That we like the way pixel art looks in the first place!

This project is technically interesting but as art it completely misses the point. Not every piece of human creation needs to be updated, upscaled, "improved" and redone.

I know the originals make more sense to me.

This sounds like a ploy to harvest phone numbers from well meaning (if ill informed) users who care about security and who previously hadn't surrendered their phone number to facebook.

Is there a valid reason for not offering the same service via email? Using, you know, the email address that facebook already has on record.

I just what to know how well XBMC for linux runs on this thing now that full access to the hardware is possible (I don't own a PS3... yet).

The XBMC team has stated numerous times that they aren't interested in supporting XBMC on a hacked platform anymore, but this is different since we might be able to run the vanilla linux version on it (and if any optimization is required for it to run smoothly, maybe it can be done at the OS level - outside of XMBC).

It is interesting.

However if you think that the Cold war was about democratization you're completely deluded. The cold war was two superpower having at it. The west supported whoever was against the soviet side (Containment and Trueman doctrine), including many dictators and autocrats (not to mention our "freedom fighter" friends in Afghanistan). The Cold war has never been about democracy, it was an empire struggle.

That's why you don't "announce" leaks. You either release or don't release documents.

This is one of the reasons why Daniel Domscheit-Berg (and several others) left Wikileaks. He thought it was wrong of Julian Assange to make threats about releasing specific leaks.

Also: Since last year, Wikileaks doesn't have a working submission system. There's still no way to send wikileaks anything right now. Assange stated in several interviews that Wikileaks wasn't accepting documents anymore because they were overwhelmed with the Iraq war/Afghanistan/State cable leaks and that they didn't have the staff to process new submissions. That was only half of the story. The other half is that one of the Wikileaks members that left last year at the same time as Daniel Domscheit-Berg was the guy who coded the submission system. When the coder left, Wikileaks wasn't able to keep the submission system running because there was no one else capable of maintaining it and making sure it stayed secure (given that the submission system is probably the most sensitive part of the site).

Check out this interview with Domscheit-Berg for more about why he left Wikileaks.

Toy Size Spy Drones, Live government cell phones tracking, ACTA, Arbitrary domain names seizing, Law mandated year-long ISP data retention policies. Innocent citizens detained at airports (during which agents copy and/or seize their laptops and cellphones).

It sure is nice living in the future.

As far as web traffic goes: websites logs + ISP logs = recorded phone call

Fixed.

In short, the MPAA rating system has four objectives:

- Lock out the competition. The MPAA makes sure independent/foreign movies are kept out of the commercial loop by rating them very harshly (or by refusing to rate them). This essentially limits their potential commercial success (R) or kills it off altogether (NC-17, Not rated).
By opposition, big studio (MPAA members) productions are usually rated very leniently (PG-13 for action/violent movies).
Contrary to independent film makers who (naively) try to make the best film they can, studios "know what it takes" to get their movies rated PG or PG-13.

- Make sure the government doesn't come out with its own rating system, which would essentially level the playing field.

- Prevent lawsuits from morality/christian nutjob groups.

- Forever ruin American mainstream cinema.

Aaron Barr and HBGary are the laughing stock of the industry. Why would they want to attend a public event right now? Makes no sense.

They probably wrote that note themselves in order to say their booth was "vandalized" so they could bail on the whole thing.

Their own leaked Powerpoint presentations recommend using to these kind of falsification tactics.

Nothing Ironic about it al all. I think this is the hundredth time have heard this false dichotomy.

Wikileaks is about exposing governments and corporations wrongdoings, not about ending privacy for individuals (this is facebook business model).

Corporations and governments should operate transparently, they have no *inherent* right to privacy, private individuals however do. As a private citizen, and as long as I don't break any law (and posting anonymously on the internet is definitely not a crime), I should have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

When you say Wikileaks is against privacy, you're either misinformed or spreading lies.

>Finally, remember that if any school child even hears the word "God" used in anything other than a derogatory manner or even sees a Bible that isn't being desecrated, that school child will forever mentally scarred beyond comprehension. Censorship is good!

Congratulation. You've just equated separation of Church and state with censorship.

I wish Christians in America weren't such an oppressed minority with no voice (apart from several media empires) and nobody to represent them (apart from the whole Congress).

This is not simply about the DDoS, these guys are being made an example of.

Every police investigation and judicial action related to Wikileaks, from Bradly Manning "Hannibal Lecter"-like punitive detention to Assange's no charge house arrest to this recent (and amazingly fast) wave of DDOS arrests, everything linked to Wikileaks has been given "special priority".

It warms my heart to see US, UK and EU law enforcement agencies and governments working hand in hand this way. If only they would show that same level of collaboration and efficiency in combating (real) international crimes like human trafficking or corporate tax evasion.

Seriously, an incredible number of computer crime operations (spam, commercial DDoS etc.) go unpunished for years, but these guys are in prison less than 2 months after having DDoS'ed Visa showroom website for a few hours?

Silly me, I thought the judicial branch was supposed to be independent and not bow to government or political pressure.

Mark Zuckerberg has "fans"?

I guess sycophancy and worshiping the rich never goes out of style.

This re-design = New Coke

It is *incredibly* slow and heavy for no good reason and they pushed put it out way too soon (hello major display bug).

I'm sorry but this is fucking terrible.

At least give us the option to turn most that crap off and go back to the old design.

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