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Hackers Take Aim at Republicans
An anonymous reader writes "Wired reports-- Online protests targeting GOP websites could turn out to be more than symbolic during this month's Republican National Convention, possibly blocking a critical communications tool for the party... "We want to bombard (the Republican sites) with so much traffic that nobody can get in," said CrimethInc, a member of the so-called Black Hat Hackers Bloc. It's one of several groups planning to distribute software tools to reload Republican sites over and over again."
So even /. has given up trying to maintain the difference betweeen the words hacker/cracker/kiddy?
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
So now these wacky tree-hugging liberals are now using terrorist tactics? I'll bet Kerry organized this crap.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
Wouldn't eliminating the Republican's "free speech" on the web via DDOS attacks
It's always ironic that the people who scream most about free speech, liberals, are the ones most likely to attempt to censor to their opponents.
i think a lot of people are very angry about occupation of the whitehouse by our current war criminal and chief. bush has been possibly the worst president this country has ever had. yes this reaction is childish and will be to the detriment of almost everyone involved however people feel helpless and angry, and in such situations people will do just about anything. i guess i can see both sides of this. though i think if people really wanted to do something electronic that would cause the GOP difficulty why not attack their email services. that might actually cause some scheduling difficulties or something.
Isn't it just stooping to the Bush administrations level to deny the republican party's right to free speech?
I totally agree. I think gun control, homosexuality, the NAACP, and abortion are all wrong. But to your average liberal democrat, that makes me an intolerant bigot.
Fuck you left-wing hippies, your "if it feels good do it" attitude, your tolerance for anything and everything, and your general lack of a moral compass are offensive.
"And now, Frank N. Furter, your time has come. Say 'goodbye' to all of this, and 'hello'... to oblivion!"
Free speech only applie to liberals. Moveon.org runs ads about W's military record where even the liberal media has found no wrong yet when the Swiftboat Vets. recount eyewitness testimony Moveon wants their free-speech stifled. W didn't lie, he just moved on intelligence that was later found to be questionable. (And that has since been said to be credible and that the Brits stood by all along, I might ad!). Yet Kerry, according to solid evidence reported in the press and from eyewitness testimony, has out-and-out lied about his service and people still will vote for him. That, my friends, is stupidity.
really? tell that to cnn .
We don't want to indiscriminately kill innocent people
we may not want to, but according to this we're sure doing a lot of what we don't want to do. i guess we'll just have to suck it up and deal with it though. no one else wants to kill almost fourteen thousand civilians.
i'm still not clear how it was "mind-numbingly clear" that iraq had weapons of mass destruction. after all, if you had weapons which could kill large numbers of people at once, and you were being invaded by large numbers of people, wouldn't you use those weapons as opposed to not use them? and yes, i know that iraqis who would use them were threatened with immediate death or whatever, but against those odds, they're faced with immediate death anyways! if they had them, they would have used them. there's no reason not to.
Your name sums it up nicely. Thanks for the insight.
I'm so glad that we, who are irate over government censorship and repression of free speech rights, have no ethical problem with trying to silence people we disagree with. We, who demand that white male American learn to be tolerant of different viewpoints and cultures, are first to leap onto a bandwagon of bigotry and hate against a group of people who we just disagree with.
You people are disgraceful, and you're no better than these conservative hacks that you hate so much. In fact, you're JUST like them.
The left does support everyone. It's part of their doctrine. You do know what that is, right?
The dems distort the truth, yes, but nowhere near the magnitude that the right does. It's an admitted fact. The right tries to assassinate the character of anyone it faces, usually using a bunch of lies. We've seen it time and time and time again, and Bush isn't showing any signs of stopping.
I was just going to mark you a troll but then I realized that you are an idiot. The best way to deal with idiots is to expose them. At least on my side of the aisle, we rely on logic, and we don't name-call without justification. Your side has been calling my side Nazis, terrorists, baby killers, etc, without any justification. So this may come as a surprise that I have real evidence to back up my claim that you're an idiot.
... say Iraq, and you had to hide a whole bunch of nuclear material and equipment, where would you hide it?
(a) Saddam used WMD against his own people and against Iran and possibly against our troops in Iraq in Desert Storm. But I guess the dead bodies and the sick troops isn't evidence of WMD. Maybe the tooth fairy killed them, right?
(b) Saddam himself admitted to having WMD and signed a treaty declaring that he had them and that he would get rid of them. The purpose of the inspection was not to find out if he had them, but for Saddam to prove to the rest of the world that he followed through. Saddam was supposed to show the world evidence that he kept his end of the bargain. Instead, he played games calling the investigators "spies" (DUH!) and refusing to abide by the terms he agreed to. Violation of a peace treaty is just cause for war in and of itself.
But I guess that signing a treaty is meaningless, at least is was for the Soviets (RIP). Over here, we believe that treaties and contracts and words mean things, and those meanings don't change over time.
(c) I guess the mobile chemical and biological labs aren't evidence of WMD. The fact that they were spotless doesn't trouble you? How many did he drive out of the country? Or do you refuse to see the evidence here too?
(d) Stockpiles of Uranium yellow-cake and evidence of purchases of yellow-cake from Nigeria were discovered. Even though Iraq has no civil nuclear program, and yellow-cake is used for building weapons or building reactors, I guess this isn't evidence of a nuclear weapon program.
(e) Libya had a nuclear weapons program. That took the intelligence community by surprise, at least the people that got out of the community before 2002. You'll note that Libya hadn't been acquiring yellow-cake, that Libya hadn't been buying equipment, and that Libya certainly had no reason to build up a nuclear program. They have given up on this whole "Hey, let's blow up Israel and America thing!"a long time ago because Khaddafi realized how futile it was long ago. So where did the program come from?
If you were a terrorist dictator in a country like
1. In your palaces. No, that's not any good, they'll find it right away, and they'll take it away.
2. Above ground somewhere in your country? No, that's no good. They'll scour the entire country, even if it takes them years.
3. Below ground somewhere in your country? No, that's no good either, they'll find it eventually.
4. In a neighboring country? Which one? Iran? No, we hate them and US is going to invade them one day anyway. Syria? No, they'll invade them one day soon, and they're a bunch of wimps anyway. Libya? Hey, there's an idea. Libya is kind of neutral, and the US will never go invading them, and we don't really have any ties with Libya, so who'd expect that?
Go ahead and ignore the evidence. It's your neck you are putting in the noose. I've watched the news quite carefully and I've seen reports of underground, operating nuclear breeder reactors. But the news never hit the mainstream. I've heard of stockpiles of those artillery shells filled with sarin and other nasties. But the news never hit the mainstream. I've seen reports of missiles and rockets and all kinds of stuff that have been marked by inspectors as "must destroy", but they weren't.
I imagine President Bush is sitting on the intelligence and evidence, waiting to pull it all out at the most opportune time. Most likely this will be an October surprise. As you run around yelling that "THERE'S NO WMD IN IRAQ
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
Its like child molestation?
Or is it like violence?
These analogies are so typically American.
I think child molestation is like violence, terrorism, drug addiction and copyright violation. What do you think? Do you think?
I think you need to do more listening. You seem to have learned about the Republican party from their enemies.
(1) Bush may have speech impediments, but so did Enoch and Moses. If you take the time to listen to Bush's message and see what he things and he feels, you'd be surprised at how absolutely brilliant he is. Instead, you focus on his speech impediment and you can't get into his message.
(2) Sure, let Ashcroft speak. Maybe he can teach you a thing or two about real justice, how to end the racial divide and the cultural divide in America, how we can really change the tide of the sickening plague of divorce and marital problems and hopefully encourage people to get and stay married for the right reasons. I believe Ashcroft is one of the great visionaries on the cultural / religious debates. He is redefining what it means to be a religious, yet tolerant and just, public official.
You have no idea what the Republican party stands for, because you get all your information second-hand. We stand for racial equality. We stand for the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. We worked to get his ideas implemented - it was the Democrats who obstructed us in trying to end segregation. We stand for now trying to get the minority populations on equal footing with the majority and successful minority population, by encouraging them to start their own businesses and own their own homes, and by learning how to manage their own life so that they are independent of the government and can get along on their own.
We stand for women's rights. That was one of the reasons why we invaded Afghanistan. One of our priorities is to encourage a society in the middle east where women aren't animals but are citizens with every right a man has. We believe in protecting the family so that women can live in a postivie environment, and that if women choose, they can stay home and raise their children and teach them whatever they want to teach them without impedence from government schools.
We stand for educational freedom. If you are poor, you end up with no choice but to attend the local public school. We want to change that. We believe that especially the poor and disadvantaged deserve a chance to get a better education. We believe that government shouldn't force them into a particular school, especially if that school is failing. Instead, give them a choice. Let them go to the local Catholic school, or private school, and let them have the same access to education that rich Democrats enjoy.
We stand for the end of Government tyrannyin the private industry. For too long, government has been forcing its hand and making private individuals do things that make no sense and has a negative effect. Why not let private individuals figure things out on their own? Why do we chain them down with endless, contradictory regulations? We believe that the people in the United States are far more intelligent than we have given them credit. Free the people, and let them take the credit for their work, rather than taxing them to death and implementing expensive, useless and corrupt government programs.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
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"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
The BND (the German CIA counterpart) stated they don't have evidence supporting this - they didn't have proof of non-existense of the alleged weapons either - but that's beside the point. Based on exactly THOSE issues, Germany did take its anti-war stance.
BULL FUCKING SHITGermany, like France and Russia, was sucking on the teat of lucrative backdoor deals with Saddam and didn't want the cash to stop flowing. The jig's up, buddy, we have the records in hand now. Stop pretending that you had some big moral reason for wanting the oppression of the Iraqi people to continue.
Do you have ESP?
For "unarmed" students, they managed to pull off a fair amount of damage (for starters, they burned the ROTC building to the ground). The violence and mayhem in which they engaged gave the lie to their "peaceful" intentions. The punks at Kent State got what they deserved.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
how the hell did that crap get modded up? The WWII analogy is weak. And while the occupation of Japan and Europe was no picnic, it was also not the quagmire Iraq is. There are suicide bombs going off daily. The overwhelming majority of the population wants the US out. Most of the Shiite preachers, who were supposed to greet us with flowers, have declared jihad against the US. The land has become a lightning rod for jihadists from around the world, and they've established shariah in places where women used to go to universities. Kidnappings and beheadings are common. And the Iraqi forces aligned with the US keep deserting. Are you even reading the news? I guess not -- your comment that Israel is making progress against terrorism just shows how far gone you are. It's time for people like you to wake up and realize that these policies have made the terrorists and those who admire them infinitely stronger and more powerful.
also known as a successful investment.
. . . um, yeah, after he arranged through connections, to get some low-income housing condemned so that the taxpayers could build him a new stadium.
Yup, George Bush. Poster-boy for the Free Market. Never got a leg up from insiders, cronies, or political corruption. Never made a dime from us taxpayers. Never got a job based on connections lubed by daddy. uh hun.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
Maybe by then some of the nations will be kind enough to absolve us of some debt like we have done to countless other nations, specifically those in Europe.
Blessed be he who reads this post, Cursed be he who tells my boss.
People were so pumped up watching the convention that we had millions and millions of visitors to the website. So many in fact that we had a hard time keeping the site up. Thank You all, Vote Bush in 2004.
what they're doing is a perfectly viable form of non-violent direct action. they're using technology to create the world they want rather than asking for it. i think they're doing a great thing.
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would you say that interrupting the workings of the Nazi party is a bad thing? how about interrupting the working of some unnamed party who rounds up individuals off the street, without trial, and holds them in jail for years without access to lawyers, torturing them all the while?
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=a
should we protect the speech of mass murderers who indiscriminately kill innocent people?
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s821954.htm
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?ite
http://iraqbodycount.net/
this is the digital equivalent of blocking a street to interrupt the convention. they're just holding people responsible for their actions. believe me, most of the world is vey much in support of trying to stop our government right now.
lastly, should we try to physically stop a government which is even willing to jail people for LINKING to contraband information?
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... your juvenile, defeatist attitude is why Bush will always have more money than you. Is this how you get laid, too? "I'm never going to pick up chicks, I might as well jack-off!"
Of course, you could be a congenital idiot. In which case, yes, Bush will always have more money than you. The squeegee guy at the full-serve pump will have more money than you. Wait, don't tell me... you smoke dope, too, don't you?
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
Choice that hurts the opposition IS good. Any choice is good. If a certain choice is so good that people are willing to choose it over other alternatives, they should have the right to be able to choose it. It seems like you're suggesting people shouldn't have that choice because it "hurts the opposition." Whose fault is that?
As for funding smear books and movies, name one. We have 20 liberal smear books on the market as well as Fahrenheit 9/11. There is clear liberal media bias. Ever read the L.A. Times?
You may consider it "vapid" (probably because you hold liberal views), but I base my opinions on facts and not reversal posts.
Writing 2 pages of blowhard bilge that STARTS with a total out-and-out mistatement of history.
The conclusion of the BUTLER report (that's so you can google it and actually read it this time, moron) was that the intelligence was NOT sexed up.
Stop reading easily-discredited partisan hacks who were fired *for cause* like Andrew Gilligan (who really got spanked by the report you couldn't remember the name of) and get a clue. Then read the U.S. Senate Intelligence Report and the 9-11 commission which echoed the same conclusions.
I assume you're talking about Iraq...
If that was a grab for oil, why are we paying record high prices for gas?
Hypothetically, supposing that we were getting cheap oil as a result of occupying Iraq, how would flooding the market with "stolen" (free) Arab oil help Bush's "Texas oil buddies"?
If the war in Iraq was a grab for oil, why did Bill Clinton and John Kerry support an invasion?
If a grab for oil is so important, why haven't we "invaded" Alaska? There's easy oil for the grabbing.