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Comment Some questions (Score 2) 72

- Who runs the nodes of the blockchain?

- Agora's whitepaper says that you vote remotely from your phone. Is that the only mechanism for voting? Can the voting be done at a poll booth? If so, is there a voting machine which transfers the vote to the blockchain? What prevents the fraud from happening before the vote is transferred to the blockchain?

- Voting remotely means that secret ballot is not guaranteed. If someone threatens or bribes you to vote for a particular party/candidate & the voting is done at a booth, then they will never know who you actually voted for. However if voting is possible remotely, then this secret ballot is not guaranteed - this is the same for vote by phone or vote by mail or any such thing. The person threatening or bribing you can be by your side when you vote.

Comment Crowdfunding == suckerfunding (Score 1) 166

If I were a conman, I would hang around crowdfunding sites to harvest suckers.

When a bank or venture capitalists funds a product or company, they make money out of it if the product is successful - they take a risk with an upside. In a crowded funded product, the funders are fools who don't partake in the success of the product in the off chance that the product is successful.

Comment hunter2 (Score 5, Funny) 234

<Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
<Cthon98> ********* see!
<AzureDiamond> hunter2
<AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me
<Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> *******
<Cthon98> thats what I see
<AzureDiamond> oh, really?
<Cthon98> Absolutely
<AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
<AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you?
<Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
<Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> awesome!
<AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw?
<Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
<AzureDiamond> oh, ok.

Comment Will never buy a Microsoft OS Phone again (Score 1) 114

I own a Lumia 525 for the last 3 years. It came with Windows 8 & then it got a 8.1 upgrade. Over the last year, MS has dropped all support for it. Outlook is available on Android (even the older ones) but not available on Windows 8.1

My workplace integrated some kind of external 2FA with Office365 & it works on Android, iOS & Windows 10 but doesn't work on my Lumia - because it requires Outlook. The default mail app which comes with Windows 8.1 doesn't support this.

So though I love the phone & the OS, never again will I buy a MS OS Phone. My next phone is most likely a Nokia or a Moto.

Comment Chrome == IE6 (Score 3, Insightful) 205

Chrome is at a position which IE6 used to be. They don't care.

They first killed NPAPI plugs so that Java Applets don't work. So we moved to JNLP. Then they have a bug by which JNLP cannot be autolaunched in Chrome like it can in IE & Firefox. So if it's a weblaunched JNLP, users have to save the JNLP file & then run it which is troublesome for a lot of lay users. This bug exists for 4-5 years & there are multiple bug ids for it. But it never get fixed. Then there is another bug by which when you save the JNLP files after 99 JNLP files - no more can be saved & or run.

Chrome doesn't care to fix these bugs because what do they lose if they don't fix it.

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