Anonymous, a loose collective of computer hackers, has gained notoriety by launching denial-of-service attacks, which flood websites with requests, causing them to operate more slowly or fail, on international government and corporate websites since 2010.
Surely, all of that mattered more than the "collective intelligence of computers"?
What to make of his statement that "only the collective intelligence of computers could save us from the destructive powers of the weapons they had allowed us to invent"?
Like many similar groups, Derp, as its tens of thousands of Twitter followers know it, is a loose collective of coders and computer experts, who have a taste and a talent for internet chaos.
He comes from the world of data processing arts and, like many artists of the genre, his many solo and collective projects explore the language of computers and their poetic potential (as opposed to artists who seek technology solutions for particular questions).
Last time we spoke with Brazilian artist Jarbas Jacome on the blog, we found out that as one of the best digital artists in Brazil "his many solo and collective projects explore the language of computers and their poetic potential (as opposed to artists who seek technology solutions for particular questions)." We had to find out more….
One of the more important improvements is in the simplification of flight-control systems, where a simple side stick controller, with the assistance of computers, performs the functions of the collective, cyclic, and throttle controls.
Anonymous, a nebulous and global collective of so-called hactivists, often use computers in protesting or supporting political causes.
It would also permit a single judge to issue warrants to federal authorities to remotely access scores of computers that have been hijacked and turned into a collective hacking tool known as a "botnet".
Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers.
