Here Here. Still haven't bought SC2 and no plans to purchase DIII. I was invited to the DIII beta test and didn't. I will refuse to support such models in any way I can, including the withholding of my money. I was just playing Diablo (the original) yesterday and am still content with sticking to it. It's funny to go online though and find I'm the only one there. Am I the only D1 player left?

And it's just that simple, right?

I don't understand why officers aren't more readily prosecuted for willful destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice since when they delete such data, that is exactly the crimes they are or may be committing.

Isn't attacking a computer system illegal? I know they're based in Russia but since corporations here in the US are considered "individuals" as the law goes, and since they are funding this illegal activity, wouldn't they then be considered accomplices and therefore be eligible for prosecution under US laws? Since the board of directors and officers of the company represent the company, shouldn't it be all of them that end up in prison or breaking federal computer crime laws?

I'm amazed that no one here has brought up the fact that the buildings were purposely demolished and that the planes had absolutely nothing to do with the buildings doing a complete demolition style free fall with visible synchronized explosions coming from various parts of the buildings and, after the buildings came down, visible diagonal cut marks on steel beams. The amount of evidence is overwhelming and any more evidence that could have been found by investigative teams were kept away by federal agents until all the evidence was literally covered up by dump trucks full of dirt. Absolutely amazing that this wasn't brought further into the light of the American public.

Well that depends on if the firm these lawyers work for is heavily employed by large corporations who happen to be financing the judge's and DA's (and other fat/happy politicians) with the majority of their campaign contributions, if not under the table brief cases. That's what most of these things come down to now a days. The proof is right there in between the lines of every important case out there.

Huh. So saying "Screw you" or "Fuk off" to someone in arizona (if you're not in az) could get you extradited to, charged, sentenced and imprisoned in AZ? Wow!

Your story kind of makes me want to run down to my nearest BB and try to get a part time job there just so I can be around at the end to experience .. the end. :) Fun history in the making. Not for the ones who may depend on their full time job there, I would imagine, but for someone like me who already has a good paying full time job, I would love to be a part timer there for the end just so I could take home some cheap, potentially fun/cool stuff.

Exactly! I don't understand why he went with a settlement unless he didn't have the funds to continue the suit. If that was the case, perhaps he should had tried a website appealing for donations for his suit and why it was important for the rest of us to do so. I'm sure I would have given him five bucks, at least. Without knowing the details, speculation as to the reason is all we have.

I personally wish we'd see some kind of charges brought on the officers and even the internal affairs officers responsible for all this crap. A few years in prison for each of them would go a long ways in changing things ... or at least a good start in going a long ways in changing things.

I doubt it. Now a days, there is very little hope of winning when it comes to your word against theirs. They purchase/use software to get into your personal affects/papers without warrant. The software itself is considered a tool for the police, like a hand gun/tazer/cuffs, and therefor isn't questioned by the courts and is considered perfect by proxy (the police use it, so it must be perfect and not do anything to taint evidence). It's nice to think that such things could be tossed out of court but in reality this doesn't and will not happen. If you're targeted by the police, innocent or not, you're screwed with very little hope of making it back home without changing clothes into an orange jumpsuit and having your life, and the lives of your family, utterly destroyed.

I've said it many times before and I'll say it again. We need TOUGH laws against law enforcement and DAs that force DAs to prosecute law enforcement officers uner laws which will imprison those officers for decades for small infractions of dishonesty which results, or attempts to result in the loss of life/liberty for any US citizen. If we had such laws and prosecution practices in place, the number of abuse cases (and even cases which we think are legitimate but are actually horrific crimes against personal liberties and justice) would quickly diminish on a massive scale as officers would stop jeopardizing their own lives and the lives of their families versus trying to put innocents into prison based on fake/planted evidence and lies.

Mark, is that you?

I LOVE how no one had a rebuttle to your words. Awesome!

You're modded as funny but I see a very scary type reality to your prediction. I bet some RIAA execs somewhere are saying "oh shit, someone's on to us and is saying it publicly but luckily they think he's just being funny .. feww".

Actually there's some truth to that humor. I only do some programming as part of my network and server admin duties (creating ticket systems and other management controls within internal websites that I've developed using asp then asp.net exclusively). I've found though that as the years have progressed (8 years for me) and three IT jobs later, the IT work is more considered on par just slightly above janitorial staff. I originally went to college then joined the IT world because I thought that it was a respected profession. Well, that's no longer the case and I'm sadly considering a 180 in my career choices but have no idea in what I'll go into after spending all my time learning computer skills for the last twelve plus years. IT really needs to form one big IT union or some other kind of professional group to start controlling how we're treated and perceived. Is there any way we can get our respect back and stop being handed brooms and mops along with our copies of the software corp keys and admin passwords?

Yea, WB is quickly working their way up the company hatred ladder with me. Now they've taken a few more steps up that ladder and are close to the step wher Sony resides.