They need a gimmick. Personally, if I was running things, I'd hand out a free android phone every hour as a door prize till things get rolling.

Personally, I think a heck of a lot more vulnerabilities like this could be found and/or located if there were a decent, free (as in beer) disassembler out there. You would think that the industry giants would be more than willing to donate funds to such a project, yet I have yet to see anything such as this out there. Now, some of you might say, "Well, just jump on the IDA Pro bandwagon." My answer: "Easier said than done." The IDA folks _require_ you to be associated with a business when purchasing the program, where they can track your every move, mainly because they are paranoid that the might "accidentally" sell their software to a software cracker. The funny thing about this is that most crackers wouldn't even bother purchasing the program and just bittorrent the thing to begin with for free. Anywho, my solution is this: start an open-source-disassembler project, which will hopefully attract industry donations, and then offer users of the software incentives for locating vulnerabilities, such as cash rewards (based on severity), free commercial software/hardware, etc., and maybe we might just be instrumental in creating more security experts in the not-too-distant future.

As soon as the severity of the nerfs sets in, I'm predicting that millions are going to quit, and Ghostcrawler is FINALLY going to get canned! The dude might understand character balance somewhat (READ: NOT MUCH), but he sure in the hell doesn't understand human nature. Asking people to drag race with a vette, telling them "that car's too fast, so use this one," and then sticking everyone in 1300cc Volkswagen's with single-barrel carbs isn't going to sit well with most. Guess it's time to purchase some Warhammer stock or something.

As far as the teleco companies are concerned, you can be assured that the only thing they really give a shit about is network throughput, overall availability, and efficient use of their bandwidth. At this moment in time, the transfer of large-scale video (Read: HD-DVD and the like) is really ripping into their bandwidth. Also, with broadband communications starting to open up even more, their once seemlessly talking network is starting to stutter, and they realize that the only way to get the gal talking right again is by increasing her bandwidith -- and you don't need me to tell you how expensive that endeavor is going to be! On top of all of this, the vast majority of the telcos' bandwidth is being used for illegal transfer of copyrighted materials. Thus, they are more than willing to throttle specific P2P traffic, especially when they are well aware that 99% of the files being transfered are copyrighted material. By doing this, the telco's do a few things that make a lot of people happy: 1) They increase the their overall throughput, making the other non-P2P users much happier, even though the vast majority don't realize that their connections are much smoother and faster because of this situation. 2) They make the copyright holders' a bit happier (pun intended :^)), knowing that the major tool being used for piracy is being throttled. Time to market is everything to thier industries. In closing, all I can really say and expect to be somewhat heard is this: if bittorent continues to dominate in network traffic un-throttled, you can take it to the bank that the government is really going to step in and lay down the law, forcing the ISP's to monitor and report all illegal traffic to local and international authorities. As a matter of fact, I think it's down-right frickin' stupid that most of you people aren't throttling your own connections yourselves, trying to make sure that you fly in under the radar before this situation elevates. Lack of foresight and frickin' dumb.