Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea

And for those that can't resist visiting, maybe someone can screen scrap the front page and post it hourly to some other site so the "addicted ones" can at least monitor /. but not send it valuable traffic.

We've had only a few major redesigns since 1997; we think it's time for another.

Here is the crux of the problem. Who is "we"? Because it certainly doesn't seem to be the slashdot community, that's for sure!

Actually, all the PINs were decrypted and available quite a while ago.

OK so maybe not a tech cost but a ridiculous train ticket fee in some countries that I just don't get. Say there is a train journey from station A to C, and you must change to a different line at B. Example tickets:
A to C (not leaving the station at B) = $6
A to B, exit, enter again then B to C = $8 ($4 each leg)
How and why should exiting and rentering the station at B cost $2?
Japan has the best costing since you pay for the distance you travel. Simple, effective!

It's a sad day when a simple, fully documented (in FF it's History > Recently Closed Tabs), keyboard shortcut appears as a newsworthy post on the front page of one of the geekiest websites on the web. Is there an emote for a double facepalm?

So what is this referring to then? "Background Wi-Fi location still runs even when Wi-Fi is turned off" From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Bean_(operating_system)#Android_4.3_Jelly_Bean_.28API_level_18.29

Not saying this validates the use of the script but you can hide commands from your history very easily: http://www.thegeekylinux.com/2011/04/how-to-hide-command-from-commandline.html.

I use DDG because [a] it's simply not Google, [b] the CEO posts on slashdot, [c] they're clear about what they do and don't do, and [d] they have a cool bow-tie wearing duck as their mascot!

TGF-B: FTFY (well, at least linked to a site that can display "beta"!

I had ajax.googleapis.com still blocked and the site loaded fine. Just had to allow asus.com. Seems AC didn't check properly.

Also, how long until there are "plausible deniability" plugins for browsers that randomly browse the internet for you while you sleep? Increase the noise to signal ratio FTW!

And the "odd / chemical" village is shown as the "Nice Village" :-)
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=40.1131328&lon=93.9937019&z=13&l=0&m=w

From what I understand 11.10 won't have that option. So what are the gnome 2 fanboiz gonna do then?!

What a brilliantly written post. I've always had a problem with the [distance] / [fuel used] metric but couldn't explain why. Now I understand why, and you saved me a fairly useless upgrade cost to my SSD! Now if only /. would increase the [modpoints] / [user] ratio.....