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Almost a year ago today, Anonymous hacked one of Australian super villain Rupert Murdoch crown jewels: The Times. Why To spread a false report of his death. A year later, he shutting them up like rowdy children. Times have changed. LulzSec Hacks The Times with Brutal Murdoch Death Notice The tweet war that wasn ;t started with a little casual invective from @YourAnonNews, one of the hacker collective de facto mouthpieces online. In the past, it been among the first places to report the great coups of LulzSec and the like鈥攖hese days, it not doing much of anything. So it was exciting to see the account take on Rupert Murdoch, a man for whom Anonymous has nothing but disdain, and a record of successful attacks. They humiliated him last year, after all, more than any pie to the face could have. And then this happened. [View the story Murdoch v. Anon on Storify] It was amazing to see Murdoch repl kubki stanley y to the hackers that ;d internet killed him last year. And t stanley tumbler hough you might disagree with his reply, he gave a reply鈥攁nd a civil one. Whether it 8 stanley termosar 217 factual or not is beside the point鈥擱upert Murdoch tweeted back at Anonymous, like Miley Cyrus tweeting at a paparazzi flock. He was feeding the trolls鈥攕omeone tell him that a bad idea! But it wasn ;t鈥擜nonymous ; reply was merely acknowledging that Murdoch tweeted back at them. Uh, pretty vicious, guys. A little later they tweeted this: Ohai @ruper
As far as imaginary icons go, the Tooth Fairy runs a distant second to Santa Claus, perhaps even trailing the Easter Bunny. Still, don ;t underestimate the Tooth Fairy real-life powers, which range from sparking youthful creativity to implanting false memories. Back in 2007, researchers published a study in which young children were asked to recount the last time they lost a tooth. Here what they found: To examine how children fantasy beliefs can affect memory for their experiences, 5- and 6-year-olds with differing levels of belief in the reality of the Tooth Fairy were prompted to recall their most recent primary tooth loss in either a truthful or fun manner. Many of the children who fully believed in the existence of the Tooth Fairy reported s stanley cup upernatural experiences consistent with the myth under both sets of recall instructions, whereas those who realized the fictionality stanley mugs of the myth recalled mainly realistic experiences. So then, if you thought the Tooth Fairy was real, then the researchers found that that belief could engender false memories, as they noted in the title of their paper. They conclude their abstract with this grim pronouncement: These findings suggest that children beliefs in the reality of fantastic phenomena can give rise to genuine constructive memory errors in line with their fantasies. In o stanley cup ther words, there nothing wrong with believing in the Tooth Fairy 8230;a Axfc The Mars Curiosity Delay Will Drive Everyone Crazier Than NBC s Olympic Coverage
Almost a year ago today, Anonymous hacked one of Australian super villain Rupert Murdoch crown jewels: The Times. Why To spread a false report of his death. A year later, he shutting them up like rowdy children. Times have changed. LulzSec Hacks The Times with Brutal Murdoch Death Notice The tweet war that wasn ;t started with a little casual invective from @YourAnonNews, one of the hacker collective de facto mouthpieces online. In the past, it been among the first places to report the great coups of LulzSec and the like鈥攖hese days, it not doing much of anything. So it was exciting to see the account take on Rupert Murdoch, a man for whom Anonymous has nothing but disdain, and a record of successful attacks. They humiliated him last year, after all, more than any pie to the face could have. And then this happened. [View the story Murdoch v. Anon on Storify] It was amazing to see Murdoch repl kubki stanley y to the hackers that ;d internet killed him last year. And t stanley tumbler hough you might disagree with his reply, he gave a reply鈥攁nd a civil one. Whether it 8 stanley termosar 217 factual or not is beside the point鈥擱upert Murdoch tweeted back at Anonymous, like Miley Cyrus tweeting at a paparazzi flock. He was feeding the trolls鈥攕omeone tell him that a bad idea! But it wasn ;t鈥擜nonymous ; reply was merely acknowledging that Murdoch tweeted back at them. Uh, pretty vicious, guys. A little later they tweeted this: Ohai @ruper
