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Why bother to threaten? Why not just expose them? The Jester believes he has hacked "known-bad" people. His list of "known-bad" may not coincide withe people guilty of crimes, and probably coincides even less with people chargeable with crimes.

His evidence probably isn't admissible in court, at least in the USA. I would guess that chain-of-posession is at least a lot suspect. So, The Jester can't really give this to any law enforcement that can use it.

Why not just release the data? What does The Jester believe he/she/it/them can gain from just a threat?

That's great, studies and evidence suggest that patents and copyrights result in decreased innovation. Are we going to do away with patents and copyrights? No? Why not?

Cap-and-trade may or may not have other effects that make the resulting possible decrease in innovation worth it to society as a whole.

And if everyone took a shower at the same time?

This is just scare mongering.

Also, the famous slogan was "The network is the computer", not "The internet is the computer". That was Sun Microsystem's tagline or slogan. Given that "The Internet" really isn't a single technology (except maybe with respect to TCP/IP, but even that's changing as IPv6 makes its way in) or even a single network, why are we fear mongering about this right now? Between Anonymous turning off The Internet, and China's Water Army disrupting USA in-flight refueling ops, one has to wonder if a coordinated PR campaign isn't taking place.

I have not read this book, but I did hear him on NPR's "Science Friday" last week.

I think Tyson misses something huge. The USA actually had a large number of career engineers to do the Space Program with. From 1945 to 1960, a lot of WW2 vets went to college, and a lot of those college-goers went into engineering. Civil, mining and mechanical engineering were traditional "first-in-family-to-college" majors. They were a way for a farmer's son or a miner's son to become a professional without having to exhibit all the social graces.

From 1945 to 1960, the US military-industrial complex went from piston-driven props to jet turbines, from high subsonic aerodynamics to the X-15. A lot of engineering went into airplanes and rockets and missiles during that time.

The USA, indeed, the world, does not have a stock of engineers to do the design, nor does it have the scientists to make the spec the design meets.

I don't think the USA, or the world, can duplicate the 1960s "Space Race", much less surpass it.

Great Snakes! This was almost exactly my experience with LFS, and I just installed Arch on my laptop, after running it on servers for a while.

Still live 19:34-0700. Is this for real, or just some DNS trickery? The HN post says "1 hour ago", wouldn't PandaSecurity respond faster than that?

The purest of propaganda gibberish. Available from "your Mercedes partner" on the 15th of June. "Partner". Really? Don't you mean "member of the price-fixing cartel"? Because that's what a car dealership is in the USA.

This article's title is sarcastic, apparently.

Sure, some mathematics is outside the purview of programming. Certainly some programming activities are only loosely mathematical. But to say that the clerical part of programming is all that matters (and that's really what he says here) is totally ridiculous.

You could bing for incidents like this.

Interesting things to ask, to be sure. But why all the cuts? I mean, I'm sure they had to edit out the usual number of "ummm" and "ahhhh", and "wait, wait!" phrases. But the director had at least 3 cameras on him, from different angles, and kept cutting between a tight closeup, and three-quarters profiles from both left and right.

Why? Is this sort of thing done just to prove you're not filming it on your Droid, that you've got the resources to have 3 cameraa, 3 photographers, and you can edit it all together? Because I'm not too sure that the editing added much to this one.

high-ceremony Java enterprise folk - is that a way of not including a "lightning rod" or layers of linkbait and trolling? Because I think of the work of "Java enterprise folk" in different terms. "Bloatware", "boilerplate", "marching morons" and a number of other more derogatory terms come to mind.

This article contains a good observation: he wraps his key idea in layers of link-bait and nerd-traps, shallow but emotionally charged ideas that side-track all but the strongest minds.

Hey, this idea is my Intellectual Property! I invented it to keep the morons at bay during Usenet's Eternal September, beginning with AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe's addition to Usenet in 1993. I always tried to put "lightning rod" prose into any Usenet article to divert the idiots into responding with idiocy. Only people with some knowledge can pass up a "lightning rod" and deal with the real issues.