jesus christ to YOU eric. have you have so little to contribute lately that
you feel you have to rip apart every post on this list in order to stay
active?
you know what i spent tonight doing while you carefully crafted your nightly
quota of a half dozen caustic emails? i sat around with a bunch of
developers talking about strategies for client side verification. one of
these guys works at DirectTV and they have developed some extremely clever
technologies to fight satellite feed piracy that are very applicable to what
an anti-cheat program has to do. like constantly uploading code segments
that by themselves don't do much but at some point in the future need to get
executed for a handshake to work. like putting in controlled buffer
overflows that actually execute code that verifies the legitimacy of the
client. not foolproof but as another poster said earlier, there is no way
to prevent getting around the system, but the point is to make it as hard as
possible. i'm willing to put in time to come up with an alternative. your
contribute to beatdown ratio on this list is pathetic on the other hand.
and yes, to ME it was a rant. you call dropping support for HL so suddenly
that even other PB team members didn't know about it until after the fact a
measured decision?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 11:28 PM
Subject: RE: PB no more.....
>
> > we've heard PB's side? oh, you mean the sudden rant on their news page?
> > i'm sorry, but i am still waiting for the explanation from the PB
side...
>
> Jesus Christ, you call that a rant?! You might want to go back and read
it
> again... There was no ranting involved.
>
> > Either:
> > 1. Tony went to Valve to ask them to finance PB (either by outright
buying
> > them, or by funding them). Valve said no or didn't respond or did not
> > respond IN TIME. Tony threw a fit.
> > 2. Tony keeps asking for support from Valve (btw, this isn't "answering
> > questions" probably more like having a gander at the source or asking
for
> > new APIs in the SDK). Valve said no or didn't respond or didn't respond
IN
> > TIME. Tony threw a fit.
> > 3. Both
>
> I'm not sure where you're getting this "threw a fit" nonsense. In every
> communication from Tony, direct or public, I've found him to be nothing
but
> reasonable, if a little head-strong. It's this childish, rather pointedly
> poisonous rhetoric like you've got there that really chaps my hide,
regardless
> of how I feel about the situation. Throwing in this "Tony threw a fit"
stuff
> and the "rant" news post at http://www.punkbuster.com/news.html is
completely
> off-base, unnecessary, and I'd venture to say out-right false. If you're
going
> to discuss an issue rationally, at least be fair about it...
>
> Eric (the Deacon remix)
> http://www.firekite.com
>
>
