The first thing that I thought as well...here in Poland, the week starts on Monday. Almost two years here and this still throws me off.

I've never seen it. Starting to doubt it's even real!

xkcd :)

WOW. Just WOW.

Disclaimer: I'm brazilian, living in Brazil. I do not think we're anywhere close to being able to implement a solid online voting system. Too much $ involved to be sure of anything. Down here though, we use electronic voting devices on our elections. Our systems is simple, I guess: we go to our designated voting site, present the documents necessary to vote, go in, press some buttons, come out. The election results are tallied rather quickly too. I'm not entirely sure how safe that system is, but having literally million different machines is sort of a deterrent; I think you'd have to hack many of them, or have some sort of access to the tallying process or whatever, in order to sway votes any which way. In any case, I strongly dislike politics, so this is not a topic that generally interests me - even though I know how important it is.

It's very frustrating that, while having the company's interest at heart, you feel like you have to 'fight' for doing things right. To me, this is a clear sign that it's time to move on. I always try to do things to the best of my abilities / time-constraints / etc., and while I'm not above delivering code not 100% up to my own personal standards due to good reason(s), getting your efforts squashed every time because of people's idiocies and/or politics will drive me out of any gig very, very quickly. This is all personal, but my 2¢ would be: do your best with what you're given, honestly. If you get shut down for stupid shit, leave. Others will be glad to have you on board.

candy crush is addicting :x

This is a little crazy. How about recording only when motion is detected? That alone would save tons of resources, at the expense of a little complexity.

made me lol

hhhmmm...I never thought of bitwise operators as being the 'regular' ones; quite the contrary, actually.