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2. Bloodninja

Bloodninja trolled individuals, on IM and on private chats in IRC channels. The approach was this: entice people into cybersex, and then chat something so ludicrous that they just turn tail and log off. Sometimes, they would play along for some time, imagining that things would get better. The results were posted on forums, and screen captures were circulated as forwards. Other people started using the same handle, and some indulged in the same activity using different names. Bloodninja has faded away, despite the large number of impersonators, the genius of the original cybersex trolling stands out by a mile. This troll is immortalized in songs and t-shirts with his quotes are sold online, his most famous line is "I put on my robe and wizard hat". This one is one of our favorites:

j_gurli13: i start unbuttoning ur shirt.
Bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don't wear shirts.
j_gurli13: No, ur not really a Rhinocerus silly, it's just part of the game.
Bloodninja: Rhinoceruses don't play games. They f**king charge your a**.
j_gurli13: stop, cmon be serious.
Bloodninja: It doesn't get any more serious than a Rhinocerus about to charge your a**.
Bloodninja: I stomp my feet, the dust stirs around my tough skinned feet.
j_gurli13: thats it.
Bloodninja: Nostrils flaring, I lower my head. My horn, like some phallic symbol of my potent virility, is the last thing you see as skulls collide and mine remains the victor. You are now a bloody red ragdoll suspended in the air on my mighty horn.
Bloodninja: F**k am I hard now.

1. Anonymous

Anonymous is a bunch of random people on the web working together, with a whole bunch of extremely successful attacks that they can claim credit for. Thousands of users gather together under the banner, and they have a code, one of the central tenets of which is "Anon is Legion." Anonymous is the most active trolling community there is. There are a few Anonymous who make the tools, plan out the raids, and lay down the procedure. Everyone else simply follows them, and Anon's strength is in the numbers. The trolls gather together in a handful of online forums and image boards. These are ebaumsworld, something awful, and the chans (4chan, 7chan, 888chan among others). The tools are hosted at websites such as insurgen.cc, where raids are mentioned along with the tools. What have these people done? They fixed the TIME magazine poll, for the personality of the year. Not only did they fix who won, but they also fixed the first 10 winners, spelling out the words MARBLECAKE, ALSO THE GAME. The list is official for everyone to see, and TIME could not do anything about it.
 

 
 

At first, Anonymous just wanted to put moot (the owner of 4chan) at the top of the list. This was easily achieved, without even scripts or any kind of coding involved. This was achieved by giving Moot high ratings, while rating everyone else as low as possible. TIME caught up, and shaved off the top 5% and bottom 5% of the votes from their counting system. This was a small challenge to the might of Anon, and they responded. Scripts were written that gave random values to everyone on the list, but with a certain target window in mind. Each person on the list was given a particular position on the list. Deployed from different IP addresses from around the world, there was nothing that TIME could do, but publish their obviously fixed poll.

Recently, Anonymous made #gorillapenis a trending topic on twitter in a span of a few hours. It started off as an idea; the whole operation was blamed on ebaumsworld, when it was actually 4chan that came up with the gameplan. While a bunch of people used #gorillapenis from their own twitter accounts, insurgen.cc hosted scripts that allowed people to quickly create multiple twitter accounts, then spam with random text including the word "#gorillapenis". Twitter was (relatively) fast to act, and the trending topic was removed.

Another famous raid was a whole bunch of Anons posting porn clips on YouTube. Anon focused on spamming YouTube with a large quantity of small clips. As YouTube users began flagging offending clips, Anon started flagging perfectly normal clips as porn, which confused those managing YouTube even further. Then Anon pulled tricks like having a regular video play for the first few seconds before porn suddenly showed up.

These are however, just a few of the more recent trolling activity by anonymous. Rest assured that there is much more to come from at least this group.

The AMD virtualized Android on your PC will be available this year

For some time we have been talking about a curious service: AMD and Bluestacks is provided and although they announced a few years ago, have not yet been launched. It seems that this will not take long to happen, because AMD has used MWC 2014 to affirm quellegará to stores later this year. 

But do it in a somewhat confusing way. According to official information service offered to customers who purchase a new computer with AMD hardware, and will be in the store when 'hired' Bluestacks. They also talk about that in some stores there may be a kind of extension for those who have an old AMD PC, but in no case will be a free software download or access.

Apple will begin to work on health and automotive.

Apple is developing a device to prevent heart attacks through a system that feels the bloodstream, but this is not the only project that is on Apple´s plans. They also are planning to get into the automotive world, specifically with Tesla Motors.

In 2011, Apple hired engineer Tomlinson Holman, the inventor of the sound system THX and the surround 10.2. This system allows listen the bloodstream´s sound, that can go in a bracelet or another complement, and the carrier will be able to prevent a heart attack.

On the other hand, Apple is negotiating with Tesla Motors. They probably will make a deal for cooperate, but in different sides, without any kind of acquisition.

Apple, the company that once changed the world with their computers, are opening new ways for invent new brilliant ideas and expand the diversity of their products, that since now they were only smartphones, tablets and computers.

Elop is at the controls of Xbox and Surface

The former contender for president of Microsoft, Stephen Elop, will eventually take over the division of devices the Redmond company. Yes, who is rumored to be willing to sell the game division of Microsoft happens to have control and choice over her. 

According to an internal letter sent by the current responsible for this area in Microsoft Julie Larson-Green, Elop will be at the controls of this division that includes Surface and Xbox, plus the section of Nokia devices. 

Elop, former president of the Finnish company, lives in a certain way in a circle that never ends for him, but his new role at Microsoft is the one that makes the most sense for a WHAT CAN responsible presume to know the hardware business like few others.

This is the new generation of YotaPhone: two touch screens

The Russian mobile phone manufacturer Yota Devices and warned us that there would be news regarding your YotaPhone, phones best known for having an e-ink screen on the back. Well there is already a new version of the product, updated as the public demand now. 

As we advance, the changes are mainly in the growth of both screens, but also in the quality and technology of the same. The main screen is now five-inch, full HD resolution and is made with an OLED panel.

Whatsapp raises his bet: voice calls before the summer

Whatsapp not want anyone to remove the role of this February 2014 and has used elMWC to strike a blow that was expected but not quite there: voice calls on your personal client messaging. 

Breaking his story to have a simple application, the creators of the recently purchased by Facebook application have confirmed what other rivals have ever argued as leverage against them, voice calls, reach your client before summer arrives . This functionality will join the message recording is now available.

Nokia Lumia 630 is the record forward to the launch tomorrow

First thing tomorrow morning (8:30, Spanish time) is scheduled deNokia presentation at this MWC 2014. Although it seemed that we would see a new Windows Phone, the gende of evleaks has again come forward and reveal one of the products most likely be made official tomorrow. Is Nokia Lumia 630. 

An image, as is usual in evleaks, and name: Nokia Lumia 630. We can expect an evolution of the current 625 (also analyze) sharing with him many of the features, including 4G (one of the cheapest Lumia 4G) and as colorful covers made of polycarbonate. 

In little more than twelve hours of the event doors will open and there Nokia see what Microsoft has prepared us. evleaks not usually make mistakes in this type of release, so tomorrow we should know all details of the Lumia 630. By now the picture makes us think it will be a more innovative product continuity.

Windows 8.1 Update: in spring and focused on improving the use with mouse and keyboard

Microsoft has been one of the first to release this year's Mobile World Congress 2014, and makes it important for a 'big' software news: Windows 8.1 in spring we 'Update', a small update - note that is a Service Pack of 8.1, not a new version - which will improve functionality and even add some new desktop operating system. 

What features? Most focused on the interface, to provide new opportunities or improve existing ones. Microsoft promises focus on touch screens since 40% of devices sold with Windows installed include one of these panels. Something evident in current times they got a clear improvement when moving from Windows 7 to Windows 8, but is still insufficient.

A phone to see the world

Since the last five years, the principal objective of the technology companies was the success of the pocket computer, and thereby, the permanent connection to the internet.

Now the objective of the following five years will be to open the phone to the world around us. That is the topic of the new Google project: Project Tango.

It´s like a mobile Kinect. Tango, is its actual version, is able to create a map of the room you are only moving the phone. It knows where is it on space and what is around it. Behind this project is Johnny Lee, one of the developers of Kinect. Google is going to begin the distribution of Tango to other companies to look for an utility for this functionality.

Nowadays, this sensors are quite big and complex, but in the future they will be smaller and will be able to be in a phone or another gadget.

For more information, check on this video:

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4. Something Aweful and Adam Goldstein

This one is pretty recent, and the whole incident happened as an elaborate internet drama. We imagine situations and incidents like this one coming to a television screen in the near future. Adam Goldstein had an online store, which sold computer parts. Now a certain customer known on the internet as decaf.tihs was dissatisfied with the service, as Adam Goldstein went on vacation after an order had been placed. After trying to call and mail Goldstein about his service, he got irritated, and asked for his money back. He sent a stinker off to Goldstein, and Goldstein replied that he would not return the money unless decaf.tihs apologized to him. Now decaf.tihs wanted his money back so he apologized, and his money was returned.

The matter could have ended there, but decaf.tihs went on to somethingaweful.com and began posted a thread on Goldstein and his unfair practices. The forum went a little crazy, and decided something had to be done. They called up Goldstein with death threats, taunts and insults. They got into his personal accounts on social networking sites, and insulted him there as well. Goldstein paid up for a Something Aweful membership, and joined in the discussion. Amazingly enough, Goldstein was called a troll, and no one really took him seriously. He defended himself and voiced his outrage, which just made everyone’s day on somethingaweful.com.

Someone from Something Aweful called up Goldstein at this point, and told him to calm down and not post on the internet, as he was over reacting to Trolls. Basically, the caller was trying to help him, and tell him not to feed the trolls. But Goldstein would not listen. The soundclip is here (some explicit content):

  

Then Goldstein threatened to sue somethingaweful.com, and boasted about the large number of lawyers in his family, and the large number of guns in his house (more than what the local police department had). Something Aweful moderators thought things had gone too far, banned a few people on the forums, and closed a few threads.

The matter could have ended there, but some people from somethingaweful.com ran over to big brother /b/ on 4chan (more on that later), with an appeal for help. Someone discovered that Goldstein charged $199 to rid a computer of all viruses, and deemed it too costly. Then all hell broke loose. Someone poked around, got his hacker tools together, and focused on Goldstein. Goldstein’s website was taken down, and the website of his service provider was also taken down. His MySpace account was broken into, personal information stolen, and defaced.

Then things broke out into the real world. Sex workers of various genders were called to Goldstein’s house. Free magazine subscriptions were delivered. Boxes and packages of every kind of free sample was sent by the kinder people. Posters warning of Swine Flu and AIDS were pasted around his home and workplace. Pizza joints around his house were ordered to send boxes of pizzas over. Various kinds of religious literature were also sent over. Sex toys, condoms and tubes of lubrication were shipped over at no cost.

Goldstein didn’t know whom to sue, or whom to fire at. He just learnt not to cross the wrong side of the internet the hard way.

3. Goatse/ hello.jpg

Goatse is one of the most famous shock images to circulate the internet. Goatse was the original Rickroll, a shocking image that sprang up on unsuspecting surfers. There seem to be "waves" of Goatse activity, as every new generation of internet junkies are introduced to the image. First posted on message boards, the image became well known somewhere around the turn of the century. The image was named hello.jpg, on Goatse.cx, a shock website. There have been many spoofs going around, including this famous picture, called "God's hands".