Open4D writes:
"The BBC reports that a bounty of 10,000 Euro ($13,700) is 'being offered to catch the people who took the online multiplayer game Wurm offline.' A blog entry on their website says, 'we can offer 10,000 Euro for any tips or evidence leading to a conviction of the person responsible for this attack.'
For those unfamiliar, Wurm Online is, according to Wikipedia, a 3D MMORPG from Sweden that came out in 2006. The client 'is developed in Java and uses OpenGL.'
Presumably they're hoping someone with inside knowledge of the attack will be tempted to inform on the main culprits. Or maybe Microsoft's commendable botnet-fighting unit has a chance to claim the money?"
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by jcd on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:01PM
I feel like retaliation for this sort of thing is a GREAT idea. There aren't enough consequences for these sorts of attacks. Just as long as we're not causing grandma's compromised desktop from '94 to burst into flames and we're actually hitting the people responsible.
"What good's an honest soldier if he can be ordered to behave like a terrorist?"
(Score: 4, Insightful) by LAngeOliver on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:13PM
I would not be surprised if their own update included a bug that somehow makes it look like they are under a DDOS attack. Striking back might have a very interesting effect in that case!
(Score: 5, Interesting) by song-of-the-pogo on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:23PM
The apparent timing of the DDOS, coming shortly after they issued an update, suggests this could be a possibility, though I would hope they made quite sure it wasn't some bug they'd introduced before offering a 10K Euro bounty.
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by buswolley on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:35PM
Can I post? My others havent seemed to post when I post to the main thread
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(Score: 2, Funny) by buswolley on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:37PM
Come on now, troll??? Im not trolling. Im having trouble posting to the main thread.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by jcd on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:40PM
You might get a lot of troll points with that sig. Heh.
"What good's an honest soldier if he can be ordered to behave like a terrorist?"
(Score: 1) by buswolley on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:44PM
My slashdot sig for a decade was, "A good troll is better than a bad human."
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(Score: 0, Offtopic) by buswolley on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:46PM
Feature for improved grammar: Edit post button.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Open4D on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:25PM
Editing posts? Wouldn't that also necessitate code to handle re-moderation? And meta-re-moderation?
That's quite a lot of complexity just to deal with problems that could be caught using the preview feature.
Possibly though, there could be an option available in the preferences, for users who don't feel well enough protected at the moment, to have a 2nd preview. This 2nd preview would show your comment on screen, nested below all its 'ancestor' comments. There would be almost nothing else on that screen, except "Are you really sure you want to post this?" and buttons "Yes" and "No, go back and edit it further".
(Score: 2, Funny) by buswolley on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:59PM
:) Preview?
Who does that?
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by TheRaven on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:13PM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2, Interesting) by buswolley on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:42PM
When I tried emailing about my issue I get this
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
admin@dev.soylentnews.org
Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain dev.soylentnews.org by mail.dev.soylentnews.org. [192.163.234.79].
The error that the other server returned was:
550 No Such User Here"
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(Score: 3, Funny) by dotdotdot on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:44PM
Maybe the bounty is an attempt to cover up a known bug by blaming HAXORZ!!!1!
(Score: 2, Informative) by dingo on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:27PM
Like that one time the EvE updater deleted c:\boot.ini :) (http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID= 651473)
CCP took full blame for that one though.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by No Respect on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:40PM
That incident provided proof that not all EvE players are nerds. No self-respecting nerd would be caught dead without a bootable CD that gives r/w access to the bootable Windows partition so that repairs can be made (and boot.ini ain't rocket science). It wasn't that big of a deal for anyone with an ounce of nerd cred. Huge drama, on the other hand, for the ignorant masses.
That incident also served to reinforce the idea that CCP has ZERO quality control practices in place that are worth a damn. That's another story, however, they routinely demonstrate that in hilarious ways several times a year. Every year.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:49PM
... is having a shaky start.
(Score: 1) by buswolley on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:55PM
Now that's an anomynous Soylent troll
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by buswolley on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:52PM
Wurm Online... I like the idea of player created lands/servers...Interesting idea
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