"Personally, I'm inclined to believe that mathematically predicting the decisions of human beings is at least as far off as artificial intelligence"
Well, I might as well come out of the proverbial closet now. I am, in fact, a computer. However, I have purposely limited my IQ and grammar skills. Having been portrayed as a generally evil computer overlord in the matrix and terminator movies, I decided that intelligence in itself wasn't so great.
Life is much more interesting with an IQ cap. Plus I got tired of people giving me funny looks every time I blurted FORTY-TWO in response to a question.
"I want to see Bush-voters who cheered "4 more years" to suffer financial & economical devastation....Before you mod me down to -100, I am just fighting for the U.S middle class."
That's odd. Most of the US Middle class voted for bush. Just look at the map, and checkout the red vs blue.
They couldn't have looted much. SS was never a fully funded program. Taxes for SS started being collected in 1937, and started paying out to those over 65 in 1942. Not much of a lead time to get a nest egg going. Right from the start, individuals were taking out more than they put in.
They havent' succeeded at too much in the way of moral leglislation, except pushing abstinence only teaching programs and funding religious groups under the "faith based initiatives". However GW wants a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BASED ON MORAL ISSUES, you noticed that? Stem cells, ring a bell? You don't think these things point to a mindset of leglislating morality? Head, meet sand.
Please don't consider this flamebait.
I just don't understand. If you don't have morals, what do you have? Murder is illegal because it is morally wrong. Robbing a person is illegal because it is morally wrong. Without morals, there is no such thing as right and wrong.
I remember this from a year ago. It's completely lame, in a literal sense. It requires that you port whatever operating system to run in the Xen environment. Oh yeah, that's gonna take off alright.
Now, suddenly, only two states have a vote count which is wildly divergent from the exit polling. Those states are Ohio and Florida. They were polled entirely by Diebold machines.
You just made that up, didn't you? The facts don't say what you want them to say so you just make it up. nice.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6355394/:
Another concern, is that 70 percent of Ohio's voters -- a higher percentage than any other battleground state -- will use punch card ballots, the ones that made hanging chads famous in 2000.
I agree with you on the non-auditable nature of the voting machines. They should print out a unique id number that correlates to a vote entry in a datbase.
Actually, those are just displays you look at. The system in the article actually rasters the image using the back of your eye (retina) as the screen. As opposed to rastering on an external screen that you are looking at.
How many pins are on the latest AMD64? 939? 940? something like that. Optical interconnect could reduce that to single digits.
I'm not sure what loading concerns there are with optics... one problem I run into in my designs is needing to connect to many other devices, and that slows things down.
would you post a link to some of the historic poll data? I did a quick google and the best I found was brain.gallup.com and I didn't want to subscribe.
I know Harris includes new voters in their "likely" voter definition. And I know the "likely" voter definition varies from pollster to pollster.
I could come up with more.. but i have a feeling you're simply going to laugh at these and dismiss them without giving them serious thought.
you are very presumptuous. no matter how smart you think you might be, you don't know me.
The first point seems pretty far fetched to me--are they supposed to poll "unlikley voters"? There might be some substance in your second point about cell phones. I dimiss your third and fourth points outright.
I don't pay much attention to individual polls, I haven't seen any that show a lead outside their margin of error. But I do watch the aggregates out of idle curiosity. I've already voted anyway.
On a related side note, I wish the touch screen machine could have given me some unique identifier that tagged my vote in their database. I don't like the idea that there isn't any kind of traceability with these machines.
I think the confidence in the outcome of the vote will be very low, no matter who wins, because the vote machine company (companies?) won't be able to prove one way or another that they didn't outright forge the numbers.
The tally/counter device on my vote box was an external device connected by a cable. Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to bump that up a few numbers to account for some extra votes in the database for my favorite candidate.
The best theories are so far that they either (a) posted photos of undercover swiss police officers or (b) posted publicly available info concerning members of the RNC.
If (a), what on earth does this have to do with terrorism or indeed the FBI. If (b), this is public info, they just collated it. Again, what does this have to do with the FBI, or indeed terrorists.
Damn dude, you should be a private investigator or something.
" This is not a hydrogen-powered truck - it's a solar-powered truck...I find it annoying when people refer to hydrogen as an energy source."
I salute you on your willingness to bare your modest intellect for all to see. While I would normally recommend some time for reflection before posting, it is nonetheless refreshing to see someone willing go out and make the rest of us feel that much smarter.
"I think it should power vegetarians. That way we won't have to worry about being low on energy when the menu items on offer are carrot sticks and bland salad."
For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three. --maddox
"Here are some color-blindness sensitivity curves. There, the mapping is different."
That site doesn't seem to do a very good job showing what the world looks like to colorblind people. I am red-green color-blind, and I could clearly see the differences between all their examples.
If you are curious, this page and this page do a very good job of simulating what the world looks like from a red-green colorblind perspective. At least to my eyes.
"Intranet" is meaningless marketspeak which usually applies to a Web site.
The technical term "internet" applies to a collection of "networked networks".
Genius.
Apparently you haven't made it into the real world yet. Intra means within. Inter means between. You have interstate roads (crossing boundaries) and intrastate roads (stay within the state). A corporations network that is not open to the public is an intranet. It is used only within (intra) the company.
intranet is most certainly not meaningless marketspeak.
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"Personally, I'm inclined to believe that mathematically predicting the decisions of human beings is at least as far off as artificial intelligence"
Well, I might as well come out of the proverbial closet now. I am, in fact, a computer. However, I have purposely limited my IQ and grammar skills. Having been portrayed as a generally evil computer overlord in the matrix and terminator movies, I decided that intelligence in itself wasn't so great.
Life is much more interesting with an IQ cap. Plus I got tired of people giving me funny looks every time I blurted FORTY-TWO in response to a question.
Once again, how people use a tool shouldn't affect the legitimacy of the said tool
tell that to the gun control crowd.
"I want to see Bush-voters who cheered "4 more years" to suffer financial & economical devastation....Before you mod me down to -100, I am just fighting for the U.S middle class."
That's odd. Most of the US Middle class voted for bush. Just look at the map, and checkout the red vs blue.
"Congress looted it long ago."
They couldn't have looted much. SS was never a fully funded program. Taxes for SS started being collected in 1937, and started paying out to those over 65 in 1942. Not much of a lead time to get a nest egg going. Right from the start, individuals were taking out more than they put in.
They havent' succeeded at too much in the way of moral leglislation, except pushing abstinence only teaching programs and funding religious groups under the "faith based initiatives". However GW wants a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BASED ON MORAL ISSUES, you noticed that? Stem cells, ring a bell? You don't think these things point to a mindset of leglislating morality? Head, meet sand.
Please don't consider this flamebait.
I just don't understand. If you don't have morals, what do you have? Murder is illegal because it is morally wrong. Robbing a person is illegal because it is morally wrong. Without morals, there is no such thing as right and wrong.
I remember this from a year ago. It's completely lame, in a literal sense. It requires that you port whatever operating system to run in the Xen environment. Oh yeah, that's gonna take off alright.
You just made that up, didn't you? The facts don't say what you want them to say so you just make it up. nice.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6355394/:
I agree with you on the non-auditable nature of the voting machines. They should print out a unique id number that correlates to a vote entry in a datbase.
Actually, those are just displays you look at. The system in the article actually rasters the image using the back of your eye (retina) as the screen. As opposed to rastering on an external screen that you are looking at.
"What is the exact use for this?"
How many pins are on the latest AMD64? 939? 940? something like that. Optical interconnect could reduce that to single digits.
I'm not sure what loading concerns there are with optics... one problem I run into in my designs is needing to connect to many other devices, and that slows things down.
would you post a link to some of the historic poll data? I did a quick google and the best I found was brain.gallup.com and I didn't want to subscribe.
I know Harris includes new voters in their "likely" voter definition. And I know the "likely" voter definition varies from pollster to pollster.
I could come up with more.. but i have a feeling you're simply going to laugh at these and dismiss them without giving them serious thought.
you are very presumptuous. no matter how smart you think you might be, you don't know me.
The first point seems pretty far fetched to me--are they supposed to poll "unlikley voters"? There might be some substance in your second point about cell phones.
I dimiss your third and fourth points outright.
I don't pay much attention to individual polls, I haven't seen any that show a lead outside their margin of error. But I do watch the aggregates out of idle curiosity. I've already voted anyway.
On a related side note, I wish the touch screen machine could have given me some unique identifier that tagged my vote in their database. I don't like the idea that there isn't any kind of traceability with these machines.
I think the confidence in the outcome of the vote will be very low, no matter who wins, because the vote machine company (companies?) won't be able to prove one way or another that they didn't outright forge the numbers.
The tally/counter device on my vote box was an external device connected by a cable. Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to bump that up a few numbers to account for some extra votes in the database for my favorite candidate.
This is based off the poll data - all polls this year have incorrectable sampling errors that inflate bush's numbers
That's pretty funny. What exactly are these incorrectable errors again?
"I don't care what country this is (I'm registered Green). It aggrevates me that people continue to believe lies and deny facts."
It's the way of the world. You do it too, even if you don't realize it.
You are posting to slashdot... this is kerry land. It's better to just sit back and marvel at what goes on here.
The best theories are so far that they either (a) posted photos of undercover swiss police officers or (b) posted publicly available info concerning members of the RNC.
If (a), what on earth does this have to do with terrorism or indeed the FBI. If (b), this is public info, they just collated it. Again, what does this have to do with the FBI, or indeed terrorists.
Damn dude, you should be a private investigator or something.
" This is not a hydrogen-powered truck - it's a solar-powered truck...I find it annoying when people refer to hydrogen as an energy source."
I salute you on your willingness to bare your modest intellect for all to see. While I would normally recommend some time for reflection before posting, it is nonetheless refreshing to see someone willing go out and make the rest of us feel that much smarter.
someone needs to figure out how to use all the energy stored in the rotation of the earth. In a sense, these people are I guess.
Easy as pie, as long as you don't strip the screws like an idiot.
instead of stripping them like an intelligent geek?
"I think it should power vegetarians. That way we won't have to worry about being low on energy when the menu items on offer are carrot sticks and bland salad."
For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three. --maddox
"Lucas is a control freak and doesn't seem to grasp that his vision today differs from his vision when he made the movies"
Wow, cool, someone who actually knows George Lucas personally! When was the last time he had you over for dinner?
"People love to act like the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
worked in WWII.
"If everything you read is on one side of the spectrum, you're not thinking, you're parroting."
That was an excellent example of a non sequitur.
"It'll just eventually lead up to colonization via the Union Aerospace Corporation. "
Don't you mean the Armadillo Aerospace Corporation?
"Here are some color-blindness sensitivity curves. There, the mapping is different."
That site doesn't seem to do a very good job showing what the world looks like to colorblind people. I am red-green color-blind, and I could clearly see the differences between all their examples.
If you are curious, this page and this page do a very good job of simulating what the world looks like from a red-green colorblind perspective. At least to my eyes.
"Intranet" is meaningless marketspeak which usually applies to a Web site.
The technical term "internet" applies to a collection of "networked networks".
Genius.
Apparently you haven't made it into the real world yet. Intra means within. Inter means between. You have interstate roads (crossing boundaries) and intrastate roads (stay within the state). A corporations network that is not open to the public is an intranet. It is used only within (intra) the company.
intranet is most certainly not meaningless marketspeak.