You are so right! Because Obama was the one to make all that happen! He's King of the Country and has been forever! ...btw, thanks for illustrating just how senseless you die-hard Republicans are. I don't like Obama either, but I don't blame him for a long list of shit that's been going on since before he was in office. Nothing wrong with being a Republican or a Democrat, but there's something seriously wrong with blindly following that party while blaming the other for every little mishap. The truth is, they've all gone and screwed us over, and there doesn't seem to be a correct side to be on. But, your long list of things you blame on Obama is mostly not his fault. Reminds me of the bumper sticker, "Obama lied and the economy died!" Yeah, that was totally his fault...

I still don't see the problem, as the summary appears to reflect the article, as a summary should. The point is: nothing was sensationalized, I drew the same conclusion after reading the article. If there's a great deal of information missing, that's a separate issue. But, every statement in the summary appears to be accurate according to the article.

I fail to see how anyone could possibly claim to have any estimate even remotely close to the real number of hackers in the US. If they have some log somewhere, then it seems to me that 100% of hackers in the US should be informants, because the rest have been found and arrested. This story is nonsense, nothing but propaganda to keep people from losing faith in the FBI's capabilities on the internet while all these stories about Lulzsec and Anonymous are going around.

Seems that way. I've been wondering if Lulzsec is just the banner Anons fly under when they want to do things more harmful to the general public than Anonymous would want to associate themselves with.

I enjoy this not because I hate Sony (although I'll never buy another Sony product) but because Sony has engaged in what should be considered criminal activity themselves, and got away with it. The actions against Sony are a form of vigilante justice, they're being punished because of what they did. And yes, the things they've done are wrong. The rootkit mess was awful, and giving customers a choice between two things they've already paid for (second OS or online play) is stealing. Yes, stealing, in a very real sense. And then they went after a man who sought to give back what Sony stole. I know this is very one-sided, but it's what the situation boils down to. I don't agree with the things Lulzsec has done because it's damaging to innocent people as well, but I'll be happy to watch it continue because I do feel that Sony deserves to be punished and I don't see that happening through the proper channels. I'd also love to see Lulzsec go after organizations like the RIAA and the MPAA, not because it's okay to steal music, but because it's not okay to have absurd punitive fines over downloading something that, in almost all cases, didn't amount to any losses because the truth is people wouldn't just go buy everything they download if they couldn't pirate it.

After reading the article, it seems it didn't have anything to do with the school, aside from the fact that he'd used it in a school project as well. Maybe the information is elsewhere, but it seems to me that the videos themselves have nothing to do with anyone at the school except for the teacher who voluntarily did some voice acting for it and the student who made them. Please dear commenter: go find out if the media is sensationalizing something before you assume that's what's happening and discredit a young student while his rights are being abused and his future sabotaged.

...they just need to start a more official trade-a-kidney program. That way they can trade an iPad for a kidney and then turn around and sell the kidney to someone who needs it! They'll just need to do better than Sony, who tried this once in the '90s but after only shipping empty boxes to the first few thousand people decided it was easier to just call it "donating" a kidney. You can buy Sony-brand kidneys over in Japan, you know.

Nah, just put him on the pending list like the big boys do.

I figured that's what was happening when federal agents became the tools used to investigate and help prosecute people for copyright infringement.

Don't you know computers don't make mistakes? Putting black boxes in cars will ensure that noone is ever found at fault when they shouldn't be, and that you're never wrongfully ticketed. This is the way things are going, it's like the cameras they use to catch speeders and red light runners, and those things have never made a mistake, certainly never been shown to consistently make mistakes... Seriously though, I like the idea of a black box system that will reliably determine who is at fault in an accident, but just like everything else, this bit of information will be misused. Anyone else remember when those plate-scanning cameras weren't going to be used to bust people with expired registrations and lapsed insurance?

I was under the impression that even worldwide ICQ trailed behind AIM. I could be wrong, but weren't there typically five or six times as many users on AIM when both services were in wide use?

Dr. Bob, do you realize that you come off as nothing more than crazy, and your ranting is actually helping "BIG PHARMA" by discrediting the people who speak out against them? Don't get me wrong, I don't like the way the system works and I'd love to see an end to corruption in government and business, as well as a separation of the two, but rants from people like you help to accomplish the opposite by giving everyone something to point at and say "See, they're just a bunch of raving lunatics!"

Since when do we train every Marine to do this? Since never. Think big, more along the lines of special forces or spies, there's quite a bit of training involved overall and it goes far deeper than trying to consciously control your actions to look less suspicious. I haven't gone through boot camp myself, so this is no expert testimonial, but from what I've been told that time is what you need to train and learn to survive in the battlefield, they don't touch espionage, infiltrating enemy forces, or anything that would require hiding behavior patterns to be in your skill set. There's no doubt in my mind that behavior profiling would be more effective than random selection to go through a scanner.

I second this. If I could tack on premium content to my Netflix subscription for a fee I'd do it, as long as it didn't shoot the price up over cable. I was actually thinking the other day stations like HBO and Showtime should be doing this already, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would pay a few dollars to get new episodes of Spartacus and Dexter without paying the insane price of cable that I haven't even plugged into my TV since I moved in January.

Communism in it's purest form would work, the problem is we always have to involve people, and as we've all seen only people who will abuse power and use it strictly to benefit themselves ever have the drive to take a position of power. This is also why democracies, republics, monarchies, dictatorships, and every other form of government fail to adequately govern people; even when they start off well, bad people will inevitably take control and turn it into something terrible. No form of government, or lack there of as in anarchy, is inherently evil. It's people that are evil.