I don't think I've ever seen such a load of crock as I've seen in the first 51 responses to this article. No one, and I mean, no one, seems to have a clue.

Or maybe I've just missed the sarcasm tags in every post.

Never heard of spoofing, I guess. Maybe that's why you want to trust on-line voting.

Or maybe you want to be the spoofer?

It has been noted above, but faith is supposed to be something that gets people to think about their problems and see what they can do for themselves first.

To the extent that atheism also helps people try to solve their own problems, atheism has value in God's universe.

For many people, the prayer for help is less for intervention than for teaching.

Part of the purpose is for the person praying to at least think far enough to figure out what kind of help is really necessary, and the usual result is help figuring out what to do.

Atheists can argue that meditation should be sufficient without having to brown-nose some non-existent supreme being, but that kind of misses the point.

Sometimes there are other things that happen, too, usually people (friends, strangers, even enemies) who provide just enough help, once the person praying has started solving the problem on his or her own. Atheists can argue that such people would likely help anyway, but that's also kind of missing the point.

"cuase dingbat" it's time to boycott.

Are we willing to take a few years of limitations on high-def and premium content to take a stand here?

If freedom really matters, it should matter more than the high definition or the premium content, etc.

Standard platforms are okay, but eventually we need to start working on tools to deal with the complexity.

We need a whole bunch of co-existent forks.

And some way to manage them all.

That's the whole point here, I think.

No, not really everywhere. Not nearly as everywhere as 68K (still). No where nearly as everywhere as ARM.

x86 is not really appropriate to embedded and real time. If the other processors which are tend to get tuned, well, x86 in embedded is going to tend to get even more special hardware.

Not the same x86, however, and that's really the problem we're trying to talk about here. (And failing.)

Those are blocks.

When you need a secret but verifiable ballot, on-line voting cannot provide either in a way that most voters can understand.

Not just hard problems. Not just NP Complete. We're trying to build systems based on internal contradictions here. You're trying to say that, with a little work, we can make a system where true equals false.

(It hardly takes any work at all to make a system that says true equals false. Different problem, however.)