Weekend tech reading: Anonymous breaches US government sites

Deep in the bowels of Anon HQ:
"Let's hack a police department!"
"Yeah!"
"LAPD?"
"Nah."
"NYPD?"
"Nah."
"Gassville, Arkansas?"
"Oh yeah, lets take those pigs down!"

"disrupt and sabotage their ability to communicate and terrorize communities."

Yup, the first thing I think of when the phrase "unbridled use of power" is uttered is the cabal of international corrupt power brokers that are rural and community sheriff's departments.

"You got a reel purty IP boy"

"Comcast rolls out $10 Internet access for low-income families.."

Let's just keep empowering low-income families to remain that way with every handout imaginable. What's the matter, low-income families can't walk to the library and use the free Internet there?

Very crappy to say that

Alright, that's definitely crossing the line to me. I hope these bastards get taken down.

Ha! Spoken like a guy who has no idea what he's talking about. Hey, why don't we get rid of the American Cancer Foundation. Stupid people with cancer, why do we keep empowering you to live? Government spends way too much money keeping you alive...haven't you heard of survival of the fittest?

That sound you just heard was everyone on Techspot retroactively disregarding everything you've ever said. And I won't even go near the hypocrisy of a conservative who uses free internet at the local library as the basis for an attack against low income internet access on Sunday, while spending all of his time shutting down endowments for local learning and the arts Monday through Friday. /sigh

Of course I don't know what I'm talking about. I've only worked in the government for 25 years, seen during those years families who literally have gone three generations of never working or contributing to society because they work the system getting free and reduced handouts. And you know who is paying the bill for these guys to Comcast? You and me, pal.

Now you may enjoy seeing a significant portion of the population get off with free medicine, free school lunches, food stamps, Section 8 housing, $10 Internet (so they can surf for porn, stream movies, etc.), the whole nine yards while never working a day in their lives and no incentive to leave that lifestyle, all at the taxpayers and billpayers expense, but I personally don't care for it.

Dear TomSEA

After frequenting this website for a year or so, I suspected that you were an *******. Thank you for confirming said assumption with your previous comments on this topic.

Yours faithfully

Most of the internet

This explains your post history so much I crapped my pants.

Fact is that as much as everyone wants to say that this free internet will be used by parents to look for jobs, and for kids for school, the reality is that its going to be used for entertainment and porn. Personally, I'd prefer my tax dollars to go elsewhere.

"seen during those years families who literally have gone three generations of never working or contributing to society because they work the system getting free and reduced handouts."

I didn't know IT project managers (assuming you worked in IT and by your "about me" info) had access to public assistance information. Is that even "legal"? Or are you simly lying?

BTW, is the percentage scamming the system a few bad apples or 100%?
Or is it magical statistics because you have authority on this?

What about being so poor they can't even afford day care or they have child with disability? Let's just toss reason out, we all know you'd rather see the weak and poor just eat dirt right?

This right here folks is what's wrong with this world today. I wouldn't be surprised if we became extinct if his line of thinking became the norm.

some facts:

1.) this program was offered by COMCAST as a precondition of the merger, not forced upon by the government.

2.) It is a low speed economy tier with strings attached, and the people are PAYING customers

1.5 Mbps download and 384 Kbps



http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390592,00.asp

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/05/139021923/comcast-announces-10-web-access-for-low-income-families

"Fact is that as much as everyone wants to say that this free internet will be used by parents to look for jobs, and for kids for school, the reality is that its going to be used for entertainment and porn. Personally, I'd prefer my tax dollars to go elsewhere. "

yes because all 100% of the USA just surf porn and watch youtube daily instead of being productive (rolls eyes). If there is a normal family using it to look for jobs, read or watch news, or use it for learning, there MUST be something seriously wrong with them!!!!!

Oh hell Tom, half of them live on my block. Some of them are on Social Security from birth. That's the joy of being a crack head, bringing crack babies into the world, and having the system pay for them. All this, while "the father of my baby", is out front dealing heroin, and meanwhile the out of work middle class are having their mortgages foreclosed on.

And BTW Tom, you forgot the free cell phone that they're now, "entitled to"! https://www.safelinkwireless.com/Safelink

Everyone knows this. It's not news. You don't like it, I don't like it. But that doesn't mean you axe all the good that could (and will, even if it's a trickle) come out of it. In a perfect world, it wouldn't need to exist, but let's be practical. There's a lot of other stuff your tax money gets wasted on that see far fewer practical rewards and benefits.

Well if your post is any indication, they're certainly not using it for learning.

Thats how an ENORMOUS amount of people live in the cities. Notice I said cities. Cities have a lot of people, and a lot of ghetto. Even the gas stations sell super low quality food like Goose Necks that they cook in a big pot outside at a gathering and suck out the bone marrow. Pretty nasty cheap sandwich meats. These people and the areas have adapted and its a big problem IMO. Quite a horrific scene, I lived on the East of Indianapolis in a large ghetto area but on a 5 lane road when my car died and I lost my job on the West side in a true ghetto hood. But they were everywhere, all around the city except for the North side, downtown and some wealthy surrounding areas outside of the city.

(People living on the governments food stamps and such, it was like it was everybody or realistically 90%)

Maybe so, but if you talk to enough social workers, parole officers, and other people who deal with that segment of society, you'll probably find most of their sentiments echo Tom's. Yes, there are some people who desperately want to escape that situation, but odds are most aren't.

So you're on welfare, you get section 8 housing, and Medicare. You're going to give all that up to work 2 jobs, pay rent and lose your medicare? I'm guessing that most welfare recipients would not really be able to get work and enough of it, with enough benefits in order to make them working a better financial deal than being on gov't assistance.

We're all (or most of us anyway) approaching this situation from the perspective on not being raised on welfare from birth. If you take a second, third, fourth generation that is raised on welfare, to them this is normal. Throwing money at the problem does not do anything if you don't change the people's mentality.