The slogan that popped into my head from the headline was: G Gloves, USB powered gloves for the ladies, guaranteed to hit the spot

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Actually AJ.. that was exactly my point, and I believe also XiozTzu's.

I believe it would be *very* hard for an election judge to verify just prior to an election that any given machine had not been tampered with, and certainly *much* harder to verify than manual, or mechanical system. Hence I was interested in exactly *how* an election judge would do that.

I'm intrigued kbiel. How as an election judge (not a term we use over here) would you be able to tell if someone had altered this machine to count every 2nd Vote for Person1 as Person2 before you received the machine?

It would seem from the description that all you need is a little alone time *anywhere* on the machine's journey from the point of manufacture to the polling station and you can replace it's entire set of software with your own.

Hmm... a lot of that stuff was marked as an option... including ethernet...

It makes me worried for two reasons
1) Either developers won't develop for a lot of the potential of the console functionality as people don't necessarily have it or
2) People will be forced into buying a lot of tack on accessories to get basic functionality

My MS Intellimouse worked well for me in WinXP, has a tendancy to fall asleep in OSX, and take a while to wake up.

Other than that it's been great

To those who wonder "why wifi? why not just get a cordless?" It's because wherever you have a hotspot, you have your phone.

Be it at home, at work, at starbucks, wherever. Personally I am waiting for a WiFi Cellphone like the Nokia N91, and a symbian softphone. So if I'm not in WiFi coverage I can drop back to cellular.

-Qyiet