...the Raspberry Pi board, you know, that $30-35 "PC" that not needs a keyboard, mouse, SD card, TV, case and power up ply to be usable as a desktop...

What makes his project not cost efficient IMHO is going to be the collection and testing of recycled modules.

Also, the CPU needs big and fast memory, and plenty of I/O bandwidth to do useful stuff. Not typically the stuff you find on a cell phone.

Maybe not your cellphone...

Check out the HP Stream 7 tablet - $100 for a 7" tablet with full Windows 8.1 and 12 months of Office 365 for the tablet and ANOTHER PC (2 installations). But, oh wait - it comes from a traditional computer manufacturer - will they go under or ride the wave?

Because it "stifles innovation" - you certainly can't expect start-ups to play by the same rules as the companies they are competing with, can you?

Reminds me of one version of the "pro net neutrality" argument - if you allow existing companies (with their massive resources) to pay for improved bandwidth to customers, then how will the under-funded start-up ever compete? You must tie the hands of the entrenched companies to give their competitors a chance...

It's not like they are running a business out of their car... Oh wait.

We have restrictions on running businesses out of the house, there should be similar restrictions for running a business in your auto.

The real issue will be when a "personal use" driver damages his car (and potentially a paying passenger) when involved in a traffic accident AND the driver's private insurance refuses to cover the damage and any ensuing lawsuits.

Good luck with pushing [Windows] 8 to the corporate world... it's about as adoptable as an angry badger with syphilis.

Why would a corporate customer choose to install Windows 8 when Windows 10 is just around the corner? MS will still be pumping out FREE security updates for Windows 7 for 4-5 more years, certainly long enough to wait for Windows 10 SP 1...

We are constantly told that millions of poor, minority, and women voters are incapable of securing and retaining photo ID to allow them to vote in an election that requires state-issued ID, how in the world will these same voters wrestle up the where-with-all to set up a secure Bitcoin identity, and be able to successfully vote by holding on to said Bitcoin identity?

Will setting up your required Bitcoin identity require voters to prove their identity? That's RACIST!

How can your politics be so screwed up that both houses are run by the opposite party to the president in power.

Because every candidate in the House is up for re-election every two years, accounting for 435 discrete elections, the Senate has 1/3rd of it's members up for re-election every two years, resulting in 33 discrete elections, and the Presidency is up for re-election every four years.

Why would you imagine such a process would result in all three having their majority be the same party?

No, what he said he was (and this is staggering) it takes to long/it's too hard to do the research, WRITE DOWN his choices, then head to the polls and vote!

Apparently, the ability to do his research with his ABSENTEE BALLOT in front of him, marked as he decides is also too hard - maybe his mom refuses to take his mail tithe mailboxes?

Question: Let's say the tabulated election results and a paper trail/audit trail are different, which will be used for the "official results"?

If we always trust the audit trail, then why even tabulate the results?

If we always trust the tabulated results, why have the audit trail?

If 'it depends' then on what does it depend? Which party stands to gain from a particular version of the results!

The only response that makes sense with inconsistent election results is to hold a new election... Are you prepared to hold a second election, considering the time it would take to (for example) print new absentee ballots, mail them out, then wait SEVERAL WEEKs for those absentee ballots to return?

U.S. election laws forbid the creation of a 'receipt' that lists who an individual votes for, because to generate one would allow voters to (provably) 'sell' their vote.

Voting needs to be easier? How is it in any way hard now?

You can register to vote during many ordinary interactions with government (motor voter laws).

People can solicit your registration and deliver it to the government.

The polls in some localities are open for WEEKS because some people's schedules are so onerous they can't find the time in a given 24 hour election to vote.

You can vote by mail via absentee ballot, in most cases the only reason needed is a desire to not go to the polling station.

You can request absentee ballots be sent to you in perpetuity, never requiring you to ask for an absentee ballot again.

Campaigns will drive to your house, pick you up, and deliver you to your polling station if you ask them to.

Campaigns go out and canvass hospitals, mental institutions, and even prisons to 'dig up' voters that can't make it to the polls.

You can register to vote on Election Day in many localities... No waiting period.

And you don't even need to remember to bring ID to the polls, unless you live in one of the two dozen or so states that require state-issued ID to vote.

Where is the onerous burden that Bitcoin-based online voting addresses that is not equally-well addressed by the current absentee ballot programs across the country?

dial-up modem

Where? There's a good chance the company that provides your local phone service isn't the same one that serves my house...

I find it hard to believe your local switch doesn't support pulse dialing - did they just upgrade the local switch (doubtful) or stop offering it as a 'service' (more likely).

given enough hands it will never, ever, lose...

That is the exact claim every person with a gambling problem says - it is also the exact same principle that has funded countless casinos...

The code that truncated years to two digits (Y2K bug) or relied on the epoch clock (2038 bug) were not designed to work past year 1999 or 2038, try were built with limitations that were accepted by the developer, testers, and users - even if they didn't understand the trade-off they made or the self-imposed self-destruct mechanism they hard-coded into their program. In effect, they were designed to fail, so I guess one could argue they 'work as defined', they were just poorly defined.