Never mind, I just double checked, but should have done so for submit ;) Let's just keep it at that it was early for me...ok? :P

Actually I didn't read much at all, until they said you can use a calculater in the exercises itself :P So I guess I didn't fail the lazy test :P

I actually thought you couldn't use a calculator when you started cause I wouldn't know how you can get these questions wrong with one (unless you have dyscalculus). You'd suppose that a board member is able to get more right ;) Got everything right, of course. Oh well, who needs math when you are popular, right? :)

Sure, but it takes a lot of time to go through all comments off a popular topic. I generally like websites where comments/posts are moderated. I also don't have a problem where I have to trust someone, or a group of people, to moderate for me. If I don't like it, maybe the community isn't for me? But I am always open to new experiments, I don't know reddits comment system. I don't dislike slashdot's system much, but perhaps there's better out there, I don't know, not actively searching for it either :P

I have used ubuntu before, but for most of the games I wanted to play I had to hope for a OpenGl implementation so I could play it "decently" on it with Wine or just accept I bought a 200$ graphics card that would just play games on low graphical mode. This was not acceptable for me and so I switched back. When games will be serviced through browsers, then this problem might go away, although I think this might be some time off still. For now I'll keep to windows as it's the biggest platform for games besides the consoles.

There are a few reasons mentioned in the other replies. But I didn't catch one of the most interestings ones: It's not worth it. In the Netherlands we have an election every two years. One time for the national government, and one time for the regional government. The European elections are extra's. But a financial system or a military system are used day by day. The election system is only used occasionally. There will hardly be any competitors on the election market, because it's simply more hassle then it's worth. To create a tight and secure system would mean a very high investment with very low chance of returning your investment. Only one aspect could be wrong and your application would be ditched, just like the electronic machines mentioned in the article.

Of course the very weird and strict rules don't help either. (Weird as in, not normal in any of the mentioned systems).