That's true. I'm actually normally on Giz, but I've seen the same trends. I guess I let myself get sucked in.

Sorry, it just seemed that this thread was an argument between those who thought that all of the blame lies with Sony and that anonymous was actually helping us, and those who thought that all of the blame lies with anonymous. I assumed that since you were replying to one of the ones saying that anonymous deserved all…

There's a difference between taking down servers that were suspected of being used to plan an attack on an energy company and imprisoning anyone who criticizes your government. And I believe that the appropriate action if you feel that your government is undemocratic would be a peaceful protest, not to try to take…

There's a difference between "Sony should have had better security practices," and "It is ok for anonymous to do this." I think the analogy of the person breaking into your home is perfect. Your lock may have had a flaw, but it still is wrong for someone to break into your house.

Amazon, MasterCard, and Visa were all attacked by anon, because Amazon dropped WikiLeaks from its servers, and MasterCard and Visa refused to allow cardholders to use their credit cards to donate to WikiLeaks. Those companies all decided that they didn't want to enable illegal behavior, and anon decided that that…

I don't really get what you are saying. Please elaborate.

Except that that isn't lorem ipsum. That is a segment of De finibus bonorum et malorum by Cicero. Parts of words were taken from it, and parts of other words were added which turned it into gibberish, and that gibberish is lorem ipsum.

A flaw I see in your logic is how you say that just because people can access the words that are said, that means that Anonymous respects freedom of speech. If you attack people that criticize you, it is irrelevant whether that criticism is publicly available, for you have deterred others from criticizing you,…

I definitely get your point, and I know that a lot of governments, the United States' included, have abused classification. What I'm saying is that Anonymous's view that "The only threat transparency poses to government is to threaten government's ability to act in a matter which the people would disagree with,…

A major problem that I have with Anonymous is how it has a culture of going after anyone who criticizes it. What ever happened to freedom of speech?

Lorem ipsum isn't actually Latin. It's gibberish that looks like Latin.

Don't you have to download the software to participate in the attack?

Contrary to popular belief, the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. You are pointing out one specific goal that both organizations have, but many others may be contradictory.

I'm not so sure about the validity of their point. They assume that the only actions that governments have to fear are those undertaken by a majority of their citizens. I think that secrecy can be necessary to stop a small minority from attempting to destroy a country that they have decided is illegitimate. For…

Yes a lot of Civil Defense was for psychological comfort, but duck and cover actually could have been useful. It wouldn't protect you from the nuclear explosion if you are close to the point of detonation, but it would protect you from flying shattered glass and other debris carried by the shockwave. The worry was…

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While your points about a longer password being easier for you to remember may be true, an 8 character password with 96 possible characters is a lot harder to guess than a 15 character password with 26 possible characters. 15^26= ~3.8x10^30, while 8^96= ~5.0x10^86, which means that an 8 character password with 96…

@GhostTheSaint: I play Project Reality. It's a BF2 mod that has a pretty steep learning curve that scares away a lot of the pretty stupid players.

Mathematics was a counter example until a couple of days ago when someone switched logic and modern philosophy in the Property article, which just seems like cheating.