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tommoose | 10 years ago | on: Florida Court Deliberates Manual Recount Problems with Touchscreen Voting

Isn't the requirement for paper recounts simply unnecessary with electronic voting?

It seems to me that the errors which a recount is attempting to correct are only inherent to paper (not filled in correctly, mishandled paper etc) and simply non-existent in a correctly implemented electronic system, and thus irrelevant.

tommoose | 10 years ago | on: Collateral Damage

Those who would class this move by Apple as the first volley in this war fail to have noticed the ad creep - sites are _only_increasing_ the amount of space per page allocated to advertising. When was the last time a site you visited reduced the number of ads?

The way I see it, ads are trying to do two things: 1. Monetise content 2. Drive sales/brand growth

Advertisers have tried to make up for ineffectiveness by increasing quantity rather than quality. If the focus was quality, everyone would win.

There's probably more to it, but more and more obnoxious advertising is a poor user experience; I don't think the audience will tolerate it for much longer.

tommoose | 11 years ago | on: Magic

This looked quite interesting and useful right up until it asked me if I /really/ wanted to close the page.

That's very poor negotiation in my books.

tommoose | 11 years ago | on: SpaceX Has Pinpointed the Problem That Caused the Falcon9 to Crash Land

The news on a radio station in my area commented on this, saying something like:

"...just like you recycle your milk bottles, cardboard etc. a company has tried to /recycle/ a rocket and it blew up...haha"

It made me sad since I knew it was SpaceEx, understood the complexity of what they're attempting and they reduced it to comparing it to throwing an empty beer bottle in a bucket.

I am relieved to see that SpaceEx is viewing it largely as a success/excellent learning experience; in my opinion they are by far the most exciting thing in science/technology at the moment.

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