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Comment Re:Some five years too late! (Score 0, Troll) 214

I'd mark that as flamebait, but ok... Somehow I doubt the C64 app was or will be a major selling point for the iPhone. And considering the iPhone was launched in 2007 it'd be mildly surprising if the C64 app had been developed 3 years before the phone existed, making your Symbian comparison completely nonsensical. Your hyperbole is silly.

Comment Re:No way will Apple allow BASIC (Score 1) 214

This is also why you're stuck with the games the app comes hardcoded with.
And the selection is abysmal.
Dragon's Den, Le Mans, Jupiter Landing, Arctic Shipwreck and Jack Attack...

I'd never pay money for those terrible "games". Not even SID-music in them.
Sure, they promise to add more games "later". We'll see about that.
Even public domain games would've been better than the crap they bundled.

Comment Re:Usability Glitch? (Score 2, Insightful) 366

Not sure it undermines democracy. If by democracy you mean "get the counts right".

Paper ballots have to be counted by people. Lots of people. People are error-prone. And people could have agendas. Even if the risk that 1 person is making a mistake is 0.005% the risk is increased a if you have 5000 people counting votes. (It's not linear, but I can't remember enough of the statistics course to tell). This is the reason you want machines to do the counting. It's what computers do best. At least properly configured.

Using e-voting has nothing to do with "instant results", except that it's a bonus. It's to remove the uncertain, and boring, task of vote counting. I.e. people.

And is e-voting that expensive? Really? Compared to having thousands of workers and supervisors spend hours upon hours counting and recounting paper votes? I doubt that.

After the initial cost of the e-voting system, including bug fixing and so on, it's a "cheap" and re-usable system. Salaries of the error-prone workers probably outweight maintenance costs by a factor of ten. E-voting is a long term investment and staring at the initial costs is useless.

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