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The answer is: pretty often.
Numbers are argued over constantly, so I won't bother quoting any, but this subreddit is relevant: http://www.reddit.com/r/dgu

Hm, and the subreddit for "OGU" is where exactly? Relevant, I get it, because it provides confirmation bias to your opinion. The real distinction about gun use/misuse is whether or not you are OK with counting suicides as successful use _by_ owner, or successful use _against_ owner. How you choose to answer that question determines how the numbers balance out.

The answer is: pretty often.
Numbers are argued over constantly, so I won't bother quoting any, but this subreddit is relevant: http://www.reddit.com/r/dgu

If Bradley Manning wins 2013 Nobel Peace Prize and Snowden wins the 2014 one it should give a clear message to the US. Anyway, this is happening in Sweden and they are very friendly with the NSA, i doubt that it happens.

I wish they would do this for the Surface Pro. In a recent discussion over on /r/math on Reddit on taking digital notes, and there was a link to a math grad student's video review of Surface Pro with OneNote. It looked like it was an excellent tablet for doing serious mathematical note taking and writing.

Gabe at Penny Arcade reviewed it as a device for drawing, and was very pleased with it.

I would love a tablet that is good for those things, but not at $900.

Another TA fan! Wohoo! okay, I mostly turtled, built vulcan, and then just sent waves of Hawk's until the enemy base were gone, mine were gone, or he'd built too much air defense..

Anyway.. As a TA fan, I keep a close look on Planetary Annihilation - I just hope they get that good old TA feeling into it (they say they focus more on TA than SupCom, but we'll see)

Alpha is out, and there are a lot of gameplay videos out, but I am waiting for beta before I get my toes wet.

! ATTENTION ! Starting from 2013-07-06 I have decided to ditch Slashdot for Reddit. Reddit is a much more fun site and more positive experience. There are girls too! That is all.

Cool, so long, goodbye, thanks for all the ... the ... you only have five fucking comments on this site? Well shit, how will Slashdot recover from the loss of Google Fanboys?

! ATTENTION ! Starting from 2013-07-06 I have decided to ditch Slashdot for Reddit. Reddit is a much more fun site and more positive experience. There are girls too! That is all.

Cool, so long, goodbye, thanks for all the ... the ... you only have five fucking comments on this site? Well shit, how will Slashdot recover from the loss of Google Fanboys?

! ATTENTION !

Starting from 2013-07-06 I have decided to ditch Slashdot for Reddit. Reddit is a much more fun site and more positive experience. There are girls too! That is all.

! ATTENTION !

Starting from 2013-07-06 I have decided to ditch Slashdot for Reddit. Reddit is a much more fun site and more positive experience. There are girls too! That is all.

@reddit:

Creator of CryptoCat -- the web app that uses military-grade encryption to protect conversations -- is under surveillance by the government and may have had his computer compromised by CSIS agents (log.nadim.cc)

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1895vl/creator_of_cryptocat_the_web_app_that_uses/

Due to Slashdot's "lameness filter" you can read what I was intended to post here over on reddit.

Have a look at the Windows 8.1 Preview thread at Reddit and over there NormalDefault's comment with the image link "Is THIS normal?" It seems that at some point the description of the update in Windows Store has been modified to look like leetspeak by somebody. Was this a prank by somebody inside the company or was the server cracked, I don't know.

It's perfectly possible to write very clean code with PHP

I am a very long time PHP coder (among other things like my beloved Haskell and other actual programming languages), and:

NO, you ABSOLUTELY can't. At all. Ever.

The language itself doesn't even offer the features to do so. And the interpreter is a freakin' insane joke. Just the bare strings "feature" alone, combined with how constants are used, deserves prime grade murder time for its creators!

And don't even get me started on the ridiculous attempts at class-based OOP that make JavaScript look like an elegant work of art.

Still not convinced?

This seems already to have been done.

Also, QantasToolbar has logged your IP address to make sure that you'll never sit next to a minor on a plane again.

Hopefully with enough more searching they will not seat you on the same plane as a minor.

This seems already to have been done.

Also, QantasToolbar has logged your IP address to make sure that you'll never sit next to a minor on a plane again.

There are a lot of very real technical reasons why people don't like PHP. The syntax and naming of its function library is inconsistent, the type coercion is irregular, and it's inconsistent about warnings vs. errors—it tends to keep executing code even when it shouldn't, potentially leading to unwanted behaviour during development if a variable isn't set or something. Reddit has a fairly active board devoted to the various problems that can occur, not all of them avoidable.

One of the most peculiar details in all of this is that PHP's original author (and, I think, but don't quote me on this, a portion of the development staff) considers himself a non-programmer; that PHP was just thrown together to simplify work. That would be okay, but it's led to a lot of security holes, bugs, and irreversible bad choices over the years, like having to use === in string parsing because false is returned by strpos() if it doesn't find anything (and false == 0). No other language requires this particular quirk.

I don't blame you for not liking Ruby. While it's a much cleaner language, it's got some very peculiar syntactical features that make a lot of people scratch their heads—most notably, there are circumstances under which return doesn't work normally, which can be very frustrating. However, there are some very creative uses of familiar syntax that, for example, make strings really easy to work with; haystack['needle'] = 'thread' is the same as $haystack = str_replace('needle', 'thread', $haystack) in PHP. I haven't used it personally, but I think the major reason Ruby projects get abandoned so much is because the people writing code in it are not experienced programmers.

Running down the list a little and hopping over JVM stuff, the other decent web languages you may want to consider are Perl and Python. Both have extremely well-developed libraries and are good with strings, so it's mostly just a question of picking "esoteric and terse" vs. "newbie-friendly and easily maintained." Decent JVM languages include JWT, Scala, and Clojure (with noir; check out that sexy beast), although JWT is probably overkill for anything smaller than Gmail.

No, it's really not just you.

The CIA is one of Amazon's biggest customers.

After what they did to the CEO of Qwest for refusing to cooperate I doubt Bezos is going to put those big contracts and his personal freedom at risk.

The problem people have with Youtube is indeed with Youtube.

Diagnosing this is very time-consuming given how Youtube does multiple layers of load balancing, combined with their strange/bizarre FQDNs for their CDN'd video content (the URLs resemble things like r6---sn-jvhj5nu-nwje.c.youtube.com, r3---sn-jvhj5nu-nwjl.c.youtube.com, and some others -- but occasionally I'll see one show up that has "comcast" in its name, but its within youtube.com's DNS space), as well as the fact that their Flash applet actually throttles network throughout (really it does -- I was reading an official article released by either Youtube (pre-Google) or by Google yesterday yet now cannot find any mention of it in my browser history. ARGH!).

The sudden stalls (literally taking 30+ seconds to even start a video, then when it does start, loads maybe 8-9 seconds worth, another 30 seconds of stalling, etc.) behaviour varies entirely per video. You can take the same browser session and find some other videos -- including Youtube's own speed test video -- and they'll be blazing fast. So the issue really seems to be some particular part of their CDN infrastructure, or, a specific "server grouping" on the back end which is performing horribly and there's nothing we (as users / at the front end) can do about it.

Because none of us (well, I don't) work for Google/Youtube, we don't know the network or application topology. For all we know the TCP packets have to get shoved through 2 or 3 different servers, combined with 5 or 6 different network devices, just within the Google/Youtube back end. We also have no knowledge of how Video X gets assigned to server cluster Y vs. Video Z getting assigned to a different cluster, yadda yadda.

Some people claim Youtube's experimental HTML 5 playback "solves all the issues" but I choose not to opt-in to that because Flashblock in Firefox doesn't work quite right with HTML 5 (it shows the flashblock icon but the video plays anyway, despite Flashblock 1.5.17 claiming to "support" HTML 5). So you might try using that to see if there's any change.

I've spent way too much time in Wireshark this past week debugging this nonsense at the TCP level. You can literally spend 1-2 hours just going over a capture of a single (and short/small) Youtube streaming video.

What I found is that with regards to the slow videos, the inbound (to the client) TCP packets associated with the video stream arrive at very delayed intervals -- not "bursty", but transmitted at a slow yet consistent interval, which indicates some form of rate-limiting (not QoS, but actual rate-limiting (e.g. send 20kbits every 1 second); so many people misunderstand what QoS actually is). Whether this is being done by network devices, the webserver, or the streaming content server on Youtube/Google's back end (see above, re: we don't know the topology/infrastructure) I do not know. Fast videos did not behave this way -- but fast videos came from a completely different server (again see above) than the slow ones. This isn't being accomplished using TCP window size adjustments (that would actually have made some sense), it's being accomplished in some other manner. It's not detectable using tools like traceroute or mtr either -- the issue isn't with the networking path from client to server (or the return path, even though I obviously cannot see that), it's something happening at layer 4 or higher.

Anyway, whatever readers do, they should not follow the utterly wrong/retarded advice given on Reddit from some random Internet jhonka named Mitch Ribar. This fellow does not understand anything about IP networking, load balancing, BGP, anycast, or any other technology. I've said this before on Slashdot as well.

"A lot of us saw the dawn of the information age as the potential for a second Enlightenment, when a universally free flow of ideas and wisdom would lift mankind as a whole into an era of freedom and prosperity. Universal education and information was going to save humanity. Silly us. All we really did was give the despots more tools."

A lot of bad stuff is probably going to go down, true. But, we can remain hopeful good things will happen too. See Howard Zinn, for example:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1108-21.htm
"In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy? I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning.
To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world. There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people's thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion against tyrannies, by the quick collapse of systems of power that seemed invincible. What leaps out from the history of the past hundred years is its utter unpredictability. This confounds us, because we are talking about exactly the period when human beings became so ingenious technologically that they could plan and predict the exact time of someone landing on the moon, or walk down the street talking to someone halfway around the earth."

I watched that great video on "In the Year 2525" and am writing this on a US$250 Chromebook. Maybe it is not the best tool for covert browsing or communications like, say, "Freedombox" aspires to (for what that might be worth), but this cheap Chromebook is a great tool for learning. It would have been (almost) unbelievable in the 1950s. Ask yourself, as far as content learning goes, if you are a curious intellectually-inclined young person today, would you rather have had an expensive 1980s Princeton education with access to Firestone library (as I got), or just one year with a $250 Chromebook with acess to the 2013 internet for effortlessly following link after link and reading endless discussions on any topic you find interesting? If I was young again, I'd pick the Chromebook. An Ivy league education may have other benefits, as do face-to-face communities, but cheap access to endless information for those inclined to soak it up is now a reality -- and it is affordable for more and more people on the planet (including through discarded last generation smartphones). Another example, from India:
http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/

I followed your link. Now, please humor me and read "The Skills of Xanadu" by Theodore Sturgeon (a sci-fi short story from the 1950s) to see what the internet and cheap mobile computing may still make possible. That story may help rekindle your optimism for what broad global education may make possible. It is available online here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=wpuJQrxHZXAC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51

Even stuff like more people learning about the idea of a basic income may make a huge difference over the next ten years...
http://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/1gd0q7/krugman_endorses_universal_basic_income/

Yes, the USA may be relatively fading (including from thirty years of Neo-Liberalism and stuff like creeping surveillance and fearful self-destructive paranoia).
"Neoliberalism as a Water Balloon"

Just ask the protesters in Turkey and Brazil about what they would think of their government being able to render their phones useless. I mean, the media's not reporting on the issues right now, so the governments already have black-out power of the presses, you want people to give up the power to have a working camera phone too? Even after earthquakes and tsunamis have shown how valuable they are?

Anyone who thinks this is a good idea is a fucking moron.

Just ask the protesters in Turkey and Brazil about what they would think of their government being able to render their phones useless. I mean, the media's not reporting on the issues right now, so the governments already have black-out power of the presses, you want people to give up the power to have a working camera phone too? Even after earthquakes and tsunamis have shown how valuable they are?

Anyone who thinks this is a good idea is a fucking moron.

Heh, that was a full-bodied rant with mustard, ketchup and various spices. Nice!

There's a subreddit for the OP's problem. ;)

http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1fv4r6/i_believe_the_government_should_be_allowed_to/caeb3pl

This guy sums up why, even if you think you have nothing to hide, you should still have a BIG problem with this.

TL;DR- your fate is not your own. You do not determine how 'the public' percieves you. All someone has to do is portray you in a bad light, or associate you with a few bad labels (suspected terrorist, enemy of the state, etc - whether true or not doesn't matter) and they can turn the masses against you, allowing the government to do whatever they want to you in the name of the 'public good'- blackmail, kidnapping, or even murder.

Slashdot, don't just up-vote a comment just because it's anti-Microsoft. Even the reddit mods have come to the conclusion that it was all one big troll:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1fyjgr/regarding_xbox_one_and_allegations_of_voterigging/

Fucking hell /.'s, you're supposed to be smarter and more critical of things than the general public.

This looks like as good of place as any to post this link to a really interesting post on Reddit. I normally don't link stuff, this one was kind of bone chilling and relevant.

For your reading pleasure: http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1fv4r6/i_believe_the_government_should_be_allowed_to/caeb3pl?context=3

Things that make me go "Hmmm...."

P.S. it's the highlighted post.

/r/reprapPIF. No incentives, and it's only for plastic components and not wiring/electronics/metal. Unfortunately it's pretty dead in there.

There are a number of people that subsidize their printing habit by printing and eBaying plastics kits like those.

I found it intriguingly interesting, but judging from its website, it doesn't allow for homosexuality, since only men may court the princess. Lame. And why did princess Annette lock herself in the palace anyway? Is she sexually frustrated or something?

assuming your being literal and serious it's not really an issue. The game does come with a great deal of story there's a bloody chapter of fiction in the little booklet and detailed character descriptions. That said the story is superfluous to the game itself. It's fun but it in no way affects the game itself. You can see this in the numerous Love Letter custom mods. Last month someone made an animal crossing version. The princess and the romance don't actually come into the gameplay.

That said there's nothing in the game that prevents you from playing it with homosexual characters. While that has no appeal to me you could play princesses courting another princess and it would literally not change the game at all. The prince seeking the court is the player not one of the cards. (The Prince card is not a courting prince but her brother who carries your message)

As to the question of why she's locked away in the first place. The instruction narrative explains this. It has to do with other games set in the same universe (Specifically Courtier). If I recall she's locked away because her mother, the Queen, was arrested for treason or something like that. It doesn't matter because it isn't important. The gameplay is fun, solid and quick. The theme while fun has literally no bearing on the game. You really could retheme it completely out of a story.

Say what you will about reddit, they're just another community information outlet. This post explains what's going on pretty well, and gives insight as to why the issue won't easily be resolved.

See, it's not all idiots. There users have the capability classify and sort and let good discussions and explanations bubble up, without the daft as rocks editorial approval required (like here), but you have to know where to look.

Say what you will about reddit, they're just another community information outlet. This post explains what's going on pretty well, and gives insight as to why the issue won't easily be resolved.

See, it's not all idiots. There users have the capability classify and sort and let good discussions and explanations bubble up, without the daft as rocks editorial approval required (like here), but you have to know where to look.

They are violating it and people have already used the change to get out of their contracts

And here is a very succinct how to by someone who successfully ended their AT&T service sans ETF.

(Note it still did take 2 hours)

If they dumped Hurd now it would be a complete loss of face

Yay it's the daily make shit up about the FSF/RMS thread!

http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/rms-ama.html

TL;DR

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00000.html

Seriously, is it hard to google RMS Hurd before posting crap?

PHP is cheating! However, you may like this.

For those who don't like to click shortened links, here are the real ones:

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1cswmm/enormous_methane_releases_from_the_arctic_shelf/
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1b6roo/the_most_influential_climate_science_paper_today/

The first one is directly responsive to the previous post (about northern permafrost areas becoming arable land). It argues that there are massive reserves of methane that may enter the atmosphere if the permafrost melts. This is important because methane is more of a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. The actual article is at http://enggpt.blogspot.com/2013/04/enormous-methane-releases-from-arctic.html

The second one is one of the uncontrollable warming arguments. For some reason (unexplained in the article at http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20140213/climate-change-science-carbon-budget-nature-global-warming-2-degrees-bill-mckibben-fossil-fuels-keystone-xl-oil ), if we run over a certain level of carbon dioxide in the air, the Earth will turn into Venus. This is despite the fact that the Earth used to have much more carbon dioxide in the air than it does now.

It's worth noting that the uncontrollable warming folks are the left's equivalent of the right wingers who argue that there is no global warming. It's easy enough to find older papers saying that the tip off point was a time that was in the future then but is now in the past. There are plenty of bad effects that can occur without uncontrollable warming. Especially for people who live close to sea level. Matching the right's hyperbole with bigger hyperbole makes the right look more sane as a result.

For those who don't like to click shortened links, here are the real ones:

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1cswmm/enormous_methane_releases_from_the_arctic_shelf/
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1b6roo/the_most_influential_climate_science_paper_today/

The first one is directly responsive to the previous post (about northern permafrost areas becoming arable land). It argues that there are massive reserves of methane that may enter the atmosphere if the permafrost melts. This is important because methane is more of a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. The actual article is at http://enggpt.blogspot.com/2013/04/enormous-methane-releases-from-arctic.html

The second one is one of the uncontrollable warming arguments. For some reason (unexplained in the article at http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20140213/climate-change-science-carbon-budget-nature-global-warming-2-degrees-bill-mckibben-fossil-fuels-keystone-xl-oil ), if we run over a certain level of carbon dioxide in the air, the Earth will turn into Venus. This is despite the fact that the Earth used to have much more carbon dioxide in the air than it does now.

It's worth noting that the uncontrollable warming folks are the left's equivalent of the right wingers who argue that there is no global warming. It's easy enough to find older papers saying that the tip off point was a time that was in the future then but is now in the past. There are plenty of bad effects that can occur without uncontrollable warming. Especially for people who live close to sea level. Matching the right's hyperbole with bigger hyperbole makes the right look more sane as a result.

Forensics software? Just open up the folder. I mean, you have to rooted, but that's not really weird. Look, here's someone talking about getting pics and vids before even viewing them in Snapchat. Back in March. If you have to output something to the user, they're going to have to be able to get at it one way or another.

And in his Ask me anything he is coming across as both someone who knows and cares about the book, and as a pretty cool guy.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/13kmvd/have_time_warner_internet_but_can_barely_stream/

Have a read through that. Although, I did try it but it had no positive results. Ran like that for a couple weeks, and sometime shortly after I unblocked it whatever the issue with my streaming was apparently fixed itself. I'm on 75/35 Verizon FiOS Business at the house, and am East Coast, USA.

That nonsense has been debunked numerous times. Reddit latched on to the "workaround", but if you actually read the full thread -- not skim it -- you will find intelligent network-savvy folks commenting on its idiocy. The person who came up with this "workaround" doesn't understand things like DNS load balancing, anycast, and other methodologies Youtube deploys (including back-end stuff) to accomplish load balancing. You might also be surprised to know Youtube's Flash applet (not sure about the HTML 5 stuff) has rate-limiting implemented in it as well (really, it does).

Here are two forums threads I've been involved with now where in both cases asking people to step up to the plate and provide hard proof (specifically of TWC implementing some kind of throttling) resulted in them admitting the supposed "workaround" doesn't work at all, not to mention contains references to netblocks that have nothing to do with Youtube, and netblocks of the wrong size (based on ARIN WHOIS, rather than what's advertised on the Internet via BGP):

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28102912-Heads-up-guys.new-trick-to-eliminate-Youtube-throttling-
http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/youtube-loading-issues-possible-solution.68493/

I wish that Mitch Ribar guy would take down that blog post already.

Reddit stands up to a lot of slimy companies. http://www.reddit.com/r/frugal frequently talks about companies which scam you and stay away. It seems like there's a lot of hate for Bank of America who charges hidden fees all day long. The common suggestion to this is to use a credit union.

Reddit stands up to a lot of slimy companies. http://www.reddit.com/r/frugal frequently talks about companies which scam you and stay away. It seems like there's a lot of hate for Bank of America who charges hidden fees all day long. The common suggestion to this is to use a credit union.

Seriously, I saw this last week, before the Inquirer got their mitts on it. It was debunked in the first comment.

this and this are pretty similar. I see this most frequently in multi-person text messages from iPhone, and indeed, in the default txt message client, these often appear as attachments / multimedia instead of text.

Yeah, I usually hang out at /r/askscience these days. Lots of discussion at this level there.

I was fined 2 years ago for taking photographs of a city street near where I live, because they were filming "Warm Bodies" there (in Montreal). The street was blocked off, but I was standing on the public side, I took a few pics and was told it was illegal, and was fined $171. I was acquitted in court, however the prosecutor insisted what I did was illegal and said she only dropped the case because there wasn't enough evidence....

(more details here: http://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/1cyxfm/update_i_was_acquitted_photography_in_public/ )

You obviously don't understand what I am referring to, so why did you feel the need to fart an opinion?

Here's the last one, I'll let you work backwards from there:

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cpmh6/live_boston_update_thread_part_9/

As detailed in my last post on this topic, some responsible individual on Reddit named Thirtydegrees decided to give us a little background on what went down (I know it's long but it's worth the read for chronological context).

But wait! We can do better than that! Let's go look at /r/FindBostonBombers to see exactly what happened! Well, you can't. Oddly enough, the founder of that subreddit decided that he should just set it to private (here's a Reddit friendly vulgar meme of my request). Guess what? The founder of findbostonbombers doesn't want to be identified! Bizarre that he/she would create a subreddit devoted to identifying people and then themselves think that it's completely acceptable for their identities to be protected. Should you have a right to know who is accusing you of what? Well, you find out that you have done something wrong ... time to own up to it, right? Right? No! Not in the futuristic amazing world of crowdsourcing!

Also hilarious is that they are saying the bombers have been found. Wrong. Whatever they did, they are still innocent until proven guilty! I am quite upset with everyone dropping the "alleged" word and referring to them as "the bombers" instead of "the suspects." They will get their day in court, that's how this stuff works. That's what lead to all the bad stuff that happened in /r/findbostonbombers. They went straight from "we have images that our untrained eye finds suspicious" straight to "these are the guys who killed innocent people, help us identify them and harass their families."

We live in an era of digital lynch mobs.

If anonymous speech didn't exist, this wouldn't have happened. The problem is anonymous speech.

As detailed in my last post on this topic, some responsible individual on Reddit named Thirtydegrees decided to give us a little background on what went down (I know it's long but it's worth the read for chronological context).

But wait! We can do better than that! Let's go look at /r/FindBostonBombers to see exactly what happened! Well, you can't. Oddly enough, the founder of that subreddit decided that he should just set it to private (here's a Reddit friendly vulgar meme of my request). Guess what? The founder of findbostonbombers doesn't want to be identified! Bizarre that he/she would create a subreddit devoted to identifying people and then themselves think that it's completely acceptable for their identities to be protected. Should you have a right to know who is accusing you of what? Well, you find out that you have done something wrong ... time to own up to it, right? Right? No! Not in the futuristic amazing world of crowdsourcing!

Also hilarious is that they are saying the bombers have been found. Wrong. Whatever they did, they are still innocent until proven guilty! I am quite upset with everyone dropping the "alleged" word and referring to them as "the bombers" instead of "the suspects." They will get their day in court, that's how this stuff works. That's what lead to all the bad stuff that happened in /r/findbostonbombers. They went straight from "we have images that our untrained eye finds suspicious" straight to "these are the guys who killed innocent people, help us identify them and harass their families."

We live in an era of digital lynch mobs.

If anonymous speech didn't exist, this wouldn't have happened. The problem is anonymous speech.

As detailed in my last post on this topic, some responsible individual on Reddit named Thirtydegrees decided to give us a little background on what went down (I know it's long but it's worth the read for chronological context).

But wait! We can do better than that! Let's go look at /r/FindBostonBombers to see exactly what happened! Well, you can't. Oddly enough, the founder of that subreddit decided that he should just set it to private (here's a Reddit friendly vulgar meme of my request). Guess what? The founder of findbostonbombers doesn't want to be identified! Bizarre that he/she would create a subreddit devoted to identifying people and then themselves think that it's completely acceptable for their identities to be protected. Should you have a right to know who is accusing you of what? Well, you find out that you have done something wrong ... time to own up to it, right? Right? No! Not in the futuristic amazing world of crowdsourcing!

Also hilarious is that they are saying the bombers have been found. Wrong. Whatever they did, they are still innocent until proven guilty! I am quite upset with everyone dropping the "alleged" word and referring to them as "the bombers" instead of "the suspects." They will get their day in court, that's how this stuff works. That's what lead to all the bad stuff that happened in /r/findbostonbombers. They went straight from "we have images that our untrained eye finds suspicious" straight to "these are the guys who killed innocent people, help us identify them and harass their families."

We live in an era of digital lynch mobs.