Comment Re:Its for the Childs Safety (Score 1) 571
Me. (I'm 37 years old.)
I had a friend (now 42) who showed me how to make interesting things that explode with it.
Me. (I'm 37 years old.)
I had a friend (now 42) who showed me how to make interesting things that explode with it.
So what you're saying is that this guy would get elected because he had an enormous majority of voter support...
... and the problem is?
The problem, fuckbrain, is that in a lot of constituencies a large number of voters are effectively disenfranchised, and that overall the two main parties end up with an unrealistically high percentage of seats compared with their overall share of the vote.
Also, if you are the MP for a constituency with a large labour or tory majority, you don't have to worry about being a good MP, and the notion of local accountability becomes laughable.
You simply implement the exact same procedures for dealing with a ballot box that had been tampered with. I do not see what the difficulty is here
1 - They don't have to let you spend some time alone with the box as part of the voting process.
2 - It's harder to tamper with the box in a way that makes it impossible to detect until after the elections are over.
Amazing work they've done here. They've proven that if you have intrusive access to the hardware, you can screw it up and do deviant shit. How about you post an article when someone can walk into a polling place, hack a machine, and walk out without take a screwdriver or some large, obvious device to a voting machine?
This article, like most of the front page needs "-1, Irrelevant".
I'm guessing that either he's fucking weird (certainly possible considering his parents) or all children love to watch shit. While he gets excited when I come home from work, it's nothing like he gets when he's watching my parents on Google Video Chat. If he's going to feel excited via a particular medium then I say I'm all for it--especially if it helps one particular child learn better than others.
He's not weird. Or no weirder than normal.
He likes to look at things, check. He's still learning to see, so any NEW thing will be interesting to him.
He's more interested in watching your parents on GVC, check. You're one of the two most important things in his universe. But you're old news compared to this little picture that talks and looks like Granma and Grampa. Though frankly he'd be just as interested in total strangers - he's after NEW.
The only problem with TV will come when you decide to use it as a babysitter. At that point, it becomes bad. Until then, it's just more novelty for the wee lad.
While he has some attention for books, especially ones where my mother recorded herself reading them and we play it for him while he listens
He's too young for books, other than as more NEW stuff.
That said, mother reading to him is better than mother recording things for him to listen to later.
Starting in about two years, you'll have your chance to start him on a lifetime of reading. There's pretty much one simple way to do that - read. Not necessarily to him, though that certainly helps. But if he sees you and his mother sitting down to an evening of reading most every night, he'll want to do it too. And once he starts, he'll never stop....
I think it would be hard to do something completely open sourced that also had very strong privacy built in. Some sort of distributed Shamir Sharing coming to mind... As for Facebook people will vote with their feet or not..
Bullshit. Quoting Shakespeare in context can be unfeasibly intelligent. There's a skill in using a quote (fictional or otherwise) to comment on something.
By using a quote, you can infer the entire context of that quote, and apply it to the current situation. Thus an eight word quote can replace a twenty minute explanation of why something is so utterly fucked up.
Meanwhile you haven't had to explicitly say something's fucked up, so you haven't pissed anybody off, the person that's fucking it up will be too stupid to understand the quotation, where it came from and its implications so you wont piss them off, and if they do understand it then they'll be intelligent enough to appreciate the position and deal with it.
Learn how to use quotes well. It's a Nineteenth century skill that's sadly passed into disuse, probably because of fuckwits thinking it's emotionally immature.
So, are you claiming that the patent application is now correctly priced? Why shouldn't we make it lower? Are some small businesses priced out of the market? If it were changed to $0.01 per application, would small business owners then thrive? Or would they be strangled by the plethora of patent trolls that popped up? Are we already strangled by the plethora of patent trolls out there? It is easy to say "change is bad", but is the status quo not already bad?
Modify, replace with a new API, add functionality to an API, close an API completely, yes, and they have already done it a few times, and it has already caused developers to adapt. For Apple, they give most devs a good few weeks seeing it in Beta, and that gives good devs the abiltiy to react quick and be ready on revision launch, for others they're not far behind. If they have to rely on Adobe to act first, then and only then react to adobe, their apps will be broken for MUCH longer.
This more applies to new APIs than fixing existing ones, granted, but it's a serious disadvantage to devs to be behind the ball EVEN ONE DAY in this marketplace.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.