I cannot believ* that the world has come down to this.

I wouldn** imagin* that any other compan** would ever try this terrib*** idea.

A positive evolutionary trait usually provides the mutated with a better survival rate, or attracts a better mate, or gives an advantage in an most circumstances. Yet even the most successful of the autistic usually have a lower survival rate, a worse chance at attracting a quality mate, and their advantages are in very focused circumstances. I would not say that it fits with the standards of evolution. Only the most successful are going to survive, of course, but those instances are rare, while the rest are much less successful, leading to a realistic evolutionary dead end. Excellent concentration abilities has it's price, especially if it involved memorizing pokedex's.

Of course, this assumes that autism is mostly nature and not nurture or environment, which is not proven yet either.

And it helps to be signed into post correctly. Oh well. Please support an Alan Turing Google Doodle. Submit the idea to proposals@google.com.

Guess the guys at Intel have been watching Fight Club a little too much.

Getting bored kids upset with people on the internet is easy. Some think of nothing of destroying someone's life, at least socially. Others are there just amuse themselves. There a lot of people in the middle, in both the giving and receiving end of these attacks.

Convincing someone to kill and be killed is much much harder and a completely different ball of wax.

So the differences between asking a Gamestop member about Battletoads and strapping a bomb to your chest are pretty vast. Arresting the person asking about Battletoads for harassment will just cause the Streisand effect, I think.

So is the person who placed that sign, are they guilty of any crimes? They most likely would try to prosecute them under certain gang laws that say if you're in the gang, and one person in your gang breaks the law, the entire gang can be prosecuted on the same offense. How soon till you are treated the same way for being someone's friend on facebook? It's a slippery slope until we're all criminals in some small way.

I'm also curious what computer crime someone might be accused of for loading a company's webpage several thousand times an hour. At what point does it go from 'minor annoyance' to 'criminal'? You can look at Anonymous' attack on Scientology in the same way, they are constantly under scrutiny to make sure they are following the laws, or they could be arrested. Many are normal people upset with a system, so they do what they can within the law. There are some people who take it too far I'm sure, but for the rest in the middle, what happens to them?

And apparently disclaimers have become popular in this thread.

Anonymous is just the first of many future darknets that will be nearly impossible to destroy. You might take out a ringleader or two, but 4 others would stand up to take their place if they felt that it was unjust. And in the end, it's death by a thousand harmless cuts, or in this case, 1,000 users that don't like something running the their Ion cannons under central control. In this case, this dude is using social networking like facebook to figure out who are hackers. I doubt they have many connections to other hackers on facebook or twitter. It's most likely random unrelated acquaintances, so I think the guy's research is flawed anyway.

The best example of what one of these organized systems could do is a story by Bruce Sterling called Maneki Neko. It is what happens when people get organized but maintain some level of anonymity. We are not to this level yet, but I suspect it right around the corner. It will do strictly good at first, but eventually it will ruin someone's life. Just as Anonymous has ruined some people's lives, they've done a little good for some, like a great birthday. It doesn't justify the destruction, but it's bored kids on the internet, so what are you going to do?

The news media will make a big deal about future 'attacks', but some will be harmless kids having fun. But if you start to push that everyone involved in these groups must be destroyed, those people who are marginally involved will suddenly get VERY involved in your destruction. So be careful.

tl;dr: They found bacteria alive in salt crystals

Heesa nosa goodsa to meesa dead!

Performance, reliability, and price, pick any two.

High performance and reliable storage tends to be expensive.
High performance and cheap tends to require a lot of maintenance.
Reliable and cheap tends to be really really slow.

So if they are on a SAN with that one gig spread across 50 drives, there are some applications that need that speed.

If they treat any of them like they've treated OpenSolaris, then I'd say they would die a slow death.

At this point, the last release was June 2009. Development has stopped being exposed to the outside world, we were expecting a May release, and we're going on August now. There still has not been official announcement by Oracle on this topic either.

While OpenSolaris is not a true open source product, it has been mistreated since the Oracle take over. It is unclear why there has been nothing said on it, but I'd rather take a project death at this point than this continued silence. Several key people have left to move onto other projects as well, though others are saying that development is still continuing. And worst of all, it would be a pain in the ass to fork because of their particular license design choice.

The forums have been rather full of people complaining about it as well. Especially after the OpenSolaris board has threatened to kill itself off if Oracle doesn't make some key decisions.

Just bad news all around. And it would be so easy to fix too, just by giving us an official statement on it's future.

Why did you post this link to a bunch of stolen content?

The original source is 27bslash6.com, which is David Thorne's website. Which is awesome.

He's favoring appearance over usefulness, because his patches are not useful at all. They provide no structural integrity. And besides, they might just fall out when the building crumbles even more.

Also, someone should have linked to his main site instead relying on 'sticky' linked article, trying to keep you at wired.

And the server is now up. So skip this.