I hope this doesn't end up like those "free-to-play" online games where players can buy "premium content" for in-game advantage

Today, May 10, the Philippines is holding the presidential, legislative and local elections. It is the first time electronic voting machines are being used. I am wondering if the machines used are similar models as the ones being discussed in this article.

I guess so. Surprisingly, the word "cheating" only comes up twice in the Wikipedia article about Match fixing, and its localized to a single sub-article, which I assume is written by the same author.

Koreans will react the same way if this was American Football and teams were fixing matches to screw over betting.

Well, maybe aside from that, old players will never match the speed of young players. I guess this is them leaving their mark before their retirement, albeit a bad one. And also, that is, if Starcraft 2 does become popular. While what I know is mostly about fighting games, successors of the series really need to prove themselves in term of game balance and depth. Otherwise, these pro gamers will stick with the old version and leave the new games collecting dust.

You could have blamed it on a Wikipedia troll to save your math some face.

Saying abstinence is 100% effective is like saying window shopping is a 100% discount. Sure you avoided STDs/spending money but its considerably less enjoyable.

For having transformed a country's generation with celebrity nerds with APM that even the trading firms would choose to hire, Starcraft should probably be in that list also.

is really getting old. If the code is really useful and has a huge following, vulnerabilities get patched up faster than one can probably find exploits. Not only that, more eyes means more to detect and fix vulnerabilities before having a stable release.

And they'd still skimp on RAM like your average consumer non-super PC to keep grandma in pace

Won't be a gigaFLOP if it turns out later that your 'most people' can find a use for this.