Simply holding the [G] [O] and [D] keys at the same time enabled God Mode. Can't beat that. And that super jump that allows you to pretty much float across an entire map was also pretty bad ass.
I remember one time, after managing to fall into a pit that was too deep for me to get out of but for some reason didn’t have spikes at the bottom, rather than going to the menu and starting the level over I started mashing buttons... and suddenly it says I beat the game and rescued all of the elders (though I didn’t have many points obviously). That was a surprise.
You don’t like it? Hell, if they are feeling really helpful you might ask them to give you the public link to the album so you can see the pictures without registering. But what did you expect... they’re going to run to Walgreens and get a set of prints made just for you? Or did you want them to snail-mail you a CD?
No, I don’t think so, because they do sometimes edit the stories. I know they edited one that I posted, they converted it from a logically divided 3-paragraph submission into a single glob of text, just like any other story.
"Right now the Internet is like an empty wasteland: you wander from page to page, and no one is there but you."
Right, because all World Wide Web content is produced by robots.
A more fitting description would be to say it’s like a city populated by ghosts. Usually, it’s not falling apart, it’s well-kept, and everything works perfectly. But whoever is doing stuff behind the scenes rarely does anything while you’re watching... it almost always happens behind your back.
Going back and re-reading what I wrote, I didn’t mean to imply that autistic people would enjoy being crowded all the time. What works well for calming down obviously would not work well for efficiently getting office work done, in this case.
Chuck Norris was on the design team for Doom, which was originally so difficult that only Chuck Norris could beat it. He finally conceded that it wouldn’t be much of a success unless they made it easy enough for everyone else to play. They did, and Chuck Norris didn’t even need to beat Doom anymore. He just looked at it, and it beat itself. However, rumor has it that he still owns a copy of the original and plays it occasionally.
However, it should be noted that the Boston Tea Party was not in fact Civil Disobedience.... To engage in Civil Disobedience, one has to violate the specific law they feel is immoral or unjust.
You’re nit-picking, but I just think I can out-nit-pick you.
The tea ship Dartmouth arrived in the Boston Harbor in late November of 1773. According to British law it had to be unloaded, and its tea tax be paid, within 20 days of its landing (if not, the cargo would be confiscated by customs officials).
Samuel Adams headed a meeting which drafted a resolution urging the captain of the Dartmouth to return to England without paying the import duty. However, the British governor of Massachusetts, named Hutchinson, refused to permit this. As twenty-five men were assigned by the colonists to guard the ship, the tea could not be unloaded either, and there it sat. Meanwhile, two more ships arrived laden with tea.
As the 20-day limit came to a close, Hutchinson had continued to refuse to allow the ships to leave without paying the import duty and unloading their tea. At that point, in defiance of the crown and its governor, a number of colonists boarded the ships and unloaded the tea themselves. Into the harbor. And the ship thereafter left for England without paying the duty.
So in fact the specific law – which amounted to “you will buy our tea, you will pay the tax, and you will enjoy it, or this ship never leaves” – was exactly the one that they broke: They unloaded the tea and sent the ship back to England without paying the tax.
The real-life picketing, sit-ins, etc. rely on the same principle too, though. Strength in numbers. It’s not anonymity; they could single out any one scape-goat and snipe him or her.
Or to put it in terms that would be more familiar to most here: Security by obscurity is no security at all. All it takes is one person who cares to single you out, and you’re no longer secure.
Let's also not forget that in all likelihood you're going to be using the nearly same resources anyway. "You" here referring to the collective: many people never turn their computers off; and if I may be so bold as to generalize... the people participating in this kind of activity will likely as not be torrenting files, participating in IRC chats, skype, IM, games, and otherwise consuming CPU and bandwidth.
Those resources, even if they are relatively cheap, could have just as easily been put to other use, however. SETI@home, for instance... yet you probably wouldn’t be so quick to discredit their value in that case.
Particularly in the context under discussion - where the majority people being affected by this "protest" will never be aware of why they're affected. (A sit-in or picket never leaves any doubt as to "why".)
I would hazard to guess that most of the people directly affected by Anonymous have a pretty good idea of why. It might not be something they can really do much about – their hand might be forced – it might just be business as usual. But they pissed off enough people for them to actually make a difference... it’s just another occupational hazard as far as corporations are concerned... it’s why they have huge PR departments.
When the law is used to justify unethical behavior by the people making it, and the law is used to penalize what should be ethical behavior by everyone else, the law is no longer a valid basis for determining who is a criminal and who isn’t. That is why we have civil disobedience.
I’m pretty sure that read-only access would be fine, at least in this particular case.
You could still get “disastrous” results if you actually read data from a file that was currently being written to, if you actually needed that data: suppose you read data from a financial database that’s supposed to be locked, and then the process that had locked the database makes a $50,000 transaction out of one account and wires it to some other bank. The data that you read says the $50,000 is still in that account. So is that disastrous? Only if you needed the right data...
Since the files he wanted to recover weren’t being changed, and he wasn’t interested in the contents of any files that were being changed, I don’t think it would be a problem.
I'm also wondering how the servers didn;t melt with 600amps coming into the 12v lines
The numbers in a rated 12V, 600A power supply indicate that it should be capable of supplying approximately 12V at up to 600A. How much amperage is actually drawn from the power supply depends on the resistance of the load (you know V = IR, right? so the minimum resistance is 12/600 = 0.02 ohm). If you draw more current than that, either the voltage will sag badly (it will be much less than 12 volts) or something will melt or catch fire. And a car battery is only going to be able to supply the full rated amperage for very short periods of time anyway, since they’re rated for the amperage that is actually required to start the car (which is only drawn for a very short time).
tl;dr: rated amperage has nothing to do with how many amps the power supply actually delivers for any given load, and everything to do with when it melts or burns up because the load was too low-resistance.
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Simply holding the [G] [O] and [D] keys at the same time enabled God Mode. Can't beat that. And that super jump that allows you to pretty much float across an entire map was also pretty bad ass.
I remember one time, after managing to fall into a pit that was too deep for me to get out of but for some reason didn’t have spikes at the bottom, rather than going to the menu and starting the level over I started mashing buttons... and suddenly it says I beat the game and rescued all of the elders (though I didn’t have many points obviously). That was a surprise.
No... obviously Keen later converted his spaceship into a time machine.
You don’t like it? Hell, if they are feeling really helpful you might ask them to give you the public link to the album so you can see the pictures without registering. But what did you expect... they’re going to run to Walgreens and get a set of prints made just for you? Or did you want them to snail-mail you a CD?
No, I don’t think so, because they do sometimes edit the stories. I know they edited one that I posted, they converted it from a logically divided 3-paragraph submission into a single glob of text, just like any other story.
Correction, Gregory Perry claimed to have an NDA with the FBI. Theo was just the messenger. Damn, this is confusing...
If so, where’s this NDA that Theo claims just expired? Surely he didn’t run it through the shredder already.
"Right now the Internet is like an empty wasteland: you wander from page to page, and no one is there but you."
Right, because all World Wide Web content is produced by robots.
A more fitting description would be to say it’s like a city populated by ghosts. Usually, it’s not falling apart, it’s well-kept, and everything works perfectly. But whoever is doing stuff behind the scenes rarely does anything while you’re watching... it almost always happens behind your back.
Going back and re-reading what I wrote, I didn’t mean to imply that autistic people would enjoy being crowded all the time. What works well for calming down obviously would not work well for efficiently getting office work done, in this case.
Actually, animals with herd instincts do feel most calm and protected when they’re being squeezed shoulder to shoulder. So do some autistic people.
My math said those feet were cubic, not square.
YOU LIE!
Chuck Norris was on the design team for Doom, which was originally so difficult that only Chuck Norris could beat it. He finally conceded that it wouldn’t be much of a success unless they made it easy enough for everyone else to play. They did, and Chuck Norris didn’t even need to beat Doom anymore. He just looked at it, and it beat itself. However, rumor has it that he still owns a copy of the original and plays it occasionally.
The one you linked to is broken. It only shows about 20% of the article.
No, my comment is based on the guidelines set forth in the Constitution.
However, it should be noted that the Boston Tea Party was not in fact Civil Disobedience. ... To engage in Civil Disobedience, one has to violate the specific law they feel is immoral or unjust.
You’re nit-picking, but I just think I can out-nit-pick you.
The tea ship Dartmouth arrived in the Boston Harbor in late November of 1773. According to British law it had to be unloaded, and its tea tax be paid, within 20 days of its landing (if not, the cargo would be confiscated by customs officials).
Samuel Adams headed a meeting which drafted a resolution urging the captain of the Dartmouth to return to England without paying the import duty. However, the British governor of Massachusetts, named Hutchinson, refused to permit this. As twenty-five men were assigned by the colonists to guard the ship, the tea could not be unloaded either, and there it sat. Meanwhile, two more ships arrived laden with tea.
As the 20-day limit came to a close, Hutchinson had continued to refuse to allow the ships to leave without paying the import duty and unloading their tea. At that point, in defiance of the crown and its governor, a number of colonists boarded the ships and unloaded the tea themselves. Into the harbor. And the ship thereafter left for England without paying the duty.
So in fact the specific law – which amounted to “you will buy our tea, you will pay the tax, and you will enjoy it, or this ship never leaves” – was exactly the one that they broke: They unloaded the tea and sent the ship back to England without paying the tax.
True, but the net result is the same.
The real-life picketing, sit-ins, etc. rely on the same principle too, though. Strength in numbers. It’s not anonymity; they could single out any one scape-goat and snipe him or her.
Or to put it in terms that would be more familiar to most here: Security by obscurity is no security at all. All it takes is one person who cares to single you out, and you’re no longer secure.
Let's also not forget that in all likelihood you're going to be using the nearly same resources anyway. "You" here referring to the collective: many people never turn their computers off; and if I may be so bold as to generalize... the people participating in this kind of activity will likely as not be torrenting files, participating in IRC chats, skype, IM, games, and otherwise consuming CPU and bandwidth.
Those resources, even if they are relatively cheap, could have just as easily been put to other use, however. SETI@home, for instance... yet you probably wouldn’t be so quick to discredit their value in that case.
Particularly in the context under discussion - where the majority people being affected by this "protest" will never be aware of why they're affected. (A sit-in or picket never leaves any doubt as to "why".)
I would hazard to guess that most of the people directly affected by Anonymous have a pretty good idea of why. It might not be something they can really do much about – their hand might be forced – it might just be business as usual. But they pissed off enough people for them to actually make a difference... it’s just another occupational hazard as far as corporations are concerned... it’s why they have huge PR departments.
That’s a lot of if’s and probably’s... and a lot of leg-work.
I just select "copy password to clipboard" over the entry and paste in. Also helps avoid keyloggers.
A keylogger that doesn’t monitor the clipboard? Lame...
And "Boston Tea Party" wasn't a term used until a century later.
It was the shortest way I could think of to differentiate it from the Tea Party a la Sarah Palin.
Thanks for the history lesson, but you didn’t tell me anything that I didn’t already know.
Annonymous is attacking whomever they think they can get away with under the cover of being "protesters".
I disagree.
When the law is used to justify unethical behavior by the people making it, and the law is used to penalize what should be ethical behavior by everyone else, the law is no longer a valid basis for determining who is a criminal and who isn’t. That is why we have civil disobedience.
I’m pretty sure that read-only access would be fine, at least in this particular case.
You could still get “disastrous” results if you actually read data from a file that was currently being written to, if you actually needed that data: suppose you read data from a financial database that’s supposed to be locked, and then the process that had locked the database makes a $50,000 transaction out of one account and wires it to some other bank. The data that you read says the $50,000 is still in that account. So is that disastrous? Only if you needed the right data...
Since the files he wanted to recover weren’t being changed, and he wasn’t interested in the contents of any files that were being changed, I don’t think it would be a problem.
I'm also wondering how the servers didn;t melt with 600amps coming into the 12v lines
The numbers in a rated 12V, 600A power supply indicate that it should be capable of supplying approximately 12V at up to 600A. How much amperage is actually drawn from the power supply depends on the resistance of the load (you know V = IR, right? so the minimum resistance is 12/600 = 0.02 ohm). If you draw more current than that, either the voltage will sag badly (it will be much less than 12 volts) or something will melt or catch fire. And a car battery is only going to be able to supply the full rated amperage for very short periods of time anyway, since they’re rated for the amperage that is actually required to start the car (which is only drawn for a very short time).
tl;dr: rated amperage has nothing to do with how many amps the power supply actually delivers for any given load, and everything to do with when it melts or burns up because the load was too low-resistance.
I met him once. It was the beginning of a very short and unfulfilling relationship...
Michael Jordan and Michelle Obama, I guess.
Never mind, I found it:
http://www.slate.com/id/2277768/