STFU, perhaps. But wouldn't it be wonderful to hack our government to effect change in same (think wikileaks meets The Daily Show). We could have transparency

STFU, perhaps. But wouldn't it be wonderful to hack our government to effect change in same (think wikileaks meets The Daily Show). We could have transparency via open source tools and translate public knowledge to public action. All we need are public records for every public penny spent in an open format. There might be some difficulties in getting that....