from the my-Dad-is-bigger-than-your-Dad! dept.
From the NY TImes comes the following story:
North Korea accused the United States on Saturday of being responsible for Internet outages it experienced in recent days amid a confrontation between them over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures. [...]
"The United States, with its large physical size and oblivious to the shame of playing hide and seek as children with runny noses would, has begun disrupting the Internet operations of the main media outlets of our republic," the North's National Defense Commission said in a statement.
"It is truly laughable," a spokesman for the commission said in comments carried by the North's official KCNA news agency. [...]"Obama had better thrust himself to cleaning up all the evil doings that the U.S. has committed out of its hostile policy against (North Korea) if he seeks peace on U.S. soil. Then all will be well."
Kim Jong-un must have been unhappy that he couldn't watch YouTube videos during the outage. Well, he can continue to pout unless he gets his hackers to shut down Google.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 28 2014, @08:04PM
The Internet interprets Kim Jong-un as damage and routes around it.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday December 28 2014, @08:07PM
TFS/TFA both avoided repeating the insults the NKs hurled at Obama, which would not have been used on a president of any other ethnicity.
Do you suppose took the film personally?
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(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Sunday December 28 2014, @10:08PM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday December 28 2014, @10:29PM
The previous leader of Iran was probably even more monkey-like than GWB was. I think people are being a little touchy. I'm not sure in Jong Un would want to start a series of attacks regarding personal appearance with Obama ... I don't think it would end well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 28 2014, @08:37PM
Why are we still talking about these trolls?
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Sunday December 28 2014, @10:50PM
I wonder if N Korea is blocking it themselves to prevent the movie from being seen in N Korea
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday December 29 2014, @12:03AM
Well, the system needs enemies, even if it is already one and the same throughout the planet. Colorful flags wave in the wind to get attention as they always have been, but now they are meant to distract instead of inform.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 28 2014, @09:04PM
...when you crack the US Govern..., I mean Sony, yes Sony and the MPAA.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Sunday December 28 2014, @10:12PM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 28 2014, @10:40PM
There's no way for someone who didn't upload the clip to know in what regions it is blocked.
(Score: 1) by Synonymous Homonym on Tuesday December 30 2014, @09:50AM
There is a way for someone who didn't upload the clip to know one region in which it is blocked.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Sunday December 28 2014, @11:13PM
The link is to the damned movie. Deal with it. Or use a US proxy to watch it, or you can get on a plane and watch it in the US. You can sleep on my couch.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 1) by whathappenedtomonday on Sunday December 28 2014, @10:53PM
I'd be surprised if he didn't have a backup line somewhere [github.io]. After all, few people know what's behind those NK IPs ...
I hope I didn't brain my damage.
(Score: 1) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 28 2014, @11:36PM
They might not.
Consider that the Korean War took place just over seventy years ago. Most of those who have jobs of any sort in North Korea are unlikely to have been born before the Communist era.
Perhaps they simply assume that The Interview was produced at the direct command of either the Japan or the United States government.
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(Score: 1) by Synonymous Homonym on Monday December 29 2014, @11:27AM
Or maybe it has nothing to do with Sony at all, as far as NP is concerned.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by gallondr00nk on Sunday December 28 2014, @11:53PM
Underneath the news headlines and the feigned outrage and the accusations and counter assusations, just how much of the Interview/NK Hacking/USA Hacking stories are actually true.
Since it all started, I've assumed that every involved party is completely full of shit.
(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Monday December 29 2014, @07:50AM
This. I wish I had points to give you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 29 2014, @12:47AM
Keep dialing in to their 14.4k modem so they couldn't dial out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 29 2014, @03:49AM
and yet we're led to believe that NK somehow orchestrated a DDoS attack against Sony Pictures with this 14.4k modem... says more about Sony Pictures than NK
(Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Monday December 29 2014, @10:10PM
Hey, now. It's a nice 14.4 modem. US Robotics and everything!
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Tuesday December 30 2014, @02:48AM
A 9600 baud modem is fast enough to connect to the irc server and type:
!dos victims.ip.here.com
When people ddos they don't use their own bandwidth bra!
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(Score: 1) by chewbacon on Monday December 29 2014, @07:06AM
All that talk set aside, what are they gonna do about it? Nothing that's what. Unless you count these tantrums.
(Score: 3, Informative) by wonkey_monkey on Monday December 29 2014, @11:29AM
Kim Jong-un must have been unhappy that he couldn't watch YouTube videos during the outage. Well, he can continue to pout unless he gets his hackers to shut down Google.
Once again, a Soylent summary ends with a snarky little comment that belongs amid user discussion, not at the end of the story.
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