You do realize that we're talking about laptops, right? Quad core Intel mobile chips have a 45w-55w TDP. Dual core Intel mobile chips tend to top out at 35w. You'd have a pretty bulky and ugly 13" laptop if you tried to shoehorn a quad into it with proper cooling and a big enough battery to run it for a time comparable to the current 13" Macbook Pro. "Or better"? Right. Show me a laptop with a 6+ core CPU in it that isn't a hideous monstrosity with a ten pound power brick.
True, but he at least has the right idea. LP can carry any protocol, so as long as you have a way to physically convert the connector at the other end, you can adapt Lightpeak to just about anything.
So if the guy asked the school and the school subsequently sent consent forms to parents, you'd have signed off? I wouldn't have, and no one involved had the opportunity to decide for themselves. That's the biggie. He went ahead and did this without asking anyone if they were okay with it first, which is a pretty dick move. I wouldn't be calling for this guy's head, but I wouldn't be too happy about it, either.
The guy never told the school what he was doing. He filmed himself and the kids while singing a nice song, then likely told them that he needed to get a few more shots when he went back to the classroom.
And you obviously don't have children. I have a son. I wouldn't have gone bonkers (and I'd be calling for the kiddie porn charges to be dropped), but I'd have some choice words for this guy for filming my kid for commercial gain under false pretenses.
Then charge him with criminal trespass. Charging him with creating child pornography is ludicrously overboard and beyond idiotic as I seriously, seriously doubt he had any kind of sexual motivation whatsoever. It was a joke and he never actually sang the explicit lyrics to the children. The guy's a dick, and perhaps prosecution is in order, but let the charges actually fit the crime.
Actually, it does matter, because he never actually said sexual remarks to children. No one was fucking victimized by this. No one was harmed unless you count the kids/parents being angry that the footage was used in such a fashion, and even then the best you could probably do is a civil suit. As others have pointed out, this guy is hardly the first to do this kind of thing. South Park depicted Mr. Garrison teaching kindergarteners about hot carls and the like. Why aren't Matt Stone and Trey Parker in prison?
This is beyond fucking absurd. Show me who was sexually abused or shut the fuck up.
I've seen a lot of Anons hacking into Facebook profiles so they can post scat porn and get reactions from the friends of said account. I remember some assholes from 7chan essentially hijacking a forum for epileptics and posting redirects to sites made with flashing lights and blaring noise, an act that did get covered by numerous media outlets. I've seen plenty of Anons going after people on Youtube that they felt were annoying. I've seen people get mercilessly raided who may have been dickish, but didn't deserve what they got, ie, Adam Goldstein. I've seen them DDoS minor news sites and blogs for simply making an article on them.
The problem is, like you said, that Anonymous is so disparate that it's really impossible to label them as much of anything, but it's safe to say that one of their few uniting factors is the lulz, and unfortunately, too many think that lulz are boundless, and telling them otherwise makes you a moralfag. They certainly cannot be described as champions of the people and warriors for free speech, though.
If you think the only raids that Anonymous has done were DDoSing people who refused to donate to Wikileaks, HBGary, and Scientology, then you know NOTHING about them. I posted to a lot of chan sites for a while (not just 4chan), and I saw PLENTY of raids unfolding. I have seen PLENTY of people who absolutely did not deserve it get screwed over by these guys. They aren't warriors for freedom or justice. They do it for the lulz, and that could mean going after some assholes or it could mean going after random people on Facebook and Youtube.
I wasn't referring to Anonymous going after WBC. I was referring to their past exploits, which has included such lovely instances as hijacking FB accounts to spread scat porn to friends, hijacking a forum for epileptics to redirect to a page with flashing lights and music, posting kiddie porn. raiding people in all sorts of awful ways, etc. That's a wanton abuse of free speech because none of it is legitimate.
So shouting "FIRE!" in a crowded theater, screaming death threats, and publishing blatantly libelous material as though it were fact is protected as free speech? That's news to me.
Exactly. It seems that the WIkileaks coverage has inflated someone's head to grotesque proportions. Anonymous isn't an "advocate of the people" or "the voice of free speech". Quite the contrary. Anonymous has fucked around with largely random people for years and is a poster boy for the abuse of free speech, quite possibly engaging in activities that will make politicians call for further limitations to free speech. Anonymous is...well, Anonymous. They're a huge group of people who spend too much time on the internet and have engaged in a wide variety of activities, from protesting Scientology to DDoSing Wikileaks to a multitude of lower-profile activities, like screwing people over the internet as hard as possible just for the lulz. And "super-consciousness"? Gimme a fucking break.
"Mouth breather"? The guy took a company that was less than a year from bankruptcy and turned it into a ludicrously profitable empire with the second largest market cap in the US and $6 billion in profits last quarter. If Jobs is a "mouth breather" then everyone on/. is a fucking drooling retard with a bike helmet and a padded room.
It wasn't that there was an attack on Manhattan, it was that there was an attack on EARTH as far as anyone was concerned. It sure looked like some gigantic alien blew up New York. There's a pretty damned big difference between that and some planes hitting the WTC.
Right, because Penn & Teller are certainly an unbiased, reliable source. Except they aren't. They're entertainment. They may be right to a certain extent, but martial arts for self-defense are not bullshit. Nobody is going to claim that some Judo classes are going to help you disarm a person holding a gun from ten feet away, but if you're diligent and you practice these things well enough, it might just be enough to stop a guy with a knife or some thug with fists.
I think a lot of the hype on/. is that MS put this out for a game system and the OSS/modding/hacking community has found a billion other uses for it far, FAR beyond the scope of the XBox, far more than MS ever even considered.
That being said, this has spawned some pretty darned nifty hacks.
I seriously doubt they'll be able to modify it in any meaningful way. The thing seems to have been designed specifically to hit Siemens centrifuges, which would imply that the creators had some very, very good knowledge of the software used in those centrifuges. I doubt there are too many Anons out there with enough knowledge of how natural gas systems or other dedicated industrial hardware works to do much with Stuxnet.
Not to mention just having the virus doesn't mean much of anything. Stuxnet was all over the place a while back. Big whoop.
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You do realize that we're talking about laptops, right? Quad core Intel mobile chips have a 45w-55w TDP. Dual core Intel mobile chips tend to top out at 35w. You'd have a pretty bulky and ugly 13" laptop if you tried to shoehorn a quad into it with proper cooling and a big enough battery to run it for a time comparable to the current 13" Macbook Pro. "Or better"? Right. Show me a laptop with a 6+ core CPU in it that isn't a hideous monstrosity with a ten pound power brick.
True, but he at least has the right idea. LP can carry any protocol, so as long as you have a way to physically convert the connector at the other end, you can adapt Lightpeak to just about anything.
So if the guy asked the school and the school subsequently sent consent forms to parents, you'd have signed off? I wouldn't have, and no one involved had the opportunity to decide for themselves. That's the biggie. He went ahead and did this without asking anyone if they were okay with it first, which is a pretty dick move. I wouldn't be calling for this guy's head, but I wouldn't be too happy about it, either.
The guy never told the school what he was doing. He filmed himself and the kids while singing a nice song, then likely told them that he needed to get a few more shots when he went back to the classroom.
How many are ACs and how many are registered members? Don't take ACs into account when measuring the views of /.ers.
And you obviously don't have children. I have a son. I wouldn't have gone bonkers (and I'd be calling for the kiddie porn charges to be dropped), but I'd have some choice words for this guy for filming my kid for commercial gain under false pretenses.
Then charge him with criminal trespass. Charging him with creating child pornography is ludicrously overboard and beyond idiotic as I seriously, seriously doubt he had any kind of sexual motivation whatsoever. It was a joke and he never actually sang the explicit lyrics to the children. The guy's a dick, and perhaps prosecution is in order, but let the charges actually fit the crime.
Who's this "we"? Do you have a turd in your pocket? You'll find very few /.ers defending hate speech laws.
Actually, it does matter, because he never actually said sexual remarks to children. No one was fucking victimized by this. No one was harmed unless you count the kids/parents being angry that the footage was used in such a fashion, and even then the best you could probably do is a civil suit. As others have pointed out, this guy is hardly the first to do this kind of thing. South Park depicted Mr. Garrison teaching kindergarteners about hot carls and the like. Why aren't Matt Stone and Trey Parker in prison?
This is beyond fucking absurd. Show me who was sexually abused or shut the fuck up.
I've seen a lot of Anons hacking into Facebook profiles so they can post scat porn and get reactions from the friends of said account. I remember some assholes from 7chan essentially hijacking a forum for epileptics and posting redirects to sites made with flashing lights and blaring noise, an act that did get covered by numerous media outlets. I've seen plenty of Anons going after people on Youtube that they felt were annoying. I've seen people get mercilessly raided who may have been dickish, but didn't deserve what they got, ie, Adam Goldstein. I've seen them DDoS minor news sites and blogs for simply making an article on them. The problem is, like you said, that Anonymous is so disparate that it's really impossible to label them as much of anything, but it's safe to say that one of their few uniting factors is the lulz, and unfortunately, too many think that lulz are boundless, and telling them otherwise makes you a moralfag. They certainly cannot be described as champions of the people and warriors for free speech, though.
If you think the only raids that Anonymous has done were DDoSing people who refused to donate to Wikileaks, HBGary, and Scientology, then you know NOTHING about them. I posted to a lot of chan sites for a while (not just 4chan), and I saw PLENTY of raids unfolding. I have seen PLENTY of people who absolutely did not deserve it get screwed over by these guys. They aren't warriors for freedom or justice. They do it for the lulz, and that could mean going after some assholes or it could mean going after random people on Facebook and Youtube.
I wasn't referring to Anonymous going after WBC. I was referring to their past exploits, which has included such lovely instances as hijacking FB accounts to spread scat porn to friends, hijacking a forum for epileptics to redirect to a page with flashing lights and music, posting kiddie porn. raiding people in all sorts of awful ways, etc. That's a wanton abuse of free speech because none of it is legitimate.
/b/ was never good.
So shouting "FIRE!" in a crowded theater, screaming death threats, and publishing blatantly libelous material as though it were fact is protected as free speech? That's news to me.
Bleh, hasty typing. Shoulda said "DDoSing sites that refused to process donations to Wikileaks".
Phelps and his cronies have met with plenty of counter-protests. It doesn't faze them.
Exactly. It seems that the WIkileaks coverage has inflated someone's head to grotesque proportions. Anonymous isn't an "advocate of the people" or "the voice of free speech". Quite the contrary. Anonymous has fucked around with largely random people for years and is a poster boy for the abuse of free speech, quite possibly engaging in activities that will make politicians call for further limitations to free speech. Anonymous is...well, Anonymous. They're a huge group of people who spend too much time on the internet and have engaged in a wide variety of activities, from protesting Scientology to DDoSing Wikileaks to a multitude of lower-profile activities, like screwing people over the internet as hard as possible just for the lulz. And "super-consciousness"? Gimme a fucking break.
True. However, when Jobs goes, whether that be in two weeks or two decades, he will rise again in three days, so let's not be worried.
I think someone just came off their medication...
"Mouth breather"? The guy took a company that was less than a year from bankruptcy and turned it into a ludicrously profitable empire with the second largest market cap in the US and $6 billion in profits last quarter. If Jobs is a "mouth breather" then everyone on /. is a fucking drooling retard with a bike helmet and a padded room.
It wasn't that there was an attack on Manhattan, it was that there was an attack on EARTH as far as anyone was concerned. It sure looked like some gigantic alien blew up New York. There's a pretty damned big difference between that and some planes hitting the WTC.
Right, because Penn & Teller are certainly an unbiased, reliable source. Except they aren't. They're entertainment. They may be right to a certain extent, but martial arts for self-defense are not bullshit. Nobody is going to claim that some Judo classes are going to help you disarm a person holding a gun from ten feet away, but if you're diligent and you practice these things well enough, it might just be enough to stop a guy with a knife or some thug with fists.
I think a lot of the hype on /. is that MS put this out for a game system and the OSS/modding/hacking community has found a billion other uses for it far, FAR beyond the scope of the XBox, far more than MS ever even considered.
That being said, this has spawned some pretty darned nifty hacks.
I seriously doubt they'll be able to modify it in any meaningful way. The thing seems to have been designed specifically to hit Siemens centrifuges, which would imply that the creators had some very, very good knowledge of the software used in those centrifuges. I doubt there are too many Anons out there with enough knowledge of how natural gas systems or other dedicated industrial hardware works to do much with Stuxnet.
Not to mention just having the virus doesn't mean much of anything. Stuxnet was all over the place a while back. Big whoop.