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happycodemonkey:

donrickles:

The best joke there ever was.

Accurate depiction of Texas. 

mommashaus:

How my Blood Elf warrior taunts bosses when tanking…..
 It was fun flexing the comic muscles. 🙂 For WoW stuff and more blood elf humor, follow my twitter @quelfabulous ! Thanks for looking!

AAAND DONE

ramavatarama:

stunningpicture:

The best picture I have ever taken.

IS THIS SALEM?

redmadoker:

tevruden:

So if you can figure out how to predict an attack that can do more than three hundred four hundred billion bits per second of traffic, you stand to make a lot of money.

What you’re literally they should do is say “Oh maybe we should try to predict thousands (possibly millions) of computers simultaneously attacking our game and overloading our provider’s connections with traffic and do something about that.”

You don’t need a complex computer algorithm to predict that a high-profile target on the Internet is going to come under attack during a high-profile release of high-profile online software aimed to make even more millions of dollars.

You need a functioning human brain running your multimillion dollar technology corporation.

“Hmm. We have a lot of enemies who want our project to fail and we are entering a critical phase of our project that is highly vulnerable to attacks that could directly influence our future profits. We should implement any protection at all to keep it safe from malicious attacks coming from predictable, spoofed IPs. Tech team, get on that!”

Do I get my paycheck and executive position yet?

Several problems with that:

1.  It’s not Blizzard who has to do the filtering. It has to be the people reflecting the traffic who needs to filter traffic.
2. There’s tens of millions of these reflectors on the internet.
3. It’s literally impossible to distinguish between valid traffic and traffic from a spoofed IP unless you’re directly adjacent to the source of the traffic.

Nice try, though!

redmadoker:

tevruden:

atiesh:

First time I ever heard of ddosing was when they did it to WoW and Wildstar and the other mmo’s less than half a year ago (still 2014). Might wanna dial back that condescension and not act like it’s a 20 year old problem that’s as common as sunshine.

Actually it is literally a 20 year old problem that’s as common as sunshine. smurf.c was released in 1997. (Released, not discovered. Who knows how long ago that was.)

do people seriously have sympathy for blizzard, a multimillion or billion dollar company, that has literally helped influence video game culture along its track of sexism, misogyny, and mountain dew gulping, but who’s executives did not stop and think “maybe with all these revolutionary game systems we could maybe try to predict and stop a massive DDOS attack on our game that is both hated and beloved across the entire planet Earth”

I feel bad for every underpaid employee working at blizzard during times like this, though. An MMO launch and security problem this bad usually means “everyone is working 80+ hours a week with no compensation, especially the people who already make the least doing QA or support”. Meanwhile, every executive is having a post-launch party. 

So if you can figure out how to predict an attack that can do more than three hundred four hundred billion bits per second of traffic, you stand to make a lot of money.

What you’re literally they should do is say “Oh maybe we should try to predict thousands (possibly millions) of computers simultaneously attacking our game and overloading our provider’s connections with traffic and do something about that.”