Hyperstrike

Yep. Basically, so long as your AT says "Tank", you're good!

Any way to extend an offer to the poor saps trying to get Tanker Tuesday going on Vigilance?

Pfft. If you want nauseating levels of bad emo, go watch Twillight.

Crap. Can't believe I just recommended Twillight to someone...

Ooh. Suckage. Sorry to hear that.

*cookie!*

Yeah but you're married and have a kid right?

That sorta nullifies the cute field pretty thoroughly.


Don't drink coffee. If I want sugar and caffiene, I drink cola.
Don't drink tea. Dislike the taste of it too.
Never had spotted dick. Nor been to the UK.
Never had a crumpet nor a toffin.

I'm your stereotypical geek-eater. Looks down at the spare Bigfoot tire...

Yeahhhhh.

Fixed that for you.

Government is a necessary evil (emphasis on evil). Only because anarchy is simply freedom for someone to impose their desires on you if they're stronger.

It's essentially same **** different meridian.

1. Go here:
2. Follow the instructions.
3. Paste the results back here.

Also, is this the same monitor for both machines?

Actually, you're looking at a repeat of US aboriginal displacement.
While the US may not be able to shut down the Internet as a whole, they can make interoperability as painful as possible unless people step up and put the government in its place via legitimate means.

And yeah, blowing the sites of people who're offensive to you off the internet doesn't fall under "legitimate means".

As a heart attack, while skydiving.

As I said. I my understanding of this (and of obfuscating my origins) probably better than you do. I don't mean (much) to be condescending, but I've been teaching this stuff for years.

And while you're looking at simple one or two layer obfuscation and plausible deniability, I'm looking beyond that. Note: I never said I'd be paying for said cloud time with my own funds.

As for having the FBI give me a visit. Been there, done that. My bosses were like "Ooh! Show us the badge! Show us the badge!"

A couple years prior to that, my local hacker group was graced with a visit from the FBI because one schmuck who'd been to one or two of our meetings was doing stupid **** like blowing up transformer stations and storing cyanide on one of the local tram lines.

If it weren't that these people were SERIOUS, we'd have been laughing at them for some of the stuff they were asking us. And we had some fairly poorly undercover personnel at our meetings for the next couple years just in case one of us turned out to be the next Tim McVeigh.

Trust me (or not), you happen to be the target of something like this, it's anything but cute. But if you don't want to take the word of a mostly anonymous person on the internet that part of his job involves this stuff, feel free. I don't require your belief to get through the day.

Nah. Just having a naturally low level of trust in just about everything.

Sorry, but anyone who thinks that Anonymous is Robin and his Merry Men or attempts to portray them as such is either unknowledgeable or being disingenuous. There's actually a couple other options, but they're a bit more offensive.

Hey, never underestimate the effects of gross healing.

Think about someone who's been in a car wreck and is broken up in dozens of places.

Or some poor schmuck who took a shotgun to the face and now has his brains leaking out his nose and ears.

The ability to get these people back on their feet in a couple minutes would get you hailed as a godsend.

The HMOs would LOVE you, since even RIDICULOUS fees would probably be cheaper than extended hospital stays and ongoing medical care.

It could either make you an invaluable military asset or a global thread depending on how big your "map" area is.

You'd push the button and find yourself the only living thing on the planet?

That might suck.

You're free to. It doesn't make you any less incorrect through dear.

If Anon isn't actually an organization, "they" aren't against ANYTHING. They simply have varying initiatives that some people associate themselves with and some don't.

If you're a member of a mexican drug cartel? Yeah.

You mean like stealing credit cards from people (not companies, not governments, not political parties, RANDOM PEOPLE)? Yeah.

Debatable. But "Do things our way or we **** your **** up" usually doesn't go over too well with the authorities. Whether they're right, wrong, or otherwise.

Anyone can launch a DOS attack.
Almost anyone can initiate a DDOS attack.
The tools to do these have been simplified to a button-push.
Right now, a couple bucks worth of cloud compute time on multiple clouds can buy you a hellacious DDOS network. Basically point and pwn.
Hacks like the HBGary Federal don't come about because of any "elite skills". They come about because of careless security protocol, automated attacks, and stupid users.
Before the digital vandals co-opted the term, "hacktivism" was about educating the public. Not breaking things. Not thuggery.

People coming together is a nice thing. Using it to hurt others ain't exactly a nice thing.

Now don't get me wrong. I have no great love of the RIAA or any of these other media middle-man groups pushing to curette our freedoms away from us. And while a vicious part of me cackles with the schadenfreude of it, a better part of me knows there's better ways to accomplish the same thing.

Anonymous didn't get SOPA/PIPA killed. Word of mouth getting people ACTIVE and INVOLVED with their government did.

All that Anonymous does is give the government something to point to and go "this is what we're trying to fight".

I'm well aware of the scale of what Anonymous is and isn't doing. Probably far better than you are.

Yup. It all sounds very mysterious and romantic. The reality's quite a bit uglier than that.

And ask yourself. If they're capable of doing this. What else is going on that these spectacular hacks could be running cover for.

What Lucasfilm need to so is offer a DVD/Blu-Ray "Screw George" option for ANH.
In it, the movie plays with the cantina scene as it originally was. Where Han shot Greedo to show he was a "rogue", and not necessarily a nice guy.

This way, when he comes back at the end of the movie to save Luke's ***, there's actually some character development.

There's also the Ginger Yates arc with Terra. She's just some eco-nut who Hamidon latched onto when he was still human. Because of that, she gets transformed into some kind of DE brood sow.

Yeah. I remember the computer shows. There used to be one about 20 miles from me. Saw a lot of wild things at them too. But over time, fewer and fewer local vendors came. And those that did had less and less decent quality stuff to sell.

New guide for Father Xmas: How to move out of the boonies to have decent access to computer parts outlets.

Oh. Did I forget to mention, there's also a Tiger Direct place out near me too?