You don't even have to root the laptop. Assuming you have (had) a vulnerable Web browser, you could write up a little Web app to sniff browser history. Find a good story that will take a while to read or a long YouTube video to use as bait. Write a convincing email about why you have to visit the site, then send it to your old address.

In the background, you can generate thousands of random URLs to see if they've been visited (using the link's color to determine if it matches your custom a:visited color).

Start with MySpace and Facebook.

Log them in a database (via Ajax) for review later on.

It's a shame you don't have ssh or vnc running on your laptop...

I wouldn't mind being president. Being an anarchist, I think I would be able to bring a lot of balance to the US government.

I would do everything I could to bring about actual change for the better by dismantling as much as I could, and letting common people run the rest, without the need for a bloody revolution (one which, by the way, citizens today would almost certainly lose due to the severe imbalance in power, resources, and ambition).

I don't claim to have all the answers. In fact, I don't claim to have any answers. I would lead by not leading. Since I would be doing so little, I wouldn't even take a paycheck. I wouldn't even stay in Washington, DC. I'd do exactly what I'm doing now.

I'd redefine the government drastically with the help of a team of brilliant liberal free-thinkers. They'd do all the work, get all the credit, etc. The end goal would be that the federal government, if it continued to exist at all, would solely act as an aggregator of ideas and resources. It would only ever exist to help and progress; never to punish or repress. The only "crimes" would be actions that damage society (that cause actual harm). Punishment of "crimes" would be left up to the individual communities that were damaged. Of course, I wouldn't define how any of this would work--I would leave that up to the people actually involved in the processes.

Essentially, it would be a peaceful coup, and all power would be given back to "The People". I would be completely up front and honest about all of my intentions while running for office.

I wonder if anybody really, truly cares about freedom anymore.

Democracy/freedom and poverty/hunger are not mutually exclusive issues. I'm sure that, with 1.5 billion people, China can manage to pool enough resources to multi-task and focus on more than one issue at a time.

Everything else you said is really just an attempt at justifying a perceived need for authoritarianism. Please understand one small, simple idea: There is never a need for authoritarianism.

I missed the memo. When was "interesting" made an objective word?

I'm getting really annoyed by people modding my posts +5, Interesting. Knock it off!

Where have all the mod points gone?

Don't you mean... it takes away less?

You'll be what?

I accidentally slipped a cocktail of poisons into your drinking water. Does that now make me responsible for (preventing) your death?

Agreed. It wasn't called "Nutscrape" in my office for nothing!

Quantum Leap, of course. What else?

What if they rip your eyelids off and strap you into a chair in the middle of an IMAX Dome theater? Will you watch it then?

I have no sense of humor and I can't handle the overall air of silliness that has blanketed Slashdot. You all suck for having way too much fun!

Won't somebody please think of those with Asperger's?

I'm going to go sulk now. LEAVE ME ALONE!

Netflix on the Wii is what I was waiting for before opening a Netflix account. Thanks, Netflix!