SMACX come alive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGCaACqy1Ro

Should have voiced it with Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang

Spot on!

Apple i perfectly capable of cracking your device. They are not fighting for privacy. They are fightning for the appearance of privacy because it is good for business.

It seems to me that either they follow the legal requests (which they are) or they get their shit together and create a phone that is actually secure.

Forget it and find a real problem to worry about.

Contributing. Sure. To that list I would add just about every civilized country (including my own) for not recognizing and acting on the threat of radical islamic terrorism. It is a disgrace. We should have stomped out these rats long ago - it would have helped if the reasonable muslim countries and communities had been a bit less accomodating of their own religious nutcases.

And that is the murdering bunch of facist, misogynist, islamic assholes, that uses bronze age stories to justify the slaughter of innocents.

Fuck him for suggesting otherwise!

Thinking that microservices is a silver bullet.

This idea surfaces every now and then. It certainly has its uses and no doubt there are scenarios where you can beat the mythical man month.

Look no further than the sorry state of email today. This problem was fixed 25 years ago:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Digital_signatures

One is almost tempted to think that someone is trying to keep private communications open and accessible...

I do not know you financial situation at all. But my wife and I were in a similar situation a couple of years ago. And it basically boils down to two things:

1) You are parents. That means sometimes doing things you do not particularly like to make sure that your kids will have a reasonably stable upbringing - aka you can pay for stuff.

2) Regardless of what you do, it is easier to get the next job if you are employed.

No matter how you end up dealing with your situation, remember your wife. Help her, listen to her and be there. In a year or two you will have moved on, and this will just be another story to annoy your kids with.

Best of luck!

I do not know:) Perhaps, if you somehow could create a trusted and platform to run it on, educate the voters enough to both verify their vote and the election process itself (the blockchain and the platform). None of which is trivial, but I guess it is not impossible

The point remains however: What have you gained apart introducing a lot of complexity?

No good reason. Except perhaps that a perfectly implemented system (if such a thing is possible, so far none has been devised) would be faster.

Apart from that, the paper version is:

Cheap,
Reliable,
Repeatable
Extremely hard to rig on a large scale,
Well tested
Durable,

And most important of all: Easy to understand and audit by a layperson.

Many slashdot readers are well versed in CS and we do not trust these systems. How then can we expect the public to have any faith in these systems?

If the many CS guys out there really want to help, they should think out algorithms for sorting that are efficient, precise and can be done by humans - preferably with some error correction built in. It will not make anyone rich, but it may just keep a bit of faith in elections

It is a tool. Like any other tool you apply it when your skill and experience tells you to. I belive the term commonly associated with this is "professional".

Give it a couple of weeks and Snowden will be labeled a pederast and it will play over and over in the news until it is true.

Could some of the more rebellious elements be persuaded to send some of the plant seeds to Europe?

You should spend whatever time you have left looking forwards not backwards.

Accept that a wedding is for her and about her. Ask her what she wants and give it to her.