Don't mean to troll, but... Those who say that kind of thing are people who live in relatively cold places. Come live in really warm places and see how much of a difference global warming is making.

It is closer chemically to gold, therefore gold would be a good starting place.

I love Apple so much. I guess Craig will finally be able to ship my Pandora with the money he's going to get from the suit against Apple.

Hardware costs? The only real difference is the hard drive and I don't really believe hard drives are that much expensive. In the third world, it might actually be harder to cope with the increased internet usage demanded by this type of system.

Brazilian newspapers say that the power plant was offline for like 10min, although the main problem was an issue with the distribution lines.

I find it highly unlikely that the power plant with the second highest generation capacity in the world can be totally shut down from the internet.

Not if they have been politically appointed, something very common in brazilian state-run companies.

Give me 1/10 of that and I'm out of Google forever and ever.

But, as I tried to mention, last time I checked (last elections) there was no assurance the signed binaries were actually the audited code. There's noone auditing the compilation of the binaries.

I still have serious concerns about the current voting system. Heck, last time I heard, the version which had its source inspected by the Supreme Court wasn't necessarily the final version. If they don't really know what's in there, who does? How hard would it be to bribe someone in the company. And, worse than technological flaws, are always the human flaws. Cases of people who work at the polling stations (they do unpaid compulsory work) voting for people who didn't vote are not unheard of. Besides, the statistical samples taken to avoid frauds are VERY, VERY weak.