> "Let's assume the Democrat party is assigned option switch 6 while the Republican Party is assigned options switch 12
"Option Switch 6" "Option Switch 12"?!?!?!
What the fuck? Do they not understand that these phantasmagistic gizmotronic contraptulations are programmable these days with fucking WORDS, and not a bank of switches?
But like RSK says, I have to wonder how much of it is even an accident. These people really do seem to be the counterexample to Hanlon's Razor.
> The easy solution would be to have 2 paper print-outs: 1 that the voter tears off (like a receipt) and can examine to verify that they voted the way they intended
The way they or anyone else manipulating the vote intends. How many times does it need to be said: The whole idea of a secret ballot is that it's secret to everyone, including yourself once you leave the polling booth. No amount of cleverness can get around this.
The second system is fine, though I think it's not going to be fun in from a maintenance standpoint. Then again lever machines are about a hundred times more fiddly and they last for decades.
Fraud was and is rampant in places and times using only paper ballots. One is not the cause of the other, but neither is it a cure. Voting machines could very easily be far more trustworthy, but they're being built for bottom dollar.
As for how much they diverge, that's exactly the problem: we don't know, and attempts to find out have resulted in stonewalling and threats.
People are convicted on strong circumstantial evidence all the time. The real world is not an episode of CSI.
And there was reasonable doubt, but Hans Reiser himself systematically demolished it all over the course of eleven days of testimony that was wholly not believable.
Did you throw away your Naked Gun [wikipedia.org] movies because OJ Simpeon [sic] killed those people?
The Naked Gun doesn't require maintenance. Code does, especially when it has several outstanding issues (show of hands, who here likes the quality of reiserfsck?) and how fast the kernel iterates.
Namesys is dead in the water, and reiserfs will go with it.
Not to mention the inkjet clogging if you don't use it for a month. That's pretty much the main reason I stay away from inkjets. That and you can print on cheap copier paper -- an inkjet will smudge.
11. He paid a $5,000 retainer to a criminal defense attorney just days after Nina disappeared, while the investigation was still a missing person's case. He didn't even bother to try calling her to find out if she was alive before he shelled out for the retainer.
Now I think Hans is Guilty with a capital G, but I know how the system works. If I reported my SO missing, the very first thing I'd do after calling the police would be to get a lawyer. The spouse is always suspect #1.
Once a brand sticks, you really don't have to care. Maya. Office. Macintosh (funny thing, the abbreviation "Mac" is more recognizeable than the full name).
GIMP is not going to stick because too many people are embarrassed to even mention it, but it's had time on its side for people to at least be familiar. Firefox is definitely sticking, since the name is quite catchy.
I'm not defending the stupid names of OSS products (especially not "The Gimp"), but once you have a good catchy name and stick with it, quality will lead to recognition.
This post was actually meant to be a reply to your post. DBC works well with unit tests, because one test can tickle all the different DBC assertions in ways you might not have forseen. Not terribly compatible with mocks though, which often do violate class invariants in the name of faking -- but it's sometimes nice to discover which assumptions your mocks are making that aren't necessarily good ones.
GNU Nana is a pretty nice way to add DBC-ish stuff to C and C++ code -- beats the pants off just using assert.h/cassert. It's ancient, but it's really an overlooked gem.
DBC is actually a perfect complement to unit testing. I daresay you could call it unit testing that's been refactored into your code, so that you assert your test invariants precisely once. It's also why I'm a fan of static typing, since you don't waste time checking what the compiler does for you.
The real force multiplier that DBC gives you, however, is to think about invariants. Classes are all about their invariants: the definitions of how their member data interrelates and how operations affect (and very importantly how they do NOT affect) member data. Any fool can stick asserts into functions, but I've found that if I can't come up with good class invariants, the design of the class itself is dubious. So DBC is ultimately not just about sprinkling asserts all over, but about keeping you honest about your high level OO design as well.
Lasagna code perhaps. Or maybe that's for code broken into too many layers. I don't think any of the pasta metaphors for code are supposed to be complimentary.
> But the story during my grad school days was that, Knuth offered 1000$ prize to anyone fining a bug TeX and he doubled it a couple of times.
The $1000 bounty was from Dan Bernstein with respect to qmail. He's always found a reason to weasel out of ever paying.
Knuth started the bounty at $2.56 (one "hexidollar") and doubled it every year til it reached $327.68. Several people have claimed it, most people never cashed the checks. One of the first bug finders had his check framed.
The only reason they'd need immunity is if they are actually guilty but "somebody" thinks his orders are more important than the law.
Or more likely, the money. AT&T found its principles rather quickly, once Uncle Sam's check bounced. This is the sort of thing that could come out in discovery, and this is what the telcos want immunity from.
There's a faint possibility that Clinton would bring Obama on as a running mate.
I think there's a snowball's chance in hell Obama would do the same for Clinton. The sheer apoplexy of the GOP whenever Clinton's name is mentioned would energize the right like nothing else, because damn sure McCain doesn't fire them up.
My guess is Obama gets the nomination and picks an old white guy as his running mate.
What's really, um, "cute" about the 360 is that the HDD size is hardwired into the unit. It's not hard to crack open one of those drive thingies for the 360 and put your own drive in it, but if you put a 300G drive in, it'll still only format it to 120G at most. Because that's all the Elite will allow.
Stick a 300G drive into a PS3, and you get 300G. But Sony seems deathly afraid of actually selling you anything that would fill that space.
> Unless we have reached an era of monotonically increasing oil prices
It's quite possible we have. Most of OPEC, save for Saudi Arabia, has replied to increased demand with "we're pumpin' as fast as we can cap'n, she just won' give us nae more!". Okay, maybe not quite with that accent. Sure, SA can turn a knob and produce more, but their capacity isn't infinite either, and they would rather have supply when others start dwindling. We may not completely run out of oil for quite some time yet, but peak oil is about production rates, and there's a lot of signs pointing to us having reached it.
You activate the system when a DDOS attack starts. The network traffic at that point already is almost nothing but noise. Defeating the attack reduces the noise.
Besides, what makes you think computational puzzles require massive amounts of data?
No, Ed Wood really loved movies, and poured his wholly incompetent heart and soul into making them. Uwe Boll finds cheap franchises and exploits them for a tax loophole. All his upcoming titles were in production before the loophole was closed. We'll see what happens when his funding dries up.
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You don't get much access to computers from prison. Certainly not ones that you can do kernel development with.
People who get their law degree from prison do so using the law books there.
> "Let's assume the Democrat party is assigned option switch 6 while the Republican Party is assigned options switch 12
"Option Switch 6" "Option Switch 12"?!?!?!
What the fuck? Do they not understand that these phantasmagistic gizmotronic contraptulations are programmable these days with fucking WORDS, and not a bank of switches?
But like RSK says, I have to wonder how much of it is even an accident. These people really do seem to be the counterexample to Hanlon's Razor.
> The easy solution would be to have 2 paper print-outs: 1 that the voter tears off (like a receipt) and can examine to verify that they voted the way they intended
The way they or anyone else manipulating the vote intends. How many times does it need to be said: The whole idea of a secret ballot is that it's secret to everyone, including yourself once you leave the polling booth. No amount of cleverness can get around this.
The second system is fine, though I think it's not going to be fun in from a maintenance standpoint. Then again lever machines are about a hundred times more fiddly and they last for decades.
Fraud was and is rampant in places and times using only paper ballots. One is not the cause of the other, but neither is it a cure. Voting machines could very easily be far more trustworthy, but they're being built for bottom dollar.
As for how much they diverge, that's exactly the problem: we don't know, and attempts to find out have resulted in stonewalling and threats.
People are convicted on strong circumstantial evidence all the time. The real world is not an episode of CSI.
And there was reasonable doubt, but Hans Reiser himself systematically demolished it all over the course of eleven days of testimony that was wholly not believable.
> You don't find the fact that his wife had dated a confessed serial killer at all odd?
Sturgeon has a bit of a credibility problem in that none of the eight people he's confessed to killing are, um, dead.
And it's "could have".
Did you throw away your Naked Gun [wikipedia.org] movies because OJ Simpeon [sic] killed those people?
The Naked Gun doesn't require maintenance. Code does, especially when it has several outstanding issues (show of hands, who here likes the quality of reiserfsck?) and how fast the kernel iterates.
Namesys is dead in the water, and reiserfs will go with it.
Not to mention the inkjet clogging if you don't use it for a month. That's pretty much the main reason I stay away from inkjets. That and you can print on cheap copier paper -- an inkjet will smudge.
11. He paid a $5,000 retainer to a criminal defense attorney just days after Nina disappeared, while the investigation was still a missing person's case. He didn't even bother to try calling her to find out if she was alive before he shelled out for the retainer.
Now I think Hans is Guilty with a capital G, but I know how the system works. If I reported my SO missing, the very first thing I'd do after calling the police would be to get a lawyer. The spouse is always suspect #1.
AHAHAHA LIKE A HIRSUTE ERECT PENIS AHAHAHA!!
Gosh, ententre is always so funny when it's spelled out, isn't it?
Outlook? Excel?
Once a brand sticks, you really don't have to care. Maya. Office. Macintosh (funny thing, the abbreviation "Mac" is more recognizeable than the full name).
GIMP is not going to stick because too many people are embarrassed to even mention it, but it's had time on its side for people to at least be familiar. Firefox is definitely sticking, since the name is quite catchy.
I'm not defending the stupid names of OSS products (especially not "The Gimp"), but once you have a good catchy name and stick with it, quality will lead to recognition.
> If someone or something tells you need flash. Synaptics -> Search Flash -> Install -> Restart Firefox, and you are set.
Why yes, when I want YouTube videos, the word "Synaptic" comes immediately to mind.
This post was actually meant to be a reply to your post. DBC works well with unit tests, because one test can tickle all the different DBC assertions in ways you might not have forseen. Not terribly compatible with mocks though, which often do violate class invariants in the name of faking -- but it's sometimes nice to discover which assumptions your mocks are making that aren't necessarily good ones.
GNU Nana is a pretty nice way to add DBC-ish stuff to C and C++ code -- beats the pants off just using assert.h/cassert. It's ancient, but it's really an overlooked gem.
DBC is actually a perfect complement to unit testing. I daresay you could call it unit testing that's been refactored into your code, so that you assert your test invariants precisely once. It's also why I'm a fan of static typing, since you don't waste time checking what the compiler does for you.
The real force multiplier that DBC gives you, however, is to think about invariants. Classes are all about their invariants: the definitions of how their member data interrelates and how operations affect (and very importantly how they do NOT affect) member data. Any fool can stick asserts into functions, but I've found that if I can't come up with good class invariants, the design of the class itself is dubious. So DBC is ultimately not just about sprinkling asserts all over, but about keeping you honest about your high level OO design as well.
Go look up the etymology of "whoosh".
I have actually seen code like this:
// end while-loop // end if-loop
}
}
You read that right. if-loop.
Lasagna code perhaps. Or maybe that's for code broken into too many layers. I don't think any of the pasta metaphors for code are supposed to be complimentary.
> But the story during my grad school days was that, Knuth offered 1000$ prize to anyone fining a bug TeX and he doubled it a couple of times.
The $1000 bounty was from Dan Bernstein with respect to qmail. He's always found a reason to weasel out of ever paying.
Knuth started the bounty at $2.56 (one "hexidollar") and doubled it every year til it reached $327.68. Several people have claimed it, most people never cashed the checks. One of the first bug finders had his check framed.
The only reason they'd need immunity is if they are actually guilty but "somebody" thinks his orders are more important than the law.
Or more likely, the money. AT&T found its principles rather quickly, once Uncle Sam's check bounced. This is the sort of thing that could come out in discovery, and this is what the telcos want immunity from.
There's a faint possibility that Clinton would bring Obama on as a running mate.
I think there's a snowball's chance in hell Obama would do the same for Clinton. The sheer apoplexy of the GOP whenever Clinton's name is mentioned would energize the right like nothing else, because damn sure McCain doesn't fire them up.
My guess is Obama gets the nomination and picks an old white guy as his running mate.
What's really, um, "cute" about the 360 is that the HDD size is hardwired into the unit. It's not hard to crack open one of those drive thingies for the 360 and put your own drive in it, but if you put a 300G drive in, it'll still only format it to 120G at most. Because that's all the Elite will allow.
Stick a 300G drive into a PS3, and you get 300G. But Sony seems deathly afraid of actually selling you anything that would fill that space.
> Unless we have reached an era of monotonically increasing oil prices
It's quite possible we have. Most of OPEC, save for Saudi Arabia, has replied to increased demand with "we're pumpin' as fast as we can cap'n, she just won' give us nae more!". Okay, maybe not quite with that accent. Sure, SA can turn a knob and produce more, but their capacity isn't infinite either, and they would rather have supply when others start dwindling. We may not completely run out of oil for quite some time yet, but peak oil is about production rates, and there's a lot of signs pointing to us having reached it.
> When will Congress learn that manipulating the economy never has the desired effects.
Never. Next easy question?
You activate the system when a DDOS attack starts. The network traffic at that point already is almost nothing but noise. Defeating the attack reduces the noise.
Besides, what makes you think computational puzzles require massive amounts of data?
> This generations Ed Wood?
No, Ed Wood really loved movies, and poured his wholly incompetent heart and soul into making them. Uwe Boll finds cheap franchises and exploits them for a tax loophole. All his upcoming titles were in production before the loophole was closed. We'll see what happens when his funding dries up.