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Comment Re:Crazy Australians. (Score 1) 275

Good thing we won't need people with long term experience in these matters to act as experts in the system.

Good thing the people running stuff in the background can't be suborned to move votes around.

Good thing the politicians will vote to change to this system as it will remove the old representation system and all their perks.

Ways to game the system: submit votes on lots and lots of issues - DoS the votetakers and makers

Getting a policy approved that cover multiple types of issue boundary.

Defining your issue boundaries
# people come up with a policy proposal and present it to parliament
# those opposed or with a different policy engage in a lively debate

A proposes a tax on livestock entering the country. B have a different policy. B propose merging the police and the zookeepers. Someone has to say if an opposing policy fits the same area.

How well must it fit? A's policy covers health professionals. B covers them, but also anyone who works maintenance or services at hospitals. B exclude clinics.

Laws get that picky. And dumb. But many of the methods for creating laws have created a system that cannot be slashed at so quickly.

Comment Re:Sad (Score -1, Troll) 131

Don't kid yourself. We have a gatekeeper, they are called microsoft. They're just standing a bit back from the gate, and they left the key in their other pants. They've proved they can lock down a system with x-box. They're implementing the same thing with mobile7 - code can only run inside silverlight or their game framework for the platform. UAC in vista & 7 warns you when a program runs. How hard will it be for them to stop it running of they havent signed the digital cert? But I run linux! Or Mac! Have fun in your toy sandbox world.
Games

City of Heroes Sr. Designer Talks Architect System 56

Kheldon writes "The MMO Gamer sits down with Joe Morrissey, a Senior Designer at Paragon Studios, to discuss the inspiration behind, and current implementation of, the Architect user-generated content system in City of Heroes. Quoting: 'Really for me, wanting tools so the rest of the team could actually come up with content was the idea. Because we have a lot of guys on the team that are hardcore players, they play the game all the time. Then they come to me like, "I’ve got this idea for this story, we should really do this arc with this guy!" And I’m like, "That’s great. I haven’t got time to do it. I’ve got plenty of other story arcs to work on." But, if we made the tools easy enough, then they could actually come up with the arcs, and we can put them out. Then somewhere along that road it dawned on me: Why stop with the rest of the team?'"
Software

Neural Nets Make Art While High 165

brilanon writes "Telepathic-critterdrug is a controversial fork of the open source artificial-life sim Critterding, a physics sandbox where blocky creatures evolve neural nets in a survival contest. What we've done is to give these animals an extra retina which is shared with the whole population. It's extended through time like a movie and they can write to it for communication or pleasure. Since this introduces the possibility of the creation of art, we decided to give them a selection of narcotics, stimulants and psychedelics. This is not in Critterding. The end result is a high-color cellular automaton running on a substrate that thinks and evolves, and may actually produce hallucinations in the user."

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