Scrobbs

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  13. Posted

    It seems he appears in GTA IV too:

    http://gamepolitics.com/2007/09/18/jack-thompson-says-gta-4-mission-target-is-him-threatens-to-block-release/

    The showcasing play of the game to Game Informer revealed that the first killing mission of the “hero” of the game, Niko, is to kill a certain lawyer. When Niko comes into this lawyer’s office, having used subterfuge to do so, Niko pulls a gun on the lawyer who says, “that the firm supports the second amendment and that ‘Guns don’t kill people. Video games do.’”

    …The fact that the lawyer, killed on Niko’s first mission, would bring up video games, makes it clearly a reference to me… This is not the first time Rockstar Games and Take Two have targeted me in this fashion. Take Two references to me as a bisexual pedophile on its corporate website…

    :violin:

  14. Posted

    http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/04/jack-thompson-p.html

    To decry the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto IV, Jack Thompson sent a message to the mother of Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick, according to a report by Shacknews.

    The email is provocative, to say the least. Not only does it say Mr. Zelnick is "like the Hitler Youth," it also attributes the deaths of three Alabama policemen and "a recent plethora of cop killings" to prior entries in the GTA series.

    :woohoo:

  17. Posted

    Lol, good one. Fuck me, that first post really was low quality. Best delete it and forget all about it.

    Back to your point Ginger, the way they have talked about dealing with it is more straightforward if you have been to the site before and have an authentication token given by the server to the client, which would acti like a cookie. This would allow you to punch through the protective veil of mailboxes. First time connections seem to be dealt with the solving of a cryptographic puzzle - the more time the client spends solving it, the higher priority they get through the mailboxes, if I understand it correctly.

    Unfortunately, someone in the past in security came up with the word 'nonce' as an abbreviation of three words to describe 'number used once'. Rather amusingly, it has stuck and that article spends a good deal of time talking about nonces, general purpose nonces and random nonces.

  19. Posted

    ...the University of Washington has come up with an idea to prevent DDoS from botnets, utilizing a similar idea called 'Phalanx'.

    http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13753-to-defeat-a-malicious-botnet-build-a-friendly-one.html

    http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi08/tech/full_papers/dixon/dixon_html/index.html

    Interesting read, and if it works has teh potential to offer a solution to one of the bnigger threats to the inter-operability of the internet, particularly since the demise of Bluefrog a couple of years back.

  23. Posted

    One last thing - sometimes they do promotions with certain games, for instance, the last live code card I bought was a 12 month thing, but as it was the 'Halo' edition and I got an extra month free. You might well get some kind of GTA IV deal (you don't have to buy the game) as that's the next 'big' release.

  24. Posted

    It's a long time ago I registered, but I think you can have as many 'active' gamertags as you like on live - as long as you pay for them. Just let the one expire, and put your CC (or code that you buy in a shop - my preferred method, as well as buying points that way) on the one you wish to keep. If you continue with your US one I think you get lots more advantages than you do with the UK one. Relatively, xbox points are cheaper in the US ($1.25) than in the UK($1.75).