I believe it says that the QR code only shows that 1) you voted, and 2) that your vote was verified as counted by the elections board. It said nothing about showing who you voted for with that QR code.

You do realize that the software in question is open source, yes?

As TFA mentioned... the app used in the caucus was a case of "testing in production"; doing that is obviously a very dumb thing to do. Pretty sure that MSFT has been smart enough to test the crap out of their current product before putting it to use in a (way the hell smaller and far more realistic) test case of a small Wisconsin town's election.

Seriously - the two are not only apples(MSFT) vs. oranges(Shadow), but more like apples vs. ebola-laced-plutonium-inserted-anally-with-force.

At least the odds of it being taken down on /. and the poster cancelled over it is up around, oh, Powerball territory...

The ol' non-RTFM dupe-factory might have faults, but aside from one specific instance in its entire 23+ year history (due to a court-issued C&D, IIRC), they haven't taken anything down that I'm aware of.

Well, you got the middle part right.

Now sorting out design, long-term implications, structure, a style that makes sense, enforcing documentation, having to do what QA used to do (but that position doesn't exist in most places anymore, because "Agile!" and "Fail Forward!"), and knowing all the fun idiosyncrasies of a given language... those aren't skills that just any idiot can just run with, Ion Storm be damned.

Err, $50k in SeaTac is poverty wages thanks to cost-of-living - that alone puts a big, fat damper on paying 17% (pre-tax or take-home? Either way that's gotta suck.

I do okay with it - my team is spread across five time zones and three continents, and it's a pretty slick method of ensuring clear un-accented communications in real-time.

As long as you don't pollute the channel with non-related crap (or just have a separate channel for that), it's a very decent tool.

I should mention that I keep it off to one side in part of a monitor separate from my main working monitors (for a total of two externals and the laptop screen). That way I can toss my eyes over at it on occasion, or not. It honestly does not get in the way, simply because I don't let it.

I always wanted to recycle the term "Glasshole"...

In all seriousness though... what compelling case did they make for this? It's one thing to willingly violate one's own privacy (e.g. Alexa and various IoT devices), but violating everyone else's? Sounds like an awesome way to get disinvited from parties and pretty much any other social event.

(no, really, you stay out of my car and my place until you ditch the glasses, dweeb.)

I doubt it even does that.

The moment you buy something, you have to give up a name (which can be gleaned from your billing info), a physical address, an email addy, and often a phone number. Sure, you can go to outlandish lengths to scrub a lot of that info (pre-paid debit card + burner phone + rented mailbox + quickie gmail thingy), but unless you feel like living as if you're in a witness protection program, odds are good that your information will make it out there to at least one retailer. That retailer in turn bundles and sells your info and poof, there you are, ready to be traded like everyone else. I suspect that only the really massive corps like Amazon won't bother selling your info to anyone else... at least that I'm aware of.

Think of it like DRM and how well that doesn't work... then realize these folks are basically selling you a means to DRM your info.

So, unless you end up living like a hermit and buying everything in-person with cash, there's not much these startups can really do to help you stay private (at least that you can't do on your own to an extent). Now if you want to pollute the data and jack the signal-to-noise ratio top the point where no one knows for certain if you are really you, that's a whole different story entirely...

To be fair, it is a good prediction of where the party faithful's collective mind is at.

Now the rank-and-file? Not so much.

C'mon, your UID says that you should already know that dupes are as common around here as water molecules are within the hull of RMS Titanic...

...now. Wait until the convention when things get chaotic. I'm not saying there will be a Brokered Convention, but...

Thinking the same thing, but a question or two still lingers...

...all the candidates think they won (their internal polling numbers say so!), so it likely didn't have the effect that was intended. Also, how will they similarly bungle NH and the 47 other states along the way? At least in 2016 it was a one-stop shop called "superdelegates", but they willingly bunged that up after the party base went all pitchfork-and-torchey on them over it.

Oregon does vote-by-mail. Most other states have you voting in your district/precinct, which usually has all the difficulty of getting to your neighborhood's school or community center, which you can do while commuting to work if you get out of bed early enough (or do on the way home, FFS). Oh, and if all else fails, you can, in every state in the union (and every territory), mail in your vote early with an absentee ballot, or just show up at the county/city courthouse up to two-three weeks early and cast an absentee ballot in person if you want. Military stationed overseas on deployment (or even anywhere else in the US outside of their home district) can vote by way of absentee ballot w/ their unit's voting officer.

Seriously - you have to actively avoid voting these days, and anyone with an IQ above the temperature of tap water can vote without being overly burdened if they want to get it done.

PS: If you waited in line for three hours? You need to take it up with your local elections officials, because *they* set up the voting precincts. If your city is run by left-leaning people, well...

This, big-time.

Back in the 1990s and early 00's, Gaming MODs were the lifeblood of many online multiplayer twitch-games. I daresay that without MODs, Quake(1, 2, and 3) would have been a mostly-ignored footnote, and not the legend that it became in gaming history (there are STILL pub servers for Quake 3 out there operating just fine, 20 years after the thing came out, and most of them run MODs.) Without MODs, Valve's Half-Life would be another ho-hum game... but thanks to the Counterstrike MOD, another legend was born (and allowed Valve to gain enough moolah to eventually come out with Steam and become its own juggernaut - go figure, eh?).

Blizzard has almost always been not a gaming company, but an assembly of douchenozzles, so I'm totally not surprised here. I just wish they'd hurry up and die already... and I hope that anyone out there even thinking of doing a MOD stays well clear of that shop's products.