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Comment Re:What's with you propaganda, EditorDavid? (Score 1) 281

Pennsylvania broke the US constitution by changing their state election laws? Written by yet another person who has never read the constitution:

Article 2 Section 1: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."

That is fucking it - shocking as it may seem. I know that some partisans in the supreme court might chose to interpret things different, but there have been supreme court cases dating back a hundred years that basically affirm - states pick the electors, and electors pick the presidents - nothing in the constitution regulates how states go about doing this.

Comment Re:Last time they just made a mess (Score 1) 88

Its not even that - if the software vendor was using the microsoft api - GetVersion - it returns a regular version number.

It was a work-around for vendors who were using hacks to read the product display names - and oddly enough MS has a compatibility layer to "fix" applications that do it wrong, but I suspect that was more work.

Comment Re:Last time they just made a mess (Score 1) 88

I guess that is one problem with year of the Linux desktop - running into a printer that doesn't work on windows isn't a thing. Granted running into printers that don't work well in general (including on Windows) is a thing.

I'm not sure how you hire support that doesn't know about printers though...

Anyhow thats the point of client management - you shouldn't hire people to do software installs - you have some orchestration software that does it for your customers and you hire people who know how to package software and how to do client policies - like printers.

Comment Re:Regardless of if he is guilty or not... (Score 1) 93

Twin Galaxies rules say the record has to be set on the original hardware.

They do have a separate category for emulators.

The big difference I think is the physical controls and operating position are different, and emulators aren't perfect replications - even today - the timing is different etc - and for a pre-recorded world record its way easier to cheat on an emulator. Note - of Billy's world records were not witnessed by a referee.

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