annoyed by a hoodie? they are going to make a mint from this deal.

bankers win again :-)

I assume the decrease in crime has a lot of factors. But, can't the decline of violent crime be partly explained by more people being kept in prison?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/US_incarc...

If criminals are kept in jail longer, they can commit fewer crimes against the public.

rajpaul -- the point of the original article is that the crime rate has not really declined; instead, crime has been _shifted_ to the prison system, where incarcerated people live permanently or semi-permanently in horrible conditions.

these 'pranks' are all marketing gimmicks.

"based on current global trends"

Interesting bit of science fiction, but current trends never continue like that.

The computer made a lot of things obsolete. For example, typewriters, carbon paper, and those calculators that printed to roles of paper.

Tablets won't make anything obsolete, let alone desktop computers.

"those calculators that printed to roles of paper" are called adding machines, or "10 keys". They are still around in a virtual form.

If you have a full size keyboard with the number pad on the right side, in Windows, you can open Calculator|View|History, and you have a digital adding machine right on your computer.

I found Musk's slight display of emotion when he talked to Aldrin and Armstrong's criticism to be very humanizing and touching.

When he said his response to their criticism is to prove to them that it can be done and done well made me admire him.

Agreed 100%. You can tell Elon meant it when he said that they are some of his heros, and that he's truly hurt by them lambasting a mission that he felt would make them proud.

It goes to show you that even our heros don't know everything, and even if they let us down we have to follow our own path. Elon Musk is a hero of mine, and I'm sure to many others. Not to mention he was Robert Downey Jr's inspiration for Tony Stark.

Not 0-day, but you might find it interesting:

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

DarkMarket was an English-speaking internet cybercrime forum created by Renukanth Subramaniam in London that was shut down in 2008 after FBI agent J. Keith Mularski infiltrated it using the alias Master Splyntr, leading to more than 60 arrests worldwide. Subramaniam, who used the alias JiLsi, admitted conspiracy to defraud and was sentenced to nearly five years in prison in February 2010.

The website allowed buyers and sellers of stolen identities and credit card data to meet and conduct criminal enterprise in an entrepreneurial, peer-reviewed environment. It had 2,500 users at its peak.

I also think that a lot of black hats are working for the feds. But I think it has more to do with their lack of integrity and morals rather than threats and intimidation.

Legal advice is a big part of black hat literature, so I don't think any of them can claim ignorance.

There's also the ones that actually have morality and integrity and thus find honor in serving one's country.

This doesn't mean that everything the Government does is beneficial to society, but people seem to forget that many government employees have good intentions.

> There's also the ones that actually have morality and integrity

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> and thus find honor in serving one's country.

Error! You may like "serving one's country", but you have no business claiming it is inherent in honor, morality, or integrity.

Not to mention, they wouldn't typically have met their co-conspirators face-to-face. It is much easier to turn on an anonymous handle on the computer screen than a human face.

That's true. Also, unlike other criminal organizations, 'ratting out' your hacktivist co-conspirators isn't harmful to your health.

When I was a kid and video game arcades were still popular, there was a huge one in the mall.

They had a restaurant and you could order food from a touch screen, and play games on it while you wait.

I hated it. A waiter always came by to make sure your order was correct. I had to wonder, what's the point? It was gimmicky and useless.

This was probably 13 years ago.

I tried to use the twitter mobile site. I'll never do it again because it takes too long to load.

This is why people use the twitter app instead of the site.