if you're replying to me (not sure from the /. nesting): - my point was that wiretap warrants are issued all the time - a quick google sez there were ~ 22K issued - so why was this one of interest? I was actually wondering what made this /. worthy. An AC posted that it dice acting just like huffpo, finding the buzzwords (wiki leaks) which'd appeal to the /. audience ----- My second point was, that like another poster, this one seems to be done the 'right' way - it's on the books for who did it, why, and can be challenged. Wiretaps, performed legally, *are* part of the law enforcement process.

Seriously. Is it cuz the tap is for wiki leaks? If this is 'just' a warrant, why is this /. worthy?

The thought that a few, decently intelligent , disgruntled *individuals* , coupled with the 'destructive' nature of the attacks I think scares the crap out of govvies. Call it cyber-vandalism, -terrorism, or -war, the act of public destruction and 'outing' is what has made this attack a 'game changer.' State funded threat actors have been spying for years. They've mostly - the stuxnets aside - have stopped short of destruction that they're all capable of, and 'just' xfilled credit cards, or secret formulas. Think what the Target attackers could have wrought by bricking the POS terminals. So if you're a govvie, it's natural to presume that a whacky - but funded - state threat actor is behind this, as the thought of a handful of individuals is just too scary. Do any /. ers know what security product stuff that Sony deployed (which missed all of this )? I'd love to know their host based AV and HIPS, and their network FW, IPS, 'APT ' detectors/protectors.

Mandiants managed defense does this as well. As did the Incident Response actions that any responders do when they try to understand *what* was xfilled. So, get over it. IBM is just limiting liability.

Great, insightful thinking. Leaves out a few things : politicians and voters are *from somewhere *. The voters know where to go to vote, the politicians have a somewhat stable territory to run from. Though the general concept is frigging brilliant.

I need to decide if I need to register Republican - I'm neither - to vote against Carly. I'd never thought I'd be happy to vote for Hillary... Wow...

Lame reference. It wasn't close to being an independent review. And I stopped reading well before I found the claim that the charges were created

if we could mod this post to a score of 10, we should. The lack of common sense of the 'professionals' which is just mind boggling.

we should keep all these empty jails scattered around, so the few that survive the plague have a place to defend against the biters. And give us a place from which to create needless drama.

It'd track the hours you spent sitting on your butt on FB, vs actually doing something which would be healthy ... And then... Wait for it... not report that to you, as those hours represent revenue $ from ads...

My understanding - perhaps reading on /. - about human caused crashes (Asiana, Air France) was that the plane did so much for the human, that the human was more out of touch with actually *flying.* A cautionary tale if we're thinking of handing over control of cars. Humans will get out of touch. Maybe the right place initially for driverless are paid express lanes with limited entrances and exits, and perhaps solely one lane, making a lot of the scenarios discussed by other posters less likely initially.

what a lot of posters strike me as missing, is that the DEFINITION OF WHATS HEALTHY IS ALREADY MADE, and when you apply for life insurance you AGREE TO SHARE ALL DR RECORDS AND GET RETESTED. So unless most of you just take the "cover your credit card debt and handle the funeral services" health insurance your company offers, then you've already crossed the 'share lots of specific health info, tied specifically to you' threshold. As someone who's off the bell curve in terms of body height, I'd welcome a more scientific and data centric definition of stuff like BMI. what ID challenge the crypto-smart folks on /. , is to come up with a way - or promote if it's already done - to create a way to guarantee authenticity of that the data is as a patient intended to contribute, whilst cryptographically ensure that the contributor is obsfucated.

yes, eighteen thousand. Compare that to the dow, nasdaq and even the much maligned msft. Wow, I sure wish I'd put 1K or 10K into amaz stock and held. Sure, amaz is off its peak of 20,000 % profit recently, but ... so maybe amaz, and the longer term investors really, really do know what they're doing. For example, the amaz phone? my family members are looking at buying just for the mayday feature. Unlike probably most /. folks, mayday, for the 'rest of them,' is such an amazing feature.

soooo funny. I have mod points, but can't use em on this post.

sorry, old school here. But a sport involves the combo of physical exertion, and skill. Skill for gaming ? no doubt gaming requires a huge amount of skill. But physical exertion? come ON. and no question that gaming is going mainstream, when espn starts covering it ... expecting the mod downs ... waiting for em actually ...