Your three questions are tangents. 1: all irrelevant. 2: Been dealt with a long time. 3: Watch the box. This alludes to the major advantage of paper ballots.
The problem with electronic voting is that it's opaque. It is impossible to guarantee that no one has tampered with the machine's software, electronics, communications, etc. We all have to trust hundreds or thousands of unknown people to have complete integrity and not compromise the system.
On the other hand, you can't rootkit a large number of peoples' brains, such that they mark candidate A, see the X by candidate A, yet actually marked candidate B. The vote counters can be compromised, but as they can be easily audited, it's a very trustworthy system. *Anyone* could audit the results. The only skill required is fairly good vision.
Furthermore, the system *is* run by morons, and will always be run by morons. Morons are all we have in most cases. Therefore, the more moron-proof, and the more transparent, the better.
Good point - they should have. Not that it's much of a privacy issue, just a customer disatisfaction issue.
Since they didn't (back out the change), and they obviously still don't understand their business, what you and every other annoyed facebook user needs to do is delete your account.
Once facebook is out of business, smarter people will create better systems.
I don't use facebook, and therefore I have no personal opinion about the changes being good or bad. But I think the real issue is that thousands of users took to using facebook because they liked the way it looked and worked. Then overnight it's a lot different from what they expected, wanted, and signed up for. Because the owners are arrogant and stupid.
Maybe they'll learn something about running a business. We'll see. They'd better learn fast. I reckon facebook users can switch to myspace in about 15 minutes.
This reminds me of the 3 months I spent researching, trying, and evaluating online banks. I decided on E*Trade because I liked their interface the best. And sure enough, less than 6 months later, they did complete interface overhaul (New! Improved! Blecchh). To the worst I'd ever seen. It was obviously some web geeks's fun with the latest and greatest web bells and whistles. Fortunately, after two more overhauls (and several years), it is back into pretty decent shape. The difference was, it's harder to switch banks than social networking sites.
Wishing and hoping that everyone will obey the rules has never worked. Not ever.
The poster isn't the one you want to take issue with. There are plenty of people out there who obey only rules that cause them pain for violating. Always have been, always will be. Most of them don't read/., and therefore won't have the benefit of your sternly-worded admonitions.
"What the government does, the government fucks up."... I thought this was an Abbie Hoffman quote, but I haven't been able to find it. The more you find out about any government operation, the more you see how true that is.
Due to enhanced security measures liquids, gels, lotions and other items of similar consistency will not be permitted in carry-on baggage. These types of items must be packed in your checked baggage.
Additionally, liquids, gels and lotions purchased beyond the checkpoint but must be disposed of before boarding the aircraft.
To ensure the health and welfare of certain air travelers the following items are permitted.
Small amounts of Baby formula and breast milk if a baby or small child is traveling
Liquid prescription medicine with a name that matches the passenger's ticket
Up to 5 oz. (148ml) of liquid or gel low blood sugar treatment
Up to 4 oz. of essential non-prescription liquid medications
Gel-filled bras and similar prostethics worn for medical reasons
TSA... VIGILANT, EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT.
I dunno... sounds like implants will have to be removed, checked, and re-inserted at your destination.
How will poor law secretaries type the 4th and 5th paragraphs of EULAs? They're always in ALL CAPS. I don't know why, I've never read a EULA, but some require scrolling to the bottom before the button activates.
Hey, that was something like 50.3% We already know that at least half the population is of below-average intelligence. Many also believe Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks, and that forcing nursing mothers to suck their own milk is a reasonable pretend safety precaution.
Furthermore, as previously discussed to death, that election was stolen.
OTOH, your point is well-taken. There are a lot of people in this country that think the only real problem with Bush is he hasn't been able to finish off Iraq. But they definitely worship their leader.
No, an intelligent person balances the cost of prevention vs. the odds of the threat. In the case of "airline security", all the personal humiliation, wasted time, and idiotic rules do not actually reduce any threats. They exist only to assuage you, the average panic-stricken citizen, that your gov't is doing something.
I would jump at the chance to fly on TSA-free flights. I'd just pack my own heat, and I'd bet so many others would that the level of politeness would be amazingly high. And there would never be a hijacking.
First, I doubt that applies to very many people. Possibly only gamers. Certainly not to the average non-geek who doesn't know his gigahertz from myasshurts. What will sell them is a fancy big flat screen, or maybe a sexy laptop. I wouldn't count on very many people tossing a machine that has 20x the performance they need for one that has 40x.
Second, wrong. That was true in the 80s, but not anymore. My 1998 Dell Dimension (P2 233mhz, 512 mb) is just as capable of running the same apps as it did brand-new. It's a little dustier, but has no rust, and hasn't lost a nanosecond of it's original performance. My 2002 Dell Dimension (P4 2Ghz, 512mb) is capable of running every modern app that I'm interested in, and my kids find it adequate for WoW.
So, when are they going to be obsolete? When they no longer provide a useful service. I don't see that coming. PCs have long passed the point where increased performance means anything for a desktop machine.
I presume you're trying to be funny. A search for a particular ssn hardly gives away any information at all. Without knowing the name, you've got nothing. Address and date of birth are probably necessary to do anything interesting.
There are lots of easier ways to get all that besides mining search records.
Since you misinterpreted the data, I don't think +5 Insightful is fair. However, it would have been nice if the person who posted the data had used column headings. OTOH, he did provide a link.
Your point is basically valid though, the D/FW metroplex is one ginormous city. No one knows where the boundaries are between all the dozens of named towns and cities. I used to live in Plano, worked in Dallas, then Richardson, then Addison. Drank in Farmer's Branch, and had friends in Carrollton. It was all the same. Horrendous traffic. And sheesh, Plano had ~50,000 pop. when I lived there in the 1980s.
Well, at least they didn't invent magical invisible clothing, so she generally ran around naked while invisible. There are some tactile scenarios that would make that not completely ill-advised.
Remember, when Buffy became invisible, she got pretty randy...
And that is the essential difference. There is no reason to bother comparing Blu-Ray to HD-DVD video. They are storage devices. Nothing inherent to the formats has anything to do with video, audio, menu, or any other visible/audible quality.
Assuming reliability is equivalent, the only relevant criteria for judging blu-ray vs. hd-dvd is cost/megabyte. Everything else is subject to change. Of course, that is too.
You are close. As in all hierarchies, Hollywood studios have been completely taken over by political weasels who know nothing except who to blow, who to suck, and who to blackmail. This is a corollary, or expansion of the Peter Principle. They have no taste, no productive skill, and probably little interest in movies as an art form. So they flounder around trying to copy whatever seems to be successful, but of course with no insight into why it was successful (which may well be because it was original/b).
There are a few good movies, but mostly they are coming from the UK, NZ, or independent filmmakers.
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Your three questions are tangents. 1: all irrelevant. 2: Been dealt with a long time. 3: Watch the box. This alludes to the major advantage of paper ballots.
The problem with electronic voting is that it's opaque. It is impossible to guarantee that no one has tampered with the machine's software, electronics, communications, etc. We all have to trust hundreds or thousands of unknown people to have complete integrity and not compromise the system.
On the other hand, you can't rootkit a large number of peoples' brains, such that they mark candidate A, see the X by candidate A, yet actually marked candidate B. The vote counters can be compromised, but as they can be easily audited, it's a very trustworthy system. *Anyone* could audit the results. The only skill required is fairly good vision.
Furthermore, the system *is* run by morons, and will always be run by morons. Morons are all we have in most cases. Therefore, the more moron-proof, and the more transparent, the better.
Other than that, yes electronic voting is nice.
So what? Most elections don't actually take effect for 30 days or more.
Good point - they should have. Not that it's much of a privacy issue, just a customer disatisfaction issue.
Since they didn't (back out the change), and they obviously still don't understand their business, what you and every other annoyed facebook user needs to do is delete your account.
Once facebook is out of business, smarter people will create better systems.
I don't use facebook, and therefore I have no personal opinion about the changes being good or bad. But I think the real issue is that thousands of users took to using facebook because they liked the way it looked and worked. Then overnight it's a lot different from what they expected, wanted, and signed up for. Because the owners are arrogant and stupid.
Maybe they'll learn something about running a business. We'll see. They'd better learn fast. I reckon facebook users can switch to myspace in about 15 minutes.
This reminds me of the 3 months I spent researching, trying, and evaluating online banks. I decided on E*Trade because I liked their interface the best. And sure enough, less than 6 months later, they did complete interface overhaul (New! Improved! Blecchh). To the worst I'd ever seen. It was obviously some web geeks's fun with the latest and greatest web bells and whistles. Fortunately, after two more overhauls (and several years), it is back into pretty decent shape. The difference was, it's harder to switch banks than social networking sites.
Where did the submitter get Oregon? TFA says it's a Vermont company.
Need I go on?
Wishing and hoping that everyone will obey the rules has never worked. Not ever.
/., and therefore won't have the benefit of your sternly-worded admonitions.
The poster isn't the one you want to take issue with. There are plenty of people out there who obey only rules that cause them pain for violating. Always have been, always will be. Most of them don't read
"What the government does, the government fucks up." ... I thought this was an Abbie Hoffman quote, but I haven't been able to find it. The more you find out about any government operation, the more you see how true that is.
btw, I corrected the spelling of "Inefficiency".
Like any crack-whore, congresscritters do what gets them some cash or a fix. Everything else is a side-effect or collateral damage.
I dunno... sounds like implants will have to be removed, checked, and re-inserted at your destination.
ANFSCD, How about that tag line?
How will poor law secretaries type the 4th and 5th paragraphs of EULAs? They're always in ALL CAPS. I don't know why, I've never read a EULA, but some require scrolling to the bottom before the button activates.
Hey, that was something like 50.3% We already know that at least half the population is of below-average intelligence. Many also believe Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks, and that forcing nursing mothers to suck their own milk is a reasonable pretend safety precaution.
Furthermore, as previously discussed to death, that election was stolen.
OTOH, your point is well-taken. There are a lot of people in this country that think the only real problem with Bush is he hasn't been able to finish off Iraq. But they definitely worship their leader.
No, an intelligent person balances the cost of prevention vs. the odds of the threat. In the case of "airline security", all the personal humiliation, wasted time, and idiotic rules do not actually reduce any threats. They exist only to assuage you, the average panic-stricken citizen, that your gov't is doing something.
I would jump at the chance to fly on TSA-free flights. I'd just pack my own heat, and I'd bet so many others would that the level of politeness would be amazingly high. And there would never be a hijacking.
Marc Andreesson took that code out when it was converted to Netscape.
First, I doubt that applies to very many people. Possibly only gamers. Certainly not to the average non-geek who doesn't know his gigahertz from myasshurts. What will sell them is a fancy big flat screen, or maybe a sexy laptop. I wouldn't count on very many people tossing a machine that has 20x the performance they need for one that has 40x.
Second, wrong. That was true in the 80s, but not anymore. My 1998 Dell Dimension (P2 233mhz, 512 mb) is just as capable of running the same apps as it did brand-new. It's a little dustier, but has no rust, and hasn't lost a nanosecond of it's original performance. My 2002 Dell Dimension (P4 2Ghz, 512mb) is capable of running every modern app that I'm interested in, and my kids find it adequate for WoW.
So, when are they going to be obsolete? When they no longer provide a useful service. I don't see that coming. PCs have long passed the point where increased performance means anything for a desktop machine.
Third, overcompensation cannot be reasonable.
Just put an ActiveX control on your page to download, install, and softlink iexplore.exe to Firefox.
I presume you're trying to be funny. A search for a particular ssn hardly gives away any information at all. Without knowing the name, you've got nothing. Address and date of birth are probably necessary to do anything interesting.
There are lots of easier ways to get all that besides mining search records.
Since you misinterpreted the data, I don't think +5 Insightful is fair. However, it would have been nice if the person who posted the data had used column headings. OTOH, he did provide a link.
Your point is basically valid though, the D/FW metroplex is one ginormous city. No one knows where the boundaries are between all the dozens of named towns and cities. I used to live in Plano, worked in Dallas, then Richardson, then Addison. Drank in Farmer's Branch, and had friends in Carrollton. It was all the same. Horrendous traffic. And sheesh, Plano had ~50,000 pop. when I lived there in the 1980s.
According to most followers of Jesus, he lived until AD 33 or so, and only stayed dead for 3 days. Due to various circumstances, few were bummed.
I really should stop commenting on trivial tangents to stupid stories.
So Europe is little-endian?
Well, I'm surprised Canada does it that way. I thought m/d/y was uniquely American.
As for the lucky 7s, that happens to be Robert A. Heinlein's 100th birthday. A good cause for celebration. Even though he's reportedly dead.
Well, at least they didn't invent magical invisible clothing, so she generally ran around naked while invisible. There are some tactile scenarios that would make that not completely ill-advised.
Remember, when Buffy became invisible, she got pretty randy...
And that is the essential difference. There is no reason to bother comparing Blu-Ray to HD-DVD video. They are storage devices. Nothing inherent to the formats has anything to do with video, audio, menu, or any other visible/audible quality.
Assuming reliability is equivalent, the only relevant criteria for judging blu-ray vs. hd-dvd is cost/megabyte. Everything else is subject to change. Of course, that is too.
You forgot the AFAIK in the last sentence.
You are close. As in all hierarchies, Hollywood studios have been completely taken over by political weasels who know nothing except who to blow, who to suck, and who to blackmail. This is a corollary, or expansion of the Peter Principle. They have no taste, no productive skill, and probably little interest in movies as an art form. So they flounder around trying to copy whatever seems to be successful, but of course with no insight into why it was successful (which may well be because it was original/b).
There are a few good movies, but mostly they are coming from the UK, NZ, or independent filmmakers.