This song is fantastic, and probably my all-time favourite christmas song, but this attempt at animating it , while charming, really doesnt do the song justice, in my view. For one, it is full of, or rather, (it is in many ways only), what Dawkins once referred to as "Lord Privy Seals", that movie-making mistake of always showing the words, ie "whenever X is mentioned, there must be an X in the picture at that moment", where X in this video could be replaced with: Christmas, religion, Dawkins, Desmond Tutu, consumerism, ancient religion, selling, playstations, beer, Jesus, dad, brothers, sisters, gran, mum, white wine, sun...

Oh and that baby girl that looks like a tiny bald man.. creepy.

>> ^BoneRemake:

Replace my old rant with a question.
Has this group done something noticeable yet ? I mean a measurable change in something, another way to phrase it would be "have they done anything they said they would "
I am most ignorant on this group.


Small stuff like the arrest of Chris Forcand, world-wide protesting against Scientology(Project Chanology), created a website during the Iran protests along with Pirate Bay and other hackers to subvert censorship of news and happenings in Iran to Iranians, they helped Wikileaks set up mirrors around the world when everyone was trying to censor the leaks that were being released, they were instrumental in taking down the websites of the Tunisian, Egyptian, and Libyan governments during their respective protests, they destroyed HBGary's credibility(a company competing for a government contract to create false identities online in order to subvert political movements), they attempted to boycott Koch Industries products because of the Koch brothers' history of donating money to political groups that try and destroy the middle class, retaliated against Sony (completely disabling the Playstation Network for over a month) after they prosecuted a fellow named George Hotz for his work on developing open-source software on the Plastation 3, organized protests against BART officers who disabled cell phone service to attempt to disrupt protestors from assembling violently after a police shooting.

Here you can find some more information if you'd like to read about it. I've been following them for a while now and this seems to be relatively accurate.

@Stormsinger of course 99% of them are script kiddies, but that 1% has a terryfing knowledge of 0day exploits and computers and is extremely proficient in doing whatever the hell they want to do.

In my experience, these guys want one thing more than most:

1. Freedom of information

If anything gets in the way of that, they will do what they can to try and destroy it.

>> ^Deano:

>> ^ant:
>> ^Deano:
That's the most beautiful platformer I have ever seen. Lovely detailing and animations.

It is from the first game's playable demo. Have you tried the first game yet?

Is that on the pc? Not sure if my "rig" would be up to it. I have an Xbox though.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trine_(video_game) says PCs and Playstation Network. There is a playable demo for Windows/PC for sure so you can try that one for free. I don't know if other ports have one too.

Verse 1
See, my house is a mad house/
Well hardly sit down and watch T.V cause yeah we got things to do/
And I got things to do/
Mum talks calmly for a while and then starts shouting/
Clean up the kitchen/
I always say i'll do it later/
Or yeah in a minute/
My house is a hot spot/
Everyday of the week someone will be in my house who don’t live here/
The neighbours ain’t got a problem with us/
Yeah music plays in my house constantly/
Constant noise but I wouldn’t have it any other way I love my house/
Total chaos, yeah its random/
Off key, different, no house is disimilar/
But for some reason it works/
My house is crazy you know/

Chorus

Our house, in the middle of our street/
Our house in the middle of our.../
Our house, in the middle of our street/
Something tells you that you’ve got to move away from it/

Verse 2

You hold a better conversation/
When born in grimey locations/
And that’s where you'll find my crib/
In the same area where the alkies live/
So I love my street/
You get bare joke when the alkies beef/
And though outside may reek/
Not in my crib no potpourri/
And we've just added new bricks/
So every other house in the street looks shit/
Compared to ours/
But its hard to get a decent kip when out comes the stars/
Because of all the beef in my avenue/
Neighbours fight so police in my avenue/
So you might catch me in my living room/
Up late writing to beats if I’m in the mood/
Or if not i'll be on the Playstation/
Or better still MSN conversations/
And everyone of our houses are Dadless/
So no wonder our houses are Madness/

Chorus

Verse 3

Sunday morning my day off/
I can smell that bacon cooking/
And mum's downstairs doing that weekly washing/
Singing along she's got that motown rocking/
And i'm shouting out ‘mum turn it down'/
Cos i'm tryna sleep right now/
Argh forget it I was getting up anyway/
Man I can't get a lie in any day/
So i'm downstairs arguing/
Mum chill out I won't have this in our house/
Ok, your house/
Then I had a little moan how the living room's freezing/
And then she starts screaming/
Mum I ain't being rude just turn up the heating/
She said 'move out if you ain't warm enough’/
Coincidently, suddenly i'm warming up!

I have an avatar of Obama playing with his Playstation during the Bin Laden Takedown and I approve of this message.

>> ^critical_d:

dead


I couldn't find a replacement.

Pfft. Never heard the saying "don't bring a knife/sword to a gun fight"? Fucking ninjas and samurais don't belong with mercenaries and special forces! Playstation can keep their crappy Metal Gear shite.

>> ^aimpoint:

Extreme boredom discovers things like this


a byproduct of the Playstation Network being down

>> ^shuac:

Nothing personal ant. It's my mission to kill this meme.


And how will you do that?

>> ^Duckman33:

>> ^Encumberance:
OSAMA is dead; it's amazing what we can accomplish while the PlayStation network is down.

I saw this on Reddit. I'm assuming you didn't plagiarize it, and it was you that posted it there too? [edit] Forgot the


I don't even know what Reddit is, so I will go find out.

>> ^Encumberance:

OSAMA is dead; it's amazing what we can accomplish while the PlayStation network is down.


I saw this on Reddit. I'm assuming you didn't plagiarize it, and it was you that posted it there too? [edit] Forgot the

OSAMA is dead; it's amazing what we can accomplish while the PlayStation network is down.

>> ^radx:

Q: Was my personal data encrypted?
A: All of the data was protected, and access was restricted both physically and through the perimeter and security of the network. The entire credit card table was encrypted and we have no evidence that credit card data was taken. The personal data table, which is a separate data set, was not encrypted, but was, of course, behind a very sophisticated security system that was breached in a malicious attack.

Source: Sony
Arrogance, incompetence, mix of both?
Sounds to me like they put all their faith into the security of the client (aka the console) and completely neglected the security between server and client.


Fun fact, banks don't encrypt your personal information either. Just credit card account numbers, and that's only because there's a law that forces them to.

The laws for personal information just cover physical access, network access, and audit requirements surrounding the process for granting employees access to the information. Stuff like encryption is something companies have to voluntarily choose to do out of their own sense of civic duty.

But it costs money to keep that shit encrypted, and their goal is to maximize profit by cutting costs, so for the most part they don't bother. So, most likely it's not arrogance or incompetence in their IT department, just profit motive on the part of management.

That said, I'm curious who's behind the hacking -- this is a real feather in their cap. I suspect Sony's security was tougher than the average bank's.

>> ^rottenseed:

Wait wait wait...I let them off the hook too easy.
You know what, FUCK PLAYSTATION! Not because their security was breached, so much, but because of the way they forced our hand by keeping us from loading alternative operating systems because they said it was a "potential security risk". Well lookie now, fuckers. You probably managed to piss more people than not and painted a big target on your backs. Well now we're all fucked. Instead of securing the data better, you focused on trying to stay "ahead" of hackers with constant "voluntary" security updates. Yea, it was so voluntary that if you didn't do it, some games wouldn't work, PSN wouldn't work and your blu-ray player wouldn't work. You're a bunch of cunts sony...a bunch of cunts.
Furthermore, your fucking OS sucks...should've spent more time on improving that. Maybe I wouldn't be so disgruntled right now if you had...


Since I've recently been told that hijacking threads on VS can't be done, I'll just point out that this is the full definition of "voluntary" used by libertarians (and the libertarians who call themselves "voluntaryists").

"Kazuo Hirai, Sony Corp.'s second-in-command, in line to become its CEO, will brief the media on the catastrophic security breach in the PlayStation Network. The news conference will be held at 1 a.m. EDT (2 p.m. in Japan). Hirai will discuss Sony's investigation of the breach, its information management system, and the schedule for bringing PSN back online, Sony said in a news release today."

Be interesting to hear what he says in a few hours time...