gewg_ writes:
"In case you missed your previous opportunity to get a Diebold Accuvote voting machine so that you could practice manipulating the American electoral system, Brad Friedman reports that there are now ES&S (Elections Systems & Software) voting machines available on eBay for $499.99 or 'Best Offer.'"
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sl4shd0rk writes:
"Bill Gates says everyone needs to prepare to be out of work in 20 years due to Robots/software taking over most jobs. In preparation for this, Gates recommends people 'should basically get on their knees and beg businesses to keep employing humans' and reduce operating overhead for businesses by 'eliminating payroll and corporate income taxes while also not raising the minimum wage'. Bill Gates, you may recall, is the former CEO of Microsoft whose business acumen has brought the technology sector such things as Metro, Windows Phone and Xbox One.
BusinessInsider took a similar theme earlier this year."
(Score: 2) by Boxzy on Friday March 21 2014, @08:26PM
Worthless crap, so, $1 (one) dollar.
Curiosity value minimal.
Go green, Go Soylent.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday March 21 2014, @10:47PM
What??
Plenty of value. Those bastards are like full kiosks. More than likely to have a 15" touchscreen interface, high quality enclosure, possible multiple other systems encased. Who knows whats actually running it under the hood.
This sounds like perfect material to start a MAME table top arcade cabinet with a touch screen menu interface.
Offer them 300 and I'm pretty sure you are getting a lot parts for your next project cheaply.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday March 21 2014, @10:49PM
Nevermind. I just saw the pics.
I would offer the $1 but that gets you two tacos.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Friday March 21 2014, @08:55PM
We'll be making sure NOT to use these for any official site polls :-)
Still always moving
(Score: 1) by bob_super on Friday March 21 2014, @10:16PM
Don't worry, if you were to inadvertently find a flaw, they'd just DMCA you...
Question: given what we've learnt about the NSA since the last election, why go to the polls when we know they can choose the winner without bothering us? It used to be just a silly conspiracy theory in the previous elections...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @11:20PM
On a slightly different tangent, Brad advises folks to register for an absentee ballot and walk that ballot into the meatspace voting place.
(Mailed-in ballots are the easiest to "lose".)
You're still subject to the vicissitudes of the poll workers and optical scanning equipment, but, in most places in the USA, it's the least-vulnerable way to cast a ballot.
--gewg_
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday March 23 2014, @03:17AM
That's how I've voted for decades, if only because I can't remember to mail the durn thing. Hand-delivery does guarantee it at least got into the system, if nothing else.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1) by The Archon V2.0 on Saturday March 22 2014, @03:04AM