You're missing the wood for the trees. This was a great marketing tool for them. They have educated asshats that were unaware of such paid DDoS services. You'll have a lot of people using their services or start looking for similar services. Now for a $100 they'll take out a competitors website/email server/etc.. and causing a lot of harm on the networks in general. DDoSing should not go mainstream or appear to be easily accessible, it'll ruin the internet. What if some disgruntled person uses these DDoS services to attack essential services like hospitals. People can die just because records couldn't be pulled. I say, let the gamers rage, the more the public outrage become, the easier it will get people/governments to hunt these pricks down. As soon as you ask money for something, it's not a cause anymore.

There is a pretty awesome isometric interface for nethack, http://www.desura.com/games/vu... or http://www.darkarts.co.za/vult... and it's free :)

The big problem is that the "standard" that AI is measured is against something like the Turing test So we are building AI to behave/think like humans. That is scary, humans don't have a good track record when it comes to rational thinking. Yes we are still here, but generally we try our hardest get rid of each other or set ourselves on paths to doom. If AI is set to self learn and gets to the point where it is "self aware", does that mean it has developed morality and self preservation, those are very much psychological and biological concepts from our perspectives. Will it fight back when you want to switch it off or does it just consider of being "alive" as a 0 or 1 state with no impact (that's just the way it is and accept it). If it is goal orientated, how far does it go to enforce itself to achieve such goals ie. Set human.life_status = 0 when human.action == (set AI.life_status == 0 ) while AI.action == "Busy saving lives". That's why Asimov's basic laws are great until you allow free will or allow meta rules to adjust an outcome. ie. Humans are killing their own habitat and won't be able to sustain life, let's commit some genocide to bring the population down and ensure humanity's survival. As soon as you allow flexibility to what AI can achieve and do, AI will most likely attempt to remedy any situation in a way that is unfathomable to us, just because of the number of variables and factors it should be able to calculate. Other hand, AI may just kill us all because of good old human error and somebody forgot to add a \r\n to a line of code : To Protect and Serve_

Especially at http://sysadminday.com/ Site is already down.

The remark was to point out that there numerous ubiquitous dangers out there and accidents happen. Basing policy on singular/low percentage/hearsay events to prevent public participation is the wrong way to go. Yes, consider safety, but don't enforce a ban for broader use, inform people. I will be spreading flyers to educate old ladies about the dangers of walking around designated parking areas.

When I parked my car the other day, I briefly saw an old lady - it was close enough that I was sure it stuck to the car, but no damage was found upon inspection. I propose a ban on old ladies.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/553957-City-of-Joburg-security-issue-everyone-can-see-all-customers-statements?p=11014501&viewfull=1#post11014501
"Hi all, I have yet to get contacted by CoJ or anyone else responsible/concerned about my initiative to help close the data-leak. As far as I am concerned I have not done anything illegal and have not been charged or accused of having conducted anything illegal. The CoJ certainly makes it out that the customer invoices were accessed in an sophisticated and malicious hack. I did elaborate this to the press and while all of you understand exactly what happened it is still astounding that CoJ attempts to bury the real story instead of taking accountability for what actually happened. Although this incident is presented as an attack, Google managed to index the tax-invoices dating back to February 2013 and all information circulating in the press (such as the mentioned SANRAL tax invoice) have been publicly available via a simple Google search, prior to my discovery on 20th August 2013. The CoJ claims of a hack are simply rubbish and any person with an internet connection would have been able to view the same information. There is ZERO IT-skill required to change an invoice number in a web-address. I am not going to worry about any criminal or civil charges and a team of lawyers is ready to deal with those should that situation arise. It is quite shocking to see how the media reported on this issue despite having had many witness accounts and solid evidence at hand. In my opinion it should have never gotten to the point that this situation is now all over the news, had the CoJ acted responsibly and shown accountability and prompt resolve. I think MyBroadband has managed to capture the actual events very accurately and I appreciate all the support, PM's and phone-calls I have received over the last few days. As a rate- and tax-payer it is our civic duty to ensure that our resources are managed in a responsible way and it is quite an embarrassment that our leaders (which we pay via our taxes) show zero interest in serving their residents - if they did, we would not sit with the number of threads and misinformation currently being pedalled to save face. The newspapers equally act irresponsibly by printing anything being said without having verified actual facts (which are readily available) and as such are not improving the situation. As a CoJ resident I am ashamed to life in a city where their representatives lie and misinform to cover up incompetence and shy away from their own accountability."

Look at real life. A label is something that you stick on a product and becomes part of it. A tag is usually attached with a string or something and thus not part of it but it describes it. I prefer tag, but in the end it's just semantics. Label me an idiot, but that's my 2 cents