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  1. Secret Ballot no more on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Postal Voting should not be allowed at all, forget 100%. Postal Voting does not provide Secret Ballot.

    Assume, someone is either paying your or threatening you to vote for Candidate X. At the voting booth, you could still go ahead and vote for Candidate Y without him being any wiser.

    This gets compromised in Postal Voting (and Internet Voting). The guy can make sure you vote for him.

  2. T-Mobile Binge On on Comcast Hit With FCC Complaint Over Net Neutrality Violations (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't T-Mobile Binge On also doing the same thing - http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/...

    Why are they allowed to do it?

  3. I find the Windows Phone's default swipe keyboard to be the best I have used. I find it marginally better than both HTC's swipe keyboard and also Google's keyboard.

  4. a religion, I might add, that is not generally known to kill people

    Not really true. The Sikh Khalistan terrorists assassinated Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India. They also killed a lot of others in India.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. I moved from Android to Windows on Hacker Cracks Lumia Bootloader, Offers Tool For Root Access and Custom ROMs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Been using a Windows phone for more than a year now. Won't go back to Android.

  6. Re:Green alternative on Why Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program Is a Bad Deal For Most · · Score: 1

    Let's just hope that Apple really recycles the old phones and not just reexport them to the Third World.

    Why?

  7. Normalization on MEAN Vs. LAMP: Finding the Right Fit For Your Next Project · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The fool thinks the only reason for normalization is to save space.

  8. Free Speech on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    How does this have anything to do with 'Free Speech' (considering the conventional usage of that term)?

  9. Biologically related? on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with 2 biologically related gay people marrying?

  10. New methodology GROWS on Is Agile Development a Failing Concept? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    First off, we need a name. A loose collection of good ideas doesnât generally get much traction in the world. There has to a be a name, a brand, to hang it on. Let's call it:

    The GROWSâ Method.

    GROWS in this case is an acronym, for GRowing Real-World Oriented Working Systems. It's an idea Jared Richardson and I (Andy Hunt) have been working on.

    New books to be written and sold, new training programs, new seminars. That's the reason there has to be a new methodology every decade.

  11. Product? on The World's Most Wasteful Megacity · · Score: 1

    What do they produce?

  12. Are they danceable cables? At 2750$ per meter.
    http://www.positive-feedback.c...

  13. Twins? on Winklevoss Twins Plan Regulated Bitcoin Exchange · · Score: 1

    They are both actually the same person.

  14. Security Essentials + MalwareBytes on Ask Slashdot: Best Anti-Virus Software In 2015? Free Or Paid? · · Score: 1

    Running Security Essentials + MalwareBytes for close to 5 years now.

  15. Re:Ten years? on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Companies Won't Be Around In 10 Years? · · Score: 2

    nVidia founders seem to be ex-Sun and ex-AMD engineers. They seem to have no connection to SGI.

  16. Re:Two can play on India Faces Its First Major Net Neutrality Issue · · Score: 2

    Will be difficult for Skype to take this risk - they aren't that big in India. But I bet that if WhatsApp blocks Airtel IPs for just 1 days, airtel would see 100% of their users typing up airtel's customer service lines to ask why they cannot access WhatsApp. But I doubt if WA has the guts to try something like this.

  17. Re:Home of the brave? on Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release · · Score: 2

    The car insurance people also probably said no to all those people who called them and asked them if they could park it in a theatre showing the movie.

  18. Joyent on Node.js Forked By Top Contributors · · Score: 1

    Joyent has made news before also.

    http://news.slashdot.org/story...

    They shut down paid lifetime accounts earlier.

  19. Re:Write software on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Starting and Running a Software Shop? · · Score: 1

    So just make sure you will understand it. Others need not.

  20. Voter ID on US Midterm Elections Discussion · · Score: 1

    Are there any other countries in the world which do not enforce Voter ID for voting. I am pretty sure most of Europe and Asia insists on Identification before voting.

    I am not an American. I was shocked when I first realised that the US doesn't need ID for voting.

  21. Fix on Vulnerabilities Found (and Sought) In More Command-Line Tools · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fix can be downloaded here.

  22. Re:Of Course it did on Michigan Latest State To Ban Direct Tesla Sales · · Score: 2

    Who decides what someone is worth?

    If there is a minimum wage law, it means employers may be forced to pay someone more than what they think that person is worth.

    If there is a maximum wage law, it means employers may be forced to pay someone less than what they think that person is worth.

  23. Re: Close vote on Ask Slashdot: Aging and Orphan Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    Most closed questions are closed by regular users not moderators. I think you need 3000 points as a user to have a close vote.

  24. Close vote on Ask Slashdot: Aging and Orphan Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    Then it was talked about briefly on stackoverflow in 2009 - http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

    I think this question is not right for SO. It can be closed under different reasons
    - Primarily Opinion Based
    - Too Broad
    - Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it.

    I don't have a SO login in this machine. But as soon as I get on my other machine, I am planning to do a close vote on this question.

  25. Spaces not tabs on JavaScript and the Netflix User Interface · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do your damn application logic on the server, as it is indented to.

    And use spaces not tabs.