Microsoft foils Xbox hackers with new Config

randomizer9 writes was among several readers who noted that Microsoft has changed the configs on the XBox and really messed up the hackers who have been trying to coax the box into being divx players, linux boxes, microwave ovens, white noise generators and so on. Kinda doubt the conspiracy angle, but it certainly is annoying.

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Re:Application of the word security disturbing.

[Shillo]

Remember that the purpose of the newspeak is to make people unable to conceive of the thought crime (which, in this case, is buying from the anybody who isn't Microsoft).

Hence operating system was arranged to mean 'whatever you get preloaded when you buy the computer', user-friendly now means 'Windows-like', computer means 'PC compatible computer', and, finally, security means 'being unable to run anything but Windows'.

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Re:Application of the word security disturbing.

[Ralph Wiggam]

So do you still sleep in your old bedroom or did you move all the Christmas decorations out of the basement and set up a "bachelor pad" down there?

You read an article about MS lowering manufacturing costs on a hardware product that they're already losing their asses on, and you respond with the phrase "thought crime". And then someone else thinks you're on target and donates a mod point to make you "interesting". I would have chosen "breathless, unfounded Microsoft bashing using phrases from an excellent book that in no way apply".