How Cheaters Cheat at Halo 2

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday May 26, 2006 @09:29AM from the bridge-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Built on a network that automatically bans gamers that have modified their Xbox, Xbox Live should be nearly cheat-proof. However, it's not, as anyone playing Halo 2 online already knows. How do cheaters on Xbox Live manage to artificially boost their rankings? What is Bridging? What is Standby? This article takes a look at what exactly is done when a cheater cheats, and what exactly Bungie is doing about it. It includes videos and some very funny letters from 13-year-olds that have been baned from matchmaking on Live and are desperately trying to worm their way back onto the system."

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And what does this tax support? by phorm · 2006-05-26 10:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Taxes are generally in support of a particular expense/medium. What would email or SMS taxes be supporting?

Education taxes are for schools, etc
Gas taxes are for road maintenance, etc

So if I were an EU citizen what would I get from this tax? I don't know how their phone carriers work, but I'd imagine that the lines for internet are either already/mostly paid for, possibly all by private companies that sell the service, and the cell towers would be put up by the cellular companies.

So, other than money-grabbing, what - if any - do the EU governments do that entitles them to taxation of email, SMS, or otherwise?