this isn't rocket science... Why is it so impossibly hard to make an electronic voting system work right? I mean seriously... I honestly don't understand why it can't be done.
You speak of this like it's no big deal. This is a system that will elect the leader of one of the most powerful nations on earth. If you approach this the way you seem to be, the result will be a voting system that was designed like it was no big deal, one that is sub-par, not reliable, prone to fraud, delays, loosing track of votes, etc...
Until electronic voting process has achieved perfection, I'd personally prefer to stick with pen and paper. (No, I'm not implying that our current voting system has achieved this perfection, but whatever replaces it needs to.)
I'm not trying to troll, but the only other Microsoft MMORPG that I've tried was Asheron's Call 2, which sucked ass. I've heard that AC2 has gotten better now that development has been handed back to Turbine. Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, the more Microsoft pulls out of the already saturated MMORPG genre, the better. They've got better things to do.
Disableable? Remember the serial numbers embedded in the intel processors processors, intended to track people/hardware for more secure online business? They originally had the abilitiy to be disabled as well.... until someone found a hack that could pull the number from a system, regardless of wether or not it was "disabled"...
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That doesn't mean that we should hurry up and replace it as soon as possible with a system that is just as, if not more, screwed up.
You speak of this like it's no big deal. This is a system that will elect the leader of one of the most powerful nations on earth. If you approach this the way you seem to be, the result will be a voting system that was designed like it was no big deal, one that is sub-par, not reliable, prone to fraud, delays, loosing track of votes, etc...
Until electronic voting process has achieved perfection, I'd personally prefer to stick with pen and paper. (No, I'm not implying that our current voting system has achieved this perfection, but whatever replaces it needs to.)
I'm not trying to troll, but the only other Microsoft MMORPG that I've tried was Asheron's Call 2, which sucked ass. I've heard that AC2 has gotten better now that development has been handed back to Turbine. Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, the more Microsoft pulls out of the already saturated MMORPG genre, the better. They've got better things to do.
Disableable? Remember the serial numbers embedded in the intel processors processors, intended to track people/hardware for more secure online business? They originally had the abilitiy to be disabled as well.... until someone found a hack that could pull the number from a system, regardless of wether or not it was "disabled"...