Always great when a fellow Oklahoman does something wonderful.
Big shout out and congratulations to Carrie Underwood for winning this
year's American Idol.
To make this post a bit technical, American Idol had over 500 million
votes this season. Really not to difficult to handle from a
software point of view, but can you imagine the hardware
requirements? They had their problems during the year, with
constant busy phone lines and some other things. Why not allow
people to vote on the internet? It would be much cost
effective. Sure, people could vote more than once. You
could help that out by setting/checking cookies and IP address.
Nothing keeping people from calling in more than once on the phone
system.
Just think, if you were owner/operator of that internet voting system
and charged just 1 penny for each your system had to handle.
Overhead, I am guessing, would be less than that of a phone
system. Pretty simple to write from a software point of
view. So why not do it?
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