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Why Anonymous Can't Take Down Amazon.com 392

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @03:40PM from the can't-imagine dept.

suraj.sun writes "The website-attacking group 'Anonymous' tried and failed to take down Amazon.com on Thursday. The group's vengeance horde quickly found out something techies have known for years: Amazon, which has built one of the world's most invincible websites, is almost impossible to crash.... Anonymous quickly figured that out. Less than an hour after setting its sights on Amazon, the group's organizers called off the attempt. 'We don't have enough forces,' they tweeted."

Comment Re:Public service annoucement (Score 1) 273

by zoom-ping on Thursday November 18, 2010 @08:52PM (#34277056) Attached to: A Single Re-Tweet Lands Chinese Woman in Labor Camp

Who's the Chinese dictator?

Comment Re:Weird. And then what? (Score 1) 799

by zoom-ping on Saturday October 30, 2010 @12:56PM (#34073636) Attached to: New York Judge Rules 6-Year-Old Can Be Sued

What are the parents supposed to do, keep them on a leash?

There are some parents who do just that.

Comment You can always choose to play... (Score 1) 854

by zoom-ping on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @06:52PM (#34031924) Attached to: Are Games Getting Easier?

Ikaruga, Dwarf Fortress, Liberal Crime Squad, Spelunky.
Some of the latest ones I've played. There still are challenging games out there. You don't have to play the mundane ones.

Comment I wonder... (Score 5, Funny) 200

by zoom-ping on Sunday October 24, 2010 @08:25PM (#34007582) Attached to: Austria's 'Bionic Man' Dies In Car Crash

... if pirates ever crashed ships into rocks, cliffs etc because of their 'bionic' limbs.

Comment A fine example of evolving art (Score 5, Interesting) 54

by zoom-ping on Saturday October 23, 2010 @05:49PM (#33999408) Attached to: Electronic Life Makes Evolving Art

The Electric Sheep.
Best. Screensaver. Ever.

Comment Re:GNU Free (Score 1) 170

by zoom-ping on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @09:25PM (#33802748) Attached to: DC Suspends Tests of Online Voting System

Has been done already.

Comment Re:old hardware, probably (Score 5, Informative) 931

by zoom-ping on Sunday October 03, 2010 @11:33AM (#33776698) Attached to: 66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP

Hard drive, maybe. That can be easily replaced. I haven't seen a full system failure (motherboard, power supply, etc.) in years.

Ever heard of laptops? Some hardware failure stats for you.

Comment Re:Yeah, right (Score 4, Funny) 152

by zoom-ping on Sunday October 03, 2010 @06:48AM (#33775604) Attached to: Software Theft a Problem For Actual Thieves, Too

You mean the countries where tax evasion is a national sport

You do realize that the USA isn't part of Eastern Europe?

Comment Carl Sagan did it fist (Score 2, Informative) 69

by zoom-ping on Saturday October 02, 2010 @07:11AM (#33769400) Attached to: How Will the Constellations Change In 50K Years?

From 3:10

Comment But... (Score 1) 238

by zoom-ping on Saturday September 11, 2010 @05:59AM (#33543544) Attached to: King's <em>Dark Tower</em> Series To Be Adapted For Film, TV

Will it be as good as Garth Marenghi's Darkplace?

Comment Re:A kernal of sense in an insane mind (Score 2, Informative) 1090

by zoom-ping on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @07:16PM (#33443282) Attached to: Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ

FYI: Europe is not a country. Neither are the Europeans a nation.

Comment Re:Doubtful (Score 1) 169

by zoom-ping on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @06:14AM (#33273700) Attached to: Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe

Seriously? Ever hear of Vienna (in Austria), one of the most important cities in European cultural history? Mozart? Strauss? Freud? Schrödinger? and many others.

Also Adolf Hitler and Falco.

Comment Re:The Real Story (Score 1) 232

by zoom-ping on Thursday June 17, 2010 @07:11AM (#32600408) Attached to: Iceland Votes "Já" To Proposed News Haven

Closer and better example would have been Estonia. Just 100 kilometers south over the Finnish bay. Languages are more similar, simple Finnish-Estonian conversations are entirely possible. As an Estonian I can understand and speak Finnish without ever learning it, but I don't understand a word of Hungarian.

Comment A webcomic that isn't XKCD. (Score 0, Redundant) 110

by zoom-ping on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @07:22AM (#31668482) Attached to: Haptic Gaming Vest Simulates Punches, Shots, Stabbing

PBF: Game System

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