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Web reading: Lost frog reminded me of L's r land shirt with the "Loss Cat" poster with a silly humanoid cat face. Wired thinks brands are dying. Break-up lines from philosophical schools. Legal Aid describes a shift in current "removal proceedings". An economist's millenium project aims to eliminate poverty on a fixed budget with specific aims and technologies in mind.
Voting machines sucking. The technology isn't ready if this kind of thing happens frequently. Basic technology already exists for detecting these kind of errors, and it is used in the Internet. You encode some data, and if it gets altered you are notified that an error occured instead of getting some random result (adding votes to one side or another). The code at work needs to be checked and rechecked before going live and affecting our political process. And as dankamongmen pointed out, there are cryptographically secure methods of guaranteeing each vote (technical) is counted that don't endanger the secrecy of each ballot.
Most links courtesy boing boing or wired.
Voting machines sucking. The technology isn't ready if this kind of thing happens frequently. Basic technology already exists for detecting these kind of errors, and it is used in the Internet. You encode some data, and if it gets altered you are notified that an error occured instead of getting some random result (adding votes to one side or another). The code at work needs to be checked and rechecked before going live and affecting our political process. And as dankamongmen pointed out, there are cryptographically secure methods of guaranteeing each vote (technical) is counted that don't endanger the secrecy of each ballot.
Most links courtesy boing boing or wired.