I believe it was Robert Heinlein who proposed a voting system where the potential voter was first presented with a question to answer, or a quadratic equation to solve. Only if the answer was correct was the ballot revealed.
Variations on his own theme included paying a set amount of gold, to be refunded if the answer is correct. His most extreme version had the curtains of the polling booth automatically open to reveal an empty box if the answer was wrong.
I tried this, and then entered a garbage domain.
All it does it take you to
http://www20.search.rogers.com/not_found
which offers you the chance to "opt in" again.
Grrrr.
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And where does Cricket Liu fit in all this?
Each level of education has it's place.
Each level of education has its place, indeed.
Transposed SSN?
Don't American SSNs have checkdigits to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen?
The way my Canadian SIN does?
This Canadian agrees.
I believe it was Robert Heinlein who proposed a voting system where the potential voter was first presented with a question to answer, or a quadratic equation to solve. Only if the answer was correct was the ballot revealed.
Variations on his own theme included paying a set amount of gold, to be refunded if the answer is correct. His most extreme version had the curtains of the polling booth automatically open to reveal an empty box if the answer was wrong.
In the UK he'd probably say "You've got post".
Did this, and unsurprisingly got taken to http://guide.opendns.com/?url=www.fjldskjfsdf.com [That's not a surprise, right?]
I tried this, and then entered a garbage domain. All it does it take you to http://www20.search.rogers.com/not_found which offers you the chance to "opt in" again. Grrrr.