Dotcom 'saved' Xmas for Xbox – but no one can save Sony's titsup PlayStation Network A string of denial-of-service attacks that took down Xbox Live and Sony's PlayStation Network on Christmas Day appear to have stopped – and New Zealand-based file-sharing baron Kim Dotcom claims the ceasefire is all thanks to him. The portly polymath tweeted on December 25 that he was peeved at not being able to play Destiny …
During Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, Rockstar turned on the snow in GTA Online, I had a good few hours of play under my belt on Christmas Eve and was with friends most of the next day, the Liberator monster truck & Sandking XL were my favourite 'snowmobiles'.
Quite a few gamers are quite understandably pissed off at the network attacks because it prevented them from enjoying the (very) short duration of snow.
IMHO 2 days of snow was not enough, especially as most people would've had obligations to be with friends/family. A week would've sufficed, enough to really enjoy it and start wishing things got back to normal.
The big guy bribed the DDoS'ers to stop the attack. I wonder why he bribed them with that much? I doubt that there's 3.000 LizardSquad members. And is it coincidence that they're now tagging 3000 relays? The big guy got to play his game but what's going to be the cost to everyone else?
I've been known to speak well of Excel. I've used it in predictive epidemiological modeling/analysis and I've done some rather large neural nets as well. Add all of econometrics and sociometrics, far more flexible than the custom tools we were using at the time. Those were all done in Excel '97, so it had some teeth to it way back when. I can't speak to the Excel 2007+ analytics or modeling.
I've had that scene played out for me when mad uncle Boris bought his nephews some racing game or other... maybe it was a zombie game and my brother wheeled out the PS3 he got them, we stuck the disc in and it said "Must update system to 2.41 to play this game, please wait...." and it took 30 mins or so
That was enough of a nightmare for us to make sure the games were loaded and ready to play on christmas eve for ever after.
As for wanting your kids not to be gamers ....... hahahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahahah report back when you tried stopping them
If you looked on Twitter first before hitting publish you would have seen a branch of Anonymous (@FinestSquad) taking credit for the attack on lizard squad, including getting their twitter taken down, revealling the DDOSsers identities, and also getting a few of them arresed. All cited and listed on their handy informative website
Or it didn't break everywhere at the same time?
Or it only affected sign-on (as per the article) so anybody already signed in would be unaffected?
A DDoS attack often doesn't totally take down a service, it just makes it very slow for normal users in some regions.
Your "Works for me" just means it worked for you, not for anybody else.
I was advising my friends to set up consoles before Christmas, to avoid disappointment. Not sure how many bothered to take my advice.
Some of them handwaved me away saying, oh I don't understand it all, the kids can do it.
Even if there had been no hack, the sheer load on the servers would probably have brought them down anyway.
And lets face it D-DOSing these server on Christmas day isn't exactly a challenge.
A) Who takes down a game network over Christmas, for any reason? Bah humbug.
B) Who decides they will bribe said greasy DDOSers? (This is not nearly as bad as the actual DDOS'ing though.)
C) Finally, it makes Lizard Squad double-greasy that they would accept this payment, then just start DDOS'ing again like 1 or 2 days later!
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