Not if you use a properly coded laser.

Yeah, but I'm sure that for everything up until the trial, being a lawyer would provide several advantages, especially being one of the US's foremost lawyers in the field of "defense against unfair overreach by incredibly wealthy/powerful entity".

--The FNP

You're forgetting that Landell Hobbs admitted that heavy users had no effect on TWC's network and profits.

Don't drink the kool-aid.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/time-warner-cable-profits-on-broadband-are-great-and-will-grow-because-of-caps/

yeah, what about those of us who
a) don't play WoW;
b) have a girlfriend;
c) don't live in our parents' basement;
d) take regular showers;
e) less than 40% of our body weight is excess Cheetos and Jolt;
f) can actually have "normal conversations" with non-techies.
g) et cetera . . . . .

Is this achievement system designed to make us revert to wearing pocket protectors?

--The FNP

See the problem here is that you were doing this near Cincinnati OH. If you had been doing this at Burning Man, everyone for three miles would have come running, some of them already naked.

--The FNP

Because those of us who have been following along with the RIAA and MPAA and Pirate Bay and Microsoft and Psystar and the EFF and Apple and AT&T and Verizon and Comcast and every other technologically relevant entity who can hire a lawyer and a PR person has now given us a basic understanding of the way these cases work.

Ray may have already helped me skip the first year of law school, just because of the sheer volume of information he has provided to the /.ers who have been paying attention. If you're new here, read his blog archives and get an idea of what he's already contributed to the community.

--The FNP

P.S. I apologize for feeding the A.C., but I've got Karma to burn.

They could have been caught much sooner if the machines had been using a paper trail. My local machines print out each selection as it is made. Then if at the ballot review screen I change a vote, then it prints that on the paper trail. So if even 10% of the paper trails from a single precinct shows significant and consistent changes at the review screen, that's a huge red flag!

If the machine had a paper trail, the 2002 election could have been the only one that was affected. And the 2004 and 2006 elections would have been unaffected. As it is, it took over three election cycles to catch these guys, ***BECAUSE THERE WAS NO PAPER TRAIL***.

As for the question of how did they catch these guys, there are any number of methods, including, the wrong person talking; or an actually smart and observant voter who was waiting in line and noticed that they were given incorrect instructions and the poll workers seemed to be spending a lot of time in the booths after each voter; or a candidate being asked for bribe money; or a poll worker being approached to join the scam; etc, etc, etc, ad nauseam . . .

So the people who say that the voting machines will always reflect the will of the voter are idiots. I don't think that the machines need to be fully open source, but they need to be certifiably as secure as possible and part of that includes independent penetration testing and a paper trail ***AND PAPER TRAILS SHOULD BE REQUIRED BY FEDERAL LAW***

--The FNP

Right, because this wouldn't confuse the poor bastards in KY who couldn't even follow the directions on the screen after they pushed the "Vote" button that clearly told them that they had to push the "Cast Ballot" button too.

I'm fine with not having a receipt (except for my collection of "I voted" stickers) , but my polling place has ES&S machines with the additional paper trail module, and yes, I do check the paper trail after each selection.

--The FNP

Actually, it clearly says that WW and CW were the Democrat and Republican election officials for a certain precinct. Meaning that both Democrats and Republicans were in on it.

--The FNP

Go look at the Interwebs and see the Bomb Shelter BUS STOPS they have in areas bordering Gaza and the West Bank. It's not just the rockets, its the fact that Isralis are living in a land where when they hear the rocket warning alarms, they have mere seconds to be inside the nearest bomb shelter. These people are as trained in what to do when a rocket is incoming as members of the US Military and they have daily "drills".

Shouldn't you use putrescine or cadaverine to ensure proper levels of horror and distaste in the sheeple, I mean, human test subjects, when subsequently casting a mere gaze upon the logo of the defeated conglomerate?

Also, congratulations on assassinating SpongeBob in a manner practically guaranteed to get you arrested by not only your local cops, but the DHS, FBI, and probably also the BATF.

I hope that when Mom ventured and was greeted with "Look mum, I'm watching Lord of The Rings in ASCII art!", she could recognize that as the ultimate geek cry for help. I hope her next impulse would be to run to the phone and call the producers for Queer Eye for the FUCKING HOPELESS!

Yeah, I mean this is /., where you get modded up for not reading TFA!

--The FNP