You obviously don't understand North Korea. Despite their terrible economy, widespread hunger, and stunning lack of technology in the hands of citizens, they still have an active standing army of over one million people, and count many, many more as available reserves. "Defense" spending is big there, so if they decide to hack, they can hack, and they will put government resources behind with little trouble because they have no fear of internal or national backlash. I doubt North Korea publishes accurate statistics, but it is a safe bet that they spend a much higher proportion of their GDP on defense (which includes hacking, propaganda, and internal oppression) than most countries. Militarily they are relatively weak on a per man basis due to most units being woefully equipped (and fed), but when they get the notion to do something (think nukes), they do it.

This may not have been North Korea, and I have no idea really, but one can't assume it wasn't them because simply because they are poor and uber-wacky.

I don't know about that. When the Empire moves into your neighborhood, you don't have a lot of choice - if it comes down to supporting my family or taking the moral high ground and not taking a job with a company with a dubious past, I'll have that direct deposit form signed in no time flat. I view huge corporations the same way I do governments and their armies - I support the individual soldiers even when they are called on to do unspeakable things as a group.

It's hard out here for a pimp.

Good God, so I'm not the only one who both remembers Sony hacking their own customers, and hates to see their employee data stolen? I feel for the workers, but I don't give a damn about that horrible company.

Actually, it may have been all of those things, including personal crap.

Clearly this was not done by someone in his mom's basement with a 40Mbit Time Warner connection to his laptop. It was perpetrated by someone with considerable resources and a considerable ax to grind. Going after employees but stealing everything related to them is not cool, but screw Sony, they kind of had it coming.

Choose your target carefully, of course..

Remember how Sony used to hack *us* with rootkits, they phoned home without informing us, escalated the copy protection war, and then lied to us as if we were stupid? While I am not a proponent of ever exposing data related to workers, I sure didn't shed a tear when I heard Sony got mega-hacked.

I know there's a Soviet Russia/Sony hacks you joke in there somewhere.

No, it should be pretty hot down in there. But not liquid.

No, if you're talking about the sample mentioned in the article, that is not even from Earth to begin with, so it can not even be safely assumed to be identical to lower mantle material. Some meteorites may be similar, but until we examine actual mantel bridgmanite we're not truly confirming anything. So as far as we know, there has still been no mantle bridgmanite found on Earth.