Thankfully I don't work for any of those slave shops. I knew I should have taken the blue pill.

Voting needs to give you a receipt. That receipt would have a hash encoded number that you could then compare to a publicly available vote count and verify that your vote was counted correctly. As simple as a .gov website with SSL that allows me to either download the entire data count or to enter a hash key and see the resulting voting.

It seems ridiculously simple to me. You can verify your own vote and tally all the votes yourself to ensure that the totals are accurate.

You don't understand, the winning system is using a midget to guess the outcomes.

Gambling means that the event has a significant random factor. Any course where the prof grades on a curve would prove to create random shifts in results against a class not graded on that curve. This is not a game of skill.

The majority of oxygen is generated at sea.

If these things can turn around huge profits and you write them ... then you can increase your own freak salary but using them.

My brother recently was convicted of bank robbery. He's currently in prison serving his sentence. His life is a sad story, but that's not why I'm posting this.

The reason I'm posting this is because he has access to Facebook.

So ask yourself, "Why would the federal prison system allow inmates to us a social networking system?"

The paranoid answers are more terrifying than I care to entertain, but the most obvious answer would be that they don't fear Facebook. That implies that they can monitor it... that the federal government has access to the information being stored in Facebook and more importantly wants inmates to show their connections and to possibly implicate others through the system.

What government in the world wouldn't want access to the information that Facebook has? Social networks at your fingertips? Messages that can be filtered for problematic content?

Anyone who seriously entertains the idea that Facebook has not bowed down before the government information community is deluding themselves.

Expect Facebook to continue to make headlines with possible privacy issues with advertisers while privately giving its information away to the government.

I didn't do it.

It's already under a huge DOS attack by the readers of Slashdot. There's no need to block it, in fact you should be attempting to load that page in concert with all the other members of the Slashbot.