Well, *that* goes a long way towards explaining why someone with an MS in computer science doesn't know who Kernighan and Ritchie are. And why they're working here for $45k.

...a whale and a small bowl of petunias.

Even better -- they eat mosquitos. Something else that should endear them to us.

Interns are snake food.

Has anyone mentioned yet that this sounds like a stunningly poor idea?

From what I understand, the (Diebold, etc) are basically special-purpose embedded PCs or tablets. Now try this: take your PC, tablet, whatever, and put it in your basement for 2 years, then pull it out and try powering it up. Honestly, I'm surprised *any* of them work. I'm sure they're stored in better locations than my basement (at least, I hope they are), but even with proper storage, electronics, especially cheap electronics, don't age well. Batteries have basically a 4-year lifetime, whether or not you use them.

Paper ballots, machine and human readable. Spend some money for a few ballot counter boxes, instead of four to ten times that number of voting machines. You get automatic counting, machine readable totals and the indisputable, original, individual voter-marked paper ballots, which should always be the final authority of votes cast.

Technology alone doesn't solve problems. *Intelligent use* of technology can.

Same in my town, and its fun to have a bit of a chat with the ladies, whjo don't get paid for sitting there all evening...at least not much.

There will always be errors. Paper ballots minimize them.

My town uses paper ballots. Make your marks heavy and black, fill in the bubble completely...just like in grade school. Automatically counted, but the voter marked originals can still be counted manually. Voting machines are fixing a non existent problem. Just like voter ID laws.

This is going to come as a shock to those who believe that "God said it. It's in the Boble. I believe it. End of discussion."

On one hand, Religion, with its [many versions of the] One True Book of Divine Origin (which may not be questioned, even a little bit, on pain of death), filled with many tales of dubious historical accuracy and many internallly inconsistent moral pronouncements (you should NOT immediately kill all witches, homosexuals, and people who don't believe the same as us, even though the book says the Lord clearly instructed you to do this).

On the other hand, Science. Trying to come up with a logical explanation for how we got here and why those lights in the sky keep moving around. Also, why we get sick and die and how do we stop doing that?

And the guy who is in charge of [one brand of] the fairy tales, whose job it is to interpret them...is saying the fairy tales aren't all there is in life. Science and rational thinking, questions which can't yet be answered, and fairy tales are all important, but you have to figure out for yourself how important each one of them is to you. And while you're doing that, be nice to each other and help those who are less fortunate.

Maybe there is hope for this world after all.

If we can only ignore those guys who are convinced their brand of the fairy tales tells them to kill everyone who doesn't think the way they do... [sigh]...

Jordan is operating on a shoestring, paying in advance (with his customers' money) for units he intends to modify with his own code, then ship to customers. The results are not surprising.

We're using it to do a web page-based UI for a commercial product. The RasPi people are looking for commercial users, so we decided to try it out. It's far less expensive than other commercial SBCs, and being Linux based, it's a known quantity (no nasty proprietary OS or API to deal with), and the RasPi has a large user base, so hopefully, no unannounced obsolescence. Only drawback is that we need a HDMI converter board between the RasPi and the bare TFT panel. We still come in at around $200 for the entire display subsystem.

His huge testicals.
Soviet or US, those space pioneers deserve a lot of credit for taking those risks.

Not as long as fools keep giving him money. :-)

Oh, no...you see you don't understand...it's not a crime when *we* do it!