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  1. Re:Online voting cannot be secured on Canada To Adopt On-Line Voting? · · Score: 1

    I think you are overstating the problem - in fact, I would say that it is easier to secure online voting than it is to secure online banking - because you can retain the status of "secret ballot" while publishing more information than would be acceptable in a banking system. It's simple: the government issues each voter a random id. For the voting process, (id+vote+salt) are hashed, the user gets their hash - and then at the end everyone's hash and the cleartext voting choice are publicised. Mr. malware can still change your vote and display in your client that you've voted for "your choice" but the publicly available hash-vote pair will show the truth and you can then report your vote was tampered with. Although I suppose that would open the window to post-election vote switching...

  2. Does not compute on Google Asks 'Who Cares Where Your Data Is?' · · Score: 2

    businesses should worry about security and privacy of data, rather than where it is stored.

    But the place your data is stored is directly relevant to its security and privacy...

  3. Re:Bitcoin - on Mint It Yourself With a Browser-Based Bitcoin Miner · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's since the last block - so, in the last five to ten minutes.

  4. Re:I just bought something better on Google To Offer Chrome OS Notebooks For $20/month · · Score: 1

    I always had problems with data breeches too, but then I switched to data trousers and was much happier from then on. :)

  5. A quote on the subject on Do Gadgets Degrade Our Common Sense? · · Score: 1
    I read this quote in one of Dan Dennett's books:

    Just as you cannot do very much carpentry with your bare hands, there is not much thinking you can do with your bare brain.
    --Bo Dahlbom and Lars-Erik Janlert (unpublished)

  6. Re:You shouldn't have to on Dollar Apps Killing Traditional Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Agreed, actually - I've always followed the advice of Guybrush Threepwood in the Secret of Monkey Island:

    "Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game."

  7. Re:One tiny flaw on Robots 'Evolve' Altruism · · Score: 1

    The article does seem to imply that the organisms are given the (pre-programmed) ability to be altruistic rather than evolving it themselves (they just decide how likely they are to be altruistic) - but what this study allows is observation of the sorts of conditions where altruism is valuable, and why.

  8. You shouldn't have to on Dollar Apps Killing Traditional Gaming? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your $60 game should be incomparable to a $1 game, in terms of both gameplay and technology. If it's not, you are Doing It Wrong.

  9. Silly ASA on CD Ripper 'Incites Law Breaking,' Says British Regulator · · Score: 1

    Silly Advertising Standards Authority, april fools' day was yesterday!

  10. Inner Platform Effect? on Google x86 Native Browser Client Maybe Not So Crazy After All · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Rebranding of FLAC on Apple in Talks to Improve Sound Quality of Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    They already have ALAC, which they'd probably prefer to FLAC.

  12. 47% of employees? on MySpace Lays Off 47% of Employees · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure you can have 47% of one person...

  13. It's a shame, UT3 wasn't that bad on Unreal Tournament 3 For Linux Is Officially Dead · · Score: 4, Informative

    It may have sucked hard at first, but after the various patches, UT3 has evolved to become a fairly decent game!

  14. With one condition... on FCC Approving Pay-As-You-Go Internet Plans · · Score: 1

    The fact of the matter is, data transferred outside of peak hours costs the ISP very little (approximately 0) per gigabyte; the pay-as-you-go charges should account for this.

  15. Re:Deceiving naming... on AMD Demos Llano Fusion APU, Radeon 6800 Series · · Score: 1

    This is because in the current generation, the top end ATI GPUs are the 58xx. With this coming generation they wanted the top end to be x9xx, so they have just incremented the second digit. 6870 is intended as a successor to the 5770.