This post is mostly for holmes_iv, <user site="livejournal.com"

[randomness]

But I thought other people would be interested also, so I'm posting:

Hacking the Papal Election
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0504.html#8

"when an election process is left to develop over the course of a couple thousand years, you end up with something surprisingly good."

Comments

[ddreslough.livejournal.com]

I misread this as 'Hacking the PayPal Election'...and I was all like "Huh!? Paypal election? What's that?" and then I realized it's *just* about the Pope, and not anything /really/ important like paypal. :)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

*snicker*