I didn't know that Blizzard North is no more. That's pretty sad. But maybe we will get lucky. I thought the Thief series was going to disappear or suck horribly after Looking Glass shut down, but Ion Storm managed to develop Thief III into a pretty damn good game.
Maybe someone at current Blizzard will have what it takes to make a proper Diablo 3...
I second that. Diablo 2 was, in my opinion, the greatest game ever made. I'm still playing it. Also, Diablo and Diablo 2 to this day are the only non-MMORPG RPGs that I have ever personally seen girls play on a regular basis. How's that for mainstream? Wake up Blizzard. Make Diablo 3.
People always accuse big corporations of not caring about the customer. Now it seems like they don't even care about the success of their own products. The posting of the SNL material clearly helped NBC. It sounds like the corporation is in denial over that.
Lets see if they can actually figure out how to mass produce it first. This sounds a lot like carbon nanotubes to me...good on paper, but essentially vaporware in the minds of consumers and manufacturers.
Of course. DoS attacks *have* to be illegal. For it to be legal would be obviously ludicrous. But how well is Sweden going to be able to enforce this? And even when they do catch DoS attackers, locking them up for a mere 2 years will only deter the teenage wannabes, not the real threats. Too many hackers/network exploiters/script kiddies have feelings of invincibility when hidden behind a computer screen. Two year prison sentences is not scary enough to stop these guys. Make it 15 years. That or make it legal for me to savagely beat DoS attackers with baseball bats.
Well I admit that I was comparing apples to oranges, but you could still argue that by making *anything* outright illegal you will simply strengthen the underground of the related market through natural selection. Kinda like the illegal marijuana markets. The more they get attacked by authorities, the further underground network exploiters will go, and their defensive(and offensive) techniques will become more and more effective. Lock up one exploiter and a better one will learn his mistakes and be even more destructive and harder to catch. That is really what I meant by comparing DDos prohibitions to marijuana. I wasn't trying to compare the actual acts of smoking to DDos exploiting.
It damn well SHOULD be illegal, but unfortunately making it illegal isn't going to accomplish anything. Look at marijuana, it's illegal but everyone does it anyways.
It will be unenforceable.
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The SB is the most watched entertainment even in the US. Every year. And you want to compare it with MLB? What a joke. Color me unimpressed.
I didn't know that Blizzard North is no more. That's pretty sad. But maybe we will get lucky. I thought the Thief series was going to disappear or suck horribly after Looking Glass shut down, but Ion Storm managed to develop Thief III into a pretty damn good game.
Maybe someone at current Blizzard will have what it takes to make a proper Diablo 3...
I second that. Diablo 2 was, in my opinion, the greatest game ever made. I'm still playing it. Also, Diablo and Diablo 2 to this day are the only non-MMORPG RPGs that I have ever personally seen girls play on a regular basis. How's that for mainstream? Wake up Blizzard. Make Diablo 3.
People always accuse big corporations of not caring about the customer. Now it seems like they don't even care about the success of their own products. The posting of the SNL material clearly helped NBC. It sounds like the corporation is in denial over that.
Lets see if they can actually figure out how to mass produce it first. This sounds a lot like carbon nanotubes to me...good on paper, but essentially vaporware in the minds of consumers and manufacturers.
Of course. DoS attacks *have* to be illegal. For it to be legal would be obviously ludicrous. But how well is Sweden going to be able to enforce this? And even when they do catch DoS attackers, locking them up for a mere 2 years will only deter the teenage wannabes, not the real threats. Too many hackers/network exploiters/script kiddies have feelings of invincibility when hidden behind a computer screen. Two year prison sentences is not scary enough to stop these guys. Make it 15 years. That or make it legal for me to savagely beat DoS attackers with baseball bats.
Well I admit that I was comparing apples to oranges, but you could still argue that by making *anything* outright illegal you will simply strengthen the underground of the related market through natural selection. Kinda like the illegal marijuana markets. The more they get attacked by authorities, the further underground network exploiters will go, and their defensive(and offensive) techniques will become more and more effective. Lock up one exploiter and a better one will learn his mistakes and be even more destructive and harder to catch. That is really what I meant by comparing DDos prohibitions to marijuana. I wasn't trying to compare the actual acts of smoking to DDos exploiting.
It damn well SHOULD be illegal, but unfortunately making it illegal isn't going to accomplish anything. Look at marijuana, it's illegal but everyone does it anyways. It will be unenforceable.