Well, I do want. Having democracy evolve using on-line electronic voting, and perhaps voting more often is a good thing. The fact that Diebold screwed up was likely sponsored to deter it. Our masters as it stands get 4-5 year dictatorships and the last think they want is integrity in voting and a higher frequency of voting. It is harder to corrupt 33M voters than than to corrupt 3 or 4 party leaders.

We need electronic voting. Say a vote is electronically cast to 7 sites simultaneously. Maybe include a few national TV stations, a university and different levels of governments. Maybe even a taxpayer funded organization not answering to government. Then when the poles close at 8pm, they reveal their vote counts at the same time. All should agree. And no chad under the electoral peoples desks as quite frankly I don't trust today's closed door counting system.

Then perhaps we could have elections every year. That is so the politicians don't treat it like a term dictatorship only worrying about the constituents once every 4-5 years. Or perhaps go once step further, let the people vote directly and have our representatives advise us. It is much harder to corrupt millions of voters on say a GM bailout vote.

But being a Canadian myself, learning Spanish and thinking Brazil, Chile or Argentina.

Taxes in BC are a real killer of wealth and not really reflected to cost of living as much as other cities. If you are going to move, pick a place where utility bills in the winter are not $500+/mo. Its popularity is only due to the fact that for many Canadians it is the most temperate part of Canada without leaving the country. But compared to the US, a cold place none the less.

True. Even if you use MS-Windows, make your home path on the Samba share. Or fire up a VM and mount the MS-Windows partition.

Maybe not as bad as you think. Publish their IPs with a program to syn/ping flood them off the internet. Ya, I know, it isn't good netiquette.

I still think the best way to counter spam is to go on the offensive.

If our readers had a spam option, you could send pings, syn floods etc. to the offending IP for 24 hours at a paced out speed as not to affect the reading user. But 30M spamed people doing this at one IP would choke them up quick.

Upstream providers would them have to deal with the abuse the old fashioned way, kick them off the net.

Now according to Wiki they employ 2,054 faculty members and probably outsource most other services like cleaning etc. That works out to $14,000 per year per faculty.

Any chance of outsourcing that?

Then become a politician! Heck, $200,000 a year partially tax free with an expense account that isn't quoestion too much. You even get the air miles! You want a riding on the Westjet route, nicer looking ladies. Even has job security and pension is only 6 years and government backed. Maybe a little cash extra under the table too. And you can use CCRA to find out where to hide your money from the tax man. Get good inside investment tips to from Goodale.

A dream job...

Who wants the politics?

Ooops, politics is the issue. Better shutup before they come and get me.

Don't get too comfortable about that thought. While many routers block what comes in quite nicely, they often ignore what goes out just as nicely. So if the browser or email client, or some other user land app goes out because it has been compromised then it will not help.

Effective firewalling watches what goes out, and what comes in and not on the same host where it can be disabled.

Depends, if it is packaged nicely. But I don't see drivers here as being an issue, it was ordered with Ubuntu. Should be a few questions up front and on you go.

I see it as 100% her fault.

As others have pointed out she was looking for a reason to fail. Does not have what it takes to get through MATC. Pure an simple. Hey, I think the picture above, she appears attractive but to go to college you have to turn your brain on.

Second point, she could have bought a MS package. Read the little book, invited a friend over or something and changed the OS. College students can't give up on minor obsticles.

Not everone attending college should graduate just because they show up. You are there to learn how to learn and read. Even what you learn may not be applied later, but you know then how to learn and rationalize.

Looking at that code, it never had effective code review or Q/A. If I was the manager responsible I would be looking up those who signed off on the code in the last review. I didn't spot one, but 4 issues in that code and would not doubt more exist. Second off, there are much simpler ways of doing this in the C libraries, and simplicty has value.

But the design, I suspect is very flawed. Why not use asctime() and rely on it's more proven calculations of leap year and the like via the OS libraries?

And when you see something like this, you know someones brain was in the off position:

556 day -= 366;
557 year += 1;

This is fantastic news, I applaude the ATI management for realizing this is a good thing to do. I stopped buying ATI in about 2000 because of the issues in getting driver support for Linux. Now that ATI is stepping up to the plate, I am adding ATI products that use this driver to my buy list!

I agree. But that is because in North America we operate unregulated monopolies and pay the price. Oh, they may say they are being regulated, but not for us, for city profits, franchise fees. It is the system of how they operate that is not in our interests.

I dispute that. The internet is a collective effort by many technical people past and present that develop it's potential. The only hinderance is politics, useless patents, corporate monopolies and the like. It is a truly free media, unencumbered by undue influence by anyone or any special interest group.

Keep the internet free, and it will serve mankind very well. The interent does not need stimulus, it needs net equality of access not dominated by any one.

Any solutions for reliability, useability will be provided as needed. Very efficient model too. For example, it does not depend on any one operation system for it's existance, even though some would have it otherwise. Maybe even open up some of that TV channel bandwidth for the internet without the ownership and licensing issues, allowing any company to provide WAN access.

The internet is truly a democratic collective. Work with it and don't let secular forces pervert it. Doesn't cost much either to do this.