JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
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viking68
Agree that the delay was wrong. There are reports of credit cards leaking before this break-in. So, I am disappointed with Sony over their security.
For Geohot, I think there is merit in using your ps3 in hacked form as long as it is not used to gain unauthorized access to the PSN or use pirated games. For that, I support Geohot.
Geohot's keys intially allowed shoplifting on PSN, use of pirated games, limited access to credit card information, and full blown data base access. Sony had too much reliance on a network that required a secure client (PS3). Once Geohot cracked the supposed secure client, the hackers jumped the PSN.
I guess I would call Geohot a locksmith. In the US, only locksmiths and police officers can carry lock picks. What Geohot did was the equivalent of sending a lock pick to every person on earth. It didn't contain instructions, but the same act with actual lock picks would send you to jail in the US.
Inherently, it is an act to defeat the function of property ownership for others. Following this less than altruistic lock pick distribution, less scupulous people used the situation and the confusion to their advantage and robbed our information.
Whose to blame civilly and criminally? The lockpick and the thief.
Sony? They will pay money for sure, people were damaged from their not anticipating this event. To blame? Civilly, but not likely criminally unless there are specific criminal laws governing Sony. The UK has already said their laws may not apply unless the data was located in the UK.
Also, look to the US to help crack the case. They are good at sniffing out the hackers throught their fencemen. Wish the US would turn the NSA loose on this case, if they haven't already.
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viking68
Sorry for all the posts. I like Sony and their PS3.
I am reading some pretty convincing stories of people being targeted by someone using information that could only come from PSN. They are mostly using credit cards and sometimes accessing email accounts.
Change your credit cards and passwords!!!! Even do that for credit card data that was deleted long ago from PSN. One person reported activity on a card not used since he deleted it from PSN a year ago.
Posted in: Sony PlayStation disconnects 77 million user accounts after massive data breach
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viking68
Kronos at 10:04 AM JST - 28th April
@ Molenir: You will be held responsible if you have not put the best vault door available (or the best one that would provide the best protection under the circumstances) and did not inform your customers timely.
Kronos, how would you define responsible in this case? Should the security be the best available at any given moment in time? Should you be responsible if a passenger in your taxi is injured in your car because you do not have airbags or did not purchase a large H3 Hummer and a drunk driver crashed into you?
That said, I have read some IC chat logs from hackers that said Sony was using an outdated version of Apache server that allowed the hackers to gain access. Those chat logs said that the credit card information was not encrypted, which could mean Geohots key unlocked the information, or Sony was truly negligent in not securing the information. I highly doubt the information was not encrypted. Sony has come out and said it was encrypted, but more information may prove the lack of adequate protection or the skills of the hackers in defeating that protection.
More likely case is that Sony was fighting a losing battle with six year old hardware (PS3) against an onslaught of hackers with nothing to do but cause trouble. If the information from the chat logs is correct, there will be some legal (civil but not criminal) reprecussions.
Ultimately, no system is safe from hackers.
Posted in: Sony PlayStation disconnects 77 million user accounts after massive data breach
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viking68
viking68: It's Sony's fault, no one elses, they made the "security" system, if they didn't lock it well enough someone was bound to get in... it is no ones fault except sony for not spending enough money on engineering something good.
Someone posted a bank vault analogy, which I liked. Sure, Sony was negligent. If I left my home open in a neighborhood full of theives, then I am being negligent. However, it doesn't change the fact that if someone robbed my home (locked or not), they should go to jail.
If we change the example to something more personal, like murder, rape, or a hit-and-run on a child, then people would feel more sympathetic to the victim of the crime, which in this case includes both the millions of PSN users and SONY.
Amazed that people need this simple concept explained to them, but I see it all through out the internet.
I don't understand the hacker supporters. What is a "good hacker" or a hacktivist? The only person I can think of that may fit that title is someone hired by Sony to test and improve Sony's systems. Hackers trespass and steal on other's property, plain and simple. They have absolutely no redeaming value.
Sony or their execs going to jail? Not likely. Who died? It is more likely that Sony will have to pay for any damages caused by their negligence.
Posted in: Sony PlayStation disconnects 77 million user accounts after massive data breach
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viking68
I just want to get back on PSN and play Socom 4. I'll have to deal with my credit card like I would with any other common street criminal.
I don't blame Sony so much for this problem as I blame Geohot for publishing information (he only published information others found and shamefully took credit for it) allowing fools to run the 3.55 firmware hack and shoplift from PSN, and I blame groups like Anonymous for trying to make everyone think that hacking is cool and something that contributes to society.
I hope to see someone in hand cuffs over this matter.
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viking68
Tall one on the right is smokin
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viking68
societymike at 06:56 AM JST - 27th May
Android devices can to multitouch, either from a downloadable app (for free) or from the newsest version 2.1+
Progress, aka Android. Just need Sony to update to 2.1 or 2.2 on my Experia.
Posted in: Awaiting the iPad
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viking68
griff,
The point is that you must buy the app for both the iphone and ipad if you own both. Some apps work for one and not the other. Some apps work on both. However, you must pay for you favorite iphone app when you decide to use it on your ipad.
Posted in: Awaiting the iPad
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viking68
Went with Android because Apple has become more Stalinesque on its iphones/ipad. Apple is great with ergonomics, truly the best.
For instance, the multiple touch screen is not present on Android and is a great feature. As a 10 hour movie machine, the Ipad also sounds great.
But I prefer that the operating system is more open and less subject to a big brother atmosphere. Android is catching up and will be more prolific than Apple in two years. Android can be used by more than one phone company and more companies are making phones. Dell even entered the market with their own line of tablets running Android.
I also expect that Apple's lead in the app store will also diminish. Qualitatively, the stores are basically the same. Although on the itunes, you can get a number of varieties of fart apps (paid for and free). I haven't noticed any fart apps on the Android's store. So, I don't take a lot of stock on Apple's app numbers.
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viking68
I listened to a U.S. radio show about China & America. One Chinese person said that Chinese think all Americans carry guns and shoot on sight. Also, school killings are common in America, and such things do not happen in China, i.e., China is so much better and safer than America.
Her opinion changed after living in the US. Maybe Chinese will take this as a sign that we are not so different. I'm not hopeful of that.
As smithinjapan stated, these are copycat killings. Will the next one be appauled by this latest killing and decide it is a bad idea? Or will this madness continue? I'm hoping it stops, but the pragmatist in me thinks next week will reveal another killing.
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viking68
All look nice, but the professional models put the "talento" to shame.
You can tell who has talent and who can only stand up.
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viking68
Pure stupidity. Prestigious? Twenty years difference almost qualifies for the best jail baitest.
Did like his 3 iron comment although he skipped the infedility issue. It basically says, I hope my wife doesn't find out or doesn't care enough to pick up an iron.
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viking68
A Japanese attorney basically told a friend that it didn't matter if the woman was a full-time drunk and couldn't provide for her kids, she would get custody. It is just the "way it is". On the other hand, the ex-husband would get to keep his cash and the family property. However, the husband would normally be required to pay child-support based on his earnings. So, the woman gets shut out from money, and the man gets shut out from his kids.
Makes me wonder if the men wrote this law to enable them to get rid of their kids and make a new start with no responsibilities for their past life. For instance, a new law came into effect a couple of years back that gave the woman part of their husband's pension. Well, many men divorced their wives of many years before the law came into effect to keep all their pension money.
However, if I was shut out from my child as a result of a divorce, I would shut out my wife financially to the extent I could without hurting my child. Seems to be the way things work here. Pain and suffering on all sides. So 3rd world.
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viking68
Actually, the boxing wrestling debate of jujitsu is based on greek olympics. Typically, the greco wrestler would beat the boxing opponent. Still holds true if you have two fighters.
The stand off and kick BS like Tae Kwan Do will get yourself some style points just before your head gets smashed in the ground.
I prefer Jujitsu type styles. Aikido is good, spent maybe four years with that. Would like to go Aikijitsu, which is somewhere between Aikido and Jujitsu, more violent Aikido and less grappling than Jujitsu.
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viking68
Anna looks like she stole some hotel towels and tied them off.
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viking68
I noticed a few police in the stations today. Was it from this? Or is it the Obama visit coming up?
Looks like rent-a-cop with the colored flashlights used to wave at people to not jump a barracade.
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viking68
I'm with the other poster. Thought you could vent anything under the pretense that you were drunk, even if you weren't.
However, bombing Tokyo and Osaka seems a bit on the extreme side. I would take offense if I were Japanese.
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viking68
I read this morning that Nintendo was coming our with a new WII that will be based on the blu-ray disk, and play movies and games in 1080p. The news got leaked from some French marketing person.
Apparently, the blu-ray was chosen to reduce the piracy going on with the Wii.
I have a Wii and a PS3. Won the Wii in a contest two years ago, otherwise I wouldn't have one. Have maybe 20 hours playing it and haven't turned it on in over a year. Most of that time was playing game cube games that I missed out on.
Can't count the hours I have playing the PS3. May have learned Japanese by now or earned a doctorate with all the time I spent with the PS3....
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viking68
"Teeth don't appeal to me" A good smile is always appealing. Throw in some bad dental hygene, and the appeal of any smile quickly fades.
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viking68
Oh, but there is a company that allows people to do this in Japan.
Well, it is a Japanese porn service for the PS3 that is very similar to the netflix service. I believe they have a free blu-ray to get access to the website and to stream the content. Wish a Japanese company would take the lead with non-porn movies or netflix would abandon these old distribution models.
Just tired of these marketing segment ploys that keep movies from coming out in Japan so late or DVD's and blu-ray disks at three times the cost in the US.
PS3 did make a bold move and made their US-Japan blu-ray disks the same region. You can buy a blu-ray game or movie from the US and it will be cheaper than a regular DVD bought here. Just wish breaking these trade obstacles would extend to the net and netflix.
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