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The site contains links to 9 encrypted files, one for each of the current Supreme Court Justices.

The files are intended to be concatenated into a single file named: Warhead-US-DOJ-LEA-2013.aes256

(US-DOJ-LEA = United States - Department of Justice - Law Enforcement Agency)

aes256 is apparently the encryption scheme used to encrypt the files.

File names (and sizes): 1115 MB total

  Scalia.Warhead1 (150 MB)
  Kennedy.Warhead1 (108 MB)
  Thomas.Warhead1 (150 MB)
  Ginsburg.Warhead1 (150 MB)
  Breyer.Warhead1 (150 MB)
  Roberts.Warhead1 (23 MB)
  Alito.Warhead1 (150 MB)
  Sotomayor.Warhead1 (101 MB)
  Kagan.Warhead1 (133 MB)

Relevant quotes pertaining to the file contents:

The contents are various and we won't ruin the speculation by revealing them. Suffice it to say, everyone has secrets, and some things are not meant to be public. At a regular interval commencing today, we will choose one media outlet and supply them with heavily redacted partial contents of the file.

Should we be forced to reveal the trigger-key to this warhead, we understand that there will be collateral damage.

It is our hope that this warhead need never be detonated.

Summary: the file contains "various secret contents", the file has one encryption key to reveal all data, they intend to release previews of the data, they may not release the encryption key (although chances of this seem unlikely).

The encrypted data is almost certainly larger than the unencrypted data, my guess is the unencrypted data is closer to 600MB to 900MB (In the ballpark of the size of a standard 700MB data CD).

Initially I thought the 9 files may contain data about each of the SC Justices, or perhaps information intended for each of them. However, I think their names on files were simply chosen for effect.

In terms of effectiveness, compared to other Anonymous campaigns, I feel pretty safe in saying the visibility of this campaign is going to be very high.

Mostly because the icon was on the same screen, and I'm already logged in on my home system, and I didn't want to type my email / password in again.

Maybe I should do that in the future.

I've been "using" the Android Facebook app for over a year, maybe two and it seems to have gotten worse over time, at least in the past year. The "new" version doesn't seem to be any better.

I was at talk trying to check for a message using the app with limited success yesterday, before I finally gave up and used the Android RealVNC app to remote connect to one of my home systems, open a web browser, and connect to Facebook that way.

I'm really unsure what the issue is here. Is it just really hard to make a decent app? Is Facebook not devoting enough resources to development? Is the development team really bad? Do they not know how terrible their app is? Are developers of the needed caliber in too short supply?

I've thought about "investing" in Bitcoins, but when thinking about the risks I always consider what would happen if it ever became really successful.

It would take power away from governments of the world, and I think they would fight that in every way they could.

I'm an even tempered person, but seeing a law like this passed really makes me angry.

Dear government, how about passing a law that benefits me for a change? It's been a while.

Here's the JSTOR Statement related to the downloading incident: http://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-statement-misuse-incident-...

What Happened

Last fall and winter, JSTOR experienced a significant misuse of our database. A substantial portion of our publisher partners’ content was downloaded in an unauthorized fashion using the network at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of our participating institutions. The content taken was systematically downloaded using an approach designed to avoid detection by our monitoring systems.

The downloaded content included more than 4 million articles, book reviews, and other content from our publisher partners' academic journals and other publications; it did not include any personally identifying information about JSTOR users.

We stopped this downloading activity, and the individual responsible, Mr. Swartz, was identified. We secured from Mr. Swartz the content that was taken, and received confirmation that the content was not and would not be used, copied, transferred, or distributed.

The criminal investigation and today’s indictment of Mr. Swartz has been directed by the United States Attorney’s Office. It was the government’s decision whether to prosecute, not JSTOR’s. As noted previously, our interest was in securing the content. Once this was achieved, we had no interest in this becoming an ongoing legal matter.

Totally agree, I have several people in my life who seem to have the same attitude, and I've come to the same conclusion: pathological narcissism.

My commentary, "Realizing you were foolish in the past does not make you wise in the present."

Metal Gear: http://unoriginal.org/people/cybern/metal_gear.html

Solar Jetman: http://unoriginal.org/people/cybern/solar_jetman.html

As I've aged, I've come to the conclusion that people become "old" more by choice than by the passage of time.

Shareholders are worried this will leave them with stock that has no value.

There are several discussions about it going on over at: http://savethq.com/

I like the way the ITU handshaking graphic is casting a shadow over top of the world.

The answer, from the same site:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24853/what-is-the-differe...

"++i will increment the value of i, and then return the incremented value."

"i++ will increment the value of i, but return the pre-incremented value."

How will the world change when you have hundreds of virtual human brains, overclocked to think hundreds of times faster than a normal human?

Create the biggest MMO ever made, in a week?

I have the exact same problem, I'm sure that there are many racists in our country, but this graphic is pretty garbage.

1) There are about 35 to 40 million Americans on Twitter, (15% of the 78.1% of online Americans).

2) Does the percentage of twitter users per state factor into this, it seems not.

3) "A score of 1.0 indicates that a state has relatively the same number of hate speech tweets as its total number of tweets. Scores above 1.0 indicate that hate speech is more prevalent than all tweets". This makes no sense to me, unless a single tweet somehow counts multiple times, e.g. "obama monkey monkey monkey monkey". There are more racists tweets than tweets? How is that possible?

4) Is every instance of "monkey" racist? Is it racist to call George Bush a monkey?

5) Was context applied, or is simply using certain word combinations racist? Go to twitter and do the search yourself, many of the tweets are responses to racist tweets or not racist at all.

I'm sure there are many racists in America, but this graphic is painting a very misleading picture.

I was only motivated to read the original article after I saw it had been blocked.

So, combining these two statements, it seems that they blocked both sites 30 minutes before the article was posted in Chinese?

If that's true, it's disappointing the Times didn't do a simultaneous release in anticipation of the block.

"HONG KONG — The Chinese government swiftly blocked access Friday morning to the English-language and Chinese-language Web sites of The New York Times"

"By 7 a.m. Friday in China, access to both the English- and Chinese-language Web sites of The Times was blocked (...). The Times had posted the article in English at 4:34 p.m. on Thursday in New York (4:34 a.m. Friday in Beijing), and finished posting the article in Chinese three hours later after the translation of final edits to the English-language version."

I guess there are articles / threads like this discussing sexism directed at men in female dominated professions too.

http://ajnoffthecharts.com/2009/06/16/do-male-nurses-face-re...

The 2004 federal survey of the RN population found that only 5.8% of RNs were men. This results from the profession’s use of caring philosophies that perpetuate the stereotype of women being more caring than men, as well as from the use of language that isn’t gender neutral and the failure to recruit men.

http://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/sexism-nursi...

As a male in nursing, I feel that I am sometimes treated differently because of my gender. I believe that I am expected to carry a heavier patient load with less assistance from my female coworkers.

There doesn't seem to be a single porn site listed.

Maybe he didn't include them or maybe didn't visit any, but I imagine it would have been quite a bit more interesting to see a study including them.

It's a good thing that QWERTY keyboards are left-handed, it saves me a lot of stress when I don't have to take my right hand off the mouse to execute commands, or type random text in games with my left hand:

  gg
  wtf
  asdffasdfasdf
  re
  b
  d
  etc

When I see news like this it makes me think of a quote, "Nothing makes a man angrier than to be wrong and know it."

Supposedly: Children with older fathers and grandfathers 'live longer' (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4152379)

"Experts have known for some time that lifespan is linked to the length of structures known as telomeres that sit at the end of the chromosomes that house our genetic code, DNA. Generally, a shorter telomere length means a shorter life expectancy. ... However, scientists have discovered that in sperm, telomeres lengthen with age."

I have been reading HN for years, and I disagree with the premise that there is a "downward slide". For people like me, it might be helpful to provide some sort of evidence to support your claim.

The solution you are proposing also would silence users accounts permanently without any chance for redemption, those users would become disaffected and resentful, and with the trivial nature of account creation here, might cause new problems.

HN is a community, and I think a system that promotes corrective behavior (like the current one) works best when it exerts negative social pressure for "bad" posts and helps new users integrate themselves into the community.

If you've ever seen the movie "Hackers", the character "Joey" is a total noob, and the other characters are constantly giving him negative feedback when he does something stupid, eventually he learns a few things and becomes more useful.

Maybe I should have said "genetic clustering" instead of "race".

Out of curiosity, when you say "people have been interbreeding like rabbits", does that mean that you believe that rabbit "breeds" are also a cultural distinction?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rabbit_breeds

The Flynn effect tends to be used to support the feeling that intelligence isn't something you're born with.

People who think that intelligence is innate will refer to the "g factor". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_%28psychometrics%29

The racist (technically speaking) and controversial Jean Rushton believes that "gains in IQ over time (the Lynn-Flynn effect) are unrelated to g".

What's really going on with discussions like this is that humanity seems to have come to the conclusion that "smarter is better". Intelligence almost certainly exists, but is quite difficult to quantify exactly, and is further complicated by the fact that people resent others who are "better" than them. Given that there is a genetic component to intelligence to a certain degree, race becomes a factor and leads to a line of inductive reasoning that makes people uncomfortable:

  1) Smarter is better
  2) Intelligence is genetic
  3) Race determines genetics
  4) One race is better than another
  5) Hitler was right (or other outrageous conclusion)

As far as I can tell when you see terms like "g factor", "Flynn effect", "multiple intelligences", "crystallized intelligence", "fluid intelligence", "cultural fair IQ tests", "The bell curve"... people are really secretly arguing about one race or sex being smarter than the other, or not.

3D Printing is going to have numerous challenges for humanity to face as it becomes more and more mainstream...

A 3D printer in every home?

  - The first virus that prints dangerous / obscene objects
  - The toy industry facing the same challenges are MPAA/RIAA
  - Printable lenses for eye glasses, contacts, cameras
  - Printing keys for any lock
  - Printable press plates for counterfeiting currency
  - etc.

Digital media is going to have a very interesting effect on future generations. Imagine what it would be like if you could watch videos, view thousands of pictures, and read a detailed account of your ancestors actions for generations before you.

We're the first generation to document our lives so thoroughly, history before the digital age will fade away, much like oral history (before written history) has for us.

Most of this article seems to be directed at some proposal of Paul Ryan's that supposedly reduces food stamp funding by 17% over 10 years, and a weak attempt to link that to education with sketchy anecdotal evidence.

Every time I read another news article about Apple's crippling DRM systems, I am reminded of the words from their 1984 commercial...

"Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology – where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!"

I'm also a climber, I've been climbing about 20 hours a week lately, and using a cheap electric current device, I was getting measurements between 6% and 12%, and I have very lean muscle.

I have some friends who are physical trainers, and they were talking about low body fat once, saying it's very difficult to to get down to around 5% and lower than 4% is dangerous.

According to a random body building website thread, 3% is essential body fat... http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=143851451&...