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Comment Re:Bad Public Relations (Score 1) 109

We wrote perhaps a 9 months' work in three days and you think publishers will mock this in an effective way? The PR has been enormously great and this gives the book even better chances to improve. :) Cleaning, editing and some graphics are still to be done, but it will still have been faster and better than our current books. And yet another great highlight of open materials which the general public don't really know about.

Comment Re:Rushed design by committee (Score 1) 109

It's going to end up being a steaming pile of crap, designed by a committee, rushed to finish. Why such a hurry? In my experience, great textbooks are labor of love of experts in the field with talent in writing.

It won't end up being a steaming pile of crap for a simple reason: it continues to develop for longer than this weekend. This sprint was a separate interesting idea from the book being open.

Comment Re:Slashdot Effect (Score 1) 531

... but where to mail the complaint? Many times I when I have wanted to post my opinion to some isntance or another i have only found that they have made it IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to contact them. They don't leave any path open for possible complaints. Go see EA.com yourselves. Where does it give you an email address to which you can mail your voice to? Nowhere. Not even under "Contact Us".
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Finnish E-Voting System Loses 2% of Votes 366

kaip writes "Finland piloted a fully electronic voting system in municipal elections last weekend. Due to a usability glitch, 232 votes, or about 2% of all electronic votes were lost. The results of the election may have been affected, because the seats in municipal assemblies are often decided by margins of a few votes. Unfortunately, nobody knows for sure, because the Ministry of Justice didn't see any need to implement a voter-verified paper record. The ministry was, of course, duly warned about a fully electronic voting system, but the critique was debunked as 'science fiction.' There is now discussion about re-arranging the affected elections. Thanks go to the voting system providers, Scytl and TietoEnator, for the experience."

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