Estonian dude

I got the one where all 5 novels are in the same book. Yet to start it, but can't wait to dig in tomorrow. I don't want to read a book when I have just half an hour or an hour. I want to read a lot at once, lose myself in the experience, otherwise I miss half the pleasure.

Dune was good. Bought me Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's a shame I haven't read it yet, but now I hope I will have the time to indulge in it in a few days time.

I don't drink as much anymore. Ain't got time nor money. And having a girl reduces the need for going out aswell.

I don't know what you are talking about, but we are gonna have 5 seimfinlas. And we still need some votes and replies for further pics.

I see I am still not in the lead. Have I failed you with the current nominees?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I'm up at 6.30 AM after finishing job at 11 PM and just drinking since. Yay!

Mother[bleep]ing Spotify Discovery Weekly.

Wow, I did not expect that.

Dunno if I've had this here, but I liked it like a year ago on Hype Machine and I got the original on my Discover Weekly today.

The winner of this tournament will be crowned Miss Hottie 2016, and you guys get to choose the winner by voting on the contender you consider hottest. QUATER FINAL 5 AMERICAN SWEETHEART TAYLOR SWIFT VS SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPEAN DANCE QUEEN INNA TAYLOR SWIFT INNA Start voting now! And if anyone here knows who Inna is, I'd buy him a beer.

If we'd vote for pics, muggi would win, hands down. Would be even more of a landslide than Kerr vs Whiteley.

Wow, I even got votes. However, it is pretty much a nailbiter :D

Is it only me or does it give everyone nearly only Indian actresses? And most of them not even hot for my tastes? (India has different standards of beauty than me then, I suppose) I have no idea why it would suggest me that, I use all sorts of blockers by default and am not logged in to google in a browser like ever. And based on my search records it should show me the ones already nominated, did quite a bit of research on them...

I find it pointless to argue here with people who need to hire lawyers to do taxes while it takes 2 clicks to do them. I might be simply spoiled by living in pretty much the most digitalized country in the world. Man how my birthday was awesome. And I am still a bit hungover.

It's funny how everything turns to nationalism now on a completely unrelated topic. You said electronic voting sucks and would never work, and I brought up why it does work. And I can't help but be patriotic. I have lived nearly half of my life abroad. Yet I love it here.

Damn, I am finding it difficult to choose good nominees. Any suggestions, please PM them to me.

Wow, that previous post was to completely wrong thread.

Because it only matters if you pay tens of thousands of people $100, and none of those tens of thousands of people tell someone that you're doing it or even that you offered. You can get some anonymity with the internet and like bitcoin, but nothing like the anonymity of malware on people's machines. Especially public machines, like those at a public library, where probably lots of people are going to go to vote. I mean, you can get other governments involved in the malware and then it's really trouble. Better hope Estonia doesn't piss another country off enough to pay for malware creation. Wow, didn't expect that brought in. The cyber defense center for NATO is located in Tallinn. We were pretty much the first country in the world that had to deal with a massive, full-scale digital attack on pretty much every service in the country. In 2007, Russian cyber attacks took down nearly all digital services in the country through unprecedented DoS and hacking attacks. No card transactions could be made in stores, not to even talk about any internet banking for three days. It was the first governmentally coordinated full-scale cyber attack in history. We pioneered the defensive systems now used by governments around the world. Our government services are attacked pretty much constantly by Russia, even though with varying intensity. And who the [bleep] would want to vote digitally at a public library? We are pretty much one of the most digitally developed countries in the world, everyone and their grandmas have computers. And you can vote at nearly every public library on election day on paper anyways. Estonia is a forum of 10 users using phpBB with plain-text passwords. It's not secure, but no one bothers because the potential is useless. The United States is... PayPal. A prime target with an immense amount of potential. Targeting an individual PayPal account is worth it, just like targeting PayPal itself. Do you see the difference? (Also, "homeless fellas" can't show who they voted for in the USA. Buying votes is very difficult because the buyer does not know. I could take $100 and vote for the opposite, and it's simply my word.) As we are a full member of NATO and the European Union we have shitloads of classified information Russia, China and other not so friendly forces would pay a lot of money to acquire. We can veto pretty much any development in the whole EU. And the EU is a lot larger and richer community than the USA. You may be Paypal, but then we would be equal to Visa. Again, I tell you that Estonian ID-systems or parts of them have been more-or-less also taken to use in lots of other countries, including Germany. If it is secure enough for Germany, then I think it is secure for anyone. And the point with the homeless guys I brought up is that otherwise they would not have voted at all. For a bottle of vodka, they don't really care, and will vote for the one that was asked for.

Holy shit it was crazy last night. I am now 22, which is officially the last cool age. No more birthdays until 25... But yeah, got home at 8AM, couldn't walk straight, and me parents came at 10AM, while I was still absurdly drunk and well, they were pissed :D

Saying that the thing is fundamentally flawed is wrong. It works. It has worked for multiple national elections now. Last time over half of the votes were made electronically, afaik. There still is the issue that there ain't that much to gain from hacking our votes, but still, it is a whole country in EU. There is the incentive. I still think that the person is easier to manipulate than a computer. How can you verify that everyone who votes for the "right" candidate on paper isn't getting $100 just around the corner from the ballot station? Ok, well it is a bit extreme example, but still, the point remains. And I do know of cases where homeless fellas have been bought off to vote for a bottle of vodka.

Gonna be fun today and tonight. And Estonia's system is using the ID card as a key. Can't vote or sign or do anything without it.

That report is from 2011. We've had major re-organizations of the system, whole new versions of ID-cards and a government agency now working separately with the ID-system. Some issues may still persist, but there haven't been any major hacks or data leaks from the system for over the 10+ years it has been available.

Regarding online voting, here in Estonia pretty much everyone has 256-bit encrypted physical ID-cards that have to be inserted to a card reader connected to the computer you are voting from. For outside attacks, there ain't powerful machines yet to decrypt the data and it is absolutely anonymous for everyone. The system has been compromised since it's beginning in 2008, but subsequent releases of higher encryption and bug fixes have made the system pretty freaking reliable. The software looks shitty as hell, since it has been the same thing already from like 2005 earliest versions, but it works.

Whelp, we've had online voting for nearly 10 years now.. ID card is the thing.

Been awake and up and running for 24 hours now, of which I've been a full 15 mins at my house switching on my suit. Had surgeon's appointment at 8 AM, then baked cookies for girls for Women's Day for hours, then organized the event during which we gifted those cookies. Then came choir practice. Then I visited my girl, brought her some flowers and cookies and stuff. And finally, starting from 11 PM I got the night shift at work today. Managed with just one energy drink and I am not falling apart right now yet (probably will in 15 mins though). At least I am free until Friday now. Which happens to be my birthday :P