@atdaysend: He's running the Crossroads GPS pac.

@olafhumbert: "A vote without a paper ballot is a vote waiting to be stolen."

@nirreskeya:

@Nilla Waffler: Frighteningly, many of these same firms make ATMs. I guess they put more effort into the security of them, but maybe not enough:

@raincoaster: Libertarianism is a great philosophy for people who are already successful and want to hold on to their gains. It's like Calvinism without the hellfire.

@raincoaster: Hey, I own a mac, and I'm a.... oh. Nevermind.

@Konjibhu: In Champaign we have a hybrid system. We fill in a paper ballot, but then it is read by an optical scan system. This gives instant vote tallies, but it keeps a paper record.

@mediajerk: I *am* a computer scientist, and I don't trust them. In 2008 one of my advisers and I went to the city building to vote early. The reason was that it was one of the few polling stations left in the city where one could still demand a paper ballot.

"The nocebo effect seems to suggest that it's possible to talk someone to death."

@Curse_Your_Sudden_But_Inevitab...: So, you now own several hundred Cisco routers....

@Shawn Barney: The downside is that if something doesn't work — a character, a plot device — you're stuck with it.

@stereobot: That's more of a religious statement. :-)

@nightantilli: No, it's actually quite bad. Read the post at the link.

@salamander42: Read Douglas Adams much?

@DrMathochist: Thanks for the link. This saves me from trying to parse the original paper.

@firstanointed: Regarding 1, that would be pretty amazing for a mammal.

@DaFron: @corpore-metal: More importantly, are orphans, malnutrition, and starvation scientific problems or political problems? In fact, world agriculture produces enough food to feed everyone, if allocated judiciously. The problem of hunger, at least for now, is one of distribution.

It's the Life Stream!

@Brangdon: I'm sorry you can't follow the reasoning.

@Brangdon: You're making a lot of assumptions.