Unreflected trust

[ewx]

[Poll #582350]

Comments

[kjaneway.livejournal.com]

Trust no one...

(my other, and more widely used online name is dkscully...)

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

My grandma used to say, among other things:
"Never trust a man who wears white socks"
"Never trust a man who has ginger hair"
"Never trust a man who tells you his address".

[gerald_duck]

Hmm. Do you know digitalscurf's address? (-8

[mair_in_grenderich]

do blank forms get counted? I want to trust everyone!

[imc.livejournal.com]

No, they don't.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Whaddaya mean "a smiling mathematician"? The only mathematicians with smiles on their faces invariably claim to be physicists (cf. Feynman and my friends who are lecturers at the Physics department at Sheffield Uni).

Though in the case of the Sheffield lot I think it's the subsidised real ale in the staff club that keeps them happy.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Who are all these people voting in your poll who would at any time trust a computer? And what are their usernames?

[sparrowsion]

Of course I trust computers! Programmers, sysadmins and software companies are a different matter.

[gerald_duck]

Eight and a half years as an I.T. manager say the bare metal can often let one down, too…

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I wanted to vote for you twice, but apparently can't.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

When I am El Presidente Dictator-for-life, everyone will vote for me twice. Without even the inconvenience of going to a polling station.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

It's like the trains running on time, but even better; I don't have to do *anything*. This is cool.

One man, 120 million votes! :)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

And think how much tidier the ballot papers will be thanks to pre-printing the vote.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Pre-print the *results*.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

That too, but one has to do these things properly.