Christian Security: How would Jesus defend his network?

That's the stupidest thing I've heard in quite a while. It's like saying Apple would hack Nokia to gain market share.

Sony (the electronics firm) is in death throes and the last time they turned a decent profit is when Dubya was pumped for a Middle East invasion. Samsung alone makes more profit in a quarter than Sony made in the last decade.

Sony the Hollywood studio is doing fine but there's no equivalent South Korean competitor that would try to steal market share from it. And even if there was one, destroying Sony's movies doesn't make your own movies do any better at the box office. Movie business is not like the smartphone business.

And generally speaking, legitimate businesses that earn good money don't go around hacking into competitors' networks. The risk to reward just isn't there. Repercussions of getting caught would be catastrophic.

Just a dumb comment all around.

TFA (second link) says the Sony attack used similar components as the 2013 "DarkSeoul" attacks on S. Korean banks and government sites. Those were confirmed as originating from N. Korea.

Add to that the other circumstantial evidence and it's looking more and more like the Norks are responsible.

Not necessarily. This isn't an official communique from the N. Korean government. Remember, they denied involvement. My gut feeling is that it was written by the head of cyber warfare unit.

I do think they're capable of it. Their cyber warfare unit has plenty of experience hacking S. Korean targets. They are not noob at all. They employ thousands and the competition to join is fierce. Cyber warfare unit members get top-notch treatment such as getting enough food to eat and your own apartment, which are rare luxuries there. Even though we tend to think of N.Korea as a dirt-poor stone age nation, they have their own nukes and missiles. They managed to put a satellite in orbit. They send their best and brightest to Russia and China for training.

About the threats to Sony: seems to me like it was written by a Korean with a poor book learning of English. Also seems like a dictionary translation. I've seen English written by such people, and this has the same flavor.

"It's your false if you think this crisis will be over after some time." - this definitely sounds like something a Korean would write while looking up words in a Korean-English dictionary. He's probably thinking of "shil-soo" which means a mistake, but if you look it up in a 1960's paperbound dictionary, "false" is one of the entries! "Some time" is also commonly used by dictionary Koreans because there's a specific noun in Korean that means "Short interval of time", but English has no such noun. A fluent English speaker would use an adjective or an adverb to express himself, but a dictionary Korean would look for an equivalent noun and use whatever he found in the dictionary.

Thus "It's your mistake if you think this crisis will be over shortly" becomes "It's your false if you think this crisis will be over after some time."

Well, North Korea is known to display asinine behavior. Such as abducting Japanese and S. korean citizens and forcing them to work in N. Korea. And blowing up S. Korean airliners with bombs.

Lesson for Sony and anyone else: if a nation- state threatens you personally by name, take it seriously. Even if it's a poor backward nation like N. Korea. It's still a nation state with its own armed forces and intelligence agents.

windows 98 is so old that soon it may be immune to malware.

no it was Steve Jobs reality distortion field that made the plaintiffs think they bought an ipod when they didn't.

real men have their own programming language, that's why!

Like how they used to say in the chip business, real men have their own fab.

That was never gonna happen with that kind of budget requirements. $500 billion in 1991 dollars? That's close to a trillion today. Might as well wish for unicorns to bring world peace.

Instead of trying to ramrod monstrously expensive programs through, what we should've been concentrating on is lowering the cost to get stuff into orbit. Get cheap enough space access and a Mars trip will happen easily and naturally. Unfortunately all the players involved were making good money from the existing system so there was/is no incentive to change.

We needed something like a WW2 situation where the survival of U.S. and E.U. is at stake. Get lots of mass in orbit cheaply or you will cease to exist as a nation and all your money and assets will be seized by Nazis. That would've shaken things up. I'd probably be writing this from Mars today.

Or have a genius visionary billionaire do everything. Thanks Elon, let's hope the F9R and FHR succeed.

Hey I wanna see people go to Mars as much as anyone here. But let's get realistic: Mars is way harder to get to than the moon. WAY harder.

Not even close. Landing a heavy craft on Mars is difficult. In fact the top scientists in the world (including NASA) aren't even sure how we're gonna do it exactly. Smithsonian mag has a lengthy and highly informative article on this.

Yes but that doesn't include the time to get there. Moon = 3 days. Mars = 9 to 12 months. If you're sending a robotic probe then no problem. But if you're sending humans, compare the weight in supplies (food water etc) that you need for a 3 day journey vs. a 10 month journey. That's a gigantic weight difference. And that's not even counting the shielding you will need for a Mars journey.

don't release that movie that made fun of him (the one with Seth Rogen). Then North Korea won't release the Sony internal data.

Lesson: don't fuck with North Korea. They are bad-asses!

knowledge. Must be because they are repentant for deleting users' music earlier.

Romulans. And their bird of prey. Apple will lose.

How can you tell? Does the HDD keep track of this info somewhere in the firmware?

and make TouchWiz open too. That way you can run TouchWiz on Nexus and HTC and LG phones!