Anonymous did not ignore anything. I just read through the emails. Anon. CLEARLY wanted money. The demand was $50K immediate payment to something called Liberty Reserve.
FBI/Sym was attempting to get the payment broken into monthly payments and made into pretty much anything BUT Liberty reserve. There was some discussion about whether FBI/Sym can trust Anon to not publish after they received the money. The response that Anon had was that 'You have to trust us. If we were bad guys we would have already published.'.
At no point in those emails are there any motivations discussed EXCEPT a payment for not disclosing the files.
You can argue the email is a fabrication. You can argue that it isn't really Anon behind this. You can argue the files released so far are outdated and a joke. You can even argue that this is all a clever ruse on Symantecs part to get people to drop PCanywhere 2007 for the latest release.
But to argue that the entity Anon in that email is doing anything other then extortion is absolute bullshit.
Like I said, didn't pass High School physics. Strange how the things that interest me change as I get older. I mean, this stuff is genuinely interesting to me now. It wasn't then. I had the time to learn it then, I don't now.
High school was 20 some years ago and I didn't pass physics anyways.
To me it LOOKS like gravity. But I am having a lot of trouble imagining that a knitting needle has enough mass to orbit water droplets. The description talks about another needle off camera which sounds like he is trying to keep a charge on the needle.
So my best guess is that the water droplets are negatively charged, the needles positively charged. The only thing missing is the orbit. I wasn't aware you could get an orbit out of something like this.
I just got off the line with Clear.com helpdesk. The doofushead on the other end of the line posted my clear username/login info for me, even though I never asked for it.
People are just so clueless with security, it is pretty disgusting.
Japan forcing Sony to prove they have secured there network - I like this. I like this a lot.
Yesterday when I read that Egypt had pulled the plug on the internet the first thing that went through my mind was, 'the people will find a way.'. The second thing was, 'I can't wait to see how they do it. This is going to be fascinating.'. Since then I have been contemplating ad-hoc wireless networks and dialing into 56k modems thousands of miles away. I have been chewing at the bit (haha! I made a pun!) for any information as to how this little project is proceeding.
The best Cringley's article can muster is a French company offering 56k access for free and the words, 'Wireless mesh network'. That is all fine and dandy. I am happy and impressed that the French company is offering there resources to the Egyptian people. Big round of appluase for those guys. But the geek in me is not impressed. Dialing out of country to a 56k connection is just so bloody obvious. I want to know the bloody details of the wireless mesh. I want to know about the sap that has hacked his satelite dish to give internet access to his town.
Find a group that will recycle the printer for you. Where I live there is a group called http://www.freegeek.org/ that will take the printer off your hands, break it down, recycle it and fund the groups activities with the money made from recycling.
These people live in a community with a homeowners association. They had some crap in there yard which included a tetherball stand and a movable basketball stand (the kind for driveways). There was some angst in the community that these items didn't belong (anyone that has ever dealt with a homeowners assoc. will understand).
Someone posted an add in Craigslist saying these two items where free for the taking. The add said not to knock on the door, just drive up with the pickup truck, load and leave.
In the Craigslist add the address given was the cops address. It said something to the effect 'next door to this address'.
Nothing in the article attempts to make the claim that the cop placed the add.
However, the victims are Luddites that have never heard of 'Craigslist'. They are black, therefore it is automatically racism.
It is quite possible no charges against the cop where placed because there was no evidence that the cop had anything to do with anything (except living next door to these people).
You don't have to 'give' the box to anyone to put it to good use. Drop the distributed computing project of your choice on it, hook up a wireless networking card to it and store it somewhere out of the way.
There are lots of worthy DC projects out there. I leave my PC on 24/7 crunching numbers folding and I know my electric bill is about $25 more then it could be if I was turning my PC off every month. I am considering that my contribution to charity.
Just a thought.
Donating a rig to a charity is a wonderful thing to do.
I went here: http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=274#more-274/ and followed some links and read some papers (well skimmed). My understanding is that there is data missing, data that might go against the idea of global warming (something about R2....).
I would imagine that if there is a call on his tax records and financial records and such that maybe what is being looked for is if he took any pay in exchange for making the data work out like it did.
I think it raises an interesting question. If he produced these results for a private entity with private money I would say that his finances are his business. But he used public money to produce the data for public use. I want to know if MY DATA can be trusted.
There is nothing about a Mac that makes them so much more secure then a windows machine. What makes a Windows machine insecure is MARKET PENETRATION.
Seriously, it is in your best interest that people keep buying Window machines. Cause if you guys keep upping the market penetration of Macs sooner or later the people coding viruses, trojans and the like are gonna start to look your way.
At the moment you are a waste of there time. That is the only thing that really protects you.
None of these things really impede on our consumer rights. The point of the embargo is so that if store A gets the book three days before store B they don't mark it up by 200 percent.
Now eBooks, more importantly DRM ebooks - there is some serious erosion of rights. With the physical book I can read it, then I can give it to others to read. It is really a hell of an investment. What $25 - $30 and the usefulness is unlimited when you consider that once it is bought there is no limit to the number of individuals that can read it.
But the entire point of DRM eBooks is to force the public to purchase one book per reader.
I stand behind Scholastic on this one.
Besides, you are talking bad about Harry Potter. Rowling deserves a medal. She has written a series of books that CHILDREN WANT TO READ. That is so cool.
Someone here minimaly needs to loose his/her job. I wouldn't blink at a stiff fine. I certainly wouldn't protest a prison sentence. And for those of you that are too dense to figure it out, I am NOT talking about the students.
I don't care what porn sites the students accessed or what damage they did. There is NOTHING they could have done that warrants a jail sentence.
Something stuck out to me. WHY WASN'T THE PASSWORD CHANGED? I mean, most places change important passwords a minnimum of every 6 weeks. That by itself should have put something of a lid on things. I mean, who cares if the kids knew an old password?
No, I am with the kids on this. They are being wronged in a very serious fashion.
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I am not going to argue with your logic. I think it is sound. But the way I see it is like this. I expected them to sell far, far less movies then they did. Since they are selling a lot more movies then I expected I am forced to call it a sucess.
However..... consider for a second that these movies are much less costly then the games. I think there is a risk that the people that are buying these movies are buying them with the PSP purchase (or very shortly thereafter) because they were only able to afford one game when they bought the unit.
If I am right then the sales of movies will come to a screeching and unglamorous halt within the next 6 months as the pre-played market starts up for PSP games.
Ummmm.... I would think that using World Standard Time (Greenwich, zulu - whatever you want to call it) would be pretty much S.O.P. onboard a Navy Vessel.
Who is judgeing what is porn and what isn't? Do I now have to worry about ICANN sensoring what I put on my site? Is a site that deals with breast cancer porn? How about one that deals with birth control?
Take a lesson from the gambling sites. It may be illegal to run a server from the US that offers online gambling but there is nothing anyone can do about offshore sites.
I am against a.xxx domain not because the idea doesn't make sense in theory, but because it seems unenforceable and bound to create more problems then what it can solve.
'"Not even considering the fact that Burt Rutan is hardly typical of "private industry" as a whole. He's more of an enthusiast."
That's just absurd. Burt Rutan runs a company called Scaled Composites, they develop aircraft, and sell rights to the technology and design. He is not an enthusiast, because he makes money running his own business (enthusiasts spend money on their hobby, they don't make money at their job). Calling him an enthusiast is almost an insult, and it is certainly a huge understatement. He's an entrepreneur if he is anything.'
I just want to add something to what is being said here. Burt Rutan considers Spaceship One to be a business project. It has investors and these investors have been promised a return on there investment. Burt Rutan is already started to make good on that promise. He is selling the next phase of the 'Spaceship One' concept (I think it is called Spaceship Two) to Virgian Airways.
When Burt Rutan entered the X-Prize competition he made his intentions clear that this was a business venture for him. He was gonna move forward with or without winning the X-Prize.
I was modded troll because it is better that conflicting opinions be stifled then they see the light of day. It is up to the few to protect the masses from the evils of free speech.
If you look look over my past postings (can you do that on Slasdot? I honestly don't know) you will see that I have my own mind on things. I like to think that I back up my opinions with at least reasonable arguments. That is for you to decide, not I. I often use sarcasm.
But the way Slashdot works a comment at a 1 is automatically put to the bottom of the stack, safe from the eyes of those whose minds can be easily corrupted.
Back to Burt Rutan. Yeah he learned stuff in the military. So why isn't he still there? Burt has a hell of a pedigree to himself. You know that time and time again NASA has called on Burt to design things for them - one of them being a replacement for the space shuttle. When the Space Shuttle went **BOOOOM** some time ago people starting screaming for a replacement. It is a design of the '70's after all. You know that NASA has killed a project that was actually in the stage of construction of a prototype to replace the shuttle? Rutan designed it. NASA killed it cause they couldn't afford both it and the Space Station. We are back to design and we actually have a half built prototype in moth balls! I am sure Rutan has a bunch of reasons for going private with his company. But he is a man that builds things that fly's. He must have been frustrated with his projects that got caught up in beurocratic red tape.
And that is the thing, right there! Private industry DOES trump government. NASA used to be something admirable, something great, something that we could all look up to. Now we are talking about a timeline for us to go to the moon that is longer then the original Apollo timeline! We already know we can go there!
No Rutan's Spaceship One does not orbit. But it does quite a bit more then the Mercury capsule did. It is reuseable for one. Lands on an airstrip for another. Is safety concious for a third. Just Google 'Spaceship One' and look hard at it. It is elegant, safe, simple. It is everything that NASA is not. No it can't replace the shuttle yet - but then again at no point in its design was it intended to.
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Look, I don't care how the damned town is funding this project. It isn't my town, not in my state so I say good luck to them. I hope I am wrong, I don't wish bad things on good people.
What you are going to create is a monopoly on a service that has no need to be a monopoly. If I can turn on my machine and recieve free wi-fi then why would a company invest money to start a competing business there? They certainly can't compete on price.
Thing is, standards change, hell we are talking Wi-Fi here! It seems like every 3 weeks I am reading about a new standard out there. If there is no monopoly and competing business then there is the avenue for me to get better service and upgrades to my current service.
No such thing as a free meal. One way or another you are gonna get screwed.
I would say 'I told ya so' when it happens, but I have been efectively silenced by those that know better then me.
Burt Rutan has actually put a human being in space in the last year. NASA is so scared to launch there multi-billion dollar meal ticket that we will be lucky if it isn't another year before that thing goes in space.
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Anonymous did not ignore anything. I just read through the emails. Anon. CLEARLY wanted money. The demand was $50K immediate payment to something called Liberty Reserve.
FBI/Sym was attempting to get the payment broken into monthly payments and made into pretty much anything BUT Liberty reserve.
There was some discussion about whether FBI/Sym can trust Anon to not publish after they received the money. The response that Anon had was that 'You have to trust us. If we were bad guys we would have already published.'.
At no point in those emails are there any motivations discussed EXCEPT a payment for not disclosing the files.
You can argue the email is a fabrication.
You can argue that it isn't really Anon behind this.
You can argue the files released so far are outdated and a joke.
You can even argue that this is all a clever ruse on Symantecs part to get people to drop PCanywhere 2007 for the latest release.
But to argue that the entity Anon in that email is doing anything other then extortion is absolute bullshit.
Like I said, didn't pass High School physics.
Strange how the things that interest me change as I get older.
I mean, this stuff is genuinely interesting to me now. It wasn't then.
I had the time to learn it then, I don't now.
life is funny that way.
I am deaf. I can't hear the sound in the video.
High school was 20 some years ago and I didn't pass physics anyways.
To me it LOOKS like gravity. But I am having a lot of trouble imagining that a knitting needle has enough mass to orbit water droplets. The description talks about another needle off camera which sounds like he is trying to keep a charge on the needle.
So my best guess is that the water droplets are negatively charged, the needles positively charged.
The only thing missing is the orbit. I wasn't aware you could get an orbit out of something like this.
Can someone here expand on this?
I just got off the line with Clear.com helpdesk.
The doofushead on the other end of the line posted my clear username/login info for me, even though I never asked for it.
People are just so clueless with security, it is pretty disgusting.
Japan forcing Sony to prove they have secured there network - I like this. I like this a lot.
Yesterday when I read that Egypt had pulled the plug on the internet the first thing that went through my mind was, 'the people will find a way.'. The second thing was, 'I can't wait to see how they do it. This is going to be fascinating.'. Since then I have been contemplating ad-hoc wireless networks and dialing into 56k modems thousands of miles away.
I have been chewing at the bit (haha! I made a pun!) for any information as to how this little project is proceeding.
The best Cringley's article can muster is a French company offering 56k access for free and the words, 'Wireless mesh network'. That is all fine and dandy.
I am happy and impressed that the French company is offering there resources to the Egyptian people. Big round of appluase for those guys. But the geek in me is not impressed. Dialing out of country to a 56k connection is just so bloody obvious. I want to know the bloody details of the wireless mesh. I want to know about the sap that has hacked his satelite dish to give internet access to his town.
I want more. It has to be out there.
Find a group that will recycle the printer for you.
Where I live there is a group called http://www.freegeek.org/ that will take the printer off your hands, break it down, recycle it and fund the groups activities with the money made from recycling.
RTFA:
These people live in a community with a homeowners association. They had some crap in there yard which included a tetherball stand and a movable basketball stand (the kind for driveways). There was some angst in the community that these items didn't belong (anyone that has ever dealt with a homeowners assoc. will understand).
Someone posted an add in Craigslist saying these two items where free for the taking. The add said not to knock on the door, just drive up with the pickup truck, load and leave.
In the Craigslist add the address given was the cops address. It said something to the effect 'next door to this address'.
Nothing in the article attempts to make the claim that the cop placed the add.
However, the victims are Luddites that have never heard of 'Craigslist'. They are black, therefore it is automatically racism.
It is quite possible no charges against the cop where placed because there was no evidence that the cop had anything to do with anything (except living next door to these people).
http://www.laughingsquid.com/
Best Buy sent LS.com a letter by both email and next day delivery apologizing for sending the C&D to a news source.
I am impressed.
Check out http://www.laughingsquid.com/ front page for details.
You don't have to 'give' the box to anyone to put it to good use.
Drop the distributed computing project of your choice on it, hook up a wireless networking card to it and store it somewhere out of the way.
There are lots of worthy DC projects out there.
I leave my PC on 24/7 crunching numbers folding and I know my electric bill is about $25 more then it could be if I was turning my PC off every month. I am considering that my contribution to charity.
Just a thought.
Donating a rig to a charity is a wonderful thing to do.
I went here: http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=274#more-274/
and followed some links and read some papers (well skimmed).
My understanding is that there is data missing, data that might go against the idea of global warming (something about R2....).
I would imagine that if there is a call on his tax records and financial records and such that maybe what is being looked for is if he took any pay in exchange for making the data work out like it did.
I think it raises an interesting question.
If he produced these results for a private entity with private money I would say that his finances are his business.
But he used public money to produce the data for public use. I want to know if MY DATA can be trusted.
I call BS on your call of BS.
At least I have enough of a backbone to post as something other then AC.
There is nothing about a Mac that makes them so much more secure then a windows machine.
What makes a Windows machine insecure is MARKET PENETRATION.
Seriously, it is in your best interest that people keep buying Window machines.
Cause if you guys keep upping the market penetration of Macs sooner or later the people coding viruses, trojans and the like are gonna start to look your way.
At the moment you are a waste of there time.
That is the only thing that really protects you.
None of these things really impede on our consumer rights.
The point of the embargo is so that if store A gets the book three days before store B they don't mark it up by 200 percent.
Now eBooks, more importantly DRM ebooks - there is some serious erosion of rights.
With the physical book I can read it, then I can give it to others to read. It is really a hell of an investment. What $25 - $30 and the usefulness is unlimited when you consider that once it is bought there is no limit to the number of individuals that can read it.
But the entire point of DRM eBooks is to force the public to purchase one book per reader.
I stand behind Scholastic on this one.
Besides, you are talking bad about Harry Potter. Rowling deserves a medal. She has written a series of books that CHILDREN WANT TO READ. That is so cool.
Lets teach kids how to use software in school that they will never use in a real world work environment. Way to prepare them for the real world.
The only answer I have is a question for you:
Do you feel your quality of life is better or worse with the technology?
What I think doesn't matter. It is your own answer to that question that matters. Everyone else can take a flying leap.
Someone here minimaly needs to loose his/her job.
I wouldn't blink at a stiff fine. I certainly wouldn't protest a prison sentence.
And for those of you that are too dense to figure it out, I am NOT talking about the students.
I don't care what porn sites the students accessed or what damage they did. There is NOTHING they could have done that warrants a jail sentence.
Something stuck out to me. WHY WASN'T THE PASSWORD CHANGED? I mean, most places change important passwords a minnimum of every 6 weeks. That by itself should have put something of a lid on things. I mean, who cares if the kids knew an old password?
No, I am with the kids on this. They are being wronged in a very serious fashion.
I am not going to argue with your logic. I think it is sound.
But the way I see it is like this.
I expected them to sell far, far less movies then they did.
Since they are selling a lot more movies then I expected I am forced to call it a sucess.
However.....
consider for a second that these movies are much less costly then the games. I think there is a risk that the people that are buying these movies are buying them with the PSP purchase (or very shortly thereafter) because they were only able to afford one game when they bought the unit.
If I am right then the sales of movies will come to a screeching and unglamorous halt within the next 6 months as the pre-played market starts up for PSP games.
I realize this. But I have forgotten who the real astronaut was.
Mind reminding me?
Bonus points if you can deliver the acurate quote from him....
Ummmm....
I would think that using World Standard Time (Greenwich, zulu - whatever you want to call it) would be pretty much S.O.P. onboard a Navy Vessel.
I guess not.
I saw something like this on the 'Superfriends'. It didn't end well.
Who is judgeing what is porn and what isn't?
.xxx domain not because the idea doesn't make sense in theory, but because it seems unenforceable and bound to create more problems then what it can solve.
Do I now have to worry about ICANN sensoring what I put on my site? Is a site that deals with breast cancer porn? How about one that deals with birth control?
Take a lesson from the gambling sites. It may be illegal to run a server from the US that offers online gambling but there is nothing anyone can do about offshore sites.
I am against a
'"Not even considering the fact that Burt Rutan is hardly typical of "private industry" as a whole. He's more of an enthusiast."
That's just absurd. Burt Rutan runs a company called Scaled Composites, they develop aircraft, and sell rights to the technology and design. He is not an enthusiast, because he makes money running his own business (enthusiasts spend money on their hobby, they don't make money at their job). Calling him an enthusiast is almost an insult, and it is certainly a huge understatement. He's an entrepreneur if he is anything.'
I just want to add something to what is being said here.
Burt Rutan considers Spaceship One to be a business project. It has investors and these investors have been promised a return on there investment.
Burt Rutan is already started to make good on that promise. He is selling the next phase of the 'Spaceship One' concept (I think it is called Spaceship Two) to Virgian Airways.
When Burt Rutan entered the X-Prize competition he made his intentions clear that this was a business venture for him. He was gonna move forward with or without winning the X-Prize.
I was modded troll because it is better that conflicting opinions be stifled then they see the light of day. It is up to the few to protect the masses from the evils of free speech.
If you look look over my past postings (can you do that on Slasdot? I honestly don't know) you will see that I have my own mind on things. I like to think that I back up my opinions with at least reasonable arguments. That is for you to decide, not I.
I often use sarcasm.
But the way Slashdot works a comment at a 1 is automatically put to the bottom of the stack, safe from the eyes of those whose minds can be easily corrupted.
Back to Burt Rutan. Yeah he learned stuff in the military. So why isn't he still there?
Burt has a hell of a pedigree to himself. You know that time and time again NASA has called on Burt to design things for them - one of them being a replacement for the space shuttle.
When the Space Shuttle went **BOOOOM** some time ago people starting screaming for a replacement. It is a design of the '70's after all.
You know that NASA has killed a project that was actually in the stage of construction of a prototype to replace the shuttle? Rutan designed it.
NASA killed it cause they couldn't afford both it and the Space Station.
We are back to design and we actually have a half built prototype in moth balls!
I am sure Rutan has a bunch of reasons for going private with his company. But he is a man that builds things that fly's. He must have been frustrated with his projects that got caught up in beurocratic red tape.
And that is the thing, right there!
Private industry DOES trump government.
NASA used to be something admirable, something great, something that we could all look up to.
Now we are talking about a timeline for us to go to the moon that is longer then the original Apollo timeline!
We already know we can go there!
No Rutan's Spaceship One does not orbit. But it does quite a bit more then the Mercury capsule did. It is reuseable for one. Lands on an airstrip for another. Is safety concious for a third. Just Google 'Spaceship One' and look hard at it. It is elegant, safe, simple. It is everything that NASA is not.
No it can't replace the shuttle yet - but then again at no point in its design was it intended to.
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Look, I don't care how the damned town is funding this project. It isn't my town, not in my state so I say good luck to them. I hope I am wrong, I don't wish bad things on good people.
What you are going to create is a monopoly on a service that has no need to be a monopoly.
If I can turn on my machine and recieve free wi-fi then why would a company invest money to start a competing business there?
They certainly can't compete on price.
Thing is, standards change, hell we are talking Wi-Fi here! It seems like every 3 weeks I am reading about a new standard out there.
If there is no monopoly and competing business then there is the avenue for me to get better service and upgrades to my current service.
No such thing as a free meal. One way or another you are gonna get screwed.
I would say 'I told ya so' when it happens, but I have been efectively silenced by those that know better then me.
Free speech is for the foolish.
Burt Rutan has actually put a human being in space in the last year.
NASA is so scared to launch there multi-billion dollar meal ticket that we will be lucky if it isn't another year before that thing goes in space.