Governments have been keeping secrets ever since there have been governments. you think the founding fathers blabbed all their plans to the people at large?
I don't have a story on the the scale of any of these but I remember fixing my Commodore 1541 drive by adding an extra screw. The drive belt had gotten stretched somehow and I was getting all kinds of read errors, and being poor, decided to attempt a repair. Turns out there was an empty screw hole near the drive belt, I put one in, stretched the belt around the screw to take up the extra slack and that drive was still working when I finally got rid of my C64 a couple years later.
The thing is, I don't even ascribe that level of heroism to them, they're a bunch of bored jerks who wander from one pointless attack to another. The attack (failed I might add) on Tumblr was nothing but sheer mean-spiritedness.
That won't go over with them, all you'll hear is them complaining that the "system doesn't work" even though they don't put in the effort to make it work.
I find it interesting that some people on Slashdot consider them "freedom fighters" of a sort, trying to preserve freedom of speech, when some of the same group have actively tried to interfere with Tumblr and Facebook merely because they didn't like the kind of people who posted on them.
As someone upthread said, these aren't freedom fighters, they're thugs. Just because their targets at the moment include businesses you don't like, doesn't make them less so.
You're the ones who are so staunchly anti-net neutrality because you think it's about a government takeover of the 'net or some such paranoid nuttery. This is just the beginning. I guarantee it.
Well since you're referring to "our" legal system, and this is about Assange being wanted by Sweden, which has nothing to do with the U.S. legal system.
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You get to decide what you pay for the bundle...how exactly is this a "bad deal" even if one game isn't completed?
In fact if someone like Assange would have pulled this crap back then, he'd have found himself with a fatal necktie.
I upgraded to a C128 which I still own :)
Governments have been keeping secrets ever since there have been governments. you think the founding fathers blabbed all their plans to the people at large?
Please tell me you're not referring to the "NSAKey" urban legend.
Bitter, party of one.
Sigh...this will teach me to post while on cold meds.
I'm sorry, are you trying to convince us that Mike Drudge represents "the common man"?
I don't have a story on the the scale of any of these but I remember fixing my Commodore 1541 drive by adding an extra screw. The drive belt had gotten stretched somehow and I was getting all kinds of read errors, and being poor, decided to attempt a repair. Turns out there was an empty screw hole near the drive belt, I put one in, stretched the belt around the screw to take up the extra slack and that drive was still working when I finally got rid of my C64 a couple years later.
I know, cool story bro.
As someone who has two brothers in the armed forces (one Navy and one Marine) go screw yourself.
Quit trying to make these bored punks look like something noble. The whole Wikileaks thing is just an excuse for /b/ to get their rocks off.
The thing is, I don't even ascribe that level of heroism to them, they're a bunch of bored jerks who wander from one pointless attack to another. The attack (failed I might add) on Tumblr was nothing but sheer mean-spiritedness.
That won't go over with them, all you'll hear is them complaining that the "system doesn't work" even though they don't put in the effort to make it work.
I find it interesting that some people on Slashdot consider them "freedom fighters" of a sort, trying to preserve freedom of speech, when some of the same group have actively tried to interfere with Tumblr and Facebook merely because they didn't like the kind of people who posted on them.
As someone upthread said, these aren't freedom fighters, they're thugs. Just because their targets at the moment include businesses you don't like, doesn't make them less so.
So Apple is the only smartphone provider with an app store? News to me.
You don't have to do business with them do you? You do have a choice.
"If you define "sexual assault" as consensual sex wearing no condoms" and then being asked to stop
FIFY
You're the ones who are so staunchly anti-net neutrality because you think it's about a government takeover of the 'net or some such paranoid nuttery.
This is just the beginning. I guarantee it.
So how many extra lives does it take? I'd say one death because of Wikileaks and ASSange is too many.
Back street surgeons tend to get people killed. Pretty good analogy.
The nice thing about conspiracies is that they can be blamed for everything.
"Someone on here earlier was saying that the Jester doesn't have the smarts or the technology to pull off something like the DDoS "
and if someone says something on Slashdot, it must be true!
Why would the executive branch comment on the arrest of a bush-league hacker?
Well since you're referring to "our" legal system, and this is about Assange being wanted by Sweden, which has nothing to do with the U.S. legal system.
"Our" are you Swedish?