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Journal Journal: Umm

previously on /.

Agent Alice: How's the covert electronic suveillance of Slashnerd 172441 going Agent Bob?

Agent Bob: Mostly just harmless anti-government raving Agent Alice. Chances of this dork ever belonging to any sort of revolutionary or terrorist group are pretty fucking slim I'd say. He'd fucking bore them to tears and they'd take him out and execute him themselves. I mean Jesus Christ he even encrypts his goddamned grocery list. He encrypts his personal journal. Like he needs to. Anyone reading it would stop from sheer boredom after a couple of paragraphs. The only thing that keeps me from shoving my Glock in my mouth and blowing my brains out is the porn. He may be a boring dork but at least he has plenty of stolen pornsite passwords. I run his packets though a filter and it snags out the images and video/audio streams and dumps them to a folder for me to peruse. Saves me from having to go find the stuff on my own.

Agent Alice: Pretty clever there Agent Bob since you're getting paid to monitor the subject rather than surf for porn. I bet you even named the folder 'Evidence' or someting like that didn't you.

Agent Bob: Of course I did.

Agent Alice: *chuckles* Keep up the good wood... er I mean work Agent Bob.

in the same thread:

Of course the people dont want war. But after all, its the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and its always a simple matter to drag the people along whether its a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.

Thats easy.

All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.

Herman Goering Nuremberg prison, 18 April 1946
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Journal Journal: Problems with electronic voting machines

Salon's.com election news column, War Room reports that early voters in New Mexico and Texas have already reported serious problems with electronic voting machines. Many computer scientists (aka Slashdot readers) have been very vocal about the potential pitfalls of electronic voting. A group of e-voting experts including Barbara Simons, perhaps the medium's biggest critic, has started a blog to interpret what potential problems might mean as the vote -- and mis-votes -- keep coming in. Are there any Slashdoters who may be interested in this virtual bug hunting/.interpretations?
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Journal Journal: geeks and poker

http://betfest.com/ from discussion:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/10/24/2146242

http://www.improving.org/paulp/
  http://www.hollywoodpoker.com/
prophetsplace.com
http://www.thepokerbookstore.com/page/page/858831. htm
wilwheaton.net
http://www.poker-babes.com/bio/paul-phillips/
  http://tiltboys.com/
http://www.philgordonpoker.com/index.html
www.rage.ws
thunderkeller.com

http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=126948&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&tid=127&mode=nested&cid=10616659

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Journal Journal: Wal-Mart to sell $598 laptop

Cnet reports that Wall-Mart is starting to sell entry-level laptops for under $600 (no rebates or cupons nessesary). The machine comes loaded with a 14.1-inch display, an AMD Athlon XP 1600+ processor, 128MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, a DVD-drive, Wi-Fi 802.11b and Microsoft's Windows XP Home Edition operating system, and a one-year warranty.
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Journal Journal: Magnetic recording has a speed limit

According to this weeks article in Nature, there is a natural limit to the speed at which data can be encoded. The Institute of Physics press release sites that "the maximum speed at which data can be recorded onto a magnetic medium is at least a 1000 times slower than previously believed according to physicists in the US and Russia (I Tudosa et al. 2004 Nature 428 831). The result - which was obtained using a high-energy electron beam at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) -- could have implications for future ultrahigh density data storage devices." Full article for those with subsription is here

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