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Comment Re:Rather shaky "proof"... (Score 1) 3
So, Republicans have been getting 8-10% more votes in larger districts than in smaller ones in Arizona -- that's proof? Only in wishful thinking of "progressives".
Not only in Arizona, no. He started his research in Arizona, and eventually learned that this is happening across the country. Obviously you did not RTFA (Or not well). And there should be no correlation between district size and voting results. For example, large cities often have a mix of large and small voting districts that are right next to each other, with very similar demographics.
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Comment Re:How Difficult Is It Really? (Score 2) 198
Yes. What you're missing is that the people making them/buying them didn't want secure machines. They wanted something they could tamper with.
I still have enough faith in humanity left to blame it on stupidity, ignorance, carelessness and greed.
Read this and then tell me whether you still feel like that.
Comment On the dangers of voting machines (Score 5, Informative) 245
To sum up the above link: An interesting phenomenon has occurred in every state of this year's Republican primaries. Votes appear to be flipped away from other candidates in favor of Romney, with a 99% correlation to precinct size. Although votes are "canvassed" (checked) after each primary, the methods used are primarily designed to detect vote stuffing, rather than vote flipping.
This phenomenon has recently been shown to be absent if you can get your hands on poll tapes from individual machines, rather than from voting tabulators (machines that count the totals from the various voting machines).
Voting machines are just scary stuff. More so since poll tapes are not always made readily available. Thankfully, a bill was recently introduced that would require poll tapes from individual machines (not just tabulators) to be made available by the next day following an election.
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Comment Re:Nullify! Jury Nullification (Score 1) 897
Comment Re:Dying from lack of surprise... (Score 1) 765
Furthermore, I suspect that he was being slightly hyperbolic when he said "always" making it worse. Few libertarians argue that all government is completely bad. The (federal!) government could get FAR smaller without cutting off basic services.
Comment Re:$599 plus $99 per year (Score 1) 614
It's true that you have to buy a Mac to code for iOS, but that doesn't mean other computers are free. And I don't think most devs are sitting around waiting for someone to retire an old PC, just to get a box to develop for android on.
Comment Re:8000 miles = Close shave (Score 5, Funny) 183
So the same as our tactical nukes ~ 750 KT, enough to wipe out Manhattan. Perhaps statistically the chance of hitting a major city is low, but if it does hit a city, it would be tragic and the stats would no longer matter. Even if it was a 1 in a billion chance, I'd be all for spending a trillion dollars trying to nuke it out of existence.
You work for the TSA, don't you?
Comment Re:Nostalgia (Score 1) 98
Then we played Zelda all night. My sister couldn't stay in the same room. The dungeon music made her so nervous she had to go to the bathroom!
When I got the GB version I was so excited I was shaking in the car outside the video game store. Definitely my favorite franchise ever.
Comment Re:Training for the future (Score 1) 515
This, like so many other school programs, is an egregious violation of the students' rights.
Not so. Most parents would happily sign a release if it meant not having to go through truancy charges.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that truancy charges themselves are a violation of an individual's right to raise his own children. Guess they already got to you!
Comment Re:Is it me (Score 1) 479
Is it me or this guy gets all the attention that should instead be devoted to the leaks' content? I bet most people following assange' ascention to stardom don't even read wikileaks.
I don't think of that as being a bad thing. The leaks in general draw attention to the US's abuse of power, but so do the US's (open) actions and statements regarding Assange and Manning.