While the anime scene is still considered by most licensers as "illegal", and it often pulls together many people that aren't necessarily more or less intelligent than the warez scene frequenters, it does attempt a noble and resume-brightening service by getting fans a product they couldn't possibly buy with money: translated anime shows direct from Japan.
And did anyone else mention IRC and Counter-Strike ties? I know I played CAL-O (read: the sucky ladder) and IRC was a big part of connecting with opposing teams, or just for setting up scrimmages.
After actually reading the case file, it is obvious UCI is just trying to play grown-up to all of the other colo providers.
Key points:
->"I left college to devote my full energies to the business."
->"UCI currently has approximately 20 employees."
->"the websites of UCI's customers would go down and those customers would almost certainly seek Internet access from another web host."
!IN ORDER!
-> I could (and did) negotiate and perform a re-IP of a large stable network due to proper training. (in High School, no less)
->With 20 employees, you could physically have everyone at a terminal, ready to change ip schemes and reboot machines, while the new internet technician plugged in a new gateway with a new CSUDSU/router.
->With customers that eager to leave, the business would falter eventually...
Are there many code-writing hobbyist-oriented types (still a funny term to me:) looking to download a free microsoft developer tool? I'd think most of the "hobbyists" would be affiliated with open-source programs and, because I'm an ignorant and generalizing person, alternative development platforms.
I've been spending a few hours rigging up a deadly.org tcl rss feed script to work with my own important rss feed, and I've noticed that some sites nest and , while still others have all 3 in one line, making it difficult to parse.
I wonder if that's due to the rss-feeding server, or the owner of such server? A standard would be nice, so I don't have to spend my sleeping hours mutating my code to check for both styles.
Needless to say, I like having the newest fansub anime releases announced in a place I find myself in constantly anyway.
While everyone seems to be focusing on the FBI and it's antics, hackers behind the scenes are running around making fools of intelligent men.
This weekend, we saw foonet disappear without a trace, mirc-x, aniverse, and rizen brought down in flames by DDoS attacks, and (ranked least important on this list) the anime fansubbing scene, as well as Paul (the one actually served with the warrant says #foonet on efnet) in complete disarray and confusion.
Maybe in a few weeks, some legitimate news corporation will repost what I'm about to suggest with more information.
foonet's ircd was probably a host for some sort of illegality, hence the FBI's raid.
The warrant may have been formed with the help of an IRCop on mirc-x.
While sustaining DDoS attacks, a user visited mirc-x appearing to "be the culprit," and left a few locations he could be found.
Reading between lines, the lingo announced the reason for the attack: That damn IRCop reported my irc server with a lot of hacked computers taken away. So I'm bringing down his network.
What was the reason the IRCop reported anything? Did he crack a joke about the hacker's mother? Or was he just doing the "right thing?"
Sadly enough, by the end of the weekend, the anime scene had pretty much caused the death of 3 servers either due to load, or to followed DDoS attacks on other servers.
I have to wonder if there's actually a connection between the two events. 3 IRC networks down and an entire hosting company at a local FBI headquarters because of hacker squabbles? Are they really that important and/or worth the time?
I wish I knew. I wish someone could actually write about it. My story can't possibly be true.
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While the anime scene is still considered by most licensers as "illegal", and it often pulls together many people that aren't necessarily more or less intelligent than the warez scene frequenters, it does attempt a noble and resume-brightening service by getting fans a product they couldn't possibly buy with money: translated anime shows direct from Japan.
And did anyone else mention IRC and Counter-Strike ties? I know I played CAL-O (read: the sucky ladder) and IRC was a big part of connecting with opposing teams, or just for setting up scrimmages.
Where are the government adoptions of RFID tags? Is it still a privatized concept?
After actually reading the case file, it is obvious UCI is just trying to play grown-up to all of the other colo providers. Key points: ->"I left college to devote my full energies to the business." ->"UCI currently has approximately 20 employees." ->"the websites of UCI's customers would go down and those customers would almost certainly seek Internet access from another web host." !IN ORDER! -> I could (and did) negotiate and perform a re-IP of a large stable network due to proper training. (in High School, no less) ->With 20 employees, you could physically have everyone at a terminal, ready to change ip schemes and reboot machines, while the new internet technician plugged in a new gateway with a new CSUDSU/router. ->With customers that eager to leave, the business would falter eventually...
Are there many code-writing hobbyist-oriented types (still a funny term to me :) looking to download a free microsoft developer tool? I'd think most of the "hobbyists" would be affiliated with open-source programs and, because I'm an ignorant and generalizing person, alternative development platforms.
I've been spending a few hours rigging up a deadly.org tcl rss feed script to work with my own important rss feed, and I've noticed that some sites nest and , while still others have all 3 in one line, making it difficult to parse.
I wonder if that's due to the rss-feeding server, or the owner of such server? A standard would be nice, so I don't have to spend my sleeping hours mutating my code to check for both styles.
Needless to say, I like having the newest fansub anime releases announced in a place I find myself in constantly anyway.
While everyone seems to be focusing on the FBI and it's antics, hackers behind the scenes are running around making fools of intelligent men.
This weekend, we saw foonet disappear without a trace, mirc-x, aniverse, and rizen brought down in flames by DDoS attacks, and (ranked least important on this list) the anime fansubbing scene, as well as Paul (the one actually served with the warrant says #foonet on efnet) in complete disarray and confusion.
Maybe in a few weeks, some legitimate news corporation will repost what I'm about to suggest with more information.
foonet's ircd was probably a host for some sort of illegality, hence the FBI's raid.
The warrant may have been formed with the help of an IRCop on mirc-x.
While sustaining DDoS attacks, a user visited mirc-x appearing to "be the culprit," and left a few locations he could be found.
Reading between lines, the lingo announced the reason for the attack: That damn IRCop reported my irc server with a lot of hacked computers taken away. So I'm bringing down his network.
What was the reason the IRCop reported anything? Did he crack a joke about the hacker's mother? Or was he just doing the "right thing?"
Sadly enough, by the end of the weekend, the anime scene had pretty much caused the death of 3 servers either due to load, or to followed DDoS attacks on other servers.
I have to wonder if there's actually a connection between the two events. 3 IRC networks down and an entire hosting company at a local FBI headquarters because of hacker squabbles? Are they really that important and/or worth the time?
I wish I knew. I wish someone could actually write about it. My story can't possibly be true.