How about a "War on Anonymous"?

That sounds like a ridiculously easy way to get caught. If you wanted to catch the virus author, all you'd need to do way find out who owned the phone number.

"If there's a new way, I'll be the first in line. But it better work this time."

Then why should we even talk about their recommendations? Microsoft recommends that you run a Windows operating system. The company that makes your toothpaste recommends that you use their toothpaste. Who the fuck cares? It's just self-promotion.

We are talking about worms from space. Worms so tough that you can blow them up and have them tumble miles to the ground in a giant collapsing fireball...and they come out basically unharmed.

I don't know whether they caused the crash or not, but I am pretty sure that if they ever turn against us, we're fucked.

You don't have to believe something, it doesn't have to be true, for it to have significant propaganda value. There was a study done...I don't remember the exact details...where people who had been told terrible things about a person were more likely to have a negative reaction toward that person, even after they'd been told later that they'd been lied to.

That's really the deal with, say, the whole Obama-Socialist-Commie-Muslim-Terrorist-Foreigner thing. It's been consciously played up by right-wing propagandists, not because they think that people will consciously change their minds because they are actually convinced: the people who are out calling for birth certificates were already voting Republican. It's because even if you recognize it as lies and manipulation, it's still an effective tactic for shifting (not necessarily changing) attitudes.

Richard Gere stuck a gerbil up his asshole as a gay sex thing. It's not true, but it's certainly one of the first things I think of when I see Richard Gere. Or was it a hamster? I don't know, it's a totally made-up story anyway. That pervert.

No, they still suck. However, it's a promising move toward a possible redemption.

(I doubt it, though.)

I also wonder about the exceptional American.

Why would they?

It's not like they need to. The movie's gonna end up on BitTorrent the day it's released (or, more likely, beforehand), whether or not they put it there. It's not worth the extra hassle.

The reference you missed.

Where in the US do they have speed limits in km/h?

Now that I think of it, that's probably not right. You'd have to have an input size I=2 * N^X, and then the algorithm would take O(I) time.

Find the sum of two X-dimensional matrices, with N elements along each axis. Should be O(N^X).. E.g., summing the corresponding values in two 1-dimensional arrays of length N should take O(N) time, summing the corresponding values in two square NxN matrices should be O(N^2), if they're "cube" matrices it should be O(N^3), et cetera.

I think the insights you're looking for aren't mathematical, they're practical.

In Montana, the only real speed limit I noticed was how fast you can go around a mountain bend without flying off into oblivion.

Same goes for parts of Arkansas. Locals must think Highway 7 is just peachy. We call it the highway of screaming death. You look at the speed limit and laugh. You'd have to be insane to actually go that fast along those turns.

I found one highway in Oklahoma where the speed limit was 75, though, and it was just a straight needle off into infine nothing (this *was* Oklahoma). I'd never seen a 75-mph speed limit sign before, I took it to mean, "We don't friggin care."

I have to wonder if all of these come from the same loser at home in his mom's basement, or if there's a clandestine network of losers in basements that have forged a tenuous alliance to further their common goal of spreading douchebaggery throughout every corner of the Internet.