because no one so honest and intelligent ever seems to serve in a national office. I agree, and was also impressed with his answers. And here you raise a good point. Why can't we as a people elect leaders who are honest with us? Why do we insist upon electing the fairy tale candidates who say that everything will be rainbows and butterflies if they get into office, then disappoint and blame their failure on the other party (Red and Blue are both guilty here)? I believe the primary cause here is the lack of honest discourse in the media. There isn't a channel for honest conversations about politics. We treat elections in much the same manner as the latest news about Brittany Spears. This in turn causes what I would call "high school president" syndrome in the electorate. We vote for the candidate that is going to give us a new gym (which we will never get), improve test scores (usually with a magic wand to wave over everyone and make them all smarter, certainly never by insisting students work harder), and really change things. It is refreshing to see a candidate with a slogan like "the voters can handle the truth" - but can they? Based on the predictions I've seen here (2 saying Steve stands a snowball's chance in hell) - we certainly don't believe the voters can handle the truth, nor do they want to. The electorate doesn't want to confront real issues (namely the only real change will be more vending machines filled with crap to exploit the fat kids for the benefit of all) they want to believe that the rainbows and butterflies will come, and all will be well even if we don't do anything substantive to try to fix the real problems. And more to the point, how can we bring this sort of discourse away from places like slashdot (where the everpresent goatse seems to inject itself, as a matter of free speach?), and into the mainstream media (which often seems more disturbing than goatse)?
The faster patcher? I'm assuming the great bulk of these vulnerabilities are browser issues. So while this study may indeed give an idea of the relative security between the two browsers, I wouldn't exactly bill this as a glowing M$/IE endorsement. Another consideration: market share, if you own >75% of the market, and the great bulk of the business market, you most certainly have an obligation to patch vulnerabilities ASAP. When your market it graphic designers, movie producers, and apple fanboys, and frankly there is a severe lack of coders out there exploiting the issues I'll forgive them if they take an extra month to push a fix out(i suppose i could be wrong here, there could be tons of folks out there writing virus' and trojans and stuff for apple, but they most certainly aren't very successful).
The impression I got was that it takes ~ an hour to get acquainted with the systems. Apparently some of the people in their test group just couldn't figure it out. And, since this is the government, instead of fixing the problem by requiring individuals who are qualified and competent to administer the census, they are gonna try to change the hardware and software of the device to I suppose fit their needs better? Yea, that sounds about right.
so long as they bring a general air of competence to the table. You must be new here.
Seriously though, I agree that government should not be seeking feedback from the electorate in the manner you describe. I believe the optimal "wired democracy" situation would bring transparency to government. I want all the candidates to be twittering their status - webcasting their meetings - if they meet with lobbyists, I want to know about it, and hear what they had to say. I posts from cabinet meetings. If they want a place for comments, well so be it. What I want is transparency!
With the breakdown like that, is sure seems like a better idea to pull a radiohead/trent reznor and just drop the album your bad self online. Instead of $1.60/cd they get to keep it all!
"There is a clear and present need for this Court's intervention and guidance on this important issue of copyright law," Indeed, unless they give this guy his lawyer's fees, it sets a really dangerous precedent. Namely, any old lawyer/copyright holder can just start suing assloads of folks, hoping most will just settle to avoid the cost of litigation and drop all the suits that don't get settled. There isn't any incentive for the defendant to fight back against frivolous copyright infringement lawsuits.
Is there something special about technology, that sets tech-savvy humans apart from all the other kinds of humans when it comes to politics? no, not really, but with people like Ted Steven's and his series of tubes comments its refreshing to see someone who might actually have and understanding of tech get elected.
Excellent point. Do they have any plans to make sure the "character" will understand and respond properly to a context specific joke? Much of our humor depends on that
inherent ambiguity, fuzziness, and confusion of human languages .
If ever an article needed a "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag Tell me about it, the last time the holoshed broke and all the characters became real I got slapped with 4 paternity suits! Well, that's enough for today, if anyone needs me I'll be in the holoshed.
Apparently, media moguls do not breakfast on a diet of puppies and children Obviously, puppies and children are more of an after dinner snack, for enjoyment with a snifter of brandy while they sit in front of a blazing fire in their library, contemplating new evil schemes!
At 400 bucks, why not just drop an extra 60 for a PS3? Perhaps Sony has a good marketing strategy, make all the other BR players so damned expansive that people wont mind dropping the extra dough for a game system even if they don't want/need it.
I made a solid attempt to do just that. But, the POS box i got didn't have a supported video card, so that's another 100 bucks on top of the 100 for the HD Tuner. Then Zap2It got killed and none of my roomates could work the thing, so we got the crappy DVR from comcast at 10$ a month. As I understand it they have since resolved that and have a service you can use, just a little to late is all. Besides, TiVo isn't exactly marketed to those of us with the time and resources to do all that, its geared much more toward the people who want to buy a box from the local Big Box Retailer (TM) take it home, plug it in and have it work. There are plenty of people out there who think that an extra 200/300$ bucks is well worth it for that security, as well as the TiVo interface which is frankly a hell of a lot nicer than MythTV (at least when I was using it).
tool for slander and unfound rumor No, its a tool which CAN be used for slander and unfound rumor. There's nothing stating you couldn't use the site to give positive reviews of cops.
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I believe the primary cause here is the lack of honest discourse in the media. There isn't a channel for honest conversations about politics. We treat elections in much the same manner as the latest news about Brittany Spears. This in turn causes what I would call "high school president" syndrome in the electorate. We vote for the candidate that is going to give us a new gym (which we will never get), improve test scores (usually with a magic wand to wave over everyone and make them all smarter, certainly never by insisting students work harder), and really change things. It is refreshing to see a candidate with a slogan like "the voters can handle the truth" - but can they? Based on the predictions I've seen here (2 saying Steve stands a snowball's chance in hell) - we certainly don't believe the voters can handle the truth, nor do they want to. The electorate doesn't want to confront real issues (namely the only real change will be more vending machines filled with crap to exploit the fat kids for the benefit of all) they want to believe that the rainbows and butterflies will come, and all will be well even if we don't do anything substantive to try to fix the real problems.
And more to the point, how can we bring this sort of discourse away from places like slashdot (where the everpresent goatse seems to inject itself, as a matter of free speach?), and into the mainstream media (which often seems more disturbing than goatse)?
The faster patcher? I'm assuming the great bulk of these vulnerabilities are browser issues. So while this study may indeed give an idea of the relative security between the two browsers, I wouldn't exactly bill this as a glowing M$/IE endorsement. Another consideration: market share, if you own >75% of the market, and the great bulk of the business market, you most certainly have an obligation to patch vulnerabilities ASAP. When your market it graphic designers, movie producers, and apple fanboys, and frankly there is a severe lack of coders out there exploiting the issues I'll forgive them if they take an extra month to push a fix out(i suppose i could be wrong here, there could be tons of folks out there writing virus' and trojans and stuff for apple, but they most certainly aren't very successful).
Um... the same thing that made us f*$k up this one?
The impression I got was that it takes ~ an hour to get acquainted with the systems. Apparently some of the people in their test group just couldn't figure it out. And, since this is the government, instead of fixing the problem by requiring individuals who are qualified and competent to administer the census, they are gonna try to change the hardware and software of the device to I suppose fit their needs better? Yea, that sounds about right.
You must be new here.
Seriously though, I agree that government should not be seeking feedback from the electorate in the manner you describe. I believe the optimal "wired democracy" situation would bring transparency to government. I want all the candidates to be twittering their status - webcasting their meetings - if they meet with lobbyists, I want to know about it, and hear what they had to say. I posts from cabinet meetings. If they want a place for comments, well so be it. What I want is transparency!
Darn slashdot taking all my time!
$0.17 Musicians' unions
$0.80 Packaging/manufacturing
$0.82 Publishing royalties
$0.80 Retail profit
$0.90 Distribution
$1.60 Artists' royalties
$1.70 Label profit
$2.40 Marketing/promotion
$2.91 Label overhead
$3.89 Retail overhead
With the breakdown like that, is sure seems like a better idea to pull a radiohead/trent reznor and just drop the album your bad self online. Instead of $1.60/cd they get to keep it all!
On a serious note, I do hope we can name it after Clarke, he has inspired many (including myself). And this seems as fitting a tribute as any.
This is patent law I'm talking about, prior art doesn't matter!
Yea, but some people just want to ask the librarian where to find the book they're looking for.
no worries, grab an eraser - problem solved!
Duke Nukem Forever!
Anecdote accepted.
Snappy comeback not found.
Wait a minute, whats your name again? Maybe you do have to be a dick about it.
Ok, how long til a whale cow shows up in some tenticle porn in Japan? My estimate, 5 hours.
At 400 bucks, why not just drop an extra 60 for a PS3? Perhaps Sony has a good marketing strategy, make all the other BR players so damned expansive that people wont mind dropping the extra dough for a game system even if they don't want/need it.
I made a solid attempt to do just that. But, the POS box i got didn't have a supported video card, so that's another 100 bucks on top of the 100 for the HD Tuner. Then Zap2It got killed and none of my roomates could work the thing, so we got the crappy DVR from comcast at 10$ a month. As I understand it they have since resolved that and have a service you can use, just a little to late is all. Besides, TiVo isn't exactly marketed to those of us with the time and resources to do all that, its geared much more toward the people who want to buy a box from the local Big Box Retailer (TM) take it home, plug it in and have it work. There are plenty of people out there who think that an extra 200/300$ bucks is well worth it for that security, as well as the TiVo interface which is frankly a hell of a lot nicer than MythTV (at least when I was using it).