Comment Re:It's alive (Score 2) 18
One advantage on the other site is that you have a say in what the site is eventually named. Did DICE ask your permission to force Beta upon you?
No, I thought not... Asked for comments - then ignored them.
One advantage on the other site is that you have a say in what the site is eventually named. Did DICE ask your permission to force Beta upon you?
No, I thought not... Asked for comments - then ignored them.
I hope everything turns out well for us all but, if not, thanks for all the good times
Exclusive contracts are not very common in Europe, at least not in my experience. But perhaps I shop more wisely than others...
I think that you might be missing the point....
Bradley Manning might have committed a crime, but Wikileaks hasn't. Bradley Manning stands accused, but is innocent until proven guilty. If it is all so obvious to the US government, why haven't they put him on trial yet? What they are currently doing is certainly inhumane treatment which isn't justified until at least he has had his day in court.
China is citing the US treatment of Wikileaks and JA, although thank you for bringing Manning into the equation. Yet another fine example of the US doing the opposite of what they often tell other countries should be done.
That smart-ass bomb threat going to get them classified as a "terrorist group."
And perhaps that is exactly what is hoped for, precisely as you have suggested. Foreign governments (i.e. non-US) might not put much effort into tracking down someone who 'might' be remotely linked to someone else who 'might' have been involved in a DDos, but they would have a hard time resisting US pressure to help catch the 'terrorists' who are threatening to use bombs.
I'm not suggesting that this is necessarily the reason behind the claims, and I don't think that my tinfoil hat is too tight, but it wouldn't be the first time that a Government has 'manufactured' evidence or made false claims in order to garner public support for what would otherwise be an unpopular action.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League