able to screw it up...
Yet in the end, that register article is pretty pointless. With the two pages of his trolling removed, Andrew Orlowski's complaint sums up as "the 'pedia' suffix some how implies to my mind that Wikipedia must be infallible -- and it isn't".
but pedia simply means "education". encyclopedia means "general education"
wikipedia is said to mean "quick - education"
this does suggest to me that the 'education' you're getting shouldn't be your last stop when researching a paper or article....
speaking of that, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Orlowski has his own wiki article.
and here i thought only the hot dogs were 40 years old.