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Government

Submission + - White House: Report Thought Criminals

GrApHiX42 writes: Regardless of how you feel about the health care bill making it's way through Congress, this white house blog post (.gov site, make sure your IDS is in gear) is a little scary.
"There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."
With the Patriot Act and the Einstein 3 program, and now this, are we going the road of Orwell? They want us to start reporting our friends and family that disagree with them? I guess we all better brush up on our Newspeak and Double Thinking. Come to think of it... why am I posting this when one of you might report me?!?!
Education

Submission + - An Old Man with a Computer Science Degree 1

GrApHiX42 writes: I pissed away my 20's and now I want to go to school and get a bachelors degree in computer science. The thing is, I'll be 35 when I get out of school and I've read on numerous sites that there seems to be some ageism going on in the IT industry when it comes to older geeks. What have some of the "older" Slashdot readers experienced as far as being replaced or just plain not getting hired because IT is a "young mans game"?
Security

Submission + - Quantum attacks worry computer scientists

GrApHiX42 writes: "In the weird world of quantum computing, the state of computer systems networked together is so fragile that a read access to a single quantum bit, or qubit, on one machine would require a network-wide reset. It's no wonder, then, that two researchers who are working on ways of defending against the future possibility of malicious attack assume that any unauthorized access to a quantum computer constitutes a catastrophic failure. Read more here."

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