If you're one of those people who absolutely must answer your phone no matter what meeting you're in, then this might at least avoid some embarrassment. You answer by pushing the green button, you push another button that plays a pre-recorded greeting in your voice to the caller that says "hello", then you decide to take it or not and push another button that either says "I'm in a meeting, hold on one second while I walk out of the room" or one that says "I'm actually in a meeting, can I call you back as soon as it's finished? Okay, thanks. Bye." And you never have to say a word out loud.
Electronic voting. Yea, even internet voting. Really shouldn't be impossible. Tom Scott says this is a terrible idea, but I don't think it's so unsolvable. The ways to cheat are: - stuffing the ballot box with bogus votes - counting or recording the votes bogusly - voting more than once or voting for someone else Voter confidentiality must be preserved. Here's my solution. - every voter must authenticate with some non-government system that 1) ensures user ID uniqueness 2) contains a method for contacting the voter (can be a form obscuring contact details) 3) creates a random code which is not retained by the system. This is easily done by Google, Facebook, or any tiny NGO. They would need to register and be subject to audit. - when a user votes, the data is logged in two public registers. 1) a voters register showing the person's user ID (or a unique variant from the authenticator) 2) a vote register showing the random code and how they voted
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