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You can't just send an email with your vote in it. They're allowing scanned copies of absentee ballots. It's no less secure than absentee voting in general; they'll check the names against the voter rolls just like they do when you vote in person.

On a laptop, for sure, the SSD is a good buy. HDDs are ridiculously huge these days and very few people actually *need* a terabyte of storage on their portable machine. What they do need is the best possible battery time, and hybrids aren't any better than traditional drives for that.

"We're way behind in the app game. How do we encourage developers?" "Whatever you do, DON'T LET THEM WRITE ANY APPS!"

Write a piece of wild speculation with no actual information about the way the next Apple product will look.

My girlfriend and my pelvic bruise disagree with you.

You can't implement a voluntary privacy feature as on-by-default. Everyone will just ignore it. Microsoft is run by hooting baboons who simply simulate the ability to run a large company through monkey-mimicry.

Acer, along with Toshiba, has by far the worst warranty support in the business. But unlike Toshiba, who have been improving their reliability scores over the years, Acer still uses bottom-shelf parts. These are still the only two companies that won't overnight replacement parts to a qualified technician, and instead send them seven-day mail. Acer is only worth buying if you upgrade like a madman or you can stand being without your machine for a couple of weeks. And every time I say this, someone jumps up to say that they had an Acer and they loved it, and that's fine. Your N is one. My N is greater than a thousand, and I can tell you with certainty and actual statistics that Acers break down like crazy. The only worse are Gateway and HP. Et voila: http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/17/reliability.study.has.apple.4th.place/ Also, don't buy Gateway or HP.

English lit prof asks "is General Relativity really necessary?"

Chemistry prof asks "is studying a foreign language really necessary?"

Math prof asks "are supply/demand curves really necessary?"

Because the only thing that could be better than pure oligarchy or pure anarchy is a blend of the two.