I'm an atheist and I still had to facepalm over this. The comment about "God" being a hacker is an analogy. One that fits evolution very well, since humans were "hacked" together one evolutionary change at a time.
Nobody here is stupid enough to truly believe that because a computer does it, it is infallible. However, these absurdly rare occurrences you have listed are not what people talk about when these computer voting systems screw up. Power glitches and transmission errors are very very unlikely in a properly built system; or at least they can be dealt with via redundancy in the system. The point here is that either the system is poorly built (and in this case so poorly built that in a town of 80 people it can't manage to keep track of the votes which does not bode well for considerably larger elections of say 50 million) or there was tampering done to modify the vote counts. Either way, your defenses of the imperfect electronic system don't hold up. We either need to make the system less fallible than it appears to be currently or change to a different system.
I'm not healthy because I spend all my spare time staring at a monitor reading/. and watching movies/tv shows. If I really wanted to, I could dedicate some of my excess spare time to exercising (as athletic people already do). It's a matter of mindset; athletic people - even if they are tied up and forced to learn java - would still go out and play sports and be in good shape and geeks don't have the drive. We're lazy.
If my C in physics 1180 taught me anything it's that gravity (according to einsteins theories and formulae) is a bending of space-time caused by the mass of on object. When things are sufficiently heavy (ok all things bend space-time just not by a lot) the dent in space-time can draw other things to it. Putting a bowling ball on a suspended taut tablecloth and rolling a smaller ball on the tablecloth seems to be the analogy most people go with.
Windows 2000 is no longer in the windows labelled "mainstream support" so the less they have to deal with it the better for their support teams.
On IEBlog, they also cite specifically why it can work for WinXP and not Win2K. It's because of the security upgrades done to XP in service pack 2 which they claim are not easily back-ported into 2K.
Yes because they've been so innovative in selecting their non-search engine services. With their e-mail service, mapping service, and purchasing any interesting technology they see... Google succeeds by putting a Google 'plain and functional' web 2.0 veneer on the ideas of others. That's not necessarily a bad thing, I like google's simple approach and use quite a few of their services that doesn't mean they are the sole (or even primary) innovators in the web right now.
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I'm an atheist and I still had to facepalm over this. The comment about "God" being a hacker is an analogy. One that fits evolution very well, since humans were "hacked" together one evolutionary change at a time.
The true old farts (Donald Knuth) don't even read any e-mail anymore. Except in batch mode.
Not to be naive, but wouldn't bombarding a moon with comets not only affect its mass but also its (currently stable) orbit?
They could always bring back Farscape again.
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Nobody here is stupid enough to truly believe that because a computer does it, it is infallible. However, these absurdly rare occurrences you have listed are not what people talk about when these computer voting systems screw up. Power glitches and transmission errors are very very unlikely in a properly built system; or at least they can be dealt with via redundancy in the system. The point here is that either the system is poorly built (and in this case so poorly built that in a town of 80 people it can't manage to keep track of the votes which does not bode well for considerably larger elections of say 50 million) or there was tampering done to modify the vote counts. Either way, your defenses of the imperfect electronic system don't hold up. We either need to make the system less fallible than it appears to be currently or change to a different system.
I think the funniest aspect of this thread is how many people are correcting him with "pound-me-in-the-ass prison"
Unfortunately, by the time we got there, they'd be the size of Urectum.
I'm not healthy because I spend all my spare time staring at a monitor reading /. and watching movies/tv shows. If I really wanted to, I could dedicate some of my excess spare time to exercising (as athletic people already do). It's a matter of mindset; athletic people - even if they are tied up and forced to learn java - would still go out and play sports and be in good shape and geeks don't have the drive. We're lazy.
If my C in physics 1180 taught me anything it's that gravity (according to einsteins theories and formulae) is a bending of space-time caused by the mass of on object. When things are sufficiently heavy (ok all things bend space-time just not by a lot) the dent in space-time can draw other things to it. Putting a bowling ball on a suspended taut tablecloth and rolling a smaller ball on the tablecloth seems to be the analogy most people go with.
Windows 2000 is no longer in the windows labelled "mainstream support" so the less they have to deal with it the better for their support teams. On IEBlog, they also cite specifically why it can work for WinXP and not Win2K. It's because of the security upgrades done to XP in service pack 2 which they claim are not easily back-ported into 2K.
Yes because they've been so innovative in selecting their non-search engine services. With their e-mail service, mapping service, and purchasing any interesting technology they see... Google succeeds by putting a Google 'plain and functional' web 2.0 veneer on the ideas of others. That's not necessarily a bad thing, I like google's simple approach and use quite a few of their services that doesn't mean they are the sole (or even primary) innovators in the web right now.
Sure it's got great graphics, but without tax software I just don't see it having any sort of audience...
Why was this modded as informative? funny maybe, and that's a tenuous maybe...