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Comment Re:The Real question... (Score 2, Interesting) 227

Would this prove anything? It seems like the candidate / party that people voted for might be correlated with their willingness to verify their votes on this third-party website. How could you be certain that the people checking were truly representative of the voting electorate? If I got all my friends who voted for Kodos to check on my website, and you got all your friends who voted for Kang to check on your website, and Ross Perot set up his own website, couldn't we all claim that our candidate actually won? It still wouldn't prove that any fraud had taken place.

Comment Re:"bluetooth uses less power" (Score 1) 152

In terms of the iPhone, my understanding is this: the WiFi system is only on when the phone is active (lit screen). Nothing ever wakes the iPhone by WiFi. I don't feel up for testing it because I'm not at home, but you can check this by trying to ping your phone when it is asleep.

Yep, I used to have a jail-broken iPhone, and in order to SSH into it I had to turn the screen on to enable WiFi. Once I had an active connection with it though, turning off the screen didn't kill the WiFi. I think it's the same with any background process - if the email app is updating, it will finish up even if the screen isn't on.

Comment Silver bullet impact (Score 5, Funny) 398

"These are very slow acting," Plowes said. "It's more like a cumulative impact measured across a time frame of years. It's not an immediate silver bullet impact."

Well of course there's no silver bullet impact for zombie fire ants, but if we need to get rid of some werewolf fire ants, the silver bullets might do the trick!

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