Comment Re:Its not DDoS ... (Score 1) 118
No shirt, no shoes, DoS.
Actually, the best method would be to use a Black Fax [wikipedia.org] rather than something like stick figures or Goatse.
Maybe, but HR won't need to organize counseling sessions just because on of the admins saw a black fax.
At any rate, this is all premature. According to Zimmer:
Critics say that a few straightforward tests on the bacteria would show whether they really do have arsenic-based DNA once and for all. And the NASA scientists say they're ready to hand out GFAJ-1 to researchers who want to study it.
So, in a few months we'll either have some very interesting findings from experiments performed to everyone's liking...or a editorial in Science about how the original paper got through.
Scientists can be such whiny, arrogant assholes...whatever happened to science being done for science, rather than recognition?
Scientists are not saints. Science involves a lot of non-science: finding funding, managing teams, etc. and some people are into outmaneuvering others. As in any other profession, some percentage of scientists are the kind of whiny, arrogant assholes that would attempt to embarrass their colleagues in a mass-market publication rather than put the critique where it belongs: The letters section of Science.
So in other words, he could be trying to hold the US by the balls and say I'm going to break the law and if you try to arrest me for it, I'm going to release more info that will damage you even more.
This is where he messed up. The US cannot allow itself to be blackmailed in public. It's along the lines of "We don't negotiate with terrorists." Maybe you do, maybe you don't, but you certainly don't want anyone to think that terrorism (or in this case, and "insurance" file) is a good way to get you to negotiate.
Do you think any of the diplomats involved were surprised by any of the revelations in the cables?
Of course not. It's their trade. But the diplomats take their orders from politicians, who may now feel the need to put on a show for their populace. People react differently in front of an audience.
The US government has overthrown democratic governments, it's FBI has assassinated American civilians, the CIA is currently torturing someone to death in a secret prison somewhere in the world, and right now it has the right to extra-judiciously assassinate any person, even US citizens, that it believes to be involved in terrorism. With these facts, I hardly think an orchestrated DDoS attack seems unlikely.
Given that list, an orchestrated DDoS attack seems incredibly restrained.
Bill Nye the Science guy was the only educational show that was actually cool to watch.
Mr. Wizard.
"widespread cultural, social, and economic change that would define" which he says is one of his stock phrases.
Sounds like Tom Friedman to me.
There was a cartoon that someone taped to the wall where I worked at GSFC "back in the day" that showed a mouse in a lab coat poking a mouse trap. The caption was "One test is worth a thousand expert opinions."
I'm sure Safety loved that one.
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
