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The Hacker Behind "Hacking the Xbox"
chromatic writes "ONLamp has just published an interview with Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, author of Hacking the Xbox. Bunnie discusses the effect of the DMCA on his work and the state of Xbox hacking as he sees it."
I feel the same way about Linux. Give it up guys, just buy WinXP and stop reinventing the wheel.
Seriously, its the fun factor of actually doing it and then being able to brag about it. Like how people "rice" their cars or people collect stamps.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Why post to a "news for nerds" site if you don't give a shit about "nerdy" things. Reverse-engineering for it's own sake definitely falls under that category.
Oh, you're a fuckass BTW
Why? Why shouldn't Microsoft have the right to invest in, design, manufacture, and sell a game machine that will play only Microsoft games? Why should you have a "right" to hack such a machine and run non-MS games or Linux on it?
One possible reason why it should not be legal to hack the XBox and run non-MS games or Linux on it is that it would effectively preclude Microsoft from adopting a modified razor blade strategy (pdf) (html) -- i.e., in this case, selling the XBox at a loss and making its profit on the sale of MS XBox games. This strategy is thwarted if Microsoft sells the XBox at a loss, only to have people use it to run Sony games or Linux.
If one insists that one has a "right" to hack the XBox and run Sony games or Linux on it, Microsoft's response may be to raise the price of the XBox to at least the level of its marginal cost. Thus, consumers will wind up paying more for the same product. As a result, demand will go down, and this may result in unemployment and/or reduced wages.
More philosophically, your post appears to represent an attitude of many people on Slashdot that I don't understand. The attitude appears to be that a producer does not have a right to produce and offer for sale a good or service on the terms it deems satisfactory, but instead must offer that good or service to you on terms you feel are satisfactory, or not at all. If a producer does offer a good or service on terms one deems to be unsatisfactory, one is perfectly free not to purchase it. Instead, many insist on the right to unilaterally modify the terms and conditions of sale -- after the fact.
Only Women Bleed (Sex, Sharia remix)
I see your problem -you are addicted to games, especially to cracked ones.
The world, my friend, is much bigger than a set of cracked games. And the life is more interesting than wasting your time on fighting games.
People are finding much more insightful feeling in something creative. Hacking the software code (don't confuse it with cracking someone's protection) is a very creative process and thus it brings very bright feelings.
I am not sure if you can understand it or not. It depends on how deep you are addicted to games (and thus - how seciously your mind is corrupted).
Less is more !