Comment Re:It's a big deal (Score 1) 518
For a brief and alternate explanation of the fire-in-a-crowded-theatre case, see the beginning of this video of the late Christopher Hitchens.
Comment Link to acceptance speech (Score 1) 1
Here's a link to Assange's acceptance speech.
Submission + - Assange wins another journalism award (crikey.com.au) 1
Pav writes: Julian Assange has won a Walkley award, the equivalent of a Pulitzer in his native Australia. This is separate from the Martha Gellhorn prize won earlier this year. The story is reported on crikey.com.au, a web magazine frequented by Australian journalists and political elites. Although the comments there will be waffling and long-winded perhaps they will also be interesting as an indicator of the mood in that world.
Comment Re:Sure, send me an invite! (Score 1) 1223
Thank you sir!
Comment Re:Sure, send me an invite! (Score 1) 1223
Hi Chill, I'd like an invite too, if possible. Thanks in advance! richarddevries (atatat) gmail (dottt) com
Submission + - LulzSec teams with Anonymous, in Operation AntiSec (abc.net.au)
c0lo writes: After a brief spat where the notorious Anonymous hacking collective sniped at Lulzsec, the 'upstart' hacking collective, for crowing about low-rent Denial of Service attacks on the CIA and 4chan websites, the two groups have apparently teamed up in operation Anti-Sec.
The operation's: "Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments. If they try to censor our progress, we will obliterate the censor with cannonfire anointed with lizard blood."
We can only predict that the following will be unpredictable: store canned food and flash batteries, change your eBanking password daily.
The operation's: "Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments. If they try to censor our progress, we will obliterate the censor with cannonfire anointed with lizard blood."
We can only predict that the following will be unpredictable: store canned food and flash batteries, change your eBanking password daily.
Comment Re:Not really (Score 1) 393
Brilliant! Post a story and the system will instantly provide comments from an archive! Now, what are the readers supposed to do? Just read?
Seriously, I like your idea. It addresses a well-known problem (wise posts having no staying power) and it's simple. It might also be advisable to make comments taggable.
Submission + - Creepy Stalking App Explained by Author (thinq.co.uk) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Creepy, a package described as a 'geolocation information aggregator,' is turning heads in privacy circles, but should people be worried? Yiannis Kakavas explains why he developed his scary stalking application.
Creepy is a software package for Linux or Windows — with a Mac OS X port in the works — that aims to gather public information on a targeted individual via social networking services in order to pinpoint their location. It's remarkably efficient at its job, even in its current early form, and certainly lives up to its name when you see it in use for the first time.
Creepy is a software package for Linux or Windows — with a Mac OS X port in the works — that aims to gather public information on a targeted individual via social networking services in order to pinpoint their location. It's remarkably efficient at its job, even in its current early form, and certainly lives up to its name when you see it in use for the first time.
Comment Re:Well (Score 3, Interesting) 172
You sound like Prince, who turned down a Guitar Hero deal saying:
Well, I ain't mad at them. I hear it made, like, $2 billion and they came to us and offered us a very small portion of that," explained Prince. "But I just think it's more important that kids learn how to actually play the guitar. It's a tough instrument--it's not easy. It took me a long time, and it was frustrating at first. And you just have to stick with it, and it's cool for people who don't have time to learn the chords or ain't interested in it, but to play music is one of the greatest things.
Comment Re:Legislation will be needed. (Score 1) 102
Truth often isn't clever or original.
Comment Re:its the truth - you just don't like it. (Score 1) 919
You don't back up your claims and you generalize your own opinion. "They lost any credibility, and any respect, at that point" may be what you think, but it's not what everyone thinks. Your only valid and somewhat interesting claim is that they "pulled all private corporate leaks and European and other countries leaks," but there could be other reasons for that than being "solely an anti-US espionage org". Still, that's not trolling. Calling for a hanging (of Assange, presumably) is, though.
Comment Re:Youtube link (Score 1) 189
I tried mirroring it, but Youtube tells me the video is 'blocked in some countries'. Not that it would be of much interest, as there's hardly anything said about hometaping killing music.
It seems to me this video was blocked due to some automated process that recognized footage of Meatloaf or Kiss.
Comment Re:Youtube link (Score 2, Informative) 189
It's available in The Netherlands. I don't know if it has been down here. v=E9KRtuEttIQ
Five Times the US Almost Nuked Itself 384
kdawson writes "io9 has a scary outline of five times the US came close to accidental nuclear disasters. Quoting: 'In August of 1950, ten B-29 Superfortress bombers took off from what was then called Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base in California, headed for Guam. Each was carrying a Mark IV atom bomb, which was about twice as powerful as the bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II. Shortly after takeoff, one of the B-29s had engine trouble. On board was General Robert Travis. He commanded the plane to turn back to the base when the landing gear refused to retract. Sensing the plane was going down, the pilot tried to avoid some base housing before crashing at the northwest corner of the base. The initial impact killed 12 of the 20 people aboard, including General Travis. The resulting fire eventually detonated the 5,000 pounds of conventional explosives that were part of the Mark IV. That massive explosion killed seven people on the ground. Had the bomb been armed with its fissile capsule, the immediate death toll may have reached six figures.'"
Comment Unique feature (Score 3, Funny) 244
goo.gl shortens goo.gl url's as well! No, I will not write an evil script. Someone has to do the 'No Evil', right?
