You mean voter fraud like this? Or this? Or this?

Since you say that voter fraud is "well known" and "documented every goddamn election", perhaps you can share some of these documented cases that have been investigated and found to be true and describe the prison sentences the criminals who committed this fraud received.

But anyway, if you wanted to steal an election, I don't think voter impersonation would be the way to do it. Attacking electronic voting machines that have lax, minimal, or no security would probably be less risky and harder to prove if you attacked whatever logging mechanism was present.

I live in Massachusetts. The fee to get an ID is $25 plus a trip to a full service branch of the Registry of Motor Vehicles. In some cases, that trip would be a half hour or hour one-way trip (and could require paying for public transportation if you can't get a ride with a friend or colleague; the subway and/or commuter rail isn't free.)

Is "None of your damn business" an acceptable option for any or all of those questions? I think it is.

They threatened a pizza place called Olympia Pizza in Vancouver back before the 2010 games. [According to the Wayback Machine they only started using the rings in their website header in 2014.]

• They have some indication other than the whole body, like a large pool of blood or video footage of the murder that doesn't show enough detail to identify the murderer, that the phone's owner has been killed.
• The phone was not found until after the victim's body was buried or cremated, and even if it was buried it has been long enough that decomposition would prevent the actual finger from working.
• The police have the body, but the fingers were mutilated beyond the capability of the fingerprint sensor to recognize (say the victim was run down and their hands were crushed under the wheels of the car that struck them.) An extreme version of this would be if the victim was killed by an explosion like an IED.
• The murderer removed the hands and teeth of the victim to make identification of the body more difficult.

Hire a lawyer to write a (polite but firm) letter requesting that someone at Google contact his client regarding the loss of some of his intellectual property stored by Google. Have the lawyer's office (with its return address) mail it (postal mail) to Google HQ, attention: legal department. If you want, send a carbon copy to your local TV station's "human interest" department -- "years of a local artist's work destroyed by cold, corporate monolith Google" is exactly the kind of story they eat up, and a news crew calling Google's PR department for a comment may get the right attention even if Google Legal doesn't respond.

What rating would the prime minister candidate give this website? How about if the company that provides ads to be displayed on that page accidentally or "accidentally" slipped an ad for a pornographic website into the list of ads to be displayed? Would that change the candidate's rating? How about if a random commenter had posted a section of an ultraviolent story filled with graphic depiction of torture, murder, and cannibalism?

Tell you what, Ms. Leadsom. I'll name a website, and if you can rate all the pages on it for the next seven days and have the general population agree with 50% of your ratings at the end of the week, let's go ahead with your plan. I name the website Reddit, including all its subreddits. Your time starts now. Good luck, and may whatever deities you believe in (if any) have mercy on your soul (if you have one.)

Doesn't it? Consider something like DES. If you had a file on your system encrypted with DES:

In 1977, Diffie and Hellman proposed a machine costing an estimated US$20 million which could find a DES key in a single day. By 1993, Wiener had proposed a key-search machine costing US$1 million which would find a key within 7 hours.

and:

One of the more interesting aspects of COPACOBANA [a DES cracking machine] is its cost factor. One machine can be built for approximately $10,000.[26] The cost decrease by roughly a factor of 25 over the EFF machine is an example of the continuous improvement of digital hardware—see Moore's law. Adjusting for inflation over 8 years yields an even higher improvement of about 30x.

DES hasn't changed, but the amount of computational power attackers can bring to bear has.

Or to put it a different way: archers manning a castle's walls were a decent defense against melee soldiers ... but they'll do nothing but die when a bomber drops its weaponry inside the walls.

Maybe. But in this case better safe than sorry -- after all we don't want to piss off Big Brother or its bosses by potentially contaminating Europa.

How about sports?

Do we really need to pay people millions of dollars to hit a ball with a stick and run around in a big circle?
Throwing a ball into a basket with the bottom cut out?
Slamming into one another like rutting walruses trying to pound one guy carrying a ball into the turf?
Kicking a ball then chasing madly after said ball, with the occasional (bad) performance of "He touched me, I am slain!" ?
Or smacking a small white ball then walking towards where you hit said small white ball and repeating the process? Just pick the damn thing up and carry it with you!

Having a degree does not necessarily mean you're an expert in all matters. For instance, someone with a PhD in aerospace engineering (a true rocket scientist) is not necessarily someone I'd want performing my appendectomy. Maybe if it was Dr. Buckaroo Banzai performing the procedure I would, but he's a bit of a special case.

I thought that was something that only happened in stories about Ye Olden Days (like Robin Hood) but this is literally highway robbery!

How about ejector seats that launch passengers downward, encased in a floating bubble?

Remember the story of the handyman's bill. I have no doubt that most people could enter that command. It might take them a minute or two to hunt-and-peck but they are capable of typing it. That's the $1 piece of the puzzle.

Knowing that one way to obtain the software to download Youtube videos is to enter that command, that's another story entirely -- that's the $9,999 piece.

If this ever comes out, I give it five minutes before some drunk folks decide to try to stick themselves to their friend's car and go down the road at a high rate of speed for the thrill of it. Let's hope that flypaper is strong enough to hold at 50 or 60 miles per hour.