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Bullet-Proof Xbox Wows Police
DocUi writes "The Baltimore Sun is reporting about how a man, upset with his roommates playing videogames late at night, decided to take it out on their Xbox using a gun. He stormed into their living room and fired a round into the offending game console. However, 'The 9mm gunshot did not penetrate the system and did not injure anyone at the scene, police said', although it 'disabled' the machine."
The front of the XBox is vaned, much like a heat sink, so the bars of the grill on the front may have been just lucky enough to deflect the direct impact of the force in different directions, causing the force of the bullet to be dissipated over a larger area.
But I'm no physicist.
I have been pwned because my
.. so I can see the spin put on this that proves Microsoft is evil.
"Microsoft just built a bullet proof game machine so nobody'll be able to throw it away."
"Derp de derp."
A much more direct approach than shooting the TV...
Everyone gets angry.
And when you're angry, you fantasize about fun things like "what i would do if i had a fragmentation grenade... or a 9mm handgun."
But acting on it is rather a different matter.
cuz they sure can't make any bulletproof software.
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
When you try to shoot an Xbox and fail, it has got to be a sign.
You need to take a deep breath, go out, and get a bigger gun.
Your bullets cannot harm me! My X-Box is like a shield of steel! :)
Warning! This post may contain a pun!
Bad XBox Slogans:
1)X marks the Box
2)Sendin' shots out for all the true game playas
3)The wrong consol-igga to fuk wit
4)More durable than Kurt Cobain's dome
5)Doubled vested
kevlar injected
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You aren't free to do anything, until you've lost everything.
The xbox is a pretty thick bit of hardware. A 9mm bullet does not have that much "stopping power" Now a .44 would have done the job right :)
"It's an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools."
"Jeremy, you need to get to an internet cafe and cut and paste some appropriate sentiments about me from the world wide
99% of all Xbox games involve guns. That combined with this incident is sure to rile up a certain segment of the population.
In lesser countries we would just crush the thing with large boots and a rigourous kicking action!
They say it was bulletproof, yet it disabled the system...?
Seems to me that bullet did something......
I have no sig yet I must scream.
Folklore says that to truly kill an XBox, you need to use a silver bullet.
There. Will that do?
Yeah, he must be crazy. It's obvious that the tool for the job is a sledgehammer.
Shock and expansion damage. Even if the bullet was stopped, there's a hell of a lot of force to get distributed. All bulletproof means is that it didn't penetrate.
Now, that said, that doesn't mean that they couldn't turn it back on...
My thoughts? The damn thing is made of kevlar.
in Halo is made of the same material as the Xbox!
Let me give you the flip side: People who care so little about their noise because it doesn't bother them, and they have nothing remotely resembling a clue that it does bother other people, and it's not a "choice" the other people make, it's a deep-seated instinct.
You can't turn your ears off.
These people made my dorm years a living hell, and they couldn't care less.
I would never have brandished a gun, but I sure as hell did fantasize about it.
"When Gamers Go Mad!" 1 hour of gamers chucking controllers at walls! At least it would probably be more entertaining then most of UPN's lineup.
A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men... --Willy Wonka
Xbox owner : Do you mean that when I will own an Xbox, I will be able to dodge bullets?
Bill Gates : No, I mean that when you will own one, you won't have to.
I came up with a solution a long time ago for my ex-roommate who played his NES way too loud constantly. While he was at work, I opened up his TV and disconnected the speaker. When he turned it on, he started smacking the TV and cursing at the "stupid peice of ____". I then asked him what was wrong and said that we should try the NES on my TV. Sure enough, it mad noise. I then "diagnosed" that he had blown the speaker and op amps in his TV by using the NES too loud. The classic line was telling him that the FM synth sounds that the NES made were perfect for blowing out a speaker and spouted some realistic sounding theories. He never did figure it out, but also never did turn it up loud again. Every so often, I would catch him trying to "warn" some of his friends about doing the same - "Dude! That's how I messed up my TV". Heh. If you're reading this, sorry Mike. It was me :)
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"Normal" and "Balanced" are subjective terms.
I feel I am completely "Normal" and "Balanced". It's just that very few people agree with me at first glance.
I do fantasize about various weapons of destruction and brutal acts of violence when I'm angry.
That's usually around the time I start into the heavy bag for 20-30 minutes...
Probably the bullet just didn't have the speed necessary to escape the XBox's gravity.
--Dan
My particular solution came after he had just spent the past four days staying home from work and playing games nearly 24 hours a day (He was proud to have played for 50 hours straight without having to stop for sleep). He even mentioned quiting his job and selling Pot for money so he could play full-time. Clearly, something had to be done.
By the way, I also play guitar, so I can attest that loud can be good - just not the same damn 8 bit music for days on end being distorted by a crappy TV speaker turned all the way up. There are only so many times you can stand hearing the "bla-ding" of a Mario coin at full volume per day. You try to live with that and then see how much of a pussy you are. Fscking trolls.
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That's no way to talk about your mother.
I know more than you drink.
--Seriously, 9mm? What a pansy. Xbox probably just LAUGHED at him and decided to turn off for the hellofit. Guy just needs a bigger gun.
.45 now, or even a .38 -- THAT'll f--k that Xbox up.
--A
"This is a 12-gauge, double-barrelled Remington. Come get some."
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I have a friend who is a cop told me that when a bullet strikes a wall, it rarely goes through the wall or ricochets (speilling?). When a bullet strikes a wall it normally hits the wall and then scoots across the wall in the direction that the bullet is spinning, so it is possible to be shot if you are standing along a wall that is struck with a bullet.
Im guessing a a similar thing happened in this instance.
The bullet obviously didn't have an authentic Microsoft Signed Security Certificate, so the machine rejected it.
There's a reason that I've got a lock on the 9mm in my nightstand. Looking for the key, struggling with the lock, etc. gives you time to think that you maybe don't want to put a bullet in the neighbor's dog that's been barking for the last 6 hours...
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