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Some_Group: Hey guys, let's attack Anonymous! It'll make us rich if we can hack them, an our security can stop their counterattack, right?

That's the wrong way to attack anonymous, since it's a direct threat.

A better way is to misdirect them, and thus make Anonymous look like those who harass innocent people. It may also reduce the number of "good" activists willing to join Anonymous, or encourage bad elements to continue doing that.

It's seems their "facial recognition algorithm" has categorized me as a "stalker" and "potential date-rapist"!

Oh, just date rapist, not a forcible rapist? Don't worry, half the chicks out there (the ones who vote Republican) won't see that as red flag.

Let's not forget this: Google won't allow the co-inventor of Unix and the C language to check-in code, because he won't take the mandatory language test. Quote: Legendary programmer Ken Thompson, for example, was required to prove his mettle at a programming language he himself co-invented before Google would deploy his programs. He never bothered, at least not by the time the book Coders at Work was published.

The worst crime in history is allowing DHS to exist in violation with the constitution in the first place,, which has now digressed to the crimes (each one is separate) committed by banksters with no oversight. While reading, keep this fact about DHS vs Constitution in the top of your mind, everything comes from 911 and DHS and the missing 2.3 trillion the day before

(From that pdf let's just get right to it then)
STATEMENT OF
JASON WEINSTEIN
DEPUTY ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL
CRIMINAL DIVISION
BEFORE THE
COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME, TERRORISM, AND HOMELAND SECURITY
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ENTITLED
“DATA RETENTION AS A TOOL FOR INVESTIGATING INTERNET CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND OTHER INTERNET CRIMES”
PRESENTED
JANUARY 25, 2011

My opinion is this all has gone too far back when the nsa fios splitters were found out. This is another attempt at an "Internet ID" , a man in the middle attack. It's another cog in the end game, which is to shut up the truth while tyranny reins in. Clearly they need this cog to build lists to round people up.

... Hand me the taser, I smell that nasty camel nose in the tent again.

a 27-year-old former Google engineer repeatedly took advantage of his position as a member of an elite technical group at the company to access users' accounts

Although SREs are probably a privileged subgroup and ordinary feature engineers do not have access to all data. Elementary measure, but when did Facebook ever care about your privacy?

Dumb fucks....

If you pause the video at around 0:42 you can get a fairly good picture of the guy filming this in the reflection on the screen. I have heard rumor that Apple has sequenced the several seconds that his image appears and have created a pretty good image of the culprit. Monitoring of the various clandestine networks across Asia and the Middle East have uncovered price tags in upwards of six figures for his capture and delivery to Mr. Jobs himself.

Considering that one of the "related stories" on Gawker is how hot the incoming Congress is, you MIGHT want to pick a better news source than that.

No other news source is reporting any details on the suspect yet, but what is reported suggests that he's foreign, since he shouted something in a foreign language. That IS known.

Interesting, one of the by-standers, who helped hold the gunman down, said he was white and clean shaven. Where did you hear he was hispanic?

"The gunman was young, mid-to-late 20s, white, clean-shaven with short hair and wearing dark clothing and said nothing during the shooting or while being held down, although he struggled at first."

http://gawker.com/5728501/arizona-congresswoman-shot-outside-grocery-store

Maybe Manning spoke at length to Lamo about being a closested homosexual, and the frustrations that came with it, especially being in the military?

Some of the chat logs that are out there have hints from Manning about that. One interpretation of the chat logs, where he says he didn't like the fact that pictures of him would be him "as [a] boy", is that he wishes he were a woman. What would be the point in releasing that information other than to create a sensationalist headline?

Not only that, Gawker seems to have an ongoing battle with Wikileaks, Assange, and anon via posts like this and this. They also appear to be taunting anon to hit them if they can... looks like they got what they wished for although as the saying goes, any publicity is good publicity... especially for the Gawker media empire.

Not only that, Gawker seems to have an ongoing battle with Wikileaks, Assange, and anon via posts like this and this. They also appear to be taunting anon to hit them if they can... looks like they got what they wished for although as the saying goes, any publicity is good publicity... especially for the Gawker media empire.

I just have one concern though -- the fact that everything you do is stored in the cloud. This means zero privacy.

Relax, you don't have a thing to worry about according to Eric Schmidt.

Because today's megacorp does in fact have 100 BILLION dollars!

Of course they don't - but that is what they are valued at, which of course takes into account likely future earning and not just cash on hand.

So, somebody looking to do industrial sabotage isn't trying to get a payment from the company that they're taking down. Instead they probably work for a government that wants to see the company go down so that some other company can take its place (think nationalism). They wouldn't ask for a ransom - they're not doing it for a payout - they win if the company goes bankrupt. The programmers themselves of course don't win big - they're just collecting salaries like anybody writing software for a living.

I think I could get a $100 BILLION dollars if a couple of these guys chip in.

Some from these people

And of course these people could cough it ALL up as well as
these guys

Just say'in.

No actually you just assumed the wrong article. What I was referring to was this...

http://gawker.com/5471943/why-netflix-wont-be-the-hbo-of-the-21st-century

Several others have been posted recently as well, mainly pointing out that the current deals allowing streaming to piggyback on existing licensing will be mostly dried up by 2012 causing netflix to have to compete with the big boys like hbo and showtime on a more equal footing as far as costs go. The current deal with Starz for instance was signed for an amount that is barely more than what HBO pays for a handful of films from the major studios.

The initial source of the military leaks - Bradley Manning - shows why "Don't Ask Don't Tell" is a sound policy and that Manning should have been dismissed. Not only was he openly protesting homosexual political causes while in the military (and posting about them on Facebook) but he had also assaulted and officer in Iraq. This was clearly not a person who should have had top security clearance. According to the New York Times even past classmates and employers described Manning as erratic:

“He would get upset, slam books on the desk if people wouldn’t listen to him or understand his point of view,” said Chera Moore, who attended elementary and junior high school with him. “He would get really mad, and the teacher would say, ‘O.K., Bradley, get out.’ ...He was hired and quickly fired from a small software company, where his employer, Kord Campbell, recalled him as clean-cut and highly intelligent with an almost innate sense for programming, as well as the personality of a bull in a china shop.

Add to all this the fact that Manning was gender dysphoric (easy to see why from his cruel father and dysfunctional family) and felt he was a woman in a man's body. GID (Gender Identity Disorder) is still an official disorder (but probably soon to be dropped as one due to political pressures)

http://gawker.com/5571388/was-wikileaker-bradley-manning-betrayed-by-his-queer-identity

'Is Alleged Wikileaker Bradley Manning Pre-Transition Transgendered?
http://gawker.com/5568351/is-wikileaker-bradley-manning-pre+transition-transgendered

Aggravating the situation even more is the fact Manning was discussing his problems with bisexual hacker Adrian Lamo - who friends say may have been goading Manning on in order to get info and acquire notoriety for himself.

"Was Wikileaker Bradley Manning Betrayed By His Queer Identity?"
http://gawker.com/5571388/was-wikileaker-bradley-manning-betrayed-by-his-queer-identity

Bradley Manning really should have been removed from the service and certainly not allowed security clearance

The initial source of the military leaks - Bradley Manning - shows why "Don't Ask Don't Tell" is a sound policy and that Manning should have been dismissed. Not only was he openly protesting homosexual political causes while in the military (and posting about them on Facebook) but he had also assaulted and officer in Iraq. This was clearly not a person who should have had top security clearance. According to the New York Times even past classmates and employers described Manning as erratic:

“He would get upset, slam books on the desk if people wouldn’t listen to him or understand his point of view,” said Chera Moore, who attended elementary and junior high school with him. “He would get really mad, and the teacher would say, ‘O.K., Bradley, get out.’ ...He was hired and quickly fired from a small software company, where his employer, Kord Campbell, recalled him as clean-cut and highly intelligent with an almost innate sense for programming, as well as the personality of a bull in a china shop.

Add to all this the fact that Manning was gender dysphoric (easy to see why from his cruel father and dysfunctional family) and felt he was a woman in a man's body. GID (Gender Identity Disorder) is still an official disorder (but probably soon to be dropped as one due to political pressures)

http://gawker.com/5571388/was-wikileaker-bradley-manning-betrayed-by-his-queer-identity

'Is Alleged Wikileaker Bradley Manning Pre-Transition Transgendered?
http://gawker.com/5568351/is-wikileaker-bradley-manning-pre+transition-transgendered

Aggravating the situation even more is the fact Manning was discussing his problems with bisexual hacker Adrian Lamo - who friends say may have been goading Manning on in order to get info and acquire notoriety for himself.

"Was Wikileaker Bradley Manning Betrayed By His Queer Identity?"
http://gawker.com/5571388/was-wikileaker-bradley-manning-betrayed-by-his-queer-identity

Bradley Manning really should have been removed from the service and certainly not allowed security clearance

The initial source of the military leaks - Bradley Manning - shows why "Don't Ask Don't Tell" is a sound policy and that Manning should have been dismissed. Not only was he openly protesting homosexual political causes while in the military (and posting about them on Facebook) but he had also assaulted and officer in Iraq. This was clearly not a person who should have had top security clearance. According to the New York Times even past classmates and employers described Manning as erratic:

“He would get upset, slam books on the desk if people wouldn’t listen to him or understand his point of view,” said Chera Moore, who attended elementary and junior high school with him. “He would get really mad, and the teacher would say, ‘O.K., Bradley, get out.’ ...He was hired and quickly fired from a small software company, where his employer, Kord Campbell, recalled him as clean-cut and highly intelligent with an almost innate sense for programming, as well as the personality of a bull in a china shop.

Add to all this the fact that Manning was gender dysphoric (easy to see why from his cruel father and dysfunctional family) and felt he was a woman in a man's body. GID (Gender Identity Disorder) is still an official disorder (but probably soon to be dropped as one due to political pressures)

http://gawker.com/5571388/was-wikileaker-bradley-manning-betrayed-by-his-queer-identity

'Is Alleged Wikileaker Bradley Manning Pre-Transition Transgendered?
http://gawker.com/5568351/is-wikileaker-bradley-manning-pre+transition-transgendered

Aggravating the situation even more is the fact Manning was discussing his problems with bisexual hacker Adrian Lamo - who friends say may have been goading Manning on in order to get info and acquire notoriety for himself.

"Was Wikileaker Bradley Manning Betrayed By His Queer Identity?"
http://gawker.com/5571388/was-wikileaker-bradley-manning-betrayed-by-his-queer-identity

Bradley Manning really should have been removed from the service and certainly not allowed security clearance

They're not going to force you to use the app store. That's retarded and you're retarded for thinking it.

They've already forced that on two platforms. It's "retarded" to not consider the possibility of them applying the same strategy to their remaining platform. I mean, how is Jobs going to bring you "freedom from porn" if you can install whatever unapproved software you like?

I think Dan Gilmore's got it right:

I fear that Apple will use the inroads it makes with the Mac App Store to further restrict what users of future Macs can do. It couldn't retroactively lock down Macs the way it's locked down the iOS devices, not without creating a firestorm. But it could someday decide to sell only iOS machines, or declare that new machines running some future Mac OS -- not next summer's Mac OSX "Lion" version, apparently -- would work only under the same principles. I believe this is the endgame, but I'm hoping for the best.

(Oh, and Apple-fanboi mods: I'm not trolling. Disagreement != trolling.)

VVVVVV is one of the best and most challenging Indie games I've played in quite some time. It's a platformer/puzzle game with an absolutely fantastic chiptune soundtrack and striking C64-style visuals (some objects in the game are inspired by classic C64 games and demos).

Caveat: It can be very difficult... but if you're anything like me it'll sink its teeth into you and demand that you complete it.

Doing Things The Hard Way is an absolute fscker tho. :P

(AKA ex-head of Homeland Security )

Fixed that for you :)

"The left hates China because of their disgusting intolerance of any human rights"

You mean like displaying the corpses of political prisoners in Body Worlds? (second link, NSFW) (third link)

I wonder when I can see Cheng Jianping in Body Worlds?

My god, man, weren't you listening during the last election. Them that hates Our Freedom are making TERROR BABIES now!

Bush's Fatherland Security czar, Michael Chertoff, profits from the sale of the nudie-scanners.

http://gawker.com/5437499/why-is-michael-chertoff-so-excited-about-full+body-scanners

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/full-body-scanner-lobby-michael-chertoff-rapiscan-2552674.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2627190/posts

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/airport-scanner-scam

I really want to get a t-shirt made with this brilliant image:
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/odds-of-airborne-terror2.jpg

Unfortunately, this kind of rational analysis (of what a staggering waste of time and energy is our collective terrorist freak-out) will always be trumped by stupid panicky human emotion. Our policies have rarely been dictated by logic or evidence after all.

And here's where this moronic paranoia is headed:
http://cartoonnewsmagazine.com/Daily/plane500px.jpg

http://gawker.com/5051193/sarah-palins-personal-emails

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903044.html

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/32838

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erik-ose/sarah-palins-yahoo-e-mail_b_127177.html

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=sarah+palin+emails+government+business&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Then I wonder what punishment the guy who uncovered this has waiting for him.

Original announcement of the project:

http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/21/we-want-a-dead-simple-web-tablet-help-us-build-it/

Prototype A:

http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/30/update-on-the-techcrunch-tablet-prototype-a/

Prototype B:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/19/techcrunch-tablet-update-prototype-b/

After this, the story gets murky. According to Arrington, his "partners" (Rathakrishnan - Fusion Garage) changed their mind and decided that they wanted to cut him out of the project. Who knows what really happened.

Some commentary here: http://gawker.com/5415320/the-sad-premature-death-of-the-techcrunch-tablet

and here

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/TechCrunch-CrunchPad-Dead-Chandra-Rathakrishnan,9174.html

But is Windows Phone 7 as tasty as the Zune?

I do not know if this was pointed out elsewhere -- I am certainly not going to read all the comments to find out -- but this post contains a rather large error in relation to copyright. The Slashdot post says:

Monica Gaudio, a recipe author who discovered her recipe has been published without her knowledge. [Emphasis mine]

However, the Gawker article says:

Magazine Editor Steals Article, Tells Writer 'You Should Compensate Me!'[Emphasis mine]

IANAL, but by my understanding of US copyright law according to statements of such people as Jessica Litman, recipes are not subject to copyright as they are merely a set of facts. Copyright does not cover facts. It covers creative works. Cooking may be an art, but the documentation of a set of procedures is not. So, if the "article" is merely a recipe, Cooks Source is completely correct about its own materials -- although they used entirely the wrong language to express this and made incorrect statements about the Net and copyright law.

I believe the Slashdot post should be amended to avoid this error as it confuses the entire issue. If, of course, there is some reason why the word "recipe" was used instead of "article", Slashdot should be the first to point out the errors in the other publications.

I'm surprised that, at the time I wrote this, the Debian hivemind hadn't stopped by yet to murder the writer of the summary for calling it Ubuntu's "apt"!

The writer of the summary was quoting TFA, which helpfully has a mailto: link at the bottom if anybody wants to inform the author of TFA of the existence of Debian.

one-way..... he and Sergey Brin not getting along these days? Or do they have someone else in mind?

Marissa Mayer. In space, no-one can hear you giggle.

If people are using only 10% of the features, why not make those features easier to get at? Why keep them nested away in multiple layers. Their job isn't to sit and fuck with menus all day looking for buried features. It's to produce something for the company.

If they're getting their job done faster, wouldn't that be seen as a good thing? What features in that 90% no one uses do they need?

This is like a Tim Allen situation. If a hammer will get the job done, only an idiot would use just a hammer. No, we need a fuckin' POWERED HAMMER.

I hope the students never need any help from Apple.
http://gawker.com/5641211/steve-jobs-in-email-pissing-match-with-college-journalism-student

Hopefully, she just learned the most powerful thing any journalist can ever learn:

Nobody has to talk to you. And pressuring people to talk only pisses them off more.

I hope the students never need any help from Apple.
http://gawker.com/5641211/steve-jobs-in-email-pissing-match-with-college-journalism-student

Right, because needing tech support from Apple and harassing the CEO for a quote are the same thing.

I hope the students never need any help from Apple.
http://gawker.com/5641211/steve-jobs-in-email-pissing-match-with-college-journalism-student

Pedobear Panic Hits Tulsa, Oklahoma
/facepalm

The police report was leaked.

My irony meter is pegged.

The police report was leaked.

FFS.

If you spent 5 seconds with Google you'd find dozens of examples. I don't see why I have to do it for you.

Here: It took me literally seconds to find *dozens* of examples:
http://www.naacp.org/news/entry/naacp-delegates-vote-to-repudiate-racist-elements-within-the-tea-pary/ (6 or 7 pictures at this one)
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/POLITICS/09/17/obama.witchdoctor.teaparty/art.obama.protest.sign.cnn.jpg
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/10/custom_1223838327176_racistbf5.png
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/20090916TeaParty01.jpg

Man, here's an idea, just go to images.google.com and type in tea party and look through the signs. There's quite a few examples of blatant racism. Now my question to you is, where are the tea party leaders condemning this? If you can't find that, then that seems pretty much like de-facto proof that it is tolerated.

I know a little pop psych too. It's called "projection". How many of these alleged psychological problems are really with the tea party people and how many are your own flaws which you attempt to "project" onto a group you don't like?

There was nothing even vaguely resembling pop psychology what I posted.

And seriously, I realize this is an internet-argument and therefore blah blah blah, but seriously, could you get any less classy?

You disagree with pretty much anything Sarah Palin states as fact? Really? I don't know how you can come to that conclusion reasonably. Do you doubt that she has a daughter with down's syndrome? Do you think she wasn't governor of Alaska? Do you think America should stay a democracy? Do you respect George Washington? I'm going to guess that you actually agree with the vast majority of what Sarah Palin believes.

It was hyperbole. I don't disagree with everything Sarah Palin says or believes. But when she says shit like "refudiate", can't even understand the First Amendment, is a hypocritical asshole who goes to Canada for medical care, has to write notes on her hand because she's a moron, her hypocrisy with her own daughter getting pregnant while she's on the abstinence is the only way to prevent teen pregnancy train... I think I could easily be forgiven for a bit of hyperbole.

Like I said, I think Assange's mission is important, and I respect what he has done in his professional life. However, that doesn't mean that he isn't a front-running douche in his private life. Indeed, as we are seeing more and more, it looks like this is the case. And, sadly for a cause I believe in, it looks like this might do some damage to his public life. Whether he likes it or not he's has been and will continue to be under much, much higher scrutiny than your average subversive - so it's up to him to curb the douchebaggery.

Like I said, I think Assange's mission is important, and I respect what he has done in his professional life. However, that doesn't mean that he isn't a front-running douche in his private life. Indeed, as we are seeing more and more, it looks like this is the case. And, sadly for a cause I believe in, it looks like this might do some damage to his public life. Whether he likes it or not he's has been and will continue to be under much, much higher scrutiny than your average subversive - so it's up to him to curb the douchebaggery.

I love how she's the press officer for a group that invited Assange to speak at one of their events and then she hooked up with him and now crying rape/molestation.

Isn't that like going to a concert and sleeping with the lead singer and crying rape/molestation?

In other news, she's not too bad looking, not the most attractive woman but after a few drinks I could see something happening.

After a few drinks? You're posting on SLASHDOT with a sub million account number. Don't lie, you'd totally hit that.

In this case, the testimony of someone who wrote "a seven step guide Ardin published in January to 'legal revenge' that involves, in one example, sabotaging a victim's sexual relationships."

Although the claimed link goes to a "your search did not match any documents" landing page. So who know's what's actually in the guide? Furthermore, since many rapes are not prosecuted, "legal revenge" is not at all inconsistent.

I love how she's the press officer for a group that invited Assange to speak at one of their events and then she hooked up with him and now crying rape/molestation.

Isn't that like going to a concert and sleeping with the lead singer and crying rape/molestation?

In other news, she's not too bad looking, not the most attractive woman but after a few drinks I could see something happening.

After reading this, assuming it's at all accurate, whatever you attribute these charges to, they are all absolutely ridiculous. So... the guy had sex with two women, both groupies, who found out about the other one, and then got angry that they had agreed to have sex without a condom with him because shocker-of-shockers, he had banged some other woman recently.

This is classic rape-after-the-fact, i.e. not rape at all, since they had already consented to the relationship. There is nothing in any of this to indicate that the guy forced himself or coerced anybody. Nor even that he lied or misled anybody, beyond saying that he'd call and then not calling.

I think Julian Assange is a narcissistic creepy fellow, and I have serious reservations about some of what Wikileaks has done. I support the goal of more openness in government, but they do a terrible job at presenting information in an unbiased fashion (at least with those leaked videos) and they dump out huge volumes of classified information without consideration as to whether the public interest in that material outweighs the risk to people's lives of having that information disclosed.

I don't claim to know whether these charges originate with the US Government in any way, but it sounds more like the by-product of the Swedish legal system gone completely and absolutely bonker-nuts-insane, having criminalized relatively normal everyday behavior among single men and women.

In this case, the testimony of someone who wrote "a seven step guide Ardin published in January to 'legal revenge' that involves, in one example, sabotaging a victim's sexual relationships."

not that that makes Assange pure, holy, or free of any wrongdoing, but perhaps it should make one think...

http://gawker.com/5624854/wikileaks-founders-molestation-police-report-leaked-his-top+secret-moves-revealed
Wow! So, if you consent to have sex with your groupie in Sweden, the police can come after you for not wearing a condom??? First they call no-condom wearing perfectly consensual sex between adults "rape" then they take it back and finally return calling it "molestation". And of course this became a problem for the woman/women only after they found out he was not playing "exclusive".
Is it just me or is it utterly retarded? Remember, this is not the ol' American South where most of the worlds idiocy emanates from.

Related:

2010-06-21:
At Google, You're Old and Gray At 40

At a company of about 20,000 full-time employees, there were at last count fewer than 200 formally enrolled Greyglers working to "make Google culture... welcome to people of all ages."

http://gawker.com/5568975/at-google-youre-old-and-gray-at-40

2008-06-22:
New York Times Article about Age Discrimination

"In an industry survey, a majority of technology companies candidly said they would not hire anyone over 40."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/weekinreview/22lohr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin%3Cbr%20/%3E