The offical website (sss.gov) though notes the following:
Young men in hospitals, mental institutions or prisons do not have to register while they are committed. However, they must register within 30 days after being released if they have not yet reached their 26th birthday.
The key is while they are committed. If at any point from age 18-26 they are not committed for even a single day, and they fail to register, they can be denied certain government "benefits".
Part of your concern is justified, but not the part you raise. A Blank ballot has and will continue to be a legal vote, although it is an invalid vote, meaning that it will not be included with the tallies. Casting a blank ballot may make more of a statement than not voting, since a likely interpretation of not voting is that you were too lazy, or have absolutely no interest in politics at all. Neither sounds like it is your case. A Blank ballot can be interpreted either as "absolute idiot", or "does not support any of the given choices". That last one is apparently the correct message you want to send, no?
All men must register with the SS (in the legal time range), even if they are conscientious objectors. They can get excused at the time of the draft if they are conscientious objectors, but they must register.
No, all men must register with the SS, even if they are not able-bodied. They can get excused at the time of the draft if they are not able-bodied, but they must register.
The U.S. does not have any (official) national citizen database (despite attempts to change that), and the various U.S. states do not have them either. As a result, to be able to vote, voter registration is required.
Two words. Selective Service.
Unless you are a woman, then you don't have to register for selective service. So, the government only has half of the population over 18 in that database.
Even that statement is a bit weak. Women are forbidden from registering with the SS (even if they want to for whatever odd reason). Yes, they can fill out the form but unless they lie about their gender, the SSA simply discards their registration.
I know, I have one sitting in front of me. Overall the particular keyboard I have (MX5000) is not bad, but it would be nice to have a scroll lock, and a "real" numpad, instead of this number-only numpad. And it would be really nice to have drivers that actually worked well, and perhaps utilize that cool LCD screen efficiently. (Would probably require firmware changes to the keyboard for that second part though).
Your second design shown in ASCII art: what is that? Is that the form with an over-sized delete button right next to a page-up and page down pair, with the home and end keys on top?
I intended us not to look at it from that angle, but from the angle that The routing of packets is paramount. That does not mean we have to give in to blackmail, even by the "good guys", mostly because packet routing is slightly less critical than spice flow, and it is hard to get into a position where one really can blackmail the universe.
In the spirit of Dune's "The Spice must flow!", It should be a firm rule that "The packets must route". Meaning that deliberately preventing packets from reaching their destination (excluding reasonable filtering policies) by a party other than the sender or recipient, or somebody acting on their behalf, is the worst possible Internet crime, and is in no way acceptable.
Actually, a reboot is (usually) not the same as a power-up, though newer systems (sadly), both servers and desktops, induce a power surge at reboots.
Yeah, on reboots my laptop breifly enters a state very similar to being completely off. The fans are stopped, the disks are stopped, virtually all LED's disabled, I'm even pretty sure it turns of the power to the CPU. Then it starts up again, acting almost identical to a cold start-up. It does skip some POST tests (Which is actually stupid considing that virtually all components had their power cut, and re-instated, and thus should be rechecked), but that is about it.
Yes, because it is always a good idea to give them potentially millions of emails not related to their query, which may contain information to support additional causes of action against your company .
It is worth noting that there are two different basic types of CueCat declawing.
The normal format for the CueCat is a long "encypted" string that contains three pieces of information, A serial number, information about the barcode type, and the raw barcode data.
The first type of declawing merely makes the serial number be a sting of dashes or zeros. This was only really useful with the official software, as the unoffensive drivers that support the CueCat's native format normally ignore the serial number.
The second type of declawing, which would be more accurately described as "fixing" (neutering) the CueCat, is a modification that results in the CueCat retuning just the raw barcode data in plaintext, followed by the enter key.
(My understanding is that the CueCat always functions as a keyboard, in all modes, but the official software intercepted the output.)
I vaguely remember that one configuration Code128 bar codes would not scan correctly, but they did work in a different configuration. Does anybody remember what configuration that was? I think it was either the neutered configuration, or the non-neutered configuration when using the official software.
Where is the Google system not standard Open Id 2.0? It has one send an http get request to "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id", and google replies with an XRDS file. That sounds like the Yardis protocol to me.
In fact it sounds like it is standard Directed Identity, except that it uses an abnormally long url to start. The google web site actually seems to be just suggesting that the site ask for the email address and then use a hard-coded yardis URL if a google address was entered.
If I need to look through all (say 500) Chicago 2003 photos because I forgot to tag Mark in one, then that feature did not help me much. If I forgot Chicago, then I need to search through all 400 pictures of Mark in 2003, which is not much better. If I was fortunate enough that the tag I forgot was 2003 then I would need to search through a fairly small number of photos of Mark in Chicago.
Thus that fix really does not help much in 2/3 cases, but is really helpful in 1/3 cases.
Given that / support has only been present in recent Windows versions, I have to say
[citation sorely needed]
Agreed. I think there might be some places where Windows 95 will accept / as a path separator, but I'm not aware that it was ever allowed before that, and although Windows 95 may seem like ancient history in the modern age of Vista, it's a looooong way from MS-DOS 1.0.
I think it may have been accepted in the early NT systems too, some of which do date back before Win95.
For example, Lets say the photos have a location attribute, in which the rough geographical location where the photo was taken was stored. So Photos of your trip to Chicago are marked Chicago. There are also tags for indicating who is shown in the photo. There is also a tag for the year.
Now I am looking for a particular photo of Mark in Chicago, taken in 2003. So I do a search for "type:photo location:Chicago person:Mark year:2003". The result? The photo I want does not show up. Why? Because I forgot to add one of those tags to the photo. It is very unlikely that you will remember to tag every photo with the names of everybody in it, the year, and the location, and probably at least 5 other pieces of metadata.
Metadata systems like that just don't generally work.
Punycode is the preferred IDN system at this time, as does not require making major changes to virtually every running DNS server. The vast majority of the Unicode character set is encode-able using it, so adding a larger character set does not seem to be necessary.
The only reason I listen to root servers that use the root domain published by ICANN, is because ICANN is the IANA who functions as a registry for protocol numbers etc. on behalf of the IETF. If the engineers who designed the Internet Protocol are willing to let ICANN be the IANA, then I will listen to root servers that use the domain published by said IANA.
That also means, that there will be no law and credit card company enforcing the payment, but 2 guys with a baseball bet knocking on your door. [Emphasis added]
So if I don't pay, they send over two other customers to watch the game with me? Cool!
It is certainly possible to replicate the effect with out the disk, with just flashing, but such demos are far less common for some reason. Part of the usefulness of the disk is that it does not keep the same flashing frequency for the entirety of the spin, since it gradually slows down, which increases the proportion of people who can see the effect at some point, as the exact same frequencies do not work for everybody, or so I have heard.
Indeed it is possible. The demonstration would have used a Benham's disk, which you can look up on Wikipedia. The effect is not well understood. The colors produced are generally fairly pale, and are not necessarily the same for everybody.
Most of the trackbacks for the Google Blog post announcing the change were negative, although Googleblog admins have since removed those trackbacks.
Most people dislike the wasted space of having the tabs to the left. People Also dislike the removal of the plus feature in rss feed gadgets, since the replacement (the first 20 words or so of the text of each article) is not nearly as nice looking or functional. (This change has since been reverted.) Lastly, many people are upset that gadgets can no longer be collapsed and expanded with just a single click.
What is the meaning of your sig? By breaking the large word down using spaces, I can get the following translation out of Google: "I'm tired, unfit people the simple error search tree following are created". I realize that adding spaces may change the meaning somewhat, so I'm not surprised to get a meaningless sentence back out. From what I can piece together this has something to do with finding the cause of an error by using a search tree. But I could be way off.
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The offical website (sss.gov) though notes the following:
Young men in hospitals, mental institutions or prisons do not have to register while they are committed. However, they must register within 30 days after being released if they have not yet reached their 26th birthday.
The key is while they are committed. If at any point from age 18-26 they are not committed for even a single day, and they fail to register, they can be denied certain government "benefits".
Part of your concern is justified, but not the part you raise. A Blank ballot has and will continue to be a legal vote, although it is an invalid vote, meaning that it will not be included with the tallies. Casting a blank ballot may make more of a statement than not voting, since a likely interpretation of not voting is that you were too lazy, or have absolutely no interest in politics at all. Neither sounds like it is your case. A Blank ballot can be interpreted either as "absolute idiot", or "does not support any of the given choices". That last one is apparently the correct message you want to send, no?
All men must register with the SS (in the legal time range), even if they are conscientious objectors. They can get excused at the time of the draft if they are conscientious objectors, but they must register.
No, all men must register with the SS, even if they are not able-bodied. They can get excused at the time of the draft if they are not able-bodied, but they must register.
The U.S. does not have any (official) national citizen database (despite attempts to change that), and the various U.S. states do not have them either. As a result, to be able to vote, voter registration is required.
Two words. Selective Service.
Unless you are a woman, then you don't have to register for selective service. So, the government only has half of the population over 18 in that database.
Even that statement is a bit weak. Women are forbidden from registering with the SS (even if they want to for whatever odd reason). Yes, they can fill out the form but unless they lie about their gender, the SSA simply discards their registration.
I know, I have one sitting in front of me. Overall the particular keyboard I have (MX5000) is not bad, but it would be nice to have a scroll lock, and a "real" numpad, instead of this number-only numpad. And it would be really nice to have drivers that actually worked well, and perhaps utilize that cool LCD screen efficiently. (Would probably require firmware changes to the keyboard for that second part though).
Your second design shown in ASCII art: what is that? Is that the form with an over-sized delete button right next to a page-up and page down pair, with the home and end keys on top?
Overall, it sounds like ypu insist on the keyboard layout shown at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Pc104_wide_delete_short_enter_xfree86_us_keyboard_full_size.png
Right?
I intended us not to look at it from that angle, but from the angle that The routing of packets is paramount. That does not mean we have to give in to blackmail, even by the "good guys", mostly because packet routing is slightly less critical than spice flow, and it is hard to get into a position where one really can blackmail the universe.
In the spirit of Dune's "The Spice must flow!", It should be a firm rule that "The packets must route". Meaning that deliberately preventing packets from reaching their destination (excluding reasonable filtering policies) by a party other than the sender or recipient, or somebody acting on their behalf, is the worst possible Internet crime, and is in no way acceptable.
Actually, a reboot is (usually) not the same as a power-up, though newer systems (sadly), both servers and desktops, induce a power surge at reboots.
Yeah, on reboots my laptop breifly enters a state very similar to being completely off. The fans are stopped, the disks are stopped, virtually all LED's disabled, I'm even pretty sure it turns of the power to the CPU. Then it starts up again, acting almost identical to a cold start-up. It does skip some POST tests (Which is actually stupid considing that virtually all components had their power cut, and re-instated, and thus should be rechecked), but that is about it.
Yes, because it is always a good idea to give them potentially millions of emails not related to their query, which may contain information to support additional causes of action against your company .
It is worth noting that there are two different basic types of CueCat declawing.
The normal format for the CueCat is a long "encypted" string that contains three pieces of information, A serial number, information about the barcode type, and the raw barcode data.
The first type of declawing merely makes the serial number be a sting of dashes or zeros. This was only really useful with the official software, as the unoffensive drivers that support the CueCat's native format normally ignore the serial number.
The second type of declawing, which would be more accurately described as "fixing" (neutering) the CueCat, is a modification that results in the CueCat retuning just the raw barcode data in plaintext, followed by the enter key.
(My understanding is that the CueCat always functions as a keyboard, in all modes, but the official software intercepted the output.)
I vaguely remember that one configuration Code128 bar codes would not scan correctly, but they did work in a different configuration. Does anybody remember what configuration that was? I think it was either the neutered configuration, or the non-neutered configuration when using the official software.
Where is the Google system not standard Open Id 2.0? It has one send an http get request to "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id", and google replies with an XRDS file. That sounds like the Yardis protocol to me.
In fact it sounds like it is standard Directed Identity, except that it uses an abnormally long url to start. The google web site actually seems to be just suggesting that the site ask for the email address and then use a hard-coded yardis URL if a google address was entered.
If I need to look through all (say 500) Chicago 2003 photos because I forgot to tag Mark in one, then that feature did not help me much. If I forgot Chicago, then I need to search through all 400 pictures of Mark in 2003, which is not much better. If I was fortunate enough that the tag I forgot was 2003 then I would need to search through a fairly small number of photos of Mark in Chicago.
Thus that fix really does not help much in 2/3 cases, but is really helpful in 1/3 cases.
Given that / support has only been present in recent Windows versions, I have to say
[citation sorely needed]
Agreed. I think there might be some places where Windows 95 will accept / as a path separator, but I'm not aware that it was ever allowed before that, and although Windows 95 may seem like ancient history in the modern age of Vista, it's a looooong way from MS-DOS 1.0.
I think it may have been accepted in the early NT systems too, some of which do date back before Win95.
Metadata systems just do not work.
For example, Lets say the photos have a location attribute, in which the rough geographical location where the photo was taken was stored. So Photos of your trip to Chicago are marked Chicago. There are also tags for indicating who is shown in the photo. There is also a tag for the year.
Now I am looking for a particular photo of Mark in Chicago, taken in 2003. So I do a search for "type:photo location:Chicago person:Mark year:2003". The result? The photo I want does not show up. Why? Because I forgot to add one of those tags to the photo. It is very unlikely that you will remember to tag every photo with the names of everybody in it, the year, and the location, and probably at least 5 other pieces of metadata.
Metadata systems like that just don't generally work.
Punycode is the preferred IDN system at this time, as does not require making major changes to virtually every running DNS server. The vast majority of the Unicode character set is encode-able using it, so adding a larger character set does not seem to be necessary.
The only reason I listen to root servers that use the root domain published by ICANN, is because ICANN is the IANA who functions as a registry for protocol numbers etc. on behalf of the IETF. If the engineers who designed the Internet Protocol are willing to let ICANN be the IANA, then I will listen to root servers that use the domain published by said IANA.
That also means, that there will be no law and credit card company enforcing the payment, but 2 guys with a baseball bet knocking on your door. [Emphasis added]
So if I don't pay, they send over two other customers to watch the game with me? Cool!
It is certainly possible to replicate the effect with out the disk, with just flashing, but such demos are far less common for some reason. Part of the usefulness of the disk is that it does not keep the same flashing frequency for the entirety of the spin, since it gradually slows down, which increases the proportion of people who can see the effect at some point, as the exact same frequencies do not work for everybody, or so I have heard.
Indeed it is possible. The demonstration would have used a Benham's disk, which you can look up on Wikipedia. The effect is not well understood. The colors produced are generally fairly pale, and are not necessarily the same for everybody.
Nobody is complaining? Everybody in the Relevant Google Groups are complaining! http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Web_Search_Help-Personalizing/topics
Most of the trackbacks for the Google Blog post announcing the change were negative, although Googleblog admins have since removed those trackbacks.
Most people dislike the wasted space of having the tabs to the left. People Also dislike the removal of the plus feature in rss feed gadgets, since the replacement (the first 20 words or so of the text of each article) is not nearly as nice looking or functional. (This change has since been reverted.) Lastly, many people are upset that gadgets can no longer be collapsed and expanded with just a single click.
Futurama's Robo-Santa Clause is coming? Everybody run for your lives!
The wiki claims that Windows 7 is Windows NT 6.1, not NT 7.0. So that is not the naming system being used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
What is the meaning of your sig? By breaking the large word down using spaces, I can get the following translation out of Google: "I'm tired, unfit people the simple error search tree following are created". I realize that adding spaces may change the meaning somewhat, so I'm not surprised to get a meaningless sentence back out. From what I can piece together this has something to do with finding the cause of an error by using a search tree. But I could be way off.