What is it with old people and their complete inability to understand Anonymous? If you did that, you wouldn't be acting like "them", you would be part of Anonymous.
That's the entire point. Anyone attributing an action to "them" inherently wrong in doing so.
"Because Anonymous has no leadership, no action can be attributed to the membership as a whole. Parmy Olson and others have criticized media coverage that presents the group as well-organized or homogeneous." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29)
No, not really. I said it for the same reason racists might use your example. To demean that group and to prime people who don't identify with that group to look down on the behavior.
the thing I don't get is it's literally in their name, that this is not a group but just some random people on the internet. The idea that it's one group just comes from how 4chan talks about anonymous people with slight lingo, making it sound like a group from an outsider.
If you want to be specific about what most of the internet refers to as 'Anonymous', it is /b/ on 4chan. /b/ and their very odd lingo is relatively well organized, but anonymous amongst eachother. Collectively, they are what the majority of people refer to as the 'hacker collective anonymous'. They also refer to themselves as btards look it up on urbandictionary or (NSFW) encyclopedia dramatica to learn more.
My priorities are completly irrelevant here, I've been a happy user of https everywhere since idk since I heard of it (years? idk). My criticism is that their own stated priority is being crippled by a self-imposed and arbitrary rule.
It looks to me like they're trying to use not being in AMO as leverage to get Mozilla to implement additional security features. If they said "we'd like these features, but we're ok being in AMO in the mean time" Mozilla would probably mostly ignore them, and these are generally useful features that should help others if developed.
Computer programs are way stronger than humans but competition between them is still fierce and there is still long way to go until perfection. Current most known computer chess tournament: http://tcec.chessdom.com/live.php
You can browse through the games... a lot is happening, maybe more than in human chess :)
I think you missed the whole point of the book. If you were a gamma, you would like being a gamma, and wouldn't want to be an alpha. The only reason you feel the way you do now from the outside is because you are pretentious enough to fancy yourself an alpha.
