Of course we would be cheering if they went after oil companies such as Exxon because their business is implicated not only in local environmental destruction but planetary scale pollution as well.

The true problem is a society that values material wealth above all else. The concentration of wealth is just a symptom. The irony is that if wealth were more evenly distributed it would lead to greater economic growth and increased wealth for everyone, especially those at the top.

1. Think of a clever scam.

2. Scam your customers out of hundreds of millions.

3. Pay a few million to settle the charges with the government while not admitting any wrongdoing (cost of doing business).

4. Profit.

5. Rinse and repeat.

What I really want to know is how did the FBI figure out it was the work of North Korean government agents. Except for a privileged few, North Koreans are completely blocked off from the outside world and would never hear of this movie even if it won more Oscars than the Titanic. Why would North Korea reveal its capabilities and tactics in such dramatic fashion to achieve nothing of any value. It seems to me that all the speculation that was in the news recently about Kim's disappearance from public life and his possible overthrow was far more damaging to the cult of the Supreme Leader than some silly comedy.

This story made the front page news of every media outlet including Slashdot. You can't buy that kind of publicity. When the movie is re-released in a few weeks time it will be everyone's patriotic duty to show the North Koreans we are not afraid and go see the movie.

Either that or the hackers have far more damaging data on Sony exec's. Evidence that could land them in jail perhaps?

Personally I vote for it being a PR ploy by Sony to bolster ticket sales of what was otherwise sure to be a box-office flop

It is called geoengineering, no need for magic. Of course there is many people that would rather hope for magical pixie dust than to have human engineered solutions to the problem.

Not to mention a healthy dose of outright theft but that's just fine by me, after all all these resources are essentially being wasted reinventing the wheel.

If your goal is to to debate, then lacing comments with insults nullifies any useful input you may have. You effectively ruin an opportunity to give thoughtful feedback.

You are in very good company with the Climate change deniers, the anti-vaccine movement and the Intelligent Design community.

The US intelligence community has long warned that China's government has been waging a campaign of industrial and military espionage through hacking and even the White House asked them to "Stop hacking, pretty please". It really doesn't matter whether you have those secrets in China or somewhere else, the Chinese will get to them. I for one say hallelujah. For us the consumers, more competition is a good thing.

The FBI contacted him pretending to be from the Egyptian government and undoubtedly offering a boatload of money. It is not known whether he accepted out of a sense of patriotism he felt for Egypt or for the boatload of money.

Scientists agree that fracking activity is far too deep for it to leech out to ground water. The cases of contamination are mostly due to problems with the well casing. We didn't stop building houses because poorly constructed ones could collapse on people, we tightened codes and toughened inspections, the same is needed to fix the wells issue. As for the seismic activity it causes more rattled nerves then actual damage.

Due to our success as a species many people tend to think that human-like intelligence is a sort of a evolutionary inevitability but the only other species with intelligence close if not the same as ours, the Neanderthals not only was a closely related species, they are also extinct. Homo Sapiens ourselves, came very close to extinction. As a species we didn't gain an upper hand until the advancement of tool making hundreds of thousands of years into our existence and no one knows if that was inevitable given enough time or it happened due to a highly unlikely series of events, perhaps just like high-intelligence itself. We know that flight has evolved independently several times during the course of evolution yet as far as we can tell high-intelligence has not. Given that most animals have brains one would imagine that a bigger brain would evolve far more commonly than the development of flight wings. Perhaps ultimately we are an oddity ever rarer and more awkward then a Duck-billed platypus.

As part of the app approval process developers should be required to explain why they want certain sensitive permissions, such as access to contacts, messages etc. Google should then deny approval of apps that overreach in terms of permission requests.

The biggest problem with the economy is wage stagnation. I think that supply and demand is a terrible way to set wages as a job is a necessity for nearly everyone. Demand for workers can shrink but the supply will not and wages will bottom out and as they do so will demand for goods, effectively creating a catch-22.