Anonymous: Ash stops being sceptical for ONE SECOND, and puts foot in mouth on internet

So in my hope for a kinder, gentler, more effective, less illegal Anonymous I lost track of the fact that they're by definition a disorganized and giddy bunch of goons in classical Athenian democratic style.
Meaning the individual who wrote that poster I like so much is likely not "in charge".

http://www.fanpop.com/spots/the-mr-men-show/images/5331171/title/miss-whoops-wallpaper

I've yet to see reports of Anonymous bombing the internet with cable-sourced information (which isn't to say they aren't--smart tactics are infinitely less soundbite-worthy).

I DO, however, have reports that  PayPal's still getting walloped in a handful of countries, and there are rumblings of "infighting" among Anonymous (if you can really have intra-organizational conflict in a group with basically no organization) with some of them attacking a DNS server that's actually helping wikileaks. Which makes me sad, because it's counter-productive on twelve levels.

Meanwhile, reputable hacker magazine and cultural hub 2600 The Hacker Quarterly came out condemning Anonymous for a couple reasons that I think are sound--namely that the

"...inexcusable moral cowardice of Visa and Mastercard and PayPal, etc, do not justify the use of brute force. Additionally, 2600 says that DDoS attacks are tactically unsound, as they create sympathy for these companies, and are used as a pretense for more attacks on Internet freedom."

Also that they're giving hackers a bad name. Which is fair, I guess...but a little spurious, as the reputation of hackers is kind of like the reputation of the Pope, in reverse.