I think to some point it is understandable regarding the PSN attack and that it can take time to bring a network back online however a month and ongoing now is a little bit ridiculous. Attacks happen all the time to personal, cooperate and government servers/networks alike, DoS, DDoS,port scans, man in middle, privlege escalation viruses and worms and such can all be used by external and internal threats to bring a network down, for hacking evesdropping and all sorts of illegal cyber crimes however security and counter measures should be in place for these very attacks to prevent this kind of thing from happening or at lease minimize the impact on a network.

Of course Sony will not tell us how there network security is or how the network is mapped but it makes you think. I mean was there any real security in the first place, any kind of network intrusion detection impletmented, firewall or IPS to prevent or warn against this kind of malicious activity.

Were there any kind of secuirty policies or counter measures even in place to being with ...does not seem like it. I would think most companies especially one as big as Sony here would run a standard network and security assestments and roll out and deploy networkwide encryption on their network. Were there audits of the network performed and why not a network that supports multiple encryption standards at that like 192 or 256 bit encryption standards. Hash encryption which I think Sony used can be dangerous, rainbow tables can be obtained on the internet and used to reverse and crack personal account information if the hash function is weak enough these kinda of things can be used by an avg dude just reading hacking for dummies.

I work in IM/IT i am not saying Sony does not know what they are doing but they should of been more secuirty minded with their network and should of always had something like this planned or at least somewhat addressed with their network/secuirty infrastructure. Networks like I said are always going to be attacked and may indeed go down but the need to build your network "from the ground up" tells me that maybe much was not in place to begin with and that is not acceptable. I have no reason to trade in my playstation but i am just tired of Sony's PR blowing smoke up my a**--rant complete

Been wanting to get a 5870 right now cant get it on newegg or tigerdirect was just going to put it on my bestbuy card. Does anyone know if the bestbuy stores/online stores here in the states are carrying the 5800 series cards. I noticed bestbuy canada stores are carrying them.

yeah, its a good cpu. I have the X4 920 oc'd though to 3.2ghz and been very happy with the performance. I use coolermaster V8 cooler

I was wondering if anyone out there had RE 5 for the PC if it ran on windows 7 without any problems. The only reason why I ask is because I have noticed with my setup that certian PC games that have that 'games for windows' tag dont run or install on my comp like halo 2, prototype, dawn of war II. I dont know if it is because I am running the release beta of windows 7 and that CAN I RUN IT programs doesnt help either saying that I cant run it all because of my OS.

my setup:

• Phenom II X4 920 @ 3.1ghz oc'd
• cooler master v8
• evga 730a mobo
• silverstone 600w 80plus bronze psu
• 8gb ddr2 800
• 4890 1gb
• antec 900

Ya I know i m getting a 1TB soon at the time was trying to save money alil. Thanks. I do have lots of pics but they are on my phone dont have my connection to connect to my laptop to upload.