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bobtheduck in Korea
03/29/09

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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of the... Um... Not so much patriots, as I hear Patriotism isn't all that big in Australia...
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EnigmaNemesis
03/29/09

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I loved Hacker and Hacker 2. On my Commodore 64.
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xot
03/29/09

@EnigmaNemesis: Did you ever finish them? I could never finish Hacker on my Apple ][, but I think I finally understand what I've been doing wrong all these years. I'm actually excited, it makes so much devious sense. If I'm right, my respect for this game has just gone through the roof.
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EnigmaNemesis
03/29/09

@xot:

No, sadly I never finished them. But I was still fond of how genius the game was.
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DrunkAus
03/28/09

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HAHA I saw this yesterday. Wake up Conroy we don't want your bullshit.
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Captain_Duck
03/28/09

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Australia isnt as bad as china yet AFAIK, but going in that direction. Puzzles me why though. You could compare australia to other old british colonies like canada, and canadians aren't filtering sites like that AFAIK. I wonder why australia is being so hardcore with the internet filtering.
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超外人
03/28/09

@Captain_Duck: It is to "help crack down on CHILD PORN."

Also to inform you on how well that is going, it is failing pretty badly, the blacklists are available to see and many sites have no porn in it at all. Also, the list is also censored, so the people can't even check to see how 'effective" that filtering is.

So basically, it is full filtering of what they deem "unsafe" and its done under the ruse of stopping child porn. They are just hardcore on it, because they can stop "revolution" or "questioning" of the government this way.
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Spderweb
03/28/09

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Wha? so Australia is thining of filtering the internet like how CHina does??? isn't it a democracy over there? freedom of speech and all that? whats the heck...
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R-111
03/28/09

@Spderweb: Just because it is a democracy doesn't mean they have to have freedom of speech, it just means that their government is elected by voting citizens.
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Combine
03/28/09

@R-111: And everyone of Australia's politicians are arse eating bags of dicks.
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bobtheduck in Korea
03/29/09

@Combine: I think that applies to all politicians... At least the ones that aren't that dangerous...
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arstal
03/28/09

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Best idea: boycott their games industry and import/pirate.

Make it publicly known that you won't support the native games industry, and will take your money out of the country due to this law. Hit the gov't in the pocketbook.
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bobtheduck in Korea
03/29/09

@arstal: emphasis on importing if you're going to make a statement about it... Otherwise their statement will be "No freedomz for you" as you get slapped with a lawsuit.
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Komrade Kayce
03/28/09

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The only problem with stunts like this, however much I agree with their viewpoint, is it only serves to give the lawmakers and very people they fight more ammo.

"Look! They're going to the lengths of hacking in illegally to our classifications website for this! Obviously, we have enough lunatics running around"

or

"Take sympathy on our censorship views, prime minister. We were just haxxored by people."

or

"Fuck those hackers. Lets see how they like our censorship NOW!"
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(Zombie) D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid!
03/28/09

@Komrade Kayce: For a Prinny-Free Kotaku.: Hacking a site to spread a word and censorship are not directly related.

Censorship doesn't stop hackers, censorship creates them.

And regardless of if he hacks or not, there will still be censorship. The only real way to stop something like censorship is a rally of the people, not the law makers.
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Komrade Kayce
03/28/09

@D Mitsuki : Gotta have guts kid!:

There are other ways to go about it.

Its just... having myself engaged in some activities like this, myself, when I was younger, I recall hearing a lot of conjecture and hearsay regarding what we 'could have done' and thus, they should clamp down harder on us, even though it was a completely harmless rework of the schools website.

Make someone look stupid and they can react in a pretty stupid way.
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(Zombie) D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid!
03/28/09

@Komrade Kayce: For a Prinny-Free Kotaku.: The difference is you were doing something to a entity like the school for probably a purpose non other then some childish endeavor.

This is a government controlling what people can and can't see. I think this calls for a little rash actions. Including, but not limited to, attacks against the government.

If the US government ever tried to control my life, I would guarantee you I would be behind my 16 proxies telling them fu :D
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Cloral
03/28/09

@D Mitsuki : Gotta have guts kid!: The problem though is the general public won't make that distinction.
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Sweetsauce
03/28/09

@D Mitsuki : Gotta have guts kid!: If? What country do you live in because it sure as hell can't be the US.
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Hey_Blinkon
03/28/09

@Sweetsauce: No kidding. Government is good (well, necessary). Over-government eats balls. The US falls into the balls eating category.
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Komrade Kayce
03/28/09

@Cloral:

Thats the point I was trying to make. It will all come out as 'Attacks on your government' weather it was justified and against censorship, or just some toolbag replacing the homepage with porn.
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Komrade Kayce
03/28/09

@Abe_lincoln:

And you, as Abe Lincoln, would certainly know.
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Zorantor
03/28/09

@Abe_lincoln: You should look around at how other countries have it. The US government is strict about some things, and it definitely did get worse under our previous idiot president and his circus of an administration.

It's not perfect, but it's still very relaxed compared to a lot of other nations out there.
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Hey_Blinkon
03/28/09

@Zorantor: Yeah, the US certainly has it better than most, if not all other countries. But, that doesn't mean that the degree of government in the states control/censorship is acceptable. Its just "less bad". Which != good.

On a side note, I you mentioned the Bush administration and its follies. I agree with, but as I've been seeing it, censorship, and government control, has been strictly non-partisan (at least in my lifetime). They're equal opportunity assholes.
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Hamsfork
03/28/09

@Abe_lincoln: What games/media we are not allowed to buy in the US. There's a difference between Gamestop not carrying a game because it's unrated and the government banning a game because it's unrated. The only restrictions on the media we can buy that I'm aware of is child porn. So could you give me some examples of games/movies/books the US government has banned?
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Hamsfork
03/28/09

@Hamsfork: *What games/media are we not allowed to buy in the US?

The removal of the preview comment button is killing me.
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Komrade Kayce
03/28/09

@Hamsfork:

Sex games and media is still pretty taboo. I also can't remember where, but theres still limits to how many dicks and cumshots can be shown on screen at once (Im not making this up... or at least, it was this way about 7 years ago the last time I remember reading about it).

You can say ass and shit once or twice and get away with a PG rating.

Show a boob, you're looking at PG13, most likely R.

Things may not be outright outlawed around here very often, but there are some double standards running amok.
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Zorantor
03/28/09

@Abe_lincoln: I see your point, and you're right that "better than most" doesn't mean there's no room for improvement. I'm just saying that the US government doesn't exactly, as you so gingerly put it, fall into the "balls eating category".

That is a funny turn of phrase, though. I'm going to find an excuse to use that.
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Hey_Blinkon
03/28/09

@Zorantor: You're right, Could be better, could be worse. I too wanted to say balls eating. ahaha
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Hamsfork
03/28/09

@Abe_lincoln: Actually, Snuff films may or may not be legal depending on the exact definition used. Although murdering someone is not legal, selling a film which has clips from a real murder is legal. The assassination of JFK is a high profile example of a murder caught on film that has been used in movies. Anyway, I was referring solely to government censorship of media in my comment, not gun/smoking/transfat/helmet/seatbelt/drug rights.
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RyuuzakiBjorn
03/28/09

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"and taking the site online"

Offline?

Seriously, what is up with the grammer this week at Kotaku tower?
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NeVeRMoRe666
03/28/09

@RyuuzakiBjorn: Grammatically that sentence is fine. There's nothing wrong with it. It's a typo. Shit happens. Deal with it.
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Van Occupanther
03/28/09

@RyuuzakiBjorn: dontcha mean Grammar?
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Sparkimus Prime
03/28/09

@Van Occupanther: Seriously, what is up with the grammar this week in RyuuzakiBjorn's posts?
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Cloral
03/28/09

@RyuuzakiBjorn: You haven't been here very long, have you? Mistakes like that are par for the course here. I've come to accept and ignore them.
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Foxsnipe
03/28/09

@NeVeRMoRe666: Technically it is still correct; after all, the Aussie Government did come up with the OFLC and created its website, thus taking it "online."

But yeah, a simple typo.
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RyuuzakiBjorn
03/28/09

@NeVeRMoRe666: Shit may happen, I'm not complaining, I'm just stating a point that Grammar / Typo's in the Kotaku Tower this week have been unusually high, that's all.
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RyuuzakiBjorn
03/28/09

@Cloral: I've been here for a fair while now, I guess I'm just starting to notice the errors :/
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RyuuzakiBjorn
03/28/09

@Foxsnipe: It would be putting it online. To take something is to take something away from something else, to put is to put something there for something else.
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Owen Good
03/28/09

@RyuuzakiBjorn: I'm leaving that error on the page as-is just to piss you off.
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RyuuzakiBjorn
03/28/09

@Owen Good: It won't piss me off, not at all, it's just an observation I've made about the spelling this week and such.

You can't piss me off with iffy spelling!
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Neonox
03/28/09

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w00t

FIGHT THE POWAH!
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N●Gage Croal is grabbin' peels
03/28/09

@Neonox:

Do the impossible!

See the invisable!

ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!

Touch the untouchable!

Break the unbreakable!

ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!
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Str8_Jihadin
03/28/09

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I want my FREEDOMZ!!!!
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skaven
03/28/09

@Str8_Jihadin: 'Cause William Wallace said so!
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N●Gage Croal is grabbin' peels
03/28/09

@Str8_Jihadin:

They make kick our azz, but they'll never kick our freedomz!
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Str8_Jihadin
03/28/09

@skaven:

Haha, I was thinking of something clever to say with Braveheart but it never happened.
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DELETED-919189397191
03/12/09

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What happens if you lose the device?
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Skunky
03/12/09

@lolomfgisuck: God kills a tarutaru.
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Patient
03/11/09

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Too little, too late.

(I mean the dongle, not the Taru!)
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Shhteve
03/11/09

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If people were smart they'd keep their desktops/laptops clean and free of viruses/malware and change their passwords often so they wouldn't have this issue.
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Skunky
03/11/09

@Shhteve: Even smart people can get lazy.
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Skunky
03/11/09

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Dude, it's not just the security that will make these things sell. I've already got a keychain like this for VPN access to work, having another would be kinda pocket-filling. BUT getting a key code thingie with a Squeenix logo on it!? Damn right I'm signing up!
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cyruss
03/11/09

@Skunky: yeh same here, i have a similar one as this, an RSA token used for work vpn.. it expires after a year or so i think.... wonder if this thing also expires after a year :) fail if so
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Skunky
03/11/09

@cyruss: That would kinda suck if that happened on the SE thingie. The RSA ones are pretty precise on their timing though, I think the expiration is due to the key losing sync with the login server. If SE has a wider timeframe with each password (i.e. it takes longer for each of those six ticks to go away on the side), it might not lose sync quite as fast.

That's purely a guess on my part though.
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Flyhawk
03/11/09

@Skunky: I can't tell if you're being sarcaastic or not.
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Skunky
03/12/09

@Flyhawk: Nope, no sarcasm, I really can see people getting this for the possible collectors value.
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Andy Rodriguez
03/11/09

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Does it come with a free blowjob?
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BeautifulAgony
03/11/09

@Andy Rodriguez: No, because your mom work at Worlds.com. She is too busy trying to fuck the whole MMO business to give a few token buyers blowjobs.
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