This sounds more like the usual slashdot front page material. Someone forgot to mention that it also gives him the right to eat your firstborn - regardless of their age - but it is nonetheless much closer to what we usually see here now. It isn't funny, but neither were any of the April Fool's articles.

It's easy to say that when the person doing it doesn't have much of a chance of becoming your party's next spokesperson (again).

However I recall that your last POTUS used a tragedy (that killed even more people) to justify a terrible mistake that killed over 3,000 Americans and unknown thousands of non-Americans. I have never seen you criticize that use of a tragedy.

Is that your idea of an April Fool's joke? I have never heard anyone reach far enough into absurdity before to try to connect those two events. You have the freedom to hate on people that far and further, but there is absolutely no logical support between those two events. It is preposterous to claim that people angry over a pro-discrimination bill in Indiana would protest there to distract us from the email situation that Hillary is having.

By tasteless, are you referring to her calling Lubitz "deranged", or something else? Her monologue regarding President Lawnchair isn't much different from much of yours.

And for that matter I just saw some guy on google plus trying to resurrect the birther hysteria over him recently with new "allegations" regarding the Hawaiian birth. I'm surprised you haven't jumped on board that bandwagon yet.

We frequently have more profound conspiracy theories on the front page of slashdot than this. This not only isn't interesting but it also doesn't encourage immediate removal of President Obama. I find this disappointing, and I'm sure other slashdot readers do as well (albeit perhaps for different reasons).

This story isn't far off from some of the stuff that samzenpus typically allows to the front page.

I'm not sure how it is in her self-interest to disconnect others from reality; she doesn't need to recruit believers to continue to attract attention. It seems pretty clear that her presidential goose is cooked anyways, she just needs to keep bringing in enough attention to pull in revenue from the tabloids so she can land the fox news or reality tv gig that she aspires to.

Never ascribe to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest. She's not disconnected from reality, she's trying to disconnect you and me from reality.

She doesn't seem to be very good at it.

I would moderate you up if I could. This is worse than not doing anything.

That would be even harder to believe than an April Fool's joke claiming that slashdot still had readers before today.

Hey, it's hard work being a time-traveling Martian posing as the leader of the free world. Sometimes I'm bound to let go somewhere, I figured since nobody reads this site anymore it would be as good a place as any. After all, if someone else told you that I, the POTUS, read slashdot, would you believe them? Of course not!

While this does sound rather incompetent, A) it was probably written by a big private company, since our government uses contractors far more than it uses actual employees for most projects like this*, and B) there are insufficient data points to show that big private companies are any more or less secure, when dealing with similar data. Anecdotally, I'd guess private companies are just as bad or worse, or at least would be without regulations like HIPAA to force them to improve.

* I didn't RTFA and if it states this system was developed wholly by in-house staff I stand corrected. And also we should probably raise taxes so we can afford to hire competent in-house staff for our government.

Exactly. I've posted this before, but it's worth hammering in until more people understand it.

What used to be called fraud, perpetuated against a business by tricking them into selling something on false pretenses, has instead become "identity theft", perpetuated against an innocent third-party who has nothing to do with the transaction. It's so so very clever how the business community managed to turn that around and put the fault (until proven otherwise) and responsibility to clean up the mess on a third party, instead of on themselves and/or the actual crooks.

Oh, come on. You can do better than that. Really, as the time traveling alien that you know I am, I already know the outcome of the 2016 election. I could tell you what next year's September surprise will be, but of course then it wouldn't be a surprise, would it?

But as a time-traveling Martian, why would I ever endorse a pitiful earthling for president? Obviously I would only support the election of another of my kind.