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  • On the post: Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Gets 10 Years In Prison; Explains How FBI Gave Him The Targets To Hack

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2013 @ 12:23pm

    Re: Shoot the messenger!

    And yet earlier this week his own lawyers said he wasn't involved in any of this and joined at the end of it all.
    Those who know Hammond know he's a liar. This is one of them. If he had anything to back these claims up, he'd not have plead guilty, especially when he 'wasn't even there'.

  • On the post: Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Gets 10 Years In Prison; Explains How FBI Gave Him The Targets To Hack

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2013 @ 05:55pm

    Re: Re: Hammond lying again

    Nate Anderson (deputy editor, Ars Technica) is writing a book covering this and other things. I've been speaking to him about my dealings with Hammond, including logs from the time. I've no problems providing evidence (I also provided some of the logs to Al Jezeera before the panel discussion with his lawyer I was on Tuesday)
    Hammond's the one claiming he had nothing to do with the credit card stuff, and the FBI was giving him a hit-list, and yet pled guilty without contesting any claims. I don't know about you, but it sure sounds like he has nothing to back his claims.

  • On the post: Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Gets 10 Years In Prison; Explains How FBI Gave Him The Targets To Hack

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2013 @ 04:16pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Hammond lying again

    No, he hasn't. He REALLY hasn't. He's done a lot for people lookng to curtail our freedoms, by giving people and easily exploitable boogie-man, but anything productive, no.

    Want to see a perfect act of 'online activism' - see last years SOPA/PIPA blackouts.

  • On the post: Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Gets 10 Years In Prison; Explains How FBI Gave Him The Targets To Hack

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2013 @ 01:26pm

    Re: Re: Hammond lying again

    That was what he called himself. Time and again.
    I agree with you that he usually had no idea what he was talking about.

  • On the post: DailyDirt: Towards Safer Nuclear Energy

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2013 @ 09:01am

    Re: Where to Put the Power Plants

    I'd much rather have a nuc plant here. As it is, within 25 miles of me, I have the biggest coal-fired plant in the US, and a hydro-plant.
    BTW, guess where the only cases of uranium poisoning of residents in the last 10 years in the state of Georgia happened? 2 years ago, within 5 miles of the coal plant.

    Of course, yes, this is a tea-party district (I don't live here by choice) being covered by both Austin Scott, and Paul Broun.

    The real problem most people have with nuclear power though is one of ignorance, and I partly blame superheros. Hulk, invisible man, fantastic 4, Spiderman, Sam Beckett, Alex Mac, Dr Manhattan etc... They all give the idea that 'radiation does things and changes you', and so people get afraid, because they don't know the reality. And unfortunately, in this area, people cherish their ignorance (my landlord is PROUD of the fact he's 84, and has got through life with only a 4th grade education)

    That's actually the wider problem now. People in the US think that education means elitism, and that it's somehow 'wrong'. At least, that's the impression in the south.

  • On the post: DailyDirt: Towards Safer Nuclear Energy

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2013 @ 08:42am

    Re: How safe is the spent fuel?

    Let's reiterate a few things that you've glossed over.

    The damaged cooling pond was damaged because of a major earthquake and tsunami, and as yet has not killed anyone.
    The earthquake and tsunami killed tens of thousands, and the nuclear plant was not the only power plant to have issues. Almost a dozen were killed as a result of a hydro-dam breaking at the same time, and yet no-one's hitting on hydro-power, despite it being much more deadly (not just now, but in general).

    I haven't done the maths you suggest, but I have worked in that field, developing some things at a different location that may be in use there now for this (I don't know how specific I'm allowed to go) and that's WHY people like me worked on the things we did.

    Also, if your folks worked on the first two cores (and, I'd assume, the Demon Core?) you'd know just how NOT actually lethal it is until it reaches its criticality point.

  • On the post: Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Gets 10 Years In Prison; Explains How FBI Gave Him The Targets To Hack

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2013 @ 01:20pm

    Hammond lying again

    Let's remember a few things though Mike.

    Hammond hardly has the best reputation in the world for telling the truth. I've had extensive dealings with him back to 06 (before he went to prison for Protest Warrior) and every time he did something, he'd start off by boasting about it. And then a few weeks later, when called on his boasts, he'd change the story.

    When he did the mob action in Daley square, he told people at the time he wanted to mess things up for the politicians and cause as much trouble as possible. When it came time in court, it was 'youthful exuberance'.

    I had things I was working on targetted by him, and a variety of lies given as to why, and then threatened that I'd better not talk to his parole officer, because 'snitches get stitches'. (The irony of what he claims to do never seemed to hit him)

    It's also funny that he claims others stole the CC numbers and made charges, especially as he said it was his aim with the protest warrior hack. And if they were stolen before he was even involved (as one of his lawyers told me point blank tuesday), that should have been easy for him to prove. So for him to plead guilty to it shows knew they had evidence.

    He's not an activist, he's an anarchist that wants to cause trouble, trying to cover things as activism, as a 'get out of jail' card. Because as a thug and vandal and thief, he has no support; as a poor maligned political activist being targeted by the Gov, he has a story people can get behind, despite it being a lie.

  • On the post: AOL Unclear On The Concept: Threatens Startup For Properly Using Creative Commons Content

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2013 @ 11:08am

    Re: Not entirely in the clear

    We'll see what AOLs next letters, if any, contains.

    Odds on it being CD's/floppies for free service...

  • On the post: Infamous Viral 'Goblin Toppler' Video Taken Down In Copyright Claim

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2013 @ 09:40am

    Re: Re: Video BAD

    Cheers Mike

  • On the post: Infamous Viral 'Goblin Toppler' Video Taken Down In Copyright Claim

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2013 @ 09:08am

    Re: Re: Video BAD

    I think you proved my point. Unless you do set your client up like that, it's bad.
    And will be for anyone else who opens the site before the story has dropped off the bottom.

    I wouldn't even have noticed myself, had I been at my main system, but I'm not, so I did. And this was more a request for all the others that would be annoyed by it.

  • On the post: Infamous Viral 'Goblin Toppler' Video Taken Down In Copyright Claim

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2013 @ 08:39am

    Video BAD

    The video autoplays, even if you're on the front page and haven't expanded the story. It's silent for the first 10 seconds or so, then suddenly "Wiggle it, just a little bit!" blares out.
    Worse, it then goes straight onto another story (overhyped on cyberbullying) and presumably another.

    Please fix it Mike!

  • On the post: As MPAA Insists TV Piracy Is So Harmful, Breaking Bad Creator Explains How Piracy Helped

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2013 @ 05:29pm

    Re: Re:

    Actually, for 'stripping', it's 65 episodes (5/week for 13 weeks), or at least thats what it used to be. 62 does mean they have space for 3 'special' days (emergency news coverage etc)

  • On the post: As MPAA Insists TV Piracy Is So Harmful, Breaking Bad Creator Explains How Piracy Helped

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2013 @ 07:01am

    Make more money??

    Erm, I don't know how they'd "make more money".
    Thanks to Hollywood accounting, only a moron would accept any sort of pay deal based on viewership/profitability.

    Besides, every TV show I've worked on (be it for Comedy Central, G4, BBC or Channel4) I've always been paid WAY before it airs, most of the time before I'd even left the filming location (nothing quite like being handed a cheque for thousands as you're checking out of the hotel...)

  • On the post: Lobbyists Looking To Call Themselves Something Else: Here Are A Few Suggestions

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2013 @ 06:04am

    "The defendant"

  • On the post: NY Comic Con Hijacks Attendees' Twitter Accounts, Issues Non-Apology Apology

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 11 Oct, 2013 @ 06:44pm

    Won't happen at Dragoncon

    This won't happen at Dragoncon. If it's proposed, myself, and the others at the EFForums track (http://eff.dragoncon.org) will gently 'correct' the error of their ways.

  • On the post: NSA May Not Be Collecting Your Location Data From Telco Dragnet… Because It Gets It From Your GPS

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2013 @ 10:32am

    Re: Re:

    even if you 'turn it off' in the phone, it's still going to turn on at times. See my post below.

  • On the post: NSA May Not Be Collecting Your Location Data From Telco Dragnet… Because It Gets It From Your GPS

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2013 @ 10:08am

    Re:

    Yes.
    I just tested it with my droid incredible running 2.3.

    turned off location services, went to the android device manager (https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager), 10 seconds, and it had my position almost exactly on the map (within 3m)

    I even saw the gps icon flash for a moment (and theres no geotagging on my networking gear and my ip resolves to 25 miles away. It has no cell service. The only way to have got the location is via GPS.

  • On the post: NSA May Not Be Collecting Your Location Data From Telco Dragnet… Because It Gets It From Your GPS

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2013 @ 09:10am

    a handy thing I found on my wife's phone. On the samsung S3, under the back cover you will see 10 little screws. If they're not 100% tight, the GPS doesn't work. So, while most people tighten them up to get their GPS to work, you can loosen them to stop it working.

    I don't know why exactly this happens (I'm not risking my wife's wrath) but there's something for people to try.

  • On the post: Cosplayer Sent Cease & Desist By Carpet Company For Hotel Carpet Camouflage

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2013 @ 01:42pm

    I almost tripped over them at least once (they were hard to see, plus *people*. And most of the weekend, I was in pain, having ruptured my knee during one of the panels I hosted Friday night (TPB-AFK showing, with Q+A, ISPs and 6 strikes, and Pseudonym rights)

    Quick note though, The Marriot-Marquis is not 'the host hotel', it's 'one of the host hotels'. It's such a big event, that it takes up five (The Marriott, the hyatt, the Hilton, the Sheraton and the Westin) and the Americas Mart was added as a 6th host building this year.

    That said, since I was made aware of this last week, I've been doing some digging, and it may be that the company doesn't own the pattern at all. More info when I get it.

  • On the post: Prenda's Mark Lutz Doesn't Show Up In Two Key Cases, Has A Reason But Won't Share Because People Might Discuss It

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2013 @ 10:25pm

    I feel I should add perhaps a slight justification for why my Dragon Con badge is there.
    I volunteer for the convention, working on the Electronic Frontier Forums track (which means I emcee a bunch of panels on law, technology, privacy and so on). One of our attending professionals is Mr Chintella (amongst other lawyers). In fact I was on panels with Mr Chintella on the 30th (discussing ISPs and 6-strikes, along with another lawyer, TJ Mihill who has also represented copyright owners), and again on the 2nd (on P2P litigation and Prenda law, Again with Mr Mihill, but also with a local public defender as well)

    I also ran a screening of TPB-AFK, and a panel on pseudonym rights,, and 3 more on British sci-fi/fantasy; while Blair was on two panels about the NSA and wiretapping with the ACLU's Chris Soghoian, using his experience in the army to give a differing viewpoint.

    So that's why Blair retweeted it, it's a hell of an event that has to be seen to be believed.
    Maybe techdirt will send a reporter down next year (there's also space, science and skeptic tracks, for things like the daily dirt0

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