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This week, we blew up our smarthomes, warded off a nasty Microsoft bug and talked tough about Google. Here are the choice quotes: Failing company HP unveiled a new logo for its Hewlett Packard Enterprise business. CEO Meg Whitman was rather proud of the rollout and explained the deep meaning behind the interlocking 't' letters …

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  1. Efros

    Re electronic voting machines

    Paper and pencil beats 'em hands down.

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    1. BasicChimpTheory
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      Re: Re electronic voting machines

      As someone who has spent some time counting up the pencil-marks on bits of paper in elections, let me tell you that you'd have even less faith in the bulk of people who put their hand up to partake in such activities than you might XP. Maybe Vista, even.

      Shook my faith in democratic process almost immediately.

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      1. Michael Wojcik Silver badge
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        Re: Re electronic voting machines

        As someone who has spent some time counting up the pencil-marks on bits of paper in elections

        Mark-sense is a pencil-and-paper (or pen-and-paper) system, is automated, and in methodologically-sound tests consistently performs as well as or better than other approaches. Pencil-and-paper doesn't mean "counted manually by human readers".

        And mark-sense counting machines can be simple electromechanical devices - easy to audit, relatively difficult to subvert.

        While there are computer-based voting systems that offer advantages over mark-sense (such as Rivest's ThreeBallot), they're difficult to explain to the average voter and suffer the same implementation problem (where will you find a reliable vendor?) as other computerized voting systems.

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    2. imanidiot Silver badge
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      Re: Re electronic voting machines

      The US is again a bit slow compared to other parts of the world. AFAIK most other countrys have already stopped using the electronic machines (or have never started) as there are simply NO manufacturers who can build machines that meet the criteria for manipulability and reliability.

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  2. Doctor_Wibble

    Not actual footage

    The bouncy woman in the tin bra is not part of the game.

    It says so in micro-dot lettering at the bottom of the screen, exactly where you aren't looking, you filthy perverts.

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  3. adnim

    Truths

    There is the truth, then there is the unspoken truth, then there is the half truth and then there is the unspoken half truth. There is the unknown truth, then there is the unspoken unknown truth, there is the unknown half truth and then there is the unknown unspoken half truth...

    I guess what I am trying to say is there is very little to no honesty where selling product is concerned.

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    1. Christoph
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      Re: Truths

      What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising?

      Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public;

      ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

      -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson, "Discovery", 1964

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