Ok mods. I usually ignore it, but how is this getting modded down for "troll"?
Stratfor put out briefs that said pretty much exactly that. Specifically that Anonymous was playing with fire with going against the Mexcian cartels and were not a significant threat to them. Also, they rated the wikileaks cables as causing embarrasment, but not changing the way that diplomacy is done in the world.
Is there something else? I've seen some speculation, but nobody has really posted anything about what ticked off anonymous. If you know, enlighten us.
I wonder if they decided to go hacktivist before or after the site was cracked?
I could easily see someone pulling off a sql injection attack or some such on a site, and finding a list with a lot of corporate names in it. Then, telling friends "I cracked a major corporate nerve center".
But, take a look at the corporate list they posted. It's the "company" field from some subscription web form. It also has things like "self employed", phone numbers, "Do Not Renew", "N/A", "None", lots of entries of "retired", etc.
I don't think this is a list of confidential corporate clients so much as whatever a lot of subscribers happened to put in that field of the web form.
As to them all being evil: How is Doctors Without Borders evil? Thats one of the entries in the list too. *shrug*
"After ingesting food doesn't the body break the food down anyway then build its own proteins as it sees fit?"
Not completely. Some gets into the body more or less intact. Else you couldn't have allergic reactions to proteins in foods you eat.
It's also one reason why tracking down food allergies with skin tests can be difficult. It may not be the full protein you're so allergic to, but one of the fragments it gets cleaved into in the gut.
Money isn't why I don't have a smart phone. I could easily afford it.
I just don't normally have a great need or want to be available at all times. My job doesn't really need it, either. I use a tracfone that I leave shut off most of the time. It's there to give me 911 access, and let me check voicemail from time to time.
Yes, it sometimes would be nice to have mobile access to google or wikipedia, but it's rarely something I need "right then".
Most of my friends have smart phones, it fits them and their lifestyle and that's great.
I'll somehow survive not having 24/7 access to Angry Birds.;)
"is a monopoly on something that is free, against the law?"
It's free to you. It's not free to advertisers who are google's actual customers of its main business area.
Your eyes on google's search pages are the commodity being sold.
Look at broadcast TV in the decades before cable. It was free to the "users". It wasn't free to the actual customers, the advertisers. The user's (viewers) attention was what was being sold.
(This isn't saying google is doing anything wrong, or right for that matter. Just that your picture of it being a "free" service is wrong.)
"and didn't handle the Beirut problem that well, leading to Reagan winning the 1980 election."
Beirut? As in Lebanon? The Syrians started openly backing the Palestinians in 78 after the Camp David accords and the situation went further to hell in a handbasket, but that was hardly the major factor in the 1980 election of Reagan.
So, all that stuff in the various Mahayanna sutras the Zen monks chant from was hard core physical reality, huh?
I thought the whole point of Zen was that enlightenment could not be an intellectual process and had to be obtained by mystical insight attained through practice and meditation.
You need to learn more about Buddhism and its teachings rather than just some distilled pop culture view of it.
Ok. The Iranians have some very bright and talented people and are strongly motivated.
But, if I'd just pulled off a major coup by spoofing a drone using the same military gps as various guided weapons that might be launched at me in the future (by Israel, maybe.), would I go around talking loudly about how I did it and claiming I could do it to guided weapons?
Wouldn't it make more sense to stay a little quiet about it, and maybe the enemy wouldn't figure out how it was done and not refit their systems to be more spoofing resistant? Maybe they would, but you wouldn't automatically assume that.
Of course, if I'd found some other slick way of getting a high tech prize line this drone, I'd try to put out some FUD with a somewhat plausible cover story. That undermines confidence in the enemy's systems, and might be enough smoke to keep them from guessing how it was really done.
One of the most common uses of jury nullification over the history of the US in some areas was to insure that if a white man killed a black they would have little chance of being convicted.
Interesting to know that you support that, Gunfighter.
American Rocket was the hot ticket for a private space launch company in the 80s. Unfortunately, the main person behind the company, George Koopman was killed in an auto accident. They suffered a launch failure 3 months later and never were able to recover.
Sorry, but the fact that your patient is still screaming in agony after the minimum dose of morphine can't be used as evidence that they might need more of the drug. That would infringe.
We suggest rolling a six sided dice and scaling the dose based on that.
Oh look, a 43 year old Anonymous Coward with delusions of living somewhere other than mom's basement. Get an education, social skills, a job, a girlfriend (need I go on?), you fool.
"And if it does, it couldn't possibly get FCC approval."
That doesn't follow. The FCC has a history of being pressed into decisions going back to the obsoleting of the old (pre-WW2) FM band. That one also obsoleted a lot of old gear.
That was also done at the behest of corporate interests.
I know you don't like Grassley, but his presence on this issue is largely beside the point. You need to check out the technical background on this one, Ratzo.
There are real technical questions about Lightsquared's proposal.
Wish I woulda known about this a while back. I'd have gotten a couple of geek friends together for a retrocomputer road trip.
But alas with age also comes needing to get time off approved, schedules matched up and arrangements made. No longer can we just say "Screw it, we're going." at 2 am the night before.
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Ok mods. I usually ignore it, but how is this getting modded down for "troll"?
Stratfor put out briefs that said pretty much exactly that. Specifically that Anonymous was playing with fire with going against the Mexcian cartels and were not a significant threat to them. Also, they rated the wikileaks cables as causing embarrasment, but not changing the way that diplomacy is done in the world.
Is there something else? I've seen some speculation, but nobody has really posted anything about what ticked off anonymous. If you know, enlighten us.
I wonder if they decided to go hacktivist before or after the site was cracked?
I could easily see someone pulling off a sql injection attack or some such on a site, and finding a list with a lot of corporate names in it. Then, telling friends "I cracked a major corporate nerve center".
But, take a look at the corporate list they posted. It's the "company" field from some subscription web form. It also has things like "self employed", phone numbers, "Do Not Renew", "N/A", "None", lots of entries of "retired", etc.
I don't think this is a list of confidential corporate clients so much as whatever a lot of subscribers happened to put in that field of the web form.
As to them all being evil: How is Doctors Without Borders evil? Thats one of the entries in the list too. *shrug*
"what "recent actions"?"
Probably writing papers saying that Julian Assange and Wikileaks weren't going to fundamentally change the world the way that some were billing them.
They've said similar about Anonymous itself, too.
"But NASA's got the spaciest balls of them all!"
"After ingesting food doesn't the body break the food down anyway then build its own proteins as it sees fit?"
Not completely. Some gets into the body more or less intact. Else you couldn't have allergic reactions to proteins in foods you eat.
It's also one reason why tracking down food allergies with skin tests can be difficult. It may not be the full protein you're so allergic to, but one of the fragments it gets cleaved into in the gut.
So...
You're saying you used to have trust and respect for the slashdot community?
Money isn't why I don't have a smart phone. I could easily afford it.
I just don't normally have a great need or want to be available at all times. My job doesn't really need it, either. I use a tracfone that I leave shut off most of the time. It's there to give me 911 access, and let me check voicemail from time to time.
Yes, it sometimes would be nice to have mobile access to google or wikipedia, but it's rarely something I need "right then".
Most of my friends have smart phones, it fits them and their lifestyle and that's great.
I'll somehow survive not having 24/7 access to Angry Birds. ;)
"is a monopoly on something that is free, against the law?"
It's free to you. It's not free to advertisers who are google's actual customers of its main business area.
Your eyes on google's search pages are the commodity being sold.
Look at broadcast TV in the decades before cable. It was free to the "users". It wasn't free to the actual customers, the advertisers. The user's (viewers) attention was what was being sold.
(This isn't saying google is doing anything wrong, or right for that matter. Just that your picture of it being a "free" service is wrong.)
Can the NCOR1 "mighty mice" beat up the PEPCK-C "supermice" from 4 years ago?
It never was particularly funny and it's hardly new. More like a very sad old tradition that we can't get rid of.
Today it's the internet or stem cells. Before that, it was genetic engineering in general and a whole host of scientific and technical topics.
I can remember it going back to the 70s. My science teacher father assured me it went back prior to WW2 and that was even ignoring evolution.
It's a bipartisan problem. No party will allow another to out-ignoramus it.
And I'm sure it goes back at least to the Continental Congress.
"and didn't handle the Beirut problem that well, leading to Reagan winning the 1980 election."
Beirut? As in Lebanon? The Syrians started openly backing the Palestinians in 78 after the Camp David accords and the situation went further to hell in a handbasket, but that was hardly the major factor in the 1980 election of Reagan.
Not promoting supernaturalism?
So, all that stuff in the various Mahayanna sutras the Zen monks chant from was hard core physical reality, huh?
I thought the whole point of Zen was that enlightenment could not be an intellectual process and had to be obtained by mystical insight attained through practice and meditation.
You need to learn more about Buddhism and its teachings rather than just some distilled pop culture view of it.
(Not dissing Zen, just dissing misunderstanding.)
Ok. The Iranians have some very bright and talented people and are strongly motivated.
But, if I'd just pulled off a major coup by spoofing a drone using the same military gps as various guided weapons that might be launched at me in the future (by Israel, maybe.), would I go around talking loudly about how I did it and claiming I could do it to guided weapons?
Wouldn't it make more sense to stay a little quiet about it, and maybe the enemy wouldn't figure out how it was done and not refit their systems to be more spoofing resistant? Maybe they would, but you wouldn't automatically assume that.
Of course, if I'd found some other slick way of getting a high tech prize line this drone, I'd try to put out some FUD with a somewhat plausible cover story. That undermines confidence in the enemy's systems, and might be enough smoke to keep them from guessing how it was really done.
Nuke the baby comets for Jesus?
Oh, it'll still be around since no one would want the political fallout from ending it. The staffing and facilities might be a little smaller, though.
His desk will be over in that corner.
One of the most common uses of jury nullification over the history of the US in some areas was to insure that if a white man killed a black they would have little chance of being convicted.
Interesting to know that you support that, Gunfighter.
There's actually an example of that happening.
American Rocket was the hot ticket for a private space launch company in the 80s. Unfortunately, the main person behind the company, George Koopman was killed in an auto accident. They suffered a launch failure 3 months later and never were able to recover.
I've got jury duty next week.
I'll have to remember not to complain about the coffee.
Sorry, but the fact that your patient is still screaming in agony after the minimum dose of morphine can't be used as evidence that they might need more of the drug. That would infringe.
We suggest rolling a six sided dice and scaling the dose based on that.
"Angry UAVs, Nuke Ninja, and other battlefield apps"
I'm still stuck with the naPalm Pilot you insensitive clods.
http://www.lorax.org/~arosin/napalm.pdf
Oh look, a 43 year old Anonymous Coward with delusions of living somewhere other than mom's basement. Get an education, social skills, a job, a girlfriend (need I go on?), you fool.
"And if it does, it couldn't possibly get FCC approval."
That doesn't follow. The FCC has a history of being pressed into decisions going back to the obsoleting of the old (pre-WW2) FM band. That one also obsoleted a lot of old gear.
https://umdrive.memphis.edu/mbensman/public/stat40.html
That was also done at the behest of corporate interests.
I know you don't like Grassley, but his presence on this issue is largely beside the point. You need to check out the technical background on this one, Ratzo.
There are real technical questions about Lightsquared's proposal.
Don't even need that. Just time, alzheimers and screwed up documentation.
But the NDAs keep me and everyone else involved from talking about it. :P
Wish I woulda known about this a while back. I'd have gotten a couple of geek friends together for a retrocomputer road trip.
But alas with age also comes needing to get time off approved, schedules matched up and arrangements made. No longer can we just say "Screw it, we're going." at 2 am the night before.