Terror is the goal, and having people killed are only the means.

Or in the case of Bin Laden, a successful attack would lead to Machiavellian scumbags within the US government turning the country into a police state for power and profit, slowly boiling away the rights and privacies of his real target: the American citizenry (who allowed murderous, abusive foreign policies to be conducted in their name).

And to this day, they are still running his playbook, with zero intention of ever stopping.

The sad end will be this coven of trolls claiming it was all based on their 'religious beliefs' and our shit-heel 'supreme' court will given them a free pass. At the current increasing decent into madness, they might even reverse the costs back on Mann.

A dumped ex-boyfriend with some leet skills 'hacking' their ex-girlfriend into an unwanted pregnancy. Great idea.

A one-time neighbor about ten years ago told me: "Oh, no; I don't want a new TV. They've got cameras in them that can watch what you're doing."

At the time, I smiled politely, while thinking he was a total loon. Nope; just prescient.

Something seems different this time. I'm just not seeing the replacement jobs. Help me spot them, please.

Here's some: "Welcome to Walmart."

Here's some more: "Please pull around to the second window."

Of course, it still is a mystery why US-CERT/ICS-CERT and the European CERTs don't mention any of the company names. The names would certainly be helpful if they wanted to alert asset owners that they may be compromised.

It's no mystery at all.

and huh .... wait. They could get that stuff on anyone, couldn't they. They could get that on me.

I think the most effective campaign to raise true awareness of the dangers of the organs of state security would be highway billboards that merely say:

The NSA knows what you did.

Finally someone pays attention to us Linux folk!

And Microsoft's appointee to the board is Mr. M. Bracex Tinguish.

My Chromecast displays very pretty nature photos as a screensaver when on but not in use - and they sure aren't local images. It also doesn't appear to shut off after a certain period either (at least an hour or so). Time to check my data usage next time I have it in standby.

I read about this and I wish them well, especially when the membranes start to clog-up with real-ocean dirt and bacteria move in to build a cozy biofilm community.

Just be sure you don't install the Lockheed fluid package into your Girling brakes app; it will lock-up. Literally.

The head prick was quoted as saying: "Collect it all." Setting aside the obvious immorality and illegality of their actions (and ignoring all the apologists and their fig leafs), just focus on the stupidity of this approach. What good is having the worlds' best spooks looking for wheat if they are buried under metric tons of chaff?

Unless, of course, the real reason was to golden parachute into cushy, six-figure per month consulting gigs to supplement their Federal retirement packages.

This is the same 'high and mighty' group that decided their votes were far more important than actually counting the fucking votes for Gore.

...in time of War or public danger...

The Endless War on Terrorism was deliberately created to short-circuit all other rights.
There is no winning; the grand experiment of freedom and representational democracy is over.