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X-Box Hackers Trying to Blackmail Microsoft?
wumarkus420 writes "According to this article from CNet News, an anonymous X-Box security research team is threatening Microsoft: either release a digitally-signed official Linux bootloader or face the release of a new exploit that supposedly works without a modchip. While I doubt Microsoft 'negotiates with terrorists,' this should still turn out to be a good I-told-you-so if the exploit is verified." Sounds like a good way to end up in jail.
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I've never seen such contempt for readers by an editor as I see here with CmdrTaco (take the recent moderated IRC session as an example). He needs to become part of this community and stop his private little war on trolls and he'll take away their drive to screw with his product.
Please Rob, if you won't listen, if you won't participate... climb down from your seat behind the curtain and let someone who reads his own site and participates in unmoderated chats with readers to run the show.
Please...
Their fate has already been shown in the documentry Face/Off. Did you really think that was a production oil rig?
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
It's 'Xbox'.
No dash, no hyphen, no underscore, no nothing.
It's not an acronym. No 'XBOX'.
Big X. Little box.
Xbox.
2 billion dollars in advertising and production and MS can't get people to stop adding extra characters.
I knew linux users could get obsessive, but I didn't realize it had reached this level...
Have you ever actually read slashdot?
http://use.perl.org
Who needs spell checkers when we have tons of anal slashdot posters like you...?
If you haven't watched Office Space, you are the one with some issues.
Money is often used for negative and positive reinforcement, more and more we are all encouraged to rely on the laurels of that conditioning. Intolerant, aggressive or superficial pricing, especially with heightened emotional stimulus can magnify a consumer negative pricing scheme. It communicates in such a passive way that there is little sense of actualization or reasoning. There are plenty of incidents in the past where negative use of psychology was used by credible advertising groups and research firms whose actions could be concidered sabotage or misrepresentation of their employers.
There is an active *culture* that would like to see the national baseball league vanish, the basis is a enormous salaries that are beyond the reach of this *cultures* ability to reinforce or provide any effective negative stimulus. The hearsayers have already spoken out a few times and declared their intent. Certain actions should not be undertaken by specific organizations such as the baseball league (as a whole(1)) should not pursue a variable pricing plan. These are relative to professional baseball which could lead to an end or at least severe devaluation within the US in a decade.
--The Tin Foil Hat Brigade--
Amateurs, get yourselves a real plan
UNIX/Linux Consulting
..to get away from calling it Linux. Richard made some pretty good points in a recent editorial at ZDNet. GNU/Linux aside, maybe its time to stop identifying with the kernel so much and start naming the specific system. As in:
Mandrake
Red Hat
Debian
Gentoo
FreeBSD
GNU/Linux system
Open Source movement
GPL
At least that way Red Hat could be Red Hat and these hackers could just be open source nuts or GNU/Linux terrorists. Or maybe not.
Quack, quack.
Morons on slashdot who can't use poor grammar?
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
I got harrassed for the first couple of weeks till I took a chair to the back of some guys head. Then I figured out how the system works. If people think you're a pyscho they pretty much leave you alone. So I praticed staring at people without moving my eyes, whenever anyone got in my face.
Probably wouldn't work in prison though, I fight like a girl.
Completley off-topic but my Karma can't get any worse as it is.
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
You piss off conservatives? Cool! Point me to some of your posts that do - none of the posts in your history are really all that inflammatory.
Or more appropriately, "Offtopic".
In Soviet America the banks rob you!