> I don't understand how exactly he shaped America?
From the link: "Thoreau’s love of nature and his advocacy of a simple life have had a large influence on modern conservation and environmentalist movements."
Beyond Walden, Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government (also known by the title Civil Disobedience) has been cited as a major influence by civil rights leaders in the United States and abroad.
I don't think it'd be fair at all to say that Thoreau is forgotten in America, even if not everything about modern American life and culture conforms to what he might have wanted for the country.
This may be what you are referencing, but Bloomberg terminals began carrying tweets from selected financial figures and organizations earlier this year:
I thought this was an interested comment on the early challenges of offering internet access to home PC users:
The fact that modems were viewed as "peripheral" to personal computers was our ultimate hurdle. Back then you went to the "peripherals" section of computer stores if your wanted to get connected.
No doubt this was an inconvenience to people trying to get to work on the metro, and the number affected (300 million) is staggering, but all the same:
About 40 percent of Indians, or 500 million people, lack electricity.
I agree with you, I think the headline in this case is ill-advised, especially since the body of the report quotes a security professional who casts doubt on a DDoS as the culprit behind today's downtime. I fear it might have been chosen because it's a more provocative headline...
HED doesn't tell the whole story - in the article an unidentified security expert is quoted:
One security professional said the group probably used a DDoS-for-hire site to launch an attack against Twitter on Tuesday, but downplayed the likelihood the group was solely responsible for bringing down the social media network.
I agree, I don't think their title was particularly descriptive. However, I generally prefer to submit the title of a blog post or news item as it was written by the author.
The headline here appears to be a bit misleading - according to a report in Forbes[1], Coinstar/Redbox has acquired NCR's DVD kiosk business (which ran under the Blockbuster Express brand), not the entirety of NCR.
<edit> The Redbox press release [2] makes it clear that they have only acquired NCR's entertainment line of business.
In many cases calls can be recorded by the conference call service provider. Couldn't it be that the recording of the call was later accessed? An anon need not have been listening in on the call live.
