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I have been against computer voting since before it got loose.
My reasoning is that self modifying code can be written that would work absolutely accurately until a certain event occurs (date, time, and vote-count) and then start miscounting votes at a leisurely pace for a while - the that part of the code modifies itself so it cannot be traced. That's just one route. That, and the quick pick of Dibold, a company with strong political connections, was rather suspicious.
But the real reason we're doomed, of course, is that with about 370 million of us, the best candidates they could come up with are what we got running in these primaries. Only the fact that we've witnessed that we could elect a talking head for president and the country still rolls along. That some politicos would take stands that they know will hurt the country just to make their point (=throw their fit) - that's where the danger lies.
Yeah - I guess you should worry.
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So how did they do it?
(and frankly, if this were done to ensure Trump didn't win, I wouldn't mind!)
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: frankly, if this were done to ensure Trump didn't win, I wouldn't mind!
Yup.
Everyone's in favour of cheating if it means that their team wins -- but screams bloody murder if the other team wins by cheating.
People suck, that's all there is to it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Everyone's in favour of cheating if it means that their team wins
When it comes to politics, I don't have team I vote for, sadly it's usually a team I vote against.
Marc
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Yet more evidence that party politics is in no way related to democracy.
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Well.. at the risk of turning this into a soapbox discussion, the real fraud is that so-called voter-fraud is being sold as a problem in order to justify new voter registration laws whose sole purpose is to disenfranchise as much of the poor and black vote as possible. Voter fraud is not a problem; never has been and never will be.
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It seems a local football (soccer) club has practiced their new innovative trick, the encrypted shot.
By playing encrypted shots to their team members they hope the ball won't be intercepted by other (opposing) players.
It would take 312 years for the opponent to intercept a shot to the forward players, if they even notice the ball was kicked at all.
Spectators will probably need to get used to not seeing the team play, but at least their shot-system is now waterproof.
It's from a Dutch satirical "news" website.
For the Dutchies: Spelers Cambuur gaan encrypted passes verzenden - De Speld[^]
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This doesn't make any sense.
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That's the joke 
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Apparently he durrent get it. 
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It's too cryptic, obviously.
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Yup!
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There are 2 kinds of computer users in the world:
Those who regularly backup data and systems images, and those who wish to gawd they did! 
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I took an image of my C drive yesterday after the news of the ransomware emails spreading through the UK press.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Do you pay a "wu mao" or two? Two upvotes for that looks very much like sock-puppetry, given that the person you replied to didn't get an upvote for actually saying what you only gave a thumbs-up to.
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I've been wondering about those upvotes myself? I've had nothing to do with it. It's not the first time I see phantom upvotes.
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... Aaaand even that gets an upvote.
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This is getting ridiculous! 
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You can have an upvote too - don't want you to feel left out
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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How DARE you upvote the kind of garbage that I spout!
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Here, have another upvote 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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Very humorous! 
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