This Week in the Future, May 16-20, 2011
This Week in the Future, May 16-20, 2011 Baarbarian Earlier this week, we wrote that "a hacker allegedly used a fake name to set up a bogus Amazon EC2 account" in order to wage a massive, debilitating attack on Sony's PlayStation Network. According to this week's Baarbarian illustration, that hacker may just have been...a squirrel. I don't even want to know what he's doing to that overlong tax code. The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we're @PopSci) and retweet our This Week in the Future tweet. One of those lucky retweeters will be chosen to receive a custom t-shirt with this week's Baarbarian illustration on it, thus making the winner entirely too cool for their school, or place of business, or couch. (Those who would rather just buy the t-shirt can do that here.) The stories pictured therein: Patient Elects to Have Hand Amputated to Make Way for a Bionic One U.S. Air...