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  • On the post: Hackers Claim They Can Unban Banned PS3s While Banning Unmodded PS3s

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2011 @ 09:24pm

    Re: Re: GTFO

    Wow, flawed statistics much?

    That "aricle" is based on the percentage of PS3 visitors to his particular blog. A whopping 1210 visitors is NOT statistically significant.

    BTW, I'm a linux user as well, and enjoyed the YDL OS on my PS3. It made a nice media center with my server running Ubuntu.

    Now I have to use some software to stream music and video to my PS3.

  • On the post: Rep. Lofgren Tells Seized Sites They Should Sue The Gov't For Defamation

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2011 @ 11:05am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Sovereign immunity precludes such a claim


    a federal employee acting within the scope of his or her employment


    So if its found that it is NOT legal for ICE to be siezing domains, then these actions fall OUTSIDE the scope of employment.

    Also, that ruling applies to EMPLOYEES of the government, not the agencies themselves.

    In addition, the government can waive sovereign immunity for the agency once the case is heard.

  • On the post: Hackers Claim They Can Unban Banned PS3s While Banning Unmodded PS3s

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2011 @ 10:38am

    You know, I keep seeing all these responses that Sony nuked the Other OS to prevent cheating online. Can any one of you offer any insight HOW the linux OS allows online cheating?

    You can't. Because its a bullshit excuse.

    Yes, the NEW hack can cause all this and worse. That's what happens when you lock the front door. Now we've gone in through the back, and discovered all the secrets.

    Seriously, how would you cheat in online multiplayer games online, using the linux install? Run PS3 games on an emulator, running on YDL? Right, cause that wouldn't have issues at all...


    I mean, what kind of system doesn't use server-side validation and relies solely on client side data? If the game designers left these kinds of issues in their code, let them fix it, that's why we have the ability to update the system and games.

    Stop attacking your customers, Sony.

  • On the post: Rep. Lofgren Tells Seized Sites They Should Sue The Gov't For Defamation

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2011 @ 09:41am

    Re: Re: Sovereign immunity precludes such a claim

    http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/28/usc_sup_01_28_10_VI_20_171.html

    Emphasis mine.


    ? 2680. Exceptions

    The provisions of this chapter and section 1346 (b) of this title shall not apply to?
    (a) Any claim based upon an act or omission of an employee of the Government, exercising due care, in the execution of a statute or regulation, whether or not such statute or regulation be valid, or based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a federal agency or an employee of the Government, whether or not the discretion involved be abused.


    Furthermore:


    (c) Any claim arising in respect of the assessment or collection of any tax or customs duty, or the detention of any goods, merchandise, or other property by any officer of customs or excise or any other law enforcement officer, except that the provisions of this chapter and section 1346 (b) of this title apply to any claim based on injury or loss of goods, merchandise, or other property, while in the possession of any officer of customs or excise or any other law enforcement officer, if?
    (1) the property was seized for the purpose of forfeiture under any provision of Federal law providing for the forfeiture of property other than as a sentence imposed upon conviction of a criminal offense;
    (2) the interest of the claimant was not forfeited;
    (3) the interest of the claimant was not remitted or mitigated (if the property was subject to forfeiture); and
    (4) the claimant was not convicted of a crime for which the interest of the claimant in the property was subject to forfeiture under a Federal criminal forfeiture law..[1]

  • On the post: Rep. Lofgren Tells Seized Sites They Should Sue The Gov't For Defamation

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2011 @ 08:07am

    Re: Sovereign immunity precludes such a claim

    30 more seconds on your part would reveal that the exemption is only valid if they government officials are exercising due care.

    They whole point is that they're not.

  • On the post: Lazy TSA Agents Let Thousands Of Bags Through Unscreened (But They Gotta See Us Naked)

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2011 @ 07:07am

    Re: Why does the TSA want to see people naked?

    Because the TSA is secretly not the Transportation Safety Administration, but is in reality, the Turing-compliant Sexuality Association, and they are creating a database of human body types and features to for their android and gynoid army. They're slowly phasing out any "potential terrorist" human travelers in favor of non-terrorist android versions.

    One must welcome our new robot overlords. OR ELSE.


    Alternate version:


    Why does the TSA want to see people naked?


    THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

    Actually that would explain a lot...

  • On the post: School District Claims Copyright To Pull Controversial School Board Meeting Clip From YouTube

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2011 @ 02:52pm

    From the 5th clip:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNCYkMs9opk&feature=player_detailpage#t=71s

    Standardized tests are biased against black people.

    WTF?!?

  • On the post: TSA Agents Caught Stealing From Passengers & Helping Subordinates Steal As Well

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2011 @ 10:21am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Seriously?

    I do remember 9/11. And I can tell you right now that we could abolish the TSA right now, and it would never happen again.


    You look at the whole airport security and see that since TSA, we haven't had another hijacking. This is not because of the TSA.

    The real reason why hijacking will never occur, is because the passengers can no longer reach the cockpit.


    The bigger concern it that all this TSA security theater will cause passenger awareness to lax. That's the biggest threat to security.

    You "feel" safe, you you tend to ignore signs of danger. Everything is safe, right? TSA makes it so nothing bad can get on planes, right?

    Meanwhile people are boarding planes with handguns, or 12 inch razor blades.

    Wake up America. We need to take charge of our own security, not let the nanny-state tell us we're safe or not.

  • On the post: Homeland Security Seizes Another 18 Domain Names, With No Adversarial Hearings Or Due Process

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2011 @ 06:45pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Beyond Copyright now...

    I'm going to point this back at my earlier comment, which you seem to have missed.

    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110214/16451913091/homeland-security-seizes-another-18-domain-names-with-no-adversarial-hearings-due-process.shtml#c1594


    They aren't shutting down anything. they're just removing the name from the phone book. meanwhile, the sites are still perfectly accessable to anyone with the IP address.

    And since child pornography is such an underground topic, I can tell you they probably don't use domains, instead hiding their wares behind IPs and not letting the web-spiders crawl them.

    So again, the feds are trying to make the bad stuff go away, by putting their hands in front of your eyes.

    Hear no evil, see no evil, there must be no evil, right?

  • On the post: TSA Refuses To Provide Body Scanner Info In Lawsuit… Claiming Copyright Prevents Handing Over The Info

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2011 @ 02:44pm

    Re: Re:

    I can guarantee mine is both original, and it transforms.

  • On the post: Homeland Security Seizes Another 18 Domain Names, With No Adversarial Hearings Or Due Process

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2011 @ 02:11pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    What's being seized is evidence in the commission of a crime.


    Can you seriously be that stupid? Do you even understand whats being seized?

    They aren't seizing the servers that actually HOST the content. they're just making it so www.ICESEIZEDTHISPAGE.com points to the that little warning page they have, instead of the actual server.


    Let me demonstrate.

    To access the TD homepage, you type in www.techdirt.com.
    The request goes out to what we call a DNS.
    They have a big phonebook that says Techdirt.com = 208.53.48.33.
    Your request then gets forwarded on to the server located at that address. it then gives you back the Techdirt home page.

    What ICE is doing, is making it so that TechDirt.com points to a different IP address and server.

    If they seized TD's domain today, you can still access the site by going to 208.53.48.33 in your browser.

    Go ahead, try it.

    Do you see the problem now? No actual evidence is being siezed. The servers are still up and running, you just don't have a nice URL that points to them any more.

    And since a lot of sites that were siezed are based OUTSIDE the US, there never WILL be any kind of trial, because US law doesn't apply to them!

    So basically, the feds are trying to make the bad stuff go away, by putting their hands in front of your eyes. Yeah, thats going to be real effective.

  • On the post: Court Says Playing Dungeons & Dragons In Prisons Represents Gang Behavior

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2011 @ 12:57pm

    The court seems to suggest that part of the problem is that Singer failed to directly answer specific questions or make the specific points he needed to in order to prevail
    Looks like he rolled a natural 1 on his Persuade check.

  • On the post: Government Putting Quite A Lot Of Effort Into Tracking Down 'Anonymous'

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2011 @ 10:03am

    Re: sit in vs DDOS

    it is different in one significant way. You can't use a 'sit in' to disrupt a company's or the gov'ts internal operations. By definition a sit in prevents the public interaction from happening by clogging up the front office. But because of the internet housing 'all' operational aspects it is possible to stop Citibank from running its internal banking related functions that a sit in could never hope to do directly.
    If Citibank is running its internal services on its outward facing webserver, they NEED to be shutdown for extreme stupidity. Attacking a webserver has minimal impact on a companies internal operations. it merely removes that presence from the web for a short time, sort of like taking up all the seats in a restaurant, or the lobby of an office.

  • On the post: Jim D'Addario Defends His Support Of COICA & Domain Seizures

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2011 @ 04:22pm

    To kinda play devils advocate here.


    As Mr. D'Addario points out, there are many counterfeits of his products out there. Most of you are going "Yeah, but those are in CHINA!".

    Welcome to the internet, where storefronts and websites know no international boundaries.

    Whats to stop "Huang Kuangs Musical Imporium" from setting up an ebay store or selling these counterfeits on amazon? Or on their own storefront online?

    And if I did have really good counterfeits, why would I sell them at knockoff prices? Sell them at sale price, or slightly below retail, claiming a "bulk purchase discount" or something.


    I personally was involved with shutting down an ebay seller who was selling counterfeit goods as "imports". As such, they were only selling maybe $5 below retail.

    After confronting them, they continued to insist their Hong Kong supplier had the rights to distribute the DVDs.

    Interesting, because every DVD I purchased from them had the same UPC code and ISBN. And the "Complete box sets" were in single DVD clam-shells, when the series were actual box sets.

    Yes, some retailers really are that stupid.

    After submitting my findings to ebay, they have blacklisted the seller. And since the actual license holders were tipped of, the sellers own site and storefront was taken down as well.


    Yes, counterfeits really do exist in the US.

  • On the post: Dutch Anti-Piracy Group, With MPAA's Help, Able To Grab 29 US-Hosted Domains… With No Trial Or Notice

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2010 @ 01:43pm

    Re:

    Because the other choice are corporations that rip off the artists 10X harder than piracy?

  • On the post: Debunk Alternative Medicine Provider; Have Him Get Your Website Taken Offline

    keiichi969 ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2008 @ 03:22pm

    Re: 'Bad' isp.

    You don't even need to work that hard.

    http://www.quackometer.net/default.asp

    works, but it seems some of the site is messed up..