TECH: PRINTERANYWHERE feedback given on another site

Thursday, August 24, 2006

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/08/24/printeranywhere-enough-said/

I’ve been playing with it.

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/tech-printeranywhere-shaping-up-nicely/

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/08/15/tech-printeranywhere-looks-like-it-could-be-useful/

There’s some key issues:

(1) Who do you trust? Non-private stuff.

(2) Some cosmetic issues that they are working on (laptop resume undoes the share)

(3) And, it has some specific uses (fax elimination)
and some non-uses (if you’re on a lan already you don’t need it).

(4) Please one hting that needsfixing (I forgot to tell them) that they should show email addresses.

All in all a good things especially iof you need it.

I’m in no way connected to the offering, other than it came in handy in a pinch, so I used it. This is my way of saying thanks.

(I’d be a raving fan if it was open source!)
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One comment says there’s no way to protect from printing junk. I think you can require your OK to use it.

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LIBERTY: Free to … … elect who “they” say you can!

Thursday, August 24, 2006

http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1099030

Congressional redistricting
How to rig an election
Apr 25th 2002 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition

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In a normal democracy, voters choose their representatives. In America, it is rapidly becoming the other way around

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The article says don’t look at the voting machines for fraud. Look at gerrymandering.

I think we have to look at both.

imho we have to become more like a republic and less like an oligarchy.

I think we need to only vote for our local politicians and hold them accountable to everyone else. So in NJ, the municipality should elect the county, the county should elect the state. If you’re interested in proportions, then just throw the census number in for weighting. The State Assembly can be elected by the municipalities on a one for one basis and the State Senate can be elected by the counties.

Then we would only have to gripe at our local politicians.

So to for taxing. Only the local municipality can tax. And, only fees. No taxes.

Gubamint would be forced to offer competitive services that people would want. What a novel idea!

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TECH: PRINTERANYWHERE shaping up nicely

Thursday, August 24, 2006

This utility allows you to “share” someone else’s printer.

Doesn’t make sense (to me) if you’re on a lan with a printer. That is, if I am home and want to print on my home office’s printer from my laptop in the living room, then I can share without this utility.

BUT if I want to print on that home office printer when I am at work say so my wife can read something, then this fills the niche.

It would also seem to eliminate the dreaded fax machine. I can print on my friend’s printer in North Carolina if he wasn’t such a Luddite. Rather than try to fax something to him.

That’s not to say this isn’t without drawbacks.

Clearly, it routes thru a server outside of my control, so I wouldn’t use it for anything I wouldn’t want to see int he newspaper. But, then that describes email and the internet as well. It would seem easy to have the two stubs at each end negotiate a public private key pair allowing the architecture to stay the same but the security to be bullet proof. Then when I “fax” my order for dinner tonight, I wouldn’t have to be concerned that anyone will know what I was having.

That pki implementation would also prevent eavesdropping, and serve as a model for peer to peer encryption.

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