Anonymous did not ignore anything. I just read through the emails. Anon. CLEARLY wanted money. The demand was $50K immediate payment to something called Liberty Reserve.

FBI/Sym was attempting to get the payment broken into monthly payments and made into pretty much anything BUT Liberty reserve.
There was some discussion about whether FBI/Sym can trust Anon to not publish after they received the money. The response that Anon had was that 'You have to trust us. If we were bad guys we would have already published.'.

At no point in those emails are there any motivations discussed EXCEPT a payment for not disclosing the files.

You can argue the email is a fabrication.
You can argue that it isn't really Anon behind this.
You can argue the files released so far are outdated and a joke.
You can even argue that this is all a clever ruse on Symantecs part to get people to drop PCanywhere 2007 for the latest release.

But to argue that the entity Anon in that email is doing anything other then extortion is absolute bullshit.

Like I said, didn't pass High School physics.
Strange how the things that interest me change as I get older.
I mean, this stuff is genuinely interesting to me now. It wasn't then.
I had the time to learn it then, I don't now.

life is funny that way.

I am deaf. I can't hear the sound in the video.

High school was 20 some years ago and I didn't pass physics anyways.

To me it LOOKS like gravity. But I am having a lot of trouble imagining that a knitting needle has enough mass to orbit water droplets. The description talks about another needle off camera which sounds like he is trying to keep a charge on the needle.

So my best guess is that the water droplets are negatively charged, the needles positively charged.
The only thing missing is the orbit. I wasn't aware you could get an orbit out of something like this.

Can someone here expand on this?

I just got off the line with Clear.com helpdesk.
The doofushead on the other end of the line posted my clear username/login info for me, even though I never asked for it.

People are just so clueless with security, it is pretty disgusting.

Japan forcing Sony to prove they have secured there network - I like this. I like this a lot.

Yesterday when I read that Egypt had pulled the plug on the internet the first thing that went through my mind was, 'the people will find a way.'. The second thing was, 'I can't wait to see how they do it. This is going to be fascinating.'. Since then I have been contemplating ad-hoc wireless networks and dialing into 56k modems thousands of miles away.
I have been chewing at the bit (haha! I made a pun!) for any information as to how this little project is proceeding.

The best Cringley's article can muster is a French company offering 56k access for free and the words, 'Wireless mesh network'. That is all fine and dandy.
I am happy and impressed that the French company is offering there resources to the Egyptian people. Big round of appluase for those guys. But the geek in me is not impressed. Dialing out of country to a 56k connection is just so bloody obvious. I want to know the bloody details of the wireless mesh. I want to know about the sap that has hacked his satelite dish to give internet access to his town.

I want more. It has to be out there.

Find a group that will recycle the printer for you.
Where I live there is a group called http://www.freegeek.org/ that will take the printer off your hands, break it down, recycle it and fund the groups activities with the money made from recycling.

RTFA:

These people live in a community with a homeowners association. They had some crap in there yard which included a tetherball stand and a movable basketball stand (the kind for driveways). There was some angst in the community that these items didn't belong (anyone that has ever dealt with a homeowners assoc. will understand).

Someone posted an add in Craigslist saying these two items where free for the taking. The add said not to knock on the door, just drive up with the pickup truck, load and leave.

In the Craigslist add the address given was the cops address. It said something to the effect 'next door to this address'.

Nothing in the article attempts to make the claim that the cop placed the add.

However, the victims are Luddites that have never heard of 'Craigslist'. They are black, therefore it is automatically racism.

It is quite possible no charges against the cop where placed because there was no evidence that the cop had anything to do with anything (except living next door to these people).