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Comment Re:maybe the low paid rent a cops took them. You k (Score 4, Insightful) 33

Or maybe it was a competitor who wasn't interested in stealing the laptop so much as stealing the game before its release?

In any event, "The laptop was stored in a cupboard in the booth." The whole point of a laptop is its portability. While the venue and convention organizers could certainly have done a better job, anybody who leaves something that valuable in the booth at night is a fool.

Comment Re:As expected (Score 1) 33

rsilvergun is simply a Chinese troll who's trolling anything remotely related to western civilization.

While that is entirely possible, I'm skeptical. It doesn't appear to have enough intelligence to be of any use to them whatsoever. I'm more inclined to believe it's an especially broken bot.

You, on the other hand, are clearly so obsessed with it that you can't stop yourself form furiously masturbating at every opportunity to remind everyone of who obsessed you are.

Comment Re:Graduated overkill (Score 5, Interesting) 37

We don't need regulations to do this.

While I agree 100%, though I'd prefer to see criminal charges against CEOs for the DOS attacks they knowingly commit, with things like changing user agents to ignore blocks as evidence of criminal intent (which it is), while I agree 100%, there would be lawsuits that, in the current climate, have enough of a chance to succeed to result in temporary restraining orders while it takes years to resolve (not too different from when the same tactics were used in the spam wars).

Comment Re:Long-term solution: (Score 5, Informative) 37

Limit IP an address to viewing X commits a day.

I guess you missed this part:

"Suddenly, the crawlers were coming from millions of random residential or mobile IPs, all pretending to be random modern browsers. An IP like that would make 4-5 requests and then never show up in the logs again"

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