Why couldn't they just copy/paste those? It's pretty much a guarentee those are as close to bulletproof as we can make hardware. (I'd personally lean towards the video poker standards, somehow I think those are more rigorously designed than ATMs)
Stray marks outside the bubble (or the line where you write "Lizard People")? Ballot gets destroyed. Period.
Now, that might be a bit harsh, you may not know if your ballot will get destroyed, so there should be a scanner for every paper ballot station (or so...3:1, 4:1 seem good too). Scan it in and if it reports what you want, good, submit it. If it throws up ERROR or the wrong candidates, destroy it and get a new ballot.
(There should also be a publically accessable shredder, so you know your ballot got dusted.)
Maybe we need public service commercials every October election year teaching people how to vote, too.
And yet we beg for that to happen every time an RIAA post comes around.
Adapt or die is always the battle cry towards music distributors. How is this situation any different? Think about all those CD pressers and case makers who will go out of business. People that make the plastic for CDs. Maintenance on the machinery.
Oh, and there's no real pity over the people who lost their jobs when vinyl or cassettes stopped being the top seller.
Industry changes and it doesn't care if the market is a bull or a bear. If the future of newspapers is the Kindle, then so be it.
It would be nice, of course, if some of those Kindle factories could be brought stateside... That last bit is quite the rub... really wrenches up my analogy...
the summary doesn't seem to indicate that while saving tons on cars per year, you'll be costing businesses down the line money, lost jobs (think feed, blacksmithing, carriage repairs), etc.... So while it may save one type of business, it may put others on the street.
Your analogy breaks down in that we can go to a used car dealership and buy an 07 Corvette there.
You can't reintroduce OEM XP licences into the wild that are no longer in use.
It's like going to that above used car dealership, asking for an 07 Corvette and being told "Oh, Corvette has asked us to pull those all from the streets, so they all get cubed at the scrapyard now."
I used to have two hampsters and three cats. Occassionally, the hampsters would get out. The cats were *great* at helping me locate them, "ooh, little ball of fluff, what's it doing?" but the cats never attacked the hampsters at all. In fact, the cats rarely, if ever, got within 2 feet of the hampsters. (The hampsters, however, were much more brazen, even walking up TO the cats, wherein our trusty felis domesticus would retreat...)
Those poor cats were in hell when I bought those little rodents the balls.
These weren't obese cats either. Slightly overweight, common for indoor cats, but very active.
One minor quibble, though: there is still no full fledged open source replacement for the entire Exchange+Outlook functionality suite.
Crackberries and other PDAs sync with Exchange and Outlook. BES requires Exchange. You can make public and personal calendars shared across the company.
There just aren't open source equivalents yet for all the bells and whistles these sales guys and CxOs have come to rely on and until you do, Exchange will not get replaced.
And how are things in your world where people don't try to flaunt the law and the patent office is so overstaffed and underworked that everything submitted is given a thorough going over?
Well, if the Supreme Court doesn't take it, Bilski is upheld, which is a good start.
If the Supreme Court does take it, and upholds it, it's a better start.
And if SCOTUS does hear it, it won't drag out for years. They move through cases very fast compared to other courts out there. You file briefs and you get 30 minutes to present your case. That's basically it.
(disclaimer: there can be exceptions, but I honestly wouldn't expect this to take longer than a month even at the extreme)
But it's still illegal for them to view adult material, even though they may already be practicing (or even making their own) so the filter must remain in place.
Humans under 18 or 21, depending what the specific taboo is, are still considered children.
The FBI's jurisdiction is essentially being the nation's police force as opposed to your local city force. You can't say "ignore these sections of the state, county or city code" to a local police force just like you can't tell the FBI to ignore the U.S. Code.
The trick lies in blocking adult entertainment from children while making sure it's delivery is unhindered to the adults who are legally allowed to view it.
Furthermore, you have to be sure to seperate adult entertainment from sites talking about, say, breast cancer, that kids may need for research projects in high school.
So, while I'd wager many share your view, many of us here have to come to the realization that a comprehensive solution is too unwieldly to even imagine.
This is where parental supervision comes into play, and often where the kick falls short.
We might not be car experts but we know it takes gas to run. We might not be TV experts, but we know that the picture comes in over the wires behind it.
But most people I deal with are willingly and even gleefully ignorant of computers, and will actively go out of their way to NOT learn even basic things about how it works, like keeping an eye on disk space.
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So the user behind that video poker machine is considered trusted?
How do you possibly figure that?
Just tick/write a number in a damn box with a pencil, how hard can it be...
I direct your attention to Minnesota...
Gambling machine standards. ATM standards.
Why couldn't they just copy/paste those? It's pretty much a guarentee those are as close to bulletproof as we can make hardware. (I'd personally lean towards the video poker standards, somehow I think those are more rigorously designed than ATMs)
If only people bothered to read instructions...
Stray marks outside the bubble (or the line where you write "Lizard People")? Ballot gets destroyed. Period.
Now, that might be a bit harsh, you may not know if your ballot will get destroyed, so there should be a scanner for every paper ballot station (or so...3:1, 4:1 seem good too). Scan it in and if it reports what you want, good, submit it. If it throws up ERROR or the wrong candidates, destroy it and get a new ballot.
(There should also be a publically accessable shredder, so you know your ballot got dusted.)
Maybe we need public service commercials every October election year teaching people how to vote, too.
And yet we beg for that to happen every time an RIAA post comes around.
Adapt or die is always the battle cry towards music distributors. How is this situation any different? Think about all those CD pressers and case makers who will go out of business. People that make the plastic for CDs. Maintenance on the machinery.
Oh, and there's no real pity over the people who lost their jobs when vinyl or cassettes stopped being the top seller.
Industry changes and it doesn't care if the market is a bull or a bear. If the future of newspapers is the Kindle, then so be it.
It would be nice, of course, if some of those Kindle factories could be brought stateside... That last bit is quite the rub... really wrenches up my analogy...
the summary doesn't seem to indicate that while saving tons on cars per year, you'll be costing businesses down the line money, lost jobs (think feed, blacksmithing, carriage repairs), etc.... So while it may save one type of business, it may put others on the street.
There's a difference between ignoring ideas and not implimenting them though.
If you had to respond to each piece of feedback, all you would end up doing is responding to feedback.
Second dupe today from nandemoari going to infopackets.com.
Someone's fishing for traffic here.
Just make a second one, with all the bits '1.'
Then it's just a matter of reading from the right quarter at the right time.
Your analogy breaks down in that we can go to a used car dealership and buy an 07 Corvette there.
You can't reintroduce OEM XP licences into the wild that are no longer in use.
It's like going to that above used car dealership, asking for an 07 Corvette and being told "Oh, Corvette has asked us to pull those all from the streets, so they all get cubed at the scrapyard now."
Interest is much different from killing, though.
I used to have two hampsters and three cats. Occassionally, the hampsters would get out. The cats were *great* at helping me locate them, "ooh, little ball of fluff, what's it doing?" but the cats never attacked the hampsters at all. In fact, the cats rarely, if ever, got within 2 feet of the hampsters. (The hampsters, however, were much more brazen, even walking up TO the cats, wherein our trusty felis domesticus would retreat...)
Those poor cats were in hell when I bought those little rodents the balls.
These weren't obese cats either. Slightly overweight, common for indoor cats, but very active.
If you were an engineer you'd realize it wasn't that easy...
Gah, I edited out part of my post... I originally had "(or those...other two)" in there.
What I was aiming for was that it'd take more than sendmail to get blackberry users happy.
One minor quibble, though: there is still no full fledged open source replacement for the entire Exchange+Outlook functionality suite.
Crackberries and other PDAs sync with Exchange and Outlook. BES requires Exchange. You can make public and personal calendars shared across the company.
There just aren't open source equivalents yet for all the bells and whistles these sales guys and CxOs have come to rely on and until you do, Exchange will not get replaced.
Well, once the case proper gets started, after all the paperwork gets shuffled, things go relatively quick.
SCOTUS works faster than SCO v IBM I guess is the general theme to take away from this discussion.
Bah, apparently that one actually works.
Well...fine. Just look for some of the ones on cold fusion then...
And how are things in your world where people don't try to flaunt the law and the patent office is so overstaffed and underworked that everything submitted is given a thorough going over?
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5041044
Well, if the Supreme Court doesn't take it, Bilski is upheld, which is a good start.
If the Supreme Court does take it, and upholds it, it's a better start.
And if SCOTUS does hear it, it won't drag out for years. They move through cases very fast compared to other courts out there. You file briefs and you get 30 minutes to present your case. That's basically it.
(disclaimer: there can be exceptions, but I honestly wouldn't expect this to take longer than a month even at the extreme)
True, but from personal experience, I've found it difficult to find 3gb kits of ram.
But it's still illegal for them to view adult material, even though they may already be practicing (or even making their own) so the filter must remain in place.
Humans under 18 or 21, depending what the specific taboo is, are still considered children.
You mean like at http://www.fbi.gov/quickfacts.htm ?
The FBI's jurisdiction is essentially being the nation's police force as opposed to your local city force. You can't say "ignore these sections of the state, county or city code" to a local police force just like you can't tell the FBI to ignore the U.S. Code.
The trick lies in blocking adult entertainment from children while making sure it's delivery is unhindered to the adults who are legally allowed to view it.
Furthermore, you have to be sure to seperate adult entertainment from sites talking about, say, breast cancer, that kids may need for research projects in high school.
So, while I'd wager many share your view, many of us here have to come to the realization that a comprehensive solution is too unwieldly to even imagine.
This is where parental supervision comes into play, and often where the kick falls short.
And yet, if you were in that 30-60% I'm sure you'd be seeing things much differently.
We might not be car experts but we know it takes gas to run. We might not be TV experts, but we know that the picture comes in over the wires behind it.
But most people I deal with are willingly and even gleefully ignorant of computers, and will actively go out of their way to NOT learn even basic things about how it works, like keeping an eye on disk space.
With all these cautionary tales, you'd think someone out there would catch on...