The sad thing about tyranny is that it's never necessary to submit to the tyrant. It's a voluntary thing often done in little steps for pragmatic reasons.

But this is the Internet and Anonymous does not have to submit to the tyranny of censorship. They don't have to be pragmatic. They don't have to (and can't!) negotiate. They are everywhere and nowhere. Some among them control vast swaths of the network in official and unofficial capacities. They have sympathizers and informants everywhere. They can accidentaly retire your domain, your IP space, your SSL certificate, without fear of consequence.

The corporation and its property employed in censorship is an instrument of tyranny and "in play". Its personnel are uniformed combatants engaged in pressing the fight and the higher in the tree they are the greater their responsibility. Censorship is tyranny and Anonymous is willing to take arms against it - it's that simple. They're not going to hurt anybody but they can wreck some business and they have wrecked some equipment. They've been known to uncover skeletons in the closets of their opposition and they can be quite resourceful in that regard. They are not the mainstream press, which casts its gaze the other way to get continued access to the play.

Anonymous doesn't have to filter their content to play. They're the pimp that supplied the hookers, the pusher that sold the coke to your aide (hell, Anonymous probably is your aide), the concierge that arranged for the gerbil, the maid that cleaned the room. They were the camera men and edit team for your reminiscence porn. They're the crew of the boat, the doctor that prescribed the cocktail, the bartender, the barmaid, all three hookers including the trangender dwarf. They're your accountant, your divorce lawyer, your shrink, your family counselor and your confessor. They sold you the condoms and ordinarily that's no business of theirs - but dick with them and your wife will find out with the rest of the world but the trail will never lead back to anyone in a traceable way unless it's good for a six-figure book deal.

Yes, it's an asymmetric engagement - that's how low intensity conflicts are fought these days. The corporations have their battalions of lawyers, their purchased senators and congressmen. They have their sheriffs and judges, their warrants and seizure laws. The array of legal means is the baton of oppression. Each individual anonymous, however, can rise perhaps only to the level of midemeanor in his civil disobedience and given their bulk bring down the mightiest corporation or its political tool.

Anonymous has their technology, their anonymity, their will, their access and their mass. This is a Cyber war. They've embraced Patton's admonition "The point is not to die for your country, the point is to make the other poor bastard die for his." The only way to be captured in a cyber war is to express incompetence, so they have no pity for the fallen. Their enemy is a lifeless, soulless corporation, so they have no pity for it either.

Yes, it's an asymmetric battle, and the outcome is certain. Your moral plea is nothing more than the tears of the wife of a vanquished Caesar: "It's not fair! The slaves don't know their place!" What you don't realize is that the proper place for a corporation that won't serve its customer is the dustbin of history.

- Theodore Roosevelt

So it is that from time to time Anonymous must shake their stick at the world to prove they are still vital. It's not wise to volunteer to be the one they shake their stick at.

I don't even like the chans but I know better than to dick with them and so does every responsible member of the community. They serve the useful purpose of preserving the design goals of the Internet in their own way and when it suits them. I understand they do it for the lulz whatever that means. What I care about is that whoever tries to do away with network neutrality is going to have to deal with them at his peril.

Sometimes its nice to know that while most of us actually work our jobs and do them very well, some companies like sun employ people where their only job is to screw the company and its employees for money they don't deserve.

EXACTLY! And that's the point! They managed to fit a typical romantic comedy movie into a 30-second "elevator pitch" without even stating anything directly! Look at it as a short story - a MICRO-story - and think of how much story they compressed into it - because it's just references, so viewers are really making up the whole story in their own heads.

The way things are going, the ability to make a decent hand axe or scraper will serve our children well.

That may be true, but a 101 course isn't going to get someone to that level.

I still opted for logic, but only because I want people to understand what makes something make sense. Also, an introduction to logical fallacies would do many people a world of good.

They can't be done for cheaper than Flash, though, which is the only thing the bean counters that pay me care about.

To achieve similar levels of professionalism and quality in a training product (what I do for a living) using non-Flash tools would cost too much money and take too much time because it requires too much technical talent.

Flash looks good, accomplishes the goal in less time, and for less money. Doesn't mean it's technically better, only that it does what it's supposed to for less time and money.

I'm sure that this is as much a possibility as reporting a bogus security flaw to a software company. It wouldn't take long for a proper chemist to determine that what they were testing wasn't the real thing. On the up side, it could mean more science jobs and thus more of a push for better geeky ed in public schools.

Someone should tell him about the n900 w/ Maemo5. Now THERE'S a good OS. Not quite as good as pure debian... but much better than Android. Unless of course Linus WANTS to port gitk (or any other GUI tool) to the Android GUI library instead of well... just _running_ it.

you should have kept the ear and sent her that starry night painting you did, or the one with the twelve sunflowers

But if they're willing to return to a 1791 lifestyle and then work their way back up from there- well, it was a Republic of it's own before, and could be again.

But I think I'd rather have the vast natural resources of Cascadia to play with- we've got our own oil wells, heavy metal mines, gold mines, and a huge agricultural infrastructure.

"Kids who were bullies also had problems in at least one of three different areas of nonverbal communication: reading nonverbal cues; understanding their social meaning; and coming up with options for resolving a social conflict."

Doesn't that still work? If the bullied are projecting in a nonverbal manner, the bullies are missing it or ignoring it. Either way, they have a problem communicating.

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  Most of the things discussed here have little importance in a "normal" winter, with -5 to -10 Celsius (15 Fahrenheit) and without freezing under the hood. However, ice can form over the many moving parts inside the car, so heating up is good for things other than the engine

In that case I question the business model. Two things are a given: People will not buy unless an item matches their demand, and any restriction you place on hardware will eventually be broken. If your model relies on your hardware being not broken because you obviously think your games stink so badly that everyone who buys the console will not buy the games, and thus make your model viable, I guess the problem is not me breaking the hardware but relying on a business model that just does not work anymore as soon as the jail is broken. And, as we can see, it will be broken sooner or later.

I hope for Sony that they made enough money by now. If the consoles are still sold at a loss, they might have to consider stopping selling them altogether. Whether that's a good idea considering how game makers might be pissed by that decision and cease to develop for a shrinking market is another matter.

I compile and run some computational codes under Linux on my PS3 and I for one would be much happier if disk and network access didn't have to go through the hypervisor. I strongly suspect that performance would increase.

I've done 3 things to fix my bar, maybe this'll help you, too.

First, installed the oldbar extension, to make the bar's results clean and simple.

Second, changed two settings in about:config - browser.urlbar.default.behavior 17, and browser.urlbar.matchBehavior 2. I think what this does is make it only match strings from the start of letter/number strings. So "comments" would pull up slashdot.org/comments, but it wouldn't pull up "www.coolcomments.com", since that starts with "cool". Not completely ideal, but I've gotten used to it. It also doesn't match by page titles, which is all I really wanted to disable. One of those variables may be unused now, so if you don't find it, don't do anything with it.

Third, changed how the awesomebar gives weight to results, so it only returns places I've actually visited. places.frecency.bookmarkbonus 0, places.frecency.linkvisitbonus 2000, places.frecency.unvisitedbookmarkbonus 0, places.frecency.unvisitedtypedbonus 0.