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New "Secure" Xbox Cracked In Under A Week
ilsie writes "Numbnut says it all in his post at xboxhacker.net. To quote his post, 'On behalf of the Xbox Linux Team, I am proud to announce that at 10:45BST the 'v1.1' secure version of the Xbox was proven to be running arbitrary BIOS code in a normal 256KByte modchip - with no additional hardware required. In short, in under a week we were able to normalize the new box to enable it to interoperate with Linux properly.'"
-- Eric
P.S. 4th first post in the last week!
What a complete waste of time done by unemployed geeks living in their parents' basement for the good of nobody!
WHY would you want to run Linux on your X-Box? That is beyond me. You can get a fast PC for under $300. And a monitor - TVs have totally shitty resolution.
Also, what about that $200,000 ransom set up by "an anonymous person?"
He who blind - can not see.
- Lameness filters (It blocks a lot of legitmate posts)
- Unnessary posting delays. Hasnt taco learned to touch type? A lot of posts are typed in less than 20 seconds and it is a ANNOYING DELAY! 2 minute ban? Come on, so some are faster then others, big deal, some people have more to say than others
- Broken moderation system, The whole point is to sort the gems from the crap, yet a lot of posts designed to make a LIVELY DISCUSSION are MODERATED as flamebait! Come on, not everyone likes X, but just because some one bashes it dosent mean its Flamebait. Flame bait is more useful for DIRECT INSULTS and not legitmate discussions.
The "troll" moderation reason is fragmented and broken, why? Because they are trying to use an obsolete usenet term on a realtime discussion, "trolls" can cover a huge blanket of ideas.- Crapfloods, a meaningless flood of random letters or text, which the lameness filter does a crappy job at trying to stop, besides trolls have written tools using the opensource slashcode to generate crapfloods which bypass the filter
- Links to offensive websites, the most common one is known a http://www.goatse.cx, a awful site which shows a bleeding anus being stretched on the front page. Trolls sneak these links in by posting messages that look legitimate, but infact are sneaky redirects to the site. Common examples include rd.yahoo.com, www.linux-kernel.tk, goatsex.cjb.net, and googles "Im feeling lucky".
- Trying to break slashdot, this is actually a good thing, as it helps test slashdot for bugs. Famous examples include the goatse.cx javascript pop-up, the pagewidening post and the browser crashing post!
Subnet banning, this bans a user unless they email jamie macarthy with their mp5ed ipids. This is unfair, and banning a subnet BLOCKS A WHOLE ISP SOMETIMES, and not that individual user! This can cause chaos! But real trolls use annoymous proxys to get around this so THIS JUST BANS LEGITMATE USERS! Also, they are trying to censor some anoymous proxies, by claiming you cannot post to this page. so this yet more DISCRIMINATION! If you try and post before the ban is over it gets extended. Pink page of Death, This censors people who use legitmate proxys or firewalls. It also blocks serivces like CgiProxy and filters like t'inator. The Bitchslap! An unethical punishment which is applied to moderators who fight censorship against this site! In addition the Editors use their un-limited mod points to create a communist style censored discussion on slashdot! This one sided discussion makes trolls more determined Form Keys, These are pointless, why do they even exist? Unlimited Mod Points for editors, which allows them to dictate what is said on slashdot by moderating down all who disagree. Zoo blacklisting, a new form of censorship being tested by editors. But, the issue that concerens us the most, is the COMMENT QUOTA. A discrimatory system that stiffles discussion, cripples the community and will ultimateley destroy slashdot unless it is removed! Annoymous cowards are allowed only 10 posts a day! This is unethical! Users with negative karma only get two! That is DISCRIMINATION! How would you like to only be able to speak once a day, just because of the color of your skin. That would be racism, and slashdot is discrimitating on people just because of a negative number in a database! BOYCOTT SLASHDOT! LET THEM DIE! We wan't these stupid useless restrictions REMOVED! This comment will be posted again and again until it does! Inportant imformation for users Boycott slashdot, they are pissing over their community, they are becoming like the RIAA and MICROSOFT! Do NOT TOLERATE THIS SHIT! Here are some real news for nerds sites. We don't need slashdot it is nothing but crap! Google news Like Slashdot, only better MSNBC BBC NEWS News.com Linux online Linux daily news network Weird news from dailyrotten.com Goatse.info, news for trolls, they are real people too! CNN.com New york times (free registration required) LINUX.com News forge K5 Mandrake forum Toms hardware The register Kde dot news The linux kernel Archives Adequecy Xfree86.org There are hundreds more, But this is where slashdot STEALS THE MAJORITY OF its "news" from. Proxy sites Anti proxy Jmarshalls Cgiproxy,which has been pink paged! Safe Proxy Infamous Trolls Wipo Troll Klerck Punish them, here are their emails, spam them, flame them goatse them! Rob malda Jamie Macarthy ChrisD Hemos Micheal Pudge The others ones apperantly dont have an e-mail, probably because ROB MALDA IS PRETENDING HE IS JOHN KATZ. Thank you for reading this, please feel free to repost this information, please reply to add your comments, fight slashdot and its CENSORSHIPYou fucking idiot.
Veni vidi vici is "I came, I saw, I conquered"
Actually China hasn't "assimilated" any country since... a couple of hundred years. Tibet has been part of China for centuries.
it's called Linux. You just haven't downloaded it yet.
Sdelat' Ameriku velikoy Snova!
Go learn some latin:
Vici means win in latin. Vici is the root for most latin words meaning win, and I know a few of them. Slavic languages translate it to pobedil, also english win. Besides, Cesar said this after his blitzkrieg against the king of Bosphorous and surprised the Senate for his early return.
Hey Levi, what's Latin for "I came, I saw, I pissed on my own face". Show some respect for the complexity of language.
yeah, and that's why china had to use an army to convince Tibet and the Dalai Lama is currently in exile. Because Tibet was already a province of China. And even though Tibet was already a province of China, the Dalai Lama wrote letters to Great Britain, the U.S. and others asking for help during that "non-invasion".
The take-over of Tibet, the destruction of the culture and society and trying to position their own as the next Dalai Lama and the lack of interest by the international community is a downright travesty. China's actions on Tibet, in my opinion, is one of the worst actions they've committed in that past century, if not the worst.
In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. - Paul Harvey
Wha ... wha ... what do you mean ... IT'S NOT!!?!?!?!
:P
I mean, that's why the Internet is called America Online, right? It's supposed to be about America!
The Pjammer Chronicles --
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
Still, it's good that they did this.
catch (HumourFailureException e) { e.user.send("You, sir, are a humourless idiot."); }
That intifada is due to external influences and not the paletineans themselves.
I'm for the palestineans, but here's what they must do:
1) Stop bombing civilians. Every time they do, people in the US say "Oh, they're no better than Al kayda"
2) Dump arafat. He is a terrorist, and because he was involved in so much proven terror, the west (particularly washington) CAN'T deal with him.
3) Dump arafat. He purposely holds back the palestineans because he would rather be the head of an oppreseed miserable people than be out of a job.
4) Stop with the allah crap. The jews are so self-righteous that its very hard to like them. The palestineans should become more European/American in their outlook to generate sympathy.
5) Move away from the middle eastern terror groups. They paint the movement with a very broad brush that isn't flattering.
As far as I can tell, the palestineans are doing everything wrong. They appear to have more pride than sense. And they'll likely be wiped out because they'd rather be "right" than "win".
They're losers.
I agree. It could get quite messy.
Crap... I wish I hadn't posted that AC, I could use the karma ;)
I used to support (in a balanced, logical way) the Palestinians. Then when I saw them dancing in the street at the death of innocents I began to see the error of my support. I wish them no ill, but have learned to expect of them as I would expect of any zoo monkey. If the monkeys cannot better understand the reality of consequences to actions then I can only shake my head in sadness. So, I still give them sympothy but I would no more support them then would I support freeing mass murderers from prison and arming them.