Lately it seems that most of the hackers getting caught are not even 20 years old, many of them still juveniles. Is this because it's juvenile behaviour and there are less adults out there doing the same type of thing or are the older (more experienced?) hackers just a lot more careful to not get caught?
I'm sure that many of the IP addresses are also not from the US. Will the FBI be confiscating computers associated with those IP addresses as well? Not that I condone their actions, but perhaps Anonymous should make it a point to only use non-US IP addresses?
"we need more rebellion and more public show of dissatisfaction with our so-called leaders." You do realize that that could get you on the no-fly list?
"The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere is approximately 391 ppm (parts per million) by volume as of 2011.."
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_atmosphere
So does that mean that CO2 is.03% of our atmosphere (That is clost to 4 one-hundredths of one percent.)? While I agree that we should not be dumping crap into the atmosphere I still don't see how "doubling" this particular gas over the medium o long term should have any real noticeable effect on our climate.
linguists have also developed a list of gender-skewed words used more often by women including love, ha-ha, cute, omg, yay, hahaha, happy, girl, hair, lol, hubby, and chocolate. Remarkably, even when only provided with one tweet,
Yay omg, you are cute! I want to be a happy girl! I have no hubby and want u to rub chocolate in my hair. Hahaha!
This is how America works. Officially on paper we have more freedoms than anyone in the world but in practice it is another story. For example during an internal training session in my company I was recently informed that "our constitutional rights cease to exist in the workplace". The government may be restricted from directly trampling on our rights (which is debatable), but there is nothing in the Constitution that keeps private companies from doing so. Everything seems to have become a privilege rather than a right and privileges are a lot easier to take away both directly and indirectly. For example if you criticize the government your privilege to board an aircraft can be taken away and with that your privilege to have a job and be a normal member of society. The US Constitution is in great need of an overhaul.
So now if some script kiddie, including a US citizen attempts to hack into a US govt system do they now become labeled as "illegal combatants" or "terrorists" subject to having all of their civil rights revoked since our government has declared that "terrorists have no rights"?
Then you would probably simply be arrested and charged with disrupting justice and some kind of contempt. Either that or they would detain you for several hours or perhaps hold you in jail over the weekend until they can obtain a warrant on Monday morning.
At home I replaced my two 21" monitors with a single 28" Hanns-g monitor. Bad Idea I cannot wait to get back to what I have at work 2x22" monitors. The only advantage of my *single* 22" monitor is that I can sit further from it. I am only wasting physical desktop space with this monstrosity.
The right to bear arms is (or at least was) the second amendment, I suppose you can consider it the first now since what used to be the first amendment is now considered null and void.
I have had problems with the concept of "probable cause" for several years now since I was in a car with a friend who was stopped for going about 10 Mph over the speed limit. When the police officer asked if my friend would mind if they searched his car he politely stated "You may not search my car without probable cause or a search warrant". The officer then called for "backup" and 3 other police cars then showed up and we were promptly detained there at the side of the road for 4 1/2 hours until they could obtain a search warrant: so much for the 4th amendment. At the end of it all after searching the car they let us go with an $80 fine for speeding. I suppose the cop could have said there was "probable cause" because we were speeding and that we could have been fleeing the scene of a crime but even that would have been tenuous at best. I wonder why police don't use such an argument at all traffic stops whenever they want to search a vehicle? All it would take is a convoluted Latin expression to justify the concept.
It is simply amazing how Americans' civil rights are being thrown right out the window while just about anyone wearing a government issued uniform is deified as a "hero". The parallels of what is going on in the US now and Germany in the late 1930s frightening; e.g. there is a lot of talk now about how illegal aliens [gotta' love that word!] are much to blame for the country's problems and that they could also be terrorists. Sound familiar? I find it ironic that as an American living in Germany I feel as if my rights are more safely guaranteed here than they are in the US. I am not as concerned about my personal right to bear arms (If I want a gun here I could probably go through the trouble to get one but I can't be bothered) as I am about the right to open my mouth and be safe from undue search and seizure which is definitely not the case in the US. Americans seem to be far more obsessed about their 2nd amendment rights but their first and forth amendment rights be dammed unless it has to do with defending the KKK or Black Panthers' freedom of expression.
Government arrogance never ceases to amaze me. Whether is be Russia US or anyone else. All governments exhibit the same sick arrogance that the citizens whom they "protect" should not be in any way protected from themselves.
Back in the 80s the closest thing to a real computer that most people could even barely afford was the Atari 2600 which was a console device. At the time I really wished that I could have had a "real" computer but my parents couldn't afford it and I was too young to work. Now people actually argue about the virtues of consoles over computers. There shouldn't even be an argument there. Anyone who thinks a console is somehow "better" than a PC should probably not be around computers at all.
I don't have time to look for the Slashdot article, but I think there was a similar story a few years ago about the EU attempting to create an "elite" university to complete with US schools such as Harvard and Yale.
When will they ever learn that you cannot just one day decide to create these things from scratch? There are many factors that must first be present in order to allow them to come into existence then become what they are on their own merit. Where do the Europeans and Russians get these ideas from?
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Didn't you know, the US Constitution doesn't always apply when the issue involves computers as its framers intended for that to be the case.
https://www.xkcd.com/538/
Lately it seems that most of the hackers getting caught are not even 20 years old, many of them still juveniles. Is this because it's juvenile behaviour and there are less adults out there doing the same type of thing or are the older (more experienced?) hackers just a lot more careful to not get caught?
I'm sure that many of the IP addresses are also not from the US. Will the FBI be confiscating computers associated with those IP addresses as well? Not that I condone their actions, but perhaps Anonymous should make it a point to only use non-US IP addresses?
Do I see a pattern?
"we need more rebellion and more public show of dissatisfaction with our so-called leaders."
You do realize that that could get you on the no-fly list?
So let us change the system, so that horseshit like this won't be the status quo.
Horseshit like this already is the status quo. Why change it now?
Better for tax money to go to frivolous IT spending than have it wasted on senseless wars.
"The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere is approximately 391 ppm (parts per million) by volume as of 2011.." https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_atmosphere So does that mean that CO2 is .03% of our atmosphere (That is clost to 4 one-hundredths of one percent.)? While I agree that we should not be dumping crap into the atmosphere I still don't see how "doubling" this particular gas over the medium o long term should have any real noticeable effect on our climate.
linguists have also developed a list of gender-skewed words used more often by women including love, ha-ha, cute, omg, yay, hahaha, happy, girl, hair, lol, hubby, and chocolate. Remarkably, even when only provided with one tweet,
Yay omg, you are cute! I want to be a happy girl! I have no hubby and want u to rub chocolate in my hair. Hahaha!
This is how America works. Officially on paper we have more freedoms than anyone in the world but in practice it is another story. For example during an internal training session in my company I was recently informed that "our constitutional rights cease to exist in the workplace". The government may be restricted from directly trampling on our rights (which is debatable), but there is nothing in the Constitution that keeps private companies from doing so. Everything seems to have become a privilege rather than a right and privileges are a lot easier to take away both directly and indirectly. For example if you criticize the government your privilege to board an aircraft can be taken away and with that your privilege to have a job and be a normal member of society. The US Constitution is in great need of an overhaul.
It's a crime to collect evidence of police committing crimes. It must be a nice feeling to be above the law.
So now if some script kiddie, including a US citizen attempts to hack into a US govt system do they now become labeled as "illegal combatants" or "terrorists" subject to having all of their civil rights revoked since our government has declared that "terrorists have no rights"?
Do you have any idea how many windmills it would take to replace just one nuclear power plant?
Then you would probably simply be arrested and charged with disrupting justice and some kind of contempt.
Either that or they would detain you for several hours or perhaps hold you in jail over the weekend until they can obtain a warrant on Monday morning.
At home I replaced my two 21" monitors with a single 28" Hanns-g monitor. Bad Idea I cannot wait to get back to what I have at work 2x22" monitors. The only advantage of my *single* 22" monitor is that I can sit further from it. I am only wasting physical desktop space with this monstrosity.
If a body is spouting Lava from its outer surface then that's more often than not a sign that its subsurface is also hot.
The right to bear arms is (or at least was) the second amendment, I suppose you can consider it the first now since what used to be the first amendment is now considered null and void.
I have had problems with the concept of "probable cause" for several years now since I was in a car with a friend who was stopped for going about 10 Mph over the speed limit. When the police officer asked if my friend would mind if they searched his car he politely stated "You may not search my car without probable cause or a search warrant". The officer then called for "backup" and 3 other police cars then showed up and we were promptly detained there at the side of the road for 4 1/2 hours until they could obtain a search warrant: so much for the 4th amendment. At the end of it all after searching the car they let us go with an $80 fine for speeding. I suppose the cop could have said there was "probable cause" because we were speeding and that we could have been fleeing the scene of a crime but even that would have been tenuous at best. I wonder why police don't use such an argument at all traffic stops whenever they want to search a vehicle? All it would take is a convoluted Latin expression to justify the concept.
It is simply amazing how Americans' civil rights are being thrown right out the window while just about anyone wearing a government issued uniform is deified as a "hero". The parallels of what is going on in the US now and Germany in the late 1930s frightening; e.g. there is a lot of talk now about how illegal aliens [gotta' love that word!] are much to blame for the country's problems and that they could also be terrorists. Sound familiar? I find it ironic that as an American living in Germany I feel as if my rights are more safely guaranteed here than they are in the US. I am not as concerned about my personal right to bear arms (If I want a gun here I could probably go through the trouble to get one but I can't be bothered) as I am about the right to open my mouth and be safe from undue search and seizure which is definitely not the case in the US. Americans seem to be far more obsessed about their 2nd amendment rights but their first and forth amendment rights be dammed unless it has to do with defending the KKK or Black Panthers' freedom of expression.
Just asking.
Government arrogance never ceases to amaze me. Whether is be Russia US or anyone else. All governments exhibit the same sick arrogance that the citizens whom they "protect" should not be in any way protected from themselves.
Back in the 80s the closest thing to a real computer that most people could even barely afford was the Atari 2600 which was a console device. At the time I really wished that I could have had a "real" computer but my parents couldn't afford it and I was too young to work. Now people actually argue about the virtues of consoles over computers. There shouldn't even be an argument there. Anyone who thinks a console is somehow "better" than a PC should probably not be around computers at all.
I don't have time to look for the Slashdot article, but I think there was a similar story a few years ago about the EU attempting to create an "elite" university to complete with US schools such as Harvard and Yale. When will they ever learn that you cannot just one day decide to create these things from scratch? There are many factors that must first be present in order to allow them to come into existence then become what they are on their own merit. Where do the Europeans and Russians get these ideas from?
What about North Americans of Japanese decent?
Would this constitute a zero day vulnerability?