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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:05PM GTThaAceman said

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I hate this guys face!

Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:16PM KGameLover1 said

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@GTThaAceman
Lolwut
Also, glad to see Geo is going legit, although I suppose this means chocolatera1n is cancelled :p

Now LulzSec or anyone will have a hacker war with him if they try again.... Lolz
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 7:21PM Hunter141072 said

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@GTThaAceman

Well for all those who always talked about "lessons" here, now we know this one.....just break the law....sooner or later you´ll be rewarded......specially if you break the law on a technological level, see just like in the movies!!!!
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 10:03PM The Aquacharger said

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@Hunter141072
what I find funny though is one of the refferences posted in the link, to the MS one, was proven false by all the people in the comments. Yet, the article writer still went with it.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 10:25PM Cavall said

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@GTThaAceman Im my imagination, hes looking up at someone dropping a brick off the side of that building.
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Posted: Jun 27th 2011 9:03AM Horsebird said

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@Hunter141072

Except GeoHot didn't break any laws. He wasn't convicted of anything.

He just pissed off Sony, which isn't illegal.
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Posted: Jun 27th 2011 11:24AM Accessgranted said

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@GTThaAceman

GTThaAceman says what were all thinking!
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:05PM Spaniard0069 said

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Booooooo. Why is he being rewarded?

Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:07PM Unreal Armos said

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@Spaniard0069

What are you talking about? If you break into a convenience store, the police hire you. So this is just like real life.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:12PM jph89 said

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@Unreal Armos

Its the American dream to commit many crimes, but come out of it as a winner. He's like the nerdy Vick.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:15PM Ospov said

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@Spaniard0069

He has skills. I'm not saying I like him. I actually can't stand him. But if he can jailbreak the iPhone and PS3 before anyone else, people are going to take notice and companies want people with skills.

At least he's staying out of trouble now. I hope this is the last we have to hear about him.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:46PM tchuks said

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@Unreal Armos

Your sarcasm is interfering with my wireless connection, please tone it down a bit... :P
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 9:06PM Unreal Armos said

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Posted: Jun 27th 2011 11:09AM Rahabib said

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@Spaniard0069
too bad hes a sell out. there will be others to fill his shoes.
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Posted: Jun 27th 2011 11:50AM sigma8 said

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@Spaniard0069
Well, for one thing, he didn't do anything illegal. He just pissed Sony (and you) off, by presumably enabling others--although it appears the "great hack" had nothing to do with his exploits...So he didn't even enable that. But yeah, he isn't the one who stole anyone's info. He was rewarded for knowing his sh*t. Although working for Facebook is "the forces of good"? That's a stretch. I'd rather have him hacking Sony, than hax0ring my privacy under the banner of legality. Facebook is legal like how laws in Soviet Russia are legal.
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Posted: Jun 27th 2011 6:49PM Marco le Polo said

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@Ospov

You mean skillz. We're talking about people with skillz here.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:06PM Meghterb1985 said

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Good decision. Wish him luck.

Posted: Jun 26th 2011 7:46PM Xsingular said

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People think he made Sony lose some dollars but to me he killed the whole PS3!
You see, I live in a third world country were games are considered really expensive (about 3/4 of a month's salary).
however I work hard and buy games for my PS3 to play online.
than this guy comes and hacks it,so all shops sell only pirated games now since they are literally printing money!
and I REFUSE to hack my PS3 , because I refuse to hurt the company that makes it. and now I'm stuck without even LBP2 (since it's release there have been no new non-pirated games)
Thank You, Brilliant TALENTED Geohotz.....

awaiting cool story bro, tl;dr ....etc etc
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 10:09PM The Aquacharger said

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@Xsingular
Why was he downvoted? He shows a real problem with what Geohotz did. As soon as pirated material can be used non-developed nations quit getting real stock.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 10:36PM The Aquacharger said

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@ArcaneAmoeba
Problem is then finding the ones that sell for his region. When my brother was in Iraq he couldn't find anything but pirated versions everywhere. I mean EVERYTHING was pirated. He had to order online, but pay expensive shipping and import fees. He also had to make sure he was ordering the correct versions for his product. It's a pain in the ass.
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Posted: Jun 27th 2011 12:24PM This Little Man Says His Name Is said

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@The Aquacharger

Yes if he lives in a country that your general online shops with websites like game or best buy might not ship to, it could pose a nuisance.

But with the existence of websites such as ebay and purely dedicated PAL and NTSC game selling websites buying something online is not as hard as you seem to be making it out to be when trying to get something that's right for your set up.
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Posted: Jun 27th 2011 5:08PM The Aquacharger said

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@This Little Man Says His Name Is
Except I didn't say it was impossible. Amazon is very restrictive of where they send media to. So that's out of the picture. eBay most buyers don't ship to Iraq and for the ones that did he paid heavily.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:06PM LinkRazr said

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Nice, maybe he can help program a FaceBook app that isn't a piece of shit.

Posted: Jun 26th 2011 7:09PM PR0F3TA said

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@LinkRazr

whats exactly wrong with the FaceBook app for the iPhone? are you sure you are not thinking about the Android one... you know, where its almost a glorified web app.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 7:17PM LinkRazr said

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@PR0F3TA

It's notifications are flimsy at best, I'll receive a message of an update for something but not others. When you have picture comment updates, the picture will not load any new comments until you refresh the new notification bar and make the yellow "new message" color go away on a different screen.

It's hard to explain if you don't use it and are using as you said the Androids web app, but when you want something to work the way it's supposed to, and every other app has no trouble performing, you wonder who the hell Zuckerberg hired to write apps.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 7:18PM LinkRazr said

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@PR0F3TA Look at the reviews on the iTunes store, you'll see hundreds of people list off the things that are glitched to bejeezus and back.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 7:27PM PR0F3TA said

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@LinkRazr

i use the iOS one, and yeah i noticed the problems you have listed. I always just close the app, make sure its not in my task bar and re open it. It helps.

oh and i never read the reviews from the app store unless its something i have to think twice about buying. people always complain on the reviews.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 10:31PM Mazrael said

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@LinkRazr
You sure that.. that isn't just Facebook?
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:06PM Shadowbender said

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Greeeeeeeaaaaaaaaat...

Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:09PM (Unverified) said

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If this quote is true:

"Hill implied that Hotz's refusal to hack some 'pads indicated his involvement in the development of Facebook's as-yet-unconfirmed iPad app."

It just basically shows, that when anyone has a financial stake in something, they'll turn around on their own principles like a hypocrite.

What happened to hacking the PS3 to allow it to be open for the rest of the world?

Oh, so suddenly now that you're getting paid to make a Facebook iPad app, it is no longer in your best interest to hack things for the sake of others?

Gotta love hypocrites.

Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:20PM Cletus VanDamme said

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apparently you don't know how the world works.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:27PM (Unverified) said

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@Cletus VanDamme

Uh, it's because I know how the world works that I wrote this comment :P...

It doesn't make it any less depressing... but writing it out sure feels nice!
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 7:14PM McDude said

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You can be mad at people you don't know for things that probably only have a minor effect on your life, or you can just move on.

He's doing something productive, which is what everyone said he should be doing. If he wasn't, and he was hacking something else...you'd probably just bitch about how he's responsible for ruining your experience on that device.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 7:14PM PR0F3TA said

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ohhhh pleeeease S T F U.... you are being a hypocrite RIGHT NOW... if he was out still breaking into sh!t would be just like everyone else here was during the Sony fiasco, but now that he has put his skill to good use (JUST LIKE YOU ALL WANTED!!) hes suddenly a hypocrite and a sell out.

i guess anything to make yourself sounds superior huh hypocrite.

and for the record, i was always against this douche bag, but even i can recognize he wants to move on.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 7:15PM PR0F3TA said

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@McDude

JINX!
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 7:36PM Nmaster64 said

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(Unverified): "What happened to hacking the PS3 to allow it to be open for the rest of the world?"

@(Unverified): Ummmm...the cops showed up?

But yeah, screw people who go legit! How hypocritical! They should stick to their guns and keep doing things that jeopardize their well being and potentially harm others forever!

But at least we have people like you who would turn down a six-figure premium job to continue running head-first into a legal quagmire while you're unemployed and everyone is closely watching everything you do...just on principle to avoid being "hypocritical". Good on ya mate!
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 7:55PM BlazeKing said

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@(Unverified)

Have you not seen the numerous posts here that said he should just go "anonymous"? Maybe you haven't seen it, but someone anonymous just posted news about the QA flags.

Anyway, not sure what the rest of your rant was about. He wants to go low-key, you hate him. He stays in the spotlight, other people hate him. It's a lose-lose situation.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 9:05PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said

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"What happened to hacking the PS3 to allow it to be open for the rest of the world?"
Well, the settlement of the case with Sony was that he was forbidden from hacking another Sony product again, and then he basically "boycotted" Sony.
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Posted: Jun 28th 2011 7:56PM Mr Tastix said

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@Nmaster64: Some people prefer holding onto their principles and ethics as opposed to walking the easy road to a six-figure pay-check.

I ain't that person and neither is Hotz, obviously, but I can respect a man who would willingly give up such a pay-check to stand up to his own principles.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:10PM jph89 said

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"Mr. Hotz, brilliant but lazy" - Dr. Oc

Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:21PM Cletus VanDamme said

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@jph89

well played sir, well played
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:31PM (Unverified) said

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@Cletus VanDamme

How is that well-played?!

Did you even watch the 2nd Spiderman movie?

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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 7:04PM MrAlex said

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This is supposed to be returning the favour right?
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:10PM Ospov said

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Well at least he's doing something productive. As much as I think he was (or still is) a douche, I am glad to see that he's staying out of trouble for now.

Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:25PM The Ginger said

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@Ospov Facebook is productive?
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 11:02PM Ospov said

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@The Ginger

Being on Facebook isn't. Working for Facebook is.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 11:54PM ijustw1n said

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I hate this shit. If I ever decide to rob banks, my defense will be that I was trying to get a bank security job.

Now all those lolzcats or whatever will proliferate for great jobs.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:20PM Jack Spicer said

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Can someone tell me what exactly Facebook is doing with all of the talent it recruits. Unlike say a company like Google who I can see constantly branching out into new areas, Facebook seems to me like the same company it was two years ago, just more widespread, and if anything, their site is even more obtuse and harder to use than it was back then, IMO.

Posted: Jun 26th 2011 6:29PM Red Runner said

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@Jack Spicer

There was a movie where the pimply founder was made to look like a pretty boy and critics loved it.
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Posted: Jun 26th 2011 10:12PM The Aquacharger said

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@Jack Spicer
Mostly security. Believe it or not they got some awesome security.
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