Entries from July 2005 ↓

House backs federal investigation of Rockstar Games – PlayStation 2 News at GameSpot
( http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/25/news_6129723.html )

Hot Coffee scandal intensifies as legislators vote 355-21 to support a Federal Trade Commission probe seeking answers from the Take-Two subsidiary.

This is definitely not good. The cold hand of Uncle Sam is coming down on Rockstar and Take-Two.

Sims 2 content “worse than Hot Coffee” – PC News at GameSpot
( http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/22/news_6129609.html )

In the statement, Thompson says, \”Sims 2, the latest version of the Sims video game franchise … contains, according to video game news sites, full frontal nudity, including nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair.\”

What the fuck is going on here? Read on if you want to get a headache.

So, I broke down and went out and bought myself a PSP. I got version 1.50 yay! I didn’t buy any games or any of that nonsense but I did spend my time in the waiting room at the doctors office this afternoon playing ‘Doom 2′
( http://www.lantus-x.com/PSP/ ). It was great. I also loaded the memory card up with a bunch of Namco PSPMame 96 roms. A couple of days ago I installed and configured the PspDevKit ( http://www.ps2dev.org ) and have managed to compile a few simple things. It’s a nice system to play around with. I might have to go pick up a couple of games too.

Anyway, it’s been a long day I’m going to sleep.

PREMIUM.PHP

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 20:15:06 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Set-Cookie: premium=0; expires=Mon, 18-Jul-05 00:15:06 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 16

var premium = 0;

When called premium.php checks to see if you have paid for a premium account. If you have paid the cookie value premium is set to true and Java script value is also set to true since it is the Java script on the site that does the work if you are a premium subscriber. What you see above is the response to premium.php after being called form the index.php Due to the way the site is coded premium.php seems to be called from every page. Why they are setting the cookie value and not using it I have no idea. So, in order to pretend to be a subscriber it is necessary to check the servers reply and change it before Firefox gets it. I have a proxy running over here so I just set it to modify the returned data. I bet you could use the Greasemonkey Firefox plugin to change it on the fly for you. I’ll have to look into that later…

MaxConsole ( http://www.maxconsole.net/ )

The inquirer’s knowledgable friends confirmed that only the CPU for next generation Xbox 360 console will be developed by IBM in its Fishkill factory. This facility will not play with a GPU design as it’s not ready for good yields on a 90 nanometre process.

Maybe I should get my old job back. Or maybe I’ll just hit the raised floor and see what I can find. Remember IBM employees they give you those badges for a reason.