And of course the IBM Model M Space Saverhttp://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/categories.main/parentcat/9242, which I carried with me from one site to another for 8 years or so, changing cables, and saving space in those damned rack-mount keyboard shelves with no room for anything else but an M and a trackball. grrr... I gave mine away, and I miss it...
If the end game is that everything gets given away, and nobody makes any money making it in the first place, then yes this is bad.
And for now, movies are pretty safe, in that ya pretty much have to go to the theater in most industial contries to see a first-run movie. I'm happy to, and to threaten the manager with bad words when the projector isn't focused... I was once a projectionist. Inexcusable. But I digress.
Of course, when the distributors reach the next leve, and start transmitting via satellite to black boxes that spit out a digital movie, then the effort to crack that encryption will be immense. Probably the biggest fight of all copyright time, to protect the format that has no other purpose than to display movies in theaters. Watch the lawyers line up against the crackers.
In this era, we see the cost of distributing pirated copies is so low 'anyone' can do it. But does anyone remember bringing cassettes to Dead concerts? And later, CD-ROMs? The Dead embraced this, of course, and still sold tickets and albums.
I'm thinking that in music there needs to be a new value proposition. It's not a way to make money to just spit out music, tracks. Perhaps the value is in concerts (ticket prices reinforce this) and relationship with the artist. Imagine if you like an artists work so much that you send them some $$ towards studio time, so they can go in and create more of what you love. The track is yours, when done, of course. Non-contributors either get a lesser quality track, wait for it, or maybe don't get the 'long' version.
There's lots of ways to make money if you create what people want. Selling CDs is genuinely a legacy market. done for.
And filtering copyright material on the Internet is already a failed strategy. Between encryption and the problems with identiying infringement, it costs too much. And costs in both effort, capital, and customer goodwill. So far, the Internet customer is 'us', the users. If the ISPs change this into the content providers being the 'customers', well, then we be in trouble. Then we will need to ignore the 'content providers', and become them. And hope the ISPs let us.
This is the frustrating part for me. The concept of abusing technology to accomplish what would probably not be permitted otherwise. This topic being a fairly good case in point.
'The Internet' has spawned a lot of new law, where I suspect none was needed. Music as a case:
In the bad old days of analog music distribution, reel-to-reel tape and cassettes were the preferred (only?) forms of copyright-violating copying and giving to your friends/etc. The copies were not so good as the originals, and that limited the copying business to be sure. An accomodation was reached, where at least cassettes were taxed to offset this unstoppable infringment.
So when did the US Postal Service ever get enlisted to open packages and see if there were unauthorized copies of music being mailed around? Never? Extremely rarely? Ah. Also, when did the USPS get into the habit of even randomly opening packages to see if other illegal material was being sent? Never? Extremely rarely? Ahah.
And yet, it was possible for the USPS to actually open a package and examine it. Possible, though usually not without detecting the act. Oh, maybe some of those envelopes I got that were mangled and then overwrapped in something due to 'damage in transit' were really inspections... Maybe. I'm not that interesting, so I doubt it.
But, now, we have AT&T discussing how to examine and filter infringing Internet traffic. Not because it's right, and not because it's legal, and surely not because it's expected. No, because it's *possible*, without unduly alerting either party to the transfer. Actually, they are considering the active filtering, where it need not be done now, and is not necessary for the Internet to function. They would actively, deliberately intercept and examine traffic. Like the Postal Service would open packages, inspect the contents proactively for contraband. Oh, actually, we would have to convert to reclosable packaging. Sheesh.
We don't really need new law to handle the copyright violations the RIAA and others are denouncing, do we?
Cyberspace was developed, arguably, Either with the deployment of the telephone or two-way radio systems. It ain't new.
Theft is an old problem. Copyright infringement predates computers, even the telephone.
What makes new law so attractive, I guess, is the ease with which the Internet can be monitored, manipulated, and filtered. 'Ease' being relative.
We should be fighting new laws not on the principle that the Internet should be left alone. We should be fighting new laws in this area because they are unnecessary.
Even copyright law is affected by this. When you can fairly easily preserve a work indefinitely, sure enough copyright law is amended to offer roughly indefinite protection. We haven't managed to preserve the *owner* of the work indefinitely, so how is is that copyright gets an increased lifespan? Oh - corporations are the owners, and they *can* be preserved indefinitely.
Maybe time to make corporations adhere to the same principles as persons? They seem to want all the benefits of legal personhood, but none of the limitations...
Ack. May Bittorrent be encrypted by default. Please.
Oh, in the grand tradition of replying to myself, the earliest games I can easily find on NovaNet are from 1973 - several casino games (blackjack, roulette, craps, and a slot machine for sure), subwar, and there were others.
In looking back, I see a lesson on NovaNet the included a community-edited knowledge base, and would have been written before 1990. So take THAT, Wikipedia!
I suspect you could find examples of various card games on NovaNet http://www.pearsondigital.com/novanet/, many of which would predate the Internet by perhaps ten years. Cyber1 has a Chess lesson running, so there's one that probably came from NovaNet. I wonder how many turn-based games run on bulletin boards in the early 80s also would qualify as prior art.
This case really seems like an attempt to make somebody pay money to make this go away. Is certainly can't succeed, can it?
...to promote full disclosure, and support those who spot these abuses and expose them.
When the corporations decide that getting caught doing dumb/unethical/improper stuff costs them more than whatever the stuff was going to get them, then this will stop.
Until then, one more corporation to put on my do-not-shop list. For a very long time...
Ok, so did the experiment irradiate subjects with that dose at the surface of their skull?
I don't sleep with my GSM phone on my head, not even under my pillow. In fact, it's about 9 feet away.
So what would the dosage be then? Oh, let me guess. Miniscule compared to being in contact with the antenna.
Just so you know, I'm getting tired of these poorly-done Scandinavian cell-phone danger studies. I guess they have a bunch over there that can't sleep at night, what with a significant local technological industry making money and all. The cell-phone industry MUST be trying to kill us, or at least denying the known and dangerous effects of their product. THEY MUST BE STOPPED!
We got them groups here in the U.S. too. Good luck with that.
ps- The writer who got such a good night's sleep somewhere there was NO signal? Um, I'm assuming they shut their phone off, 'cause in such an area, their phone will be searching desperately for a signal, and transmitting MUCH more than normal.
pps- I'm biased. I demand accurate and meaningful studies. Not getting them.
How hard is this? The Universe is a box full of string. Knots form. Some make pretty big knots.
Eventually, when the chimps write a decent but unpopular novel, balls of string form. Many balls. In time, these seem to have gathered and caused all sorts of interesting phenomenae, like stars, Western clothing, and Jessica Alba.
Unfortunately, this can only end one of two ways...
1- The string gets untangled. All devolves into a box of string again. Knots form again.
2- All this gets emptied into another box. Sold at a yard sale. Who knows what happens with the new owner... Actually, even if the string gets untangled, it ends up in a yard sale.
And what did you use for analog computers? I just don't recall any... Analog music, well analog recordings, sure. But was a turntable an analog computer? Think not...
Bugs and all? Does anyone else recall that this (happened in 1985, so some of you may not be up on this stuff) was all caused by the operator using unexpected key sequences to input data. Oh, and no hardware interlocks to prevent massive overdoses.
I bet this new-fangled stuff isn't even multi-mode. Nothing is truly new. May we learn from the past...
Of course, the new stuff is so much better, with better hardware and software. Couldn't happen.
And I don't doubt it. But Linacs aren't 'new'. And using them for cancer treatment isn't 'new' either.
Much of not most of the spam I'm deflecting nowadays seems to come from 'tasted' domains. Or just made up. I almost don't care about the difference.
The last time I read about this, more than a month ago, one snarky idea was to script a tool to randomly taste domains, constantly. If the registrars are forwarding the requests to squatters, they would go crazy with the surge in requests. The squatters would fritter away resources keeping up with these random searches, and eventually the WHOIS functionality of the registrars would have to change. And the script would change, and so on.
I think domain tasting ought to go away, or cost something. $2 for a 14 day taste would wreck the economics, maybe, certainly if random search scripts got going. My server could probably do 100,000 searches a day. I know it can send out 3-4 million spams a weekend, sadly.
Of course, the registrars could block my IP after a while. And blocks of IPs. So we need a Seti@Home-type script that hammers these things out, and let them block every dialup/dsl/cable/sat block. Hehe.
The review made some interesting points, if you read between the lines.
"gPC" = "GooglePC"? Where did this come from? WalMart didn't advertise that, did they? This little tidbit seems completely made up by everyone else. I was *never* under the impression that this was a Google anything.
The need to install a Flash module will introduce many/most gPC users to the always helpful advice from the Friendly Linux Community. Many forums will be awash with requests from gPC users about "how do I...", and responses ranging from "Go back to Winblows, dum$%^", "RTFM, %&&**"!, and " I wish them luck, thick skin, and a bag full of Tums.
Not to mention that the modem probably won't work ever. Ubuntu et al aren't motivated to make Winmodems work, modem are pus, dialup is inadequate for maintenance, blablabla.
But, on a positive note, I'm hoping the lusers do return these gPCs for refunds. I'll snarf one up if it shows up in clearance. Kinda cheap for for a basic little Samba/MythTV server, certainly a better than a Windows Home Server, no?
Read the article referenced in post. Romania seems to be the hind part of the EU. So much so that Romanian workers are unwelcome in most of the EU, what with being well-skilled and very, very inexpensive.
Gee, maybe we could do the same thing here with Mexic... nevermind. Won't work.
I don't at all think your observation of NYC traffic is universally accurate...
I had a week-long gig in Queens a few years ago, and stayed on Island 'cause the hotel was better, and closer to some friends. I got to use the LIE morning and evening. Such joy is inexpressible, but I digress...
I was impressed by how well traffic *did* flow - merges were fairly good, a damn sight better than the rush hour in Portland, Maine, my home at the time. Really, if most drivers were acting like a&*hats, there would be carnage there daily. People learned to just get along and make room, after all, whatever you think that guy merging really does need to get home, just like you do.
In Maine, it seems we haven't yet adjusted to the reality that no one is trying to get on I-95 just to annoy you. Well, not many anyways.
Now I live in Phoenix (Mesa, actually, and commute to North Phoenix), and man, it's nasty out there. The 101 is always congested, from about 0600 to 2000 M-Sa. For about 20 miles in the east. No exaggeration. And people do the damndest things, like try to go 120+ through the breaks to beat 6 or 7 of us to the next exit. Or just stop dead in their tracks when they get a little too close to the truck up ahead. Bang-ups are not uncommon. Where the major merges are, like I-17/I-10 or the mini-stack, you can count on several morons trying to beat the rush by a full 10 seconds and ending up on their roof. Lunacy is good for 5-10 accidents each rush, causing immense backups. Carbeques aren't so much of a problem, but they happen too.
I'm glad to see that many/.ers knew this. I've known this concept of drivers causing slowdowns for a long, long time...
Actually, the court denied the plaintiffs' request for EVERY.mdb and.gbf file, but did not preclude their requesting additional files in future discovery. Just the 2006 election files were required to be disclosed by Pima County.
You really ought to read through the entire decision, not just to be accurate. It's very nearly both an indictment of the significant security problems with GEMS and Diebold stuff in general, but fairly well-written decision. Plenty of tidbits showing how clueless the election officials can be, how insecure this stuff really is, and how political parties can positively influence election practices.
Damn, and I live here too. Next county over. I'm gonna have to watch this stuff from now on.
Cellphone bill: Greater than my landline spending.
Yup. TFA is correct.
ps- It is great to not have the phone ring at some inopportune time with a telemarketer, especially when they are calling to offer me a home loan BECAUSE I JUST GOT A NEW HOME LOAN.
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Actually, a place in Maine... Looks a little like Vermont.
No matter where you're from, somewhere else is a bloody shithole.
Except for my hometown. It's the elbow of the Earth. You can see the armpit from there.
Just take Bart's PE...
???
Profit!
And we don't need much M$ for this...
Hey, maybe M$ should license Bart's...
(bahahahahahahaha!)
Without looking at the responses so far, here's the clinker.
If you get Linux/WINE on enough desktops running Quickbooks, three things will happen:
- Intuit and the current Linux AV makers realize there is a market out there, businesses will pay for support.
- Intuit makes Linux version, bypassing WINE.
- Linux AV makers (ClamAV for instance) realize this too, and change their licensing to make commercial users pay for updates.
- ???
- Profit!
Not a bad thing, but the ClamAV gang should finally enjoy some renumeration for their hard work.
It just won't be free. It can just be cheap. And M$ can cry in their lattes.
For me, at least;
The IBM DisplayWriter http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV9006.htmlkeyboard; excellent click, long travel, just about the best ever. Too bad you could only run MS-DOS 2.1 from 8" floppies on it... And the keyboard was repairable, though I think the key modules were like $8 each in 1989. And you can still gethttp://cgi.ebay.com/Digital-2683239-IBM-Displaywriter-Keyboard-630X-91-XX24_W0QQitemZ190174698129QQcmdZViewItem one!
I like my Deck 82http://www.deckkeyboards.com/boards.php a lot. Nice keys, no click, but the lighting is superb. Save that skull-and-crossbones keycap!
And of course the IBM Model M Space Saverhttp://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/categories.main/parentcat/9242, which I carried with me from one site to another for 8 years or so, changing cables, and saving space in those damned rack-mount keyboard shelves with no room for anything else but an M and a trackball. grrr... I gave mine away, and I miss it...
More? I didn't name all the best did I?
harrr. My captcha is 'entered'. cute.
If the end game is that everything gets given away, and nobody makes any money making it in the first place, then yes this is bad.
And for now, movies are pretty safe, in that ya pretty much have to go to the theater in most industial contries to see a first-run movie. I'm happy to, and to threaten the manager with bad words when the projector isn't focused... I was once a projectionist. Inexcusable. But I digress.
Of course, when the distributors reach the next leve, and start transmitting via satellite to black boxes that spit out a digital movie, then the effort to crack that encryption will be immense. Probably the biggest fight of all copyright time, to protect the format that has no other purpose than to display movies in theaters. Watch the lawyers line up against the crackers.
In this era, we see the cost of distributing pirated copies is so low 'anyone' can do it. But does anyone remember bringing cassettes to Dead concerts? And later, CD-ROMs? The Dead embraced this, of course, and still sold tickets and albums.
I'm thinking that in music there needs to be a new value proposition. It's not a way to make money to just spit out music, tracks. Perhaps the value is in concerts (ticket prices reinforce this) and relationship with the artist. Imagine if you like an artists work so much that you send them some $$ towards studio time, so they can go in and create more of what you love. The track is yours, when done, of course. Non-contributors either get a lesser quality track, wait for it, or maybe don't get the 'long' version.
There's lots of ways to make money if you create what people want. Selling CDs is genuinely a legacy market. done for.
And filtering copyright material on the Internet is already a failed strategy. Between encryption and the problems with identiying infringement, it costs too much. And costs in both effort, capital, and customer goodwill. So far, the Internet customer is 'us', the users. If the ISPs change this into the content providers being the 'customers', well, then we be in trouble. Then we will need to ignore the 'content providers', and become them. And hope the ISPs let us.
woof. this is hard.
This is the frustrating part for me. The concept of abusing technology to accomplish what would probably not be permitted otherwise. This topic being a fairly good case in point.
'The Internet' has spawned a lot of new law, where I suspect none was needed. Music as a case:
In the bad old days of analog music distribution, reel-to-reel tape and cassettes were the preferred (only?) forms of copyright-violating copying and giving to your friends/etc. The copies were not so good as the originals, and that limited the copying business to be sure. An accomodation was reached, where at least cassettes were taxed to offset this unstoppable infringment.
So when did the US Postal Service ever get enlisted to open packages and see if there were unauthorized copies of music being mailed around? Never? Extremely rarely? Ah. Also, when did the USPS get into the habit of even randomly opening packages to see if other illegal material was being sent? Never? Extremely rarely? Ahah.
And yet, it was possible for the USPS to actually open a package and examine it. Possible, though usually not without detecting the act. Oh, maybe some of those envelopes I got that were mangled and then overwrapped in something due to 'damage in transit' were really inspections... Maybe. I'm not that interesting, so I doubt it.
But, now, we have AT&T discussing how to examine and filter infringing Internet traffic. Not because it's right, and not because it's legal, and surely not because it's expected. No, because it's *possible*, without unduly alerting either party to the transfer. Actually, they are considering the active filtering, where it need not be done now, and is not necessary for the Internet to function. They would actively, deliberately intercept and examine traffic. Like the Postal Service would open packages, inspect the contents proactively for contraband. Oh, actually, we would have to convert to reclosable packaging. Sheesh.
We don't really need new law to handle the copyright violations the RIAA and others are denouncing, do we?
Cyberspace was developed, arguably, Either with the deployment of the telephone or two-way radio systems. It ain't new.
Theft is an old problem. Copyright infringement predates computers, even the telephone.
What makes new law so attractive, I guess, is the ease with which the Internet can be monitored, manipulated, and filtered. 'Ease' being relative.
We should be fighting new laws not on the principle that the Internet should be left alone. We should be fighting new laws in this area because they are unnecessary.
Even copyright law is affected by this. When you can fairly easily preserve a work indefinitely, sure enough copyright law is amended to offer roughly indefinite protection. We haven't managed to preserve the *owner* of the work indefinitely, so how is is that copyright gets an increased lifespan? Oh - corporations are the owners, and they *can* be preserved indefinitely.
Maybe time to make corporations adhere to the same principles as persons? They seem to want all the benefits of legal personhood, but none of the limitations...
Ack. May Bittorrent be encrypted by default. Please.
Oh, in the grand tradition of replying to myself, the earliest games I can easily find on NovaNet are from 1973 - several casino games (blackjack, roulette, craps, and a slot machine for sure), subwar, and there were others. In looking back, I see a lesson on NovaNet the included a community-edited knowledge base, and would have been written before 1990. So take THAT, Wikipedia!
I suspect you could find examples of various card games on NovaNet http://www.pearsondigital.com/novanet/, many of which would predate the Internet by perhaps ten years. Cyber1 has a Chess lesson running, so there's one that probably came from NovaNet. I wonder how many turn-based games run on bulletin boards in the early 80s also would qualify as prior art.
This case really seems like an attempt to make somebody pay money to make this go away. Is certainly can't succeed, can it?
...to promote full disclosure, and support those who spot these abuses and expose them.
When the corporations decide that getting caught doing dumb/unethical/improper stuff costs them more than whatever the stuff was going to get them, then this will stop.
Until then, one more corporation to put on my do-not-shop list. For a very long time...
When the story is about 'a woman', she wasn't girlfriend material.
Of course, the storyteller doesn't really 'need' a girlfriend. He's got a dog.
Ok, so did the experiment irradiate subjects with that dose at the surface of their skull?
I don't sleep with my GSM phone on my head, not even under my pillow. In fact, it's about 9 feet away.
So what would the dosage be then? Oh, let me guess. Miniscule compared to being in contact with the antenna.
Just so you know, I'm getting tired of these poorly-done Scandinavian cell-phone danger studies. I guess they have a bunch over there that can't sleep at night, what with a significant local technological industry making money and all. The cell-phone industry MUST be trying to kill us, or at least denying the known and dangerous effects of their product. THEY MUST BE STOPPED!
We got them groups here in the U.S. too. Good luck with that.
ps- The writer who got such a good night's sleep somewhere there was NO signal? Um, I'm assuming they shut their phone off, 'cause in such an area, their phone will be searching desperately for a signal, and transmitting MUCH more than normal.
pps- I'm biased. I demand accurate and meaningful studies. Not getting them.
1. Write an article about this interesting little sub-notebook thingie.
/. about the thingie, and link to your article.
2. Post a blag on
3. ???
4. Profit!
Sheesh, I feel dirty... and used. No, wait, I'm pretty much always used on the Internet. Nothing new after all.
"If your job has you isolated in a cube farm with utterly no contact with the outside world during work hours"
This employee perhaps needs to be fired for lack of purpose. Or re-deployed.
When I no longer have contact outside of my little corporate world of co-workers, I'm getting my resume updated and out there.
How hard is this? The Universe is a box full of string. Knots form. Some make pretty big knots.
Eventually, when the chimps write a decent but unpopular novel, balls of string form. Many balls. In time, these seem to have gathered and caused all sorts of interesting phenomenae, like stars, Western clothing, and Jessica Alba.
Unfortunately, this can only end one of two ways...
1- The string gets untangled. All devolves into a box of string again. Knots form again.
2- All this gets emptied into another box. Sold at a yard sale. Who knows what happens with the new owner... Actually, even if the string gets untangled, it ends up in a yard sale.
Physics. It's really all about yard sales.
And what did you use for analog computers? I just don't recall any... Analog music, well analog recordings, sure. But was a turntable an analog computer? Think not...
Actually, it's not being a dick that is the problem. It's more like being associated with a dick that is the issue...
Not to mention, if you're male, over 90 years old, and still ahve all your equipment, you probably have prostate cancer.
That's the bad news. The good news is that you need not worry about it until you're 110 or so, maybe later.
Not. Maybe they should just bring back the http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Therac_25/Therac_1.htmlTherac-25?
Bugs and all? Does anyone else recall that this (happened in 1985, so some of you may not be up on this stuff) was all caused by the operator using unexpected key sequences to input data. Oh, and no hardware interlocks to prevent massive overdoses.
I bet this new-fangled stuff isn't even multi-mode. Nothing is truly new. May we learn from the past...
Of course, the new stuff is so much better, with better hardware and software. Couldn't happen.
And I don't doubt it. But Linacs aren't 'new'. And using them for cancer treatment isn't 'new' either.
Period.
Much of not most of the spam I'm deflecting nowadays seems to come from 'tasted' domains. Or just made up. I almost don't care about the difference.
The last time I read about this, more than a month ago, one snarky idea was to script a tool to randomly taste domains, constantly. If the registrars are forwarding the requests to squatters, they would go crazy with the surge in requests. The squatters would fritter away resources keeping up with these random searches, and eventually the WHOIS functionality of the registrars would have to change. And the script would change, and so on.
I think domain tasting ought to go away, or cost something. $2 for a 14 day taste would wreck the economics, maybe, certainly if random search scripts got going. My server could probably do 100,000 searches a day. I know it can send out 3-4 million spams a weekend, sadly.
Of course, the registrars could block my IP after a while. And blocks of IPs. So we need a Seti@Home-type script that hammers these things out, and let them block every dialup/dsl/cable/sat block. Hehe.
No, it's not devious enough.
The review made some interesting points, if you read between the lines.
"gPC" = "GooglePC"? Where did this come from? WalMart didn't advertise that, did they? This little tidbit seems completely made up by everyone else. I was *never* under the impression that this was a Google anything.
The need to install a Flash module will introduce many/most gPC users to the always helpful advice from the Friendly Linux Community. Many forums will be awash with requests from gPC users about "how do I...", and responses ranging from "Go back to Winblows, dum$%^", "RTFM, %&&**"!, and " I wish them luck, thick skin, and a bag full of Tums.
Not to mention that the modem probably won't work ever. Ubuntu et al aren't motivated to make Winmodems work, modem are pus, dialup is inadequate for maintenance, blablabla.
But, on a positive note, I'm hoping the lusers do return these gPCs for refunds. I'll snarf one up if it shows up in clearance. Kinda cheap for for a basic little Samba/MythTV server, certainly a better than a Windows Home Server, no?
Read the article referenced in post. Romania seems to be the hind part of the EU. So much so that Romanian workers are unwelcome in most of the EU, what with being well-skilled and very, very inexpensive.
Gee, maybe we could do the same thing here with Mexic... nevermind. Won't work.
I don't at all think your observation of NYC traffic is universally accurate...
/.ers knew this. I've known this concept of drivers causing slowdowns for a long, long time...
I had a week-long gig in Queens a few years ago, and stayed on Island 'cause the hotel was better, and closer to some friends. I got to use the LIE morning and evening. Such joy is inexpressible, but I digress...
I was impressed by how well traffic *did* flow - merges were fairly good, a damn sight better than the rush hour in Portland, Maine, my home at the time. Really, if most drivers were acting like a&*hats, there would be carnage there daily. People learned to just get along and make room, after all, whatever you think that guy merging really does need to get home, just like you do.
In Maine, it seems we haven't yet adjusted to the reality that no one is trying to get on I-95 just to annoy you. Well, not many anyways.
Now I live in Phoenix (Mesa, actually, and commute to North Phoenix), and man, it's nasty out there. The 101 is always congested, from about 0600 to 2000 M-Sa. For about 20 miles in the east. No exaggeration. And people do the damndest things, like try to go 120+ through the breaks to beat 6 or 7 of us to the next exit. Or just stop dead in their tracks when they get a little too close to the truck up ahead. Bang-ups are not uncommon. Where the major merges are, like I-17/I-10 or the mini-stack, you can count on several morons trying to beat the rush by a full 10 seconds and ending up on their roof. Lunacy is good for 5-10 accidents each rush, causing immense backups. Carbeques aren't so much of a problem, but they happen too.
I'm glad to see that many
Actually, the court denied the plaintiffs' request for EVERY .mdb and .gbf file, but did not preclude their requesting additional files in future discovery. Just the 2006 election files were required to be disclosed by Pima County.
You really ought to read through the entire decision, not just to be accurate. It's very nearly both an indictment of the significant security problems with GEMS and Diebold stuff in general, but fairly well-written decision. Plenty of tidbits showing how clueless the election officials can be, how insecure this stuff really is, and how political parties can positively influence election practices.
Damn, and I live here too. Next county over. I'm gonna have to watch this stuff from now on.
Bah! I'll take on a Diebold voting machine any day. Hell, I'll take on hundreds of them.
I'm more worried about Mother... But she's busy with the politicians.
No landline at home: 0$
Cellphone bill: Greater than my landline spending.
Yup. TFA is correct.
ps- It is great to not have the phone ring at some inopportune time with a telemarketer, especially when they are calling to offer me a home loan BECAUSE I JUST GOT A NEW HOME LOAN.
Sorry, different rant.