The major problem with this is not that the scales used anothe system I think... The problem is that they claimed to use the "official system" but didn't.

If you claim your scale measures 1kg , but it's only 900g , then it is fraud. If you say your scale measures 1 ASMU (Arbitrary Stupid Measurement Unit), and it follows the definition of 1 ASMU, then it should be fine... though, nobody will want to do business with you.

Actually, a good online voting scheme can be rather secure against extort or buying votes.

The idea that is employed to achieve this is roughly this: Everyone gets at least two sets of credentials, one "correct" and one "fake". All votes cast with fake credentials are ignored. For anyone except the tally authority , it is impossible to distinguish a vote cast with fake credentials from one cast with correct credentials. This allows users to fake a vote, and become coercion resistant. The only way to beat this would be to monitor each individual 24/7 till the voting is closed.

Together with other cryptographic methods, this allows a rather secure voting system, and it is even possible to prove that the voting was correct. The major problem is: it is highly unlikely that a secure online voting system will be used, as it is rather complex, and most government people do not even understand the problems of online voting systems.

Interesting enough, it's not apples market share that is important for this. Apple is just a very high visibility company. Dell offering BlueRay would be ... a company having it. Apple having it usually means everyone goes on a "must have" run, cause everyone sees "whoa apple has it we need it too". It has been like this with a lot of things (there were smartphones before the iPhone and tablets before the iPad...). It's not about market share, it's about exposure.

Part of the genius that garrys way is: The error message will quickly be identified as not a real error by anyone who has a tiny bit of knowledge on graphics.
Additionally, he made sure to make fun at everyone that asked for help. This is the important part, as he said he doesn't expect this to be secure, he just wants everyone to laugh at the pirates https://twitter.com/garrynewman/status/58109191595892736

That would just be a bit annoying for the moderators there. two reasons: 1. they check if the steamid is really pirated (garry has a list of all purchasers through stream) 2. they only ban your account on the forums... so how exactly would that hurt anyone?

No matter why he retweeted it, I think it gives a legal way to share the masterkey. Sharing the screenshot of that tweet, for whatever reason can't really be banned, as it is officially posted by sony... At least that is my limited understanding of this. (ianal) Could anyone who knows more about this explain if it is so, or why it might not be?

Additionally, even if there were no limit there is a problem with this: if you can pay when the fire happens, someone could start a fire insurance like this: ask for 74$ a year, it pays the firefighters if you need them. problem: there is no money to pay the firefighters on watch, the equipment and so on, if there is no fire. the money is needed to run the FD, not having it at the beginning of the year makes. Running a service with startup costs as high as a Fire-department, you either need an investor, then it would become really expensive, or pay up front, so there is money to pay for it.