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If you have little to no knowledge of what a "hacker" is you shouldn't be writing a post about technology because you're too ignorant to ever be able to provide valuable information or background.
WikiLeaks is a big deal and will shape the future of whatever "Net Neutrality" will become and you post about a rumor of an insurance policy? Dude is being chased by multiple governments because of the information he has and refusal to allow them to control it.
Is the Slog fucking with me today, or have I just lost my rose colored glasses?
Of course, this is real news, and my impression of alt-weekly "reporters" is that they're all pot-smoking four-loco drinkers who write columns to pay the bills while they're "in between books"; so what alt-weekly "reporter" is going to be able to interpret this real news correctly?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionar…
She'd do better writing about tech if her knowledge didn't come from bullshit Hollywood movies.
"The few commentators who have noticed hone in consider it to be a mistake for home in. It may have arisen from home in by the weakening of the \m\ sound to \n\ or may perhaps simply be due to the influence of hone. Though it seems to have established itself in American English (and mention in a British usage book suggests it is used in British English too), your use of it especially in writing is likely to be called a mistake. Home in or in figurative use zero in does nicely."
Also, does wikileaks even do any hacking? I thought they just had informants.
btw, even someone with my weak grasp of english knows that 'honing in on' is just stupidly wrong. defiance in the name of idiocy is so painful to witness.
I liked ONE part of SNL this weekend and it was Bill Hader's last line as Wiki-man:
"Just remember, However I die, It was murder!"
Also keep in mind that 256-bit encryption is virtually uncrackable.
For somebody who gets paid to write, you should considering knowing what the fuck you are writing about before writing about it.
If you read Slog, it's really hard to take pieces by a few particular staff members in "The Stranger" seriously. Some just should only stick to making their weekly deadlines and leave the Slog to others.
Bottom line: no matter how great the story is, I'm NOT ever going to read a story with a "Cienna Madrid" byline again and this is directly due to her Slog posts.
Seriously @2, @12, @15.
@18, you win.
It's a no-win situation for our government and always has been. Even worse: Assange is just the public face of the group and reportedly not even the key member. Take him down, and it won't stop Wikileaks.
Correct.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5723136/…
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comment…
But, like the animated version, no matter how much money, personnel and fancy ordinance the Joe's throw at their nemesis, I expect COBRA (i.e. WikiLeaks) will just keep bouncing back in one form or another to continue its harassment and mockery of the "good guys" in future episodes.
Or, Tea Party wins, whether it was actually trying or not.
Come on, two minutes with Google would have given you the answer to this. Maybe one minute if you read fast. It also would have let you know that this isn't a theoretically credible rumour, it's actually the case.
No matter how people use it, "honing in" isn't correct. It's very simple. Look up the definition of "hone". It means to sharpen. If you can explain the way in which locating someone and going to that location is "sharpening", I'll concede the point.
This is just sloppy.
Anyway. Stupid post, OP.
The Reston 5 protocol is unverified and likely a bluff.
The main criticism being that it's just as easy to break the file up into a couple dozen files and uniquely encrypt them which would make them varifiable by releasing the code to one random file for verification.
I sure do hope Reston 5 is everything it should be. That would be freakin' sweet.
Also: The only thing wrong with Fnarf's link re: hone vs. home is that it's to Websters and not Oxford.
Hone is ridiculous.
Might as well defend Sherbert over Sherbet.
Similarly (and a really frequent mistake made in the Stranger), "beg the question" in the incorrect sense of "poses the question" or "brings up the question," though the problem is worse there in that there's a correct usage of "begging the question" as a logical flaw that becomes impossible to use.
as for honing, homing... er what about "Money is no object"?
is object the right word there? how does that make sense?
You're embarrassing yourself here.
Passive Aggressive: "Of, relating to, or having a personality disorder characterized by habitual passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in occupational or social situations, as by procrastination, stubbornness, sullenness, and inefficiency."
http://my.firedoglake.com/kirkmurphy/201…
One can hone one's estimate of a location (i.e. make sharper) but "hone in" is meaningless, or built on Palinesque logic.
Worse thread-jacking: While we're at it, quit using "gin up." It should be "djinn up" or "jinn up," meaning "to conjure magically" as would a djinn, the Arab mythical spirit, aka genie. Think Barbara Eden, not the distilled beverage.
Thanks for the info!
And do you also refer to Eli Whitney's noted invention as the "cotton djinn"? It's "gin up," think "gin" as in "n. Any of various tools or mechanical devices," not the distilled beverage.
I think this is a case of a term that's become trendy without anyone really understanding where it comes from.
Sorry! I was a little slow to catch on that your previous posts were intended to be a joke, and thus ruined the effect, but I get it now. I hope @52 was kidding too.
Do you have an etymology for this "gin up" that can settle this or are you just being awesome?
I believe you meant to say "virdjinnity"...
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/s…
The etymology is disputed (some think it comes from "ginger up"), but nobody thinks it derives from "djinn." I can't post links so you'll have to Google this yourself, but from something called the Eggcorn Database, 2005:
"The now-opaque expression “gin up” ’stir up, get something going’ (Dictionary of American Regional English) or ‘enliven’ or ‘create, develop’ contains, according to OED2, the “gin” of “cotton gin” (from “engine”). A modest number of people seem to have reinterpreted this expression as involving “djinn”, presumably on the grounds that a djinn(i) can create or fetch things. This version doesn’t seem to have made it into any dictionaries, and the ratio of relevant Google webhits is about 200 to 1 in favor of “gin”." [All the webhits cited of "djinn up" are modern usages. If you wanted to prove it was "djinn up," you'd have to find a usage of "djinn up" that was at least as old as "gin up".]
Assange is very smart, I don't think he'd let that many people hold the key, and if it's anyone else besides just himself, it's probably people who are smart, mature, hidden enough to keep a secret in the same way your average power elite secret society could.
Assange *has been* arrested. Here in the UK, apparently at a voluntary arranged meeting. He's been refused bail despite numerous people stepping up to pay. Sweden is calling for him to be extradited to face four charges of sexual assault against two women there - as far as I can tell those were not concocted for anything to do with the leaks as those reports were made in August. Obviously though, the timing of this arrest is fishy, and as far as I can find out there's some debate even within Sweden about whether it happened at all and, evidence is meagre, and the case has been closed at least once already due to that. The charge was not cooked up for use in this whole business but I'll eat my own head if various authorities don't intend to make good use of it.
Assange is a creepy-looking guy and clearly has led an interesting life, for want of a better turn of phrase, but the fact that some parties in the US are calling for his execution pretty much just shores up my belief in the fact that your administration is batshit crazy. I guess it all just points to the fact that there needs to be some consensus drawn between net neutrality, freedom of information and the fact that sometimes it really is a better idea for the general public not to know absolutely everything. Because in theory information should be free, but in practice, "the general public" is really fucking stupid sometimes. I won't pretend to have a good idea of where that line should be drawn... but clearly it isn't here.
Also, I heard that the crime he's been arrested for is basically having consensual sex without a condom. WE SHALL SEE.
There is absolutely nothing untoward in what's happening in this case; it's proceeding normally and above-board. It's possible that pressure was applied to escalate the case, including the Interpol warrant, but that has no bearing on what will actually happen at his trial. It's not like he's been bundled away to Guantanamo; he's in British hands, following British procedure for now.
You're kidding, right? Wrongful convictions, capital punishment, executions of minors and the intellectually disabled, Guantanamo Bay... ring any bells?
As MANY others have pointed out, the files are encrypted by a 256 digit key. Alphanumeric. You do the math.
Oh, and nice one on your bigoted impression of "hackers."
Learn to google. Seriously.