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In reality, there are multiple independent groups acting under the banner of Anonymous, along with a much larger group of passive participants who identify themselves with the cause. One of the most prominent and active groups runs the anonops.ru IRC server and these are the ones who are/were at war with HBGary Federal. Sure, they are not that structured or organized, but they clearly exist as an independent sub-group of the "Anonymous" movement. Aaron Barr tried to identify them and supposedly almost came close on a few counts, although his methodology was more or less random guesswork.
So the real issue is just a matter of what to call this sub-group, because calling them "Anonymous" conflates one single sub-group with the larger social movement. We can label individual al-Qaeda cells by their base of operation, but it's pretty unwieldy to do the same for Anonymous.
“The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an increase in cognitive “secrecy tax”) and consequent system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased ability to hold onto power as the environment demands adaption. Hence in a world where leaking is easy, secretive or unjust systems are nonlinearly hit relative to open, just systems. Since unjust systems, by their nature induce opponents, and in many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance.”
So Julian Assange is succeeding in forcing conspirators (according to him) to increase the cost of carrying out their conspiracies and perhaps eventually turn on itself out of paranoid?
Actually, that also sounds like one of those "the terrorists have already won" arguments, depending on your perspective of Assange's agenda.
You are getting angry over something you did not even bother to understand. Google logs wireless access points with GPS data and signal strength in order to provide location-detection functions in Google Maps.
How else do you think an iPod touch magically figures out its location without a GPS receiver?
Yes. All rich people are rich because they worked hard and all poor people are poor because they did not. And yes, how much you earn is perfectly proportional to how much you contribute to society. This explains Wall Street, the best and brightest of your great nation, perfectly.
After all, it makes much more sense to let the country's infrastructure fall apart and the children of the working poor be left uneducated, than to pay taxes to invest in the country you live in. The tax money you save can be used to pay for a business class flight out of the country when it turns into shit. You can then retire and enjoy functioning infrastructure built with other people's tax money.
It really does make complete sense from an individual perspective. I guess progressivism fails because it assumes that people can actually care about anyone but themselves.
While Catcher in the Rye is the original source, Ghost in the Shell is the more relevant reference. In the series, everyone possesses cyberbrains that can be remotely hacked to modify the person's sensory data in real-life.
The Laughing Man (think Anonymous of the future) used this to mask his face with a smiling logo containing the Salinger quotation above. Literally no one could ever see his face, except for homeless beggars who are too poor to afford cyberbrain implants.
The Eye Toy for PS2 is actually one of the most successful console accessories ever, selling 10.5 million units worldwide despite a slow start. Apparently it was actually novel and useful enough for its time to generate grassroot interest.
The failure you are looking for is The Eye for PS3.
This example has a design no more complicated than an English website serving similar purpose (in this case, music retail). It mere appears to be more cluttered because the Japanese writing system is more complex.
The hanzi/kanji writing system simply does not lend itself to minimalistic designs in the same way that can be achieved by the Roman alphabet. This is partially why many modern brands in Japan make liberal use of English in their designs and typesets.
That said, it is also true that Chinese and Japanese web designers appear to follow a set of standards rather different from the Web 2.0 design philosophies. Many of them still like to use <TABLE> to format their layouts.
What's the use of all the private-insurer "efficiency" if they prefer to use it to screw you over for one more dollar? And I say "efficiency" because health insurance companies in US already have one of the highest overhead costs in the world, so you can hardly called it efficient.
In Singapore, academics is king. Extra-curricular activities play a huge part in secondary education too, but ultimately most people are doing them just to get into a good university and receive a good scholarship.
There are all sorts of examinations and awards used to measure academic aptitude and reward the brightest with the best. The best and brightest receive government scholarships for college education and are pretty much guaranteed a life of success in both the public and private sector, both because they simply have the talent that they are being recognized for and because such public recognition opens doors of opportunities.
I think most people here cannot understand the American mindset of catering to the middle at the expense of the gifted. SAT is a joke compared to the rigorous nature of A'level assessment in Singapore, and scoring 800 for SAT I Math or SAT II Math 2 is considered normal for my high school, which Washington Post claims is the school that sends the most students to the Ivy Leagues in the entire world, including expensive private schools in the States. All this coming from a tiny country with less than 5 million people. This is the result of decades of heavy government investment in education since the nation's independence 43 years ago.
Blizzard just likes to crack jokes, that's all. When you change your account details for example, a message tells you that it is a historical event that will one day be remembered by your descendants or something like that.
I no longer play WoW but I don't think my time spent on the game was a bad experience.
I was born in China but I grew up overseas. I have tons of relatives who live all over the world, from Paris to New York. They have access to all the information in the world.
But let me tell you this: Not a single person in my family supports Tibetan independence. Everyone supports the Olympics 100%.
My grandparents were Party members so we are relatively well off. Most of my aunts and uncles had university education and my cousins are studying overseas. These are people who regularly criticize the government in daily conversations over things like corruption and bureaucratic inefficiencies, because they are well-informed and aware of what is happening.
Westerners just can't grapple with the reality that the Chinese government is still generally popular and it's people, though overly addicted to nationalism and cultural pride, are NOT ignorant slaves that your corporate media and your condescending feel-good activists like you to believe.
I personally am very much against the operating principals of the Chinese government, as are my parents. But I think this whole Olympic protest business is just bullshit. It will only strengthen ugly nationalism and serve as an ego trip for those hippie protesters.
This doesn't mean that news will become inaccurate or drop in quality. People will still want to read edited content produced by intelligent writers and those who provide them will naturally gain prominence and credibility. It's a rather nice change from the past where credibility depends on how much money you have to produce and distribute the content.
Of course, I'm only talking about corporate publications vs. blogs. TV newscast still has requires some infrastructure to support it. That said, I think getting news from linear broadcasting with fixed time slots is silly in the first place, so I don't see why we should create an online replacement for it.
Yahoo is ANYTHING but sinking. Yahoo.com is still the number one most visited site on the web (check alexa). Now, Google happens to be number two, followed by youtube. Who in their right mind wouldn't want the top three websites? I'D shell out $45B if I had it.
The reason why Yahoo! has managed to keep its top Alexa position despite clearly lagging behind Google is because it redirects regional pages to subdomains. For example, Yahoo! Singapore) redirects to sg.yahoo.com. To Alexa, this counts as a part of yahoo.com and the visit is attributed accordingly, the exception being yahoo.co.jp, which has its own domain probably because Japan is one of the few regions where Yahoo! is outperforming Google.
Google on the other hand, has separate domains for all its regional versions. Take a look at Alexa's top 100 list: a good 21 out of 100, or one fifth, of them are really just Google in different languages, and we are not even counting subsidiaries like YouTube yet. I'd say that Google has long surpassed Yahoo! as the most trafficked website on the net. Yahoo! is just barely holding on to its top Alexa ranking even despite this discrepancy in the tabulation.
Space -> Earth, Flying paper aeroplane. Hobbyists and Tokyo University to conduct tests.
A Tokyo University group and the Japan Origami Airplane Association are cooperating to create a paper aeroplane that can return to Earth from a space station. The wind tunnel tests will be conducted on the 17th. (This article is dated 14th.)
The tests will use an 8cm-long paper plane folded in the shape of the space shuttle that was given heat-resistance treatment. The tests include heat resistance and strength and will be conducted in Mach 7 wind speed in a wind tunnel located at Tokyo University's Kashiwa Campus. (Kashiwa City in Chiba Prefecture)
Due to the fact that space shuttles return to Earth at Mach 20, experiencing high temperature levels due to air friction, special heat-resisting measures have to be taken to protect their surface. Because paper aeroplanes are light, they can begin deceleration even in thin air, thus landing at a slower speed. It is speculated that the plane may be able to reach the ground safely without burning up.
An aeronautics professor at Tokyo University, Professor Shinji Suzuki, says, "I hope that this plane will be released from the space station with a message of peace attached to it. We don't know where it will land, but we hope that the person who finds it will send it back to us."
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In reality, there are multiple independent groups acting under the banner of Anonymous, along with a much larger group of passive participants who identify themselves with the cause. One of the most prominent and active groups runs the anonops.ru IRC server and these are the ones who are/were at war with HBGary Federal. Sure, they are not that structured or organized, but they clearly exist as an independent sub-group of the "Anonymous" movement. Aaron Barr tried to identify them and supposedly almost came close on a few counts, although his methodology was more or less random guesswork.
So the real issue is just a matter of what to call this sub-group, because calling them "Anonymous" conflates one single sub-group with the larger social movement. We can label individual al-Qaeda cells by their base of operation, but it's pretty unwieldy to do the same for Anonymous.
So Julian Assange is succeeding in forcing conspirators (according to him) to increase the cost of carrying out their conspiracies and perhaps eventually turn on itself out of paranoid?
Actually, that also sounds like one of those "the terrorists have already won" arguments, depending on your perspective of Assange's agenda.
Given that the whole of Wikipedia is under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, does Amazon even need to pay them for this?
It is 50 million and 30 years old. Problem solved. You can check my workings.
You are getting angry over something you did not even bother to understand. Google logs wireless access points with GPS data and signal strength in order to provide location-detection functions in Google Maps.
How else do you think an iPod touch magically figures out its location without a GPS receiver?
And Google is not even the first or only one to use Wi-Fi signals as a poor man's GPS. http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/
Yes. All rich people are rich because they worked hard and all poor people are poor because they did not. And yes, how much you earn is perfectly proportional to how much you contribute to society. This explains Wall Street, the best and brightest of your great nation, perfectly.
After all, it makes much more sense to let the country's infrastructure fall apart and the children of the working poor be left uneducated, than to pay taxes to invest in the country you live in. The tax money you save can be used to pay for a business class flight out of the country when it turns into shit. You can then retire and enjoy functioning infrastructure built with other people's tax money.
It really does make complete sense from an individual perspective. I guess progressivism fails because it assumes that people can actually care about anyone but themselves.
While Catcher in the Rye is the original source, Ghost in the Shell is the more relevant reference. In the series, everyone possesses cyberbrains that can be remotely hacked to modify the person's sensory data in real-life. The Laughing Man (think Anonymous of the future) used this to mask his face with a smiling logo containing the Salinger quotation above. Literally no one could ever see his face, except for homeless beggars who are too poor to afford cyberbrain implants.
The Eye Toy for PS2 is actually one of the most successful console accessories ever, selling 10.5 million units worldwide despite a slow start. Apparently it was actually novel and useful enough for its time to generate grassroot interest. The failure you are looking for is The Eye for PS3.
An embassy which was run basically as a CIA safe house plotting to sabotage the Iranian government. Citation: Legacy of Ashes
http://mora.jp/artist/80307744/80006846/?cpid=sony.co.jp
This example has a design no more complicated than an English website serving similar purpose (in this case, music retail). It mere appears to be more cluttered because the Japanese writing system is more complex.
A similar observation can be made with regards to Chinese, which is even more compact than Japanese due to the lack of a phonetic alphabet. Take a look at Yahoo:
http://www.yahoo.com/
http://www.yahoo.com.cn/
http://www.yahoo.co.jp/
The hanzi/kanji writing system simply does not lend itself to minimalistic designs in the same way that can be achieved by the Roman alphabet. This is partially why many modern brands in Japan make liberal use of English in their designs and typesets.
That said, it is also true that Chinese and Japanese web designers appear to follow a set of standards rather different from the Web 2.0 design philosophies. Many of them still like to use <TABLE> to format their layouts.
What's the use of all the private-insurer "efficiency" if they prefer to use it to screw you over for one more dollar?
And I say "efficiency" because health insurance companies in US already have one of the highest overhead costs in the world, so you can hardly called it efficient.
The next step is obviously to let PageRank select the Nobel winners and cut out the middleman.
Since it is way behind schedule, they are just making up for lost time.
In Singapore, academics is king. Extra-curricular activities play a huge part in secondary education too, but ultimately most people are doing them just to get into a good university and receive a good scholarship.
There are all sorts of examinations and awards used to measure academic aptitude and reward the brightest with the best. The best and brightest receive government scholarships for college education and are pretty much guaranteed a life of success in both the public and private sector, both because they simply have the talent that they are being recognized for and because such public recognition opens doors of opportunities.
I think most people here cannot understand the American mindset of catering to the middle at the expense of the gifted. SAT is a joke compared to the rigorous nature of A'level assessment in Singapore, and scoring 800 for SAT I Math or SAT II Math 2 is considered normal for my high school, which Washington Post claims is the school that sends the most students to the Ivy Leagues in the entire world, including expensive private schools in the States. All this coming from a tiny country with less than 5 million people. This is the result of decades of heavy government investment in education since the nation's independence 43 years ago.
Oh please, enough with the melodramatics.
Blizzard just likes to crack jokes, that's all. When you change your account details for example, a message tells you that it is a historical event that will one day be remembered by your descendants or something like that.
I no longer play WoW but I don't think my time spent on the game was a bad experience.
Slashdot: Internet Ranks Vanilla as the Best Ice Cream Flavour Ever
You pay for your phones with sex? Oh, crazy Europeans.
My God, Slashdot groupthink at its very best.
:/
I was born in China but I grew up overseas. I have tons of relatives who live all over the world, from Paris to New York. They have access to all the information in the world.
But let me tell you this: Not a single person in my family supports Tibetan independence. Everyone supports the Olympics 100%.
My grandparents were Party members so we are relatively well off. Most of my aunts and uncles had university education and my cousins are studying overseas. These are people who regularly criticize the government in daily conversations over things like corruption and bureaucratic inefficiencies, because they are well-informed and aware of what is happening.
Westerners just can't grapple with the reality that the Chinese government is still generally popular and it's people, though overly addicted to nationalism and cultural pride, are NOT ignorant slaves that your corporate media and your condescending feel-good activists like you to believe.
I personally am very much against the operating principals of the Chinese government, as are my parents. But I think this whole Olympic protest business is just bullshit. It will only strengthen ugly nationalism and serve as an ego trip for those hippie protesters.
To fucking hell with karma.
Share and Perfect Dark are where it's at.
I think it's already happening.
This doesn't mean that news will become inaccurate or drop in quality. People will still want to read edited content produced by intelligent writers and those who provide them will naturally gain prominence and credibility. It's a rather nice change from the past where credibility depends on how much money you have to produce and distribute the content.
Of course, I'm only talking about corporate publications vs. blogs. TV newscast still has requires some infrastructure to support it. That said, I think getting news from linear broadcasting with fixed time slots is silly in the first place, so I don't see why we should create an online replacement for it.
The reason why Yahoo! has managed to keep its top Alexa position despite clearly lagging behind Google is because it redirects regional pages to subdomains. For example, Yahoo! Singapore) redirects to sg.yahoo.com. To Alexa, this counts as a part of yahoo.com and the visit is attributed accordingly, the exception being yahoo.co.jp, which has its own domain probably because Japan is one of the few regions where Yahoo! is outperforming Google.
Google on the other hand, has separate domains for all its regional versions. Take a look at Alexa's top 100 list: a good 21 out of 100, or one fifth, of them are really just Google in different languages, and we are not even counting subsidiaries like YouTube yet. I'd say that Google has long surpassed Yahoo! as the most trafficked website on the net. Yahoo! is just barely holding on to its top Alexa ranking even despite this discrepancy in the tabulation.
They need to build giant space elevators first...
I think FlexiSPY is a whole lot cooler, though.