Quote Originally Posted by Dark Sage View Post
I'm not wrong, Blade.

If the U.S. government really used the same security system that video games used, the Al-Qaida would have leveled all of New York City on 9-11, not just the Twin Towers.
How is hacking anything even related to 9/11? Did al-Qaeda send in spies that infiltrated ATC and executed some sort of program that caused the planes to redirect their trajectory into the Towers? No, they sent a few guys with knives to manually take control of the planes and smacked them into the World Trade Center. 'Leveling all of New York City' in such a way is impossible: There aren't enough commercial planes in all of AMERICA to do that much damage, let alone be randomly flying around New York air space waiting to be commandeered.

Quote Originally Posted by Dark Sage View Post
And I'm gonna laugh in your face bad when this "big secret" that you've uncovered turns out to be false.

I mean, really, not even Fox News considers this worthy of reporting.
'Big secret?' I said in the first post of this thread - in the first LINE of that post, no less - that I found it on 4chan. It's about as 'secret' as your average new meme.


Case in point,
many
people
are
acknowledging
this
.

Now, before you claim that none of these are reputable sources... don't. That was not the argument you claimed. The argument you claimed was essentially "Because Fox News isn't discussing this, it isn't worth discussing." That's a logical fallacy, just FYI.

Quote Originally Posted by Dark Sage View Post
P.S. Btw, I know what LANs are and I know that video game networks use them, but none of your three sources say that the FBI or the CIA do so.
The FBI and the CIA keep their information private. For obvious reasons. Most of their information is stored on 'classified' parts of the Internet like SIPRNet and the JWICS. And what do you know, LAN Administrators are needed for both networks.

Quote Originally Posted by Dark Sage View Post
Here's the type of computer that organizations like that use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_computer
I Ctrl+F'ed the following words in that article:


"government"
Two results. Neither was the American government.

"department"
One result, and it's a mathematics department in India.

"corporation"
One result, for a now-defunct corporation that mad early supercomputers.

"organization"
One result, for Wikipedia itself ("WikipediaŽ is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.").


Also in that article is a list of what active supercomputers are used for:

2010s: Molecular Dynamics Simulation (Tianhe-1A)[76]
Not for government operations, or for corporate use. For calculating and simulating things a normal computer CAN'T.

You just shot your own argument in the face. Well-done.

Quote Originally Posted by Dark Sage View Post
It has its own server built in.
...I'd need to ask someone smart like Telume if this is technically correct or not, because by definition, EVERY computer "has its own server built in." I think you meant to say some other term like OS or maybe API...

Quote Originally Posted by Dark Sage View Post
Companies like that use LANs don't even have mainframes,
Too many words, or too few?

Quote Originally Posted by Dark Sage View Post
which is a type of computer one notch below a super computer. (You'll find mainframes in big corporations and banks.)
First thing you've said so far that's factual... But mainframes use LAN's too.

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Companies like the type that run TF2... Just expensive versions of normal computers, really.
You just described pretty much every computer ever.

Quote Originally Posted by Dark Sage View Post
Comparing them to the ones that the government has is like comparing the a comic book to Oliver Twist.
...They're both books. They can both be 'hacked' by opening them and looking at the words inside of them. They can both be 'broken' by burning them or pouring water on them.

Your analogy is utterly irrelevant because this isn't a debate about quality VS. quantity. You're insinuating that a much BETTER computer than yours or mine is, for some reason, UNABLE to perform a very vital and basic computer process: CONNECTING TO OTHER COMPUTERS.

Sidenote: I've never read anything from the a comic book series... is it any good?