At one time the USSR was more than happy to arm its Arab proxy client states and their Arab non state actor proxies. We all know how well that worked out.
Also as far as "barely enough food to eat": first that is propagandist non fact, secondly, how would arming people give them more food?
I have to call you out on your reference to Pslam 82. This is not in fact at all a reference to polytheism any more than the use of multiple names of God in the Hebrew texts are. Please be aware that this type of theory comes from Christian athorities who wish to "prove" that they, not the Jews, had the one and only contract with God. Rather than trust Wikipedia on this, please consult with your local Orthodox Rabbi, he will most likely be more than happy to explain this matter.
Plenty of state actors and state connected actors have an interest and or motive here. Other journalists have pointed this out with better supporting research. To default to the US & Israel as prime suspects is essentially swallowing Ahmadinejad's whargarbl hook, line and sinker.
"Rather than being proud of its stealth and targeting, the authors should be embarrassed at their amateur approach to hiding the payload. I really hope it wasn’t written by the USA because I’d like to think our elite cyberweapon developers at least know what Bulgarian teenagers did back in the early 90s," Lawson said. "First, there appears to be no special obfuscation. Sure, there are your standard routines for hiding from AV tools, XOR masking, and installing a rootkit. But Stuxnet does no better at this than any other malware discovered last year. It does not use virtual machine-based obfuscation, novel techniques for anti-debugging, or anything else to make it different from the hundreds of malware samples found every day."
If the goal was to disrupt or disable part of Iran's nuclear program and the goal was achieved, what is the point of being 1337?
Those who have been so quick to blame the US or Israeli governments based on what really amounted to non-evidence probably wont be convinced by this though. It is so much easier to put on a tin foil hat and rave about Three Letter Agencies or Zionist Occupation Government conspiracies (which IMO is what the NYT did as well).
The NYT is not The Guardian but sometimes comes pretty darn close in terms of semi bizarre attributions of the secret powers of Israel. The US part of the article has the standard plausible deniability of sources but the Israel parts are sheer conjecture yet somehow we are supposed to just accept that the Israelis can setup a test lab of P-1s to match the production environment in Iran. America cant even ship P-1s to England without the units getting damaged, but Israel can build a working test lab of them. Right...
These sorts of articles border on accusations of secret Jewish cabals. A way to dog whistle for "Jew World Order" or "Zionist Occupation Government" folks who consider themselves far to reasonable to openly admit to believing in such nonsense.
Interestingly enough Sony has not closed any of its Japanese factories for any kind of media lately. Just goes to show that no matter where you are, it is better politically to protect your domestic labor force.
What with the hyperbole in the summary and the sheer stupidity of Anonymous' tactics, I dont know whether to laugh or down another antacid. For whatever reason people may disagree with a business, a religious organization or whatever, how in any way is reducing or denying them their freedom of speech a "good thing"?
NFC is old hat in civilized Asia. Here in Tokyo we've been using NFC for mass transit stored value cards, for payment at vending machines & POS systems for years. All the major mobile phone carriers offer NFC enabled phones and Softbank will soon release an add on NFC sticker for iPhones. Sony's FeliCa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeliCa) technology is the defacto standard here.
There was also a comic book which bridged Chasing Amy and Dogma but I did not need to read it to enjoy the adventures of Jay & Silent Bob in either movie.
Whichever EFF drone came up with this name needs a serious sit down with the dictionary. Whichever EFF muckamuck approved this press release most likely needed either a little more or a little less attention from mommy & daddy.
Flash was fine back in the days when users kept only one or two browser windows open but now that everyone has tens or hundreds of tabs/windows open at any one time the CPU cost for Flash is too much to pay. Partly this is a problem with the way browsers work where every tab/window executes all plugins whether or not the tab/window has focus, but partly this is a design problem because even though the day of one or two windows/tabs are long gone, web designers still populate every page with as much bouncy, blinky annoying bullshit as possible as if they and only they had any right to my CPU.
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At one time the USSR was more than happy to arm its Arab proxy client states and their Arab non state actor proxies. We all know how well that worked out. Also as far as "barely enough food to eat": first that is propagandist non fact, secondly, how would arming people give them more food?
How does the conditions of the Charedi refute c6gunner's point?
This is the same "science" that talks about how the Ashkenazi are really Khazars.
Wow, just wow. Did you copypasta this from stormfront or come up with it all on your own?
I have to call you out on your reference to Pslam 82. This is not in fact at all a reference to polytheism any more than the use of multiple names of God in the Hebrew texts are. Please be aware that this type of theory comes from Christian athorities who wish to "prove" that they, not the Jews, had the one and only contract with God. Rather than trust Wikipedia on this, please consult with your local Orthodox Rabbi, he will most likely be more than happy to explain this matter.
I sure as heck did not. Its like giving money to a cult.
In the real world where results count, lawlz is very rarely part of the project plan.
Plenty of state actors and state connected actors have an interest and or motive here. Other journalists have pointed this out with better supporting research. To default to the US & Israel as prime suspects is essentially swallowing Ahmadinejad's whargarbl hook, line and sinker.
I got your reference if no one else did.
"Rather than being proud of its stealth and targeting, the authors should be embarrassed at their amateur approach to hiding the payload. I really hope it wasn’t written by the USA because I’d like to think our elite cyberweapon developers at least know what Bulgarian teenagers did back in the early 90s," Lawson said. "First, there appears to be no special obfuscation. Sure, there are your standard routines for hiding from AV tools, XOR masking, and installing a rootkit. But Stuxnet does no better at this than any other malware discovered last year. It does not use virtual machine-based obfuscation, novel techniques for anti-debugging, or anything else to make it different from the hundreds of malware samples found every day."
If the goal was to disrupt or disable part of Iran's nuclear program and the goal was achieved, what is the point of being 1337?
Those who have been so quick to blame the US or Israeli governments based on what really amounted to non-evidence probably wont be convinced by this though. It is so much easier to put on a tin foil hat and rave about Three Letter Agencies or Zionist Occupation Government conspiracies (which IMO is what the NYT did as well).
The NYT is not The Guardian but sometimes comes pretty darn close in terms of semi bizarre attributions of the secret powers of Israel. The US part of the article has the standard plausible deniability of sources but the Israel parts are sheer conjecture yet somehow we are supposed to just accept that the Israelis can setup a test lab of P-1s to match the production environment in Iran. America cant even ship P-1s to England without the units getting damaged, but Israel can build a working test lab of them. Right... These sorts of articles border on accusations of secret Jewish cabals. A way to dog whistle for "Jew World Order" or "Zionist Occupation Government" folks who consider themselves far to reasonable to openly admit to believing in such nonsense.
Interestingly enough Sony has not closed any of its Japanese factories for any kind of media lately. Just goes to show that no matter where you are, it is better politically to protect your domestic labor force.
What with the hyperbole in the summary and the sheer stupidity of Anonymous' tactics, I dont know whether to laugh or down another antacid. For whatever reason people may disagree with a business, a religious organization or whatever, how in any way is reducing or denying them their freedom of speech a "good thing"?
NFC is old hat in civilized Asia. Here in Tokyo we've been using NFC for mass transit stored value cards, for payment at vending machines & POS systems for years. All the major mobile phone carriers offer NFC enabled phones and Softbank will soon release an add on NFC sticker for iPhones. Sony's FeliCa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeliCa) technology is the defacto standard here.
There was also a comic book which bridged Chasing Amy and Dogma but I did not need to read it to enjoy the adventures of Jay & Silent Bob in either movie.
Remind me not to invite you over for movie night any time soon.
Whichever EFF drone came up with this name needs a serious sit down with the dictionary. Whichever EFF muckamuck approved this press release most likely needed either a little more or a little less attention from mommy & daddy.
Insensitive clods pushing their Christian agenda! Just for that I'll go and make an AppleScript Hanukkah Menorah, that'll show em.
p>Randomly speaking... I'm a Canadian...
Well... that explains a few things.
Isn't the Canadian Ambassador in.. oh lets say France...
Isn't it his job to inform me on his views on the quality of leadership in France?
Unless you are in government, it is not his job to tell you doodley squat. You as a private citizen dont get to directly deal with foreign policy.
Dont let the account number fool you, I've forgotten more user accounts here than many users have had birthdays.
I'll bet 10 quatloos that less than 1% of /. readers ever even heard of this company or product.
Sorry but reaching Cuba has not been the goal of any hijacker since before Ronald Reagan took office.
Flash was fine back in the days when users kept only one or two browser windows open but now that everyone has tens or hundreds of tabs/windows open at any one time the CPU cost for Flash is too much to pay. Partly this is a problem with the way browsers work where every tab/window executes all plugins whether or not the tab/window has focus, but partly this is a design problem because even though the day of one or two windows/tabs are long gone, web designers still populate every page with as much bouncy, blinky annoying bullshit as possible as if they and only they had any right to my CPU.
This is the best comment in this entire thread.