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Comment Re:$35 a year (Score 1) 86

No, they actually do mean 7 accounts across as 7 different Switches. The family plan is the way to go if you have friends and/or family who also own a Switch.

Also worthy of note: only one account on a Switch has to have a paid online subscription in order for all accounts on said Switch to access the online service.

I don't interpret their language the same as you do for the second part. Each online subscription is tied to a separate nnid. If each local switch account has a different nnid, you have to pay for each one. What reference do you have to assert your second statement?

Comment Re:No software and no storage? (Score 1) 108

What problem is electronic voting solving that paper ballots have not solved?

This has been described above a few times. The problems are obvious because they have been exploited throughout history. The simplest one is if the vote talliers favor one candidate, when they see a ballot that votes for the other candidate they invalidate it by surreptitiously adding a mark somewhere and then that ballot has to be thrown out. Electronic voting is trying to make the talliers unbiased and have no way to invalidate ballots.

This is just one example of a problem it is trying to solve.

Comment Costs to NYUTuition (Score 3, Insightful) 167

I would be very interested in seeing the books on this program after a few years. The school realized it would not take much fundraising to cover their costs of educating the students. Note they do not have to cover the tuition they charge students; only their costs.

These days since colleges and universities have turned into money printing machines instead of educational entities, the difference between tuition and how much it actually costs the schools is so large they determined let's raise the money to cover our costs and live off the PR of providing free tuition. They have basically admitted the difference between the two amounts of money is ridiculous in this day and age.

Comment No way (Score 1) 244

The statement contradicts what the company told me and fact checkers for a story I wrote for the New York Times in February. At that time, a spokesperson said ES&S had never installed pcAnywhere on any election system it sold. "None of the employees, ⦠including long-tenured employees, has any knowledge that our voting systems have ever been sold with remote-access software,"

You mean to tell me some corporate spokesdrone would LIE to a reporter and not until their feet are held to the fire by legitimate legal power would the truth come out??!!

Shocked, I tell you. I am shocked.

Comment Re:Reinventing the (square) wheel (Score 1) 86

If you bothered to read the article you would learn they specifically discuss this. Their model is more advanced and actually realized the previous understanding was too naive and simplistic. The bubbles do not totally collapse but break into a wide variety of sizes and it is the collapse of bubbles in a specific range of sizes that creates the sound.

I suppose when Einstein published his theory of relativity you would have commented that this has been known for hundreds of years by Newton.

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