From the article:
In a blog post earlier today, Auernheimer spelled out Goatse's case. "All data was gathered from a public webserver with no password, accessible by anyone on the Internet," he wrote. "There was no breach, intrusion, or penetration, by any means of the word."

How did he do anything illegal?

Perhaps I misread the story, but this "hacker" wrote a script to gather information that AT&T made public on their website, and HE is the one in trouble?

that is what I read too.

You have clearly not reverse engineered malware before.

There is good, well written, well thought out stuff out there. But it is not the norm.

His numbers are clearly way off. I just made a trip from San Antonio, TX to Glennie MI which is a little over 1600 miles in 25 hours. And I never broke 70 because I was hauling a trailer.

I use the most data while I'm driving. Pandora connected via bluetooth to the audio system of the truck. I'm sure I'm not the only one doing that, I think most average users would do that.

Why would you throw out the meat?

winfile.exe, it ran fast and light and I was bummed when they took it out. It worked a lot better than explorer.exe for a lot of tasks.

Those are called hangovers. I suggest scheduling later classes.

This is incorrect. All of it.

As someone who has worked in this field for years, I'd like to set you straight.
You are full of shit.

That is a movie/TV idea and has nothing to do with reality. My co-workers are very damn good, and you couldn't look at any of us on the street and say we conform to any of your lame sterotypes.

You don't have a clue.

My sister is the same way. And if she is a guest at a gathering she will generally bring her own main dish if a veggie one isn't available instead of bitching about it or making people do special things for her.

Thanks.

I watched the Good Eats episode the wiki article references. And while everything on TV certainty isn't true, he made a pretty damn good scientific argument/experiment.

I've noticed your name posting a lot lately...normally slashdot is the kind of place where I don't notice one particular troll.

You are a special kind of troll though, a huge contrarian. No matter what anyone says, they are wrong and don't know as much as you. It is funny to have arguments with people like you because it is easy to get them to start off with one point, and work them around till they end up supporting the opposite view just as vehemently, because no matter what someone else says, you have to say something to the contrary to show your superior knowledge.

that is why God made shovels. I am from that area and frequently shoveled out my grill and used it all winter long. charcoal. Why would it being a gas grill matter given those conditions?

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

I'd add "do a full squat of twice his body weight" to that list.

Specialization is for insects. It isn't 'civilisation'