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Sentinel: FBI information and MySpace ideas?

FBI MySpaceSo, you've heard about the FBI's $170 million snafu? Now, the FBI has contracted with Lockheed Martin, who will reveal their $400 million plans in October, 2006 to integrate the FBI's data systems in a project called Sentinel. If you think about the difference between the FBI's information systems, and the ideology behind a tiny little site called MySpace, you'll see the problem. I know, weird thought, but wait for it. The FBI's information systems are decentralized and non-integrated. Special agents cannot get the information they need because it is compartmentalized in different systems and data storage structures scattered all over the landscape, instead of everything being accessible, in the same place, and in the same format. Now, MySpace is no secure, robust, or bulletproof system to help stop criminals (that's actually funny), but the social-centric website is at least good at connecting different people, places, events, and information in a standard way, and despite page loading problems actually works fairly well. Not that special agents need a customizable homepage to wow their buddies over a beer after a big drug bust, but the new Sentinel system proposed by Lockheed Martin will aim to give agents a central location to access information needed.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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